March 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Dean talks about faith-low LED lighting and the way they are built. Dean talks about American Standard and its quality, and the removal of asbestos . Lastly,
Dean talks about adding slab floor to a patio to become leveled + Dean’s closing thoughts and logical fallacies.
Dean talks about adding slab floor to a patio to become leveled + Dean’s closing thoughts and logical fallacies.
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I want to get back to the phones. Let's talk
to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome home, Hello Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Why don't the kinder change some silly lamps? They're ali
d and at night you could see light coming through
to the switch off. Why what did I do that?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay? So are these recess can lights up in the
ceiling or they're just lamps that you put LED bulbs in.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
They're like the eighteen in diameter silly lamps. I guess
there's stock where the alied bulbs, and especially at night,
the switches off and it's still some dim coming through
these light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, So now here's an important question to two important questions.
Uh do they do they eventually stop glowing or just
they stay on all night long?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They stay on night They stay on all night long?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, and today but you can't see it, okay? Yeah? Yeah.
And the second question is the switch that controls uh
these is it a dimmer? Is it a specialty switch?
Is just a regular on off switch? What do you
got going on there?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's a regular one and that was changed they put
a new one on and still does that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay. So they already changed out the switch and it's
just an on off regular switch. And you you know
for certain that that on off switch is compatible with
LED bulbs?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
That I don't know, but uh electric uh electrician, professional electrician.
He put it in for us, So.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I sure what the difference was all right. Uh So,
the reason I asked that question is that it's it's
actually not at all an uncommon thing. It's called phantom
voltage or ghosting. It's not an uncommon thing for indoor
LED lights to emit a faint glow even when they
are turned off. Now, most of the time people notice
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that and then they come back later and they realize, oh, no,
it's not glowing. And that's simply because of the way
an LED light is built. LEDs, by the way, are
super super sensitive to voltage, which is one of the
reasons why they take such lower amounts of voltage to
operate in, which why there's such energy saving bulbs. But
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they're super sensitive to voltage. So when an LED is
turned off, the inside its system there's a capacitor and
there's an inductor, and then as soon as the voltage
is turned off to the LED, the capacitor starts discharging
its energy and that alone keeps the LED sort of
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glowing for a while until it comes to zero, and
the inductor as well. So that's why I asked if
they eventually go off. Now, if that's the case, that's
just sort of normal old LED situations. And it's nothing
to worry about. If they literally are on just all night,
then you have one of two things. You've either got
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a switch controlling them. Most commonly, it's a dimmer switch
that has been purchased that just isn't for whatever reason,
compatible enough, and even when it's down on low or
on off, it's leaking a faint amount of voltage and
keeping those LEDs glowing at some low level. The easiest
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way to find that out is just to change out
the dimmer or change out the switch. Now you said
that electrician already did that. I just want to know.
I want to make sure that they know, and I'm
assuming if it's a license electrician, that they do know
that there are switches that are compatible with LED bulbs
and switches that are not the easiest way to isolate
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whether it's the switch is simply this. It's not to
just switch out one switch to the next. It's to
remove the switch and then see while the wires are
completely disconnected okay, connected to no switch, which means off,
to see if those lights are still glowing when there's
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no new switch put in place, just an empty box
with you know, safely wire nutted, capped wires. If if
when there's no switch there at all and the switch
is completely disconnected, if those lights are off like off,
then it is a switch compatibility issue, okay, And that's
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that's good news, and that you're just going to have
to find the right switch to control those lights that
will actually you know, douse all the cut off all
the energy and not leak any of them through.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But if the switches, would I buy one, what would
I have to ask for?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Uh? You know that they're not hard to find. You
just need to when you're in the electrical aisle at
the hardware store at the big box store. You just
need to look for the simplest led compatible switch. And
if they say it right on the okay, yeah, that's easy.
And so so if they're off when the switch is disconnected,
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then it's the switch, okay. Uh. If they if the
switch is disconnected and they are still glowing, then what
you have is a situation where and it's not necessarily
a something to worry about, but what you have is
you've got voltage leakage from somewhere else. It could be
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a ground wire that isn't ground properly, completely grounded properly,
the neutral wire, the white wire. If it's not completely
grounded properly, it might be carrying faint, faint amounts of
phantom voltage and just enough. It wouldn't light anything else
in the world up, but it's just enough to activate
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a glow, a faint glow on an LED. And if
that's the case, then an electrician needs to take a
more serious look at the system. If it's bugging you. Again,
I don't see it as a threat to your home,
but it's certainly weird, and so they would take a
more serious look at the system. They would voltage test
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circuits and find out if we can locate where phantom
voltage is getting in other than the direct line. And
that happens every once in a while. But I got
to tell you, Albert, most of the time, most of
the time, it's the switch almost all the time, or
there's something wrong with the lamp itself, but most of
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the time it's the switch. Thanks for the question, really
good question. I hope that helps a very very simple
test to find out if it's the switch, and then
you move on from there.
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Speaker 1 (09:14):
Dean sharp the house whisper at your service. Thanks for
joining us on the program today. Always a pleasure to
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in your ear talking about this thing that means so
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your home to the next level. We're doing that today.
Just be by taking calls. It's an all calls Sunday morning.
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It's been an all call weekend. All calls yesterday's if
you're a podcast listener, previous episode as well, Nothing but
calls yesterday, Nothing but calls today. Let's go back to
the phones and have some fun. I want to talk
to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Hey Dean, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's going great. How are you my friend? How can
I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I'm doing all right. I just have a quick question
because my uh my dad used to be a contractor
and he's given me some advice. But I'm wondering because
you know, coach change and stuff over time. I added
a mini split to my garage so that I can
make that into a game room for my kids. But
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I want to get one of them big barn sheds
in my backyard and I want to run electrical to
it and another mini split out there. I was wondering,
do I have to pull permits and stuff to do
all that?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yep, yep, you do. Uh and I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Tell me that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Here's the good news, though, Jim, is that it's not
like you know, if you're running depending on the size
of the shed. First of all, right, there are shed
you know. Shed shed is an interesting term. Most cities,
most municipality have a clear definition of what a shed
versus a garage versus something else is, right, So the
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shed alone depending on the size. So you just got
to call the city and find out, hey, what's the
cutoff square footage for a shed for you guys? Right,
and they'll tell you sheds don't need permits to be
put on property. I don't know a single city that
says you got to have a permit for a shed. Okay,
you can just drop it. Boom, there it is. I
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got a storage shed. I got a bunch of storage
sheds here on my property, right, I don't need a
permit for the shed because because they fall under the
square footage of what the city considers a shed. If
you go over that, then you've got a whole nother
thing on your hands. But the point is this, as
far as the running electrical, I can run electricity any
shed here in my property to have a light and
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have a you know, whatever whatever is going on there.
