June 21, 2025 • 32 mins
It’s another listener-driven hour on All Calls Weekend! Dean shares his candid thoughts on home improvement TV shows, including why he steers clear of most—except for the BBC’s Grand Designs, which he praises as the gold standard. Plus, callers get expert guidance on spotting load-bearing walls and navigating unique issues like managing a water well on reservation land.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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three to ask Dean tomorrow's show. By the way, we're
talking about sound control. Sound control, not soundproofing. That's one
facet of it. Soundproofing. Get a lot of questions about soundproofing,
but sound control, sound noise, noise pollution. It's an ever
growing part of our lives. It is something that is
not healthy for us, both psychologically and physically. It is
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something we've learned a lot about in the last couple
of decades and we need to do more to get
control of So we're going to talk about everything from
soundproofing to adding sound to your home in all the
right ways, to masking sound in areas that you can't proof,
like your backyard, in your outdoor areas. So we're going
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design for more information. All right, let's go back to
the phones. I want to talk to Gus. Hey, Gus,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hey Dean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know they wrote a song about that, about the soundproofing.
It was like a sound control to major.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tom uh that was not sound control, my friend.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But that was nice. It was a nice pull, nice try.
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
My question is I used to watch a show with
my dad before he passed away. Who do you think
we did a better job, Bob Vila or that couple
on Home Improof, not Home improve but the Chip and
Johanna Gaines. They bought house Chief houses in Texas and
they picked them up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So you just called to to hear my opinion on
that and get me in trouble with everybody, right, That's
that was that was the goal. You're just gonna bush me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, uh, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, So here's the thing, first of all, something that
I want you to understand about me. I, uh, for
the most part, cannot watch home improvement television. Wow it
I mean, I really I struggle with it generally speaking.
And the reason is it's kind of like this. It's
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kind of like a doctor. You you medical professionals out there,
you know how hard it is to watch a medical
procedural drama or or police officer watching a police show
because you're sitting there at some point and you're.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Like, that's not the way it's done.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It and it gets tired of hearing me say that.
So we just don't watch them. We just don't watch them.
I just can't because there's so much about home improvement
television that is just uh, it's just it's just entertainment
and uh and so much of it loses, uh, its
grounding in reality. Okay, So just under that about me
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in general. So, but here's the thing. Bob Vila, Bob
Ya used to be the host of This Old House,
and This Old House is still running and a very
long running show. Chip and Joanna is it Fixer Upper?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Is that what it? Yet? I think it's a Chip
and Joanna Gaines.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, they've made a little empire for themselves in Waco,
Texas doing all this stuff, and then the Magnolia and
then the magazines and then all the all the stuff.
Joanna is a home designer. Uh and uh and they
you know, they started, I think they started flipping houses
and then they just that combination attracted the networks to them.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So so here's my opinion. Uh, you know, whatever entertain
you the most, honestly, because neither neither category is a
deep dive into you know, the way homes really work.
But if I had to bias, uh and and you know,
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please understand that that I am a home designer and
an artist at heart. If I had to bias, I
would probably lean toward a show like this Old House.
I mean, I've I've watched this Old House be for there.
It's much more practical home building kind of stuff, elements
that go into a house. I find people walk away
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with more practical understanding, uh than they do.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
This old House actually has changed. It's not the same
like it used to be.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, no, it's not the same. It's not the same.
And uh.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And you know, I've got nothing against uh Chip and
Joanna and I you know, applaud their success and and uh,
you know, as as TV personalities, But just understand that
you you you see a lot of designy stuff happen,
But I don't know that most people walk away with
actually a better understanding of how to design their own
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home or how it works for them. It's television and
it's entertainment, and a lot of people find a category
of entertainment for them is you know, quote unquote home
improvement entertainment. And I say that you know understanding that
that this program that you're listening to is categorized as
a home improvement show. Every time we sit down and
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talk about it, you know, at iHeart, it's like, Okay,
our home improvement show is you know, Home with Dean Sharp.
But I try and approach it differently, and maybe one
of the things that's a little different about our show.
I think one of the things that is different is
that number one, you know, we don't we don't set
up false scenarios for things to happen dramatically in the show.
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I always joke about the fact that, you know, the
typical formula for a home improvement show these days is Okay,
we're gonna renovate these this couple's house, Jane and Bob
and they've got a budget of you know, sixty thousand
dollars and we're gonna do this, that and the other thing.
We dive in and then, of course the dramatic moment
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is everything's going along peaches and cream until oh my gosh,
we uncovered this wall that we're plenty on moving and
we didn't real nobody realized it was a bearing wall
that's gonna blow their budget right out of the water.
And then, you know, and I always laugh because as
a home designer and a builder in the real world, Okay,
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if I'm suggesting a design for your home and I
don't know that a wall is a bearing wall, you
should not have hired me. Okay, this is this is
home design one oh one. Of course I know where
the bearing walls in your house are and where they're not.
