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Let's talk to Suzanne. 32 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:02.799 Hey Suzanne, welcome home. 33 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:07.120 Yay, good morning. I'm going to be buying a roof 34 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.199 in the next year reroofing my house. 35 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.360 I haven't really started to research that yet. 36 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:12.400 I just know it's coming. 37 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:16.319 But what I did look into quickly, like a quick 38 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.680 Google search, was how much is solar panels? And they 39 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.919 seemed ridiculously expensive for my current energy use. 40 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.039 I don't run air conditioning. 41 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:30.080 A lot, I live alone, I'm well insulated, so it 42 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.000 just seemed kind of like, yeah, that's a no for me. 43 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.560 But I also don't want to be foolish looking down 44 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.719 the road. I know a roof is a thirty year decision, 45 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.840 and if it's more smart, if it's more intelligent to 46 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.080 buy a solar now, so I don't regret it in 47 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:49.520 five or ten years. 48 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:51.879 I'd want to do that when I was buying a roof. 49 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:56.280 I think, help, got you, got you, and you know 50 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:00.240 what you're thinking through it really really well. So I'll 51 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.400 just round out your your comments or your questions with 52 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.759 a couple of commons. One is, yeah, if you're reroofing 53 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.560 and you don't have solar and you're thinking about the possibility, 54 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.639 now is the time to do it now. It's not 55 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.360 that the solar needs to go on before the roof 56 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.439 or after the roof, or it doesn't really matter. Doesn't 57 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.159 really matter unless you're doing a heavy rigid tile roof 58 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.800 or a Spanish tile roof. That those roofing situations, I 59 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.280 would always encourage you know whether or not you're going 60 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.000 to do solar, because in those situations we may actually 61 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.639 remove roofing tile and replace it with asphalt composition tile 62 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.719 underneath where the solar panels are going, so it's a 63 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:46.520 different kind of that way. Instead of your panels sticking 64 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:50.800 way way up above your roofline. They can kind of 65 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.919 be they appear embedded into those thicker roofing materials. But 66 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.680 if it's asphalt composition shingles, it really doesn't matter whether 67 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.400 you know, we do that now or we do it 68 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.759 after the roof. But it's good to think it through. 69 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.159 It really is good to think it through. As far 70 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:11.120 as solar itself goes, you've got to evaluate well, I 71 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.280 shouldn't say you have to evaluate it. What you should 72 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.560 do is you call a reputable solar company and they 73 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.680 all work the same way. In this regard. All the 74 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.720 reputable companies work the same way. They should be able 75 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.839 to do a quick solar analysis of your home via 76 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.360 Google Earth and their satellite systems. They'll zero in on 77 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:37.600 your address. They've got software that enables them to guestimate 78 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.639 and track exposure to sun, how much, how big your 79 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.480 energy bill is, and the cost of a system to 80 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.839 bring you to net zero. That's your goal with a 81 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.759 solar system is to go net zero at the end 82 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:55.560 of the year. It means that some months you're going 83 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.240 to be paying a little bit more of your power 84 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.639 bill when there's not as much sun out other months, 85 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.480 you're going to to be like way over producing, which 86 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.319 is awesome and scoring that up. But by the end 87 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:09.240 of the year, your bills and your credits balance out 88 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.040 to like I didn't pay any electricity this year. That's 89 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.759 the solar that to Tina and I have on our home. 90 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.920 It's a net zero system. We have just enough panels 91 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.639 that at the end of the year we don't pay 92 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.079 for any of our electricity. And because of that, Okay, 93 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.519 that's always a good idea. Now there is a threshold, 94 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:32.120 and I couldn't tell you right now, Susan, in all honesty, 95 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:36.519 exactly where the threshold is for southern California. But there 96 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.199 is always an energy threshold where you know, I mean, 97 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.199 if you're only paying fifty I'll put it this way, 98 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.319 I'll set a ridiculous number. If you're only paying fifty 99 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.879 dollars a month for your electricity bill, then then then 100 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.839 solar is not going to pay for itself very quickly. 101 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:55.839 Right, I'm not being funny. 102 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:57.600 That's close to where I am part of the year. 103 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.519 I don't use a lot of energy. 