August 30, 2025 • 25 mins
Dean tackles nothing but your questions this morning, including; how to properly determine the 'undertones' of paint colors and what is the proper additive for concrete that will help make it stronger?
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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. Good morning
and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,
custom home Builder, custom home designer and as always, your
(00:20):
guide to better understanding that place where you live. Good
Saturday morning to you today on the show, as we
do every Saturday morning, it's your calls. You are going
to set the agenda. You'll tell me what the show
is all about. I can't wait, can't wait to find
out the number to reach me, because the phone lines
are open right now. Eight three three two Ask Dean
(00:45):
A three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. It's just that simple. Whatever has
you scratching your head about your home design, construction, architecture,
decordy stuff inside, outside, hardscape, landscape. I got you. We
(01:05):
will put our heads together, you and I and we
will get it figured out. I promise. So until the
bones start lighting up here, let's say good morning to us. Sam.
Hey Sam, good morning, Good morning, Dean. How you doing?
I am well? I am well. We are rolling into
Memorial Day weekend here. Everybody should be happy most people,
(01:27):
Well they should. I never know how to say that exactly,
because there are a lot of people out there who
work in this weekend to make everybody else's weekend really nice.
And I don't really consider myself one of them, even
though here we are doing the work. But any big
plans for Memorial Day weekend, Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm gonna be going at Labor Day Labor Day weekend.
Oh sorry, yeah, no, we're completely the wrong time of year.
The family gonna hang out with the parents tomorrow and
then gonna go back in on Monday and have another
barbecue with my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wow, double Barbara, double barreled barbecue.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, I went and took my kid to a barbecue.
And he is a steak aficionado. Oh, like, he knows
all of his different cuts, he knows like the Texturesey.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
He's only eight, and he's like he's a foodie. All right,
this is a guy I want to spend some time with.
Oh yeah, now he'll tell you all about how to
grill up a good steak.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's amazing, all right, he's right too, and he's right
about it. Yeah, he's like little salt, little Pepper's all
you need. And he just tells you exactly how to
grill it and it comes out perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh my gosh, you're your chef in the making. All right, Well,
let's say good morning too. I don't get to talk
to her enough. My radio wife, Heather Brooker. Hi, good morning,
A good morning Heather. How you doing, Bud, I'm good,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
We're all sort of sitting here eagerly anticipating, you know,
they're doing testing on the power in the building and
that the power could go off.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I'm like, at any minute, I'm ready. I'm ready. Yeah,
Sam's ready to just in case our listeners are like, wait,
something happened. You know, We've we've got it. We got
you covered. We're gonna have you covered. But yeah, they
they always pick our show to They're like, oh, by
the way, Saturday mornings, Uh, we're gonna be turning all
the power off in the building. We're radio station.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What? What is the plant? How does that work into anything?
Why are we doing this at three am? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, and also kudos to you guys too, because I
just asked Sam.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I was like, are they love? Are we live today?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And they were like, yeah, so live, We're so live.
Good I mean, congrats you guys. I think you might
be the only host live all week or honestly through Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know what I mean. Tina and I you know,
because we do this, we have our own biz that
we run, the design business. We we have to creatively
find our way to find our time off, and we
do and sometimes it lines up just like everybody else, Yep,
got to take that holiday off. And other times we're like,
well we'll work that holiday weekend because we've got other plans.
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So we will find our way through, as we always
speaking of Tina sitting across the table from me. There
she is my better half, my design partner, my actual
radio wife, my best buddy in all the world. Tina
(04:29):
is here. Welcome home. How you doing. I'm good. I
heard the elephant. Yeah that was nice. We cleaned. Did
you had the rat issue this morning? My gosh, for
the last two nights, our cat has decided to kill
her at drag it into the house and next to
my bed, eat it right next to the bed. And
(04:50):
I'm hearing like bones chomping, like she's literally she's waking
me up at two thirty in the morning. She's like, babe, babe,
do you hear that? This was last night? This was
last night? This was she said, you hear that. I'm like,
what just listen and we hear this and im and
I'm like, yeah, what is that? And she's like, oh
my god, oh my god, Domino is eating a rat
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right next to my night stand. So that was that
was last night. And we were too tired. We were
just too tired to do anything. We're just like, all right, fine.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Just where is the where's the rat stuff?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now? Did you? Okay, no, no, it was disposed of completely.
But here's the thing. Here's the thing today this morning,
same time.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh yeah, so that was the night before, and then
last night did the same thing early this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Two nights in a row.
