September 6, 2025 • 32 mins
A caller wants to know about nail pops, and whether letting the house frame sit for a month or so prior to drywalling will help reduce the chance the lumber will shift, and the studs will warp.
Plus, Dean answers a homeowner's question regarding the maintenance of their tankless water heater and scale reduction.
Also, a caller is having issues with deteriorating stucco on their newish home and is wondering what could be causing the crumble.
Plus, Dean answers a homeowner's question regarding the maintenance of their tankless water heater and scale reduction.
Also, a caller is having issues with deteriorating stucco on their newish home and is wondering what could be causing the crumble.
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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.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home builder, custom
home designer, and every week your guide to better understanding
that place where you live. We are taking calls as
we do with our live Saturday morning show, and I've
had Shannon on the line. I'm going to get Shannon
back on the line here. Shannon had a not so
(00:34):
tiny question. But I absolutely, I absolutely appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Know what I do.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Though, I appreciate your your interest in this. It's just
that it's it's such a it's a it's a big
question about how to deal with a house that has
its own trauma. You got people with their own traumas
living in the I mean, this is life, this is life,
and so I'm trying my best. And again I want
(01:01):
to let everybody know that it's my goal for next
Sunday show, not tomorrow, but the next week's show to
actually do that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Tina's been wanting to do this as well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
She's like, how about I interview you and we'll kind
of piece this house Whisper thing together some So so
we're going to do that a little bit in the
hopes that question.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
To propose, Can I add a part two for her
to ask you when you do this interview next week
that we all really want to hear.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Part two of the question that you don't have to
answer now is so the houses have trauma, that people
have trauma. But the real thing is we're all moving
and we're growing. We're going to bigger spaces from or
going in the bigger spaces from small spaces. But a
lot of us, especially in southern California, are going into
smaller spaces from bigger spaces, and the people are changing.
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So we have families that look really different today. I
have three teenagers and it's, you know, just me taking
care of them. I'm disabled, you know, and I have
you from a two story house to tracked home to
a one story house. But it happens to be in
the neighborhood where I grew up, So I have really
good memories of the house down the street where I
grew up till I moved away to school. So I'm
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back in this place that feels timeless and rad and safe,
and it's like so good to be back here. But
how do I live in this space. Okay, wow, I
turned this into a question. I lied, I turned this
into question. Half of this is for me, and I
do hope that you'll answer some of it today. How
do you live in this space and learn and help
and support each other without with all your stuff there?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
How do you make room for the living.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Without taking it all out and putting it in a
storage unit?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
All right, yeah, I get it, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So it's this whole thing is a dance, by the way, Shannon,
I mean it really is. It's a dance. How do
you enter the past? How do you move forward? And
so the thing I mentioned before the break was, you know,
so a house has experienced some kind of trauma.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And I don't mean.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
This, everybody, please, I don't mean the house has emotions, Okay,
I mean that somebody has messed something up, somebody painted
a room weird, somebody you know, you know, add did
an addition to it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That was just, oh my gosh, that was such a
wrong idea.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
All this kind of stuff, and yet here is the
house that we find ourselves living in. And what I
was alluding to before the break was one of our
biggest strengths as human beings. We're very resilient. We can
be very resilient people. We make do, right, We make
do with the situations we've been handed. We make do
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despite the pain and difficulty at times and things to overcome.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We make do.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so unless you have designed a house from the
ground up that you know, very very consciously designed a
house to be your absolute perfect dream house of your life,
then you know, even if you move into a place
that you really love, not everything about that place is
absolutely what you love, but most of it is, and
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you're like, hm, I really like this house in this neighborhood,
and as for its imperfections, we'll just make do. And
that's what we start to do. And that's not a
bad thing. It's a good thing. It's good on us
for doing that. But there is a downside to making
do with with the imperfections and the and the problems
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around us, and that is pushing it so far away
and so deep into our subconscious that we stop seeing
it all together, and as a result, we're not actually
dealing with it. We're just navigating around it, okay. And
this is one of the reasons why, like when I
show up at a house for a console people, you know,
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jaws drop, eyes open, they're amazed that, you know, because
I see their house. Well, I have an advantage over that.
Now I'm not just because I'm I hope, a decent designer,
but I have an advantage that I have not lived
the last twenty years in this house. I have been
here for twenty minutes, and so I, in your home,
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have not made do and I see it, see it
for what it is. And this is why, you know, again,
this is kind of the corollary to somebody who's wrestling
with some personal issues and we say, you know what, Hey,
why don't you go get some therapy, get some therapy
for it, because you know what worst case scenario, what
therapy is at at very least is an opportunity for
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somebody who isn't you, to get to take a look
at you and see you they're not making do they
haven't built all these patterns of dodging around the issue,
and so they get to vocalize that to you. They
get to say it out loud, they get to be
a mirror to you. So I would say probably one
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of the hardest things for homeowners to do with their
home is to see it, see it for what it is.
And I kind of have a funky reputation for doing this.
You know, I get called in on a design project
and I have you know, we keep like folding camp
chairs in the back of the car, and so I'll
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start out by sitting on the sidewalk in a chair,
just staring at the front of the house, trying to
resolve issues with it. And I will stare and people
will get called. They're like, hey, Marjorie, you realize there's
a guy sitting on the sidewalk staring at your house,
right And we weren't sure whether we should call somebody, like, oh, no,
that's our designer. He's just doesn't seem like he's doing anything.
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He's just staring at the house. I keep looking at
a thing until I am convinced I actually see it
for what it actually is. And that's a hard thing
for homeowners to do because you've been making do all
this time, because you've sort of mastered the house as
it is. It's been pushed into your subconscious you're unconscious.
