September 29, 2024 • 31 mins
Dean answers listener calls about roof tiles, exposed deck at a beach house, firebox cleaning, advantages of building a garage or carport, sealing oak floors and replacing a hollow pocket door with something that would provide better sound proofing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the
house Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Custom home Builder,
Custom home Designer. Most importantly today, your guide to turning
your ordinary house into something truly extraordinary. I tell you
what we're doing today. It's an all calls day. It
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is it you set the agenda. Anything that is going
on with your home, whether it be construction issues, DIY questions,
design concerns, anything at all. The phone lines are open.
I am here to help you sort it all out.
We'll put our heads together and we'll get it sorted.
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I promise. Here is the number to reach me, and
these lines are open now. The number to reach me
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three, the
numeral two. Ask Dean's ask Dean's, Deans's No, No, ask Dean. Okay. Oh,
I'm so distracted because it's autumn. I cannot even think straight.
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Autumn is my absolute favorite time of the year, no question,
Love it, love it, love it Autumn, you know. And
I'm going to insert a Lord of the Rings disclaimer here.
Lord of the Rings Nerd Disclaimer. The most dreamy and
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fanciful place in Tolkien's universe. In Tolkien's Middle Earth is Rivendell,
the home of the high Elves and of Lord Elrond.
But the magic of Rivendale is not just that elves
look there. It's that within the borders of Rivendell, it's
always autumn. That is my idea of heaven on Earth.
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I kid you not. I wrote my love some autumn
thoughts all by myself this week. Well, good job, and
well thank you, and I'm going to share them now.
Feel free to quote me, by the way, and share
these and then send me the residuals after the fact,
because they're that good. Okay, we're gonna ease into it.
We're gonna ease into it. So the first one was this,
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I wouldn't want to live in a world with no octobers.
See see either See that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Be born.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's true. It's also the month of your birthday, which
is doubly why. Okay, so that's it. How about this one?
Falling leaves show us how beautiful it is to let
things go and how precious are the things that remain.
M That was a good one. Here is my favorite one, though,
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This is this is all my brain. This happened this week.
Autumn may not be so much a season unto itself,
but rather the magic that happens when the other seasons
gathered together in the same room at the same time.
I think that's true, because it's a little warm, and
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there's a whole flurry of life taking place, and it's
a little cold, and I just imagine winter and spring
and summer sitting down, and what you get is autumn
as a result. Anyway, Okay, yeah, that's enough. Uh, we're
gonna take some calls. If we do all of this right,
we're gonna bring some light into your morning and make
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you feel glad that you were here. I'm running short
on time, so here we go. Introductions. Just to the
lady sitting across the table from me, my better half,
my design partner, and my best buddy in all the world.
Of course, Tina is here. Welcome home, Welcome home. What
do you think of my autumn thoughts? I love them.
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I love autumn too, Autumn and spring. Spring is great.
I do. I do love spring. You would think of something,
and now there are people listening to us all across
the nation or the planet, may be even you would think,
because people think about sunny southern California that the summers
are amazing. You know, I'm born and raised here. The
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summer is actually my least favorite time in Southern California.
I mean it's I don't have anything against summer. It's
just too hot, too much, to to to too much,
you know. So it's like people can fuse like palm Springs, Like, oh,
palm springs. You don't go to palm Springs in the
summer when it's one hundred and seventy eight degrees. You
go during off season in the winter, you know. And
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so Southern California shines the rest of the year because,
you know, while everybody else is snowed in or freezing
or you know, whatever the case may be, we just
have you know, mild, sunny days throughout the rest of
the year. But anyway, yeah, summer is not my it's
not the peak of my favorite time. It really isn't.
But now we're rolling into it, even though I know
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it's still warm. You can so feel it though, right
do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You feel?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You can so feel it out there? All right? On
that note, how about we go to it. We're gonna
take some calls anything you want to talk about. You're
in charge of the show. I can't wait to find
out what the show's about today. Because you're in charge design, DIY, construction, anything.
We're going to solve it for you. I promise we
will get our heads together and we will answer those questions.
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So let's get to it, all right, Let's talk to Hilda. Hilda,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Finding good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So my question is why I'm getting warm waters on
an outdoor fasset When I water it's not even look.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Warmer's warm warm? What will be their reason?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's not actually very uncommon in the middle of southern
California summers because the water lines that are running through
our irrigation systems outside the house, they don't even make
it into the house. They are branched off of the
main riser and usually those lines are very shallow. They're
relatively shallow, and the manifold that is the main water
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where the main water line enters the house and the
irrigations lines break off from it. Manifolds are usually somewhat exposed,
and so in the middle of blazing hot summer days
or continuously warm days when for hours on end, water
is just sitting inside those lines and the manifold is
being having the sun beat down on it eventually, not
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unlike a water heater. The water inside those lines, if
it's not moving and drawing on new fresh water from
down beneath in the street, that water is gonna warm up,
and sometimes it can get incredibly warm. In fact, we
used to warn our kids like, hey, when you turn
on a hose, make sure that that hundred foot hose
has got one hundred maybe seventy five feet of water
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sitting in it that's been out there in the sun baking.
Don't put your mouth to that hose water. Let it
run a little bit to cool off. So really, all
you're talking about, Hilda, is replacing the water that's been
sitting in those lines heating up with cool water to follow. Now,
did I lose her for a second there? All right?
