WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:09.119 House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome 3 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.080 to home where. Every week we help you better understand 4 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:15.279 that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp the 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.239 House Whisper here with you live like I am every 6 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.440 weekend except for the last two because I was on 7 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:25.039 vacation Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time, Sunday 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.760 mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome to our program. 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.280 Welcome to the second hour of our program. We are 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.320 talking about bedroom specifically bedroom design today. We're going to 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:39.399 get back to that in just a bit. We're going 12 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:41.320 to be right now at top of the hour. We're 13 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.320 taking calls. But can I say something? Of course I can, 14 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.679 because I'm it's my microphone right here. Let me get 15 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.560 on my soapbox. When are you not on your soapbox? 16 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.039 All right? I get it, I get it. I just 17 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.320 want to say something about design in general. You know, 18 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.200 when we were in Vermont, I had a converse sation 19 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:04.239 started up with some folks that we call vacation friends, 20 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:10.000 which Tina and Robin just absolutely drives them crazy. When 21 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.560 Don and I make vacation friends because they don't want 22 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:15.799 to talk to anybody when we're on vacation. But Don 23 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:20.519 and I like making vacation friends. Anyway, we're making some 24 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.439 vacation friends and the subject of what we do came 25 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.200 up and so on, and somebody asked me, you know what, 26 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.920 what's your what's the what's your real heart when it 27 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.599 comes to doing the radio show that you do as 28 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.760 a home designer? And here is the thing, here is 29 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.120 the thing I love. I mean, I'm about to go 30 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.519 back to the phones answer some design and some construction questions. 31 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.159 I've been a builder for years and year, I mean 32 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.640 decades now, uh, and I love all of that and 33 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.920 I absolutely love it. But if you were to ask 34 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.680 me what lies at the at the root of what 35 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:59.040 my secret agenda is for home? If I could have 36 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:04.359 my ultimate wish come true, it would be changing the 37 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:11.159 national story about design. Design okay, because it's just that 38 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.159 one phrase that you hear me say all the time, 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:19.520 design matters. Most billions of dollars are spent every year 40 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:22.960 on home improvement. And you would think that that means 41 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.680 that most homes would you know, actually improve, and yet 42 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:33.879 they don't really because there's a missing piece. Design, design 43 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.919 matters most. And the thing is that most of us 44 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:41.919 mainstream homeowners have never been taught this truth, the importance 45 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.800 of it, the priority of it. The wealthy have always 46 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.919 had great design at their disposal. I know this because 47 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.560 I do some of those designs for them, and they're 48 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:54.759 great designs. But the rest of us, whose homes mean 49 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.159 more to us because we have been the ones who've 50 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.960 scraped and sacrificed more to have them and to keep them, 51 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.680 we are far more likely to accept that when it 52 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.560 comes to your home, Yeah, you know, you get what 53 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.280 you get. You know, we this is the home you got. 54 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.759 And the fact of the matter is I want to 55 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.120 change that story, and I want to change it so 56 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.039 badly because your home, there's nothing more important to it. 57 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.039 It's not going to be the design that ends up 58 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.719 in the fancy magazine somewhere right some big celebrity home, 59 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.759 some big layout and rooms that they've never even walked 60 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.360 into or ever use. But your home. It's the center 61 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.599 of your life. And that is what brings me to 62 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.280 this microphone every weekend, helping you change it, and not 63 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.159 just change it by fixing the leaky toilet, by change 64 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:51.159 it in terms of applying really really great design to 65 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.159 the average home to make the ordinary extraordinary. All right, 66 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.759 that was my thing. All right, well, let's squeeze a 67 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.960 call in. We're going to take a couple of more 68 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.039 or calls at least before we get back to the 69 