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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Here we
go KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
welcome to home, where every week we help you better
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understand that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper, or custom home Builder, custom home designer,
and your guide to turning your ordinary house into an
extraordinary home. Whether you are listening to us on the
local broadcast right here in southern California, or streaming us
digitally from wherever across the globe, here or anywhere else,
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or if you joined in for another episode of The
House Whisper on demand podcast, I am just so very
glad that you are here. We are doing an all
calls weekend, nothing but your calls today, and I want
to get back to the phone so we can get
as many calls in as possible. I want to talk
to Nishe Niche. Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I have a situation going on with my front lawn.
It hasn't worked its way to the backyard yet, hopefully
it doesn't. I have this statching going on.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like what it is I've been told it's possums. I've
been told it's raccoons. It's like, I go out and
all my grass.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Has been ripped up, and I'm getting these false spots
in the lawn and I Am not sure how to make.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It go away, premature balding of the lawn. Have you
have you done any surveillance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I do have cameras, and I have not I've
never noticed any creatures roaming around.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, kind of I kind of figured that
was the case. Yeah, you know, a lot of people
blame possum and raccoons for messing up lawns. But you know,
as if they just could come out in the middle
of the night with their shovels and just decide, you
know what, let's get under her skin and just take
some of this lawn away. It really doesn't happen that way.
It's more likely, you know, like the only larger mammal
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that really terrorizes lawns on a regular basis are you know,
like gophers and prairie dogs, those kinds of things that
come up from underneath and leave little mounds of dirt,
and those are easy to identify because they've left behind
the dirt from the tunnel that they've dug. But by
and large, you know, I don't know. There's a handful
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of causes for balding lawn areas. It could be heavy
foot traffic, but obviously that doesn't sound like it's a situation.
Could be poor soil condition that is starting to kind
of spread. That's a possibility, of course, your classic the
neighbor's dogs are peeing on your lawn, but that usually
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starts with a noticeable yellow patch first. But when you
just find that there's bare soil in the lawn, I
have found, generally speaking that it's a grub infestation. And
you're like, oh, Cross, what is that. It's very simple.
There are little, tiny little beetles out there that are
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all around us, and there are some species that like
to lay their eggs in the soil of our lawns
because they're nicely protected areas. And then as the grubs
start to hatch, the little grub beetles, they're feeding on
the roots of our grass and as a result of
these bald patches start to occur. So it could be
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any one of those issues. I mean, you could have
like a fungal disease or a chemical burn. But I'm
putting my money on grubs because by and large that's
my experience with this. Fortunately, it's not that difficult to
deal with. What you do is, first of all, you
go get some grub treatment and you will find that
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on the shelf of just about every garden center everywhere.
That you mix into the soil, and that gets the
grubs under control. They're not spreading everywhere, They're just where
the bald patches are. And you rough up the soil,
add a little amendment to it, figure out what kind
of grass you actually have, Add some seed, keep it moist,
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and you'll grow the grass back.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Okay, so add the grub killer and this and fertilizer
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, exactly good to know. And then you need
to reseed that area and keep it extra moist and
you know, give the give the new seeds a shot
the best fighting chance possible.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, what do you suggest for watering times? I'm always
confused on that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, for watering times for a lawn in southern California,
it all depends on the efficiency of your sprinklers. But
not too long, you know, I mean, most lawns can
will water down with good sprinkler system in a half
hour or so. It also has to do with your
soil condition, whether you've got clay or you know, rocky
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soil or sandy soil. In other words, how well how
well your soil holds on to the moisture that's given
to it. But here's a general rule. There are some
guides out there that you can look up and say, Okay,
I've got this kind of grass and this kind of lawn.
I live in southern California. How long should I be
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watering my lawn with decent sprinkler coverage? And then what
I like to do? And I think this is just
the most efficient, most effective ways I like to break
that up. So let's say, in fact, my smart watering
system does that if forty minutes is the amount of
time that an area needs to be irrigated, then my
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smart watering system will break that up into you know,
three twenty minute sessions that are about a half an
hour apart, so that we water a little bit, we
let that soak in fully and become fully effective, and
then we water again and then you know, you understand
what I'm saying. So breaking it up into two or
three cycles and always here in southern California, in the
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middle of the night. Okay, not in the early morning
when everybody can see the sprinkler's going off. Not during
daylight hours. And the very simple reason is that sun
evaporates water. I want all the water going into your soil. Now,
this is not true if you live back east or
you live somewhere where it's much colder and much wetter,
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because there, we want a water during daylight hours so
that we're not building up too much water content and
creating mold and fungal growth and all of that kind
of stuff. But not here in southern California. No one
in southern California should ever see your sprinklers going off
unless they're up in the middle of the night. That's
how we take most efficient use of of our water.
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I want it all in the soil and so it's
doing its job fully and effectively. Nishe, thanks for the call.
Go check that out. Check out your watering times, and
go check out the grub treatments that you'll find at
the garden center, and also figure out what kind of
grass you've got and buy that receding mix so that
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once you get the grubs under control. Then you know
you can grow in those patches. It's not a terminal situation.
You can fix it. I promise when we come back
we'll get to more of your calls. This is Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper on KFI KFI AM six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You are home with Dean Sharp,
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the House Whisper. That's me. We are doing and all
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your home, inside and out, hardscape, landscape, interior decor, you know,
the whole thing. I am here to help you out.
Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hi Deine.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We've had some water damage due to the rains, and
so they had to open up the dry wall in
the walls in the ceiling in my living room. So
we're taking advantage of this opportunity and adding a light,
a hanging light fixture in the living room while the
ceiling is opened. Might as well take advantage of it.