So Hilda, if for some reason are you back, Did
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I get you back?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay. Now, if in the middle of winter your irrigation
lines outside the house are boiling hot, then we have
a plumbing problem. Somebody has crisscrossed a line and you're
actually getting hot water from the water heater somehow fed
into those lines. But if it's not something that happens
in the dead of winter. If it's only something that
you notice in spring and summer, then it's just that
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your water lines are being exposed to a lot of
heat and a lot of sunlight, and they're sitting there
in between usage, and that's why the water is so warm.
If it's anything other than that, call a plumber, have
them check it out. Otherwise, maybe put that water mane
a little bit, maybe move a plant over there, get
it a little bit more in the shade, and just
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deal with the fact that you've got hot water sitting
in the lines. How about some more of your calls
when we return. You are listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hey, let's talk to Dave. Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I have a roof. It's an ordinary shingle. I guess
you'd call it, you know, composite tile at least twenty
five twenty seven years old, and I've heard that there
is a way to seal it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, so what do you are you looking to just
kind of put off the replacement, because it sounds like
you're in that zone where it's time to start thinking
about a new roof. But if your tiles, if the
comp shingles are not literally curling up and breaking, then yeah,
there are seilers out there that are relatively inexpensive, especially
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you know, relative to the cost of a new roof
that can I have seen extend the life of the
roof a few years now. It's not going to just
re up your roof. It's not going to give you
another thirty years worth of time out of it. But
assuming that the underlayment is in good shape, and assuming
that the shingles themselves are not so brittle now that
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to touch them is to crack them, then a seiler
can sort of remoisture eye the asphalt embedded paper that
the shingles are based upon can help to keep the
granules in place, and you know, the way I like
to put it, will help the roof limp along for
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you know, maybe another three, four, five years. But honesty
is most important to me, and so when it comes
to your roof, if you're at that point, you should
be looking at least in the longer term for replacing
the roof. But yeah, there are seilers out there, and
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definitely please definitely don't get a sealer that has a
coloration to it because all of the subtle hues and
comple flexity of your roof shingle, if you get a
colorized seiler, it's just going to flatten it all out.
It's all going to be one color and you're not
going to like the way that it looks, Dave. So
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definitely a clearcoat seiler. But yeah, they can and will help,
but they're not going to take a thirty year old
roof and make it a brand new roof again. They're
going to maybe give you another five years. Dave. Thank
you so much for your call, and good luck with that,
but start planning for that new roof. Hey, Darryl, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have a very narrow house at the beach at
Huntington Beach. It's three thousand square feet, you know, three story,
but it's only nineteen feet wide. And on the second
floor I have two deck's, a small one in the
back and a pretty good size one in the front,
and then on the top kind of in the middle
of the house, there's about a two hundred little bit
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north of two hundred square butt deck.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I have a.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Jacuzzi sitting on it now, and I'm I'm stretching my
head trying to figure out what to do with these
decks to give them utility and to make them look better.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, so I got a beach house, and we got
some exposed decks. We got we got a rooftop deck, right,
that's the one way up on top.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, it's about two hundred square feet. I have one
coming off my master bedroom in the front. That's a
pretty good sized deck. It's probably seventy five square feet
and maybe not quite that much, maybe fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, it's a good sized deck.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I have a small one in the back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, So here are and these are all walkable decks.
These are all fully accessible decks. Yes, yes, So here
is my blanket advice for you and your decks, even
though I haven't seen them. Nine times out of ten,
I'm going to recommend this number one. You make sure
that those decks are beautifully, painstakingly waterproofed. Setting that aside.
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I'll tell you what I'm not a fan of. I'm
not a huge, huge fan of all of the fancy
decking finishes that some deck waterproofing companies like to build
into their decks. In other words. They say, well, we'll
fiberglass your deck and we'll put like a stone finish
on it, or we'll give you this effect or that effect.
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You know, if you had no other choice budgetarily, that
would be a good move. But this is what I prefer.
After the deck is fully waterproofed. I prefer the kinds
of decking systems where we can basically elevate a wood
deck or even a stone or tile deck on top
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of the waterproofing. And what I mean on top, I
don't mean setting the wood directly on the waterproofing, or
setting the tile in a mortar bed directly on the waterproofing.
I'm talking about the kinds of like high strength porcelain
tiles that now come in systems where the entire floor
area stands on tiny little legs. We use these in
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commercial buildings all the time. A lot of commercial buildings
have flat roof areas that they want to convert to
decks for people to be able to walk out on.
We don't compromise the roof system at all. We don't
send any screws down into it, We put no holes
in it. This whole thing rests on top. Water moves
right through these surfaces to the waterproofing underneath, and still
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the deck gets to do its drainage job. But there
are ways to build either wood decking which is gorgeous,
or a tile or a porcelain large format porcelain tile
decking without that basically just sits on top of this deck.
It's permanent unless you have to replace it one day,
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but it doesn't penetrate or mess with the waterproofing. And
what's even better in regards to all that is the
fact that that waterproofing system will last even longer because
this really nice decking material that is esthetically pleasing and
that you want to spend time on, is actually protecting
those deck areas of waterproofing from their number one enemy,
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which is not water but UV sunlight that eventually breaks
them down and causes you to have to replace them.
So that would be my blanket recommendation that you would
take a look at that. And if you do a
search online for decking systems that sit on top of
a waterproof deck, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
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Thanks for your question. Let's talk to Angel. Hey Angel,
welcome home. Hello, Heyboddy, how can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
My fireplace is kind of black smoke.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How do I clean it?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You mean inside the firebox. It's really hard firebox. Yeah,
you could use a wire brush. You could also use
after you get all the loose soot off of it.
You can also use like a bleaching kind of cleanser,
like oxy clean something like that. There are some good
stone cleaners out there. But I tell you what I like.