We've got structural engineers involved in every project. I mean,
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it is simply not reality. And again, you know it
should become as no surprise. Reality TV is the furthest
thing usually from reality. So uh, it's entertainment. And if
you love it as entertainment, then there you go. Then
entertain yourself all day long. I'll tell you what I
got to go to a break, Gus. But when we
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come back, and thanks for the question. You kind of
got me on my soapbox, I am going to share
with you. I will share with y'all number one why
we don't have a TV show yet and number two
what my favorite actual home design television show is. We'll
talk about that, Kayfi, Gean Sharp, the House Whisper at
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your service. It's an all call Saturday morning. The number
to reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean A
three to three the numeral two ask Dean. Giving you
a call, you get to set the agenda. Anything that's
got you scratching your head about your house. Be it
a design issue, yes, please, architecture, construction, DIY concern?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
What have you a?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right before the break, Gus called me and asked me
what I thought that I like Bob Vila or the
Fixer Upper joe In and what's her husband Chip better?
My point was, it's all entertainment, and take it with
a grain of salt, because it's entertainment television first and foremost.
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Not that you can't learn some things, but they're not
really designed to directly help you get anywhere with your projects.
And I don't mean that as a diss on any
and simply you know, things are what they are, and
if you find those shows entertaining, then go for it.
But I promised that I would say right after the
break here that I would tell you number one why
we don't have a show, and number two what my
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actual favorite design show is. And yeah, I do have one.
I have one that I will watch and enjoy because
generally speaking, I don't watch home improvement television too. It's
too frustrating. It's too frustrating prep because I'm like, this
is not helping people at all. So we've actually been
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approached just FYI, I'm thinking about is it five, five
or six times by producers from those networks and you know,
related networks. You know, got a call, hey buddy, yeah,
you guys are going to be the new You could
be the new Chip and Joe Anne and and you know,
we take the calls and we talked to him, and
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first of all, it's like, hey, we don't want to
be the new Chip and Joeanne.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
We're us. Secondly, the other thing is that you know we.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I mean, we're fortunate to be on the radio, meaning
that you know, Tina and I were just we we
love designing homes.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's why we still do it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Okay, it's not we haven't given our lives over to
media as like, oh, that's our new career, that's our career.
Media now obviously a part of our career has branched
into this form of media, and we're loving it, and
we'd be open to something different because we're just open
to adventures. But the point being that we were never
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pursuing it to begin with. It came to us, not
the other way around. And so you know, we're not
media people who, oh, I got an angle, I could
do home in Groveman stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No, you know, I'm a.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Home designer and a builder. And also, do you know
a radio show on a podcast. So that's one reason why.
And the second reason should be obvious at this point,
which is that you know, the typical producers approach us
and they're like, okay, so how would you want to
do a show? And I'm like, well, actually, now that
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you ask, here's what I'd like to do. I'd like
to do a limited series about actual design. We could
call it Design Matters Most And here's a rough treatment
layout for how we I would want to do the show,
and they're like, okay, well that that could be great,
but we just do we just do our regular formulaic stuff.
And I'm like, yeah, I don't want to do I
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don't want to be another formula you know, DIY show
on TV. I'd like to do something more unique, more helpful,
more fun, more entertaining, I think ultimately, but ultimately more
helpful as well. So anyway, if you're a pretduce out
there and you're thinking, how do I get Dean to
do a show with me, give me a call. I'll
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tell you exactly what I'm interested in doing. And it
won't be on one of the DIY networks, I'll tell you,
unless they're ready to break out of their mold, which
I don't think they are. It'll be a Netflix or
an Apple TV thing or whatever. Anyway, there you go. Now,
finally I'm taking the whole segment to do this, but
a lot of people have asked, so I just figured
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I'll throw it out there. What design show does Dean
really enjoy watching? Grand Designs? And if you're scratching your head,
you're like, I've never heard of that show. It's a
BBC show, the British show Grand Designs. Hosted by Kevin
McLeod It is I think arguably the longest running home
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design show on the planet. I think they started in
ninety nine, nineteen ninety nine. I think they're in their
twentieth or twenty first season or something like that. They
may have skipped a lot anyway, twenty plus season. Okay,
Grand Design is a show. And why is there no
Grand Designs America? Because again, try getting a network to
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invest in the show the way the BBC did, which
is this, he doesn't do the build or the design.
He's a presenter. He's a host. Now he's a designer,
really really good one. He knows what he's talking about.
But they find interesting one off custom design projects, people
who are real people who are building their dream home
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and they come in have a conversation before it starts,
They revisit the house as it's going, they talk about
it after the fact. You get to see kind of
the whole process. But that sometimes can take a year
or two for one episode. So they had to have
done like a two or three year investment in the
show just to get a first season going, and then
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continue to do that as the years roll on. Yeah,
good luck getting a US network to back you on
that kind of a thing, because it's not easy money
right up front anyway. Grand designs very artistic, very entertaining.
And if you want to hear a real home designer
step in and stare a couple in the face and say,
and you think you're going to build this for how
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much six hundred thousand pounds, you'll be lucky if you
get out of this at one point two million. And
then we find out at the end that, yeah, he
was pretty much right. So instead of giving false expectations
about how the building process works, he gets nitty gritty
with them, follows it through, and yet at the end,
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if he finds the project worthwhile, he'll tell you every
artistic reason why this house moves you. And I just
love all that because that very much lines up with
the way we design and the experiences of designing dream
homes in the real world for real people. So Grand Designs,
Where can you find it? I think you can find
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it on Amazon usual. Amazon Prime usually has at least
a couple of seasons worth, and you can find all
the rest of them on YouTube. Now, so there you go,
there you go, all right? I blew a whole segment
talking about this. But there you go. There's your answer.
