Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app Good Sunday
Speaker 1: Morning to you, Welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: house Whisperer. I design custom homes and on the weekends,
Speaker 1: I am your guide to better understanding that place where
Speaker 1: you live today. On the show, part two of our
Speaker 1: two part series this weekend, The Best of The International
Speaker 1: Builders Show twenty twenty five. The International Builders Show, the
Speaker 1: largest construction and design show presentation on the planet, just
Speaker 1: wrapped up its annual convention this week in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and we are reporting to you. I am reporting to
Speaker 1: you everything that I can think of that I can
Speaker 1: fit into the show that is of significance to you
Speaker 1: as a homeowner, as somebody who's living in a home
Speaker 1: home and just wanting to know what's the latest and greatest,
Speaker 1: whether you're planning a remodel or just new decor, or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may maybe a brand new house build,
Speaker 1: who knows, whatever the case may be. I want to
Speaker 1: bring you some of the highlights of that show. And
Speaker 1: I say highlights because we're talking about a show that
Speaker 1: fills the entire Las Vegas Convention Center, all the new
Speaker 1: wings at everything corner to corner, a million square feet
Speaker 1: of exhibit space. There were nearly two thousand exhibitors there,
Speaker 1: well over one hundred thousand industry professionals in attendance.
Speaker 2: It is a big deal.
Speaker 1: It is as big for the home building industry as
Speaker 1: the Consumer Electronics Show is for the electronics industry. It
Speaker 1: is the show, the show, and a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I started my list, and so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to repeat those items because we've got too much ground
Speaker 1: to cover today. So you just need to know that
Speaker 1: this show, right here, this broadcast is also the House
Speaker 1: Whisperer podcast, which means that you can find on wherever
Speaker 1: your favorite podcasts are found. You can find all of
Speaker 1: our episodes, and the previous episode to today, part one
Speaker 1: has the beginning of that list, and there was some
Speaker 1: choice nuggets of goodness shared with you yesterday. So if
Speaker 1: you missed it, make sure you go back and listen
Speaker 1: to that and subscribe to the podcast while you're at it.
Speaker 1: What's stopping you. It's free, it's on demand, all right.
Speaker 1: That's where we're going today, and of course, of course
Speaker 1: we're going to be taking your calls. Producer Richie is
Speaker 1: standing by. He has opened up the phone lines. The
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Speaker 1: What are we serving up for you? Uh, We're going
Speaker 1: to be posting some of images to just help you
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Speaker 1: you to our awesome team. This morning, Tony Sorrentino talkative
Speaker 1: Tony is on the board. Good morning, Tony Born. That's
Speaker 1: exactly why we call him. I love Tony. Tony is is.
Speaker 1: Tony is just one of those guys. He's great, he's interesting,
Speaker 1: he's fun. We love each other. He has helped me
Speaker 1: out on so many occasions. He is the he is
Speaker 1: the uh, the all things media and electronics whisperer. By
Speaker 1: the way, exactly exactly Whisper. You are hearing me the
Speaker 1: way you are today in large part because of Tony Trentino.
Speaker 1: That's just the truth of it. So Tony, it's always
Speaker 1: a pleasure to always today. Like I said, Producer Richie
Speaker 1: is standing by, not near Mike, but he is getting
Speaker 1: ready to screen calls as you call in.
Speaker 2: And you already heard her tiny little giggle. Eileen Gonzalez
Speaker 2: at the news desk.
Speaker 3: Good morning, I lean, good morning, Tony had me giggling.
Speaker 3: You can't see him, but he's got this huge smile
Speaker 3: on his face. He doesn't have a lot to say,
Speaker 3: but his smile says a lot.
Speaker 2: It does, it does. Tony's just one of those guys.
Speaker 2: I can tell you. How are you doing today? I'm
Speaker 2: doing great.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm well, I'm well. It's been a
Speaker 1: full weekend. There's still some things to be knocked down.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's actually a weekend off for me,
Speaker 1: you know, even at post show.
Speaker 2: But it's fine. I'm fine. I'm fine actually.
Speaker 3: By that show. I was there Wednesday. Oh did you Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just for a super quick trip to Vegas. Yep,
Speaker 3: what'd you think?
Speaker 2: Amazing?
Speaker 3: Amazing?
