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Speaker 1: always for our Saturday mornings. Now we are taking calls.
Speaker 1: So hey, I want you to pour yourself a cup
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna get started in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: With it all, let me introduce our awesome team. Sam
Speaker 1: is on the board. Good morning Sam.
Speaker 2: Good morning Dean. How you doing well. There is our
Speaker 2: wow their tipper this morning. They just came in a
Speaker 2: are not so live studio audience.
Speaker 1: We get a fresh can of them every week. They
Speaker 1: came in a little hot today. They're they're they're just
Speaker 1: a little worked up. Oh yeah, for that one I
Speaker 1: just opened. I cracked the can on it and just
Speaker 1: came right out. They were fresh, fresh and bubbly. They
Speaker 1: might have overflown a lot little bit, but they were
Speaker 1: swell perves today. Like I said, Producer Richie standing by,
Speaker 1: take your to take your calls. He's not near a
Speaker 1: microphone right now because he's on the phone with you,
Speaker 1: I hope again. The number to reach us eight three
Speaker 1: to three two. Ask Dean, eight three to three, the
Speaker 1: numeral two, Ask Dean, And there is my buddy Eileen
Speaker 1: Gonzalez at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 1: How's it going. It's going well, going well. I'm rested.
Speaker 1: We took a few days. I'll talk about it in
Speaker 1: just a bit we were in Santa Fe and Taos,
Speaker 1: New Mexico. I've been in New Mexico last two or
Speaker 1: three weeks. Well, I shouldn't say for the last two
Speaker 1: or three weeks, that's not true. Over the last four weeks.
Speaker 1: Weirdly enough, I have been in the Southwest three separate
Speaker 1: times on business and and other stuff. So, uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's been. It wasn't really planned out that way. But
Speaker 1: you know what, right now in late spring, Arizona, northern Arizona,
Speaker 1: south or New Mexico as well, beautiful, beautiful places. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about right now, is it. No, No,
Speaker 1: it was like seventy two, seventy three perfect, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it is. And so many people don't understand. They just well, yes,
Speaker 1: it is a desert place, okay, But northern Arizona, northern
Speaker 1: New Mexico very very different than what you expect. Mountain
Speaker 1: forests gorgeous. Oh yeah, exactly. Yeah, pine trees everywhere. Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: which is not really northern New Mexico, I guess, more
Speaker 1: central New but Albuquerque is at the same elevation. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's a little higher in elevation than Denver. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you you fly in Albuquerque, and then Santa Fe is
Speaker 1: about an hour drive north of Albuquerque, and Santa Fe
Speaker 1: is up in the seven thousand, I mean literally in
Speaker 1: two or three weeks, what is it three and a
Speaker 1: half weeks now, we're taking our granddaughter Olivia on her
Speaker 1: very first overnight backpacking trip up in the Mammoth Arey,
Speaker 1: just a little south of Mammoth in the Eastern Sierras,
Speaker 1: which is my old haunts. And it's just weird to
Speaker 1: think that Santa Fe, New Mexico is essentially at the
Speaker 1: same elevation or close to the same elevation as Mammoth
Speaker 1: Village in Mammoth. Yeah, a little different, but so cool,
Speaker 1: so cool. Well, I've got a lot to share with
Speaker 1: you guys about that. But how are you doing this morning? Eileen?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 1: Got my tea going, you know, starting waking up. They
Speaker 1: woke up late today, did you? Yeah, I did five minutes.
Speaker 3: Ago or no, I woke up usually when I leave
Speaker 3: the house, so I rushed out the door. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I got here in time and got everything ready in time,
Speaker 3: So it's all good.
Speaker 1: It's good that you woke up when you leave the house,
Speaker 1: not afterwards. Yeah, exactly, that's how I feel most of
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, that thing kind of happened. But yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of somebody who's still asleep, this is when I
Speaker 1: introduced the person who's usually sitting across the table from me.
Speaker 1: That's right, Tina is not here at the moment. Tina
Speaker 1: is she's he's had a week, so she's sleeping in
Speaker 1: this morning, just for a day.
Speaker 4: I didn't say it. I did not say that, Sam.
