WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.960 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app AFI AM. 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:15.000 It's forty live screaming in eighth D everywhere on the 4 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:19.679 iHeart Radio app. Hey, welcome home. Yeah you you, I'm 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.719 talking to you. I am the Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, 6 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:28.760 custom home designer, custom home builder, and on the weekends 7 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.520 here I am your guide to better understanding that place 8 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:37.039 where you live. Thanks for joining us on the program today. 9 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:39.679 Today on the show, we're gonna do what we do 10 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.799 normally on Saturdays. Number one gonna take some calls. Any 11 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.399 of your calls. The number to reach me eight three 12 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:51.640 three two Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two. 13 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.200 Ask Dean. Our phone lines are open right now. The 14 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:01.399 phone board is completely blank, so it's just waiting for you. 15 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:10.079 Anything you want to talk about regarding your home today, inside, outside, landscape, hardscape, construction, 16 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:15.920 DIY design, Yes, please all of the above. Anything that's 17 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.519 got you scratching your head about your home. Eight three 18 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:23.319 three the numeral two Ask Dean. A three three two 19 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.319 ask Dean. In addition to that, I want to have 20 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.280 a conversation with you this morning about something that is 21 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:35.480 very pressing in southern California and may find its way 22 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:39.680 catching on across the country as well. And that is, 23 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:44.319 you know, given the fires in the aftermath of the 24 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:49.840 Eton and the Palisades fire, the mass destruction of thousands 25 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.959 of homes, and now the rebuilding process, which when we 26 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.480 say the rebuilding process begins, we don't mean that people 27 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.760 are starting to rebuild right now, but we're turning the 28 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.920 corner now and it's going to be some time before 29 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.200 that happens. But the question is this, given the in 30 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:11.199 rush of all of those properties being rebuilt and the 31 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:19.080 already loaded to the gill taxed system of permit and 32 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.680 planning approval in especially Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County, 33 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:31.199 should builders be allowed to permit their own projects. Oh 34 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.680 that's an interesting conversation. We're going to have that as 35 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:39.599 well this morning, along with your calls, and let me 36 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.080 introduce our awesome team to get it all started. Sam 37 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.639 is on the board. There are not so live Plutio audience. 38 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:51.800 Good morning, damn, good morning, Dean. How's it going? Good? Good, 39 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:58.759 good good. My friend, the legendary Michelle Cube standing by 40 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.360 to take calls this morning. Richie. I don't know what. 41 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.919 I don't where Richie's Richie. Oh, I know where he is. 42 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:08.360 He's sleeping in that's what he's doing. But Michelle is 43 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.560 with us this morning. Always an honor to work with Michelle. 44 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.960 She is the most awesome. Not near a microphone, but 45 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:19.520 she is on the board right now, ready to take 46 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.639 your call. So you want to talk to Michelle Cube, 47 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.879 call in. She'll tell you everything you need to know 48 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.560 and she'll pop you into the queue with your question 49 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:32.240 for the show. And my buddy Andrew Caravella at the 50 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.919 news desk, Good morning, how's it going, Oh, it's going. 51 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.240 Had my coffee so I am awaken? Alert? Your coffee full? 52 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:40.360 Here? 53 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.080 Let me pour you a little bit more. Oh, thank you. Well, 54 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.400 hang up, got to leave room for cream. There it is, yeah, 55 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.199 all right, there it is right there. Everything well on 56 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.759 the news desk this morning. So far, so far. But 57 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.639 the day is young, it is. It's very young, a 58 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.240 little younger than i'd like it to be. Actually all right, 59 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:04.639 thanks for being with us here, Bud sitting across the 60 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.919 table from me. Oh there she is my better half, 61 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.800 no doubt, my design partner, the co author, co author, 62 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:19.800 co owner, co founder of Housewifter. That is her legendary 63 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.680 spirit animal. Right there, my best friend in all the world, 64 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:28.920 Tina is here. Welcome home. Good morning to you, Mado 65 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:34.959 morning to you, sir. I have no idea why I 66 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.959 just said that. Do you need some coffee? Here you go. 67 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.079 