May 25, 2025 • 30 mins
It's an all calls weekend! Dean tackles listener questions about 'banging' in pipes after a new water heater has been installed, replacing front doors in an older home when a contractor wants to replace it with something cheap and easy, whether or not you should shellack old oak floors, building a firepit in the backyard, whether you can put windows with different color frames in the same home, and whether wood countertops are a real viable option in a kitchen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
house Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Here
for you, like we always are here to be a mentor,
a design mentor for you, because design matters most an
advocate as you wrestle with construction issues in your home,
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and it's your friend as you take on the noble
work of turning your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
It's a real thing. It can be done. We see
it done every day of our professional life. Ordinary houses
can become extraordinary homes. Today, by the way, let me
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get this out quick. Today I want to talk to
you about what's going on with your house. I have
no agenda but to talk with you and see if
I can help. 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.
Let's talk to David A. David, Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you, Dean. I'm in Venice Beach. I live in
an apartment, so I feel like I represent all the
apartment renters who don't usually own a home. And the
building I live in was built in nineteen twelve there's
three stories and I'm on the top floor the three stories,
and about seven or eight months ago the lanvelode replaced
the water heater, and since then it wakes me up
at night because of them. I guess people taking a
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shower because the pipes are banging for between five and
twenty seconds sometimes during the week. And I was wondering
how I can explain to my lavelord is I'm sorry
to say, but lazy doesn't want to admit that it's
just bothering and keeping me awake. So how does it
make such a noise that I think it's pipe expanding?
Do their rub against something? And what can I say?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't know what you can say with a lazy
landlord who doesn't want to do anything, but you can
talk to him about the problem though, And so are
we talking about. So there's two kinds of noise that
people sometimes experience when it comes to their hot water
systems or there's water in general. Number one is, uh,
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there is this there's a like a what a lot
of people describe as a creeping or clicking sound like
that happens when when hot water is being used. Uh.
And then there's that banging sound literally like you know,
this banging sound, which of the two are you experiencing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a mix between the two. It's the sound is
like the banging, but the space between the bang is
more space are like doom doom, dum dum dum dum
dum tum or sometimes slower it slows down, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So what you get is, uh, is the the new
it's weird. Plumbing systems are even really well designed systems, Uh.
They are. Essentially it turns out sometimes like a giant,
a giant instrument. You know, you got a lot of
pipes and you got stuff flowing through it, and depending
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on the twists and the turns that it makes and
so on, you get weird noises out of pipes. Sometimes.
Most common is what we call water hammer, okay, and
that's that thudding sound. And you could be in a
building for you know, one hundred years and not have
water hammer, and then all of a sudden, you know,
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somebody changes out the water heater, changes the pressure relationship
of the building. Maybe the water heat. Maybe the new
water heater is out putting hotter water than the previous one.
Maybe it's putting it out at slightly a different pressure.
Or flow level. There could all be all these little
subtle changes and all of a sudden, now we're getting
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water hammer hammer. Fortunately, in most cases, it's a pretty
simple fix. And that is and you could say, well,
your landlord says, hey, you put in the new water heater,
but now we're getting water hammer really bad in the house.
Would you please have a water hammer a restor installed
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near the water heater. And what a water hammer arrestor is.
It's literally it's an extension of the pipe. You know,
it inserts. It could insert, for instance, in between the
water heater hoses and the hot water line feed for
the rest of the building. And it's literally got a
little kind of a column sticking out from it. And
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inside that column is essentially a shock absorber for water.
There's a big spring and a diaphragm. And as that
water comes unevenly flowing through the pipes and that vibration
starts to form, this thing will receive a lot of
that vibration into itself and not send it knocking down
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through the pipes. Now, sometimes it takes more than one,
and sometimes it's a great idea to install them in
different locationtions. But a you know, a water hammer arrestor.
I mean you can get a two pack of them
for like twenty five dollars, so and they're an easy install, okay,
And so that would be I think that would be
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my first line of approach to your landlord, who obviously
doesn't want to do a whole lot that often. Just say, listen,
it is a problem, and a lot of us hear it,
and I don't want to be, you know, complaining about it.
