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Speaker 2: I am Dean Sharp, the house whisperer, here with you
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Speaker 2: On the second hour of our fine little program, we're
Speaker 2: talking about hardening your house against wildfires. We've already discussed
Speaker 2: the longer term. Okay, you've got some time to invest
Speaker 2: some money into getting your house better prepared for wildfire.
Speaker 2: Now we've turned the discussion for this morning's advice. Of course,
Speaker 2: all brought to you by the Mountain Fire and the
Speaker 2: fact that these these fires that kick up, they awaken
Speaker 2: us to the fact that oh yeah, it's fire season,
Speaker 2: and all it takes is is one ignition and just
Speaker 2: the right wind conditions to have, you know, a devastating
Speaker 2: fire like the Mountain Fire has already proven to be.
Speaker 2: So what now do we do in terms of where
Speaker 2: did my note go here? Let me find where are
Speaker 2: we going in terms of fire hardening your home When
Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is you don't have much
Speaker 2: time if you know, we haven't invested in, uh, the
Speaker 2: longer term fixes of changing outdoors and windows or emberproofing
Speaker 2: our events, what do we do if now you're inside
Speaker 2: the fire zone, you may be inside the evacuation zone.
Speaker 2: And I've talked about two or three basic things. One
Speaker 2: is getting the junk away from the side of your house,
Speaker 2: ignitable things away from your house. Two, if you haven't
Speaker 2: fire hardened your or ember proofed your vents for your attic,
Speaker 2: just tape them up, tape them up, cover them, okay,
Speaker 2: so that embers don't have the opportunity of getting in
Speaker 2: you just take it off later, okay. But number three,
Speaker 2: and this is something that I have found a great
Speaker 2: deal of peace of mind giving clients and a friends
Speaker 2: peace of mind with. I wish everyone who lives within
Speaker 2: the possibility of a fire zone would consider this for
Speaker 2: their home. And this applies, by the way, even if
Speaker 2: there's a house on fire next to you for a
Speaker 2: completely different reason. And that is fire gel. Fire Gel
Speaker 2: has shown itself to be a massively effective defensive product.
Speaker 2: You can order it right now today and have it
Speaker 2: in very very short order, and then you are ready
Speaker 2: for an evacuation. Now, what is firejel? Firejel is a substance.
Speaker 2: It comes in one to five gallon containers. It is
Speaker 2: totally safe to store, clearly, because it's the whole purpose
Speaker 2: is that it's non flammable. You can store it in
Speaker 2: your garage, you can store it in your outshd, wherever
Speaker 2: the case may be. It will store for years and
Speaker 2: years and be sitting there ready and waiting for you.
Speaker 2: And here's what you do. Let's say you've been called
Speaker 2: in for an evacuation order, all right, you're going to
Speaker 2: have to evacuate. What you do instead of ignoring the
Speaker 2: evacuation order like so many people foolishly do and staying
Speaker 2: home with your garden hose as if you and your
Speaker 2: garden hose are going to effectively defend your home against
Speaker 2: a twenty to forty foot wall of wildfire flame, you
Speaker 2: don't do that. What you do, though, is prior to evacuating,
Speaker 2: as you're getting all the stuff ready to get out
Speaker 2: of your house. You'll grab your garden hose and you
Speaker 2: will hook up these fire gel containers to your garden hose.
Speaker 2: They're set up with one of those you know, spray
Speaker 2: drawing devices that draw the chemical out of the container,
Speaker 2: mix it with water, and it becomes a foamy paste
Speaker 2: that basically sprays out of your garden hose, and you
Speaker 2: spray down the side of the house that is going
Speaker 2: to be facing the open space or the fire.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You spray the roof, you spray the eaves, you spray
Speaker 2: the walls, the windows, the doors, everything down. It clings,
Speaker 2: It clings to the side of your home. It clings
Speaker 2: to everything. You can spray down the patio furniture, you
Speaker 2: can spray down plants that are close to the house.
Speaker 2: Anything that you can reach with this gel, you spray
Speaker 2: it down with the gel clings for depending on weather conditions,
Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours. Now, that may not
Speaker 2: seem like a long period of time, but if the
Speaker 2: line of fire does reach your home, it's going to
Speaker 2: move through very quickly. In minutes, it's going to move
Speaker 2: through and pass your home. That's the key element, that's
Speaker 2: the key moment. When this fire gel, which is incredibly
Speaker 2: incredibly protective of a home. Really shines, really really shines.
