April 5, 2025 • 26 mins
Dean introduced the gang and is ready for an all-calls weekend where he answers any burning question one may have surrounded their home. Dean provides a caller information on an anti-slip coding product that prevents slippage and is easy to clean tile floors. Dean gives tips on how to secure a mailbox post that is already on the concrete floor. Dean talks about sagging ceilings and how to determine exactly what is causing it
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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 KFI
AM six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app. Hey, welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp the
(00:20):
House Whisper. I design custom homes, I build custom homes,
and on the weekends, here I am your guide to
better understanding that place where you live. I'm just here
to hang out with you, see, get you started on
your weekend, right and you know, help you figure out
what's going on with your home. That's where we live,
(00:40):
right It is ground central, ground central, ground zero, life
central for all of us. You know, we all share
this thing in common, and that is, you know, no
matter what it looks like, whether it's a cottage or
a condo or a castle or anything in between, we
live at home, and we start our days at home.
(01:03):
We sleep at home, and home is what it's all
about for us. And I am here. What I'm all
about is helping you get through it and figure it out,
make it better, prove your life and the quality of
every minute that you spend in that space. And today
on the show, we get to do one of the
(01:24):
things that I just absolutely love, maybe the thing I
love more than anything, and I do love talking to
you about your home and bringing you all sorts of
insight and innovation, whether it's from a construction perspective or
a design perspective. In fact, Tomorrow Tomorrow, the Big Show. Tomorrow,
from nine to noon, we're going to be talking cabinets.
(01:44):
Because it's spring, it is renovation season upon us. People
are thinking about making changes, gutting that old kitchen. It's
time for a new kitchen, that kind of thing. We're
going to be spending three hours on our next episode,
Tomorrow's show, Tomorrow's broadcast, talking about all things cabinetry with
(02:06):
perhaps the one person who may know more about cabinets
than me, and that is John Cardero from The Kitchen Store.
It's going to be a great show spending the day
with John, you talking nothing but cabinetry and giving you
the insight into what's going on and what's happening in
the world of cabinetry. That's Tomorrow's show. But today, what
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is it? It's calls. I just want to talk to you today.
Anything that's going on with your home today. You give
me a call, design, construction, DIY. Here's the number eight
three three two. Ask Dean A three three the numeral
two ask Dean eight three three to ask Dean, it
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just rolls off the tongue. And I would love nothing
more than to talk to you about what's going on
with your home. The phone lines are open right now.
Let me introduce our awesome Sam is on the board. Yes,
give him a hand, everybody. Sam and Wrestling are not
quite live studio audience this morning, as he always does.
(03:11):
Good morning Sam, Good morning Dean. How you doing today.
I'm good. I'm good. I'm good considering the week it's been,
I am really good, real good to hear it's been
a week for everybody. But yeah, it's been a week. Wow.
But I'm just thrilled to be here. Golden Mike winning
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producer Richie Quintero is standing by to take your call.
Not near a microphone. He doesn't deserve a microe. He
don't get a micy. You get a microphone near that
guy to turn to gold Yeah. No, Richie won a
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He's just the best. And guess what if you call in,
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you get to talk to Richie this morning. Congratulate him
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you everything you need to know. Pop you into the queue.
You can listen to the show while you wait. And
of course, my buddy Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk.
Good morning, Eileen, Good morning sunshine, and congratulations to Richie. Right,
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isn't that great? That's awesome. One day I may be
on a list with not a not a most wanted list.
I want to I'm sure you're on some list somewhere. Oh,
I'm on the list, believe me. I'm on some lists.
I'm at the top of some list. I'm sure your
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wife has a list. She's on my list. Anyway, all right,
what flavorite tea do we have this morning? Eileen? It
is a green tea today. I need a little extra caffeine.
How to cold this week? So there you go, right,
Why are you feeling better?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm definitely compared to last week. Yeah, all right, Well,
as always, it's good to work with you. Same here,
always sitting across the table from me, my better half,
the one who holds my list, my design partner, my
best friend in the world, and quite often the reason
I roll out of bed in the morning. Tina is here, Ah,
(05:24):
welcome home. How you doing, Bud? I am great? And
I had a tea yesterday that was from Starbucks because
I don't drink their coffee Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I ordered it for you while you were in the bathroom. Yeah,
it was beautiful. You said, just give me a green tea,
and I said, give me a ca cam a meal tea.
And they had this Kaba meal tea that had mint
and green tea and it was so good. Yeah, I'm
glad it was good because my reaction was, I just
ordered a can of meal tea. That can I just
get a camera? Oh? Our Cama meal has mint and
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also some green tea in it. I'm like, can I
can I just get a damn cam a meal tea? Well?
