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Speaker 3: out what's going on with your home, all right, I
Speaker 3: am approaching this subject of fire hardening specifically this weekend
Speaker 3: because too much confusion already abounds. But I'm also taking calls.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to balance the two. You know, we're kind
Speaker 3: of in this balancing act right now of a little
Speaker 3: bit of life returning to normal, but not ignoring the
Speaker 3: pressing needs a lot of Southern Californians. I would argue
Speaker 3: all Southern Californians should do some fire hardening work on
Speaker 3: their home, but there's so many fallacious ideas out there
Speaker 3: and a lot of ignorance. I'm going to be addressing
Speaker 3: that specifically in detail on tomorrow's show, on the next episode.
Speaker 3: If you're a podcast listener right now, all I'm doing
Speaker 3: something we haven't done for a while, which is getting
Speaker 3: some calls handled because you know, I know you've got questions.
Speaker 3: Life goes on as well, So whether you're called is
Speaker 3: about fire or whether it's about anything else on your home,
Speaker 3: feel free to call me eight three three two Ask
Speaker 3: Dean A three three the numeral to ask Dean. All right,
Speaker 3: for those of you who are on the edge of
Speaker 3: your seat and wondering, is Dean going to answer Peter's question? Uh,
Speaker 3: my computer is still locked up here, and so you
Speaker 3: know I'm going to get it fixed. But let me
Speaker 3: just go ahead and answer the question. So Peter had
Speaker 3: called and asked, hey, I got I live in an apartment.
Speaker 3: I got a bunch of stuff plugged in, And I
Speaker 3: did adequately answer his question in terms of like, hey,
Speaker 3: you're safe, You're good. You put a power strip into
Speaker 3: an outlet and you can put a bunch of stuff
Speaker 3: on there. And the power strip itself has a breaker mechanism.
Speaker 3: If it's pulling too much energy through it, it will
Speaker 3: pop and you'll have to reset it. And that's how
Speaker 3: you know you get too many things plugged into it. Also,
Speaker 3: the breaker itself for the circuit of the outlet is
Speaker 3: set to go off if too much energy gets pulled
Speaker 3: through the wire that's creating that circuit, And a fifteen
Speaker 3: am breaker obviously will pop before a twenty am breaker
Speaker 3: because that's a bigger line, it's a bigger load. But specifically,
Speaker 3: what I wanted to do was do a quick search
Speaker 3: on the internet just to find out. Sometimes, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the questions I get asked, I'm always curious, like, well,
Speaker 3: if I did an internet search and just ask a
Speaker 3: simple question, would I get a straight answer? And it
Speaker 3: turned out I'm assuming that it might be a tricky answer.
Speaker 3: But my computer's locked up right now, and so I
Speaker 3: can't tell you whether the internet would have answered this well,
Speaker 3: so I'm just going to do it right here. All right?
Speaker 3: Are you ready? Are you ready? This is how you
Speaker 3: very very specifically figure out what you can plug into
Speaker 3: an outlet at home. As I said, most regular home
Speaker 3: receptacle circuits are fifteen amp, some of them are twenty amp.
Speaker 3: How can you tell at your breaker panel? When you
Speaker 3: go to your power box and open it up your
Speaker 3: main panel, you will find the breakers and they will
Speaker 3: have on them they'll be labeled fifteen twenty. That's how
Speaker 3: you know fifteen amp circuit, twenty amp circuit and so on.
Speaker 3: Also here in America we have one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: vault power systems. Okay, that's the voltage of our power system.
Speaker 3: So it's very very simple. All you have to do
Speaker 3: is multiply the ampridge of a circuit by the voltage
Speaker 3: of a circuit. Ampridge times voltage okay equals wattage, and
Speaker 3: wattage is the power consumption that that circuit is capable of.
