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Speaker 1: us on the program. Hey, Heather got pretty worked up
Speaker 1: about that dirty dancing thing. I'm just saying, I really
Speaker 1: did just take my money.
Speaker 3: Now I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Did you did you have you had dreams of Patrick
Speaker 1: Swayze just lifting you up about my dash?
Speaker 3: What gen xer gal hasn't I mean that movie was
Speaker 3: like I watched it over and over again and I thought,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to a camp and meet a
Speaker 3: hot guy and he's going to teach me to.
Speaker 4: Dance, you know, as like it happens in life, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, who hasn't, really, who hasn't had that dream?
Speaker 4: Who hasn't gone to camp meta hot guy and learned
Speaker 4: how to dance.
Speaker 1: In a journey way.
Speaker 3: What happened to you?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm happy for you. I'm really happy
Speaker 1: for you. Other We're going to get you tickets. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get you out there.
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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, thanks for joining us on the program today.
Speaker 1: I've just got some bits of interesting info to talk
Speaker 1: to you about. Plus we're taking calls. The number to
Speaker 1: reach me eight three three to ask Dean A three
Speaker 1: three the numeral to ask Dean anything you want to
Speaker 1: talk about regarding your home design, construction, DIY, whatever. We'll
Speaker 1: go back to the phone, maybe right after our next
Speaker 1: little news break, we'll go back to the phones. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, let's see where was my note here? Come on, Dene.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's my Dirty Dancing note. I don't need
Speaker 1: that one. Oh, this is really interesting. Producer Michelle actually
Speaker 1: sent this my way this week, from which I'm very
Speaker 1: grateful because sometimes as much as I like to keep
Speaker 1: my finger on the pulse of everything that's going on
Speaker 1: in the building industry, sometimes you know what, sometimes something
Speaker 1: slips by. And this was a biggie if you want
Speaker 1: an if you are interested in home construction and building
Speaker 1: materials and the impact that it has just generally speaking,
Speaker 1: on the planet, on the environment and so on. And
Speaker 1: believe me, home building has a massive carbon impact on things.
Speaker 1: It's something that we're always trying to refine and change.
Speaker 1: But I have never been one to embrace the scarcity
Speaker 1: model of saving the environment. In other words, the idea
Speaker 1: that like, okay, you know what we should all do.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a last resort, sure, but you know,
Speaker 1: we all just need to kind of strip down, wear
Speaker 1: grass skirts, live in huts made out of hay, and
Speaker 1: forego modern civilization altogether. I think there are more creative
Speaker 1: ways to approach that. And here is a company that
Speaker 1: you might be interested in that has done just that.
Speaker 1: Planted P L A and T plant with a D
Speaker 1: no E, but it's pronounced planted. Okay, just plant with
Speaker 1: a D on the end. What is significant about what
Speaker 1: they have done They have developed a building material that
Speaker 1: replaces plywood and OSB oriented strandboard, both of which are
Speaker 1: made out of wood by products or you know, chipboard
Speaker 1: from woodmills, making other things or as you know, plywood.
Speaker 1: Plywood's been around forever. In a day, they have a
Speaker 1: material that competes with and I believe on every level,
Speaker 1: beats plywood and oriented strandboard, Tina, You're we're gonna be
Speaker 1: seeing this very soon. In fact, a major builder here
Speaker 1: in the US has just ordered two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand sheets of it for their own situation, for their
Speaker 1: own projects. It is made out of grass. Grass, Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: this is grass that can grow forty feet in a year.
Speaker 1: This is grass that is As a result, this material
Speaker 1: is stronger, more weather resistant than both OSB and plywood.
