August 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Dean tackles nothing but your questions this morning, including; how to properly fix living room flooring when it's slanted, properly treating a basement for moisture control, fixing a cracked coating on bathtubs, removing hard 'green netting' under landscaping, and whether an attic that previously had no insulation needs some after the installation of an AC unit at home in Florida
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning and welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer,
custom home builder, custom home designer, and your guide to
better understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
as always with our Saturday morning show, or if you're
a podcast listener, this one, wherever and whenever you're listening
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to us. It is an all calls show, nothing but
your calls. You get to set the agenda. I love it.
I love every week just sitting down and taking your
calls because I never know where things are going to go.
You might end up talking to a sweet woman asking
about post holes, and then she gets so excited then
she just starts cussing all over the air. It's great,
(00:53):
it's excess. Oh it's been a good morning. It is
a good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The number to reach me, by the way, eight three
three two. Ask Dean eight three three. The numeral to
ask Dean. You just spell it right out on your phone,
eight three three two. Ask Dean. Anything that's got you
scratching your head about your home. Let's go back to
the phone, shall we. I want to talk to Glenda. Hey, Glenda,
(01:20):
welcome home, Nie, good morning, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh, thank you for taking our call. Hey, we have
a well she probably told you already about our living
room being on a slack because it was a front
porch chet one point half of it was.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, so you got a living room that you expanded
out onto the front porch and now part of the
floor is slanted.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you guys, uh, yeah, you guys. You guys, don't
don't listen to the delay on the phone. Turn off
the radio because the delay will send you all funky.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Let's just talk, okay, Okay, So our front house, our
house has gone through several different innovations. At one point,
the front half of the living room was the front
porch and so it was appropriately sloped. We have carpeted
living room with a big wood burning stove right in
the center, and we're hoping to be able to somehow
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put hard tile like porcelain tile throughout the living room
throughout the house. Actually, but how do we get past
that hump where it goes from level to being sloped.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay, So it's it's actually a pretty simple process. So
this is the good news. The one thing that you're
gonna have to be careful of is if in that
sloped section when that all got framed and expanded out,
whether you've got an exterior door going out there. And
I don't know how severe the slope is, but here's
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the process. You can get on down to the or
you can have you know, obviously you know somebody do
this for you, but you can get all down to
the big box store, the hardware store today right now
find sitting on the shelf self leveling compound, flooring compound,
self leveling flooring compound. It's not cement in the traditional sense.
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It's gypsum based, meaning that the same mineral that goes
into drywall that makes dry the lightest mineral on the planet. Okay,
And this flooring compound gets mixed up in a bucket
or buckets, depending on how big the area is. You
peel back all the carpet, you get it all cleaned up,
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and this it's self leveling compounds, so it gets mixed
up roughly speaking to the consistency of pancake batter, not
chunky pancake batter, but you know, runny pancake batter, and
you pull pour it out you pour it out in
that area of the floor that used to be the
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porch that had the slope built to it so it
could shed rain and water. You pour that out, and
you keep mixing it and pouring it out until that
whole area fills up. And just like imagine if you
had a way of damming some water in there, this
material will fill up and it will self level. You
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don't have to trowl it or anything like that. It'll
level itself out, and you keep filling it up until
it's level with the flat part of the floor. And
now and then you walk away for you know, a
couple three hours, it will harden, and now your entire
floor is completely perfectly level and ready for anything you
want to do to it, whether it's blowing down hardwood
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or putting down tile or whatever the case may be.
Now I have oversimplified the process a little bit, okay,
because you don't just you know, you don't just pour
it out and walk away. And when I say there's
no trowling, I mean you don't have to trowl out
the entire surface, but there is a little bit of leveling.
You don't want it to leave a little bit of
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hump or residue where the where the slope is at
its very very beginning and joining up with the level
part of the floor. So there is a little bit
of effort to go to there to make sure, but
generally speaking in terms of like things that can be
done to fix a room or fix a floor, this
is as easy as it gets. Because you pour this
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stuff out, it finds its own level, and that level
floor will eventually join up as you continue to pour
it in, it'll join up with the other level floor,
and then it'll harden and you'll have a completely level
floor from wall to wall.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's amazing. That's amazing. I thought it was gonna be
a little much more complicated process. I do have an
entry door that opens into the foyer, which is also
that whole thing used to be a front cord, right,
so I guess I have to deal with that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well. Yeah, so the thing there is that number one.
You know, I don't know how tall your threshold is
for the entry door, or how much slope there is.
It'll be it would be a good idea to try
and determine exactly how far down the slope goes. But
the worst case scenario is that that door may need
to be raised up, you know, an inch or so
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or however much so that it flushes out with the
new level of the level floor. But apart from that,
you don't have to mess with windows, you don't have
to mess with anything else, and you don't even have
to pull the drywall off the walls. You could you
could trap the drywall against the wall with this leveling compound.
We do that kind of stuff when we're trying to
fix up rooms all the time. It's all gypsy and
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it's it's one gypsum product against another. So it doesn't
really hurt for that to be the case. So yeah,
it is simpler, and like I said, it's not completely
bombed proof, but it's way way simpler than most people imagine.
Given no other weirdness about the floor, that's how it
should work out. And you guys, you know you'll be
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on the road to finally a level living room floor.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That is something we're really looking forward. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You are so welcome. Oh I think I lost him again.