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You just kind of flow through the house and you
don't see the things that, to me, are you know,
starkingly strikingly obvious. When I walk in the front door,
and yes, I've been trained to see them well, but
the point is seeing it. So this is a dance.
It is a dance between making do and you have
to make do. And you shouldn't shut everything down and
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say we can't live in this house until it becomes
our perfect fit. Yeah, that's not life, okay, And that's
not the way people deal with trauma either. Right, You've
got these things. They're not going to get healed in
a day. They take time and effort and work. And
you may not even be ready to face some of
those things. Your budget may not be ready to face
some issues with the house this week, this year, okay,
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But to be aware of them and to make note
of them and to keep them in the forefront of
your mind when it comes to the house. And then
the other issue is just knowing the people who live
in the house, correcting the traumas, getting the house back
to its fundamentals so it has the best possibility of
moving forward, and then starting to customize its chance to
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move forward, melding it with the lives and the personalities
that are there. And that's sort of kind of what
it all amounts to. But part of it A big
part of it is for me at least, you know,
I did this yesterday. We were at a beautiful home,
beautiful couple, love them so great, in Huntington Beach, looking
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at their house, and the one thing that I would
say was hard about the house was it's got a
big plane of a roof overhanging the street, and the
house seemed diminutive underneath it. And you know, a lot
of people just look at that. A lot of architects
and designers will look at it and just say, oh,
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nothing you can do about that, and they just move on.
I am probably different in that regard. Tina will tell you,
I'm like a dog with a bone when it comes
to that, will stand out there and stare and stare.
And I Am willing to sit with the discomfort of
what I'm looking at until I figure out if there
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is anything that can be done to resolve it. And
I came up with like two or three relatively simple solutions,
and they were amazed. They're like, oh my gosh, this
is going to transform the outside of the house without
changing the roof. Like all right, you're welcome. But part
of it is just the willingness to sit with the
uncomfortable thing and h and hang with it until, uh,
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until it speaks to you and you know, And so
I think that's what the that's probably where this nickname,
this nickname was given to me, as it is with
all whisper types. I think that I think that's kind
of the core of what we do, is that we
we sit with a thing. We don't bring an agenda
to it. We sit there until we figure out who
is this house, what is it actually where, what needs
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to be tweaked in order to get it back to
its best self. And then then after the fundamentals are
back in place, we move it forward with the lives
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
People who live in it. Shannon, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's probably just a fragment of an answer for the
question that you asked. But but I don't have any
more time to do that today. And I thank you
so much for your call. Does that help you a
little bit?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Wait to tune in next week?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
This show needs to be done.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'm yeah, I'll be recording you all right.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right, all right, just comforting thought. No, No, it's fine,
I'm used to it. You know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
One of the things about being on the radio, you've
got to accept the fact that every mistake you make,
every mistake that I've made for the last nine and
a half years, people can go listen to it freely.
So it's a very humbling experience. Anyway, Shannon, thank you
so much for that. And when we come back from
this quick little break, we'll die into whatever else we've
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got calls on the board, and we're going to talk
about your home today and you will tell me what
it's all about your home. Dean Sharp, the house whisper,
Dean Sharp, the house whisper, here to help you take
your home to the next level. Thanks for joining us
on the program this morning. It is an all call
Saturday morning, like we do. I'm gonna go back to
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the phones. Let's talk to Henderson. Welcome home.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Hello, Yes, this is about nail pops. Is it true
that if you frame, If you frame, you put up
the framing and then it sits for a month or
so prior to drywalling, that will reduce or eliminate nail pops?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Okay, So, first of all, nail pops, meaning after you've drywalled,
the the studs, the framing work around the the drywall
is attached to continues to warp or shrink or shift
or move, and and as a result it causes what
we call a nail pop or these days a drywall
screw pop, where you know we have to go back
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and redoce some drywall stuff because of the shifting of
the lumber underneath the drywall.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Is it true?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, okay, technically sure, sure it's true. Yeah, technically U
is it practically true to let framing sit? And by
the way, we're talking about framing a whole house or
just a major remodel, or just a few studs in
a wall, whole house. Okay, So I'm gonna say that's
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a big no.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
On that. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'll tell you why, Henderson, all right, So, uh, green lumber, Okay,
typical lumber that is used to for framing all across
the US, but specifically in southern California by far ninety
nine percent of the lumber that gets used for framing
here because of its cost of effectiveness, is green lumber.
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Green lumber simply means that it's cut, it's milled, and
it has all the moisture content it had when it
was alive. Plus it's been sitting out in yards getting
wet and it's green. It's wet lumber. There's a high
moisture content, sometimes upwards of one hundred percent moisture content
inside a stud. If you've ever gone to a lumber
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yard or a place like home depot and you've just
needed to get a couple of studs, and you go
into those racks and you pick up one and it's like, oh,
weighs a pound. You pick up another stud, weighs a pound,
and you pick up another stud weighs five pounds, same stud.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's water. It's water inside. It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But the fact of the matter is as that water
eventually leaves, the stud will shrink a little bit, it
may warp a little bit. There's all sorts of activity
that happens as water leaves something like wood. Here's the problem.
Air drying lumber. Okay, the general rule is this. If
you ask furniture manufacturers, they'll tell you this. To air
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dry lumber, in other words, not in a kiln, not
in an oven intentionally, but to let it air dry.
The general rule is one inch per year of thickness
in order to get the moisture content out one inch
per year. So studs are an inch and a half thick.