104 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:05.160 Right understood, So so so again a reputable solar company, 105 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.160 and this is without committing to anything. This is just 106 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:10.600 the very first conversation. They should be able to tell you, listen, 107 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.959 with our systems, whether you lease or buy, we're looking 108 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.959 for customers. We're going to help customers who are paying 109 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.560 one hundred and fifty dollars or more on average every month, 110 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.920 or one hundred and seventy five dollars more. You know, 111 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.839 they'll tell you where the threshold is, where it would 112 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.240 really make sense that if you got your solar, it 113 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.560 would pay itself off quickly and or you know, change 114 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:41.240 your energy profile pretty quickly. That's all free upfront information 115 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.240 and conversation that you can have with a reputable solar company. 116 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.120 And that's what So that's you go ahead and pull 117 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.319 the trigger and have a conversation with somebody about it 118 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.040 so you know exactly where you stand in the long run. 119 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:56.560 This is the second part and the last bit of 120 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:00.279 my answer. In the long run, of course, solo is 121 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.399 a great idea. It's a great idea whether you buy 122 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.839 or lease a system in general. And why is that Well, 123 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.399 because it's a great idea because solar keeps producing during 124 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:17.639 a natural disaster, and so you've got the ability to 125 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:22.040 access energy for your home even when the power company 126 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.279 has shut everything down. That's a good idea. It's also 127 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.040 a good idea because and this is a this is 128 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:33.839 an unbroken trend. Since we're talking trends today, power costs 129 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.120 are rising on average about four percent every year. So 130 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.879 if you take a look at that, and you look 131 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:45.560 at your power costs over the next twenty to thirty years, 132 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.800 and the fact that a solar system brings you to 133 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.720 zero while everybody else's energy costs are going up, a 134 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:57.079 really well installed system is going to save you money 135 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.279 long term. Long term, it's going to save over two 136 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.639 or three decades, it's going to save you tens of 137 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.680 thousands of dollars. But short term, if you have very 138 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.079 low energy consumption, it's not necessarily a game changer tomorrow. 139 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:18.800 Right, Okay, all right, thanks for your time. 140 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.120 All right, good luck with everything that you're doing. There. 141 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:25.240 You're on the right track. I know it is all right. 142 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.959 When we come back, more of your calls your Home 143 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:29.519 with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 144 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.879 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 145 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.519 KFI AM six forty. 146 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.840 We are talking trends and predictions this weekend, this final 147 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.399 weekend of twenty twenty four. But right now, I'm taking calls. 148 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.559 Excuse me, So I got to go back to I 149 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:51.679 need to slip my coffee. Hang on, Oh dang, that 150 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.200 was worth it. All right, let's go back to the phones. 151 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.200 I want to talk to Tammy. Hey, Tammy, welcome home. 152 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.639 Good morning, Jane. This is so excited to be able 153 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:09.200 to speak with you in Hello to Tina. Oh well, 154 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.039 I wonder what is the best way to remove mold 155 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.360 in the bathroom. I know that sometimes it just needs 156 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.279 to be cleaned, it's not a big deal. And sometimes 157 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:21.240 I've heard of toxic mold. It could be behind walls. 158 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.039 How can I tell the difference and what's the best 159 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:24.519 way to remove it? 160 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:29.679 Okay, here we go. It's a biggie. It's a big question. 161 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:32.879 Actually it's not. It's it's it's just a question that 162 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.480 triggers a lot of things, the whole mold discussion. Uh So, 163 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.320 first of all, I am not a toxicologist, and so 164 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.360 what you're about to hear comes from my experience as 165 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:50.519 a builder and having encountered this multiple times. Just also, 166 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.879 I want everybody who's listening to understand I don't want 167 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:57.120 you to get triggered by what I'm about to say, 168 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:01.559 because I'm not leaving anybody out. Okay. So here's the thing. 169 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:03.039 Mold. 170 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:10.919 Mold is tricky on just about every level because technically speaking, 171 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:17.480 there are very very very few toxic molds in the world. Okay, 172 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.120 toxic meaning the mold in and of themselves. Now, several 173 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:28.039 molds create micotoxins, and those things can be toxic to 174 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:32.320 human beings. Okay. And when mold really is allowed to 175 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:37.360 grow and thrive and colonize and develop, the biggest concern 176 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.320 that most people have with mold is when a mold 177 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.039 is doing so well that it's now starting to throw 178 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.039 off spores into the air to reproduce itself and to 179 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.039 grow even more mold sports. So say, mold one, oh one, 180 00:10:54.120 --> 00:11:01.320 let's understand mold. Mold loves warm, dark, moist places. Okay. 181 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.879 So as a result of that, okay, when a mold 182 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:12.320 is allowed to thrive in a home environment and it 183 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:16.919 starts throwing spores into the air, those mold spores cause 184 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.879 for a lot of people respiratory issues because you breathe 185 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.639 them in and once a spore is in your lungs, 186 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:29.200 guess what it has found? A warm, moist, dark place. 