All right, So that was Glinda and I assume her
husband or Glenda's voice changed radically during the call. Either way,
I'm clad we helped him out. Uh yeah, uh, you know,
I guess so so far on the program today, I'm
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getting a lot of credit for inventing uh you know,
amazing products to help your home. I have invented none
of them, but I do know how to point you
in the right direction. So let's keep it coming. We'll
do more of your calls when we return your home
with Dean Sharp the house whisper just about seven to
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twenty here on a lovely Saturday morning in southern California.
It's going to be a warm one today, August thirtieth,
and we are as we always do on Saturday mornings,
taking your calls. You get to tell me what the
show is about today. The number to reach me eight
three three to ask Dean eight three three. The numeral
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to ask Dean eight three three to ask Dean. We're
gonna get back to the phones in just a second. Here,
I should say. Everybody else is plugging their best of
show for this week for Monday, because you know they're
taking the day off like you are. I am here
live and we'll be here tomorrow live, even though it's
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Labor Day weekend. It's good. No, I'm happy, happy, No, No,
really no, I am. I'm happy to do it. In fact,
tomorrow's show Window and Door show. If you've got questions
about windows or we'll get them answered for you and
exterior doors, specifically exterior doors. We're talking about all the
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outside permutations of the house, all of the fenestration of
the house. That's actually what that means, all the glass
around your home, and in studio with me my very
special guest, Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. American Vision
is celebrating twenty five years and they've got a regrand
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opening of their Seami Valley headquarters low showroom location that's
happening next Saturday week from today and from eleven. Let
me get this right, from eleven to three, from eleven
to three, and guess who's gonna be there, Tim Conway,
Gary Hoffman and yours truly and we'll be hanging out.
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I'll do some some home improvement Q and A with you,
and if you want to come down and learn about
windows and doors there, we'll do it right there in
the American Vision showroom. Plus there's fun and games and
prizes and all sorts of cool stuff going on. That
is next Saturday, from eleven to three over into the
Seami Valley showroom for American Vision Windows. But tomorrow Chris
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Perez from American Vision in studio with me as he
and I talk shop and we're going to tell you
all about everything you need to know about windows and
doors for the outside of your house. That's tomorrow on
the Big Show, or if you're a podcast eighthful listener,
the next episode. So there you go. All right, let's
get back to the phone, shall we. I want to
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talk to Diego, Hey Diego, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Hello Dan, thank you for sticking my call. I called
about a year ago and you told me to make
a French train around the house. I live in a
ranch style house. It's still a slope and the basis
downstairs has been just collecting moisture throughout this time. So
I wanted to know how to finish up the cement.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So as any water gets by the prench train system,
how to stop that moisture from coming in and reducing
a fluorescence mold and mildew downstairs, and of.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
The Christmas stuff is all half of that stuff is
gone already because it's it's I got mildery, it's mold over.
So we poss that out, so it's a catch all
the downstairs, that's what it's for. But I wanted to
protect the cement for me because I do find some
whitish stuff still near the doorway. You know, there is
a door going out towards the back of the house
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and it has two windows and a half a bathroom
down there. I don't know what would be the best
way to stop that moisture coming up to the cement.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, so remind me again what your situation is, Diego.
So is it a hillside house, Well, it's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
It's when you're looking in the front. It's a round
style house and it's flat. But since it's on a slope,
the one half of the houses on the slope, so
that they whoever decided to build and finish it off
into a basement room. Okay, so it was just like
a regular room, but it's the basements right right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So it's got concrete walls at least to its back,
and you've you've attempted to put in the French drains
all around the property, but you can't get down to
the base of those basement walls, I assume, uh correct.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And there's always a gap, you know that there's like
a three foot gap between the because in the machinery
how they end up doing it and then hit granted,
and they took much longer than anticipated, and the cops
went up anyway, so that there's there's that space. The
French tra is not a cure.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
All Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
The guy told me it's just going to help you
a lot, great significant and we went nine feet down,
he said, but we kept hitting rocks, saw the rock
sometimes and we just went around it. When it's all
we can do unless I'm gonna keep drilling it and
that's gonna cost you every every hour, it's gonna cost
you more. And so the rooms downstairs. Half of the
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wall is the foundation and the rest is just the
frame of the house.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I got you, all right, and so yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got you. So you know, you did what you could.
You did what you could, You did what you could
afford to do without tearing it all out. And you know,
traditionally we would do the French strain and we would
also do waterproofing membrane on the outside of the submerged
concrete there, the subterranean concrete there, so that moisture can't
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get through the wall at all. And that sounds like
the French strain is helping out quite a bit, but
you know, not doing one hundred percent. Here's the thing
that there's not a there's not a ton that you
can do on top of all of that, except there
are some you know, if the French drain has taken
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care of most of it and you're still getting a
little bit of efflorescence, that's the white mineralization. That is
evidence that moisture is seeping through the wall and then
evaporating because it's and then it's leaving behind salts and minerals.
It may not be mildew, but that's the thing. The
best thing I can tell you to do, Diego is
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on your side, on the room side of the wall
that you can actually get to because obviously there's trouble
getting to the backside of it where the soil is encroaching.
On the room side of the wall, you can either
you know, if the concrete is exposed, you may not
want to do this, but if it's drywall the way
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down across the concrete, then you could tear that back
and do a heavy mastic across the concrete on the
inside and then cover over with drywall so that you
at least get a waterproof membrane on that side. Now,
it could eventually fail in areas if there's a lot
of pressure, but it sounds like there's just kind of
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trickle left over after the French train was installed, so
that might actually be really effective. But if the concrete
is exposed and it's part of the room dynamic there,
then the other thing you could do is simply clean
up that concrete the best you can and start treating
it with a penetrating sealer from the room side. And
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I would do multiple coats, let them dry and then
hit it again, let it absorb, dry, hit it again.