And so to the ideas, if we set that frame
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out in the warm southern California sun for the better
part of a year, we could dry it out pretty
good in a year's time, assuming of course that we
cover it up when the rains come. But as far
as just air drying it, yeah, it would take that long,
not a month. A month is not going to make
that big of a difference at all, if any noticeable difference. Now,
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there are a few folks who are willing to do
the research and figure out with their engineers when they're
building new that hey, we're going to pay the twenty
five to thirty percent more for framing materials, and we're
going to frame this house out of kiln dried lumber,
meaning that it's already gone through an oven process to
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reduce its moisture content all the way down to its
bare minimum. Kiln dried lumber is more stable, it won't shrink,
it doesn't warp the same way, it doesn't shift. It's
a beautiful thing to do, but it's also considerably more expensive.
And so that's the issue. And in this by the way,
if anybody who's ever lived in a new house that
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has had work done to it. And then months later,
as you're sitting there, all of a sudden, you hear
this cracking and popping all the way through the house
that's just built up changes in the wood structure that
eventually kind of lets go, and you hear a ripple
of adjustment, kind of a shudder through the house. It's
not an earthquake, and it's not rats in the attic.
It's that, and so yeah, it's it's a thing. But
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setting a house out for a month, Henderson, it's not enough.
It's just not enough, even in a warm southern California summer.
It's just not enough. I've never seen any evidence that
and the science of it, Like I said, a year
per inch of wood, there's just there's no evidence to
say that that's going to reduce the nail pops along
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the way. So I hope that answers your question, my friend. Sorry,
I wish I could have given you better news, but
that's the case, all right. When we come back, more
of your calls your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer.
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find exactly what you're looking for. All right, it's an
all call. Saturday morning. It's time to go back to
the phones. I want to talk to Tom A Tom
Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Team.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Good morning, how are you?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I am well, sir.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
So I have a maintenance question. You've talked about regular
water heater maintenance, but if you have a tankless water heater,
my question is how often do you need to de
scale it? If you have a whole house water filtration
system similar to a Life Source. I've had conflicting answers
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out a neighbor that has a system and he says
you don't need to do it at all, and I've
heard you should do it like every other year.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
So I wanted your feedback.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, okay, so your neighbor is wrong, but okay, so
let me qualify this all right, and I need to
qualify this a water filteration system like Life Source awesome
the best. Typically Life Source sells their water filtration system
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in combination with their with what is technically an add on,
and that is their scale resolver or a descaling or
scale reduction canister, which is part of the whole house system.
And I'm assuming that you're asking me about that, or
I'm assuming that your system has something like that, because
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I'm just being clear here, a water filter okay, that's
doing its job the right way is not filtering out minerals.
In fact, we want good mineral content to pass through
into our drinking water. A water filter is filtering out
nasty stuff. But those minerals, the hard water minerals that
make up the flavor of water, are also the water
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the minerals that cause scale. And so just because you
have a water filtration system doesn't mean that you have
a scale reduction in your water. But a life source system,
for instance, has that scale resolver module to it, or
can't second canister to it, and so it does reduce scale.
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So I'm going to answer the question as if you
actually have a scale reduction canister in addition to your
water filtration. So if you are in a situation where
your whole house filter is also reducing scale intentionally for
your home, then no, you don't have to do it
every year. You don't have to flush your water heater
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every year. And no, you don't have you don't. You're
not off the hook for life because it's scale reduction,
it's not utter scale elimination.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And so I would say, and just shooting from the
hip here, that that would that would enable you to
go from the once a year. You should do this
to your water heater model to probably the once every
depending on how hard your water is. By the way,
i'd say, you know, every other year would be great,
but I would probably push it myself and do push
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it myself because I have exactly that situation. I have
the life source with the scale reduction and a tankless
water heater, and for me, I do it every three year.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So how's that okay?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Well, thank you, You're very very welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's just important to realize that that that the the
you know, a scale reduction system. Again, we're letting that
we're letting those minerals through. We're changing their molecular structure,
but we're letting them through. And there is a tiny
bit of scale that trickles through, but it is way, way, way, way,
way ridiculously less than what it is without the scale
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reduction system. But you can't just pretend like there'll never
be any scale in your system ever. Again, it's just
massively reduced. All right, let's get star ARDD with another call.
I don't know if I can get through the answer
before the end of the break, but let's talk to Brian. Hey, Brian,
welcome home. Brian, Are you with.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Me, Katine?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Sorry, I had you on mute. I have a home
that's just over a couple of years old, and I've
noticed in a couple of places the stucco seems to
be deteriorating. I'm getting little granular pieces of stucco underneath
a couple spots. I clean the backyard every weekend, and
every week it's back, i'd say, to the tune of
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a few hundred pieces of granular stuck. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Is something causing that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Or is that a house defect that I should take
up with the homebuilder?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, so is it? Is it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You're saying you're getting granulars of stucco down like on
a sidewalk below. Do you know that that this stucco,
it has a weep screen. It stops before it hits
the slab. It stops before it hits the sidewalks or
the pathways, or the or the beds around the house.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's up raised up above it, so it's underneath.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
It's on the patio, the backyard patio concrete. And if
I look underneath where recesses at the foundation, I can
see where it's actually coming off. There's a little intention
of stucco, but no hole into the house. I'd assume
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maybe a bug was causing it or something like that.
But if I stick my finger in there, it's it's still.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Solid all the way through.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But eventually I have a feeling it's gonna get to
the wood.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Okay, So is there any moisture like undo sprinkler hitting
this wall?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There was. I corrected that probably about a month ago,
but the problem still persisting.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Okay, all right, all right, So this is very all right.