But honestly, ever since the new water here went in,
we're hearing this thing. And so you know there's an
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I'm told there's an easy fix for it, you know,
could you please step forward and deal with that? And
if it's an easy, inexpensive fix, you know, maybe he'll
move on it. Maybe he'll he'll shift and make it happen.
But that's ultimately what that is, my friend. And do
you happen to have our laundry facilities in each apartment?
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It's an old apartment build, so I'm guessing not. But
do you have like a washer drug in your unit?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
No one does, okay, nobody does. Another place where you
might be able to help yourself with this is you
could install one of these, you know, twelve fifteen dollars.
Water hammer devices like underneath your sink in the kitchen, Okay,
because anywhere they are located anywhere along the lines, or
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underneath the sink in the bathroom, or get a couple
of them, put one in each place anywhere on that
system where these shock absorbers are. They will help mute
the vibration. So ask your landlord first. But maybe you
go out and pop a couple underneath your own sinks
and see if that helps as well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Fantastic. I love that information. Thank you so much, David.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You are so welcome.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (07:01):
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I tell you what we're doing today. It's an all
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Speaker 5 (07:10):
It is it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You set the agenda. Anything that is going on with
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anything at all. The phone lines are open. I am
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you see it just rolls off the tongue on that note,
how about we go to it. We're going to take
some calls. Anything you want to talk about, So let's
get to it. Let's talk to Sal. Hey, Sal, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'm in my fourth house in here in LA. I
tend to buy houses in great neighborhoods, but need a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Okay, yeah, I get you. I feel it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I feel it, and the and the one I'm in now,
great house, a great neighborhood. Trying to deal with the
front doors, original front doors, French doors with sidelights, and
I get confusing quotes. Every contractor is different. I'm thinking
I wanted to just replace the flabs, and they say
they can't do it. I'm trying to look for types
of manufacturers. It's it's hard. I can't It's not like
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a Chevy or Ford. You know, you can't compare. So
I wanted to get some opinions whether or not to
just try to change the slabs. You know, in the
seventies home with you know the frame, you know, the
door on the top. It's a little off and they're saying,
it's not going to be level, we have to just
do pre hung. But the whole front unit is built
into the house, and I wanted to keep the integrity
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and just change the slabs and the sidelights. What do
you what do you think or what's what do you
think is my best option?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So we got double doors at double doors and sidelights, yes, sir, okay,
double doors and sidelights. And so you're not confused as
to the style that you're going for, right, You're just
going to go with the nineteen seventies. It's like a
little bit modernist slab door or is it a different style?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
The glass is like this frosted yellow with like a
diamond pattern in it, and it's you know, it's on
the top half of the door, and but on one
side of the door the frame is off centered a
little bit on the top jam to accommodate the alignment
of the of the glass. So that's saying because of that,
I can't just change I can't change the slabs because
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we're going to end up shaving it and it's going
to be off again like the original door is. And
I thought maybe I could just change the slabs and
the jams and the winterizing, you know, the weather stripping
and all that. But they don't want to, you know,
put in the work. They just want to change the
you know, do a pre hung system. But that's you know,
we're getting into almost.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ten grand now, all right, my friend. So here's the thing.
It can be done. Of course it can be done.
