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Speaker 2: eight three three two ask Dean Dan, Welcome home.
Speaker 3: I've got a slab. It's got a big puddle in it,
Speaker 3: but I'm trying to figure out how to get rid
Speaker 3: of It's going to have a hot tub and a
Speaker 3: deck on top of the slab, but I'm worried about
Speaker 3: the puddle getting into the wood that I'm going to
Speaker 3: build a deck out of and cause them problems.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's an exterior slab like a patio slab,
Speaker 2: that's right, and puddles in the middle so it doesn't
Speaker 2: drain super well. But you want to put a hot
Speaker 2: tub out there, a you know, like a free standing
Speaker 2: hot tub, and also build a deck out onto the slab.
Speaker 3: Right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Where is this slab going to drain when water hits it.
Speaker 2: Where does it generally drain? In other words, it's got
Speaker 2: a depression in it where it puddles, But does the
Speaker 2: rest of it Is there a slope to the slab,
Speaker 2: does the rest of it drain off? Okay? And you
Speaker 2: just you end up with a puddle or is the
Speaker 2: whole thing sort of you know a bowl.
Speaker 3: It's probably about a quarter of the slab that will
Speaker 3: collect a puddle. There's there's two edges with garden walls
Speaker 3: on those sides, and then two edges that just end
Speaker 3: on the lawn, So the water just comes out onto
Speaker 3: the lawn off those two edges where it's knocking.
Speaker 2: I would resolve that. I would want to resolve that before.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not super worried about it in terms
Speaker 2: of the you know, setting a spa out there and
Speaker 2: then building a deck over it. Obviously, whatever deck you're
Speaker 2: going to build out over that, you're gonna whatever is
Speaker 2: making contact with the concrete is going to be pressure
Speaker 2: treated lumber, and then you're going to put your finished
Speaker 2: skin on the deck whatever that may be up above
Speaker 2: the stuff that everybody sees. But no regular untreated wood
Speaker 2: touching the concrete. And that's regardless of whether it drains
Speaker 2: super well or not. It's simply code and unwise to
Speaker 2: put anything other than pressure treated lumber against concrete. So
Speaker 2: that's fine as far as that goes, especially if this
Speaker 2: is something that we're not going to see then because
Speaker 2: you're going to cover it all up. The answer is
Speaker 2: super simple, Dan, and that is that you go get
Speaker 2: yourself a nice mixture of self leveling concrete self level solution. Basically,
Speaker 2: you're going to mix up a little bit of pancake
Speaker 2: batter that has a high bonding you know, apoxy style
Speaker 2: cement inside it. And the glory of self leveling is that, now,
Speaker 2: of course it's got to be dry get rid of
Speaker 2: the puddle first, but the glory of it is that
Speaker 2: it finds its own level, and so you simply pour
Speaker 2: it out and it will fill up the puddle. It
Speaker 2: will find its own level, and the puddle will be
Speaker 2: no more when you're done. And the cool thing about
Speaker 2: self leveling compound is that it's most of the time
Speaker 2: it's dry to walk on in about an hour, and
Speaker 2: after twenty four hours of curing, you're ready to build
Speaker 2: and get on with you know, whatever it is that
Speaker 2: you're doing. So my recommendation would be an exterior grade
Speaker 2: self leveling compound. Lose the dip in the uneven patio
Speaker 2: concrete and then move on with your plants.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that'll support the weight of the hot tub,
Speaker 3: no problem, it won't crumble.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's got actually tremendous Most of
Speaker 2: the most self leveling compounds have an excellent compressive strength.
Speaker 2: And you're still relying on the slant underneath to do
Speaker 2: the line's share of the work. You're just using the
Speaker 2: self leveling compound to get rid of the drainage issue.
Speaker 2: That's it, all right, Dan, thank you for your question. Buddy,
Speaker 2: let's talk to Robbie. Hey, Robbie, welcome home.
Speaker 4: My problem, there are two large trees. I'm taking over
Speaker 4: of my grandmother's property. There are two large trees in
Speaker 4: the front yard. The roots are exposed. I believe they're
Speaker 4: causing the sidewalk in front to crack. I want to
Speaker 4: know can it be corrected or must I remove the trees?
