May 2, 2026 • 32 mins
7:05am – Dean provides advice to a listener about a solar lease agreement.
7:20am - Dean talks solar lease rates and works around some loopholes with the electric bill.
7:35am –Dean dives into a leaking heater and what to do to fix it,
7:50am – Dean advices a caller on replacing their roof, and a termite tratment
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp,
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without any further Ado, let's go back to the phones.
I want to talk to Louis. Hey, Louis, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Good morning Dan. We're in the middle of a solar
lease and of course they're the company is starting to
want to upgrade us. Our current bill is approximately one
forty to the solar company and eighty four to the
Electric Edison. They want to charge us one hundred and
ninety one twenty four the first year, with a three
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point five percent increase over the extension of the lease.
What do you think, why?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why why are they upgrading you? I mean upgrade? Isn't
that grade to upgrade your lease? What what are they
giving you for the for the new terms?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They're giving me eight more panels, four on the east,
which I don't want them there, and four on the west,
and two backup batteries. Back up is the backup batteries
are the key. That's a tesla. Yeah, you know, so
that's what it is. One hundred and ninety one twenty
four to the first year, three point five percent each year
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after UH guarantee no elects your company bill. And of
course they fix everything when it breaks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, uh, you know what, I would take it seriously.
I would. I would simply ask for their you know,
make sure you're looking at their projections about things. And
here's why, you know, I mean, there's nothing wrong with
your existing lease. And if you like your existing lease,
that's fine. But you know, it's not the solar lease
company that has changed the game. It is the power
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company that has changed the game. You like me, I'm
in the same situation. It was in the same situation
where you know, we set a lease for our solar.
We decided not to buy our solar because I actually
like the lease idea. I didn't need to own my solar.
And one of the benefits of not buying it is
that all of the maintenance all of the repair everything
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is on them, uh, you know, for twenty plus years,
which is great for me. But we got our solar
when we were still under net metering two point zero
here in California, which was just flat out same rates
day and night, and in terms of what I could
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sell back to the power company, and so my solar
was a net zero. That means at the end of
the year, we hadn't paid any money to the power company.
Now they keep changing the rules of the game. They
keep changing how you know, what you're allowed to buy
from them at what price, at what time during the day,
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and what you're allowed what they will pay when you
sell solar back to them back onto the grid in
order to credit your system. And so we found ourselves,
like so many and probably like you, in a situation
where all of a sudden, we do have a power
bill all you know again, and that's because we didn't
have backup bat as a part of the initial thing.
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So now what happens is your solar system is generating
most of its energy in the earlier part of the day,
and that's when it's generating most of its excess energy.
I should say most of it's excess energy because you know,
you're probably not pulling down a lot of juice at
the house around ten to noon on a weekday because
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people are at working, and you know it's just one
of those low demand times, so your your system is overproducing.
But Edison or PG and E or whoever the power company,
they don't want to buy your your your power that time.
And if you try and sell it back to them,
they're going to buy it for pennies pennies on the
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killowat But come two o'clock or four o'clock in the afternoon,
the rates skyrocket up into you know, forty fifty cents
a kill a watt that they're charging you. And still
they will only pay pennies for kilowatts that come back.
So the key to solar in California now and a
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lot of people have said, well, solar isn't even worth
it anymore, that's not true. But the key to eight
and effective solar system is the backup battery. And oh gosh, okay, Louis,
I'm up against a break. Can you hang tight because
I want to finish this explanation on the other side,
why it's impact to.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Give you the exact numbers of what electric course from
the company.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now, okay, perfect, you hang tight and we'll pick this
up on the other side. Why are backup batteries a
critical component of a solar system in California? Why do
they make all the difference. We'll explain that when we
come back your home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help you take
your home to the next level. It's an all call
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Saturday morning. We've got Louis on the line talking about
his solar lease. His solar lease company wants to upgrade
his solar lease from what he's got now, which is
a number of panels, to adding some panels and a
couple of backup batteries. And the question is is that
a good idea? And so we were talking about the
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fact that that he, like me, had his solar done
back when power companies were charging us differently. We were
under we were under net metering two point zero, and
they promised that that would we'd be grandfathered in forever.
And then they changed their promise and and we're not
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grandfathered in forever now and now rates widely fluctuate during
the day and when we're producing extra energy from our
solar panels, the power company is not interested in paying
fair prices to purchase it, and then in the afternoon
when demand goes up for them, their rates skyrocket during
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peak hours, and still our ability to sell back to
the grid has been, you know, capped at the knees.
