August 24, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s episode of Home With Dean Sharp, it’s all about staying ahead of home maintenance before it turns into costly repairs. Dean explains the importance of regularHVAC filter changes and what neglecting them could mean for your system. He also takes calls from listeners, offering advice on whole-home re-pipes and tackling issues with electric panels—yes, even when it involves digging trenches! Plus, special guest Sue Fries from EcoLa joins the show to talk about smart, effective mosquito control.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the
House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
On the show, we are going through our list of
things we can do to avoid the cost of deferred
maintenance because you know, things that your house needs. I
know it's inconvenient, because you know we we we get
in our homes and we just want to live in them.
We schedule other things and we're in our home and
when our home says, excuse me, pardon me, I could
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use a little attention. Oh it's damn inconvenient at times,
but it's important because letting stuff go to end up
costing more, sometimes a lot more in the end, Okay,
I promise this before the break that we were going
to talk about the couple of things you should do
to your HVAC system.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm going to do that, and.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Then we're going to turn our attention middle of the
show here to our callboard for a while before we
return to this conversation. So, HVAC, the one thing that
I absolutely want you to do, if you do nothing else,
is change the dang filter. Change the filter on your
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HVAC unit. By the way, that filter, it's not for you.
It's not there for you. Yes, you can buy you know,
fancy schmancy, you can buy Hepa filters, you can get
all sorts of filter stuff that you know, to you know,
improve the air quality in the house. But the point
is this. The filter is there for the system to
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keep the system clean and to keep it breathing properly.
And here's the problem. There is no one thing that
you can ignore more than than changing out this filter
that will prematurely age your HVAC system. And you know,
if you've ever changed one of these out, you know
these days it's like, you know, fifteen grand basement price,
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I mean, just bottom line, that is not an expense
that you want to have to go through more than
you have to go through it. So it's on you
keep that system running for as long as possible. Change
the filter how often every three months. I'm not going
to be one of these, you know if some of
these lists that you look up there like change it
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every month, fine, whatever, every three months, okay, change that
filter out four times a year. I'm not trying to
get in the way of your life. You all have
a smartphone, put it in an event, make it that
event repeat and send yourself an alert like filter change
Day or even better than that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We do this around here because I get a lot
of alerts on my phone that I end up ignoring.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Around here. Is it filter by?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're not a sponsor the show, by the way, but yeah,
Tina is telling me that we are subscribed to filter
by b uy filter buy dot com. So you figure
out what size filter you need for your system, and
then you go on to filter by you find that
size filter and that of course, they offer you different
grades of filter from you know, basic all the way
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to Excelsior, and you decide which one and you pay
for a regular subscription to that filter for however often
you need it. And you know what I'm saying is
you set up a delivery for every ninety days and
you come home and there it is. There's the filter
sitting on your doorstep, and you're like, oh, here's the
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filter came and you take one minute and get it
changed down and then you forget about it again. Best
way to do it, super easy, change the filter. The
other thing, because I said there were two things, is
you know, every once in a while, maybe once a
year or so, go outside with a hose and clean
off the stuff that has grabbed onto the outside condenser fins. Now,
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do not pressure wash it, and do not put a
nozzle on the hose and with pressure because high pressure
water can bend those fins over, and now you're really
screwing things up. I'm just talking about loose running, flowing,
easy going water. Clean off the you know, the the
fins and whatever it might be, you know, stuck or
gathered in between them. It'll just help things move along better,
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that's all. It's not absolutely critical, but it helps. And
so why not why not do that once a year
or so, or next time you're outside water and plants
and you see the AC unit just sitting there, just
walk on over and rinse the dang thing off.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's all you need to do with HVAC on your
side of things. Otherwise, leave it be, don't mess with it,
let it do its job. Okay, we're gonna take a
quick break, and then when we come back, we've got
a board full of calls and I'm going to take
a few and we'll find out what's going on with
your home today. How does that sound sound good? And meanwhile,
(04:54):
Tina is ordering us a mattress. So I just died
to let you know that she's busy. On the other
the table, She's like, good time, time for a new mattress.
So I don't even know why I told you that.
I don't think it applies to anything. Just keeping you
up to date what's going on here in the studio.
All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All right.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We're talking items that you can do to take care
of your home, not deferred maintenance, but get on it.
Get on the maintenance so you don't have bigger costs
down the road. We're going to return to that conversation
in just a bit, but it's middle of the show,
which means it's time to go to the phones. I've
got calls on the board here. I want to talk
to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thank you. Yes, I'm in my mid eighties and I
am trying to keep my house updated for as long
as I'm going to be here. I'm interested in e pipe.
I'm having a hard time finding companies in Orange County.
Perhaps my technical skills are not up to a good search.
(06:09):
I could use some help in finding companies that provide
that service. And do you know do people tend to
avoid homes that have not been re piped with TEX.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I wouldn't say people tend to avoid them.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's just a question of you know, usually when it
comes to buying a new home, people just want to
know how's the plumbing, and the home inspection report is
going to be like, yeah, the plumbing is good or
the plumbing is old, and you know, on its way
out at the conveyance of the only thing that's a
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red flag for water conveyance inside a house is old
galvanized pipe plumbing. Okay, that never shows well on any
Buddies report whatsoever. But if you've got brand, you've got
new copper, if you've got new pecks, if you've e
piped your old copper, that's it's all good. It's all good.