So I got an answer for you. Based on that,
I got an answer for you. I got to do
it right on the other side of the brake. So
you hang tight and we'll do it right when we
come back. You are home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
I don't think I would complain about certain bits of
mail being destroyed at the post office. All the junk
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mail that comes to my house, you can just just
take care of that at the post office, so I
don't have to throw it away. Dean Sharp the house
Whisper here to remind you that when it comes to
transforming your home design matters most it's an all call
Saturday morning, like we do. I got Brian on the line.
Brian was telling me he's got stucco on a two
year old house that is crumbling, crumbling at the very bottom.
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He wants to know what he can do to fix
it or what the situation is. The last question that
I asked you, Brian, was this particular area of stucco
that looks like it's deteriorating, subjected to like overspray from
sprinklers or irrigation. And you said, yeah, but you have
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resolved that about a month ago.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Is that right, Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I turned the sprinkler down so they weren't.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Hitting the wall.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Okay, So here's the situation, my friend. I'm going to
make a prediction. I could be wrong about this, because
there could be some other cause, but I doubt it.
Here's my prediction. You're going to see that starting to
end now, this deterioration or what you call the deterioration
of the stucco, and you may have to do a
little bit of patchwork there when it's all said and done,
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but I would just let it sit. So, first of all,
not to worry. The stucco on your house is not deteriorating.
But stucco is a cementious product. It's cement. Okay, it's concrete,
which means it's porous. It has air holes in its
space inside it. Okay, it's not foamy porous, but it's
still porous nonetheless, as evidenced by the fact that when
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you hose down your sidewalk or your driveway or something
like that, that the water soaks in. A lot of
the water soaks in and stays in there for a
while before it dries out. Stucco is no different. Now, yes,
there's a coat of paint on the outside of the house, Okay,
that is, if the outside of your house is painted
with paint as opposed to colorized stucco. Okay, new homes.
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A lot of new homes just have a color coat
of stucco on them, not paint on the stucco itself,
And that would make this even a little bit more
exaggerated of a diagnosis or symptom. But the point is this,
no stucco wall should be subjected to the constant spray
of moisture because stucco absorbs water, and when stucco absorbs
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water in a large sense on a regular basis, then
that water builds up inside and even though there may
be what we call a weep screed at the bottom,
which is supposed to allow the stuck the water in
the stucco to uh to drip out and to evaporate out.
When there's too much water hitting it, like every night
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with the irrigation system, that kind of thing, then the
water builds up. It doesn't weep out fast enough, and
it means it's gonna come out one way or the other.
It's what we call hydrostatic pressure. It's the pressure of
water moving in rocks, and that water will push its
way out through the finished coat of the stucco. Okay,
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and stucco, by the way, it's made out of three layers.
First was what we call a scratch coat, which was
just put on the house with a very very rough,
very unattractive texture. Then what's now called well, what's called
the brown coat. It's not brown anymore, but that is
the majority of the thickness of the stucco on your house.
That's nearly seven eighths of an inch of stucco on
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your house finished. And then the part that we all
see is only about an eighth of an inch thick.
That's the finish coat. And that finished coat is what
gets pushed out from water inside the stucco, and so
granules of that sand finish can fall. People think their
finished coat is peeling off. All that kind of stuff
that happens when there's a build up of water. Now,
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you shut off the water a month ago, but if
it's been a while that's been happening, then it's going
to take a while for it to dry out completely.
And my prediction is it will probably stop happening soon.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Okay, sounds great. So once I stop seeing the deterioration.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I can go ahead and put in stucco patch coat
over where it's recessed.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's exactly what I would do.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'll just give it plenty of time to dry out,
and you know, scrape away anything that's still hanging, the
hanging chad as it were, boy, anything that's hanging or
flaking or loose, let it dry. You can do that
right now, and then just let it dry out, give
it a break from all that irrigation that was hitting it,
and in a little while, I'd say, you know, give
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it two or three weeks and then and you could
put some patch on and you probably won't see it
happen again.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
All right, sounds good. I appreciate your answer, and thanks
for taking with call.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You're very welcome, Brian, and I'm glad to be able
to explain it to you. Yeah, a lot of you
have a quote unquote deteriorating stucco because you have not
adjusted the sprinkler heads. They are hitting the house too heavily,
too much moisture every single day. And you might be thinking, well, wait,
stucco's supposed to survive the winter. Yeah, it does, but
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that's a period of time. It is not an isolated
amount of water hitting one area constantly, day after day
after day, and so this can happen. It can happen
to even the best of stucco situations, and especially if
you have a color code of stucco and not finish
paint on the outside the house. Paint becomes a barrier
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that reduces the amount of moisture that gets in stucco.
A color code of stucco is just as porous as
the rest of the stucco and allows more of that
moisture in also allows it to come out more. But
you know, it's a thing, all right, y'all. That's just
about it for me today. I want to remind you
though that in just a while, well a little bit,
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American Vision Windows celebrating twenty five years their newly remodeled
Seamy Valley Showroom out here in the Seami Valley area.