Decided that's your rat, same time.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
He's his holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, I'm like, whoa, bu whoa. I mean, appreciate the serve,
thank you for your service. But let's uh, let's let's
find a designating outside activity. Yeah, let's find a designated
area for that. He so proud. He's like, no, I
just want to come in here and spend it, spend
I want to eat my dinner with you. Guys. Oh yeah,
all right, all right, y'all listen. Uh sorry, okay, now
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that no one wants to talk to us because they're
all just grossed out. We've got calls on the board
and we will do it when we come back. You're
listening to Home with Dean Sharp, The House Whisper AM
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we help you better understand that place where you live.
I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. It's an all
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You see it just rolls off the tump. Let's talk
to Jonie. Joni, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
We're in the midst of a major kitchen remodel. The
base cabinets are now in and they are inset cabinets,
and they've put the subtops on top of the cabinets.
But there's about a three quarter inch gap between set back,
between the edge of the face frame and the cabinet,
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and I'm wondering why they did that or is that
a mistake. We are either going to do an og
edge or a DuPont edge, which I want to ask
you the difference between those two.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, so you haven't you just noticed this. You haven't
had a chance to ask your contractor or your cabinet installed.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
No, I haven't had a chance to ask.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Just to clarify a couple of terms for everybody else
who's listening. So when when you do in a cabinet installation,
the cabinet boxes go in and then one on all
the boxes are in place, the base cabinet boxes, plywood
is put on top. It's what we call a subtop,
because that's obviously not the countertop. What goes on top
of the plywood is the stone or the tile or
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whatever it is that you got going on. Now you
have in set cabinets which is very nice, very very
old school, very nice, which is that the doors and
drawers do not extend out from the face frame of
the cabinets, but they actually recess in and flush themselves
with the face frame of the cabinet, so you have
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no overhanging projecting doors and drawers. On these base cabinets,
it's just one plane coming down the face of the
cabinet box. Of course you've got knobs and such, but
no overhang. The typical typical countertop overhang for typical cabinets,
which is the cabinet face plus doors and drawers, That
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typical overhang is about inch and a quarter to an
inch and a half of the actual stone and or
tile overhanging because the cabinet doors themselves are coming out
another three quarter plus inches, and then you got another
half inch to three quarters of an inch of overhang
protecting all of that. In your case, it won't be
overhanging that much because your inset, but the rule still applies.
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But here's where it gets tricky. It all depends on
the configuration of that og edge. If you're doing a
double laminated edge, in other words, instead of just one
layer of stone at about seven eighths of an inch
thick coming out and having its little finished edge, it
sounds like you're planning on you've got a double lamination.
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In other words, another piece of stone is going to
be put on the bottom there to make the appearance
of a big built up thick edge. It all depends on,
you know how, if we're hanging over let's say an
inch okay, which would be kind of typical three cords
of an inch to an inch of hanging over an
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inset cabinet face, if the builder has insight from the
stone people that hey, we need more than just one
inch square piece to laminate there. It needs to be deeper.
That may be the reason why the subtop has been
held back a little bit in order to give more
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room for the bottom lamination stone to kind of nestle
in to the top. But I will tell you that's
not common at all, and so typically we will just
run the full subtop right over to the face of
the cabinet. So I can't tell you definitively that somebody
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did something wrong, but I can tell you just got
to ask the question to have no one go any
further until that question gets answered, because there is a
bit of a strength sacrifice by holding the subtok back.
Quite often, once in a blue moon, I will tell
you this jony once in a blue moon when we
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have to do that because of the nature of the
countertop material itself. Right when we have to provide a
larger notch, what we will do is we will put
yet another piece of wood underneath the subtop that supports
that free floating subtop edge and connect to the front
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face of the cabinet regardless. Okay, ideally you want a
solid connection to the front cabinet face all along the front,
whether or not the subtop is being held back or not.
I hope we just didn't lose everybody in all of
that terminology.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
But that's kind of all no.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Okay, yeah, yeah, And I have no idea why they
did what they did so, and it's the cabinet makers too,
it's not the all off the stone van mean.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, just just find out, say, hey, what's the
deal here? And uh and you know they'll let you
know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And a farmhouse sinc. Should be level with the subtop.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If it's an inset, yeah, if it's an undermount farmhouse sinc.
