March 1, 2025 • 34 mins
Dean continues with answering a caller’s question about a meter leak. He continues to talk about the greatest industry event, the 2025 International Builder’s Show. Dean talks about Hover’s Artificial Intelligence “design software” which brings a transformative digital experience to the built world + what's Dean’s concern for it. Dean loves how not everything at the International Builder show is always expensive. He highlights the third generation, door saver’s hidden doorstop for under $10 dollars! Lastly, Dean shares his knowledge about more designs and how Masonite doors are introducing a new door.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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All right, we're taking calls. I'm talking to Joan. Let
me make sure I didn't hang up on her. Joan,
are you still with me?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes? Yeah, sure, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay. So Joan has a plumbing link. She has a leak.
It is suspected in her main line somewhere between the
house and the water meter, right, Joan, correct, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And also the driveway slopes down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The driveway slopes down, and the line is under the
drive way, right, correct. Yeah. And here is the sticky wicket, now, okay,
because it's not just about I shouldn't say it's a
sticky wicket. I should say that this makes this makes
the the in my opinion, the strategy very very clear, Joe,
(02:17):
very very clear. Because here's the thing. First of all,
we don't need expensive leak detection in your case. Okay,
if we were trying to spot repair this pipe, this mainline,
then and if it was traveling through let's say the yard,
where we could dig down and actually get to it, okay,
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without destroying something like a driveway in order to do it,
then it might it might behoove us to get a
leak detection service out there and try and pinpoint it. Also,
if there's no concrete on top of it, the leaked
detection fee would be much less than what was quoted
to you, because we're not wrestling with the concrete and
(02:59):
the d bar in the concrete and all of the
other things. We're just trying to find a leak with
a pipe that's buried in the yard. But we're not
going to be able to get to that leak per
se underneath the concrete. And it doesn't sound like it's
a catastrophic leak. It's just a leak, and I think
(03:20):
if they suspected that it's more of a pinhole leak,
I'm assuming it's a copper line that's running.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Between That's what I've told Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, and that's what tends to happen. It's why we
don't like burying copper anymore in ground, because copper is
not a lifetime pipe when it's buried in the ground
in contact with soil and various minerals, because we realize
that it can corrode away in certain conditions, and so
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we would much prefer to do a PVC pipe main
to the house a pottible PVC line. So anyway, the
point is, we don't want to tear up your driveway.
We don't need to know exactly where the pinpoint leak is.
All we need to know for sure is that there
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is a leak, and that can happen super simple, and
maybe they already did this. But the fact of the
matter is, if it's a leak between your meter and
the house, all you have to do is turn off
the main line the valve going into the house. Okay,
now the water can't flow into the house. Now, the
water in between the water meter and the house is
(04:34):
trapped right there. Right if at that point with the
house water turned off, if the tiny leak detection arrow
or star. Sometimes they're blue, sometimes they're red, sometimes they're yellow,
but it's a tiny little device. Sometimes it's star shaped
or a triangle, if that is still moving on the
water meter gage, that means water is moving. That means
(04:58):
there's a leak. And since we we've already turned off
the water to the house, we know that the leak
is somewhere between the house and the water meter and
it's all underneath the driveway. Anyway, we don't need to
know anything else. Then my suggestion is that you call
out a plumber who specializes in epoxy linings for water lines.
(05:22):
And what they can do is a qualified plumber who
does this a lot. Okay, they can blow out that
line with an epoxy coating on the inside of that
copper line. These epoxy coatings, they're not good for catastrophic
breaks or crushes or anything like that, but specifically for
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a copper line that's starting to pit and pinhole leak.
This epoxy will line the inside of the pipe. It's
essentially giving you a brand new pipe that cannot pit
any longer from the inside out. And it's essentially a
new water line. And it's going to be not cheap.
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But if you save the money on the leak detection,
and when you consider the cost of manually digging up
your waterline underneath your concrete driveway, it's going to be
considerably less than that. And of course I want you
to call three or four qualified plumbers who do this
and get quotes so that you know that you're not overpaying.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
For Do you have any suggestions on a particular company.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, because they're all over the place. They're they're virtually
all over the place, everywhere. I just want you to
do some careful searches in your area and look for
companies that specialize in this, not just a plumbing company
that's like, oh yeah, every once in a while we
do this because it's a tricky process. It's got to
be done well in order for it to really take
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and to hold. But I've seen it done so many
times effectively. So just start doing a little search for
your area and call them out and start getting prices,
and then you can compare those quotes and those prices.
But that would be my suggestion. It seems to me
that at this point we don't care about where the
leak is in between. If we know it's in between
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the meter and the house, then we're going to just
reline that main line the whole thing, and guess what
the leak will be handled, because it's going to get
caught somewhere in between the meter and the house.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Uh huh. So I want to look for a plumber
with a specialty in epoxy lining for water lines.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, exactly that, Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And on a separate note, what you know, if I
decide to do the house sometime after that two bedroom
three bath house. What would be your estimate on the cost?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh, I couldn't do that. I couldn't, couldn't, right, Yeah,
I couldn't give you an estimate on that because it's
not just about the number of bedrooms. It's about the configuration.