Go check out Grand Designs and then tell me about it.
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Shoot me an email, make a comment on and maybe
we should make a post and just so everybody can
find it anyway, let me know what you think. I
think it's a ton of fun. Okay, let's get some
news and we'll go back to the phones.
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You are Home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper. That's me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It's an all calls Saturday morning, like we love to
do on Saturday mornings. Here the first Saturday in summer
twenty twenty five. I'm glad to be with you. It
is a privilege and a pleasure to talk to you
about your home. All right, let's go back to the phones,
shall we. Let's talk to Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome home, Jeans,
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Good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Good morning, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, sir, I bought a home.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
He's Ventoria. I believe it's in nineteen this nineteen sixties.
The gentleman that did the home inspection. After that inspection,
he told me and my wife one cool thing about
the house, and the wall that separates the liver rooms
from the kitchen to be taken down without without an issue.
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So going forward, we got opinions on the kitchen designs
and we told him we want to open up the
kitchen and the guy told us that that wasn't a
low barn wall, that it couldn't be open or it
was a low bar or however, but it couldn't be
opened up. That he had to do some retro fitting.
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It costs about an extra seven grand to open.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
The kitchen up.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So I was just trying to see, how can I
be sure that is a low barn wall?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Not?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Should I get more opinion?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
There's something I can.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Do to check.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yes and yes, uh and uh? And you should do
you should do both, my friend. All right, So here's
the thing. Is single story house, Yes, single story house.
So you got to addic space above all right. So
a couple of things. One is uh that so a
load bearing wall means that it's a wall that's actually
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holding up stuff up above it, Okay, as opposed to
they're like I thought every wall was that way.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Actually there are load bearing walls, or what we call
for short, a bearing wall, and there are partition walls,
which are just walls that are dividing rooms up but
actually not doing any structural work on the house. And
there's a big difference between the two because partition walls
are walls that can come down without any consequence to
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the structural integrity of the home, and a bearing wall
is not a how it's not a wall that can
come down without consequence. A bearing wall can come down,
but it has to be replaced by structures that are
going to do the work that the wall was doing,
and that can be obviously a more expensive process. So
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in a one story house where you've got an attic
space above, the attic space is almost inevitably the place
where you make these discoveries. Up in the attic, you
locate the top of that wall and we find out
whether there are ceiling joists number one that are laying
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on that wall, that are bearing on it, that have
come over and are resting on it. So normally, if
the ceiling joys are running perpendicular to that wall and
they are resting on it, then it is doing a
job of bearing up one end of a set of
ceiling joys. Another way to look at it is that
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in the attic, if there are any roof braces we
call them Perlin braces. There may be two by fours
or two by six is coming down at an angle
from the roofing rafters or from a brace system that
may be loaded onto that wall, or any posts that
are coming down onto the top of the wall. So
the point is the easiest way to figure out what
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a wall is actually doing is to get on a
single story house, is to get in the attic and
find the wall and find out the relationship of floor
joys and posts and braces to it. Generally speaking, if
floor joyce are running in the ceiling joyst sorry are
running in the direction same direction of the wall, then
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it's not a baring wall because it may have a
ceiling joist on top of it, but that doesn't mean
that it's holding up the whole room. It just so
happens that the ceiling joist ended up lining up with
the top of the wall, but it's not doing a
job holding anything else up. So that's the first place
that we would check to give you a sense of
whether or not you know, we could pull that wall
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down and do some fancy things with the kitchen at
relatively no expense. Sometimes I can see when I walk
into a home just by the pattern of the wave
of the roof, or even the configuration of the house.
Like if you live in a long kind of California
ranch house, it's usually the walls that run down the hallway,
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one or maybe two walls that run down that long
hallway that stretches the lengthwise of the house about in
the middle of the house, about halfway between the back
wall in the front wall of the house. That's usually
inevitably a bearing wall of some sort. But different houses,
different configurations. But I'll tell you that the secret is
finding the top plate of that wall in the attic
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space and seeing its relationship to everything else. Now that
isn't that, that's not where it stopped. I will pop
my head into an attic and give an owner a
you know, ninety nine percent sure that this is not
a bearing wall, and that we're cool with that. But
we don't just rush ahead and start tearing walls down.
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I recommend that you call a local structural engineer. Okay,
they've got no skin in the game. They're not trying
to win the job. They're not trying to build out
a bid for you or anything. Call out a structural
engineer and you simply say, hey, i've got a house
I'm thinking about removing a wall. I'd like to pay
you to come out to do a consult for me.
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And they'll come out for you know, a couple three
hundred bucks, spend forty five minutes looking around the house,
looking up in the attic, and give you their strong
opinion as to whether or not that's a wall that
can afford to come down or not. And there's some
other factors that they play into it as well. But
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generally speaking, that, my friend, is how you figure it out.
So you can go up to the attic look around yourself.
But even if you conclude, oh yeah, everything that Dean
said is true, there's nothing even sitting on top of
these plates up here. It's just in between a set
of ceiling. Joy it looks like this wall could come down.
