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 --> 00:00:10.080 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:13.679 Am Dean Sharp the House Whisper here with you live 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.039 like I am every weekend Saturday morning, six to eight 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:22.000 Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.280 to the show. Welcome to the second hour of our show. 7 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.800 We're talking about details that matter today. Hand in your pearls, 8 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.759 pearls of wisdom, about little things, little things that are 9 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.079 often overlooked in most houses, that you can change for 10 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:44.560 not a lot of denarro and ultimately make some really 11 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.359 big impact in your home. We're returning to that conversation 12 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:50.920 in just a bit, but as we do here on 13 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.679 the program, we also take calls live and talk to 14 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.399 you about what's going on with your home. It is 15 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.280 time to do that now, and so I want to 16 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.039 go to the phones. Let's talk to Carol. Hey, Carol, 17 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:06.599 welcome home. Hello, Hello Carol. 18 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:12.359 Hi, Dean. Is there something that I can put into 19 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:17.680 my fireplace, like a potbelly stove or whatever to burn cleaner. 20 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.159 I don't want to burn wood anymore because it's just 21 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:21.959 I mean out in the open. Because it just makes 22 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.519 such a city mass. And I don't want to go 23 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:29.000 gas because I'm trying to conserve. But is there, yeah, 24 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.640 is there something I can buy the insert in there? 25 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:37.200 Okay, okay, I was about to answer that question when 26 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:39.319 you said that you don't want to burn wood and 27 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.799 you don't want to burn gas, because those are are 28 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:43.719 two options. 29 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:48.680 Well, I want to burn wood, but in an inserted cloth. 30 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:56.640 Yeah, now I'm with you right now. Yes, So the 31 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:02.239 answer is yes, yes, there is, and and you're you're 32 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.799 you're thinking along the right line. So here's all you 33 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:08.159 have to do is go online and start searching for 34 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.800 or go down to your local fireplace shop and you 35 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.000 can take a look at what they may have to offer. 36 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.560 But but there's so many to find. You want to 37 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:23.159 look for a wood burning wood stove insert, not pop 38 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.919 belly stove, but wood stove insert. There is an entire 39 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:36.759 branch of the fireplace industry that is all about inserts 40 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:44.400 into existing old masonry fireboxes that are essentially like what 41 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.039 you're thinking. They're they're cast iron, they're made just like 42 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:52.639 pot belly stoves. They insert in, they sit flush, and 43 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.919 then the nice thing is they also have their own 44 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.960 flu which runs up inside the existing chimney of the 45 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.039 fireplace and comes out and terminates out the top. And 46 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.520 now what you'll have is the power of essentially a 47 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.199 wood stove. That's what a potbelly stove is. It's a 48 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:13.759 wood stove. And a wood stove is so beautifully and 49 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:18.080 properly engineered to maximize the burn of wood. It will 50 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:23.280 throw more heat and make more wood last way way longer, 51 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.479 and it's a way to go now if you want 52 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.840 to even take another step in full efficiency forward, it's 53 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:35.000 not quite as beautifully attractive the burn itself. But there 54 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.479 are also wood stove inserts that use pellets that are 55 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:43.520 pellet stove inserts. They also produce a flame that you 56 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.560 just don't see the big log burning inside, and they 57 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.520 crank out a great amount of heat, and they are 58 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.360 the most efficient use of wood because these are hardwood pellets. 59 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.759 They're full legitimate wood. But it's less expensive and cleaner 60 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:01.080 burning and more efficient. But yeah, whenever Tina and I 61 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.680 go somewhere, and when we're ever going to spend an 62 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.759 extended amount of time in an area, instead of a hotel, 63 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:12.000 we will usually like airbnb or verbo a home and 64 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:16.319 we're always thrilled, especially when we travel in the winter months, 65 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:22.000 to find that the fireplace is actually a wood stove insert, 66 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.199 or that there's just a wood stove. And by the way, 67 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:28.079 that's also a possibility if you wanted just a wood 68 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.160 stove sitting on the hearth, Okay, then this is just 69 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.800 a little bit more involved. It means blocking off the 70 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.160 firebox and then letting that wood stove sit freely on 71 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.879 the hearth, letting its pipe its flu extend up, and 72 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:46.879 then at some point it would bust through the wall 73 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.439 into the existing chimney and then take off from there, 74 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:54.040 so you really have that full. The simplest, cleanest way 75 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.040 of doing it, without any construction whatsoever, is to buy 76 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.199 an insert into your existing fire blocks with its own 77 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.279 flu going up. And it's also something you know, I 78 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:07.199 just did a fireplace show yesterday, and I would have 79 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.480 loved to have had time to talk about all these things. 