Speaker 4: I didn't say she was a bigger great slip. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I didn't say she was a big baby. It probably is,
Speaker 4: but I didn't say that. So all right, all right, y'all,
Speaker 4: why don't we dive in So Saturday morning, it's time
Speaker 4: to take some calls. Oh my gosh, who's walking into
Speaker 4: the studio right now?
Speaker 1: Wait? Wait stop, I was about to go to break
Speaker 1: who's here? We were just making fun of you. Grab
Speaker 1: your microphone, I said, ny, I said, you were still sleep. Nope,
Speaker 1: you're here, and right away we win welcome home.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow. Well, just so you know, in no way did
Speaker 1: Sam play the baby crying sound when I described that you.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Tina is here. This is my best
Speaker 1: friend in all the world. The co owner and co
Speaker 1: founder of House whisper, and the reason I get up
Speaker 1: most mornings. Right there there, she is all right, y'all.
Speaker 1: So we are going to go to the phones. We
Speaker 1: got a couple of calls on the board already. It
Speaker 1: looks like which is always just mind boggling to me
Speaker 1: at six in the morning, But there is a ton
Speaker 1: more room for you. The number to reach me eight
Speaker 1: three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three the
Speaker 1: numeral two. Ask Dean. Anything you want to talk about
Speaker 1: regarding your home. We'll do it, can't hi, Dean Jarp
Speaker 1: the house whisper. Hey, whether your home is a condo, cottage,
Speaker 1: a castle matters not to me. Architecture great design, and
Speaker 1: have no doubt design matters most. It applies to all
Speaker 1: of them. And I am here to help you take
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you call home to the next level.
Speaker 1: It is a Saturday morning, and we've got calls on
Speaker 1: the board. And by the way, let me give you
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Speaker 1: us a call. We are live this lovely what looks
Speaker 1: to be a warm Saturday morning. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: phones and talk to Yvonne, Yvonne, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hi, Good morning, Dean, good morning. I have a question
Speaker 5: about a kitchen granite countertop.
Speaker 1: Fire wing.
Speaker 5: It's got a crack where the bosson and the fixture
Speaker 5: you know, are on the top all along the back,
Speaker 5: so it's not very wide there, and I wondered, do
Speaker 5: I have to replace all the granite or can it
Speaker 5: be fixed and repaired because I've seen some information about
Speaker 5: repairing it where they cut it out. I think I'm
Speaker 5: not sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, So describe the crack to me. Is it a
Speaker 1: hairline crack? Is it something that has opened up a
Speaker 1: little bit? Are there granules of granite that are missing?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Is it rough and jagged? What kind of a crack
Speaker 1: are we talking about.
Speaker 5: It's whiter than a hairline, so it's in some areas.
Speaker 5: The little shards of granite, you know, were loose, so
Speaker 5: I just lifted them out and threw them away. But
Speaker 5: it's wide, I mean, I would say in one area
Speaker 5: it might be close to a quarter of an inch
Speaker 5: and then it narrows, you know.
Speaker 3: So but it's.
Speaker 5: Pretty extensive because it goes from one almost from one
Speaker 5: end of the sink to the other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so it's long. It's long, So it's running
Speaker 1: just behind the sink, kind of parallel to the back
Speaker 1: of the sink.
Speaker 5: Yes, like right in the middle of that whole section,
Speaker 5: then parallel, You're right, okay.
Speaker 1: And did it crack like along the fawcet line? Is
Speaker 1: it behind the foster. It's where the faucet is sticking
Speaker 1: up through where the holes are.
Speaker 5: For the faucet, behind the faucet.