Speaker 3: So case in point, if you take a fifteen amp
Speaker 3: circuit and multiply it by one and twenty volts, you
Speaker 3: will find that eighteen hundred watts is the maximum pull
Speaker 3: of the usage that that circuit will handle at one
Speaker 3: moment in time. Okay, So yeah, this this most commonly
Speaker 3: occurs where like, you're in the bathroom and you've got
Speaker 3: a fifteen amp circuit right there next to the sink,
Speaker 3: and a woman has a or I should say woman,
Speaker 3: I'm just all I'm saying is that's how it works
Speaker 3: in my household. Tina blow drives your hair, and I
Speaker 3: do not. Okay, but let's say you've got a blow
Speaker 3: dryer there. I have a very good friend, by the way,
Speaker 3: a guy who spends way more time blow drawing his
Speaker 3: hair than Tina does. He will remain nameless. But here's
Speaker 3: the point. You know who I'm talking about fifteen hundred
Speaker 3: watt blow dryer on a fifteen am circuit. That's fifteen
Speaker 3: hundred watts out of eighteen hundred watts maximum. So you're
Speaker 3: only three hundred watts short of that maximum capacity on
Speaker 3: that circuit, which is why you're sitting there. Somebody's using
Speaker 3: a blow drying and then somebody plugs in an electric
Speaker 3: razor or hair clipper or something else like like that,
Speaker 3: and boom, off goes the circuit and you're like, what
Speaker 3: is wrong with this house? Nothing's wrong with the house
Speaker 3: because you've overloaded the capacity for that. So, Peter, I
Speaker 3: hope you're still listening. Just FYI. If you really want
Speaker 3: to get to persnickety about it, you can basically look
Speaker 3: at every single thing that you plug in, either the
Speaker 3: right on the end of the plug or the transformer
Speaker 3: or somewhere on the device. You're going to find the
Speaker 3: wattage that it pulls right. And so you add up
Speaker 3: the watts of this thing and the clock radio and
Speaker 3: the thing and the thing and the thing, and then
Speaker 3: you compare that to your fifteen amp circuit eighteen hundred watts.
Speaker 3: See what you got left over or whether you go
Speaker 3: over it or not. Also a twenty amp circuit by
Speaker 3: that same formula, twenty times one hundred and twenty equals
Speaker 3: twenty four hundred twenty four hundred wats on a twenty
Speaker 3: amp circuit, eighteen hundred watts on a fifteen amp circuit,
Speaker 3: And ideally the electrical code would like you to use
Speaker 3: only eighty percent of that maximum for ultimate safety. So
Speaker 3: there you go. There you have it all right. When
Speaker 3: we come back, another call or two, and then some
Speaker 3: thoughts that get us sort of warmed up towards this
Speaker 3: subject of fact and fiction dispelling for fire hardening your home.
Speaker 3: You are home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper. Jamfi,
Speaker 3: Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, at your service. Thanks for
Speaker 3: joining us on the program this morning. I'm in the
Speaker 3: middle of taking some calls right now. And yes, you'll
Speaker 3: be happy to know my computer is back up and running.
Speaker 3: I know you were all really really worried about that,
Speaker 3: so I just want to I just want to bring
Speaker 3: you that relief. Isn't that good news? All right, let's
Speaker 3: go back to the phones. I want to talk to Nancy. Hey, Nancy,
Speaker 3: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Why, good morning, Dean.
Speaker 5: I have a question.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have my chicken coop and I am wanting
Speaker 4: to put a three foot awning in the front of it,
Speaker 4: you know, for obviously for rain and sun exposure. So
Speaker 4: how how far do I need to put because I'm
Speaker 4: going to put the angled wood to help support the
Speaker 4: the awning. How far out do I need to put that?
Speaker 4: And it's an odd question. I don't know how to
Speaker 4: explain it. So if I need to put the triangular
Speaker 4: brace for the wood support for the corrugated plastic roofing,
Speaker 4: so how far away do I need to have that
Speaker 4: from the side of the coup? And then how far
Speaker 4: down does the base need to be attached to the coup?
Speaker 4: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Not exactly? But here here's the thing I'm going to
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a stab at it. So you
Speaker 3: want to use that corrugated plastic material to creating awning
Speaker 3: off the side of your chicken coop?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay? And how far out is this on and going
Speaker 6: to stick?
