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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Camp I am six forty and live streaming in HD
everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Hey, welcome to home
where Every week we help you better understand that place
where you live. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer,
custom home builder, custom home designer, and most importantly, today
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your guide to turning your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
All right, normally I'm gonna go around the horn with
the team, but today we are jumping straight to my
better half, my design partner, the co owner, co founder
of House Whisper, and of course, you know, my best
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buddy in all the world, Tina is here.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Welcome home. Oh, come on, don't be coy. She stared
at me like maybe I'm not going to say anything
at all. And of course, in classic Tina form, even
though she is a queen among mothers, truly, instead of
sitting back, she of course is serving her mom and
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the other moms in our family. We got something happening.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We do. We worked really hard yesterday, my brother and
my nieces and my good friend Sarah. We all got
together and we put together an English tea, an English team.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're serving it up today.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hi tea sandwich is little pastries of course.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The scones, all the high tea stuff. That's like your
mom's that's my mom's thing, that's your mom's idea of
heavenly Heaven is just an eternal high tea all the time, right,
I love high tea. I had it for the first
time when we went to Victoria. Did I didn't realize
that was your first time. I know, right, I was
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so excited because I'm such a man of the.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
World and we got together almost thirty years.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I not know that you and you and you've done
this with your mom before, but yeah, never never just
sitting down being a part of it. And I got
to say, uh so, I have mixed feelings about it.
I mean, it's fancy and it's lovely. It truly is classy, lovely,
and I feel like a barbarian at high tea and
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not not. I don't act like a barbarian. You know.
I'm sitting there, I sip my tea, sip my tea,
have my and when we say sandwiches, let's face it,
these are like two inch square, little little triangles of
things there. And that's the real issue. The real issue
is that, you know, Dean should not go to high
Tea hungry because even though like up in Victoria, we
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it was all stacked up, but one of those really
it was really pretty big. You know, I forget what
it's called, but but you know those multi layer trays
that they bring out, and it's so fancy and delicious. Okay,
but I swear if you actually weighe the food on
those trays, I could probably you know, easily take down
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four of them myself, just just without question. Just that's
just the way. Yeah. So anyway, but but it's great,
and it's awesome, and I love that you're doing it,
and I love that you're the kind of person that
you would do that. Uh And I don't know, I
just wanted to honor you this morning with that before
we dove into everything else. And uh, and we're just
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gonna just generally honor women this morning. Women are the
primary decision makers in the home improvement segment. Did you
know that that the tables have turned places like big
boxes like Home Depot and Low's will tell you in
their own internal statistics that that women are are right
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about at fifty to fifty with men as far as
purchases inside those large stores, if it tilts any direction,
it usually tilts in favor of women. These days, women
currently control seven trillion dollars in US spending, seven trillion dollar.
In fact, women today account for eighty five percent of
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all purchases and drive seventy eighty percent of all consumer spending.
It's just amazing. Single women. Okay, I learned this this week.
Single women one of the fastest growing groups of homeowners. Okay.
According to the National Association of Realtors in twenty nineteen,
females comprise seventeen percent of home buyers. That's a huge number,
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single female, single females, seventeen percent of home buyers, compared
to their single male counterparts, who accounted for about nine percent.
And that's on a that's not tough for me to imagine.
You know, young single women older saying it doesn't even matter, young,
middle aged, older, senior, way, it doesn't matter. It's just
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women are more emotionally mature. They're more responsible as a
just as a general group. Let's face it, you get
this big grid on your face, you know it's true,
and it's not universally true, but it's generally true. And
then you got guys out there are like what but
who what? Uh So anyway, uh ninety three percent of
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women have completed a DIY project on their home in
the last three or four years. That I believe totally
completely right. And we know for a fact right here
on our little program that over half of our listener base,
just a little over half of our listener base, is female.
So there you go. It's all about honoring women today,
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and especially you moms who have put in the work.
The thing about parenting just in general, and it goes
doubly true for moms is you could be the greatest
one in the universe and you never actually feel like
you got it right, you know, I mean in that
sense of like did I do that? And I'm not
talking about how your kids turned out, it's just that
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sense of it is such a hard job. It is
such a hard job, and the rewards along the way
are not the ones that you actually expected they would be,
I think in general. So we're here to honor you today,
and if we do this all right, we're gonna bring
some light into your morning, make you feel glad you
are here, so let's get to it. Your Home with
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Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. More great stuff on the way.
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper, can't.
I am six forty and live streaming in HD everywhere
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every week we help you better understand that place where
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it be construction issues, DIY questions, design concerns, anything at all.