Speaker 1: Just behind Okay, that is an earthquake. Oh okay, Well,
Speaker 1: all right, I guess that makes sense that that's a
Speaker 1: I was going to say it's a it's a little
Speaker 1: bit unusual place to have a crack occur exactly where
Speaker 1: it's located. But I get it. During an earthquake, all right,
Speaker 1: it happened. You know, maybe the back splash puts some
Speaker 1: undue pressure down on that piece, that small section. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing I am not going to I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna blow smoke here. I will just give you a straight,
Speaker 1: honest answer. Granted, is a natural stone, and that piece
Speaker 1: of granite is you know, came from a certain place
Speaker 1: at a certain time, cut from the mountain in a
Speaker 1: certain location, and it is long gone. Now that piece
Speaker 1: of granite as far as now, there's no doubt there
Speaker 1: are other pieces of granite out there in the world
Speaker 1: that are very very similar to it. But that veining,
Speaker 1: that particular pattern, I mean, it is very unique. And
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that's so great and awesome
Speaker 1: about natural stone is that everybody gets a very very
Speaker 1: unique countertop, even the most what we would call the
Speaker 1: most typical. Like I've seen that one hundred times before.
Speaker 1: You haven't, really, Nope, you really haven't. You know. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the old saying, no person steps in
Speaker 1: the same river twice, right. I mean the granite, the
Speaker 1: chunk of granite, the block of granite that was quarried
Speaker 1: out of the mountainside was then sliced up into three
Speaker 1: quarter to seven eighths of an inch thick pieces, like
Speaker 1: slices in a loaf of bread. And your slice, just
Speaker 1: like any slice of a loaf of bread, even though
Speaker 1: it might look like the others, it's not. The bubbles
Speaker 1: are in a different place. The texture is a little different,
Speaker 1: and that's the same with your granite. So the idea
Speaker 1: of cutting out a section and patching in a new
Speaker 1: piece of granite, that only works if for some reason,
Speaker 1: and I've yet to see this be the case in
Speaker 1: my opinion. But if for some reason, a totally different
Speaker 1: kind of granite, a different color, a different shade somehow
Speaker 1: works with the countertop, it's incredibly difficult to do, and
Speaker 1: to do it well with the countertop in place, And
Speaker 1: so it's not likely that we're going to be able
Speaker 1: to cut out that piece and patch in because it
Speaker 1: is just very, very unique. The graining is not going
Speaker 1: to match, and the fix will be more obvious even
Speaker 1: than the crack, if you can imagine that. But but
Speaker 1: but here is the good news. If there is some
Speaker 1: good news. The good news is and you need to
Speaker 1: You'll need to do this. This will be due diligence
Speaker 1: on your part. There are, and do you live here
Speaker 1: in southern California, by the way, yes, okay, there are
Speaker 1: here in southern California, some very very talented granite and
Speaker 1: natural stone repair services companies. The best way, the least
Speaker 1: expensive way, the most hopeful way to save that countertop
Speaker 1: is to have the crack filled with epoxy. Okay, epoxy
Speaker 1: that color matches the granite around it, And those who
Speaker 1: are exceptionally good at doing this cannot only fill the
Speaker 1: crack with epoxy. And yes, when the epoxy dries and
Speaker 1: is all finished up, it will in fact be stronger
Speaker 1: than the granite around it. Okay, so it's a real fix.
Speaker 1: As far as the structure of the stone is concerned,
Speaker 1: it's a real fix. But the thing is, epoxy is
Speaker 1: not going to look exactly like the granite. But there
Speaker 1: are some that I would say go beyond the area
Speaker 1: of craftsmen, even into the zone of artisans who can
Speaker 1: color match and dabble the epoxy in such a way.
Speaker 1: I have seen some epoxy granite repairs that are exceptionally
Speaker 1: difficult to actually notice, because not only have they filled
Speaker 1: the epoxy well and polished it to a nice shine
Speaker 1: which is equivalent to the granite arand it, which by
Speaker 1: the way, is difficult to do, but they've also matched
Speaker 1: the color matrix of the granite itself, which of course
Speaker 1: is speckled on some level. They've done that very artistically,
Speaker 1: and it has made the crack virtually go away. Now,
Speaker 1: can any fix in a granite countertop just completely go away?