Speaker 1: This is a material most importantly you think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we've heard about that, you know, because bamboo, giant
Speaker 1: bamboo is technically the world's largest grass the rules. Bamboo
Speaker 1: has been used for that kind of stuff constantly. But
Speaker 1: here's the problem. If you live in the US, right,
Speaker 1: bamboo is grown in China. We don't grow bamboo here,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not other than just like in
Speaker 1: your little garden right or in your backyard. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about giant bamboo. We don't have the climate zone for
Speaker 1: giant bamboo. But this is not bamboo. This is a
Speaker 1: kind of perennial grass. They are growing it on farms
Speaker 1: in North Carolina, and this company is in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: It is US grown, US based material. Fifteen thousand acres
Speaker 1: of grass replaces one hundred and forty thousand acres of
Speaker 1: forest in terms of its productivity. This is grass that's
Speaker 1: going to grow and it's going to die anyway, and
Speaker 1: then it regrows. You cut it and it regrows at
Speaker 1: multiple crops throughout the course of a single year. This
Speaker 1: is a major, major, major move forward toward things like
Speaker 1: carbon recapture and climate change and building materials and building
Speaker 1: more sustainably and just better, just better. Okay, So the
Speaker 1: company is on its way. It was actually founded, I
Speaker 1: believe by a couple of SpaceX engineers who just wanted
Speaker 1: to do something more valuable for things that are happening
Speaker 1: on the ground right here. They're based in Oxford, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: They're expanding. The more location, you're going to hear more
Speaker 1: and more and more about this material. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: some of the best building materials like modern mill using
Speaker 1: upcycled rice holes coming out of the South. And so
Speaker 1: here we are Oxford, North Carolina. Planted is the name
Speaker 1: of the companies. You go check it out plant d
Speaker 1: okay dot com and see this incredible material and what
Speaker 1: they plan to do with it. We are going to
Speaker 1: see newer and better things coming from fibrous plants like
Speaker 1: grass that can be grown very very fast and very
Speaker 1: very sustainably. We're gonna see more and more of it
Speaker 1: as we go. All right, We're i's going to see
Speaker 1: some more calls when we come back. You are home
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Speaker 1: on the program today. We're just doing a little Saturday
Speaker 1: morning free for all, like we tend to do these
Speaker 1: days on Saturday mornings. I've got some interesting news and
Speaker 1: views for you regarding your home, home design, home remodeling,
Speaker 1: home construction, the industry, all of that kind of stuff. Today,
Speaker 1: some updates for you. But also, of course we're taking
Speaker 1: calls and it's time to go back to the bones
Speaker 1: right now, So let's do it. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to Sue. Hey, Sue, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hey Deane, thanks for taking my call so much. I'm
Speaker 2: in my childhood home. I'm back in it and ever
Speaker 2: since I was a kid. I remember my dad's fighting
Speaker 2: with the bathroom wall next to the shower. It would
Speaker 2: crumble and do all these things. Well, it's doing it now,
Speaker 2: and I just got done digging all the wet plaster
Speaker 2: out and fix it. You preparing it, and then I
Speaker 2: sealed it three times with kills, and then I put
Speaker 2: two coats of paint over it. But I'm afraid it's
Speaker 2: going to do it because it's just the nature of
Speaker 2: the beast. Can I put a sheet of Plexi glass
Speaker 2: over it? And it's not that large, it's only seven
Speaker 2: inches wide by about a yard tall. The area.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, I think my first question is
Speaker 1: why is it getting wet? How is it getting what specifical.
Speaker 2: Shower curtain right next to the shower. We just have
Speaker 2: a shower curtain there, So I think the moisture just
Speaker 2: from the bathroom, just from the yeah, the shower because
Speaker 2: we close the door a.
Speaker 5: Shower, So.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you think it's just moisture, it's not actual
Speaker 1: water from the shower getting past the shower. I mean,
Speaker 1: is the shower curtain right on the tile edge line
Speaker 1: or is it in set a couple.
Speaker 2: Of inches it's right on the tile line.
Speaker 1: That's the problem right there. Oh, that's the problem. The
Speaker 1: shower curtain should never be so whether it's a shower,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could you can do this, You could
Speaker 1: afford to do that if you have a shower door
Speaker 1: where the glass is just literally sealed and making a
Speaker 1: barrier right there, okay, because the water is going to
Speaker 1: get beyond it. But if you're using a shower curtain
Speaker 1: in a in a shower situation, like a top shower
Speaker 1: scenario like that, the tile should extend, you know, a
Speaker 1: good couple of inches two three inches beyond the edge
Speaker 1: of you know, the line of the shower curtain where
Speaker 1: the shower curtain touches the wall. Because this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff happens all the time. It's a it's actually a
Speaker 1: mistake that a lot of people make. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you made it, you know, because you know who whoever
Speaker 1: did the tile work. But when you've got a tile
Speaker 1: in tub, for everybody who's listening, by the way, especially
Speaker 1: if you're in the middle of a remodel and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: how are we going to do this tub? Don't bring
Speaker 1: the tile work down just right down onto the top
Speaker 1: of the tub wall and stop it there. The tile
Speaker 1: should go beyond the tub all the way down to
Speaker 1: the floor by a couple of inches, and then the
Speaker 1: tub should be in set from it. And that is
Speaker 1: what ends up protecting your dry wall from getting soaking
Speaker 1: wet during a shower. So here's the thing. I would
Speaker 1: give you two options. Well, you know, obviously you have
Speaker 1: three options. You could retile the shower. Uh. That's not
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do, Dean, Uh, I get it.