And so the idea that fixes this, that that is
the workaround around this that is critical for California Solar
at least, and it's going to be this way across
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the nation as well, is backup batteries, and not just
a dumb backup battery, but a smart backup battery. Meaning
this is how we rig the game. What happens is
instead of trying to sell back to the grid when
we're overproducing in the morning hours, what we're doing is
we're charging up the battery. We're charging up both of
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our backup batteries on the house, and then those batteries
are programmed to take over for Southern California Edison. We're
Edison customers here where we live. Those batteries are designed
during the peak hours when I would be paying Mondo
bucks to Edison for their power, I get to live
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off of my own power through those peak hours, so
the batteries discharge and run the house and during those
peak periods to you know, eliminate my need to pay
the higher peak rates from medicine and then evening hits
and if I've still got battery power left, we roll
into the evening and then at some point they cut off. Now,
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we program our batteries to stop discharging once they're at
twenty percent capacity, and that way, no matter what happens,
even in the middle of the night, if there's a backout, blackout,
we've got backup energy. And that's the other big benefit
of a backup batteries that you've got a you got
backup power during a brownout or a blackout or something
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like that that's renewable and rechargeable. And then the next morning, boom,
the cycle repeats. The batteries charge back up and we
avoid paying those prices. And that is how into the
future you you end up beating the electric company at
their game. And it does work. It's the real thing.
And and yeah, they they're gonna want a little bit
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more on the lease because they're putting some pretty serious equipment.
I mean, right now, a Tesla power Wall three battery
is you know, kind of retails in the twelve thousand
dollars a piece range, and it's not it doesn't cost
them quite that much, but it costs a lot. So
they're adding new equipment and and so they want to
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up the lease, and you know, you'll have to work
that out with your company just to make sure that
it's fair. But generally speaking, Louis, yeah, it's a good bet.
I would encourage any solar owner who is starting to
see that they're paying the power company now again when
they weren't originally, that a backup battery added to their
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system is the key to mitigate, you know, the the
power company system rates. Traditionally, now, different power companies have
raised their rates at different rates, but I'll tell you
this pretty consistently through California, nothing has been on average
below seven percent rate increases per year, per year next year.
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There you go. Okay, So here's the thing. If we
were to just take the seven percent number, if you're
paying a meager two hundred dollars a month for your
power right now, in ten years, that's going to be
closer to three hundred and eighty to four hundred dollars
a month, Okay, And so then the idea of even
your increase lease price monthly price is that that's it,
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and there it goes, and it's just that little three
percent increase. So you're basically paying level now for the
next twenty years and while everybody else is going up
at rapid percentage points. And so in the end, in
the long run, you are the big winner there if
you go in that direct. Actually, you just got to
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make sure that it's a fair deal from your lease.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Company and is that negotiable with them.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You know, what's negotiable is is not necessarily having to
throw the extra panels on. In my situation, I didn't
need extra panels, okay, because I was doing just fine
producing enough energy from the existing panels that under the
old system, I was knocking it out of the park
and we were actually getting a credit at the end
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of the year. And so they came to me with
the same deal and they're like, well, we're going to
put two batteries and seven extra panels on your house,
and I'm like, no, that means that you're going to
be putting them on the front of my house. I
don't want them facing the street. I got all the
panels I need so you know, hey, if you can
afford to squeeze a couple more panels onto the house,
go for it, but not on the front. And so
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in my situation, I just took the batteries. It was
just an upgrade of my lease for the batteries because
the extra panels. Yeah whatever, If you were underpaneled, that
would be one thing. But if you if if the
battery is what you need, you just tell them directly. Listen,
I just want the battery.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The batteries. Yeah, getting I'm giving back. Well, I'm at
one hundred and five percent, and this is going to
give me one forty nine day claim. That's one percent
under the limit where I could be part of the program,
which I don't know if that's you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, no, it's exactly real.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And is it worth.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Uh yeah, Because here's the thing too, the electrification of
our culture is well underway. And no matter what the
current administration wants to say about drill baby, drilled, the
fact of the matter is the future is electric one
way or the other. Electric cars, uh and so on,
and so even if you don't have an electric car now,
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in ten years, the chance of you having at least
a plug in hybrid, it's going to be very, very high.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And so the batteries are useful. They're useful as backup power,
they're going to be useful when it comes to charging
the vehicle. There's a number of reasons why they are
the brightest and most beneficial way to look at the
future of our home infrastructure. And so yeah, if you
can afford it and afford to get into it now,
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it's going to be cheaper today, then it's going to
be next year, or the year after that or the
year after that. And so again, if they'll just give
you the deal that you want, then I would lock
it in. And that idea of the extra overproduction is
all about the power companies in the state of California
being in bed together and saying, yeah, we don't want people,
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we don't want people to become their own power plants
and go completely off grids. So you can't put too
many panels on your property, which is I think bs,
but that that's a state limitation. That's not your least
company limiting that they're under the same rules as you are.
But you are allowed to go up to one hundred
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and fifty percent because you can say things like, well,
I'm going to have an electric vehicle and da da
da da, and I'm gonna need the extra power, and
so get as much as you can now and lock
it in. Did I lose, Louis? Did I lose them?
For all right? Louis, Hey, I got to go to
break anyway, buddy, Thank you for the call, really really
important question allowed us to kind of broad treat the
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topic so everybody can hear kind of what the latest
of solar is. Solar is a brilliant, brilliant idea, okay,
and it's not going away. I promise you that it
is not going away. And yeah, solar in California still
saves you money, just does it differently than when it started.
But that shouldn't be an unusual thing. All of life
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is that way. Solar is still a completely viable option
in California and a wise one if if you're in
a situation where it will benefit you with for most homeowners,
it will all right, more of your calls when we
return your Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. You're
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AM six forty. Dean Sharp The House whisper here to
transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Oh yeah,
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help you find it. It's an all call Saturday morning.