Here is the number to reach me, and these lines
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You see it just rolls off the tomb. Let's talk
to Joni. Jony. Welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
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
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cabinet 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 (08:10):
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 (08:17):
No, I haven't had a chance to ask.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Just to clarify a couple of terms for everybody else
who's listening. So, when you're doing a cabinet installation, the
cabinet boxes go in, and then once 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 whatever it
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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 no overhanging
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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 typical overhang
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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. But
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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. In
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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 cores
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 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,
and quite often on once in a blue moon, I
will tell you this, Joni, once in a blue moon,
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when we 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
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the front 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 4 (12:09):
But that's kind of you didn't lose this at all. No, okay,
that's amazing. 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 man.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So yeah, so 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 4 (12:34):
Okay. And a farmhouse sync should be level with the subtop.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If it's an inset, yeah, if it's an undermount farmhouse sinc.
Then yes, it gets set level with the subtops so
that the stone goes over and just rolls over the sink.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Front, yes, that's the nature of it. But as far
as as it being underneath the countertop from the top, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Okay, well, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You are so very welcome. Thanks for the call in
good luck with all of that. One last thing I'm
gonna toss in there. I don't know if y'all kind
of pick that up. But when you typically look at
a stone countertop face, not a lot of people realize
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this that you know, the stone slab that comes from
the stone yard is only three quarter well three get
it's more like seven eighths of an inch stick usually between.
Depending on the kind of stone, it could be anywhere
from seven eighths to an inch thick stone. That's not
that full, big fat countertop edge that you see there.
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What happens is we take that stone and then we'll
take a slice of it off that front edge and
we'll put it up underneath. We'll epoxyate laminated underneath, and
then whatever kind of of nosing of edging that you want.
And there's twenty different kinds of edging that we can
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do there. But the idea is that we're giving the
illusion that that stone is closer to two inches thick,
when in reality it's just two pieces. And the quality
of the install of that stone, by the way, has
to do with whether we're hiding the scene. Okay, any
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cheaper done countertops, you can look on the face and
you're like, well look and I can see the line
where they glued it together. That's kind of a fail
for us. We never do it that way. We either
miter from the top corner down so that we have
no visible seam on the face, or if it's like
what Jonie was talking about, what's called an og or
a double og edge, the scene can get hidden in
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the details of the carving of the fun of the
counter So there you go. Did that make sense? Am
I making sense to people? I know it's very tech,
but just I know there are a lot of you
out there are like, oh, okay, I get it. Now,
run to your kitchen right now and check out your
countertop and decide whether you know how it rates. When
we come back, we'll get to more of your calls.
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This is Dean Sharp the House Whisper on KFI. You're
listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from KFI
AM six forty Dean Sharp, the House Whisper at your service.
Welcome home. I'm glad you have joined us on our
program today. We are doing an all calls weekend, so
it's an all calls Sunday. Back to the phones, Courtney.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Well, what I'm calling about. I have a raccoon problem
that lives next door to me and is pooping on
my property and urinating and the odor is horrible.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh oh geez. And the source is the empty house
next to you, A vacant house next to you.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yes, and plus the neighborhood is full of them. Two
we live next to a forest.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I got you, I got you. Oh my gosh, Courtney. Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh okay, I want to talk about subs. But these raccoons,
they really didn't kill me.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, I feel you, I feel you. Man. Raccoons are
so damn smart. That's this is the problem. They are
so dang smart and agile and capable and uh and
I was I would say that. You know, if you're
the only person in the neighborhood who's struggling with it,
that's one thing. You know, you can get control locked
down your trash cans, make sure they don't have access
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to all this stuff. But if you've got a vacant
house next to you, uh, then then you don't have
any control over that. And they're and they're basically, you know,
now you're just the highway to get back and forth
from from there to the forest and everything else around you.
So I'm going to give you my this is my
best advice. And uh, and I don't know, honestly, just
to be completely honest, whether it's going to solve the problem,
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but this is my best advice. Lots of people say
all sorts of things when it comes to pests, especially
you know those kinds of pasts. They say, Okay, put
blood meal in your garden, you know, in your garden
beds because it'll keep them away. Or you can get
big jugs of you know, like a predator urine, which
you know sounds just wonderful, right, and spread that around
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in your beds because they say, you know, if they
smell like you know, coyote or wolf urine something like that,
or cougar, that they're going to stay away. I've seen
people put up electric you know, those little electric wires.
You know, raccoons are smart, they find their way around it.
There are ultrasonic things out there that they sell. I've
ever seen them work. They say, oh, you put this
out of frequency. They can't stand it. Yeah, yeah, like heck,
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they can't stand it. I've seen them sitting on top
of them at times, you know. So here is what
has here, here's my logic to it. I don't know
if this makes sense to you, Courtney, but my logic
has been, if I actually got up in the middle
of the night and walked out there, turned on a
light with the garden hose in my hand, I'm pretty
sure the I'm pretty sure that the raccoons are going
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to take off because I've never I've never had a
raccoon in my yard where I turn the light on him.