It was a good it was. It's just simple. It's
a tea bag. Why does everything at Starbucks have to
be a cocktail everything? You know, what are they hiding?
What they hiding? All right, y'all, we're gonna get rolling. Hey,
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we've got calls on the board. You know what that means.
It means, right, after Eileen gives us some news, We're
gonna dive in and talk to you about what's going
on with your home. Cannot wait your home with Dean Sharp,
the house whisper damp I Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Hey again, whether your home is a condo, cottage, castle,
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doesn't matter to me. The rules apply across the board,
and I am here to help you take it to
the next level. That is one of our primary messages
here on the program. It's the thing that is missing
from most main stream middle class homes is what we
learn when we work in the high end luxury market,
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and that is simply that good architecture, good design, good
construction thinking. You know, everybody deserves that. Everybody does, and
it makes all the difference in the world. So that's
why I'm here for you, the people's designer, as it were, right,
bringing those truths across the board to everybody. Anyway, we
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are all taking calls today and I want to just
jump into the phones and get it going. Let's talk
to Judy. Hey, Judy, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Hi, Good morning, Jane.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm doing great this morning. My eyes popped open about
five or six, and I thought, oh boy, I'm going
to be first. Anyhow, nice to talk to you. I wonder,
I wonder if you can recommend a product for the
shower floor, a shower from the eighties that has the
four inch square slippery tiles that would prevent slippage. Something
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possibly could be painted on or uh and that would
also be cleanable as well as you age, those tiles
get slippery and slippery are and uh without tearing out
the shower? Is there something that you could recommend to
help uh? Yeah, put a little grittiness on the floor.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And here's the nice news, Judy, it doesn't have to
be gritty. Okay, oh good good. So it doesn't have
to You don't have to You don't have to resort
to kind of uh. And I know what you're talking about.
You you're imagining these uh, these sand based roll on
coatings that you've used.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I am that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, in certain places that you know, you're basically like,
how do they stick those granules of sand down to
that floor? And uh? And it can you know, I mean,
for for certain applications, those things are great, but I
don't think any of us really want that in the
bottom of our shower. Uh. And and plus you know,
it changes the appearance and it and it it's going
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to change the you know, the the ease of cleaning it.
And so I say, let's not do that. Fortunately, fortunately,
the world is full of well I don't know about full,
but there are plenty of decent, well proven UH coatings
out there that are completely transparent and clear but will
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change the way you get traction on tile in your shower.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. It's really nice. It's
they're anti slip coatings. Now you will have to keep
up with it, that's the thing, you know, because it's
a coating on top of your tile, and it will eventually,
you know, as you clean it and scrub the bottom
of the shower or whatever, and you know, eventually you'll
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wear through that coating again and you'll reapply it. But
also the good news is these aren't expensive things, depending
on you know, who you go with, and and and
just generally speaking, there's a there's a range. You know,
you can get some some sealants out there in the
twenty to thirty dollars range, and you can get some
sealants out there in the you know, closer to one
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hundred dollars range for a gallon or two. But the
point is they are they have a very low what
we call slip coefficient coating. They are basically anti slip coatings,
and they do really significantly change the way you feel
when you're standing on them. It's not that they're tacky
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or sticky anything like that. They just they're they're basically
kind of hydrophobic coatings, what we call hydrophone big coatings.
They don't allow water molecules to form a layer on
top of them, and as a result, it gets this
really nice kind of contact without feeling scratchy or weird.
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Here's the great news. Also, you can go on Amazon
and find them. You can go down to Low's or
Home Depot or your hardware store and find them. All
you do is ask for, Hey, I'm looking for an
anti slip coding for tile. But I will give you
a couple of recommendations. I happen to like stone Grip,
and I happen to like anything that is anti slip
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from Miracle Sealants. Okay, these are companies that have been
providing coadings for the tile industry for decades. They're proven
their professional grade. But they're also totally available to you
at your local big box or hardware store or on
Amazon place like that Miracle Sealants or Stone Grip.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Okay, I can't thank you enough. It's really going to
be it's really going to change everything. Really, it'll be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, I mean I think I think you'll find you'll
I think you'll find that. I mean, they's no joke,
they're not there. It's it's not a joke. It really
does affect the way. And the nice thing is you
could even you know, apply it to the tile outside
the shower. You know, you could apply it to the
tile on the main bathroom floor. That's a concern for
a lot of people who have older tiles that are
overly slippery as well. And uh and so just you know,
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consider it. But give it a try, give it a try.
