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Speaker 2: All right, we're taking calls. I'm talking to Joan. Let
Speaker 2: me make sure I didn't hang up on her. Joan,
Speaker 2: are you still with me?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, sure, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay. So Joan has a plumbing link. She has a leak.
Speaker 2: It is suspected in her main line somewhere between the
Speaker 2: house and the water meter, right, Joan, correct, yes.
Speaker 3: And also the driveway slopes down.
Speaker 2: The driveway slopes down, and the line is under the
Speaker 2: drive way, right, correct. Yeah. And here is the sticky wicket, now, okay,
Speaker 2: because it's not just about I shouldn't say it's a
Speaker 2: sticky wicket. I should say that this makes this makes
Speaker 2: the the in my opinion, the strategy very very clear, Joe,
Speaker 2: very very clear. Because here's the thing. First of all,
Speaker 2: we don't need expensive leak detection in your case. Okay,
Speaker 2: if we were trying to spot repair this pipe, this mainline,
Speaker 2: then and if it was traveling through let's say the yard,
Speaker 2: where we could dig down and actually get to it, okay,
Speaker 2: without destroying something like a driveway in order to do it,
Speaker 2: then it might it might behoove us to get a
Speaker 2: leak detection service out there and try and pinpoint it. Also,
Speaker 2: if there's no concrete on top of it, the leaked
Speaker 2: detection fee would be much less than what was quoted
Speaker 2: to you, because we're not wrestling with the concrete and
Speaker 2: the d bar in the concrete and all of the
Speaker 2: other things. We're just trying to find a leak with
Speaker 2: a pipe that's buried in the yard. But we're not
Speaker 2: going to be able to get to that leak per
Speaker 2: se underneath the concrete. And it doesn't sound like it's
Speaker 2: a catastrophic leak. It's just a leak, and I think
Speaker 2: if they suspected that it's more of a pinhole leak,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's a copper line that's running.
Speaker 3: Between That's what I've told Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what tends to happen. It's why we
Speaker 2: don't like burying copper anymore in ground, because copper is
Speaker 2: not a lifetime pipe when it's buried in the ground
Speaker 2: in contact with soil and various minerals, because we realize
Speaker 2: that it can corrode away in certain conditions, and so
Speaker 2: we would much prefer to do a PVC pipe main
Speaker 2: to the house a pottible PVC line. So anyway, the
Speaker 2: point is, we don't want to tear up your driveway.
Speaker 2: We don't need to know exactly where the pinpoint leak is.
Speaker 2: All we need to know for sure is that there
Speaker 2: is a leak, and that can happen super simple, and
Speaker 2: maybe they already did this. But the fact of the
Speaker 2: matter is, if it's a leak between your meter and
Speaker 2: the house, all you have to do is turn off
Speaker 2: the main line the valve going into the house. Okay,
Speaker 2: now the water can't flow into the house. Now, the
Speaker 2: water in between the water meter and the house is
Speaker 2: trapped right there. Right if at that point with the
Speaker 2: house water turned off, if the tiny leak detection arrow
Speaker 2: or star. Sometimes they're blue, sometimes they're red, sometimes they're yellow,
Speaker 2: but it's a tiny little device. Sometimes it's star shaped
Speaker 2: or a triangle, if that is still moving on the
Speaker 2: water meter gage, that means water is moving. That means
Speaker 2: there's a leak. And since we we've already turned off
Speaker 2: the water to the house, we know that the leak
Speaker 2: is somewhere between the house and the water meter and
Speaker 2: it's all underneath the driveway. Anyway, we don't need to
Speaker 2: know anything else. Then my suggestion is that you call
Speaker 2: out a plumber who specializes in epoxy linings for water lines.
Speaker 2: And what they can do is a qualified plumber who
Speaker 2: does this a lot. Okay, they can blow out that
Speaker 2: line with an epoxy coating on the inside of that
Speaker 2: copper line. These epoxy coatings, they're not good for catastrophic
Speaker 2: breaks or crushes or anything like that, but specifically for
Speaker 2: a copper line that's starting to pit and pinhole leak.