Speaker 1: But in the future, sure you decide to change up
Speaker 1: the tile, just no stretch that stuff further. The second option,
Speaker 1: which would be far more potentially attractive than you know,
Speaker 1: putting a piece of plexiglass on the dry wall there, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't. I mean it would probably
Speaker 1: it probably work, okay, but I'm also concerned about any
Speaker 1: kind of moisture getting but behind the plexiglass. So your
Speaker 1: shower curtain, the rod, is it screwed in to the
Speaker 1: to the tile or is it a pressurized shower rod.
Speaker 2: It's a pressurized rod.
Speaker 1: Let's take that shower rod and move it in two
Speaker 1: or three inches. Okay, move it in two or three inches,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I almost guarantee that your moisture
Speaker 1: problems will magically disappear.
Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds like the easiest And there you go.
Speaker 2: All right, say thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome. Yeah, everybody, you know, water splashes
Speaker 1: and water carries, I mean it runs. Water has an
Speaker 1: incredibly high surface tension. That's the science behind it. So
Speaker 1: when it comes to that, anytime you got to splash zone,
Speaker 1: you got to overtile, you gotta tile beyond. You got
Speaker 1: to run the waterproof materials well beyond the line that
Speaker 1: you think you want them to stop. So and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about a foot or so. We're just talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, two three inches past the line of the
Speaker 1: shower curtain and you'll be all set. Great question soon,
Speaker 1: glad I could help. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: should we take another call or two? Sure? All right,
Speaker 1: more calls when we return Your Home with Dean Sharp,
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Speaker 1: on a beautiful southern California autumn Saturday morning. I know
Speaker 1: you're up, you're listening. You're with us. I appreciate it greatly.
Speaker 1: I know how valuable your weekend time is, so when
Speaker 1: you spend time with us here, we try and make
Speaker 1: the information, the answers, the content entertaining and useful to
Speaker 1: you on every level. By the way, a little update
Speaker 1: on our new project, the murder slash Renovation Home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing so well, Tina. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: I came up with renovate or Decapitate and where a
Speaker 1: show where aspiring new designers compete to discover if their
Speaker 1: designs live on to compete next week or if it
Speaker 1: is truly their last. That's it gives a new definition
Speaker 1: to eliminate nation round. I'm saying, she has no interest
Speaker 1: in this whatsoever. She's like, move on, move on, buddy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's gone far afield. What I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by it. Listen, if you had to live with somebody
Speaker 1: who was completely I do. No, you don't myself. No,
Speaker 1: that doesn't count. If you had to live with somebody
Speaker 1: who's completely enamored with true crime, true crime, true crime.
Speaker 1: I walk in Tina's listening to she's doing a puzzle
Speaker 1: and listening to a podcast. This is her favorite, by
Speaker 1: the way, way of relaxing. She's in the garden room,
Speaker 1: which we built specifically so she could do puzzles. She's
Speaker 1: in the garden. I walk in. She's sitting there doing
Speaker 1: a puzzle, relaxing. Great, fantastic, she's great at it. Listening
Speaker 1: to murder, right, are you not tell me that's not true?
Speaker 1: That's a fact. That is that's absolutely a fact. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones, shall we. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a good idea. Let's talk to Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome home.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for taking my call. My neighbor
Speaker 6: has a small water fountain, pond, cascading feature in her
Speaker 6: backyard and her husband has succumbed to Parkinson's and so
Speaker 6: she has no idea how to maintain this and it's
Speaker 6: getting pretty green. Is there a toxic concern for the
Speaker 6: critters that are drinking out of it? First question? Second
Speaker 6: question is how do I keep it from getting green?