Penetrating sealer in concrete will help. It'll help keep stuff
from coming through. It's not the answer. The best answer
is completely waterproofing the concrete from the soil side of
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things so that moisture doesn't get into it. But this
may actually slow down or stop the remaining moisture from
coming into the room after the French drain has done
its job.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Alrect certain you recommend, Well, the grandkids want to hang
out and they like downstairs and stuff with their game stuff,
is I can actually be savable? Can someone stay down there.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, I mean, I haven't seen the space, but in theory, yeah,
you know, in theory, yeah, And if it were me,
and again I don't know how the room is structured,
but if it were me, I would put you know,
I would lose I'd be willing to lose an inch
and a half or so of overall dimension in the
room by running what we call sleeper two by fours
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sleeper studs flat down the side of that concrete all
the way to the floor, so you can get dry
wall floor to ceiling in there. And that would also
allow you to really mastic up that concrete wall because
nobody will see it. You can just like goop it
all up, give it a thorough thick coating of mastic
just to hold water at bay there, and then sleeper
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stud that wall. You would drill those studs in and
anchor them to the concrete down there, and of course
up above they would attach to the wood wall, and
then dry wall the whole thing with moisture resistant green
board drywall the kind of stuff that you put in
a steamy bathroom. And then I think you'd have your
best chance of making that an entirely habitable space. So
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thanks for listening, diego, thanks for taking the advice, following
it through the best you could, and good luck on
finishing out that room. Sounds like something that's doable. It
sounds like the French drain is doing most of what
we hoped it would do, and a little bit more
ceiling or mastic could finish you off there along the way.
All right, my friend and my friends, we will be
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back to more of your calls right after this. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Oh yes, yes,
it can be done. We do it all the time,
and I thank you for joining me on the program here.
Stick with us here every week we'll help you do
it step by step. Along the way. Today it's all calls.
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You get to tell me what the show is all about.
And we've got a board full of calls here, and
I want to talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home, Hie,
good morning, good morning to you. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I have a house nineteen twenty nine, very much an
old grand name. I have one to three bathtubs that
the coding has cracked and it's feeling. I get a
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little bit of homework, and I know there's companies that
can come up, and I think they use a chemical treatment.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Where it dissolved.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
I'm assuming it's porcelain, and it sounds very toxic. Any
other suggestions.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, So these are original tubs in your nineteen twenty
nine home. Yes, yeah, so they are. They are cast
iron tubs with porcelain coatings on them, and you know, hey,
after nearly one hundred years, you know they're showing, they're
showing their age. So they're there. Yeah, there are companies
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that can come out and and do that in place.
So here, let me give you the pros and cons
of all of your options. Okay, okay. One, Yes, you
can have a company come out and and there are
companies that will work on patching the the blemishes that
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are there. And yes, they use some pretty pretty nasty
stuff because those are tough tubs. I mean they are
they are lifetime kind of tubs, and uh, but it
can be done. And so I would have conversations with
those companies and tell them your concerns about toxicity and
so on and and but believe me, they do it
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in a very uh clean and effective way, as clean
as and effective as possible. The advantage of that is
that the tub gets to sit right where it's sitting
and uh and and as a result, you don't have
to deal with anything else in the bathroom. Now. Uh,
the disadvantage is those are those are resurfacing of the tub.
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And generally speaking, now I'm not saying it's going to
fail anytime soon, but it's not a complete re enameling
of the tub. Okay, so just you know, so you
so you understand it is a it's a recoding, but
it's not a complete re enameling of the tub because, uh,
for for that to happen, the most effective and chemical
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free way to do it is to have that tub
sand blasted. Okay, now that doesn't happen in your home,
thank goodness. But we restore, We restore tubs all the time. Now.
The reason I bring that up is because sometimes people
are like, well, you know what, I'm remodeling this bathroom anyway,
and I want to keep the whole look, I'm going
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to restore it to a you know, in nineteen twenty
nine vibe. But I want to bring it up to date.
And I'm already, you know, taking out some of the
old tile and this and that and the other thing.
And if that's the case, then it's a perfect opportunity
to detach the bathtub, get it out of there for
a few days, and get it on down to one
of these tub enamel restoration shops where they will sand
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blast it in a booth right down to the cast
iron and put a brand new one, brand new, like
new recoding of a porcelain enamel over that tub and
bring it back to you. And that's a brand spanking
new tub that was also, happen depends to be nearly
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one hundred years old. And that is the way that
we refinished tubs when we're doing a full restoration and
there's work being done around it as well. Another option,
if again there's work being done in the bathroom, is
too and again you have to price this out and
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fit it into what works best for you, Cathy. But
another option if there's work being done in the bathroom
is to replace the tub, and you replace the tub,
not with I wouldn't replace it with a brand new
cast iron tub to keep it authentic, I'd replace it
with a hundred year old tub, but one that happens
to be in perfectly good shape. And you can find
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that kind of stuff with my friends, my dear friends
down at Pasadena Architectural Salvage here in LA. They literally
this is what they do. When they hear a century
home like yours is being torn down or major remodel
taking place or renovated. They get their they get their
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contacts there and they remove perfectly good fixtures from those
old homes and sell them. And so anytime that I
need a something like a tub, like I need a
hundred year old tub, I give them a call. I'm like, hey, Christy,
I need one hundred year old tubs Like well, I
got nine of them sitting on the floor right now.
Come on down, check them out. Check out the color
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and the size and the configuration you want. Maybe one
of them will fit. So those are three completely viable options.
