May 10, 2025 • 26 mins
Dean has an all-calls weekend where he answers all of your questions surrounding your home! Dean talks about secured doors + glass doors. Dean advices on noise cancelling an apartment located on a busy street with some soundproofing options. Dean talks about building a chicken coop and shares the type of chicks he has in his ranch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kf I 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 in HD everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the
(00:20):
House Whisper. I design custom homes and on the weekends,
I am here to guide you to better understand that
place where you live. That's what we're all about here
on the program. We're all about home, your home, turning
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. And as Saturday
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mornings go, we are taking calls this morning and you
get to set the agenda about what today's show is
all about. The number to reach me eight three three
to ask Dean A three three The numeral two Ask
Dean A three three to ask Dean anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. Whatever's got you scratching
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your head regarding your home. That's why I am here.
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soft scape, any kind of scape you can think of,
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interior decor, All of it is fair game. And I
want to help you through, and we'll find a way
through to make your ordinary house a more extraordinary home.
Eight three three two ask Dean. Saturday morning calls are lights,
so it's always a great time to call in and
get onto the air and let me help you out
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with your issues. Let me introduce our awesome team, sam
Is on the board. Good morning Sam, Good morning Dean.
How you doing? Oh good? No, the feed into the
studio here is a little spottyed like cutting in and
out a little bit on me, but sam Is wrestling
are not so live studio audience as always and doing
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a stellar job. Producer Richie is standing by ready to
take your calls. Oh, producer Richie is taking calls. So
there you go. See Oaks are already calling in good
time for you to call into A three three to
ask Dean, and of course Eileen Gonzales at the news desk.
Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Good? Good? Wait, let me guess it's green tea? How'd
you guess? Did I get it right? You did? But
actually I'm gonna get fancy. I'm going to add some
pineapple ginger to it. Well, I'm sorry, what was that pineapple? Yeah, pineapple, pineapple,
ginger and ginger. Yeah, that's a good condom. I am
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having a coffee black as God intended. That sounds good.
Get that caffeine going, yes, exactly. Sitting across the table
from me, my better half, my design partner, my best
buddy in all the world. There she is. Well, it
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wasn't that wasn't you, but that was your spirit animal.
Tina is here. Welcome home. Hey, good to see you
this morning. I know here. I am been a couple
of weeks where we've had you off doing other things, right,
it's nice to have you back. Thanks. We've had a
lot of guests in the studio. We have have had
a lot of guests and it's been a good thing.
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And I see you've brought a beagle with you as well.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I did. Yes, I come prepared with coffee and a beagle.
Silent Sam, He's silent studio, so silent. Not so silent
everywhere else, but he tends to be silent here in
the studio. So glad to hear that. All right, y'all,
let's dive in, shall we. We've got a couple of
calls on the board. Tons of room for you as well.
Eight three three two, ass Dean. It's an all Saturday morning.
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You set the agenda and I sit back and take it.
Whatever it is that's going on with your home, will
do it all, can't I? I Jean Charp the house whisper.
Whether your home is a condo or a cottage or
a castle matters not to me. I'm here to help
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you take it to the next level. Thank you for
joining us on the program this morning. It is always
a pleasure to spend a Saturday morning with you. We
are doing all calls. The number to reach me eight
three three to ask Dean eight three to three, the
numeral two ask Dean, and there's room on the board
for you. So if you've got a question about your home,
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give me a call. Joel has a question about his home.
Let's talk to Joel. Hey Joel, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hi Dean, nice talk to you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I have a back door with a glass window. It's
like by forty and I want to make it more secure.