Speaker 2: This epoxy will line the inside of the pipe. It's
Speaker 2: essentially giving you a brand new pipe that cannot pit
Speaker 2: any longer from the inside out. And it's essentially a
Speaker 2: new water line. And it's going to be not cheap.
Speaker 2: But if you save the money on the leak detection,
Speaker 2: and when you consider the cost of manually digging up
Speaker 2: your waterline underneath your concrete driveway, it's going to be
Speaker 2: considerably less than that. And of course I want you
Speaker 2: to call three or four qualified plumbers who do this
Speaker 2: and get quotes so that you know that you're not overpaying.
Speaker 3: For Do you have any suggestions on a particular company.
Speaker 2: No, because they're all over the place. They're they're virtually
Speaker 2: all over the place, everywhere. I just want you to
Speaker 2: do some careful searches in your area and look for
Speaker 2: companies that specialize in this, not just a plumbing company
Speaker 2: that's like, oh yeah, every once in a while we
Speaker 2: do this because it's a tricky process. It's got to
Speaker 2: be done well in order for it to really take
Speaker 2: and to hold. But I've seen it done so many
Speaker 2: times effectively. So just start doing a little search for
Speaker 2: your area and call them out and start getting prices,
Speaker 2: and then you can compare those quotes and those prices.
Speaker 2: But that would be my suggestion. It seems to me
Speaker 2: that at this point we don't care about where the
Speaker 2: leak is in between. If we know it's in between
Speaker 2: the meter and the house, then we're going to just
Speaker 2: reline that main line the whole thing, and guess what
Speaker 2: the leak will be handled, because it's going to get
Speaker 2: caught somewhere in between the meter and the house.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. So I want to look for a plumber
Speaker 3: with a specialty in epoxy lining for water lines.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly that, Okay.
Speaker 3: And on a separate note, what you know, if I
Speaker 3: decide to do the house sometime after that two bedroom
Speaker 3: three bath house. What would be your estimate on the cost?
Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't do that. I couldn't, couldn't, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I couldn't give you an estimate on that because it's
Speaker 2: not just about the number of bedrooms. It's about the configuration.
Speaker 2: It's about where the pipes are running, it's about access. Again,
Speaker 2: I will say this for everybody who's listening. Whenever you're
Speaker 2: getting a quote, the way you're going to find out
Speaker 2: is not to compare it to some random average out there.
Speaker 2: Of this is about what you should call. It's to
Speaker 2: bring in three or four well vetted contractors and let
Speaker 2: them bid the same thing, apples and apples, and then
Speaker 2: you take a look at those prices. It's like a
Speaker 2: Venn diagram. You will see where the prices will clump together,
Speaker 2: and you'll know that's the range. Because that's what everybody
Speaker 2: is telling me. That's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2: That's why I always tell you, guys, three or four
Speaker 2: estimates for everything. Joan, thank you for your call. Really
Speaker 2: really good question. I hope that helps, and good luck
Speaker 2: with that. But I think that's what's going to get
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Speaker 2: Hi Ken Jar the house with her at your service.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program today. Glad to
Speaker 2: have you a board with me. Such a privilege. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say pleasure and a privilege, and I just
Speaker 2: combined them into one word, A pleuvilege. It's such a plevilege.