You know I'll be pushing that button again sometime very soon. 68 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:43.319 Yep. 69 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.519 And I do not need room for cream. No, no 70 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.560 room for cream for you, that black just straight up, 71 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:53.560 straight up, straight up, all right, y'all. Uh, we've got 72 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.680 a couple of calls popping in the board, plenty of 73 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.360 room for you. Let me give the number out one 74 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.199 more time, eight three three two, ass dean, eight three 75 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.480 to three the numeral two. Ask dean it is time 76 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.800 to dive into the show. When we come back, I'm 77 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.199 going to open up this conversation about builders permitting their 78 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.000 own work. Is that a thing? Should it be? All right? 79 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:24.839 We'll do that, damn hi Pean charp the house whisper. Hey, 80 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.639 it doesn't matter if your home is a castle, cottage, 81 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.240 a condo. I'm here to help it take it to 82 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.000 the next level. That's what we do around here. We're 83 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.240 going to be going to the phones in just a 84 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:41.000 smidge the number two. Reach me eight three three two. 85 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.199 Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two. Ask Dean. 86 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.720 All right, I wanted to at least open up this 87 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:53.000 discussion here begin it, and there's several things to talk 88 00:05:53.000 --> 00:06:00.040 about the topic of whether or not builders should be 89 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:08.360 allowed to fast track or basically self permit. It's known 90 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.959 by different names fast tracked permits, but it comes down 91 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.439 to builders permitting their own projects. Now. First of all, 92 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.160 when people hear that, they get all sorts of reactions. 93 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.439 All of our friendly libertarian listeners are like, yes, away 94 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.399 with the Department of Building in Safety. Yeah, that's not me. 95 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.000 That's not where I fall because I think there is 96 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:43.040 a compelling public interest in safety when it comes to buildings. 97 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:50.040 I want, believe me, I want builders to be monitored, 98 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:56.199 double checked, and verified. Now, do I think that there's 99 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.160 in this industry that there's a lot of overreach of 100 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:05.399 government agencies into areas that just don't necessarily have to 101 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.480 do and just muddle up the works. Yeah, I think 102 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.600 there is. I think it's legitimate to say that, And 103 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.480 I'm not particularly thrilled. I've never have been thrilled with 104 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:19.040 the way that the State of California just deals with 105 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:27.120 builders in general. Now, I'm all for heavy enforcement of violations, 106 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:36.600 but the California State Contractors License Bureau basically treats all 107 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.040 contractors as though they are guilty and criminals before before 108 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.079 anything ever happens. I mean, I've had my contractor's license 109 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.839 for you know, decades, and still you know, it's it's 110 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.120 always a question of, yeah, what'd you do this time? 111 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.759 And so, you know, I'm not thrilled about that. But 112 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.399 that being said, I am not in favor of just 113 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.480 turning builders loose and the way some people would imagine 114 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.160 it would work and just letting them verify their own projects. 115 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.920 That is not what's being discussed. So let me just 116 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:16.040 be clear about that. This concept of self permitting is 117 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:20.480 really kind of a misnomer. What it really comes down 118 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.639 to is this, it's a program in this the way 119 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.399 it looks in most places where it's happening, and yes 120 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:29.759 it is happening, we'll talk about that too. It's happening 121 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:33.000 here in southern California already and has been for some time. 122 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:38.919 But generally speaking, when this program is in play, what 123 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:44.600 happens is it's not even really accurate to say builders 124 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.799 self permitting, because the programs that I am aware of 125 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:55.879 require a licensed architect or a licensed civil or structural 126 00:08:55.879 --> 00:09:00.840 engineer to stamp the plans, which is not for a resident, 127 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:06.159 not a requirement for normal plan check to stamp the plans. 