Is there any way of making that door more secure
from you know, intrusion or should I just get a
new back door? Because I'm thinking of a back door.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You're thinking of a new back door.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'm thinking and I can make this one more secure.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, right, Yeah, I'm assuming that you don't have
tempered glass on that door, so it doesn't yeah, okay,
because if it was tempered I usually tell people, hey,
don't worry so much about the glass in the door,
because tempered glasses, you know, it's not bomb proof, it's
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not impassable, but it is a lot lot harder to
smash and grab, as they say, with tempered glass panels
inside a door than just standard glass. Most doors are
made without, you know, if there's just a smaller glass section,
they're made without the tempered glass. So yeah, it is
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a little bit of a vulnerability. The only thing I
could tell you, Joel, without ruining the look of the
whole thing is there are security screens out there on
the market that are available, and you could call a
company that does security screens. Now it's going to darken
its vibe just a little bit, because the security screens
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are significantly you know, strong and thick, and when they
say secure, I mean they really are secure, and they
would like screw onto the section. You could have a
security screen custom made to basically fit like a panel
over the glass would not obscure the glass would darken
it a little bit, but wouldn't obscure the glass. You'd
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still have light coming through. And security screens are mega
hard to get into and through way better than bars,
by the way, because you know, the minute the bars
go up, that's when you know property value start to
drop and you start feeling like, well, you know, I
live in that kind of a neighborhood. So security screens
are an aesthetically passive way of dealing with that, and
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uh it would help out a lot. And uh so
I would check that out. And then you just weigh
that against the possibility of getting a new door, either
with zero glass or with tempered glass, so that you
can make that back portal more secure. Okay, thank you,
that makes sense. Yes, thank you, you are very very welcome,
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my friend. Well, one up one day, you too, buddy,
you too. Uh it's nice to just right out of
the bat. It's like, there you go, asked it answered,
uh uh, let's uh, well, we can get another call
going here, at least let's talk to James. Hey, James,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Hey Deane, thanks for taking a call. I guess, I
guess of a theme of glass here. I have a
condominium that has a lot of glass facing a very
very busy boulevard in Los Angeles, and we hear a
lot of bus and motorcycle and exotic car noise. And
I'm wondering if you have some magic solution to reducing
the noise and both the master bedroom in the great
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room that faced the boulevard.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Okay, here we go again with sound. Sound is a
tricky thing, my friend. Sound sure, yeah, sound proofing is. Ah.
There is no one silver bullet for it. As I
always say, it takes layers usually in order to achieve it,
but they things can be achieved. Now Here is the
critical question as to how I'm going to answer James,
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and that is are you renting or do you own
this condom?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Own it?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay, you said the right thing, only because that's this
way I can suggest some useful things. So the glass,
if you're really invested in it, then you've got a
club a couple of things. Number one, the wall that
faces the exterior that faces the main street. There is
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the always the consideration that you use sound reducing insulation
in that wall. Now, not an easy overnight fix because
obviously you know it means pulling off some dry wall
and putting in sound reducing insulation, but I guarantee you
it will make a significant difference, maybe some sound reducing insulation,
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and then reinstall the drywall on some resilient channels. Resilient
channels are just basically these small rails that drywall mount
to and there's a rubber gasket in between the dry
wall and where it attaches to the wall, and that
small rubber gasket essentially becomes a sound break and energy break.
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It unbridges, that's what we call it. It's debridging, unbridging
the energy that flows through the wall, and that's what
sound is. Sound is energy that's coming through, and so
you want to reduce the conductive materials that transfer that
sound from the outside surface to the inside of the house.
And that's one way of doing it. Sound sound rated
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insulation like rock mineral wool insulation, and maybe putting the
dry wall back on with resilient channel and even some
mass loaded vinyl, which is a material that you would
stretch out all on the wall before the dry wall
as well, which also has a great ability to reduce
and dampen sound coming through. Now, as far as the
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glass goes, the glass is the key here. If you're
really wanting that's the wall itself, but the glass itself.
If you're really wanting to significantly reduce the noise coming
through the wall, then you may want to invest in
new windows and or sliding glass doors. I don't know
which is, but it doesn't really matter, and it would
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be the problem.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
The problem is that the walls are all glass. That's
all glass facing the street.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's just lots of glass facing the street. Okay, so
that's that would be it's not going to be. Yeah,
but there is, uh, there are on the market some
really wonderful noise reduction, sound reducing, sound dampening glass products
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out there. Every major manufacturer has access to them, every
major window and door manufacture. And and what it is.
It's a dual glazed window like the ones that you've got,
like a standard dual glazed window. The difference being the
outer pane of that glass. There are actually two pieces
of glass again sandwiched with a vinyl membrane in between
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that you can't see, and that vinyl membrane doesn't ritible
job of unbridging the sound that moves through the glass.
And it's better than triple glazed windows. So if you
want to look into that, look into the it is
not cheap, but look into replacing the glass with soundproofing glass.
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And I mean apart from that and buying heavy window
curtains which defeat the entire purpose of having windows facing
the street. That's how I would approach it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
My friend got it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I appreciate it. Thanks team, all.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Right, James, good luck with that. That's a tough one.
It's tough. I mean, that's the answer, but it's not
the answer anybody wants to hear is replace all the
glass that faces the street with soundproofing glass. I wish
more builders were more conscientious about the fact that the
glass that faces busy streets on the developments that they create,
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you know, end up creating a noise problem. But of
course builders are looking for the cheapest answers, always, always, always,
and then owners have to pay the price for that
as they live in those places for years to come.