187 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:32.279 Not a great thing to have in your lungs, mold 188 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:37.080 spores and so. But to be clear about this, okay, 189 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.360 and this is from the CDC, this is from that. 190 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.840 There are all sorts of scientific sources for this. Most 191 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:50.480 molds are not toxic in and of themselves, and yet 192 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.039 there are a lot of people that are mold sensitive, 193 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.360 especially to mold spores. And by the way, there are 194 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.120 mold spores in the air everywhere we go, and so 195 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.879 it's also a matter of concentration and continual exposure. Okay, 196 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.720 mold grows in our homes simply because those spores are 197 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.799 in the air, and you find a dark and moist 198 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.039 enough place and something settles there and and it's allowed 199 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.559 to grow. So I just want to give a general 200 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:29.639 understanding that it's true that people get sick from mold exposure, 201 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:34.320 but it doesn't necessarily mean the mold itself is toxic. 202 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.320 And people are like, well, black mold is now, that's 203 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:41.000 not true either, some black mold, A few black molds, 204 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.000 and know, there is no way for a homeowner to 205 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:48.679 identify a toxic mold versus a non toxic mold, zero 206 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.399 ways to visually identified, because they are there's like one 207 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:55.679 hundred thousand of them out there and they almost all 208 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.559 look alike. So any any website or advice telling you, well, 209 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.759 here's how you can identify a toxic mold, that's generally 210 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.559 a mold remediation company that wants to make a buck 211 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:08.559 by telling you you should probably just get rid of 212 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:14.159 it all. So anyway, black mold, green mold, red mole. Okay, 213 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:18.240 So the point is this, again, I am not trying 214 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:25.519 to downplay that some people are very very mold sensitive. 215 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:29.679 In fact, if you have a mold allergy, right, it's 216 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.600 very likely that it will do more health harm to you. 217 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:40.519 If you are allergic to non toxic molds. Then the 218 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.600 average person without a mold allergy has in exposure to 219 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:48.399 a toxic mold. So I hope everybody's understand the nuance 220 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.679 to this. So that's all right. When it comes to 221 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:55.120 our home mold that you see growing on a surface somewhere, 222 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.440 you should clean it. And you can clean it very 223 00:13:57.440 --> 00:13:59.799 easily with soap and water and a little bit of 224 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:05.320 black and it's done. Molds are not, you know, super strong, 225 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:10.200 powerful agents that will fight against exposure to sunlight or 226 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:15.759 chemicals like bleach. They simply won't survive it. The concern 227 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.879 that most people have about mold is usually unfounded in 228 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.559 my opinion. When you see a mold growing on a 229 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.279 surface somewhere, clean it, throw some bleach on it, so 230 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:29.679 soap and water, get it cleaned up. If there's been 231 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:34.440 a major plumbing leak or a roof leak in which 232 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:40.919 water has made it inside a wall cavity, then we 233 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.159 need to expose and open up those cavities, dry them out, 234 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:47.559 and make sure there's no mold growth there so that 235 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.879 they don't thrive. Because once they're thriving in those cavities, 236 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:55.480 that's the kind of mold growth that causes problems not 237 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.639 just to human beings who are living in the space, 238 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:03.519 but also problems to the actual structure of the wood 239 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.120 and the framing as well. And so, how do you 240 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.919 know that you've not got mold behind your walls? Well, 241 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.320 if you haven't had a major leak or a major 242 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.960 moisture intrusion on the house, you don't have mold inside 243 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.519 your walls. Okay, you just see it occasionally on the 244 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.919 surface somewhere. And if you've had a major leak and 245 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.320 haven't opened up those walls, that's where you need to 246 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:30.759 address the remediation. Does that make sense. 247 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.600 Yeah, that's a great answer. And along those lines, just 248 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.320 to carry on with what you said some years back, 249 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.559 we did have a major leak downstairs, but it's a 250 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.559 whole living room. But the insurance came right away. They 251 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.000 cut off about two feet a wall around that whole 252 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.240 perimeter of that room. You know, dried it out everything. 