July 5, 2025 • 36 mins
It’s an All Calls Weekend on Home with Dean Sharp! Dean covers everything from oiling exterior doors to replacing fascia boards and re-roofing. He also shares smart tips on relocating air vents for better cooling and explores water-saving solutions like under-sink hot water recirculators.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the house whisper, custom home builder,
custom home designer, and your guide to better understand that
place where you live Today. On the show, it's all
about your calls. The number to reach me eight three
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Really we cover all the escapes anyway. I am here
to help you take your home to the next level.
So give us and we'll put our heads together. We
will figure it out. All right, Let's get back to
the phones. I want to talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
Welcome home, Good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Morning, Dean, and thank you for the great information you
give us every week. Oh, thank you, Yeah, thank you.
I have south facing solid oak doors that get a
lot of sun and get a lot of damage because
of it. And a couple months ago you talked about
oil versus you're a thane, and I was really curious
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about what type of oil and about whether it needs
to be sealed, because I've used like tongue oil and
sealed with beeswax on interior finishes. But I'm a little
bit in need of help on what to do with
these front doors and to keep them looking good all
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Okay, great question, and so let me let me give
a disclaimer about this, all right. When I say that
I am a fan of oiling exterior wood grain doors,
of course i'm talking about wood grain doors, not your
painted door. Please don't go put oil on your painted door.
Dean did not tell you to do that. But when
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I'm talking about doing that for an exterior wood grain door,
it's my preference. And with that preference comes a little
bit more maintenance than if you did nothing to the
door whatsoever. But I am in favor of it for
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a couple of reasons. I'm in favor of especially a
south facing door that is experiencing a lot of harsh
UV sunlight and weather just kind of battering at it.
And here's why polyurethane a great great polyurethane coating will
last for a good amount of time. But we never
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know when a door comes from the factory, whether it's
been polyurethane with the highest grade of UV resistant polyurethanes,
or whether it's just sort of standard builder grade polyurethane.
We don't know what corners have been cut, even with
a very very expensive, fancy door. So if I'm given
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the choice for an exterior door, I tend to order
it raw from the factory number one, because I just
love the look of oiled wood. It's just supernatural and
not supernatural, it's super as in very very natural looking,
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no high gloss on the wood. The wood really just
gets to speak for itself. Now, of course, oil will
eventually soak in and or break down, and so when
I say with that choice comes a little bit more maintenance,
I mean, you know, every few months you're gonna find
yourself in a situation where you're gonna grab the oil,
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grab a rag, and get out there and spend what
five minutes maybe rubbing down the oil on the door.
Here's what I love about that versus polyurethane when it
comes to all woods. And by the way, I'm gonna
apply this also to like interior countertops in my kitchen,
my own kitchen, I have walnut plank countertops up where
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around the sink is. They are not sealed with or
coated with polyurethane. They don't look like plastic coated shiny
bar tops. They are merely raw wood. And you would think, oh,
my goodness, this designer is insane. He's actually it's on
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the countertop where his sink is at Okay, so there's
heavy sunlight coming in through the window and there's water
always all around it. Well, they're multiple years old now
and they're gloriously beautiful. Yes, occasionally they start to fade
back a little bit, and that is when we pull
out inside the house food grade mineral oil oil them down.
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Takes Tina all of three minutes to do. I only
say that because it's not that I force her to
do it. It's just that I often come into the
kitchen and find that, oh pin oil the countertops because
she's on top of that kind of thing. When it
comes to an exterior door, we're not using a food
grade oil. We're using a tongue oil or a sunshielded
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UV resist attiaku oil that we would put on exterior
patio furniture. There are several good ones out there. Watco makes,
some minwax make some other companies make it. We're simply
looking for UV resistant oil and a rag and bringing
out everything that is best about that door without putting
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a plastic coated finish on it, because eventually, inevitably, okay,
this is just science and the nature of the universe,
and polyurethane finish on an exterior door that is experiencing
heavy doses of sunlight, it will crack, it will yellow,
it will start to break down, and eventually the whole
door will have to be stripped. And people are so
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resistant to do that that, you know, because it's a
big deal that they put up with the door looking
less than one hundred percent for a long time until
we finally get to the point where it feels justified. Well,
the whole door looks terrible now, so now is the
time to do it. And you've just lived with the
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door for three or four years in a really, really
less than stellar state. And in my thinking, Matt, in
my thinking, I don't want to start off everything's great.
I ignore it for two years or three years, and
then I live with it for another two or three
years before I finally break down and think, all right,
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let's refinish the door, which is costly and a thing
I would rather every two or three months, notice that
the front door is looking a little dry, and simply
grab a rag and spend five minutes and know that
my entry door is gloriously beautiful all the time, anytime,
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at any moment that I can treat it down, spend
five minutes and boom, it's back too new. And that's
simply the way wood works. So if you keep it
oiled well, and by the way, as you oil it,
over time, you will have to oil it less and
less because it will only absorb so much oil. The
oil becomes part of the subsurface of the wood, really
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bonds with it, and eventually we'll build up a really
really strong weather proof seal.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You know, there any tents in that oil, because the
door was stained and obviously the sun has bleached out
most of the stain. If there is there any kind
of way to tint it, or does it need to
be stained first, you know, once it's once it's brought
down to the natural wood.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, So the way to test what oil will do
to a door is actually to wipe it with water first,
because oil will bring it kind of into that moistened
wood state, so you want to do that and then
the water will dry and then you can address it.