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.719 subject of the bedroom. Let's see here, I want to 70 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.840 talk to Arthur. Hey, Arthur, welcome home. 71 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.680 I'd appreciate any thoughts on building a very short indoor 72 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:18.680 pool where you swim in place using a harness. The 73 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.560 concrete pool would be three feet deep at the back 74 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.639 corner of the new house. And for one thing, I 75 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.600 was wondering if it would help to heat that little 76 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:32.199 airspace between the water and the pool cover, so that 77 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.199 by keeping that air a few degrees warmer, it might 78 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.319 reduce evaporation. I haven't ever heard of anybody doing that. 79 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.319 And generally, how to protect against damage to the house 80 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:43.120 and the foundation. 81 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.959 Okay, So indoor pool, covered pool, Yeah, I mean that's 82 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.240 just cover. But indoor, indoor, indoor Okay, So a couple 83 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.439 of things to know about an indoor pool. First of all, 84 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.480 I don't know if you are you already talking to 85 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.160 pool designers and. 86 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.079 Eating a but I haven't gotten to that point, Yet 87 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.879 it cheeks like there's an awful lot of different ideas 88 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:06.600 there are. 89 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.720 There are a lot of different ideas. If you are 90 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.639 doing a swim in place pool and you get you 91 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:14.800 want to do it out of concrete as opposed to 92 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:20.120 buying a swim spot, I think so, yeah, okay, so 93 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.120 just know, just know that that when it comes to 94 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.000 swim in place, well actually just lap pools in general. 95 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.399 There's varying opinion on this, but I would say that 96 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.360 you probably want to go deeper than three feet, okay, 97 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.879 just a little bit more efficient, maybe four or five 98 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:43.120 at the most. You don't need to go beyond five 99 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.480 for sure, but right about four feet or so. I 100 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.680 don't know if anybody, by the way, heard about this 101 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:53.680 controversy in and that's for swimming efficiency. And now you're 102 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.959 talking to a guy who's not only built several indoor 103 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:02.600 pools but also swims just like every other day in 104 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.279 an indoor pool, and so not at my house. But 105 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.879 did you hear the controversy that happened in Paris with 106 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.279 all the swimmers, the fact that that no world records 107 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.839 were set in Paris, even though we've got some of 108 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.480 the best swimmers ever in history there, and the criticism 109 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.360 was that the that the Paris Olympic pools that they 110 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.680 they they built it too shallow and they were getting 111 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.319 too much wave reverberation back off the bottom of the 112 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.480 pool to make their swimmers most efficient. So anyway, that's 113 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:41.360 something to worth looking into. Anyway, the depth is not 114 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.439 the critical element here as far as the space itself 115 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.839 the key to indoor pool. And I wouldn't worry so 116 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:52.600 much about the heating because the with an indoor pool, 117 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.839 the space of the room and the pool worked together 118 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:04.519 to enable a balance of atmospheric heat control in the pool. 119 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.360 But the key is this, with an indoor pool, there 120 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.519 are three things you want to be looking at. Number one, 121 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:15.040 you want to be looking at the lowest possible chlorine situation. Okay, 122 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.439 so you want to you know, you want to look 123 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.959 into all of the non you know, like the the 124 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.560 the saline options to every pool, by the way, has 125 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.360 chlorine in. It's just a question of how the chlorine 126 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.839 comes about, whether you're pouring chlorine directly in or whether 127 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.720 your systems are creating chlorine gas in the midst of it, 128 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.519 which uh saline and ultraviolet and so on. Douce so 129 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.839 you want to look at that because the air inside 130 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.759 it in closed space, you don't want chlorine gas building 131 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.480 up inside that space, so you want the best possible, 132 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.879 lowest possible chlorine situation for the pool. Secondly, uh you 133 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:01.680 want ventilation. Ventilation is critical, and you need to talk 134 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:07.720 to an experienced indoor pool designer who is in builder, 135 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.879 who is who can tell you the specs on how 136 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.959 many air changes of that air space need to happen 137 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.879 per hour in order to keep the space, the breathable 138 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.079 air inside the space as absolutely fresh and clean as possible. 