October 25, 2025 • 26 mins
It's an all-calls episode of Home With Dean Sharp! A caller was asking about what to do about his home’s hard scape. Y’see, he’s just resurfaced his outdoor pool, and now he has all this leftover concrete and timber to play around with.
Next, a caller was wondering about how best to take care of the hardwood entry floor in her home, which needs some TLC.
Next, a caller was wondering about how best to take care of the hardwood entry floor in her home, which needs some TLC.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home Builder,
custom home Designer, and your guide to better understanding that
place where you live. Why are we here because every
home has a path forward, including yours. Every home deserves
good design, including yours. Once you find that path, once
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you crack the case, once we have figured out the
path forward, once you see it, everything changes, Everything changes,
and all the chips start to fall. Is that the
right thing? All the dominoes all day, Well, everything starts
moving in the right direction. We'll put it that way
today on the show, as we do every Saturday morning.
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For you early risers and for those of you who
just didn't didn't even get to sleep last night because
you were so upset that the Dodgers lost so badly. Yeah,
don't don't worry about that. Just game one. They had
the whole week off. They were a little out of sync.
They just had to wake up a little bit. Worry not,
I promise you anyway. It is an all calls Saturday morning,
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nothing but your calls, nothing but you setting the agenda
for today's show eight three three to ask Dean?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
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Speaker 1 (01:29):
Eight three to three the numeral two Ask Dean A
three three two Ask Dean. Whatever has you scratch in
your head about your home, whether it's a design or
an architectural issue, a construction concern, a duiy question, inside stuff,
outside stuff, hardescape, landscape.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I got you. We'll put our heads together. We will
get it figured out.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I promise I will treat you right, with the respect
that you deserve. Don't worry, don't be intimidated. Give us
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about your home. Eight three three two ask Dean. And
we'll go to the phones as soon as they start
rolling in, as soon as the calls start rolling in.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So if you've ever tried calling the show and gotten,
you know, frustrated because you haven't been able to get
through or we didn't get to your call, Saturday mornings
always a great time. Eight three three to ask Dean.
In the meantime, let's say good morning to Sam. Good
morning Sam, Good morning Dean. How you doing good? I
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see you're wrangling? Are not so live studio audience. I
have my kid wrangling them today. Oh my gosh, he's
in there with you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's like I have a little tiny intern running around
doing my job for me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, you know, I don't know if we can pay
for that. I just don't know. He gets college credit.
It's okay. Good to have you. Good to have you,
Heather Brooker, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Good morning, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
How are you ready?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm good. You sound very just bright eyed.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh well, it's all an act. I'm an actor. No,
I'm an actor after all. No, no, no, we're we're
slowly waking up over here in the newsroom.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's right, all right, all right, all right, Well they're nothing,
nothing too earth shattering happening in the news right now.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
No, thankfully, you know it's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We talk about this sometimes, how the news cycle lately
is unrelenting, and sometimes when things are not as crazy,
you kind of go, oh, oh, okay, we have a nice,
like normal news day where things are not going too wild, so.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Let's keep our fingers crossed. But nothing happens in the
next five minutes. That's changed that, all right? And sitting
across the table from me, my design partner, my better half,
my best friend in all the world. Look at she's
adorable's here?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh oh, excuse you, I clear my throat. Sorry. Good
morning to you, Good morning, welcome home, welcome home to you.
How's it going great?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Did you see outside?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's very misty.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's like this, so misty that it's got this dew
and I can hear I don't feel it, but I
hear it in the trees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They always kind of you can dripping, like the leaves
are dripping. It's very, very nice. I don't mind at all.
I love actually that it's still dark outside at six o'clock.
We're pushing up against the time change.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Though. It's going to happen soon.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I think at the next week, or like, I think
it's in November.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's weird that it's happening in November.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It normally happens before Halloween, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I thought so. I thought so too, I thought, I
don't know, you know what, I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Not in charge of these things.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm not a fan of the Daylight savings thing. I'm
not me either. I just just let's just go. Why
don't we just trust the sun. How about that. Let's
just go with it. We don't need that whole thing anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yes, we have lights.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now, we have lights. We can all do what we
need to do anyway. I just I really enjoy I
told you the other day. I you know, if if
I had one of those magic stop watches where you know,
where you can just click and you just freeze time,
it's it's like this time in the morning, or or
just as the sun is starting to lighten up the sky. Man,
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I would probably just permanently freeze time. That's the time
of the morning. And only early risers understand this. Well,
it's so quiet, and I don't have to worry about
speaking to non early risers right now because everybody else
who wouldn't understand it, they're dead asleep right now, that's right.