Number one, he shocked and surprised that the lights on
all of a sudden, and uh. And then you know,
I get out the nozzle on the garden hose and
I give him a little shower, and lo and behold,
he takes off. So the point is this, what I
have found to be very effective and amazingly less expensive
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than all that other BS is emotion motion sensor lights
out on the perimeter of the property or wherever they
end up showing up, so that any movement out there
throws these lights on for you know, a few seconds
or a minute or so at a time. That's one thing.
But here's the other one motion sensor rain bird another words,
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the motion sensor sprinkler head. You know, not not theing
really cool quiet kinds, No, the ones that kind of
like do the and spray all over the place. We
had a there's a garden in our town called Gardens
of the World that's kind of a public, open, foundation
driven garden. They built this beautiful Japanese pagoda and there's
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a pond, a koi pond, you know, and first month
being open, they had it stocked with koi, and within
like two weeks the koi are completely gone and they're
scratching their heads and they come to realize these great
blue herons were coming down and you know, they eat fish,
and they were stealing koi out of the koi pond. Again,
what they'd solved the problem with was a motion activated
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sprinkler head that kind of went over the koi pond.
And ever since they installed that thing. So if a
heron lands in the water, even in the middle of
the night, they activate the sprinkler head, they get a
face full of water and they take off. I don't
think it's gonna solve every imaginable problem, but I have
seen that technique so effective in keeping past unwanted pests
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out of the yard because most of them are nocturn
which means they like to operate under cover of darkness.
And no animal that I know of wants a face
full of water unexpectedly in the middle of the night.
And so that's something that you set up and you
don't have to monitor. It takes care of itself. We're
talking about like it's a thirty dollars item at the
hardware store. So if you can find a couple of
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places to install those, plus some motion lights activated, then
you can probably reduce the amount of raccoon activity in
your yard, if not eliminated altogether, instead of doing blood
meal and urine and electric shock wires and all that
other stuff. I hope this helps, and next time you call,
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we can move on to more productive things other than
raccoon urine. More calls, More calls, Tina, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Luan, I want to find the best way to get
somebody to come and put an automatic shut off on
the gas. And as you probably know, you go on
the internet and there are like many charlatans advertising their services.
What do I need to be aware of when I
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do go on the internet and look for someone that
is reliable, that has done it and isn't going to
have the house explode five minutes after he drives away.
I mean, what are the key elements there?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Really good question. You know, by the way, you're looking
for an automatic gas shut off valve, you're just looking
for a plumber. So you do not need, first of all,
some kind of specialist. In fact, I would not call
for a specialist because that's the kind of area where
you start getting into all of that kind of stuff, like,
oh we special I guarantee you no one out there
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specializes in automatic shut off outs. It's just a plumbing item,
and it's actually, here's the good news. It's a very
relatively simple item and automatic gas shut off out by
the way, everybody is here's here's how it's complex.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It is.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's a brilliant device. It is a it is a
little device that gets attached to the incoming gas line
into uh, well into the house from the meter. Okay,
so you get the meter and then right next to
the meter as the as the line comes into the
house is right next to the meters where you install
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this automatic shut off valve. Uh It just gets installed
in that line boom. It takes It should take a
qualified plumber all of an hour to pop one of
these suckers in, so it's not like an all day event.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And what it does is basically, inside this shut off
valve there is a large, very heavy a ball like
a like a bearing like a ball bearing up inside
and down below is the flow of gas through the line.
That ball sits there on a little platform that has
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been pre engineered. This platform has been pre engineered with
a tiny bit of a cup a recess in it
that nestles that ball in place. I don't quote me
on the size of the earthquake, but I believe, if
I'm not mistaken, anything over I think a five point
zero on the Richter scale, anything five point zero and
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up is big enough to knock that ball off of
its little platform. The ball falls down into the chamber
and boom blocks the gas line. There you go, automatic
shut off valve for the gas for the house. Yeah,
it's a super simple device. And yeah, and once it's done,
you can go and have it beset really easily as well.
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And it's not just gonna accidentally fall off in the
wind or anything like that. But you bring up a
good point, and the good point is very simply that, yeah,
there are a lot of craziness out there when it
comes to contracting and in general. Okay, so the key is,
now we've published this before, or we keep sending it
out time after time, but we've got shows in which
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we talk about how to find the right contractor how
to vet a contractor i'llill just tell you very quickly,
it's about making the calls. It's about talking to the folks.
You can make sure their licensing is in order. You
can do that on the California State License Board website.