139 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.399 And then thirdly, you need that air not just fresh 140 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:30.279 and clean and air change, but you need a dehumidified 141 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:34.799 because the indoor spaces, you know that water is going 142 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.080 to evaporate and it's going to evaporate into the interior 143 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:40.519 spaces on the walls and the ceiling and so on. 144 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.200 So we need to take that humidity out of the 145 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.200 air so that everything, you know, nothing gets moldy, mildyly 146 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:52.039 and gross inside being interior space. Those are your three 147 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.960 primary concerns because ideally you're going to keep that pool 148 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.480 water right at about anywhere between seventy eight and eighty 149 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:04.960 two degrees that's optional, optimal fitness, competitive swimming water temperature 150 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.840 and that's warm for a pool. And now it's in 151 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:15.240 an enclosed space, so so dehumidification, airflow and then the 152 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.200 lowest amount of a chlorine in order to keep the 153 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.120 pool fresh, but not to allow too much chlorine into 154 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.799 the air. Arthur, thanks for your question. I'm up against 155 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:29.080 a break, running a little late, got to go. Good 156 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.480 luck on that pool, and if you have any other questions, 157 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.480 you can, you know, reach out via email through the station. 158 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.320 You know, I'll try and give you any other advice. 159 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.320 Is a very very interesting question, and not one I 160 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:42.559 don't think we've ever taken an indoor pool question before. 161 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:46.519 All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on 162 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.960 demand from KFI AM six forty. 163 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.159 Thanks for joining us on the program today. Gosh, what 164 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.440 a gorgeous day it is outside. I hope you've got 165 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:59.039 plans to get out there and enjoy the day fully 166 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.279 right up until Bill this evening, when it's time to 167 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.519 sit down and watch the Dodgers dominate the Mets. That's 168 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.000 what I'm saying, That's what I'm calling it for today, 169 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:14.600 first game of the Pennant series. Gonna do it. We're 170 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:17.960 gonna win. It's gonna just be five games straight through 171 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.919 the end. Done. That's my hope. Anyway, go Dodgers. All right, 172 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.639 we're talking about bedroom design. But I'm taking calls and 173 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.519 I'm loving it, and we're gonna take one or two 174 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.200 more calls just this segment year before we get back 175 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.600 to designing your bedroom because we've got so many calls 176 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.679 on the board. I want to talk to Shelley. Hey, Shelley, 177 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:40.919 welcome home. 178 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.120 Marning Dan, enjoy your show, and happy birthday to Tina. 179 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:46.480 Oh thank you. 180 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:51.799 I have a question about ruff. I recently got my 181 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.759 roof repaired and they said that my tiles Spanish titles 182 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.000 are all looking good, but the paper underneath needs to 183 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:04.080 be replaced. So my question is can I use my 184 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:08.120 old tiles? And then what's the approximate cost of that? 185 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.639 And as I'm looking for a roofer, being confused as 186 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.279 what the difference between a sort of five roofer and 187 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:15.279 a licensed riffer is. 188 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.320 Ah? Okay, all right, really good questions. Okay, So first 189 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:24.440 of all, yeah, it is, so you think about about 190 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.240 it this way. A roof job can involve several different 191 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.200 phases tear off and that's just removing everything off of 192 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.120 an old roof and starting from scratch. In that case, 193 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.480 you've got to pay for all of the demo, all 194 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.879 the removal, then all the new papering underneath, and then 195 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.799 new tiles and labor and materials. That's your most expensive 196 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:53.679 complete roofing job. Next to that, then we've got situations 197 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:59.720 where we can preserve the tile that's there and just repaper, 198 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.279 which is the kind of situation you're looking at. In 199 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:06.480 this case, there's no tear off, and there's no additional material, 200 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.639 well just a teeny bit of additional material, and you're 201 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.799 just paying the labor for removal and replacements. So yes, 202 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.759 it is going to be less expensive than if you 203 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.279 