But for those of you who are up and listening,
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I know you totally get it right. This time of
the day is just it's fresh, it's clean. It's different
than night time, you know what I mean. It's different
than when the sun goes down after because then you're
still in that day whatever that was, you still kind
of have the bit of the day on you. But
this you know, it's fresh, it's clean, everything is possible,
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anything is possible.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I love it all right.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's see anything else to tell you that's of Oh,
we're gonna be given away some more tickets to the
House Whisper Ghost Tour on Monday night. That's just two
days away, now, just two days away. So today and
tomorrow last time to win tickets. I'll be given you know,
we'll be announcing that and then everybody can rush to
the phones to get their tickets. I'm gonna give away
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a pair of tickets both hours today and all three
hours of the show tomorrow as well, and that will
wrap up our ticket giveaway for the group that gets
to do the VIP House Whisper tour of the historic
Kellig House on Monday night, the Monday before Halloween. It's
gonna be fun. It's gonna be just it's just for fun,
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that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We've got some calls on the board and that means
when we return, we're going to the phones. You're listening
to Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Good morning, to you. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I suggest that you, as I have done, find yourself,
pour yourself a cup of your favorite warm beverage.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Hang on a second. Mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, that's about right, and we'll settle in and talk
about your home. Hey, FYI, I just looked I was
totally wrong about this. Well, first of all, here's the
latest breaking news on daylight savings. If you didn't know,
it's not going to be tomorrow, but it will be
next Sunday, November two. That's when we will fall back
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and we'll lose a little bit of this darkness at
six o'clock in the morning. So just so you know, FYI,
it's next Sunday. I would tell you to remember to
set your clocks back, but since everybody's clock is digital
and connected to their phone, you don't have to worry
about it's just going to do it by itself. I
have to reset the Grandfather clock, but that's just for decoration.
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So anyway, it's next Sunday, and apparently, according to the interweb,
it is not late. It is actually one of the
earlier daylight savings times we've had in quite a while.
So I totally misread that one. I guess it usually
takes place a little later in November, and it's actually
happening early. So you know, don't trust Tina and I
for daylight savings information from the gut. Now you have
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the real scoop. Okay, there you go. It's an all
call Saturday morning. We've got calls on the board. The
number to reach me and there's room for you. Eight
three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three the
numeral two. Ask Dean A three three two. Ask Dean
anything you want to talk about regarding your home. And
I want to talk to Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
We just finished a pool resurface. Our pool was about
twenty years old and we did the really nice like
pebble tech. And now I've got about fifteen hundred square
feet of ugly, hard escape old kind of pool decking
that's worn off, and I'm just looking at DIY options
that might work, you know, other than having to tear
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out all this concrete.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, so now you see now the pool is gorgeous,
and now the deck around the pool is.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Like yeah, my wife is not. She's like, great, you
did got the pool done? Now what?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh I see I see you did you have to
kind of like twist her arm for the pool, and
now she's like, all right, fine, now the pool is good.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now what are you going to do for the rest
of the yard.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
She actually had to twist my arm. I said, oh,
we got five more years. It's just chipping plaster. It'll
be fine. But I lost.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh you're one of those guys, Sean, You're one of
those guys.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's just so last okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So so all right, so are you going to be uh?
Are you going to be taking this advice that I
give you? And going back to her saying, you know, well,
Dean said I could do I could do this for
fourteen bucks, and she's rolling her eyes like can we
just call the professional police?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Is it? Is this the situation that we're in?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
No, I think should let me do this part because
the surfacing was not an expensive venture, So I think
I think should give me a chance. I think a chance.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
All right, my friend? Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So so tell me what what describe the concrete decking
around the pool for me as far as is it
just straight up flat concrete? Do you have old coping?
Are you looking to change that? Did that get changed
with the pool. And what condition is the concrete in
Do we have cracks? Is it just old and faded?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What? What is it stamped? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (10:55):
So the coping around the pool was fine. The concrete
it's it's it's not want to explain it. It's not
really actually stamp concrete. It looks like they're they've put
some kind of twenty years ago a stamp looking design
over the concrete. It like they know, I'm not sure
how that was applied, but it's a thin, thin layer
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over the existing concrete. And again this is it's the patio,
it's the why the whole backyard was done with this.
And it's again probably about twenty years old. So it's
it's starting to wear off down to the bare concrete.
A few places I'll have to do some patching where
it's actually peeled off and you can see the concrete underneath,
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and it's just it's just really ugly.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Mmmmm. All right.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So now, so now this introduces kind of a wrench
in the work. So is the is this this decorative
layer or coating that they've put on top do we know?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Is it concrete?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I'm not
you know, I'm not an expert in the field. That's
why I'm called you, hopefully to find out. But I
had a company come out before and they said they
were going to redo it. And they said, well, we've
got a san blast all this stuff off, and I said, well,
I can't afford that. So my thought was I could
paint over it with some kind of coating. But again,
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I don't want to even go down that road. If
that's just a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, I'm I'm very hesitant to give you that piece
of advice. I mean to suggest that just because this
coating on top of the concrete, what we need to do.