Speaker 2: It's huge, what a great show. Yeah, it's massive, it
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that I don't necessarily encourage
Speaker 1: our listeners to just spend the money and go unless
Speaker 1: they're really in for the deep dive, because it is
Speaker 1: an industry show. It really is speaking to industry professionals,
Speaker 1: speaking to industry profession and so a homeowner can really
Speaker 1: just get lost there. But you know, with the right guidance,
Speaker 1: it could could be really useful if you're thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, a new remodel or something, and there's just
Speaker 1: so much there is so so much.
Speaker 3: Let the experts go and like you and bring back
Speaker 3: the best ideas to everybody else.
Speaker 2: And that's what today is all about. Perfect segue.
Speaker 1: Sitting across the table from me, my better half, my
Speaker 1: design partner, my best buddy in the universe, Tina of
Speaker 1: course is here.
Speaker 2: Welcome home. How you do.
Speaker 4: I'm great and it's so good to hear Tony, is it,
Speaker 4: even if it's just a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little bit of Tony in our life,
Speaker 2: that's right. Of course. You are going to be.
Speaker 1: Posting some of these images today throughout the show just.
Speaker 4: To give Yeah, I'm going to try to put it
Speaker 4: together in either one or two posts and just maybe
Speaker 4: with a little bit of.
Speaker 1: A little bit of shotgun blast of images and the descriptions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just to get a sense of kind of what
Speaker 4: we're talking about. In that way, you can see the
Speaker 4: name of it and if you want to go and
Speaker 4: search it out and check out these really cool new
Speaker 4: either gadgets or really great I love the garage door.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, So people need to see that. I agree.
Speaker 1: All right, So Tina is going to be doing that
Speaker 1: throughout the show. Let's get it going. The best of
Speaker 1: the International Builder Show twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're going to be going to the phones in
Speaker 1: a bit right around the top of the hour as
Speaker 1: per usual. Here's the number to reach me eight three
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Speaker 1: A three to three the numeral to ask Dean anything
Speaker 1: you want to talk about that's got you scratching your
Speaker 1: head about your home today?
Speaker 2: I am game, I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 1: We are continuing as part two today of our list
Speaker 1: of highlights from the International Builder Show, the Best of
Speaker 1: the International Builder Show twenty twenty five, which just wrapped
Speaker 1: up Las Vegas this week. I want to dive into
Speaker 1: something very very simple here. Sometimes some of the best
Speaker 1: things for you, the homeowner are some of the simplest things.
Speaker 1: And it's one of the tricks of walking the floors
Speaker 1: at the International Builder Show because there's just so much
Speaker 1: to see and there's so many large format, you know,
Speaker 1: things going on that sometimes it's not easy to catch
Speaker 1: belittle things. But here is one that is a long
Speaker 1: time coming, well long overdue. So there's a company called Revent.
Speaker 1: Revent is a great exhaust vent company, the kind of
Speaker 1: company that puts like, you know, exhaust fans in bathrooms. Okay,
Speaker 1: beautiful fans, beautiful venting fans, really really kind of cutting
Speaker 1: edge stuff. And so I'm always happy to spec Revent
Speaker 1: because they're attractive, they take design into consideration, but they
Speaker 1: are super functional.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So just as a blanket endorsement for me, if you're
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, quiet, powerful exhaust fans for a bathroom,
Speaker 1: then consider Revent. But here is something that you don't
Speaker 1: have to buy a Vent for. You say, well, I've
Speaker 1: got a Vent fan in my bathroom, then fine, And
Speaker 1: then here's a product that you can pick up that
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be paired with one of their fans,
Speaker 1: and that is a switch to control that fan. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, being it's on a switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Bathrooms, especially smaller bathrooms, bathrooms with showers especially, man, do
Speaker 1: they take a lot of abuse and they prematurely age
Speaker 1: because of the humidity and the moisture that builds up
Speaker 1: inside a bathroom when you're taking your steaming hot shower
Speaker 1: forever in the day, you know, and you get out
Speaker 1: of the shower, and you got to wipe off the
Speaker 1: mirror you can't see her. I mean, there is a
Speaker 1: lot of humidity, it's heat, and it's moisture. It's like
Speaker 1: your bathroom is being subjected to exterior weather forces on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Now, how do I deal with that
Speaker 1: when I'm designing out and we're building out a bathroom. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I want to use as much tile
Speaker 1: as possible everywhere to protect the walls and surfaces. Number two,
Speaker 1: I tile or stone, hard surface materials is what I mean.