Speaker 4: Three feet?
Speaker 3: Three feet out? Okay, it's going to stick. That's a
Speaker 3: short run for the corrugated material, and so and and
Speaker 3: how are you planning on supporting this corrugated ceial at
Speaker 3: the chicken coop?
Speaker 4: I was going to use uh? One by two? Uh?
Speaker 5: Would okay?
Speaker 4: Because since it's only it's only the it's only going
Speaker 4: to be sticking out three feet And the length of
Speaker 4: the section I'm doing is four feet wide.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's why chicking out three feet?
Speaker 3: And you don't and okay, So here's what I'm guessing
Speaker 3: when you said the word triangle. Does that mean that
Speaker 3: you're not planning on running out on the end of
Speaker 3: the awning, You're not going to have little posts going
Speaker 3: down to the soil, but in fact angling back to
Speaker 3: the chicken coop. So it makes kind of a triangle,
Speaker 3: uh support?
Speaker 6: Trust?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: And then the question is how far out those have
Speaker 3: to go and how far down the coop.
Speaker 6: They have to go?
Speaker 5: Correct? Okay, you're good?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Uh So, so here's the thing. If you
Speaker 3: run from from your ledger the ledger board, by the way,
Speaker 3: is the board that you're attaching to the chicken coop
Speaker 3: that you're putting the whole back end of this thing on.
Speaker 3: If from that ledger board, on each end of this
Speaker 3: little four foot wide awning, this is how I would
Speaker 3: suggest you do it. That you that you that you run,
Speaker 3: you that you build essentially a rectangle of your little
Speaker 3: two by two material, so that the one side of
Speaker 3: the rectangle attaches to the coop, the other is sticking
Speaker 3: out the not quite three feet. You don't want it
Speaker 3: all the way at the end. You come back in
Speaker 3: like six inches or so. So let's say if you
Speaker 3: if the corrugated material hangs out three feet. Then you know,
Speaker 3: then your rectangular support for this thing should be maybe
Speaker 3: two foot six sticking out, okay, And have have a
Speaker 3: whole edge of wood there on the on the front
Speaker 3: side of this thing, so it supports that material because
Speaker 3: it's a little flimsy, okay. And then from there, once
Speaker 3: you have that whole roof structure, the corrugated material hanging
Speaker 3: over six inches each end of your wood and six
Speaker 3: inches off the front. Then once you attach that to
Speaker 3: the chicken coop, all you need are a couple of
Speaker 3: angle pieces down to the chicken coop to hold it
Speaker 3: in place. Nobody's going to be sitting on it, and
Speaker 3: chickens are light. Even if a chicken got up there,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't be the end of the world. So, and
Speaker 3: it's well supported. So I mean ideally a forty five
Speaker 3: degree angle. But here's the point. The forty five degree
Speaker 3: angle doesn't even have to go all the way out
Speaker 3: to the end, okay, because of your rectangle. So you
Speaker 3: could get away with let's say going out eighteen inches
Speaker 3: or twenty four inches and down twenty four.
Speaker 6: Inches, and that's going to be more than enough.
Speaker 3: Strength on both sides to hold up that that lightweight
Speaker 3: little anie.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, okay, that's that was the thing. Okay, Oh
Speaker 4: that's wonderful. Yeah. So now now I don't have any
Speaker 4: excuse to drag my feet of getting this little project accomplished.
Speaker 6: There you go, get those chickens in the shade.
Speaker 4: That's right. Thank you so much. You have a delightful weekend.
Speaker 4: And I love all the information.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wait, Nancy, what kind of what kind of chickens do
Speaker 3: you have? I'm just as as a as a as
Speaker 3: a chicken rancher myself. I'm always curious what kind of
Speaker 3: chickens do you have?