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What I like to do is I like to suggest
that people don't fight against cleaning the black off of
their fireplace. Clean it all out, loosen up all of that,
vacuum out all of the soot and black that you can,
and then go get yourself about ten dollars worth of
high heat barbecue paint, black barbecue paint, and just paint
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the entire the entire firebox black, permanently. Just paint it
all black. That way, the next time it gets sooty
or smoky, h it doesn't even matter anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Of course, you can brush it out and clean it
out every couple of years, but to paint the whole
firebox black and it will stay beautiful. And every time
you have a fire, it's gonna look like this gorgeous
jewel set against like a black velvet jeweler's cloth fire
against a black fire black box background looks fantastic. So
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you can either keep fighting to keep it clean or
just painstall black and it'll look fantastic anyway, Aunchell, thanks
for your call so much. I appreciate it. Really good call.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty Whitney Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I have a quick question for you. You know, I'm
thinking of relocating out at California too, along the coast
of North Carolina, and I've been back there three times now,
checking out very the weather and everything. And I noticed
the house the other day that I saw online obviously,
and I had the real estate agent look at it
and send me some video. But I noticed one of
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the items that the house didn't have was a garage.
It just has a long driveway, and I didn't know,
do you think it's worth the investment to put into
either a car port or a garage, into something like that,
or do you think it would be better to find
a house that has more of the items that I
feel are you know, are essential as far.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
As that goes, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Worth the investment, it is?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, So I would stack it up. You know, there
are probably three or four factors. You know, I'm guessing
here as I'm kind of doing train of consciousness here,
but uh, number one, you know, not for as many
people as have garages, I would say, I don't know,
and this is a completely unscientific poll, but I think
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probably only half the folks who have garages park in
their garages. So really that lets you know right now
that that a garage is either a yeah, it's a
place to park your car if you're committed to parking
your car indoors, and I get it in a place
like North Carolina, I mean sometimes you know, you get
some pretty hardcore rains and even the occasional hurricane going there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So thinking a little bit, yeah, you may want.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
To shelter that vehicle at times. But and then storage
is another issue. So if you're not an indoor car
park I'm not, but you know, I live in southern California,
so you know, what's the big deal here about keeping
your car outside per se? But storage is another thing.
So I would say this, if the house is the
house that you want, and the storage is adequate, and
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you're and you're looking and the price is right. You know,
of all the things that you could build on your property,
a garage is the least expensive of all the things
to build as a necessory building because really, you know,
it's just four walls in a roof. You know, you
don't have to run sewer out there, you don't have
to run water out there. You're gonna run power out there,
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but that's about it. So it's the least expensive build
of anything. So I think if the price of the house,
if the house, you're you're falling in love with the house,
if you've got room on the property, and the price
of the house is right, then just consider the options
of you know what, I'm buying this house and I'm
gonna build a garage.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know if it was worth You know,
you obviously probably want to hire an architect to design
it properly and make it look like it represents the
you know, the original house a bit.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, you'd want to make sure the roof pitch and
it's really not that hard to do. Whether you know
an architect. Maybe you could actually find an approved plan
at the city and you may want to call around
if the the township that your house that you're thinking
about buying. Uh, they may even have a standard plan
for a garage, and all you would have to do
they've already accepted it. A standard plan is something that
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a city has already said, listen, if you build it
like this, you don't need an architect or an engineer
because we've already done it all. You just sign on
and make sure it gets built like this. And sometimes
they'll just allow you to customize the roof pitch to
match the roof pitch of the existing house and then
cover it with whatever shingles or siding that that, you know,
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because that's just superficial stuff. So check and see if
there's a standard plan for a garage in that municipality.
And and you know, you may be building this thing
pretty inexpensively at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And I assume car port's probably even less expensive than
a full fledged garage with you know, so siding and
storage and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, I mean, because because at that point, a carport
and now if it's a waterproof, you know, rainproof carport,
you got some roofing issues. But apart from that, the
car port is just you know, it's the roof without
the walls again, though, you're gonna want to make sure
it gets engineered because you get in some hurricane level winds.
You don't want that car port, do you know. You
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don't want the wind getting underneath it and pulling it
off the side of the house. So just make sure
that the engineering is sound no matter what you do.
But you know, I would not let the lack of
that stand in the way of the right house for
the right price. I just wouldn't because they're pretty housey
to add on.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The house is like three hundred and twenty thousand, and
it's like a half an acre, and it's I've checked
the areas out in the past. I just got back
from there a month ago, a few weeks, a couple
of weeks ago, and you know, it's a beautiful lot
with beautiful trees and everything. That's just that was the
one thing laughing on it that I thought, you know,
it is gould be important to me, you know, So
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right anyways, well it's.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
A beautiful part of the country, Whitney. So just do
your homework. Do you do diligence, look at every option
and things I'm going to work out for you. Good
luck with that. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, thank you, Deane, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
No problem. We'll talk soon, all right, tell you what.