Your calls setting the agenda for what we're talking about today.
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I want to go back to the phones. Let's talk
to Vivian. Vivian, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Thank you for taking my call. You're such an inspiration
to all of us that listen to you. Oh I am.
I have my hot water heater is going out and
I went to home Depot and they're like seven hundred
dollars for hot water heaters. So I need to know
(17:01):
how to you know, give a new one without I'm
afraid of being scammed.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And you can buy the one at home depot, but
who's gonna install it? And if they install it, you're
probably gonna be paying more than you need to be
because they're subcontraing contracting out that work. Uh. So you
know what, here's my recommendation. Where where do you live? Vivian?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I live in Orange.
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I've recommended them the friends who've been in trouble at
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and I have yet to hear a single negative thing
about that experience. They are a solid company, worth every penny,
and they don't overcharge, and so you know, it's because
they specialize in just that, and so they've streamlined their
rates and their costs and so it's profitable for them
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and it's not too expensive for you. And the work
is solid.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
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used to be able to do all the stuff I
needed done around my house, but now he's got a
bad heart condition and he can no longer lift or
do anything heavy or you know, to make his heart
go one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So yeah, I get it. I get it. Well, you
give them a call and if there's any issues whatsoever,
you call me back. But I think you're going to
be happy. They're going to take care of you. And
by the way, Vivian, you let them know, you let
them know I referred you. They're going to treat you right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Okay, okay, okay, I sure will thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You are so welcome, such a sweet call, such a
wee call. Great question too, because that's one of those
specialty areas where you can really save some money and
get some good stuff done if you work with a
company that specializes in just that kind of a thing.
So there you go, Vivian, congrats on that. All right,
let's say we got time to at least start another
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call here. Let's talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, welcome.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Home, good morning. Thank you for getting up way too
early to take these calls. The two part question, Sure,
we have three projects. The first part the first question
is we have three projects, and we wanted to know
in what order would be most efficient to do them.
The projects are termite the house, roof the house, and
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paint the house.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, okay, all right, okay, so let's do it this way.
Let's roof the house, then let's termite the house, and
then let's paint the house. And the reason I put
it in that order is roofing may require some additional wood.
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It may require if we're reroofing, maybe some sheathing gets replaced,
maybe some eaves get repaired. And so as a general rule,
when there's construction going on, we might bring in new lumber,
and new lumber might bring with it some new termites.
And so that's always a possibility. In fact, I can't
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tell you how many times we've had a lumber drop,
like on a brand new build, right, lumber drop on
the job site. Go out there and I'm looking at
the lumber and here are you know, termite Queen's crawling
all over the new lumber. And I'm like, oh, this
is gonna be great. So there's always a possibility. I mean,
you can see them. You can see them. Sometimes you
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catch one, you know, on the lumber at a big
box store like home depot or whatever. It's just you know,
they like wood, They hang out around wood. So there's
always the possibility when there's some form of construction going
on that we can impoort a termite. So if we
were to termite proof the house and then do construction,
we might have just you know, invited some new guys
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in after you know, the nuclear option went off and
they missed the whole show. So I would rather have
you do the roof work first, and then the termite
company comes along, and you know it's not a given,
but they might actually dig in somewhere or deal with something,
especially if they're spot treating, and that might you know,
they might mess paint up a little bit, or even
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tenting the house might paint up if that has to happen.
So uh, and paint is not going to bring termite
problems into the house. So I would roof and then
termite and then paint.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Super super. The second half is how to termite injecting
this chemical in here while the dog stays in the
house blah blah blah or moving out for a couple
of days and I'm killing average.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, Uh, that's a really good question, and it all
depends and uh, you know what here, Brian, I'm up
against a break. Uh, So let me pop you on
hold and I'm going to give you a well rounded
answer to that question. On the other side, does Ryan
need to press the nuclear option? Can he spot treat?
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And if we do have to press the nuclear option,
does that mean we always have to to pack up
everything and move out for you know, for half a week.
The answer is not necessarily the case. There are other
options out there. We'll talk about them all when we return.
You are home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Dean Sharp,
(23:14):
the house Whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level. Thanks for joining us on the program.
Here we are nearing the end of two hours together
here on an early Saturday morning. I just want to
remind you before I forget, We're gonna be doing the
Big show tomorrow from nine to noon, and tomorrow I
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will also be taking calls mid show as we do.
But tomorrow I'm gonna be talking about roofing, roofing, roofs, roofs,
everything that is pertinent right now. I know it seems
like early spring, is that there? You know? Why talk
about roofs now? We're not getting into the rainy seas
or anything like that. Yeah, but we've got a bit
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big El Nino coming our way from all accounts, and uh,
If that's the case, and if your roof is not
up to the challenge, now, right now is the time.