We got to find out what it's if there's any
chance of patching it. You really need to find out
exactly what it is, all right, somebody needs a positive
id on this material. It could be some kind of resin,
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it could be some kind of epoxy coating, it could
be well, it's likely some form of resin or epoxy
coating that has gone over the existing concrete, but it's
failing in some areas, and so I'm concerned about that.
I would probably give you the same you know, Shoot,
from the hip advice as the person who came out,
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which is you know it well, I'll put it this way.
I'll give the same answer, but in a larger form.
If you cannot identify this material and and get a
company who specializes that in that out and that's that's
that's how I would approach it. We got to figure
out what this material is, and we got to call
a company that still does that kind of stuff, and
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they're around, they're around. Epoxy coating of outside concrete is
a common thing. I would call an epoxy company and
actually or an outside concrete restoration or resurfacing company, have
them come out and take a look at it and
see if there's a way that what's there can be
patched and restored so that you're working from that matrix
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as opposed to the concrete. But if you can't, I'm
kind of in the camp where it might be time
to just, you know, Sam, blast it off and start fresh.
And I know that it's not the news that you
wanted to hear. I'm not a big fan of solid
coat colors because I think most people don't realize even
just bear concrete, there's nuances and textures and various you
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know colors working in those granules. And when we just
paint a surface, one flat color on a concrete surface,
just like painting a roof, I'm never a fan of that.
It can just go uniform and just like bluh really
really fast. So I don't want to you know, the
designer in me does not want to commit to like
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a one surface color. The builder in me wants to
find out what this material is because we either need
to restore it or we need to pull it off.
And once you pull it off, you've got options. With
the bear concrete. If it was bare concrete, I was
about to tell you, hey, let's stain it. Let's stain
your bear concrete. Let's do some fun modeled exterior stain
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out there. That's the kind of stuff that won't peel
off in the future. Could revitalize and kind of excite
the pool deck around the new pool finish. But that material,
that's a wrench in the works, and we got to
figure that out first, Sean.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Right, And I didn't want to go and paint it
and then gets like you said, spend two thousand dollars
on paint, do it, and then it starts chipping. Off
right away and just looks like crud. And now we've
got to get another layer of stuff off.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Exactly, my friend, exactly, all right, I got to go
to a break, buddy. I'm sorry I couldn't give you
a magical answer, but I hopefully that was informative and helpful,
so you don't make the wrong turn there. All right,
y'all when we return more of your calls. The number
to reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean where
it's It's an all calls Saturday morning. You get to
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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We are Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help
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Can it be done?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It can, absolutely, absolutely it can be done, and we
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that on Saturdays by taking calls answering your questions. It's
an all call Saturday morning. The number to reach me
eight three to three to ask Dean eight three three
the numeral two ask Dean all right, let's talk to Yvonne.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hey von welcome home.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Well, I have an ugly wooden floor in my entry
in the hallway, and it was put in in the eighties,
so it isn't a laminate. It is actual wood, okay,
and it has it's just been very neglected, and I
want to bring it, restore it a little bit. On
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a diy. I want to restore it a little bit,
bring it back up to looking nice.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, sounds great. Give me a little bit of info
about this floor number one. I'm just out of curiosity.
Do you happen to have any extra planks or any
spare planks from this floor lying about or out in
the garage in a box or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
The wood seems to be like I do clean it
and stuff, but the wood meat seems to be in
good condition. There's no scratches in it. It does have
those little plugs, you know, like every so often they
put a plank like a little plug in it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Part of the part of the look, part of the
look of the floor is like plugged ends.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, uh huh yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And then on the side, I look and it's the
wood plank itself is pretty thick. It's a pretty thick
piece of wood. I would say, maybe not quite a
half inch, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
So you've seen this what you're you've seen your wood
ful or from the side at some point you have
some access to see it from the side.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Very it's uh geor jam And has said in thirty years,
hasn't been around to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Fix Okay, I got you, all right, So let me
ask you, Yvonne. And if there're no I'm just trying
to get to the essence of your of your question.
Because if if you're saying that the wood is in
good shape and it's not really scratched or anything, what
what exactly, uh, what exactly do you want done to it?
