Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisperer on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome
Speaker 1: to home where. Every week we help you better understand
Speaker 1: that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisperer, custom home Builder, custom home designer, and most
Speaker 1: important today, your guide to turning your ordinary house into
Speaker 1: an extraordinary home. All right, we're getting very personal today,
Speaker 1: very personal. We're going into the Holy of Holies, as
Speaker 1: it were, for your home. We're talking about your bedroom,
Speaker 1: bedrooms today, bedroom design, bedroom talk, boomb chick a boumb bomb. Now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be it does not have to
Speaker 1: be that way, although it's not a bad thing anyway.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk bedrooms today, and of course also we're
Speaker 1: going to be taking your calls. Let me give you
Speaker 1: the number right now, eight three three two. Ask Dean
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Speaker 1: three two Beep ask Dean. It's just that simple. And
Speaker 1: of course, you know, as it is every show, regardless
Speaker 1: of what I have selected as my main topic of
Speaker 1: the day, when it comes to calls, it's free for all.
Speaker 1: You get to decide anything that you are scratching your
Speaker 1: head about your home today, design, construction, DIY stuff. It's
Speaker 1: all fair game inside, outside, landscape, interior, scape decor, fluffing pillows,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. A three three two ask Dean.
Speaker 1: The phone lines are open right now. Producer Richie, he's
Speaker 1: standing by. He's gonna take your call. He'll tell you
Speaker 1: everything you need to know. Pop you into the queue.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the show while you wait, and
Speaker 1: then hopefully we can put our heads together. We'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. And if we do all of this right,
Speaker 1: we're going to bring some light into your morning, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna make you feel glad that you were here.
Speaker 1: Speaking of being glad that somebody is here, Elmer is
Speaker 1: on the board. Good morning, Wilmar, Good morning Dean. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me morning now doing good. Yeah, I'm up
Speaker 1: and I'm not tired, and I am happy to be here.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's those are the three keys of
Speaker 1: the process. Awesome. And like I said, producer Richie is
Speaker 1: standing by, not near his mic right now. That's fine
Speaker 1: because he's busy. Oh look at that, he's busy taking call. Hey,
Speaker 1: I totally jelled. I did not look around the corner.
Speaker 1: Who is sitting at the news desk, who's hiding in
Speaker 1: the booth. This is Eileen Gonzalez Live twenty four hour Newsroom. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of energy coming out of there right now.
Speaker 1: I'm faking it. I'm tired. I'm not gonna wine. Okay,
Speaker 1: why did you have a You have a big Saturday, Eileen?
Speaker 1: Just working, you know. Yeah, it's here till seven yesterday
Speaker 1: and yeah, and came back bright and bright eyed and
Speaker 1: bushy tail this morning. Well you sounded, you sounded, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're faking it. They continue, you make it.
Speaker 1: But it's all working out great, all right, that's the team.
Speaker 1: Oh oh and also now, you know, if you heard
Speaker 1: the yesterday's show, you heard me kind of getting on
Speaker 1: the case that at this moment, at this moment in
Speaker 1: yesterday's show, I looked across the table and who was there?
Speaker 1: My dog, Sammy the beagle. That was it. Tina was taken.
Speaker 1: You know. We're just back from spending a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in Vermont, just sucking in autumn in a big way.
Speaker 1: And Tina has extended her vacation time apparently, but today
Speaker 1: she has a legit excuse for not sitting across the
Speaker 1: table from me, because I'm looking at just an empty
Speaker 1: sofa right there, a mic just hanging out there, no
Speaker 1: one wearing the headphones. Why because today is Tina's birthday
Speaker 1: and exactly also, by the way, earlier this week on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: my daughter in law, Christie's birthday, and so the two
Speaker 1: of them are headed out to get some special pampering
Speaker 1: right now before we have a little get together for
Speaker 1: them this afternoon. Also Elmer's birthday this week, So you
Speaker 1: know what, three of my favorite people all lined up
Speaker 1: in a row. Part of what makes autumn a very
Speaker 1: very special time. So anyway, here I am sitting on
Speaker 1: my own. We're gonna dive into bedrooms. Let me pull
Speaker 1: up my special bedroom notes here because I had a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Oh, somebody asked yesterday, how was how
Speaker 1: was Vermont? And you know what, what can I say?
