May 10, 2025 • 31 mins
Dean discusses trapped moisture in a glass sliding door, snake proofing a snake infestation, replacing a wheet screed. Lastly, Dean talks floor pops on a hardware flooring and how to treat the issue.
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back to the phones, and I want to talk to Frank. Hey, Frank,
(02:39):
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh, thank you very much being for taking my call.
So I have the flighting glass doors. There's the house
that's about twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Years old, and.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm getting moisture between the dull pained outside and the inside,
you know, siding glass litl pain. Is there on a
way to repair that or I need to be thinking
about replacing the sliding glass door.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
There is a way to repair it. There absolutely is
a way to repair it. Now whether or not you
you'll have to just evaluate the cost of repairing it
versus a new door. But typically typically it's going to
be less expensive than replacing the sliding glass door. So
assuming that you like your sliding glass door and that
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they're functioning well, and that the rollers and the track
and everything is just got you satisfied, and you've only
got you know, condensation building up inside the glass units,
it's going to be less expensive for you to fix
the glass problem. And here is how you fix it.
In fact, well you don't fix it. You don't fix it,
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and it doesn't get fixed in the field per se,
because what you've got there any modern dual glazed window
and uh is those two panes of glass that you
have on your sliding door are a factory sealed unit.
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In fact, it's called an IGU, an insulated glass unit.
So both of those panes of glass are fused together
in a zero moisture environment in a factory, used together
with zero moisture inside of them. In fact, there's not air,
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and there's not supposed to be air inside them. There
is a form of gas, usually ar gone gas inside
those units. And over time, and you know you're looking
at what thirty years or so, over time a unit
can fail and when you see condensation forming on the inside,
that means that the seal of that IGU has failed.
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But a lot of people misunderstand. They figure out, well,
they don't really see where the stop biz. They don't
see where it is that that IGU got inserted into
the sliding glass door, and they just assume the whole
thing's got to go. But no, a glass company, the
manufacture of the sliding glass unit can and will produce
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a new IGU and they'll bring it out. It has
to be produced. You know, you can't just remove one
of the panes of glass, clean up the stuff, seal
it because in the field, there's always moisture in the
air out here, you know, no matter what happens, even
on the hottest of hot summer days, there's always a
degree of moisture in the air. You trap that inside
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that glass, and then when the weather gets cold again,
then all of a sudden, that moisture will condensate and
you'll see it dripping and forming on the inside of
the glass again. So it has to be produced in
an absolute zero moisture factory environment. But they can bring
out a new IGU and change it out for you,
And that's basically the moral the story.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
All right, Well, thank you very much for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You're very well bet Frank. So yeah, you don't it's
not the end of the world. And if the rest
of the frame and everything else on your sliding glass
door is functional, then just get a hold of manufacture
or a rep that deals with that brand of door
and you can have it changed out. Talk call your
local glass company. They've got they've got you know, inroads
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and uh and referrals for you. But yeah, you just
got to order a new IGU, the insulated glass unit.
All right, We've got plenty of calls on the board,
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I want to go back to the phones, and UH,
let's talk to well, let's talk to Eileen. Hey, Eileen,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I love your program. I've listened to it since you've
first been on there, and I've learned so much and
I've sent I've told a million people to listen to you.
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Oh my gosh, a million people, all because of Aileen,
leave your address and we.
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Will find you at text.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
They address. I'll have to give it to you in
a minute because I'm a new address and I have
a hard time remembering it. Catch me after I get up.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do not want you to read your address on
the air. I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Well, no,
I was also kidding about saying you a check.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Anyway, my my grandson's my grandson's built a new house
about three years ago on about three acres, which is
fenced with chain length for the most part, with one
sliding wrought iron gate. But this is and we have
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grown to six dogs, a couple of Great Pyrenees and
a couple of smaller dogs. And I forget what else,
But anyway, rattle snakes are just a real problem. And
some of our neighbors losing dogs because of the rattlesnakes.
And you know, they tell you not to kill them,
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they need them. And but yet you have kids playing
there and dogs playing there. What do we do? Maybe
if we could get a road runner to stick around, possibly,
but I.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Keep a road runner in the yard as a constant monitor. Okay, well,
you've called the right place because I grew up in
a large open space, multi acre open space right here
in southern California, actually in a landfill. And by the
time I was twelve years old, I was responsible for
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rattlesnakes intrusions into our.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Property up there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
By the time I was twelve, I had a extra
large jar of skippy peanut butter and empty peanut butter
jar filled with the rattles of my victims. And it
wasn't because snakes, right, No, no, no, just the rattles.
I collected the rattle and it wasn't being killing rattle snakes.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But you know, when they come they come in too
close to the house, you know, it's not it's not
good when they're in the yard. It's exactly so I
will tell you this. Uh, snake fencing, Uh, it's not
that expensive. It comes in rolls. Uh, this is the
first line of defence. Okay, that chain link isn't stopping anybody.