just start off with new tiles. So if your tiles 204 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.360 are in good shape, and quite often when it comes 205 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.840 to Spanish tile, they are because you know, that's the 206 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.720 thing about a good Spanish tile, I mean it could 207 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.840 last a century or more. You know, spend some time 208 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.399 traveling through Europe. You go to Italy, you find terra 209 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:36.519 cotta tiles that are up on roofs that have been 210 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:40.720 there for two or three hundred years. But the main 211 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.759 waterproofing element of a modern roof is not the tile, 212 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:52.080 but the membrane, the sheathing membrane underneath. And so yeah, 213 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.480 that is that's where when that starts to go. Now 214 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:00.279 you're inviting the possibility of leaks. So you want to 215 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.759 find a roofer who is a willing to take the 216 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.919 time to carefully remove the tiles. And I say this 217 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:10.879 because that's where the cost element, the additional cost element 218 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.960 for materials come in. Our expectation is that if a roof, 219 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:17.559 if the tiles are in decent shape, and a roofer 220 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:21.480 is uh doing a quality job taking their time on 221 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:28.200 removal reasonably, you could expect I'm three to five percent 222 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:34.519 breakage of the existing tiles. Now, some homeowners have extra 223 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.639 tiles sitting around. I don't know if you do or not, 224 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:38.120 do you. 225 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.399 I I have like three or five Yeah, that's that's 226 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:46.480 not three or five percent. 227 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.399 So so what that means is, uh, it means that 228 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:55.559 we're going to, uh, we're going to first shop out 229 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.600 a matching tile. And I say matching tile with air 230 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:04.360 quotes here because even if it's the exact same tile, 231 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:07.559 the exact same color, exact same manufacture, but you know 232 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.960 it's twenty years later that tile color is going to 233 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.399 be different because it hasn't been exposed to twenty or 234 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.480 thirty years of UV light and baking in the sun 235 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.919 and weather and all of that. So the key is 236 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:26.200 making sure that your roofer has this design concept in mind, 237 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.159 which is that we're going to prioritize which roof planes 238 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.519 are most visible, like, for instance, the roof plane that's 239 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.720 visible from the street, and possibly the one visible from 240 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.279 the backyard. Depending on the shape and the contours of 241 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.600 your roof, there are probably areas of the roof, maybe 242 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:50.320 side yard roof planes, or hidden a little thing here 243 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.639 or a little thing there that aren't actually visible or 244 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.159 easy to see from the ground. So here's what we're 245 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:00.440 gonna do. We're gonna steal as we bring. We're going 246 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.919 to steal tiles from the areas of the roof that 247 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.799 aren't really that visible from the ground, and we're going 248 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.159 to use those old tiles to replace the broken ones 249 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.120 that happened on the main plane, so that what we 250 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.919 get when we're done is all your old tiles, all visible, 251 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:23.039 all clean, no color changes, and if there is a need, 252 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.360 which there will be, for a few tiles to be 253 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.759 replaced that aren't quite the same color yet we're going 254 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.720 to stick those in places that that don't matter visually 255 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.960 from the street or from the backyard. So you're going 256 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.279 to just prioritize those views and uh and put those 257 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:41.879 in those other places. But yeah, that's and that's what 258 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:42.600 you're looking at. 259 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.639 And how much would that What is the cost difference 260 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:51.000 with me just having you know, new versus just the pace, 261 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:52.919 What should I expect to pay to do them? 262 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:56.639 Oh? You know what? That's that's it's not easy for 263 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.240 me to give you a quote on that because it 264 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.039 has a lot to do with the contours of your roof, 265 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.440 the size of your roof, the pitch of your roof, 266 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.720 the quality of the existing tile. There are just a 267 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.039 lot of factors. But as always, I'm going to tell 268 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.879 you that yet it's going to be less. It's going 269 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.600 to be a significant cost difference because you are not 270 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.840 buying new tile for your whole roof. You're just buying 