That's all well and good, be encouraged, but don't make
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a move without talking to a structural engineer to make
sure that you're safe to do exactly that. So there
you go, John, thanks for the question, my friend, A really,
really good question. And this is why we take calls,
because we end up talking about things that lots of people,
lots and lots of people. For every call that we take,
there's tens of thousands of people who are have the
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same question back of their head, who didn't fall? And
that's what makes it so much fun. All Right, when
we come back, we'll take more of your calls. Your
home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Okayf Dean Sharp,
the house whisper. Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on
the program today. Here we are approaching the end of
another two hours together that we get to spend with
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each other every Saturday morning. We're taking calls as always.
I don't want to waste any more time. Get right
back to the phones. Let's see if we can get
at least one more question in today. Let's talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Hi Dean, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I am well, sir, How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's funny, you say, well, because that's what my question
contains to. I got to kind of frame this off
for you. First. We're on an Indian reservation, highly imparts
to be a reservation and we have little or no resources.
The nearest resources are about twenty five miles away from us,
So we're out there. We've got a well sitting on
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the top of a hill. It's you know, it's got
three circuit breakers run into it, and it's got a
twenty five PSI tank attached to it, and then we
have about a thousand gallon plastic tank there. It drops
down to a two inch run that runs about twelve
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hundred feet. This applies three houses and two trailers out
there in a little shack too. We're on the end
of the run, and when we were doing some grading work,
we discovered a riser that came up, and it's a
one inch riser that feeds off of that two inch
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PBC run. At the very end of the twelve hundred
feet is a metal riser that comes up with a
two and a half stiket coming off of it. Looks
like maybe for fire suppression. So here's the question I
have for you. We opened up the valve and found
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that we had water there after twelve years being out
here in the middle of nowhere, and we decided we
wanted to run that water up to our fifth wheeld
that we have. So every time we kick on the water,
we've got over one hundred psi down there. And what
happens is it creates some form of it moves the
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water column and creates some kind of air bubble way
up at the top where the houses are. We're you know,
down at over eight percent grade, which is the last
half of that twelve hundred foot run. So we get
we don't have water pressure problems other than we need
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to regulate it down and I'm trying to figure out
where I need to regulate that too. We've got a
Zernwatkin's double check backflow valve and we're putting in Zernwokin
six hundred XL water pressure regulator and that runs from
twenty five to seventy psi. But it seems like, you know,
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we pull anything above sixty psi, all the other houses
lose their water on this run. And so I'm working
with the neighbors to try to solve this problem so
we can have water too, right, So I'm kind of
looking for a solution here, and I've actually consulted with
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somebody at North County Backflow and he said, I'm barking
up the right tree with the backflow and with the regulator.
But this problem keeps happening even when we're not using
the water, and somebody has to go up to the
well and shut off a cert breakers and turn them
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back on. Well is twenty plus years old. So I
was thinking that maybe the pumpy is to be rebuilt
at some point, but of course, being on this reservation,
there's no resources to do it right right. And there
is a water master out there and he's looked at
it and says, huh, and he believes the valve at
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the end now that he discovered it. There's no as
B planks for this, and we're kind of out on
a wind in a prayer here trying to figure this out, all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Right, Scott, Yeah, And I'm running low on time here.
But I appreciate I appreciate the detail, and I also
appreciate your confidence in me to be able to take that.
That's a very highly technical situation you got going there.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You've got tons of pressure down where you are, just
because of the weight of water in the lines falling
and you being the end run on it, and you're
going to be You're going to need to be careful
to not access that water in free flow ways that
you know, drain out everybody else's pressure supply, because you are,
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you know, at the down end of that. The backflow valve,
backflow valve everybody is is kind of what it sounds like.
It's a it's a a valve that only allows liquids
or to move in one direction and not the other.
Not hooking and rehooking the water supply down where you
are will keep the bubble, the water bubbles out, and
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the back flow valve should hopefully keep the air bubbles
from making it all the way back up to the
pump and stalling the pump. That's one of the things
that may be a case. Since we're on a gravity
feed such a severe gravity feed situation, air intrusion into
that line that finds its way all the way back
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up to the to the to the main pump might
actually be drying out the pump literally like air. If
the pump is the highest point of that whole line
draw to you, then that air bubble of size could
in fact be finding its way up there and causing
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the pump to grind against non liquid just air in it.
So one of the things that could be done. In theory,
all the way at the top of the well is
not have the pump be the very very top of
the airline potential, and that is to build a branch
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off of the water that's coming out of the pump
higher up, so that if there is an air bubble
that forms, it'll go there and bypass the pump, and
the pump can keep functioning for all the water needs
that it's also supplying. But it sounds like it could
be even a little bit more complex because you've got
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multiple old lines running through there. I'm gonna with the
water guy and tell you I think you're barking up
the right tree with that. You've got a pressure regulator
that you should try not to run up over sixty
too far, and that keeps the pressure from dropping out
for everybody else up above you and the backflow valve.
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But maybe up where the pump is, maybe the pump
needs replacing, or maybe what we need to do is
we need to run a tee off of the pump
so that any air it gets into the line.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Gets out of the way.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Scott, I wish I had more time to dive deeper
into it with you, but that's the best I can
do with the few seconds I have left.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Good luck on that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Got anything of more detail, you know, send it, shoot
me an email, and you know.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We can talk about it on the side.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All right, everybody else, thanks for joining us on the
program this morning.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Privilege and a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
As always, we'll be right back here tomorrow morning at
nine from nine to noon Pacific time to talk about
sound role for your home proofing, masking, all the things
associated with getting the sound around your house under control.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
We'll do that.