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And and so snake fencing, and what I would do.
I know it's three acres, so there's a lot of fence.
But what I would do is a snake fencing is
just small nylon you know, vinyl mesh that is too
small for a snake to crawl through, and just tall
enough for a snake not to be able to climb
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up and crawl over. And so this alone will radically
change the game as far as snakes in on the property,
if you're consistent and you do it in an unbroken manner.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And I also recommend that not that snakes dig. They
don't dig, okay. And when we talk about snake holes,
those are old golfer holes that other animals have dug
that snakes utilize to burrow in. But I recommend just
bury the bottom of the snakeproof fencing, you know, three
or four inches, so just a tiny little trench, just
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to get it buried so that they can't nose underneath it.
That's the whole idea. A snake, a rattlesnake, well, all
snakes for the most part, they're not excellent climbers, but
they usually can raise themselves up. Okay, they have to
have support to do this, but they can raise themselves
up roughly a third of their body length.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So let's say we've got a big old rattlesnake and
a big rattlesnake in southern California terms, or in Western
States terms is like, you know, a six foot rattlesnake. Okay,
that's a big, fat, old rattlesnake that has survived well.
So you think about that one third of their body length.
So for the biggest of rattlesnakes, we're talking twenty four
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inches that they could actually raise their head up about
two feet up a supported structure and in theory get over.
So a three foot roll, three foot tall roll of
snake fencing that you roll along the inside or the
outside of the chainling fence will pretty much shut down
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the biggest of beasts and keep them out of the yard.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The second thing, just for safe measure, is that there
actually is several companies produce granular repellents that are made
from certain essential oils and things that snakes just do
not like. And you know, not a lot of people
think that that would be something that's effective, but it is.
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Snakes are all about They don't have that great of Okay,
snakes are all about odor sensing. Their tongue is essentially
their nose. When they stick their tongues out, they are
sampling what's going on in the air around them. They
are super super odor sensitive creatures. That's how they track.
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They literally will track and find their prey based on sampling,
chemical sampling as they go. It's not because that they've
got egalized they don't. They really don't. So there are
a lot of companies everybody from I think Ortho to Well.
If you go online and just put in snake repellent granules,
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you'll find them. They're not expensive, and those can be
distributed kind of shaken out. They're safe for the kids
and the dogs. Those can be shaked and established around
the perimeter of that fence as well. So those two
things combined, I think you'll see a marked reduction in
the you know, I mean it should, it should shut
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down snake. I'm not saying a snake can't get through
like under the gate, but in three acres worth of fencing,
if there's just one sliding gait, you're radically reducing the
chances of a rattlesnake getting into the yard.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Okay. In addition, we've had dogs snakeproofs in the past,
which worked pretty well. I cannot find a snake doing
that recently. I've tried to. You know, of course the
internet you can find anything, but I haven't been able
to find anybody just snake poof the dogs again, because
a couple of these are proposits that haven't gone through
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that experience before.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, And when Eileen is talking everybody about snakeproofing a dog,
it's about training a dog so that it understands not
to attack a snake, but to be worn and to
stand back and not to put itself in that kind
of danger. I Leen, the best bet there is call
your vet, call your local veterinarian, because they have they
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have references for that kind of stuff. I know our
vets in our area will refer you out to services
that help prep dogs for rattlesnakes as well. In fact,
it's like around here around where I live in eastern
Ventor County. Uh, It's a thing and there are there
are classes and things being taught all the time because
we've got so much open space where people hike during
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the spring and the summer, and the snakes are out
right now. They're not out in full force yet because
the weather's been wonky, but with this recent heat spell,
they're waking up, they're coming out and they're going to
be around, so everybody needs to be aware. I lean
thanks for the call. Just know you can. You can
snake proof of yard for the most part if you
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do it right. You've got to be consistent. It's not
like they're trying to get into the yard, you know,
with full force and intent. It's just they're just wandering along,
picking up scents as they go and h and they
end up in the yard. And don't I know, I've
had to deal with I've had to dispatch too many
in my lifetime and they are terrifying. I mean, it's
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scary because you know it's a venomous snake. So anyway,
but it can be done. Good luck, Eileen. I hope
that helps along the way. All right, y'all, more of
your calls when we return your home with Dean Sharp
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hey, your home, Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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All right?
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I want to go back to the phones. Let's see here.
Let's talk to Marsha. Hey, Marsha, welcome home, Good good.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Morning, Dean. I have a forty year old home and
I need a recommendation for a company that does.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Will repair the wheep screed at the base of the walls,
of the outside walls.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay, what's going on.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
We're all breaking down. They're all all breaking down.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, okay, well that's this is an easy one. It's
a stucco company, okay. Weep screed is a is a flashing.
It's a flashing that goes properly at the bottom of
a stucco wall. And so it is the stucco company.