And so the situation that you're in right now is,
you know, and I grow weary. I'm not I don't
grow weary answering this question. I grow weary of giving
this answer because I wish I didn't have to. But
you're just going to need to search longer for the
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right builder to do the job. Okay, because of course
it can be done. Of course, we can change out
the jam and you can buy you know, you don't
have to go with a pre hung situation where it's
all been just factory put together. Of course, it can
be custom installed and in a lot of ways it
might end up saving you money along the way. Plus
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you get exactly what you want. Now, if there's some
weird jam condition that can be resolved too, Okay, everything
can be fixed. Everything can be fixed. It is just
a question these days of there are so many builders
out there who and believe me, you know, I mean
I feel for them too. Construction is no is you know,
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is no get rich quick scheme. It really isn't. And
the guys who use it that they usually like, end
up in jail. But it's just it's tough because people
want what they want, and they want it for an
unbelievably low price, and people have to really put the
effort into it in order to get good at work.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I'm not saying an unbelievable low price, but just the
fact that, you know, everybody's quotation and manufactural representations are different,
so it's very hard to choose.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And yeah, that's why. And you're in a good situation
to do that. Yeah, I can feel this. I can
feel the vibe that you're in the right situation to
do this. What you got to do is is you
have to take control of the situation. In other words,
your best bet, I think from what I'm hearing from you,
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your best bet is to choose your doors. Okay, now
what does that mean. Well, once you know the style
of the door that you want, right then you just
shop out that style door and yeah, they're going to
be varying price points for that style of door, but
you make that selection. You make the selection of the
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door that you want to go in that unit at
the price point that you are comfortable of paying. There
are a good billion doors out there, I know, and
it can seem very, very overwhelming. But first thing we
do is we eliminate, you know, ninety eight percent of
them because we've chosen the style, the specific style that
you want, and within that category, you locally shop out
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what it is that you're looking for. Is it going
to be a standard solid wood slab door and that's
going to be at one price. Is it going to
be a fiberglass resin door. Is it going to be
a steel door? You know, all of these choices that
we've got, you can narrow that down right, forget about
the manufacturers, just looking at price point and the construction
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of the door. Then you pick out those doors. You're like, Okay,
these are the two doors that I'm going to use,
and these are the sidelights that I'd like to see.
And then then you start showing contractors, listen, here are
the doors, these are the sidelights. There's the opening. I
want you to make it work. And some guys are
gonna walk away saying, ah, I know, don't do that.
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Other guys are going to give you that BS statement
that I hear all the time, it can't be done.
It just means that they don't want to do it
and they're not used to doing it at their convenience
level for a profit. And that's fine too, you can
let them walk. I just hate the fact that they
say it can't be done. I'd rather a contractor just
tell you that goes beyond what we normally do, and
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I don't want to do it. But to tell people
a thing can't be done, that's not the world that
I live in as a builder or a designer. So
get you take control of your materials and you say
these are the doors I want to use, here's the
configuration that I want. Give me a price accordingly, and
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if you look long enough and you take your time,
sal you're gonna find guys who are going to give
you prices, and you'll see that those prices will start
to align themselves and you'll be able to choose the
person to do the work for you and get it
done the right way.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
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.
All right, let's talk to Julie. Hey, Julie, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Hi Dean.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
We're looking at getting new windows and I love the
black frame windows, but they're obviously a lot more expensive.
So I was wondering, what are your thoughts on if
we just if someone just adjusted black frame windows in
the back of the house and kept the traditional white
frame ones.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
In the front.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
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 with out touching its traditional curb appeal
is to treat the facade of the house differently than
the backside of the house, because from the the facade
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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 backside of
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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 you know, I'll
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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 depends on
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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, it's my mullet theory.
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My mullet theory applies to lots of things all the time.
All right, let's talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Hey, good morning, Dean, thanks for giving my call props.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm building a fire.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Pit in the backyard and I'd like to run the
gas line before I have a concrete pad port over it.
So my question is what diameter pipe do I need
to use?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's a good question. It really all depends on how
big the fire pit is. It's just kind of a
standard little twenty four thirty six diameter fire pit. Then
you could get away with a half inch line, but
since it's all new, I prefer to run a three
quarter inch line. I've got a three quarter inch line
running to my fire pit. Of course, my fire pit,
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the rock itself is about eight and a half feet long,
and the actual burners are two four foot a pair
of two four foot linear burners. So there's a lot
of fire there along line of fire. But as a
general rule, you know, I like fire pits to be warm.
I like fire at my fire pit because the whole
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point of a fire pit is not just to sit
next to one when it's eighty degrees outside in the
middle of summer. But to be able to enjoy it
when it's cold outside, and when it's cold outside, you
need more than just a little trickle of flame coming out.
So I would say run the three quarter inch line.