Speaker 2: It's Saturday morning, I'm allowed. H Hey, we're talking about
Speaker 2: the best of the International Builders Show, which just wrapped
Speaker 2: up this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. All right, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this one quickly and then we're going
Speaker 2: to get some news and then we'll come back and
Speaker 2: dig into another one. But u okay, prepare, Prepare for
Speaker 2: an opinionated designer to speak for a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2: One of the best of at the show was Hover
Speaker 2: Photo Realistic AI based design online design tool. Okay, what
Speaker 2: does this mean? There are a ton if you've been
Speaker 2: toying around with the idea of a remodel, there are
Speaker 2: a lot of them, and there were a lot of
Speaker 2: them at the show as well. And I'm not going
Speaker 2: to pick on Hover. I'm not even gonna mention them
Speaker 2: again here because I'm not trying to critique one company.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you would expect as is the case. What
Speaker 2: happened at the Consumer Electronics Show this year that AI
Speaker 2: was everywhere. Everybody's touting the power of AI at the
Speaker 2: at the show. So many products, so many envisions, especially
Speaker 2: when it comes to software, and especially especially especially when
Speaker 2: it comes to quote unquote using my air quotes here,
Speaker 2: and whenever I do them, I use them pretty sarcastically,
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to air quote design software. Now,
Speaker 2: what is Dean's beef with this? He doesn't want to
Speaker 2: be replaced with AI. No, I'm not worried about that. Really,
Speaker 2: I'm truly not worried about that. I will tell you
Speaker 2: what I am concerned about. I'm concerned about a program.
Speaker 2: And there are a billion of them out there that say, hey,
Speaker 2: guess what. Now we've got this advanced AI, and all
Speaker 2: you have to do is input a photo of your room,
Speaker 2: or a photo of your kitchen, or a photo of
Speaker 2: the front of your house, and then pay us our
Speaker 2: nominal fee, and our AI goes to work and will
Speaker 2: give you all sorts of renderings photo realistic, super hype
Speaker 2: of realistic renderings of what your house will look like
Speaker 2: if we redesign it. In other words, here's a little
Speaker 2: cottage front that they have on their website, and look
Speaker 2: at it with all these different front doors, different windows, styles,
Speaker 2: different This one has a stucco facing, this one has
Speaker 2: horizontal sighting, this one has brick facing, and so on
Speaker 2: and so forth. Just a computer generated and produced and
Speaker 2: it does give you some really cool perspective as to
Speaker 2: what these different surfaces would look like if you put
Speaker 2: them on your house. So what's my beef? If I
Speaker 2: don't have an issue with that, I think my main
Speaker 2: issue is the use of the word design as opposed
Speaker 2: to decor. Now here's the thing. What I get called
Speaker 2: out to do in consults and with clients all the
Speaker 2: time is to solve design problems. Very rarely, I will
Speaker 2: tell you, very rarely, and I have nothing. I mean,
Speaker 2: there are some incredibly talented interior designers, decore experts, some
Speaker 2: of them are very dear friends of mine, but they
Speaker 2: tend to not get involved in architectural design, in other words,
Speaker 2: moving bones of the house around. And that is always
Speaker 2: my first approach to a home when I'm looking at redesign. Oh,
Speaker 2: you're one of those expensive ones. Now that's not what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that design
Speaker 2: is more and should be more when it comes to
Speaker 2: your home and the money you're going to spend on it.
Speaker 2: Design should be more than just having a discussion about
Speaker 2: changing a superficial surface aesthetic. Okay, it's more than just
Speaker 2: changing the color of the wall, the paint on the walls,
Speaker 2: more than just options of wallpaper. As important as these
Speaker 2: things are, it's more than just well, should we redo
Speaker 2: these kitchen cabinets. Give an example from a yesterday's consult
Speaker 2: lovely lovely couple absolutely fell in love with them. We
Speaker 2: were down in Garden Grove and uh, what was the
Speaker 2: key to unlocking their home? They had already had ideas about, Oh,
Speaker 2: we're going to gut this kitchen, we're going to replace
Speaker 2: these cabinets, we're going to replace these countertops. They had
Speaker 2: their ideas about how it was done. But after about
Speaker 2: a half an hour of talking with them and looking around,
Speaker 2: I moved their kitchen to another room. I did not
Speaker 2: all on the other side of the house, just a
Speaker 2: few feet away. The key to unlocking their home was
Speaker 2: actually moving the kitchen about ninety degrees and shifting it
Speaker 2: to an adjacent space. And you're thinking, oh, see, that's
Speaker 2: the kind of expense we can't have dean bah ah.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. They were already planning on gutting
Speaker 2: their kitchen, taking out all the kitchen cabinets, all the countertops.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a full kitchen redo. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of dollars. That's the it's gonna be,
Speaker 2: okay for about Let's say, let's be liberal and say
Speaker 2: the two thousand dollars more, we could saw cut the
Speaker 2: concrete slab, move the drain lines over, because those are
Speaker 2: the only really important things that are happening down the
Speaker 2: slab for a kitchen, move the drain lines over to
Speaker 2: this adjoining room, and simply rebuild the whole new kitchen there.