Speaker 1: And number two, the dry wall that I put in
Speaker 1: a bathroom is always what we call green board dry wall.
Speaker 1: I don't bother just putting it over the shower because
Speaker 1: the steam goes everywhere. Green board is it's not waterproof,
Speaker 1: but it is moisture resistant dry wall. It's better drywall
Speaker 1: from moist areas than standard drywall. So we always use
Speaker 1: green board. And then of course we use the best
Speaker 1: kind of paints like Benjamin Moore or a bathroom Spa,
Speaker 1: which is a beautiful paint and just an amazingly heat
Speaker 1: and moisture resists, and so on and so forth. But
Speaker 1: here is the thing. The switch for the bath fan.
Speaker 1: I know you got a switch. Uh, and so let
Speaker 1: me talk about how it normally happens. You jump out
Speaker 1: of the shower, maybe you're gonna stay in there for
Speaker 1: a while, or maybe your boom out of the bathroom,
Speaker 1: which means as you leave the bathroom, you turn off
Speaker 1: the fan, you turn off the light, and there's still
Speaker 1: humidity in there. So here's the point. This switch from
Speaker 1: Revent has a humidity sensor on it and it simply
Speaker 1: does this. Once humidity starts developing the bathroom, whether you've
Speaker 1: turned the fan on or not, it automatically turns on
Speaker 1: the exhaust fan and it keeps it on even if
Speaker 1: you turn the lights out and leave. It keeps it on,
Speaker 1: not for a timer setting, but until it senses that
Speaker 1: the humidity level has dropped to an acceptable level. Finally,
Speaker 1: a smart switch that actually runs the fan until the
Speaker 1: fan actually doesn't need to run anymore, instead of you
Speaker 1: turning it off prematurely or maybe never turning it on
Speaker 1: at all. It's brilliant. It's just a switch, but it
Speaker 1: makes a huge difference in long term life of a
Speaker 1: small bathroom, especially and I would say every bathroom in general.
Speaker 1: So that is a humidity sensing switch from revent.
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Speaker 1: back to our list of the best of the International
Speaker 1: Builders Show for twenty twenty five. Just wrapped up in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas this last week here and a lot of
Speaker 1: good things, A lot of good things came out of it. Also,
Speaker 1: I just want to remind you yesterday's broadcast, the previous
Speaker 1: podcast episode is part one of this A lot of
Speaker 1: juicy nuggets shared then, and today is part two. Okay,
Speaker 1: here is a This is this is significant. I mean
Speaker 1: it really is in terms of kitchen design, and I
Speaker 1: predict this is going to become a game changer. I'm
Speaker 1: already looking at ways to apply this. Plasma made. That's
Speaker 1: a brand, plasma made, all one word plasma made in
Speaker 1: Capital m. You can check this out yourself. Plasma Made
Speaker 1: is a company that has been developing filters for you know,
Speaker 1: recirculating filters for kitchen vent hoods for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Really good company, really good filters. And when I say filters,
Speaker 1: I mean the kind that circulate air back into the
Speaker 1: room as opposed to ducting it completely out of the room. Now,
Speaker 1: right now, in the residential kitchen world, the only kind
Speaker 1: of filtration system that aescension that most homeowners are aware
Speaker 1: of that to vent the air from you know, smoke
Speaker 1: or air coming through the vent back into the room.
Speaker 1: Are simple, very very simple, charcoal based filters and they
Speaker 1: do a little bit of good. And those are usually
Speaker 1: built into like a microwave hood combe unit that is
Speaker 1: designed to sit over the cook top. And you guys
Speaker 1: know of what I speak the microwave that is also
Speaker 1: the hood. It's a good microwave, it's not a good
Speaker 1: hood just I don't care what brand it is, just
Speaker 1: they're just they can't do both of those things the
Speaker 1: best possible. The fans aren't very powerful, and those microwave
Speaker 1: hoods can either be hooked up and ducted out of
Speaker 1: the house, which is better in that case if there
Speaker 1: is existing ducting, or if there's no ducting available, they
Speaker 1: can be redirected through a charcoal filter that is cleanable
Speaker 1: and accessible and just blow the air back into the
Speaker 1: kitchen space. Okay, that sounds that has for long, for
Speaker 1: the longest time, been kind of the low end version
Speaker 1: of how you do kitchen hood venting. Then along comes
Speaker 1: Plasma Made and.