And most of the time when you're just running electrical
to a shed, you just got to do it by code.
And the permit is going to very likely be an
over the counter permit, so it's not gonna be some
big hassle. It's not like you gotta submit drawings and
you gotta do this and that. I gotta storage shed,
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I want to run electrical to it. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna do it right. I'm going I got an
underground conduit, you know, eight PVC con do it eighteen
inches underground, or a metal con doit more than six
inches underground. I'm running over and here's the light, and
here's the switch, and here's the outlet. And they're going
to hand you a piece of paper and say count
the outlets and the switches and the light fixture for us,
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and give us this much money, and you walk home
with your permit, and then you're just gonna have to
call after you dig the trench. The inspector's going to
want to see the conduit laying in the bottom of
a properly dug trench, and he's gonna say, okay, go ahead,
fill up the trench, you pull your wires, put it
all in, and he's gonna come back and say, all right,
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it all looks fine. He's gonna sign it off and
walk away and you're done.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
All right. That sounds a lot easier than what I
thought I was going to have to do to run
my table cells and stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So yeah, yeah, so the But honestly, you know, I mean,
most building departments, contrary to popular opinion, are not there
to make your life miserable. And believe me, they they
they're not looking to h to make their job any harder.
And so when it comes to that kind of a
thing running water to a shed, run in electricity too,
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they just want to make sure it's done right now,
they're going to get their pound of flesh. But it's
not going to be it's not going to go through
plan check, you know, with drawings and all of that.
They just going to want you to count outlets, count switches,
count light fixtures, and they've got a fixed charge for
you it's going to be twenty five dollars per outlet,
and then there it is. You pay the money, you
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get the permit, the inspector inspects. It's those kinds of things.
It's like a roofing permit, right, nobody has to draw
a picture of your house to get a roofing permit.
The roofer pulls a permit. Hey, we're doing a reroof
are like, okay, it'll be this much money and we'll
see you after the tear offf is done. So it's
that kind of thing. Yeah, it's it's more hassle than
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you just doing it all by yourself, but it's a
lot less than a whole house permit and drawings and
all that jazz. So that's a little bit of good
news at least for you.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Great great news for me because I thought I was
going to have to put through grinds and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
All right, buddy, thanks for the question. Good luck on that.
While you're talking to the city. Make sure that your
shed it falls within the definition of shed because that's
the problem that that's the point that surprises some people
is they get like a garage size shed. I'm doing
air quotes, and they find out that the city does
not consider that a shed. They consider that a garage structure,
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and that does require drawings and all sorts of other thingies.
So just check with this city first so you don't
have to backtrack or run into any problems.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Loving our show today. I am, I hope you are.
It's an all calls Sunday morning, nothing but your calls,
and we've got more calls ahead of us. So I
want to get right back to it. I want to
talk to Louis. Hey, Louie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Hey Dean, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm good? How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Bud American Standard, A few questions. Is it a quality?
Is it worth the extended warranty? And is this a
good time now that I got to put a new
heater in, to put in maybe a whole house filter
and also a recirculation valve.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay, all right, let me miss backpedal here for a
half second, because I wasn't writing all that down. Okay,
American Standard. American Standard is a massive brand, and so
you're talking about an AC system.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, it's a water heat water heater.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, a water heater, Okay, yeah, yeah yeah. American Standard
generally speaking, is a solid brand. I mean they've been
around since the I want to say, the nineteen twenties,
maybe earlier, no, actually before the nineteen twenties, and it's
a good brand it has been. Here's the irony, of course, right,
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this is the world we live in. American Standard in
twenty thirteen was purchased by Lixil Corporation, which is a
Japanese company, a Japanese multinational company. So technically American Standard
is owned by a Japanese multinational now as of twenty thirteen.
But the point is they are still manufacturing very high
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quality stuff and you know, and it's always a unit
for unit basis. They make HVAC system, They obviously make
a lot of plumbing, UH fixtures and supplies and toilets
and so on, uh and also UH water heaters and
so uh. If it matches up with the specs that
you want for your house, I don't think it's a
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bad choice at all. And you know, there are a
lot of them out there to choose from, so you
just have to, you know, make the best choice. Possible,
But there's there's nothing wrong with an American Standard product
as far as I know. There may be some plumbers
listing who and and plumbing and hvac guys, all of us,
all of our, all of us builders in our own specialties.
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We all have our preferences and we're all like, no,
not that thing, you got to use this one instead.
But you know, uh, it's it's just an ongoing matter
of debate. Some products, some brands we all shy away
from all of us. But American Standard is not one
of those brands. It's debatable between some pros, but it's
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just not so. So yeah, I'm going to tell you
that you know, you probably won't be going wrong going
in that direction. So that's the brand. Now throw the
other questions at me real quick.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
The extended warranty from six to twelve years, Well, it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Depends on how much the extended warranty is costing. You
are two hundred bucks and this is just the standard
tanked water heater.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I don't know if it's a standard. One of the
people that advertise on you is going to be doing it,
so I don't know if it's standard. I can give
you the price. If that tells you the quality level
of it any one to twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, you said, you know, get the extended warranty, because
when I say standard, I just mean a tanked water heater,
not a tankless, it's a tanked water heater.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
No, it's a tank. Yes, it's a normal yess.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't. I don't think they're
you know, for for a couple of hundred bucks, get
the extended warranty. You know, keep that protection, uh, because
you know, at some point something always goes funky with
a tanked water heater, and it'd be nice to know
that you could get that far and you know, not
have to lay down someone. It's going to cost you
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more than two hundred dollars to fix whatever is going
to fix down the road, you know. And I know
that's the way it is with all protection plans, but
some are worth it, some or not. For a couple
of hundred bucks out of you know, just do it.