But and here's the important qualifier to that. You run
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a three quarter inch line, you're not gonna want to
run it most of the time at full bore. And
so the key, the gas key that you're turning your
firepit on and off with, you shouldn't use that to
choke down the gas because if you do, it's so
close to where the gas comes out of the actual
burner that you're going to get a hiss or a
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whistling sound because of gas cavitation in the line. So
pick you know, wherever the gas line is coming out
of the house away from the house, or you know,
take twenty thirty feet away from the fire pit, run
a three quarter inch line, and then put a linear
valve right there that you can control the flow of
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the line, and then use your key at the fire
pit to just full on, full off. If you put
a valve, a flow control valve a twenty feet plus away,
then the cavitation by the time it reaches the fire
pit has settled down, and you can set it to
any intensity you want, from the very faintest of flame
all the way to the bonfire and you'll get no
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change in sound whatsoever. So my suggestion, yeah, I run
the three quarter inch line and give yourself some options. Paul,
thanks for your call, buddy, tell you what. Let's talk
to Pat Hey, Pat, welcome home.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
My house is built in nineteen twenty two and it
had the original oak Force, so twenty years ago and
we had the house three model. We pulled up the
carpet and they were like no, so the charras them
and they're just beautiful. So now it's been a while,
so I took TSP. I thought it's time to clean them.
Took TSP in it took off the old Sharraq. But
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now and I go to the hon depot, it seems
like the new Hira water based and there's nothing to them.
What can I use that's really strong to schillac my
falls because I want to preserve them as long as possible,
and the how it takes a beating a lot of traffic.
So what do you recommend to use for Schillac for
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covering coating.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Okay, I got you no more shillac on your floor,
and that's fine. Believe me, it's totally fine. What you
want now, don't be afraid of what you find at
the store. But here, I want you to go to
a good flooring store and I want you to get
a high quality flooring grade polyurethane. Poly Polyurethane is essentially
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a plastic coating. Doesn't matter that it's water based, doesn't
you know that's not that's a non issue. And we're
going to put at least three to four coats down now.
If you don't, if you want to show the floor
is super shiny, then you go with a normal polyurethane.
If you want them to have that very old world
a little bit, Matt just satiny finish, which I love
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so much because I think it shows off an old
world flow so well, then you're gonna want a satin finish,
just a satin finish on the polyurethane, and you're gonna
want it. Like I said, put down to three four
coats even more in high traffic areas if you want
not a problem, but polyurythane flooring grade, and you'll be
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able to do that to your floors, and it'll be
years before you have to redo it.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let's talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
My family lives in a thirty five hundred square foot,
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, in an outdoor kitchen
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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.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
We have it's a nineteen sixty nine home, if I
didn't mention that, and it's got tile countertops, and we
put in a new tile in the floor when we
redid the patio, but the floor is chipping through. Tile
was substandard. We need new flooring. We want to replace
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our countertops. We want to keep the oak cabinetry, and
we like wood so much that we'd like to go
hardwood countertops. So we'd like your recommendation there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well, good on you
and for 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 that's a lot of wood.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
And so the key is this.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
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, right because they're
all finished out. Whatever color that is, you want some
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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 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,
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if you went with the same kind of style and
the same general tone, you're going to end up with
a wood cave. And you don't want a wood cave
in your kitchen where your kitchen used 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
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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 wallnut's sitting 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. Uh, but we have done wood on wood
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on wood before. But the key is contrast, heavy contrast
so that you don't get that cav bleed out effect.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And so there you go, and uh, 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 uh and check out what they've got
and the you know, see how you guys feel about it,
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because it's one 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, because you know, I didn't see
anything at the home depot or lows or at the
lumber yard down the street. Now, first of all, your
lumber yard down the street may have some, but there
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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. It's actually
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sold in quarter inches thicknesses. So if you're looking for
a two inch countertop slab, you're going to 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.
