Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Dean Sharp, the House Whisper on demand
Speaker 2: on the iHeart Radio app KFI AM six forty live
Speaker 2: streaming in HD everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. I
Speaker 2: design custom homes.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I do.
Speaker 2: I build custom homes, and I am your guide to
Speaker 2: better understanding that place where you live. So happy to
Speaker 2: be spending some time with you on this early Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: Well maybe if you're on the East Coast and you're listening,
Speaker 2: it's not quite so early, but it's pretty early out here.
Speaker 2: The sun hasn't come up yet. That's the way it
Speaker 2: goes here on Saturdays for us, at least during the winter.
Speaker 2: It is a cool not well, yeah, it's pretty crisp,
Speaker 2: pretty crisp Saturday morning. The rain is gone, and so
Speaker 2: we've got a sunny southern California looking ahead of us
Speaker 2: for this weekend. Happy about that. The rain was good too,
Speaker 2: with the exception of the landslides that came you know,
Speaker 2: post fires and such, but generally speaking, we made it
Speaker 2: through that storm just fine. And I am glad that
Speaker 2: you're with me. We're going to be taking calls this morning.
Speaker 2: Of course. The number to reach me right now eight
Speaker 2: three three two Ask Dean. Saturday morning is always a
Speaker 2: great time to call in because traffic's a little light
Speaker 2: out there, you know, a lot of people sleeping in,
Speaker 2: But you and I are up, and so that means
Speaker 2: we can talk about your home. Eight three three two
Speaker 2: ask Dean. A three three the numeral two ass Dean.
Speaker 2: Producer Richie is standing by. The phone lines are open.
Speaker 2: He's ready to take your calls, and so am I. Also,
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking this morning about some of
Speaker 2: the thinking that leads up to the remodeling process. So
Speaker 2: I'm entitling today's show. There are no bad ideas, only
Speaker 2: bad decisions, and so you just gotta stick in there
Speaker 2: with me and listen to find out exactly what I
Speaker 2: mean by that. But I'm hoping, I'm hoping that that
Speaker 2: little conversation will help liberate your thinking when it comes
Speaker 2: to approaching whatever it is that you plan to do
Speaker 2: or change about your home. Let's talk for a second
Speaker 2: about our awesome team. Sam is on the board. Of course,
Speaker 2: theres are not so live studio audience. Good morning Sam.
Speaker 1: Good morning Dan. How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good, glad to be here with you.
Speaker 2: Producer Richie, like I said, is standing by right now.
Speaker 2: The phone lines are open. Yeah, okay, No Mike near
Speaker 2: him as usual, and sitting across the table from me.
Speaker 2: My better half, oh, my dear, my design partner, my
Speaker 2: best friend in all the world, Tina is here.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Good morning to you, Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2: To that beagle getting next to you. That was not
Speaker 2: the sound of a beagle. That was an elephant. But
Speaker 2: and he looks some sometimes reminds me of that when
Speaker 2: he eats too much. But little Sammy beagle, he's adorable.
Speaker 2: All right, Shall we dive in? I think we should
Speaker 2: as I'm waiting for calls to come. And truly now
Speaker 2: is a good time to do it as we wait
Speaker 2: for calls. Let me let me introduce what I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about this morning. I want to have a conversation about
Speaker 2: how to tease out the best ideas for your project
Speaker 2: by essentially creating what in the design world is a
Speaker 2: kind of a well known device, kind of and by device,
Speaker 2: I don't mean it's something that we physically build, say,
Speaker 2: but at worst, it's a metaphorical device. Building a sandbox.
Speaker 2: A sandbox is a place where kids come and play, right,
Speaker 2: and you build stuff and you move sand around. And
Speaker 2: the understanding, the unwritten rules about sandboxes are that you know,
Speaker 2: whatever gets built there, it doesn't really matter, right, because
Speaker 2: it's not gonna last. You know, if we're gonna build
Speaker 2: a castle, nobody's moving into it exactly, And so we're
Speaker 2: just there to have fun and to stretch our minds
Speaker 2: and our and our sculpting skills and all of that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. A sandbox is a place where you
Speaker 2: play and just to let you in on a little
Speaker 2: bit of how the sausage is made. When it comes
Speaker 2: to home design, or at least the way that Tina
Speaker 2: and I move through home design. When we start with
Speaker 2: a project, we will we'll start by, well, let's say it.