They are running a special event celebrating that, inviting you
into an open house today from eleven to three. It's
going to be fun, food surprises. You got to come
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out and check out, and you can come by if
for no other reason then to say hi to me.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'm going to be there. Gary Hoffman's going to be there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Tim Conway's going to be there, all three of us
dudes hanging out having fun at American Vision Windows Seemi
Valley Showroom eleven to three.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Today is when it's happening. I'm gonna get there just
a little bit after that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
And especially if new windows are needed in your house
but are not in your budget. And here's why, because
today today is the final day of this offer. But
you get down to a showroom like the Seemi Valley
Showroom and you can enter to win in person. You
got to enter to win in person, enter to win
an entire house full of windows free, a whole house,
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the whole thing. So don't have a budget for windows,
but need them. See me and see me Valley this
afternoon at American Vision Windows.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
We're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I will see you then, and for the rest of you,
it's a beautiful day. The heat has knocked off, sunny,
gorgeous southern California.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Fall is on its way.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Get out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life,
and we'll see you right back here tomorrow morning for
the big show from nine to now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
See you then.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Tune into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, and welcome home.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, custom home builder, custom
home designer, and every week your guide to better understanding
that place where you live. We are taking calls as
we do with our live Saturday morning show, and I've
had Shannon on the line. I'm going to get Shannon
back on the line here. Shannon had a not so
(00:34):
tiny question. But I absolutely, I absolutely appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Know what I do.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Though, I appreciate your your interest in this. It's just
that it's it's such a it's a it's a big
question about how to deal with a house that has
its own trauma. You got people with their own traumas
living in the I mean, this is life, this is life,
and so I'm trying my best. And again I want
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to let everybody know that it's my goal for next
Sunday show, not tomorrow, but the next week's show to
actually do that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Tina's been wanting to do this as well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
She's like, how about I interview you and we'll kind
of piece this house Whisper thing together some So so
we're going to do that a little bit in the
hopes that question.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
To propose, Can I add a part two for her
to ask you when you do this interview next week
that we all really want to hear.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Part two of the question that you don't have to
answer now is so the houses have trauma, that people
have trauma. But the real thing is we're all moving
and we're growing. We're going to bigger spaces from or
going in the bigger spaces from small spaces. But a
lot of us, especially in southern California, are going into
smaller spaces from bigger spaces, and the people are changing.
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So we have families that look really different today. I
have three teenagers and it's, you know, just me taking
care of them. I'm disabled, you know, and I have
you from a two story house to tracked home to
a one story house. But it happens to be in
the neighborhood where I grew up, So I have really
good memories of the house down the street where I
grew up till I moved away to school. So I'm
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back in this place that feels timeless and rad and safe,
and it's like so good to be back here. But
how do I live in this space. Okay, wow, I
turned this into a question. I lied, I turned this
into question. Half of this is for me, and I
do hope that you'll answer some of it today. How
do you live in this space and learn and help
and support each other without with all your stuff there?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
How do you make room for the living.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Without taking it all out and putting it in a
storage unit?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
All right, yeah, I get it, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So it's this whole thing is a dance, by the way, Shannon,
I mean it really is. It's a dance. How do
you enter the past? How do you move forward? And
so the thing I mentioned before the break was, you know,
so a house has experienced some kind of trauma.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And I don't mean.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
This, everybody, please, I don't mean the house has emotions, Okay,
I mean that somebody has messed something up, somebody painted
a room weird, somebody you know, you know, add did
an addition to it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That was just, oh my gosh, that was such a
wrong idea.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
All this kind of stuff, and yet here is the
house that we find ourselves living in. And what I
was alluding to before the break was one of our
biggest strengths as human beings. We're very resilient. We can
be very resilient people. We make do, right, We make
do with the situations we've been handed. We make do
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despite the pain and difficulty at times and things to overcome.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We make do.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so unless you have designed a house from the
ground up that you know, very very consciously designed a
house to be your absolute perfect dream house of your life,
then you know, even if you move into a place
that you really love, not everything about that place is
absolutely what you love, but most of it is, and
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you're like, hm, I really like this house in this neighborhood,
and as for its imperfections, we'll just make do. And
that's what we start to do. And that's not a
bad thing. It's a good thing. It's good on us
for doing that. But there is a downside to making
do with with the imperfections and the and the problems
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around us, and that is pushing it so far away
and so deep into our subconscious that we stop seeing
it all together, and as a result, we're not actually
dealing with it. We're just navigating around it, okay. And
this is one of the reasons why, like when I
show up at a house for a console people, you know,
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jaws drop, eyes open, they're amazed that, you know, because
I see their house. Well, I have an advantage over that.
Now I'm not just because I'm I hope, a decent designer,
but I have an advantage that I have not lived
the last twenty years in this house. I have been
here for twenty minutes, and so I, in your home,
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have not made do and I see it, see it
for what it is. And this is why, you know, again,
this is kind of the corollary to somebody who's wrestling
with some personal issues and we say, you know what, Hey,
why don't you go get some therapy, get some therapy
for it, because you know what worst case scenario, what
therapy is at at very least is an opportunity for
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somebody who isn't you, to get to take a look
at you and see you they're not making do they
haven't built all these patterns of dodging around the issue,
and so they get to vocalize that to you. They
get to say it out loud, they get to be
a mirror to you. So I would say probably one
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of the hardest things for homeowners to do with their
home is to see it, see it for what it is.
And I kind of have a funky reputation for doing this.
You know, I get called in on a design project
and I have you know, we keep like folding camp
chairs in the back of the car, and so I'll
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start out by sitting on the sidewalk in a chair,
just staring at the front of the house, trying to
resolve issues with it. And I will stare and people
will get called. They're like, hey, Marjorie, you realize there's
a guy sitting on the sidewalk staring at your house,
right And we weren't sure whether we should call somebody, like, oh, no,
that's our designer. He's just doesn't seem like he's doing anything.
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He's just staring at the house. I keep looking at
a thing until I am convinced I actually see it
for what it actually is. And that's a hard thing
for homeowners to do because you've been making do all
this time, because you've sort of mastered the house as
it is. It's been pushed into your subconscious you're unconscious.
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You just kind of flow through the house and you
don't see the things that, to me, are you know,
starkingly strikingly obvious. When I walk in the front door,
and yes, I've been trained to see them well, but
the point is seeing it. So this is a dance.