The stucco guys that come in and install it. They
paper it in when they're putting on the the building
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paper on the side of the house and they're putting
on their stucco laugh wiring, and then they transition all
of that down and overlap it onto a bottom flashing,
that triangular flashing with the holes in the bottom It's
called a weep screed for two reasons. One, it's a
screed in that it sticks out just far enough for
them to run their trowels against it to create just
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a nice, even layer of stucco at the bottom. That's
what we would call a screed. It's a guide and
it weeps because on the bottom, where you can't see it,
it's got holes, and those holes allow moisture that build
up inside the stucco wall to trickle down and escape
instead of popping the finish of your stucco out and
screwing it all up.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But there are times when weep screen it will eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Fail, and you know, sometimes they rust out if they
weren't the best quality to begin with and so on.
But yeah, so the weep screed is critically important. I
take calls all the time from people who are like,
my stucco is failing on my house, and I'm like, well,
what's going on. They're like, well, it's popping off, perating,
and I'm thinking, all right, does the stucco run all
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the way down into the soil just right into They're
like yep, And I'm like, ah see, that was a
house that was done before we figured out we got
to put weep screed at the bottom of the stucco
and hold the bottom of the stucco line up above
the soil, because concrete collects moisture, and no matter how
well you've sealed and painted your house, moisture still finds
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its way into the concrete that is the stucco. That's normal,
it's natural, but we got to give it a place
to get out. And that's what the weep screed. It weeps.
It weeps out moisture at the bottom. So the moral
of the story, Marsha is it is a stucco company
that does weep screed, not roofers, not general contractors. So
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if you start looking for a reputable stucco company and
get two or three in your area, they can come
out and if the weep screed is failing, what they'll
typically do is they'll cut about four to six inches
up on the wall along the stucco line and remove
that stucco, bang it out, and then they can have
access to that weep screen flashing where they can pull
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it out, slide a new flashing underneath the existing paper,
get it all papered in really nicely and sealed and
then they will stucco that bottom edge for you and
then you know, fetter out to finish up against the wall.
It is going to cause you know, some damage to
the stucco, but it's well worth doing if the weep
screed is failing.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yes, I can sure see that. Thank you so much, Deean.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
This is great.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
And if you don't have a company, you would recommend
a stucco company.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I mean, I trust your judgment, I know, but
here's the problem. Where are you at, by the way.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I'm in Englewood, California.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
See that's the problem, is it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Contracting is such a local, local, uh you know deal,
especially for small homes, and so where I live and
where we have some of our custom designs built within
a you know, certain local radio of our home out
here in eastern Ventura County. I could give references anywhere
else in southern California and everywhere this show reaches. It's
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just it's impossible to keep up with references for good companies.
But you look for local Englewood stucco companies and you'll
find them and vet them, you know, make sure that
they have got all their ducks in a row, and
they've got their license clean, and bonds and insurance to
all of that good stuff, and invite them out and
take two or three bids and you should be good
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to go.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I wish I could recommend the amazing contractors that are
out there to everybody wherever you live. But that, if
you think about it for a second, that that would
be just that would be a monumental task. We'd have
to set up an entire company just to monitor the
quality of contractors and to make sure that they keep
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doing quality work, just to give those referrals. So unfortunately,
I can't give referrals out usually unless it's a company
like one of our partners here on the show, one
of the sponsors of the show that cover an entire
wide area, and we keep our eyes on them. Sure
they're doing it right, all right. I don't know why
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I'm growling at contractors. I guess I should be as
a general rule, I am one more of your calls.
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Speaker 2 (22:44):
By the way, did you know that every Thursday evening
I have a standing appointment with Tim. He and I
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but six six twenty every Thursday evening until about six
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Here we are wrapping up the end of another two hours.
I've still got some calls on the board, so let's
see what we can get done. Before we are done,
I want to talk to John. Hey, John, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hey Dean, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I have floor pops that are starting to drive me crazy.
Where original owners? The home is about twenty one years old.
It's the second floor. I was just in my son's room,
but now I'm for getting some of the master and
you know, I saw the construction of it. It's got
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those what do you call them? The engineered would I
beam things?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Huh? And uh, you know, I did some looking, and
you know, I just is it something that can be fixed?
Or am I just chasing a you know, to playing
whack the mole with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, so describe to me what you mean by floor pops.
I'm only asking because a lot of people have a
lot of different, you know, definitions of what that is.
What are you experiencing up there on the second floor.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
When you walk on just certain areas, you will hear
a pop, not a creek, a pop. And the it's
not terrible upstairs, but downstairs it's a lot louder. So
if you're downstairs and someone's walking around up there, it's
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it's irritating.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And what have you guys? What have guys tried to
do about it thus far?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I researched it, and it's like, I better call the
before I do the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It is very likely not the joste, especially if it's
eye beam shaped. Trust joices. They're very stable, they're very secure,
they're very flat. They're actually designed to help eliminate this.