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you don't remove the trees, especially if
Speaker 2: they're big, beautiful trees and they are contributing to the
Speaker 2: overall aesthetic and look of the home, and most southern
Speaker 2: California homes, in my opinion, need more trees. So surface roots.
Speaker 2: This is the question. Surface roots. If these are really old,
Speaker 2: well established trees, Robbie, then they get a lot of
Speaker 2: roots going all over the place, down out every So
Speaker 2: whatever roots are starting to cause uplift of the sidewalk itself,
Speaker 2: those roots could be cut, cut those at the sidewalk
Speaker 2: line and repair the sidewalk so it doesn't do any
Speaker 2: more damage to the sidewalk. Don't worry about cutting that
Speaker 2: root is somehow going to kill the tree. An old
Speaker 2: established tree that is just one of you know, five
Speaker 2: hundred roots that it's got going on, and it can
Speaker 2: do without the one that's uplifting the sidewalk. The key
Speaker 2: is we don't want to encourage any more surface root
Speaker 2: growth and root growth, and so the principle is very simple.
Speaker 2: Trees that are watered and dependent upon surface water, those
Speaker 2: trees are the ones who are always going to be
Speaker 2: growing roots on the surface. Okay, Old trees like what
Speaker 2: you've got right there have undoubtedly have far more than
Speaker 2: just surface roots, and so what we want to do
Speaker 2: to keep it from spreading any further is we want
Speaker 2: to make sure that these trees are not in an
Speaker 2: area where we're exposing them to lawn sprinklers or surface water. Okay,
Speaker 2: we want to make sure that we rework the irrigation
Speaker 2: system so that we keep water away from them. Because
Speaker 2: number one, an old established tree, it doesn't need any
Speaker 2: more surface watering it has its own sources of water
Speaker 2: deep beneath us in the earth. But number two, it
Speaker 2: will still keep giving us surface root growth if it
Speaker 2: still keeps finding surface water to feed off of. And
Speaker 2: so we simply want to get rid of any surface
Speaker 2: water in the area of the canopy of these trees
Speaker 2: as much as possible. And when we plant new trees,
Speaker 2: new trees need to be irrigated at the base of
Speaker 2: the root, not up on the surface. So trees that
Speaker 2: grow as the result of sprinkler water will always have
Speaker 2: surface roots. Trees that have deep water will grow deep roots.
Speaker 2: And that's how it works. Now, there's no getting rid
Speaker 2: of the surface roots at this point. But start feeding
Speaker 2: it deep and keep the surface water away and you
Speaker 2: should be good to go. Thanks, Robbie, appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll get to more of your Calls.
Speaker 2: This is Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, Welcome to Home,
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Speaker 2: We are doing an all calls weekend. Let's talk to Row. Hey, Row,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 6: I heard you talking to Mark Thompson the other day
Speaker 6: about his shower and how you have to have a
Speaker 6: certain amount of water in the pea trap so it
Speaker 6: doesn't smell. Yes, how often should you rent water so
Speaker 6: that you don't have that problem?
Speaker 5: And how much water?
