December 21, 2024 • 32 mins
In the second hour of All Calls Weekend, Dean Sharp answers more listener questions while sharing practical advice and insights. Dean begins with tips on managing and testing the myriad of cables and wires outside your home, helping a caller sort out live connections for essential services like cable and internet.
He then tackles a tricky problem for a listener with a metal front door that won’t budge, explaining potential causes like foundation shifts, moisture intrusion, and how to fix alignment issues by re-shimming the door.
Midway through, Dean chats about his own holiday plans as Christmas rapidly approaches. The hour wraps with a discussion on repairing cracks in concrete slabs, providing listeners with expert guidance to keep their homes in top shape.
He then tackles a tricky problem for a listener with a metal front door that won’t budge, explaining potential causes like foundation shifts, moisture intrusion, and how to fix alignment issues by re-shimming the door.
Midway through, Dean chats about his own holiday plans as Christmas rapidly approaches. The hour wraps with a discussion on repairing cracks in concrete slabs, providing listeners with expert guidance to keep their homes in top shape.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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There you go. All right, it is an all calls weekend.
We're taking nothing but calls this morning and tomorrow, this
last week end before Christmas. Here twenty twenty four. Let's
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go back to the phone. So oh, let me give
you the number out eight three to three two. Ask
Dean A three three the numeral to ask Dean talk
to producer Matt. He'll get you set up and he'll
pop you into the queue and then we will figure
out what's going on with your home. All right, let's
talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome home. Hey, good morning,
(02:28):
good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
How many Well, I've gone a home in the Seattle
area that we just bought, and it's built in the
mid eighties and over time it's it's acquired a lot
of cables running around the house, you know, satellite dishes,
phone lines and that kind of thing, and it's a
little insightly, but it goes all the way around, and
(02:49):
I'd like to remove them, but I kind of don't
know what I'm doing as far as removing them and
how to test them, and I want to know how
you can help me out.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, good question, good question. So what's your current what
are your current needs? So you're saying phone lines and cable,
I mean that's the that's the kind of stuff that
finds itself attaching to the outside of most homes over
the decades. But the big question is how are you
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handling that? Like, I mean a perfect example with Tina
and I, we haven't had a hard line since I
don't know when, right, it's been.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Like twenty five years we've actually either.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, all right, So if there's phone lines attached to
the house, then then you don't need those. You just
you don't need them. They are not voltage lines. I
am going to show you how you make sure you're
not getting into the wrong thing, but you just don't
need them, and so you can just pull them off.
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And then the the other question is cable. What's going
on with cable? Where's your table running, where's your active
cable system? Running and so on.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Right, So there's a satellite dish that's attached to the
house and we don't use that. So there's tables that
run in from from that, and then each room seems
to have a port that comes in from the outside.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Also what we.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Have internet and that comes in on an Internet line.
But as far as I know, if there's only one
that comes in, but I don't know exactly where it is,
and and I kind there's like I said, there's tables
all around, and I want to know how I can
if I can test them to see if there's you know,
if they're active.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Right, right, Okay, So the easiest way to do this, honestly,
the easiest way to do this is to call your
cable provider and and ask them to you know, I
identify and and maybe they have a service person just
drop by and identify where uh the the internet is
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coming into the house. Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
If it's just one location, as is the case with
most people these days, then you've got one line running
to a router somewhere inside the house, and then that
router is handling the rest of it, the Wi Fi
for the rest of the house, and you know, importing
whatever is going on. As far as television and screen
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is concerned, Unfortunately, there's you know, without cutting, crimping and feeding,
there's it's not easy to test because these are very
minute RF signals running through these cables. If there's ever
a concern that there's voltage, that one of those things
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on the outside of the house has voltage, you can
solve that by just running down to the hardware store
or big box or home depot and get a non
contact voltage tester or current detector that's like twenty bucks
and it looks like a big fat yellow pen and
literally you just put the tip of it on a
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cable and if it lights up and it tells you, yeah,
there's high voltage electric current running through this, or you
get nothing. And obviously if there's voltage running through it,
you don't cut that. But as far as everything else
is concerned, the way we normally do it is just
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literally figuring out, all right, we're going to trace the
line that is leading from the internet box on the
outside of the house. We're going to trace that line
to the router and honestly, just the rest of it
can go. All of those feeds into the bedrooms. It's
just old school stuff. It's vestigial organs from an era
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gone by, and and you should be free and clear
to cap those. You know, you put blanks on those.
You can just leave it in the wall, blank those
inside the room so that you don't have to have
the little cable things sticking out of the hookup and
on the outside. Uh again, you just all you're after
is where is the one feed into the router for
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my system? And everything else can just be pulled off?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And can I just cut it or can it be
pulled out?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well yeah, I mean you're you're, you're. I would just
cut them. I would just cut them and shove them
into the wall and patch the little hole in the wall,
because no, you're not gonna have a you're you're very
unlikely to be successful pulling it all out. And you know, so,
so there's you know, a useless wire in the wall
or useless coaxle cable in the wall, No big deal,
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it's not hurting anything and uh and it's not going
to get anybody's way, So just clear out and clean
off the excess stuff on the outside of your house,
just to get it all cleaned up and to patch
it up.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, very good. Okay, well thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
All right, Rick, good luck, Happy holidays to you. Great
question when we return more of your calls your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Heyfi, Dean Sharp, the
house whisper at your service. It is an all calls
weekend we are doing here on the program today and tomorrow,
nothing but your calls. You get to set the agenda.