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You're not going to have an issue one way or
another when it comes to the house. Now, as far
as your use of it, it's just a question of
what's gonna be the most affordable approach, And I would
recommend I think I took a call like this last
week where somebody asked a similar question. I would recommend
that you price it out both ways, that you price
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it out a repipe with pecks pex that's cross stranded polyethylene,
which I am you know, we put in all of
our new builds, just hands down because I just love
the way it works. Or if if some of those
situations are difficult and hard to get to, typically E
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piping is more expensive then a little bit more expensive
than repiping in but it's less destructive, meaning that there's
no drywall to open up anywhere and patches to make
and things like that. So there's a place for every
product out there. And the E pipe is epoxy lining
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the existing copper. So if the copper is old enough
that it's starting to pit and at least there runs
the risk of starting to spring leaks just because of
its age. Then and some areas are difficult to get
to or you don't have access to run new pipes
to a particular area, then E piping putting an epoxy
lining on the inside of that existing copper they blow
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it in. You want to use a company that specializes
in it and guarantees it, but that's also a very
very effective way of renewing the plumbing in your house.
I am not you know, I'm not biased one way
or the other. I'm like a doctor who wants to
look at the condition and then sub you know, recommend
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the fix based on the condition at hand. That's the point.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Okay, Well, I'm not finding much in terms of a
supplier in Orange County that does E pipe. Do you
have any that I can check.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't have any references to hand you off hand,
but I'm telling you Orange County. I mean, there are
plenty of them. So I don't know if it's uh,
if you're not looking in the right places or not
looking the right way. Just remember that E pipe is
one word. Okay, ep I pe uh And let me
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just here. I'm just going to do your favorite here
at Orange County. I'm not going to read off any
names here.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
But.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Let's see here. But yeah, I got E pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, there's a company's just coming up once. I'm staring
at one in Santa ana Here, here's one in Testin,
here's one in Anaheim. So epipe is a thing, And
like I said, you want it's a process. It's not
really a repiping. It's a process and you want to
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talk to a company and get a couple of different
bids from a couple of different epipe companies, and then
get a couple of repipe bids from repipe specialists. You'll
see which one is less and more expensive, which one's
going to take longer, and so on, and then you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Be able to do I have a I have a
neighbors that just went through the PEX process. I would
use that company. However, the design of the house, same
floor plan, required fifty six openings and I am just
not up to all of that, and plus all the
cost of repainting the interior. I'm considering repainting the outside
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of the house, so that gets pretty pricey by the
time I get through with it. Yeah, and you talk
about design all the time, which I agree with you.
But am I better spending money on things that keep
the the systems of the house updated and upgraded? Or
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should I be considering a new carpet instead of preventing
the leaks?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Always?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Always, Marie, you know you got to address the mechanical
issues of the house all right. First and foremost, a
house needs to be physical shelter, it's emotional shelter. Secondarily,
but physical shelter first and foremost. So if you've got
a major system in your home that needs to be
addressed because it's going to cause leaks, or you know,
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the roof is leaking, or the water heater system doesn't
work right, or the electrical is going you have to
address those things first. Those are your priorities, and then
you make whatever decisions for design you can make along
the way, especially if you're on a limited budget. But
the point is, I think you're on top of that.
I think you're moving in the right direction. So just
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do a search epipe e if you if you put
a dash in between the E and the pipe, you
end up with you know, those basically vape a smoking product.
You don't want those. You just want the epoxy pipe companies,
and there's plenty of them in Orange County. So just
do another search and you'll find them. Marie, good luck,
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my friend. And yeah, you're headed in the right direction.
You've got a good sense of what you need for
your house because you've already seen in the PEX process
and for you, it sounds like epipe would be a
lot less invasive. So head that way. Okay, do we
have time to Yeah? May maybe we have just a moment.
We got thirty seconds to go, all right, so we're
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just gonna take a quick break. We'll go to break
early and then we'll come back. We'll take the next call.
You are Home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We are talking about deferred maintenance today, the kind of
stuff that if you ignore it too long, will end
up costing you a lot. So I've got my own
list of things for you to take care of. But
right now we're in the middle of the show, and
that means we are taking calls and I'm on to God.
Let's see, let's talk to Mike. Hey Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Hey me. So, i bought a house, fifty year old house,
and I'm remodeling it and I'm required now because of
everything I'm putting into it, to redo my electrical box,
my panel, and I've got to go from the source
to the panel. And so SDG and E is telling
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me I need to dig a trench from the source
to my panel. That source is in my neighbor's front
yard and the trench is seventy five feet. What are
my options here?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh? Okay, so all all electric in your neighborhood is underground, yes,
uh huh okay, and.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You've got under that you have under you have underground service, correct, okay.
And I'm assuming a pretty decent conduit coming into your home.
