October 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Dean answers callers questions about; options for whole house termite pest control, is it ok to mismatch windows throughout a home, ripping out carpet and replacing hardwood flooring, how to remove adhesive on floors, replacing roofing tiles, and a discussion about whether or not hardwood is a good option for countertops
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
welcome to home. 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. Hey, Gary, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I just inherited a seventy five year old house from
my mom and I noticed that there's some TERMI droppings
around and when I look for tags, I find that
the last time it was fumigated was about nineteen ninety eight.
They tags say that they use something called Viking, and
I'm wondering is that the gold standard still or is
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there something better these days? And what do I do
with the damage that's I've found.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now, I'm not familiar with every chemical process that is
part of a tent fumigation, but I can tell you this, Gary,
We've come such a long way in the last twenty
five twenty seven years since the house was fumigated before,
and you've got a lot of options. My encouragement to
you is that you talk to a pest control company
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that has, in fact in their arsenal, a lot of options,
and you'd be surprised few of those companies are out
there because a lot of pest control companies they just
get into the biz. They just pick up the stuff
that everybody does. They'll do a little spot treatment here
or there, but if anything is beyond what they're comfortable with,
then they'll just say, tent the house. And so you
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tend the house, you move all the stuff out, you
stay out of it, and it gets fully tinted and
it's going to be that way for a few days,
and it's you know, if you're not living in the house, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's such generally empty. So I'm not opposed to having
a tented and taking as much time as they need, but.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I want you to know that, you know, there's a
cost involved in that, obviously, and it may or may
not be justified. So the point is this, just because
you find some droppings here and there doesn't mean that
it is an entire whole house infestation. You need to
get conscientious eyes on and that's why I say I
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want you to go with a pest control company that
has a lot of other options other than just what
we call the nuclear option, which is just tenth the
house and it's gone because we've come a long way.
We can electrocute termites in walls. Shockingly, shockingly, I did
not mean to say that that way. We can find
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termites and walls and run a current through them because
they've got water in their bodies, and actually electrocute them
through the walls to dispose of them. There are various
other forms of spot treatment that are highly, highly effective
that don't require tentting the house. And there's heat treating
a house instead of tinting. And I'm a huge fan
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of whole house heat treatment as opposed to tinting, just
because it leaves no chemical residue, no harmful things behind.
Heat treating a house is also a whole house treatment.
It's sealing up the whole house using heaters and fans
to bring the internal temperature of the house up to
about one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty degrees.
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They hold it there for a few hours. That is
lethal to every termite everywhere inside the place, and it
doesn't require a tent. It's done. It starts at the
beginning of the day, early in the morning, and it's
done and you're back in the house or anybody could
be back in the house by that evening. No chemical residue,
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you don't have to pull stuff out, and you know,
and I know the house is relatively empty, but just
so you know, it doesn't leave behind any toxicity. It's
just a heat treatment, massively popular. Yeah treatment here. My
biggest recommendation is to find the right company. Now, yeah,
of course, I'm going to tell you that Eco La.
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They are my preferred pest control company for southern California's
precisely because they have a full arsenal and I don't
know of a pest control company that's more conscientious when
it comes to approaching the house. They simply don't want
to do more than is necessary. And they are as
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everybody who has the nuclear button in front of them
should be. They are loathed to just turn the key
and press the button. But they always get the job done.
And so that's the guarantee. They're going to get the
job done at whatever level it needs to go. And
so talk to them, give them a call, Eco La,
Eco La, give them a call, and you know, have
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them consult with you about the termite situation. How extensive
is it. They may say, hey, Gary, we need to
tent the house, or they may offer some other solutions
that you might be far more comfortable with and that
your wallet may actually be more comfortable with. So the
moral of the story for everybody who's listening is, uh,
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you find the right doctor, not the one who just says,
got an infected splinter. There amputation. No, no, no, no no.
Let's find a conscientious doctor who gets to the route,
gets it done with the minimal amount of invasive surgery
along the way. That's the goal. Gary, Thank you for
your call, my friend. All right, let's talk to Julie.
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Hey Julie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Hi Deine.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We're looking at getting new windows and I love the
black frame windows, but they're obviously a lot more expensive.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So I was wondering, what are your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Honestly, just if someone just adgested black frame windows in
the back of the house and kept the traditional white frame.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
In the front, I have no general problems with that whatsoever.
In fact, if you hear me talk on the show
quite often, i'll talk about the tech. One of the
techniques for upgrading a house without touching its traditional curb
appeal is to treat the facade of the house differently
than the backside of the house, because from the the
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facade of the house is something that is viewed from
outside the house, standing on the curb in the street
looking at the house. Then you move into the house,
you walk in, and once you're past the face of
the house, now we're inside the house looking out through
windows into the backyard. It's a completely different experience. And
so the idea of using black frame windows for the
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backside of the house because you love them and because
they work with the configuration that you're looking for. In
my thinking, in most cases most cases don't quote me
on this universally, but in most cases, yeah, your freedom
to mix it up, I would even say, depending on decor.
There are times when you know there are well, actually
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you know, I'll tell you this. We just finished designing
from the ground up a new house in Studio City.