If it's not I was expecting you were going to
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tell me, oh, it's all scratched up in the entryway
or it's fading or you know, So what what exactly
is the thing that you want to get changed about it?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
I think it's I think it needs to be cleaned
heavier than what I can do because they that are
kind of greasy, you know, and darker and colors, and
sometimes when I spill something and I clean it, it
lightens up on that spot. So I guess clean it
really well, get rid of all the grease of stuff
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that's on it, and then find a way to seal it.
That's all just very simple, like a seal it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, all right, So it sounds like maybe we want
to refresh refresh the ceiler on the surface.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And as a di wire, if you want to take
this project on, I suggest you do it in a
very very limited and step by stepway instead of just
you know, committing to whole areas of the floor. But
essentially this if there's no problem with the wood itself,
if there's no discoloration in the wood itself, if there
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are no scratches to speak of, and you're just trying
to reseal it or refresh, and you know, it's not
unreasonable a floor that was done in the nineteen eighties
could use a new coat of And I'm guessing, and
I'm assuming, I'm assuming making this assumption, and I'm probably
right that your wood floor is protected with a couple
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of layers of polyurethane. Polyurethane is essentially kind of a
liquid plastic that goes out over the surface and seals
the wood keeps it safe from moisture and things like that.
But polyurethane can start to wear, and as it starts
to wear through, it can kind of open up its
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own porosity, which means that it grabs onto things a
little bit more. Dirt, grime, things can stick to it
a little bit more and makes it harder to seal.
So here's the thing. I ideally, and I would suggest
that you try this in the least conspicuous area possible,
But ideally it would be I want to use the
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word sanding, but I don't really mean that, okay, I,
but I'm going to use it to illustrate. What we
would want to do is sand the surface of the floor,
but not through the polyurethane. We don't actually want to
get down to the wood. We don't want to touch
the wood at all, So we don't use sandpaper. I
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just that's the action that we're taking. We don't use sandpaper.
It's what we would call screening, Okay. Screening means that
it's a it's kind of a screening disc that we
would put in the sander. It's very I mean, it
is so so super ultra light. It just doesn't even
do much and that's what we want. We want to
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use the finest, finest screening, and essentially what we're doing
is we are digging down just ever so slightly into
the polyurethane layer. By one of the byproducts of this
is that we'll be removing any grease or grime that
has embedded itself in the polyurethane. We don't want to
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go through the poly we just want to open up
its porosity across the entire floor. And then after it's
been screened and its porosity has been opened up, then
we give it an amazingly good wipe down with like
a cheese cloth or a tack rag, so that there's
absolutely no dust on the surface. And then you would
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be free then to apply a new coat of polyurethane,
a new coat or two, and you'll have to choose
whether you're going to do a high gloss or a
mate finish or a satin finish. As far as the
shininess the sheen has no bearing whatsoever on how well
it's being protected. It's just those layers coating in. And then,
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my friend, you will have restored the surface of the
polyurethane floor and you'll find it brighter and more colorful,
and you will also find it easier to clean. That's
what a floor that is that old, actually, you know,
forty plus years old, likely needs, especially if it's true
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what you're telling me in that the wood is actually
in good condition and there aren't any big gouges. We
just want to open up the surface of the polyr
thane and recode it and you could do a couple
three new coats and your floor would be like new,
but you got to be careful and it's very you know,
I don't have time to describe the entire process step
by step, but that's essentially what we're after. You can
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find all sorts of that info like on YouTube videos
and such, or you go down to your local paint
store and they can give you instructions on how to
do it step by step, but a light screening to
open up its porosity and then recoding with Polly Yvonne.
Thank you for your call, my friend, and I wish
you all the success. I think that if you're a
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chronic di wire that you're going to do just fine
with this. Just take it step by step, nice and easy,
doesn't take any special skills, just patience and the willingness
to follow the steps properly. All right, y'all when we
come back, more of your calls. Plus, we're gonna give
away a couple of tickets to Monday Night's House Whisper
Ghost Tour your home with Dean Sharp. The House Whisper
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Dean Sharp, The house Whisper here to remind you that
every home deserves great design, indeed including yours, my friend.
It's an all calls Saturday morning. We're going to be
going back to the phones in just a bit. Eight
three three two ask Dean is the number to reach me?
Eight three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. We're running a little long on
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the show today. I have just enough time before we
go to the news to give away a couple of
tickets to our Haunted house Whisperer Tour of the Historic
Kellogg House. Are you looking for some grown up Halloween
fun than Monday Night? This Monday Night, just a couple
of days from now October twenty seventh, I hope you'll
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House Whisper.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home Builder,
custom home Designer, and your guide to better understanding that
place where you live. Why are we here because every
home has a path forward, including yours. Every home deserves
good design, including yours. Once you find that path, once
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you crack the case, once we have figured out the
path forward, once you see it, everything changes, Everything changes,
and all the chips start to fall. Is that the
right thing? All the dominoes all day, Well, everything starts
moving in the right direction. We'll put it that way
today on the show, as we do every Saturday morning.