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And yes, got some feedback from a couple of electrical
engineer electronic engineer types from my comments to our last
caller about finding tracing coaxle cable lines around the house
and old phone lines and so on, saying there are
ways to test it. Yeah, I know there are ways
to test. I'm with you. I'm with you, guys. I
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just didn't recommend that that he invests in the thirty
forty fifty dollars worth of gear in order to test that,
because it's not as simple as the high voltage testing,
which you just come up with a simple pen tester,
touch it to the line and you know whether there's
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voltage running through it. As you know, those of you
who are commenting on that, this requires a signal sender
and a receiver and you're going to be cutting those
lines and or sending a signal from a coaxle outlet
out anyway. It's it's just a messy process. It's so
(09:41):
much easier just to find out from your internet provider,
Please tell me the wire that's going into the house
that is yours, and then after that all the others
are meaningless at that point, And that's the easiest way
to go about it, because otherwise you're going to be cutting, splicing,
putting ends on on, putting cable ends on, just for
(10:02):
the sake of testing a line that you are ninety
nine percent sure is dead anyway, So there you go. Anyway,
just saying just saying, all right, let's get at least
get another question started here. We ran a little late
last segment. I want to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
welcome home. Hello, Hey Bob, you're with me?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm here? Are you here?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I am here? I am here. How can I help you, sir?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Hi, I'm calling from Ohio to confusion and I have
a question. I have a home about fifteen years old.
We never had this problem until just this year. But
the front door, which is a metal, big heavy metal door,
and in a screen door or storm door also there.
They will not close unless I put my entire weight
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behind it to put in Okay, And I don't know.
I was hoping it was an insulation problem, but I
don't know whether it's getting too much moisture or not.
Love moisture.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it's a metal it's a it's a metal security door, yes, okay.
So it's the door itself or is it security door
on the outside. I just got to clarify.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's the front door of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh, it's the front door of the house. And it's
a metal door. Yes, okay, front door of the house.
It's a metal door. And it's just started.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Happening just in the last thirty days or so.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The last thirty days or so, any big changes weather
wise for you? I mean things have been Where are
you at in Ohio?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
By the way, I'm just north of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Okay, north of Cincinnati. I just I say that my
daughter in law is from Fremont, out of Toledo, and
so that's why you know, I'm always interested in Ohio.
So things have been pretty consistently cold for you guys,
uh for a while now, right, I mean, so it's
not like there's been a huge temperature change, has there.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, it's been consistently, you know, within ten or between agree,
don't wear or another. Okay, yeah. The only thing I
have noticed that there's a lot of We've had a
lot of rain.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean a metal door, a metal door and rain.
I mean even if it would even if it had
breached and water had gotten inside, I'm not seeing that
changing the door. It is more likely the culprit is
the jam uh, any settlement on the house or anything
like that happening.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All right, all right, Bob, here's the thing. I'm up against.
A break. So I'm gonna pop you on hold and
uh and we're gonna get through the break. And when
we come back, you and I are we're gonna address
this a little more intensely. Can you hang on for me?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes? Sure? Perfect?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All right, my friend, you hang tight and we'll figure
it out. We'll figure out what's going on with Bob's
front door.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2 (13:15):
KFI AM six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Good Saturday Morning to you, the Saturday
before Christmas. Christmas coming this Wednesday. Hope you're already. It's
going to be a cooler weekend here in Southern California, thankfully,
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a little bit more Christmas y then it's been the
last few days. That's good. I'm told that tonight is,
by the way, the most popular Christmas light viewing night
of the year, and that makes sense. We're actually going
out doing that, getting together with some friends, having dinner
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and then heading out to one of our local kind
of candy cane lane neighborhoods and doing the deed, doing
the deed with with our granddaughter Olivia, just you know,
letting it all sparkle in front of her. It's worth it,
every second of it. I hope you've got some great
holiday plans this weekend and rolling into Christmas Day. We
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are here doing an all calls weekend for you. I'm live.
This is not pre recorded. Yeah, I know every host
in the world takes the week off here. I am here,
I am it worked into my schedule. Just fine, no problem.
We're not going anywhere and we are here with you.
So if you don't believe me, I can we can
Tina will photograph me with a newspaper proof of life,
(14:45):
Proof of life. It's really me anyway. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean A three
three the numeral two. Ask Dean. You're setting the agenda
today with your calls today and tomorrow. Now, before the break,
we were talking to Bob. Bob is in Ohio and
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he's having a strange issue with his front door. Bob,
you're still with me, yes, sure, okay. So Bob has
a steel front door, a metal door, and it is
now virtually impossible to open and or close except with
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you know, putting all his weight against it. So what
is going on with that thing? It's a little bit
of a head scratcher, clearly, because you know, okay, so
steel doors can expand they do expand, technically, they expand.