Speaker 2: They have developed a.
Speaker 1: Recirculating filter and a set of recirculating filters for range hoods,
Speaker 1: and their promise is that they are reshaping the way
Speaker 1: kitchens are designed and built because their new advanced E
Speaker 1: filter series sets an entirely new standard of efficiency of
Speaker 1: removing particles that pass the air that pass through it
Speaker 1: down to point one micro on That is unbelievable. It
Speaker 1: essentially annihilates any particulate that is floating through the air
Speaker 1: that passes through this that is down to the microscopic level,
Speaker 1: filtering out particulates as small as even the coronavirus. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's how filter strong this filter is. And yet there
Speaker 1: is massive airflow going through it all right, So why
Speaker 1: is that so exciting? Is it's just that your new
Speaker 1: microwave hood combo, you know, it has a better filter
Speaker 1: out no, no, no, they aren't made for that. What these
Speaker 1: are designed to do is solve one of the biggest
Speaker 1: headaches that designers and builders have in regards to your
Speaker 1: new kitchen design, and that is where do we put
Speaker 1: the cook top? And once we put the cook top
Speaker 1: where we want to put it, can we get it
Speaker 1: effectively vented? Because we've got to get a vent pipe
Speaker 1: up and out. We've got to get it into the rafters,
Speaker 1: into the attic. If there's a second floor above us,
Speaker 1: that gives us even more limitations. We've got to find
Speaker 1: an open joist bay to carry us to the out
Speaker 1: the nearest outside wall of the house. There are so
Speaker 1: many limitations. This is one of the reasons why Soffitts
Speaker 1: bulkheads appear inside kitchen designs sometimes because we can't get
Speaker 1: the cook top event where we want it to go
Speaker 1: without going below the ceiling line, which means we've got
Speaker 1: to build out a special chase for it below the
Speaker 1: ceiling line. And ugh, it's just a it's a frustration
Speaker 1: because of these limitations. Now, if we're lucky enough to
Speaker 1: put a cook top on an outside wall, then it
Speaker 1: gets a lot easier. But the point is there are
Speaker 1: always limitations when it comes to this. Plasma made though
Speaker 1: has created these high capacity, high cfm flow filters that
Speaker 1: sly do such a good job of cleaning the air
Speaker 1: in a recirculation manner that we don't have to duct
Speaker 1: the air outside. I don't need a duct going outside
Speaker 1: anymore to give you the highest quality venting off your
Speaker 1: cook top, ventless ventless, high quality ducting. That is exciting
Speaker 1: and I hope that I'm conveying you know, the usefulness
Speaker 1: of that, the amount of flexibility that that enhances us with.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just like handing me, as your kitchen
Speaker 1: designer and builder, that a gigantic present wrapped in a
Speaker 1: bow that we can really work on the design that
Speaker 1: you want. We can put the cook top anywhere you
Speaker 1: want it to be. And if we incorporate one of
Speaker 1: these plasma made filters into the vent hood system, then
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about venting that thing outside.
Speaker 2: And man, is that great.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: You may be in the middle of Ohio in two
Speaker 1: degree weather. I'm sorry, but I'm glad you're with us
Speaker 1: on the program. We're talking all things the International Builders
Speaker 1: Show that just wrapped up in Las Vegas this last week. Uh,
Speaker 1: just highlights from that show that I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: to you so that you know, you could be if
Speaker 1: you're thinking about remodeling or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: that you can you know, get a little inspiration from this.
Speaker 1: We're going to be going to phones, by the way,
Speaker 1: right after the next news break, as is our custom,
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. So I'll give you
Speaker 1: the number one more time, eight three three two ask
Speaker 1: Dean A three three the numeral to ask Dean anything
Speaker 1: you want to talk about regarding your home. We've got
Speaker 1: some lovely calls on the board, but there is room
Speaker 1: for you as well. So eight three three two as Dan.