80 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.040 But it's also a great way if you find that 81 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:19.639 you have an old masonry chimney that just isn't up 82 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.319 to speck anymore. It's got cracks in it, it's not 83 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:26.800 falling apart, but you know, your local fireplace people are like, yeah, 84 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:31.000 we wouldn't recommend burning anything in it because of these cracks, 85 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:33.920 And you're like, I don't want to rebuild my entire 86 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.279 masonry chimney. Well, a wood stove insert gives you the 87 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:41.600 ability to utilize the fireplace again because it doesn't rely 88 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.000 on it only relies on the chimney as a chase 89 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.839 to run its own flu up inside until it comes out. 90 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.120 And so it's really kind of the best of both worlds. 91 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:57.519 Okay, so your first suggestion, I would ask for a 92 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.680 wood burning wood stove insert. 93 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.639 Yes, okay, wood stove after drafter right there? Yep. 94 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:08.800 Do you have a supplier that you would suggest? 95 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:18.879 You know what, just about every manufactured fireplace manufacturer has 96 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.199 their own line of wood stove inserts. So that's why 97 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:25.319 I say just go. And so, depending on the size 98 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.680 of your firebox you need to, you're gonna have to 99 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.680 shop around to get just the best optimal fit. But 100 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.279 they're out there and there are plenty of them, I promise. 101 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:35.000 Oh. 102 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:36.639 Okay, thank you so much, Deine. 103 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:39.560 You're so welcome. Carol, thanks for that question. That was 104 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.600 a really good question because that's something that I did 105 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.079 not have the time to talk about yesterday. Woodstoves are. 106 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.480 They're just the best. I love woodstoves. Why because they're 107 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.480 so brilliantly engineered to maximize heat and the burn. And 108 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.319 they're beautiful, beautiful to watch, beautiful and easy to maintain, 109 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.839 so much easier than a fireplace. All right, more calls 110 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.439 when we return your Home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper. 111 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.839 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 112 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:12.439 KFI Am six forty. 113 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.240 Here we are talking about details that matter for your 114 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.720 home today. We're going to return to that conversation in 115 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.319 just a bit, but right now we're taking calls, and 116 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.920 I want to go back to the phones. I want 117 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.439 to talk to Rochelle. Rochelle, welcome home. 118 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:32.759 Thank you for taking my call. Dean. I have two 119 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.600 very short questions, short answers hopefully, and a design question 120 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.199 if you have the time. Live in a small condominium. 121 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.120 We want to refer that you mentioned two weeks ago 122 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.560 that would put that white epoxy on. We've researched it 123 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.000 and that's what we'd like to do as soon as possible. 124 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.639 Can you give me the name of the company recommended? 125 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.240 Okay, I'm sorry I lost track of you there. White 126 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:02.800 epoxy for what the roof. Oh, the flat roof, the 127 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:03.360 flat roof. 128 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:03.800 Right. 129 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.439 Yeah, But you know what, when we're done with the call, 130 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.879 we're going to pop you on hold and I'm going 131 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.079 to get that information to Michelle. 132 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:14.560 I'd appreciate it. 133 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.000 Before you hang up, So just just don't hang up 134 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:18.680 when we're done. I just don't have it at my 135 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:19.560 fingertips right now. 136 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:24.399 Okay, okay, I'd appreciate the other question. The other question 137 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.040 is I live in this small condom, Anu, and I 138 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.199 need a condominium. I'm on the second floor. The upstairs 139 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.639 you it is empty most of the time because it's 140 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:37.000 an out of town owner. You spoke of some contrivance 141 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.759 that could be put under the sink that could conserve 142 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.639 the cold water and bring the hot water sooner. Is 143 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.120 that is that our tank is on the roof. Is 144 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.720 that possible to put in a condo. 145 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.720 Oh? Yeah, it's possible to put anywhere. And what we're 146 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:58.080 talking about is a relatively inexpensive recirculation pump. Okay, it's 147 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:02.159 a little localized pump. It can be in some systems. 