I would, I would just do it.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So is it a good time Now that I'm out
of this money, I might as well just stump a
little bit more into the whole house filter and the
recirculation valve. You think it's this is the time to
do it when you're getting a new heater.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, why not? Why not? The recirculation valve pump is
a is always a good idea for for a house.
Uh that, I mean it does if you're tight on
the money right now, you know you could do both
of those later. But you know, while you're messing with
all of it, you know if if, if it's within
your budget reach yet, just get it all done now
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and don't worry about it later.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Great, thanks for the information.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, buddy, thank you for the call. I've seen
your name on the board for most of the show,
and I just thank you so much for hanging in there,
and I wanted to do my best to reward you
for I'm looking across the board. Louis was there. I
think he's been here since the first segment of the show,
or pretty close to it, so he's just been hanging on.
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So I wanted to make sure I honored that. Where
are we at? Here? Where are we at?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
On?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Time? Do I have time to?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I do I've got time to at least start one.
I want to talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Ah, thank you, Thanks for taking my call. This has
to do with asbestos. Twenty years ago or so, our
house was tested and the only place they found it
was in the garage. And they told us at the
time that as long as we did in anything, to
just leave it because we don't work in the garage
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or anything. So now we're considering selling the house, and
we had the garage tested again because it's been so long,
and it showed that the ceiling had a three percent
crystal tile and that the wall joints had a two
percent crystal tile. And the people that did the testing
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can't do the abatement.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I guess by lost right.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
So does this need to have be removed? Can we
cover it? Cover it with paint? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What do I do next?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Okay? So you're you're getting ready to sell the house
and this is a dry walled garage, the finished garage wall. Yes, okay,
the simplest, least expensive way to legally and safely alleviate
the asbestos issue. And you're absolutely right, and everybody needs
to be informed that the asbestos is of no danger
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to anybody as long as it is not disturbed. It's
only when it gets disturbed and it goes airborne, Is
it breatheable? And then then you have you know, asbestos
related health concerns.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Okay, I need a definition of disturbing it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Disturbing it literally means rubbing, rubbing up against it and
uh and causing it to uh, you know, to powder
and flake and get into the air. That's disturbing it. No, yeah,
that's yeah. So the easiest way for you guys that
I would recommend, and it's not going to cost that
much money, and it's just just a minute fraction compared
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to what an abatement would cost you, is simply encapsulated. Now,
I don't want you to paint over it. Okay, we
would paint over lead bab paint. That's a that's a
There are paint coatings to protect people from lead based
paints in a house, But asbestos, I want a better protection.
Encapsulating simply means that you're gonna drywall over the drywall
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in the garage. Just a new layer of drywall that
and now the asbestos is back where nobody can touch it,
no one can reach it, It cannot get into the air,
it cannot be damaged, it cannot be bumped, you know,
and and it's completely safe, and this is absolutely code
approved and completely legal to do. You're not trying to
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pull a fast one on anyone. It is simply the
wisest and least expensive, most economical way to deal with asbestos.
Whether it's whether it's out in the dry wall tape
in the garage, or whether it's you know, throughout a
house in old acoustic ceiling spray. The easiest way to
make it, to render it harmless, is to encapsulate it
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and and walk away.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Now do I need a special contractor to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, ma'am. You just need to dry wall over that
dry wall and that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Okay, Okay, I think I think it's all the questions
that I had, And yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's it, all right, Barbara. Good luck with that. Good
luck on the sale of your home, and yeah, do that,
do that well, but don't worry about the rest and
you'll be in good shape, all right.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hey, thank you for joining us on the program today.
Here we are nearing the end of another three hours together,
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more call here and some closing thoughts today, So let's
talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Oh hello, hello, I thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I'm glad to be.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
There with you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh, thank you. So how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
I have a seventy year old ranch house that had
a little kind of square corner patio with the cement
floor on it, when at first a porch first was built,
somebody in between time enclosed the whole thing. It's stucco
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on the outside. Uh and uh, it's got It's just
basically like the guy had before, except it's a step down.
That's not quite so far. It's about four inches down.
And I want to level this out so my husband
and I can live safely in this house through our
dotage and uh, you know, have it all all the
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floor on one level. How can I raise that up?
I'm I've talked to some people and they've got there.
They're saying it's it's an awful job.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right. So the patio, the enclosed patio, what kind
of doors does it? Does it have out to the
outside itself?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It has.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Right now, a sliding glass door.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And a little doggy door, okay, and it has windows.
I assume I'm not really worried about the windows.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Windows windows, no windows, although there is a crossbeam across
there's a way bearing thing going across the top, and
like a something in between the rooms, but.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
That's that's not my concern.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I just want that floor, okay. So the biggest question here,
Kathy is can't is there is there room from the
ceiling down? Is their room in this patiomclosure to raise
those doors up? Six inches?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, I think so, Okay, I do think so if.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
We can raise the doors now, it's a little bit
of work, but it's not the end of the world.
If we can raise the door six inches, then you
can simply frame in a new floor in the inside
the patio room there that matches the floor level of
your existing home. And uh, and just bring it. You
can bring it up with with framing. You don't have
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to pour cement, you don't have to just deconstruct the
whole thing necessarily, and and you know, just frame in
a new floor and up to the exist to match
the existing level and raise the doors and you should
be set. You can do that inside the you know,
the inside the existing structure.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I don't know what that.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We had one guy come out and look at it,
and he was talking about pouring cement and it wouldn't work,
and and I'm going on, wait a minute, it's got
to be another way.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, no question that the best way, the best way,
the fanciest way, would be to you know, to pour
you know, extended slab out there. But that's also that's
also crazy making expensive, and you know, and if we're
just talking about getting by and enjoying the patio room.