Then yes, it gets set level with the subtop so
that the stone goes over and just rolls over the sink.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, you're going to have to read
in front.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, that's the nature of it, but as far as
as it being underneath the countertop from the tip.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, okay, well, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You are so very welcome. You're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp on demand from KFI A M six forty
Dean Sharp the House with for here to help you
transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Good morning
to you. Yes, we're over our little technical difficulties. I'm
(12:59):
anxious to get back to the phones, so let's do it.
I want to talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home, Hidine.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I am painting my kitchen cabinets a midnight blue, and
you mentioned before it with Blass hardware can be corgeous.
You've mentioned before regarding how to determine undertones of paint colors.
There's three sheets the primary base colors. And I've been
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to paint stores. They don't know what I'm talking about.
Where can I find those? I can determine that I'm
not going too purple or too teal in that midnight blue?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh well, first of all, First of all, what a
great choice for your cabinets. Bravo, brava for you for
that gonna look fantastic. Second of all, you. You know,
you're an a student. You remember that. I'm so proud
of you for remembering that that I talked about how
to discover an undertone. Thirdly, yeah, the paint store is
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not going to help you much, because we believe it
or not, the paint stores are not filled up with
color experts per se. So but it's very very simple,
super simple. All you have to do is it's all
about the primary colors. Okay, red, blue, and green. That's it.
You just need to have in your hand a sample
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of the and you could just do this. You can
go you can print it off of the web, you know,
off the internet onto a piece of paper, or you
can go get you you can order a color wheel
and have the the RGB the red, blue, and green
reflected there in the color wheel for you. But the
point is you just need a primary color, a true
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primary color, and primary color is by definition, a color
in which there are no other colors added to it
to make up what it is. Okay, it is a
base root primary color. All you have to do is
hold up a primary color next to the color that
that you're looking at, and suddenly, if there is an
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undertone color in it, it will appear. It will simply
appear because one calls to the other visually. When the
frequencies mix, all of a sudden, your eye sees it.
So you will see if there's a blue undertone, you'll
see if it's leaning green, you'll see if it's leaning red.
And there you go. That's the that's the secret trick.
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That's the hack, and it works every time.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Great because sometimes I'm looking at a blue thinking, oh
that this looks great. I hold it against another blue.
Now it looks puffle. So yeah, trying to get a
really true midnight blue so I can add my my
copper accents to it, and it's just sometimes it leans
to tea and I'm like, I need something.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know, I know, I know how you feel. We
were at we were act with clients yesterday picking out
pool tiles, and blue blue was the coal of the tile, right,
But of course we collected a whole series of blue tiles,
and then when you pull them next to each other,
you're like, well, that thing's virtually green, that one's leaning yellow,
that one's got all sorts of red in it, and
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that's you know, so yeah, that's the primary color trick.
Is the way to go. I actually don't have to
use it very often at all because I have Tina,
And Tina is a walking color computer. She is she is.
I'll be sitting there and I'm pretty dang good with color.
I'm just telling you, I got a good eye for color.
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But I'll be sitting there and wrestling over these two
trying to figure out what I'm seeing, and She'll just
casually walk by and she's like, oh, yeah, that one's
got a lot of red in it, and I'm like, oh,
how can you see that? But she can, and so
she does not have to hold up a primary color
next to stuff. She can see it from like a
mile away. But you know, she's a trained art student,
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so it's good to have her around.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
And I'm pretty good at it too usually, but when
you're trying to narrow down five paint colors to like
the one, I just want like a second opinion on
what it has underneath it. So this will be helpful.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh yeah, absolutely. And I have no doubt that you're
good at it too, because just in general, I mean,
you may have that talent as well, but women see
more differentiation of color frequency than men do. It's just
it's genetic as well, so you know you you'll probably
out color pick me on any given day of the week.
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But yeah, there's no That's why I just always fall
back on the trick because if you hold up a
primary color next to any mixed color, it will suddenly
reveal what's going on there. It's the weirdest thing. And
it's so cool to be able to say, like, oh, yeah,
there's green in there, quite a bit of it, and
then you'll know exactly where. And these are important things
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because when we're really trying to narrow down a color
to get that color right, you gotta know, you gotta
know what those undertones are. And so again, Laura, good
on you for this. I have no doubt the kitchen's
going to look fantastic.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Great.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You are very welcome. Thanks for the call. This is
why we take calls because they're interesting, they're great, and
everybody gets to learn something along the way. We'll do
it again when we come back. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to help you transform your ordinary house into
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an extraordinary home. Good Saturday morning to you. Saturday morning.
Labor Day weekend? Did I get that right? Some Memorial
Day weekend. I don't know why I always switch those two.