Let's talk to Pat. Hey, Pat, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
My house is dot in nineteen twenty two and it
had the original oak force, so twenty years ago and
we had the house remodel. We pulled up the carpet
and they were like new. So there's charaqesrim and they're
just beautiful. So now it's been a while, so I
took TSP. I thought it's time to clean them. Took
TSP in. It took off the old shillak. But now
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and I go to the home depot, it seems like
the new sharraq are just water based and there's no
I think to them, what can I use that's really
strong to shirak my flaws because I want to preserve
them as long as possible. And the hall takes a
beating a lot of traffic. So what do you recommend
to use for sharak or covering coating?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, I got you. No more shillac on your floor,
and that's fine. Believe me, it's totally fine. What you
want now, don't be afraid of what you find at
the store. But here I want you to go to
a good flooring store, and I want you to get
a high quality flooring grade polyurythinge poly poly youre thing
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is essentially a plastic coating. Doesn't matter that it's water based,
doesn't you know that's not that's a non issue. And
we're going to put at least three to four coats
down now. If you don't, if you want to show
the floor is super shiny, then you go with a
normal polyuthing. If you want them to have that very
old world a little bit matte, just satiny finished with
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I love so much because I think it shows off
an old world flow. So well, then you're gonna want
a satin finish, just a satin finish on the polyurethane,
and you're gonna want it, Like I said, put down
to three four coats even more in high traffic areas
if you want not a problem, but polyurythane flooring grade,
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and you'll be able to do that to your floors
and it'll be years before you have to redo it.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's an all calls day, it is it. You set
the agenda, anything that is going on with your home,
whether it be construction issues, DIY questions, design concerns, anything
at all. The phone lines are open. I am here
to help you sort it all out. We'll put our
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heads together and we'll get it sorted. I promise. Here
is the number to reach me, and these lines are open.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
The number to reach me eight three three two ask
dean eight three three to ask Dean. You see, it
just rolls off the tongue on that note. How about
we uh go to it. Uh, We're going to take
some calls. Anything you want to talk about. So let's
get to it. Let's talk to Kate. Hey, Kate, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
My question is the door that separates my office and
my husband's office from our worker home is a pocket door.
We want to get it replaced. I know that it's
important to have the solid core because soundproofing is a
major issue. I just don't know if that makes sense
if pocket doors will provide that. I'm not really quite sure.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Okay, So so the question is, is the question about soundproofing?
Is that what you're you're wondering about?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And that's because yeah, where because it's right in between
our two offices, and that's what we need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
We just soun improved.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You need I got you because you're sitting there in
your office. Your husband's office is right next to you,
in the room next to you, and you need him
to shut the hell up.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's been a couple of years now, so you know,
pandemic strong and I mean working all right, you know
otherwise you.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Know, okay, so uh yeah, yes, it would probably be
a good idea. Soundproofing is uh now, we've done whole
shows on soundproofing. I'll just give you a quick primer
right now. Soundproofing is really something that happens in layers. Uh,
there's no silver bullet. But if we're talking about patching
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up a big hole in the hull of the ship
metaphorically as it were, a pocket door is one of
those holes. And it doesn't matter the door itself. Uh,
you know, whether it's a hollow core door, which as
you probably know, I do not like, or whether it's
a solid core door, because the pocket is hollow. That's
the whole point. The problem with soundproofing a room or
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the pocket door in it is that the pocket is
a hollow, empty airspace and it's not thick enough. The
edges of the pocket aren't thick enough to actually get
some decent insulation in there and deaden the sound. So
when the door is closed, the door effectively is still
open because the pocket is a sound resonating chamber right
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next to the closed door. So yeah, Now the good
news is, if there is some good news to this
that a lot of folks don't realize, is that even
though you look at the wall and you're like, well,
there's the wall and there's the doorway, the fact of
the matter is, structurally, what you have in between your
office and your husband's office is a double door with
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doorway because the header which is supporting that doorway is
going all the way across not just the opening of
the door itself, but also the pocket because the pocket
part of the door is not a structural supporting thing,
it's just sitting underneath the header. So if you were
to take out the door and the pocket frame, you
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would find it less. So let's say, for instance, that
this doorway is two and a half feet wide, a
thirty inch door, you would find that what you have
there is a five foot double door sized opening in
between you and your husband's office. So number one, that
gives you options. One, you can close that wall up
some and if you just still want the single door,
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that means you can frame in and close up the
wall of half of that opening and that can become
fully sound insulated. So that's one thing. Number Two, though
you really want to go kind of sexy with it
and you don't mind the visuals back and forth between
the two of you, you could put in a double
French door, a double door, there even a double glass
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door between the two. Now here's the key, though, if
we want sound control and we want light penetrating both
rooms at the same time, we would do something that
Tina and I it's a trick that we do on
the interiors of homes. We actually with a small home
in our office right beyond our kitchen, we've installed a
hallway door in our home that is a you know,
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French style open grid glass hallway door. But it's not
an interior door. It's an exterior door, meaning it's an
inch and three quarters thick. And because it's an exterior door,
it's dual glazed, meaning there are you know, just like
your windows on your house, there are two pieces of
glass with an air chamber in between for all of
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the glass. So you have an opportunity should you decide
to go this way, you could hang a pair of
exterior grade French doors or glass style doors in between
your offices, have all of that light and airiness opened
up between the two of you, and yet be way
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way quieter than the pocket door that you've got right now.
So you may have on your hands a win win
scenario with that, But just understand the main thing is
the pocket itself is the problem with the sound, not
the door. And if you take out both, you actually
have a double wide door opening there that you can
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play with as you wish. You can either fill it
back in again and keep the opening where it is.
You can move your doorway without any structural changes to
the house whatsoever, no engineers or anything involved. You can
move that doorway left you know, or right you know.
In other words, you can move the you can put
the door the single door where the pocket is now
and fill in the wall where the door is now.
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Whatever works. You've got flexibility because you got a you
have a double wide opening there. But if you go
with the double doors, use exterior doors, and if they're
solid doors, just make sure they're solid core and you're
gonna get your sound insulation the way you want. How's
that sound?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
That sounds amazing? I actually love the French store IDM.