Speaker 1: That's coming up right after the next news break. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's another small item which I believe is worthy of
Speaker 1: your notice. Not a major thing. I've got plenty of
Speaker 1: those two, But this is an item that is just
Speaker 1: a brilliant little design. Screen doors, you know, on your
Speaker 1: sliding glass doors, not a hinged screen door. We've had
Speaker 1: closers for hinge screen doors since pretty much the beginning
Speaker 1: of time, right, I mean for a long time, because
Speaker 1: you can just use a normal door closer for a
Speaker 1: hinged screen door, and it does just fine. But sliding screens,
Speaker 1: what do we do with the sliding screens. We've got
Speaker 1: some sliding screen doors around here, and we've got some
Speaker 1: children around here, Olivia my eight year old granddaughter who's
Speaker 1: always running around, and of course it is the way
Speaker 1: of things right to just plow open a screen door
Speaker 1: and run outside, and you're so excited, and then of
Speaker 1: course you hear the adult voice somewhere in the background,
Speaker 1: shut the screen door. We would all love that to
Speaker 1: just not even be a thing. And you know, and
Speaker 1: we've all done it as well.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's you've got a handful of things and you
Speaker 1: open the door and you just don't want to turn
Speaker 1: around and close it. You don't want to push your
Speaker 1: foot through the screen trying to close it. So screen
Speaker 1: door closers, and there have been all sorts through the years,
Speaker 1: better or worse. Here is one of the simplest and
Speaker 1: loveliest by latch Line. Okay latch you know, like a
Speaker 1: latch on a door line. That's the name of the company.
Speaker 1: You should check it out. Look for their soft closed
Speaker 1: screen door. It is a little cartridge And when I
Speaker 1: say little, I mean it is a cartridge that will
Speaker 1: mount uh and not stick into the screen area. It'll
Speaker 1: mount the top of the metal of your screen frame.
Speaker 1: And it's a di y install You don't need a
Speaker 1: professional to install this. You all all you have to
Speaker 1: do is mark out two little screw holes, uh and
Speaker 1: get these screws started. Then screw this cartridge on, and
Speaker 1: then that this this little cartridge mounts on the screen itself,
Speaker 1: top corner of the screen, and then across from it
Speaker 1: onto the frame, a small retainer stud mounts a little
Speaker 1: stainless steel stud. And then what happens is a cable
Speaker 1: is pulled out of this cartridge and hooks onto that
Speaker 1: retainer stud. So yeah, it is a tensioned cable like
Speaker 1: a little recoiling cable winch system. Okay, but what I
Speaker 1: love about it is that you can this coiling winch.
Speaker 1: It's it's the genius of the thing is its simplicity.
Speaker 1: But the the other genius of the thing is that
Speaker 1: it is fully adjustable. So it's not just you know,
Speaker 1: because I've turned down these ideas before, where you know,
Speaker 1: like a recoiling tape and a tape measure like you
Speaker 1: had a spring loaded wheel in there, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but if I throw the screen open and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden swam boom, you know, it just slams
Speaker 1: in and nobody likes that. This is a soft closing
Speaker 1: screen door sliding screen door closer. So you hook up
Speaker 1: this cable and then you've got a dial to adjust
Speaker 1: whether the screen closes slowly or whether it closes more quickly.
Speaker 1: But always right at the end it eases off and
Speaker 1: it gently just silently glides in to make final contact.
Speaker 1: Soft closing screen door closing mechanism for a sliding screen
Speaker 1: door retrofit. It's brilliant. It works. Finally something that really
Speaker 1: actually works. It is inobtrusive, it's out of everybody's way.
Speaker 1: You may not even you'll get to the point where
Speaker 1: you won't even notice it. And it's well worth a
Speaker 1: serious look. Latch line soft close sliding screen door closing mechanism.
Speaker 1: You can put them in pairs as well, yeah you can.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, for to finally have a screen door
Speaker 1: that you can slide open and then it just slowly
Speaker 1: glides back over and softly closes itself. That is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Will screen door Companies actually start mounting these into their
Speaker 1: hardware at some point, probably probably, But right now you
Speaker 1: don't have to wait for that, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to go buy a new door. You can just get
Speaker 1: yourself one of these latch line closers and you will
Speaker 1: be in summer entertaining.
Speaker 2: Heaven for it.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, we've got so much more. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to the phones. You're listening to
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