Speaker 4: Well, I have a Sterling silver and so she's a
Speaker 4: lovely little hen and very cute. And then I have
Speaker 4: a Planmouth rock and you know they're very territorial, so
Speaker 4: she's the top on the wrung. And then the last
Speaker 4: and I have she is a a California starlight hen
Speaker 4: and those are not very common. But that she has
Speaker 4: a beautiful curved comb. It's like really it's like a
Speaker 4: long wavy comb. And the top of her head down
Speaker 4: to her shoulders is a very dark black gray color,
Speaker 4: and then the rest of her body is black and gray,
Speaker 4: kind of spotted color. So she's a beautiful bird's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I'm not familiar with that breed. You said, California Starlight.
Speaker 3: Tina's looking it up right now.
Speaker 5: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what the lady told us that she was.
Speaker 3: So all right, we're going to check it out.
Speaker 6: But the PM.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, the California's Starlight. She lays beautiful, dark green
Speaker 4: eggs she just started laying. So we're excited.
Speaker 3: All right, she qualifies, and we're about to re up
Speaker 3: our flock because we've got we have a bunch of
Speaker 3: old ladies. Honestly, right now, we've got a bunch of
Speaker 3: old ladies who should have died like five years ago.
Speaker 3: Clearly tell me, no, you know it's true. They're ancient.
Speaker 3: Their feet are virtually petrified at this point anyway. But
Speaker 3: this spring we're introducing some new chicks in and so
Speaker 3: we're in the market. We're in the market for some
Speaker 3: interesting breeds and from a health perspective, from a health perspective,
Speaker 3: and just a human interest perspective. Tina and I always
Speaker 3: try and pick breeds not only that we love and
Speaker 3: enjoy looking at and fooling around with, but also we
Speaker 3: love it when each of our girls lays a slightly
Speaker 3: different colored egg because, as you know, sometimes health issues
Speaker 3: they're almost always related to egg laying. And that way
Speaker 3: we can be like, I haven't seen one of those
Speaker 3: dark green eggs here in the egg box for a while.
Speaker 3: We should go check out out, you know, Julie or whatever,
Speaker 3: you know, old lady name we're going to give to
Speaker 3: our chickens, because we always give them ancient, old lady names.
Speaker 3: So and that's just a way, it's a way of
Speaker 3: us kind of tracking to make sure everybody, you know,
Speaker 3: how how's everybody doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah this, Yeah, that's very true. And this California chicken,
Speaker 4: she's heat tolerant. They are high heat tolerant. So that
Speaker 4: was one of the things I was looking at for,
Speaker 4: you know, being here in southern California. And the place
Speaker 4: that is a good place is called Wes's Speed and
Speaker 4: ELMANI and I was calling and she keeps getting in
Speaker 4: different types of chickens all throughout the season, and so
Speaker 4: I call her and find out what she's got, and
Speaker 4: I look it up to see if it's a breed
Speaker 4: I want. And so sometimes it takes a couple of
Speaker 4: months to get in something that I'm interested in. So
Speaker 4: you might want to give her a call. Yeah, Nan,
Speaker 4: thank you so much.
Speaker 3: For everybody else is literally everyone else who's listening is like,
Speaker 3: did we just is this caf I have a chicken
Speaker 3: show on Saturday mornings?
Speaker 6: Is this a chicken? Is this the chicken whisper? What
Speaker 6: was that? What was that? I'm sorry, Tina. We're bringing
Speaker 6: KFI back to the farm days to its original you
Speaker 6: know that's trivia. Did anyone know this? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that the call letters kf I actually originally when
Speaker 3: it was started the station started in the nineteen twenties.
Speaker 3: Uh that it KFI stood for k I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: radio stuff, farm information, k f I k farm information.
Speaker 2: Bringing it back, bringing it back, baby school, chicken talk.
Speaker 3: Oh, Dean Sharp, the poultry Whisperer, Hey, thanks for joining
Speaker 3: us on the program. When we come back, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm going to try and take at least one more
Speaker 3: call and then tease you about fire hardening fact in
Speaker 3: FI for tomorrow's show. Stay tuned, there may be another
Speaker 3: chicken question. Who knows?