You can do the in home patch work. You can
have the tub removed, sam blasted, restored, and brought in
brand new again, same tub, or you can swap it
out for one that's also one hundred years old and
in good shape. At a place like Architecae the Pasadena
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Architectural Salvage. But yeah, that's how we deal with century.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Tubs, all right, my god?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Oh yeah, on remodeling any of the bathrooms soon. So yeah,
this is definitely foods to thoughts.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, yeah, get just so. I would start then with
having a serious conversation with the in home resurfacing people,
because there's you know, there's a good chance that they'll
get it done to your satisfaction. But it has to
do with you know, I know your concerns about toxicity
and the chemicals and all this. You just have a
conversation with them and see what's possible. At least this
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is what I do on just about every project. By
the way, Kathy, I even though it sounds like, oh,
Dean just has an answer boom. You know, one of
the reasons I have answers for these calls, so many
of them, is because I go through this process constantly,
and I'm always running into new situation where I don't know.
The answer is, I don't know what are we gonna
do about this theme? I don't know? And then what
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sets me apart from a lot of folks working on
your home or designers who are planning your home. I'm
going to go out and do all the research. I
will research it all, and then I'll come back to
the client and say, Okay, this thing that none of
us knew anything about, I now know. We have four
different options. We have three different options. I've spoken with
each of these people. This is the one that I
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think is the best. And here is why. So do
your homework, have conversations with the people who will do
this for you, and I am confident that you will
be able to discern which one is the direction you
want to add off into. And that is true for
everybody who's listening. This is how you do it. You
take your time and you do your homework, and then
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you understand what reveals itself in the end is very
very likely the right move. Okay, more of your calls.
When we return your home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, here with you live and
here to remind you when it comes to transforming your home,
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All right, back to the phones. I've got time for
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one more. I think here, let's talk to Eduardo whoa
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, Dean, Well, good timing. I'm about to go in
and have some wobbles here in St. Petersburg.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh, in Sant Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Are you going?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
I moved here from Chicago two years ago? But uh,
my question is uh insulation in the attic? Yeah, and
obviously if I did do that, be the uh spray foam.
I think that's so much better. But I want to
get your take. I mean, is that really I'm sure
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you talked about this before. Really something necessary that I
need to do like right away? Or should I definitely
kind of look forward at doing that. I mean, what's
your take on that?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right? So you you you gotta you got a
house now, and uh, and there's no insulation in the attic.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Right, it's like six hundred feet I'm gonna say, at
the frame house.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, uh yeah, absolutely absolutely gotta insulate it. Gotta insulate it,
and no spray foam. I love spray foam insulation, Okay,
I love it. It's fantastic, there's no question about it.
It's clean. Uh, it's super efficient, it does air ceiling,
and it's great. It also is the most expensive form
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of insulation, and so it doesn't fit with everybody's budget,
you know. And in lieu of that, you could also
do blown in and I know that shocks people when
I say they're like really blown in. I would think
after spray phone, you'd want like those rollout bats because
they're so clean and well organed.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No, No, that's not the way to insulate an attic
with the bat insulation because it leaves too many gaps.
There's too many holes in the boat as it were.
So yeah, even in a beautifully warm place like Florida,
every house, every every home needs insulation. This is something
we've just come to understand. You know, we can have
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killer air conditioning systems, we can have killer heating systems
whether we live in hot or cold climates. But the
other half of that equation, Okay, once you've got your
AC and your heat worked out, the other half of
that equation is actually insulating the envelope of the structure
that you live in so that whatever you're doing heating
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or cooling holds, so that it holds, especially the attic,
because when it comes to cooling, because hot air rises,
and we just don't want to lose it. We want
to keep keep keep the energy of the interior of
the house. We've worked so hard, we've spent all this
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money we're paying the energy bill to get that to
a certain temperature, and now we want to hold it.
It's basically like a cooler. Like the idea of a
cooler that it keeps warm things warm, it keeps cold
things cold. And the better the insulation, the more effective
your air conditioning is going to be, the more effective
your heating is going to be. And so yeah, insulation
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is the other critical side of the temperature control coin.
A lot of people think, well, I live in a
warmer climate, I don't need insulation, not true, Not true.
It's for heating, for air conditioning, it's for everything. Insulation
is all about separating the interior of your space from
the weather and temperature conditions on the exterior of that space.
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That includes humidity in very humid climates like Florida as well,
because your air conditioner is a dehumidifier. And again, insulation
is the key to hold that stuff in place, especially
the attic. So if you can afford spray foam up
in your rafters in your attic, that's great, awesome, that's
(30:43):
my number one a choice. But if that's outside of
the budget, then have a nice amount of you know,
blown in insulation blown across that attic floor. It will
do a stellar job as well. Yeah, it's messier and
dot but if you're not planning on spending much time
in the attic, don't worry about it and blow it in.
You can blow it in for cheap. You can even
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diy that stuff yourself at you know, you can rent
the equipment at like a home depot or a Low's
to do that yourself if you really needed to. So
it is the more economical option, but it gets the
job done as well. Thanks Eduardo, thanks for listening from
Chicago and Florida. All right, y'all, we are at the
end of another two hours together. Here Tomorrow the big show,
(31:26):
we're talking doors and windows with my very special guest,
Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. That's tomorrow from nine
to noon. Don't miss it. And as for today, get
out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
We'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
(31:48):
the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI
AM six forty every Saturday morning from six to eight
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning and welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer,
custom home builder, custom home designer, and your guide to
better understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
as always with our Saturday morning show, or if you're
a podcast listener, this one, wherever and whenever you're listening
(00:30):
to us. It is an all calls show, nothing but
your calls. You get to set the agenda. I love it.