128 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:09.919 And then not just that, but then that architect and 129 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:17.799 or engineer of record essentially assumes responsibility for the plan 130 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.720 check process. In other words, that architect or engineer of 131 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:28.440 record then assumes full responsibility that everything about the project 132 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:34.960 comports with and is in accordance with everything that the 133 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.399 project would be subject to if it went through city 134 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.759 plan check. And that has to do with a lot 135 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:47.559 more than just whether the building itself and the design 136 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:51.080 of the building is meeting up with all the things 137 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:55.960 that are necessary for the California building Code. That's one 138 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.559 of the things that I want to kind of split 139 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.440 a hair here for everybody to understand this morning. If 140 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:06.879 you've never been through the building permitting process, then you 141 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.919 likely don't. You likely just think that getting a building 142 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.000 permit is about the city checking your plans to make 143 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:19.039 sure that you're following the building code. But that's actually 144 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.279 just a part of the project. It's a good part 145 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.159 of the project, but it's just a part of the process. 146 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:30.440 So in the case of self permitting, this question of 147 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.519 self permitting, what we would be doing, would we'd be 148 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.720 by check, by checking, bypassing that section of plan check, 149 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:44.320 and the engineer and or the architect, and ultimately the 150 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.759 homeowner because this all ultimately comes back to the homeowner, 151 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:52.799 but the engineer or the architect would be taking on 152 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:57.639 the responsibility to make sure those things are all in order. 153 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:02.080 If and then city in spaces would proceed per normal 154 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:06.039 with a city inspector. Now, if it's discovered that something 155 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:10.360 is outside, that something's been forgotten, that something's been overlooked, 156 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.559 then it has to get corrected, and the architect and 157 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.320 or engineer is held responsible for that. So you can 158 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:25.320 imagine that essentially what we're doing is deputizing licensed architects 159 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.639 and licensed civil or structural engineers, kind of deputizing them 160 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:36.600 to function as their own enforcement agency for their own clients. 161 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:40.759 And not a lot of engineers and architects are prepared 162 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:43.399 to step up and do that. Not a lot of 163 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:47.399 them are prepared to step up and put themselves on 164 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:51.039 the line for that, and those who do are likely 165 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.720 and usually turning around to their clients and charging a 166 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.440 pretty penny for it. Now, is a lot of that 167 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.399 going to happen in out Dina when we've got a 168 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.759 massive middle class families happening. Probably not. Will a lot 169 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:10.440 of more of it happen in the Palisades area where 170 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.679 upper class and wealthy clients have the money to say, yeah, 171 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.919 I'll pay you whatever you need to get paid. Let's 172 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.440 fast track this project. And the proposal has been placed 173 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:29.440 on the city council agenda by a city councilman and 174 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:31.879 as a result of that, this is going to be 175 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.080 an issue that's going to be discussed and is being 176 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.080 discussed currently. All right, I've got more on this, but 177 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.840 we've got some calls on the board, so let's hear 178 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.000 some news and we'll come back and we'll answer some 179 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.279 questions about your home. You're listening to Home with Dean 180 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:55.080 Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty, KFI AM 181 00:12:55.080 --> 00:13:00.120 six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeart Radio. 182 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:04.399 It's Dean Sharp the House whisper with you this morning 183 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.600 like I am every Saturday morning from six to eight 184 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.360 and Sundays from nine to noon. Speaking of Sunday tomorrow, 185 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.240 the Big Show I'm gonna have a special guest in 186 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:19.360 studio with me, one of the finest concrete contractors that 187 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.919 I have come across in the course of my career, 188 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:25.279 and he and I are going to be sitting down 189 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:29.120 and talking all things concrete about your house. And so 190 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:33.919 it should be a fascinating discussion, a helpful discussion, a 191 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.840 fun discussion. What other words can I use? Anyway, a 192 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.480 very productive and practical one for you learn all about 193 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:45.519 concrete and what's going wrong with your house in concrete 194 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.840 tomorrow on the Big Show. All right, Today, we're talking 195 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.519 about a little conversation on the side here about whether 196 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:58.039 builders should be able to permit their own projects regulate 197 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.279 their own permitting for their own projects. We're going to 198 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:02.679 come back to that in a bit, but I've got 199 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.960 some calls on the board, so let's go to the phones. 