That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
There you go, So you dub. You'll double the light
and the airiness of the room and get more sound
insulation that you've got now with the pocket door.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Exactly awesome Green. So I'm glad I didn't just go
buy a solid pocket door.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Great, awesome.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Hey, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A great weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Okay, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. More of your
calls to come. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
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is it you set the agenda. Anything that is going
on with your home, whether it be construction issues, DIY questions,
design concerns, anything at all. The phone lines are open.
I am here to help you sort it all out.
We'll put our heads together and we'll get it sorted.
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eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three, the
numeral two. Ask Dean's ask Dean's, Deans's No, No, ask Dean. Okay. Oh,
I'm so distracted because it's autumn. I cannot even think straight.
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Autumn is my absolute favorite time of the year, no question,
Love it, love it, love it Autumn, you know. And
I'm going to insert a Lord of the Rings disclaimer here.
Lord of the Rings Nerd Disclaimer. The most dreamy and
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fanciful place in Tolkien's universe. In Tolkien's Middle Earth is Rivendell,
the home of the high Elves and of Lord Elrond.
But the magic of Rivendale is not just that elves
look there. It's that within the borders of Rivendell, it's
always autumn. That is my idea of heaven on Earth.
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I kid you not. I wrote my love some autumn
thoughts all by myself this week. Well, good job, and
well thank you, and I'm going to share them now.
Feel free to quote me, by the way, and share
these and then send me the residuals after the fact,
because they're that good. Okay, we're gonna ease into it.
We're gonna ease into it. So the first one was this,
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I wouldn't want to live in a world with no octobers.
See see either See that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Be born.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's true. It's also the month of your birthday, which
is doubly why. Okay, so that's it. How about this one?
Falling leaves show us how beautiful it is to let
things go and how precious are the things that remain.
M That was a good one. Here is my favorite one, though,
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This is this is all my brain. This happened this week.
Autumn may not be so much a season unto itself,
but rather the magic that happens when the other seasons
gathered together in the same room at the same time.
I think that's true, because it's a little warm, and
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there's a whole flurry of life taking place, and it's
a little cold, and I just imagine winter and spring
and summer sitting down, and what you get is autumn
as a result. Anyway, Okay, yeah, that's enough. Uh, we're
gonna take some calls. If we do all of this right,
we're gonna bring some light into your morning and make
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you feel glad that you were here. I'm running short
on time, so here we go. Introductions. Just to the
lady sitting across the table from me, my better half,
my design partner, and my best buddy in all the world.
Of course, Tina is here. Welcome home, Welcome home. What
do you think of my autumn thoughts? I love them.
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I love autumn too, Autumn and spring. Spring is great.
I do. I do love spring. You would think of something,
and now there are people listening to us all across
the nation or the planet, may be even you would think,
because people think about sunny southern California that the summers
are amazing. You know, I'm born and raised here. The
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summer is actually my least favorite time in Southern California.
I mean it's I don't have anything against summer. It's
just too hot, too much, to to to too much,
you know. So it's like people can fuse like palm Springs, Like, oh,
palm springs. You don't go to palm Springs in the
summer when it's one hundred and seventy eight degrees. You
go during off season in the winter, you know. And
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so Southern California shines the rest of the year because,
you know, while everybody else is snowed in or freezing
or you know, whatever the case may be, we just
have you know, mild, sunny days throughout the rest of
the year. But anyway, yeah, summer is not my it's
not the peak of my favorite time. It really isn't.
But now we're rolling into it, even though I know
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it's still warm. You can so feel it though, right
do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You feel?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You can so feel it out there? All right? On
that note, how about we go to it. We're gonna
take some calls anything you want to talk about. You're
in charge of the show. I can't wait to find
out what the show's about today. Because you're in charge design, DIY, construction, anything.
We're going to solve it for you. I promise we
will get our heads together and we will answer those questions.
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So let's get to it, all right, Let's talk to Hilda. Hilda,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Finding good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So my question is why I'm getting warm waters on
an outdoor fasset When I water it's not even look.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Warmer's warm warm? What will be their reason?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's not actually very uncommon in the middle of southern
California summers because the water lines that are running through
our irrigation systems outside the house, they don't even make
it into the house. They are branched off of the
main riser and usually those lines are very shallow. They're
relatively shallow, and the manifold that is the main water
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where the main water line enters the house and the
irrigations lines break off from it. Manifolds are usually somewhat exposed,
and so in the middle of blazing hot summer days
or continuously warm days when for hours on end, water
is just sitting inside those lines and the manifold is
being having the sun beat down on it eventually, not
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unlike a water heater. The water inside those lines, if
it's not moving and drawing on new fresh water from
down beneath in the street, that water is gonna warm up,
and sometimes it can get incredibly warm. In fact, we
used to warn our kids like, hey, when you turn
on a hose, make sure that that hundred foot hose
has got one hundred maybe seventy five feet of water
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sitting in it that's been out there in the sun baking.
Don't put your mouth to that hose water. Let it
run a little bit to cool off. So really, all
you're talking about, Hilda, is replacing the water that's been
sitting in those lines heating up with cool water to follow. Now,
did I lose her for a second there? All right?
So Hilda, if for some reason are you back, Did
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I get you back?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay. Now, if in the middle of winter your irrigation
lines outside the house are boiling hot, then we have
a plumbing problem. Somebody has crisscrossed a line and you're
actually getting hot water from the water heater somehow fed
into those lines. But if it's not something that happens
in the dead of winter. If it's only something that
you notice in spring and summer, then it's just that
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your water lines are being exposed to a lot of
heat and a lot of sunlight, and they're sitting there
in between usage, and that's why the water is so warm.