But I'm trying to decide the size. How do you
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determine how it's a vaulted ceiling. The shortest part is
ten and a half feet, the tallest vaulted part is
I believe sixteen feet. How do you determine what size
lighting fixture? Now, the stairs that we have adjacent to
the living room that are expose, I do have a
hanging light above the stairwell and above the front door,
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so there is lighting hanging already from the ceiling. So
I would make this light hang around the living area,
so not quite center of the rooms, of like off center.
So what's hanging a bike above the coffee table?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
How do you determine how wide and how long and
how measurements of the space of a light fixture that hangs?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, good question, good question, Very good question. No Number one,
I'm glad to hear that you're not trying to put
this on a lower ceiling. So just so everybody knows,
everybody who's listening hanging fixture in an eight foot ceiling room. No, no, no,
unless unless the only exception is over a table. In
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other words, I don't want anybody to walk under a
hanging fixture in a already low ceiling room or an
eight foot ceiling room, you will not like the way
that it feels, so it is isolate. Those lights. Those
hanging fixtures are chandeliers for over dining room tables or
over a dedicated coffee table. That's it. Don't walk. Don't
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make me walk under that. If we have a vaulted ceiling,
like in your case, first let me address the height.
The height is not an absolute I'm not going to
give you an absolute number to keep it off the floor.
I'm just gonna say higher the better, generally speaking, and
you'll have to kind of eyeball it as you get
the fixture. And first don't start by just immediately tossing
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it up there. Get up there, I have somebody up
on a ladder and kind of figure out the height.
But understand this, with a vaulted ceiling, the goal of
a hanging fixture, and a hanging fixture is one of
those things that draws attention to itself. That's the goal. Okay,
it's a sparkly little item. It's going to draw the
eye up and that's great. So putting a light in
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a vaulted ceiling is a great way of getting people's
eyes off of the normal eight foot realm that we
live in and letting them actually notice and you taking
notice of the fact on a regular basis. Oh, look,
we have vaulted ceilings because human eyes visually are very
very lazy, or I should say the brain's connected to them.
So know this that the bottom, the bottom of wherever
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that chandelier, that fixture is going to hang, that becomes
essentially the new ceiling height for the room. Okay, so
you want to get it up there as high as
you can, because as soon as my eyes roll up
to the light, that's where I'm at boom, and that's
kind of where I think, Oh, that's the predominant hierarchical
fixture and view up there, that's the focal point. And
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so my eyes don't really want to go much higher
than that and go all over the place. So higher
the better you got sixteen feet up there, I would
hang it at least ten feet up there. I also
don't want to you know, I'm six' three and when
i'm flat, footed, BAREFOOTED i can actually reach and touch
the top of an eight foot, ceiling OR i should
say the bottom of an eight foot. Ceiling SO i
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don't want to come anywhere near being able to touch
the light fixture that's hanging in the, room, RIGHT i
want to reach up AND i want it to feel above,
me above, me above. Me, now as far as the diameter, goes,
okay obviously this is going to vary depending on the
kind of fixture it. Is if it's really big and,
chunky then it needs to be a little bit smaller in.
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Size if it's a big iron wagon wheel kind of a,
thing but it doesn't have a lot of body to
it so you can see through it, easily it can be.
Larger BUT i don't really focus on the size of
the overall room or ceiling that it's sitting in as
much as asking the question what is it? Lighting what
furniture group does it belong? To, okay the furniture group
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that it belongs to is far more. Important so if
down below you've got sofas and a coffee table and
it's kind of the living room set, up then generally,
speaking generally, speaking again not an absolute, rule BUT i
would measure up that furniture group and you'd be safe
to start, at let's, say the diameter of the furniture
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group overall is maybe ten or twelve feet all, right
you'd be safe to start at about twenty five percent
to a third a third of the overall space if
it's high. Enough up start there and see how that. Looks,
okay see how that looks for the. Room that's a
good starting place for. You and by the, Way, laura
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the more that you guys play around with this ahead
of time before you commit to your search for a,
fixture the better you'll. Be and there are some super
simple ways to do. It you can just get big
old pieces of, cardboard cut them into you, know large,
circles the size of which you think might be the,
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case and then you, know suspend them up, there hold them,
up just look up at them and, say, wow that's
kind of, big or now that's kind of PUNYOR i
thought that would look. Larger get a sense in the
room itself with some test props before you commit to going.
Out and it also makes your shopping so much. Easier
if you know we're after a thirty six inch diameter round,
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fixture then you just you, know enter that into your
searches and when you go into lighting, storages you're, like,
Listen i'm looking for a three foot diameter da da
da da, da and you narrow down the search. City
you're not looking at ten thousand fixtures when you go
into the. Store you're probably going to be looking at
about ten and they're far easier to make that. Decision
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does that make?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Sense it certainly.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Does, yeah we we're looking at Something spanish, colonial so
there's gonna be there might be some, wood that might
be some wrought, iron but, yeah it's sometimes they're wide
and sometimes they're tall and. Chunky SO i like your
idea of putting something up there and testing it out.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Before, yeah, yeah and spani. Colonial there's gonna be some
wrought iron on, it undoubtedly most. Likely and so that's
a that's a heavy it's a heavy, look which is.
Great it's, big, bold, heavy great contrast against the. Ceiling
if it's tall and, chunky then a smaller. Diameter if
it's wide and, open LIKE i was, saying like a
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big ring holding some you, know like artificial candelabra kind
of candle, items then you can. Afford if it's, arier
it could afford to be a larger diameter. Ring and
so it's. There. There there isn't one rule there's a
bunch of sort of principles that go into play here
that you're just gonna want to. Combine but, again when
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you when in, doubt test it, out you, know get
get some, cardboard get. WHATEVER i do this with people
when they're trying to figure out if a new wall
might look good in a. House i'm, like grab some
thumbtacks and a big sheet and hang it up as
if it's the. Wall do tests before you, commit so
visually you can decide what's going on. There and by the,
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way everything on a, dimmer, dimmer, dimmer demmer, dimmers everything on.
