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Speaker 2: Ask Dean, I want to talk to Michael. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, good good morning, Dean.
Speaker 2: Thanks you taken my call.
Speaker 4: Say.
Speaker 3: I've got a home in southern California. It was build
Speaker 3: in the early eighties. It's a slab floor. I have
Speaker 3: a half bath powder room so called off of a
Speaker 3: hallway that I need to upgrade the toilet in. The
Speaker 3: problem is the toilet was designed on a fourteen inch
Speaker 3: ruf in and back.
Speaker 5: In the day, the rough end sizes were always done
Speaker 5: with the toilet bowl. Now, as you may or may
Speaker 5: not know, nowadays they always.
Speaker 4: Use the standard twelve inch rut bowl and put a
Speaker 4: roughian tank on it, and what the problem is there, Dean.
Speaker 4: When the door opens, it swings inward towards.
Speaker 6: The toilet and the fourteen inch rough toilet excuse me,
Speaker 6: I did replace years ago, they still made the old
Speaker 6: fashioned fourteenage Ruffians with the bulls and it just barely
Speaker 6: clears the front of the bowl. So if I again,
Speaker 6: I'm on a slab floor I've had a I'm gonna
Speaker 6: tell me to jackamber the floor, readrout it, or even
Speaker 6: try to upgrade.
Speaker 3: The A B S plange on it with a with
Speaker 3: an offset.
Speaker 6: But that's not even going to do it. And the
Speaker 6: problem is too, I've got.
Speaker 5: A really high end hardwood wood flooring in the bathroom
Speaker 5: that I don't want to touch. My question was what
Speaker 5: a barn door provide in a traffic AIA in this
Speaker 5: hallway enough enough privacy to remove the existing door, the
Speaker 5: standard type of door that it has, and use the
Speaker 5: barn door to to gain the privacy that I need.
Speaker 2: Okay, good thinking, good thinking. Uh So here's the honest answer.
Speaker 2: Visual privacy, absolutely no problem.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: The only uh, the only leakiness with a barn style
Speaker 2: door is going to be sound transmission. Now, a good
Speaker 2: solid core barn door is going to you know, reduce
Speaker 2: that pretty significantly. In fact, if you've lived in a
Speaker 2: house with hollow core interior doors, you may not notice
Speaker 2: any difference whatsoever if you transition to a solid core
Speaker 2: barn door. But you know, because the door is not
Speaker 2: making positive contact with the jam, because it's just essentially
Speaker 2: sliding in front of the wall space itself, there is
Speaker 2: an air gap. And because there's an air gap, the
Speaker 2: question of privacy in terms of sound transmission, that's the
Speaker 2: only issue that you're going to be experiencing. Now we've
Speaker 2: reduced that somewhat. We've reduced that somewhat by making sure
Speaker 2: that the new door, the barn door, is a bit
Speaker 2: oversized and so that it is significantly wider than the
Speaker 2: jam and a little bit taller than the jam as well.
Speaker 2: And as a result of that that helps it helps
Speaker 2: the you know, the further that the door is overlapped
Speaker 2: on the existing jam, it possible helps with sound transmission.