See how it works for you. I've heard very very.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Do you just painted on.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Yeah, yeah, you just yeah, it's you don't even
have to paint it, really, I mean you can you
can pour some onto a sponge and just kind of
sponge it on and let the coat dry. And you know,
I mean there are conditions. You want to make sure
that the floor is really clean, the best it's been
in a long long time. Open up the porosity of
the rout all that kind of stuff. So they're thinking,
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you know, a few steps you have to go through,
but it's it's not rocket science, it really is.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
All right. Thank you again, Dan very much. Love your dream,
absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Thank you so much, and thanks for getting up early
and being our first caller this morning. Let's hear it
for Jody. Everybody whoa all right, y'all, let's get some
news from Eileen Gonzalez and we will continue with your calls.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
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Speaker 1 (13:33):
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about your home. I'm taking calls. You wouldn't think. You
wouldn't think it's six thirty in the morning that we
would have a board full of calls here in southern California,
But yeah, yeah we do. And I'm just I'm so
honored and touched by it. So let's get back into
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it and uh, let's, you know, solve some problems. I
want to talk to Uh, I want to talk to Laura. Hey, Laura,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hi, Dean. I have a mailbox post that the HLA
several years ago fixed it because it was wobbily. They
put some concrete around it to hold it in place.
I share this mailbox post with three other homeowners. It
happens to be on my property. The home at the
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HOA no longer fixes the wobbly post that I have
now is now based on now put onto the homeowners
to fix it. So it's on my property. I have
to fix it. I got the post foe the other day,
but it says it doesn't work. It doesn't work with
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near concrete. Is that a still? Can I use that
to fill the space between the soil and the concrete
that's holding up the post? Or okay, of sticks to
make it not so wobbly.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Okay, all right, so let's let's kind of let's let's
flesh this out. You've got a is it like a
four by four post, like a wooden post.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, that has concrete, a cylinder concrete. You know, they
put a form around it for some concrete. And now
what's that's around the post? The concrete is up against
the soil.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, so but the but the but the post, So
it's got concrete around it all four sides. It's surrounded
by by the concrete at this point, okay, and yet
the post is wobbling. So basically the concrete now is
acting like a little hinge underneath the soil is all
loosey goosey, and uh, the concrete collar as it were.
(16:52):
Of course, the post isn't moving there, but the whole
thing is wobbling on the top because you can because
the soil is given out underneath, right, yes, correct, Okay.
So I've got one critical question for you, and that
is is that post loose enough that it can be
pulled out of its concretes? Leave there?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It can't be pulled out of the concrete. It might
the whole fig with the concrete might be able to
be pulled out, but not in the concrete it happen to
come out with the post. We have not attempted that
to pull everything out.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Okay, I would because because the question of whether the
foam will work for you, and I think probably, you know,
I mean, that's that's where I would make my first turn.
Expansive foam post postthole foam, okay. And the reason is
because it'll find all those crevices it'll put pressure on it,
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pressure on the soil around it, it'll it'll tend to
lock the post in. But the point is we've got
to get access to the whole, h you know, without
so here here's here would be my goal. My goal
would be, can we wiggle that post enough to actually
wiggle it and lit and put some lift on it
so that we can actually pull it through, you know,
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without messing up the concrete, without disturbing the concrete. Can
we pull it through its hole and just leave that
four by four inch hole in the concrete and then
you know, whatever down chasm is down below it, if
you can pull the post out of that hole and
leave the concrete in place, is it like a concrete
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sidewalk pad now that it's around it, or is it
just a clump of concrete that they put.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Around It's a clump of concrete they put around the
post that's in one of my flower beds. So the
post can't come out of the concrete.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But the whole thing could come out.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Possibly we had not attempted that, but possibly the whole
post with the concrete that's in the farm.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, so yeah, if it's not like just can if
it's not like a finished concrete thing, you know that's
sitting as a part of a sidewalk. Then yeah, I
would have just attempt to get the whole thing out
of the hole, the whole thing out of the hole,
and then yeah, the expansive post hole foam would be,
in my opinion, your best bet because it will it
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will help to push against that light, loose soil. It
sounds like, you know, whatever went down in that hole
when they quote unquote fixed this issue, they just did
not They didn't go deep enough, They didn't make the concrete.
You know that the post is sitting in thick enough,
wide enough. I mean, there's there's so many you would
(19:44):
think that you would think it's a pretty simple process,
and actually it is a very simple process, but people
skip over steps and as a result you end up
with something that's just like wonky and not working. And
so the post hole cement is so easy to use.