It is a dance between making do and you have
to make do. And you shouldn't shut everything down and
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say we can't live in this house until it becomes
our perfect fit. Yeah, that's not life, okay, And that's
not the way people deal with trauma either. Right, You've
got these things. They're not going to get healed in
a day. They take time and effort and work. And
you may not even be ready to face some of
those things. Your budget may not be ready to face
some issues with the house this week, this year, okay,
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But to be aware of them and to make note
of them and to keep them in the forefront of
your mind when it comes to the house. And then
the other issue is just knowing the people who live
in the house, correcting the traumas, getting the house back
to its fundamentals so it has the best possibility of
moving forward, and then starting to customize its chance to
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move forward, melding it with the lives and the personalities
that are there. And that's sort of kind of what
it all amounts to. But part of it A big
part of it is for me at least, you know,
I did this yesterday. We were at a beautiful home,
beautiful couple, love them so great, in Huntington Beach, looking
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at their house, and the one thing that I would
say was hard about the house was it's got a
big plane of a roof overhanging the street, and the
house seemed diminutive underneath it. And you know, a lot
of people just look at that. A lot of architects
and designers will look at it and just say, oh,
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nothing you can do about that, and they just move on.
I am probably different in that regard. Tina will tell you,
I'm like a dog with a bone when it comes
to that, will stand out there and stare and stare.
And I Am willing to sit with the discomfort of
what I'm looking at until I figure out if there
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is anything that can be done to resolve it. And
I came up with like two or three relatively simple solutions,
and they were amazed. They're like, oh my gosh, this
is going to transform the outside of the house without
changing the roof. Like all right, you're welcome. But part
of it is just the willingness to sit with the
uncomfortable thing and h and hang with it until, uh,
(09:36):
until it speaks to you and you know, And so
I think that's what the that's probably where this nickname,
this nickname was given to me, as it is with
all whisper types. I think that I think that's kind
of the core of what we do, is that we
we sit with a thing. We don't bring an agenda
to it. We sit there until we figure out who
is this house, what is it actually where, what needs
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to be tweaked in order to get it back to
its best self. And then then after the fundamentals are
back in place, we move it forward with the lives
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
People who live in it. Shannon, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's probably just a fragment of an answer for the
question that you asked. But but I don't have any
more time to do that today. And I thank you
so much for your call. Does that help you a
little bit?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Wait to tune in next week?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
This show needs to be done.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'm yeah, I'll be recording you all right.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right, all right, just comforting thought. No, No, it's fine,
I'm used to it. You know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
One of the things about being on the radio, you've
got to accept the fact that every mistake you make,
every mistake that I've made for the last nine and
a half years, people can go listen to it freely.
So it's a very humbling experience. Anyway, Shannon, thank you
so much for that. And when we come back from
this quick little break, we'll die into whatever else we've
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got calls on the board, and we're going to talk
about your home today and you will tell me what
it's all about your home. Dean Sharp, the house whisper,
Dean Sharp, the house whisper, here to help you take
your home to the next level. Thanks for joining us
on the program this morning. It is an all call
Saturday morning, like we do. I'm gonna go back to
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the phones. Let's talk to Henderson. Welcome home.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Hello, Yes, this is about nail pops. Is it true
that if you frame, If you frame, you put up
the framing and then it sits for a month or
so prior to drywalling, that will reduce or eliminate nail pops?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Okay, So, first of all, nail pops, meaning after you've drywalled,
the the studs, the framing work around the the drywall
is attached to continues to warp or shrink or shift
or move, and and as a result it causes what
we call a nail pop or these days a drywall
screw pop, where you know we have to go back
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and redoce some drywall stuff because of the shifting of
the lumber underneath the drywall.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Is it true?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, okay, technically sure, sure it's true. Yeah, technically U
is it practically true to let framing sit? And by
the way, we're talking about framing a whole house or
just a major remodel, or just a few studs in
a wall, whole house. Okay, So I'm gonna say that's
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a big no.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
On that. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'll tell you why, Henderson, all right, So, uh, green lumber, Okay,
typical lumber that is used to for framing all across
the US, but specifically in southern California by far ninety
nine percent of the lumber that gets used for framing
here because of its cost of effectiveness, is green lumber.
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Green lumber simply means that it's cut, it's milled, and
it has all the moisture content it had when it
was alive. Plus it's been sitting out in yards getting
wet and it's green. It's wet lumber. There's a high
moisture content, sometimes upwards of one hundred percent moisture content
inside a stud. If you've ever gone to a lumber
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yard or a place like home depot and you've just
needed to get a couple of studs, and you go
into those racks and you pick up one and it's like, oh,
weighs a pound. You pick up another stud, weighs a pound,
and you pick up another stud weighs five pounds, same stud.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's water. It's water inside. It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But the fact of the matter is as that water
eventually leaves, the stud will shrink a little bit, it
may warp a little bit. There's all sorts of activity
that happens as water leaves something like wood. Here's the problem.
Air drying lumber. Okay, the general rule is this. If
you ask furniture manufacturers, they'll tell you this. To air
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dry lumber, in other words, not in a kiln, not
in an oven intentionally, but to let it air dry.
The general rule is one inch per year of thickness
in order to get the moisture content out one inch
per year. So studs are an inch and a half thick.
And so to the ideas, if we set that frame
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out in the warm southern California sun for the better
part of a year, we could dry it out pretty
good in a year's time, assuming of course that we
cover it up when the rains come. But as far
as just air drying it, yeah, it would take that long,
not a month. A month is not going to make
that big of a difference at all, if any noticeable difference. Now,
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there are a few folks who are willing to do
the research and figure out with their engineers when they're
building new that hey, we're going to pay the twenty
five to thirty percent more for framing materials, and we're
going to frame this house out of kiln dried lumber,
meaning that it's already gone through an oven process to
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reduce its moisture content all the way down to its
bare minimum. Kiln dried lumber is more stable, it won't shrink,
it doesn't warp the same way, it doesn't shift. It's
a beautiful thing to do, but it's also considerably more expensive.