Speaker 1: Vermont is amazing? Just amazing? Did now we almost almost
Speaker 1: hit peak color? And let me tell you, if what
Speaker 1: we saw wasn't peak, then I can't even imagine what
Speaker 1: peak is because you know, born and raised in southern California,
Speaker 1: and I've gotten around the planet some you know, But
Speaker 1: never It's always been kind of a bucket list thing.
Speaker 1: I've never been at ground zero for autumn in the
Speaker 1: United States at the exact right time, and man, we
Speaker 1: were there. Autumn is a blaze in the state of Vermont.
Speaker 1: And Vermont is such a cool, cool place. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you more about it as times go, but yeah, we
Speaker 1: we just had a blast. Just suffice it to say
Speaker 1: that I rediscovered how fun it is to drive, to drive,
Speaker 1: like on highways and stuff. Wasn't expecting that, wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: to feel relaxed driving, But you know what when you're
Speaker 1: one of only like three cars on the highway and
Speaker 1: everything around you is just gorgeous. And by the way,
Speaker 1: here's a reason to love the state of Vermont. They
Speaker 1: have a law that forever in today they do not
Speaker 1: allow billboards. Billboards are illegal in Vermont. There's no such thing.
Speaker 1: Why because they don't want anything block in the view.
Speaker 1: And rightly so. It is rural. Their biggest city, Burlington,
Speaker 1: not the capital. The capital's Montpellier. But but Burlington is
Speaker 1: their biggest city. And we're talking about metropolitan Burlington, bustling
Speaker 1: with like forty five thousand people. That's it. It's literally
Speaker 1: I think it. I think Burlington has the record of
Speaker 1: being the smallest largest city in a state of all
Speaker 1: the states, because it is the largest city in the
Speaker 1: entire state of Vermont, with forty five thousand people in
Speaker 1: the immediate downtown Burlington area, and then outside of Burlington,
Speaker 1: it just keeps getting smaller and smaller. I think most
Speaker 1: of the villages and it's better to call them villages
Speaker 1: than towns. I think. You know, we're talking like fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred to three thousand people population. It's just so nice,
Speaker 1: and everybody had the same vibe, and I came back
Speaker 1: full of maple syrup. There's a good amount of maple
Speaker 1: syrup in my veins right now, which might explain my
Speaker 1: energy level and the fact that we had two weeks
Speaker 1: of rest. So anyway, there you go. Those of you
Speaker 1: who are always annoyed that I spend the first segment
Speaker 1: talking about personal stuff, I don't care.
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the house Whisper at your service. Hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, whether you live in a condo or a
Speaker 1: cottage or a castle, if it's the place you call home,
Speaker 1: I'm here to help you take it to the next
Speaker 1: level and do it in an encouraging and uplifting way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some say in a nerdy way, but why do those
Speaker 1: have to be opposites of each other. Let's just bring
Speaker 1: it all in there, you go. Okay, we're talking about
Speaker 1: bedrooms today, also taking calls. Let me give you the
Speaker 1: number one more time, eight three to three two. Ask
Speaker 1: Dean A three three the numeral two. Ask Dean. We've
Speaker 1: got some calls on the board, but you know what,
Speaker 1: I picked calls at random, so we got room for you.
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Speaker 1: All right, the bedroom. It seems like a pretty straightforward idea.