DIMMERS i want you to have theatrical control of these
lights as you put it, together because even in the
early evening into the, night the light in the room
is always shifting and, change even when you just at
night in total. Darkness when you combine that fixture with
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other light, fixtures you may want to change the intensity
of the light that's coming.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Off.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There you, Go, okay a quick break and then more
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Dean sharp the house. Whisper, hey thanks for joining the
program this. Morning we are about to go to the
phones and take a call or. Two surely welcome. Home thank, You.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Dean i'm noticing a. PATTERN i am, sixties early, sixties
And i'm noticing that guys that come to quote, me the,
contractors the four that have come in in the last three,
months have all said AFTER i tell them WHAT i,
want they, like you don't want, that and you don't
want to go through the, city and we don't need to,
permit and no one's gonna know because you live here
(17:23):
now and you need this staff and now we want
to save five grand or, more so you don't want
to go through the. City so telling you, this every
one of them they don't. KNOW i work with the,
city not, four but with them.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
For my second.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Job it's just not even that so. Insulting and they
want to get someone. Younger they're, like what do you
want to, do and they're really, Straightforward you're going to
need a permit and there's no nothing. Else they're just.
Respectful SO i don't know if it's something like on
the slim shady like older. Generation But i'm very disappointed
Because i've left these strangers in my home and you,
know with all the health to take all the health
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situations is like it ends up the note crash and.
BURN i can't hire any one of these for And
i'm really, disappointed thank. You i'm very disappointed THAT i
held out for these, guys you, know And i'm just
there and when they come, IN i tell them WHAT i.
Want i'm very, professional and they're, like you don't want,
that and they've reconfigured my Whole they're telling me what to,
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do AND i don't want to argue with, them WHICH i,
could Because i'm scared If i'm the only one. HOME
i don't want them to get hurt in my house
BECAUSE i will not back. Up BUT i do Because
i'm intimidated by their quote overbearing. THIS i just don't
know if it's a whole thing THAT i should just
go with a younger contractor that goes by the. Book you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Know, YEAH i feel. YOU i feel. YOU i WISH
i wish that what you were telling me was something
that was not very, common, surely but now what the
truth is there is just let's just talk about it
for a. Second there is a lot of agism in
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the contracting, world and there's a lot of sexism in
the contracting world, still and, yes you're gonna find it in. General,
now you, KNOW i gotta be really careful that BECAUSE
i don't want. To there are some brilliantly fantastic contractors
out there who are, older you, know men and women
who've been doing this for a long. Time they've got
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a lot of, experience and they are intensely respectful and
they don't pull that kind of crap on. People but
for whatever, reason there is a certain kind of neanderthalic
old school builder still out there that AND i hear
stories about it all the time of that kind of stuff.
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Happening so let me just dissect really quickly a couple
of things that you, said or deconstruct, it just to
make sure that we're clear on. This number. One there
is no room for that kind of. Thing and it's
not just about somebody's. MANNERISM i say this all the.
Time when you start to work with a, contractor it
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is a relationship that you're. Having, Okay you're going to
be in that relationship through thick and, thin through very stressful,
moments through all sorts of mess and trial and. Circumstance
and if you don't feel comfortable with a vibe that
is being put, off THEN i don't. CARE i don't
care what their price, IS i don't care how high
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their level of so called expertise. Is pass you know,
what because they're not the only fish in the. Sea
they just. Aren't there are a lot of contractors out,
there and so you, know unfortunately for, you it sounds
like the first three or four we're kind of all
fell into that. Category But i'm just going to encourage
you there are. More you do not want to enter
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into a relationship for a remodel something so important with
a contractor who is going to talk down to. You
and especially this as a, designer this just gets under
my skin all the time builders coming in and, saying oh, no,
no you don't want. That, NOW i will give this Caveat,
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okay if three builders come into a situation and look
at a plan and they all have the same constructive
critique of a particular, plan my ears are, open and
so should yours. Be if somebody is coming in and,
saying BECAUSE i do that sometimes as a. DESIGNER i
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do it all the. Time, ACTUALLY i walk into a
home And i'm, like, oh this idea right, Here i'm
not sure this is the best way to approach, this
BECAUSE i think you're going to run into PROBLEM abc
and D. Okay if you're getting a consensus of contractors
you respect telling You i'm not sure this is a good,
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idea then it may be a good idea to step
back and reevaluate the. Plan but just the. Idea there
is a kind of builder out there who has their
opinion about what your house should look, like and you know.
It guess how MUCH i care about that as A
as an actual home, DESIGNER i care about it zero.
Percent and how many times DO i have this conversation
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with contractors WHENEVER i need? To there are times when you,
know AND i have the advantage Because i've been a
builder myself for thirty five years and so plus years,
Now i'd, Like i'm just going to stick with thirty
five instead of saying. Plus but a lot of contractors
actually shame designers and architects as well because they're, like,
well you guys don't have the hands on knowledge of what.
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HAPPENS i happen to have, both SO i get to
look back at them and, say, Listen, Bud i'm going
to show you exactly right, now how MUCH i care
about your opinion of what this should look. LIKE i
care zero. Percent you are here to build this. Plan
you either do it or we'll move on to somebody.
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Else and that's the way it's going to. Be i'm
not concerned about what your opinion of this. Is do
you want to build this or don't? You, so, yeah,
yeah that's kind of a hot button for me, too.
Surely So number, one don't ever get into a relationship
with a contractor who you're not feeling a good vibe.
With number, two don't let them talk down to you
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or man explain you or tell you that what you
want is something that you shouldn't. Have and, finally if,
now there are some aspects of home remodeling that don't require, permits, flooring, kitchen,
cabinetry things like, that although when you do a kitchen cabinet,
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remodel if we're moving electrical and, plumbing that requires a.