Speaker 2: So all right, So let me just set the stage
Speaker 2: for everybody else who may not have heard that conversation
Speaker 2: with Mark Thompson. So Mark was talking about the fact
Speaker 2: that he has one bathroom in his home, the guest bathroom,
Speaker 2: and the sink gets used, the toilet gets used, but
Speaker 2: the shower hardly ever gets used, and they started developing
Speaker 2: this weird smell in the bathroom kind of sounded like
Speaker 2: a smelled like a sewer issue. And so I was
Speaker 2: explaining to Mark that every drain in your home has
Speaker 2: that squirrely little pipe underneath it. Whether you could see
Speaker 2: it or not, you can totally see these underneath the sink,
Speaker 2: because the sink's usually sitting in a cabinet. You look
Speaker 2: underneath and it's where the drain goes down, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it curves up and goes up again
Speaker 2: before it goes down the rest of the way and
Speaker 2: into the wall and out of the house. That squirrely
Speaker 2: little piece, which really should be called an s trap
Speaker 2: because it's sort of s shaped. Somebody I don't know
Speaker 2: whenever whoever, was laying on their side apparently and decided
Speaker 2: to call it a pea trap. It's not pe like
Speaker 2: in the bathroom urine. It's they just thought it looked
Speaker 2: like the letter P, although it lays on its side,
Speaker 2: so I don't anyway. The PA trap is it has
Speaker 2: one job, has one job, and people have often asked,
Speaker 2: why do we have to have that squirrely pipe attached
Speaker 2: to the bottom of our sink train. And that is
Speaker 2: very simply this. The pea trap holds the last little
Speaker 2: bit of water that goes down the sink, last little bit, Okay,
Speaker 2: it holds it. And as a result of holding it
Speaker 2: in that lower pipe, right in that little droop of
Speaker 2: the pipe, that water becomes a plug that stops sewer
Speaker 2: gases from coming up from the main sewer system from
Speaker 2: the city, from the street. The whole thing keeps those
Speaker 2: gases from coming up through out of the sink drain
Speaker 2: and smelling up the bathroom in that way, or whatever
Speaker 2: room we're in. That's the job of the pea trap.
Speaker 2: But of course, a sink, and by the way, every drain,
Speaker 2: every drain, the toilet has one built into it. Okay,
Speaker 2: the sink, you can see, the shower, it's underneath the
Speaker 2: shower drain where you can't see. But they all have them,
Speaker 2: all of them. And so the thing is, water evaporates, right,
Speaker 2: So if you haven't used something like the tub or
Speaker 2: the shower or the sink in a particular room, you
Speaker 2: haven't used it very much, or it's been you know, however,
Speaker 2: many days, especially during the summer, right when it's warm
Speaker 2: and waters evaporating faster than in cold weather, then that
Speaker 2: water in the pea trap can start to evaporate, and
Speaker 2: as soon as it gets to a certain level it's
Speaker 2: no longer high enough to block out the sewer gases.
Speaker 2: The gases will get through it, and as a result,
Speaker 2: you get that smell. This is why a home that
Speaker 2: is like up for sale that the seller has already
Speaker 2: moved out of so nobody's living there. Every good realtor
Speaker 2: knows this that they need to get in there before
Speaker 2: an open house and flush toilets and run a little
Speaker 2: water and sinks and showers and tubs. Otherwise all that
Speaker 2: evaporation's going to leave the home smelling a little weird.
Speaker 2: Everybody I think I know has walked into a house
Speaker 2: that smells an empty house that smells a little weird.
Speaker 2: That's usually why it smells weird. So to set that
Speaker 2: stage now, wrote, it's really really simple. Pe trap is
Speaker 2: not very big at all. I mean it's like a
Speaker 2: cup a cup and a half of water at the most,
Speaker 2: even on a big drain, maybe two cups of water
Speaker 2: on a big drain. So how much do you have
Speaker 2: to run it? Hardly at all? You just need to
Speaker 2: turn it on for a couple of three seconds and
Speaker 2: turn it back off, and you're good to go. And
Speaker 2: as far as how often, you know, you got me
Speaker 2: on that way, because it really has to do with
Speaker 2: how warm the house is, how warm the weather is,
Speaker 2: and so on. But you know what, once or twice
Speaker 2: a week is plenty to keep the water in the
Speaker 2: pea trap, right, But on a really warm day, if
Speaker 2: it's really warm in the house, you could lose you know,
Speaker 2: a quarter inch of water over a twenty four forty
Speaker 2: eight hour period. So you know what, let's say just
Speaker 2: a couple of times a week. Mark's issue, though, just
Speaker 2: to cap it off, was that it had gone long
Speaker 2: long enough that you know, some bacterias had kind of
Speaker 2: taken hold on the lining of the sewer line. So
Speaker 2: even though come in after the fact and start running
Speaker 2: the water, he was still getting the smell. And the
Speaker 2: reason is that those bacterias had just kind of gotten
Speaker 2: that a little out of control. And to that, what
Speaker 2: I told him was, you get yourself some enzymatic cleaner,
Speaker 2: some drain clean enzymes. Enzymes are key enzymes are these
Speaker 2: powerful little molecular components that break down organic or organic compounds.