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Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Speaker 3: We're just taking a little breather right now, a little
Speaker 3: breather from all the craziness. For the last two weeks, firefire, fire, fire,
Speaker 3: everywhere I know. It has dominated our coverage. We are
Speaker 3: still on top of all of it for you, and
Speaker 3: we are not blind to the fact that for those
Speaker 3: who have lost their homes, for the neighborhoods that have
Speaker 3: been devastated, there is a long, long road ahead. But
Speaker 3: I'm taking just a little bit of time this morning
Speaker 3: to take calls on any other subject as well. And
Speaker 3: as I said, my goal for this weekend primary ly
Speaker 3: focused on in detail on tomorrow's show. The big show
Speaker 3: tomorrow is going to be to now separate the fact
Speaker 3: from the fictions that you are hearing. There's all sorts
Speaker 3: of fire hardening, frenzy information out there, crazy stuff, and
Speaker 3: some of it's crazy. Some of it sounds incredibly reasonable,
Speaker 3: but it's all very expensive. And then you've got companies
Speaker 3: popping up who say that they want to put sprinklers
Speaker 3: on your top of your roof, and they want to
Speaker 3: do this, and this is what you need to do
Speaker 3: because everybody is in fear right now. A lot of
Speaker 3: it is very, very expensive, and the question is is
Speaker 3: it effective? And so tomorrow especially, I want to focus
Speaker 3: in and separate that. I'll give you a little teaser
Speaker 3: about it before we're done today. But right now I
Speaker 3: want to take at least one more call before we
Speaker 3: move on to that.
Speaker 6: I want to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, Dean, Hey man. I just want to start
Speaker 5: off by saying that my heart out to those people
Speaker 5: in Altadena. That's that's a big part of our customer
Speaker 5: base up there, and we've had calls into our business
Speaker 5: people canceling orders for stuff that they had had on
Speaker 5: order for uh the gates after the fire, and uh wow,
Speaker 5: it's really heart wrenching to listen to some stories and
Speaker 5: people actually, you know, come to tears on the phone,
Speaker 5: cancel on their order because their homes are gone.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I feel you, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, and I'm sure they appreciate it too.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it is. It's just I mean, all of
Speaker 3: our hearts go out.
Speaker 5: It's just yeah, yeah, it's a tough one.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 5: Uh that that that last called the chicken Lady. Man,
Speaker 5: I got some great information. I'm in the middle of
Speaker 5: building chicken coop myself. Man, so uh much appreciated information.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you uh deviated from the uh noble topics.
Speaker 3: I couldn't resist, I couldn't help myself. I had to
Speaker 3: had to go there.
Speaker 5: That was good. I could have never thought of some
Speaker 5: of those questions. But I've got some great info to
Speaker 5: supply my chicken coop. So that's excellent man, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 5: But my reason for my call is that I have
Speaker 5: a gorgeous back patio. We spend a tremendous amount of
Speaker 5: our time back there. But I made the classic mistake
Speaker 5: of building a fireplace. It's a gorgeous stone fireplace sixteen
Speaker 5: feet tall and thirty feet wide and has a five
Speaker 5: foot tall fireplace, and it just gorgeous looks looks like
Speaker 5: back in the old days. And it's a classic fireplace.
Speaker 5: So it doesn't put out much heat. And so I'm
Speaker 5: debating how I can rectify that by having something or
Speaker 5: adding something to it that might provide us with some
Speaker 5: heat during these cold, cold winter times.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, well you probably won't like me saying
Speaker 3: tear it down right, I mean, no, you don't.
Speaker 5: Want to do I can turn it into a chicken coop.
Speaker 6: There you go, okay, So yeah, I uh okay.
Speaker 3: So when people are talking about, hey, I want an
Speaker 3: outdoor fire experience, I'm all for it.
Speaker 6: I mean, I love them.
Speaker 3: And if you guys are fans of the show and
Speaker 3: you follow us on social media, you see I spent
Speaker 3: a lot of time out by my fire pit when
Speaker 3: our clients ask us, Hey, we want an outdoor fire experience.