Some oils are tinted, but usually I'd like to treat
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it separately, so a careful restaining job first and then
and then the oiling on top. Because the oil just
goes onto uniform so if there's inequities down below, the
oil is only going to present those inequities. And as
far as color deviation is concerned, so I would rather
just have you or have somebody carefully address the staining
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issue to bring the door back to uniformity, and then
cover it over with oil and you should be good
to go. It's not the easiest thing in the world
to restore a partially faded, stained door, but it can
be done. And then if you decide to switch to
oil from that point forward, I think you'll be very
very happy with it. All right, Matt, thank you so
much for listening and for your question. Take a quick
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All right, it's an all calls morning. Let's get back
to the phones. I want to talk to Terry. Hey, Terry,
(10:02):
welcome home. Hey Dane, how are you doing? My friend?
How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hope you can hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm driving, I can hear you driving, but I can
hear you.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Just fine, Okay. I have a mid fifties house from
the South Bay that has some decorative nation boards on
the front. I need to reroof someday. My pain is
still okay, but the facia boards just need to be replaced,
so as soon. The best time to replace them would
be when I reroof. But I've tried to fill them in,
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you know, with body fuddy or whatever, and they need
to be replaced. Is it worth trying to replace them
now or waiting until I either reroof or repaid.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, Uh, it all depends on how far away the
reroofing is.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You know, if you're planning on reroofing and and you've
got that in the schedule, then I would replace the
facier boards immediately before your reroof or right maybe right
in the reroofing process. Ideally, because reroofing means pulling off
all the existing shingles. We're going to pull off the
vapor barrier and the actual layer underneath the shingles that
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is drawing in the roof. And that also means pulling
off the edge metal around and getting brand new edge metal.
And it's the edge metal that is over there hanging
over the edge of your facial board that's partially occluding
the top of the facier board right now. So ideally,
in a perfect world, you work it out with your
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roofer so that hey, when you guys do the tear
off and strip everything down, I want to replace the
facier boards right then and there, and then you guys
can finish up the rest of the job. And if
you're not working with a roofer who will work with
you on that, you probably have the wrong roofer and
not a person that wants to go out of their
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way to help you get the best possible roof finished up.
You don't have to have them pre painted or get
the painter involved. You just have to have those facier
boards pre primed, pre primed so that the part that
gets shoved up under and goes under the edge metal
is protected and sealed at some level. You could, if
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again the roofer is down for this, have them put
on and painted and then the roofer can come back
and finish the whole job. Ideally, that's the way I'd
like to see it happen. Now here's the point. Can
facier boards be replaced right now and just leave the
roof on for the next six months? Oh of course
they can, And so if that works better for you
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timing wise, then do it that way. Go get them
fixed up and replaced right now. Again, make sure they
get at least pre primed, if not the tops pre
painted before you shove it back underneath that edge metal.
That is usually the biggest mistake that people make. They
put facier boards up raw and then and then you know,
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roofing edge metal covers over and where the ends of
the rafter tails join into the faceboard, you know, the
facer board, that little rectangle of surface area never gets painted.
And so even though it looks all painted up, when
you look underneath, the fact is there are spots of
bear wood on the back side of that faci and
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that's gonna invite moisture damage and dry row and termites
and all that kind of stuff. So we love to
at least pre prime the facer boards with a good,
good exterior primer before we slap them up and cover
up sections of them, so that the paint job really
does its job after the fact. So does that make sense.
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You're still with me, Terry, Yes, all right, So that's
op op and we just lost them. Okay, Terry, good
luck on that. And why don't we get another call
started here, let's talk to a little Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Home, Hi Deane. I've got a nineteen eighty six house
and I live in Riverside and it's starting to get
a little hot. Two story downstairs stays ten degrees cooler
than the upstairs. And I guess my question is when
it was built, they put the vent above the entry
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or the doors for the bedrooms. Can I move those
vents to like the center or should I move them?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, so your concern is that the vents are too
high and they're not getting the job done. Vents over
no like.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
The airflow I feel would be better like in the
middle of the room or not above.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh yeah, or yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Vents over entry doors are really a hilarious thing. Well,
it's not hilarious when you're the one suffering with it.
It's such a common tracked home thing. And you got
to understand that they weren't put there scientifically. They were
put there economically, because you know, you would think in
one house, a little bit more ducting it's no big deal, right,
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it isn't. But when you take a look at your
entire tract and the thousand or so houses that went
into the entire tract, then everything that's just a little
bit more is something that the builders, generally speaking, cut
back on the developers so that they didn't have that
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one larger line item. And for those of you who
are like, why is he making such a big deal
about vents over doors, I kind of like my vent
over my door in the bedroom because when I walk in,
I don't see a vent anywhere, you know, because it's
back behind me and everything looks pristine. Well, you're right,
you're absolutely right that that is one way to hide
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e vent so that as you walk into the room
there's no view of it anywhere. However, if somebody likes Scott,
who's like, hey, my house is not staying cool the
way it needs to, especially if I've got a two
story home. But let's just talk about just general air circulation.
There's a very very good reason not to have the
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vent over the entry door. And I'll tell you what, Scott.
We're going to go to break and when we come back,
I'm going to explain why that is, so that everybody
listening who has this situation can say, ah, okay, I
get it, and maybe your house is working for you
in your situation, just fine. But I'm just gonna explain
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the science of air circulation for an HVAC system, and
we'll talk about why having the event right over the
entry door not the best idea, not anywhere close to
the best idea. All right, Well do that, Scott, You
hang tight, and we'll look into that a little deeper.
Right after the break back to the phones. Right after
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to the next level. All right, we're doing calls today
as we do. The number to reach me eight three
three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two
ask Dean. We got some calls on the board. There's
still room for you. And I picked calls randomly, so
calling late is never a problem. It's not like there's
a line in front of you, so you never know.
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But right now we're talking to Scott, who I popped
on to hold and see if Scott's still there. Scott
still with me, Bud still listen, all right, my friend.