And why are they saying that you have to dig
a trench?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
What's wrong with the existing conduit? Why can't they just
pull a larger service through it?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I don't know that answer. I have to upgrade my
panel for sure. And they're saying the conduit that that's
in the I don't. I don't even know if that
wire is in a conduit. Uh, you know, like a
like a three inch conduit that carries the wire. I
don't even know. And I think that's why they're requiring me,
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because I need to upgrade the wire. And they're saying
it needs to be a new new hard conduit, which
in my mind means it's not in hard con do
it right now? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So they've got it, and it's some, it's it's some.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You know from way back, some weather exposed uh uh,
you know, free laying wire or free laying cable.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They now they wanted in a poll coon, do.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It correct, like fifty years old? So I don't I
don't know what the what you know what they did
back then, But I'm just curious what my options are here.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm not sure you've got any options, my friend?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
How how messed up? Is the neighbor's yard going to be?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well? See, that's the thing is when they laid this,
they laid it five feet into his yard because the
road was already built before they built the houses. So
I think they just used his front yard to lay
the cable to my yard. Another neighbor's yard, this guy's yard.
So this box about three or four houses, and I
believe they just laid it the front yards of all
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these houses. I'm planning on tearing up the street in
front because the box is two feet off the street.
Got to go over getter, go through the asphalt to
the front of my house and they go from there.
So I mean, if I have to go through his yard,
I'm tearing up his driveway walls and there's no chance
I'm met. So I'm hoping I can stay in the street.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean I would just I would get with
them and try and figure out. Now, your neighbor and
try and just try and figure out, Hey, you know,
give me an option here where I don't have to
you know, completely rip my neighbor's driveway apart here.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well yeah, that's I mean, that's the least, not the
least of my worries. But I'm thinking they're going to
be amenable to me staying in the street and just
tearing asphalt up. But this seventy five feet down book,
I've gotten bid three bids and the lowest was thirty
five grand, just just to get a new panel on
my house. Yeah, yeah, does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, I mean I can't judge the the.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Conditions, but seventy five feet it's a long stretch, it's
a big trench. It's going to take some time. And
so yeah, and you're getting multiple bids, and so you know,
the point is, like I always say, you get multiple
bids and that's where you end up realizing kind of
where the costs are going to fall. And man, I
can hear I can hear it in your voice, Mike,
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how stressed you are about this. But so the changes
that you what have you got? You got one hundred
and a panel in the house right now?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Is that it? And you got to go to a two.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
It's no. So it's one fifty, right, and it's been
carrying you know, for fifty years. It's been carrying less
than one fifty because of old stuff. But the stuff
I'm putting in my contrary is going to go like
for like one fifty new panel one fifty SDG and
E says, you can't. We're not going to let you
do that. You can go twenty five percent less and
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put a new panel in and we'll let you do that.
But if you put in like for like, you need
to upgrade the wiring going into that panel, and wow,
and I've already already about the appliances, my new HVAC
and blah blah blah everything. So I mean for me
to back it off twenty five percent, that would be impossible,
right right. But you're saying earlier about panels being I mean,
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it's just wired. The panel is is good, the wiring
is good. I'm just curious why they're requiring me to
do this if I'm only going like for.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Like, yeah, I you know what, that's astounding to me. Uh,
And that's a conversation that I'd like to have with
them directly in other words, not just okay, I understand
whatever your policy is, Okay, whoever wrote that policy.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But if we if we're just.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Switching out the panel like for like okay, then what
the heck is wrong with the wire that's been feeding
one hundred and fifty eight panel for the last fifty years?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And uh right, so you know what might before you
just just roll over on it, I would really, you know,
I want to talk to a supervisor. I want to
talk to whoever's in charge and say, guys, come on,
I'm I'm not upgrading the panel size. We're we're we
got this set up. We just want to swap panels, okay,
to a newer panel. And but let me ask you.
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This the old panel that you've got, okay, since we're
talking about just a straight swap, why do we need
it to increase in size?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
The well obviously fifty years old. But the electrician was
looking at it. He goes, this, this panel will not
pass inspection when they come back to inspect everything. So
it was his opinion that we change the panel out.
And I'm just kind of going off him in the
general's you know, expertise here. But but I've gotten to
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the point with this new price tag blowing out where
I'm starting to make phone calls and getting other people
coming in just to say, yeah, they're right, you need
to do this. So yeah, well you're My fourth call
is to guidance here. But believe me, I'm making more
phone calls after this.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, well, Mike Man, I wish I could give you
a magic silver bullet to take care of the situation,
but the best I can tell you is, yeah, don't
act on it yet, make more calls. I'd like to
talk to the city inspector, who's going to actually look
at the panel first, because you got nothing to hide
from him at this point, right, not just your contractor's opinion.
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I want to I'd like to get the city inspector
out there and saying, tell me why I can't pass this,
And what if we just use this panel as a
junction box with the meter on it and set a
new panel next to it, and that way we don't
have to upgrade the wiring from PG and E and
UH and have a junction box set up next to it.
Will that pass? I mean, I would, I would investigate
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every possible option creatively on the side of the house
before you have to dig that seventy five foot trench,
my friend. And I'm sorry that I that I couldn't
just say, oh, do this, but yeah, those are some
options that you might have. Talk to everybody about it
to make sure that the info you're getting is absolute
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and unchanging, because sometimes when you poke around a little bit,
you find out there's more wiggle room than you think.
All right, Mike, I gotta go. Thank you so much
for the call, my friend. Keep me abreast of what's
going on with that, and all right, your Home with
Dean Sharp, the house Whisper more calls when we come back.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
We're talking about items that should be on your maintenance
list so that you don't defer that maintenance and end
up paying the big price down the road. And we're
going to return to that conversation in just a bit.