Some of those windows are white traditional framed windows, some
of them are dark bronze and black traditional windows. Just
depending on room for room and the effect that we're
looking for, and on some of the elevations of the house,
you can see both at the same time. It all
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depends on whether it works with that theme. But as
a general rule, you know, it's kind of the mullet approach, right,
all business up front and party in the back. So
keep your white frame windows facing the street and do
back black towards the back of the house and have
a blast. I think you're completely free to do that
in most cases. Thanks Julie for the call. Yes, yes,
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it's my mullet theory. My mullet theory applies to lots
of things all the time. I'm so glad you joined
me this morning. Hang tight, there is more to come.
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Thanks for joining us on the program today, Dean Sharp
the House Whisper with you, it is an all calls weekend.
We are just going to the phones. You're setting the
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agenda today. The number to reach me eight three three two.
Ask Dean, Hey, Philip, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, good morning. I have a question about a bathroom.
We're upgrading a small second bath. It's about eight by
four and for the flooring, the choice, I guess comes
down to a vinyl sheeting or the twelve inch tiles.
And is that a matter of just preference or is
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one safer easier to clean, et cetera. Do you have
any comment about what's a good for It's going to
be used every day, so there is a lot of traffic,
and there is a shower, which we'll talk about in
the second, so there might be water from time to time.
The ideas on that.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Okay, well, all right, So when you say the choices
come down to sheeting or twelve by twelve tie, you
mean twelve by twelve vinyl tiles, So.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh, cerami or whatever?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh okay, all right, well you know, i'm I'm The
ceramic tile floor is a nicer floor than than the
the vinyl. It's also going to be a little bit
more expensive, going to involve some more stuff to do
along the way. Is this a are we going down
on a slab? Or are we upstairs?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
What's our su It's a one story and right now
there is some vinyl there, but it's it's an old house,
so it's not on slab.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a race foundation.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, I got you, I got you. Yeah, So vinyl
is going to Now what's the Let me ask you this,
what's the floor material outside in the hallway?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I would it's it's an odor Like the other woman
it's an odor home, but all the flooring is very
nice and it's you know, the original from thirty nineteen
thirty seven, got you all right?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So here's the thing. I'm just gonna say this because
I don't get to say it ahead of time before.
People do this kind of stuff very often, and that is,
if you're gonna go tile in there, okay, then you're
gonna put down at least you know where you got
your your the hardwood and the substrate underneath the bathroom floor.
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By the time you put down back or board and tile,
then your tile is going to be up above the
level of the hardwood coming in, so you're gonna have
a level change, which is not my favorite. Now there
are ways around that, which is to block in between
the floor joists with solid plywood, not on top of,
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but in between them. It's a little bit more work
that allows you to lay down just the back or
board and the tile and actually end up planing out
with that three quarter inch flooring, which is a beautiful
way to go. It's my preferred way to go. Anytime
we are asked to do that and to design it,
that's always what I say, because I love the idea
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especially in an older home, pushing a century home, that
we just transition smoothly from the top of the hardwood
to the top of ceramic tile without there having to
be a big step up into the bathroom. That aside,
vinyl will get you there without the extra effort. And
there are some really nice vinyls out there. But also
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in addition to nice vinyls out there, there are really
nice luxury vinyl planks out there, which also is going
to raise the floor only a little bit, and they
interlock with each other and they float and they might
be well, they would be I think in this case
a sexier nice are looking completely bomb proof and waterproof
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alternative to just sheet good vinyls. So that's my suggestion there.
But for those of you who have century homes, you've
got to raise foundation home and you're trying to match
up a bathroom floor, think creatively about how it is
that you can lay down a ceramic tile floor in
a bathroom without its sticking up an inch or so
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above the hardwood by the time all the layers are
built up. There is a way, There is a way
to do it, and it's it's sheeting and blocking in
between the joists as opposed to on top of it.
So that's my opinion on that, Philip. What else did
you have for me?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Cheating and bookie? Okay? The other thing, the shower valve
very hard to turn on and turn off. You have
to really tighten it. Is that something that a matter
of changing some parts. A plumber could do that. Or
do we have to take the valve out because that
would involve but breaking the tile and then in a
replace in a tile.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
What's on the other side of that bathroom shower wall?
Another bathroom, another bathroom? So what's immediately on the other side.
Is it plaster, drywall or is it another tub?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Let's see on the other side. I think it's a drywall.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, so there is the answer to your question. An
old valve like that. Sometimes fixing an old valve like
that is actually easier than it seems, because maybe it's
just an old pressurized washer in the valve. But let's assume,
just for the sake of argument, the harder problem, which
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is those valves are just old and they're not going
to rehab Well, here is the secret. This is what
we do all the time, find out what is exactly
precisely on the other side of that wall, what is
right behind those valves. If it's plaster or drywall, you're
in luck because that's how we change this stuff out
without tearing up the tile inside the shower area. We
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open up the drywall. Just a little bit of drywall
repair ain't nothing compared to having to redo tile in
a shower.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So you open tile, then we have to break it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
You said, yeah, if you got tile, then you got
to break it. But if on the back side of
that wall it's dry wall, then you open that up
and we get to those valves from the backside and
slide new ones through the existing tile setup, and you're
good to go with a minimal dry wall repair versus
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tearing up everything inside the shower. Philip, thank you for
the questions and for the call good luck. Give a
serious look. I'm just saying a house that is pushing
a century in age is worth your time and energy
to fix it up right. I don't want to spend
your money for you, but it's a little bit more
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elbow grease and not real a lot of cost. If
you decide to go with a ceramic tile floor and
in order to get that level leveled out, with the
existing three quarter inch hardwood, that beautiful stuff. What we
do is, instead of sheeting on top of the floor
joist in a bathroom, we will block some edges and
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will sheet in between the floor joists in the bathroom.