I love every week just sitting down and taking your
calls because I never know where things are going to go.
You might end up talking to a sweet woman asking
about post holes, and then she gets so excited then
she just starts cussing all over the air. It's great,
(00:53):
it's excess. Oh it's been a good morning. It is
a good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The number to reach me, by the way, eight three
three two. Ask Dean eight three three. The numeral to
ask Dean. You just spell it right out on your phone,
eight three three two. Ask Dean. Anything that's got you
scratching your head about your home. Let's go back to
the phone, shall we. I want to talk to Glenda. Hey, Glenda,
(01:20):
welcome home, Nie, good morning, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh, thank you for taking our call. Hey, we have
a well she probably told you already about our living
room being on a slack because it was a front
porch chet one point half of it was.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, so you got a living room that you expanded
out onto the front porch and now part of the
floor is slanted.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you guys, uh, yeah, you guys. You guys, don't
don't listen to the delay on the phone. Turn off
the radio because the delay will send you all funky.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Let's just talk, okay, Okay, So our front house, our
house has gone through several different innovations. At one point,
the front half of the living room was the front
porch and so it was appropriately sloped. We have carpeted
living room with a big wood burning stove right in
the center, and we're hoping to be able to somehow
(02:28):
put hard tile like porcelain tile throughout the living room
throughout the house. Actually, but how do we get past
that hump where it goes from level to being sloped.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay, So it's it's actually a pretty simple process. So
this is the good news. The one thing that you're
gonna have to be careful of is if in that
sloped section when that all got framed and expanded out,
whether you've got an exterior door going out there. And
I don't know how severe the slope is, but here's
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the process. You can get on down to the or
you can have you know, obviously you know somebody do
this for you, but you can get all down to
the big box store, the hardware store today right now
find sitting on the shelf self leveling compound, flooring compound,
self leveling flooring compound. It's not cement in the traditional sense.
(03:24):
It's gypsum based, meaning that the same mineral that goes
into drywall that makes dry the lightest mineral on the planet. Okay,
And this flooring compound gets mixed up in a bucket
or buckets, depending on how big the area is. You
peel back all the carpet, you get it all cleaned up,
(03:44):
and this it's self leveling compounds, so it gets mixed
up roughly speaking to the consistency of pancake batter, not
chunky pancake batter, but you know, runny pancake batter, and
you pull pour it out you pour it out in
that area of the floor that used to be the
(04:05):
porch that had the slope built to it so it
could shed rain and water. You pour that out, and
you keep mixing it and pouring it out until that
whole area fills up. And just like imagine if you
had a way of damming some water in there, this
material will fill up and it will self level. You
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don't have to trowl it or anything like that. It'll
level itself out, and you keep filling it up until
it's level with the flat part of the floor. And
now and then you walk away for you know, a
couple three hours, it will harden, and now your entire
floor is completely perfectly level and ready for anything you
want to do to it, whether it's blowing down hardwood
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or putting down tile or whatever the case may be.
Now I have oversimplified the process a little bit, okay,
because you don't just you know, you don't just pour
it out and walk away. And when I say there's
no trowling, I mean you don't have to trowl out
the entire surface, but there is a little bit of leveling.
You don't want it to leave a little bit of
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hump or residue where the where the slope is at
its very very beginning and joining up with the level
part of the floor. So there is a little bit
of effort to go to there to make sure, but
generally speaking in terms of like things that can be
done to fix a room or fix a floor, this
is as easy as it gets. Because you pour this
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stuff out, it finds its own level, and that level
floor will eventually join up as you continue to pour
it in, it'll join up with the other level floor,
and then it'll harden and you'll have a completely level
floor from wall to wall.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's amazing. That's amazing. I thought it was gonna be
a little much more complicated process. I do have an
entry door that opens into the foyer, which is also
that whole thing used to be a front cord, right,
so I guess I have to deal with that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well. Yeah, so the thing there is that number one.
You know, I don't know how tall your threshold is
for the entry door, or how much slope there is.
It'll be it would be a good idea to try
and determine exactly how far down the slope goes. But
the worst case scenario is that that door may need
to be raised up, you know, an inch or so
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or however much so that it flushes out with the
new level of the level floor. But apart from that,
you don't have to mess with windows, you don't have
to mess with anything else, and you don't even have
to pull the drywall off the walls. You could you
could trap the drywall against the wall with this leveling compound.
We do that kind of stuff when we're trying to
fix up rooms all the time. It's all gypsy and
(06:50):
it's it's one gypsum product against another. So it doesn't
really hurt for that to be the case. So yeah,
it is simpler, and like I said, it's not completely
bombed proof, but it's way way simpler than most people imagine.
Given no other weirdness about the floor, that's how it
should work out. And you guys, you know you'll be
(07:10):
on the road to finally a level living room floor.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That is something we're really looking forward. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You are so welcome. Oh I think I lost him again.
All right, So that was Glinda and I assume her
husband or Glenda's voice changed radically during the call. Either way,
I'm clad we helped him out. Uh yeah, uh, you know,
I guess so so far on the program today, I'm
(07:40):
getting a lot of credit for inventing uh you know,
amazing products to help your home. I have invented none
of them, but I do know how to point you
in the right direction. So let's keep it coming. We'll
do more of your calls when we return your home
with Dean Sharp the house whisper just about seven to
(08:01):
twenty here on a lovely Saturday morning in southern California.