Speaker 1: And by the way, can I just say that I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to get back to some design talk. It's been
Speaker 1: a little while, been taking care of nuts and bolts,
Speaker 1: fire season talk, roofing talk. You know, I love the
Speaker 1: contractor side of things, but even more or just as much,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, probably even more. I love the
Speaker 1: design side of things. So happy to be giving you
Speaker 1: design advice today. So it seems like a pretty straightforward idea,
Speaker 1: the bedroom. But it's really more difficult than most people
Speaker 1: think to design a truly great bedroom. Now, how can
Speaker 1: I express to you the level of importance for design
Speaker 1: in the bedroom from this perspective, From my perspective, and
Speaker 1: again my perspective on your home is that it is
Speaker 1: a beautiful place that other people appreciate, but it's your home.
Speaker 1: It's for you. And of all the places in your
Speaker 1: home that are for you and probably least for everybody else, bedroom, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it doesn't mean that it isn't
Speaker 1: part of the tour when people come over and want
Speaker 1: to see your awesome house. But your bedroom is for you.
Speaker 1: It's your experience. This is a kind of you know,
Speaker 1: ground zero for you, and getting that right is something
Speaker 1: that you got to get your head in that this
Speaker 1: is my space for me kind of place. And it
Speaker 1: starts with asking the big question, and that is what
Speaker 1: is your bedroom for? Now that may seem super obvious
Speaker 1: to you, there are strong opinions amongst most designers about bedrooms.
Speaker 1: I would say the majority of designers that I know
Speaker 1: and their approach to the bedroom is very simply that
Speaker 1: bedrooms are primarily about the three s's. The three s's.
Speaker 1: What are the three s's sleep, sex, and sickness and
Speaker 1: you know that's justifiably probably accurate. Right, These are the
Speaker 1: three things most likely to take place in the bedroom,
Speaker 1: and some of you are like, well, maybe two of them,
Speaker 1: but I don't know about that third way. All right,
Speaker 1: I get it. We're not going to get that personal
Speaker 1: with you. But the bedroom is where we spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time when we are sick and otherwise recreational
Speaker 1: activities like sleep and other things. So here's the thing
Speaker 1: that as a given, my view is that a bedroom
Speaker 1: should be whatever you want it to be. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: the twenty first century, and you know we live in
Speaker 1: a post COVID world, and really the sky is the
Speaker 1: limit when it comes to what you want and need
Speaker 1: your bedroom to do. And of course all of this
Speaker 1: depends on the space that you have for the bedroom.
Speaker 1: But it's often in the bedroom where we yield the
Speaker 1: most to other people's stories. And that's what I want
Speaker 1: to bring to an end. I want it to be
Speaker 1: your story in there. So, uh, this is the question,
Speaker 1: the big question you put yourself in the bedroom, and
Speaker 1: we need to ask at least four questions of this space. Okay,
Speaker 1: Number one, what is the dressing experience? Okay, now you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get up, I get my clothes out, and I
Speaker 1: get dressed in Yeah, But I want you to think
Speaker 1: in terms of what is the optimal dressing experience that
Speaker 1: you want to have in your bedroom space, assuming that
Speaker 1: the bedroom is where you get dressed. Okay, what's the
Speaker 1: dressing experience? Two? What's the waking experience? And I don't
Speaker 1: mean being awake, I mean when you wake up. As
Speaker 1: you are waking up, what is your experience in this place?
Speaker 1: Is dark? Is it gloomy? What is And here's something
Speaker 1: really important. One of the and I'm going to get
Speaker 1: to this in a bit, but one of the primary
Speaker 1: angles from which the bedroom must be judged is not
Speaker 1: not the magazine shot right, which is usually like from
Speaker 1: the entry door in right, that's what you see in
Speaker 1: the design magazines. That's a secondary angle as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, because where do we spend most of our
Speaker 1: time in the bedroom, in the bed, and where should
Speaker 1: you evaluate how your room looks and functions from your bed?
Speaker 1: Starting with what's right above your head? Right? So when
Speaker 1: you wake up, your eyes first open up. Do we
Speaker 1: have morning light coming in through windows? Is it dark?
Speaker 1: Is it inclosed off? And when you look up at
Speaker 1: the ceiling when your eyes flicker open from your pillow.