That saves us three quarters of an inch, which means
half an inch of back or board on top of
that and our ceramic tile, and your brand new ceramic
tile floor ends up floating out flush with the century
old hardwood, and nobody will ever question that that's how
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it was done on day one. It'll be beautiful, Your
feet will love it, everybody will love it, and it's
worth the effort. So get creative when it comes to
these kinds of things. You are listening to Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. Hey, thank you
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to be with you. It's always good to be a
part of starting your weekend outright with a friendly voice.
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That's mine, I mean, that's my intention. That's the goal.
It is an all calls weekend. We are just going
to the phones. You're setting the agenda today. The number
to reach me eight three three two, ask Dean, Hey, Joan,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Hi, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I bought an old house, probably from the thirties in
northern Michigan, and I pretty much have to diy this
whole thing myself.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
So it's.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
The problem, one of the problems I'm having. There's a
lot of problems. But I pulled all the carpet out
of the house, and it does have some hardwood flooring underneath.
But when I pulled out this carpet that I think
is maybe from the sixties, underneath there's about half an
inch of black soot and black chunks that are like
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charcoali from the pad deteriorating, and I mean there's almost
it's thick. And I'm wondering the best and safest way
to get rid of that.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, the safest way to get rid of it is
mask up, put on your gloves, get a nice floor
scraper out there, and you know, then scrape it up,
scrape up what parts you can, get it into bags
and get it out of there. It is the carpet padding.
It is, especially back in the sixties and seventies, was
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the lowest form of easily degradable polyurethane. Polyurethane kind of foam,
rubbery foam, and so as the years roll on, moisture
in the carpet, pet moisture, pet urine, I mean, every
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imaginable thing works and especially like in Michigan, temperature changes
and moisture humidity can just absolutely wipe out a carpet,
especially a carpet that was laid down in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So anyway, yeah, it's pretty much just a mummified mess
down there. So scrape it up now. There may be
some parts that are gooey or sticky. App Actually that's
still just the breakdown of that polyurethane. There are adhesive
removers that will help you get that back up acetone
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if you just want to get something right off the shelf.
Otherwise you can go with an adhesive remover. What is
the one and that? In fact, we were just doing
this not that long ago. Here I want to say
it was made by let me take a.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Look here for youture. No, I don't have it here?
How did I lose it?
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here? We go uh clean Uh. The company Clean K
L E A n UH makes a great great adhesive
remover that now you know a little bit of acid
tone and uh adhesive remover. Also, Bostick makes the Ultimate
adhesive remover. That's the one that we use Bostic b
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O S t I K Bostic Ultimate Adhesive Remover. Don't
over use it because I'm assuming you might want to
be preserving those hardwood floors underneath, uh, and so you
don't want to overuse it because it can get a
little but essentially the same material that you would use
to take off fingernail polish, you know, acetone is what
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you want to use on the floor with the really
sticky stuff. But don't don't fear the rest of it.
Just mask up and get it all out of there,
and then glory in those nineteen thirties hardwood floors. That
just might make this whole thing worthwhile.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, maybe just shop back it up.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, any anything you can do,
use a floor scraper for the stuff that's really sticky
and anything that's gooey, go ahead and use the ADHESI
remover on.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Do you mind if I ask you one quick question?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Real quick.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Okay, what's your opinion on the Monsanto force field rushing
versus plywood on a roof that's going through winter with
not much.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Of a pitch.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Okay, so the Monsanto roofing shield the weather shields versus
just plywood.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, it's like a four x eight and you don't
have to put on the you know, you don't have
to wrap it. It's all just one piece and then
you just put the shingles on top of it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah. It's a good material. It's a solid material. It's
a solid concept. Okay, it's got to be applied exactly
how they speck it. The problem with pre wrapped vapor
barrier sheets of material is that people often just put
them together and they ignore the seams. There are details
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about how to do the seams, and you've got to
do the seams. You've got to work those properly so
that they're all sealed in one to the other. Otherwise
you're defeating the purpose of the whole thing, you know,
being what it is. And if that's in your budget
and it's something that's readily available to you, no problem. Otherwise,
just laying down just standard old plywood and using any
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number of overlapping seam sealed elastimeric roof membranes. It's gonna
work just fine for you, honestly, gonna work just fine.
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Don't pitch plywood, I mean half inch plywood, half.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Inch or five eights plywood. I'd prefer five eights up
on a roof so that it maintains its rigidity up
there and doesn't sag in between roof rafters. So we
prefer doing a roof in five eights uh, and then
using you know, a self sealing membrane up there. You're
gonna be fine, Gonna be fine.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Thank you, Joan. Thanks for the call, Michigan. That's fantastic.
How about some more of your calls when we return.
You are listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Welcome to home, where every week we help you better
understand that place where you live. I'm Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper here with you live like I am every weekend.
Or whether you are listening to the local broadcast right
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here in southern California, or you're streaming us live from
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another episode of the House Whisper Podcast. I am just
glad that you are here with us. Good morning to you,
and welcome home. We are doing an all calls weekend.