Speaker 3: Sure we've done fireplaces before, of course we have. And
Speaker 3: I usually give pushback on a client when it comes
Speaker 3: to a fire an outdoor fireplace, because because I don't
Speaker 3: think they actually pay off what they promise. I mean, visually,
Speaker 3: they are stunning and beautiful and they give you that
Speaker 3: whole vibe. But you know exactly what you're saying, Mike,
Speaker 3: when it comes to the actual functionality of the fire
Speaker 3: and the whole idea of hey, let's all gather around
Speaker 3: it and stay warm and have a wonderful conversations outside
Speaker 3: under the stars and so on, that's where they actually
Speaker 3: fall short. And you know, if a client's like, hey, architecturally,
Speaker 3: I think it's a great idea, though, Dean, let's go
Speaker 3: for it. And you know, of course we'll do it,
Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, you're the boss.
Speaker 3: But I usually push toward a firepit over a fireplace,
Speaker 3: because a fire pit, I can stretch that thing as
Speaker 3: long as I want. I can run a big gas
Speaker 3: supply to it and have a big, beautiful, nice flame
Speaker 3: coming out of it. We can all gather around it.
Speaker 3: I mean my fire pit in my backyard, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean I can get eight people around it, and
Speaker 3: everybody is staying warm because everybody can kind of belly
Speaker 3: up as close to the fire as they want. And
Speaker 3: there you go. A fireplace, even one as large as
Speaker 3: you're sixteen feet tall, five foot fire box still best
Speaker 3: case scenario, you've got two maybe three chairs that can
Speaker 3: get in close to it. And as with all fireplaces
Speaker 3: inside and out, all traditional fireplaces, nearly ninety percent of
Speaker 3: the heat goes up the chimney and not out into
Speaker 3: the space where you're at. So how do you resolve
Speaker 3: that situation. It's not the easiest thing to resolve. The
Speaker 3: best thing I can tell you is number One, you're outside.
Speaker 3: So because you're outside, it may be of benefit if
Speaker 3: you can bring. I didn't ask you in detail, and
Speaker 3: I'm short on time, but whether you've got built canopies
Speaker 3: or anything over it or near it, but if you
Speaker 3: brought in an umbrella or two to put over the
Speaker 3: space to hold some of the heat that is coming
Speaker 3: out of the box down, not over the chimney, but
Speaker 3: over the heat of the box, just to hold it
Speaker 3: a little bit longer down towards people. That's going to
Speaker 3: make it a slightly warmer experien probably the most direct
Speaker 3: way to do it, and it's not uber attractive, but
Speaker 3: you know, I mean you can find them out there.
Speaker 3: And that's one of those tubed blower setups where you've
Speaker 3: got a kind of a U shaped horseshoe shaped a
Speaker 3: series of four or five horseshoe shaped tubes that sit
Speaker 3: the lower tubes on top of the fire bed itself
Speaker 3: where the gas flame is, and then another set of
Speaker 3: them they curl up and they sit over the actual flames.
Speaker 3: Those things superheat and then the convection process of air
Speaker 3: moving through them. Or if you can bring power, you
Speaker 3: can put a powered blower there. That's the best, a
Speaker 3: powered blower fan with those tubes and literally blow that
Speaker 3: heated air out of the firebox towards the people and so,
Speaker 3: and those are available. You can get those at like
Speaker 3: woodlanddirect dot com. Take a look at those, match them
Speaker 3: to you the size of your fire box. If you
Speaker 3: paint them out blacky, they'll tend to go away. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you'll get some more direct horizontal heat coming at people
Speaker 3: who are sitting near the fireplace, more efficiently heating them
Speaker 3: up than just all of it going up the chimney.
Speaker 3: But that's actually, I mean, that's that's that's the double
Speaker 3: edged sword of an architecturally beautiful traditional outdoor fireplace. They
Speaker 3: are gorgeous, but when it comes to number of people
Speaker 3: that they can keep warm, no matter how big they are,
Speaker 3: it usually amounts to two uh and and you're you know,
Speaker 3: you're not all curled around it looking at each other.