But you know, there is no one particular piece of
material that goes into a home that all by itself
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solves a problem. It has to be installed properly, and
I doubt that the floor joists are improperly installed. But
the sheathing the plywood on top of those floor joys
should have been nailed down and glued to the top
of the floor joist everywhere, and if they were, then
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you wouldn't be experiencing that kind of noise. There seems
to be This sounds to me like there is buckling happening,
and that's that's not necessarily a structural issue as much
as it is, you know, an audible esthetic issue. The
seams of the plywood. It may be riding up and
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down on nails. It may have been misnailed. In other words,
the nails went in and they missed the joist altogether.
Somebody might have left the glue off in some areas.
And so when it comes to settling that down, yeah,
you are going to have to chase it a bit,
I think, probably realistically. But here's the best thing you
can do, and that is there are now there are
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some floor fix it kits that include injecting adhesive down
underneath the plywood in order to get a little adhesive
going on that you know, when it comes to hardwood floors,
I recommend that a little bit more than just regular
plywood situations sheathing situations with sheathing. I like to just
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trace down the nature of the pop kind it, find
it where you know, and and yeah, it's not a squeak,
but it still could be the same kind of issue.
And we just got to start with the minimum. And
the minimum is a good wood screw and a screw
gun and find in a in a stud finder, because
what you want to be looking for, you know, pull
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the carpet up or pull up the flooring that's there.
You're going to look underneath. You want to find the
lines of the nails and or the screws that are
on the floor. I'm guessing they did not screw down
that floor because it wouldn't be moving that way if
they had, so you want to look for those.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I seem they recall there there were screws, but it
was twenty one years ago. But I seem to recall
they kind of had the head on them with like
a square inset.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But yeah, might have been, might have been, But that's
the thing. We just got to track it down. So
track down the problem area and and add some screws
to it. That's the cool thing is you can you
can add some screws to it to secure that. Now
you may put shit ten feet away when you do that. Okay,
if it's a systemic problem, you may have resolved it
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there and you're like, oh great, great, Now now over
here it's squeaky uh. If you keep chasing it, and
you keep dedicated to it, you will eventually probably trap
the creature and and quiet it down. That's that's been
my experience over the years. But it may take a
little doing as you go.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Okay, so pulling up the carpet and pad for sure, yep.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And then you want to get a line on.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You got to find out where the floor joists are
because screws just out in the middle of nowhere aren't
doing anybody any So you want to see where the
existing floor. You might even find snap lines, old chalk
lines where they snap them out to try and hit
the floor joist. And then you want to make sure
as you screw that screw in, you'll feel it if
you're hitting into If it's digging into wood all the
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way through, then you've hit the top of the joist.
If the screw starts off uh slow, but then all
of a sudden just speeds in through. Then you've missed it.
So that's why I uh and then just exploring along.
But yeah, just just screw that sucker down. Add three
or four in any area that it's uh you know
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that that it's causing you a problem, and then uh
you know, I mean, I wish I could tell you
something better, but then you're just gonna have to stand
back and wait.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
So so two questions should do I need to remove
all the furniture from the room. And the other question
is how long? So let's say, Okay, I find it,
I screw them in, and now I've got to wait
to see if it moves. Is that like within the
same day or do I need to kind of it is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Like it'll over Yeah, likely if it's gonna shift, it'll
likely shift over you know, a week or so uh
in time. So don't don't move anything unnecessarily. If you're
feeling a pop. Just pull the carpet back. Just stay
very very isolated, very surgical in your approach. You know,
(30:10):
don't empty out rooms, pull out the carpet. I would
just approach the area of the pop, expose it put
a couple of three screws down to secure it. See
if it sounds differently, then cover it back up, cross
your fingers, and hope that it doesn't move to another area,
because you know, what you're doing is you're reapplying pressure
(30:33):
and you're putting the tension somewhere else. But that may
be the only problem. So it may not move at all,
and you may just resolve it, but you may have
to wait. So just be sensitive to it. And as
you start to encounter them, knock those down.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You will.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I promise you, John, you will eventually catch up with
it all and solve whatever is deficient up there. But
it's just going to be it's going to be a
little project for a while, very likely, John, Thanks for
the call. We are literally right up against eight o'clock here.
That's it for our show this morning.
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back to the phones, and I want to talk to Frank. Hey, Frank,
(02:39):
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh, thank you very much being for taking my call.
So I have the flighting glass doors. There's the house
that's about twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Years old, and.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm getting moisture between the dull pained outside and the inside,
you know, siding glass litl pain. Is there on a
way to repair that or I need to be thinking
about replacing the sliding glass door.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
There is a way to repair it. There absolutely is
a way to repair it. Now whether or not you
you'll have to just evaluate the cost of repairing it
versus a new door. But typically typically it's going to
be less expensive than replacing the sliding glass door. So
assuming that you like your sliding glass door and that
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they're functioning well, and that the rollers and the track
and everything is just got you satisfied, and you've only
got you know, condensation building up inside the glass units,
it's going to be less expensive for you to fix
the glass problem. And here is how you fix it.