Speaker 2: But it's not as if there's you know, there's the
Speaker 2: sound as if there's no door there whatsoever. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that, you know, in a in a bathroom area,
Speaker 2: if I put a solid core traditional door, that's making
Speaker 2: direct contact with the door stop on three sides and
Speaker 2: only has that little gap on the bottom. Then that
Speaker 2: sound isolation because sound is you know, sound finds air,
Speaker 2: and if air, if air is allowed to flow between
Speaker 2: one space and another, it's an excellent medium for sound
Speaker 2: to travel. So a standard door sitting up against door
Speaker 2: stops does a considerably better job shutting down sound then
Speaker 2: it does anything else. As far as the sliding door,
Speaker 2: a barn door is concerned, or a pocket door, there's
Speaker 2: lockable sliding door barn door hardware out there, some really
Speaker 2: beautiful barn door at hard So it's not that that
Speaker 2: the door couldn't be secured, and it's not that the
Speaker 2: door would would encourage you know, visible privacy disruptions. All
Speaker 2: of that would be handled. It's just a question when
Speaker 2: it comes to a powder room of sound. If down
Speaker 2: a hallway far enough away from everybody else, then probably
Speaker 2: not a big concern. And it sounds like it would
Speaker 2: be the least expensive. Have you having run through the
Speaker 2: gambit of of ideas already that I would have thrown
Speaker 2: out to you, and I understand you don't want to
Speaker 2: disrupt that hardwood floor, uh, And yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: the case. Now, if you decide to disrupt the hardwood floor,
Speaker 2: then then I want you to be aware of one
Speaker 2: more option that you've got for a bathroom like that,
Speaker 2: not just moving the flange back. You know a couple
Speaker 2: of inches for a standard twelve inch offset for the
Speaker 2: toilet for all the new modern toilets, but you could
Speaker 2: actually decide to move the drain completely into the wall
Speaker 2: and put a wall mount toilet in there, which gives
Speaker 2: you the maximum clearance in a small bathroom because the
Speaker 2: wall mount toilet incorporates a frame that puts the tank
Speaker 2: into the wall, and literally only the bowl will be
Speaker 2: sticking out into the room, So you're eliminating the tank
Speaker 2: presence offset from the wall altogether. And so instead of
Speaker 2: twelve inches offset, it's zero inches offset from bowl to wall,
Speaker 2: and you would have the most room. But I get it,
Speaker 2: I get it. You don't want to disrupt the wood floor.
Speaker 2: So a sliding door or a pocket door there would
Speaker 2: be your best shot. And I would say between a
Speaker 2: sliding in a pocket door, the barn door is probably
Speaker 2: the better idea, just because a pocket door, even though
Speaker 2: it looks like it's making solid contact the pocket itself,
Speaker 2: the pocket becomes a sound transmissionary.
Speaker 6: I get youri Well, the door where the pocket door
Speaker 6: would slide into it's a near it's about twenty six inches,
Speaker 6: and there's another door, a bedroom door that's next to that,
Speaker 6: and there's a light switch in that wall where the
Speaker 6: pocket door would slide right, have electrical work so that
Speaker 6: there was a slideable work. I've even talked thought about
Speaker 6: a door Harmonica type or Accordian door. It's a little
Speaker 6: on the cheap side, but that was another alternative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would do the sliding door if I had
Speaker 2: to choose between all of that, because it's classy. It
Speaker 2: doesn't have to look like a barn either. There is
Speaker 2: zero hardware visible sliding doors now that can look very
Speaker 2: contemporary as well. Look those up as well, Michael. I've
Speaker 2: got to run to a break. Thanks for your question.
Speaker 2: I hope that helps. I would do the sliding door
Speaker 2: if we're going to that wood floor. Otherwise you're gon
Speaker 2: have to commit to moving the flange in the concrete
Speaker 2: for the toilet. All right, y'all, when we come back,
Speaker 2: more of your calls your home with Dean Sharp the
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Speaker 2: this lovely, misty Saturday morning here in Spring, and it's
Speaker 2: time to go back to the phones. I want to
Speaker 2: talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome home.
Speaker 1: Hey Dean, thank you for taking the call. Hey, I
Speaker 1: have a question about some blown in insulation.
Speaker 5: I have a twenty.
Speaker 1: Four hundred square foot three bedroom ranch style house L shaped,
Speaker 1: and it has a patio on the front about twelve
Speaker 1: feet deep, all stucco. It's built into the house. Insulation
Speaker 1: in the house is only covering the living space. It's
Speaker 1: not covering the patio in the front or the patio
Speaker 1: in the back. It's just the sudden laughing getting ready
Speaker 1: to do blown in insulation.
Speaker 8: Should I have that section done.
Speaker 1: Or not done? And I'm getting conflicting answers from contractors.
Speaker 2: Are the what are the I'm curious what the contractors
Speaker 2: are saying.
Speaker 1: One saying no, that it's not a living space, it
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be insulated. The other saying, yes, let's
Speaker 1: do it because the heat will radiate up through the
Speaker 1: patio and then into the attic space above the living space.