You don't want to overpay and you want to be
ahead of the game. Right now is the time to
start figuring out the roof. And I'm also gonna talk
to you about the thing that nobody ever talks to
you about, but that you know is typical for me,
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which is if we're redoing the roof, maybe it's the
time to redesign the roof and you know, improve the
overall design and the juge of your home. Sometimes the
roof is what makes all the difference. Anyway, you're not
gonna want to miss tomorrow's show from nine to noon
Pacific time. All right, I've got Ryan on the line,
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and Ryan was interesting. He's doing some projects. He's gonna
roof and and then gonna term oute his house and
then get some paint done. So you got a lot
of exterior stuff on the agenda. But Ryan's question was,
you know, do I spot treat Am I going to
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tend it and move out? And yeah, I mean it's
all possible. The key, Ryan, is that you talk to
two or three you know, or if you've got an
exterminated that you trust. That's fine. But I like the
idea of talking to two or three termite companies getting
their perspective on what's going on with the house. Uh,
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if we can spot treat by all means, don't press
the nuclear option. If we can treat it locally and effectively,
and and they've got their ways of figuring out whether
the whole house has a you know, a big issue
that needs blanket treatment or spot treatment. And spot treatment
these days can happen in a number of different ways.
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There's all of the orange oil, which is kind of
that stuff. There's a tree bark extracts that work amazingly
as well. There's even electronic as bizarre as that is
static electricity treatments in which right through the walls we
can electrocute termites. And so it's pretty amazing. But if
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the nuclear option is the thing that looks like it
needs to be pressed, if we need to press that button,
I just want to remind everybody that there is an
option other than tenting the house and using you know,
the poisonous gas and all of that, where you have
to seal up all the food, get all the food
out of there, bag it up everything like that. It's
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gonna leave some level of residue, which I'm not real
thrilled about myself, and you're going to be out of
there for two, three four days, depending on the situation,
and that can be you know, very disruptive. Heat treatments.
A heat treatment on a house is a entire house,
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you know, equivalent of tenting the house. Heat treatments. Only
certain companies do it, but let me tell you it
is well worth taking a look at because what happens
is it's it's about sealing up the house and raising
the interior temperature of the wood members of the house
between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and forty
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degrees for about two hours or so. And it takes
longer than that to raise the house, but that's what
we want. You got to hold the house at about
one hundred and forty degrees for two hours, and in
doing so, you will kill every single live termite, egg larvae, everybody.
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It's it's as effective as tenting, and the difference is
instead of you getting a hotel room somewhere, the whole
process eight to ten hours max. So you leave in
the morning, go off and do your day. Come back
and you know, spend the night in your own bed,
and it's all done in a single day. The only
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thing you do have to do a little bit of prep,
which is protecting things that would be you know, sensitive
to one hundred and forty degree temperature, like maybe take
the candles out of the house and things like that.
So and some electronics. But the point is that that
heat treatment is another totally viable option. Ryan, Do I
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solve Ryan on the line? Or do I losing?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yes? You do?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Okay, there you go. All right, So so you got
my answer there. Heat treatment is another viable option. But
you got to talk to the termite company and find
out whether you even have to press the nuclear option
or not.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yes, it's been over twenty years, so there's probably somebody
in there.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh yeah, but there may be, but it may be localized.
And so that's why, you know, I just would hate
for you to have to, you know, overshoot overpay. TERMI
companies are really really good at figuring out the extent
of an infestation. They have their way, that's what they
specialize in. So and but you know, just in case
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you're concerned about getting ripped off again, this is why
I want to make sure, as with all contractors doing
work on your home, I want you to take two
or three expert opinions on it so you can get
a consensus from the doctors of what to do before
we go into surgery, as it were. And there you go, Ryan,
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Thanks for the call, Bud. I wonder if I've got
time to just even just squeeze one more in. I
don't know. Let's try, Alan, Alan, I'm right down to
the line here real quick.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You showed me on the idea of Benjamin Works paint.
I want to redo my thousand square foot condo inside,
but I want a very light, light yellow shade. I
now have a strong yellow of the nineteen eighties. Look,
So what do you recommend by name a light yellow shade? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
A light yo. Now you put me on the spot,
and my color Expertina is not sitting across the table
from me. I'll tell you what, Alan, because we're down
to it and I'm not going to be able to
pull that one out of my hat. Immediately, you shoot
me an email or go to my website and shoot
me an email and and I'll make a color recommendation
for you.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
How does that sound? All? Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Sounds good. Thanks Buddy for the call. Appreciate all the
calls today. Yeah, light yellow shade, light light yellow. Okay, Well,
gotta be careful with yellow. It's a tricky color. Sometimes
it's just perfection, a lemonee yellow in a situation. The
lighter it gets, the more it starts to move towards
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green in tone, and it can make a room feel
sickly instead of warm. I prefer a warm white over
a light yellow. But you know, there's a reason for everything.
There's a reason for every color. We just got to
be careful. I don't want to put you in a
room where at certain lighting during the day it looks
like it's being lit by fluorescent lights. That's not a
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good thing. But you email me and I'll come up
with something for you real quick.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Ellen.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
All right, everybody, thanks for joining us on the program today.