You cut it open, I mean you mix it, you
break the inner bag, you mix it around so that
the catalyst and the foam actually mix together. You cut
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it open, you pour it down into a well prepared hole.
You stick a new post or the old post in there.
And hold it plumb for just a couple of minutes.
The foam expands like crazy. It locks the post in.
It water proofs in seals around the post. And it
doesn't matter if it comes up higher. In fact, you
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want it to. You want to come up high above
the ground. Let it all harden out, and you can
come back an hour later when it's completely hardened, and
take a knife or a saw or a chisel or
anything and just cut down the foam just below the
soil line and fill in the rest of the soil
around your planter bed, and you'll have a nice secure post.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Does it work against the concrete? I was told at
one of the box stores that it won't adhere to
the con that's around the post, But I'm thinking that
it doesn't need to adhere to it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It just needs to.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It'll work fine. It don't work fine. They don't know
what they're talking about. It'll work fine. The concrete's got
a lot of porosity to it. The phone will push
up against it, it'll lock into that concrete. It'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Great. Thank you so much for your help. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Laura, You are so welcome. Thanks for that very interesting question.
I just love helping people out of their little binds.
You know. That's why I'm here, and we will continue
to do that. Okayfye, I love that comp I do.
I don't know why it moves me so much. I
just love it. Dean Sharp the house whisper, Welcome home.
Thanks for joining us on the program today. Hey, guess
(21:43):
what we're doing taking calls, doing what I love to
do best, just talking to you directly about what's going
on with your home. Here's the number to reach me,
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the
numeral two and then you just spell out ask Dean
eight three three to ask Dean. Our Golden MIC Award
(22:06):
winning producer Richie is standing by ready to take your call.
He'll tell you everything you need to know. He'll pop
you into the queue, and who knows, hopefully you and
I will put our heads together figure out what's going
on with your home. All right, let's run to the
phones again. I want to talk to Fred. Good morning, Fred,
welcome home, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I have a problem with my ceiling in the living room.
My house was built in nineteen fifty six. It's a
single story and the living room ceiling and it's roughly
about three hundred square feet, and it has a major segatives.
(22:53):
And my concern is at some point it just got
collapsed into my living room. What's my thing?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay? All right, Fred, all right, let's so let's let's
try and parse this out a little bit. Okay. The
big question is when we say the living room ceiling
is sagging. Uh, I need to know why it's sagging
or what is sagging because you've got two things that
went How old do you say the house is.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Again, built in nineteen fifty six?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, so it's nineteen fifty six. So so to the
best of your knowledge, you're kind of on the cusp
of it could be one way or the other. I'm
assuming it's a dry wall house or is it a
plaster house.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Your walls, my my pure gas is dry wall. But
I honestly I don't. I cannot tell the difference. I
know how to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, all right, that's fine, that's fine. Has anybody been
up into the attic and taken a look at what's
going on? I want to know whether or not this
the ceiling surface has let In other words, the drywall
or plaster has let go of the ceiling joists the
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actual wood structure up there, or and if that's what's
causing the sag, or whether that's all adhered together and
it's actually the wood ceiling joists that are sagging. I
want to know which is the case, because those are
two very very different causes. Has anybody been in the
attic to take a look to see to look at
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the joists, see how straight and flat they are, and
then to look down and say, oh, well, look like
you know, the drywall has delaminated, it's pulling away from
the bottom of the joist, or whether that's all tight
and seam together, but the joists themselves are sagging. Do
you know which is which?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Sure to ask you a question, nobody expected it. I
lived there, that home for thirty eight years, and there's
only been one personal up there, and that's when I
was replacing my Gallon I plumbing to copper plumbing, and
that was a super small person closify feet tall. Because
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the roof is very.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Very low.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You've got a very small attic space, right.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah, you cannot, you can barely crawl in there. It's yeah,
it's very small, very low, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Right, well, you know what, fred I want you to
I want you to hang on. We're up against the break.
If I can, I put you on hold, and then
we'll you and I will pick up this conversation afterwards,
because this is something that I want everybody to understand
about their homes and and I'm going to give you
some advice as to what to do and hopefully some
encouragement along the way too. So if you'll hang tight,
(25:58):
then we'll pick this up right after Eileen Gonzalez gives
us the news. You're listening to Dean Sharp The House
Whisper on KFI.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
KFI a M six forty
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app KFI
AM six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app. Hey, welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp the
(00:20):
House Whisper. I design custom homes, I build custom homes,
and on the weekends, here I am your guide to
better understanding that place where you live. I'm just here
to hang out with you, see, get you started on
your weekend, right and you know, help you figure out
what's going on with your home. That's where we live,
(00:40):
right It is ground central, ground central, ground zero, life
central for all of us. You know, we all share
this thing in common, and that is, you know, no
matter what it looks like, whether it's a cottage or
a condo or a castle or anything in between, we
live at home, and we start our days at home.