All right, more of your calls when we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
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app Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you that
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house who or from an ordinary house? Yes, from an
ordinary house to an extraordinary home. Whether you live in
a cottage, a condo, a castle, matters not. Everybody deserves
good architecture, good design, good construction, and all of that
is here with me to share with you as you
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are processing what's going on with your home. It is
an all calls Saturday morning, and so let's return to
the phones. The number by the way to reach me.
Plenty of room on the board for you. Eight three
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about regarding your home. Let's talk to Pat. Hey, Pat, welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Home, Good morning, Dean, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Thank you, my friend. How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, Pat, go ahead, How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Okay, we're having some trouble with Pat. Let me pop
Pat on hold and Pat, you hang tight, We'll figure
it out. Let's go to Ann. Hey, Ann, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Hey, good morning Dean. How are you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I am well? How are you good?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm doing really good. This is going to be an
unusual question, not really, but let me set you up here.
I've got fifteen I'm a brand new chicken owner. I've
got fifteen beautiful birds and we just built out a
coop for them in our barn, and we're building a run.
And my question is my run is sixteen y ten,
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so it's sixteen feet out from the side of the barn.
And I'm in North Idaho, so we get snow, rain, everything.
I only have about a six and a half inch
slope to my roof, and I want to know if
that's going to be enough or if I need to
change the pitch a little bit for rain, runoff for
snow to protect the girls.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, is it a So this is a flat, flat
roof on top that's just sloped in one direction.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
So it's just sloped in one direction, it's coming off
of the barn that has a significant slope to the roof.
We get probably four to six feet of snow up.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Here, right, Okay, So so I'm just trying to see
here that six inch drop you say, there's a six
inch slope that's over sixteen feet. That's six inches over
sixteen feet.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
It's six and a half inches over about sixteen feet.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, here let me. Now you're going to force me
to do math at six forty five in the morning,
all right, I just wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
To come down on my girls.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, okay, So here's the thing. Technically, technically speaking, that's
that's about zero point four it's a it's about three
eighths of an inch per foot of slope. Okay, another
zero point four inches of you know, per foot of slope.
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So the definition the definition of a flat roof that
is code acceptable. Okay. I'm talking about like a flat
roof like up on top of a commercial building right
in town, right where there's no there's a slope, you know,
there's no big roof pitch that's visible, just like a
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flat top commercial building or an office building or top
of a skyscraper, all that kind of thing. So what
we're going for up there, code requires that roof to
slope at one quarter of an inch per foot. Okay,
now your so your so that's in other words for
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rainfall and such. That's totally acceptable. Okay, what you've got
is about not quite twice that. Okay. So yeah, so
you've got you've got a good enough slope as far
as rain, moisture, all of that stuff. Okay. The only
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questioning okay, it's not really the slope is so much.
The only question is whether or not the the top
of that roof is you know, because it is still
relatively flat. I mean, it's definitely in the flat of category.
So the question is where you're at whether or not
the structure of that run can handle you know, a
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good amount of snow building up on top of it
and sitting up there the weight of the snow, not
so much the runof for leaking or anything like that.
It's just you know, with a with a relatively flat
roof like that, you're gonna get a pile up of snow,
especially you know, in a nice dry snowstorm where you know,
it gets sticky, the powder builds up. So the question
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is going to be that you'd have to just kind
of look at the question of whether or not it
can hold the weight while the snow is up there. Technically,
as far as the drainage is concerned. It's not a problem.
It's just a question of whether it can hold the weight.
And if you can't change the pitch too much, and
I'm not sure that doesn't sound like you've got a
whole lot of leeway to change the pitch considerably. But
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if you can't the pitch too much, then you may
I don't know if your home has this as well,
but you may want to put some heating elements up
there on the roof, you know, around that first course,
around the edge. In other words, to keep the snow
as it hits, to keep it melting, so that it
keeps melting and slipping off as it hits. Does that
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make sense?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Oh, yeah, no, absolutely absolutely. We've even looked at making
possibly half of it convertible, taking the roof off because
we'll have hardware cloth up there to protect them from
hawks and predators, and then just let the snow come
in on half of it because they'll be okay with snow.
I just don't want it to all collapse on them.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So yeah, exactly, Yeah, I'd rather have them put up
with the snow, you know, around their ankles, then half
the whole thing coming down and squishing them. So yeah,
that's what I would recommend.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's perfect, Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And congratulations. How many how many little ones do you have?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I have thirteen girls and two boys and they're twelve
weeks old. They just it just got warm enough to
let them out of the bruder that was in our basement.