And then you want references. You just want references, and
you want recent references like last week and last month
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and two months ago, not ten years ago when they
one job that they did and the one client they
made happy they still posted on their website. No, you
want to find out from the person whose house they
just left, how to go, how'd it work out, how's
the company, what's the state of the union today. You
get those references, and then you get pricing, and you
get at least three estimates for anything that you want done,
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so that you get a sense of what really is
the consensus of the price of the job, and in
your case one, it's going to be easy peasy. So
there you go. I am so glad you joined me
this week. I wanted so much more to come. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Doctor Brown.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
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Speaker 1 (25:10):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. It's time
to go to the phones find out what's going on
with you. Why don't we talk to well, let's just
go right to the top, Karen, Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
I live in Los Angeles County and in my backyard
I have a detached twenty three by twenty garage twenty
three wide, and I want to make an eight hundred
square foot accessory dwelling unit. So the garage is built
in two thousand and five. Is it going to be
cheaper for me knock down the garage and start all
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over again? And just so you know, the washer and
dryer is currently in the garage. Is it going to
be cheaper to knock down the garage and start fresh
and clean with that detach eight hundred square foot unit
or will it be cheaper to knock out the wall
and tend it to forty wide from twenty three wide.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, here is my answer. I don't know, I don't know, no,
But here are the factors involved. Okay, it may very
well be cheaper to just go with the existing structure,
because you've got an existing structure, right, It's really a
question of how well the garage is built. Is the
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garage built, can the garage be brought is it at code?
Can it be brought up to code? Is the slab
on the garage sloped? Are you going to have to
contend with that because it's got a eighth inch per
foot slope on it? Or is it perfectly flat and
ready to become a floor of a dwelling unit. There
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are a lot of factors that go into play. Now,
the question of as far as the city is concerned, Okay,
as far as La County is concerned, they're just gonna
put their hands up and say, hey, whatever you want
to do, we're fine with you converting the garage, but
it's going to have to be to code. We're also
fine if you want to knock it down and go
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for eight hundred square feet new. Ideally, if it works
with your design and you've got structure there that's worth saving. Ideally,
it will probably be the best and least expensive route
to keep it and just build off of it. You know,
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I always say this when it comes to room editions
in general. And one of the reasons as a designer
when I come into your home and you're like, you
know what, I just need. We need more space, so
we're gonna push out, we need a new master bedroom
pushed out of the back of the house. And you know,
room edition, room edition, room editions. So many people are
talking room edition, and I put a pin in that
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at the beginning of our conversation and say, Okay, are
you sure that you need more square footage or just
to improve the flow of your existing home. And the
reason I do that is not because I've got anything
against room editions. I don't. It's just that slabs and
roofs are expensive and they're not the kinds of things
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that we experience on a daily basis. So if you've
already got one, you've already got half of the slab
that you need. If you already have half of the
roof that you need, why not, you know, build onto it.
So I think, Karen, your best situation is to figure
out what a plan might look like back there, see
if the garage can become a part of it. Talk
to a build or get a contractor or two over,
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have them take a look at the garage and give
you their professional eyes on opinion as to whether the
garage is just you know, shambles in terms of current
code or whether they're like, no, no, no, we can
work with this relatively easy. And that's just that's just
a whole nother segment of the new build that you
don't have to duplicate.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Can the city say eight hundred like they had before
the ADU, They had a requirement that, as an example,
a one bedroom must be like, let's say eight hundred
square feet, right, I'm not exactly sure of the numbers,
but let's just say it was a one bedroom. If
I was going to build a brand new place with
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the ADU, am I exempt from that? Can I still
turn eight hundred square feet into two bedroom? Or could
they say no, under o les, eight hundred square feet
not is only big enough for a one bedroom?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Nope. Now you can show them, You show them on
the plan where you get two habitable rooms plus you know,
a useful kitchen and bathroom, and closet space out of that,
and they are no longer in a position to shut.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
You down on it, So thank you, sir. And my
last question is on a contractor. Is there a contractor
like to contractors do the plans and contracting or I
have to get an architect and a contractor.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, well, okay, a couple of modifications on both of
your both of these answers. Yes, there are contractors that
do design build. Okay, I'm always a little you know,
I'm a home designer and have been a builder for
many years, and as a designer, I'm always a little
bit wary of design build contractors. Not that there aren't
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some fantastic designers out there who also build, but a
lot of contractors who call themselves design build are really
not going to give you all your money's worth in
the design department, so just be aware of that. But
they are there, and you certainly should investigate that. You
asked the question about an architect, so just to be clear, yeah,
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you can totally hire an architect. But in the state
of California, you don't have to be a licensed architect.
You can be an experienced designer, a licensed art you
don't have to be a licensed architect to build a
residential structure up to three stories in height. You could
design yourself if you want to. Okay, that's very good
to you don't need a license architect. Or you can
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hire a designer, a decorator, anybody who's got the talent
to get that design just right for you. Okay, and
thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Questions have a great pay.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
You too, Karen, thanks for these questions, really really good.