(01:03):
We sleep at home, and home is what it's all
about for us. And I am here. What I'm all
about is helping you get through it and figure it out,
make it better, prove your life and the quality of
every minute that you spend in that space. And today
on the show, we get to do one of the
(01:24):
things that I just absolutely love, maybe the thing I
love more than anything, and I do love talking to
you about your home and bringing you all sorts of
insight and innovation, whether it's from a construction perspective or
a design perspective. In fact, Tomorrow Tomorrow, the Big Show. Tomorrow,
from nine to noon, we're going to be talking cabinets.
(01:44):
Because it's spring, it is renovation season upon us. People
are thinking about making changes, gutting that old kitchen. It's
time for a new kitchen, that kind of thing. We're
going to be spending three hours on our next episode,
Tomorrow's show, Tomorrow's broadcast, talking about all things cabinetry with
(02:06):
perhaps the one person who may know more about cabinets
than me, and that is John Cardero from The Kitchen Store.
It's going to be a great show spending the day
with John, you talking nothing but cabinetry and giving you
the insight into what's going on and what's happening in
the world of cabinetry. That's Tomorrow's show. But today, what
(02:28):
is it? It's calls. I just want to talk to you today.
Anything that's going on with your home today. You give
me a call, design, construction, DIY. Here's the number eight
three three two. Ask Dean A three three the numeral
two ask Dean eight three three to ask Dean, it
(02:49):
just rolls off the tongue. And I would love nothing
more than to talk to you about what's going on
with your home. The phone lines are open right now.
Let me introduce our awesome Sam is on the board. Yes,
give him a hand, everybody. Sam and Wrestling are not
quite live studio audience this morning, as he always does.
(03:11):
Good morning Sam, Good morning Dean. How you doing today.
I'm good. I'm good. I'm good considering the week it's been,
I am really good, real good to hear it's been
a week for everybody. But yeah, it's been a week. Wow.
But I'm just thrilled to be here. Golden Mike winning
(03:37):
producer Richie Quintero is standing by to take your call.
Not near a microphone. He doesn't deserve a microe. He
don't get a micy. You get a microphone near that
guy to turn to gold Yeah. No, Richie won a
Golden Mic this last week. It was announced. Fantastic. He's great,
He's just the best. And guess what if you call in,
(03:58):
you get to talk to Richie this morning. Congratulate him
on the Golden mic Win when you talk to him,
because Ritchie is screening our calls this morning. He'll tell
you everything you need to know. Pop you into the queue.
You can listen to the show while you wait. And
of course, my buddy Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk.
Good morning, Eileen, Good morning sunshine, and congratulations to Richie. Right,
(04:20):
isn't that great? That's awesome. One day I may be
on a list with not a not a most wanted list.
I want to I'm sure you're on some list somewhere. Oh,
I'm on the list, believe me. I'm on some lists.
I'm at the top of some list. I'm sure your
(04:42):
wife has a list. She's on my list. Anyway, all right,
what flavorite tea do we have this morning? Eileen? It
is a green tea today. I need a little extra caffeine.
How to cold this week? So there you go, right,
Why are you feeling better?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm definitely compared to last week. Yeah, all right, Well,
as always, it's good to work with you. Same here,
always sitting across the table from me, my better half,
the one who holds my list, my design partner, my
best friend in the world, and quite often the reason
I roll out of bed in the morning. Tina is here, Ah,
(05:24):
welcome home. How you doing, Bud? I am great? And
I had a tea yesterday that was from Starbucks because
I don't drink their coffee Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I ordered it for you while you were in the bathroom. Yeah,
it was beautiful. You said, just give me a green tea,
and I said, give me a ca cam a meal tea.
And they had this Kaba meal tea that had mint
and green tea and it was so good. Yeah, I'm
glad it was good because my reaction was, I just
ordered a can of meal tea. That can I just
get a camera? Oh? Our Cama meal has mint and
(05:59):
also some green tea in it. I'm like, can I
can I just get a damn cam a meal tea? Well?
It was a good it was. It's just simple. It's
a tea bag. Why does everything at Starbucks have to
be a cocktail everything? You know, what are they hiding?