Speaker 1: And the patios are kind of large. They're twelve feet
Speaker 1: deep on the L shaped one. It's fifty feet run
Speaker 1: to one way and forty five foot run on the other,
Speaker 1: twelve feet and fifteen feet in the back.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, So here's my here's my
Speaker 2: take on that they're both kind of right. Well, they're
Speaker 2: both right in their own way. It's absolutely true. You
Speaker 2: don't have to do it because it is exteriors. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't have to do it. It's not a requirement.
Speaker 2: It's outside the house, right, as long as you've got
Speaker 2: a barrier, and you should have a barrier up in
Speaker 2: the attic in between the space. Now, for some reason,
Speaker 2: that's all there is not, okay, So then I would absolutely,
Speaker 2: without question do it. Yeah, for two reasons. You know,
Speaker 2: an exterior space is only defined by a true wall break, like,
Speaker 2: for instance, in your garage. If you look in the
Speaker 2: attic about the garage, you'll find that there's a wall,
Speaker 2: continuous wall up in between the garage and the rest
Speaker 2: of the attic space. That's because the garage is quote
Speaker 2: unquote exterior. But if for some reason this was missed,
Speaker 2: then you absolutely should insulate the whole space. And I
Speaker 2: would probably do it anyway, because blown in insulation is
Speaker 2: not expensive. Number one, all number two, I'm not so
Speaker 2: worried about heat invading up from that space, although if
Speaker 2: there's no wall, I am concerned about that now. But
Speaker 2: even if there was a wall, I think I would
Speaker 2: do it because it's gonna make the patio experience that
Speaker 2: much more comfortable because that insulation is going to help
Speaker 2: keep heat from radiating down into the patio as well,
Speaker 2: and if you decide to do any heating outside on
Speaker 2: the patio, it's actually actually going to hold that heat
Speaker 2: in place better on those cold days as well. So
Speaker 2: I just don't think there's any downside to doing the
Speaker 2: blown in everywhere perfect perfect.
Speaker 1: Now, there are recessed can lights for lack of better term,
Speaker 1: they're rectangular. Should those be covered before the insulation is
Speaker 1: blown in? Or are they okay just to cover with
Speaker 1: the insulation?
Speaker 2: Well, if they are, if they're newer recess can lights
Speaker 2: that are all low voltage and icy rated That IC
Speaker 2: means insulated and contact rated, Okay, Yeah, if they're old school,
Speaker 2: you can buy covers for them all right. You can
Speaker 2: look online. Sometimes you can find them at the big
Speaker 2: box stores, sometimes not. But there are covers from the
Speaker 2: attic side. You just cover over the light and then
Speaker 2: that way you can blow in around it. You don't
Speaker 2: want to make a direct contact with a recess canlight
Speaker 2: that is not ic or insulation contact rated because it's
Speaker 2: a fire answer.
Speaker 1: Understood, and that was my question to Kay.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 1: So we'll cover it and we'll get it done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the cost difference is nothing that I think the benefits
Speaker 1: are tremendous.
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent. Chris, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Dean. Thank you so much. I appreciate your answers and
Speaker 1: confirming my thoughts. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 2: Right, buddy, good luck on that. Thanks for the question.
Speaker 2: Always great. This is why we take questions because who
Speaker 2: knows where they come from, and they just end up
Speaker 2: helping everybody understand their home a little bit better, and
Speaker 2: we will continue to do it.
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Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Of course, we spend our time talking about your home,
Speaker 2: every aspect of your home from design to construction, to
Speaker 2: DIY home improvement fix and toilets having grand architectural designs
Speaker 2: and everything in between, inside outside the whole mgilla? Is
Speaker 2: that a thing? Sam? Can we find out what the
Speaker 2: word mcgilla means and where it comes from? I find
Speaker 2: it might be mgilla gorilla? Is it? Can we find out?
Speaker 2: Because such I grew up saying it because my parents
Speaker 2: used to say it, and now I realize maybe just today,
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that means other than like
Speaker 2: it means the whole thing, and it kind of bugs
Speaker 2: me because I'm a word nerd. So we got to
Speaker 2: find that out. Anyway, the hole mgilla, everything regarding your home.
Speaker 2: And as always, we're taking calls here on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: We still have room on the call board for you.