So here's the thing in lieu of the slab, right, Uh,
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I want you to use wood framing to go out there.
You're gonna use pressure treated wood so that it can
make contact with moist surfaces and not worry about rot
or anything like that. And we're gonna see the outside
of it to make sure that moisture doesn't get in.
And then I want you to do a really really
good job of insulating that floor with h with like
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a rock wool insulation. Just pack it all in there.
Not for the sake of keeping the floor warm or
cool or anything like that, but so that when you
walk across your slab floor of the existing house and
then walk out onto this wood floor, you're gonna hear
a difference in your footsteps. You're gonna hear it go
from far from muted to uh. Or are you on
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a raise foundation?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
We're on a raised foundation.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh then don't even worry about it. It's all gonna
sound the same. Just extend that wood out, uh and
it's all going to be the same.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
There you go on the cement and it'll do Oh wonderful. Okay,
I'll have to break some to my husband. That's what
I want to do.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh great, Now, don't blame me, don't blame me.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Oh yes, I will that's okay, Kathy, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I'm glad that that helped you out there. All right, y'all,
here we are at the end of another three hour
broadcast with you. I hope you enjoyed the show today.
We've got so so much more time to spend together
as the week's roll on here. I'm here live with
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you every weekend Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time,
Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. And I'm sorry,
I'm just giving no, no, it's shaking the table. And
it's been a while, I know since I've left you
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with some closing thoughts. You know, life here at the
beginning of the year has been busy everything Tina, from
Tina recovering from surgery, to some other family things happening.
I just lost a beloved uncle in our life here recently.
That was a surprise and a shock to all of us.
There's just been a lot of things going on. But
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guess what. I sat up this morning and I had
the inkling to sit down and write out some thoughts,
and for better or worse, I'm going to share them
with you before we go today. So I'm going to
leave you with this thought today. In any first year
logic or rhetoric or debate class, if you were to
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take one, you would learn about logical fallacies, or to
put it simply, mistakes in thinking. Now I have found
myself thinking about one of those fallacies for a number
of reasons this week. It's a fancy Latin name. It's
known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means because
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one event happened after another event, the first event must
have caused it. Okay. It's also known as correlation, implies, causation,
and now okay, great, thankstein. In plain English, it's the
it's sometimes the misimpression that we get because one thing
comes after another, that the first thing caused the second thing.
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Sometimes that's true right now, Like in my car, I
press my foot on the brake pedal of my car
and the car slows down the one thing that causes
the other. That's true. But sometimes it's not true. Every
time I get into my car, I sit down, I
shut the door, I put on my seat belt, I
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just the mirrors, and then I turn the key to
start the engine. But even though all of those things
happen in order, every time the engine starts. Only one
of those things is actually the reason that the engine
starts right, just the key. But an outside observer who
doesn't know enough about cars might very well improperly conclude
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that the entire sequence is what starts the car. That's
the kind of thing we're talking about. There's another adage
that has been a part of my life for years.
In backpacking, we have an adage that ounces equals pounds
and pounds equal pain. It means that everything you decide
to put in your pack weighs something, and that weight
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adds up fast, and a heavy pack can ruin your
fun on a backpacking trip. So you want to make
wise decisions about what is essential and leave behind what
is not. All right, what is the point of all
of this? The point is on the journey of my life,
I want to better understand what I need to lug
around with me and what I don't, and to do that,
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I have been questioning for a long time now just
how many things we cling to because we mistakenly believe
that they are necessary for good things to happen. How
much weight, how much cultural convention, how much tradition, how
much emotional baggage, how much belief system, how much ritual,
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how many wounds, how much pride. I look around our
world and I see so many people groaning under the
weight of all of that they have chosen to carry,
and it's just too much. We break ourselves to carry it, though,
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because we think, I think mistakenly that we've come to
believe these things are necessary for good things to happen.
And I'm not here to tell you to lay down
all of your burdens. I'm just a fellow traveler with
his own sore back, who is always questioning all the
things I've chosen to bring with me along the way.
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What do I really need? What really starts the car?
And what is just the other stuff that I've made
assumptions about? And we live I don't need to tell
you in a politically divided world, a religiously divided world,
a culturally divided world, an economically divided world, such a
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divided world, a world always at war with itself. But
here's the thing, all this stuff, these beliefs, these traditions,
these identities that we think are so necessary. I know,
really really good, really healthy, truly beautiful people on every
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side of every issue, And I know, really bad, really unhealthy,
unsavory people on every side of every one of these things.
So at some point I have to wonder if it's
the cultures and the beliefs, the traditions and the taking
sides that really matters at all. Are these really the
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things that start the car? Are these really what we
should be lugging around, or is what makes a good
person good and happy and beautiful something else altogether. I've
come to the personal opinion that love, trust, honesty, kindness, integrity,
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things like that, a life filled with a thousand tiny
choices to be as healthy a human being as possible.
These are the things I see in every beautiful person
I meet, regardless of their other beliefs, or their political party,
or their cultural norms or their family traditions. And I've
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met so many unhealthy people who share some of my
own views, and so many truly healthy people who don't,
And it makes me look at some of the stuff
in my own pack and question whether these things are
really necessary to carry at all, or whether there are,
deep down in the bottom of my pack just a
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few essentials that are truly worth carrying, just a few
things that may actually be the only real things needed
to build a beautiful life. Now, it's not my place
to tell you what you should and shouldn't carry, but
I think it's at least worth asking the question. And
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so there I've done it. I've asked the question, and
I will leave it to you to toss that thought aside,
or to take it seriously and take a look at
the stuff in your own pack and find out if,
with whatever time you have left on this planet, it's
worth carrying that stuff around, or maybe it's time to
just lay some of it down, free yourself to live
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a beautiful life. I hope that's something worth listening to today,
and I hope you get out there and get busy
building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see you
right back here next weekend. This has been Home with
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I want to get back to the phones. Let's talk
to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome home, Hello Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Why don't the kinder change some silly lamps? They're ali
d and at night you could see light coming through
to the switch off. Why what did I do that?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay? So are these recess can lights up in the
ceiling or they're just lamps that you put LED bulbs in.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
They're like the eighteen in diameter silly lamps. I guess
there's stock where the alied bulbs, and especially at night,
the switches off and it's still some dim coming through
these light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, So now here's an important question to two important questions.