Let's talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
My family lives in a thirty five hundred square foot
a two story single family house in Orange County, a
bill Lyon home, and we a year ten years ago,
I spent about fifty thousand upgrading the back put, installing
a hard roof, tile floor, granite countertops, at an outdoor
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kitchen with three different barbecues and sinks, and our kitchen
needs a similar upgrade. We have hardwood cabinets that we like.
They're oak. We love wood. We have at nineteen sixty
nine home if I didn't mention that, and it's got
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tile countertops, and we put in a new tile in
the floor when we redid the patio, but the floor
is chipping. The tile was substandard. We need new flooring.
We want to replace our countertops. We want to keep
the cabinetry, and we like wood so much that we'd
like to go hardwood countertops. So we'd like your recommendation there.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well, good on you
and for you know, being bold and wanting to do
some cool stuff. So here is the thing for just
as a general recommendation. And I'll get back to this
in a second. I have no issues whatsoever with hardwood countertops, none,
zero issues. I know people all over southern California are like, oh, oh,
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we would never do that. That's fine, then don't do it.
But I'm just telling you, as somebody who's been building
homes and designing homes for you know, almost forty years now,
hardwood is a brilliant countertop. People are like, well, that
will never last up to you know, spillage and moisture.
And it's like, well, if you've ever been on a
boat that has a galley in it, I guarantee you
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this one thing. The countertop on that galley is hardwood.
If you've ever gone into a pub and sat at
a bar, the bar is hardwood. So yeah, the idea
that wood doesn't hold up to abuse and or moisture
is a myth. Now you got to do it right, okay,
So but there you go. There's my feeling about hardwood countertops,
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even so much so that Tina and I half of
the counters half of them in our kitchen. The specifically
the counter that the sink is in is a two
inch thick walnut, black walnut, and it just oiled, not
finished with polyurethane or anything, just oiled with mineral oil.
And it's years old now, and it years and years
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old now and it looks like brand new and all
we have to do is just reoil it and gaboom.
So anyway, now the trick for you, Dave is going
to be this. You've got you're thinking about putting hardwood
floors in the kitchen. You've got oak cabinets, and you're
thinking about wood. Now that as a wood lover, you
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know that's a lot of wood. And so the key
is this. I'm not going to tell you not to
do all of that wood, but I am going to
be very very specific. You need to wisely create contrast
between the floor, the cabinets and the countertops. So whatever
color the oak is of the cabinets, that's a lock,
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right because they're all finished out. Whatever color that is.
You want some contrast in lightness or darkness and in
intensity of color for the countertops. Number one and number
two for the floor. If we go oak on oak
on it, actually the material itself is irrelevant. I would
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not use oak for the countertops just because oak doesn't
do as well with these things. But the floor, the
cabinetry and the counter, if you went with the same
kind of style and the same general tone, you're gonna
end up with a wood cave. And you don't want
a wood cave in your kitchen where your kitchen used
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to be. Okay, So in order for it to really pop,
for it to really shine, for it to really show
itself off, you just want color contrasts. So if the
cabinets are staying dark, then you want to go lighter
with the counter or vice versa. Our cabinets in our
kitchen are white. They're just there. They're beautiful wood cabinets,
but they are white. And so the dark wallnuts sitting
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on top of those cabinets, and then we have a
brick style tile floor underneath them. They all just show
off and compliment each other, you know, super well. But
we have done wood on wood on wood before. But
the key is contrast heavy contrasts so that you don't
get that cav bleed out effect.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And so there you go, and my recommendation as far
as the wood there are several species of hardwoods that
work really, really well. You should just get yourself down
to a hardwood specialty shop or lumberyard that specializes in
hardwoods and check out what they've got and the you know,
see how you guys feel about it, because it's one
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of the one of the fun things about picking out
hardwoods for situations like this. Every piece is different, you know,
it's not just standard lumber. And a lot of people
are wondering, like, Okay, where do I find such things,
cause you know, I didn't see anything at the home
depot or lows or at the lumberyard down the street. Now,
first of all, your lumber yard down the street may
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have some, but there are shops all over southern California
that specialize in these kinds of woods. Two things you
need to do. One, when you're talking about wood that
you're going to use for finished products like countertops or furniture,
it doesn't come in it's not sold in inches by inches.
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It's actually sold in quarter inches thicknesses. So if you're
looking for a two inch countertop slab, you're gonna be
looking for an eight quarter an eight over four, okay,
because that's how they're rated. That way. So if you're
looking for an inch and a half, it's a six
over four, and one inch is a four over four.
That's just lingo. If you walk in, speak in the lingo,
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they're gonna dig you. Where do you find it? All
over the place. If you're up here in eastern Ventora
County or the West Valley, then you know, get out
here to a gore and go to Canao Hardwoods. If
you're in La Bonhoff Lumber, of course, classic my buddy's
over at Angel City Lumber. Please go to Angel City
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and check out what they've got. If down in Anaheim,
you've got a lot of choices, among which are California
Exotic hardwoods, and there are others. There are many, many others,
but there just gives you a sample of North Valley,
Northwest Valley, LA and Orange County. These kinds of places
are all over the place. The last thing I'm gonna
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tell you is when we do a countertop, my preference
is not to super seal the wood in terms of
like putting multiple layers of polyurethane and making it like
a bar top shiny like I said our would when
in raw the black walnut and we just keep it
nicely oiled, water beads right on the surface. What if
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it gets scratched, Dean, Well, it's two inch thick hardwood.