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For you early risers and for those of you who
just didn't didn't even get to sleep last night because
you were so upset that the Dodgers lost so badly. Yeah,
don't don't worry about that. Just game one. They had
the whole week off. They were a little out of sync.
They just had to wake up a little bit. Worry not,
I promise you anyway. It is an all calls Saturday morning,
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nothing but your calls, nothing but you setting the agenda
for today's show eight three three to ask Dean?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Is the number to reach me?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Eight three to three the numeral two Ask Dean A
three three two Ask Dean. Whatever has you scratch in
your head about your home, whether it's a design or
an architectural issue, a construction concern, a duiy question, inside stuff,
outside stuff, hardescape, landscape.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I got you. We'll put our heads together. We will
get it figured out.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I promise I will treat you right, with the respect
that you deserve. Don't worry, don't be intimidated. Give us
a call, and you and I we get to talk
about your home. Eight three three two ask Dean. And
we'll go to the phones as soon as they start
rolling in, as soon as the calls start rolling in.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So if you've ever tried calling the show and gotten,
you know, frustrated because you haven't been able to get
through or we didn't get to your call, Saturday mornings
always a great time. Eight three three to ask Dean.
In the meantime, let's say good morning to Sam. Good
morning Sam, Good morning Dean. How you doing good? I
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see you're wrangling? Are not so live studio audience. I
have my kid wrangling them today. Oh my gosh, he's
in there with you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's like I have a little tiny intern running around
doing my job for me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, you know, I don't know if we can pay
for that. I just don't know. He gets college credit.
It's okay. Good to have you. Good to have you,
Heather Brooker, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Good morning, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
How are you ready?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm good. You sound very just bright eyed.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh well, it's all an act. I'm an actor. No,
I'm an actor after all. No, no, no, we're we're
slowly waking up over here in the newsroom.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's right, all right, all right, all right, Well they're nothing,
nothing too earth shattering happening in the news right now.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
No, thankfully, you know it's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We talk about this sometimes, how the news cycle lately
is unrelenting, and sometimes when things are not as crazy,
you kind of go, oh, oh, okay, we have a nice,
like normal news day where things are not going too wild, so.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Let's keep our fingers crossed. But nothing happens in the
next five minutes. That's changed that, all right? And sitting
across the table from me, my design partner, my better half,
my best friend in all the world. Look at she's
adorable's here?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh oh, excuse you, I clear my throat. Sorry. Good
morning to you, Good morning, welcome home, welcome home to you.
How's it going great?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Did you see outside?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's very misty.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's like this, so misty that it's got this dew
and I can hear I don't feel it, but I
hear it in the trees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They always kind of you can dripping, like the leaves
are dripping. It's very, very nice. I don't mind at all.
I love actually that it's still dark outside at six o'clock.
We're pushing up against the time change.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Though. It's going to happen soon.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I think at the next week, or like, I think
it's in November.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's weird that it's happening in November.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It normally happens before Halloween, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I thought so. I thought so too, I thought, I
don't know, you know what, I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Not in charge of these things.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm not a fan of the Daylight savings thing. I'm
not me either. I just just let's just go. Why
don't we just trust the sun. How about that. Let's
just go with it. We don't need that whole thing anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yes, we have lights.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now, we have lights. We can all do what we
need to do anyway. I just I really enjoy I
told you the other day. I you know, if if
I had one of those magic stop watches where you know,
where you can just click and you just freeze time,
it's it's like this time in the morning, or or
just as the sun is starting to lighten up the sky. Man,
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I would probably just permanently freeze time. That's the time
of the morning. And only early risers understand this. Well,
it's so quiet, and I don't have to worry about
speaking to non early risers right now because everybody else
who wouldn't understand it, they're dead asleep right now, that's right.