Speaker 2: Let's say let's say it's not a brand new home,
Speaker 2: a new new build, a new creation. Let's say that
Speaker 2: we're we're redesigning a home for somebody, so it's a remodel.
Speaker 2: So we're working with an existing shell. So we the
Speaker 2: first step is we will go over to the house
Speaker 2: and we will spend the better part of a day
Speaker 2: sitting there with our computer and our laser measures and
Speaker 2: we will measure down that entire space and build that
Speaker 2: space what we call the as built the existing home
Speaker 2: structure into our CAD system, so that now we're going
Speaker 2: to take our laptop home with us back to our studio,
Speaker 2: and what we have now in our possession is a
Speaker 2: three D model accurate of the existing house, and it's
Speaker 2: that model that we start playing with. Sometimes we'll call
Speaker 2: the playtime version one and start sketching and moving walls
Speaker 2: around and changing this and changing that, and other times
Speaker 2: we'll be working on it simultaneously on two different computers
Speaker 2: in which one of us is kind of moving ahead
Speaker 2: with our first set of ideas that we're calling version one,
Speaker 2: and the other is trying out some weird stuff or
Speaker 2: you know, things that are a little bit more fanciful,
Speaker 2: or we're just experimenting. And we could we literally call
Speaker 2: that file the sandbox, because the sandbox is where you
Speaker 2: can go and play without doing damage to anything, because
Speaker 2: it's this area of play. And the more I've thought
Speaker 2: about that over a few months now, because I've got
Speaker 2: a little project going on the side here where I've
Speaker 2: been doing a lot of writing to you, the homeowner
Speaker 2: about kind of design theory and design principles in a
Speaker 2: way that isn't all stodgy and stuffy and boring, but
Speaker 2: really really practical, I hope. And I've been thinking about
Speaker 2: this a lot, and I've been thinking about the idea
Speaker 2: of how I can better encourage homeowners to kind of
Speaker 2: free themselves up to think as widely and as boldly
Speaker 2: and as imaginatively as possible. I'm not trying to turn
Speaker 2: you into a designer. I'm not trying to have you
Speaker 2: replace that role that creative gifting and profession. But what
Speaker 2: I am doing is saying this. I always say this,
Speaker 2: A custom home, a truly custom home, begins with a
Speaker 2: custom homeowner. And you know what, I'm just gonna let
Speaker 2: that hang out there right now. I will explain exactly
Speaker 2: what I mean by that right after we get some
Speaker 2: traffic and do some biz.
Speaker 1: Does that sound good? All right?
Speaker 2: Campie em sharp the house with for Hey, whether your
Speaker 2: home is a condo or a cottage or a castle
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. I'm here to help it take it to
Speaker 2: the next level. That's what we're all about here. That's
Speaker 2: one of the secret sauce elements of our program, I believe,
Speaker 2: and that is that like probably nowhere else that I
Speaker 2: am aware of. I'm a designer who is talking to
Speaker 2: you about universal design principles that we use every single
Speaker 2: day for a state level homes. Yeah, the fanciest, the
Speaker 2: most jaw dropping residences that you can imagine, all the
Speaker 2: way down to you know, the little adu that you're
Speaker 2: building in your backyard, or the little cottage that you
Speaker 2: live in, the tiny house that you live in, or
Speaker 2: the condo that you live in. Like no other place
Speaker 2: that I know, I talk about architecture and design uniformly
Speaker 2: across the board because the fundamental principles that go into
Speaker 2: the process are applicable across the board. It's just that
Speaker 2: nobody has ever taken the time to talk to you,
Speaker 2: the mainstream homeowner, about these things. And so this morning
Speaker 2: I'm helping you kind of loosen up your thinking a
Speaker 2: little bit in regards to your project. And right before
Speaker 2: the break, right before oh by the way, let me
Speaker 2: get let me do my biz. Here, the phone lines
Speaker 2: are open. We've got a couple of calls. We've got
Speaker 2: room for you, though. I'm going to be going to
Speaker 2: the phones in just a bit. The number to reach
Speaker 2: me eight three three two, ask Dean. Eight three three
Speaker 2: the numeral two, Ask Dean. And you know, with calls,
Speaker 2: it's always the same, regardless of what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: You can call and ask me about anything going on
Speaker 2: with you and your home. So there you go, eight
Speaker 2: three three the numeral two, Ask Dean. Uh, there is
Speaker 2: room for you on the callboard today, all right, So
Speaker 2: before the break that one of the things I like
Speaker 2: to say to our clients at the outset is that
Speaker 2: a custom home starts with a custom homeowner.