148 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.759 It can be placed on the water heater itself at 149 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.679 the location of the water heater. Other times, you can 150 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.480 put them under the sink at the final location of 151 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.480 where you want the hot water, wherever that may be. 152 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.759 And in combination with that little recirculation pump is a 153 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:25.000 little device called a bridge valve. A bridge valve is 154 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.000 what connects under the sink, not in the wall, but 155 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.679 under the sink. It will connect the hot water line 156 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.679 to the cold water line under the sink. But just when, 157 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.759 just when the pump is on driving hot water, pulling 158 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.080 hot water out of the hot water line and pushing 159 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.799 it into the cold water line. And that little brilliant 160 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.000 device and that little system. Number one, you don't waste 161 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.799 any water because it's still your water. You just have 162 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.080 it's over in the cold line. But what it does 163 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.559 is it draws out all of that hot water in 164 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.519 the hot water line that isn't actually hot stuff that 165 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.639 has cooled off in between users, and it pushes it 166 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.720 into the cold and as a result of that, it 167 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.840 brings the real hot water much much closer to the 168 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.879 faucet itself, so that you're waiting for hot water maybe 169 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.279 two or three seconds instead of two or three minutes. 170 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:23.799 And so it's a combination research pump, very small recirculation 171 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:28.519 pump and bridge valve and if you're not a DIY 172 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:32.720 oriented person, then you would then I would recommend you 173 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:34.919 would just call a plumber and say, hey, we just 174 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.519 want to research pump and a bridge valve because we 175 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.840 want hot water closer to market and think and and 176 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:42.000 they'll give you pricing on it. 177 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:44.960 So I've been put one of my bathroom in one 178 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.159 of my kitchens, then. 179 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:51.679 Too, you could. But theoretically, okay, we most of the 180 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.600 time we put one in a home, depending on how 181 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.120 the plumbing is arranged in a home. What we do 182 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.840 is we will and to put the bridge valve in 183 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:06.039 the pump at the furthest sink away from the water 184 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.360 heater because guess what, as it pulls hot water towards 185 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.039 that far sink because of the branch system of normal plumbing, 186 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.320 it's also pulling hot water closer to all the sinks 187 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.279 along the way. So, yes, you could put one at 188 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.000 each location, but it's very likely you only need one 189 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.240 at the furthest sink and that's going to pull hot 190 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.240 water into most of the house lines sufficiently for all 191 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:31.759 the sinks. 192 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.759 Let's be wonderful, all right, Now you got to you've 193 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.440 got time for a design question real quick. 194 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.200 You're here lay it on me. 195 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:45.799 Okay, all right, it's my daughter's condominium. She lives in Condomni. 196 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:49.720 Her living room is thirty three seed long, eighteen seed 197 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:55.720 high and sixteen wide. There's a loft at one end 198 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:56.600 that she uses. 199 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:59.799 As an office. She would like to put in a 200 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.159 new not crominal the baseboard, and you went up to 201 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.879 seven inches. You've mentioned it before. I didn't know if 202 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.000 there was a maximum or what would be good for 203 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.480 an eighteen high ceiling, eighteen foot high ceiling. 204 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.159 Anywhere, baseboard anywhere from eight to twelve inches. 205 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:19.000 Eight to twelve inches is the max. 206 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.799 There's no sense in going over twelve. But the idea 207 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:29.440 is that most most everyone listening to my voice right now, 208 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.120 I mean, I'm like ninety eight percent of you listening 209 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:36.039 have baseboards that are undersized from a design perspective for 210 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.519 your home. An eight foot ceiling, an eight foot ceiling if. 211 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.720 You use eighteen no no, no, no, no. 212 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.759 No, no, I understand, I understand what I'm just making 213 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:48.240 a point here. An eight foot ceiling the lowest normal 214 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.759 old ceiling, okay, can get can get away with a 215 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.559 six and a half or seven inch baseboard. Okay. So 216 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:59.639 that's the thing. And we don't use the proportion always 217 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.639 what we call the seven percent rule. The seven percent 218 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.000 of the height of the ceiling is the size of 219 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.159 the baseboard, because there's some point like an eighteen foot 220 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:12.559 ceiling for your daughter, in which that's like, what are 221 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.639 you suggesting a two foot tall baseboard? Dan, No, No, 222 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.600 I'm not. That's why I said, for that size of 223 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.919 a room, there is a cutoff point. And the cutoff 224 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.879 point is, you know, nothing is so ridiculously high that 225 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:26.679 you know you don't want to just look to your 226 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.840 left and see the baseboard staring you in the face 227 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.960 at five feet tall, just because you have a sixty 228 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.639 foot tall room. So there's a limit to it. But 229 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.080 the idea is, yes, taller baseboards, and in the case 230 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:44.159 of an eighteen foot ceiling, easily eight twelve inches, I 231 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.000 wouldn't go above twelve. I don't go above twelve no 232 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.600 matter how tall the room is that we're going. And 233 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.679 we work with sometimes room heights that are much taller 234 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.639 than eighteen feet and we max out right around twelve 235 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.600 because it just gets weird after that, but beautiful up 236 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.080 to that point. So eight to twelve inches, Rachelle I 237 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.200 got to run thank you so much for your questions. 