Speaker 1: Is there anything there to greet you? Some folks have
Speaker 1: you know, popped into and maybe I can get a
Speaker 1: shot of this. I'm not gonna show you everything, but
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a ceiling treatment on our ceiling
Speaker 1: in our bedroom. It just goes along with the motif
Speaker 1: of our room. But we've put kind of a molded
Speaker 1: and wallpapered ceiling treatment along with a really cool light
Speaker 1: fixture that hangs in our bedroom ceiling over our bedroom,
Speaker 1: over our bed, and you know what, it's just a
Speaker 1: really pleasant It's the thing I want to see when
Speaker 1: I lift my eyes in the morning. That's what I
Speaker 1: mean by what is the waking experience? Okay, the third
Speaker 1: question is what is the sleep experience? And then we
Speaker 1: have to talk about the bed, and we've got to
Speaker 1: talk about fresh air, and we've got to talk about
Speaker 1: lights in the room or the absence of light in
Speaker 1: the room and so on, and finally the fourth question
Speaker 1: is your bedroom a sanctum? Right? Is it a retreat
Speaker 1: for you? Is it a place where you just sleep
Speaker 1: and then you're out? Is it for show, which in
Speaker 1: my book is a little weird. I always put that
Speaker 1: at as the last priority. Or is it all of
Speaker 1: the above or a combination of the above. So these
Speaker 1: are the essential questions that we've got to warm our
Speaker 1: brains up to in order to get into this subject
Speaker 1: of how to design a bedroom best.
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Speaker 1: You know your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper
Speaker 1: Welcome home, Welcome to the program. Have I mentioned this yet?
Speaker 1: It is a good, good, gorgeous day outside. Have you
Speaker 1: looked out there? If you haven't, you're probably breaking some
Speaker 1: law of nature. You really should get an eyeball full
Speaker 1: of what's going on outside in southern California. You this morning,
Speaker 1: it is not cold and rainy, it's not overcast, it's
Speaker 1: not blazing hot. It is a beautiful Southern California fall day.
Speaker 1: And you know what, You've got to celebrate every single
Speaker 1: one that comes our way. So I hope you got
Speaker 1: plans for today. Not yet, though, you stay right where
Speaker 1: you are because we're talking about your bedroom. You know
Speaker 1: how important that is. So anyway we are. Oh and
Speaker 1: that was R two D two in the background. There
Speaker 1: gotta shut that guy up. We're talking about your bedroom. Also,
Speaker 1: let me throw out the number right after the break,
Speaker 1: we're going to be going to the phones as we do.
Speaker 1: Eight three three two, Ask Dean eight three to three
Speaker 1: the numeral two. Ask Dean. All right, let's get back
Speaker 1: to it. Where'd I leave you? We've asked the big questions,
Speaker 1: the four big questions. You know, what's our dressing experience
Speaker 1: in the bedroom, what's our waking up experience? What's our
Speaker 1: sleep experience? And is your bedroom a sanctum just for you?
Speaker 1: Is it for show? Is it both?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: What do you want to do with this room? These
Speaker 1: are the critical questions that you ask because the bedroom
Speaker 1: is an awkward place in terms of just general design,
Speaker 1: because it's so very you, and it's so very not
Speaker 1: a part of what belongs to you know, public view, right, unless,
Speaker 1: of course that's your thing. So bedroom function, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, as far as I'm concerned, has
Speaker 1: everything to do with just whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 1: It's relative to the function of the whole house, by
Speaker 1: the way, right, So, so is it a place for
Speaker 1: just sleep or romance? Is it a media room? Is
Speaker 1: it a standalone retreat? Now, people who have a little
Speaker 1: bit roomy or bedrooms. This is a concept that that's
Speaker 1: an awkward concept. And what do I mean by awkward.