But I've been taking calls, and here is a call
that I made, or actually I requested as somebody I
want to talk to because you guys have been asking
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so many questions about the whole termite. I mean, I'm sorry,
I'm jumping out of myself to the termite lady. You've
been asking so many questions about the mosquito control system
in the yard that I've been talking up, and you
knew that I was skeptical, and you've been hearing me
say how awesome it has been. So I thought, you
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know what, let's just reach out. Let's reach out to
Sue Freeze, the Grand Poohbah, the big Cheese, the captain
of industry over at Eco LA, and I just want
to talk to her for a few minutes. And I'm told,
is this Sue on the line here? Hey, Sue, are
you with me?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Dean?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Thank you so much for inviting me on the call.
I just appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Hey, Sue, how's your Sunday going.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
My Sunday's going great. I just got out of church
and I'm sitting in a truck outside in the state Sale.
Can't wait to go in and check out all the goodies,
the treasures that I'm gonna find. But gosh, no way,
because it's so important to educate people on what solutions
are available to them. And I have a backyard, I'm
near water on a lake, and yeah, those mosquitoes are
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a real deal. And since we have this wonderful product.
I'm so glad that we got to share that with
you and that you are successfully happy. And you know,
I just appreciate that you tell people about it because
I just think it's so important that people know what
is available to them. And so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, well thank you, because you know, I've been waiting
for my whole life I feel like to actually figure out. No,
I'm honestly mosquito. First of all, Mosquitos love me. They
just love me, and I hate them, and so we
have a very you know, we have a very uneven relationship,
you know. And I'm all about I'm all about respecting nature.
(23:59):
Everybody knows that I'm a nature boy, and I suppose
mosquitos play some role out there in the big plan
of things. But you know, as far as I'm concerned,
you know, yeah, let's just get another bug that doesn't
suck my blood to play that role.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Most dangerous, Yeah, most dangerous animal on the planet. Okay,
and most annoying. And so you know, we're at high
mosquito season in southern California right now, and I've been
talking about this, the into care system that you guys utilize,
and I was so skeptical because you know, we've done
it all. I've talked for years like, oh, try this,
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try that citronella. Okay, fine, light a candle next to you.
Hopefully the breeze isn't blowing, because that is a waste
of time. A lot of people get misdirected, Like if
you go on Amazon right now and type in mosquito control,
you're going to get a whole list of UV lights
bug zappers, And there's no mention of the fact that
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mosquitoes are not attracted to UV light. And so if
you if a bug zapper kills a mosquito, it's completely.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
By accident, right right, right, that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So the problem is, and here's the bigger problem. I'm
just gonna set this up. The problem is that mosquito's uh,
the female mosquito, she's laying eggs and they're they're propagating
in stagnant water. And by stagnant I just mean still
water without any you know, water that's just standing. It
could be water in a bucket, it could be water
in a in an empty tire, it could just I mean,
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it could be a puddle of water on the sidewalk
that isn't being disturbed. And it's one thing. You're like, Okay,
I've purged my yard of all of this, but what
about my neighbor next to me, and the one behind me,
and the one on the other side, and what about
the stuff that they're not doing that's causing just as
much of a mosquito problem. Then you guys come along
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with this system. And what I love about it is
that it has this larva side inside. Now that sounds
like a real serious thing, but it's all cased inside.
Only the mosquito can get to it. And as my understanding,
you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but she gets
it on her legs while she's trying to lay her
eggs in there. And now every other little bit of
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water she goes to, including the neighbors, gets tainted with
this larva side, so that the eggs can't grow there
as well. And I thought that's a pretty decent idea,
So we figured, all right, let's give it a shot.
And one week, one week after you guys set us up,
I have not seen a mosquito all summer since.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's the thing.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Oh my goodness, that is such a wonderful testimony to it.
And the biggest question that I get from the system is, well,
is it going to hurt the fish that are inside
the water, because they go and they'll tap any water.
They're not picky on the you know, stagnant water or
the water that they can lay their eggs on. And
so it doesn't affect birds, it doesn't affect mosquitos. I mean,
(26:54):
excuse me, mosquitos doesn't affect the fish. Nothing else gets
affected but the mosquitos and don't recreate, and so you're
cutting the population down. And that's exactly what we're trying
to do. And so thank you very much for explaining
that so well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So I don't think I've been mentioning fish. I've been
mentioning pets and everything. But even if you have like
a croy pond, it's not going to it's gonna shut
the mosquitoes down, but it's not going to affect the fish.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes, exactly, that's perfection.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, it's so and it's wonderful, and you guys
are it's not like you guys are spraying all over
the yard. There are these little i don't know what
you call them, attractants or bait stations, but they look
like they look like exterior landscape speakers, and.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
They're all exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
They're kind of just hidden behind bush. Nobody even knows
I have them. Everybody but everybody who's been coming over
this summer is like, Okay, Deane, should we get out
the spray or the stuff. I'm like, yeah, I don't
think you need to. So we're sitting around the fire
pit at night and everybody's like, what happened with them?
Why aren't there mosquitoes? And so I get to tell
the story.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Yeah, and that's great. It's a great story. I wish
more people will be telling the story, and more people,
all right, because we want that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All right, Well, people are going to be I gotta go, Sue.