If you end up with a scratch or a gouge
that you're just like, uh oh, you know what, especially
if it's only been oiled, you just get out the
sand paper or a little sand er, a little palm sander,
and just gently, very very gently massage the area until
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the gouge goes away, reoil it, and you're back in
the game again. That has not happened to our countertop,
but you know it could. So there you go, my
friend Dave, thank you for the question, and good luck
on the kitchen. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
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Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
welcome to home. 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. Hey, Gary, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I just inherited a seventy five year old house from
my mom and I noticed that there's some TERMI droppings
around and when I look for tags, I find that
the last time it was fumigated was about nineteen ninety eight.
They tags say that they use something called Viking, and
I'm wondering is that the gold standard still or is
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there something better these days? And what do I do
with the damage that's I've found.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now, I'm not familiar with every chemical process that is
part of a tent fumigation, but I can tell you this, Gary,
We've come such a long way in the last twenty
five twenty seven years since the house was fumigated before,
and you've got a lot of options. My encouragement to
you is that you talk to a pest control company
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that has, in fact in their arsenal, a lot of options,
and you'd be surprised few of those companies are out
there because a lot of pest control companies they just
get into the biz. They just pick up the stuff
that everybody does. They'll do a little spot treatment here
or there, but if anything is beyond what they're comfortable with,
then they'll just say, tent the house. And so you
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tend the house, you move all the stuff out, you
stay out of it, and it gets fully tinted and
it's going to be that way for a few days,
and it's you know, if you're not living in the house, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's such generally empty. So I'm not opposed to having
a tented and taking as much time as they need, but.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I want you to know that, you know, there's a
cost involved in that, obviously, and it may or may
not be justified. So the point is this, just because
you find some droppings here and there doesn't mean that
it is an entire whole house infestation. You need to
get conscientious eyes on and that's why I say I
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want you to go with a pest control company that
has a lot of other options other than just what
we call the nuclear option, which is just tenth the
house and it's gone because we've come a long way.
We can electrocute termites in walls. Shockingly, shockingly, I did
not mean to say that that way. We can find
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termites and walls and run a current through them because
they've got water in their bodies, and actually electrocute them
through the walls to dispose of them. There are various
other forms of spot treatment that are highly, highly effective
that don't require tentting the house. And there's heat treating
a house instead of tinting. And I'm a huge fan
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of whole house heat treatment as opposed to tinting, just
because it leaves no chemical residue, no harmful things behind.
Heat treating a house is also a whole house treatment.
It's sealing up the whole house using heaters and fans
to bring the internal temperature of the house up to
about one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty degrees.
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They hold it there for a few hours. That is
lethal to every termite everywhere inside the place, and it
doesn't require a tent. It's done. It starts at the
beginning of the day, early in the morning, and it's
done and you're back in the house or anybody could
be back in the house by that evening. No chemical residue,
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you don't have to pull stuff out, and you know,
and I know the house is relatively empty, but just
so you know, it doesn't leave behind any toxicity. It's
just a heat treatment, massively popular. Yeah treatment here. My
biggest recommendation is to find the right company. Now, yeah,
of course, I'm going to tell you that Eco La.
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They are my preferred pest control company for southern California's
precisely because they have a full arsenal and I don't
know of a pest control company that's more conscientious when
it comes to approaching the house. They simply don't want
to do more than is necessary. And they are as
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everybody who has the nuclear button in front of them
should be. They are loathed to just turn the key
and press the button. But they always get the job done.
And so that's the guarantee. They're going to get the
job done at whatever level it needs to go. And
so talk to them, give them a call, Eco La,
Eco La, give them a call, and you know, have
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them consult with you about the termite situation. How extensive
is it. They may say, hey, Gary, we need to
tent the house, or they may offer some other solutions
that you might be far more comfortable with and that
your wallet may actually be more comfortable with. So the
moral of the story for everybody who's listening is, uh,
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you find the right doctor, not the one who just says,
got an infected splinter. There amputation. No, no, no, no no.
Let's find a conscientious doctor who gets to the route,
gets it done with the minimal amount of invasive surgery
along the way. That's the goal. Gary, Thank you for
your call, my friend. All right, let's talk to Julie.
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Hey Julie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Hi Deine.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We're looking at getting new windows and I love the
black frame windows, but they're obviously a lot more expensive.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So I was wondering, what are your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Honestly, just if someone just adgested black frame windows in
the back of the house and kept the traditional white frame.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
In the front, I have no general problems with that whatsoever.
In fact, if you hear me talk on the show
quite often, i'll talk about the tech. One of the
techniques for upgrading a house without touching its traditional curb
appeal is to treat the facade of the house differently
than the backside of the house, because from the the
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facade of the house is something that is viewed from
outside the house, standing on the curb in the street
looking at the house. Then you move into the house,
you walk in, and once you're past the face of
the house, now we're inside the house looking out through
windows into the backyard. It's a completely different experience. And
so the idea of using black frame windows for the
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backside of the house because you love them and because
they work with the configuration that you're looking for. In
my thinking, in most cases most cases don't quote me
on this universally, but in most cases, yeah, your freedom
to mix it up, I would even say, depending on decor.
There are times when you know there are well, actually
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you know, I'll tell you this. We just finished designing
from the ground up a new house in Studio City.