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If you walk in, speak in the lingo, they're going
to dig you. Where do you find it? All over
the place. If you're up here in eastern Ventura County
or the West Valley, then you know, get out here
to Agora and go to Canao Hardwoods. If you're in
La Bonhoff Lumber, of course, classic my buddy's over at
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Angel City Lumber. Please go to Angel City 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
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over the place. The last thing I'm going to 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 polyurythane 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,
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water beads right on the surface. What if 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 uh. You know what, especially if it's only been oiled,
you just get out the sand paper or a little sander,
a little palm sander, and just gently, very very gently
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massage the area until 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 Dean
Sharp the House Whisper on KFI AM six forty live
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and it's your friend as you take on the noble
work of turning your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
It's a real thing. It can be done. We see
it done every day of our professional life. Ordinary houses
can become extraordinary homes. Today, by the way, let me
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get this out quick. Today I want to talk to
you about what's going on with your house. I have
no agenda but to talk with you and see if
I can help. 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.
Let's talk to David A. David, Welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you, Dean. I'm in Venice Beach. I live in
an apartment, so I feel like I represent all the
apartment renters who don't usually own a home. And the
building I live in was built in nineteen twelve there's
three stories and I'm on the top floor the three stories,
and about seven or eight months ago the lanvelode replaced
the water heater, and since then it wakes me up
at night because of them. I guess people taking a
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shower because the pipes are banging for between five and
twenty seconds sometimes during the week. And I was wondering
how I can explain to my lavelord is I'm sorry
to say, but lazy doesn't want to admit that it's
just bothering and keeping me awake. So how does it
make such a noise that I think it's pipe expanding?
Do their rub against something? And what can I say?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't know what you can say with a lazy
landlord who doesn't want to do anything, but you can
talk to him about the problem though, And so are
we talking about. So there's two kinds of noise that
people sometimes experience when it comes to their hot water
systems or there's water in general. Number one is, uh,
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there is this there's a like a what a lot
of people describe as a creeping or clicking sound like
that happens when when hot water is being used. Uh.
And then there's that banging sound literally like you know,
this banging sound, which of the two are you experiencing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a mix between the two. It's the sound is
like the banging, but the space between the bang is
more space are like doom doom, dum dum dum dum
dum tum or sometimes slower it slows down, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So what you get is, uh, is the the new
it's weird. Plumbing systems are even really well designed systems, Uh.
They are. Essentially it turns out sometimes like a giant,
a giant instrument. You know, you got a lot of
pipes and you got stuff flowing through it, and depending
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on the twists and the turns that it makes and
so on, you get weird noises out of pipes. Sometimes.
Most common is what we call water hammer, okay, and
that's that thudding sound. And you could be in a
building for you know, one hundred years and not have
water hammer, and then all of a sudden, you know,
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somebody changes out the water heater, changes the pressure relationship
of the building. Maybe the water heat. Maybe the new
water heater is out putting hotter water than the previous one.
Maybe it's putting it out at slightly a different pressure.
Or flow level. There could all be all these little
subtle changes and all of a sudden, now we're getting
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water hammer hammer. Fortunately, in most cases, it's a pretty
simple fix. And that is and you could say, well,
your landlord says, hey, you put in the new water heater,
but now we're getting water hammer really bad in the house.
Would you please have a water hammer a restor installed
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near the water heater. And what a water hammer arrestor is.
It's literally it's an extension of the pipe. You know,
it inserts. It could insert, for instance, in between the
water heater hoses and the hot water line feed for
the rest of the building. And it's literally got a
little kind of a column sticking out from it. And
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inside that column is essentially a shock absorber for water.
There's a big spring and a diaphragm. And as that
water comes unevenly flowing through the pipes and that vibration
starts to form, this thing will receive a lot of
that vibration into itself and not send it knocking down
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through the pipes. Now, sometimes it takes more than one,
and sometimes it's a great idea to install them in
different locationtions. But a you know, a water hammer arrestor.
I mean you can get a two pack of them
for like twenty five dollars, so and they're an easy install, okay,
And so that would be I think that would be
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my first line of approach to your landlord, who obviously
doesn't want to do a whole lot that often. Just say, listen,
it is a problem, and a lot of us hear it,
and I don't want to be, you know, complaining about it.
But honestly, ever since the new water here went in,
we're hearing this thing. And so you know there's an
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I'm told there's an easy fix for it, you know,
could you please step forward and deal with that? And
if it's an easy, inexpensive fix, you know, maybe he'll
move on it. Maybe he'll he'll shift and make it happen.