Speaker 2: The only price difference between spending sixty thousand dollars or
Speaker 2: sixty two thousand dollars, okay, was that two thousand dollars
Speaker 2: on the kitchen remodel, and by putting it in this
Speaker 2: other space, completely changed and unlocked the magic of their home.
Speaker 2: They hadn't thought of it that way, but that's what
Speaker 2: they pay me to do. My point is AI based
Speaker 2: design quote unquote software doesn't think like that. These things
Speaker 2: are set up. They're set up as marvels of design.
Speaker 2: It's so inexpensive to get your home redesigned. But it's
Speaker 2: not redesigning, it's just superficial change out. And if that's
Speaker 2: all you're looking for, great, pay a nominal fee and
Speaker 2: get different looks on the front of your house. But
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, if you're really looking to
Speaker 2: make sure your house gets transformed in this next remodel,
Speaker 2: then pay a designer to come in and give you
Speaker 2: their opinion. They're going to do more than AI software
Speaker 2: ever could. And so again I've got nothing against AI
Speaker 2: or inexpensive decore suggestions. It's just not the game changer
Speaker 2: that usually the house needs. That's all I'm saying. All Right, more,
Speaker 2: when we come back, you're home with Dean Sharp the
Speaker 2: house Whisper.
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Speaker 2: which just wrapped up this week in Las Vegas. It's
Speaker 2: an annual event. It is the largest industry construction and
Speaker 2: design industry event on the planet, and every year we
Speaker 2: pick through the best of and I bring you things
Speaker 2: that I think are relevant to you looking forward to
Speaker 2: the future, anybody who's interested in homes, in custom home
Speaker 2: building and remodeling, all the things that affect us as
Speaker 2: homeowners that I think are most pertinent. And there are
Speaker 2: a goa billion things that happen at the International Builder Show.
Speaker 2: A lot of them are industry within industry show items,
Speaker 2: but these are the things that really approach you as
Speaker 2: a homeowner. And we're doing it today and tomorrow because
Speaker 2: it's a big list. Even though my list is tiny
Speaker 2: compared to everything that was at the show, it's still
Speaker 2: a big list. So this is part one, next episode
Speaker 2: A next broadcast tomorrow the Big Show will be part two,
Speaker 2: so don't miss it. All right, real quick, I'm running late,
Speaker 2: so I need to adjust some time here, but I
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about one of the things
Speaker 2: that still I just absolutely love and not everything that
Speaker 2: comes out at the Builders Show is amazingly expensive, and
Speaker 2: you know, innovation does not have to necessarily, you know,
Speaker 2: cost a billion dollars. How about something that costs about
Speaker 2: nine dollars. Yeah, that sounds nice. Now that I've mentioned
Speaker 2: them before, so this is not brand new in concept,
Speaker 2: but the good people at door Saver have introduced this
Speaker 2: year the door Saver three doorstop. So this is the
Speaker 2: third generation of their door or stop doorstops. You know
Speaker 2: they're they're what they are right there there. You've got
Speaker 2: really two choices when it comes to keeping a door
Speaker 2: from swinging and banging against the base board or the handle,
Speaker 2: banging into dry wall or hitting a piece of furniture
Speaker 2: or whatever. Right you've you've essentially you've had two choices.