So Scott's got a two story home. There are events,
you know, it's it's it's hotter upstairs than it is downstairs.
Classic situation. You know, it's called science because heat rises
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and cold air descends, and these days brand new HVAC systems,
there are ways to resolve that issue. But and it
should be said, you know, and Scott, I'm so grateful
that you call because it reminds me. Just let everybody
know that our very next episode tomorrow's show is all
about HVAC. It is the twenty twenty five HVAC update
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for us here on Home, and so I'll be talking
about air conditioning systems and the new kind of systems
that alleviate that upstairs downstairs temperature differential when it comes
to homes. Scott's real issue though, right now, is he's
staring at the fact that in a typical tract home
built in the eighties, you've got vents above the entry doors,
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right up above the door and blown into the room.
And it seems at first like that's a kind of
a cool place to place event because you don't see
it when you walk into the room. It's back behind you,
it's up over your head. Esthetically, as a designer, hey,
if the science worked, if the physics of it worked,
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I'd be all in favor of all vents above doors
when you walk in. I'm in favor of putting you know,
smoke detectors right up there for the exact same reason,
so we don't have to see them out on the
ceiling or the you know, the far wall of the room.
So why don't I want to have the vent there. Well,
it's a very very simple idea. Guys. Want you to
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think of your home, your air conditioning system. You've got
to realize that it's a recirculating system. That means that
for all of those small vents that are blowing into rooms, bedrooms,
family rooms, living rooms, kitchens, so on, there is also,
depending on the size of the home, maybe more than one.
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There are some large, much larger events, which are the
return air the ducks that are blowing into the house
into the room where you feel air coming out of them.
Those are supply vents supplying air into a space. And
then there is a return vent. A return vent is
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literally sucking air out of the room, okay, and that's
what is creating the current of air flowing in your house.
If you were to take a sheet of paper while
the AC is running and go over to the return
air vent, return air vents or large vents usually found
in the ceilings of hallways, or if you haven't, if
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your AC unit is located inside the house like it's
a vertical unit inside a closet like where the furnace
closet is, then quite often and very likely the big
vent right underneath that closet door is the return air vent. Anyway,
they're huge compared to the other vents because they have
to take in as much air as all the other
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vents in their system are putting out. If you were
to take a piece of paper while it's running and
put it over that vent, you will find out that
the paper just sucks right up to it because it
is sucking air out of the room.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The point being this, all HVAC systems are operating. Central
HVAC systems with forced air are operating on a recirculation principle.
That means, if we were to put a fog or
a gas that's visible in the room. You could see
that coming out of the vents eventually turning around and
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heading towards the return air. That would be so illustrative
to most homeowners to drive my point home, and it's
simply this. In order to cool a room, we need
to get that cool air crossing the majority of the
space air space in the room. So the best place
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to put a vent to cool and or heat a
room is as far away from the exit point of
that room as possible. So, like I said, most tracked homes,
there's going to be a return air vent out in
the hallway, okay, And your HVAC system is not some
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high pressure system where it's you know, fire hosing air
into a space. So what's happening is if that bedroom
door is open, which you know for the system to
work optimally it should be, air is popping out of
the vent over the door. It's getting i don't know,
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maybe a quarter of the way into the room before
the suction that the return air vent is creating in
the hallway pulls it back out and into the hallway.
So this is the case, and people will notice this, Scott,
You will notice this. People who have door top vents
for their HVAC system have very very cool hallways. That's
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because the hallway is getting the benefit of all of
that cold air, not the rooms. So if we were
to imagine the air flowing into that room, it's only
going in maybe maybe best case scenario, fifty percent of
the way in before it turns and is being pulled
back out again down the drain as it were. Okay,
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so yeah, you're absolutely one hundred percent correct if you've
got attic space, if you've got room, even if you know,
if you're serious about downstairs rooms, if you want to
open up some dry wall and run ducting as far
into the other side of the room as possible, it's
just a few more feet and it's not that expensive
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for the homeowner to pay for because it's a one off.
It was expensive for the developer to pay for a
thousand times over, and that's why they ch on the
HVAC system. So, yes, knowing that the air that's in
the room is going to be sucked out of the
room by the return air, we want that air on
the far side of the room, so as it's being
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sucked out, it's it's passing through all the airspace in
the room and doing its damn job. Does that make sense, Scott?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Thank you, Dean, That's what I was thinking. But you're
the best. You and Tina are both the best. How's that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Well, she will very much appreciate hearing that she actually
is the best. I am her sidekick in life and
happy to be number two in that woman's life. But
thank you very much, Scott, and good luck on that.
You know, they usually, especially for those upstairs rooms which
are so critical for you, You've got attic space above it,
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and so moving those vents from over the door you
have a little drywall patch there. But moving them from
over the door to the far side of those bedrooms
shouldn't be that big of a deal and really kind
of a minimal expense, and you will see a massive difference.
Not going to solve the whole upstairs downstairs temperature deferential,
but at least the upstairs rooms will have a fighting chance. Okay,
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at least they'll have a fighting chance. All right, y'all,
A quick break and then more calls. You're listening to
home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Dean Sharp, the
house whisper here to remind you that when it comes
to your home, design matters most. And I mean that
in every sense of the word, that design matters most
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when you are doing just what seems like a basic,
perfunctory maintenance project, making sure you've planned it out and
you've thought through all of the aspects. That's designing the
project that matters most. When you're trying to transform your
home more than just changing the paint color or rearranging
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the furniture, design matters most. It is design is a
manifestation of human intent, and so the whole idea of
planning and designing what it is that you're about to
do and why you're about to do it, it makes
all the difference in the world. But from a purely
architectural sense, design design it is the thing that most
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mainstream homeowners neglect the most. Jump right over, Like if
you're trying to redo the kitchen, you'll just call a
kitchen contractor right away instead of talking to a designer
about it. The right design in your home is ninety
percent ninety percent of how it turns out. The rest
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the other ten percent the quality of craftsmanship and the
right contractor and materials. But I tell you, you get the
design right. I say this all the time, and it
is true. This is not an exaggeration. If we get
the design right for your home or for your room
or whatever it is we're talking about your yard, get
the design right, we can actually affect that design in
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paper or in platinum, or in anything in between, and
still you got it ninety percent right. It is still
going to have its jaw dropping effect regardless of the materials.