271 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.639 a few replacement tiles. You're still paying for the labor 272 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.799 for the install, but the material cost is going to 273 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.919 be considerably considerably less. And like always, the way to 274 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.600 find out who is giving you the right price and 275 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:36.600 what this whole thing should cost is that you can 276 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:42.200 vet two, three, even four really qualified roofers and have 277 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.080 them each bid the same way, and you're going to 278 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.039 look at those bids and you're going to see just 279 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.399 like a Venn diagram. You're going to see like, oh yeah, 280 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.159 look at that. They're all within a certain amount of money. 281 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:53.759 This is what my roof is going to cost. 282 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.240 And at least to my last question, what's I just 283 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.480 started shopping for roofers. What's the difference between certified license? 284 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:02.679 Oh yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and I'm up 285 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:04.599 against a break, so I'm going to answer really quickly. 286 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.640 All roofers have to be licensed, all of them. They 287 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.319 should have to be licensed by the state of California. 288 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.119 They have to have a roofing contractor's license. Some roofers 289 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.039 are certified, and what that means is the brand of tile, 290 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.720 like if they install GAF tiles or they install, you know, 291 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:30.519 certaintyed tiles. The roofing manufacturers will sometimes say, hey, if 292 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:35.160 you pass our certification course, then you can call yourself 293 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:40.640 certified for a particular brand of tile installed. Certification not 294 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:45.279 as important as licensing. Licensing is absolutely critical for everybody. 295 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.559 Some are certified installers of certain brands. But that's a 296 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.839 private business thing that's going on. Does that makes sense? 297 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:55.160 All right? Thank you Shelly for the question. 298 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.720 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 299 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:00.960 K six. 300 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:06.160 You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, and yes, 301 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.640 could it be a more perfect fall day? I don't 302 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:13.000 think so. Looks pretty beautiful. I hope wherever you are 303 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.319 across across our a great nation right now, you are 304 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:21.000 experiencing as beautiful a fall day as we are here 305 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.960 in southern California right now. All right, we're back from 306 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.599 our vacation in Vermont and we're back at it getting 307 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:32.000 it done. Here on the show. We're talking about designing 308 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.839 a better bedroom and we're diving back in right now. 309 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.640 So when it comes to bedroom design, fundamentally, this has 310 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:46.960 probably been one of the sticking points for a lot 311 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.880 of people, and that is you think about, oh, you're 312 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.319 going to design this whole thing around the bedroom set. Okay, 313 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.799 this is the problem that I have and that I 314 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:58.880 want to warn you about. I want to warn you 315 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:04.440 about the bedroom set air quotes set. Okay, I want 316 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:07.519 you to break loose from fixed stories at the furniture 317 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.160 store about the bedroom set of course, the furniture store 318 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.480 has an entire set on sale for you there showing 319 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.759 you everything. And rightly, so it's not a crime, right, 320 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.200 nobody's doing anything wrong. It's just the idea that somehow 321 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.039 when you go to the furniture store, you need to 322 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:29.000 come home with the whole set, which means the bedroom, 323 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.400 the bed, the headboard, the footboard, the night stands, the 324 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.200 dress or the armoir, you know, like the next thing. 325 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:41.359 You know. So the thing is, most bedrooms these days, 326 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:46.480 you know, may not have room for the whole bedroom set. 327 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.039 And I just don't get yourself wrapped up in that. Right, 328 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:52.920 you decide ahead of time what it is that you're 329 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.880 looking for. There are so many ways to juge up 330 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:02.680 a bedroom that go beyond having to for the set. Okay, 331 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:08.519 now do bet should bedroom furniture correspond? Absolutely? Does it 332 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:12.039 have to match? No, it does not. It just has 333 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:16.599 to correspond. It has to work together, it has to 334 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:21.400 compliment each other. Okay, those of you who are on 335 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.160 a tight budget, I'll tell you this. You can go 336 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:28.720 