It's about where the pipes are running, it's about access. Again,
I will say this for everybody who's listening. Whenever you're
getting a quote, the way you're going to find out
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is not to compare it to some random average out there.
Of this is about what you should call. It's to
bring in three or four well vetted contractors and let
them bid the same thing, apples and apples, and then
you take a look at those prices. It's like a
Venn diagram. You will see where the prices will clump together,
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and you'll know that's the range. Because that's what everybody
is telling me. That's the best way to do it.
That's why I always tell you, guys, three or four
estimates for everything. Joan, thank you for your call. Really
really good question. I hope that helps, and good luck
with that. But I think that's what's going to get
it done. All right, y'all, We're gonna hear some new
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It's Saturday morning, I'm allowed. H Hey, we're talking about
the best of the International Builders Show, which just wrapped
up this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. All right, so
I'm gonna do this one quickly and then we're going
to get some news and then we'll come back and
dig into another one. But u okay, prepare, Prepare for
(15:54):
an opinionated designer to speak for a couple of minutes here.
One of the best of at the show was Hover
Photo Realistic AI based design online design tool. Okay, what
(16:14):
does this mean? There are a ton if you've been
toying around with the idea of a remodel, there are
a lot of them, and there were a lot of
them at the show as well. And I'm not going
to pick on Hover. I'm not even gonna mention them
again here because I'm not trying to critique one company.
But yeah, you would expect as is the case. What
(16:36):
happened at the Consumer Electronics Show this year that AI
was everywhere. Everybody's touting the power of AI at the
at the show. So many products, so many envisions, especially
when it comes to software, and especially especially especially when
(16:56):
it comes to quote unquote using my air quotes here,
and whenever I do them, I use them pretty sarcastically,
especially when it comes to air quote design software. Now,
what is Dean's beef with this? He doesn't want to
be replaced with AI. No, I'm not worried about that. Really,
(17:17):
I'm truly not worried about that. I will tell you
what I am concerned about. I'm concerned about a program.
And there are a billion of them out there that say, hey,
guess what. Now we've got this advanced AI, and all
you have to do is input a photo of your room,
(17:37):
or a photo of your kitchen, or a photo of
the front of your house, and then pay us our
nominal fee, and our AI goes to work and will
give you all sorts of renderings photo realistic, super hype
of realistic renderings of what your house will look like
if we redesign it. In other words, here's a little
(17:59):
cottage front that they have on their website, and look
at it with all these different front doors, different windows, styles,
different This one has a stucco facing, this one has
horizontal sighting, this one has brick facing, and so on
and so forth. Just a computer generated and produced and
it does give you some really cool perspective as to
(18:23):
what these different surfaces would look like if you put
them on your house. So what's my beef? If I
don't have an issue with that, I think my main
issue is the use of the word design as opposed
to decor. Now here's the thing. What I get called
(18:45):
out to do in consults and with clients all the
time is to solve design problems. Very rarely, I will
tell you, very rarely, and I have nothing. I mean,
there are some incredibly talented interior designers, decore experts, some
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of them are very dear friends of mine, but they
tend to not get involved in architectural design, in other words,
moving bones of the house around. And that is always
my first approach to a home when I'm looking at redesign. Oh,
you're one of those expensive ones. Now that's not what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that design
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is more and should be more when it comes to
your home and the money you're going to spend on it.
Design should be more than just having a discussion about
changing a superficial surface aesthetic. Okay, it's more than just
changing the color of the wall, the paint on the walls,
(19:51):
more than just options of wallpaper. As important as these
things are, it's more than just well, should we redo
these kitchen cabinets. Give an example from a yesterday's consult
lovely lovely couple absolutely fell in love with them. We
were down in Garden Grove and uh, what was the
(20:11):
key to unlocking their home? They had already had ideas about, Oh,
we're going to gut this kitchen, we're going to replace
these cabinets, we're going to replace these countertops. They had
their ideas about how it was done. But after about
a half an hour of talking with them and looking around,
I moved their kitchen to another room. I did not
all on the other side of the house, just a
(20:32):
few feet away. The key to unlocking their home was
actually moving the kitchen about ninety degrees and shifting it
to an adjacent space. And you're thinking, oh, see, that's
the kind of expense we can't have dean bah ah.
But here's the thing. They were already planning on gutting
their kitchen, taking out all the kitchen cabinets, all the countertops.
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I mean, it was a full kitchen redo. Okay, that's
tens of thousands of dollars. That's the it's gonna be,
okay for about Let's say, let's be liberal and say
the two thousand dollars more, we could saw cut the
concrete slab, move the drain lines over, because those are
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the only really important things that are happening down the
slab for a kitchen, move the drain lines over to
this adjoining room, and simply rebuild the whole new kitchen there.