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Camp I am six forty and live streaming in HD
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where Every week we help you better understand that place
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your guide to turning your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
All right, normally I'm gonna go around the horn with
the team, but today we are jumping straight to my
better half, my design partner, the co owner, co founder
of House Whisper, and of course, you know, my best
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buddy in all the world, Tina is here.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Welcome home. Oh, come on, don't be coy. She stared
at me like maybe I'm not going to say anything
at all. And of course, in classic Tina form, even
though she is a queen among mothers, truly, instead of
sitting back, she of course is serving her mom and
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the other moms in our family. We got something happening.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We do. We worked really hard yesterday, my brother and
my nieces and my good friend Sarah. We all got
together and we put together an English tea, an English team.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're serving it up today.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hi tea sandwich is little pastries of course.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The scones, all the high tea stuff. That's like your
mom's that's my mom's thing, that's your mom's idea of
heavenly Heaven is just an eternal high tea all the time, right,
I love high tea. I had it for the first
time when we went to Victoria. Did I didn't realize
that was your first time. I know, right, I was
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so excited because I'm such a man of the.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
World and we got together almost thirty years.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I not know that you and you and you've done
this with your mom before, but yeah, never never just
sitting down being a part of it. And I got
to say, uh so, I have mixed feelings about it.
I mean, it's fancy and it's lovely. It truly is classy, lovely,
and I feel like a barbarian at high tea and
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not not. I don't act like a barbarian. You know.
I'm sitting there, I sip my tea, sip my tea,
have my and when we say sandwiches, let's face it,
these are like two inch square, little little triangles of
things there. And that's the real issue. The real issue
is that, you know, Dean should not go to high
Tea hungry because even though like up in Victoria, we
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it was all stacked up, but one of those really
it was really pretty big. You know, I forget what
it's called, but but you know those multi layer trays
that they bring out, and it's so fancy and delicious. Okay,
but I swear if you actually weighe the food on
those trays, I could probably you know, easily take down
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four of them myself, just just without question. Just that's
just the way. Yeah. So anyway, but but it's great,
and it's awesome, and I love that you're doing it,
and I love that you're the kind of person that
you would do that. Uh And I don't know, I
just wanted to honor you this morning with that before
we dove into everything else. And uh, and we're just
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gonna just generally honor women this morning. Women are the
primary decision makers in the home improvement segment. Did you
know that that the tables have turned places like big
boxes like Home Depot and Low's will tell you in
their own internal statistics that that women are are right
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about at fifty to fifty with men as far as
purchases inside those large stores, if it tilts any direction,
it usually tilts in favor of women. These days, women
currently control seven trillion dollars in US spending, seven trillion dollar.
In fact, women today account for eighty five percent of
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all purchases and drive seventy eighty percent of all consumer spending.
It's just amazing. Single women. Okay, I learned this this week.
Single women one of the fastest growing groups of homeowners. Okay.
According to the National Association of Realtors in twenty nineteen,
females comprise seventeen percent of home buyers. That's a huge number,
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single female, single females, seventeen percent of home buyers, compared
to their single male counterparts, who accounted for about nine percent.
And that's on a that's not tough for me to imagine.
You know, young single women older saying it doesn't even matter, young,
middle aged, older, senior, way, it doesn't matter. It's just
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women are more emotionally mature. They're more responsible as a
just as a general group. Let's face it, you get
this big grid on your face, you know it's true,
and it's not universally true, but it's generally true. And
then you got guys out there are like what but
who what? Uh So anyway, uh ninety three percent of
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women have completed a DIY project on their home in
the last three or four years. That I believe totally
completely right. And we know for a fact right here
on our little program that over half of our listener base,
just a little over half of our listener base, is female.
So there you go. It's all about honoring women today,
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and especially you moms who have put in the work.
The thing about parenting just in general, and it goes
doubly true for moms is you could be the greatest
one in the universe and you never actually feel like
you got it right, you know, I mean in that
sense of like did I do that? And I'm not
talking about how your kids turned out, it's just that
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sense of it is such a hard job. It is
such a hard job, and the rewards along the way
are not the ones that you actually expected they would be,
I think in general. So we're here to honor you today,
and if we do this all right, we're gonna bring
some light into your morning, make you feel glad you
are here, so let's get to it. Your Home with
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Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. More great stuff on the way.
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it be construction issues, DIY questions, design concerns, anything at all.
Here is the number to reach me, and these lines
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three two. Ask Dean eight three three two ask Dean.