I'm up against the top of the artist.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Thank you so much for calling in, my friend, and
we'll talk again real soon. You heard it, now you
know the inside scoop. All right, y'all back to our
deferred maintenance list when we return.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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 to eight Pacific time, and
every Sunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time, or
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
On the show, we are going through our list of
things we can do to avoid the cost of deferred
maintenance because you know, things that your house needs. I
know it's inconvenient, because you know we we we get
in our homes and we just want to live in them.
We schedule other things and we're in our home and
when our home says, excuse me, pardon me, I could
(00:31):
use a little attention. Oh it's damn inconvenient at times,
but it's important because letting stuff go to end up
costing more, sometimes a lot more in the end, Okay,
I promise this before the break that we were going
to talk about the couple of things you should do
to your HVAC system.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm going to do that, and.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Then we're going to turn our attention middle of the
show here to our callboard for a while before we
return to this conversation. So, HVAC, the one thing that
I absolutely want you to do, if you do nothing else,
is change the dang filter. Change the filter on your
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HVAC unit. By the way, that filter, it's not for you.
It's not there for you. Yes, you can buy you know,
fancy schmancy, you can buy Hepa filters, you can get
all sorts of filter stuff that you know, to you know,
improve the air quality in the house. But the point
is this. The filter is there for the system to
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keep the system clean and to keep it breathing properly.
And here's the problem. There is no one thing that
you can ignore more than than changing out this filter
that will prematurely age your HVAC system. And you know,
if you've ever changed one of these out, you know
these days it's like, you know, fifteen grand basement price,
(01:58):
I mean, just bottom line, that is not an expense
that you want to have to go through more than
you have to go through it. So it's on you
keep that system running for as long as possible. Change
the filter how often every three months. I'm not going
to be one of these, you know if some of
these lists that you look up there like change it
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every month, fine, whatever, every three months, okay, change that
filter out four times a year. I'm not trying to
get in the way of your life. You all have
a smartphone, put it in an event, make it that
event repeat and send yourself an alert like filter change
Day or even better than that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We do this around here because I get a lot
of alerts on my phone that I end up ignoring.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Around here. Is it filter by?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're not a sponsor the show, by the way, but yeah,
Tina is telling me that we are subscribed to filter
by b uy filter buy dot com. So you figure
out what size filter you need for your system, and
then you go on to filter by you find that
size filter and that of course, they offer you different
grades of filter from you know, basic all the way
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to Excelsior, and you decide which one and you pay
for a regular subscription to that filter for however often
you need it. And you know what I'm saying is
you set up a delivery for every ninety days and
you come home and there it is. There's the filter
sitting on your doorstep, and you're like, oh, here's the
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filter came and you take one minute and get it
changed down and then you forget about it again. Best
way to do it, super easy, change the filter. The
other thing, because I said there were two things, is
you know, every once in a while, maybe once a
year or so, go outside with a hose and clean
off the stuff that has grabbed onto the outside condenser fins. Now,
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do not pressure wash it, and do not put a
nozzle on the hose and with pressure because high pressure
water can bend those fins over, and now you're really
screwing things up. I'm just talking about loose running, flowing,
easy going water. Clean off the you know, the the
fins and whatever it might be, you know, stuck or
gathered in between them. It'll just help things move along better,
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that's all. It's not absolutely critical, but it helps. And
so why not why not do that once a year
or so, or next time you're outside water and plants
and you see the AC unit just sitting there, just
walk on over and rinse the dang thing off.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's all you need to do with HVAC on your
side of things. Otherwise, leave it be, don't mess with it,
let it do its job. Okay, we're gonna take a
quick break, and then when we come back, we've got
a board full of calls and I'm going to take
a few and we'll find out what's going on with
your home today. How does that sound sound good? And meanwhile,
(04:54):
Tina is ordering us a mattress. So I just died
to let you know that she's busy. On the other
the table, She's like, good time, time for a new mattress.
So I don't even know why I told you that.
I don't think it applies to anything. Just keeping you
up to date what's going on here in the studio.
All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All right.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We're talking items that you can do to take care
of your home, not deferred maintenance, but get on it.
Get on the maintenance so you don't have bigger costs
down the road. We're going to return to that conversation
in just a bit, but it's middle of the show,
which means it's time to go to the phones. I've
got calls on the board here. I want to talk
to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thank you. Yes, I'm in my mid eighties and I
am trying to keep my house updated for as long
as I'm going to be here. I'm interested in e pipe.
I'm having a hard time finding companies in Orange County.
Perhaps my technical skills are not up to a good search.
(06:09):
I could use some help in finding companies that provide
that service. And do you know do people tend to
avoid homes that have not been re piped with TEX.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I wouldn't say people tend to avoid them.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's just a question of you know, usually when it
comes to buying a new home, people just want to
know how's the plumbing, and the home inspection report is
going to be like, yeah, the plumbing is good or
the plumbing is old, and you know, on its way
out at the conveyance of the only thing that's a
(06:50):
red flag for water conveyance inside a house is old
galvanized pipe plumbing. Okay, that never shows well on any
Buddies report whatsoever. But if you've got brand, you've got
new copper, if you've got new pecks, if you've e
piped your old copper, that's it's all good. It's all good.