Speaker 1: And what do I mean by that? It is it's.
Speaker 2: Intended to stir something up in you. And that's this
Speaker 2: I completely understand, even though you know, most of my
Speaker 2: career I've been doing a state level homes, okay, ultra
Speaker 2: custom homes, and still regardless of what level of homes,
Speaker 2: all the teen and I work on are custom home designs.
Speaker 1: But I'm just, you know, a normal guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I grew up in a lower middle class,
Speaker 2: blue collar family and like most Americans, we live in
Speaker 2: tracked housing houses that were built by others for nobody
Speaker 2: in particular. And that you move it, you know, you
Speaker 2: find one that you can afford, and hopefully one that
Speaker 2: you like. That sort of kind of fits what you imagined.
Speaker 2: And you know, not a lot of people find their
Speaker 2: dream house in a tract house, but you find a
Speaker 2: you know, a nice house and you're like, wow, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I got a nice house now. So what we do
Speaker 2: is we move into other people's thoughts and structures and
Speaker 2: then we make do, because that's what a good human
Speaker 2: being does is you take the structure that you've been handed,
Speaker 2: you take the as it were, the cards that have
Speaker 2: been dealt to you, and you play your hand the
Speaker 2: best you can.
Speaker 1: You make do.
Speaker 2: And it's that kind of make do thinking that you know,
Speaker 2: makes us who we are as Americans, that you know
Speaker 2: we can find the silver lining and we move forward.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: After a lifetime of making do with what you've got,
Speaker 2: in other words, moving around it, you changing around it,
Speaker 2: now you're at a place where you're ready to change
Speaker 2: part of it. You're ready to finally say, you know what,
Speaker 2: this kitchen, I'm going to give myself a new kitchen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to change the way this family room works.
Speaker 2: I'm going to alter the primary bedroom. Whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be. Maybe you're just going to give the entire
Speaker 2: house a full makeover. A full redo. Well, that is
Speaker 2: more difficult for you than you might have expected, for
Speaker 2: one reason, because you're used to making do with what's there,
Speaker 2: and you're used to moving out of its way. Okay,
Speaker 2: and now what we're doing, if we really want to
Speaker 2: build a custom home is we're going to be asking
Speaker 2: it to move out of your way. And that's what
Speaker 2: I mean when I say that a custom home starts
Speaker 2: with a custom homeowner. It's time to change your thinking
Speaker 2: in regards to what's possible. Most of us will look
Speaker 2: at the existing space and say, well, I've already got
Speaker 2: a set of limits on me here. I'm just going
Speaker 2: to have to make do with what's here. And so
Speaker 2: we think small. We think more in terms of decor
Speaker 2: than we do of architecture. We don't allow ourselves to
Speaker 2: dream too big. When we go out shopping for things,
Speaker 2: or even beginning to research a thing, we instantly tell
Speaker 2: ourselves there's a voice in the back of your head
Speaker 2: that says reminding you, listen, you're just a middle class homeowner.
Speaker 2: Don't be looking at high end appliances, don't be to
Speaker 2: looking at luxury anything, because that's not the category of
Speaker 2: life you're living.
Speaker 1: You're only gonna get.
Speaker 2: Disappointed by that, or you're gonna sucker yourself into buying
Speaker 2: something that you shouldn't be affording. In all this kind
Speaker 2: of thinking, and believe me, I'm the last person in
Speaker 2: the world to sit here and tell you, hey, just
Speaker 2: throw caution to the wind and run out and just
Speaker 2: buy stuff you can't afford, not at all what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But what I am saying is that, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: underscore this a little later. Window shopping is free, dreaming
Speaker 2: is free. And back to what I started the program with,
Speaker 2: I want every one of my clients to essentially build
Speaker 2: themselves a sandbox where they can kind of explore the.