It's Labor Day weekend, right, right, Sam, It's Labor Day weekend.
Labor Day, yes, yes, Labor Day. Okay, I'm just checking.
I'm just double checking. It's a long weekend for most
(18:59):
of y'all. And I hope you've got great plans with
the weather here in southern California. Fantastic wherever you find yourself.
I hope the weather is treating you well. And we
are as we do taking calls. I want to go
back to the phones. Let's find out what Grace wants. Grace,
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Hi. A couple of weeks ago, you talked about a
concrete additive when you're putting in a post in the
ground and it helps the concrete to expand or fill
up the whole. And you spelled it if I c A.
And when I look that up, all I get is
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bank information. Did I write it down wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes? You did, Love you did, And so let me
let me clarify a couple of things. Okay, First of all,
it's seek a s s as in sam s I
k A s I k A Sicca. Ok So that's
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the that's the company name, Okay, and the product, just
to be clear, I just want to clarify, is not concrete.
Not concrete, and it's not a concrete additive. And don't
look for that because Sicca that company. They make all
sorts of concrete additives. Okay, but that's a rabbit hole
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that you I'm glad you said post hole because this
is a completely different thing. Yes, Cicca makes all kinds
of concrete additives that you would add to regular cement
to make it stronger, more crack resistant, or make it
cure longer or faster. I mean, there's all sorts of
stuff industry, building, industry stuff that Cicca makes. What you're
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looking for is seca post fix post fix seek a postfix,
And what it is is a little package. It weighs
I think a pound one pound this package, and it's
a plastic package. It's got fluid liquid in two sides
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of this package. And once you've dug a post hole
and you're ready to put the post in it, you
follow these instructions, but you break open you roll the
package so that it pops open the two halves and
they mix with each other. The two halves now mix,
and then you mix it across your knee for about
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thirteen seconds or so. You mix it all up so
that it thoroughly mixes together. There's a chemical reaction that
starts to happen. You clip open the corner of the
package and you pour this liquid down inside the post hole,
and lo and behold, you will see in the next
minute expanding foam rising out of the post hole, rounding
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the post, filling up the hole, and locking that post
in place. It is expanding foam post hole post setting cement.
I see. I want to say cement. Foam. It's foam.
It's not cement. Okay, So that's the product there do
you put?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
You put concrete in the hole first, or no, ma'am, No,
this is it you put in the hole.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This is it. One of these one pound packages. One
of these one pound packages. It replaces one hundred pounds
of posthole cement.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Oh my god, you're a genius. I swear, thank you God.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well, Grace, Grace, I didn't invent it, Okay, Just to
be clear, I'm just I'm just letting everybody know about it.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
You brought it to the fourth right, honey. I would
never have known about it otherwise.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh well, I appreciate that. And so yeah. So the
only thing the limitation that this foam has is that
it's for post holes for fences. It's not structural. Okay.
So I always like to say this to everybody who's
listening to me, because somebody's somebody's run off, somebody has
already turned off the radio and they're running to the
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hardware store to get this stuff because they're like, Hey,
that whole deck that we're building, we can use this
foam stuff instead. No, this is not for weight bearing
stuff like the deck outside. Okay, this is just for
holding up post fence posts. And it does a fantastic
I have I have. I want to say, I have
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three hundred and eighty at least feet of wood fencing
around my property, and every single fence post is anchored
in this sik of foam, and these fence posts are
decades old now and perfectly straight true. And the other
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thing I lock that boam surround fence post and protects
the wood from moisture, unlike cement, because concrete is porous
and it lets moisture straight on in so that the
fence post rots faster the foam. The foam actually holds
moisture away from the fence post. So it's it's just
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it's a brilliant product on so many levels. And instead
of lugging around two fifty pound PAGs of concrete for
every single fence post and then sitting there and waiting
for several hours for them to set up, you've got
a one pound bag. You pour it in the hole,
you hold the fence post plum for about a minute
and a half, and then you just walk away and
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it's done. Holy crap, oh great, oh my goodness. All right,
my friend, Well before I blow you away anymore and
we have to use the beet button on you, I'll
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let you go. Thank you for the call, my friend, Grace,
what a sweet this sweet voice. And then man, what
came out of that mouth unexpectedly my oh my grace.
Good luck with that, Good luck, Thanks for asking the question.