But that's ultimately what that is, my friend. And do
you happen to have our laundry facilities in each apartment?
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It's an old apartment build, so I'm guessing not. But
do you have like a washer drug in your unit?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
No one does, okay, nobody does. Another place where you
might be able to help yourself with this is you
could install one of these, you know, twelve fifteen dollars.
Water hammer devices like underneath your sink in the kitchen, Okay,
because anywhere they are located anywhere along the lines, or
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underneath the sink in the bathroom, or get a couple
of them, put one in each place anywhere on that
system where these shock absorbers are. They will help mute
the vibration. So ask your landlord first. But maybe you
go out and pop a couple underneath your own sinks
and see if that helps as well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Fantastic. I love that information. Thank you so much, David.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You are so welcome.
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It is it.
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You set the agenda. Anything that is going on with
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you see it just rolls off the tongue on that note,
how about we go to it. We're going to take
some calls. Anything you want to talk about, So let's
get to it. Let's talk to Sal. Hey, Sal, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'm in my fourth house in here in LA. I
tend to buy houses in great neighborhoods, but need a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Okay, yeah, I get you. I feel it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I feel it, and the and the one I'm in now,
great house, a great neighborhood. Trying to deal with the
front doors, original front doors, French doors with sidelights, and
I get confusing quotes. Every contractor is different. I'm thinking
I wanted to just replace the flabs, and they say
they can't do it. I'm trying to look for types
of manufacturers. It's it's hard. I can't It's not like
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a Chevy or Ford. You know, you can't compare. So
I wanted to get some opinions whether or not to
just try to change the slabs. You know, in the
seventies home with you know the frame, you know, the
door on the top. It's a little off and they're saying,
it's not going to be level, we have to just
do pre hung. But the whole front unit is built
into the house, and I wanted to keep the integrity
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and just change the slabs and the sidelights. What do
you what do you think or what's what do you
think is my best option?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So we got double doors at double doors and sidelights, yes, sir, okay,
double doors and sidelights. And so you're not confused as
to the style that you're going for, right, You're just
going to go with the nineteen seventies. It's like a
little bit modernist slab door or is it a different style?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
The glass is like this frosted yellow with like a
diamond pattern in it, and it's you know, it's on
the top half of the door, and but on one
side of the door the frame is off centered a
little bit on the top jam to accommodate the alignment
of the of the glass. So that's saying because of that,
I can't just change I can't change the slabs because
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we're going to end up shaving it and it's going
to be off again like the original door is. And
I thought maybe I could just change the slabs and
the jams and the winterizing, you know, the weather stripping
and all that. But they don't want to, you know,
put in the work. They just want to change the
you know, do a pre hung system. But that's you know,
we're getting into almost.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ten grand now, all right, my friend. So here's the thing.
It can be done. Of course it can be done.
And so the situation that you're in right now is,
you know, and I grow weary. I'm not I don't
grow weary answering this question. I grow weary of giving
this answer because I wish I didn't have to. But
you're just going to need to search longer for the
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right builder to do the job. Okay, because of course
it can be done. Of course, we can change out
the jam and you can buy you know, you don't
have to go with a pre hung situation where it's
all been just factory put together. Of course, it can
be custom installed and in a lot of ways it
might end up saving you money along the way. Plus
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you get exactly what you want. Now, if there's some
weird jam condition that can be resolved too, Okay, everything
can be fixed. Everything can be fixed. It is just
a question these days of there are so many builders
out there who and believe me, you know, I mean
I feel for them too. Construction is no is you know,
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is no get rich quick scheme. It really isn't. And
the guys who use it that they usually like, end
up in jail. But it's just it's tough because people
want what they want, and they want it for an
unbelievably low price, and people have to really put the
effort into it in order to get good at work.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I'm not saying an unbelievable low price, but just the
fact that, you know, everybody's quotation and manufactural representations are different,
so it's very hard to choose.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And yeah, that's why. And you're in a good situation
to do that. Yeah, I can feel this. I can
feel the vibe that you're in the right situation to
do this. What you got to do is is you
have to take control of the situation. In other words,
your best bet, I think from what I'm hearing from you,
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your best bet is to choose your doors. Okay, now
what does that mean. Well, once you know the style
of the door that you want, right then you just
shop out that style door and yeah, they're going to
be varying price points for that style of door, but
you make that selection. You make the selection of the
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door that you want to go in that unit at
the price point that you are comfortable of paying. There
are a good billion doors out there, I know, and
it can seem very, very overwhelming. But first thing we
do is we eliminate, you know, ninety eight percent of
them because we've chosen the style, the specific style that
you want, and within that category, you locally shop out
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what it is that you're looking for. Is it going
to be a standard solid wood slab door and that's
going to be at one price. Is it going to
be a fiberglass resin door. Is it going to be
a steel door? You know, all of these choices that
we've got, you can narrow that down right, forget about
the manufacturers, just looking at price point and the construction
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of the door. Then you pick out those doors. You're like, Okay,
these are the two doors that I'm going to use,
and these are the sidelights that I'd like to see.