Steel doors, of all doors, are the most stable of doors.
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And the expansion of a steel door is is typically
so minimal that it's easily you know, it expands and
contracts within the clearances around the door, the gap between
the door and the jam. So you know, not a
problem have I heard in the past of moisture intrusion
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inside a steel door, because the steel door is usually
filled with fiberglass insulation, and that affecting the fibers on
the inside and causing expand. I mean, I personally have
not seen one of these actually happen. I hear it
can happen. But again, the expansion, even in a failed seal,
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should really be minimal. And the expansion that we expect,
by the way, would be during a hot, humid summer
where we've got moisture and heat working on the surfaces
of that door, not in the dead of winter where
when you know we've got thirty degree and twenty degree
temperatures outside. That is not when you expect a steel
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door to expand. So I was thinking about it during
the break, Bob, and I'm thinking, okay, tell me more
about what you see. How where is the door rubbing?
Is it the just the top? Is it catching now
at the top of the jam? Is it Is it
hitting and rubbing down the entire side of the of
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the latch side, the vertical portion of the jam. Where
is it making contact now?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I would say mostly around the what the doorknob is
on that side of the door, and also across the top.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, all right, And second question, it's a steel door.
Is the jam steel as well? Or is it a
wood jam?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I believe it's a wood jam.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's a wood jam. Okay, Well, I'm not one hundred
percent sure of exactly what the issue is.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You said you've had you know, in you know, some
extra moisture of late. I think, my friend, I think
that the issue may be with moisture intrusion in the
wood jam. It's far more likely that the jam has
swollen some or expanded, not the door itself. So in
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one sense that's good news because if the door was
somehow just failing you, now you're looking at a new door,
and nobody wants to be with that but the jam.
And I know, and I don't know how how old
is the door?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
About for two years?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Okay, so not an old old door, but not brand new.
And I wasn't there to see the tolerances of how
the door was originally hung, in other words, the tolerances
between the door and the jam, the gap in between
a lot of finished carpenters, well, I should say some
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finished carpenters get a little nervous about leaving too much
of a gap, as especially in a cold weather climate,
and so they leave those tolerances fairly tight. That's never
actually a really good idea. The best thing to do
is to stay with industry standard tolerances so that a
door can expand and contract without sealing itself in the opening.
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In your case, I'm wondering, though, if there's been some
moisture intrusion, if it's actually not effecting, and I don't
mean that the wall is leaking, I mean that somehow
some of this extra moisture has gotten into the wood
jam and it, now, with a very tight tolerance set,
is now pressing against the door. I would probably put
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good money that it's something like that. And the good
news is that the right finished carpenter or a door
service person should be able to surgically reset the door
for you deal with the jam. And basically, like if
I was coming over to your place to deal with it,
I would take the door off of its hinge, set
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it aside, and address the latch leg of the jam
and the head piece of the jam, and I'd probably
pull them out and re shim them with larger clearances,
or just replace those two pieces of the jam, might
replace the whole thing, but the key would be to
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set to reset larger tolerances so that that door is
swinging clear, and then we let the weather stripping, a
good set of weather stripping make up for the gap.
As far as keeping the cold and the wet outside
and the warm and the dry inside, that's the one
downside with a steel door. You gotta make sure those
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tolerances are set with room for expansion seasonally. Because if
it was a wood door, we could just take the
door off, plane the edge down and take you know,
you know, an eighth of an inch off the door,
reset it, and you know you're back in business. But
obviously we can't do that with a steel door. I'm
assuming the door is not failing, that's the thing, but
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I would get some professional eyes on, get a finished
carpenter who specializes in door setting to take a look
at it and make sure. But my guess is that
the expansion or the swelling is actually happening on the
jam side of things, and that the tolerances were probably
not set wide enough on when the door was originally installed,
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and you just haven't experienced this kind of water intrusion
up until now.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Okay, well, you did mention that your daughter lives in Ohio,
and what you could do is you could come down
to my house take care of that door for me,
and then you swing up and see her in tiledo.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, that's a good idea. How about I do that? Well, actually,
the problem is she it's my dog, her in law,
and she lives out here. She lives like ninety seconds
away from my house. But she was born and raised
in Fremont in Toledo County up there, so and we
get there a lot we do. Uh so you know,
maybe if you have oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So so
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I'm afraid to break it to you. I won't be
coming out to you see your door anytime.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
So okay, well, thank you for I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
All right, thanks, thanks for your question, Bob, and thanks
for listening to us from Ohio. That's awesome. All right, y'all,
we still have more to go. You hang tight. It's
an all calls Saturday morning here on the program. You're home,
Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Okay, bye, Dean Sharp, the
(22:55):
house whisper. Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the
program this morning. Here we are at the end of
another two hours together. We're not done yet, though. It's
an all calls morning, and we're going to be right
back at it tomorrow for the big show from nine
to noon. Nothing but your calls. We do all calls weekends.