Speaker 2: The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Speaker 2: Dean eight three three the numeral two. Ask Dean eight
Speaker 2: three three two. Ask Dean. I found the definition of
Speaker 2: miguilli for you. Yeah, what is it? It's something large
Speaker 2: and or elaborate. Okay, there it is, So the whole
Speaker 2: large elaborate thing gorilla exactly. Yeah. Right, that's why they
Speaker 2: named him that, right, because he was large and elaborate
Speaker 2: or he was large. He wasn't very elaborate, but he
Speaker 2: was large. Oh, there was no grape Ape. That's true.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. There is a whole younger generation listening
Speaker 2: right now, like great Ape. What's that? What's that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know you have to be you have to be
Speaker 2: older folks like us here, as we talked about at
Speaker 2: the top of the show, to remember Gray Ape. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna shut up and go to the phones. Now,
Speaker 2: let's talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, welcome home, Jean. How
Speaker 2: you doing good? Good, good, my friend. How can I
Speaker 2: help you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I have this HVAC unit in my single live and
Speaker 8: I come to find out that all my free on
Speaker 8: has leaked out, Uh huh and yeah, out of the
Speaker 8: I guess the evaporator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wherever.
Speaker 8: Anyway, I don't want to pay fifteen thousand dollars for
Speaker 8: a brand new unit. I'd rather get a split unit.
Speaker 8: I only have a thousand square feet yep, and I
Speaker 8: think that would be perfect for me.
Speaker 2: What do you think, I would say, probably in your situation,
Speaker 2: thousand square foot single wide mobile home. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: a split unit you'd want to get more than you'd
Speaker 2: want to get a unit that has more than one cassette, okay,
Speaker 2: because even a thousand square feet you got different rooms,
Speaker 2: so you got it, you know, probably two cassettes, maybe three,
Speaker 2: but two cassettes so that you get even coverage. And
Speaker 2: by the way, when we talk about a mini split
Speaker 2: air conditioning, for everybody who's curious about that, they are
Speaker 2: much much smaller than standard air conditioning, super quiet, less expensive,
Speaker 2: no duct work involved. What you have is on the
Speaker 2: outside you have the essentially a traditional compressor and condenser outside,
Speaker 2: but much smaller, much quieter, and on the inside, instead
Speaker 2: of ducting, you've got these what are called cassettes. Cassettes
Speaker 2: can be mounted the typical split system cassette can be
Speaker 2: mounted up high on a wall. But now, Fred, there
Speaker 2: are also some really nice cassette units that get mounted
Speaker 2: in ceilings so that we don't have to have that
Speaker 2: thing on the wall. And a split systems, many split
Speaker 2: systems can range from a single condenser and one cassette
Speaker 2: up to a single condenser and four cassettes inside a home.
Speaker 2: That would be overkill in your situation. But I would
Speaker 2: look at you know, one, maybe two cassettes at the most,
Speaker 2: and they would be do a really good job and
Speaker 2: also in addition to cooling, they would also you know,
Speaker 2: be full functional in terms of heating if you got
Speaker 2: the heat pump unit. A heat pump unit is simply
Speaker 2: a little bit more advanced system that reverses the flow
Speaker 2: of the air conditioner and actually provides heat when you
Speaker 2: need it as opposed to cooling.
Speaker 8: Where would you suggest I put these cassettes at in
Speaker 8: the in the master and the living room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that probably is the right way to go. I
Speaker 2: mean you basically you've got your open air area, which
Speaker 2: is kitchen, dining and living room area. I'd put that
Speaker 2: cassette kind of centrally located there for maximum comfort, and
Speaker 2: then probably one back in the primary bedroom. So but
Speaker 2: you've got your you know, a two sown system. Essentially,
Speaker 2: you could turn one off when you're not using the
Speaker 2: bedroom during the day, only run the one out in
Speaker 2: the dining area and vice versa at night, and you'd have,
Speaker 2: you know, you'd have a very very comfortable space, and
Speaker 2: also you'd be saving energy as well, because you wouldn't
Speaker 2: be trying to heat the whole place when you only
Speaker 2: need it, you know, heat and cool the whole place
Speaker 2: when you only need it in one zone or the other.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's how I would go. Fred. We're up
Speaker 2: against a break. Fred. Thanks for your question, my friend.