And we won't have any white eggs. They'll all be
blue green. I've got some chocolate brown speckled eggs coming
that I'm very excited about. And at twelve weeks they
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are full blown teenagers. Oh yeah, there are a lot
of fun.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was asking because we just re upped our checks too.
We've got ten ten new chicks that are just now.
I literally just opened up the outsiding closed run for
them yesterday. So they're sticking their heads out now for
the first time away from the the infrared light, and
they're looking around like, uh huh, it's a big world
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out there, and they're.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
No, it's crazy. What breeds do you have?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh my god? Well you know what I got to
go to break. But I promise when I come back,
I will I'll read off the breeds to so everybody
else will be scratching their heads like what does that
guy talk about? But I will share them with you
when we return. And thank you so much for the call,
and good luck, good luck on that Yeah, let's let's
not make let's make sure that that chicken run doesn't
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come down on their on their heads. All right, we'll
be back at it, including what breed of chicks we
have added here to the ranch. Fine dems start the
house whisper a welcome home. Thanks for joining us on
the program. It is a beautiful warm here in southern
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California May weekend for us. Uh and uh, it's going
to be a lovely day. It's gonna be a little
bit warm today though, but I'm hoping that the heat
wave is edging off here. We had a it has
been a weird spring here in southern California. I don't
know where you are, but we've actually had a legitimate
and I think are still having a legitimately what I
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call real springtime is. Having been born and raised in
southern California, I can tell you that spring for the
majority of my life is just typically you know, you
get out of winter in February, March hits and the
weather is sunny and clear, and it looks exactly like summer,
except it's not hot, that's all. It's just spring for us.
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Is looks like summer, but it isn't as warm as summer.
That's pretty typical for so cal But man, here we
are in May, and we're having weeks in which, oh,
it's raining on Tuesday, and then fifty four degrees is
the high, and it's cold at night, and then cloudy
the next day. And now we are within the course
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of what three or four days, we're up in the
eighties and nineties, and then we're going to drop back
down again. And I just heard that there might be
another storm on the way. It is crazy town here,
but that's actually what spring is for a lot of
people in various parts of the country. So just letting
you know where, for whatever reason, we are having a
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real spring, but an unusual one, all right. I promised Anne.
I'm sorry, sorry. I know we're gonna we're gonna get
to calls right after the next break, but I promised
our caller Anne that I would share with y'all. She's
got new chicks, baby chicks, because it is springtime. It
is chicken time. And I promised Anne that I would
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share our new breeds with her, because we've got ten
new baby chicks that are they're getting big, they're getting pretty.
They're pretty much feathered now almost there may be eighty
ninety feathered, right, Tina. Uh So, We've got a salmon Favarolu,
which lays light brown to pink eggs. We got a
bobtail Peckin, which is a white, creamy egg We've got
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a we have two white crested polish with the really
funky dues coming in. Those are white eggs. We've got
an this is I love this one, a naked neck
pulky okay, which is a pulk silky hybrid and it
looks like a little turkey while rocking around right now
because there's no feathers on their neck. Those are brown
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cream eggs. We've got Camellia, who's an Americana. She's gonna
lay blue eggs. We've got Muffin, who's a California white,
she lays white eggs. We have Maple, who's a sapphire gem.
She way lays brown eggs. We've got Pumpkin, who is
a starlight green egger who lays mint green eggs colored eggs.
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And we got Blueberry, who's a blue lacewine dot, and
chi Lay's brown eggs, so it's going to be a
multicolored egg. Best.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
This time around, we went more for the breeds and
less for the egg color, because in the past we
had beautiful, almost rainbow colored eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And some of these some of these chicks are bantams,
what we call bantams, which are just the they're just
a smaller version of a larger breed. They're like like
if you're going to get like a standard poodle or
a miniature poodle, right, same thing, except smaller birds. Anyway,
And no, for those of you who are wondering, the
color of eggs has nothing to do with what's inside
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the egg. They're all the same eggs or eggs or
eggs or eggs or eggs. Okay, it doesn't matter brown eggs.
So if you buy brown eggs at the store and
they're like two dollars a dozen more, you know, hey,
I guess if you like brown eggs. But the point
is on the inside, it's all the same egg. Okay,
organic is nice, but apart from that, it's all the
same egg. So there you have it. You have your egg.