Permit so there are facets of work in the house
that don't require. Permit but if it's something that requires
a permit and you want to pull the, permit and
you're the, homeowner you're the, boss and that's the way
it's going to. Be so there you, go very simply
put surely that thanks for the. CALL i am sorry
(24:01):
that you've run into that kind of, trouble but my
own encouragement to you is stick to your. Guns there
are more fish in the. Sea don't settle for these.
Losers all, right more great stuff on the. Way you're
listening To home With Dean, sharp the House, whisper can,
Fine Dean, sharp the House, whisper at your. Service thanks
(24:23):
for joining us on the. Program let's get back to the.
Phones let's, see let's talk To. Marie, Hey, marie welcome.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Home, hey, well thank. You i'm calling you From, Knoxville.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Tennessee and the, question, yeah the question THAT i have
for you IS i live in a condo and the
neighbor next door smokes like a, fiend AND i have
an air, purifier AND i don't know if MAYBE i
need a stronger, one or IF.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
I can put up, wallboard or IF i.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Can, paint or you, know what CAN i do with
the wall that we?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Share all, right so you have a common. Wall he
smokes like a. Fiend do you own or? Rent? MARIE
i own, it all, right so you, own so you've
got a little bit of control over the situation at. Least,
okay all, right well there are you, know there's a
whole set of steps THAT i could send you through
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from uber expensive down to the least expensive. Options why
don't we start there the least expensive. Side i'm always
a fan of let's take the smallest rational step and
see if that, works and if it, doesn't you, know
we're not going to regret, it and then we can move.
Forward So i'm going to describe the ultimate option. First,
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okay just so you know where the other end of
the spectrum, is all, right in situations like, this it's
these kinds of situations occur notoriously because there is a
criminal lack of insulation and ceiling in between the two
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units that share the shared. Wall, Okay so, ultimately if
you really wanted to just shut this, DOWN i mean
just shut it down from a no worry, perspective you
would go so far as to pull the drywall off
of your shared wall side of things and increase the
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ceiling and the insulation in ceiling the backside of his
dry wall with the caulking. Compounds and because it's air,
intrusion that's what we're talking, about air. Intrusion that you,
know the smoke smell does not get to you unless
the air from his unit finds its way into your,
unit so that we have this crossover of air. Intrusion
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so you would basically just do a banner job of
sealing it all up and then adding a thick layer
of insulation sound insulation wouldn't hurt, either, right and then
resealing your side so that there is no possibility of air. Infiltration,
now that obviously is quite, involved and that's not What
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i'm going to suggest that you do as your first.
Step that would be literally the last. Resort but let's
talk about the fact that now we we obviously have
this could work to your. Advantage the fact that you
have a leaky. Condo, okay and so does your. Neighbor
you both have leaky, condos and so now we can
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solve this with. Science, okay air pressure in your. Condo
if the air pressure in your condo is greater than
the air pressure in your neighbor's, condo And i'm not
talking about you, know walking into a ear you, know a.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Know, Yeah i'm just, saying if your air pressure is
even slightly higher than, his then your air moves in
his direction and his can't move in. Yours. Ah, Okay,
Okay so now what does this. Mean it's not about
turning on THE ac or the, heater because those are recirculating.
Systems they don't draw from the outside and put air
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into your. House but that's exactly What i'm. Suggesting there are,
COMPANIES hvac companies that will actually install for you a
positive pressure air fan into your. Unit. Okay and what
it does it basically think of it this. Way this
is exactly what it. Is in, fact think of it
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as like a bathroom exhaust fan going in. Reverse, okay
a bathroom exhaust fan takes the air out of the
bathroom and throws it. Outside, well, instead we've got a
duct coming from, outside and we're adding, air just like
you're blowing up a. Balloon so just by bringing outside
air with all the doors and windows, closed by bringing
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outside air into your, unit you are increasing ever so
slightly the air pressure on your side of, things not
to the degree where your ears are hurting or that
you even notice. It but the point is when the
air starts flowing in the opposite, direction his smoky air
can't get in because it is very. Passive his smoky
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air is very. Passive yours will be positively charged moving
in the opposite, direction and therefore the odors from next
door or from underneath, you or wherever they're coming, from,
uh don't have an opportunity to enter the space because
your air pressure is. Positive, now some people who, RENT i,
suggest you know, what if you've got this problem in
(29:46):
you're a, renter there are actually bathroom exhaust fans that
you can buy to replace the one that you've got
that run in both, directions that actually draw in as
well as push. Out but in a larger, scale if
you're the owner and you've got more, control it'd be
more efficient to actually have an heating and air conditioning
(30:08):
company install a fan that actually just really gets the
air pressure thing done quickly and efficiently and keeps it
running at the level that you, want and that should
should solve the.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Problem, Okay so that would be mounted in the, Bathroom
it could.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Be mounted, anywhere literally. Anywhere in, FACT i would suggest
that it gets mounted where you have the incursion. Issue
the word and these aren't big. Fans, literally think of
them like a little great like a bathroom exhaust. Fan
you could mount it in the bathroom and just keep
the bathroom door open because, overall, basically LIKE i, said
we're kind of blowing up a. Balloon eventually it will
(30:47):
affect the whole unit and increase the air pressure in
the whole. Unit so location isn't super. Critical but if
you want the fastest, results like you haven't been home
all day and you come home and you're, like, oh
there it is, again then closer to the room that
you have the problem is the better because it's just
going to pressurize in there. Faster.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Gotcha, okay well, Cool thank you so much for your.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Help you are very. Welcome good luck with, That. Marie
and you, know you could also just get some pamphlets
from The American Cancer society and just start shoving them
underneath the threshold anonymously of his. Door you just like
just slide them under, there just slide just every, day every,
day just put a new one, there don't get. Caught
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calls weekend, nothing but your calls today, and I want
to get back to the phone so we can get
as many calls in as possible. I want to talk
to Nishe Niche. Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I have a situation going on with my front lawn.