Speaker 1: I mean that for a long long time, higher end
Speaker 1: homes have classically had huge bedrooms, which coming from a
Speaker 1: guy who not only, you know, during daylight hours, designs
Speaker 1: higher end homes, but also lives in a small cottage. Right,
Speaker 1: my bedroom is dinky by just general standards, but it's
Speaker 1: everything that we need it to be, okay, And so
Speaker 1: the idea of the huge bedroom. What that does is
Speaker 1: it provides a space for not only the bed and
Speaker 1: of course dressers or whatever, but also theoretically a sitting area.
Speaker 1: Now Here is where this gets really important. I have
Speaker 1: to say that the vast majority of sitting area bedrooms
Speaker 1: that I have encountered in consults and designery work and
Speaker 1: so on, when I interview the owner the client, I
Speaker 1: find out that, yeah, yeah, we never use this. I
Speaker 1: mean we put a chair there, because if we didn't
Speaker 1: put a chair there, this room would just be enormously crazy,
Speaker 1: stupid big. But I find that the vast majority of
Speaker 1: quote unquote sitting areas in bedrooms, at least in the past,
Speaker 1: go unused. They are just what they are, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: just they're kind of taking up empty space. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a shame. Well, during a major remodel request from homeowners,
Speaker 1: will I asked that question right off the top, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. And you'll appreciate this, because if
Speaker 1: if we've got a large area in the master bedroom
Speaker 1: or excuse me, primary bedroom that is going unused as
Speaker 1: a seating area, and we're thinking about doing some major
Speaker 1: changes on the house, then hey, how about we shrink
Speaker 1: that area down and how about we slide a wall
Speaker 1: a little bit and enlarge the bathroom? Yeah, or a
Speaker 1: closet or both, Okay, because these are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things that people really really really love having more closet
Speaker 1: space and enlarging the bathroom. So the question of is
Speaker 1: the bedroom a retreat for you, I'm being very very
Speaker 1: I want you to be very specific about that. Is
Speaker 1: the bedroom the retreat for you? It's a given these
Speaker 1: days that more than ever, bathrooms are amazing spalike retreats
Speaker 1: for people, and they have grown and grown and grown
Speaker 1: in that role. And I would say, I would argue
Speaker 1: that that's just a natural that's unnatural. You've heard me
Speaker 1: say this before, and I'll say it again that in
Speaker 1: some ways we are culturally trained that the bathroom is
Speaker 1: going to be a retreat. Okay, now you want to
Speaker 1: hear this quick, the psychology of the bathroom as a
Speaker 1: retreat from your very earliest year. Think about this when
Speaker 1: you're just a little toddler, Okay, as you start to
Speaker 1: develop your potty skills, right, there is a landmark day
Speaker 1: that comes in which your parents, instead of going in
Speaker 1: with you and handling all of that, they encourage you,
Speaker 1: I mean encourage you go into the bathroom alone with
Speaker 1: the door closed. In fact, I would argue for most
Speaker 1: of us, the bathroom is the very very first room
Speaker 1: in childhood development that your parents actually tell you, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: please go in that room, be alone, close the door,
Speaker 1: and have that privacy space. I think we all carry
Speaker 1: that with us. We carry it with us because even
Speaker 1: as adults, let's face it, you're at a party, you're
Speaker 1: at a restaurant, and the conversation lags or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, and you need a little
Speaker 1: space for yourself. What do you do? Yeah, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you guys, excuse me, I'm gonna go use the restroom.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't have to go why Because once
Speaker 1: you're in there, that is your space, right, even if
Speaker 1: it's a public space, it's your space while you're there.
Speaker 1: So I would argue that that is ingrained in us
Speaker 1: from day one, that the bathroom is a retreat space.
Speaker 1: But the question of whether the bedroom, the actual room
Speaker 1: with the bed in it, is that a retreat space.