Speaker 1: Space, stretch their arms out.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you taking your real desires and looking
Speaker 2: at a luxury product or a high end appliance, and
Speaker 2: for the sake of research, for the sake of understanding
Speaker 2: it better, and maybe for the sake of zeroing in
Speaker 2: on what it is about that thing other than it
Speaker 2: just being expensive and ritzy. What it is about that
Speaker 2: thing really that is kind of ringing your bell, because
Speaker 2: those discoveries can end up translating back into your budget
Speaker 2: level in ways that could change the whole game. That's
Speaker 2: why I say there are no bad ideas, only bad decisions.
Speaker 2: A decision is a choice to act in a direction.
Speaker 2: Ideas they just come in. Put them in your sandbox.
Speaker 2: All right, We've got so much more to talk about
Speaker 2: on this, plus your calls. You're listening to Home with
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty six
Speaker 2: live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right in the middle of reporting on the which I
Speaker 2: actually just forgot to even mention I should have started
Speaker 2: the show, was saying, hey, you guys, feel that earthquake
Speaker 2: this morning? It was a three point seven I believe
Speaker 2: this morning at like or maybe late last night. It
Speaker 2: was eleven forty four late last night in Malibu, down
Speaker 2: deep and out our way in Thousand Oaks. We felt
Speaker 2: one little bump, just rack on the house. And then
Speaker 2: that was it, not even vibration or anything after the fact.
Speaker 2: And then literally as we were reporting on it here
Speaker 2: mentioning it, another aftershot came through three point five. Now
Speaker 2: they're saying three point five like eight miles also in Malibu.
Speaker 2: What's with Malibu these days?
Speaker 1: What is the deal is that?
Speaker 2: Is there some message? Is the universe sending some message
Speaker 2: to Malibu. But this is, you know, no damage, just
Speaker 2: just a little shifting, little, a little bit of a
Speaker 2: shrugging of the shoulders as it were.
Speaker 1: Anyway, there you go.
Speaker 2: Any way, all right, So we're going to be going
Speaker 2: to the phones right after the next break, But I
Speaker 2: just want to finish this thought with you for the
Speaker 2: moment on loosening up these the thinking when it comes
Speaker 2: to approaching your remodel. How important is it that you
Speaker 2: are kind of stretching your own mind and stretching yourself.
Speaker 2: So right before the break, I was saying that I
Speaker 2: don't want you to limit your own thinking when it
Speaker 2: comes to let's say, window shopping outside of your what
Speaker 2: you would normally bracket yourself into your you know, financial range.
Speaker 2: And and that's not me encouraging you to spend more
Speaker 2: money than you should, not at all. But higher end things,
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be, whether it's a material, whether
Speaker 2: in its appliance or a fixture, or even an architectural thought,
Speaker 2: higher end things, uh are that way most of the
Speaker 2: time for a reason. Most of the time, it's not
Speaker 2: just some fatish branding move that has made a thing,
Speaker 2: you know, twice as expensive. I mean, some of that
Speaker 2: is involved, but higher end things have features and or
Speaker 2: elements to them that are different, as you know, than
Speaker 2: you know, middle of the road things. And it's those
Speaker 2: elements that I want to explore with you. Find out
Speaker 2: what it is about that higher end thing that has
Speaker 2: that element and identify what it is that really sends
Speaker 2: you about that thing. And if it's just the jug
Speaker 2: of the thing, well there's not a whole lot we
Speaker 2: can do about that, But as you really start to
Speaker 2: explore it and to dig into it, you may very
Speaker 2: well find I would say at least eighty percent of
Speaker 2: the time we find that, ah, it's this, it's this thing.
Speaker 2: And then if we can turn around and translate that
Speaker 2: into your home in a way that you can afford,
Speaker 2: then you know what there it is. There's one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty percent satisfaction right there. But the point is
Speaker 2: we're never going to get to that place until you
Speaker 2: free yourself in your thinking to you know, color outside
Speaker 2: the lines, as it were. And so hence these two principles.
Speaker 2: One the sandbox. Have a mental sandbox. Have a folder
Speaker 2: that you collect things in, whether it's on your computer,
Speaker 2: whether it's whether it's a Pinterest board or literally a
Speaker 2: physical folder that you're going to put pictures and thoughts
Speaker 2: and ideas in. But have a folder entitled sandbox, and
Speaker 2: that folder is for play. That folder. You don't have
Speaker 2: to put anything in there that you have to justify
Speaker 2: to anybody. Okay, you're like, excuse me, why do you
Speaker 2: have a twelve thousand dollars built in side by side
Speaker 2: sub zero refrigerator freezer unit paneled in inside this folder
Speaker 2: as you're contemplating the remodel on your nine hundred square
Speaker 2: foot condo. Well, I don't have to justify that to you.