238 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:07.879 You stay on the line because I'm going to get 239 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.759 that a Last America Compound brand to you, and I'm 240 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.120 gonna give it to producer Michelle so she can let 241 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.720 you know and for the rest of you. Right after 242 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.000 Eileen Gonzalez gives us the news, we are going to 243 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.120 jump back into details in your home that matter. 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Number One, if you have the opportunity 273 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.159 and you really are working your way through the house 274 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:26.000 doing details that matter, then for all the money that 275 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.399 you've spent on that remodel, or all the money that 276 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.639 you want to invest in changing the vibe of a room, 277 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:37.879 don't neglect changing out those cheap normal just like everybody 278 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:43.919 always gets basic ya, basic HVAC vents that came with 279 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:52.919 your system, they are really really boring, and so you 280 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.360 change them out, and you change them out to something nice. Now, 281 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:57.639 a couple of things. The other point that I want 282 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.440 to make Number one, they don't have to be I'm 283 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.919 not suggesting that you change them out to look antique, 284 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.880 although you can, Okay, you can make them look like 285 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.559 they're one hundred years old, like they're made out of 286 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:16.079 bronze or brass or cast iron or steel. So they 287 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.240 are a great way of just nudging an already kind 288 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:24.920 of historical vintage looking room right over the edge into 289 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:31.200 full on like, wow, everything was thought about in this room. However, 290 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.400 if you've got a post a modern home, a mid 291 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:39.960 century home, if you've got a super contemporary, cutting edge, 292 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:45.119 twenty first century, twenty twenty four home, you will find 293 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:51.200 hvac vents that match that motif as well. Okay, just 294 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:57.680 consider changing out the super cheap, super boring, super normal 295 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.960 vents that are running in the room that you are 296 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.200 trying to guj with maximum intensity. Okay. Now, the last 297 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.599 point that I want to make here is Dean is 298 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:14.359 also not suggesting that you necessarily make the vent something 299 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.680 that catches somebody's eye and you're like well, Dean, that's 300 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:20.079 all well and good, but I just want my HVAC 301 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.640 events to go away. Okay, I just wanted to go away. Well, 302 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.759 then pick a cool new vent that has a great 303 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:30.799 pattern to it, and go ahead and paint it with 304 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.920 the color of the ceiling or the wall. Okay, with 305 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.599 the exact same paint over that area. Let it match 306 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.799 the wall. I shouldn't say the exact same paint, the 307 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.000 exact same color. Okay, I want it to be a durable, 308 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.359 washable paint, but the exact same color. Let it blend 309 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:48.680 in with the wall. Because you know what, talk about 310 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.720 a detail that matters. Here is now a vent that 311 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:56.640 is not drawing attention to itself whatsoever. But when somebody 312 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:01.319 does look over it and notice it, they're like, Wow, 313 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.960 even that vent that I didn't even notice the first 314 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.880 ten times I was here, Even that vent looks great. 315 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:15.720 Ah ah, excuse me, there had something in my throat. 316 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:20.759 So yeah, eight VACE events. Last thing, let's talk about doors. 317 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:27.920 Interior doors specifically. We worry most of the time about 318 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 finding the right door knobs. Okay, and that's all well 319 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:36.519 and good man, my throat here, hang on a second. 320 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.960 The right doorknobs, but we tend to ignore number one 321 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:46.200 the doors themselves, your interior doors. Now this is a 322 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.240 little bit more of an investment, I get it, but 323 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:54.000 interior doors are so dang important to the vibe of 324 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:58.920 a home, not only making them solid core instead of 325 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.680 those flimsy, little hollow core doors that you've got that is, 326 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:05.160 you know, hold back about as much sound as a 327 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.799 sheet hanging in the doorway. But just the fact that 328 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.519 finding a door that reflects the style of your home 329 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.160 and placing it in these openings. And I'm not talking 330 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.920 about necessarily stained grade doors maybe or maybe they're paint 331 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.640 graye but just the right door in the right place 332 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.400 makes all the difference. The knob, of course, that's always 333 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.480 when you go to the hardware store, right up front 334 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:30.359 and center. Ooh, what should it be? This kind of 335 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.640 knob should be that kind of knob, But the door itself. 