Speaker 2: One is you get the little door stop peg that
Speaker 2: you mount down on the base board and you screw
Speaker 2: that in and it's sticking out about three and a
Speaker 2: half four inches, and sometimes they get kicked and ripped
Speaker 2: out of the wall, or maybe you've decided, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to do that again. You get one of
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Speaker 2: things like that. You know they're there. They're not all
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Speaker 2: vacuum cleaners and people and stuff. The other option, if
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Speaker 2: like an adjustable screwpad. And you know it's fine, it's
Speaker 2: not down in the way where you kick it, but
Speaker 2: still that thing is still pushing against the door in
Speaker 2: one particular place, and it's also pushing against the wall
Speaker 2: in a particular place. And if you open the door
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Speaker 2: you can get these even now at lows and home
Speaker 2: deepot places like that. Door Saver has designed a hinge
Speaker 2: pin based door stop. It does not put pressure on
Speaker 2: the door, It doesn't even touch the door, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't touch the wall. It is its own cam activated
Speaker 2: system that controls the swing of the door, just as
Speaker 2: an addition to the hingepin. It's very very low profile.
Speaker 2: It comes in multiple finishes and it installs in seconds.
Speaker 2: You take out the hingepin, you replace it with the
Speaker 2: door saver pin and stop, and you actually get to
Speaker 2: set it. You can set it as to how far
Speaker 2: it allows the door to open. It has a geared
Speaker 2: system inside. It's brilliant and I'm gonna stop describing it
Speaker 2: to you and just tell you you can look it
Speaker 2: up right now online Door Saver three, Hidden Door Stop.
Speaker 2: It's just a few bucks and honestly it's a game
Speaker 2: changer when it comes to doors in a home. You
Speaker 2: need to check it out all right. More when we
Speaker 2: return your home with Dean Sharp The House Whisper. Can't
Speaker 2: buye Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Welcome home. Hey, thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us on the show today. Here we are
Speaker 2: at the end of another two hours. I've still got
Speaker 2: a little bit more for you. Don't go anywhere, but
Speaker 2: a what a privilege it is to spend time with
Speaker 2: you on a Saturday morning. We'll be right back here
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning for the rest of my list of the
Speaker 2: best of the International Builder Show, which just wrapped up
Speaker 2: this week. I'm glad you're here with me right now.
Speaker 2: If you just joined us, hang tight, I've still got
Speaker 2: some fun stuff here, so let me hit at least
Speaker 2: one more thing before we are done and out today.
Speaker 2: And this is exciting news for me. I just love
Speaker 2: to see this because you know, I understand. I have
Speaker 2: come from the world of a state level design. This
Speaker 2: is where I've spent the vast majority of my time
Speaker 2: as a custom home designer, working on big stuff, big, big,
Speaker 2: big stuff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I was just very fortunate to be able to enter
Speaker 2: into that field because a lot of creativity. Also a
Speaker 2: lot of the solutions that I hand to you for mainstream,
Speaker 2: middle class homes, even tiny little cottages and apartments and condos,
Speaker 2: come from the lessons that are practiced and learned on
Speaker 2: the on the kinds of homes in which there are
Speaker 2: very very few limits, and the kinds of homes in
Speaker 2: which the very best of architectural design is applied. And
Speaker 2: that has something that has always bothered me about the
Speaker 2: design world is that, you know, it's really one of
Speaker 2: the secret sauces if you want to what I do
Speaker 2: here on this show, and that is democratizing good design,
Speaker 2: good architectural design. It doesn't just belong to the big
Speaker 2: house on the hill behind the private gates. It should
Speaker 2: belong to everyone. Good design belongs to everyone, including access
Speaker 2: to great designed materials and access to all sorts of
Speaker 2: interesting ways of doing a thing. And here is one
Speaker 2: from the International Builder Show that I'm so happy about
Speaker 2: talk about democratization of good design. Masonite. Mason I it's
Speaker 2: a massive company. You might know them for the boards
Speaker 2: that they've created, but they also happen to be now
Speaker 2: the largest door manufacturer in North America, all sorts of doors,
Speaker 2: entry doors, interior doors of all shapes and sizes. They
Speaker 2: are mainline I mean Masonite doors. You can order them
Speaker 2: at lows and home Depot and big Boxes and every
Speaker 2: door specialty company everywhere. Okay, Masonite is huge. And so
Speaker 2: they have introduced a couple of things that the show.