It hasn't worked its way to the backyard yet, hopefully
it doesn't. I have this statching going on.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like what it is I've been told it's possums. I've
been told it's raccoons. It's like, I go out and
all my grass.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Has been ripped up, and I'm getting these false spots
in the lawn and I Am not sure how to make.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It go away, premature balding of the lawn. Have you
have you done any surveillance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I do have cameras, and I have not I've
never noticed any creatures roaming around.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, kind of I kind of figured that
was the case. Yeah, you know, a lot of people
blame possum and raccoons for messing up lawns. But you know,
as if they just could come out in the middle
of the night with their shovels and just decide, you
know what, let's get under her skin and just take
some of this lawn away. It really doesn't happen that way.
It's more likely, you know, like the only larger mammal
(02:14):
that really terrorizes lawns on a regular basis are you know,
like gophers and prairie dogs, those kinds of things that
come up from underneath and leave little mounds of dirt,
and those are easy to identify because they've left behind
the dirt from the tunnel that they've dug. But by
and large, you know, I don't know. There's a handful
(02:35):
of causes for balding lawn areas. It could be heavy
foot traffic, but obviously that doesn't sound like it's a situation.
Could be poor soil condition that is starting to kind
of spread. That's a possibility, of course, your classic the
neighbor's dogs are peeing on your lawn, but that usually
(02:59):
starts with a noticeable yellow patch first. But when you
just find that there's bare soil in the lawn, I
have found, generally speaking that it's a grub infestation. And
you're like, oh, Cross, what is that. It's very simple.
There are little, tiny little beetles out there that are
(03:22):
all around us, and there are some species that like
to lay their eggs in the soil of our lawns
because they're nicely protected areas. And then as the grubs
start to hatch, the little grub beetles, they're feeding on
the roots of our grass and as a result of
these bald patches start to occur. So it could be
(03:44):
any one of those issues. I mean, you could have
like a fungal disease or a chemical burn. But I'm
putting my money on grubs because by and large that's
my experience with this. Fortunately, it's not that difficult to
deal with. What you do is, first of all, you
go get some grub treatment and you will find that
(04:06):
on the shelf of just about every garden center everywhere.
That you mix into the soil, and that gets the
grubs under control. They're not spreading everywhere, They're just where
the bald patches are. And you rough up the soil,
add a little amendment to it, figure out what kind
of grass you actually have, Add some seed, keep it moist,
(04:27):
and you'll grow the grass back.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Okay, so add the grub killer and this and fertilizer
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, exactly good to know. And then you need
to reseed that area and keep it extra moist and
you know, give the give the new seeds a shot
the best fighting chance possible.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, what do you suggest for watering times? I'm always
confused on that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, for watering times for a lawn in southern California,
it all depends on the efficiency of your sprinklers. But
not too long, you know, I mean, most lawns can
will water down with good sprinkler system in a half
hour or so. It also has to do with your
soil condition, whether you've got clay or you know, rocky
(05:13):
soil or sandy soil. In other words, how well how
well your soil holds on to the moisture that's given
to it. But here's a general rule. There are some
guides out there that you can look up and say, Okay,
I've got this kind of grass and this kind of lawn.
I live in southern California. How long should I be
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watering my lawn with decent sprinkler coverage? And then what
I like to do? And I think this is just
the most efficient, most effective ways I like to break
that up. So let's say, in fact, my smart watering
system does that if forty minutes is the amount of
time that an area needs to be irrigated, then my
(05:55):
smart watering system will break that up into you know,
three twenty minute sessions that are about a half an
hour apart, so that we water a little bit, we
let that soak in fully and become fully effective, and
then we water again and then you know, you understand
what I'm saying. So breaking it up into two or
three cycles and always here in southern California, in the
(06:16):
middle of the night. Okay, not in the early morning
when everybody can see the sprinkler's going off. Not during
daylight hours. And the very simple reason is that sun
evaporates water. I want all the water going into your soil. Now,
this is not true if you live back east or
you live somewhere where it's much colder and much wetter,
(06:38):
because there, we want a water during daylight hours so
that we're not building up too much water content and
creating mold and fungal growth and all of that kind
of stuff. But not here in southern California. No one
in southern California should ever see your sprinklers going off
unless they're up in the middle of the night. That's
how we take most efficient use of of our water.
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I want it all in the soil and so it's
doing its job fully and effectively. Nishe, thanks for the call.
Go check that out. Check out your watering times, and
go check out the grub treatments that you'll find at
the garden center, and also figure out what kind of
grass you've got and buy that receding mix so that
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once you get the grubs under control. Then you know
you can grow in those patches. It's not a terminal situation.
You can fix it. I promise when we come back
we'll get to more of your calls. This is Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper on KFI KFI AM six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You are home with Dean Sharp,
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the whole thing. I am here to help you out.
Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hi Deine.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We've had some water damage due to the rains, and
so they had to open up the dry wall in
the walls in the ceiling in my living room. So
we're taking advantage of this opportunity and adding a light,
a hanging light fixture in the living room while the
ceiling is opened. Might as well take advantage of it.
But I'm trying to decide the size. How do you
(08:42):
determine how it's a vaulted ceiling. The shortest part is
ten and a half feet, the tallest vaulted part is
I believe sixteen feet. How do you determine what size
lighting fixture? Now, the stairs that we have adjacent to
the living room that are expose, I do have a
hanging light above the stairwell and above the front door,
(09:05):
so there is lighting hanging already from the ceiling. So
I would make this light hang around the living area,
so not quite center of the rooms, of like off center.