You see it just rolls off the tomb. Let's talk
to Joni. Jony. Welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
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
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cabinet 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 (08:10):
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 (08:17):
No, I haven't had a chance to ask.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Just to clarify a couple of terms for everybody else
who's listening. So, when you're doing a cabinet installation, the
cabinet boxes go in, and then once 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 whatever it
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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 no overhanging
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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 typical overhang
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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. But
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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. In
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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 cores
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 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,
and quite often on once in a blue moon, I
will tell you this, Joni, once in a blue moon,
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when we 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
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the front 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 4 (12:09):
But that's kind of you didn't lose this at all. No, okay,
that's amazing. 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 man.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So yeah, so 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 4 (12:34):
Okay. And a farmhouse sync should be level with the subtop.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If it's an inset, yeah, if it's an undermount farmhouse sinc.
Then yes, it gets set level with the subtops so
that the stone goes over and just rolls over the sink.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Front, yes, that's the nature of it. But as far
as as it being underneath the countertop from the top, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Okay, well, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You are so very welcome. Thanks for the call in
good luck with all of that. One last thing I'm
gonna toss in there. I don't know if y'all kind
of pick that up. But when you typically look at
a stone countertop face, not a lot of people realize
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this that you know, the stone slab that comes from
the stone yard is only three quarter well three get
it's more like seven eighths of an inch stick usually between.
Depending on the kind of stone, it could be anywhere
from seven eighths to an inch thick stone. That's not
that full, big fat countertop edge that you see there.
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What happens is we take that stone and then we'll
take a slice of it off that front edge and
we'll put it up underneath. We'll epoxyate laminated underneath, and
then whatever kind of of nosing of edging that you want.
And there's twenty different kinds of edging that we can
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do there. But the idea is that we're giving the
illusion that that stone is closer to two inches thick,
when in reality it's just two pieces. And the quality
of the install of that stone, by the way, has
to do with whether we're hiding the scene. Okay, any
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cheaper done countertops, you can look on the face and
you're like, well look and I can see the line
where they glued it together. That's kind of a fail
for us. We never do it that way. We either
miter from the top corner down so that we have
no visible seam on the face, or if it's like
what Jonie was talking about, what's called an og or
a double og edge, the scene can get hidden in
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the details of the carving of the fun of the
counter So there you go. Did that make sense? Am
I making sense to people? I know it's very tech,
but just I know there are a lot of you
out there are like, oh, okay, I get it. Now,
run to your kitchen right now and check out your
countertop and decide whether you know how it rates. When
we come back, we'll get to more of your calls.
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Welcome home. I'm glad you have joined us on our
program today. We are doing an all calls weekend, so
it's an all calls Sunday. Back to the phones, Courtney.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Well, what I'm calling about. I have a raccoon problem
that lives next door to me and is pooping on
my property and urinating and the odor is horrible.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh oh geez. And the source is the empty house
next to you, A vacant house next to you.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Yes, and plus the neighborhood is full of them. Two
we live next to a forest.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I got you, I got you. Oh my gosh, Courtney. Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh okay, I want to talk about subs. But these raccoons,
they really didn't kill me.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, I feel you, I feel you. Man. Raccoons are
so damn smart. That's this is the problem. They are
so dang smart and agile and capable and uh and
I was I would say that. You know, if you're
the only person in the neighborhood who's struggling with it,
that's one thing. You know, you can get control locked
down your trash cans, make sure they don't have access
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to all this stuff. But if you've got a vacant
house next to you, uh, then then you don't have
any control over that. And they're and they're basically, you know,
now you're just the highway to get back and forth
from from there to the forest and everything else around you.
So I'm going to give you my this is my
best advice. And uh, and I don't know, honestly, just
to be completely honest, whether it's going to solve the problem,
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but this is my best advice. Lots of people say
all sorts of things when it comes to pests, especially
you know those kinds of pasts. They say, Okay, put
blood meal in your garden, you know, in your garden
beds because it'll keep them away. Or you can get
big jugs of you know, like a predator urine, which
you know sounds just wonderful, right, and spread that around
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in your beds because they say, you know, if they
smell like you know, coyote or wolf urine something like that,
or cougar, that they're going to stay away. I've seen
people put up electric you know, those little electric wires.
You know, raccoons are smart, they find their way around it.
There are ultrasonic things out there that they sell. I've
ever seen them work. They say, oh, you put this
out of frequency. They can't stand it. Yeah, yeah, like heck,
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they can't stand it. I've seen them sitting on top
of them at times, you know. So here is what
has here, here's my logic to it. I don't know
if this makes sense to you, Courtney, but my logic
has been, if I actually got up in the middle
of the night and walked out there, turned on a
light with the garden hose in my hand, I'm pretty
sure the I'm pretty sure that the raccoons are going
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to take off because I've never I've never had a
raccoon in my yard where I turn the light on him.