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More of your calls when we return your Home with
Dean Sharp the house Whisper. You're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty
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House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning
and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,
custom home Builder, custom home designer and as always, your
(00:20):
guide to better understanding that place where you live. Good
Saturday morning to you today on the show, as we
do every Saturday morning, it's your calls. You are going
to set the agenda. You'll tell me what the show
is all about. I can't wait, can't wait to find
out the number to reach me, because the phone lines
are open right now. Eight three three two Ask Dean
(00:45):
A three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. It's just that simple. Whatever has
you scratching your head about your home design, construction, architecture,
decordy stuff inside, outside, hardscape, landscape. I got you. We
(01:05):
will put our heads together, you and I and we
will get it figured out. I promise. So until the
bones start lighting up here, let's say good morning to us. Sam.
Hey Sam, good morning, Good morning, Dean. How you doing?
I am well? I am well. We are rolling into
Memorial Day weekend here. Everybody should be happy most people,
(01:27):
Well they should. I never know how to say that exactly,
because there are a lot of people out there who
work in this weekend to make everybody else's weekend really nice.
And I don't really consider myself one of them, even
though here we are doing the work. But any big
plans for Memorial Day weekend, Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm gonna be going at Labor Day Labor Day weekend.
Oh sorry, yeah, no, we're completely the wrong time of year.
The family gonna hang out with the parents tomorrow and
then gonna go back in on Monday and have another
barbecue with my brother.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wow, double Barbara, double barreled barbecue.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, I went and took my kid to a barbecue.
And he is a steak aficionado. Oh, like, he knows
all of his different cuts, he knows like the Texturesey.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
He's only eight, and he's like he's a foodie. All right,
this is a guy I want to spend some time with.
Oh yeah, now he'll tell you all about how to
grill up a good steak.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's amazing, all right, he's right too, and he's right
about it. Yeah, he's like little salt, little Pepper's all
you need. And he just tells you exactly how to
grill it and it comes out perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh my gosh, you're your chef in the making. All right, Well,
let's say good morning too. I don't get to talk
to her enough. My radio wife, Heather Brooker. Hi, good morning,
A good morning Heather. How you doing, Bud, I'm good,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
We're all sort of sitting here eagerly anticipating, you know,
they're doing testing on the power in the building and
that the power could go off.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I'm like, at any minute, I'm ready. I'm ready. Yeah,
Sam's ready to just in case our listeners are like, wait,
something happened. You know, We've we've got it. We got
you covered. We're gonna have you covered. But yeah, they
they always pick our show to They're like, oh, by
the way, Saturday mornings, Uh, we're gonna be turning all
the power off in the building. We're radio station.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What? What is the plant? How does that work into anything?
Why are we doing this at three am? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, and also kudos to you guys too, because I
just asked Sam.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I was like, are they love? Are we live today?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And they were like, yeah, so live, We're so live.
Good I mean, congrats you guys. I think you might
be the only host live all week or honestly through Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know what I mean. Tina and I you know,
because we do this, we have our own biz that
we run, the design business. We we have to creatively
find our way to find our time off, and we
do and sometimes it lines up just like everybody else, Yep,
got to take that holiday off. And other times we're like,
well we'll work that holiday weekend because we've got other plans.
(04:09):
So we will find our way through, as we always
speaking of Tina sitting across the table from me. There
she is my better half, my design partner, my actual
radio wife, my best buddy in all the world. Tina
(04:29):
is here. Welcome home. How you doing. I'm good. I
heard the elephant. Yeah that was nice. We cleaned. Did
you had the rat issue this morning? My gosh, for
the last two nights, our cat has decided to kill
her at drag it into the house and next to
my bed, eat it right next to the bed. And
(04:50):
I'm hearing like bones chomping, like she's literally she's waking
me up at two thirty in the morning. She's like, babe, babe,
do you hear that? This was last night? This was
last night? This was she said, you hear that. I'm like,
what just listen and we hear this and im and
I'm like, yeah, what is that? And she's like, oh
my god, oh my god, Domino is eating a rat
(05:12):
right next to my night stand. So that was that
was last night. And we were too tired. We were
just too tired to do anything. We're just like, all right, fine.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Just where is the where's the rat stuff?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now? Did you? Okay, no, no, it was disposed of completely.
But here's the thing. Here's the thing today this morning,
same time.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh yeah, so that was the night before, and then
last night did the same thing early this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Two nights in a row.