Speaker 6: But how do I treat this thing and take care
Speaker 6: of it for her?
Speaker 1: Okay, So describe the water feature to me, because there
Speaker 1: are different kinds. Does she have fish in it? Is?
Speaker 1: Is it like a coy pond?
Speaker 6: No fish, no fish, no coy pond is quite small.
Speaker 6: It's it's the best way I can describe it as
Speaker 6: a short cascade about three feet cascating down to a
Speaker 6: basin that is probably two feet in diameter and full
Speaker 6: of semi precious stones. There's agates and quartzes and jaspers
Speaker 6: and petrified wood. I think it's just beautiful when the
Speaker 6: water is running over these colored rocks.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, great, that's fair. That's fair, all right.
Speaker 1: So if we don't have any living creatures in there,
Speaker 1: then our best bet is to well, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a number of different approaches. Our best bet, essentially, though,
Speaker 1: is to treat it like a pool. Okay, treat it
Speaker 1: like pool water, and that is to add not a lot,
Speaker 1: but find the right balance of chlorine to add to
Speaker 1: the water to keep it clean and fresh and pure
Speaker 1: and whatever. Now, if you're concerned that there are woodland
Speaker 1: creatures that are using this as a water source for themselves,
Speaker 1: then you could take another approach, which is you can
Speaker 1: go online and look for or enzymes, water balancing enzymes.
Speaker 1: That's another way to do it. That's actually my preferred
Speaker 1: way to do it. In fact, we had for a
Speaker 1: number of years we had a hot tub that we
Speaker 1: used zero chlorine in. We only used enzymes to keep
Speaker 1: it under control. Enzymes break down organic material to a
Speaker 1: point where it makes them non bioavailable to algaes and
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that grows and develops and becomes
Speaker 1: a problem in water. It's the way that nature kind
Speaker 1: of handles like It's why most of the time streams
Speaker 1: and lakes are clear water, with the exception of the
Speaker 1: occasional algae bloom that happens seasonally. So enzymes are a
Speaker 1: good way to do it. And the nice thing about
Speaker 1: it is you only add a little bit and they
Speaker 1: last quite a while before you have to redo it.
Speaker 1: If you have to shock a water like that, a
Speaker 1: system of water, in other words, you don't want to
Speaker 1: just drain it and then restart it. If you have
Speaker 1: to shock it and you don't want to go the
Speaker 1: chlorine route, then a lot of people are surprised to
Speaker 1: find out that hydrogen peroxide is a fantastic way to
Speaker 1: shock the water and to help it move towards a
Speaker 1: sterile state. I'll just pour in a good amount of
Speaker 1: hydrogen peroxide. It will flash off and not end up
Speaker 1: becoming a problem for anybody who drinks it. Down the road.
Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day, maintenance
Speaker 1: and regular servicing is going to be the key for
Speaker 1: this thing. And if there is a let me emphasize
Speaker 1: this my biggest concern, especially you know, we're kind of
Speaker 1: sliding out of this time of year, but it's still relevant.
Speaker 1: If there is a pond, even a small one of
Speaker 1: a basin of two feet or so, make sure that
Speaker 1: that feature runs for a while every day, maybe multiple
Speaker 1: times during the day, for short periods of time, because
Speaker 1: my biggest concern would be mosquitos, mosquito larvae growing in
Speaker 1: still water, and so just disrupting that lower basin with
Speaker 1: a movement surface movement every few hours or so, that's
Speaker 1: enough to keep mosquitoes from successfully laying their eggs in there,
Speaker 1: and then you don't have, you know, a mosquito habitat
Speaker 1: for the rest of the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: It does appear to be running twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: As far as the mosquitoes, I.