And so that's the issue. And in this by the way,
if anybody who's ever lived in a new house that
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has had work done to it. And then months later,
as you're sitting there, all of a sudden, you hear
this cracking and popping all the way through the house
that's just built up changes in the wood structure that
eventually kind of lets go, and you hear a ripple
of adjustment, kind of a shudder through the house. It's
not an earthquake, and it's not rats in the attic.
It's that, and so yeah, it's it's a thing. But
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setting a house out for a month, Henderson, it's not enough.
It's just not enough, even in a warm southern California summer.
It's just not enough. I've never seen any evidence that
and the science of it, Like I said, a year
per inch of wood, there's just there's no evidence to
say that that's going to reduce the nail pops along
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the way. So I hope that answers your question, my friend. Sorry,
I wish I could have given you better news, but
that's the case, all right. When we come back, more
of your calls your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer.
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all call. Saturday morning. It's time to go back to
the phones. I want to talk to Tom A Tom
Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Team.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Good morning, how are you?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I am well, sir.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
So I have a maintenance question. You've talked about regular
water heater maintenance, but if you have a tankless water heater,
my question is how often do you need to de
scale it? If you have a whole house water filtration
system similar to a Life Source. I've had conflicting answers
(18:41):
out a neighbor that has a system and he says
you don't need to do it at all, and I've
heard you should do it like every other year.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
So I wanted your feedback.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, okay, so your neighbor is wrong, but okay, so
let me qualify this all right, and I need to
qualify this a water filteration system like Life Source awesome
the best. Typically Life Source sells their water filtration system
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in combination with their with what is technically an add on,
and that is their scale resolver or a descaling or
scale reduction canister, which is part of the whole house system.
And I'm assuming that you're asking me about that, or
I'm assuming that your system has something like that, because
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I'm just being clear here, a water filter okay, that's
doing its job the right way is not filtering out minerals.
In fact, we want good mineral content to pass through
into our drinking water. A water filter is filtering out
nasty stuff. But those minerals, the hard water minerals that
make up the flavor of water, are also the water
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the minerals that cause scale. And so just because you
have a water filtration system doesn't mean that you have
a scale reduction in your water. But a life source system,
for instance, has that scale resolver module to it, or
can't second canister to it, and so it does reduce scale.
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So I'm going to answer the question as if you
actually have a scale reduction canister in addition to your
water filtration. So if you are in a situation where
your whole house filter is also reducing scale intentionally for
your home, then no, you don't have to do it
every year. You don't have to flush your water heater
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every year. And no, you don't have you don't. You're
not off the hook for life because it's scale reduction,
it's not utter scale elimination.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And so I would say, and just shooting from the
hip here, that that would that would enable you to
go from the once a year. You should do this
to your water heater model to probably the once every
depending on how hard your water is. By the way,
i'd say, you know, every other year would be great,
but I would probably push it myself and do push
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it myself because I have exactly that situation. I have
the life source with the scale reduction and a tankless
water heater, and for me, I do it every three year.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So how's that okay?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Well, thank you, You're very very welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's just important to realize that that that the the
you know, a scale reduction system. Again, we're letting that
we're letting those minerals through. We're changing their molecular structure,
but we're letting them through. And there is a tiny
bit of scale that trickles through, but it is way, way, way, way,
way ridiculously less than what it is without the scale
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reduction system. But you can't just pretend like there'll never
be any scale in your system ever. Again, it's just
massively reduced. All right, let's get star ARDD with another call.
I don't know if I can get through the answer
before the end of the break, but let's talk to Brian. Hey, Brian,
welcome home. Brian, Are you with.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Me, Katine?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Sorry, I had you on mute. I have a home
that's just over a couple of years old, and I've
noticed in a couple of places the stucco seems to
be deteriorating. I'm getting little granular pieces of stucco underneath
a couple spots. I clean the backyard every weekend, and
every week it's back, i'd say, to the tune of
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a few hundred pieces of granular stuck. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Is something causing that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Or is that a house defect that I should take
up with the homebuilder?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, so is it? Is it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You're saying you're getting granulars of stucco down like on
a sidewalk below. Do you know that that this stucco,
it has a weep screen. It stops before it hits
the slab. It stops before it hits the sidewalks or
the pathways, or the or the beds around the house.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's up raised up above it, so it's underneath.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
It's on the patio, the backyard patio concrete. And if
I look underneath where recesses at the foundation, I can
see where it's actually coming off. There's a little intention
of stucco, but no hole into the house. I'd assume
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maybe a bug was causing it or something like that.
But if I stick my finger in there, it's it's still.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Solid all the way through.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But eventually I have a feeling it's gonna get to
the wood.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Okay, So is there any moisture like undo sprinkler hitting
this wall?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There was. I corrected that probably about a month ago,
but the problem still persisting.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Okay, all right, all right, So this is very all right.
So I got an answer for you. Based on that,
I got an answer for you. I got to do
it right on the other side of the brake. So
you hang tight and we'll do it right when we
come back. You are home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
I don't think I would complain about certain bits of
mail being destroyed at the post office. All the junk
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mail that comes to my house, you can just just
take care of that at the post office, so I
don't have to throw it away. Dean Sharp the house
Whisper here to remind you that when it comes to
transforming your home design matters most it's an all call
Saturday morning, like we do. I got Brian on the line.