Speaker 2: That's my sandbox. Okay, that's my that's in my wish list.
Speaker 2: And it's not a wish list in the sense of
Speaker 2: this is the thing I'm gonna have one day. It's
Speaker 2: there for my own reasons. It's there because I'm exploring
Speaker 2: what it is about that that really appeals to me,
Speaker 2: and that way I can translate that into the remodel
Speaker 2: that I'm actually gonna do. Is that starting to make
Speaker 2: sense to y'all? You're starting to kind of feel my
Speaker 2: vibe there. So these two principles, have a sandbox and
Speaker 2: the second principle, there are no bad ideas only bad decisions, okay.
Speaker 2: And what that means is when you're in the idea phase,
Speaker 2: you're not making a decision to move forward on this
Speaker 2: or that you're ideating. You are collecting ideas. And by
Speaker 2: the way, partner, partner out there, partner of the remodeler, okay.
Speaker 2: And I say this because you know, I would say
Speaker 2: most of the time when a remodel is being done
Speaker 2: and we've got a married couple or life partners or
Speaker 2: you know, together in this, somebody is probably at the
Speaker 2: tip of the spear and someone else is either encouraging
Speaker 2: or saying yeah or yeah, it's not my thing, but
Speaker 2: it's his thing or it's her thing. All right, Partner,
Speaker 2: you don't be the one who is shooting down every
Speaker 2: single thought that comes across that person's mind because you're
Speaker 2: concerned or worried that, oh no, man, if I don't
Speaker 2: shoot this down, she's going to just go hogwild with
Speaker 2: this thing. Not when we're ideating, ideas are precious, little
Speaker 2: tender things.
Speaker 1: And most of the.
Speaker 2: Create and hear me now, because spoken from a creative
Speaker 2: who does this for a living, most of the little
Speaker 2: creative sandbox ideas that flutter through our minds that we
Speaker 2: jot down or that we set aside to explore. Most
Speaker 2: of the things are not going to manifest that way
Speaker 2: into the project at all, but a couple of them
Speaker 2: might bear it within them, the kernel of the thought
Speaker 2: of the idea that will grow into something that looks
Speaker 2: very different but will game change the entire project, change
Speaker 2: it all. And so around here Tina and I we
Speaker 2: partner in our artistic endeavors that at the beginning of
Speaker 2: a project, we enter the no judgment zone. That's what
Speaker 2: the sandbox is. It's a no judgment zone. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: a She says, hey, what about this? And my job
Speaker 2: is to nod and to acknowledge that thought and to
Speaker 2: allow it to enter into our little stat and the
Speaker 2: same with her instead of saying, well, that is the
Speaker 2: stupidest idea I've.
Speaker 1: Ever heard that would never happen. That's you.
Speaker 2: There are always reasons for ideas and they need a
Speaker 2: place to grow and to flourish. And just remember, ideas
Speaker 2: are not decisions. When it comes to the decision, we
Speaker 2: will be taking ideas that have matured, that have changed,
Speaker 2: that have developed, and have also passed a series of
Speaker 2: litmus tests. Budget practicality, all of these things, and then
Speaker 2: a decision gets made. But ideas, now you need a
Speaker 2: place to free your mind. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I hope?
Speaker 2: So all right, I'm gonna free my mind right now
Speaker 2: with some traffic, and then when we come back, we're
Speaker 2: gonna go to the phones your home with Dean Sharp
Speaker 2: the house whisper, Campy, Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 1: Welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hey, the time has come to take a few calls,
Speaker 2: and we've got a few calls to take, and so
Speaker 2: let's let's start out with talking to Tim. Hey, Tim,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 3: I'm Tim. I'm Tim Callum Carrion. How we place seal
Speaker 3: between toilet tank and ball? And should you put a
Speaker 3: router and motim away from people and a trimming tree
Speaker 3: and bushes keep your house from burning down? For president?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Tim, Well that was a whole list
Speaker 2: of things. Review the first one with me again? What
Speaker 2: was the toilet question?