Uh do they do they eventually stop glowing or just
they stay on all night long?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They stay on night They stay on all night long?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, and today but you can't see it, okay? Yeah? Yeah.
And the second question is the switch that controls uh
these is it a dimmer? Is it a specialty switch?
Is just a regular on off switch? What do you
got going on there?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's a regular one and that was changed they put
a new one on and still does that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay. So they already changed out the switch and it's
just an on off regular switch. And you you know
for certain that that on off switch is compatible with
LED bulbs?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
That I don't know, but uh electric uh electrician, professional electrician.
He put it in for us, So.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I sure what the difference was all right. Uh So,
the reason I asked that question is that it's it's
actually not at all an uncommon thing. It's called phantom
voltage or ghosting. It's not an uncommon thing for indoor
LED lights to emit a faint glow even when they
are turned off. Now, most of the time people notice
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that and then they come back later and they realize, oh, no,
it's not glowing. And that's simply because of the way
an LED light is built. LEDs, by the way, are
super super sensitive to voltage, which is one of the
reasons why they take such lower amounts of voltage to
operate in, which why there's such energy saving bulbs. But
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they're super sensitive to voltage. So when an LED is
turned off, the inside its system there's a capacitor and
there's an inductor, and then as soon as the voltage
is turned off to the LED, the capacitor starts discharging
its energy and that alone keeps the LED sort of
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glowing for a while until it comes to zero, and
the inductor as well. So that's why I asked if
they eventually go off. Now, if that's the case, that's
just sort of normal old LED situations. And it's nothing
to worry about. If they literally are on just all night,
then you have one of two things. You've either got
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a switch controlling them. Most commonly, it's a dimmer switch
that has been purchased that just isn't for whatever reason,
compatible enough, and even when it's down on low or
on off, it's leaking a faint amount of voltage and
keeping those LEDs glowing at some low level. The easiest
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way to find that out is just to change out
the dimmer or change out the switch. Now you said
that electrician already did that. I just want to know.
I want to make sure that they know, and I'm
assuming if it's a license electrician, that they do know
that there are switches that are compatible with LED bulbs
and switches that are not the easiest way to isolate
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whether it's the switch is simply this. It's not to
just switch out one switch to the next. It's to
remove the switch and then see while the wires are
completely disconnected okay, connected to no switch, which means off,
to see if those lights are still glowing when there's
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no new switch put in place, just an empty box
with you know, safely wire nutted, capped wires. If if
when there's no switch there at all and the switch
is completely disconnected, if those lights are off like off,
then it is a switch compatibility issue, okay, And that's
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that's good news, and that you're just going to have
to find the right switch to control those lights that
will actually you know, douse all the cut off all
the energy and not leak any of them through.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But if the switches, would I buy one, what would
I have to ask for?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Uh? You know that they're not hard to find. You
just need to when you're in the electrical aisle at
the hardware store at the big box store. You just
need to look for the simplest led compatible switch. And
if they say it right on the okay, yeah, that's easy.
And so so if they're off when the switch is disconnected,
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then it's the switch, okay. Uh. If they if the
switch is disconnected and they are still glowing, then what
you have is a situation where and it's not necessarily
a something to worry about, but what you have is
you've got voltage leakage from somewhere else. It could be
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a ground wire that isn't ground properly, completely grounded properly,
the neutral wire, the white wire. If it's not completely
grounded properly, it might be carrying faint, faint amounts of
phantom voltage and just enough. It wouldn't light anything else
in the world up, but it's just enough to activate
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a glow, a faint glow on an LED. And if
that's the case, then an electrician needs to take a
more serious look at the system. If it's bugging you. Again,
I don't see it as a threat to your home,
but it's certainly weird, and so they would take a
more serious look at the system. They would voltage test
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circuits and find out if we can locate where phantom
voltage is getting in other than the direct line. And
that happens every once in a while. But I got
to tell you, Albert, most of the time, most of
the time, it's the switch almost all the time, or
there's something wrong with the lamp itself, but most of
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the time it's the switch. Thanks for the question, really
good question. I hope that helps a very very simple
test to find out if it's the switch, and then
you move on from there.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (09:14):
Dean sharp the house whisper at your service. Thanks for
joining us on the program today. Always a pleasure to
have you with us, Always a privilege to be here
in your ear talking about this thing that means so
much to all of us, Home and how to take
your home to the next level. We're doing that today.
Just be by taking calls. It's an all calls Sunday morning.
(09:37):
It's been an all call weekend. All calls yesterday's if
you're a podcast listener, previous episode as well, Nothing but
calls yesterday, Nothing but calls today. Let's go back to
the phones and have some fun. I want to talk
to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Hey Dean, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's going great. How are you my friend? How can
I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I'm doing all right. I just have a quick question
because my uh my dad used to be a contractor
and he's given me some advice. But I'm wondering because
you know, coach change and stuff over time. I added
a mini split to my garage so that I can
make that into a game room for my kids. But
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I want to get one of them big barn sheds
in my backyard and I want to run electrical to
it and another mini split out there. I was wondering,
do I have to pull permits and stuff to do
all that?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yep, yep, you do. Uh and I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Tell me that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Here's the good news, though, Jim, is that it's not
like you know, if you're running depending on the size
of the shed. First of all, right, there are shed
you know. Shed shed is an interesting term. Most cities,
most municipality have a clear definition of what a shed
versus a garage versus something else is, right, So the
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shed alone depending on the size. So you just got
to call the city and find out, hey, what's the
cutoff square footage for a shed for you guys? Right,
and they'll tell you sheds don't need permits to be
put on property. I don't know a single city that
says you got to have a permit for a shed. Okay,
you can just drop it. Boom, there it is. I
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got a storage shed. I got a bunch of storage
sheds here on my property, right, I don't need a
permit for the shed because because they fall under the
square footage of what the city considers a shed. If
you go over that, then you've got a whole nother
thing on your hands. But the point is this, as
far as the running electrical, I can run electricity any
shed here in my property to have a light and
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have a you know, whatever whatever is going on there.