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You're not going to have an issue one way or
another when it comes to the house. Now, as far
as your use of it, it's just a question of
what's gonna be the most affordable approach, And I would
recommend I think I took a call like this last
week where somebody asked a similar question. I would recommend
that you price it out both ways, that you price
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it out a repipe with pecks pex that's cross stranded polyethylene,
which I am you know, we put in all of
our new builds, just hands down because I just love
the way it works. Or if if some of those
situations are difficult and hard to get to, typically E
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piping is more expensive then a little bit more expensive
than repiping in but it's less destructive, meaning that there's
no drywall to open up anywhere and patches to make
and things like that. So there's a place for every
product out there. And the E pipe is epoxy lining
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the existing copper. So if the copper is old enough
that it's starting to pit and at least there runs
the risk of starting to spring leaks just because of
its age. Then and some areas are difficult to get
to or you don't have access to run new pipes
to a particular area, then E piping putting an epoxy
lining on the inside of that existing copper they blow
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it in. You want to use a company that specializes
in it and guarantees it, but that's also a very
very effective way of renewing the plumbing in your house.
I am not you know, I'm not biased one way
or the other. I'm like a doctor who wants to
look at the condition and then sub you know, recommend
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the fix based on the condition at hand. That's the point.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Okay, Well, I'm not finding much in terms of a
supplier in Orange County that does E pipe. Do you
have any that I can check.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't have any references to hand you off hand,
but I'm telling you Orange County. I mean, there are
plenty of them. So I don't know if it's uh,
if you're not looking in the right places or not
looking the right way. Just remember that E pipe is
one word. Okay, ep I pe uh And let me
(09:39):
just here. I'm just going to do your favorite here
at Orange County. I'm not going to read off any
names here.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
But.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Let's see here. But yeah, I got E pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, there's a company's just coming up once. I'm staring
at one in Santa ana Here, here's one in Testin,
here's one in Anaheim. So epipe is a thing, And
like I said, you want it's a process. It's not
really a repiping. It's a process and you want to
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talk to a company and get a couple of different
bids from a couple of different epipe companies, and then
get a couple of repipe bids from repipe specialists. You'll
see which one is less and more expensive, which one's
going to take longer, and so on, and then you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Be able to do I have a I have a
neighbors that just went through the PEX process. I would
use that company. However, the design of the house, same
floor plan, required fifty six openings and I am just
not up to all of that, and plus all the
cost of repainting the interior. I'm considering repainting the outside
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of the house, so that gets pretty pricey by the
time I get through with it. Yeah, and you talk
about design all the time, which I agree with you.
But am I better spending money on things that keep
the the systems of the house updated and upgraded? Or
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should I be considering a new carpet instead of preventing
the leaks?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Always?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Always, Marie, you know you got to address the mechanical
issues of the house all right. First and foremost, a
house needs to be physical shelter, it's emotional shelter. Secondarily,
but physical shelter first and foremost. So if you've got
a major system in your home that needs to be
addressed because it's going to cause leaks, or you know,
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the roof is leaking, or the water heater system doesn't
work right, or the electrical is going you have to
address those things first. Those are your priorities, and then
you make whatever decisions for design you can make along
the way, especially if you're on a limited budget. But
the point is, I think you're on top of that.
I think you're moving in the right direction. So just
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do a search epipe e if you if you put
a dash in between the E and the pipe, you
end up with you know, those basically vape a smoking product.
You don't want those. You just want the epoxy pipe companies,
and there's plenty of them in Orange County. So just
do another search and you'll find them. Marie, good luck,
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my friend. And yeah, you're headed in the right direction.
You've got a good sense of what you need for
your house because you've already seen in the PEX process
and for you, it sounds like epipe would be a
lot less invasive. So head that way. Okay, do we
have time to Yeah? May maybe we have just a moment.
We got thirty seconds to go, all right, so we're
(12:44):
just gonna take a quick break. We'll go to break
early and then we'll come back. We'll take the next call.
You are Home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We are talking about deferred maintenance today, the kind of
stuff that if you ignore it too long, will end
up costing you a lot. So I've got my own
list of things for you to take care of. But
right now we're in the middle of the show, and
that means we are taking calls and I'm on to God.
Let's see, let's talk to Mike. Hey Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Hey me. So, i bought a house, fifty year old house,
and I'm remodeling it and I'm required now because of
everything I'm putting into it, to redo my electrical box,
my panel, and I've got to go from the source
to the panel. And so SDG and E is telling
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me I need to dig a trench from the source
to my panel. That source is in my neighbor's front
yard and the trench is seventy five feet. What are
my options here?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh? Okay, so all all electric in your neighborhood is underground, yes,
uh huh okay, and.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You've got under that you have under you have underground service, correct, okay.
And I'm assuming a pretty decent conduit coming into your home.
And why are they saying that you have to dig
a trench?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
What's wrong with the existing conduit? Why can't they just
pull a larger service through it?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I don't know that answer. I have to upgrade my
panel for sure. And they're saying the conduit that that's
in the I don't. I don't even know if that
wire is in a conduit. Uh, you know, like a
like a three inch conduit that carries the wire. I
don't even know. And I think that's why they're requiring me,
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because I need to upgrade the wire. And they're saying
it needs to be a new new hard conduit, which
in my mind means it's not in hard con do
it right now? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So they've got it, and it's some, it's it's some.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You know from way back, some weather exposed uh uh,
you know, free laying wire or free laying cable.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They now they wanted in a poll coon, do.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It correct, like fifty years old? So I don't I
don't know what the what you know what they did
back then, But I'm just curious what my options are here.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm not sure you've got any options, my friend?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
How how messed up? Is the neighbor's yard going to be?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well? See, that's the thing is when they laid this,
they laid it five feet into his yard because the
road was already built before they built the houses. So
I think they just used his front yard to lay
the cable to my yard. Another neighbor's yard, this guy's yard.