Speaker 2: So they can easily be be broken down and disposed
Speaker 2: of by friendly bacteria. And the one that I recommend
Speaker 2: the most, which you can find at places like home
Speaker 2: Depot or Low's or the plumbing supply store the hardware store,
Speaker 2: is called Green Gobbler. Green Gobbler is just a brand,
Speaker 2: but really great brand. And if you I recommend that folks,
Speaker 2: you know, get some and you know, send it down
Speaker 2: their drains every couple of time, you know, maybe twice
Speaker 2: a year, just to clear out the guck that lines
Speaker 2: the drains and keep your drains wide open and clear.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's it, that's the story. Row a couple
Speaker 2: of times a week, and it only takes you know,
Speaker 2: just you know, turn it on for five seconds and
Speaker 2: turn it back off and you have reset. The Peachrap wrote,
Speaker 2: thank you for your question. There is more to come.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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Speaker 2: I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home builder,
Speaker 2: custom home designer. Most importantly, today, your guide to turning
Speaker 2: your ordinary house into something truly extraordinary. I tell you
Speaker 2: what we're doing today. It's an all calls day. It
Speaker 2: is it you set the agenda. Anything that is going
Speaker 2: on with your home, whether it be construction issues, DIY questions,
Speaker 2: design concerns, anything at all. The phone lines are open.
Speaker 2: I am here to help you sort it all out.
Speaker 2: We'll put our heads together and we'll get it sorted.
Speaker 2: I promised. Here is the number to reach me, and
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Speaker 2: eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three two
Speaker 2: ask Dean. You see it just rolls off the tomb.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Jonie. Joni, welcome home.
Speaker 7: We're in the midst of a major kitchen remodel. The
Speaker 7: base cabinets are now in and they are inset cabinets,
Speaker 7: and they've put the subtops on top of the cabinets.
Speaker 7: But there's about a three quarter inch gap be set
Speaker 7: back between the edge of the face frame and the cabinet,
Speaker 7: and I'm wondering why they did that or is that
Speaker 7: a mistake. We are either going to do an og
Speaker 7: edge or a DuPont edge, which I want to ask
Speaker 7: you the difference between those two.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you haven't you just noticed this. You haven't
Speaker 2: had a chance to ask your contractor or your cabinet installed.
Speaker 7: No, I haven't had a chance to ask.
Speaker 2: Just to clarify a couple of terms for everybody else
Speaker 2: who's listening. So when you do in a cabinet installation,
Speaker 2: the cabinet boxes go in, and then once all the
Speaker 2: boxes are in place, the base cabinet boxes, plywood is
Speaker 2: put on top. It's what we call a subtop, because
Speaker 2: that's obviously not the countertop. What goes on top of
Speaker 2: the plywood is the stone or the tile or whatever
Speaker 2: it is that you got going on. Now you have
Speaker 2: in set cabinets which is very nice, very very old school,
Speaker 2: very nice, which is that the doors and drawers do
Speaker 2: not extend out from the face frame of the cabinets,
Speaker 2: but they actually recess in and flush themselves with the
Speaker 2: face frame of the cabinet, so you have no overhanging
Speaker 2: projecting doors and drawers on these base cabinets. It's just
Speaker 2: one plane coming down the face of the cabinet box.
Speaker 2: Of course, you've got knobs and such, but no overhang.