253 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:53.080 And so if it's been dry for a long time, 254 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.960 I'm assuming that once it's patched up and it's you know, 255 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:00.279 it's been dry for a long time, if that can 256 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.799 be resurrected, you know, because it's dark now, and you know, 257 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.679 but as long as it's tried, I'm assuming that it 258 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:10.320 can't return and we can safety. We still the walls, 259 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.159 because I'm ambarsed to say those walls still have not 260 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.879 been catched up. But it's been dried for a long time. 261 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:21.480 We're talking to absolutely absolutely, no question, Tammy. If it's 262 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.039 been dried for a long time, you are safe to 263 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.159 close it all up and to get back to your 264 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.120 life and you don't have to worry about it. You 265 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:33.960 really don't, because mold doesn't do dry, it doesn't do daylight, 266 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.440 it doesn't do UV light, and and so you know, 267 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.559 it's it's not an alien creature. It's it really needs 268 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.639 those conditions to thrive. So you're good to go. Tammy, 269 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.679 thank you so much for your call and for listening 270 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.559 to the show, and for all of your support. It's 271 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.720 time for me to move on when we return back 272 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.600 to Trends and Predictions for twenty twenty five. 273 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.960 Right now, you're listening to Home with Dean sharp Onto 274 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.200 from KFI AM six forty. 275 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.960 Hey, somebody was just commenting asking like, hey, this is 276 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:11.640 a no burn alert. Can you explain what that is 277 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.640 all about, Dean, Well, very quickly. Here in southern California, 278 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:21.799 the Air Quality Management District the AQMD, they, like Eileen 279 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.799 was saying on the news report here, they will from 280 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:30.640 time to time, usually from November through February, just because 281 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.000 winter months is when people tend to use their fireplaces, 282 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:38.240 wood burning fireplaces more often issue no burn alerts. And 283 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:43.240 now the question was why today versus any other day. Well, 284 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:45.920 they I'm not exactly sure how they do all of 285 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:52.319 their actual particulate monitoring, but they do monitor pollution particulates 286 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.319 in the air. And usually I'll just tell you this, 287 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.640 it usually has to do with stagnant weather. Okay, now, 288 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.119 that's not a very nice way of describing a beautiful, 289 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:09.240 misty morning. But it's been cloudy and overcast for a 290 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.559 couple of three days here. It is the holiday season, 291 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:17.359 and uh, there's no wind happening out there, not much wind. 292 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.759 That's what they mean by stagnant weather. Okay, so we've 293 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.680 got cloud cover that holds stuff in. We've got no 294 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:31.440 wind to blow air particulates away. And it's the holiday season. 295 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.759 It's the holiday. No, it's a holiday season. And more 296 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.920 people are using a wood burning fireplaces right now, so 297 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:43.119 chances are particulate contamination in the air is just higher. 298 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.839 And the AQMD is like no, I just want to 299 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.480 draw the line right there. So there you go there, 300 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.480 like it or not. That's the Uh. Those are usually 301 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:53.880 the contributing factors, all right. I said I was going 302 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.039 to get back to design prediction talk. I want to 303 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.079 do that. But also I realize I have neglected a 304 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.079 priority caller, so I'm going to take one more call. 305 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.000 I want to talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, welcome home. 306 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.200 Thank you Dean for taking my call. I've got a 307 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:15.440 single story house in Wittier to slab house and the 308 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.400 washer and dryer or in the kitchen and once a 309 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.000 month I have to snake out where the washer drains 310 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.000 into the pipe. I've got an electric drill goes down 311 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:28.400 about twenty feet that does the problem. I can feel 312 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:32.640 it hitting stuffed in there. And my question to you 313 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.839 is what do you think of hydro jetting. 314 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:43.319 Hydro Jetting is when plumbers run a specialized high pressure 315 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:49.559 oscillating nozzle system down a drain line. Hydro Jetting can 316 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:54.200 be awesome. It's a tool, So what do I think 317 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:57.119 of it? It's a tool in the toolbox. Is it 318 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.160 always the thing that should be used? No, because as 319 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:07.559 qualified plumbers who use hydrojeting need to evaluate the condition 320 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:12.559 of drain lines, especially older drain lines, because hydrojeting can 321 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:18.599 be pretty intensive, pretty violent activity on the inside. Hydrojeting 322 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.039 companies that are like, yeah, use it on any pipe 323 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.039 because it's not as you know, it's not as intense 324 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:28.079 as a snake or an augur Not true. Hydrojetting can 325 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:32.079 really mess up an old, already fragile drain line, so 326 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:35.200 it has to be evaluated first. And usually the way 327 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:39.039 