336 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.920 And here is the thing right on the edge of 337 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:44.119 the door, a detail that matters, the hinges. This when 338 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:48.200 it comes to a door assembly, is from a decre perspective, 339 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:56.319 the most neglected potential detail of any door is the hinge. 340 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.839 The hinge are very utilitarian. Obviously, that's what I always 341 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:05.160 talking talking about neglected utilitarian fixtures. Most hinges are. I 342 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:07.119 will tell you right now, what are the odds are 343 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.559 that your doors in your house are cut with three 344 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:14.720 or three and a half inch large round corner hinges 345 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:21.319 of no specific attractiveness at all. They're just there, simple 346 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:24.640 pined hinges. So what can you do? Well, Number one, 347 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:28.480 we'll give it in three layers here. Number one, you 348 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:32.519 can change out those hinges for a more attractive hinge. 349 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:37.799 You can find hinges of number one, the proper metal 350 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:43.039 that matches the finish of your door knobs. They could 351 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:45.720 be bronze, they could be brush stainless, they could be 352 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.759 brushed nickel, they could be whatever the case may be, 353 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:51.519 so you can change them out. You can also change 354 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:54.559 them out if you're going for an older vintage. Look 355 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:58.519 to cast hinges. And what I mean by that or 356 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:00.880 is would they look like they're cast or they're stamped. 357 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:05.200 They actually have detail and decor stamped into the face 358 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:10.240 of the hinge plate. And yeah, I know you think, well, 359 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:13.880 nobody ever sees those, Well that's not true, okay, no 360 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.000 one ever looks at your hinges right now, because they 361 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.279 just go away. Okay, And I get that, but of 362 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:22.839 course they do because most interior doors in most homes 363 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.680 are left open, and when they are left open, as 364 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.400 you walk into the room on one side of that doorway, 365 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.920 you see both sides of the hinge okay as you 366 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.319 walk in, so they're very much potentially on display. And 367 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.920 so this is an opportunity. Now, even if you don't 368 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:43.640 want to change out your hinges or you don't want 369 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.599 to replace that hinge body, you could change out the 370 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:50.640 hinge pin to one that has some kind of a 371 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:53.640 finial on it. A finial would be a little rounded 372 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:56.680 knob at the top and the bottom, or an elongated 373 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:58.759 piece so that when the door is closed there's a 374 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:04.160 little bit more de tail there hinges and hinge pins 375 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.160 and hinge faces. And if you really wanted to go 376 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.000 all the way and make every one of your interior 377 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.759 doors the ultimate touch of custom hinges, then you would 378 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:20.079 get rid of the round edge hinge that you've got, meaning, 379 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:22.960 you know, as it goes in, when it transitions from 380 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.319 the horizontal top of the hinge down to the vertical 381 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.480 part of the hinge plate, there's a big old rounded 382 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.960 edge there. You would transition from that to a complete 383 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:38.960 square edge hinge. Square edge hinges are the sharpest, nicest, 384 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:42.640 and also most effective and efficient hinges because that square 385 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:46.799 corner cutting into the door mortising into that hinge pocket 386 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.400 stays in place naturally by itself, better than the rounded edge. 387 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:56.119 The reason they're rounded edge hinges exist is because routers 388 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.119 in door companies are have around. You know, when they 389 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.680 make a turn, they have to round the edge. Of 390 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:05.680 the nature of how a router cuts through wood is 391 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.599 that when it makes a ninety degree turn, it leaves 392 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:12.160 a rounded edge on that ninety degree turn. So it 393 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:15.759 takes more effort to then, after you've routed out the 394 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.960 hinge pocket, to go back with a chisel and chisel 395 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.200 out the square corner. For a square hinge, AHA, more effort, 396 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:27.519 more craftsmanship, more detail, more caring. And this is why 397 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:31.200 square cut hinges always look better because they just communicate 398 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:33.559 all of that every time you look at them. All right, 399 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:36.960 so much more to go your home with. Oh, Tina 400 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.240 brought me some water, so like I heard you choking 401 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:42.640