It's going to be a warm one today, August thirtieth,
and we are as we always do on Saturday mornings,
taking your calls. You get to tell me what the
show is about today. The number to reach me eight
three three to ask Dean eight three three. The numeral
(08:23):
to ask Dean eight three three to ask Dean. We're
gonna get back to the phones in just a second. Here,
I should say. Everybody else is plugging their best of
show for this week for Monday, because you know they're
taking the day off like you are. I am here
live and we'll be here tomorrow live, even though it's
(08:44):
Labor Day weekend. It's good. No, I'm happy, happy, No, No,
really no, I am. I'm happy to do it. In fact,
tomorrow's show Window and Door show. If you've got questions
about windows or we'll get them answered for you and
exterior doors, specifically exterior doors. We're talking about all the
(09:06):
outside permutations of the house, all of the fenestration of
the house. That's actually what that means, all the glass
around your home, and in studio with me my very
special guest, Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. American Vision
is celebrating twenty five years and they've got a regrand
(09:30):
opening of their Seami Valley headquarters low showroom location that's
happening next Saturday week from today and from eleven. Let
me get this right, from eleven to three, from eleven
to three, and guess who's gonna be there, Tim Conway,
Gary Hoffman and yours truly and we'll be hanging out.
(09:52):
I'll do some some home improvement Q and A with you,
and if you want to come down and learn about
windows and doors there, we'll do it right there in
the American Vision showroom. Plus there's fun and games and
prizes and all sorts of cool stuff going on. That
is next Saturday, from eleven to three over into the
Seami Valley showroom for American Vision Windows. But tomorrow Chris
(10:15):
Perez from American Vision in studio with me as he
and I talk shop and we're going to tell you
all about everything you need to know about windows and
doors for the outside of your house. That's tomorrow on
the Big Show, or if you're a podcast eighthful listener,
the next episode. So there you go. All right, let's
get back to the phone, shall we. I want to
(10:35):
talk to Diego, Hey Diego, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Hello Dan, thank you for sticking my call. I called
about a year ago and you told me to make
a French train around the house. I live in a
ranch style house. It's still a slope and the basis
downstairs has been just collecting moisture throughout this time. So
I wanted to know how to finish up the cement.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So as any water gets by the prench train system,
how to stop that moisture from coming in and reducing
a fluorescence mold and mildew downstairs, and of.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
The Christmas stuff is all half of that stuff is
gone already because it's it's I got mildery, it's mold over.
So we poss that out, so it's a catch all
the downstairs, that's what it's for. But I wanted to
protect the cement for me because I do find some
whitish stuff still near the doorway. You know, there is
a door going out towards the back of the house
(11:30):
and it has two windows and a half a bathroom
down there. I don't know what would be the best
way to stop that moisture coming up to the cement.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, so remind me again what your situation is, Diego.
So is it a hillside house, Well, it's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
It's when you're looking in the front. It's a round
style house and it's flat. But since it's on a slope,
the one half of the houses on the slope, so
that they whoever decided to build and finish it off
into a basement room. Okay, so it was just like
a regular room, but it's the basements right right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So it's got concrete walls at least to its back,
and you've you've attempted to put in the French drains
all around the property, but you can't get down to
the base of those basement walls, I assume, uh correct.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And there's always a gap, you know that there's like
a three foot gap between the because in the machinery
how they end up doing it and then hit granted,
and they took much longer than anticipated, and the cops
went up anyway, so that there's there's that space. The
French tra is not a cure.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
All Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
The guy told me it's just going to help you
a lot, great significant and we went nine feet down,
he said, but we kept hitting rocks, saw the rock
sometimes and we just went around it. When it's all
we can do unless I'm gonna keep drilling it and
that's gonna cost you every every hour, it's gonna cost
you more. And so the rooms downstairs. Half of the
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wall is the foundation and the rest is just the
frame of the house.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I got you, all right, and so yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got you. So you know, you did what you could.
You did what you could, You did what you could
afford to do without tearing it all out. And you know,
traditionally we would do the French strain and we would
also do waterproofing membrane on the outside of the submerged
concrete there, the subterranean concrete there, so that moisture can't
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get through the wall at all. And that sounds like
the French strain is helping out quite a bit, but
you know, not doing one hundred percent. Here's the thing
that there's not a there's not a ton that you
can do on top of all of that, except there
are some you know, if the French drain has taken
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care of most of it and you're still getting a
little bit of efflorescence, that's the white mineralization. That is
evidence that moisture is seeping through the wall and then
evaporating because it's and then it's leaving behind salts and minerals.
It may not be mildew, but that's the thing. The
best thing I can tell you to do, Diego is
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on your side, on the room side of the wall
that you can actually get to because obviously there's trouble
getting to the backside of it where the soil is encroaching.
On the room side of the wall, you can either
you know, if the concrete is exposed, you may not
want to do this, but if it's drywall the way
(14:35):
down across the concrete, then you could tear that back
and do a heavy mastic across the concrete on the
inside and then cover over with drywall so that you
at least get a waterproof membrane on that side. Now,
it could eventually fail in areas if there's a lot
of pressure, but it sounds like there's just kind of
(14:57):
trickle left over after the French train was installed, so
that might actually be really effective. But if the concrete
is exposed and it's part of the room dynamic there,
then the other thing you could do is simply clean
up that concrete the best you can and start treating
it with a penetrating sealer from the room side. And
(15:19):
I would do multiple coats, let them dry and then
hit it again, let it absorb, dry, hit it again.