So I'm here every week to help convince you and
remind you about design mattering, most so that you understand
that investing in design for your project is the best
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way to maximize the actual money spent on the project.
You can just pour money into materials, contractors and craftsmanship
and have it done amazingly well, and in the end
it's not designed well all. You have a very very fancy,
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very very expensive, poorly designed space and that just doesn't
get it done anyway. So there you go. We're taking
call today. I'm going to get off my soapbox and
get back on the phones, and so let's talk to
George Anne. Hey, George Anne, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I listen. I listened to you last Saturday, I listened
to you every Saturday. Just lying in bed listening to
what you're saying. You talked about how to get hot
water out of the kitchen sink in seconds instead of
letting the water run for two minutes like I have to,
It just goes down the drain. Yeah you said to
(29:31):
call the Yeah you said to cold water heaters. I
had a little problem trying to get in touch with them.
But can you tell me again what the instrument was
or the part that I use underneath the sink, so
I can tell a plumber what I need.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Okay, Yeah, absolutely, So that you've got two choices, George, Anne,
you have two choices when it comes to that any
sink where we're waiting for ever for the hot water
to show up, and that's just natural. It's a natural thing.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Some of it has to do with how indirect the
plumbing is. Some of it has to do with how
far the sink is away from the hot water heater.
Because if there's fifty feet or so of water line
just laying around in the attic or in the walls
cooling off, hot water cooling off while it's sitting there
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waiting to be used, then that's when we all experience,
you know, we turn on the faucet and it's cold.
It's cold. It's cold. It's cold. What's wrong with my house?
It's just that all that hot water is cooled off
in the interim and we're waiting for the new hot
water to show up and go. Billions of gallons of
water are wasted in California and everywhere.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Every right now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, waiting for that hot water to show up. So
that's why the idea of a water recirculation pump and
what's called a bridge valve. So there there are two
ways of doing this, though, let me push let me
tell you the The one way is to get an appliance.
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That's that's generically referred to as an instant hot appliance. Okay,
an instant an insta hot is is a little eater
basically that gets put underneath the sink in question, hooked
up to the hose lines. It's all, you know, external
just hides in the cabinet down there, and if you've
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got electrical in there, it plugs in and the instant
hot will literally take that hot water and and give
you a couple of minutes of piping hot water itself
out of its own little reservoir. And then it'll turn
off as soon as the real hot water arrives and
you won't notice the difference. That's instant I mean instantly
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hot water. That's an insta hot appliance. And you know
there are a few hundred dollars on which one you
go for, So that's something to discuss with the plumber.
At least get those options. The other way is to
install what's called a bridge valve and a small recirculating pump. Again,
we need electricity here in this situation, though, the recirc
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pump could be back at the water heater and the
bridge valve just installed underneath your sink. Again, we're not
tearing up walls. We're doing this outside of the wall
with the actual hose lines that are running down from
the faucets before they connect to the valves there, which
are known as angle stops. So a bridge valve actually
will connect. It's a one way valve that connects the
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hot water to the cold water line underneath your sink,
and then as its senses that the water temperature is
dropping significantly, it calls upon the little recirc pump to
actually draw more water towards the sink. More hot water
towards the sink, thereby eliminating that problem of a long
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strand of pipe with hot water in it cooling off.
Because the bridge valve is always calling for more, the
research pump is drawing it towards the sink. And the
amazing thing about it is you're not wasting water because
the bridge valve actually takes that cooler water that's there
and pumps it into the cold water side of your plumbing,
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So that water is still in the house, it's still
waiting to be used. You're not blowing any of that water,
but the bridge valve is just pushing it into the
cold line, and the recarc pump is pulling the hot
water closer. It's not instantaneous in most cases. I just
want to be clear. The insta hot is instantaneous. You
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turn it on. There's steaming hot water coming out the
bridge valve and the recirculation pump, which is an easier
and usually far less expensive install. It's not instantaneous. But
we're talking about a couple three seconds as opposed to
a couple three minutes, and that it really makes all
the difference.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
George, Anne, Yeah, I can live with a couple of
seconds since it's less expansive.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So George, Anne, you want
to talk to your plumber about a bridge valve and
a research pump for the sink in question, and if
you want it to improve the hot water come into
the whole house, then quite often what we'll do is
we will install a bridge valve and you know, depending
on how your plumbing system branches out, we'll install a
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bridge valve and a research pump at the sink at
the furthest away because as it draws its hot water
closer to it, it's also drawing hot water closer to
all the other sinks on the branches that are nearer,
and it improves the wait time on all of the
sinks on that section of plumbing in the house. So
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one bridge valve and recirculation pump placed strategically can make
a big difference for all the hot water coming out
all the things in the home. All Right, my friends,
it has been another very very fast moving, beautiful show
to spend time with you taking your calls. We are
(35:14):
once again at the end of our two hours spent together. Tomorrow,
as I said before, we're going to be back with
our twenty twenty five HVAC update, all air conditioning and
heating and all the new, latest and greatest stuff and
solving all the basic issues again with HVAC in your home.