And most of the time when you're just running electrical
to a shed, you just got to do it by code.
And the permit is going to very likely be an
over the counter permit, so it's not gonna be some
big hassle. It's not like you gotta submit drawings and
you gotta do this and that. I gotta storage shed,
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I want to run electrical to it. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna do it right. I'm going I got an
underground conduit, you know, eight PVC con do it eighteen
inches underground, or a metal con doit more than six
inches underground. I'm running over and here's the light, and
here's the switch, and here's the outlet. And they're going
to hand you a piece of paper and say count
the outlets and the switches and the light fixture for us,
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and give us this much money, and you walk home
with your permit, and then you're just gonna have to
call after you dig the trench. The inspector's going to
want to see the conduit laying in the bottom of
a properly dug trench, and he's gonna say, okay, go ahead,
fill up the trench, you pull your wires, put it
all in, and he's gonna come back and say, all right,
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it all looks fine. He's gonna sign it off and
walk away and you're done.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
All right. That sounds a lot easier than what I
thought I was going to have to do to run
my table cells and stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So yeah, yeah, so the But honestly, you know, I mean,
most building departments, contrary to popular opinion, are not there
to make your life miserable. And believe me, they they
they're not looking to h to make their job any harder.
And so when it comes to that kind of a
thing running water to a shed, run in electricity too,
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they just want to make sure it's done right now,
they're going to get their pound of flesh. But it's
not going to be it's not going to go through
plan check, you know, with drawings and all of that.
They just going to want you to count outlets, count switches,
count light fixtures, and they've got a fixed charge for
you it's going to be twenty five dollars per outlet,
and then there it is. You pay the money, you
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get the permit, the inspector inspects. It's those kinds of things.
It's like a roofing permit, right, nobody has to draw
a picture of your house to get a roofing permit.
The roofer pulls a permit. Hey, we're doing a reroof
are like, okay, it'll be this much money and we'll
see you after the tear offf is done. So it's
that kind of thing. Yeah, it's it's more hassle than
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you just doing it all by yourself, but it's a
lot less than a whole house permit and drawings and
all that jazz. So that's a little bit of good
news at least for you.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Great great news for me because I thought I was
going to have to put through grinds and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
All right, buddy, thanks for the question. Good luck on that.
While you're talking to the city. Make sure that your
shed it falls within the definition of shed because that's
the problem that that's the point that surprises some people
is they get like a garage size shed. I'm doing
air quotes, and they find out that the city does
not consider that a shed. They consider that a garage structure,
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and that does require drawings and all sorts of other thingies.
So just check with this city first so you don't
have to backtrack or run into any problems.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Loving our show today. I am, I hope you are.
It's an all calls Sunday morning, nothing but your calls,
and we've got more calls ahead of us. So I
want to get right back to it. I want to
talk to Louis. Hey, Louie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Hey Dean, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm good? How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Bud American Standard, A few questions. Is it a quality?
Is it worth the extended warranty? And is this a
good time now that I got to put a new
heater in, to put in maybe a whole house filter
and also a recirculation valve.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay, all right, let me miss backpedal here for a
half second, because I wasn't writing all that down. Okay,
American Standard. American Standard is a massive brand, and so
you're talking about an AC system.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, it's a water heat water heater.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, a water heater, Okay, yeah, yeah yeah. American Standard
generally speaking, is a solid brand. I mean they've been
around since the I want to say, the nineteen twenties,
maybe earlier, no, actually before the nineteen twenties, and it's
a good brand it has been. Here's the irony, of course, right,
(16:29):
this is the world we live in. American Standard in
twenty thirteen was purchased by Lixil Corporation, which is a
Japanese company, a Japanese multinational company. So technically American Standard
is owned by a Japanese multinational now as of twenty thirteen.
But the point is they are still manufacturing very high
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quality stuff and you know, and it's always a unit
for unit basis. They make HVAC system, They obviously make
a lot of plumbing, UH fixtures and supplies and toilets
and so on, uh and also UH water heaters and
so uh. If it matches up with the specs that
you want for your house, I don't think it's a
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bad choice at all. And you know, there are a
lot of them out there to choose from, so you
just have to, you know, make the best choice. Possible,
But there's there's nothing wrong with an American Standard product
as far as I know. There may be some plumbers
listing who and and plumbing and hvac guys, all of us,
all of our, all of us builders in our own specialties.
(17:34):
We all have our preferences and we're all like, no,
not that thing, you got to use this one instead.
But you know, uh, it's it's just an ongoing matter
of debate. Some products, some brands we all shy away
from all of us. But American Standard is not one
of those brands. It's debatable between some pros, but it's
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just not so. So yeah, I'm going to tell you
that you know, you probably won't be going wrong going
in that direction. So that's the brand. Now throw the
other questions at me real quick.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
The extended warranty from six to twelve years, Well, it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Depends on how much the extended warranty is costing. You
are two hundred bucks and this is just the standard
tanked water heater.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I don't know if it's a standard. One of the
people that advertise on you is going to be doing it,
so I don't know if it's standard. I can give
you the price. If that tells you the quality level
of it any one to twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, you said, you know, get the extended warranty, because
when I say standard, I just mean a tanked water heater,
not a tankless, it's a tanked water heater.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
No, it's a tank. Yes, it's a normal yess.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't. I don't think they're
you know, for for a couple of hundred bucks, get
the extended warranty. You know, keep that protection, uh, because
you know, at some point something always goes funky with
a tanked water heater, and it'd be nice to know
that you could get that far and you know, not
have to lay down someone. It's going to cost you
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more than two hundred dollars to fix whatever is going
to fix down the road, you know. And I know
that's the way it is with all protection plans, but
some are worth it, some or not. For a couple
of hundred bucks out of you know, just do it.