Speaker 2: One Dura style real wood doors. These are real wood doors,
Speaker 2: not fiberglass simulated door. These are exterior doors like your
Speaker 2: front door okay, or back door, anything that exposed to
Speaker 2: the element real wood, solid wood okay. But they have
Speaker 2: improved their assembly technology. They use a product a process
Speaker 2: called aquaceele and combine that with torrified wood torrified wood.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into the big thing. It's
Speaker 2: simply this. It is wood that has undergone a thermal
Speaker 2: heating price process that has changed the molecular structure of
Speaker 2: the wood, essentially has aged it and dried it way
Speaker 2: beyond kiln dride, way beyond that, and it basically renders
Speaker 2: would virtually weather proof on every level. So a combination
Speaker 2: of their new aquacal technology and their torripe wood exterior doors,
Speaker 2: you now have real wood doors twenty two times greater
Speaker 2: weather protection than any standard wood door. That is massive.
Speaker 2: That's just massive. So Masonite introducing a fantastic material across
Speaker 2: the line for now available for any homeowner. And also
Speaker 2: Masonite is now handling oversized pivot doors. Pivot doors are
Speaker 2: almost exclusively and have been a luxury market item, and
Speaker 2: now Masonite has essentially come in and said, listen, everybody
Speaker 2: should have access to a good pivot door. A pivot door.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to talk about a little bit
Speaker 2: more tomorrow the advantages and the reasons that we would
Speaker 2: apply a pivot door. But a pivot door, if you
Speaker 2: don't know, instead of having hinges on the edge attached
Speaker 2: to a jam has pivot pins top and bottomn about
Speaker 2: you know, a few inches in from the edge of
Speaker 2: the door, and it allows us to put a much heavier,
Speaker 2: much larger, oversized door in a door opening. It's very
Speaker 2: cool how it opens by the way, and it's a
Speaker 2: stronger door. It is a it holds up longer, it
Speaker 2: doesn't put pressure on the jam or the door edges
Speaker 2: or the hinges. Almost exclusively before. Now a luxury item
Speaker 2: that masonite you're you know, the Toyota of door manufacturers
Speaker 2: is now introducing and and expanding out to a much
Speaker 2: wider audience. And that kind of stuff gets me excited
Speaker 2: because design options, real design options. And no it's not
Speaker 2: for everybody. It's not gonna be for everybody, but the
Speaker 2: point is it's available and it's out there, and now
Speaker 2: you're gonna know about it. Uh And instead of just
Speaker 2: it being a secret in the pocket of luxury designers
Speaker 2: like me, you know, for our wealthy, wealthy clients. It's
Speaker 2: just I love the idea that really good design is
Speaker 2: out there and available to everybody. And that's what we
Speaker 2: strive for here on the program every weekend. So here's
Speaker 2: the deal. I want you to get out there and
Speaker 2: have a great day today. Join me back here tomorrow
Speaker 2: from nine to noon, where we will dive even deeper
Speaker 2: into my list of the best of the International Builder
Speaker 2: Show for you for twenty twenty five. Don't forget that
Speaker 2: we are all over social media at home with Dean
Speaker 2: on all the usual suspects, and if your home is
Speaker 2: in need of some personal house Whisper attention, you can
Speaker 2: book an in home design console with us at house
Speaker 2: Whisper dot Design until tomorrow. Get out there and get
Speaker 2: busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow.
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