If it's anything other than that, call a plumber, have
them check it out. Otherwise, maybe put that water mane
a little bit, maybe move a plant over there, get
it a little bit more in the shade, and just
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deal with the fact that you've got hot water sitting
in the lines. How about some more of your calls
when we return. You are listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hey, let's talk to Dave. Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I have a roof. It's an ordinary shingle. I guess
you'd call it, you know, composite tile at least twenty
five twenty seven years old, and I've heard that there
is a way to seal it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, so what do you are you looking to just
kind of put off the replacement, because it sounds like
you're in that zone where it's time to start thinking
about a new roof. But if your tiles, if the
comp shingles are not literally curling up and breaking, then yeah,
there are seilers out there that are relatively inexpensive, especially
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you know, relative to the cost of a new roof
that can I have seen extend the life of the
roof a few years now. It's not going to just
re up your roof. It's not going to give you
another thirty years worth of time out of it. But
assuming that the underlayment is in good shape, and assuming
that the shingles themselves are not so brittle now that
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to touch them is to crack them, then a seiler
can sort of remoisture eye the asphalt embedded paper that
the shingles are based upon can help to keep the
granules in place, and you know, the way I like
to put it, will help the roof limp along for
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you know, maybe another three, four, five years. But honesty
is most important to me, and so when it comes
to your roof, if you're at that point, you should
be looking at least in the longer term for replacing
the roof. But yeah, there are seilers out there, and
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definitely please definitely don't get a sealer that has a
coloration to it because all of the subtle hues and
comple flexity of your roof shingle, if you get a
colorized seiler, it's just going to flatten it all out.
It's all going to be one color and you're not
going to like the way that it looks, Dave. So
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definitely a clearcoat seiler. But yeah, they can and will help,
but they're not going to take a thirty year old
roof and make it a brand new roof again. They're
going to maybe give you another five years. Dave. Thank
you so much for your call, and good luck with that,
but start planning for that new roof. Hey, Darryl, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have a very narrow house at the beach at
Huntington Beach. It's three thousand square feet, you know, three story,
but it's only nineteen feet wide. And on the second
floor I have two deck's, a small one in the
back and a pretty good size one in the front,
and then on the top kind of in the middle
of the house, there's about a two hundred little bit
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north of two hundred square butt deck.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I have a.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Jacuzzi sitting on it now, and I'm I'm stretching my
head trying to figure out what to do with these
decks to give them utility and to make them look better.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, so I got a beach house, and we got
some exposed decks. We got we got a rooftop deck, right,
that's the one way up on top.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, it's about two hundred square feet. I have one
coming off my master bedroom in the front. That's a
pretty good sized deck. It's probably seventy five square feet
and maybe not quite that much, maybe fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, it's a good sized deck.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I have a small one in the back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, So here are and these are all walkable decks.
These are all fully accessible decks. Yes, yes, So here
is my blanket advice for you and your decks, even
though I haven't seen them. Nine times out of ten,
I'm going to recommend this number one. You make sure
that those decks are beautifully, painstakingly waterproofed. Setting that aside.
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I'll tell you what I'm not a fan of. I'm
not a huge, huge fan of all of the fancy
decking finishes that some deck waterproofing companies like to build
into their decks. In other words. They say, well, we'll
fiberglass your deck and we'll put like a stone finish
on it, or we'll give you this effect or that effect.
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You know, if you had no other choice budgetarily, that
would be a good move. But this is what I prefer.
After the deck is fully waterproofed. I prefer the kinds
of decking systems where we can basically elevate a wood
deck or even a stone or tile deck on top
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of the waterproofing. And what I mean on top, I
don't mean setting the wood directly on the waterproofing, or
setting the tile in a mortar bed directly on the waterproofing.
I'm talking about the kinds of like high strength porcelain
tiles that now come in systems where the entire floor
area stands on tiny little legs. We use these in
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commercial buildings all the time. A lot of commercial buildings
have flat roof areas that they want to convert to
decks for people to be able to walk out on.
We don't compromise the roof system at all. We don't
send any screws down into it, We put no holes
in it. This whole thing rests on top. Water moves
right through these surfaces to the waterproofing underneath, and still
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the deck gets to do its drainage job. But there
are ways to build either wood decking which is gorgeous,
or a tile or a porcelain large format porcelain tile
decking without that basically just sits on top of this deck.
It's permanent unless you have to replace it one day,
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but it doesn't penetrate or mess with the waterproofing. And
what's even better in regards to all that is the
fact that that waterproofing system will last even longer because
this really nice decking material that is esthetically pleasing and
that you want to spend time on, is actually protecting
those deck areas of waterproofing from their number one enemy,
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which is not water but UV sunlight that eventually breaks
them down and causes you to have to replace them.
So that would be my blanket recommendation that you would
take a look at that. And if you do a
search online for decking systems that sit on top of
a waterproof deck, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
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Thanks for your question. Let's talk to Angel. Hey Angel,
welcome home. Hello, Heyboddy, how can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
My fireplace is kind of black smoke.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How do I clean it?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You mean inside the firebox. It's really hard firebox. Yeah,
you could use a wire brush. You could also use
after you get all the loose soot off of it.
You can also use like a bleaching kind of cleanser,
like oxy clean something like that. There are some good
stone cleaners out there. But I tell you what I like.