I would, I would just do it.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So is it a good time Now that I'm out
of this money, I might as well just stump a
little bit more into the whole house filter and the
recirculation valve. You think it's this is the time to
do it when you're getting a new heater.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, why not? Why not? The recirculation valve pump is
a is always a good idea for for a house.
Uh that, I mean it does if you're tight on
the money right now, you know you could do both
of those later. But you know, while you're messing with
all of it, you know if if, if it's within
your budget reach yet, just get it all done now
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and don't worry about it later.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Great, thanks for the information.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, buddy, thank you for the call. I've seen
your name on the board for most of the show,
and I just thank you so much for hanging in there,
and I wanted to do my best to reward you
for I'm looking across the board. Louis was there. I
think he's been here since the first segment of the show,
or pretty close to it, so he's just been hanging on.
(20:28):
So I wanted to make sure I honored that. Where
are we at? Here? Where are we at?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
On?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Time? Do I have time to?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I do I've got time to at least start one.
I want to talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Ah, thank you, Thanks for taking my call. This has
to do with asbestos. Twenty years ago or so, our
house was tested and the only place they found it
was in the garage. And they told us at the
time that as long as we did in anything, to
just leave it because we don't work in the garage
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or anything. So now we're considering selling the house, and
we had the garage tested again because it's been so long,
and it showed that the ceiling had a three percent
crystal tile and that the wall joints had a two
percent crystal tile. And the people that did the testing
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can't do the abatement.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I guess by lost right.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
So does this need to have be removed? Can we
cover it? Cover it with paint? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What do I do next?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Okay? So you're you're getting ready to sell the house
and this is a dry walled garage, the finished garage wall. Yes, okay,
the simplest, least expensive way to legally and safely alleviate
the asbestos issue. And you're absolutely right, and everybody needs
to be informed that the asbestos is of no danger
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to anybody as long as it is not disturbed. It's
only when it gets disturbed and it goes airborne, Is
it breatheable? And then then you have you know, asbestos
related health concerns.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Okay, I need a definition of disturbing it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Disturbing it literally means rubbing, rubbing up against it and
uh and causing it to uh, you know, to powder
and flake and get into the air. That's disturbing it. No, yeah,
that's yeah. So the easiest way for you guys that
I would recommend, and it's not going to cost that
much money, and it's just just a minute fraction compared
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to what an abatement would cost you, is simply encapsulated. Now,
I don't want you to paint over it. Okay, we
would paint over lead bab paint. That's a that's a
There are paint coatings to protect people from lead based
paints in a house, But asbestos, I want a better protection.
Encapsulating simply means that you're gonna drywall over the drywall
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in the garage. Just a new layer of drywall that
and now the asbestos is back where nobody can touch it,
no one can reach it, It cannot get into the air,
it cannot be damaged, it cannot be bumped, you know,
and and it's completely safe, and this is absolutely code
approved and completely legal to do. You're not trying to
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pull a fast one on anyone. It is simply the
wisest and least expensive, most economical way to deal with asbestos.
Whether it's whether it's out in the dry wall tape
in the garage, or whether it's you know, throughout a
house in old acoustic ceiling spray. The easiest way to
make it, to render it harmless, is to encapsulate it
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and and walk away.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Now do I need a special contractor to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, ma'am. You just need to dry wall over that
dry wall and that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Okay, Okay, I think I think it's all the questions
that I had, And yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's it, all right, Barbara. Good luck with that. Good
luck on the sale of your home, and yeah, do that,
do that well, but don't worry about the rest and
you'll be in good shape, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hey, thank you for joining us on the program today.
Here we are nearing the end of another three hours together,
can you believe it? Let me just say a couple
of things here before we are done. I'm going to
try and fit in one more call if at all possible,
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(25:09):
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I'm going to try my best to fit in one
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more call here and some closing thoughts today, So let's
talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Oh hello, hello, I thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I'm glad to be.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
There with you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh, thank you. So how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
I have a seventy year old ranch house that had
a little kind of square corner patio with the cement
floor on it, when at first a porch first was built,
somebody in between time enclosed the whole thing. It's stucco
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on the outside. Uh and uh, it's got It's just
basically like the guy had before, except it's a step down.
That's not quite so far. It's about four inches down.
And I want to level this out so my husband
and I can live safely in this house through our
dotage and uh, you know, have it all all the
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floor on one level. How can I raise that up?
I'm I've talked to some people and they've got there.
They're saying it's it's an awful job.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right. So the patio, the enclosed patio, what kind
of doors does it? Does it have out to the
outside itself?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It has.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Right now, a sliding glass door.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And a little doggy door, okay, and it has windows.
I assume I'm not really worried about the windows.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Windows windows, no windows, although there is a crossbeam across
there's a way bearing thing going across the top, and
like a something in between the rooms, but.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
That's that's not my concern.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I just want that floor, okay. So the biggest question here,
Kathy is can't is there is there room from the
ceiling down? Is their room in this patiomclosure to raise
those doors up? Six inches?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, I think so, Okay, I do think so if.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
We can raise the doors now, it's a little bit
of work, but it's not the end of the world.
If we can raise the door six inches, then you
can simply frame in a new floor in the inside
the patio room there that matches the floor level of
your existing home. And uh, and just bring it. You
can bring it up with with framing. You don't have
(28:02):
to pour cement, you don't have to just deconstruct the
whole thing necessarily, and and you know, just frame in
a new floor and up to the exist to match
the existing level and raise the doors and you should
be set. You can do that inside the you know,
the inside the existing structure.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I don't know what that.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We had one guy come out and look at it,
and he was talking about pouring cement and it wouldn't work,
and and I'm going on, wait a minute, it's got
to be another way.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, no question that the best way, the best way,
the fanciest way, would be to you know, to pour
you know, extended slab out there. But that's also that's
also crazy making expensive, and you know, and if we're
just talking about getting by and enjoying the patio room.