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Tomorrow and for today, get out there in this beautiful
day of ours and get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
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We'll see you tomorrow morning. This has been Home with
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but sound control, sound noise, noise pollution. It's an ever
growing part of our lives. It is something that is
not healthy for us, both psychologically and physically. It is
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design for more information. All right, let's go back to
the phones. I want to talk to Gus. Hey, Gus,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hey Dean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know they wrote a song about that, about the soundproofing.
It was like a sound control to major.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tom uh that was not sound control, my friend.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But that was nice. It was a nice pull, nice try.
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
My question is I used to watch a show with
my dad before he passed away. Who do you think
we did a better job, Bob Vila or that couple
on Home Improof, not Home improve but the Chip and
Johanna Gaines. They bought house Chief houses in Texas and
they picked them up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So you just called to to hear my opinion on
that and get me in trouble with everybody, right, That's
that was that was the goal. You're just gonna bush me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, uh, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, So here's the thing, first of all, something that
I want you to understand about me. I, uh, for
the most part, cannot watch home improvement television. Wow it
I mean, I really I struggle with it generally speaking.
And the reason is it's kind of like this. It's
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kind of like a doctor. You you medical professionals out there,
you know how hard it is to watch a medical
procedural drama or or police officer watching a police show
because you're sitting there at some point and you're.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Like, that's not the way it's done.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It and it gets tired of hearing me say that.
So we just don't watch them. We just don't watch them.
I just can't because there's so much about home improvement
television that is just uh, it's just it's just entertainment
and uh and so much of it loses, uh, its
grounding in reality. Okay, So just under that about me
(04:46):
in general. So, but here's the thing. Bob Vila, Bob
Ya used to be the host of This Old House,
and This Old House is still running and a very
long running show. Chip and Joanna is it Fixer Upper?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Is that what it? Yet? I think it's a Chip
and Joanna Gaines.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, they've made a little empire for themselves in Waco,
Texas doing all this stuff, and then the Magnolia and
then the magazines and then all the all the stuff.
Joanna is a home designer. Uh and uh and they
you know, they started, I think they started flipping houses
and then they just that combination attracted the networks to them.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So so here's my opinion. Uh, you know, whatever entertain
you the most, honestly, because neither neither category is a
deep dive into you know, the way homes really work.
But if I had to bias, uh and and you know,
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please understand that that I am a home designer and
an artist at heart. If I had to bias, I
would probably lean toward a show like this Old House.
I mean, I've I've watched this Old House be for there.
It's much more practical home building kind of stuff, elements
that go into a house. I find people walk away
(06:08):
with more practical understanding, uh than they do.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
This old House actually has changed. It's not the same
like it used to be.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, no, it's not the same. It's not the same.
And uh.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And you know, I've got nothing against uh Chip and
Joanna and I you know, applaud their success and and uh,
you know, as as TV personalities, But just understand that
you you you see a lot of designy stuff happen,
But I don't know that most people walk away with
actually a better understanding of how to design their own
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home or how it works for them. It's television and
it's entertainment, and a lot of people find a category
of entertainment for them is you know, quote unquote home
improvement entertainment. And I say that you know understanding that
that this program that you're listening to is categorized as
a home improvement show. Every time we sit down and
(07:04):
talk about it, you know, at iHeart, it's like, Okay,
our home improvement show is you know, Home with Dean Sharp.
But I try and approach it differently, and maybe one
of the things that's a little different about our show.
I think one of the things that is different is
that number one, you know, we don't we don't set
up false scenarios for things to happen dramatically in the show.
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I always joke about the fact that, you know, the
typical formula for a home improvement show these days is Okay,
we're gonna renovate these this couple's house, Jane and Bob
and they've got a budget of you know, sixty thousand
dollars and we're gonna do this, that and the other thing.
We dive in and then, of course the dramatic moment
(07:51):
is everything's going along peaches and cream until oh my gosh,
we uncovered this wall that we're plenty on moving and
we didn't real nobody realized it was a bearing wall
that's gonna blow their budget right out of the water.
And then, you know, and I always laugh because as
a home designer and a builder in the real world, Okay,
(08:13):
if I'm suggesting a design for your home and I
don't know that a wall is a bearing wall, you
should not have hired me. Okay, this is this is
home design one oh one. Of course I know where
the bearing walls in your house are and where they're not.
We've got structural engineers involved in every project. I mean,
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it is simply not reality. And again, you know it
should become as no surprise. Reality TV is the furthest
thing usually from reality. So uh, it's entertainment. And if
you love it as entertainment, then there you go. Then
entertain yourself all day long. I'll tell you what I
got to go to a break, Gus. But when we
(08:57):
come back, and thanks for the question. You kind of
got me on my soapbox, I am going to share
with you. I will share with y'all number one why
we don't have a TV show yet and number two
what my favorite actual home design television show is. We'll
talk about that, Kayfi, Gean Sharp, the House Whisper at
(09:20):
your service. It's an all call Saturday morning. The number
to reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean A
three to three the numeral two ask Dean. Giving you
a call, you get to set the agenda. Anything that's
got you scratching your head about your house. Be it
a design issue, yes, please, architecture, construction, DIY concern?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
What have you a?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right before the break, Gus called me and asked me
what I thought that I like Bob Vila or the
Fixer Upper joe In and what's her husband Chip better?