So what's hanging a bike above the coffee table?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
How do you determine how wide and how long and
how measurements of the space of a light fixture that hangs?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, good question, good question, Very good question. No Number one,
I'm glad to hear that you're not trying to put
this on a lower ceiling. So just so everybody knows,
everybody who's listening hanging fixture in an eight foot ceiling room. No, no, no,
unless unless the only exception is over a table. In
(09:50):
other words, I don't want anybody to walk under a
hanging fixture in a already low ceiling room or an
eight foot ceiling room, you will not like the way
that it feels, so it is isolate. Those lights. Those
hanging fixtures are chandeliers for over dining room tables or
over a dedicated coffee table. That's it. Don't walk. Don't
(10:14):
make me walk under that. If we have a vaulted ceiling,
like in your case, first let me address the height.
The height is not an absolute I'm not going to
give you an absolute number to keep it off the floor.
I'm just gonna say higher the better, generally speaking, and
you'll have to kind of eyeball it as you get
the fixture. And first don't start by just immediately tossing
(10:37):
it up there. Get up there, I have somebody up
on a ladder and kind of figure out the height.
But understand this, with a vaulted ceiling, the goal of
a hanging fixture, and a hanging fixture is one of
those things that draws attention to itself. That's the goal. Okay,
it's a sparkly little item. It's going to draw the
eye up and that's great. So putting a light in
(10:58):
a vaulted ceiling is a great way of getting people's
eyes off of the normal eight foot realm that we
live in and letting them actually notice and you taking
notice of the fact on a regular basis. Oh, look,
we have vaulted ceilings because human eyes visually are very
very lazy, or I should say the brain's connected to them.
So know this that the bottom, the bottom of wherever
(11:22):
that chandelier, that fixture is going to hang, that becomes
essentially the new ceiling height for the room. Okay, so
you want to get it up there as high as
you can, because as soon as my eyes roll up
to the light, that's where I'm at boom, and that's
kind of where I think, Oh, that's the predominant hierarchical
fixture and view up there, that's the focal point. And
(11:45):
so my eyes don't really want to go much higher
than that and go all over the place. So higher
the better you got sixteen feet up there, I would
hang it at least ten feet up there. I also
don't want to you know, I'm six' three and when
i'm flat, footed, BAREFOOTED i can actually reach and touch
the top of an eight foot, ceiling OR i should
say the bottom of an eight foot. Ceiling SO i
(12:07):
don't want to come anywhere near being able to touch
the light fixture that's hanging in the, room, RIGHT i
want to reach up AND i want it to feel above,
me above, me above. Me, now as far as the diameter, goes,
okay obviously this is going to vary depending on the
kind of fixture it. Is if it's really big and,
chunky then it needs to be a little bit smaller in.
(12:27):
Size if it's a big iron wagon wheel kind of a,
thing but it doesn't have a lot of body to
it so you can see through it, easily it can be.
Larger BUT i don't really focus on the size of
the overall room or ceiling that it's sitting in as
much as asking the question what is it? Lighting what
furniture group does it belong? To, okay the furniture group
(12:51):
that it belongs to is far more. Important so if
down below you've got sofas and a coffee table and
it's kind of the living room set, up then generally,
speaking generally, speaking again not an absolute, rule BUT i
would measure up that furniture group and you'd be safe
to start, at let's, say the diameter of the furniture
(13:13):
group overall is maybe ten or twelve feet all, right
you'd be safe to start at about twenty five percent
to a third a third of the overall space if
it's high. Enough up start there and see how that. Looks,
okay see how that looks for the. Room that's a
good starting place for. You and by the, Way, laura
(13:33):
the more that you guys play around with this ahead
of time before you commit to your search for a,
fixture the better you'll. Be and there are some super
simple ways to do. It you can just get big
old pieces of, cardboard cut them into you, know large,
circles the size of which you think might be the,
(13:54):
case and then you, know suspend them up, there hold them,
up just look up at them and, say, wow that's
kind of, big or now that's kind of PUNYOR i
thought that would look. Larger get a sense in the
room itself with some test props before you commit to going.
Out and it also makes your shopping so much. Easier
if you know we're after a thirty six inch diameter round,
(14:16):
fixture then you just you, know enter that into your
searches and when you go into lighting, storages you're, like,
Listen i'm looking for a three foot diameter da da
da da, da and you narrow down the search. City
you're not looking at ten thousand fixtures when you go
into the. Store you're probably going to be looking at
about ten and they're far easier to make that. Decision
(14:36):
does that make?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Sense it certainly.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Does, yeah we we're looking at Something spanish, colonial so
there's gonna be there might be some, wood that might
be some wrought, iron but, yeah it's sometimes they're wide
and sometimes they're tall and. Chunky SO i like your
idea of putting something up there and testing it out.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Before, yeah, yeah and spani. Colonial there's gonna be some
wrought iron on, it undoubtedly most. Likely and so that's
a that's a heavy it's a heavy, look which is.
Great it's, big, bold, heavy great contrast against the. Ceiling
if it's tall and, chunky then a smaller. Diameter if
it's wide and, open LIKE i was, saying like a
(15:17):
big ring holding some you, know like artificial candelabra kind
of candle, items then you can. Afford if it's, arier
it could afford to be a larger diameter. Ring and
so it's. There. There there isn't one rule there's a
bunch of sort of principles that go into play here
that you're just gonna want to. Combine but, again when
(15:38):
you when in, doubt test it, out you, know get
get some, cardboard get. WHATEVER i do this with people
when they're trying to figure out if a new wall
might look good in a. House i'm, like grab some
thumbtacks and a big sheet and hang it up as
if it's the. Wall do tests before you, commit so
visually you can decide what's going on. There and by the,
(15:59):
way everything on a, dimmer, dimmer, dimmer demmer, dimmers everything on.