Some of those windows are white traditional framed windows, some
of them are dark bronze and black traditional windows. Just
depending on room for room and the effect that we're
looking for, and on some of the elevations of the house,
you can see both at the same time. It all
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depends on whether it works with that theme. But as
a general rule, you know, it's kind of the mullet approach, right,
all business up front and party in the back. So
keep your white frame windows facing the street and do
back black towards the back of the house and have
a blast. I think you're completely free to do that
in most cases. Thanks Julie for the call. Yes, yes,
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it's my mullet theory. My mullet theory applies to lots
of things all the time. I'm so glad you joined
me this morning. Hang tight, there is more to come.
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agenda today. The number to reach me eight three three two.
Ask Dean, Hey, Philip, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, good morning. I have a question about a bathroom.
We're upgrading a small second bath. It's about eight by
four and for the flooring, the choice, I guess comes
down to a vinyl sheeting or the twelve inch tiles.
And is that a matter of just preference or is
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one safer easier to clean, et cetera. Do you have
any comment about what's a good for It's going to
be used every day, so there is a lot of traffic,
and there is a shower, which we'll talk about in
the second, so there might be water from time to time.
The ideas on that.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Okay, well, all right, So when you say the choices
come down to sheeting or twelve by twelve tie, you
mean twelve by twelve vinyl tiles, So.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh, cerami or whatever?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh okay, all right, well you know, i'm I'm The
ceramic tile floor is a nicer floor than than the
the vinyl. It's also going to be a little bit
more expensive, going to involve some more stuff to do
along the way. Is this a are we going down
on a slab? Or are we upstairs?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
What's our su It's a one story and right now
there is some vinyl there, but it's it's an old house,
so it's not on slab.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a race foundation.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, I got you, I got you. Yeah, So vinyl
is going to Now what's the Let me ask you this,
what's the floor material outside in the hallway?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I would it's it's an odor Like the other woman
it's an odor home, but all the flooring is very
nice and it's you know, the original from thirty nineteen
thirty seven, got you all right?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So here's the thing. I'm just gonna say this because
I don't get to say it ahead of time before.
People do this kind of stuff very often, and that is,
if you're gonna go tile in there, okay, then you're
gonna put down at least you know where you got
your your the hardwood and the substrate underneath the bathroom floor.
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By the time you put down back or board and tile,
then your tile is going to be up above the
level of the hardwood coming in, so you're gonna have
a level change, which is not my favorite. Now there
are ways around that, which is to block in between
the floor joists with solid plywood, not on top of,
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but in between them. It's a little bit more work
that allows you to lay down just the back or
board and the tile and actually end up planing out
with that three quarter inch flooring, which is a beautiful
way to go. It's my preferred way to go. Anytime
we are asked to do that and to design it,
that's always what I say, because I love the idea
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especially in an older home, pushing a century home, that
we just transition smoothly from the top of the hardwood
to the top of ceramic tile without there having to
be a big step up into the bathroom. That aside,
vinyl will get you there without the extra effort. And
there are some really nice vinyls out there. But also
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in addition to nice vinyls out there, there are really
nice luxury vinyl planks out there, which also is going
to raise the floor only a little bit, and they
interlock with each other and they float and they might
be well, they would be I think in this case
a sexier nice are looking completely bomb proof and waterproof
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alternative to just sheet good vinyls. So that's my suggestion there.
But for those of you who have century homes, you've
got to raise foundation home and you're trying to match
up a bathroom floor, think creatively about how it is
that you can lay down a ceramic tile floor in
a bathroom without its sticking up an inch or so
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above the hardwood by the time all the layers are
built up. There is a way, There is a way
to do it, and it's it's sheeting and blocking in
between the joists as opposed to on top of it.
So that's my opinion on that, Philip. What else did
you have for me?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Cheating and bookie? Okay? The other thing, the shower valve
very hard to turn on and turn off. You have
to really tighten it. Is that something that a matter
of changing some parts. A plumber could do that. Or
do we have to take the valve out because that
would involve but breaking the tile and then in a
replace in a tile.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
What's on the other side of that bathroom shower wall?
Another bathroom, another bathroom? So what's immediately on the other side.
Is it plaster, drywall or is it another tub?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Let's see on the other side. I think it's a drywall.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, so there is the answer to your question. An
old valve like that. Sometimes fixing an old valve like
that is actually easier than it seems, because maybe it's
just an old pressurized washer in the valve. But let's assume,
just for the sake of argument, the harder problem, which
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is those valves are just old and they're not going
to rehab Well, here is the secret. This is what
we do all the time, find out what is exactly
precisely on the other side of that wall, what is
right behind those valves. If it's plaster or drywall, you're
in luck because that's how we change this stuff out
without tearing up the tile inside the shower area. We
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open up the drywall. Just a little bit of drywall
repair ain't nothing compared to having to redo tile in
a shower.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
So you open tile, then we have to break it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
You said, yeah, if you got tile, then you got
to break it. But if on the back side of
that wall it's dry wall, then you open that up
and we get to those valves from the backside and
slide new ones through the existing tile setup, and you're
good to go with a minimal dry wall repair versus
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tearing up everything inside the shower. Philip, thank you for
the questions and for the call good luck. Give a
serious look. I'm just saying a house that is pushing
a century in age is worth your time and energy
to fix it up right. I don't want to spend
your money for you, but it's a little bit more
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elbow grease and not real a lot of cost. If
you decide to go with a ceramic tile floor and
in order to get that level leveled out, with the
existing three quarter inch hardwood, that beautiful stuff. What we
do is, instead of sheeting on top of the floor
joist in a bathroom, we will block some edges and
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will sheet in between the floor joists in the bathroom.