Speaker 3: Okay, how do you this is the seal between the
Speaker 3: toilet tank and the bowl. When I flushed the toilet,
Speaker 3: it leaks, but it doesn't leak from the leaks like
Speaker 3: from underneath the tank. So I think it's the seal
Speaker 3: between the tank and the bull and I already bought
Speaker 3: one from home Depot which got three screws and like
Speaker 3: a rubber a giant rubber washer.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. That's the guy right there.
Speaker 3: Ever built stainless steel screws.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: So you gotta take You got to shut the water
Speaker 2: off to the toilet. That's the little the little angle
Speaker 2: stop valve at the bottom there with the hose connector
Speaker 2: that's leading to the toilet. Then you want to flush
Speaker 2: the toilet out as as much as possible, So you
Speaker 2: got to get the water out of that top tank.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna flush and just make sure it gets
Speaker 2: all done out of there, no more water coming in.
Speaker 2: You're going to disconnect that tank from that hose, and
Speaker 2: so it should be a relatively easy hose disconnect to
Speaker 2: make there. And then there are usually two sometimes there
Speaker 2: are three, but there are usually two large bolts that
Speaker 2: are running through in between the top tank and the
Speaker 2: bottom seat on the bowl of portion when a tank
Speaker 2: is detachable. A lot of toilets these days they're all
Speaker 2: one piece, so this is kind of a moot point
Speaker 2: when it comes to those toilets. But if you've got
Speaker 2: a detachable tank, then you are the and the trick
Speaker 2: by the way of getting those out. They usually have
Speaker 2: very broad heads on them and a very long slot
Speaker 2: for like a flathead screwdriver. The trick is, if it
Speaker 2: hasn't been done in eons and there's been a leak
Speaker 2: and water, then the nut on the bottom side may
Speaker 2: spin with you. It may be, you know, frozen, so
Speaker 2: you probably need not only a screwdriver for the top,
Speaker 2: but a pair of a good pair of pliers to
Speaker 2: grab onto the nut from the bottom side to hold
Speaker 2: that in place so that you can break that frozen
Speaker 2: seal and get that nut spinning again. And then you
Speaker 2: take those off and that will allow you to remove
Speaker 2: the tank from the lower unit and you'll have access
Speaker 2: to the gasket and the O ring that's right there.
Speaker 2: You change that out, put it back on, use the
Speaker 2: new bolts and secure it again. Don't oversecure it with
Speaker 2: a toilet tank. It's always just snug because you can
Speaker 2: crank those down to the point and put too much
Speaker 2: pressure on the porcel and then crack it so it
Speaker 2: doesn't It needs to be snug so that it's not
Speaker 2: loosey goosey, but beyond snug. That's it doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be like wrench down tight. And that is how you
Speaker 2: do that, my friend. And in answer to your question
Speaker 2: about shrubs, pruning shrubs is always a good idea so
Speaker 2: that they're not growing up too tall right next to
Speaker 2: a house. But the most important thing other than keeping
Speaker 2: you know, for pruning for the sake of keeping a
Speaker 2: plant in good condition is keeping it green and verdant
Speaker 2: and well watered. That's the key. So a lot of
Speaker 2: people misunderstand when it comes to fire safety in a home.
Speaker 2: They think, oh, I gotta get every plant away from
Speaker 2: my house. I'm just going to clear plants out of
Speaker 2: the backyard.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that.
Speaker 2: What I don't want is dry, neglected, dead things all
Speaker 2: over your lawn and yard. That is a danger. Green
Speaker 2: things that are full of moisture. These things are actually
Speaker 2: very very difficult for fire to chew through, and so
Speaker 2: they actually slow down a fire as it's approaching your home,
Speaker 2: not assist it. Okay, So just keep your landscape in
Speaker 2: really good shape and you don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: all the ins and outs of how tall is it
Speaker 2: and where you know, keep it in good shape, keep
Speaker 2: it in beautiful condition, keep it healthy and well watered,
Speaker 2: and you're doing what you need to do now. Plants
Speaker 2: right up underneath the house all over the place. Is
Speaker 2: that a higher risk than if there are a few
Speaker 2: feet away from the house. Sure, a tree that's hanging
Speaker 2: its branches way over your roof probably not the best idea.
Speaker 2: But the point is healthy plants as opposed to dry ones, donuts,
Speaker 2: sas on the rest of it. The key is keep
Speaker 2: him in good shape. Tim, Thank you for your call, sir.
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