My point was, it's all entertainment, and take it with
a grain of salt, because it's entertainment television first and foremost.
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Not that you can't learn some things, but they're not
really designed to directly help you get anywhere with your projects.
And I don't mean that as a diss on any
and simply you know, things are what they are, and
if you find those shows entertaining, then go for it.
But I promised that I would say right after the
break here that I would tell you number one why
we don't have a show, and number two what my
(10:31):
actual favorite design show is. And yeah, I do have one.
I have one that I will watch and enjoy because
generally speaking, I don't watch home improvement television too. It's
too frustrating. It's too frustrating prep because I'm like, this
is not helping people at all. So we've actually been
(10:52):
approached just FYI, I'm thinking about is it five, five
or six times by producers from those networks and you know,
related networks. You know, got a call, hey buddy, yeah,
you guys are going to be the new You could
be the new Chip and Joe Anne and and you know,
we take the calls and we talked to him, and
(11:13):
first of all, it's like, hey, we don't want to
be the new Chip and Joeanne.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
We're us. Secondly, the other thing is that you know we.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I mean, we're fortunate to be on the radio, meaning
that you know, Tina and I were just we we
love designing homes.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's why we still do it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Okay, it's not we haven't given our lives over to
media as like, oh, that's our new career, that's our career.
Media now obviously a part of our career has branched
into this form of media, and we're loving it, and
we'd be open to something different because we're just open
to adventures. But the point being that we were never
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pursuing it to begin with. It came to us, not
the other way around. And so you know, we're not
media people who, oh, I got an angle, I could
do home in Groveman stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No, you know, I'm a.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Home designer and a builder. And also, do you know
a radio show on a podcast. So that's one reason why.
And the second reason should be obvious at this point,
which is that you know, the typical producers approach us
and they're like, okay, so how would you want to
do a show? And I'm like, well, actually, now that
(12:23):
you ask, here's what I'd like to do. I'd like
to do a limited series about actual design. We could
call it Design Matters Most And here's a rough treatment
layout for how we I would want to do the show,
and they're like, okay, well that that could be great,
but we just do we just do our regular formulaic stuff.
And I'm like, yeah, I don't want to do I
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don't want to be another formula you know, DIY show
on TV. I'd like to do something more unique, more helpful,
more fun, more entertaining, I think ultimately, but ultimately more
helpful as well. So anyway, if you're a pretduce out
there and you're thinking, how do I get Dean to
do a show with me, give me a call. I'll
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tell you exactly what I'm interested in doing. And it
won't be on one of the DIY networks, I'll tell you,
unless they're ready to break out of their mold, which
I don't think they are. It'll be a Netflix or
an Apple TV thing or whatever. Anyway, there you go. Now,
finally I'm taking the whole segment to do this, but
a lot of people have asked, so I just figured
(13:25):
I'll throw it out there. What design show does Dean
really enjoy watching? Grand Designs? And if you're scratching your head,
you're like, I've never heard of that show. It's a
BBC show, the British show Grand Designs. Hosted by Kevin
McLeod It is I think arguably the longest running home
(13:48):
design show on the planet. I think they started in
ninety nine, nineteen ninety nine. I think they're in their
twentieth or twenty first season or something like that. They
may have skipped a lot anyway, twenty plus season. Okay,
Grand Design is a show. And why is there no
Grand Designs America? Because again, try getting a network to
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invest in the show the way the BBC did, which
is this, he doesn't do the build or the design.
He's a presenter. He's a host. Now he's a designer,
really really good one. He knows what he's talking about.
But they find interesting one off custom design projects, people
who are real people who are building their dream home
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and they come in have a conversation before it starts,
They revisit the house as it's going, they talk about
it after the fact. You get to see kind of
the whole process. But that sometimes can take a year
or two for one episode. So they had to have
done like a two or three year investment in the
show just to get a first season going, and then
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continue to do that as the years roll on. Yeah,
good luck getting a US network to back you on
that kind of a thing, because it's not easy money
right up front anyway. Grand designs very artistic, very entertaining.
And if you want to hear a real home designer
step in and stare a couple in the face and say,
and you think you're going to build this for how
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much six hundred thousand pounds, you'll be lucky if you
get out of this at one point two million. And
then we find out at the end that, yeah, he
was pretty much right. So instead of giving false expectations
about how the building process works, he gets nitty gritty
with them, follows it through, and yet at the end,
(15:40):
if he finds the project worthwhile, he'll tell you every
artistic reason why this house moves you. And I just
love all that because that very much lines up with
the way we design and the experiences of designing dream
homes in the real world for real people. So Grand Designs,
Where can you find it? I think you can find
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it on Amazon usual. Amazon Prime usually has at least
a couple of seasons worth, and you can find all
the rest of them on YouTube. Now, so there you go,
there you go, all right? I blew a whole segment
talking about this. But there you go. There's your answer.
Go check out Grand Designs and then tell me about it.
(16:22):
Shoot me an email, make a comment on and maybe
we should make a post and just so everybody can
find it anyway, let me know what you think. I
think it's a ton of fun. Okay, let's get some
news and we'll go back to the phones.