Speaker 2: And what happens is the fire moves through the home,
Speaker 2: surfaces that are covered in the gel are protected, so
Speaker 2: fire doesn't likely enter in through broken windows or through
Speaker 2: those events, or whatever the case may be. When the
Speaker 2: evacuation order is cleared and you get to return to
Speaker 2: your home, whether the home has been threatened by the
Speaker 2: fire or not, if the gel is there or not,
Speaker 2: you simply get the hose back out and you just
Speaker 2: rinse it all down and it comes off. It rinses off,
Speaker 2: and you're done. Now, how much does fire gel cost
Speaker 2: for an abe size home? A supply of fire gel
Speaker 2: to protect an average size home, and you'll you could
Speaker 2: talk to the fire gel people about your specific home size,
Speaker 2: but it's about seven hundred dollars, and that it's a
Speaker 2: chunk of change. But when you think about protecting a
Speaker 2: home worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, your home, your
Speaker 2: family home, having it still standing, seven hundred bucks not
Speaker 2: a big deal. This is something those of you who
Speaker 2: are concerned even about the Mountain fire encroaching towards you
Speaker 2: now could potentially order and have sitting and ready for
Speaker 2: you and certainly everybody within the sound of my voice
Speaker 2: who is concerned about any other fires that may happen
Speaker 2: this fire season. This is something that can happen very
Speaker 2: very quickly. Now, you got to get on the stick
Speaker 2: with this. The fire gel that I have that I
Speaker 2: know the most about, and they are not the only
Speaker 2: one on the market. They are simply the one that
Speaker 2: I have been very very pleased with and and known
Speaker 2: the most about is Barricade Barricade fire gel, and you
Speaker 2: can find them at firegel dot com. Read all about
Speaker 2: what it does, how you handle it, and where you
Speaker 2: can order it and how quickly you can get it
Speaker 2: into your home. And again, it is simply something that
Speaker 2: you do like pre evacuation before you have to leave,
Speaker 2: and there is a peace of mind that comes from
Speaker 2: leaving behind a home that has a temporary barrier on.
Speaker 2: It's like putting on a bulletproof jacket, you know, right
Speaker 2: for your house, right before you leave in a war zone. Essentially,
Speaker 2: it's really really good stuff and worth ten times more
Speaker 2: than what you're paying for it in terms of its
Speaker 2: ability to protect areas of your home that are going
Speaker 2: to be vulnerable to the fire. And there you go.
Speaker 2: So now you know long term hardening short term? What
Speaker 2: do you do if you've been ordered to have accuate?
Speaker 2: My best to everybody who is still facing those fire difficulties.
Speaker 2: When we return, it's time to go to the phones.
Speaker 2: I want to take a couple of calls. The number
Speaker 2: to reach me eight three three two Ask Dean A
Speaker 2: three to three the numeral two. Ask Dane. You can
Speaker 2: call about anything you want, fire questions, construction design, DIY,
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Speaker 2: with your home. You are home with Dean Sharp the
Speaker 2: House Whisper am I Dean Sharp vows Whisper at your service. Uh,
Speaker 2: so glad that you are with us this morning. We've
Speaker 2: been talking about wildfires. I want to turn the page
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: to break, Yes we will. Let's talk to Pete. Pete,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 3: How you doing? I love your show?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I got a question that it concerns your water, like
Speaker 3: you even touch on it, like with the quality of
Speaker 3: houses that are in that area or any area. A
Speaker 3: lot of pretty good percentage of people have tools, and
Speaker 3: I was wondering why more people don't set up a
Speaker 3: generator besides the generators anyway, and have a pump that
Speaker 3: uses the water from the pool to like water down
Speaker 3: you even touch song. Why you wouldn't want to have
Speaker 3: like the garden hose. It's not going to do it
Speaker 3: that much. And with even if a lot of even
Speaker 3: if that was good, a lot of people are using
Speaker 3: the water pressure and there's no water pressure because everybody's
Speaker 3: using it. So if you had your own water pressure,
Speaker 3: maybe you could even get that gell of stuff that
Speaker 3: you were talking about out farther or better or just
Speaker 3: more reliably. But then you would have your own power
Speaker 3: and water to do it.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, good point. It's a really good point, Pete.
Speaker 2: I will I'm gonna tell you one thing though, just
Speaker 2: just so everybody knows. And by the way, there are
Speaker 2: systems out there that you can purchase for your home
Speaker 2: that are pumps and generators that work off of you know,
Speaker 2: backup power in case the power goes down and uh.