(23:15):
I love them. I love them. We do them every
few weeks because I never get a chance to take
enough calls. We've got so many great things to talk
to you about all the time, and so I love
just sitting back and letting you set the agenda for
the show. So let's finish her off with another call
this morning. Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, welcome home, Hidine.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yes, I had a question for you.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Hello, sir, Yeah, I'm here. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, I've got this crack that's going across in my
slab at that part concrete slab on my house foundation
in it in the hallway, it goes a little bit
into the bedroom, so it's just like a crack, and
I've been wanting to lay some flooring there. I had
a flying person in there checking it out, and they
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said they couldn't do it because he had the one
the kind of flooring that sticks to this lab. So
I just wonder, is that something I need to get
sixed before I can lay some flooring? Like being in
the floating laminate flooring.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, so you're going to be using floating flooring laminate
or a luxury vinyl plank, something that floats, something that
doesn't stick down.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I'd like to use something you know, across there or
even get it repaired.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, A couple of questions now
about the crack. Uh you say it runs down the
hallway and then into a bedroom. How wide is the crack?
Is it what we call spider crack, just a nice long,
ugly crack?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Or uh?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Has it spread open? And is their uplift meaning is
one side now taller than the other? Or has it
just opened up? You know, that's what we need to
know about this crack, because not all cracks are created equal,
and not all cracks are actually a concern on it
from a structural perspective, and the way that we approach
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filling them up or ignoring them has everything to do
with the nature of the concrete crack itself. So describe
it to me a little bit more detailed.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I think carbon covered with some cheap carpets for the
last couple of years. When I last looked at it,
I would have to say it was just a bit uneven,
you know, not open to anything. Just their crack across
the floor and it's just a tiny bit uneven on
each side, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay, So so it hasn't actually opened up. It's just
a it's it's just a crack that's running. And uh,
you know, the cracks can typically be a little uneven
with each other. I mean, you know, once once a
crack occurs. But when I'm talking about uplift, is one
side like an eighth of an inch or a quarter
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inch or worse higher than the other or uh is
it just you know, uneven concrete? Uh, you know on
each side of the crack.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I haven't measured it. I'd say not even an eighth
sent of a nance recorder of an inch right in
that area.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, it sounds to me like this is not an
issue of of of any significant concern. Uh. People are
always shocked when they find cracks in their concrete slab
and and people quite often get really concerned that, oh, no, okay,
my foundation is failing.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But here's the thing that we say in the industry,
there are there are only two kinds of concrete in
the world. Concrete with cracks and concrete that hasn't cracked yet.
It's just the nature of concrete for it to experience
that kind of stuff. Probably everybody listening to us right
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now who has a concrete slab in their house has
got a crack somewhere, if not more than one place.
That doesn't mean the house is failing. So what we
look for when we get word of a crack that
has to be repaired, we want to hear if the
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crack has opened up. I mean like if there's a
gap now from one side to the other, that's something
that has to be looked at. Or if one side
of the concrete has raised up above the other side
of the concrete what we call uplift, uh, then that's
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something to be concerned about. That that at least has
to be looked at. Even those, by the way, does
not mean that it's a failure and that can't be fixed.
When there's when there is a spreading of a crack
an opening of a gap, but there's no uplift and
the and the spreading of the crack is minimal, but
there is a gap there, then we can come in
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with with high pressure concrete epoxy and simply fill that
crack over and you end up making that crack actually
stronger than the concrete around it once it gets filled.
If this though, is not opened up, if there's no
gap and there's barely any disturbance or uplift at all,
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then it's what we would call a spider crack. And
if you're concerned at all about like an uneven level there,
then a little bit of flooring level can be applied
to the concrete just to hit the edge that's a
little disrupted, and then feathered out over a foot or
so to nothing, so that any flooring that you want,
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be a tile or hardwood or something that glues down,
will have a smooth surface to work on. But if
you're planning on putting in a floating floor, carpet was
a floating floor. It lays there, floats over the surface
of the of the concrete and only connects on the edges.
A luxury vinyl plank floor is a floating floor basically
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lays there like a carpet, So is a laminate floor.