200 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.480 I talked to Wayne A. Wayne, welcome home. 201 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.000 Yes, good morning, Dan. 202 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.000 How are you sir? How can I help you? 203 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:25.440 Well, recently recently I took and recently recently I took 204 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.720 and changed out the sacrificial anode in the water heater 205 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.480 in our house, trying to prolong its life and use here. 206 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.600 And after I did that, I took and bled out 207 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.720 the system to try to get any air out of 208 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:46.759 the pipes and stuff. Unfortunately, we're getting a situation where 209 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:51.840 when we turn like the mixers onto the bathroom sinks 210 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:57.919 and such, or the the mixer to the tub, we 211 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.320 get kind of like a sneeze and stuff, which to 212 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.759 me sounds like air, but I've not been able to 213 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:07.840 bleed that. And we get a little bit of cross 214 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.600 over between the hot and cold. So somebody turns hot 215 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.679 on in one side of the house and cold on 216 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.039 the other side of the house. You get a little 217 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:17.480 bit of a mixing going on there. 218 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:23.360 Okay, So when you say you've tried to bleed it out, 219 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:27.360 you've literally turned on every faucet everywhere and let it 220 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.600 run for a few minutes. 221 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.759 Yeah, I'll let it run for about ten minutes or so, 222 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:33.639 and all of. 223 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:38.519 Them all together, I mean, yes, Okay, that's it. That's 224 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:43.159 just important because when when sometimes you know, people have 225 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.679 told me, yeah, I've run them all, and then I 226 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.960 found out that, well, I ran them all one by one. 227 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.720 And so when we're trying to get air, perje air 228 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.399 out of a plumbing system after repair or something like that, 229 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.200 and air is the cause of sputter. That's that's why 230 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:04.519 they sputter. Then Uh, then uh, everything has to be 231 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.120 turned on all at once in order to just get 232 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.679 the maximum opportunity for air courge out of the system 233 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.200 for several minutes. Having said that, you also get uh, 234 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:20.320 if you're getting some hot and cold crossover, Uh, it 235 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:25.080 shouldn't so much be cold in the it. You shouldn't 236 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.080 so much be hot water coming through the cold line. 237 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:30.840 Most of the time with a mixer valve. When people 238 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.360 say hot and cold crossover, what they're experiencing are spatters 239 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.399 or spurts of cold. Uh, you know, with the along 240 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:44.879 with the hot, and that my friend unfortunately probably points 241 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.480 back to the water heater. Again, when you when you 242 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:54.720 haven't resolved sputtering through normal means, when we haven't isolated 243 00:16:54.759 --> 00:17:00.000 it down to you know, one aeriator out of one faucet, 244 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.000 When it's happening everywhere around the house, then it's not 245 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.920 a localized thing in the sense of like all the faucets. 246 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:13.079 And when you said hot and cold sputtering crossover, that 247 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:16.519 points back to the water heater and something else going 248 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.960 inside going on inside the water here. There could be 249 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.759 a blockage, There could be when you switched out the 250 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.119 How how bad was the sacrificial anode when you remove 251 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:26.680 the old one? 252 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:33.119 I honestly, I've never seen one exposed before, so I 253 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.000 would say it was probably about half at least half life. 254 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:43.000 Okay, so it wasn't completely gone. 255 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.319 It's probably eight years old. 256 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.359 Huh huh. 257 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.960 We did this on the recommendation of a plumber, as 258 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.680 we had him out doing some other things, and he 259 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.920 said the water here looked to be in good repair, 260 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:01.880 and he thought it would help prolong the life of 261 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:07.039 the unit a couple more years than normal. Possibly when 262 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.839 I put the anode in, I did put teflon tape 263 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.240 around the spreading, and I did lock it down really 264 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.000 well with a break or bar. Maybe I need to 265 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.559 take it back out and then retape that. Possibly air 266 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:23.720 could be getting in at that point. 