Speaker 1: The answer is no. But the alternative. The alternative is
Speaker 1: really pulling the piece of granite and replacing it, and
Speaker 1: that means replacing your whole countertop, and that's something I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're probably not thinking. Oh yeah, I've got the
Speaker 1: budget for that. So a granite countertop repair services. Look
Speaker 1: them up for your area. They're all over the place
Speaker 1: in southern California. Look them up for your area, and
Speaker 1: then my friend interview and get a sense and look
Speaker 1: at the work that they've done, look at pictures and
Speaker 1: examples of work that they will that they've done. You will,
Speaker 1: i'm guessing, be able to find if you look hard enough. Okay,
Speaker 1: and there's no rush, so just take your time and
Speaker 1: look hard enough, you will be able to find somebody
Speaker 1: with the artistic capacity to speckle in and blend in
Speaker 1: the epoxy metric. Because it's a large crack in terms
Speaker 1: of granite countertops, so it's going to take some skill. That,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is your best hope for repairing that
Speaker 1: counter Don't patch in a new piece. Don't try to
Speaker 1: patch in a new piece. It's going to be expensive.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna like the results. It's either that or
Speaker 1: replace the countertop.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much. I didn't know about that.
Speaker 1: Yes, look around, get online, look for them in your area.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I'm confident that you're going to
Speaker 1: find a countertop prepare service. The question is, I just
Speaker 1: want you to keep looking, keep interviewing, ask for photos
Speaker 1: of work that they've done, and you'll see You'll be like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this this this person. They've got some some artistic qualities
Speaker 1: behind them. I think this is the person I'm going.
Speaker 5: To go with.
Speaker 1: Yvon, thank you for your question. Good luck with that countertop.
Speaker 1: H I know it's so disheartening. You've got all this
Speaker 1: granted everywhere, and now a crack. All right, y'all when
Speaker 1: we come back, more of your calls. The number to
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Speaker 1: M six forty. I am forty dreaming everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app Right, I have an urgent, urgent announcement here.
Speaker 1: While we were in Santa Fe, as we were leaving,
Speaker 1: literally in the airport, I said to Tina, we didn't
Speaker 1: get a mug. We always we liked when we go
Speaker 1: to a place that we love, we want to remember
Speaker 1: we grab a coffee mug. And so I you know,
Speaker 1: we spent some time downtown. We could have gotten a
Speaker 1: mug there, but no. And we saw one in one
Speaker 1: of those little shops in the airport and it looked great, right,
Speaker 1: gold mug. And no, I can't buy a mug blind
Speaker 1: right because you got it's got to have the right field.
Speaker 1: It's got to feel right in your hand. You can't
Speaker 1: just you can't just you can't just do that. It
Speaker 1: was heavy, It is heavy holding it right now. It's
Speaker 1: it had the new it's a gold mug. It had
Speaker 1: the new Mexico flag symbol on it, which is a
Speaker 1: really cool uh artistic image of the sun and the
Speaker 1: words Land of Enchantment, which is their state slogan. Now
Speaker 1: the mug having been washed once says chantment, and half
Speaker 1: of the sun is gone. Half of it is gone.
Speaker 1: Check that out here, you take a pic chantment. Half
Speaker 1: the sun is gone. It's a decal. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: dishwashers safe, oh Man Airports. I swear well. I mean
Speaker 1: it's good. It's a good mug. The mug itself is good,
Speaker 1: but it was a decal. Now I have a mug
Speaker 1: that says chantman and the sea is almost gone. It's
Speaker 1: about to say hantmentt hantman Hey, Dean, how's that you
Speaker 1: like that hamtmant mug? Yeah? What is that pattern? No idea,
Speaker 1: No one knows, decal. Come on, come on, who builds?
Speaker 1: Who makes a not dishwasher safe coffee mug? I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna hand wash a coffee mug.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: Well, I just thought you'd you'd all need to hear that,
Speaker 1: just just so. If you find yourself in the Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: New Mexico Airport tempted to buy a New Mexico coffee mug,
Speaker 1: resist that temptation. Just resist. Okay, all right, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go back to the phones. Monica,
Speaker 1: Welcome home, thank.
Speaker 3: You, welcome, Good morning everyone. My light switch won't turn
Speaker 3: off the bathroom light. And it's one of these fifties
Speaker 3: houses and it's stuck light.
Speaker 1: Okay, so wait, describe that switch to me again.
Speaker 3: It's just the light switch. My sister called me in
Speaker 3: the rest bathroom and it just the light won't go out.