If that's the plan, and this is a minimal, minimal,
minimal disturbance edge, then the fact of the matter is
you probably don't have to do anything at all or
worry about it in any way, shape or form, because
the floor is just going to float over it, cover
it over and it shouldn't be an issue. So don't
be alarmed just because there's a crack. Only be alarmed
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if we have a crack in which the concrete is
gaping open or one side is uplifting from the other,
because that becomes an indication that there may be some
deeper concerns that have to be looked at by a professional,
but not just typical spider cracking, especially on an older slab,
because it's gonna happen, my friend, it's going to happen,
(30:26):
all right.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Thank you so much. I appreciate all that information.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You are so welcome. Jeff, thank you for the call,
and thank you for hanging out on haul. I think
Jeff was with us like from near the beginning of
the show. Ah. We never get to every caller. That's
why we do these all call weekends. So I will
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go back to the phone. So oh, let me give
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to producer Matt. He'll get you set up and he'll
pop you into the queue and then we will figure
out what's going on with your home. All right, let's
talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome home. Hey, good morning,
(02:28):
good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
How many Well, I've gone a home in the Seattle
area that we just bought, and it's built in the
mid eighties and over time it's it's acquired a lot
of cables running around the house, you know, satellite dishes,
phone lines and that kind of thing, and it's a
little insightly, but it goes all the way around, and
(02:49):
I'd like to remove them, but I kind of don't
know what I'm doing as far as removing them and
how to test them, and I want to know how
you can help me out.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, good question, good question. So what's your current what
are your current needs? So you're saying phone lines and cable,
I mean that's the that's the kind of stuff that
finds itself attaching to the outside of most homes over
the decades. But the big question is how are you
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handling that? Like, I mean a perfect example with Tina
and I, we haven't had a hard line since I
don't know when, right, it's been.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Like twenty five years we've actually either.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, all right, So if there's phone lines attached to
the house, then then you don't need those. You just
you don't need them. They are not voltage lines. I
am going to show you how you make sure you're
not getting into the wrong thing, but you just don't
need them, and so you can just pull them off.
(03:55):
And then the the other question is cable. What's going
on with cable? Where's your table running, where's your active
cable system? Running and so on.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Right, So there's a satellite dish that's attached to the
house and we don't use that. So there's tables that
run in from from that, and then each room seems
to have a port that comes in from the outside.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Also what we.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Have internet and that comes in on an Internet line.
But as far as I know, if there's only one
that comes in, but I don't know exactly where it is,
and and I kind there's like I said, there's tables
all around, and I want to know how I can
if I can test them to see if there's you know,
if they're active.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Right, right, Okay, So the easiest way to do this, honestly,
the easiest way to do this is to call your
cable provider and and ask them to you know, I
identify and and maybe they have a service person just
drop by and identify where uh the the internet is
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coming into the house. Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
If it's just one location, as is the case with
most people these days, then you've got one line running
to a router somewhere inside the house, and then that
router is handling the rest of it, the Wi Fi
for the rest of the house, and you know, importing
whatever is going on. As far as television and screen
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is concerned, Unfortunately, there's you know, without cutting, crimping and feeding,
there's it's not easy to test because these are very
minute RF signals running through these cables. If there's ever
a concern that there's voltage, that one of those things
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on the outside of the house has voltage, you can
solve that by just running down to the hardware store
or big box or home depot and get a non
contact voltage tester or current detector that's like twenty bucks
and it looks like a big fat yellow pen and
literally you just put the tip of it on a
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cable and if it lights up and it tells you, yeah,
there's high voltage electric current running through this, or you
get nothing. And obviously if there's voltage running through it,
you don't cut that. But as far as everything else
is concerned, the way we normally do it is just
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literally figuring out, all right, we're going to trace the
line that is leading from the internet box on the
outside of the house. We're going to trace that line
to the router and honestly, just the rest of it
can go. All of those feeds into the bedrooms. It's
just old school stuff. It's vestigial organs from an era
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gone by, and and you should be free and clear
to cap those. You know, you put blanks on those.
You can just leave it in the wall, blank those
inside the room so that you don't have to have
the little cable things sticking out of the hookup and
on the outside. Uh again, you just all you're after
is where is the one feed into the router for
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my system? And everything else can just be pulled off?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And can I just cut it or can it be
pulled out?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well yeah, I mean you're you're, you're. I would just
cut them. I would just cut them and shove them
into the wall and patch the little hole in the wall,
because no, you're not gonna have a you're you're very
unlikely to be successful pulling it all out. And you know, so,
so there's you know, a useless wire in the wall
or useless coaxle cable in the wall, No big deal,
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it's not hurting anything and uh and it's not going
to get anybody's way, So just clear out and clean
off the excess stuff on the outside of your house,
just to get it all cleaned up and to patch
it up.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, very good. Okay, well thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
All right, Rick, good luck, Happy holidays to you. Great
question when we return more of your calls your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Heyfi, Dean Sharp, the
house whisper at your service. It is an all calls
weekend we are doing here on the program today and tomorrow,
nothing but your calls. You get to set the agenda.