But for those of you who are up and listening,
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I know you totally get it right. This time of
the day is just it's fresh, it's clean. It's different
than night time, you know what I mean. It's different
than when the sun goes down after because then you're
still in that day whatever that was, you still kind
of have the bit of the day on you. But
this you know, it's fresh, it's clean, everything is possible,
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anything is possible.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I love it all right.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's see anything else to tell you that's of Oh,
we're gonna be given away some more tickets to the
House Whisper Ghost Tour on Monday night. That's just two
days away, now, just two days away. So today and
tomorrow last time to win tickets. I'll be given you know,
we'll be announcing that and then everybody can rush to
the phones to get their tickets. I'm gonna give away
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a pair of tickets both hours today and all three
hours of the show tomorrow as well, and that will
wrap up our ticket giveaway for the group that gets
to do the VIP House Whisper tour of the historic
Kellig House on Monday night, the Monday before Halloween. It's
gonna be fun. It's gonna be just it's just for fun,
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that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We've got some calls on the board and that means
when we return, we're going to the phones. You're listening
to Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Good morning, to you. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I suggest that you, as I have done, find yourself,
pour yourself a cup of your favorite warm beverage.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Hang on a second. Mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, that's about right, and we'll settle in and talk
about your home. Hey, FYI, I just looked I was
totally wrong about this. Well, first of all, here's the
latest breaking news on daylight savings. If you didn't know,
it's not going to be tomorrow, but it will be
next Sunday, November two. That's when we will fall back
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and we'll lose a little bit of this darkness at
six o'clock in the morning. So just so you know, FYI,
it's next Sunday. I would tell you to remember to
set your clocks back, but since everybody's clock is digital
and connected to their phone, you don't have to worry
about it's just going to do it by itself. I
have to reset the Grandfather clock, but that's just for decoration.
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So anyway, it's next Sunday, and apparently, according to the interweb,
it is not late. It is actually one of the
earlier daylight savings times we've had in quite a while.
So I totally misread that one. I guess it usually
takes place a little later in November, and it's actually
happening early. So you know, don't trust Tina and I
for daylight savings information from the gut. Now you have
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the real scoop. Okay, there you go. It's an all
call Saturday morning. We've got calls on the board. The
number to reach me and there's room for you. Eight
three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three the
numeral two. Ask Dean A three three two. Ask Dean
anything you want to talk about regarding your home. And
I want to talk to Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
We just finished a pool resurface. Our pool was about
twenty years old and we did the really nice like
pebble tech. And now I've got about fifteen hundred square
feet of ugly, hard escape old kind of pool decking
that's worn off, and I'm just looking at DIY options
that might work, you know, other than having to tear
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out all this concrete.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, so now you see now the pool is gorgeous,
and now the deck around the pool is.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Like yeah, my wife is not. She's like, great, you
did got the pool done? Now what?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh I see I see you did you have to
kind of like twist her arm for the pool, and
now she's like, all right, fine, now the pool is good.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now what are you going to do for the rest
of the yard.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
She actually had to twist my arm. I said, oh,
we got five more years. It's just chipping plaster. It'll
be fine. But I lost.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh you're one of those guys, Sean, You're one of
those guys.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's just so last okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So so all right, so are you going to be uh?
Are you going to be taking this advice that I
give you? And going back to her saying, you know, well,
Dean said I could do I could do this for
fourteen bucks, and she's rolling her eyes like can we
just call the professional police?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Is it? Is this the situation that we're in?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
No, I think should let me do this part because
the surfacing was not an expensive venture, So I think
I think should give me a chance. I think a chance.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
All right, my friend? Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So so tell me what what describe the concrete decking
around the pool for me as far as is it
just straight up flat concrete? Do you have old coping?
Are you looking to change that? Did that get changed
with the pool. And what condition is the concrete in
Do we have cracks? Is it just old and faded?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What? What is it stamped? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (10:55):
So the coping around the pool was fine. The concrete
it's it's it's not want to explain it. It's not
really actually stamp concrete. It looks like they're they've put
some kind of twenty years ago a stamp looking design
over the concrete. It like they know, I'm not sure
how that was applied, but it's a thin, thin layer
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over the existing concrete. And again this is it's the patio,
it's the why the whole backyard was done with this.
And it's again probably about twenty years old. So it's
it's starting to wear off down to the bare concrete.
A few places I'll have to do some patching where
it's actually peeled off and you can see the concrete underneath,
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and it's just it's just really ugly.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Mmmmm. All right.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So now, so now this introduces kind of a wrench
in the work. So is the is this this decorative
layer or coating that they've put on top do we know?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Is it concrete?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I'm not
you know, I'm not an expert in the field. That's
why I'm called you, hopefully to find out. But I
had a company come out before and they said they
were going to redo it. And they said, well, we've
got a san blast all this stuff off, and I said, well,
I can't afford that. So my thought was I could
paint over it with some kind of coating. But again,
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I don't want to even go down that road. If
that's just a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, I'm I'm very hesitant to give you that piece
of advice. I mean to suggest that just because this
coating on top of the concrete, what we need to do.
We got to find out what it's if there's any
chance of patching it. You really need to find out
exactly what it is, all right, somebody needs a positive
id on this material. It could be some kind of resin,
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it could be some kind of epoxy coating, it could
be well, it's likely some form of resin or epoxy
coating that has gone over the existing concrete, but it's
failing in some areas, and so I'm concerned about that.
I would probably give you the same you know, Shoot,
from the hip advice as the person who came out,
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which is you know it well, I'll put it this way.