So this box about three or four houses, and I
believe they just laid it the front yards of all
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these houses. I'm planning on tearing up the street in
front because the box is two feet off the street.
Got to go over getter, go through the asphalt to
the front of my house and they go from there.
So I mean, if I have to go through his yard,
I'm tearing up his driveway walls and there's no chance
I'm met. So I'm hoping I can stay in the street.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean I would just I would get with
them and try and figure out. Now, your neighbor and
try and just try and figure out, Hey, you know,
give me an option here where I don't have to
you know, completely rip my neighbor's driveway apart here.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well yeah, that's I mean, that's the least, not the
least of my worries. But I'm thinking they're going to
be amenable to me staying in the street and just
tearing asphalt up. But this seventy five feet down book,
I've gotten bid three bids and the lowest was thirty
five grand, just just to get a new panel on
my house. Yeah, yeah, does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, I mean I can't judge the the.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Conditions, but seventy five feet it's a long stretch, it's
a big trench. It's going to take some time. And
so yeah, and you're getting multiple bids, and so you know,
the point is, like I always say, you get multiple
bids and that's where you end up realizing kind of
where the costs are going to fall. And man, I
can hear I can hear it in your voice, Mike,
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how stressed you are about this. But so the changes
that you what have you got? You got one hundred
and a panel in the house right now?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Is that it? And you got to go to a two.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
It's no. So it's one fifty, right, and it's been
carrying you know, for fifty years. It's been carrying less
than one fifty because of old stuff. But the stuff
I'm putting in my contrary is going to go like
for like one fifty new panel one fifty SDG and
E says, you can't. We're not going to let you
do that. You can go twenty five percent less and
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put a new panel in and we'll let you do that.
But if you put in like for like, you need
to upgrade the wiring going into that panel, and wow,
and I've already already about the appliances, my new HVAC
and blah blah blah everything. So I mean for me
to back it off twenty five percent, that would be impossible,
right right. But you're saying earlier about panels being I mean,
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it's just wired. The panel is is good, the wiring
is good. I'm just curious why they're requiring me to
do this if I'm only going like for.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Like, yeah, I you know what, that's astounding to me. Uh,
And that's a conversation that I'd like to have with
them directly in other words, not just okay, I understand
whatever your policy is, Okay, whoever wrote that policy.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But if we if we're just.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Switching out the panel like for like okay, then what
the heck is wrong with the wire that's been feeding
one hundred and fifty eight panel for the last fifty years?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And uh right, so you know what might before you
just just roll over on it, I would really, you know,
I want to talk to a supervisor. I want to
talk to whoever's in charge and say, guys, come on,
I'm I'm not upgrading the panel size. We're we're we
got this set up. We just want to swap panels, okay,
to a newer panel. And but let me ask you.
(19:27):
This the old panel that you've got, okay, since we're
talking about just a straight swap, why do we need
it to increase in size?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
The well obviously fifty years old. But the electrician was
looking at it. He goes, this, this panel will not
pass inspection when they come back to inspect everything. So
it was his opinion that we change the panel out.
And I'm just kind of going off him in the
general's you know, expertise here. But but I've gotten to
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the point with this new price tag blowing out where
I'm starting to make phone calls and getting other people
coming in just to say, yeah, they're right, you need
to do this. So yeah, well you're My fourth call
is to guidance here. But believe me, I'm making more
phone calls after this.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, well, Mike Man, I wish I could give you
a magic silver bullet to take care of the situation,
but the best I can tell you is, yeah, don't
act on it yet, make more calls. I'd like to
talk to the city inspector, who's going to actually look
at the panel first, because you got nothing to hide
from him at this point, right, not just your contractor's opinion.
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I want to I'd like to get the city inspector
out there and saying, tell me why I can't pass this,
And what if we just use this panel as a
junction box with the meter on it and set a
new panel next to it, and that way we don't
have to upgrade the wiring from PG and E and
UH and have a junction box set up next to it.
Will that pass? I mean, I would, I would investigate
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every possible option creatively on the side of the house
before you have to dig that seventy five foot trench,
my friend. And I'm sorry that I that I couldn't
just say, oh, do this, but yeah, those are some
options that you might have. Talk to everybody about it
to make sure that the info you're getting is absolute
(21:21):
and unchanging, because sometimes when you poke around a little bit,
you find out there's more wiggle room than you think.
All right, Mike, I gotta go. Thank you so much
for the call, my friend. Keep me abreast of what's
going on with that, and all right, your Home with
Dean Sharp, the house Whisper more calls when we come back.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
We're talking about items that should be on your maintenance
list so that you don't defer that maintenance and end
up paying the big price down the road. And we're
going to return to that conversation in just a bit.