(08:34):
And yes, got some feedback from a couple of electrical
engineer electronic engineer types from my comments to our last
caller about finding tracing coaxle cable lines around the house
and old phone lines and so on, saying there are
ways to test it. Yeah, I know there are ways
to test. I'm with you. I'm with you, guys. I
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just didn't recommend that that he invests in the thirty
forty fifty dollars worth of gear in order to test that,
because it's not as simple as the high voltage testing,
which you just come up with a simple pen tester,
touch it to the line and you know whether there's
(09:19):
voltage running through it. As you know, those of you
who are commenting on that, this requires a signal sender
and a receiver and you're going to be cutting those
lines and or sending a signal from a coaxle outlet
out anyway. It's it's just a messy process. It's so
(09:41):
much easier just to find out from your internet provider,
Please tell me the wire that's going into the house
that is yours, and then after that all the others
are meaningless at that point, And that's the easiest way
to go about it, because otherwise you're going to be cutting, splicing,
putting ends on on, putting cable ends on, just for
(10:02):
the sake of testing a line that you are ninety
nine percent sure is dead anyway, So there you go. Anyway,
just saying just saying, all right, let's get at least
get another question started here. We ran a little late
last segment. I want to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
welcome home. Hello, Hey Bob, you're with me?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm here? Are you here?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I am here? I am here. How can I help you, sir?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Hi, I'm calling from Ohio to confusion and I have
a question. I have a home about fifteen years old.
We never had this problem until just this year. But
the front door, which is a metal, big heavy metal door,
and in a screen door or storm door also there.
They will not close unless I put my entire weight
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behind it to put in Okay, And I don't know.
I was hoping it was an insulation problem, but I
don't know whether it's getting too much moisture or not.
Love moisture.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it's a metal it's a it's a metal security door, yes, okay.
So it's the door itself or is it security door
on the outside. I just got to clarify.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's the front door of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh, it's the front door of the house. And it's
a metal door. Yes, okay, front door of the house.
It's a metal door. And it's just started.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Happening just in the last thirty days or so.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The last thirty days or so, any big changes weather
wise for you? I mean things have been Where are
you at in Ohio?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
By the way, I'm just north of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Okay, north of Cincinnati. I just I say that my
daughter in law is from Fremont, out of Toledo, and
so that's why you know, I'm always interested in Ohio.
So things have been pretty consistently cold for you guys,
uh for a while now, right, I mean, so it's
not like there's been a huge temperature change, has there.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, it's been consistently, you know, within ten or between agree,
don't wear or another. Okay, yeah. The only thing I
have noticed that there's a lot of We've had a
lot of rain.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean a metal door, a metal door and rain.
I mean even if it would even if it had
breached and water had gotten inside, I'm not seeing that
changing the door. It is more likely the culprit is
the jam uh, any settlement on the house or anything
like that happening.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All right, all right, Bob, here's the thing. I'm up against.
A break. So I'm gonna pop you on hold and
uh and we're gonna get through the break. And when
we come back, you and I are we're gonna address
this a little more intensely. Can you hang on for me?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes? Sure? Perfect?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All right, my friend, you hang tight and we'll figure
it out. We'll figure out what's going on with Bob's
front door.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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the iHeartRadio app. Good Saturday Morning to you, the Saturday
before Christmas. Christmas coming this Wednesday. Hope you're already. It's
going to be a cooler weekend here in Southern California, thankfully,
(13:38):
a little bit more Christmas y then it's been the
last few days. That's good. I'm told that tonight is,
by the way, the most popular Christmas light viewing night
of the year, and that makes sense. We're actually going
out doing that, getting together with some friends, having dinner
(13:58):
and then heading out to one of our local kind
of candy cane lane neighborhoods and doing the deed, doing
the deed with with our granddaughter Olivia, just you know,
letting it all sparkle in front of her. It's worth it,
every second of it. I hope you've got some great
holiday plans this weekend and rolling into Christmas Day. We
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are here doing an all calls weekend for you. I'm live.
This is not pre recorded. Yeah, I know every host
in the world takes the week off here. I am here,
I am it worked into my schedule. Just fine, no problem.
We're not going anywhere and we are here with you.
So if you don't believe me, I can we can
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Proof of life. It's really me anyway. The number to
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three the numeral two. Ask Dean. You're setting the agenda
today with your calls today and tomorrow. Now, before the break,
we were talking to Bob. Bob is in Ohio and
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he's having a strange issue with his front door. Bob,
you're still with me, yes, sure, okay. So Bob has
a steel front door, a metal door, and it is
now virtually impossible to open and or close except with
(15:27):
you know, putting all his weight against it. So what
is going on with that thing? It's a little bit
of a head scratcher, clearly, because you know, okay, so
steel doors can expand they do expand, technically, they expand.
Steel doors, of all doors, are the most stable of doors.
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And the expansion of a steel door is is typically
so minimal that it's easily you know, it expands and
contracts within the clearances around the door, the gap between
the door and the jam. So you know, not a
problem have I heard in the past of moisture intrusion
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inside a steel door, because the steel door is usually
filled with fiberglass insulation, and that affecting the fibers on
the inside and causing expand. I mean, I personally have
not seen one of these actually happen. I hear it
can happen. But again, the expansion, even in a failed seal,
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should really be minimal. And the expansion that we expect,
by the way, would be during a hot, humid summer
where we've got moisture and heat working on the surfaces
of that door, not in the dead of winter where
when you know we've got thirty degree and twenty degree
temperatures outside. That is not when you expect a steel
(16:58):
door to expand. So I was thinking about it during
the break, Bob, and I'm thinking, okay, tell me more
about what you see. How where is the door rubbing?