In fact, well you don't fix it. You don't fix it,
(03:50):
and it doesn't get fixed in the field per se,
because what you've got there any modern dual glazed window
and uh is those two panes of glass that you
have on your sliding door are a factory sealed unit.
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In fact, it's called an IGU, an insulated glass unit.
So both of those panes of glass are fused together
in a zero moisture environment in a factory, used together
with zero moisture inside of them. In fact, there's not air,
(04:33):
and there's not supposed to be air inside them. There
is a form of gas, usually ar gone gas inside
those units. And over time, and you know you're looking
at what thirty years or so, over time a unit
can fail and when you see condensation forming on the inside,
that means that the seal of that IGU has failed.
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But a lot of people misunderstand. They figure out, well,
they don't really see where the stop biz. They don't
see where it is that that IGU got inserted into
the sliding glass door, and they just assume the whole
thing's got to go. But no, a glass company, the
manufacture of the sliding glass unit can and will produce
(05:16):
a new IGU and they'll bring it out. It has
to be produced. You know, you can't just remove one
of the panes of glass, clean up the stuff, seal
it because in the field, there's always moisture in the
air out here, you know, no matter what happens, even
on the hottest of hot summer days, there's always a
degree of moisture in the air. You trap that inside
(05:39):
that glass, and then when the weather gets cold again,
then all of a sudden, that moisture will condensate and
you'll see it dripping and forming on the inside of
the glass again. So it has to be produced in
an absolute zero moisture factory environment. But they can bring
out a new IGU and change it out for you,
And that's basically the moral the story.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
All right, Well, thank you very much for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You're very well bet Frank. So yeah, you don't it's
not the end of the world. And if the rest
of the frame and everything else on your sliding glass
door is functional, then just get a hold of manufacture
or a rep that deals with that brand of door
and you can have it changed out. Talk call your
local glass company. They've got they've got you know, inroads
(06:27):
and uh and referrals for you. But yeah, you just
got to order a new IGU, the insulated glass unit.
All right, We've got plenty of calls on the board,
and we're going to get to them. Camp Hie seen
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We are here alive every Saturday morning and every Sunday
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I want to go back to the phones, and UH,
let's talk to well, let's talk to Eileen. Hey, Eileen,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I love your program. I've listened to it since you've
first been on there, and I've learned so much and
I've sent I've told a million people to listen to you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh my gosh, a million people, all because of Aileen,
leave your address and we.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Will find you at text.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
They address. I'll have to give it to you in
a minute because I'm a new address and I have
a hard time remembering it. Catch me after I get up.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do not want you to read your address on
the air. I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Well, no,
I was also kidding about saying you a check.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Anyway, my my grandson's my grandson's built a new house
about three years ago on about three acres, which is
fenced with chain length for the most part, with one
sliding wrought iron gate. But this is and we have
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grown to six dogs, a couple of Great Pyrenees and
a couple of smaller dogs. And I forget what else,
But anyway, rattle snakes are just a real problem. And
some of our neighbors losing dogs because of the rattlesnakes.
And you know, they tell you not to kill them,
(09:05):
they need them. And but yet you have kids playing
there and dogs playing there. What do we do? Maybe
if we could get a road runner to stick around, possibly,
but I.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Keep a road runner in the yard as a constant monitor. Okay, well,
you've called the right place because I grew up in
a large open space, multi acre open space right here
in southern California, actually in a landfill. And by the
time I was twelve years old, I was responsible for
(09:42):
rattlesnakes intrusions into our.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Property up there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
By the time I was twelve, I had a extra
large jar of skippy peanut butter and empty peanut butter
jar filled with the rattles of my victims. And it
wasn't because snakes, right, No, no, no, just the rattles.
I collected the rattle and it wasn't being killing rattle snakes.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But you know, when they come they come in too
close to the house, you know, it's not it's not
good when they're in the yard. It's exactly so I
will tell you this. Uh, snake fencing, Uh, it's not
that expensive. It comes in rolls. Uh, this is the
first line of defence. Okay, that chain link isn't stopping anybody.
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And and so snake fencing, and what I would do.
I know it's three acres, so there's a lot of fence.
But what I would do is a snake fencing is
just small nylon you know, vinyl mesh that is too
small for a snake to crawl through, and just tall
enough for a snake not to be able to climb
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up and crawl over. And so this alone will radically
change the game as far as snakes in on the property,
if you're consistent and you do it in an unbroken manner.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And I also recommend that not that snakes dig. They
don't dig, okay. And when we talk about snake holes,
those are old golfer holes that other animals have dug
that snakes utilize to burrow in. But I recommend just
bury the bottom of the snakeproof fencing, you know, three
or four inches, so just a tiny little trench, just
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to get it buried so that they can't nose underneath it.