Number one, he shocked and surprised that the lights on
all of a sudden, and uh. And then you know,
I get out the nozzle on the garden hose and
I give him a little shower, and lo and behold,
he takes off. So the point is this, what I
have found to be very effective and amazingly less expensive
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than all that other BS is emotion motion sensor lights
out on the perimeter of the property or wherever they
end up showing up, so that any movement out there
throws these lights on for you know, a few seconds
or a minute or so at a time. That's one thing.
But here's the other one motion sensor rain bird another words,
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the motion sensor sprinkler head. You know, not not theing
really cool quiet kinds, No, the ones that kind of
like do the and spray all over the place. We
had a there's a garden in our town called Gardens
of the World that's kind of a public, open, foundation
driven garden. They built this beautiful Japanese pagoda and there's
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a pond, a koi pond, you know, and first month
being open, they had it stocked with koi, and within
like two weeks the koi are completely gone and they're
scratching their heads and they come to realize these great
blue herons were coming down and you know, they eat fish,
and they were stealing koi out of the koi pond. Again,
what they'd solved the problem with was a motion activated
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sprinkler head that kind of went over the koi pond.
And ever since they installed that thing. So if a
heron lands in the water, even in the middle of
the night, they activate the sprinkler head, they get a
face full of water and they take off. I don't
think it's gonna solve every imaginable problem, but I have
seen that technique so effective in keeping past unwanted pests
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out of the yard because most of them are nocturn
which means they like to operate under cover of darkness.
And no animal that I know of wants a face
full of water unexpectedly in the middle of the night.
And so that's something that you set up and you
don't have to monitor. It takes care of itself. We're
talking about like it's a thirty dollars item at the
hardware store. So if you can find a couple of
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places to install those, plus some motion lights activated, then
you can probably reduce the amount of raccoon activity in
your yard, if not eliminated altogether, instead of doing blood
meal and urine and electric shock wires and all that
other stuff. I hope this helps, and next time you call,
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we can move on to more productive things other than
raccoon urine. More calls, More calls, Tina, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Luan, I want to find the best way to get
somebody to come and put an automatic shut off on
the gas. And as you probably know, you go on
the internet and there are like many charlatans advertising their services.
What do I need to be aware of when I
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do go on the internet and look for someone that
is reliable, that has done it and isn't going to
have the house explode five minutes after he drives away.
I mean, what are the key elements there?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Really good question. You know, by the way, you're looking
for an automatic gas shut off valve, you're just looking
for a plumber. So you do not need, first of all,
some kind of specialist. In fact, I would not call
for a specialist because that's the kind of area where
you start getting into all of that kind of stuff, like,
oh we special I guarantee you no one out there
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specializes in automatic shut off outs. It's just a plumbing item,
and it's actually, here's the good news. It's a very
relatively simple item and automatic gas shut off out by
the way, everybody is here's here's how it's complex.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It is.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's a brilliant device. It is a it is a
little device that gets attached to the incoming gas line
into uh, well into the house from the meter. Okay,
so you get the meter and then right next to
the meter as the as the line comes into the
house is right next to the meters where you install
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this automatic shut off valve. Uh It just gets installed
in that line boom. It takes It should take a
qualified plumber all of an hour to pop one of
these suckers in, so it's not like an all day event.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And what it does is basically, inside this shut off
valve there is a large, very heavy a ball like
a like a bearing like a ball bearing up inside
and down below is the flow of gas through the line.
That ball sits there on a little platform that has
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been pre engineered. This platform has been pre engineered with
a tiny bit of a cup a recess in it
that nestles that ball in place. I don't quote me
on the size of the earthquake, but I believe, if
I'm not mistaken, anything over I think a five point
zero on the Richter scale, anything five point zero and
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up is big enough to knock that ball off of
its little platform. The ball falls down into the chamber
and boom blocks the gas line. There you go, automatic
shut off valve for the gas for the house. Yeah,
it's a super simple device. And yeah, and once it's done,
you can go and have it beset really easily as well.
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And it's not just gonna accidentally fall off in the
wind or anything like that. But you bring up a
good point, and the good point is very simply that, yeah,
there are a lot of craziness out there when it
comes to contracting and in general. Okay, so the key is,
now we've published this before, or we keep sending it
out time after time, but we've got shows in which
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we talk about how to find the right contractor how
to vet a contractor i'llill just tell you very quickly,
it's about making the calls. It's about talking to the folks.
You can make sure their licensing is in order. You
can do that on the California State License Board website.
And then you want references. You just want references, and
you want recent references like last week and last month
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and two months ago, not ten years ago when they
one job that they did and the one client they
made happy they still posted on their website. No, you
want to find out from the person whose house they
just left, how to go, how'd it work out, how's
the company, what's the state of the union today. You
get those references, and then you get pricing, and you
get at least three estimates for anything that you want done,
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so that you get a sense of what really is
the consensus of the price of the job, and in
your case one, it's going to be easy peasy. So
there you go. I am so glad you joined me
this week. I wanted so much more to come. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Doctor Brown.