Speaker 2: The typical typical countertop overhang for typical cabinets, which is
Speaker 2: the cabinet face plus doors and drawers, That typical overhang
Speaker 2: is about inch and a quarter to an inch and
Speaker 2: a half of the actual stone and or tile overhanging
Speaker 2: because the cabinet doors themselves are coming out another three
Speaker 2: quarter plus inches, and then you've got another half inch
Speaker 2: to three quarters of an inch of overhang protecting all
Speaker 2: of that. In your case, it won't be overhanging that
Speaker 2: much because your inset, but the rule still applies. But
Speaker 2: here's where it gets tricky. It all depends on the
Speaker 2: configuration of that og edge. If you're doing a double
Speaker 2: laminated edge, in other words, instead of just one layer
Speaker 2: of stone at about seven eighths of an inch thick
Speaker 2: coming out and having its little finished edge, it sounds
Speaker 2: like you're planning on you've got a double lamination. In
Speaker 2: other words, another piece of stone is going to be
Speaker 2: put on the bottom there to make the appearance of
Speaker 2: a big, built up thick edge. It all depends on,
Speaker 2: you know how, if we're hanging over let's say an
Speaker 2: inch okay, which would be kind of typical three cores
Speaker 2: of an inch to an inch of hanging over an
Speaker 2: inset cabinet face. If the builder has insight from the
Speaker 2: stone people that hey, we need more than just one
Speaker 2: inch square piece to laminate there. It needs to be deeper.
Speaker 2: That may be the reason why the subtop has been
Speaker 2: held back a little bit in order to give more
Speaker 2: room for the bottom lamination stone to kind of nestle
Speaker 2: in to the top. But I will tell you that's
Speaker 2: not common at all, and so typically we will just
Speaker 2: run the full subtop right over to the face of
Speaker 2: the cabinet. So I can't tell you definitively that somebody
Speaker 2: did something wrong. But but I can tell you you
Speaker 2: just got to ask the question to have no one
Speaker 2: go any further until that question gets answered, because there
Speaker 2: is a bit of a strength sacrifice by holding the
Speaker 2: subtalk back. And quite often, once in a blue moon,
Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Jony, once in a blue moon,
Speaker 2: when we have to do that, because of the nature
Speaker 2: of the countertop material itself, right, when we have to
Speaker 2: provide a larger notch, what we will do is we
Speaker 2: will put yet another piece of wood underneath the subtop
Speaker 2: that supports that free floating subtop edge and connect to
Speaker 2: the front face of the cabinet regardless. Okay, ideally you
Speaker 2: want a solid connection to the front cabinet face all
Speaker 2: along the front, whether or not the subtop is being
Speaker 2: held back or not. I hope we just didn't lose
Speaker 2: everybody in all of that terminology. But that's kind of.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, And I have no idea why they did
Speaker 8: what they did so and it's the cabinet makers too,
Speaker 8: it's not the fall off the stone man.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so just just find out, say, hey, what's
Speaker 2: the deal here, and uh and you know, they'll let
Speaker 2: you know what's going on.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 7: And a farmhouse sink should be level with the subtop.
Speaker 2: If it's an inset, yeah, if it's an under mount
Speaker 2: farmhouse sinc. Then yes, it gets set level with the
Speaker 2: subtops so that the stone goes over and just rolls
Speaker 2: over the sink.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, I'm going to have to read front.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the nature of it. But as far as
Speaker 2: as it being underneath the countertop from the top, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You are so very welcome. Thanks for the call. Good
Speaker 2: luck with all of that.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: One last thing on the I'm going to toss in there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all kind of pick that up.
Speaker 2: But when you typically look at a stone countertop face,
Speaker 2: not a lot of people realize this that the stone
Speaker 2: slab that comes from the stone yard is only three
Speaker 2: quarter well three get it's more like seven eighths of
Speaker 2: an inch thick usually between depending on the kind of stone,
Speaker 2: it could be anywhere from seven eights to an inch
Speaker 2: thick stone. That's not that full, big fat countertop edge
Speaker 2: that you see there. What happens is we take that
Speaker 2: stone and then we'll take a slice of it off
Speaker 2: that front edge, and we'll put it up underneath. We'll
Speaker 2: epoxyate laminated underneath, and then whatever kind of nosing of
Speaker 2: edging that you want. And there's twenty different kinds of
Speaker 2: edging that we can do there. But the idea is
Speaker 2: that we're giving the illusion that that stone is closer
Speaker 2: to two inches thick, when in reality it's just two pieces.