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You are Home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper. That's me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It's an all calls Saturday morning, like we love to
do on Saturday mornings. Here the first Saturday in summer
twenty twenty five. I'm glad to be with you. It
is a privilege and a pleasure to talk to you
about your home. All right, let's go back to the phones,
shall we. Let's talk to Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome home, Jeans,
(17:21):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Good morning, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, sir, I bought a home.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
He's Ventoria. I believe it's in nineteen this nineteen sixties.
The gentleman that did the home inspection. After that inspection,
he told me and my wife one cool thing about
the house, and the wall that separates the liver rooms
from the kitchen to be taken down without without an issue.
(17:52):
So going forward, we got opinions on the kitchen designs
and we told him we want to open up the
kitchen and the guy told us that that wasn't a
low barn wall, that it couldn't be open or it
was a low bar or however, but it couldn't be
opened up. That he had to do some retro fitting.
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It costs about an extra seven grand to open.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
The kitchen up.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So I was just trying to see, how can I
be sure that is a low barn wall?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Not?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Should I get more opinion?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
There's something I can.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Do to check.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yes and yes, uh and uh? And you should do
you should do both, my friend. All right, So here's
the thing. Is single story house, Yes, single story house.
So you got to addic space above all right. So
a couple of things. One is uh that so a
load bearing wall means that it's a wall that's actually
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holding up stuff up above it, Okay, as opposed to
they're like I thought every wall was that way.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Actually there are load bearing walls, or what we call
for short, a bearing wall, and there are partition walls,
which are just walls that are dividing rooms up but
actually not doing any structural work on the house. And
there's a big difference between the two because partition walls
are walls that can come down without any consequence to
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the structural integrity of the home, and a bearing wall
is not a how it's not a wall that can
come down without consequence. A bearing wall can come down,
but it has to be replaced by structures that are
going to do the work that the wall was doing,
and that can be obviously a more expensive process. So
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in a one story house where you've got an attic
space above, the attic space is almost inevitably the place
where you make these discoveries. Up in the attic, you
locate the top of that wall and we find out
whether there are ceiling joists number one that are laying
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on that wall, that are bearing on it, that have
come over and are resting on it. So normally, if
the ceiling joys are running perpendicular to that wall and
they are resting on it, then it is doing a
job of bearing up one end of a set of
ceiling joys. Another way to look at it is that
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in the attic, if there are any roof braces we
call them Perlin braces. There may be two by fours
or two by six is coming down at an angle
from the roofing rafters or from a brace system that
may be loaded onto that wall, or any posts that
are coming down onto the top of the wall. So
the point is the easiest way to figure out what
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a wall is actually doing is to get on a
single story house, is to get in the attic and
find the wall and find out the relationship of floor
joys and posts and braces to it. Generally speaking, if
floor joyce are running in the ceiling joyst sorry are
running in the direction same direction of the wall, then
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it's not a baring wall because it may have a
ceiling joist on top of it, but that doesn't mean
that it's holding up the whole room. It just so
happens that the ceiling joist ended up lining up with
the top of the wall, but it's not doing a
job holding anything else up. So that's the first place
that we would check to give you a sense of
whether or not you know, we could pull that wall
(21:28):
down and do some fancy things with the kitchen at
relatively no expense. Sometimes I can see when I walk
into a home just by the pattern of the wave
of the roof, or even the configuration of the house.
Like if you live in a long kind of California
ranch house, it's usually the walls that run down the hallway,
(21:50):
one or maybe two walls that run down that long
hallway that stretches the lengthwise of the house about in
the middle of the house, about halfway between the back
wall in the front wall of the house. That's usually
inevitably a bearing wall of some sort. But different houses,
different configurations. But I'll tell you that the secret is
finding the top plate of that wall in the attic
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space and seeing its relationship to everything else. Now that
isn't that, that's not where it stopped. I will pop
my head into an attic and give an owner a
you know, ninety nine percent sure that this is not
a bearing wall, and that we're cool with that. But
we don't just rush ahead and start tearing walls down.
(22:34):
I recommend that you call a local structural engineer. Okay,
they've got no skin in the game. They're not trying
to win the job. They're not trying to build out
a bid for you or anything. Call out a structural
engineer and you simply say, hey, i've got a house
I'm thinking about removing a wall. I'd like to pay
you to come out to do a consult for me.
(22:54):
And they'll come out for you know, a couple three
hundred bucks, spend forty five minutes looking around the house,
looking up in the attic, and give you their strong
opinion as to whether or not that's a wall that
can afford to come down or not. And there's some
other factors that they play into it as well. But
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generally speaking, that, my friend, is how you figure it out.
So you can go up to the attic look around yourself.
But even if you conclude, oh yeah, everything that Dean
said is true, there's nothing even sitting on top of
these plates up here. It's just in between a set
of ceiling. Joy it looks like this wall could come down.
That's all well and good, be encouraged, but don't make
(23:36):
a move without talking to a structural engineer to make
sure that you're safe to do exactly that. So there
you go, John, thanks for the question, my friend, A really,
really good question. And this is why we take calls,
because we end up talking about things that lots of people,
lots and lots of people. For every call that we take,
there's tens of thousands of people who are have the
(23:59):
same question back of their head, who didn't fall? And
that's what makes it so much fun. All Right, when
we come back, we'll take more of your calls. Your
home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Okayf Dean Sharp,
the house whisper. Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on
the program today. Here we are approaching the end of
another two hours together that we get to spend with
(24:21):
each other every Saturday morning. We're taking calls as always.