That's the whole idea. A snake, a rattlesnake, well, all
snakes for the most part, they're not excellent climbers, but
they usually can raise themselves up. Okay, they have to
have support to do this, but they can raise themselves
up roughly a third of their body length.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So let's say we've got a big old rattlesnake and
a big rattlesnake in southern California terms, or in Western
States terms is like, you know, a six foot rattlesnake. Okay,
that's a big, fat, old rattlesnake that has survived well.
So you think about that one third of their body length.
So for the biggest of rattlesnakes, we're talking twenty four
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inches that they could actually raise their head up about
two feet up a supported structure and in theory get over.
So a three foot roll, three foot tall roll of
snake fencing that you roll along the inside or the
outside of the chainling fence will pretty much shut down
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the biggest of beasts and keep them out of the yard.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The second thing, just for safe measure, is that there
actually is several companies produce granular repellents that are made
from certain essential oils and things that snakes just do
not like. And you know, not a lot of people
think that that would be something that's effective, but it is.
(12:57):
Snakes are all about They don't have that great of Okay,
snakes are all about odor sensing. Their tongue is essentially
their nose. When they stick their tongues out, they are
sampling what's going on in the air around them. They
are super super odor sensitive creatures. That's how they track.
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They literally will track and find their prey based on sampling,
chemical sampling as they go. It's not because that they've
got egalized they don't. They really don't. So there are
a lot of companies everybody from I think Ortho to Well.
If you go online and just put in snake repellent granules,
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you'll find them. They're not expensive, and those can be
distributed kind of shaken out. They're safe for the kids
and the dogs. Those can be shaked and established around
the perimeter of that fence as well. So those two
things combined, I think you'll see a marked reduction in
the you know, I mean it should, it should shut
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down snake. I'm not saying a snake can't get through
like under the gate, but in three acres worth of fencing,
if there's just one sliding gait, you're radically reducing the
chances of a rattlesnake getting into the yard.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Okay. In addition, we've had dogs snakeproofs in the past,
which worked pretty well. I cannot find a snake doing
that recently. I've tried to. You know, of course the
internet you can find anything, but I haven't been able
to find anybody just snake poof the dogs again, because
a couple of these are proposits that haven't gone through
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that experience before.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, And when Eileen is talking everybody about snakeproofing a dog,
it's about training a dog so that it understands not
to attack a snake, but to be worn and to
stand back and not to put itself in that kind
of danger. I Leen, the best bet there is call
your vet, call your local veterinarian, because they have they
(15:02):
have references for that kind of stuff. I know our
vets in our area will refer you out to services
that help prep dogs for rattlesnakes as well. In fact,
it's like around here around where I live in eastern
Ventor County. Uh, It's a thing and there are there
are classes and things being taught all the time because
we've got so much open space where people hike during
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the spring and the summer, and the snakes are out
right now. They're not out in full force yet because
the weather's been wonky, but with this recent heat spell,
they're waking up, they're coming out and they're going to
be around, so everybody needs to be aware. I lean
thanks for the call. Just know you can. You can
snake proof of yard for the most part if you
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do it right. You've got to be consistent. It's not
like they're trying to get into the yard, you know,
with full force and intent. It's just they're just wandering along,
picking up scents as they go and h and they
end up in the yard. And don't I know, I've
had to deal with I've had to dispatch too many
in my lifetime and they are terrifying. I mean, it's
(16:08):
scary because you know it's a venomous snake. So anyway,
but it can be done. Good luck, Eileen. I hope
that helps along the way. All right, y'all, more of
your calls when we return your home with Dean Sharp
the House Whisper. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hey, your home, Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
That is me. It is Saturday morning, and as is
our custom, it is an all calls Saturday morning. We're
taking calls answering questions about your home. Yeah, everybody is
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Speaker 3 (17:00):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I want to go back to the phones. Let's see here.
Let's talk to Marsha. Hey, Marsha, welcome home, Good good.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Morning, Dean. I have a forty year old home and
I need a recommendation for a company that does.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Will repair the wheep screed at the base of the walls,
of the outside walls.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay, what's going on.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
We're all breaking down. They're all all breaking down.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, okay, well that's this is an easy one. It's
a stucco company, okay. Weep screed is a is a flashing.
It's a flashing that goes properly at the bottom of
a stucco wall. And so it is the stucco company.