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What I like to do is I like to suggest
that people don't fight against cleaning the black off of
their fireplace. Clean it all out, loosen up all of that,
vacuum out all of the soot and black that you can,
and then go get yourself about ten dollars worth of
high heat barbecue paint, black barbecue paint, and just paint
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the entire the entire firebox black, permanently. Just paint it
all black. That way, the next time it gets sooty
or smoky, h it doesn't even matter anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Of course, you can brush it out and clean it
out every couple of years, but to paint the whole
firebox black and it will stay beautiful. And every time
you have a fire, it's gonna look like this gorgeous
jewel set against like a black velvet jeweler's cloth fire
against a black fire black box background looks fantastic. So
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you can either keep fighting to keep it clean or
just painstall black and it'll look fantastic anyway, Aunchell, thanks
for your call so much. I appreciate it. Really good call.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty Whitney Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I have a quick question for you. You know, I'm
thinking of relocating out at California too, along the coast
of North Carolina, and I've been back there three times now,
checking out very the weather and everything. And I noticed
the house the other day that I saw online obviously,
and I had the real estate agent look at it
and send me some video. But I noticed one of
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the items that the house didn't have was a garage.
It just has a long driveway, and I didn't know,
do you think it's worth the investment to put into
either a car port or a garage, into something like that,
or do you think it would be better to find
a house that has more of the items that I
feel are you know, are essential as far.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
As that goes, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Worth the investment, it is?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, So I would stack it up. You know, there
are probably three or four factors. You know, I'm guessing
here as I'm kind of doing train of consciousness here,
but uh, number one, you know, not for as many
people as have garages, I would say, I don't know,
and this is a completely unscientific poll, but I think
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probably only half the folks who have garages park in
their garages. So really that lets you know right now
that that a garage is either a yeah, it's a
place to park your car if you're committed to parking
your car indoors, and I get it in a place
like North Carolina, I mean sometimes you know, you get
some pretty hardcore rains and even the occasional hurricane going there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So thinking a little bit, yeah, you may want.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
To shelter that vehicle at times. But and then storage
is another issue. So if you're not an indoor car
park I'm not, but you know, I live in southern California,
so you know, what's the big deal here about keeping
your car outside per se? But storage is another thing.
So I would say this, if the house is the
house that you want, and the storage is adequate, and
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you're and you're looking and the price is right. You know,
of all the things that you could build on your property,
a garage is the least expensive of all the things
to build as a necessory building because really, you know,
it's just four walls in a roof. You know, you
don't have to run sewer out there, you don't have
to run water out there. You're gonna run power out there,
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but that's about it. So it's the least expensive build
of anything. So I think if the price of the house,
if the house, you're you're falling in love with the house,
if you've got room on the property, and the price
of the house is right, then just consider the options
of you know what, I'm buying this house and I'm
gonna build a garage.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know if it was worth You know,
you obviously probably want to hire an architect to design
it properly and make it look like it represents the
you know, the original house a bit.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, you'd want to make sure the roof pitch and
it's really not that hard to do. Whether you know
an architect. Maybe you could actually find an approved plan
at the city and you may want to call around
if the the township that your house that you're thinking
about buying. Uh, they may even have a standard plan
for a garage, and all you would have to do
they've already accepted it. A standard plan is something that
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a city has already said, listen, if you build it
like this, you don't need an architect or an engineer
because we've already done it all. You just sign on
and make sure it gets built like this. And sometimes
they'll just allow you to customize the roof pitch to
match the roof pitch of the existing house and then
cover it with whatever shingles or siding that that, you know,
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because that's just superficial stuff. So check and see if
there's a standard plan for a garage in that municipality.
And and you know, you may be building this thing
pretty inexpensively at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And I assume car port's probably even less expensive than
a full fledged garage with you know, so siding and
storage and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, I mean, because because at that point, a carport
and now if it's a waterproof, you know, rainproof carport,
you got some roofing issues. But apart from that, the
car port is just you know, it's the roof without
the walls again, though, you're gonna want to make sure
it gets engineered because you get in some hurricane level winds.
You don't want that car port, do you know. You
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don't want the wind getting underneath it and pulling it
off the side of the house. So just make sure
that the engineering is sound no matter what you do.
But you know, I would not let the lack of
that stand in the way of the right house for
the right price. I just wouldn't because they're pretty housey
to add on.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The house is like three hundred and twenty thousand, and
it's like a half an acre, and it's I've checked
the areas out in the past. I just got back
from there a month ago, a few weeks, a couple
of weeks ago, and you know, it's a beautiful lot
with beautiful trees and everything. That's just that was the
one thing laughing on it that I thought, you know,
it is gould be important to me, you know, So
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right anyways, well it's.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
A beautiful part of the country, Whitney. So just do
your homework. Do you do diligence, look at every option
and things I'm going to work out for you. Good
luck with that. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, thank you, Deane, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
No problem. We'll talk soon, all right, tell you what.