I don't want to waste any more time. Get right
back to the phones. Let's see if we can get
at least one more question in today. Let's talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Hi Dean, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I am well, sir, How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's funny, you say, well, because that's what my question
contains to. I got to kind of frame this off
for you. First. We're on an Indian reservation, highly imparts
to be a reservation and we have little or no resources.
The nearest resources are about twenty five miles away from us,
So we're out there. We've got a well sitting on
(25:06):
the top of a hill. It's you know, it's got
three circuit breakers run into it, and it's got a
twenty five PSI tank attached to it, and then we
have about a thousand gallon plastic tank there. It drops
down to a two inch run that runs about twelve
(25:26):
hundred feet. This applies three houses and two trailers out
there in a little shack too. We're on the end
of the run, and when we were doing some grading work,
we discovered a riser that came up, and it's a
one inch riser that feeds off of that two inch
(25:48):
PBC run. At the very end of the twelve hundred
feet is a metal riser that comes up with a
two and a half stiket coming off of it. Looks
like maybe for fire suppression. So here's the question I
have for you. We opened up the valve and found
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that we had water there after twelve years being out
here in the middle of nowhere, and we decided we
wanted to run that water up to our fifth wheeld
that we have. So every time we kick on the water,
we've got over one hundred psi down there. And what
happens is it creates some form of it moves the
(26:33):
water column and creates some kind of air bubble way
up at the top where the houses are. We're you know,
down at over eight percent grade, which is the last
half of that twelve hundred foot run. So we get
we don't have water pressure problems other than we need
(26:54):
to regulate it down and I'm trying to figure out
where I need to regulate that too. We've got a
Zernwatkin's double check backflow valve and we're putting in Zernwokin
six hundred XL water pressure regulator and that runs from
twenty five to seventy psi. But it seems like, you know,
(27:19):
we pull anything above sixty psi, all the other houses
lose their water on this run. And so I'm working
with the neighbors to try to solve this problem so
we can have water too, right, So I'm kind of
looking for a solution here, and I've actually consulted with
(27:40):
somebody at North County Backflow and he said, I'm barking
up the right tree with the backflow and with the regulator.
But this problem keeps happening even when we're not using
the water, and somebody has to go up to the
well and shut off a cert breakers and turn them
(28:01):
back on. Well is twenty plus years old. So I
was thinking that maybe the pumpy is to be rebuilt
at some point, but of course, being on this reservation,
there's no resources to do it right right. And there
is a water master out there and he's looked at
it and says, huh, and he believes the valve at
(28:23):
the end now that he discovered it. There's no as
B planks for this, and we're kind of out on
a wind in a prayer here trying to figure this out, all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Right, Scott, Yeah, And I'm running low on time here.
But I appreciate I appreciate the detail, and I also
appreciate your confidence in me to be able to take that.
That's a very highly technical situation you got going there.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You've got tons of pressure down where you are, just
because of the weight of water in the lines falling
and you being the end run on it, and you're
going to be You're going to need to be careful
to not access that water in free flow ways that
you know, drain out everybody else's pressure supply, because you are,
(29:10):
you know, at the down end of that. The backflow valve,
backflow valve everybody is is kind of what it sounds like.
It's a it's a a valve that only allows liquids
or to move in one direction and not the other.
Not hooking and rehooking the water supply down where you
are will keep the bubble, the water bubbles out, and
(29:33):
the back flow valve should hopefully keep the air bubbles
from making it all the way back up to the
pump and stalling the pump. That's one of the things
that may be a case. Since we're on a gravity
feed such a severe gravity feed situation, air intrusion into
that line that finds its way all the way back
(29:53):
up to the to the to the main pump might
actually be drying out the pump literally like air. If
the pump is the highest point of that whole line
draw to you, then that air bubble of size could
in fact be finding its way up there and causing
(30:13):
the pump to grind against non liquid just air in it.
So one of the things that could be done. In theory,
all the way at the top of the well is
not have the pump be the very very top of
the airline potential, and that is to build a branch
(30:35):
off of the water that's coming out of the pump
higher up, so that if there is an air bubble
that forms, it'll go there and bypass the pump, and
the pump can keep functioning for all the water needs
that it's also supplying. But it sounds like it could
be even a little bit more complex because you've got
(30:55):
multiple old lines running through there. I'm gonna with the
water guy and tell you I think you're barking up
the right tree with that. You've got a pressure regulator
that you should try not to run up over sixty
too far, and that keeps the pressure from dropping out
for everybody else up above you and the backflow valve.
(31:17):
But maybe up where the pump is, maybe the pump
needs replacing, or maybe what we need to do is
we need to run a tee off of the pump
so that any air it gets into the line.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Gets out of the way.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Scott, I wish I had more time to dive deeper
into it with you, but that's the best I can
do with the few seconds I have left.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Good luck on that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Got anything of more detail, you know, send it, shoot
me an email, and you know.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We can talk about it on the side.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All right, everybody else, thanks for joining us on the
program this morning.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Privilege and a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
As always, we'll be right back here tomorrow morning at
nine from nine to noon Pacific time to talk about
sound role for your home proofing, masking, all the things
associated with getting the sound around your house under control.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
We'll do that.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Tomorrow and for today, get out there in this beautiful
day of ours and get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
We'll see you tomorrow morning. This has been Home with
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