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Lesson here this morning as we are. But this actually
came from a housey kind of question. It came from
a roof question. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
all right, y'all, more of your calls. It's an all
calls Saturday morning. The number to reach me eight three
three two. Ask Dean A three three the numeral two
ask Dean A three three to ask Dean more of
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your calls when we return. This is Dean Sharp, the
house whisper on KFI.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI a M six forty
Kf I 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 in HD everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the
(00:20):
House Whisper. I design custom homes and on the weekends,
I am here to guide you to better understand that
place where you live. That's what we're all about here
on the program. We're all about home, your home, turning
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. And as Saturday
(00:41):
mornings go, we are taking calls this morning and you
get to set the agenda about what today's show is
all about. The number to reach me eight three three
to ask Dean A three three The numeral two Ask
Dean A three three to ask Dean anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. Whatever's got you scratching
(01:03):
your head regarding your home. That's why I am here.
Anything at all, DIY concern a construction question, an engineering question,
an architectural question, a design question inside, outside, landscape, hardscape,
soft scape, any kind of scape you can think of,
(01:24):
interior decor, All of it is fair game. And I
want to help you through, and we'll find a way
through to make your ordinary house a more extraordinary home.
Eight three three two ask Dean. Saturday morning calls are lights,
so it's always a great time to call in and
get onto the air and let me help you out
(01:45):
with your issues. Let me introduce our awesome team, sam
Is on the board. Good morning Sam, Good morning Dean.
How you doing? Oh good? No, the feed into the
studio here is a little spottyed like cutting in and
out a little bit on me, but sam Is wrestling
are not so live studio audience as always and doing
(02:07):
a stellar job. Producer Richie is standing by ready to
take your calls. Oh, producer Richie is taking calls. So
there you go. See Oaks are already calling in good
time for you to call into A three three to
ask Dean, and of course Eileen Gonzales at the news desk.
Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Good? Good? Wait, let me guess it's green tea? How'd
you guess? Did I get it right? You did? But
actually I'm gonna get fancy. I'm going to add some
pineapple ginger to it. Well, I'm sorry, what was that pineapple? Yeah, pineapple, pineapple,
ginger and ginger. Yeah, that's a good condom. I am
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having a coffee black as God intended. That sounds good.
Get that caffeine going, yes, exactly. Sitting across the table
from me, my better half, my design partner, my best
buddy in all the world. There she is. Well, it
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wasn't that wasn't you, but that was your spirit animal.
Tina is here. Welcome home. Hey, good to see you
this morning. I know here. I am been a couple
of weeks where we've had you off doing other things, right,
it's nice to have you back. Thanks. We've had a
lot of guests in the studio. We have have had
a lot of guests and it's been a good thing.
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And I see you've brought a beagle with you as well.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I did. Yes, I come prepared with coffee and a beagle.
Silent Sam, He's silent studio, so silent. Not so silent
everywhere else, but he tends to be silent here in
the studio. So glad to hear that. All right, y'all,
let's dive in, shall we. We've got a couple of
calls on the board. Tons of room for you as well.
Eight three three two, ass Dean. It's an all Saturday morning.
(04:01):
You set the agenda and I sit back and take it.
Whatever it is that's going on with your home, will
do it all, can't I? I Jean Charp the house whisper.
Whether your home is a condo or a cottage or
a castle matters not to me. I'm here to help
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you take it to the next level. Thank you for
joining us on the program this morning. It is always
a pleasure to spend a Saturday morning with you. We
are doing all calls. The number to reach me eight
three three to ask Dean eight three to three, the
numeral two ask Dean, and there's room on the board
for you. So if you've got a question about your home,
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give me a call. Joel has a question about his home.
Let's talk to Joel. Hey Joel, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hi Dean, nice talk to you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I have a back door with a glass window. It's
like by forty and I want to make it more secure.