Let's talk to Pat. Hey, Pat, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
My house is dot in nineteen twenty two and it
had the original oak force, so twenty years ago and
we had the house remodel. We pulled up the carpet
and they were like new. So there's charaqesrim and they're
just beautiful. So now it's been a while, so I
took TSP. I thought it's time to clean them. Took
TSP in. It took off the old shillak. But now
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and I go to the home depot, it seems like
the new sharraq are just water based and there's no
I think to them, what can I use that's really
strong to shirak my flaws because I want to preserve
them as long as possible. And the hall takes a
beating a lot of traffic. So what do you recommend
to use for sharak or covering coating?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, I got you. No more shillac on your floor,
and that's fine. Believe me, it's totally fine. What you
want now, don't be afraid of what you find at
the store. But here I want you to go to
a good flooring store, and I want you to get
a high quality flooring grade polyurythinge poly poly youre thing
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is essentially a plastic coating. Doesn't matter that it's water based,
doesn't you know that's not that's a non issue. And
we're going to put at least three to four coats
down now. If you don't, if you want to show
the floor is super shiny, then you go with a
normal polyuthing. If you want them to have that very
old world a little bit matte, just satiny finished with
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I love so much because I think it shows off
an old world flow. So well, then you're gonna want
a satin finish, just a satin finish on the polyurethane,
and you're gonna want it, Like I said, put down
to three four coats even more in high traffic areas
if you want not a problem, but polyurythane flooring grade,
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and you'll be able to do that to your floors
and it'll be years before you have to redo it.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's an all calls day, it is it. You set
the agenda, anything that is going on with your home,
whether it be construction issues, DIY questions, design concerns, anything
at all. The phone lines are open. I am here
to help you sort it all out. We'll put our
(23:55):
heads together and we'll get it sorted. I promise. Here
is the number to reach me, and these lines are open.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
The number to reach me eight three three two ask
dean eight three three to ask Dean. You see, it
just rolls off the tongue on that note. How about
we uh go to it. Uh, We're going to take
some calls. Anything you want to talk about. So let's
get to it. Let's talk to Kate. Hey, Kate, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
My question is the door that separates my office and
my husband's office from our worker home is a pocket door.
We want to get it replaced. I know that it's
important to have the solid core because soundproofing is a
major issue. I just don't know if that makes sense
if pocket doors will provide that. I'm not really quite sure.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Okay, So so the question is, is the question about soundproofing?
Is that what you're you're wondering about?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And that's because yeah, where because it's right in between
our two offices, and that's what we need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
We just soun improved.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You need I got you because you're sitting there in
your office. Your husband's office is right next to you,
in the room next to you, and you need him
to shut the hell up.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's been a couple of years now, so you know,
pandemic strong and I mean working all right, you know
otherwise you.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Know, okay, so uh yeah, yes, it would probably be
a good idea. Soundproofing is uh now, we've done whole
shows on soundproofing. I'll just give you a quick primer
right now. Soundproofing is really something that happens in layers. Uh,
there's no silver bullet. But if we're talking about patching
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up a big hole in the hull of the ship
metaphorically as it were, a pocket door is one of
those holes. And it doesn't matter the door itself. Uh,
you know, whether it's a hollow core door, which as
you probably know, I do not like, or whether it's
a solid core door, because the pocket is hollow. That's
the whole point. The problem with soundproofing a room or
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the pocket door in it is that the pocket is
a hollow, empty airspace and it's not thick enough. The
edges of the pocket aren't thick enough to actually get
some decent insulation in there and deaden the sound. So
when the door is closed, the door effectively is still
open because the pocket is a sound resonating chamber right
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next to the closed door. So yeah, Now the good
news is, if there is some good news to this
that a lot of folks don't realize, is that even
though you look at the wall and you're like, well,
there's the wall and there's the doorway, the fact of
the matter is, structurally, what you have in between your
office and your husband's office is a double door with
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doorway because the header which is supporting that doorway is
going all the way across not just the opening of
the door itself, but also the pocket because the pocket
part of the door is not a structural supporting thing,
it's just sitting underneath the header. So if you were
to take out the door and the pocket frame, you
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would find it less. So let's say, for instance, that
this doorway is two and a half feet wide, a
thirty inch door, you would find that what you have
there is a five foot double door sized opening in
between you and your husband's office. So number one, that
gives you options. One, you can close that wall up
some and if you just still want the single door,
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that means you can frame in and close up the
wall of half of that opening and that can become
fully sound insulated. So that's one thing. Number Two, though
you really want to go kind of sexy with it
and you don't mind the visuals back and forth between
the two of you, you could put in a double
French door, a double door, there even a double glass
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door between the two. Now here's the key, though, if
we want sound control and we want light penetrating both
rooms at the same time, we would do something that
Tina and I it's a trick that we do on
the interiors of homes. We actually with a small home
in our office right beyond our kitchen, we've installed a
hallway door in our home that is a you know,
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French style open grid glass hallway door. But it's not
an interior door. It's an exterior door, meaning it's an
inch and three quarters thick. And because it's an exterior door,
it's dual glazed, meaning there are you know, just like
your windows on your house, there are two pieces of
glass with an air chamber in between for all of
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the glass. So you have an opportunity should you decide
to go this way, you could hang a pair of
exterior grade French doors or glass style doors in between
your offices, have all of that light and airiness opened
up between the two of you, and yet be way
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way quieter than the pocket door that you've got right now.
So you may have on your hands a win win
scenario with that, But just understand the main thing is
the pocket itself is the problem with the sound, not
the door. And if you take out both, you actually
have a double wide door opening there that you can
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play with as you wish. You can either fill it
back in again and keep the opening where it is.
You can move your doorway without any structural changes to
the house whatsoever, no engineers or anything involved. You can
move that doorway left you know, or right you know.
In other words, you can move the you can put
the door the single door where the pocket is now
and fill in the wall where the door is now.
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Whatever works. You've got flexibility because you got a you
have a double wide opening there. But if you go
with the double doors, use exterior doors, and if they're
solid doors, just make sure they're solid core and you're
gonna get your sound insulation the way you want. How's
that sound?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
That sounds amazing? I actually love the French store IDM.
That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
There you go, So you dub. You'll double the light
and the airiness of the room and get more sound
insulation that you've got now with the pocket door.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Exactly awesome Green. So I'm glad I didn't just go
buy a solid pocket door.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Great, awesome.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Hey, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A great weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Okay, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. More of your
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