And then then you start showing contractors, listen, here are
the doors, these are the sidelights. There's the opening. I
want you to make it work. And some guys are
gonna walk away saying, ah, I know, don't do that.
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Other guys are going to give you that BS statement
that I hear all the time, it can't be done.
It just means that they don't want to do it
and they're not used to doing it at their convenience
level for a profit. And that's fine too, you can
let them walk. I just hate the fact that they
say it can't be done. I'd rather a contractor just
tell you that goes beyond what we normally do, and
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I don't want to do it. But to tell people
a thing can't be done, that's not the world that
I live in as a builder or a designer. So
get you take control of your materials and you say
these are the doors I want to use, here's the
configuration that I want. Give me a price accordingly, and
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if you look long enough and you take your time,
sal you're gonna find guys who are going to give
you prices, and you'll see that those prices will start
to align themselves and you'll be able to choose the
person to do the work for you and get it
done the right way.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
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Speaker 1 (14:19):
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.
All right, let's talk to Julie. Hey, Julie, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Hi Dean.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
We're looking at getting new windows and I love the
black frame windows, but they're obviously a lot more expensive.
So I was wondering, what are your thoughts on if
we just if someone just adjusted black frame windows in
the back of the house and kept the traditional white
frame ones.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
In the front.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
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 with out touching its traditional curb appeal
is to treat the facade of the house differently than
the backside of the house, because from the the facade
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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 backside of
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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 you know, I'll
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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 depends on
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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, it's my mullet theory.
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My mullet theory applies to lots of things all the time.
All right, let's talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Hey, good morning, Dean, thanks for giving my call props.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm building a fire.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Pit in the backyard and I'd like to run the
gas line before I have a concrete pad port over it.
So my question is what diameter pipe do I need
to use?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's a good question. It really all depends on how
big the fire pit is. It's just kind of a
standard little twenty four thirty six diameter fire pit. Then
you could get away with a half inch line, but
since it's all new, I prefer to run a three
quarter inch line. I've got a three quarter inch line
running to my fire pit. Of course, my fire pit,
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the rock itself is about eight and a half feet long,
and the actual burners are two four foot a pair
of two four foot linear burners. So there's a lot
of fire there along line of fire. But as a
general rule, you know, I like fire pits to be warm.
I like fire at my fire pit because the whole
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point of a fire pit is not just to sit
next to one when it's eighty degrees outside in the
middle of summer. But to be able to enjoy it
when it's cold outside, and when it's cold outside, you
need more than just a little trickle of flame coming out.
So I would say run the three quarter inch line.