(35:37):
That's tomorrow from nine to noon live broadcast, and then,
of course don't forget to catch us on the podcast
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get out there today and get busy building yourself a
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp, the house whisper, custom home builder,
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So give us and we'll put our heads together. We
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the phones. I want to talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
Welcome home, Good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Morning, Dean, and thank you for the great information you
give us every week. Oh, thank you, Yeah, thank you.
I have south facing solid oak doors that get a
lot of sun and get a lot of damage because
of it. And a couple months ago you talked about
oil versus you're a thane, and I was really curious
(01:33):
about what type of oil and about whether it needs
to be sealed, because I've used like tongue oil and
sealed with beeswax on interior finishes. But I'm a little
bit in need of help on what to do with
these front doors and to keep them looking good all
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Okay, great question, and so let me let me give
a disclaimer about this, all right. When I say that
I am a fan of oiling exterior wood grain doors,
of course i'm talking about wood grain doors, not your
painted door. Please don't go put oil on your painted door.
Dean did not tell you to do that. But when
(02:14):
I'm talking about doing that for an exterior wood grain door,
it's my preference. And with that preference comes a little
bit more maintenance than if you did nothing to the
door whatsoever. But I am in favor of it for
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a couple of reasons. I'm in favor of especially a
south facing door that is experiencing a lot of harsh
UV sunlight and weather just kind of battering at it.
And here's why polyurethane a great great polyurethane coating will
last for a good amount of time. But we never
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know when a door comes from the factory, whether it's
been polyurethane with the highest grade of UV resistant polyurethanes,
or whether it's just sort of standard builder grade polyurethane.
We don't know what corners have been cut, even with
a very very expensive, fancy door. So if I'm given
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the choice for an exterior door, I tend to order
it raw from the factory number one, because I just
love the look of oiled wood. It's just supernatural and
not supernatural, it's super as in very very natural looking,
(03:41):
no high gloss on the wood. The wood really just
gets to speak for itself. Now, of course, oil will
eventually soak in and or break down, and so when
I say with that choice comes a little bit more maintenance,
I mean, you know, every few months you're gonna find
yourself in a situation where you're gonna grab the oil,
(04:01):
grab a rag, and get out there and spend what
five minutes maybe rubbing down the oil on the door.
Here's what I love about that versus polyurethane when it
comes to all woods. And by the way, I'm gonna
apply this also to like interior countertops in my kitchen,
my own kitchen, I have walnut plank countertops up where
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around the sink is. They are not sealed with or
coated with polyurethane. They don't look like plastic coated shiny
bar tops. They are merely raw wood. And you would think, oh,
my goodness, this designer is insane. He's actually it's on
(04:46):
the countertop where his sink is at Okay, so there's
heavy sunlight coming in through the window and there's water
always all around it. Well, they're multiple years old now
and they're gloriously beautiful. Yes, occasionally they start to fade
back a little bit, and that is when we pull
out inside the house food grade mineral oil oil them down.
(05:08):
Takes Tina all of three minutes to do. I only
say that because it's not that I force her to
do it. It's just that I often come into the
kitchen and find that, oh pin oil the countertops because
she's on top of that kind of thing. When it
comes to an exterior door, we're not using a food
grade oil. We're using a tongue oil or a sunshielded
(05:32):
UV resist attiaku oil that we would put on exterior
patio furniture. There are several good ones out there. Watco makes,
some minwax make some other companies make it. We're simply
looking for UV resistant oil and a rag and bringing
out everything that is best about that door without putting
(05:55):
a plastic coated finish on it, because eventually, inevitably, okay,
this is just science and the nature of the universe,
and polyurethane finish on an exterior door that is experiencing
heavy doses of sunlight, it will crack, it will yellow,
it will start to break down, and eventually the whole
door will have to be stripped. And people are so
(06:18):
resistant to do that that, you know, because it's a
big deal that they put up with the door looking
less than one hundred percent for a long time until
we finally get to the point where it feels justified. Well,
the whole door looks terrible now, so now is the
time to do it. And you've just lived with the
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door for three or four years in a really, really
less than stellar state. And in my thinking, Matt, in
my thinking, I don't want to start off everything's great.
I ignore it for two years or three years, and
then I live with it for another two or three
years before I finally break down and think, all right,
(07:02):
let's refinish the door, which is costly and a thing
I would rather every two or three months, notice that
the front door is looking a little dry, and simply
grab a rag and spend five minutes and know that
my entry door is gloriously beautiful all the time, anytime,
(07:22):
at any moment that I can treat it down, spend
five minutes and boom, it's back too new. And that's
simply the way wood works. So if you keep it
oiled well, and by the way, as you oil it,
over time, you will have to oil it less and
less because it will only absorb so much oil. The
oil becomes part of the subsurface of the wood, really
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bonds with it, and eventually we'll build up a really
really strong weather proof seal.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You know, there any tents in that oil, because the
door was stained and obviously the sun has bleached out
most of the stain. If there is there any kind
of way to tint it, or does it need to
be stained first, you know, once it's once it's brought
down to the natural wood.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, So the way to test what oil will do
to a door is actually to wipe it with water first,
because oil will bring it kind of into that moistened
wood state, so you want to do that and then
the water will dry and then you can address it.
Some oils are tinted, but usually I'd like to treat
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it separately, so a careful restaining job first and then
and then the oiling on top. Because the oil just
goes onto uniform so if there's inequities down below, the
oil is only going to present those inequities. And as
far as color deviation is concerned, so I would rather
just have you or have somebody carefully address the staining
(08:55):
issue to bring the door back to uniformity, and then
cover it over with oil and you should be good
to go. It's not the easiest thing in the world
to restore a partially faded, stained door, but it can
be done. And then if you decide to switch to
oil from that point forward, I think you'll be very
very happy with it. All right, Matt, thank you so
much for listening and for your question. Take a quick
(09:18):
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All right, it's an all calls morning. Let's get back
to the phones. I want to talk to Terry. Hey, Terry,
(10:02):
welcome home. Hey Dane, how are you doing? My friend?