you evaluate it is by running a camera down in 328 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:42.319 the system so that we can actually identify what the 329 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:46.359 heck is going on. So before hydrojeting, my suggestion to 330 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.839 you would always be, especially if every time you run 331 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.680 that snake down you're running into something, you feel like 332 00:20:54.759 --> 00:21:00.799 something is like, you know, whether it's a roof invasion 333 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:06.319 that keeps regrowing, whether we've got an actual break or 334 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:09.079 a crack in the pipe or a dislocation in the 335 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:15.559 drain line. So before we take a tool out of 336 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:19.319 the toolbox for something like this, and we think of 337 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.519 it like the human body. Right if you're feeling sick 338 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.200 and you come into the emergency room or you're come 339 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:32.319 into the doctor's office, and you know, no doctor worth 340 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:35.240 their salt is going to suggest, well, I've got a treatment, 341 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.119 I've got a therapy or a treatment or a surgical 342 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:42.559 procedure that we should perform on you. Well, okay, that 343 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:46.200 comes at a point. But what always happens first testing, 344 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.039 diagnostic testing. I want to do a blood panel, I 345 00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:52.839 want to draw some blood. I want to get out 346 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.359 of scope and look inside, you know wherever we're looking inside. 347 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.279 And the same is true with your home. You got 348 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:04.319 a recurring there, okay, absolutely a recurring problem, which means 349 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:06.559 we need to get eyes on it. And one of 350 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:09.240 the great things about living in the twenty first century 351 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:12.839 is we've got camera technology that can do that. Every 352 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:16.599 plumber with their salt can run a camera down your 353 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:19.759 drain line and we will figure out what the heck 354 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:26.960 is causing Bruce's ongoing recurring problem. If it's roots, that's 355 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:31.039 one thing. If there's just a bad week pipe there, 356 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:33.559 that's another thing. If there's a break, that's a whole 357 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.880 different thing. Whether or not hydrojetting is the answer has 358 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.359 to do with what the nature of the problem is. 359 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:42.559 So diagnosis first. 360 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:47.759 You know, that's a very interesting Dean, because about three 361 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:50.319 years ago I had a guy go on the rough 362 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.640 and have a camera and he said, get up here 363 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.160 and look at this, and it was amazing. It was 364 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:01.279 an HD picture and it was where the sewer line 365 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:04.759 goes out to kind of like the street where they connect. 366 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:07.359 And he said, you have a crack there, and I 367 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.119 could see it. But when I run that snake, I 368 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:14.440 don't think I'm going out that far. Okay, Okay, but 369 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:19.799 I agree, Yeah, run a camera first. And I've heard 370 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:22.759 from other plumbers exactly what you have just said. 371 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.839 Yeah, I mean, it's it needs to be the case. Now, 372 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:30.960 if you've got to crack down line somewhere then, you know, 373 00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:34.640 I don't I don't know. Maybe maybe roots are finding 374 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.640 their way in and actually causing a problem with you know, 375 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.400 a little higher up. I don't know. That's the point is, 376 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.960 I don't know, and so I wouldn't recommend any procedure 377 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.960 augur hydrojet any The very first thing has got to 378 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:53.240 be because maybe none of those things are are really 379 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.559 the solution. Maybe the solution is that, you know, we've 380 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.599 got a large enough break in the line there that 381 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.640 we need to get down there and act just get 382 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:01.240 it fixed. 383 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:04.279 So right, yeah, he showed me in the front I 384 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:06.039 don't have any trees in my front yard, but he 385 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.359 showed me. I did thirty years ago, one tree that 386 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:12.720 I chopped down, but I know those roots lived for years. 387 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:15.640 But it's right outside the front door where he said, 388 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.079 that's where the break was, according to the camera. And 389 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.000 I just don't know if that would be, you know, 390 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:27.799 the clod because my electric snake I don't believe goes 391 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:31.759 that far. But I'm going to have somebody get a 392 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:34.839 camera down there and look at it again. And I 393 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:36.680 thank you very much for your time, my friend. 394 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.839 You are very welcome my friend. Good luck on that. Yeah, guys, 395 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:45.200 it's always diagnosed first. Don't just grab a tool out 396 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.119 of the toolbox. There are no wonder tools out there. 397 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.039 There's some amazing tools, amazing things we can do to 398 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.920 your home, but we don't just you know, dive right 399 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.960 into surgery, all right. We want to run tests, diagnostic, 400 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:03.000 differential diagnostics, just like you know a good diagnostician does 401 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:05.079