Decided that's your rat, same time.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
He's his holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, I'm like, whoa, bu whoa. I mean, appreciate the serve,
thank you for your service. But let's uh, let's let's
find a designating outside activity. Yeah, let's find a designated
area for that. He so proud. He's like, no, I
just want to come in here and spend it, spend
I want to eat my dinner with you. Guys. Oh yeah,
all right, all right, y'all listen. Uh sorry, okay, now
(06:11):
that no one wants to talk to us because they're
all just grossed out. We've got calls on the board
and we will do it when we come back. You're
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You see it just rolls off the tump. Let's talk
to Jonie. Joni, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
We're in the midst of a major kitchen remodel. The
base cabinets are now in and they are inset cabinets,
and they've put the subtops on top of the cabinets.
But there's about a three quarter inch gap between set back,
between the edge of the face frame and the cabinet,
(07:31):
and I'm wondering why they did that or is that
a mistake. We are either going to do an og
edge or a DuPont edge, which I want to ask
you the difference between those two.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, so you haven't you just noticed this. You haven't
had a chance to ask your contractor or your cabinet installed.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
No, I haven't had a chance to ask.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Just to clarify a couple of terms for everybody else
who's listening. So when when you do in a cabinet installation,
the cabinet boxes go in and then one on all
the boxes are in place, the base cabinet boxes, plywood
is put on top. It's what we call a subtop,
because that's obviously not the countertop. What goes on top
of the plywood is the stone or the tile or
(08:12):
whatever it is that you got going on. Now you
have in set cabinets which is very nice, very very
old school, very nice, which is that the doors and
drawers do not extend out from the face frame of
the cabinets, but they actually recess in and flush themselves
with the face frame of the cabinet, so you have
(08:33):
no overhanging projecting doors and drawers. On these base cabinets,
it's just one plane coming down the face of the
cabinet box. Of course you've got knobs and such, but
no overhang. The typical typical countertop overhang for typical cabinets,
which is the cabinet face plus doors and drawers, That
(08:56):
typical overhang is about inch and a quarter to an
inch and a half of the actual stone and or
tile overhanging because the cabinet doors themselves are coming out
another three quarter plus inches, and then you got another
half inch to three quarters of an inch of overhang
protecting all of that. In your case, it won't be
overhanging that much because your inset, but the rule still applies.
(09:20):
But here's where it gets tricky. It all depends on
the configuration of that og edge. If you're doing a
double laminated edge, in other words, instead of just one
layer of stone at about seven eighths of an inch
thick coming out and having its little finished edge, it
sounds like you're planning on you've got a double lamination.
(09:40):
In other words, another piece of stone is going to
be put on the bottom there to make the appearance
of a big built up thick edge. It all depends on,
you know how, if we're hanging over let's say an
inch okay, which would be kind of typical three cords
of an inch to an inch of hanging over an
(10:03):
inset cabinet face, if the builder has insight from the
stone people that hey, we need more than just one
inch square piece to laminate there. It needs to be deeper.
That may be the reason why the subtop has been
held back a little bit in order to give more
(10:24):
room for the bottom lamination stone to kind of nestle
in to the top. But I will tell you that's
not common at all, and so typically we will just
run the full subtop right over to the face of
the cabinet. So I can't tell you definitively that somebody
(10:44):
did something wrong, but I can tell you just got
to ask the question to have no one go any
further until that question gets answered, because there is a
bit of a strength sacrifice by holding the subtok back.
Quite often, once in a blue moon, I will tell
you this jony once in a blue moon when we
(11:05):
have to do that because of the nature of the
countertop material itself. Right when we have to provide a
larger notch, what we will do is we will put
yet another piece of wood underneath the subtop that supports
that free floating subtop edge and connect to the front
(11:26):
face of the cabinet regardless. Okay, ideally you want a
solid connection to the front cabinet face all along the front,
whether or not the subtop is being held back or not.
I hope we just didn't lose everybody in all of
that terminology.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
But that's kind of all no.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Okay, yeah, yeah, And I have no idea why they
did what they did so, and it's the cabinet makers too,
it's not the all off the stone van mean.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, just just find out, say, hey, what's the
deal here? And uh and you know they'll let you
know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And a farmhouse sinc. Should be level with the subtop.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If it's an inset, yeah, if it's an undermount farmhouse sinc.
Then yes, it gets set level with the subtop so
that the stone goes over and just rolls over the sink.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, you're going to have to read
in front.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, that's the nature of it, but as far as
as it being underneath the countertop from the tip.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, okay, well, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You are so very welcome. You're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp on demand from KFI A M six forty
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transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Good morning
to you. Yes, we're over our little technical difficulties. I'm
(12:59):
anxious to get back to the phones, so let's do it.