How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hope you can hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm driving, I can hear you driving, but I can
hear you.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Just fine, Okay. I have a mid fifties house from
the South Bay that has some decorative nation boards on
the front. I need to reroof someday. My pain is
still okay, but the facia boards just need to be replaced,
so as soon. The best time to replace them would
be when I reroof. But I've tried to fill them in,
(10:38):
you know, with body fuddy or whatever, and they need
to be replaced. Is it worth trying to replace them
now or waiting until I either reroof or repaid.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, Uh, it all depends on how far away the
reroofing is.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You know, if you're planning on reroofing and and you've
got that in the schedule, then I would replace the
facier boards immediately before your reroof or right maybe right
in the reroofing process. Ideally, because reroofing means pulling off
all the existing shingles. We're going to pull off the
vapor barrier and the actual layer underneath the shingles that
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is drawing in the roof. And that also means pulling
off the edge metal around and getting brand new edge metal.
And it's the edge metal that is over there hanging
over the edge of your facial board that's partially occluding
the top of the facier board right now. So ideally,
in a perfect world, you work it out with your
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roofer so that hey, when you guys do the tear
off and strip everything down, I want to replace the
facier boards right then and there, and then you guys
can finish up the rest of the job. And if
you're not working with a roofer who will work with
you on that, you probably have the wrong roofer and
not a person that wants to go out of their
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way to help you get the best possible roof finished up.
You don't have to have them pre painted or get
the painter involved. You just have to have those facier
boards pre primed, pre primed so that the part that
gets shoved up under and goes under the edge metal
is protected and sealed at some level. You could, if
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again the roofer is down for this, have them put
on and painted and then the roofer can come back
and finish the whole job. Ideally, that's the way I'd
like to see it happen. Now here's the point. Can
facier boards be replaced right now and just leave the
roof on for the next six months? Oh of course
they can, And so if that works better for you
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timing wise, then do it that way. Go get them
fixed up and replaced right now. Again, make sure they
get at least pre primed, if not the tops pre
painted before you shove it back underneath that edge metal.
That is usually the biggest mistake that people make. They
put facier boards up raw and then and then you know,
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roofing edge metal covers over and where the ends of
the rafter tails join into the faceboard, you know, the
facer board, that little rectangle of surface area never gets painted.
And so even though it looks all painted up, when
you look underneath, the fact is there are spots of
bear wood on the back side of that faci and
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that's gonna invite moisture damage and dry row and termites
and all that kind of stuff. So we love to
at least pre prime the facer boards with a good,
good exterior primer before we slap them up and cover
up sections of them, so that the paint job really
does its job after the fact. So does that make sense.
(14:00):
You're still with me, Terry, Yes, all right, So that's
op op and we just lost them. Okay, Terry, good
luck on that. And why don't we get another call
started here, let's talk to a little Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Home, Hi Deane. I've got a nineteen eighty six house
and I live in Riverside and it's starting to get
a little hot. Two story downstairs stays ten degrees cooler
than the upstairs. And I guess my question is when
it was built, they put the vent above the entry
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or the doors for the bedrooms. Can I move those
vents to like the center or should I move them?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, so your concern is that the vents are too
high and they're not getting the job done. Vents over
no like.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
The airflow I feel would be better like in the
middle of the room or not above.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh yeah, or yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Vents over entry doors are really a hilarious thing. Well,
it's not hilarious when you're the one suffering with it.
It's such a common tracked home thing. And you got
to understand that they weren't put there scientifically. They were
put there economically, because you know, you would think in
one house, a little bit more ducting it's no big deal, right,
(15:26):
it isn't. But when you take a look at your
entire tract and the thousand or so houses that went
into the entire tract, then everything that's just a little
bit more is something that the builders, generally speaking, cut
back on the developers so that they didn't have that
(15:47):
one larger line item. And for those of you who
are like, why is he making such a big deal
about vents over doors, I kind of like my vent
over my door in the bedroom because when I walk in,
I don't see a vent anywhere, you know, because it's
back behind me and everything looks pristine. Well, you're right,
you're absolutely right that that is one way to hide
(16:10):
e vent so that as you walk into the room
there's no view of it anywhere. However, if somebody likes Scott,
who's like, hey, my house is not staying cool the
way it needs to, especially if I've got a two
story home. But let's just talk about just general air circulation.
There's a very very good reason not to have the
(16:33):
vent over the entry door. And I'll tell you what, Scott.
We're going to go to break and when we come back,
I'm going to explain why that is, so that everybody
listening who has this situation can say, ah, okay, I
get it, and maybe your house is working for you
in your situation, just fine. But I'm just gonna explain
(16:54):
the science of air circulation for an HVAC system, and
we'll talk about why having the event right over the
entry door not the best idea, not anywhere close to
the best idea. All right, Well do that, Scott, You
hang tight, and we'll look into that a little deeper.
Right after the break back to the phones. Right after
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(18:36):
But right now we're talking to Scott, who I popped
on to hold and see if Scott's still there. Scott
still with me, Bud still listen, all right, my friend.
So Scott's got a two story home. There are events,
you know, it's it's it's hotter upstairs than it is downstairs.
Classic situation. You know, it's called science because heat rises
(19:01):
and cold air descends, and these days brand new HVAC systems,
there are ways to resolve that issue. But and it
should be said, you know, and Scott, I'm so grateful
that you call because it reminds me. Just let everybody
know that our very next episode tomorrow's show is all
about HVAC. It is the twenty twenty five HVAC update
(19:26):
for us here on Home, and so I'll be talking
about air conditioning systems and the new kind of systems
that alleviate that upstairs downstairs temperature differential when it comes
to homes. Scott's real issue though, right now, is he's
staring at the fact that in a typical tract home
built in the eighties, you've got vents above the entry doors,
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right up above the door and blown into the room.