That saves us three quarters of an inch, which means
half an inch of back or board on top of
that and our ceramic tile, and your brand new ceramic
tile floor ends up floating out flush with the century
old hardwood, and nobody will ever question that that's how
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it was done on day one. It'll be beautiful, Your
feet will love it, everybody will love it, and it's
worth the effort. So get creative when it comes to
these kinds of things. You are listening to Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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That's mine, I mean, that's my intention. That's the goal.
It is an all calls weekend. We are just going
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to reach me eight three three two, ask Dean, Hey, Joan,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Hi, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I bought an old house, probably from the thirties in
northern Michigan, and I pretty much have to diy this
whole thing myself.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
So it's.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
The problem, one of the problems I'm having. There's a
lot of problems. But I pulled all the carpet out
of the house, and it does have some hardwood flooring underneath.
But when I pulled out this carpet that I think
is maybe from the sixties, underneath there's about half an
inch of black soot and black chunks that are like
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charcoali from the pad deteriorating, and I mean there's almost
it's thick. And I'm wondering the best and safest way
to get rid of that.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Well, the safest way to get rid of it is
mask up, put on your gloves, get a nice floor
scraper out there, and you know, then scrape it up,
scrape up what parts you can, get it into bags
and get it out of there. It is the carpet padding.
It is, especially back in the sixties and seventies, was
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the lowest form of easily degradable polyurethane. Polyurethane kind of foam,
rubbery foam, and so as the years roll on, moisture
in the carpet, pet moisture, pet urine, I mean, every
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imaginable thing works and especially like in Michigan, temperature changes
and moisture humidity can just absolutely wipe out a carpet,
especially a carpet that was laid down in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So anyway, yeah, it's pretty much just a mummified mess
down there. So scrape it up now. There may be
some parts that are gooey or sticky. App Actually that's
still just the breakdown of that polyurethane. There are adhesive
removers that will help you get that back up acetone
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if you just want to get something right off the shelf.
Otherwise you can go with an adhesive remover. What is
the one and that? In fact, we were just doing
this not that long ago. Here I want to say
it was made by let me take a.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Look here for youture. No, I don't have it here?
How did I lose it?
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here? We go uh clean Uh. The company Clean K
L E A n UH makes a great great adhesive
remover that now you know a little bit of acid
tone and uh adhesive remover. Also, Bostick makes the Ultimate
adhesive remover. That's the one that we use Bostic b
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O S t I K Bostic Ultimate Adhesive Remover. Don't
over use it because I'm assuming you might want to
be preserving those hardwood floors underneath, uh, and so you
don't want to overuse it because it can get a
little but essentially the same material that you would use
to take off fingernail polish, you know, acetone is what
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you want to use on the floor with the really
sticky stuff. But don't don't fear the rest of it.
Just mask up and get it all out of there,
and then glory in those nineteen thirties hardwood floors. That
just might make this whole thing worthwhile.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, maybe just shop back it up.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, any anything you can do,
use a floor scraper for the stuff that's really sticky
and anything that's gooey, go ahead and use the ADHESI
remover on.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Do you mind if I ask you one quick question?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Real quick.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Okay, what's your opinion on the Monsanto force field rushing
versus plywood on a roof that's going through winter with
not much.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Of a pitch.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Okay, so the Monsanto roofing shield the weather shields versus
just plywood.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, it's like a four x eight and you don't
have to put on the you know, you don't have
to wrap it. It's all just one piece and then
you just put the shingles on top of it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah. It's a good material. It's a solid material. It's
a solid concept. Okay, it's got to be applied exactly
how they speck it. The problem with pre wrapped vapor
barrier sheets of material is that people often just put
them together and they ignore the seams. There are details
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about how to do the seams, and you've got to
do the seams. You've got to work those properly so
that they're all sealed in one to the other. Otherwise
you're defeating the purpose of the whole thing, you know,
being what it is. And if that's in your budget
and it's something that's readily available to you, no problem. Otherwise,
just laying down just standard old plywood and using any
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number of overlapping seam sealed elastimeric roof membranes. It's gonna
work just fine for you, honestly, gonna work just fine.
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Don't pitch plywood, I mean half inch plywood, half.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Inch or five eights plywood. I'd prefer five eights up
on a roof so that it maintains its rigidity up
there and doesn't sag in between roof rafters. So we
prefer doing a roof in five eights uh, and then
using you know, a self sealing membrane up there. You're
gonna be fine, Gonna be fine.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Thank you, Joan. Thanks for the call, Michigan. That's fantastic.
How about some more of your calls when we return.
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Let's talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
My family lives in a thirty five hundred square foot
a two story single family house in Orange County, a
bill Lyon home, and we a year ten years ago,
I spent about fifty thousand upgrading the back put, installing
a hard roof, tile floor, granite countertops, at an outdoor
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kitchen with three different barbecues and sinks, and our kitchen
needs a similar upgrade. We have hardwood cabinets that we like.
They're oak. We love wood. We have at nineteen sixty
nine home if I didn't mention that, and it's got
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tile countertops, and we put in a new tile in
the floor when we redid the patio, but the floor
is chipping. The tile was substandard. We need new flooring.