Penetrating sealer in concrete will help. It'll help keep stuff
from coming through. It's not the answer. The best answer
is completely waterproofing the concrete from the soil side of
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things so that moisture doesn't get into it. But this
may actually slow down or stop the remaining moisture from
coming into the room after the French drain has done
its job.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Alrect certain you recommend, Well, the grandkids want to hang
out and they like downstairs and stuff with their game stuff,
is I can actually be savable? Can someone stay down there.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, I mean, I haven't seen the space, but in theory, yeah,
you know, in theory, yeah, And if it were me,
and again I don't know how the room is structured,
but if it were me, I would put you know,
I would lose I'd be willing to lose an inch
and a half or so of overall dimension in the
room by running what we call sleeper two by fours
(16:29):
sleeper studs flat down the side of that concrete all
the way to the floor, so you can get dry
wall floor to ceiling in there. And that would also
allow you to really mastic up that concrete wall because
nobody will see it. You can just like goop it
all up, give it a thorough thick coating of mastic
just to hold water at bay there, and then sleeper
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stud that wall. You would drill those studs in and
anchor them to the concrete down there, and of course
up above they would attach to the wood wall, and
then dry wall the whole thing with moisture resistant green
board drywall the kind of stuff that you put in
a steamy bathroom. And then I think you'd have your
best chance of making that an entirely habitable space. So
(17:14):
thanks for listening, diego, thanks for taking the advice, following
it through the best you could, and good luck on
finishing out that room. Sounds like something that's doable. It
sounds like the French drain is doing most of what
we hoped it would do, and a little bit more
ceiling or mastic could finish you off there along the way.
All right, my friend and my friends, we will be
(17:36):
back to more of your calls right after this. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Oh yes, yes,
it can be done. We do it all the time,
and I thank you for joining me on the program here.
Stick with us here every week we'll help you do
it step by step. Along the way. Today it's all calls.
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You get to tell me what the show is all about.
And we've got a board full of calls here, and
I want to talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home, Hie,
good morning, good morning to you. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I have a house nineteen twenty nine, very much an
old grand name. I have one to three bathtubs that
the coding has cracked and it's feeling. I get a
(18:49):
little bit of homework, and I know there's companies that
can come up, and I think they use a chemical treatment.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Where it dissolved.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
I'm assuming it's porcelain, and it sounds very toxic. Any
other suggestions.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, So these are original tubs in your nineteen twenty
nine home. Yes, yeah, so they are. They are cast
iron tubs with porcelain coatings on them, and you know, hey,
after nearly one hundred years, you know they're showing, they're
showing their age. So they're there. Yeah, there are companies
(19:31):
that can come out and and do that in place.
So here, let me give you the pros and cons
of all of your options. Okay, okay. One, Yes, you
can have a company come out and and there are
companies that will work on patching the the blemishes that
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are there. And yes, they use some pretty pretty nasty
stuff because those are tough tubs. I mean they are
they are lifetime kind of tubs, and uh, but it
can be done. And so I would have conversations with
those companies and tell them your concerns about toxicity and
so on and and but believe me, they do it
(20:11):
in a very uh clean and effective way, as clean
as and effective as possible. The advantage of that is
that the tub gets to sit right where it's sitting
and uh and and as a result, you don't have
to deal with anything else in the bathroom. Now. Uh,
the disadvantage is those are those are resurfacing of the tub.
(20:34):
And generally speaking, now I'm not saying it's going to
fail anytime soon, but it's not a complete re enameling
of the tub. Okay, so just you know, so you
so you understand it is a it's a recoding, but
it's not a complete re enameling of the tub because, uh,
for for that to happen, the most effective and chemical
(20:55):
free way to do it is to have that tub
sand blasted. Okay, now that doesn't happen in your home,
thank goodness. But we restore, We restore tubs all the time. Now.
The reason I bring that up is because sometimes people
are like, well, you know what, I'm remodeling this bathroom anyway,
and I want to keep the whole look, I'm going
(21:17):
to restore it to a you know, in nineteen twenty
nine vibe. But I want to bring it up to date.
And I'm already, you know, taking out some of the
old tile and this and that and the other thing.
And if that's the case, then it's a perfect opportunity
to detach the bathtub, get it out of there for
a few days, and get it on down to one
of these tub enamel restoration shops where they will sand
(21:39):
blast it in a booth right down to the cast
iron and put a brand new one, brand new, like
new recoding of a porcelain enamel over that tub and
bring it back to you. And that's a brand spanking
new tub that was also, happen depends to be nearly
(22:01):
one hundred years old. And that is the way that
we refinished tubs when we're doing a full restoration and
there's work being done around it as well. Another option,
if again there's work being done in the bathroom, is
too and again you have to price this out and
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fit it into what works best for you, Cathy. But
another option if there's work being done in the bathroom
is to replace the tub, and you replace the tub,
not with I wouldn't replace it with a brand new
cast iron tub to keep it authentic, I'd replace it
with a hundred year old tub, but one that happens
to be in perfectly good shape. And you can find
(22:43):
that kind of stuff with my friends, my dear friends
down at Pasadena Architectural Salvage here in LA. They literally
this is what they do. When they hear a century
home like yours is being torn down or major remodel
taking place or renovated. They get their they get their
(23:05):
contacts there and they remove perfectly good fixtures from those
old homes and sell them. And so anytime that I
need a something like a tub, like I need a
hundred year old tub, I give them a call. I'm like, hey, Christy,
I need one hundred year old tubs Like well, I
got nine of them sitting on the floor right now.
Come on down, check them out. Check out the color
(23:25):
and the size and the configuration you want. Maybe one
of them will fit. So those are three completely viable options.