Speaker 2: And the quality of the install of that stone, by
Speaker 2: the way, has to do with whether we're hiding the scene. Okay,
Speaker 2: any cheaper done countertops you can look on the face
Speaker 2: and you're like, well, look, and I can see the
Speaker 2: line where they glued it together. That's kind of a
Speaker 2: fail for us. We never do it that way. We
Speaker 2: either mter from the top corner down so that we
Speaker 2: have no visible seam on the face, or if it's
Speaker 2: like what Jonie was talking about, what's called an og
Speaker 2: or a double og edge, the scene can get hidden
Speaker 2: in the details of the carving of the fun of
Speaker 2: the counter. So there you go. Did that make sense?
Speaker 2: Am I making sense to people? I know it's very technical,
Speaker 2: but just I know there are a lot of you
Speaker 2: out there are like, oh, okay, I get it. Now,
Speaker 2: run to your kitchen right now and check out your
Speaker 2: countertop and decide whether you know how it rates. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we'll get to more of your calls.
Speaker 2: This is Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Can't find six
Speaker 2: forty and live streaming in HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome to home where. Every week we help you better
Speaker 2: understand that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp,
Speaker 2: the House Whisper, custom home builder, custom home designer. Most importantly, today,
Speaker 2: your guide to turning your ordinary house into something truly extraordinary.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we're doing today it's an all
Speaker 2: calls day. It is it. You set the agenda. Anything
Speaker 2: that is going on with your home, whether it be
Speaker 2: construction issues, DIY questions, design concerns, anything at all. The
Speaker 2: phone lines are open. I am here to help you
Speaker 2: sort it all out. We'll put our heads together and
Speaker 2: we'll get it sorted. I promise.
Speaker 7: I have seats in my house and they're really good shapes, they're.
Speaker 5: Woolfs, but the back is webber. It's stouting to play golf.
Speaker 7: Is there something I can put out the back?
Speaker 2: All right? I know what you listeners are thinking. There's
Speaker 2: no way he has an answer for this. Okay. So Sherry,
Speaker 2: this is just just understand. What I'm about to tell
Speaker 2: you is a hack. A hack. Okay. What that means
Speaker 2: is this is not an established industry, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: this is exactly what you do when you have a
Speaker 2: deteriorating latex rubber throw rub backing. But uh, it will work, okay.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you said you have several I I'm
Speaker 2: not glad that you have several rugs deteriorating, but this
Speaker 2: will help mitigate the cost. But here's the thing. You
Speaker 2: can run down to a big box store hardware store, UH,
Speaker 2: and get yourself a court of flex sealing. Okay, flex seal,
Speaker 2: it's uh is A is A it's a brand of
Speaker 2: rubber eye. You know basically what it is. It's it's
Speaker 2: liquid rubber, latex rubber in can and it is the
Speaker 2: very very similar, if not exactly what the rubber backing,
Speaker 2: because most rubber backings on throw rugs are are a
Speaker 2: latex rubber backing and it's soft and it's wonderful and
Speaker 2: it makes them grippy and it's all the good things
Speaker 2: what latex rubber breaks down over time, It oxidizes, it
Speaker 2: breaks down and heat and cold and you know all
Speaker 2: the things. So if these are really important throw rugs
Speaker 2: for you and they're looking good on the on the
Speaker 2: front side, I'm thinking you can extend the life of
Speaker 2: these throw rugs by doing this. You get yourself a
Speaker 2: quart of flex seal. A court of flexial costs about
Speaker 2: thirty five bucks. Okay. It's so if it was just
Speaker 2: one throw rug, I'd be like, you know what, could
Speaker 2: just buy a new throw rug because the fix is
Speaker 2: as expensive, if not more so, than the replacement throw rug.
Speaker 2: But if you've got a lot of them, if you
Speaker 2: have a few of them, then this might be worth
Speaker 2: it to you. You get a can flex seal and
Speaker 2: a paintbrush and very carefully kind of mask off the edges.