I'll give the same answer, but in a larger form.
If you cannot identify this material and and get a
company who specializes that in that out and that's that's
that's how I would approach it. We got to figure
out what this material is, and we got to call
a company that still does that kind of stuff, and
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they're around, they're around. Epoxy coating of outside concrete is
a common thing. I would call an epoxy company and
actually or an outside concrete restoration or resurfacing company, have
them come out and take a look at it and
see if there's a way that what's there can be
patched and restored so that you're working from that matrix
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as opposed to the concrete. But if you can't, I'm
kind of in the camp where it might be time
to just, you know, Sam, blast it off and start fresh.
And I know that it's not the news that you
wanted to hear. I'm not a big fan of solid
coat colors because I think most people don't realize even
just bear concrete, there's nuances and textures and various you
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know colors working in those granules. And when we just
paint a surface, one flat color on a concrete surface,
just like painting a roof, I'm never a fan of that.
It can just go uniform and just like bluh really
really fast. So I don't want to you know, the
designer in me does not want to commit to like
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a one surface color. The builder in me wants to
find out what this material is because we either need
to restore it or we need to pull it off.
And once you pull it off, you've got options. With
the bear concrete. If it was bare concrete, I was
about to tell you, hey, let's stain it. Let's stain
your bear concrete. Let's do some fun modeled exterior stain
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out there. That's the kind of stuff that won't peel
off in the future. Could revitalize and kind of excite
the pool deck around the new pool finish. But that material,
that's a wrench in the works, and we got to
figure that out first, Sean.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Right, And I didn't want to go and paint it
and then gets like you said, spend two thousand dollars
on paint, do it, and then it starts chipping. Off
right away and just looks like crud. And now we've
got to get another layer of stuff off.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Exactly, my friend, exactly, all right, I got to go
to a break, buddy. I'm sorry I couldn't give you
a magical answer, but I hopefully that was informative and helpful,
so you don't make the wrong turn there. All right,
y'all when we return more of your calls. The number
to reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean where
it's It's an all calls Saturday morning. You get to
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set the agenda eight three three two ask Dean your
home would Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (15:59):
We are Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help
you transform your ordinary house into a truly extraordinary home.
Can it be done?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It can, absolutely, absolutely it can be done, and we
are here to help you do exactly that. We do
that on Saturdays by taking calls answering your questions. It's
an all call Saturday morning. The number to reach me
eight three to three to ask Dean eight three three
the numeral two ask Dean all right, let's talk to Yvonne.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hey von welcome home.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Well, I have an ugly wooden floor in my entry
in the hallway, and it was put in in the eighties,
so it isn't a laminate. It is actual wood, okay,
and it has it's just been very neglected, and I
want to bring it, restore it a little bit. On
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a diy. I want to restore it a little bit,
bring it back up to looking nice.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, sounds great. Give me a little bit of info
about this floor number one. I'm just out of curiosity.
Do you happen to have any extra planks or any
spare planks from this floor lying about or out in
the garage in a box or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
The wood seems to be like I do clean it
and stuff, but the wood meat seems to be in
good condition. There's no scratches in it. It does have
those little plugs, you know, like every so often they
put a plank like a little plug in it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Part of the part of the look, part of the
look of the floor is like plugged ends.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, uh huh yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And then on the side, I look and it's the
wood plank itself is pretty thick. It's a pretty thick
piece of wood. I would say, maybe not quite a
half inch, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
So you've seen this what you're you've seen your wood
ful or from the side at some point you have
some access to see it from the side.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Very it's uh geor jam And has said in thirty years,
hasn't been around to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Fix Okay, I got you, all right, So let me
ask you, Yvonne. And if there're no I'm just trying
to get to the essence of your of your question.
Because if if you're saying that the wood is in
good shape and it's not really scratched or anything, what
what exactly, uh, what exactly do you want done to it?
If it's not I was expecting you were going to
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tell me, oh, it's all scratched up in the entryway
or it's fading or you know, So what what exactly
is the thing that you want to get changed about it?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
I think it's I think it needs to be cleaned
heavier than what I can do because they that are
kind of greasy, you know, and darker and colors, and
sometimes when I spill something and I clean it, it
lightens up on that spot. So I guess clean it
really well, get rid of all the grease of stuff
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that's on it, and then find a way to seal it.