What they hiding? All right, y'all, we're gonna get rolling. Hey,
(06:24):
we've got calls on the board. You know what that means.
It means, right, after Eileen gives us some news, We're
gonna dive in and talk to you about what's going
on with your home. Cannot wait your home with Dean Sharp,
the house whisper damp I Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Hey again, whether your home is a condo, cottage, castle,
(06:45):
doesn't matter to me. The rules apply across the board,
and I am here to help you take it to
the next level. That is one of our primary messages
here on the program. It's the thing that is missing
from most main stream middle class homes is what we
learn when we work in the high end luxury market,
(07:09):
and that is simply that good architecture, good design, good
construction thinking. You know, everybody deserves that. Everybody does, and
it makes all the difference in the world. So that's
why I'm here for you, the people's designer, as it were, right,
bringing those truths across the board to everybody. Anyway, we
(07:32):
are all taking calls today and I want to just
jump into the phones and get it going. Let's talk
to Judy. Hey, Judy, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Hi, Good morning, Jane.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm doing great this morning. My eyes popped open about
five or six, and I thought, oh boy, I'm going
to be first. Anyhow, nice to talk to you. I wonder,
I wonder if you can recommend a product for the
shower floor, a shower from the eighties that has the
four inch square slippery tiles that would prevent slippage. Something
(08:15):
possibly could be painted on or uh and that would
also be cleanable as well as you age, those tiles
get slippery and slippery are and uh without tearing out
the shower? Is there something that you could recommend to
help uh? Yeah, put a little grittiness on the floor.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And here's the nice news, Judy, it doesn't have to
be gritty. Okay, oh good good. So it doesn't have
to You don't have to You don't have to resort
to kind of uh. And I know what you're talking about.
You you're imagining these uh, these sand based roll on
coatings that you've used.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I am that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, in certain places that you know, you're basically like,
how do they stick those granules of sand down to
that floor? And uh? And it can you know, I mean,
for for certain applications, those things are great, but I
don't think any of us really want that in the
bottom of our shower. Uh. And and plus you know,
it changes the appearance and it and it it's going
(09:19):
to change the you know, the the ease of cleaning it.
And so I say, let's not do that. Fortunately, fortunately,
the world is full of well I don't know about full,
but there are plenty of decent, well proven UH coatings
out there that are completely transparent and clear but will
(09:42):
change the way you get traction on tile in your shower.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. It's really nice. It's
they're anti slip coatings. Now you will have to keep
up with it, that's the thing, you know, because it's
a coating on top of your tile, and it will eventually,
you know, as you clean it and scrub the bottom
of the shower or whatever, and you know, eventually you'll
(10:10):
wear through that coating again and you'll reapply it. But
also the good news is these aren't expensive things, depending
on you know, who you go with, and and and
just generally speaking, there's a there's a range. You know,
you can get some some sealants out there in the
twenty to thirty dollars range, and you can get some
sealants out there in the you know, closer to one
(10:31):
hundred dollars range for a gallon or two. But the
point is they are they have a very low what
we call slip coefficient coating. They are basically anti slip coatings,
and they do really significantly change the way you feel
when you're standing on them. It's not that they're tacky
(10:52):
or sticky anything like that. They just they're they're basically
kind of hydrophobic coatings, what we call hydrophone big coatings.
They don't allow water molecules to form a layer on
top of them, and as a result, it gets this
really nice kind of contact without feeling scratchy or weird.
(11:13):
Here's the great news. Also, you can go on Amazon
and find them. You can go down to Low's or
Home Depot or your hardware store and find them. All
you do is ask for, Hey, I'm looking for an
anti slip coding for tile. But I will give you
a couple of recommendations. I happen to like stone Grip,
and I happen to like anything that is anti slip
(11:36):
from Miracle Sealants. Okay, these are companies that have been
providing coadings for the tile industry for decades. They're proven
their professional grade. But they're also totally available to you
at your local big box or hardware store or on
Amazon place like that Miracle Sealants or Stone Grip.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Okay, I can't thank you enough. It's really going to
be it's really going to change everything. Really, it'll be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, I mean I think I think you'll find you'll
I think you'll find that. I mean, they's no joke,
they're not there. It's it's not a joke. It really
does affect the way. And the nice thing is you
could even you know, apply it to the tile outside
the shower. You know, you could apply it to the
tile on the main bathroom floor. That's a concern for
a lot of people who have older tiles that are
overly slippery as well. And uh and so just you know,
(12:31):
consider it. But give it a try, give it a try.