We want to replace our countertops. We want to keep
the cabinetry, and we like wood so much that we'd
like to go hardwood countertops. So we'd like your recommendation there.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well, good on you
and for you know, being bold and wanting to do
some cool stuff. So here is the thing for just
as a general recommendation. And I'll get back to this
in a second. I have no issues whatsoever with hardwood countertops, none,
zero issues. I know people all over southern California are like, oh, oh,
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we would never do that. That's fine, then don't do it.
But I'm just telling you, as somebody who's been building
homes and designing homes for you know, almost forty years now,
hardwood is a brilliant countertop. People are like, well, that
will never last up to you know, spillage and moisture.
And it's like, well, if you've ever been on a
boat that has a galley in it, I guarantee you
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this one thing. The countertop on that galley is hardwood.
If you've ever gone into a pub and sat at
a bar, the bar is hardwood. So yeah, the idea
that wood doesn't hold up to abuse and or moisture
is a myth. Now you got to do it right, okay,
So but there you go. There's my feeling about hardwood countertops,
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even so much so that Tina and I half of
the counters half of them in our kitchen. The specifically
the counter that the sink is in is a two
inch thick walnut, black walnut, and it just oiled, not
finished with polyurethane or anything, just oiled with mineral oil.
And it's years old now, and it years and years
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old now and it looks like brand new and all
we have to do is just reoil it and gaboom.
So anyway, now the trick for you, Dave is going
to be this. You've got you're thinking about putting hardwood
floors in the kitchen. You've got oak cabinets, and you're
thinking about wood. Now that as a wood lover, you
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know that's a lot of wood. And so the key
is this. I'm not going to tell you not to
do all of that wood, but I am going to
be very very specific. You need to wisely create contrast
between the floor, the cabinets and the countertops. So whatever
color the oak is of the cabinets, that's a lock,
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right because they're all finished out. Whatever color that is.
You want some contrast in lightness or darkness and in
intensity of color for the countertops. Number one and number
two for the floor. If we go oak on oak
on it, actually the material itself is irrelevant. I would
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not use oak for the countertops just because oak doesn't
do as well with these things. But the floor, the
cabinetry and the counter, if you went with the same
kind of style and the same general tone, you're gonna
end up with a wood cave. And you don't want
a wood cave in your kitchen where your kitchen used
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to be. Okay, So in order for it to really pop,
for it to really shine, for it to really show
itself off, you just want color contrasts. So if the
cabinets are staying dark, then you want to go lighter
with the counter or vice versa. Our cabinets in our
kitchen are white. They're just there. They're beautiful wood cabinets,
but they are white. And so the dark wallnuts sitting
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on top of those cabinets, and then we have a
brick style tile floor underneath them. They all just show
off and compliment each other, you know, super well. But
we have done wood on wood on wood before. But
the key is contrast heavy contrasts so that you don't
get that cav bleed out effect.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And so there you go, and my recommendation as far
as the wood there are several species of hardwoods that
work really, really well. You should just get yourself down
to a hardwood specialty shop or lumberyard that specializes in
hardwoods and check out what they've got and the you know,
see how you guys feel about it, because it's one
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of the one of the fun things about picking out
hardwoods for situations like this. Every piece is different, you know,
it's not just standard lumber. And a lot of people
are wondering, like, Okay, where do I find such things,
cause you know, I didn't see anything at the home
depot or lows or at the lumberyard down the street. Now,
first of all, your lumber yard down the street may
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have some, but there are shops all over southern California
that specialize in these kinds of woods. Two things you
need to do. One, when you're talking about wood that
you're going to use for finished products like countertops or furniture,
it doesn't come in it's not sold in inches by inches.
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It's actually sold in quarter inches thicknesses. So if you're
looking for a two inch countertop slab, you're gonna be
looking for an eight quarter an eight over four, okay,
because that's how they're rated. That way. So if you're
looking for an inch and a half, it's a six
over four, and one inch is a four over four.
That's just lingo. If you walk in, speak in the lingo,
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they're gonna dig you. Where do you find it? All
over the place. If you're up here in eastern Ventora
County or the West Valley, then you know, get out
here to a gore and go to Canao Hardwoods. If
you're in La Bonhoff Lumber, of course, classic my buddy's
over at Angel City Lumber. Please go to Angel City
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and check out what they've got. If down in Anaheim,
you've got a lot of choices, among which are California
Exotic hardwoods, and there are others. There are many, many others,
but there just gives you a sample of North Valley,
Northwest Valley, LA and Orange County. These kinds of places
are all over the place. The last thing I'm gonna
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tell you is when we do a countertop, my preference
is not to super seal the wood in terms of
like putting multiple layers of polyurethane and making it like
a bar top shiny like I said our would when
in raw the black walnut and we just keep it
nicely oiled, water beads right on the surface. What if
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it gets scratched, Dean, Well, it's two inch thick hardwood.
If you end up with a scratch or a gouge
that you're just like, uh oh, you know what, especially
if it's only been oiled, you just get out the
sand paper or a little sand er, a little palm sander,
and just gently, very very gently massage the area until
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the gouge goes away, reoil it, and you're back in
the game again. That has not happened to our countertop,
but you know it could. So there you go, my
friend Dave, thank you for the question, and good luck
on the kitchen. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper on KFI. This has been Home with
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