here's one of the the the rare instances when I 337 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:32.960 actually recommend that you go on to YouTube and look 338 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:39.160 up I built my own headboard and find the hundreds 339 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:42.319 of myriad ways in which you can actually mount a 340 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:49.119 permanent headboard, a DIY headboard, gorgeous diway headboard to your wall, 341 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:53.200 and save yourself tons of money when it comes to 342 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.720 purchasing a bedroom set. Look who is walking in right now. 343 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:05.920 It's Tina and Christy bo Look at you, guys, elephant, 344 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:09.279 Look at you and your fingers are all straight because 345 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.880 you've got wet nail polish. You guys have been to 346 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:16.799 the nail salon. Sit down, Christy, get over here. All right, 347 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.920 I've got to be faithful to what I'm talking about. 348 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.279 You guys, hang on for a second. Anyway, So the 349 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:27.119 bedroom said, just don't feel obligated to do that whole thing, right, 350 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:30.920 I e. Do you have a big closet, right, there's 351 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.759 a really good chance if you really concentrate on proper 352 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.519 closet design and organization, meaning a modular system where you 353 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:43.039 can control hanging, and you've got a room for shoes 354 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.519 and you've got maybe room for even drawers in the closet, 355 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:50.240 then you don't need a dresser. Right. If the bedroom 356 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:53.680 is an important waking retreat, like we talked about before, 357 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:57.680 a dresser could be standing in your way of being 358 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.759 replaced with an elegant writing desk or work desk or 359 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:05.319 a chair for reading, if that is how you're going 360 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:07.160 to spend time in your bedroom, or if you're more 361 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.759 of a minimalist and you want a more classic look, 362 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.119 Now you're really gonna think I'm crazy, but I'm only 363 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:19.720 talking to minimalists here. Then remove the closet, open up 364 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.839 a little bit more space in the bedroom, and replace 365 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:27.000 it with a beautiful free standing wardrobe. Oh yeah, and 366 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.839 if you have a giant closet okay, and a giant room, 367 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.599 then you can get super creative. Then you do one 368 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.160 of the first I would say uber creative designs I 369 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.519 ever had a chance to do early on in my career, 370 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:43.759 where I designed a twelve thousand square foot Italian villa 371 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:48.039 in Brentwood Park and we had realtors come in to 372 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.799 preview the villa before we opened it up for public, 373 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.480 and they walked into these bedrooms, the guest bedrooms, and 374 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.240 they all they saw, because you know, are claim to 375 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.480 fame with this was a as authentic an Italian villa 376 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:06.359 as we could find. And they walked into the bedrooms 377 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:10.119 and they all came out saying Dean, Dean, I mean, 378 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:15.000 the house is beautiful, but we got a problem. I'm like, 379 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.519 what's the problem. They're like, in each of the guest 380 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.559 bedrooms there's just a big wardrobe, a big, like eight 381 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:26.000 foot tall wardrobe. I mean they're gorgeous, they're antique wardrobes, 382 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.519 They're absolutely stunning. But I mean a house of this 383 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.440 magnitude needs a walking closet. And I said, you know what, 384 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:36.559 I get that, but I wanted to keep the house 385 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.960 as authentic as possible. I said, you really should go 386 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:44.000 check out the wardrobe. Those are roomy wardrobes. And they're like, Dan, 387 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.880 we know they're big wardrobes, but this house needs walk 388 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.920 in closets in each of the bedrooms. Like you know what, 389 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.640 just you really these are really roomy wardrobes. So anyway, 390 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.000 I actually led three of the realtors back upstairs and 391 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.519 we opened up the wardrobes for them to discover that 392 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:06.119 I had taken the back off of these antique wardrobes 393 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.279 and mounted them against the wall to hide the walk 394 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:12.680 in closet door because I didn't want the I didn't 395 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:14.480 want you to see the walking closet in the room. 396 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:16.759 I just wanted you to see this free standing, beautiful 397 00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:18.960 piece of furniture like it would have shown up in 398 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:23.160 an eighteenth century Italian villa, and the inside it was 399 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.480 very Narnia like. So you literally walk through the wardrobe 400 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:29.880 to get into the expansive walking closet. Beyond the point 401 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:31.920