See how it works for you. I've heard very very.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Do you just painted on.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Yeah, yeah, you just yeah, it's you don't even
have to paint it, really, I mean you can you
can pour some onto a sponge and just kind of
sponge it on and let the coat dry. And you know,
I mean there are conditions. You want to make sure
that the floor is really clean, the best it's been
in a long long time. Open up the porosity of
the rout all that kind of stuff. So they're thinking,
(13:01):
you know, a few steps you have to go through,
but it's it's not rocket science, it really is.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
All right. Thank you again, Dan very much. Love your dream,
absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Thank you so much, and thanks for getting up early
and being our first caller this morning. Let's hear it
for Jody. Everybody whoa all right, y'all, let's get some
news from Eileen Gonzalez and we will continue with your calls.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
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Speaker 1 (13:33):
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there waiting for you. And today I am doing my
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about your home. I'm taking calls. You wouldn't think. You
wouldn't think it's six thirty in the morning that we
would have a board full of calls here in southern California,
But yeah, yeah we do. And I'm just I'm so
honored and touched by it. So let's get back into
(15:03):
it and uh, let's, you know, solve some problems. I
want to talk to Uh, I want to talk to Laura. Hey, Laura,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hi, Dean. I have a mailbox post that the HLA
several years ago fixed it because it was wobbily. They
put some concrete around it to hold it in place.
I share this mailbox post with three other homeowners. It
happens to be on my property. The home at the
(15:34):
HOA no longer fixes the wobbly post that I have
now is now based on now put onto the homeowners
to fix it. So it's on my property. I have
to fix it. I got the post foe the other day,
but it says it doesn't work. It doesn't work with
(15:54):
near concrete. Is that a still? Can I use that
to fill the space between the soil and the concrete
that's holding up the post? Or okay, of sticks to
make it not so wobbly.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Okay, all right, so let's let's kind of let's let's
flesh this out. You've got a is it like a
four by four post, like a wooden post.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, that has concrete, a cylinder concrete. You know, they
put a form around it for some concrete. And now
what's that's around the post? The concrete is up against
the soil.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, so but the but the but the post, So
it's got concrete around it all four sides. It's surrounded
by by the concrete at this point, okay, and yet
the post is wobbling. So basically the concrete now is
acting like a little hinge underneath the soil is all
loosey goosey, and uh, the concrete collar as it were.
(16:52):
Of course, the post isn't moving there, but the whole
thing is wobbling on the top because you can because
the soil is given out underneath, right, yes, correct, Okay.
So I've got one critical question for you, and that
is is that post loose enough that it can be
pulled out of its concretes? Leave there?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It can't be pulled out of the concrete. It might
the whole fig with the concrete might be able to
be pulled out, but not in the concrete it happen to
come out with the post. We have not attempted that
to pull everything out.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Okay, I would because because the question of whether the
foam will work for you, and I think probably, you know,
I mean, that's that's where I would make my first turn.
Expansive foam post postthole foam, okay. And the reason is
because it'll find all those crevices it'll put pressure on it,
(17:51):
pressure on the soil around it, it'll it'll tend to
lock the post in. But the point is we've got
to get access to the whole, h you know, without
so here here's here would be my goal. My goal
would be, can we wiggle that post enough to actually
wiggle it and lit and put some lift on it
so that we can actually pull it through, you know,
(18:14):
without messing up the concrete, without disturbing the concrete. Can
we pull it through its hole and just leave that
four by four inch hole in the concrete and then
you know, whatever down chasm is down below it, if
you can pull the post out of that hole and
leave the concrete in place, is it like a concrete
(18:36):
sidewalk pad now that it's around it, or is it
just a clump of concrete that they put.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Around It's a clump of concrete they put around the
post that's in one of my flower beds. So the
post can't come out of the concrete.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But the whole thing could come out.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Possibly we had not attempted that, but possibly the whole
post with the concrete that's in the farm.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, so yeah, if it's not like just can if
it's not like a finished concrete thing, you know that's
sitting as a part of a sidewalk. Then yeah, I
would have just attempt to get the whole thing out
of the hole, the whole thing out of the hole,
and then yeah, the expansive post hole foam would be,
in my opinion, your best bet because it will it
(19:23):
will help to push against that light, loose soil. It
sounds like, you know, whatever went down in that hole
when they quote unquote fixed this issue, they just did
not They didn't go deep enough, They didn't make the concrete.
You know that the post is sitting in thick enough,
wide enough. I mean, there's there's so many you would
(19:44):
think that you would think it's a pretty simple process,
and actually it is a very simple process, but people
skip over steps and as a result you end up
with something that's just like wonky and not working. And
so the post hole cement is so easy to use.