Speaker 3: It's a real bright light. Okay, what I put the
Speaker 3: light witch? So what do I do? Go to the circuit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, got to change it out, got to change it out.
Speaker 1: Switch is broken, change it out.
Speaker 3: I won't do it. But the circuit. I have to
Speaker 3: have an electrician probably do it right kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you're not, if you don't feel
Speaker 1: you know, handy enough to do it. It's it's not
Speaker 1: something that that that is impossible for a homeowner to do,
Speaker 1: but you got to feel confident doing it. And first
Speaker 1: of all, that means making sure that the breakers are off,
Speaker 1: that there's no power running through the circuit, and then
Speaker 1: having the right screwdriver and taking off the plate and
Speaker 1: pulling the switch out and replacing it. It is something
Speaker 1: that if you felt like doing yourself and you didn't
Speaker 1: want to pay an electrician to do that, you could do.
Speaker 1: And my suggestion is always this, if you're going to
Speaker 1: do that, you have your phone with you so that
Speaker 1: you can take pictures as soon as you take the
Speaker 1: plate off and pull the switch out of its little
Speaker 1: seat there before you disconnect the wires, take a picture
Speaker 1: of the existing switch, where the wire's connected, which wire
Speaker 1: is on which side doing what, and then you've got
Speaker 1: that as a reference to put the wires back on
Speaker 1: the new switch. But that's only if you feel confident
Speaker 1: doing that kind of a thing. If you don't, don't
Speaker 1: mess with the electrical just have somebody do it. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you could call an electrician. You could
Speaker 1: call a handy person, uh to do it, a handyman's service. Uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't, it's not. It doesn't have to be a
Speaker 1: licensed electrician to help you change out a switch. And uh.
Speaker 1: And if possible, you know, call a family member and say, hey,
Speaker 1: are you any good at this? Could you do this?
Speaker 1: Because electrician is going to call charge you. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing one hundred plus bucks to do it, and
Speaker 1: you know it's Angie.
Speaker 3: Is there any of that? Can I ask you another
Speaker 3: real quick question. It's about the law the ceiling. It's
Speaker 3: it looks We talked before. You said it's it's a
Speaker 3: bad paint job. But I'm just wondering, how do you
Speaker 3: know if it's a bad paint job, because it's like
Speaker 3: it's the paint is kind of coming off, you know,
Speaker 3: the paint frish layer. I do you know it's not
Speaker 3: a bad paint. How do you know it's not like
Speaker 3: something on top of the roof that created you know,
Speaker 3: is leaking now and I have to deal with you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying in the roof instead of just
Speaker 3: ceiling with a new paint, but you got.
Speaker 1: Got you got you. So, so the normal way of
Speaker 1: telling in a bath room, whether it is just paint
Speaker 1: peeling because of steam and moisture, or oh no, that's
Speaker 1: this is in the.
Speaker 3: Living room and we haven't skylight. This one's in the
Speaker 3: living room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh okay, so so well, the same the same
Speaker 1: rule is gonna apply. All right. So let's say paints
Speaker 1: peeling somewhere or bubbling or something like that. Here's what
Speaker 1: we want to find out. We got to get our
Speaker 1: hands on it. Okay, we gotta if if we've touched
Speaker 1: the ceiling and we notice that the dry wall itself,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna I'm gonna here's the thing, Monica,
Speaker 1: we're running late to a break. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: on hold because I want to explain this in a
Speaker 1: little bit more detail. So you hang tight and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish. Uh in Monica's question, Hey, if PI
Speaker 1: deem charped the house, whisper, welcome home. Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us on the program this morning. We're taking calls today,
Speaker 1: as we do on Saturday mornings. The number to reach
Speaker 1: me eight three three two Ask Dean eight three three.
Speaker 1: The numeral two. Ask Dean who puts a decal on
Speaker 1: a coffee mug. That's all I'm saying. No, this is done.
Speaker 1: This is under my skin a little bit. I was
Speaker 1: at the Albuquerque airport and I know you're saying, well, Dean,
Speaker 1: why'd you buy a coffee mug at the airport because
Speaker 1: we were on our way out and we thought we
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten a mug, and I thought I found. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a really good mug. It's a nice mug. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not going to put the mug away. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get rid of the mug because it's
Speaker 1: just one of those classic, great heavy mug shapes. But
Speaker 1: the sun symbol on it, the New Mexico flag symbol,
Speaker 1: and the words Land of Enchantment gone, I mean half
Speaker 1: of them are gone. They're decals.