Is there any way of making that door more secure
from you know, intrusion or should I just get a
new back door? Because I'm thinking of a back door.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You're thinking of a new back door.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'm thinking and I can make this one more secure.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, right, Yeah, I'm assuming that you don't have
tempered glass on that door, so it doesn't yeah, okay,
because if it was tempered I usually tell people, hey,
don't worry so much about the glass in the door,
because tempered glasses, you know, it's not bomb proof, it's
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not impassable, but it is a lot lot harder to
smash and grab, as they say, with tempered glass panels
inside a door than just standard glass. Most doors are
made without, you know, if there's just a smaller glass section,
they're made without the tempered glass. So yeah, it is
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a little bit of a vulnerability. The only thing I
could tell you, Joel, without ruining the look of the
whole thing is there are security screens out there on
the market that are available, and you could call a
company that does security screens. Now it's going to darken
its vibe just a little bit, because the security screens
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are significantly you know, strong and thick, and when they
say secure, I mean they really are secure, and they
would like screw onto the section. You could have a
security screen custom made to basically fit like a panel
over the glass would not obscure the glass would darken
it a little bit, but wouldn't obscure the glass. You'd
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still have light coming through. And security screens are mega
hard to get into and through way better than bars,
by the way, because you know, the minute the bars
go up, that's when you know property value start to
drop and you start feeling like, well, you know, I
live in that kind of a neighborhood. So security screens
are an aesthetically passive way of dealing with that, and
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uh it would help out a lot. And uh so
I would check that out. And then you just weigh
that against the possibility of getting a new door, either
with zero glass or with tempered glass, so that you
can make that back portal more secure. Okay, thank you,
that makes sense. Yes, thank you, you are very very welcome,
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my friend. Well, one up one day, you too, buddy,
you too. Uh it's nice to just right out of
the bat. It's like, there you go, asked it answered,
uh uh, let's uh, well, we can get another call
going here, at least let's talk to James. Hey, James,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Hey Deane, thanks for taking a call. I guess, I
guess of a theme of glass here. I have a
condominium that has a lot of glass facing a very
very busy boulevard in Los Angeles, and we hear a
lot of bus and motorcycle and exotic car noise. And
I'm wondering if you have some magic solution to reducing
the noise and both the master bedroom in the great
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room that faced the boulevard.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Okay, here we go again with sound. Sound is a
tricky thing, my friend. Sound sure, yeah, sound proofing is. Ah.
There is no one silver bullet for it. As I
always say, it takes layers usually in order to achieve it,
but they things can be achieved. Now Here is the
critical question as to how I'm going to answer James,
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and that is are you renting or do you own
this condom?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Own it?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay, you said the right thing, only because that's this
way I can suggest some useful things. So the glass,
if you're really invested in it, then you've got a
club a couple of things. Number one, the wall that
faces the exterior that faces the main street. There is
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the always the consideration that you use sound reducing insulation
in that wall. Now, not an easy overnight fix because
obviously you know it means pulling off some dry wall
and putting in sound reducing insulation, but I guarantee you
it will make a significant difference, maybe some sound reducing insulation,
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and then reinstall the drywall on some resilient channels. Resilient
channels are just basically these small rails that drywall mount
to and there's a rubber gasket in between the dry
wall and where it attaches to the wall, and that
small rubber gasket essentially becomes a sound break and energy break.
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It unbridges, that's what we call it. It's debridging, unbridging
the energy that flows through the wall, and that's what
sound is. Sound is energy that's coming through, and so
you want to reduce the conductive materials that transfer that
sound from the outside surface to the inside of the house.
And that's one way of doing it. Sound sound rated
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insulation like rock mineral wool insulation, and maybe putting the
dry wall back on with resilient channel and even some
mass loaded vinyl, which is a material that you would
stretch out all on the wall before the dry wall
as well, which also has a great ability to reduce
and dampen sound coming through. Now, as far as the
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glass goes, the glass is the key here. If you're
really wanting that's the wall itself, but the glass itself.
If you're really wanting to significantly reduce the noise coming
through the wall, then you may want to invest in
new windows and or sliding glass doors. I don't know
which is, but it doesn't really matter, and it would
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be the problem.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
The problem is that the walls are all glass. That's
all glass facing the street.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's just lots of glass facing the street. Okay, so
that's that would be it's not going to be. Yeah,
but there is, uh, there are on the market some
really wonderful noise reduction, sound reducing, sound dampening glass products
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out there. Every major manufacturer has access to them, every
major window and door manufacture. And and what it is.
It's a dual glazed window like the ones that you've got,
like a standard dual glazed window. The difference being the
outer pane of that glass. There are actually two pieces
of glass again sandwiched with a vinyl membrane in between
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that you can't see, and that vinyl membrane doesn't ritible
job of unbridging the sound that moves through the glass.
And it's better than triple glazed windows. So if you
want to look into that, look into the it is
not cheap, but look into replacing the glass with soundproofing glass.
(12:18):
And I mean apart from that and buying heavy window
curtains which defeat the entire purpose of having windows facing
the street. That's how I would approach it.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
My friend got it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I appreciate it. Thanks team, all.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Right, James, good luck with that. That's a tough one.
It's tough. I mean, that's the answer, but it's not
the answer anybody wants to hear is replace all the
glass that faces the street with soundproofing glass. I wish
more builders were more conscientious about the fact that the
glass that faces busy streets on the developments that they create,
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you know, end up creating a noise problem. But of
course builders are looking for the cheapest answers, always, always, always,
and then owners have to pay the price for that
as they live in those places for years to come.