You cut it open, I mean you mix it, you
break the inner bag, you mix it around so that
the catalyst and the foam actually mix together. You cut
(20:08):
it open, you pour it down into a well prepared hole.
You stick a new post or the old post in there.
And hold it plumb for just a couple of minutes.
The foam expands like crazy. It locks the post in.
It water proofs in seals around the post. And it
doesn't matter if it comes up higher. In fact, you
(20:29):
want it to. You want to come up high above
the ground. Let it all harden out, and you can
come back an hour later when it's completely hardened, and
take a knife or a saw or a chisel or
anything and just cut down the foam just below the
soil line and fill in the rest of the soil
around your planter bed, and you'll have a nice secure post.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Does it work against the concrete? I was told at
one of the box stores that it won't adhere to
the con that's around the post, But I'm thinking that
it doesn't need to adhere to it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It just needs to.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It'll work fine. It don't work fine. They don't know
what they're talking about. It'll work fine. The concrete's got
a lot of porosity to it. The phone will push
up against it, it'll lock into that concrete. It'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Great. Thank you so much for your help. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Laura, You are so welcome. Thanks for that very interesting question.
I just love helping people out of their little binds.
You know. That's why I'm here, and we will continue
to do that. Okayfye, I love that comp I do.
I don't know why it moves me so much. I
just love it. Dean Sharp the house whisper, Welcome home.
Thanks for joining us on the program today. Hey, guess
(21:43):
what we're doing taking calls, doing what I love to
do best, just talking to you directly about what's going
on with your home. Here's the number to reach me,
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the
numeral two and then you just spell out ask Dean
eight three three to ask Dean. Our Golden MIC Award
(22:06):
winning producer Richie is standing by ready to take your call.
He'll tell you everything you need to know. He'll pop
you into the queue, and who knows, hopefully you and
I will put our heads together figure out what's going
on with your home. All right, let's run to the
phones again. I want to talk to Fred. Good morning, Fred,
welcome home, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I have a problem with my ceiling in the living room.
My house was built in nineteen fifty six. It's a
single story and the living room ceiling and it's roughly
about three hundred square feet, and it has a major segatives.
(22:53):
And my concern is at some point it just got
collapsed into my living room. What's my thing?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay? All right, Fred, all right, let's so let's let's
try and parse this out a little bit. Okay. The
big question is when we say the living room ceiling
is sagging. Uh, I need to know why it's sagging
or what is sagging because you've got two things that
went How old do you say the house is.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Again, built in nineteen fifty six?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, so it's nineteen fifty six. So so to the
best of your knowledge, you're kind of on the cusp
of it could be one way or the other. I'm
assuming it's a dry wall house or is it a
plaster house.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Your walls, my my pure gas is dry wall. But
I honestly I don't. I cannot tell the difference. I
know how to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, all right, that's fine, that's fine. Has anybody been
up into the attic and taken a look at what's
going on? I want to know whether or not this
the ceiling surface has let In other words, the drywall
or plaster has let go of the ceiling joists the
(24:09):
actual wood structure up there, or and if that's what's
causing the sag, or whether that's all adhered together and
it's actually the wood ceiling joists that are sagging. I
want to know which is the case, because those are
two very very different causes. Has anybody been in the
attic to take a look to see to look at
(24:32):
the joists, see how straight and flat they are, and
then to look down and say, oh, well, look like
you know, the drywall has delaminated, it's pulling away from
the bottom of the joist, or whether that's all tight
and seam together, but the joists themselves are sagging. Do
you know which is which?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Sure to ask you a question, nobody expected it. I
lived there, that home for thirty eight years, and there's
only been one personal up there, and that's when I
was replacing my Gallon I plumbing to copper plumbing, and
that was a super small person closify feet tall. Because
(25:17):
the roof is very.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Very low.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You've got a very small attic space, right.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah, you cannot, you can barely crawl in there. It's yeah,
it's very small, very low, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Right, well, you know what, fred I want you to
I want you to hang on. We're up against the break.
If I can, I put you on hold, and then
we'll you and I will pick up this conversation afterwards,
because this is something that I want everybody to understand
about their homes and and I'm going to give you
some advice as to what to do and hopefully some
encouragement along the way too. So if you'll hang tight,
(25:58):
then we'll pick this up right after Eileen Gonzalez gives
us the news. You're listening to Dean Sharp The House
Whisper on KFI.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
KFI a M six forty
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