Speaker 1: Is there a bed and a desk? Is there a
Speaker 1: bed and a chair and a place to read? And
Speaker 1: if there is, do you use it? That's a question
Speaker 1: that has to get very very homeowner specific. Now I
Speaker 1: may sound like I spent a lot of time on that,
Speaker 1: but and probably most of us don't have bedrooms large
Speaker 1: enough to have a seating area in them. But I
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm here for everybody, so I'm trying
Speaker 1: to cover the entire it's a moot point if your
Speaker 1: bedroom is like mine and you barely have room for
Speaker 1: the bed, Okay, Nevertheless, you know, I just want to
Speaker 1: cover this for everyone, so that whatever the degree of
Speaker 1: space you have in your bedroom, we're really thinking through
Speaker 1: are we using it this way or could we use
Speaker 1: it a different way? Okay, all right, we're going to
Speaker 1: get into some bigger specifics and some very specific advice
Speaker 1: on buying furniture and closet orientation and so on when
Speaker 1: we return to the subject. But when we come back
Speaker 1: from the break, guess what it's time to go to
Speaker 1: the phones.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program here,
Speaker 1: beautiful day outside. I appreciate that you are with me
Speaker 1: here right now talking about your home, and specifically we're
Speaker 1: talking about your bedroom today. Design ideas, design concepts, the
Speaker 1: way to approach, of course, from a whole perspective, because
Speaker 1: that's where I love to start, as you know, I
Speaker 1: love to you know, I'm all about the you know,
Speaker 1: you know the old saying. You know, give a man
Speaker 1: a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish,
Speaker 1: feed him for a lifetime. Yeah, I'm all about to
Speaker 1: teach somebody to fish thing, right. I just want to
Speaker 1: equip you so that you can approach all of the
Speaker 1: design for your home in a way that just goes
Speaker 1: and goes and goes and works for you instead of
Speaker 1: just like, oh, that that picture in the magazine looked
Speaker 1: pretty good. Maybe we should try to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, sometimes you luck out. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: works most of the time, trust me, does not does not.
Speaker 1: That's not the way to go about designing your own home.
Speaker 1: It's learning and giving yourself permission a little. I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to share in just a bit, little bit
Speaker 1: more about what I shared yesterday in terms of permission
Speaker 1: about designing your place. But that'll be coming up. Here's
Speaker 1: a quick thing, just so you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff happening now that the holidays have hit. Yes, for
Speaker 1: those of you who are wondering the Sunday before Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which actually is not that far away, the Sunday before Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: we will we are confirmed, we are booked. We are
Speaker 1: doing yet another House Whisper holiday home show with a
Speaker 1: live studio audience right here on the fifth floor Honda
Speaker 1: Theater in our studios in Burbank, sponsored of course by
Speaker 1: Aldick Home. And yes, we will be giving away another
Speaker 1: fully decorated Aldi Christmas tree, which is awesome to a
Speaker 1: lucky audience member. And yes, we're going to have some
Speaker 1: special guests with us and tickets are going to be
Speaker 1: available soon. So just no, that's coming up market calendars.
Speaker 1: And then the Sunday after Thanksgiving a live pre Pastathon
Speaker 1: broadcast from a Smart and Final in Orange County. We're
Speaker 1: going to be doing the entire show live at Smart
Speaker 1: and Fine which Smart and Final don't know yet. I
Speaker 1: will let you know as soon as I know, you'll know,
Speaker 1: and then you can plan on coming out doing some
Speaker 1: shopping at Smart and Final and supporting Pastathon and then
Speaker 1: you know, coming out and seeing the show there as well.
Speaker 1: So a lot of stuff coming very very soon. All right,
Speaker 1: it is nearing the top of the hour, which means
Speaker 1: it's time to go to the phones. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Judy. Hey, Judy, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Dean, good morning, Ben. Want I have a
Speaker 3: roof that's they're on a little over twenty years old.
Speaker 3: It's a shingle roof, and I want to preserve the
Speaker 3: life of it a little longer. And I was wondering,
Speaker 3: are you can you tell me anything about the roof
Speaker 3: saver to prolong the life of the roof?