267 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.599 It's a possibility. It is a possibility, And so yeah, 268 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.000 you give that another shot since you already kind of 269 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.720 are in the DIY mode there and then again. And 270 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.559 sometimes you know, depending plumbing systems are tricky. They go up, 271 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.319 they go down. It's sometimes tricky to purge it all out. 272 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.799 But I would do that. I would I'd reset that, 273 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:48.039 make sure that's sealed so that air isn't being sucked 274 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.079 into the water heater and causing spurting. If the water 275 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.480 heater isn't old, and it isn't at eight years, if 276 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.440 the plumber always already thought that it appeared to be 277 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:01.680 in good repair, If the arcrificial anode that you pulled 278 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:06.640 out it was not all the way eaten through, then 279 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.319 there's no reason to immediately think that there's other damage 280 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:13.720 inside the water heater. But it's always a possibility. But 281 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.200 let's just do this. You go ahead and reseal that 282 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.440 and the new anode, and just to make sure that 283 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.680 that's clear, make sure nothing's been cracked or leaking air, 284 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:32.839 and then again turn everything on, including including any outside 285 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.000 spigots water spigots that are attached to the house which 286 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:39.519 are also part of the interior, and let it run. 287 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:43.519 I mean, let them all run for even longer than 288 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.119 you expect it all at the same time, flush toilets 289 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.519 run fofits and just let them. Sometimes getting air out 290 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:57.720 of the system is just persnickety. And after all of that, 291 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:02.519 if you still are getting the same amount of spurting everywhere, 292 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.440 I'm afraid you really should call plumber back out and 293 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:10.319 have them take a look at the water here, right, Okay, okay. 294 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.880 All right, good, yeah, very good advice. I appreciate that much. 295 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.640 Thank you, sir. I appreciate the question. Great question. Uh 296 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.319 and yeah, I know somebody right now is scratching their 297 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.519 head saying, what is a sacrificial anode? How about I? 298 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.519 Just before I take the next call, I'll explain that 299 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.160 I'll do it all. Hey bye. Being sharp for the 300 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.920 houseworks for a welcome home. Thanks for being with us 301 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:38.720 this morning. It's going to be a lovely day here 302 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:43.400 in southern California, cool, sunny, everything we want, not a 303 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.880 lot of crazy wind blowing. It's going to be a 304 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.079 gorgeous weekend. I hope you have plans to get out 305 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:51.200 into it and enjoy it. What are we doing right here, 306 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:55.720 I'm kicking off your weekend, just conversations about your home. 307 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:01.000 We're talking about the weather builders in life of you know, 308 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:07.680 the recent devastating fires, should be allowed to essentially pull 309 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.519 their own permits, regulate their own permits for their project. 310 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:13.519 That's that's the way it gets talked about out there. 311 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:15.839 I want to sit down and talk to you a 312 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.240 little bit more about that in a bit, just because 313 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.440 I want to kind of clarify what that really means 314 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.039 and what would be involved, and give you my opinion 315 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:28.440 as to whether that would be good or whether it's really, 316 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.559 you know, practically going to help. We're going to return 317 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:33.599 to that conversation just a bit, but I've got some 318 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:36.880 calls on the board, and that's also what we prioritize 319 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:38.960 on Saturday mornings. So I'm going to go back to 320 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:44.880 the phones. Let's talk to Oh. I'm sorry, I promised. 321 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.240 I was going to explain very quickly what a sacrificial 322 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:50.799 anode is. If people are like, you're talking to that 323 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:54.039 guy about a sacrificial anode in his water heater, What 324 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:58.119 are you guys in a cult or something. No, if 325 00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:59.680 you look on the top of a water heater, you've 326 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:04.640 probably seen a big fitting up there, big square looking 327 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.240 nut up there with threads going into your water heater. 