And it seems at first like that's a kind of
a cool place to place event because you don't see
it when you walk into the room. It's back behind you,
it's up over your head. Esthetically, as a designer, hey,
if the science worked, if the physics of it worked,
(20:10):
I'd be all in favor of all vents above doors
when you walk in. I'm in favor of putting you know,
smoke detectors right up there for the exact same reason,
so we don't have to see them out on the
ceiling or the you know, the far wall of the room.
So why don't I want to have the vent there. Well,
it's a very very simple idea. Guys. Want you to
(20:33):
think of your home, your air conditioning system. You've got
to realize that it's a recirculating system. That means that
for all of those small vents that are blowing into rooms, bedrooms,
family rooms, living rooms, kitchens, so on, there is also,
depending on the size of the home, maybe more than one.
(20:54):
There are some large, much larger events, which are the
return air the ducks that are blowing into the house
into the room where you feel air coming out of them.
Those are supply vents supplying air into a space. And
then there is a return vent. A return vent is
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literally sucking air out of the room, okay, and that's
what is creating the current of air flowing in your house.
If you were to take a sheet of paper while
the AC is running and go over to the return
air vent, return air vents or large vents usually found
in the ceilings of hallways, or if you haven't, if
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your AC unit is located inside the house like it's
a vertical unit inside a closet like where the furnace
closet is, then quite often and very likely the big
vent right underneath that closet door is the return air vent. Anyway,
they're huge compared to the other vents because they have
to take in as much air as all the other
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vents in their system are putting out. If you were
to take a piece of paper while it's running and
put it over that vent, you will find out that
the paper just sucks right up to it because it
is sucking air out of the room.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The point being this, all HVAC systems are operating. Central
HVAC systems with forced air are operating on a recirculation principle.
That means, if we were to put a fog or
a gas that's visible in the room. You could see
that coming out of the vents eventually turning around and
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heading towards the return air. That would be so illustrative
to most homeowners to drive my point home, and it's
simply this. In order to cool a room, we need
to get that cool air crossing the majority of the
space air space in the room. So the best place
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to put a vent to cool and or heat a
room is as far away from the exit point of
that room as possible. So, like I said, most tracked homes,
there's going to be a return air vent out in
the hallway, okay, And your HVAC system is not some
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high pressure system where it's you know, fire hosing air
into a space. So what's happening is if that bedroom
door is open, which you know for the system to
work optimally it should be, air is popping out of
the vent over the door. It's getting i don't know,
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maybe a quarter of the way into the room before
the suction that the return air vent is creating in
the hallway pulls it back out and into the hallway.
So this is the case, and people will notice this, Scott,
You will notice this. People who have door top vents
for their HVAC system have very very cool hallways. That's
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because the hallway is getting the benefit of all of
that cold air, not the rooms. So if we were
to imagine the air flowing into that room, it's only
going in maybe maybe best case scenario, fifty percent of
the way in before it turns and is being pulled
back out again down the drain as it were. Okay,
(24:30):
so yeah, you're absolutely one hundred percent correct if you've
got attic space, if you've got room, even if you know,
if you're serious about downstairs rooms, if you want to
open up some dry wall and run ducting as far
into the other side of the room as possible, it's
just a few more feet and it's not that expensive
(24:50):
for the homeowner to pay for because it's a one off.
It was expensive for the developer to pay for a
thousand times over, and that's why they ch on the
HVAC system. So, yes, knowing that the air that's in
the room is going to be sucked out of the
room by the return air, we want that air on
the far side of the room, so as it's being
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sucked out, it's it's passing through all the airspace in
the room and doing its damn job. Does that make sense, Scott?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Thank you, Dean, That's what I was thinking. But you're
the best. You and Tina are both the best. How's that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Well, she will very much appreciate hearing that she actually
is the best. I am her sidekick in life and
happy to be number two in that woman's life. But
thank you very much, Scott, and good luck on that.
You know, they usually, especially for those upstairs rooms which
are so critical for you, You've got attic space above it,
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and so moving those vents from over the door you
have a little drywall patch there. But moving them from
over the door to the far side of those bedrooms
shouldn't be that big of a deal and really kind
of a minimal expense, and you will see a massive difference.
Not going to solve the whole upstairs downstairs temperature deferential,
but at least the upstairs rooms will have a fighting chance. Okay,
(26:12):
at least they'll have a fighting chance. All right, y'all,
A quick break and then more calls. You're listening to
home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Dean Sharp, the
house whisper here to remind you that when it comes
to your home, design matters most. And I mean that
in every sense of the word, that design matters most
(26:34):
when you are doing just what seems like a basic,
perfunctory maintenance project, making sure you've planned it out and
you've thought through all of the aspects. That's designing the
project that matters most. When you're trying to transform your
home more than just changing the paint color or rearranging
(26:55):
the furniture, design matters most. It is design is a
manifestation of human intent, and so the whole idea of
planning and designing what it is that you're about to
do and why you're about to do it, it makes
all the difference in the world. But from a purely
architectural sense, design design it is the thing that most
(27:20):
mainstream homeowners neglect the most. Jump right over, Like if
you're trying to redo the kitchen, you'll just call a
kitchen contractor right away instead of talking to a designer
about it. The right design in your home is ninety
percent ninety percent of how it turns out. The rest
(27:43):
the other ten percent the quality of craftsmanship and the
right contractor and materials. But I tell you, you get the
design right. I say this all the time, and it
is true. This is not an exaggeration. If we get
the design right for your home or for your room
or whatever it is we're talking about your yard, get
the design right, we can actually affect that design in
(28:05):
paper or in platinum, or in anything in between, and
still you got it ninety percent right. It is still
going to have its jaw dropping effect regardless of the materials.