DIMMERS i want you to have theatrical control of these
lights as you put it, together because even in the
early evening into the, night the light in the room
is always shifting and, change even when you just at
night in total. Darkness when you combine that fixture with
(16:19):
other light, fixtures you may want to change the intensity
of the light that's coming.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Off.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There you, Go, okay a quick break and then more
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Dean sharp the house. Whisper, hey thanks for joining the
program this. Morning we are about to go to the
phones and take a call or. Two surely welcome. Home thank, You.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Dean i'm noticing a. PATTERN i am, sixties early, sixties
And i'm noticing that guys that come to quote, me the,
contractors the four that have come in in the last three,
months have all said AFTER i tell them WHAT i,
want they, like you don't want, that and you don't
want to go through the, city and we don't need to,
permit and no one's gonna know because you live here
(17:23):
now and you need this staff and now we want
to save five grand or, more so you don't want
to go through the. City so telling you, this every
one of them they don't. KNOW i work with the,
city not, four but with them.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
For my second.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Job it's just not even that so. Insulting and they
want to get someone. Younger they're, like what do you
want to, do and they're really, Straightforward you're going to
need a permit and there's no nothing. Else they're just.
Respectful SO i don't know if it's something like on
the slim shady like older. Generation But i'm very disappointed
Because i've left these strangers in my home and you,
know with all the health to take all the health
(17:58):
situations is like it ends up the note crash and.
BURN i can't hire any one of these for And
i'm really, disappointed thank. You i'm very disappointed THAT i
held out for these, guys you, know And i'm just
there and when they come, IN i tell them WHAT i.
Want i'm very, professional and they're, like you don't want,
that and they've reconfigured my Whole they're telling me what to,
(18:19):
do AND i don't want to argue with, them WHICH i,
could Because i'm scared If i'm the only one. HOME
i don't want them to get hurt in my house
BECAUSE i will not back. Up BUT i do Because
i'm intimidated by their quote overbearing. THIS i just don't
know if it's a whole thing THAT i should just
go with a younger contractor that goes by the. Book you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Know, YEAH i feel. YOU i feel. YOU i WISH
i wish that what you were telling me was something
that was not very, common, surely but now what the
truth is there is just let's just talk about it
for a. Second there is a lot of agism in
(18:58):
the contracting, world and there's a lot of sexism in
the contracting world, still and, yes you're gonna find it in. General,
now you, KNOW i gotta be really careful that BECAUSE
i don't want. To there are some brilliantly fantastic contractors
out there who are, older you, know men and women
who've been doing this for a long. Time they've got
(19:19):
a lot of, experience and they are intensely respectful and
they don't pull that kind of crap on. People but
for whatever, reason there is a certain kind of neanderthalic
old school builder still out there that AND i hear
stories about it all the time of that kind of stuff.
(19:42):
Happening so let me just dissect really quickly a couple
of things that you, said or deconstruct, it just to
make sure that we're clear on. This number. One there
is no room for that kind of. Thing and it's
not just about somebody's. MANNERISM i say this all the.
Time when you start to work with a, contractor it
(20:05):
is a relationship that you're. Having, Okay you're going to
be in that relationship through thick and, thin through very stressful,
moments through all sorts of mess and trial and. Circumstance
and if you don't feel comfortable with a vibe that
is being put, off THEN i don't. CARE i don't
care what their price, IS i don't care how high
(20:25):
their level of so called expertise. Is pass you know,
what because they're not the only fish in the. Sea
they just. Aren't there are a lot of contractors out,
there and so you, know unfortunately for, you it sounds
like the first three or four we're kind of all
fell into that. Category But i'm just going to encourage
you there are. More you do not want to enter
(20:47):
into a relationship for a remodel something so important with
a contractor who is going to talk down to. You
and especially this as a, designer this just gets under
my skin all the time builders coming in and, saying oh, no,
no you don't want. That, NOW i will give this Caveat,
(21:08):
okay if three builders come into a situation and look
at a plan and they all have the same constructive
critique of a particular, plan my ears are, open and
so should yours. Be if somebody is coming in and,
saying BECAUSE i do that sometimes as a. DESIGNER i
(21:29):
do it all the. Time, ACTUALLY i walk into a
home And i'm, like, oh this idea right, Here i'm
not sure this is the best way to approach, this
BECAUSE i think you're going to run into PROBLEM abc
and D. Okay if you're getting a consensus of contractors
you respect telling You i'm not sure this is a good,
(21:50):
idea then it may be a good idea to step
back and reevaluate the. Plan but just the. Idea there
is a kind of builder out there who has their
opinion about what your house should look, like and you know.
It guess how MUCH i care about that as A
as an actual home, DESIGNER i care about it zero.
Percent and how many times DO i have this conversation
(22:12):
with contractors WHENEVER i need? To there are times when you,
know AND i have the advantage Because i've been a
builder myself for thirty five years and so plus years,
Now i'd, Like i'm just going to stick with thirty
five instead of saying. Plus but a lot of contractors
actually shame designers and architects as well because they're, like,
well you guys don't have the hands on knowledge of what.
(22:33):
HAPPENS i happen to have, both SO i get to
look back at them and, say, Listen, Bud i'm going
to show you exactly right, now how MUCH i care
about your opinion of what this should look. LIKE i
care zero. Percent you are here to build this. Plan
you either do it or we'll move on to somebody.
(22:55):
Else and that's the way it's going to. Be i'm
not concerned about what your opinion of this. Is do
you want to build this or don't? You, so, yeah,
yeah that's kind of a hot button for me, too.
Surely So number, one don't ever get into a relationship
with a contractor who you're not feeling a good vibe.
With number, two don't let them talk down to you
(23:19):
or man explain you or tell you that what you
want is something that you shouldn't. Have and, finally if,
now there are some aspects of home remodeling that don't require, permits, flooring, kitchen,
cabinetry things like, that although when you do a kitchen cabinet,
(23:40):
remodel if we're moving electrical and, plumbing that requires a.