328 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.480 And you might have assumed, oh, well, that must be 329 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.799 some accessory or some pipe hook up that my house 330 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:18.359 doesn't require, and so there's just a plug in there. Nope, 331 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:23.640 at that right underneath that big old nut is a 332 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:27.920 rod sticking down into your water heater. That is called 333 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:33.799 a galvanic anode. We call it a sacrificial anode because 334 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.880 its whole job it's either made out of aluminium or magnesium, 335 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:42.519 and its whole job is to attract corrosive elements corrosive 336 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:48.440 minerals in your water supply, attract those minerals to itself, 337 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:54.279 basically saying, here, come, corrode me. Don't cling to the 338 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:56.839 sides of the water heater and eat away at the 339 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.400 steel tank. And that's what it's there for. It is 340 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:05.680 called the sacrificial anode. It sacrifices itself. And the reason 341 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.079 it's able to do that is because those corrosive elements 342 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.319 are far more attracted to it, because it's a far 343 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:17.680 more corrosive enabling material the aluminum or magnesium. And as 344 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.960 a result, it preserves the steel in your water heater 345 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:26.720 from being eaten away by corrosive elements. And so, yeah, 346 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.720 if your water heater gets to a certain age, especially 347 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:32.519 if it gets past if you have exceptionally hard water 348 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.400 and you get past like ten years, somebody should take 349 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:37.839 a serious look at popping that old one out and 350 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.039 putting the new one in. Because the day that the 351 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:45.160 sacrificial anode is completely eaten away is the day that 352 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:51.079 there's nothing else in there, attracting corrosion to it. Therefore boom. 353 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:54.359 That stuff then turns to the steel tank of your 354 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:57.599 water heater and prematurely ages it. So there you go. 355 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.720 Now you know, the more you know, Let's talk to 356 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:05.759 Wally real quick. Hey, Wally, welcome home. 357 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:07.880 Hi sir. 358 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.599 How can I help you? 359 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:12.680 Oh? 360 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.599 I have no water heater? And how I have I 361 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:21.880 installed a tank little water heater? And how hot can 362 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:24.400 I have it here? To come up to the temperature? 363 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:27.079 How hot can you have it come up? 364 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:29.079 Yeah? 365 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:32.519 What is the upper limit? Uh? So let me take 366 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:34.640 a real quick here. I'm trying to remember. I think 367 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.400 one hundred and twenty degrees is the prob? 368 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:38.720 Yeah? 369 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:42.519 Yeah, right now it's you say, I. 370 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.240 Have a Murray tankle little water here, and there's like 371 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.160 an led upper I could see the temperature. Is I 372 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.240 I could adjust the I think I think it's the 373 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:55.079 I'm right now. It could I could put it on 374 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.720 on winter or summer, but I brought it up. I 375 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:01.920 think it's ninety five ninety five on a ninety five 376 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:03.759 degrees So I'm gonna go up higher. 377 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:06.799 But you won't get you can. All you have to 378 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.079 do is consult the the owner's manual, and you'll get 379 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:14.319 some directions in there. A tankless water heaters in California, 380 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:16.920 and I'm not sure if this is true in every state. 381 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.000 I'm assuming it is because you know, we're all human beings, 382 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:24.680 and they they come preregulated for a max temperature of 383 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:27.759 one hundred and twenty degrees, so you can adjust with 384 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:30.920 your thermostatic control. You can adjust it up to one twenty. Now, 385 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.279 there's also an override some of us, I'm not gonna 386 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:38.400 say who in this room, me, it's me. Some of 387 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:42.119 us like even hotter water than that coming out of 388 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:46.839 our water heater. Uh. And almost every brand of tankless 389 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:52.400 water heater can be adjusted higher. You're not invalidating anything. 390 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:55.119 There are instructions if they can be adjusted higher, they 391 00:25:55.119 --> 00:26:00.480 are instructions in your instruction manual. As to the procedure 392 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:04.920 to override the one twenty or one twenty five whatever 393 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:09.119 your water heater is preset max to. There's usually an 394 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:11.960 instruction and it allows you to take it in most 395 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:16.240 cases up to one forty one hundred and forty degrees, 396 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:18.960 And for me, that makes all the difference in the world. 397 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:25.079 But it won't just do that automatically. There's an override 398 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.039 procedure that you go through in order to do that, 399 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:29.880 and you can just do it with the controller. It'll 400 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.519 say press this down, hold it long enough, bum bumb, 401 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.759