Speaker 2: Good luck on that, and I think you're headed in
Speaker 2: the right direction. All right, more of your calls when
Speaker 2: we return your home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper Day,
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp, the House Whipper, Welcome home. Thanks for joining
Speaker 2: us this morning, this now drizzly officially drizzly Saturday spring
Speaker 2: morning here in southern California. I hope the weather is
Speaker 2: treating you right wherever you may be. There's some storms
Speaker 2: blowing through the Midwest right now too, so I guess
Speaker 2: we'll take the drizzle. We'll take the cloudy drizzle. It's
Speaker 2: been a weird spring. It's been a real spring this year.
Speaker 2: I mean here we are right in is a technical
Speaker 2: late May, yeah, the second half of May, and we're
Speaker 2: still getting this kind of weather. Very very interesting. By
Speaker 2: the way, listener Sherry wrote me a note here and said,
Speaker 2: quick and dirty, Dean. Mcgilla is a Hebrew word. It
Speaker 2: has to do with a long, extensive reading that you
Speaker 2: know from the Torah. The mcgilla esther and it was
Speaker 2: something that people are in some level were obligated to
Speaker 2: read on purim and it's long and it's detailed, and
Speaker 2: so that's where the phrase initially came from. Like you,
Speaker 2: by the time you're done, you've done it, You've read
Speaker 2: through the whole mgilla and there it is. So thank
Speaker 2: you Jerry for that. I appreciate that. I like learning things.
Speaker 2: I like knowing's stuff. All right, we're taking calls this morning.
Speaker 2: I've got time for one more, maybe two, probably just one.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Joan. Hey, Joan, welcome home.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dean, good morning, and thank you for your
Speaker 7: very helpful show. Appreciate it. I have a tile roof
Speaker 7: home twenty six years old. The garage area there is
Speaker 7: a dip in the tiles. There are a few homes
Speaker 7: in my area with the same situation. Also know of
Speaker 7: one friend in Huntington Beach that has an issue. Is
Speaker 7: this common?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 7: What kind of a problem? And what do I do
Speaker 7: to repair it? If anything?
Speaker 2: Okay? Got it? So visibly from outside you look, You're like,
Speaker 2: why is there? It's not flat? It kind of dips in, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: do you happen to know what the structure up inside
Speaker 2: your garage? Roof looks like is it.
Speaker 7: Because it is enclosed? Cannot see the roof the attic area.
Speaker 8: Is enclosed, okay, And there's.
Speaker 7: No evidence of leaks or right anything.
Speaker 2: There is one of two culprits involved here, my friend.
Speaker 2: And the good news is it's probably fixable, okay. And no,
Speaker 2: it's probably not a structural failing, although it is an
Speaker 2: esthetic structural failing. And what I mean by that a
Speaker 2: twenty year old home, my guess, is my guess, a
Speaker 2: home built around two thousand that you probably have what
Speaker 2: we call a trust system in your garage probably so
Speaker 2: those are made out of two by fours and are
Speaker 2: they are set up in a kind of a a
Speaker 2: braced system. That's what a trust is. It comes pre braced.
Speaker 2: It's a way of using smaller amounts of lumber of
Speaker 2: you know, smaller types of lumber like two by fours
Speaker 2: for doing heavy lifting work, like you know, an entire roofline.
Speaker 2: Trusses are typically set at twenty four inches on center
Speaker 2: two feet on center, and so that leaves about two
Speaker 2: feet of plywood spanning that area. Normally that's not an issue,
Speaker 2: but sometimes especially we've noticed when also spect on top
Speaker 2: of that system, is a you know, concrete tile roof.
Speaker 2: There can be areas where the ply wood starts to
Speaker 2: sag a little bit, and as a result, out on
Speaker 2: the roof you see that dip in it. So typically
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Either one a trust has failed. That's unlikely.