Speaker 2: And the kind of pump that you could actually use
Speaker 2: in a reservoir and a pool would be you know,
Speaker 2: a reservoir kind of situation. There are systems that are
Speaker 2: set up that way. There are high volume sprinkler hillside
Speaker 2: sprinkler systems that are built to actually go off of
Speaker 2: reservoir and auxiliary pump power. Not a lot of people
Speaker 2: invest in them, but they are a reality. You mentioned pools.
Speaker 2: I just want to mention this about pools. Yeah, technically
Speaker 2: you can use pool water to fight fire in certain situations.
Speaker 2: It is not widely recommended, though, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: It's the presence of chlorine chemicals in a pool that
Speaker 2: can potentially damage fire fighting equipment or create toxic fumes
Speaker 2: when that water is heated to a certain degree. And
Speaker 2: sometimes some situations, depending on the materials that are burning,
Speaker 2: chlorine in the water can actually believe it or not
Speaker 2: exacerbate a fire, depending on the chemical reactions that are involved. Now,
Speaker 2: somebody asked me a while back, why doesn't the fire
Speaker 2: department just utilize the pools on the fire line. They do,
Speaker 2: sometimes they will, but they use it really as a
Speaker 2: last resort because they don't want the chlorine messing up
Speaker 2: their own equipment, causing any corrosion in their own equipment.
Speaker 2: And there you go. Now, just so you know, if
Speaker 2: you own a pool, and I don't want you to
Speaker 2: get upset if suddenly you find a fire department helicopter
Speaker 2: hovering over your pool, dipping a large water gathering device
Speaker 2: down into your swimming pool as if somebody is violating
Speaker 2: your eminent domain. Nope, the Fire Department cal Fire has
Speaker 2: the right during a wildfire emergency to utilize any available
Speaker 2: water anywhere, the water in your pool, in order to
Speaker 2: fight this fire. They have the legal right to do that,
Speaker 2: and occasionally they will, although you're not gonna find it
Speaker 2: happening all that much. It's not that common again because
Speaker 2: they avoid getting their equipment mixed with chlorinated water. And
Speaker 2: also the big water gathering like the kind of the
Speaker 2: water buckets as it were. They actually need a good
Speaker 2: depth of water to gather water from and most pools
Speaker 2: aren't deep enough for them to effectively scoop out of it.
Speaker 2: But it has happened and it will happen again. Really
Speaker 2: good question, buddy, Just raising the question, Pete, of why
Speaker 2: not water in the pools. You definitely have a use
Speaker 2: the resource there, but you got to be careful because
Speaker 2: of the chlorine. All right, When we return more of
Speaker 2: your calls your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones, shall we. I want
Speaker 2: to talk to Marcia. Hey, Marcia, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hi Dein Hey. I love your show and I've got
Speaker 4: a question. I would love to hire you to design
Speaker 4: our new approach to our home from the street, but
Speaker 4: I know I can't afford you. So can you refer
Speaker 4: me to a free online home design website?
Speaker 2: M I really shouldn't.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, no, here's the reason.
Speaker 2: It's not pretty. It's not for any legal reasons. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get in trouble here. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: here's the thing with with free and I'm using air
Speaker 2: quotes here free home design tools online free free is uh.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are there's an exception out there. And
Speaker 2: if somebody has found an exception, because quite honestly, I
Speaker 2: don't search the internet for home design uh software, free
Speaker 2: online stuff. But if there's an exception out there, please
Speaker 2: let me know and I will share it with everybody.
Speaker 2: But when you search for free online design tools, you're
Speaker 2: gonna find hundreds of websites saying, oh, use awesome, it's
Speaker 2: always free to begin. In other words, whatever the most basic,
Speaker 2: basic thing to kind of get you. I don't want
Speaker 2: to use the word suckered into committing to a plan
Speaker 2: with them. But but and then in order to go
Speaker 2: further the way to get to the stuff that you
Speaker 2: really would like to do, then you're gonna have to subscribe,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna have to pay for the upgrade,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna have to end da da da.
Speaker 2: And I know of no free online design tools worth
Speaker 2: anything that are just free. They all start free and
Speaker 2: then they go to other places. But I will recommend
Speaker 2: this to you, Okay, there, I'm not that's saying that
Speaker 2: there isn't a a It's a bit of investment, a
Speaker 2: little bit of investment in your time. But Chief Architect
Speaker 2: is arguably the best home design CAD design tools out there.
Speaker 2: In our opinion, we actually use the full suite of
Speaker 2: Chief Architect for all of the plans that we create,
Speaker 2: and they have levels of software starting with Little Baby
Speaker 2: Design software for di wires all the way up to
Speaker 2: the full professional suite that we use, which is something
Speaker 2: that would be wasted on you and you wouldn't want to.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a whole thing. So but if you
Speaker 2: go to Chief Architect dot com, I just look up
Speaker 2: Chief Architect software and look for Home Designer, the DIY
Speaker 2: version of Home Designer. I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: that the Home Design Suite, which is a really amazingly
Speaker 2: capable little tool, is like one hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 2: dollars and it's not a subscription. It's a one time thing.