All right, more of your calls when we return your
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are processing what's going on with your home. It is
an all calls Saturday morning, and so let's return to
the phones. The number by the way to reach me.
Plenty of room on the board for you. Eight three
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that simple to ask Dean anything you want to talk
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about regarding your home. Let's talk to Pat. Hey, Pat, welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Home, Good morning, Dean, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Thank you, my friend. How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, Pat, go ahead, How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Okay, we're having some trouble with Pat. Let me pop
Pat on hold and Pat, you hang tight, We'll figure
it out. Let's go to Ann. Hey, Ann, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Hey, good morning Dean. How are you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I am well? How are you good?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm doing really good. This is going to be an
unusual question, not really, but let me set you up here.
I've got fifteen I'm a brand new chicken owner. I've
got fifteen beautiful birds and we just built out a
coop for them in our barn, and we're building a run.
And my question is my run is sixteen y ten,
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so it's sixteen feet out from the side of the barn.
And I'm in North Idaho, so we get snow, rain, everything.
I only have about a six and a half inch
slope to my roof, and I want to know if
that's going to be enough or if I need to
change the pitch a little bit for rain, runoff for
snow to protect the girls.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, is it a So this is a flat, flat
roof on top that's just sloped in one direction.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
So it's just sloped in one direction, it's coming off
of the barn that has a significant slope to the roof.
We get probably four to six feet of snow up.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Here, right, Okay, So so I'm just trying to see
here that six inch drop you say, there's a six
inch slope that's over sixteen feet. That's six inches over
sixteen feet.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
It's six and a half inches over about sixteen feet.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, here let me. Now you're going to force me
to do math at six forty five in the morning,
all right, I just wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
To come down on my girls.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, okay, So here's the thing. Technically, technically speaking, that's
that's about zero point four it's a it's about three
eighths of an inch per foot of slope. Okay, another
zero point four inches of you know, per foot of slope.
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So the definition the definition of a flat roof that
is code acceptable. Okay. I'm talking about like a flat
roof like up on top of a commercial building right
in town, right where there's no there's a slope, you know,
there's no big roof pitch that's visible, just like a
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flat top commercial building or an office building or top
of a skyscraper, all that kind of thing. So what
we're going for up there, code requires that roof to
slope at one quarter of an inch per foot. Okay,
now your so your so that's in other words for
(17:50):
rainfall and such. That's totally acceptable. Okay, what you've got
is about not quite twice that. Okay. So yeah, so
you've got you've got a good enough slope as far
as rain, moisture, all of that stuff. Okay. The only
(18:12):
questioning okay, it's not really the slope is so much.
The only question is whether or not the the top
of that roof is you know, because it is still
relatively flat. I mean, it's definitely in the flat of category.
So the question is where you're at whether or not
the structure of that run can handle you know, a
(18:37):
good amount of snow building up on top of it
and sitting up there the weight of the snow, not
so much the runof for leaking or anything like that.
It's just you know, with a with a relatively flat
roof like that, you're gonna get a pile up of snow,
especially you know, in a nice dry snowstorm where you know,
it gets sticky, the powder builds up. So the question
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is going to be that you'd have to just kind
of look at the question of whether or not it
can hold the weight while the snow is up there. Technically,
as far as the drainage is concerned. It's not a problem.
It's just a question of whether it can hold the weight.
And if you can't change the pitch too much, and
I'm not sure that doesn't sound like you've got a
whole lot of leeway to change the pitch considerably. But
(19:22):
if you can't the pitch too much, then you may
I don't know if your home has this as well,
but you may want to put some heating elements up
there on the roof, you know, around that first course,
around the edge. In other words, to keep the snow
as it hits, to keep it melting, so that it
keeps melting and slipping off as it hits. Does that
(19:44):
make sense?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Oh, yeah, no, absolutely absolutely. We've even looked at making
possibly half of it convertible, taking the roof off because
we'll have hardware cloth up there to protect them from
hawks and predators, and then just let the snow come
in on half of it because they'll be okay with snow.
I just don't want it to all collapse on them.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So yeah, exactly, Yeah, I'd rather have them put up
with the snow, you know, around their ankles, then half
the whole thing coming down and squishing them. So yeah,
that's what I would recommend.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's perfect, Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And congratulations. How many how many little ones do you have?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I have thirteen girls and two boys and they're twelve
weeks old. They just it just got warm enough to
let them out of the bruder that was in our basement.