The stucco guys that come in and install it. They
paper it in when they're putting on the the building
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paper on the side of the house and they're putting
on their stucco laugh wiring, and then they transition all
of that down and overlap it onto a bottom flashing,
that triangular flashing with the holes in the bottom It's
called a weep screed for two reasons. One, it's a
screed in that it sticks out just far enough for
them to run their trowels against it to create just
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a nice, even layer of stucco at the bottom. That's
what we would call a screed. It's a guide and
it weeps because on the bottom, where you can't see it,
it's got holes, and those holes allow moisture that build
up inside the stucco wall to trickle down and escape
instead of popping the finish of your stucco out and
screwing it all up.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But there are times when weep screen it will eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Fail, and you know, sometimes they rust out if they
weren't the best quality to begin with and so on.
But yeah, so the weep screed is critically important. I
take calls all the time from people who are like,
my stucco is failing on my house, and I'm like, well,
what's going on. They're like, well, it's popping off, perating,
and I'm thinking, all right, does the stucco run all
(18:59):
the way down into the soil just right into They're
like yep, And I'm like, ah see, that was a
house that was done before we figured out we got
to put weep screed at the bottom of the stucco
and hold the bottom of the stucco line up above
the soil, because concrete collects moisture, and no matter how
well you've sealed and painted your house, moisture still finds
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its way into the concrete that is the stucco. That's normal,
it's natural, but we got to give it a place
to get out. And that's what the weep screed. It weeps.
It weeps out moisture at the bottom. So the moral
of the story, Marsha is it is a stucco company
that does weep screed, not roofers, not general contractors. So
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if you start looking for a reputable stucco company and
get two or three in your area, they can come
out and if the weep screed is failing, what they'll
typically do is they'll cut about four to six inches
up on the wall along the stucco line and remove
that stucco, bang it out, and then they can have
access to that weep screen flashing where they can pull
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it out, slide a new flashing underneath the existing paper,
get it all papered in really nicely and sealed and
then they will stucco that bottom edge for you and
then you know, fetter out to finish up against the wall.
It is going to cause you know, some damage to
the stucco, but it's well worth doing if the weep
screed is failing.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yes, I can sure see that. Thank you so much, Deean.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
This is great.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
And if you don't have a company, you would recommend
a stucco company.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I mean, I trust your judgment, I know, but
here's the problem. Where are you at, by the way.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I'm in Englewood, California.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
See that's the problem, is it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Contracting is such a local, local, uh you know deal,
especially for small homes, and so where I live and
where we have some of our custom designs built within
a you know, certain local radio of our home out
here in eastern Ventura County. I could give references anywhere
else in southern California and everywhere this show reaches. It's
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just it's impossible to keep up with references for good companies.
But you look for local Englewood stucco companies and you'll
find them and vet them, you know, make sure that
they have got all their ducks in a row, and
they've got their license clean, and bonds and insurance to
all of that good stuff, and invite them out and
take two or three bids and you should be good
(21:31):
to go.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I wish I could recommend the amazing contractors that are
out there to everybody wherever you live. But that, if
you think about it for a second, that that would
be just that would be a monumental task. We'd have
to set up an entire company just to monitor the
quality of contractors and to make sure that they keep
(21:53):
doing quality work, just to give those referrals. So unfortunately,
I can't give referrals out usually unless it's a company
like one of our partners here on the show, one
of the sponsors of the show that cover an entire
wide area, and we keep our eyes on them. Sure
they're doing it right, all right. I don't know why
(22:14):
I'm growling at contractors. I guess I should be as
a general rule, I am one more of your calls.
When we return your home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper,
can if I Dean Sharp the House Whisper, Welcome home.
Tim Conway is obsessed with traffic. He is obsessed with
it and car chases which cause traffic issues as well.
(22:37):
See it's all traffic. It's all traffic all the time
with Conway.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I love that guy. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
By the way, did you know that every Thursday evening
I have a standing appointment with Tim. He and I
start talking about all things. Well, we talk about everything,
but six six twenty every Thursday evening until about six
fifty or so, I'm on with Tim and we're just
(23:06):
yacking it up, having a great time. You don't want
to miss it. AnyWho. It's an all calls Saturday morning.
Here we are wrapping up the end of another two hours.
I've still got some calls on the board, so let's
see what we can get done. Before we are done,
I want to talk to John. Hey, John, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hey Dean, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I have floor pops that are starting to drive me crazy.
Where original owners? The home is about twenty one years old.
It's the second floor. I was just in my son's room,
but now I'm for getting some of the master and
you know, I saw the construction of it. It's got
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those what do you call them? The engineered would I
beam things?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Huh? And uh, you know, I did some looking, and
you know, I just is it something that can be fixed?
Or am I just chasing a you know, to playing
whack the mole with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, so describe to me what you mean by floor pops.
I'm only asking because a lot of people have a
lot of different, you know, definitions of what that is.
What are you experiencing up there on the second floor.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
When you walk on just certain areas, you will hear
a pop, not a creek, a pop. And the it's
not terrible upstairs, but downstairs it's a lot louder. So
if you're downstairs and someone's walking around up there, it's
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it's irritating.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And what have you guys? What have guys tried to
do about it thus far?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I researched it, and it's like, I better call the
before I do the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It is very likely not the joste, especially if it's
eye beam shaped. Trust joices. They're very stable, they're very secure,
they're very flat. They're actually designed to help eliminate this.