Speaker 6: Do believe there is a timer on there to control that,
Speaker 6: to control that, but I haven't taken the thing apart,
Speaker 6: and I can't pressure wash it to give it an
Speaker 6: initial cleaning. Is that advisable?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, And whenever you go in with
Speaker 1: something like that, just you know, just to go in
Speaker 1: and try and clear out, you know, as much as
Speaker 1: you can on day one so that it minimizes your
Speaker 1: you know, your water treatment from therefore, that way, you
Speaker 1: can just make small moves, small non toxic moves, and
Speaker 1: stay up on it. And if it's running twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven, by the way, that's not necessary. You know,
Speaker 1: a water feature, by definition, is there for us to
Speaker 1: enjoy sound the look, you know, not many of us
Speaker 1: are enjoying water features at one in the morning until
Speaker 1: four or five or six in the morning. And so
Speaker 1: if there is a timer, do her a favor and
Speaker 1: set that timer so that it shuts itself off at
Speaker 1: night so we don't have to worry about it. And
Speaker 1: the still water overnight is not going to cause any
Speaker 1: mosquito issues because as soon as it starts running again,
Speaker 1: their toast. Okay, all right, thank you, Ray, thanks for
Speaker 1: the question, my friend, good luck with that. And hey,
Speaker 1: what a good neighbor I hear, I thought as he
Speaker 1: was starting to say, I've got a neighbor next door
Speaker 1: they've got a water feature, it's not being maintained. What
Speaker 1: you know that most of the time I get those
Speaker 1: kind of questions, like what do I do with my
Speaker 1: crappy neighbor who is disrespecting the neighborhood. And here Ray
Speaker 1: is just stepping up and he's like, what do I
Speaker 1: do to help my neighbor next door because she has
Speaker 1: fallen on some difficult circumstances that my friend makes you
Speaker 1: you have one caller of the day. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that spirit, especially in this day and age.
Speaker 1: Good Lord. All right, when we come back, we'll try
Speaker 1: and fit in another call or so before we are done.
Speaker 1: Go nowhere your home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 1: Hey have I Dean Sharp, the house whisper at your service.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Speaker 1: Here we are at the end of another two hour program.
Speaker 1: Don't forget tomorrow's show, the Big Show. From nine to
Speaker 1: noon tomorrow, we're going to be talking about the monitored
Speaker 1: home revolution. Every you know, I've talked about smart homes before.
Speaker 1: This is a very very specific angle on that, and
Speaker 1: that is a home monitoring. You know, Tina and I
Speaker 1: were just on vacation and we were just back in Vermont,
Speaker 1: had a fantastic time. One of the interesting things was,
Speaker 1: more than ever, we were getting alerts like, hey, there's
Speaker 1: a cat in the driveway and somebody's at your front door.
Speaker 1: And that's because we have to a certain degree a
Speaker 1: monitored home. It was like having a relatively large amount
Speaker 1: of control over our home when we are not there.
Speaker 1: Now that's convenient. It's also you could argue a safety
Speaker 1: and security benefit. But there are also levels of monitored
Speaker 1: home conversation that I really want to dig into tomorrow,
Speaker 1: some having to do with something that a lot of
Speaker 1: us are facing, which is aging parents, aging in place
Speaker 1: in a home, the cost of being able to watch
Speaker 1: and care for a loved one without in home nursing
Speaker 1: care or putting them in a nursing home. Some of
Speaker 1: the new monitoring technology can make a big difference when
Speaker 1: it comes to so you're not going to want to
Speaker 1: miss tomorrow's show. Everything from security to aging in place,
Speaker 1: it is the monitored home that is tomorrow's show. All right,
Speaker 1: let's wrap this one up with maybe one more call
Speaker 1: if we can. I want to talk to Leslie. Leslie,
Speaker 1: Welcome home.
Speaker 5: Well, I live in a city that requires built in
Speaker 5: sprinklers in all homes built since the eighties. I live
Speaker 5: in a tract house. It was built in nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: three and it's about three thousand square feet, two story
Speaker 5: tile roof. I've never had the sprinkler's service. In the
Speaker 5: early years, I did have one small drip from one
Speaker 5: of the sprinkler heads, and we have that replaced or fixed.
Speaker 5: I don't remember, and I don't have any drips or
Speaker 5: leaks right now. But I'm afraid of these sprinklers. I'm
Speaker 5: afraid they're going to burst or blow. And my question
Speaker 5: is can they be legally disconnected? And can I just
Speaker 5: tell my home insurance company that I don't have sprinklers?