I want to talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home, Hidine.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I am painting my kitchen cabinets a midnight blue, and
you mentioned before it with Blass hardware can be corgeous.
You've mentioned before regarding how to determine undertones of paint colors.
There's three sheets the primary base colors. And I've been
(13:30):
to paint stores. They don't know what I'm talking about.
Where can I find those? I can determine that I'm
not going too purple or too teal in that midnight blue?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh well, first of all, First of all, what a
great choice for your cabinets. Bravo, brava for you for
that gonna look fantastic. Second of all, you. You know,
you're an a student. You remember that. I'm so proud
of you for remembering that that I talked about how
to discover an undertone. Thirdly, yeah, the paint store is
(14:02):
not going to help you much, because we believe it
or not, the paint stores are not filled up with
color experts per se. So but it's very very simple,
super simple. All you have to do is it's all
about the primary colors. Okay, red, blue, and green. That's it.
You just need to have in your hand a sample
(14:25):
of the and you could just do this. You can
go you can print it off of the web, you know,
off the internet onto a piece of paper, or you
can go get you you can order a color wheel
and have the the RGB the red, blue, and green
reflected there in the color wheel for you. But the
point is you just need a primary color, a true
(14:47):
primary color, and primary color is by definition, a color
in which there are no other colors added to it
to make up what it is. Okay, it is a
base root primary color. All you have to do is
hold up a primary color next to the color that
that you're looking at, and suddenly, if there is an
(15:09):
undertone color in it, it will appear. It will simply
appear because one calls to the other visually. When the
frequencies mix, all of a sudden, your eye sees it.
So you will see if there's a blue undertone, you'll
see if it's leaning green, you'll see if it's leaning red.
And there you go. That's the that's the secret trick.
(15:32):
That's the hack, and it works every time.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Great because sometimes I'm looking at a blue thinking, oh
that this looks great. I hold it against another blue.
Now it looks puffle. So yeah, trying to get a
really true midnight blue so I can add my my
copper accents to it, and it's just sometimes it leans
to tea and I'm like, I need something.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I know, I know, I know how you feel. We
were at we were act with clients yesterday picking out
pool tiles, and blue blue was the coal of the tile, right,
But of course we collected a whole series of blue tiles,
and then when you pull them next to each other,
you're like, well, that thing's virtually green, that one's leaning yellow,
that one's got all sorts of red in it, and
(16:17):
that's you know, so yeah, that's the primary color trick.
Is the way to go. I actually don't have to
use it very often at all because I have Tina,
And Tina is a walking color computer. She is she is.
I'll be sitting there and I'm pretty dang good with color.
I'm just telling you, I got a good eye for color.
(16:38):
But I'll be sitting there and wrestling over these two
trying to figure out what I'm seeing, and She'll just
casually walk by and she's like, oh, yeah, that one's
got a lot of red in it, and I'm like, oh,
how can you see that? But she can, and so
she does not have to hold up a primary color
next to stuff. She can see it from like a
mile away. But you know, she's a trained art student,
(17:01):
so it's good to have her around.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
And I'm pretty good at it too usually, but when
you're trying to narrow down five paint colors to like
the one, I just want like a second opinion on
what it has underneath it. So this will be helpful.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh yeah, absolutely. And I have no doubt that you're
good at it too, because just in general, I mean,
you may have that talent as well, but women see
more differentiation of color frequency than men do. It's just
it's genetic as well, so you know you you'll probably
out color pick me on any given day of the week.
(17:38):
But yeah, there's no That's why I just always fall
back on the trick because if you hold up a
primary color next to any mixed color, it will suddenly
reveal what's going on there. It's the weirdest thing. And
it's so cool to be able to say, like, oh, yeah,
there's green in there, quite a bit of it, and
then you'll know exactly where. And these are important things
(17:59):
because when we're really trying to narrow down a color
to get that color right, you gotta know, you gotta
know what those undertones are. And so again, Laura, good
on you for this. I have no doubt the kitchen's
going to look fantastic.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Great.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You are very welcome. Thanks for the call. This is
why we take calls because they're interesting, they're great, and
everybody gets to learn something along the way. We'll do
it again when we come back. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to help you transform your ordinary house into
(18:36):
an extraordinary home. Good Saturday morning to you. Saturday morning.
Labor Day weekend? Did I get that right? Some Memorial
Day weekend. I don't know why I always switch those two.