It's been a good one. As always, You've done an
excellent job hosting the show. I will attempt to do
as good a job tomorrow to high bar. But I'm
going to do my best to host tomorrow's show and
talk to you about roofs. And then of course we
will take calls mid show if you didn't get on today,
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give me a call back tomorrow. And if you were
thinking about going on today, definitely call me tomorrow. And
until then, it looks to be like a beautiful spring
day here in southern California. Wherever you are, I hope
the weather is treating you well. Either way, get up,
get busy, building yourself a beautiful life, and we'll see
you right back here tomorrow morning. This has been a
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I want to talk to Louis. Hey, Louis, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Good morning Dan. We're in the middle of a solar
lease and of course they're the company is starting to
want to upgrade us. Our current bill is approximately one
forty to the solar company and eighty four to the
Electric Edison. They want to charge us one hundred and
ninety one twenty four the first year, with a three
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point five percent increase over the extension of the lease.
What do you think, why?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why why are they upgrading you? I mean upgrade? Isn't
that grade to upgrade your lease? What what are they
giving you for the for the new terms?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They're giving me eight more panels, four on the east,
which I don't want them there, and four on the west,
and two backup batteries. Back up is the backup batteries
are the key. That's a tesla. Yeah, you know, so
that's what it is. One hundred and ninety one twenty
four to the first year, three point five percent each year
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after UH guarantee no elects your company bill. And of
course they fix everything when it breaks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, uh, you know what, I would take it seriously.
I would. I would simply ask for their you know,
make sure you're looking at their projections about things. And
here's why, you know, I mean, there's nothing wrong with
your existing lease. And if you like your existing lease,
that's fine. But you know, it's not the solar lease
company that has changed the game. It is the power
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company that has changed the game. You like me, I'm
in the same situation. It was in the same situation
where you know, we set a lease for our solar.
We decided not to buy our solar because I actually
like the lease idea. I didn't need to own my solar.
And one of the benefits of not buying it is
that all of the maintenance all of the repair everything
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is on them, uh, you know, for twenty plus years,
which is great for me. But we got our solar
when we were still under net metering two point zero
here in California, which was just flat out same rates
day and night, and in terms of what I could
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sell back to the power company, and so my solar
was a net zero. That means at the end of
the year, we hadn't paid any money to the power company.
Now they keep changing the rules of the game. They
keep changing how you know, what you're allowed to buy
from them at what price, at what time during the day,
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and what you're allowed what they will pay when you
sell solar back to them back onto the grid in
order to credit your system. And so we found ourselves,
like so many and probably like you, in a situation
where all of a sudden, we do have a power
bill all you know again, and that's because we didn't
have backup bat as a part of the initial thing.
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So now what happens is your solar system is generating
most of its energy in the earlier part of the day,
and that's when it's generating most of its excess energy.
I should say most of it's excess energy because you know,
you're probably not pulling down a lot of juice at
the house around ten to noon on a weekday because
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people are at working, and you know it's just one
of those low demand times, so your your system is overproducing.
But Edison or PG and E or whoever the power company,
they don't want to buy your your your power that time.
And if you try and sell it back to them,
they're going to buy it for pennies pennies on the
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killowat But come two o'clock or four o'clock in the afternoon,
the rates skyrocket up into you know, forty fifty cents
a kill a watt that they're charging you. And still
they will only pay pennies for kilowatts that come back.
So the key to solar in California now and a
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lot of people have said, well, solar isn't even worth
it anymore, that's not true. But the key to eight
and effective solar system is the backup battery. And oh gosh, okay, Louis,
I'm up against a break. Can you hang tight because
I want to finish this explanation on the other side,
why it's impact to.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Give you the exact numbers of what electric course from
the company.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now, okay, perfect, you hang tight and we'll pick this
up on the other side. Why are backup batteries a
critical component of a solar system in California? Why do
they make all the difference. We'll explain that when we
come back your home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
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Saturday morning. We've got Louis on the line talking about
his solar lease. His solar lease company wants to upgrade
his solar lease from what he's got now, which is
a number of panels, to adding some panels and a
couple of backup batteries. And the question is is that
a good idea? And so we were talking about the
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fact that that he, like me, had his solar done
back when power companies were charging us differently. We were
under we were under net metering two point zero, and
they promised that that would we'd be grandfathered in forever.
And then they changed their promise and and we're not
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grandfathered in forever now and now rates widely fluctuate during
the day and when we're producing extra energy from our
solar panels, the power company is not interested in paying
fair prices to purchase it, and then in the afternoon
when demand goes up for them, their rates skyrocket during
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peak hours, and still our ability to sell back to
the grid has been, you know, capped at the knees.
And so the idea that fixes this, that that is
the workaround around this that is critical for California Solar
at least, and it's going to be this way across
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the nation as well, is backup batteries, and not just
a dumb backup battery, but a smart backup battery. Meaning
this is how we rig the game. What happens is
instead of trying to sell back to the grid when
we're overproducing in the morning hours, what we're doing is
we're charging up the battery. We're charging up both of
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our backup batteries on the house, and then those batteries
are programmed to take over for Southern California Edison. We're
Edison customers here where we live. Those batteries are designed
during the peak hours when I would be paying Mondo
bucks to Edison for their power, I get to live
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off of my own power through those peak hours, so
the batteries discharge and run the house and during those
peak periods to you know, eliminate my need to pay
the higher peak rates from medicine and then evening hits
and if I've still got battery power left, we roll
into the evening and then at some point they cut off. Now,
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we program our batteries to stop discharging once they're at
twenty percent capacity, and that way, no matter what happens,
even in the middle of the night, if there's a backout, blackout,
we've got backup energy. And that's the other big benefit
of a backup batteries that you've got a you got
backup power during a brownout or a blackout or something
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like that that's renewable and rechargeable. And then the next morning, boom,
the cycle repeats. The batteries charge back up and we
avoid paying those prices. And that is how into the
future you you end up beating the electric company at
their game. And it does work. It's the real thing.