Speaker 2: It's possible, but it's unlikely. Typically because they're set at
Speaker 2: twenty four inches apart, it probably wasn't the best idea
Speaker 2: to have it specked with a concrete tile, but nonetheless
Speaker 2: it was and it's holding up everywhere else. So there's
Speaker 2: a really good chance that a builder, a carpenter, a
Speaker 2: general contractor, probably not a roofer, okay, because the roofer
Speaker 2: is concerned with what's going on on the outside of
Speaker 2: that roof system. But from the inside area, a contractor
Speaker 2: can probably get in there, find the sagging plywood and
Speaker 2: insert some traditional blocking and or maybe just even a
Speaker 2: traditional roof rafter in that gap and as a result
Speaker 2: sort of push out the sagging plywood and even up
Speaker 2: that dip. Now, if the dip has been there for
Speaker 2: a long long time, the plywood might fight them in
Speaker 2: trying to do it, but that's how we would want
Speaker 2: to approach it on day one because that way, you're
Speaker 2: not messing up the roofing material. You're not taking anything
Speaker 2: off on the outside. You're just literally kind of pushing
Speaker 2: the dent out from the backside inside the attic area.
Speaker 2: It's either that or you know, the roof is a
Speaker 2: conventional roof, meaning that it's used with conventional rafters, and
Speaker 2: one of the rafters has decided to sag. I doubt
Speaker 2: it's cracked or anything like that, but it has sagged.
Speaker 2: It might have been put in upside down from the
Speaker 2: builder when they originally did it. And if those of
Speaker 2: you were wondering, like upside down, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Every piece of natural wood, like a two by eight okay,
Speaker 2: that is typically used for roof rafters has a natural
Speaker 2: crown in it. In other words, it's bending slightly in
Speaker 2: one direction or the other. And one of the jobs
Speaker 2: of a framer is before we put those rafters up
Speaker 2: in your roof, we eyeball down the side of those
Speaker 2: roof rafters, those two by eight or two x tens
Speaker 2: or whatever they are, and we find the side that
Speaker 2: is bending up and we mark it. We call that
Speaker 2: the crown, and we always make sure that we place
Speaker 2: that crown up so that if anything, it's humped up
Speaker 2: a little bit when we first install it, and over
Speaker 2: the years it may settle down to straight. But if
Speaker 2: you put it in crown down, it's already starting in
Speaker 2: the opposite direction, and then over the years it might
Speaker 2: sag even a little bit more. Again, not a structural concern,
Speaker 2: but esthetically it makes a warp or a wobble or
Speaker 2: a dip in the roof. My guess is that you've
Speaker 2: got a trust system. But I just wanted to cover
Speaker 2: the whole thing, Joan, and let you know that it's
Speaker 2: time to get a general contractor or a carpenter framing
Speaker 2: carpenter out there, take a look up in the attic
Speaker 2: and see what actually is the cause of it. I
Speaker 2: would say, chances are, you know, ninety percent good that
Speaker 2: something could be done from the underneath attic side to
Speaker 2: fix that sag. But either way, just to be safe,
Speaker 2: you want to make sure that there isn't a structural problem.
Speaker 2: But you've seen it in other homes in your area,
Speaker 2: and that clues off that the fact that this is
Speaker 2: just one of those things. Probably they should not expect
Speaker 2: such a heavy roof on top of that spanning plywood
Speaker 2: with the plywood being you know, having to stretch a
Speaker 2: whole two feet in between roof trusses. But it's not
Speaker 2: really a structural problem per se. It just creates an
Speaker 2: aesthetic thing that nobody likes.
Speaker 7: Would it be an issue.
Speaker 2: For a sale, for the sale of a house, I
Speaker 2: would definitely get it addressed. I would get it address.
Speaker 2: So is it an issue for the sale of a
Speaker 2: house only if you reach up there and you look
Speaker 2: up there and you find that something is cracked or failing.
Speaker 2: If it's just a sag, then technically no, it's not
Speaker 2: an issue for the sale of house. It's an aesthetic concern,
Speaker 2: but it's not a structural issue that stands in the
Speaker 2: way or that would require repair before you sell.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you so much for all the information, Joan.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome. You are so welcome, and good
Speaker 2: luck on that. But yeah, get a contractor to look
Speaker 2: up inside there and see what's going on. I'm guessing
Speaker 2: it's not a structural problem, but it was in my opinion,
Speaker 2: the way the tract was set up. It's probably a
Speaker 2: goof to put that heavy of a roof on a
Speaker 2: trust system in that situation. All right, everybody, that's all
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