But I've been taking calls, and here is a call
that I made, or actually I requested as somebody I
want to talk to because you guys have been asking
(22:08):
so many questions about the whole termite. I mean, I'm sorry,
I'm jumping out of myself to the termite lady. You've
been asking so many questions about the mosquito control system
in the yard that I've been talking up, and you
knew that I was skeptical, and you've been hearing me
say how awesome it has been. So I thought, you
(22:30):
know what, let's just reach out. Let's reach out to
Sue Freeze, the Grand Poohbah, the big Cheese, the captain
of industry over at Eco LA, and I just want
to talk to her for a few minutes. And I'm told,
is this Sue on the line here? Hey, Sue, are
you with me?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Dean?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Thank you so much for inviting me on the call.
I just appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Hey, Sue, how's your Sunday going.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
My Sunday's going great. I just got out of church
and I'm sitting in a truck outside in the state Sale.
Can't wait to go in and check out all the goodies,
the treasures that I'm gonna find. But gosh, no way,
because it's so important to educate people on what solutions
are available to them. And I have a backyard, I'm
near water on a lake, and yeah, those mosquitoes are
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a real deal. And since we have this wonderful product.
I'm so glad that we got to share that with
you and that you are successfully happy. And you know,
I just appreciate that you tell people about it because
I just think it's so important that people know what
is available to them. And so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, well thank you, because you know, I've been waiting
for my whole life I feel like to actually figure out. No,
I'm honestly mosquito. First of all, Mosquitos love me. They
just love me, and I hate them, and so we
have a very you know, we have a very uneven relationship,
you know. And I'm all about I'm all about respecting nature.
(23:59):
Everybody knows that I'm a nature boy, and I suppose
mosquitos play some role out there in the big plan
of things. But you know, as far as I'm concerned,
you know, yeah, let's just get another bug that doesn't
suck my blood to play that role.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Most dangerous, Yeah, most dangerous animal on the planet. Okay,
and most annoying. And so you know, we're at high
mosquito season in southern California right now, and I've been
talking about this, the into care system that you guys utilize,
and I was so skeptical because you know, we've done
it all. I've talked for years like, oh, try this,
(24:36):
try that citronella. Okay, fine, light a candle next to you.
Hopefully the breeze isn't blowing, because that is a waste
of time. A lot of people get misdirected, Like if
you go on Amazon right now and type in mosquito control,
you're going to get a whole list of UV lights
bug zappers, And there's no mention of the fact that
(24:57):
mosquitoes are not attracted to UV light. And so if
you if a bug zapper kills a mosquito, it's completely.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
By accident, right right, right, that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So the problem is, and here's the bigger problem. I'm
just gonna set this up. The problem is that mosquito's uh,
the female mosquito, she's laying eggs and they're they're propagating
in stagnant water. And by stagnant I just mean still
water without any you know, water that's just standing. It
could be water in a bucket, it could be water
in a in an empty tire, it could just I mean,
(25:31):
it could be a puddle of water on the sidewalk
that isn't being disturbed. And it's one thing. You're like, Okay,
I've purged my yard of all of this, but what
about my neighbor next to me, and the one behind me,
and the one on the other side, and what about
the stuff that they're not doing that's causing just as
much of a mosquito problem. Then you guys come along
(25:51):
with this system. And what I love about it is
that it has this larva side inside. Now that sounds
like a real serious thing, but it's all cased inside.
Only the mosquito can get to it. And as my understanding,
you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but she gets
it on her legs while she's trying to lay her
eggs in there. And now every other little bit of
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water she goes to, including the neighbors, gets tainted with
this larva side, so that the eggs can't grow there
as well. And I thought that's a pretty decent idea,
So we figured, all right, let's give it a shot.
And one week, one week after you guys set us up,
I have not seen a mosquito all summer since.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's the thing.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Oh my goodness, that is such a wonderful testimony to it.
And the biggest question that I get from the system is, well,
is it going to hurt the fish that are inside
the water, because they go and they'll tap any water.
They're not picky on the you know, stagnant water or
the water that they can lay their eggs on. And
so it doesn't affect birds, it doesn't affect mosquitos. I mean,
(26:54):
excuse me, mosquitos doesn't affect the fish. Nothing else gets
affected but the mosquitos and don't recreate, and so you're
cutting the population down. And that's exactly what we're trying
to do. And so thank you very much for explaining
that so well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So I don't think I've been mentioning fish. I've been
mentioning pets and everything. But even if you have like
a croy pond, it's not going to it's gonna shut
the mosquitoes down, but it's not going to affect the fish.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes, exactly, that's perfection.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, it's so and it's wonderful, and you guys
are it's not like you guys are spraying all over
the yard. There are these little i don't know what
you call them, attractants or bait stations, but they look
like they look like exterior landscape speakers, and.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
They're all exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
They're kind of just hidden behind bush. Nobody even knows
I have them. Everybody but everybody who's been coming over
this summer is like, Okay, Deane, should we get out
the spray or the stuff. I'm like, yeah, I don't
think you need to. So we're sitting around the fire
pit at night and everybody's like, what happened with them?
Why aren't there mosquitoes? And so I get to tell
the story.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Yeah, and that's great. It's a great story. I wish
more people will be telling the story, and more people,
all right, because we want that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All right, Well, people are going to be I gotta go, Sue.
I'm up against the top of the artist.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Thank you so much for calling in, my friend, and
we'll talk again real soon. You heard it, now you
know the inside scoop. All right, y'all back to our
deferred maintenance list when we return.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
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