And and yeah, they they're gonna want a little bit
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more on the lease because they're putting some pretty serious equipment.
I mean, right now, a Tesla power Wall three battery
is you know, kind of retails in the twelve thousand
dollars a piece range, and it's not it doesn't cost
them quite that much, but it costs a lot. So
they're adding new equipment and and so they want to
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up the lease, and you know, you'll have to work
that out with your company just to make sure that
it's fair. But generally speaking, Louis, yeah, it's a good bet.
I would encourage any solar owner who is starting to
see that they're paying the power company now again when
they weren't originally, that a backup battery added to their
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system is the key to mitigate, you know, the the
power company system rates. Traditionally, now, different power companies have
raised their rates at different rates, but I'll tell you
this pretty consistently through California, nothing has been on average
below seven percent rate increases per year, per year next year.
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There you go. Okay, So here's the thing. If we
were to just take the seven percent number, if you're
paying a meager two hundred dollars a month for your
power right now, in ten years, that's going to be
closer to three hundred and eighty to four hundred dollars
a month, Okay, And so then the idea of even
your increase lease price monthly price is that that's it,
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and there it goes, and it's just that little three
percent increase. So you're basically paying level now for the
next twenty years and while everybody else is going up
at rapid percentage points. And so in the end, in
the long run, you are the big winner there if
you go in that direct. Actually, you just got to
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make sure that it's a fair deal from your lease.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Company and is that negotiable with them.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You know, what's negotiable is is not necessarily having to
throw the extra panels on. In my situation, I didn't
need extra panels, okay, because I was doing just fine
producing enough energy from the existing panels that under the
old system, I was knocking it out of the park
and we were actually getting a credit at the end
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of the year. And so they came to me with
the same deal and they're like, well, we're going to
put two batteries and seven extra panels on your house,
and I'm like, no, that means that you're going to
be putting them on the front of my house. I
don't want them facing the street. I got all the
panels I need so you know, hey, if you can
afford to squeeze a couple more panels onto the house,
go for it, but not on the front. And so
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in my situation, I just took the batteries. It was
just an upgrade of my lease for the batteries because
the extra panels. Yeah whatever, If you were underpaneled, that
would be one thing. But if you if if the
battery is what you need, you just tell them directly. Listen,
I just want the battery.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The batteries. Yeah, getting I'm giving back. Well, I'm at
one hundred and five percent, and this is going to
give me one forty nine day claim. That's one percent
under the limit where I could be part of the program,
which I don't know if that's you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, no, it's exactly real.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And is it worth.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Uh yeah, Because here's the thing too, the electrification of
our culture is well underway. And no matter what the
current administration wants to say about drill baby, drilled, the
fact of the matter is the future is electric one
way or the other. Electric cars, uh and so on,
and so even if you don't have an electric car now,
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in ten years, the chance of you having at least
a plug in hybrid, it's going to be very, very high.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And so the batteries are useful. They're useful as backup power,
they're going to be useful when it comes to charging
the vehicle. There's a number of reasons why they are
the brightest and most beneficial way to look at the
future of our home infrastructure. And so yeah, if you
can afford it and afford to get into it now,
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it's going to be cheaper today, then it's going to
be next year, or the year after that or the
year after that. And so again, if they'll just give
you the deal that you want, then I would lock
it in. And that idea of the extra overproduction is
all about the power companies in the state of California
being in bed together and saying, yeah, we don't want people,
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we don't want people to become their own power plants
and go completely off grids. So you can't put too
many panels on your property, which is I think bs,
but that that's a state limitation. That's not your least
company limiting that they're under the same rules as you are.
But you are allowed to go up to one hundred
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and fifty percent because you can say things like, well,
I'm going to have an electric vehicle and da da
da da, and I'm gonna need the extra power, and
so get as much as you can now and lock
it in. Did I lose, Louis? Did I lose them?
For all right? Louis, Hey, I got to go to
break anyway, buddy, Thank you for the call, really really
important question allowed us to kind of broad treat the
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topic so everybody can hear kind of what the latest
of solar is. Solar is a brilliant, brilliant idea, okay,
and it's not going away. I promise you that it
is not going away. And yeah, solar in California still
saves you money, just does it differently than when it started.
But that shouldn't be an unusual thing. All of life
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is that way. Solar is still a completely viable option
in California and a wise one if if you're in
a situation where it will benefit you with for most homeowners,
it will all right, more of your calls when we
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Your calls setting the agenda for what we're talking about today.
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I want to go back to the phones. Let's talk
to Vivian. Vivian, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Thank you for taking my call. You're such an inspiration
to all of us that listen to you. Oh I am.