Speaker 2: Don't go all the way right to the edge, because
Speaker 2: I don't want to getting on your the wool of
Speaker 2: the fabric itself. But you can put a couple of
Speaker 2: coats of flex seal on the backside of a deteriorating
Speaker 2: latex grow rug and bring it back to life because
Speaker 2: you're just basically adding layers of fresh rubber and it'll
Speaker 2: bond with the old rubber and it should work for you.
Speaker 2: It is a hack, though, all right. So a hack
Speaker 2: means that this is a workaround, not a guaranteed fix.
Speaker 2: But I think that's probably your best shot.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome. Thanks Sherry. Let's talk to Joe. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 5: We have a room that my father built about twenty
Speaker 5: five years ago in our backyard here in Data Point.
Speaker 5: It needs some roof repair and some other stuff done
Speaker 5: to it, but my father never got a permit to
Speaker 5: build this room. And before we put money into this,
Speaker 5: what are your thoughts about that? Can the city come
Speaker 5: in and just tell us to stop and tear it
Speaker 5: down or what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: So when we say a room, how big is it
Speaker 2: and what do we have inside? Do we have electricity
Speaker 2: in this room? Do we have plumbing in this room?
Speaker 3: You're about ten twenty and there is electricity? Yes, my
Speaker 3: brother steeds in there.
Speaker 2: So ten by twenty that's a good sized room in
Speaker 2: your backyard and there's electricity in it. So absolutely, without question,
Speaker 2: permits were supposed to be pulled. Okay, So now the
Speaker 2: question is now, okay, so flat out the permit should
Speaker 2: have been pulled. Does that give the city the right
Speaker 2: to come in and tell you to take it all down? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It does. It does give them that right now, that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that doesn't mean that that what they're going
Speaker 2: to say. Okay, if you've got a question about this,
Speaker 2: then the best thing to do is to ask your
Speaker 2: city about it. The room in question, is it built
Speaker 2: like did your dad obey at least like the backyard setback?
Speaker 2: Is it built like right next to the neighbor's fence
Speaker 2: or is it the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he is built right next to neighbor.
Speaker 5: Everybody's been fine with it for the last twenty five years.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Talk to the city and like, you know,
Speaker 2: I got a friend. They're not going to ask you, listen,
Speaker 2: where's your address, or we're going to get a drone
Speaker 2: over the house immediately, you know, ask the city, hey,
Speaker 2: where do you stand on this? It's it's a well
Speaker 2: built space. Could I get it retrofit permitted? The problem
Speaker 2: is if it isn't built according to code, though no
Speaker 2: permits were pulled, but if it wasn't built according to code,
Speaker 2: or if it's built and it's violating a setback, then
Speaker 2: you're going to get an answer back saying now that's
Speaker 2: got to get changed. But I have seen any many
Speaker 2: times where folks have said, listen, they've built somebody has
Speaker 2: built something in the backyard, built it exactly according to
Speaker 2: code and can prove that everything was like photos were
Speaker 2: taken along the way and the city sends an inspector
Speaker 2: out and like, all right, I want to see this.
Speaker 2: I want to see you know what? Okay? I mean,
Speaker 2: if you had built this thing today, we would have
Speaker 2: said yes. So maybe there's a little penalty to pull.
Speaker 2: In addition to the permit, you get a retroactive permit
Speaker 2: and it gets approved retroactively It all depends on the city,
Speaker 2: on the inspector, on what they had for breakfast. So
Speaker 2: literally it comes down to that kind of stuff sometimes
Speaker 2: because it's humans we're working with here. But I can
Speaker 2: tell you, technically speaking, if you're violating the setback ordinance
Speaker 2: and there's electricity in this room, in other words, it's
Speaker 2: not just a shed, then yeah, the city could could
Speaker 2: tell you the whole thing's got to go. So you
Speaker 2: got to make your decision accordingly, my friend, you did
Speaker 2: not hear me say for it here. That's just the
Speaker 2: realities of permitting. It should have been permitted. The city
Speaker 2: has full authority in that. That doesn't mean though, that
Speaker 2: they're going to punish you for it, so you got
Speaker 2: to talk to them. You're listening to Dean Sharp the
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