So I'm here every week to help convince you and
remind you about design mattering, most so that you understand
that investing in design for your project is the best
(28:28):
way to maximize the actual money spent on the project.
You can just pour money into materials, contractors and craftsmanship
and have it done amazingly well, and in the end
it's not designed well all. You have a very very fancy,
(28:49):
very very expensive, poorly designed space and that just doesn't
get it done anyway. So there you go. We're taking
call today. I'm going to get off my soapbox and
get back on the phones, and so let's talk to
George Anne. Hey, George Anne, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I listen. I listened to you last Saturday, I listened
to you every Saturday. Just lying in bed listening to
what you're saying. You talked about how to get hot
water out of the kitchen sink in seconds instead of
letting the water run for two minutes like I have to,
It just goes down the drain. Yeah you said to
(29:31):
call the Yeah you said to cold water heaters. I
had a little problem trying to get in touch with them.
But can you tell me again what the instrument was
or the part that I use underneath the sink, so
I can tell a plumber what I need.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Okay, Yeah, absolutely, So that you've got two choices, George, Anne,
you have two choices when it comes to that any
sink where we're waiting for ever for the hot water
to show up, and that's just natural. It's a natural thing.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Some of it has to do with how indirect the
plumbing is. Some of it has to do with how
far the sink is away from the hot water heater.
Because if there's fifty feet or so of water line
just laying around in the attic or in the walls
cooling off, hot water cooling off while it's sitting there
(30:25):
waiting to be used, then that's when we all experience,
you know, we turn on the faucet and it's cold.
It's cold. It's cold. It's cold. What's wrong with my house?
It's just that all that hot water is cooled off
in the interim and we're waiting for the new hot
water to show up and go. Billions of gallons of
water are wasted in California and everywhere.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Every right now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, waiting for that hot water to show up. So
that's why the idea of a water recirculation pump and
what's called a bridge valve. So there there are two
ways of doing this, though, let me push let me
tell you the The one way is to get an appliance.
(31:10):
That's that's generically referred to as an instant hot appliance. Okay,
an instant an insta hot is is a little eater
basically that gets put underneath the sink in question, hooked
up to the hose lines. It's all, you know, external
just hides in the cabinet down there, and if you've
(31:30):
got electrical in there, it plugs in and the instant
hot will literally take that hot water and and give
you a couple of minutes of piping hot water itself
out of its own little reservoir. And then it'll turn
off as soon as the real hot water arrives and
you won't notice the difference. That's instant I mean instantly
(31:54):
hot water. That's an insta hot appliance. And you know
there are a few hundred dollars on which one you
go for, So that's something to discuss with the plumber.
At least get those options. The other way is to
install what's called a bridge valve and a small recirculating pump. Again,
we need electricity here in this situation, though, the recirc
(32:17):
pump could be back at the water heater and the
bridge valve just installed underneath your sink. Again, we're not
tearing up walls. We're doing this outside of the wall
with the actual hose lines that are running down from
the faucets before they connect to the valves there, which
are known as angle stops. So a bridge valve actually
will connect. It's a one way valve that connects the
(32:39):
hot water to the cold water line underneath your sink,
and then as its senses that the water temperature is
dropping significantly, it calls upon the little recirc pump to
actually draw more water towards the sink. More hot water
towards the sink, thereby eliminating that problem of a long
(33:02):
strand of pipe with hot water in it cooling off.
Because the bridge valve is always calling for more, the
research pump is drawing it towards the sink. And the
amazing thing about it is you're not wasting water because
the bridge valve actually takes that cooler water that's there
and pumps it into the cold water side of your plumbing,
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So that water is still in the house, it's still
waiting to be used. You're not blowing any of that water,
but the bridge valve is just pushing it into the
cold line, and the recarc pump is pulling the hot
water closer. It's not instantaneous in most cases. I just
want to be clear. The insta hot is instantaneous. You
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turn it on. There's steaming hot water coming out the
bridge valve and the recirculation pump, which is an easier
and usually far less expensive install. It's not instantaneous. But
we're talking about a couple three seconds as opposed to
a couple three minutes, and that it really makes all
the difference.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
George, Anne, Yeah, I can live with a couple of
seconds since it's less expansive.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So George, Anne, you want
to talk to your plumber about a bridge valve and
a research pump for the sink in question, and if
you want it to improve the hot water come into
the whole house, then quite often what we'll do is
we will install a bridge valve and you know, depending
on how your plumbing system branches out, we'll install a
(34:31):
bridge valve and a research pump at the sink at
the furthest away because as it draws its hot water
closer to it, it's also drawing hot water closer to
all the other sinks on the branches that are nearer,
and it improves the wait time on all of the
sinks on that section of plumbing in the house. So
(34:54):
one bridge valve and recirculation pump placed strategically can make
a big difference for all the hot water coming out
all the things in the home. All Right, my friends,
it has been another very very fast moving, beautiful show
to spend time with you taking your calls. We are
(35:14):
once again at the end of our two hours spent together. Tomorrow,
as I said before, we're going to be back with
our twenty twenty five HVAC update, all air conditioning and
heating and all the new, latest and greatest stuff and
solving all the basic issues again with HVAC in your home.
(35:37):
That's tomorrow from nine to noon live broadcast, and then,
of course don't forget to catch us on the podcast
anywhere your favorite podcasts are found. Until then, finish your
recovery from the night of the fourth and when you do,
get out there today and get busy building yourself a
(35:58):
beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Tune into the live
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