I have my hot water heater is going out and
I went to home Depot and they're like seven hundred
dollars for hot water heaters. So I need to know
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how to you know, give a new one without I'm
afraid of being scammed.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Uh.
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And you can buy the one at home depot, but
who's gonna install it? And if they install it, you're
probably gonna be paying more than you need to be
because they're subcontraing contracting out that work. Uh. So you
know what, here's my recommendation. Where where do you live? Vivian?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I live in Orange.
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I've recommended them the friends who've been in trouble at
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and I have yet to hear a single negative thing
about that experience. They are a solid company, worth every penny,
and they don't overcharge, and so you know, it's because
they specialize in just that, and so they've streamlined their
rates and their costs and so it's profitable for them
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and it's not too expensive for you. And the work
is solid.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, my son in law
used to be able to do all the stuff I
needed done around my house, but now he's got a
bad heart condition and he can no longer lift or
do anything heavy or you know, to make his heart
go one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So yeah, I get it. I get it. Well, you
give them a call and if there's any issues whatsoever,
you call me back. But I think you're going to
be happy. They're going to take care of you. And
by the way, Vivian, you let them know, you let
them know I referred you. They're going to treat you right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Okay, okay, okay, I sure will thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You are so welcome, such a sweet call, such a
wee call. Great question too, because that's one of those
specialty areas where you can really save some money and
get some good stuff done if you work with a
company that specializes in just that kind of a thing.
So there you go, Vivian, congrats on that. All right,
let's say we got time to at least start another
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call here. Let's talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, welcome.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Home, good morning. Thank you for getting up way too
early to take these calls. The two part question, Sure,
we have three projects. The first part the first question
is we have three projects, and we wanted to know
in what order would be most efficient to do them.
The projects are termite the house, roof the house, and
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paint the house.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, okay, all right, okay, so let's do it this way.
Let's roof the house, then let's termite the house, and
then let's paint the house. And the reason I put
it in that order is roofing may require some additional wood.
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It may require if we're reroofing, maybe some sheathing gets replaced,
maybe some eaves get repaired. And so as a general rule,
when there's construction going on, we might bring in new lumber,
and new lumber might bring with it some new termites.
And so that's always a possibility. In fact, I can't
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tell you how many times we've had a lumber drop,
like on a brand new build, right, lumber drop on
the job site. Go out there and I'm looking at
the lumber and here are you know, termite Queen's crawling
all over the new lumber. And I'm like, oh, this
is gonna be great. So there's always a possibility. I mean,
you can see them. You can see them. Sometimes you
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catch one, you know, on the lumber at a big
box store like home depot or whatever. It's just you know,
they like wood, They hang out around wood. So there's
always the possibility when there's some form of construction going
on that we can impoort a termite. So if we
were to termite proof the house and then do construction,
we might have just you know, invited some new guys
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in after you know, the nuclear option went off and
they missed the whole show. So I would rather have
you do the roof work first, and then the termite
company comes along, and you know it's not a given,
but they might actually dig in somewhere or deal with something,
especially if they're spot treating, and that might you know,
they might mess paint up a little bit, or even
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tenting the house might paint up if that has to happen.
So uh, and paint is not going to bring termite
problems into the house. So I would roof and then
termite and then paint.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Super super. The second half is how to termite injecting
this chemical in here while the dog stays in the
house blah blah blah or moving out for a couple
of days and I'm killing average.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, Uh, that's a really good question, and it all
depends and uh, you know what here, Brian, I'm up
against a break. Uh, So let me pop you on
hold and I'm going to give you a well rounded
answer to that question. On the other side, does Ryan
need to press the nuclear option? Can he spot treat?
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And if we do have to press the nuclear option,
does that mean we always have to to pack up
everything and move out for you know, for half a week.
The answer is not necessarily the case. There are other
options out there. We'll talk about them all when we return.
You are home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Dean Sharp,
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the house Whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level. Thanks for joining us on the program.
Here we are nearing the end of two hours together
here on an early Saturday morning. I just want to
remind you before I forget, We're gonna be doing the
Big show tomorrow from nine to noon, and tomorrow I
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will also be taking calls mid show as we do.
But tomorrow I'm gonna be talking about roofing, roofing, roofs, roofs,
everything that is pertinent right now. I know it seems
like early spring, is that there? You know? Why talk
about roofs now? We're not getting into the rainy seas
or anything like that. Yeah, but we've got a bit
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big El Nino coming our way from all accounts, and uh,
If that's the case, and if your roof is not
up to the challenge, now, right now is the time.
You don't want to overpay and you want to be
ahead of the game. Right now is the time to
start figuring out the roof. And I'm also gonna talk
to you about the thing that nobody ever talks to
you about, but that you know is typical for me,
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which is if we're redoing the roof, maybe it's the
time to redesign the roof and you know, improve the
overall design and the juge of your home. Sometimes the
roof is what makes all the difference. Anyway, you're not
gonna want to miss tomorrow's show from nine to noon
Pacific time. All right, I've got Ryan on the line,
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and Ryan was interesting. He's doing some projects. He's gonna
roof and and then gonna term oute his house and
then get some paint done. So you got a lot
of exterior stuff on the agenda. But Ryan's question was,
you know, do I spot treat Am I going to
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tend it and move out? And yeah, I mean it's
all possible. The key, Ryan, is that you talk to
two or three you know, or if you've got an
exterminated that you trust. That's fine. But I like the
idea of talking to two or three termite companies getting
their perspective on what's going on with the house. Uh,
(25:30):
if we can spot treat by all means, don't press
the nuclear option. If we can treat it locally and effectively,
and and they've got their ways of figuring out whether
the whole house has a you know, a big issue
that needs blanket treatment or spot treatment. And spot treatment
these days can happen in a number of different ways.