Speaker 1: The I'm sorry, which which, uh what was the oh,
Speaker 1: the Henry Henry roofsaver?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: Uh, Yeah, I don't have a lot of experience with
Speaker 1: the Henry roofsaver, uh directly. Uh, but uh it is
Speaker 1: one of a whole family of coatings out there, uh
Speaker 1: that are very popular these days. And uh and you
Speaker 1: know in a lot of here's the thing, Uh, no
Speaker 1: direct experience with Henry's. Uh. They are a solid company
Speaker 1: with a big reputation. Uh. But uh, here's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm gonna turn the tables on you, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna recommend a local company, Okay, because one thing
Speaker 1: to have the can of roofsaver coding. And by the way,
Speaker 1: what we're talking about here for everybody else is let's
Speaker 1: say you've got an asphalt company position roof and it's
Speaker 1: kind of getting up there in age, but it's not
Speaker 1: fallen apart on you, and you're approaching the time when
Speaker 1: you need to consider roof replacement. The question is, can
Speaker 1: we extend the life of that roof. Well, if we've
Speaker 1: caught it before it has begun to seriously deteriorate, then
Speaker 1: the answer, in my opinion, is yes. And we've had
Speaker 1: some really really good success with these new coatings. They
Speaker 1: don't change the color of the roof, they don't. It's
Speaker 1: not paint anything like that. But I also have noticed, Judy,
Speaker 1: that it's best usually when it's applied by professionals who
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. They get up there, no risk
Speaker 1: to you or to any family members up on the roof.
Speaker 1: They spray it on. It's a one day process and
Speaker 1: it could easily extend the life of a shingle to
Speaker 1: asphalt comp shingle roof five years. And if you get
Speaker 1: successfully that five year, you could recode it and maybe
Speaker 1: get another five years. So most of the coding specialist
Speaker 1: companies will tell you that you could do this in
Speaker 1: theory up to three times three codings, which extends the
Speaker 1: life of that roof another potentially fifteen years. Now that's
Speaker 1: a real stretch. But you know what, these coatings they
Speaker 1: work really well. And the coatings differ. The one that
Speaker 1: I trust the most, Judy, just to say, and they
Speaker 1: are not a sponsor of the show. Although when you
Speaker 1: call them, please tell them who gave the recommendation and
Speaker 1: say why are you not a sponsor? Why are you
Speaker 1: not a sponsor of Home with Dean Sharp? Because he
Speaker 1: loves you guys. And that here in southern California is
Speaker 1: roof Max Roof maa XX roof Max. Right, these guys
Speaker 1: are great. They have a fantastic reputation. They're actually a
Speaker 1: nationwide company, but they have individual franchises, so they're all
Speaker 1: over southern California and they specialize in the application of
Speaker 1: exactly this coding. So you're going to save yourself potentially,
Speaker 1: and they'll come out and go. They'll give you a
Speaker 1: fair evaluation, but they could extend the life of your
Speaker 1: roof for several years and push off that very very
Speaker 1: expensive reroof at a fraction of the costs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I you know what, I'm a fan. I am a
Speaker 1: fan of good quality roof coatings. But not every roof
Speaker 1: coating is made equally. I don't like ones that are caustic.
Speaker 1: I like ones that are that are more environmentally friendly.
Speaker 1: But the Roofmax coating I find is not only more
Speaker 1: environmentally friendly, but at the same time the best one
Speaker 1: performance wise that I've seen. So that's the recommendation I'm
Speaker 1: going to give to you, Judy.
Speaker 3: So to get a number, I just look up a
Speaker 3: roof next company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just go to roof Max with two x's dot
Speaker 1: com and boom, you put in yours, You'll put in
Speaker 1: your zip code. They'll take you right to the nearest dealer.
Speaker 3: Great, Oh Dean, thank you very very much. I greatly
Speaker 3: appreciate all your help.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Judy, thank you for the call. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: as always, love questions. You know what. We're going to
Speaker 1: take more calls right on the other side of the break.
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