But and here's the important qualifier to that. You run
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a three quarter inch line, you're not gonna want to
run it most of the time at full bore. And
so the key, the gas key that you're turning your
firepit on and off with, you shouldn't use that to
choke down the gas because if you do, it's so
close to where the gas comes out of the actual
burner that you're going to get a hiss or a
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whistling sound because of gas cavitation in the line. So
pick you know, wherever the gas line is coming out
of the house away from the house, or you know,
take twenty thirty feet away from the fire pit, run
a three quarter inch line, and then put a linear
valve right there that you can control the flow of
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the line, and then use your key at the fire
pit to just full on, full off. If you put
a valve, a flow control valve a twenty feet plus away,
then the cavitation by the time it reaches the fire
pit has settled down, and you can set it to
any intensity you want, from the very faintest of flame
all the way to the bonfire and you'll get no
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change in sound whatsoever. So my suggestion, yeah, I run
the three quarter inch line and give yourself some options. Paul,
thanks for your call, buddy, tell you what. Let's talk
to Pat Hey, Pat, welcome home.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
My house is built in nineteen twenty two and it
had the original oak Force, so twenty years ago and
we had the house three model. We pulled up the
carpet and they were like no, so the charras them
and they're just beautiful. So now it's been a while,
so I took TSP. I thought it's time to clean them.
Took TSP in it took off the old Sharraq. But
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now and I go to the hon depot, it seems
like the new Hira water based and there's nothing to them.
What can I use that's really strong to schillac my
falls because I want to preserve them as long as possible,
and the how it takes a beating a lot of traffic.
So what do you recommend to use for Schillac for
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covering coating.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Okay, I got you no more shillac on your floor,
and that's fine. Believe me, it's totally fine. What you
want now, don't be afraid of what you find at
the store. But here, I want you to go to
a good flooring store and I want you to get
a high quality flooring grade polyurethane. Poly Polyurethane is essentially
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a plastic coating. Doesn't matter that it's water based, doesn't
you know that's not that's a non issue. And we're
going to put at least three to four coats down now.
If you don't, if you want to show the floor
is super shiny, then you go with a normal polyurethane.
If you want them to have that very old world
a little bit, Matt just satiny finish, which I love
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so much because I think it shows off an old
world flow so well, then you're gonna want a satin finish,
just a satin finish on the polyurethane, and you're gonna
want it. Like I said, put down to three four
coats even more in high traffic areas if you want
not a problem, but polyurythane flooring grade, and you'll be
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able to do that to your floors, and it'll be
years before you have to redo it.
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Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let's talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
My family lives in a thirty five hundred square foot,
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, in an outdoor kitchen
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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.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
We have it's a nineteen sixty nine home, if I
didn't mention that, and it's got tile countertops, and we
put in a new tile in the floor when we
redid the patio, but the floor is chipping through. Tile
was substandard. We need new flooring. We want to replace
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our countertops. We want to keep the oak cabinetry, and
we like wood so much that we'd like to go
hardwood countertops. So we'd like your recommendation there.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well, good on you
and for 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 that's a lot of wood.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
And so the key is this.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
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, right because they're
all finished out. Whatever color that is, you want some
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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 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,
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if you went with the same kind of style and
the same general tone, you're going to end up with
a wood cave. And you don't want a wood cave
in your kitchen where your kitchen used 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
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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 wallnut's sitting 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. Uh, but we have done wood on wood
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on wood before. But the key is contrast, heavy contrast
so that you don't get that cav bleed out effect.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And so there you go, and uh, 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 uh and check out what they've got
and the you know, see how you guys feel about it,
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because it's one 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, because you know, I didn't see
anything at the home depot or lows or at the
lumber yard down the street. Now, first of all, your
lumber yard down the street may have some, but there
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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. It's actually
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sold in quarter inches thicknesses. So if you're looking for
a two inch countertop slab, you're going to 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.
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If you walk in, speak in the lingo, they're going
to dig you. Where do you find it? All over
the place. If you're up here in eastern Ventura County
or the West Valley, then you know, get out here
to Agora and go to Canao Hardwoods. If you're in
La Bonhoff Lumber, of course, classic my buddy's over at
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Angel City Lumber. Please go to Angel City 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
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over the place. The last thing I'm going to 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 polyurythane 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,
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water beads right on the surface. What if 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 uh. You know what, especially if it's only been oiled,
you just get out the sand paper or a little sander,
a little palm sander, and just gently, very very gently
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massage the area until 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 Dean
Sharp the House Whisper on KFI AM six forty live
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