And we won't have any white eggs. They'll all be
blue green. I've got some chocolate brown speckled eggs coming
that I'm very excited about. And at twelve weeks they
(20:49):
are full blown teenagers. Oh yeah, there are a lot
of fun.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was asking because we just re upped our checks too.
We've got ten ten new chicks that are just now.
I literally just opened up the outsiding closed run for
them yesterday. So they're sticking their heads out now for
the first time away from the the infrared light, and
they're looking around like, uh huh, it's a big world
(21:16):
out there, and they're.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
No, it's crazy. What breeds do you have?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh my god? Well you know what I got to
go to break. But I promise when I come back,
I will I'll read off the breeds to so everybody
else will be scratching their heads like what does that
guy talk about? But I will share them with you
when we return. And thank you so much for the call,
and good luck, good luck on that Yeah, let's let's
not make let's make sure that that chicken run doesn't
(21:42):
come down on their on their heads. All right, we'll
be back at it, including what breed of chicks we
have added here to the ranch. Fine dems start the
house whisper a welcome home. Thanks for joining us on
the program. It is a beautiful warm here in southern
(22:02):
California May weekend for us. Uh and uh, it's going
to be a lovely day. It's gonna be a little
bit warm today though, but I'm hoping that the heat
wave is edging off here. We had a it has
been a weird spring here in southern California. I don't
know where you are, but we've actually had a legitimate
and I think are still having a legitimately what I
(22:26):
call real springtime is. Having been born and raised in
southern California, I can tell you that spring for the
majority of my life is just typically you know, you
get out of winter in February, March hits and the
weather is sunny and clear, and it looks exactly like summer,
except it's not hot, that's all. It's just spring for us.
(22:49):
Is looks like summer, but it isn't as warm as summer.
That's pretty typical for so cal But man, here we
are in May, and we're having weeks in which, oh,
it's raining on Tuesday, and then fifty four degrees is
the high, and it's cold at night, and then cloudy
the next day. And now we are within the course
(23:09):
of what three or four days, we're up in the
eighties and nineties, and then we're going to drop back
down again. And I just heard that there might be
another storm on the way. It is crazy town here,
but that's actually what spring is for a lot of
people in various parts of the country. So just letting
you know where, for whatever reason, we are having a
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real spring, but an unusual one, all right. I promised Anne.
I'm sorry, sorry. I know we're gonna we're gonna get
to calls right after the next break, but I promised
our caller Anne that I would share with y'all. She's
got new chicks, baby chicks, because it is springtime. It
is chicken time. And I promised Anne that I would
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share our new breeds with her, because we've got ten
new baby chicks that are they're getting big, they're getting pretty.
They're pretty much feathered now almost there may be eighty
ninety feathered, right, Tina. Uh So, We've got a salmon Favarolu,
which lays light brown to pink eggs. We got a
bobtail Peckin, which is a white, creamy egg We've got
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a we have two white crested polish with the really
funky dues coming in. Those are white eggs. We've got
an this is I love this one, a naked neck
pulky okay, which is a pulk silky hybrid and it
looks like a little turkey while rocking around right now
because there's no feathers on their neck. Those are brown
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cream eggs. We've got Camellia, who's an Americana. She's gonna
lay blue eggs. We've got Muffin, who's a California white,
she lays white eggs. We have Maple, who's a sapphire gem.
She way lays brown eggs. We've got Pumpkin, who is
a starlight green egger who lays mint green eggs colored eggs.
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And we got Blueberry, who's a blue lacewine dot, and
chi Lay's brown eggs, so it's going to be a
multicolored egg. Best.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
This time around, we went more for the breeds and
less for the egg color, because in the past we
had beautiful, almost rainbow colored eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And some of these some of these chicks are bantams,
what we call bantams, which are just the they're just
a smaller version of a larger breed. They're like like
if you're going to get like a standard poodle or
a miniature poodle, right, same thing, except smaller birds. Anyway,
And no, for those of you who are wondering, the
color of eggs has nothing to do with what's inside
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the egg. They're all the same eggs or eggs or
eggs or eggs or eggs. Okay, it doesn't matter brown eggs.
So if you buy brown eggs at the store and
they're like two dollars a dozen more, you know, hey,
I guess if you like brown eggs. But the point
is on the inside, it's all the same egg. Okay,
organic is nice, but apart from that, it's all the
same egg. So there you have it. You have your egg.
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Lesson here this morning as we are. But this actually
came from a housey kind of question. It came from
a roof question. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
all right, y'all, more of your calls. It's an all
calls Saturday morning. The number to reach me eight three
three two. Ask Dean A three three the numeral two
ask Dean A three three to ask Dean more of
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