Brian was telling me he's got stucco on a two
year old house that is crumbling, crumbling at the very bottom.
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He wants to know what he can do to fix
it or what the situation is. The last question that
I asked you, Brian, was this particular area of stucco
that looks like it's deteriorating, subjected to like overspray from
sprinklers or irrigation. And you said, yeah, but you have
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resolved that about a month ago.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Is that right, Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I turned the sprinkler down so they weren't.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Hitting the wall.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Okay, So here's the situation, my friend. I'm going to
make a prediction. I could be wrong about this, because
there could be some other cause, but I doubt it.
Here's my prediction. You're going to see that starting to
end now, this deterioration or what you call the deterioration
of the stucco, and you may have to do a
little bit of patchwork there when it's all said and done,
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but I would just let it sit. So, first of all,
not to worry. The stucco on your house is not deteriorating.
But stucco is a cementious product. It's cement. Okay, it's concrete,
which means it's porous. It has air holes in its
space inside it. Okay, it's not foamy porous, but it's
still porous nonetheless, as evidenced by the fact that when
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you hose down your sidewalk or your driveway or something
like that, that the water soaks in. A lot of
the water soaks in and stays in there for a
while before it dries out. Stucco is no different. Now, yes,
there's a coat of paint on the outside of the house, Okay,
that is, if the outside of your house is painted
with paint as opposed to colorized stucco. Okay, new homes.
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A lot of new homes just have a color coat
of stucco on them, not paint on the stucco itself,
And that would make this even a little bit more
exaggerated of a diagnosis or symptom. But the point is this,
no stucco wall should be subjected to the constant spray
of moisture because stucco absorbs water, and when stucco absorbs
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water in a large sense on a regular basis, then
that water builds up inside and even though there may
be what we call a weep screed at the bottom,
which is supposed to allow the stuck the water in
the stucco to uh to drip out and to evaporate out.
When there's too much water hitting it, like every night
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with the irrigation system, that kind of thing, then the
water builds up. It doesn't weep out fast enough, and
it means it's gonna come out one way or the other.
It's what we call hydrostatic pressure. It's the pressure of
water moving in rocks, and that water will push its
way out through the finished coat of the stucco. Okay,
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and stucco, by the way, it's made out of three layers.
First was what we call a scratch coat, which was
just put on the house with a very very rough,
very unattractive texture. Then what's now called well, what's called
the brown coat. It's not brown anymore, but that is
the majority of the thickness of the stucco on your house.
That's nearly seven eighths of an inch of stucco on
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your house finished. And then the part that we all
see is only about an eighth of an inch thick.
That's the finish coat. And that finished coat is what
gets pushed out from water inside the stucco, and so
granules of that sand finish can fall. People think their
finished coat is peeling off. All that kind of stuff
that happens when there's a build up of water. Now,
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you shut off the water a month ago, but if
it's been a while that's been happening, then it's going
to take a while for it to dry out completely.
And my prediction is it will probably stop happening soon.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Okay, sounds great. So once I stop seeing the deterioration.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I can go ahead and put in stucco patch coat
over where it's recessed.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That's exactly what I would do.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'll just give it plenty of time to dry out,
and you know, scrape away anything that's still hanging, the
hanging chad as it were, boy, anything that's hanging or
flaking or loose, let it dry. You can do that
right now, and then just let it dry out, give
it a break from all that irrigation that was hitting it,
and in a little while, I'd say, you know, give
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it two or three weeks and then and you could
put some patch on and you probably won't see it
happen again.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
All right, sounds good. I appreciate your answer, and thanks
for taking with call.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You're very welcome, Brian, and I'm glad to be able
to explain it to you. Yeah, a lot of you
have a quote unquote deteriorating stucco because you have not
adjusted the sprinkler heads. They are hitting the house too heavily,
too much moisture every single day. And you might be thinking, well, wait,
stucco's supposed to survive the winter. Yeah, it does, but
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that's a period of time. It is not an isolated
amount of water hitting one area constantly, day after day
after day, and so this can happen. It can happen
to even the best of stucco situations, and especially if
you have a color code of stucco and not finish
paint on the outside the house. Paint becomes a barrier
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that reduces the amount of moisture that gets in stucco.
A color code of stucco is just as porous as
the rest of the stucco and allows more of that
moisture in also allows it to come out more. But
you know, it's a thing, all right, y'all. That's just
about it for me today. I want to remind you
though that in just a while, well a little bit,
(30:25):
American Vision Windows celebrating twenty five years their newly remodeled
Seamy Valley Showroom out here in the Seami Valley area.
They are running a special event celebrating that, inviting you
into an open house today from eleven to three. It's
going to be fun, food surprises. You got to come
(30:49):
out and check out, and you can come by if
for no other reason then to say hi to me.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'm going to be there. Gary Hoffman's going to be there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Tim Conway's going to be there, all three of us
dudes hanging out having fun at American Vision Windows Seemi
Valley Showroom eleven to three.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Today is when it's happening. I'm gonna get there just
a little bit after that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
And especially if new windows are needed in your house
but are not in your budget. And here's why, because
today today is the final day of this offer. But
you get down to a showroom like the Seemi Valley
Showroom and you can enter to win in person. You
got to enter to win in person, enter to win
an entire house full of windows free, a whole house,
(31:39):
the whole thing. So don't have a budget for windows,
but need them. See me and see me Valley this
afternoon at American Vision Windows.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
We're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I will see you then, and for the rest of you,
it's a beautiful day. The heat has knocked off, sunny,
gorgeous southern California.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Fall is on its way.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Get out there and get busy building yourself a beautiful life,
and we'll see you right back here tomorrow morning for
the big show from nine to now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
See you then.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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