Speaker 5: Must they be working and active? And do they need maintenance?
Speaker 6: Do I need to excuse me?
Speaker 5: Have someone come out and look and monitor them because
Speaker 5: they are so old? Or what do I do if anything?
Speaker 5: Or are they safe? Can I just ignore them?
Speaker 1: Okay? I got you all right? So most in most cases,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's some kind of PVC system that
Speaker 1: is running your fire sprinkler lines. It's a very stable,
Speaker 1: very safe system. Okay, it's been it's got standing water
Speaker 1: in it. That's great. The sprinkler heads themselves. When you
Speaker 1: find one that's dripping or leaking, that's just because that
Speaker 1: little glass vial may have shifted, or maybe there's a
Speaker 1: tiny bit of dripping. They're very, very easy to maintain.
Speaker 1: They're very safe systems, and I would not advise you
Speaker 1: disconnecting it. I don't want you to worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's there to help protect you know that the incidents
Speaker 1: of death and major property damage in a home fire
Speaker 1: with fire sprinklers installed is like less than one percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is amazingly efficient. They don't go they
Speaker 1: don't all go on it once. They are a heat centric.
Speaker 1: Each one of those heads has that little vial that
Speaker 1: bursts open only when the time is right. They don't
Speaker 1: go off because you burnt the toast or you filled
Speaker 1: the house with smoke. It has to do with the
Speaker 1: heat of an actual fire activating each individual head. So
Speaker 1: they are safe systems. Now, you didn't install the system,
Speaker 1: you bought a home in which it was already installed.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm suggesting you don't, you know, disconnected, is
Speaker 1: because if you live in a city that requires it,
Speaker 1: then your homeowner's insurance very very more than likely requires it,
Speaker 1: and you'd be taking a hit in your in your
Speaker 1: even if they allowed it, you'd be taking a hit
Speaker 1: in your in your premium because you're basically saying, hey,
Speaker 1: homeowners are insurance, I want to make my home less
Speaker 1: safe than it is right now, and they're they're going
Speaker 1: to respond by saying, well, okay, and pay us more
Speaker 1: money because you know, we don't want your home to
Speaker 1: be less safe. My last bit of advice to you
Speaker 1: is simply this. The world is full of really good
Speaker 1: fire sprinkler contractors. I've never met a shady fire sprinkler contractor.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're out They're not out there, but
Speaker 1: I really doubt it because they're so highly intensely specialized
Speaker 1: and regulated by you know, fire marshals and so on.
Speaker 1: So my suggestion would be call around to your local
Speaker 1: fire sprinkler contractor and simply pay somebody to come out
Speaker 1: and evaluate the system. Maybe they'll come and do it
Speaker 1: for free, but to have them come out and say, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, here's my system is built in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Tell me if it's safe, tell me if I need
Speaker 1: it to do anything, tell me if it needs any
Speaker 1: maintenance or give me the assurance that I'm in good
Speaker 1: And that's how you're going to get that question answered.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I would do if I was in
Speaker 1: your shoes, Leslie, I would simply call out an expert,
Speaker 1: have them give me a consult and tell me you
Speaker 1: know yay nay, give me a rating on my system,
Speaker 1: and alleviate my fears or confirm them. Either way, you
Speaker 1: just want an answer to the question. I can't answer
Speaker 1: it here. I can only direct you to the proper procedure,
Speaker 1: and that's what you would do. You would just call
Speaker 1: an independent fire and sprinkler come and if anywhere on
Speaker 1: the system there's a tag or a label or an
Speaker 1: indicator of the company that installed it, if they're still around,
Speaker 1: give them a call and have them come out and
Speaker 1: look at their own work again. Either way, get it
Speaker 1: inspected and you'll sleep better at night. But don't disconnect.
Speaker 1: They last a long, long, long time, and very very
Speaker 1: rarely does anybody have any problems with their fire sprinklers.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, Well, that's it for today. Handle on
Speaker 1: the law is coming up next. We will be back
Speaker 1: here tomorrow morning from nine to noon talking about the
Speaker 1: monitoring revolution in your home. You're not going to want
Speaker 1: to miss it until then, Get out there in this
Speaker 1: beautiful day and get busy building yourself a beautiful light.
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