Is it the just the top? Is it catching now
at the top of the jam? Is it Is it
hitting and rubbing down the entire side of the of
(17:19):
the latch side, the vertical portion of the jam. Where
is it making contact now?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I would say mostly around the what the doorknob is
on that side of the door, and also across the top.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, all right, And second question, it's a steel door.
Is the jam steel as well? Or is it a
wood jam?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I believe it's a wood jam.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's a wood jam. Okay, Well, I'm not one hundred
percent sure of exactly what the issue is.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You said you've had you know, in you know, some
extra moisture of late. I think, my friend, I think
that the issue may be with moisture intrusion in the
wood jam. It's far more likely that the jam has
swollen some or expanded, not the door itself. So in
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one sense that's good news because if the door was
somehow just failing you, now you're looking at a new door,
and nobody wants to be with that but the jam.
And I know, and I don't know how how old
is the door?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
About for two years?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Okay, so not an old old door, but not brand new.
And I wasn't there to see the tolerances of how
the door was originally hung, in other words, the tolerances
between the door and the jam, the gap in between
a lot of finished carpenters, well, I should say some
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finished carpenters get a little nervous about leaving too much
of a gap, as especially in a cold weather climate,
and so they leave those tolerances fairly tight. That's never
actually a really good idea. The best thing to do
is to stay with industry standard tolerances so that a
door can expand and contract without sealing itself in the opening.
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In your case, I'm wondering, though, if there's been some
moisture intrusion, if it's actually not effecting, and I don't
mean that the wall is leaking, I mean that somehow
some of this extra moisture has gotten into the wood
jam and it, now, with a very tight tolerance set,
is now pressing against the door. I would probably put
(19:41):
good money that it's something like that. And the good
news is that the right finished carpenter or a door
service person should be able to surgically reset the door
for you deal with the jam. And basically, like if
I was coming over to your place to deal with it,
I would take the door off of its hinge, set
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it aside, and address the latch leg of the jam
and the head piece of the jam, and I'd probably
pull them out and re shim them with larger clearances,
or just replace those two pieces of the jam, might
replace the whole thing, but the key would be to
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set to reset larger tolerances so that that door is
swinging clear, and then we let the weather stripping, a
good set of weather stripping make up for the gap.
As far as keeping the cold and the wet outside
and the warm and the dry inside, that's the one
downside with a steel door. You gotta make sure those
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tolerances are set with room for expansion seasonally. Because if
it was a wood door, we could just take the
door off, plane the edge down and take you know,
you know, an eighth of an inch off the door,
reset it, and you know you're back in business. But
obviously we can't do that with a steel door. I'm
assuming the door is not failing, that's the thing, but
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I would get some professional eyes on, get a finished
carpenter who specializes in door setting to take a look
at it and make sure. But my guess is that
the expansion or the swelling is actually happening on the
jam side of things, and that the tolerances were probably
not set wide enough on when the door was originally installed,
(21:38):
and you just haven't experienced this kind of water intrusion
up until now.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Okay, well, you did mention that your daughter lives in Ohio,
and what you could do is you could come down
to my house take care of that door for me,
and then you swing up and see her in tiledo.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, that's a good idea. How about I do that? Well, actually,
the problem is she it's my dog, her in law,
and she lives out here. She lives like ninety seconds
away from my house. But she was born and raised
in Fremont in Toledo County up there, so and we
get there a lot we do. Uh so you know,
maybe if you have oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So so
(22:22):
I'm afraid to break it to you. I won't be
coming out to you see your door anytime.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
So okay, well, thank you for I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
All right, thanks, thanks for your question, Bob, and thanks
for listening to us from Ohio. That's awesome. All right, y'all,
we still have more to go. You hang tight. It's
an all calls Saturday morning here on the program. You're home,
Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Okay, bye, Dean Sharp, the
(22:55):
house whisper. Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the
program this morning. Here we are at the end of
another two hours together. We're not done yet, though. It's
an all calls morning, and we're going to be right
back at it tomorrow for the big show from nine
to noon. Nothing but your calls. We do all calls weekends.
(23:15):
I love them. I love them. We do them every
few weeks because I never get a chance to take
enough calls. We've got so many great things to talk
to you about all the time, and so I love
just sitting back and letting you set the agenda for
the show. So let's finish her off with another call
this morning. Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, welcome home, Hidine.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yes, I had a question for you.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Hello, sir, Yeah, I'm here. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, I've got this crack that's going across in my
slab at that part concrete slab on my house foundation
in it in the hallway, it goes a little bit
into the bedroom, so it's just like a crack, and
I've been wanting to lay some flooring there. I had
a flying person in there checking it out, and they
(24:09):
said they couldn't do it because he had the one
the kind of flooring that sticks to this lab. So
I just wonder, is that something I need to get
sixed before I can lay some flooring? Like being in
the floating laminate flooring.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, so you're going to be using floating flooring laminate
or a luxury vinyl plank, something that floats, something that
doesn't stick down.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I'd like to use something you know, across there or
even get it repaired.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, A couple of questions now
about the crack. Uh you say it runs down the
hallway and then into a bedroom. How wide is the crack?