You can do the in home patch work. You can
have the tub removed, sam blasted, restored, and brought in
brand new again, same tub, or you can swap it
out for one that's also one hundred years old and
in good shape. At a place like Architecae the Pasadena
(23:49):
Architectural Salvage. But yeah, that's how we deal with century.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Tubs, all right, my god?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Oh yeah, on remodeling any of the bathrooms soon. So yeah,
this is definitely foods to thoughts.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, yeah, get just so. I would start then with
having a serious conversation with the in home resurfacing people,
because there's you know, there's a good chance that they'll
get it done to your satisfaction. But it has to
do with you know, I know your concerns about toxicity
and the chemicals and all this. You just have a
conversation with them and see what's possible. At least this
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is what I do on just about every project. By
the way, Kathy, I even though it sounds like, oh,
Dean just has an answer boom. You know, one of
the reasons I have answers for these calls, so many
of them, is because I go through this process constantly,
and I'm always running into new situation where I don't know.
The answer is, I don't know what are we gonna
do about this theme? I don't know? And then what
(24:51):
sets me apart from a lot of folks working on
your home or designers who are planning your home. I'm
going to go out and do all the research. I
will research it all, and then I'll come back to
the client and say, Okay, this thing that none of
us knew anything about, I now know. We have four
different options. We have three different options. I've spoken with
each of these people. This is the one that I
(25:12):
think is the best. And here is why. So do
your homework, have conversations with the people who will do
this for you, and I am confident that you will
be able to discern which one is the direction you
want to add off into. And that is true for
everybody who's listening. This is how you do it. You
take your time and you do your homework, and then
(25:35):
you understand what reveals itself in the end is very
very likely the right move. Okay, more of your calls.
When we return your home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, here with you live and
here to remind you when it comes to transforming your home,
design matters most Oh yes it does. And by the way,
(25:58):
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All right, back to the phones. I've got time for
(26:39):
one more. I think here, let's talk to Eduardo whoa
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, Dean, Well, good timing. I'm about to go in
and have some wobbles here in St. Petersburg.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh, in Sant Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Are you going?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
I moved here from Chicago two years ago? But uh,
my question is uh insulation in the attic? Yeah, and
obviously if I did do that, be the uh spray foam.
I think that's so much better. But I want to
get your take. I mean, is that really I'm sure
(27:23):
you talked about this before. Really something necessary that I
need to do like right away? Or should I definitely
kind of look forward at doing that. I mean, what's
your take on that?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right? So you you you gotta you got a
house now, and uh, and there's no insulation in the attic.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Right, it's like six hundred feet I'm gonna say, at
the frame house.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, uh yeah, absolutely absolutely gotta insulate it. Gotta insulate it,
and no spray foam. I love spray foam insulation, Okay,
I love it. It's fantastic, there's no question about it.
It's clean. Uh, it's super efficient, it does air ceiling,
and it's great. It also is the most expensive form
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of insulation, and so it doesn't fit with everybody's budget,
you know. And in lieu of that, you could also
do blown in and I know that shocks people when
I say they're like really blown in. I would think
after spray phone, you'd want like those rollout bats because
they're so clean and well organed.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No, No, that's not the way to insulate an attic
with the bat insulation because it leaves too many gaps.
There's too many holes in the boat as it were.
So yeah, even in a beautifully warm place like Florida,
every house, every every home needs insulation. This is something
we've just come to understand. You know, we can have
(28:51):
killer air conditioning systems, we can have killer heating systems
whether we live in hot or cold climates. But the
other half of that equation, Okay, once you've got your
AC and your heat worked out, the other half of
that equation is actually insulating the envelope of the structure
that you live in so that whatever you're doing heating
(29:15):
or cooling holds, so that it holds, especially the attic,
because when it comes to cooling, because hot air rises,
and we just don't want to lose it. We want
to keep keep keep the energy of the interior of
the house. We've worked so hard, we've spent all this
(29:37):
money we're paying the energy bill to get that to
a certain temperature, and now we want to hold it.
It's basically like a cooler. Like the idea of a
cooler that it keeps warm things warm, it keeps cold
things cold. And the better the insulation, the more effective
your air conditioning is going to be, the more effective
your heating is going to be. And so yeah, insulation
(29:59):
is the other critical side of the temperature control coin.
A lot of people think, well, I live in a
warmer climate, I don't need insulation, not true, Not true.
It's for heating, for air conditioning, it's for everything. Insulation
is all about separating the interior of your space from
the weather and temperature conditions on the exterior of that space.
(30:21):
That includes humidity in very humid climates like Florida as well,
because your air conditioner is a dehumidifier. And again, insulation
is the key to hold that stuff in place, especially
the attic. So if you can afford spray foam up
in your rafters in your attic, that's great, awesome, that's
(30:43):
my number one a choice. But if that's outside of
the budget, then have a nice amount of you know,
blown in insulation blown across that attic floor. It will
do a stellar job as well. Yeah, it's messier and
dot but if you're not planning on spending much time
in the attic, don't worry about it and blow it in.
You can blow it in for cheap. You can even
(31:04):
diy that stuff yourself at you know, you can rent
the equipment at like a home depot or a Low's
to do that yourself if you really needed to. So
it is the more economical option, but it gets the
job done as well. Thanks Eduardo, thanks for listening from
Chicago and Florida. All right, y'all, we are at the
end of another two hours together. Here Tomorrow the big show,
(31:26):
we're talking doors and windows with my very special guest,
Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. That's tomorrow from nine
to noon. Don't miss it. And as for today, get
out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
We'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
(31:48):
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