Speaker 2: You would download it, you would have it, and it's
Speaker 2: going to take you some time to get used to
Speaker 2: how to work with it. But if that's the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that you're looking for, then then I'm going
Speaker 2: to push you towards the baby version of the software
Speaker 2: that we actually use to produce these things. And included
Speaker 2: in that would be you know, interior three D renderings
Speaker 2: and so on. And I believe, I believe I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: exterior landscape or area plot plan design as well, that
Speaker 2: you can start to fiddle with. That's that's where I
Speaker 2: would push you in that direction. And in terms of
Speaker 2: you know, here's the thing if you're interested in a consultation,
Speaker 2: you can always inquire with Tina whether or not that's
Speaker 2: a thing that can happen. You can just go to
Speaker 2: house whisper dot Design and check it out. Whether or not.
Speaker 2: We do a lot of consultations because so many people
Speaker 2: are unable to take advantage of our full design services,
Speaker 2: and we do consultations to help point people in the
Speaker 2: right direction and to kind of break open their thinking
Speaker 2: and get them you just get them thinking in the
Speaker 2: right direction, and sometimes it can just literally make all
Speaker 2: the difference. So don't price me out yet. But I
Speaker 2: don't use the show that's solicit the business, so you
Speaker 2: never hear me talk about this. But anybody can always
Speaker 2: inquire at house whisper dot Design. But the home design
Speaker 2: software that's made from the same people who do the
Speaker 2: full scale CAD architectural software that we utilize in our
Speaker 2: business every single day, and that one I can recommend
Speaker 2: highly for one hundred and twenty nine dollars. It is
Speaker 2: it's worth way way.
Speaker 4: More than that, okay. Chief Architect.
Speaker 2: Chief Architect is the site that you go for and
Speaker 2: then look for their DIY. You know, we look under
Speaker 2: products for their design suite and under the DIY section
Speaker 2: because that's okay, that's the amateur homeowner stuff and you'll
Speaker 2: find it there.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome, Marsha. Thanks for your call, and
Speaker 2: thanks for listening to the show. All right, when we
Speaker 2: come back, we're gonna try and fit at least one
Speaker 2: more call in and wrap it up for the day.
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Speaker 2: It's time to go back to the phones. Let me
Speaker 2: throw a dartboard at the caller line right now. See
Speaker 2: who we are left with today. We've got more phone
Speaker 2: calls than we've got time for. I want to tell everybody.
Speaker 2: If I leave you on the line and we don't
Speaker 2: get to your call today, then you can always call
Speaker 2: back tomorrow and we will give you a fast pass
Speaker 2: to the front of the line. Is that dating myself?
Speaker 2: Fast pass? Probably lightning lane. I don't know what is
Speaker 2: the what's one of those things? I don't know? Tina
Speaker 2: is like you know what, I live among Disney snobs.
Speaker 2: That's the problem. And they're always correcting my terminology, and
Speaker 2: that's a problem. Anyway, we'll give you a pass to
Speaker 2: the front of the line. How about that. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: talk to go go in van Ey's go go. Welcome home.
Speaker 6: Hey Dean, I just want to thank you for your show,
Speaker 6: and you're.
Speaker 5: Kind of like the voice of reason in my darker days.
Speaker 6: And my fantasy of your life with Tina and the
Speaker 6: chickens is just heaven heaven, So thank you for that.
Speaker 7: And I've recently become the guardian of my father's home
Speaker 7: is very old and it's very unwell, and there's a
Speaker 7: pipe where the washer dragon and outside of my house
Speaker 7: that's about i don't know, three or four inches.
Speaker 6: Like a PVC looking like that comes out about me
Speaker 6: see about two or three inches, and it's got a
Speaker 6: wing nut and you know.
Speaker 5: A big screw singing out.
Speaker 7: And I found it popped.
Speaker 6: Off in the middle of the heat, and it was
Speaker 6: all shriveled. It didn't look like it worked for anything.
Speaker 6: And the plumber came out and just specked it back on,
Speaker 6: and of course it popped off again.
Speaker 5: And it fixed it.
Speaker 7: I don't know what is making it pop off.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it's for. And it sometimes there's
Speaker 6: water dripping out of it, and where that is the
Speaker 6: steco is the paint's coming off the specle?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 5: I live in the bird houses, which you.