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Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. It's time
to go to the phones find out what's going on
with you. Why don't we talk to well, let's just
go right to the top, Karen, Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
I live in Los Angeles County and in my backyard
I have a detached twenty three by twenty garage twenty
three wide, and I want to make an eight hundred
square foot accessory dwelling unit. So the garage is built
in two thousand and five. Is it going to be
cheaper for me knock down the garage and start all
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over again? And just so you know, the washer and
dryer is currently in the garage. Is it going to
be cheaper to knock down the garage and start fresh
and clean with that detach eight hundred square foot unit
or will it be cheaper to knock out the wall
and tend it to forty wide from twenty three wide.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, here is my answer. I don't know, I don't know, no,
But here are the factors involved. Okay, it may very
well be cheaper to just go with the existing structure,
because you've got an existing structure, right, It's really a
question of how well the garage is built. Is the
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garage built, can the garage be brought is it at code?
Can it be brought up to code? Is the slab
on the garage sloped? Are you going to have to
contend with that because it's got a eighth inch per
foot slope on it? Or is it perfectly flat and
ready to become a floor of a dwelling unit. There
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are a lot of factors that go into play. Now,
the question of as far as the city is concerned, Okay,
as far as La County is concerned, they're just gonna
put their hands up and say, hey, whatever you want
to do, we're fine with you converting the garage, but
it's going to have to be to code. We're also
fine if you want to knock it down and go
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for eight hundred square feet new. Ideally, if it works
with your design and you've got structure there that's worth saving. Ideally,
it will probably be the best and least expensive route
to keep it and just build off of it. You know,
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I always say this when it comes to room editions
in general. And one of the reasons as a designer
when I come into your home and you're like, you
know what, I just need. We need more space, so
we're gonna push out, we need a new master bedroom
pushed out of the back of the house. And you know,
room edition, room edition, room editions. So many people are
talking room edition, and I put a pin in that
(27:52):
at the beginning of our conversation and say, Okay, are
you sure that you need more square footage or just
to improve the flow of your existing home. And the
reason I do that is not because I've got anything
against room editions. I don't. It's just that slabs and
roofs are expensive and they're not the kinds of things
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that we experience on a daily basis. So if you've
already got one, you've already got half of the slab
that you need. If you already have half of the
roof that you need, why not, you know, build onto it.
So I think, Karen, your best situation is to figure
out what a plan might look like back there, see
if the garage can become a part of it. Talk
to a build or get a contractor or two over,
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have them take a look at the garage and give
you their professional eyes on opinion as to whether the
garage is just you know, shambles in terms of current
code or whether they're like, no, no, no, we can
work with this relatively easy. And that's just that's just
a whole nother segment of the new build that you
don't have to duplicate.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Can the city say eight hundred like they had before
the ADU, They had a requirement that, as an example,
a one bedroom must be like, let's say eight hundred
square feet, right, I'm not exactly sure of the numbers,
but let's just say it was a one bedroom. If
I was going to build a brand new place with
(29:18):
the ADU, am I exempt from that? Can I still
turn eight hundred square feet into two bedroom? Or could
they say no, under o les, eight hundred square feet
not is only big enough for a one bedroom?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Nope. Now you can show them, You show them on
the plan where you get two habitable rooms plus you know,
a useful kitchen and bathroom, and closet space out of that,
and they are no longer in a position to shut.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
You down on it, So thank you, sir. And my
last question is on a contractor. Is there a contractor
like to contractors do the plans and contracting or I
have to get an architect and a contractor.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, well, okay, a couple of modifications on both of
your both of these answers. Yes, there are contractors that
do design build. Okay, I'm always a little you know,
I'm a home designer and have been a builder for
many years, and as a designer, I'm always a little
bit wary of design build contractors. Not that there aren't
(30:22):
some fantastic designers out there who also build, but a
lot of contractors who call themselves design build are really
not going to give you all your money's worth in
the design department, so just be aware of that. But
they are there, and you certainly should investigate that. You
asked the question about an architect, so just to be clear, yeah,
(30:43):
you can totally hire an architect. But in the state
of California, you don't have to be a licensed architect.
You can be an experienced designer, a licensed art you
don't have to be a licensed architect to build a
residential structure up to three stories in height. You could
design yourself if you want to. Okay, that's very good
to you don't need a license architect. Or you can
(31:05):
hire a designer, a decorator, anybody who's got the talent
to get that design just right for you. Okay, and
thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Questions have a great pay.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
You too, Karen, thanks for these questions, really really good.
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