That's all just very simple, like a seal it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, all right, So it sounds like maybe we want
to refresh refresh the ceiler on the surface.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And as a di wire, if you want to take
this project on, I suggest you do it in a
very very limited and step by stepway instead of just
you know, committing to whole areas of the floor. But
essentially this if there's no problem with the wood itself,
if there's no discoloration in the wood itself, if there
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are no scratches to speak of, and you're just trying
to reseal it or refresh, and you know, it's not
unreasonable a floor that was done in the nineteen eighties
could use a new coat of And I'm guessing, and
I'm assuming, I'm assuming making this assumption, and I'm probably
right that your wood floor is protected with a couple
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of layers of polyurethane. Polyurethane is essentially kind of a
liquid plastic that goes out over the surface and seals
the wood keeps it safe from moisture and things like that.
But polyurethane can start to wear, and as it starts
to wear through, it can kind of open up its
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own porosity, which means that it grabs onto things a
little bit more. Dirt, grime, things can stick to it
a little bit more and makes it harder to seal.
So here's the thing. I ideally, and I would suggest
that you try this in the least conspicuous area possible,
But ideally it would be I want to use the
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word sanding, but I don't really mean that, okay, I,
but I'm going to use it to illustrate. What we
would want to do is sand the surface of the floor,
but not through the polyurethane. We don't actually want to
get down to the wood. We don't want to touch
the wood at all, So we don't use sandpaper. I
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just that's the action that we're taking. We don't use sandpaper.
It's what we would call screening, Okay. Screening means that
it's a it's kind of a screening disc that we
would put in the sander. It's very I mean, it
is so so super ultra light. It just doesn't even
do much and that's what we want. We want to
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use the finest, finest screening, and essentially what we're doing
is we are digging down just ever so slightly into
the polyurethane layer. By one of the byproducts of this
is that we'll be removing any grease or grime that
has embedded itself in the polyurethane. We don't want to
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go through the poly we just want to open up
its porosity across the entire floor. And then after it's
been screened and its porosity has been opened up, then
we give it an amazingly good wipe down with like
a cheese cloth or a tack rag, so that there's
absolutely no dust on the surface. And then you would
(22:29):
be free then to apply a new coat of polyurethane,
a new coat or two, and you'll have to choose
whether you're going to do a high gloss or a
mate finish or a satin finish. As far as the
shininess the sheen has no bearing whatsoever on how well
it's being protected. It's just those layers coating in. And then,
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my friend, you will have restored the surface of the
polyurethane floor and you'll find it brighter and more colorful,
and you will also find it easier to clean. That's
what a floor that is that old, actually, you know,
forty plus years old, likely needs, especially if it's true
(23:11):
what you're telling me in that the wood is actually
in good condition and there aren't any big gouges. We
just want to open up the surface of the polyr
thane and recode it and you could do a couple
three new coats and your floor would be like new,
but you got to be careful and it's very you know,
I don't have time to describe the entire process step
by step, but that's essentially what we're after. You can
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find all sorts of that info like on YouTube videos
and such, or you go down to your local paint
store and they can give you instructions on how to
do it step by step, but a light screening to
open up its porosity and then recoding with Polly Yvonne.
Thank you for your call, my friend, and I wish
you all the success. I think that if you're a
(23:55):
chronic di wire that you're going to do just fine
with this. Just take it step by step, nice and easy,
doesn't take any special skills, just patience and the willingness
to follow the steps properly. All right, y'all when we
come back, more of your calls. Plus, we're gonna give
away a couple of tickets to Monday Night's House Whisper
Ghost Tour your home with Dean Sharp. The House Whisper
(24:17):
Dean Sharp, The house Whisper here to remind you that
every home deserves great design, indeed including yours, my friend.
It's an all calls Saturday morning. We're going to be
going back to the phones in just a bit. Eight
three three two ask Dean is the number to reach me?
Eight three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. We're running a little long on
(24:40):
the show today. I have just enough time before we
go to the news to give away a couple of
tickets to our Haunted house Whisperer Tour of the Historic
Kellogg House. Are you looking for some grown up Halloween
fun than Monday Night? This Monday Night, just a couple
of days from now October twenty seventh, I hope you'll
(25:01):
join Tina and I for a private VIP house Whisper
Ghost Tour of the Historic Kellogg House. One hundred and
twenty seven year old, custom built Victorian mansion located on
the beautiful grounds of the Heritage Museum of Orange County.
Now space is limited because there are only so many
folks that can take the tour through the house at
one time, But for about twenty lucky listeners, your evening
(25:25):
starts with an hour long meet and greet with me
and tea out on the steps of the mansion, just
us and you hanging out talking about anything you want
to talk about. Then we'll enter the Kellogg House for
a ninety minute tour to explore its architecture and its
history and its hauntings. Will we return alive, Yes, of
(25:46):
course we will, but it's going to be super fun.
The Kellogg House Whisper Ghost Tour is brought to us
courtesy of Haunted Orange County, Southern California's original and largest
ghost tour company. Go to Haunted o see for more
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CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.