Speaker 6: Might know the bird houses, which are lovely, and so
Speaker 6: I don't know what the heck that is. And I
Speaker 6: still want to blow up. And I have a cinder
Speaker 6: block wall that has just you know, it's separated where
Speaker 6: I could put maybe my pink finger through, And I
Speaker 6: want to know, should I just pick some silicon in there?
Speaker 6: For now?
Speaker 5: What should I do?
Speaker 3: What? What?
Speaker 5: What is that mystery pipe?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so you're saying it's behind the washer and dryer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's on the out side of the house.
Speaker 2: It's on the outside of the house. It's uh so
Speaker 2: it's an ext it's a complete exterior piper. It's sticking
Speaker 2: out it's is it is the pipe, yeah, sticking out
Speaker 2: of the wall of the house. And and it's got
Speaker 2: this it's got this little temporary uh rubberized pressure uh
Speaker 2: plug in it is it coming.
Speaker 6: Out when he replaced it? Yeah, he put a piece
Speaker 6: of rubber on him. Then he screwed it in. And
Speaker 6: so from the outside you can't see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And it's got a.
Speaker 5: Wing and a big screw sticking out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's a pressurized plug.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And but I'm wondering what what what the function of
Speaker 2: that that PVC pipe is Is it a white PVC
Speaker 2: pipe or is it black?
Speaker 6: You know, I can't tell a lot. They painted around it,
Speaker 6: and you know these are older houses.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh wait, here's another one.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I didn't even notice this because this one's
Speaker 6: got like a cemented capin and that's where the kitchen
Speaker 6: sink is. So is that kind of for the sink
Speaker 6: or something. I mean, I'm worried because the pressure's building up.
Speaker 6: It was enough to blow it off twice. And if
Speaker 6: he just so, okay at it all right, I.
Speaker 2: Would I wouldn't be too worried about it. What it
Speaker 2: sounds to me like you've got there is some kind
Speaker 2: of vent. Okay, it's a vent pipe that's connected to
Speaker 2: the drains. The the why there's a tea going to
Speaker 2: the outside of the house. Maybe somebody thought back in
Speaker 2: the day that this would be a good clean out
Speaker 2: location for the U in case there was a clog
Speaker 2: in those vents. If you got one by the kitchen sink,
Speaker 2: and then there's one behind the washer. And dryer. It
Speaker 2: sounds like a vent clean out. You could actually if
Speaker 2: you got back away from the house and looked up
Speaker 2: on the roof and you saw a pipe sticking out
Speaker 2: of the roof in the generally aligned with where you
Speaker 2: see it in the wall, then what we're dealing with
Speaker 2: is event it could be PVC. It's probably ABS, which
Speaker 2: is black plastic. A lot of people just think PVC
Speaker 2: means plastic anyway, And it sounds like there's a temporary
Speaker 2: plug in that as a cleanout. There are better plugs
Speaker 2: for it than that than the interior kind of plug
Speaker 2: where you crank down and they put pressure against it.
Speaker 2: Those are usually not the kind that we would use
Speaker 2: on that. Uh, if there's anything enough lips sticking out,
Speaker 2: then you could use a low pressure, low viscosity PVC
Speaker 2: cement and just glue a cap on, or you could
Speaker 2: use a cap that covers over the top with a
Speaker 2: hose clamp. That's what I would advise you or your
Speaker 2: plumber to do is just let's just get the right
Speaker 2: cap on the thing so stops blowing off every time
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of pressure. And also let's make
Speaker 2: sure that we know why there's pressure in the line
Speaker 2: as far as what's causing the back pressure in those lines,
Speaker 2: whether we've got a plug up top and it's not
Speaker 2: actually venting out properly. But it's probably a relatively simple fix.
Speaker 2: But let's get a plumber back out who will tell
Speaker 2: you exactly. First of all, tell me what those lines are,
Speaker 2: tell me what they're doing, don't just do a thing
Speaker 2: and leave, And then tell me what's the best way
Speaker 2: and most efficient way of capping it off. I bet
Speaker 2: if I took a look at it, we could figure
Speaker 2: out in like thirty seconds. But I can't see it
Speaker 2: right now. So let's have a plumber out who's actually
Speaker 2: going to educate you as well as resolved the problem.
Speaker 2: But I doubt it's anything too serious. If it's a
Speaker 2: larger line like that, it's a vent line coming off
Speaker 2: of a drain. Nothing's going to explode or blow up,
Speaker 2: I promise, But call the plumber back out.
Speaker 6: Go go.
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