Home with Dean Sharp

Today’s first caller lives in a one-bedroom apartment on the ground floor, and he needs to boost the strength of waterflow from the kitchen sink, and really, every faucet in the house. Is there a way he can do this without tearing out the wall to replace the pipes? 

The next caller lives in a house built on a granite mountain and is wondering if she needs earthquake insurance. She also wanted to know about how ...

Meanwhile, over in Burbank, a caller wants to put in a door that leads from his living room to his garage conversion and needs Dean’s expert design advice on placement and construction. 

A caller in Texas lives in a house that's just three years old, but the furnace has fungus! What can he do to remedy that? 

To more on copper pipes, one listener is wondering ho...

Today on another beautiful all-calls Saturday, Dean’s first caller has solar power paneling, which she owns rather than leases, installed on her home, and it isn’t producing energy as it’s meant to, even though it’s only two years old. 

Our next caller is re-piping her house for a remodel and needs advice on copper pipi...

Today’s first caller is doing a remodel of the family room and is wondering about bias lighting behind a big-screen, flat-panel TV.

Next up, a caller was wondering how long you can keep your water heater beyond the warranty and before it leaks?

Another caller needs to replace her front exterior door and is wondering if she should go for fiber glass, timber, or whatever options Dean may recommend.

And what about water in natur...

Following all this marimba and xylophone chitchat, Dean heads back to the phone lines. In the second hour, the first caller had safety concerns following last year’s big wildfires that devastated parts of SoCal. To that end, he’s been researching fire prevention devices for homes and is wondering if there’s a trade show that will offer all these tools and...

As half the U.S. freezes over with a diagonal storm swiping across the country causing a state of emergency in 16 states, Dean is grateful we live in sunny Southern California where icy weather rarely touches us. 

Today’s first caller has a question about Dean’s recommendations regarding the self-sealing vapor barrier that replaces traditional roofing...

When it comes to home design, there are hundreds of architectural styles and thousands of variations on those, but if you visit any home in any city or town across America, there will be one of four styles of home.  

So, what are those four types of homes? The first is the saddest, it’s the house of neglect. In Dean’s expert eyes, the second one is nearly as bad as the house of neglect — it’s the house ...

When it comes to home design, there are hundreds of architectural styles and thousands of variations on those, but if you visit any home in any city or town across America, there will be one of four styles of home.  

So, what are those four types of homes? The first is the saddest, it’s the house of neglect. In Dean’s expert eyes, the second one is nearly as bad as the house of neglect — it’s the house ...

Solar power? So many questions that Dean is ready to answer! Spoiler alert: Dean is a fan of solar energy, especially here in California, where it will still save you money. 

What can Dean tell us about acrylic stucco finishes? Turns out, a lot! 

The last caller has a dark corner in his bedroom and he is trying to figure how to bring in the daylight using LED lighting. 

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Dean’s first caller is having hot-water troubles in her kitchen and needs to know what is necessary to get hot water to her sink, like, yesterday! 

The next caller is in his brand-new house. It sits on poured concrete slabs that are reinforced with metal bars, and there is a sign placed near the slabs by the builders that says “do not drill” — what does that mean?...