Permit so there are facets of work in the house
that don't require. Permit but if it's something that requires
a permit and you want to pull the, permit and
you're the, homeowner you're the, boss and that's the way
it's going to. Be so there you, go very simply
put surely that thanks for the. CALL i am sorry
(24:01):
that you've run into that kind of, trouble but my
own encouragement to you is stick to your. Guns there
are more fish in the. Sea don't settle for these.
Losers all, right more great stuff on the. Way you're
listening To home With Dean, sharp the House, whisper can,
Fine Dean, sharp the House, whisper at your. Service thanks
(24:23):
for joining us on the. Program let's get back to the.
Phones let's, see let's talk To. Marie, Hey, marie welcome.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Home, hey, well thank. You i'm calling you From, Knoxville.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Tennessee and the, question, yeah the question THAT i have
for you IS i live in a condo and the
neighbor next door smokes like a, fiend AND i have
an air, purifier AND i don't know if MAYBE i
need a stronger, one or IF.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
I can put up, wallboard or IF i.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Can, paint or you, know what CAN i do with
the wall that we?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Share all, right so you have a common. Wall he
smokes like a. Fiend do you own or? Rent? MARIE
i own, it all, right so you, own so you've
got a little bit of control over the situation at. Least,
okay all, right well there are you, know there's a
whole set of steps THAT i could send you through
(25:22):
from uber expensive down to the least expensive. Options why
don't we start there the least expensive. Side i'm always
a fan of let's take the smallest rational step and
see if that, works and if it, doesn't you, know
we're not going to regret, it and then we can move.
Forward So i'm going to describe the ultimate option. First,
(25:42):
okay just so you know where the other end of
the spectrum, is all, right in situations like, this it's
these kinds of situations occur notoriously because there is a
criminal lack of insulation and ceiling in between the two
(26:03):
units that share the shared. Wall, Okay so, ultimately if
you really wanted to just shut this, DOWN i mean
just shut it down from a no worry, perspective you
would go so far as to pull the drywall off
of your shared wall side of things and increase the
(26:26):
ceiling and the insulation in ceiling the backside of his
dry wall with the caulking. Compounds and because it's air,
intrusion that's what we're talking, about air. Intrusion that you,
know the smoke smell does not get to you unless
the air from his unit finds its way into your,
unit so that we have this crossover of air. Intrusion
(26:47):
so you would basically just do a banner job of
sealing it all up and then adding a thick layer
of insulation sound insulation wouldn't hurt, either, right and then
resealing your side so that there is no possibility of air. Infiltration,
now that obviously is quite, involved and that's not What
(27:09):
i'm going to suggest that you do as your first.
Step that would be literally the last. Resort but let's
talk about the fact that now we we obviously have
this could work to your. Advantage the fact that you
have a leaky. Condo, okay and so does your. Neighbor
you both have leaky, condos and so now we can
(27:32):
solve this with. Science, okay air pressure in your. Condo
if the air pressure in your condo is greater than
the air pressure in your neighbor's, condo And i'm not
talking about you, know walking into a ear you, know a.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Know, Yeah i'm just, saying if your air pressure is
even slightly higher than, his then your air moves in
his direction and his can't move in. Yours. Ah, Okay,
Okay so now what does this. Mean it's not about
turning on THE ac or the, heater because those are recirculating.
Systems they don't draw from the outside and put air
(28:20):
into your. House but that's exactly What i'm. Suggesting there are,
COMPANIES hvac companies that will actually install for you a
positive pressure air fan into your. Unit. Okay and what
it does it basically think of it this. Way this
is exactly what it. Is in, fact think of it
(28:42):
as like a bathroom exhaust fan going in. Reverse, okay
a bathroom exhaust fan takes the air out of the
bathroom and throws it. Outside, well, instead we've got a
duct coming from, outside and we're adding, air just like
you're blowing up a. Balloon so just by bringing outside
air with all the doors and windows, closed by bringing
(29:04):
outside air into your, unit you are increasing ever so
slightly the air pressure on your side of, things not
to the degree where your ears are hurting or that
you even notice. It but the point is when the
air starts flowing in the opposite, direction his smoky air
can't get in because it is very. Passive his smoky
(29:26):
air is very. Passive yours will be positively charged moving
in the opposite, direction and therefore the odors from next
door or from underneath, you or wherever they're coming, from,
uh don't have an opportunity to enter the space because
your air pressure is. Positive, now some people who, RENT i,
suggest you know, what if you've got this problem in
(29:46):
you're a, renter there are actually bathroom exhaust fans that
you can buy to replace the one that you've got
that run in both, directions that actually draw in as
well as push. Out but in a larger, scale if
you're the owner and you've got more, control it'd be
more efficient to actually have an heating and air conditioning
(30:08):
company install a fan that actually just really gets the
air pressure thing done quickly and efficiently and keeps it
running at the level that you, want and that should
should solve the.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Problem, Okay so that would be mounted in the, Bathroom
it could.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Be mounted, anywhere literally. Anywhere in, FACT i would suggest
that it gets mounted where you have the incursion. Issue
the word and these aren't big. Fans, literally think of
them like a little great like a bathroom exhaust. Fan
you could mount it in the bathroom and just keep
the bathroom door open because, overall, basically LIKE i, said
we're kind of blowing up a. Balloon eventually it will
(30:47):
affect the whole unit and increase the air pressure in
the whole. Unit so location isn't super. Critical but if
you want the fastest, results like you haven't been home
all day and you come home and you're, like, oh
there it is, again then closer to the room that
you have the problem is the better because it's just
going to pressurize in there. Faster.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Gotcha, okay well, Cool thank you so much for your.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Help you are very. Welcome good luck with, That. Marie
and you, know you could also just get some pamphlets
from The American Cancer society and just start shoving them
underneath the threshold anonymously of his. Door you just like
just slide them under, there just slide just every, day every,
day just put a new one, there don't get. Caught
(31:29):
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