But you know, there is no one particular piece of
material that goes into a home that all by itself
(25:29):
solves a problem. It has to be installed properly, and
I doubt that the floor joists are improperly installed. But
the sheathing the plywood on top of those floor joys
should have been nailed down and glued to the top
of the floor joist everywhere, and if they were, then
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you wouldn't be experiencing that kind of noise. There seems
to be This sounds to me like there is buckling happening,
and that's that's not necessarily a structural issue as much
as it is, you know, an audible esthetic issue. The
seams of the plywood. It may be riding up and
(26:11):
down on nails. It may have been misnailed. In other words,
the nails went in and they missed the joist altogether.
Somebody might have left the glue off in some areas.
And so when it comes to settling that down, yeah,
you are going to have to chase it a bit,
I think, probably realistically. But here's the best thing you
can do, and that is there are now there are
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some floor fix it kits that include injecting adhesive down
underneath the plywood in order to get a little adhesive
going on that you know, when it comes to hardwood floors,
I recommend that a little bit more than just regular
plywood situations sheathing situations with sheathing. I like to just
(26:54):
trace down the nature of the pop kind it, find
it where you know, and and yeah, it's not a squeak,
but it still could be the same kind of issue.
And we just got to start with the minimum. And
the minimum is a good wood screw and a screw
gun and find in a in a stud finder, because
what you want to be looking for, you know, pull
(27:15):
the carpet up or pull up the flooring that's there.
You're going to look underneath. You want to find the
lines of the nails and or the screws that are
on the floor. I'm guessing they did not screw down
that floor because it wouldn't be moving that way if
they had, so you want to look for those.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I seem they recall there there were screws, but it
was twenty one years ago. But I seem to recall
they kind of had the head on them with like
a square inset.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But yeah, might have been, might have been, But that's
the thing. We just got to track it down. So
track down the problem area and and add some screws
to it. That's the cool thing is you can you
can add some screws to it to secure that. Now
you may put shit ten feet away when you do that. Okay,
if it's a systemic problem, you may have resolved it
(28:05):
there and you're like, oh great, great, Now now over
here it's squeaky uh. If you keep chasing it, and
you keep dedicated to it, you will eventually probably trap
the creature and and quiet it down. That's that's been
my experience over the years. But it may take a
little doing as you go.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Okay, so pulling up the carpet and pad for sure, yep.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And then you want to get a line on.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You got to find out where the floor joists are
because screws just out in the middle of nowhere aren't
doing anybody any So you want to see where the
existing floor. You might even find snap lines, old chalk
lines where they snap them out to try and hit
the floor joist. And then you want to make sure
as you screw that screw in, you'll feel it if
you're hitting into If it's digging into wood all the
(28:55):
way through, then you've hit the top of the joist.
If the screw starts off uh slow, but then all
of a sudden just speeds in through. Then you've missed it.
So that's why I uh and then just exploring along.
But yeah, just just screw that sucker down. Add three
or four in any area that it's uh you know
(29:15):
that that it's causing you a problem, and then uh
you know, I mean, I wish I could tell you
something better, but then you're just gonna have to stand
back and wait.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
So so two questions should do I need to remove
all the furniture from the room. And the other question
is how long? So let's say, Okay, I find it,
I screw them in, and now I've got to wait
to see if it moves. Is that like within the
same day or do I need to kind of it is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Like it'll over Yeah, likely if it's gonna shift, it'll
likely shift over you know, a week or so uh
in time. So don't don't move anything unnecessarily. If you're
feeling a pop. Just pull the carpet back. Just stay
very very isolated, very surgical in your approach. You know,
(30:10):
don't empty out rooms, pull out the carpet. I would
just approach the area of the pop, expose it put
a couple of three screws down to secure it. See
if it sounds differently, then cover it back up, cross
your fingers, and hope that it doesn't move to another area,
because you know, what you're doing is you're reapplying pressure
(30:33):
and you're putting the tension somewhere else. But that may
be the only problem. So it may not move at all,
and you may just resolve it, but you may have
to wait. So just be sensitive to it. And as
you start to encounter them, knock those down.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You will.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I promise you, John, you will eventually catch up with
it all and solve whatever is deficient up there. But
it's just going to be it's going to be a
little project for a while, very likely, John, Thanks for
the call. We are literally right up against eight o'clock here.
That's it for our show this morning.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
For anybody who called who did not get through, give
me a call tomorrow. Will put you, will fast track
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wrestle with it, so don't miss it nine to noon tomorrow.
Until then, get out into this beautiful spring day and
get busy building yourself a beautiful life, and we'll see
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you tomorrow.
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