So here's the thing in lieu of the slab, right, Uh,
(28:58):
I want you to use wood framing to go out there.
You're gonna use pressure treated wood so that it can
make contact with moist surfaces and not worry about rot
or anything like that. And we're gonna see the outside
of it to make sure that moisture doesn't get in.
And then I want you to do a really really
good job of insulating that floor with h with like
(29:20):
a rock wool insulation. Just pack it all in there.
Not for the sake of keeping the floor warm or
cool or anything like that, but so that when you
walk across your slab floor of the existing house and
then walk out onto this wood floor, you're gonna hear
a difference in your footsteps. You're gonna hear it go
from far from muted to uh. Or are you on
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a raise foundation?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
We're on a raised foundation.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh then don't even worry about it. It's all gonna
sound the same. Just extend that wood out, uh and
it's all going to be the same.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
There you go on the cement and it'll do Oh wonderful. Okay,
I'll have to break some to my husband. That's what
I want to do.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh great, Now, don't blame me, don't blame me.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Oh yes, I will that's okay, Kathy, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I'm glad that that helped you out there. All right, y'all,
here we are at the end of another three hour
broadcast with you. I hope you enjoyed the show today.
We've got so so much more time to spend together
as the week's roll on here. I'm here live with
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you every weekend Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time,
Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. And I'm sorry,
I'm just giving no, no, it's shaking the table. And
it's been a while, I know since I've left you
(30:56):
with some closing thoughts. You know, life here at the
beginning of the year has been busy everything Tina, from
Tina recovering from surgery, to some other family things happening.
I just lost a beloved uncle in our life here recently.
That was a surprise and a shock to all of us.
There's just been a lot of things going on. But
(31:16):
guess what. I sat up this morning and I had
the inkling to sit down and write out some thoughts,
and for better or worse, I'm going to share them
with you before we go today. So I'm going to
leave you with this thought today. In any first year
logic or rhetoric or debate class, if you were to
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take one, you would learn about logical fallacies, or to
put it simply, mistakes in thinking. Now I have found
myself thinking about one of those fallacies for a number
of reasons this week. It's a fancy Latin name. It's
known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means because
(31:59):
one event happened after another event, the first event must
have caused it. Okay. It's also known as correlation, implies, causation,
and now okay, great, thankstein. In plain English, it's the
it's sometimes the misimpression that we get because one thing
comes after another, that the first thing caused the second thing.
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Sometimes that's true right now, Like in my car, I
press my foot on the brake pedal of my car
and the car slows down the one thing that causes
the other. That's true. But sometimes it's not true. Every
time I get into my car, I sit down, I
shut the door, I put on my seat belt, I
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just the mirrors, and then I turn the key to
start the engine. But even though all of those things
happen in order, every time the engine starts. Only one
of those things is actually the reason that the engine
starts right, just the key. But an outside observer who
doesn't know enough about cars might very well improperly conclude
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that the entire sequence is what starts the car. That's
the kind of thing we're talking about. There's another adage
that has been a part of my life for years.
In backpacking, we have an adage that ounces equals pounds
and pounds equal pain. It means that everything you decide
to put in your pack weighs something, and that weight
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adds up fast, and a heavy pack can ruin your
fun on a backpacking trip. So you want to make
wise decisions about what is essential and leave behind what
is not. All right, what is the point of all
of this? The point is on the journey of my life,
I want to better understand what I need to lug
around with me and what I don't, and to do that,
(33:49):
I have been questioning for a long time now just
how many things we cling to because we mistakenly believe
that they are necessary for good things to happen. How
much weight, how much cultural convention, how much tradition, how
much emotional baggage, how much belief system, how much ritual,
(34:10):
how many wounds, how much pride. I look around our
world and I see so many people groaning under the
weight of all of that they have chosen to carry,
and it's just too much. We break ourselves to carry it, though,
(34:31):
because we think, I think mistakenly that we've come to
believe these things are necessary for good things to happen.
And I'm not here to tell you to lay down
all of your burdens. I'm just a fellow traveler with
his own sore back, who is always questioning all the
things I've chosen to bring with me along the way.
(34:51):
What do I really need? What really starts the car?
And what is just the other stuff that I've made
assumptions about? And we live I don't need to tell
you in a politically divided world, a religiously divided world,
a culturally divided world, an economically divided world, such a
(35:13):
divided world, a world always at war with itself. But
here's the thing, all this stuff, these beliefs, these traditions,
these identities that we think are so necessary. I know,
really really good, really healthy, truly beautiful people on every
(35:34):
side of every issue, And I know, really bad, really unhealthy,
unsavory people on every side of every one of these things.
So at some point I have to wonder if it's
the cultures and the beliefs, the traditions and the taking
sides that really matters at all. Are these really the
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things that start the car? Are these really what we
should be lugging around, or is what makes a good
person good and happy and beautiful something else altogether. I've
come to the personal opinion that love, trust, honesty, kindness, integrity,
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things like that, a life filled with a thousand tiny
choices to be as healthy a human being as possible.
These are the things I see in every beautiful person
I meet, regardless of their other beliefs, or their political party,
or their cultural norms or their family traditions. And I've
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met so many unhealthy people who share some of my
own views, and so many truly healthy people who don't,
And it makes me look at some of the stuff
in my own pack and question whether these things are
really necessary to carry at all, or whether there are,
deep down in the bottom of my pack just a
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few essentials that are truly worth carrying, just a few
things that may actually be the only real things needed
to build a beautiful life. Now, it's not my place
to tell you what you should and shouldn't carry, but
I think it's at least worth asking the question. And
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so there I've done it. I've asked the question, and
I will leave it to you to toss that thought aside,
or to take it seriously and take a look at
the stuff in your own pack and find out if,
with whatever time you have left on this planet, it's
worth carrying that stuff around, or maybe it's time to
just lay some of it down, free yourself to live
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a beautiful life. I hope that's something worth listening to today,
and I hope you get out there and get busy
building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see you
right back here next weekend. This has been Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast
on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from six
(38:06):
to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from nine
to noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
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