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There's all of the orange oil, which is kind of
that stuff. There's a tree bark extracts that work amazingly
as well. There's even electronic as bizarre as that is
static electricity treatments in which right through the walls we
can electrocute termites. And so it's pretty amazing. But if
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the nuclear option is the thing that looks like it
needs to be pressed, if we need to press that button,
I just want to remind everybody that there is an
option other than tenting the house and using you know,
the poisonous gas and all of that, where you have
to seal up all the food, get all the food
out of there, bag it up everything like that. It's
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gonna leave some level of residue, which I'm not real
thrilled about myself, and you're going to be out of
there for two, three four days, depending on the situation,
and that can be you know, very disruptive. Heat treatments.
A heat treatment on a house is a entire house,
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you know, equivalent of tenting the house. Heat treatments. Only
certain companies do it, but let me tell you it
is well worth taking a look at because what happens
is it's it's about sealing up the house and raising
the interior temperature of the wood members of the house
between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and forty
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degrees for about two hours or so. And it takes
longer than that to raise the house, but that's what
we want. You got to hold the house at about
one hundred and forty degrees for two hours, and in
doing so, you will kill every single live termite, egg larvae, everybody.
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It's it's as effective as tenting, and the difference is
instead of you getting a hotel room somewhere, the whole
process eight to ten hours max. So you leave in
the morning, go off and do your day. Come back
and you know, spend the night in your own bed,
and it's all done in a single day. The only
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thing you do have to do a little bit of prep,
which is protecting things that would be you know, sensitive
to one hundred and forty degree temperature, like maybe take
the candles out of the house and things like that.
So and some electronics. But the point is that that
heat treatment is another totally viable option. Ryan, Do I
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solve Ryan on the line? Or do I losing?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yes? You do?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Okay, there you go. All right, So so you got
my answer there. Heat treatment is another viable option. But
you got to talk to the termite company and find
out whether you even have to press the nuclear option
or not.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yes, it's been over twenty years, so there's probably somebody
in there.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh yeah, but there may be, but it may be localized.
And so that's why, you know, I just would hate
for you to have to, you know, overshoot overpay. TERMI
companies are really really good at figuring out the extent
of an infestation. They have their way, that's what they
specialize in. So and but you know, just in case
(29:04):
you're concerned about getting ripped off again, this is why
I want to make sure, as with all contractors doing
work on your home, I want you to take two
or three expert opinions on it so you can get
a consensus from the doctors of what to do before
we go into surgery, as it were. And there you go, Ryan,
(29:24):
Thanks for the call, Bud. I wonder if I've got
time to just even just squeeze one more in. I
don't know. Let's try, Alan, Alan, I'm right down to
the line here real quick.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You showed me on the idea of Benjamin Works paint.
I want to redo my thousand square foot condo inside,
but I want a very light, light yellow shade. I
now have a strong yellow of the nineteen eighties. Look,
So what do you recommend by name a light yellow shade? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
A light yo. Now you put me on the spot,
and my color Expertina is not sitting across the table
from me. I'll tell you what, Alan, because we're down
to it and I'm not going to be able to
pull that one out of my hat. Immediately, you shoot
me an email or go to my website and shoot
me an email and and I'll make a color recommendation
for you.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
How does that sound? All? Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Sounds good. Thanks Buddy for the call. Appreciate all the
calls today. Yeah, light yellow shade, light light yellow. Okay, Well,
gotta be careful with yellow. It's a tricky color. Sometimes
it's just perfection, a lemonee yellow in a situation. The
lighter it gets, the more it starts to move towards
(30:46):
green in tone, and it can make a room feel
sickly instead of warm. I prefer a warm white over
a light yellow. But you know, there's a reason for everything.
There's a reason for every color. We just got to
be careful. I don't want to put you in a
room where at certain lighting during the day it looks
like it's being lit by fluorescent lights. That's not a
(31:07):
good thing. But you email me and I'll come up
with something for you real quick.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Ellen.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
All right, everybody, thanks for joining us on the program today.
It's been a good one. As always, You've done an
excellent job hosting the show. I will attempt to do
as good a job tomorrow to high bar. But I'm
going to do my best to host tomorrow's show and
talk to you about roofs. And then of course we
will take calls mid show if you didn't get on today,
(31:35):
give me a call back tomorrow. And if you were
thinking about going on today, definitely call me tomorrow. And
until then, it looks to be like a beautiful spring
day here in southern California. Wherever you are, I hope
the weather is treating you well. Either way, get up,
get busy, building yourself a beautiful life, and we'll see
you right back here tomorrow morning. This has been a
(31:59):
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