Speaker 5: Ugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's under my skin a little bit. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not how my that's not how our trip went. It
Speaker 1: wasn't income complete like this. It's not right, it's not right.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to talk to Monica again. Monica
Speaker 1: was on hold. Thanks for holding Monica. She had a
Speaker 1: light switch question. That was an easy one. It's broken.
Speaker 1: It needs to be replaced. But a little bit more
Speaker 1: problematic question. If you've got a ceiling and you've got
Speaker 1: paint bubbling or peeling on it, how do you know
Speaker 1: whether it's bad paint or whether you've got some water
Speaker 1: intrusion and the leak. And so I know you've all
Speaker 1: been waiting with baited breath to hear the answer, and
Speaker 1: now here it goes, Monica. The answer is pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You got to get hands on the situation. And the
Speaker 1: reason is very simply this. If it's just bad paint
Speaker 1: or a paint problem, then as you feel the ceiling,
Speaker 1: is you feel the drywall. The drywall itself will feel solid, smooth,
Speaker 1: you know, relatively smooth, and you're just gonna be looking
Speaker 1: at flaking paint and that kind of thing. So as
Speaker 1: you feel it, all you feel is the issue with flaky,
Speaker 1: bubbly paint. But the drywall behind it is still very
Speaker 1: much intact. If it is bubbling or flaking or cracking,
Speaker 1: if the paint is doing that because of water intrusion,
Speaker 1: because of the leak, then you're going to feel that drywall,
Speaker 1: and that drywall is going to feel soft. Drywall is
Speaker 1: made of gypsum, it is the softest mineral on the planet, literally,
Speaker 1: and that gypsum one that's subjected to water is gonna
Speaker 1: get mushy, it's gonna get powdery. You'll be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, scratch into it with your finger without a
Speaker 1: sharp fingernail, and it may even feel spongy and muddy.
Speaker 1: So the key to understanding whether you just got peeling
Speaker 1: paint on the ceiling or actual damage has to do
Speaker 1: with the firmness of the drywall and or plaster behind it.
Speaker 1: If you live in an older home, and not every
Speaker 1: ceiling or wall that has cracking or peeling paint on
Speaker 1: it has been subjected to water damage, not even the
Speaker 1: old ones in the old you know, like when you
Speaker 1: see some old home that you know in a show
Speaker 1: that's been neglected for or abandoned for years, and the
Speaker 1: paint's peeling off the wall, that's not necessarily an indication
Speaker 1: that the plasters messed up, It really isn't. That is
Speaker 1: actually a bit more of an indication immediately of the
Speaker 1: fact that that home has been abandoned and therefore has
Speaker 1: gone through extreme season for season sometimes you know, week
Speaker 1: for week or day for day, extreme temperature changes. Because yeah,
Speaker 1: the extreme temperature access to the paint caught microscopically for
Speaker 1: it to expand and contract and expand and contract, and
Speaker 1: the same with the wall expand and contract, expand in contract.
Speaker 1: So when no one lives in a home or a
Speaker 1: structure for an extended period of time and there's been
Speaker 1: no temperature regulation of the interior of the home and
Speaker 1: it has swung from freezing to blazing hot and back
Speaker 1: and forth again, Yeah, paint can simply peel or start
Speaker 1: to you did here from the wall simply because the
Speaker 1: wall itself is going through some microscopic level expansion and
Speaker 1: contraction does not mean that there's damage. So you got
Speaker 1: to get hands on and you feel it. If the
Speaker 1: dry wall is firm, you just have a painting problem.
Speaker 1: If not, if it's mushy or spongy or super powdery,
Speaker 1: then you should investigate further. Get up above it into
Speaker 1: the attic and find out if you've got water leaking
Speaker 1: that area. And there you go. Was that worth waiting for?
Speaker 1: I think so? All right, more about my defective coffee mug.
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