Is it what we call spider crack, just a nice long,
ugly crack?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Or uh?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Has it spread open? And is their uplift meaning is
one side now taller than the other? Or has it
just opened up? You know, that's what we need to
know about this crack, because not all cracks are created equal,
and not all cracks are actually a concern on it
from a structural perspective, and the way that we approach
(25:25):
filling them up or ignoring them has everything to do
with the nature of the concrete crack itself. So describe
it to me a little bit more detailed.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I think carbon covered with some cheap carpets for the
last couple of years. When I last looked at it,
I would have to say it was just a bit uneven,
you know, not open to anything. Just their crack across
the floor and it's just a tiny bit uneven on
each side, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay, So so it hasn't actually opened up. It's just
a it's it's just a crack that's running. And uh,
you know, the cracks can typically be a little uneven
with each other. I mean, you know, once once a
crack occurs. But when I'm talking about uplift, is one
side like an eighth of an inch or a quarter
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inch or worse higher than the other or uh is
it just you know, uneven concrete? Uh, you know on
each side of the crack.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I haven't measured it. I'd say not even an eighth
sent of a nance recorder of an inch right in
that area.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, it sounds to me like this is not an
issue of of of any significant concern. Uh. People are
always shocked when they find cracks in their concrete slab
and and people quite often get really concerned that, oh, no, okay,
my foundation is failing.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But here's the thing that we say in the industry,
there are there are only two kinds of concrete in
the world. Concrete with cracks and concrete that hasn't cracked yet.
It's just the nature of concrete for it to experience
that kind of stuff. Probably everybody listening to us right
(27:25):
now who has a concrete slab in their house has
got a crack somewhere, if not more than one place.
That doesn't mean the house is failing. So what we
look for when we get word of a crack that
has to be repaired, we want to hear if the
(27:45):
crack has opened up. I mean like if there's a
gap now from one side to the other, that's something
that has to be looked at. Or if one side
of the concrete has raised up above the other side
of the concrete what we call uplift, uh, then that's
(28:06):
something to be concerned about. That that at least has
to be looked at. Even those, by the way, does
not mean that it's a failure and that can't be fixed.
When there's when there is a spreading of a crack
an opening of a gap, but there's no uplift and
the and the spreading of the crack is minimal, but
there is a gap there, then we can come in
(28:28):
with with high pressure concrete epoxy and simply fill that
crack over and you end up making that crack actually
stronger than the concrete around it once it gets filled.
If this though, is not opened up, if there's no
gap and there's barely any disturbance or uplift at all,
(28:50):
then it's what we would call a spider crack. And
if you're concerned at all about like an uneven level there,
then a little bit of flooring level can be applied
to the concrete just to hit the edge that's a
little disrupted, and then feathered out over a foot or
so to nothing, so that any flooring that you want,
(29:14):
be a tile or hardwood or something that glues down,
will have a smooth surface to work on. But if
you're planning on putting in a floating floor, carpet was
a floating floor. It lays there, floats over the surface
of the of the concrete and only connects on the edges.
A luxury vinyl plank floor is a floating floor basically
(29:38):
lays there like a carpet, So is a laminate floor.
If that's the plan, and this is a minimal, minimal,
minimal disturbance edge, then the fact of the matter is
you probably don't have to do anything at all or
worry about it in any way, shape or form, because
the floor is just going to float over it, cover
it over and it shouldn't be an issue. So don't
be alarmed just because there's a crack. Only be alarmed
(30:02):
if we have a crack in which the concrete is
gaping open or one side is uplifting from the other,
because that becomes an indication that there may be some
deeper concerns that have to be looked at by a professional,
but not just typical spider cracking, especially on an older slab,
because it's gonna happen, my friend, it's going to happen,
(30:26):
all right.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Thank you so much. I appreciate all that information.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You are so welcome. Jeff, thank you for the call,
and thank you for hanging out on haul. I think
Jeff was with us like from near the beginning of
the show. Ah. We never get to every caller. That's
why we do these all call weekends. So I will
tell you this tomorrow morning, nine am, I'll be here
(30:51):
and if you're here, then we can get right back
at this and we will have three hours for you
to set the agenda for the show. It's an all
calls weekend and we will see you then. Until then,
let me just tell you thanks again for spending the
time with me. It is a privilege. As always. Follow
us on social media Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, x at Home
(31:15):
with Dean the same handle for them all. The House
Whisper podcast is everywhere your favorite podcasts are found, and
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Whisper attention, then you can book an in home design
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You just go to house Whisperer dot design for more information.
(31:37):
We're right back here tomorrow from nine to noon. Until then,
get out there in this beautiful holiday weekend and get
busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see tomorrow. This
has been Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune
into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every
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