It's Labor Day weekend, right, right, Sam, It's Labor Day weekend.
Labor Day, yes, yes, Labor Day. Okay, I'm just checking.
I'm just double checking. It's a long weekend for most
(18:59):
of y'all. And I hope you've got great plans with
the weather here in southern California. Fantastic wherever you find yourself.
I hope the weather is treating you well. And we
are as we do taking calls. I want to go
back to the phones. Let's find out what Grace wants. Grace,
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Hi. A couple of weeks ago, you talked about a
concrete additive when you're putting in a post in the
ground and it helps the concrete to expand or fill
up the whole. And you spelled it if I c A.
And when I look that up, all I get is
(19:41):
bank information. Did I write it down wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes? You did, Love you did, And so let me
let me clarify a couple of things. Okay, First of all,
it's seek a s s as in sam s I
k A s I k A Sicca. Ok So that's
(20:10):
the that's the company name, Okay, and the product, just
to be clear, I just want to clarify, is not concrete.
Not concrete, and it's not a concrete additive. And don't
look for that because Sicca that company. They make all
sorts of concrete additives. Okay, but that's a rabbit hole
(20:30):
that you I'm glad you said post hole because this
is a completely different thing. Yes, Cicca makes all kinds
of concrete additives that you would add to regular cement
to make it stronger, more crack resistant, or make it
cure longer or faster. I mean, there's all sorts of
stuff industry, building, industry stuff that Cicca makes. What you're
(20:53):
looking for is seca post fix post fix seek a postfix,
And what it is is a little package. It weighs
I think a pound one pound this package, and it's
a plastic package. It's got fluid liquid in two sides
(21:16):
of this package. And once you've dug a post hole
and you're ready to put the post in it, you
follow these instructions, but you break open you roll the
package so that it pops open the two halves and
they mix with each other. The two halves now mix,
and then you mix it across your knee for about
(21:37):
thirteen seconds or so. You mix it all up so
that it thoroughly mixes together. There's a chemical reaction that
starts to happen. You clip open the corner of the
package and you pour this liquid down inside the post hole,
and lo and behold, you will see in the next
minute expanding foam rising out of the post hole, rounding
(22:00):
the post, filling up the hole, and locking that post
in place. It is expanding foam post hole post setting cement.
I see. I want to say cement. Foam. It's foam.
It's not cement. Okay, So that's the product there do
you put?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
You put concrete in the hole first, or no, ma'am, No,
this is it you put in the hole.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This is it. One of these one pound packages. One
of these one pound packages. It replaces one hundred pounds
of posthole cement.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Oh my god, you're a genius. I swear, thank you God.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well, Grace, Grace, I didn't invent it, Okay, Just to
be clear, I'm just I'm just letting everybody know about it.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
You brought it to the fourth right, honey. I would
never have known about it otherwise.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh well, I appreciate that. And so yeah. So the
only thing the limitation that this foam has is that
it's for post holes for fences. It's not structural. Okay.
So I always like to say this to everybody who's
listening to me, because somebody's somebody's run off, somebody has
already turned off the radio and they're running to the
(23:12):
hardware store to get this stuff because they're like, Hey,
that whole deck that we're building, we can use this
foam stuff instead. No, this is not for weight bearing
stuff like the deck outside. Okay, this is just for
holding up post fence posts. And it does a fantastic
I have I have. I want to say, I have
(23:34):
three hundred and eighty at least feet of wood fencing
around my property, and every single fence post is anchored
in this sik of foam, and these fence posts are
decades old now and perfectly straight true. And the other
(23:57):
thing I lock that boam surround fence post and protects
the wood from moisture, unlike cement, because concrete is porous
and it lets moisture straight on in so that the
fence post rots faster the foam. The foam actually holds
moisture away from the fence post. So it's it's just
(24:19):
it's a brilliant product on so many levels. And instead
of lugging around two fifty pound PAGs of concrete for
every single fence post and then sitting there and waiting
for several hours for them to set up, you've got
a one pound bag. You pour it in the hole,
you hold the fence post plum for about a minute
and a half, and then you just walk away and
(24:41):
it's done. Holy crap, oh great, oh my goodness. All right,
my friend, Well before I blow you away anymore and
we have to use the beet button on you, I'll
(25:01):
let you go. Thank you for the call, my friend, Grace,
what a sweet this sweet voice. And then man, what
came out of that mouth unexpectedly my oh my grace.
Good luck with that, Good luck, Thanks for asking the question.
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