Speaker 3: So that's why I always push towards fire pits. But
Speaker 3: I think that's the that's probably the best thing you
Speaker 3: can do, my.
Speaker 5: Friend, oh man, thank you so much, Stean. That's that's
Speaker 5: a great suggestion. I'm going to look into Woodland fire
Speaker 5: Direct and thanks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and direct. And you know, look at the
Speaker 3: fire tube the blower tubes setups that they've got and
Speaker 3: you can do that with an indoor gas fire as well,
Speaker 3: but outdoor you know it'll help. All right, my friend,
Speaker 3: thank you for your call, Thanks for your support. Buddy
Speaker 3: day I fie Gean Sharp the house Whisper welcome home. Hey,
Speaker 3: thanks for spending the morning with me. It has been
Speaker 3: a privilege. As always, I want to remind you follow
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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's true you heard right earlier in the show.
Speaker 3: If your home is in need of some personal House
Speaker 3: Whisper attention, if you've fanned the show and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I can only get that guy in my living room
Speaker 3: talking about what's going on going on here, well you can.
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Speaker 3: at house Whisper dot Design. All right, y'all, just a
Speaker 3: couple of more things before we are done today. As
Speaker 3: I said at the top of the show, my main goal,
Speaker 3: you know, I want to take a little break and
Speaker 3: want to answer some calls today. Great calls today, thank you,
Speaker 3: and just give us all sort of a little bit
Speaker 3: of a shakedown break from all the fire news. But
Speaker 3: we're not done with fire. You and I Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: very serious about this. I've been talking about this for years.
Speaker 3: But every once in a while, of course, along comes
Speaker 3: a major wildfire disaster. The last one before this one
Speaker 3: was six years ago, the one that almost threatened our home,
Speaker 3: the Woolsey fire back in twenty eighteen pre COVID if
Speaker 3: you can believe that. But they come, they happen, and
Speaker 3: they're going to happen again, and I don't want your
Speaker 3: home to be a victim of that activity next time around.
Speaker 3: I did not want the Palisades to burn the way
Speaker 3: they burnt, or the Altadena fire to burn the way
Speaker 3: it burnt. And you're asking the question, well, what are
Speaker 3: you going to do about it? Well, there's a lot
Speaker 3: that you can do about it. There's a lot that
Speaker 3: we all in southern California or anywhere you live near
Speaker 3: an open space should and can do about it. The
Speaker 3: problem is in the in the forget the pun firestorm
Speaker 3: of fear and anxiety that comes after a disaster like
Speaker 3: this has its takes its toll on us uh. People
Speaker 3: are open to embracing all sorts of ideas that have
Speaker 3: no basis in factuality or effectiveness. And so what I
Speaker 3: want to talk to you about, specifically in detail tomorrow
Speaker 3: is how a fire interacts with your home. It's not
Speaker 3: what you think. Almost guaranteed it's not what you think.
Speaker 3: And we're going to be talking about the fire hardening frenzy,
Speaker 3: separating the facts from the fictions. And I'm going to
Speaker 3: set you up. I'm going to give you literally the
Speaker 3: house whisper list of what I think the steps to
Speaker 3: take to adequately, effectively, affordably fire harden a home so
Speaker 3: that next time this event occurs, you have the best
Speaker 3: possibility whatsoever of your home having a home to come
Speaker 3: back to.
Speaker 6: So that's the big show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We start a half an hour later than normal just
Speaker 3: tomorrow because of the Governor Gavin Newsom town hall that
Speaker 3: starts at nine. Don't miss that here on KFI, and
Speaker 3: we'll be getting started right around nine point thirty.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 3: I hope in between now and then you get out there,
Speaker 3: get into this beautiful day that we've got a cool
Speaker 3: southern California day, windless, generally speaking, and get busy building
Speaker 3: yourself a beautiful life, and we'll see you right back
Speaker 3: here tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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