The only price difference between spending sixty thousand dollars or
sixty two thousand dollars, okay, was that two thousand dollars
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on the kitchen remodel, and by putting it in this
other space, completely changed and unlocked the magic of their home.
They hadn't thought of it that way, but that's what
they pay me to do. My point is AI based
design quote unquote software doesn't think like that. These things
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are set up. They're set up as marvels of design.
It's so inexpensive to get your home redesigned. But it's
not redesigning, it's just superficial change out. And if that's
all you're looking for, great, pay a nominal fee and
get different looks on the front of your house. But
I'm telling you right now, if you're really looking to
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make sure your house gets transformed in this next remodel,
then pay a designer to come in and give you
their opinion. They're going to do more than AI software
ever could. And so again I've got nothing against AI
or inexpensive decore suggestions. It's just not the game changer
(22:41):
that usually the house needs. That's all I'm saying. All Right, more,
when we come back, you're home with Dean Sharp the
house Whisper.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Hem HIM forty live streaming and in d everywhere on
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Dean Sharp the house Whisper. That is me and we
are talking about the best of the International Builder Show,
which just wrapped up this week in Las Vegas. It's
an annual event. It is the largest industry construction and
(23:18):
design industry event on the planet, and every year we
pick through the best of and I bring you things
that I think are relevant to you looking forward to
the future, anybody who's interested in homes, in custom home
building and remodeling, all the things that affect us as
(23:39):
homeowners that I think are most pertinent. And there are
a goa billion things that happen at the International Builder Show.
A lot of them are industry within industry show items,
but these are the things that really approach you as
a homeowner. And we're doing it today and tomorrow because
it's a big list. Even though my list is tiny
(24:03):
compared to everything that was at the show, it's still
a big list. So this is part one, next episode
A next broadcast tomorrow the Big Show will be part two,
so don't miss it. All right, real quick, I'm running late,
so I need to adjust some time here, but I
want to talk to you about one of the things
that still I just absolutely love and not everything that
(24:26):
comes out at the Builders Show is amazingly expensive, and
you know, innovation does not have to necessarily, you know,
cost a billion dollars. How about something that costs about
nine dollars. Yeah, that sounds nice. Now that I've mentioned
them before, so this is not brand new in concept,
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but the good people at door Saver have introduced this
year the door Saver three doorstop. So this is the
third generation of their door or stop doorstops. You know
they're they're what they are right there there. You've got
really two choices when it comes to keeping a door
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from swinging and banging against the base board or the handle,
banging into dry wall or hitting a piece of furniture
or whatever. Right you've you've essentially you've had two choices.
One is you get the little door stop peg that
you mount down on the base board and you screw
that in and it's sticking out about three and a
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half four inches, and sometimes they get kicked and ripped
out of the wall, or maybe you've decided, well, I'm
not going to do that again. You get one of
those spring ones. We all know the sound that those
things like that. You know they're there. They're not all
together attractive, they're in the way. They get hit by
(25:53):
vacuum cleaners and people and stuff. The other option, if
you don't want that happening, is that you get one
of those those little hinge pin door stops, which means
you take out like the top or the middle hinge
pin and you slide this little adapter on and it
basically is kind of a triangular shaped thing, and it's
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got a pad where it pushes against the door and
then it makes contact with the wall, and there's usually
like an adjustable screwpad. And you know it's fine, it's
not down in the way where you kick it, but
still that thing is still pushing against the door in
one particular place, and it's also pushing against the wall
(26:36):
in a particular place. And if you open the door
hard enough and push hard enough, it might push through
the wall and do damage to the wall. Nonetheless, So
you would think in this day and age that somebody
could design a doorstop that would not rely on the
pressure points on the wall or the baseboard. And they
have the good people at door Saber, and I believe
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you can get these even now at lows and home
deepot places like that. Door Saver has designed a hinge
pin based door stop. It does not put pressure on
the door, It doesn't even touch the door, and it
doesn't touch the wall. It is its own cam activated
system that controls the swing of the door, just as
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an addition to the hingepin. It's very very low profile.
It comes in multiple finishes and it installs in seconds.
You take out the hingepin, you replace it with the
door saver pin and stop, and you actually get to
set it. You can set it as to how far
it allows the door to open. It has a geared
(27:42):
system inside. It's brilliant and I'm gonna stop describing it
to you and just tell you you can look it
up right now online Door Saver three, Hidden Door Stop.
It's just a few bucks and honestly it's a game
changer when it comes to doors in a home. You
need to check it out all right. More when we
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return your home with Dean Sharp The House Whisper. Can't
buye Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Welcome home. Hey, thanks
for joining us on the show today. Here we are
at the end of another two hours. I've still got
a little bit more for you. Don't go anywhere, but
a what a privilege it is to spend time with
you on a Saturday morning. We'll be right back here
(28:26):
tomorrow morning for the rest of my list of the
best of the International Builder Show, which just wrapped up
this week. I'm glad you're here with me right now.
If you just joined us, hang tight, I've still got
some fun stuff here, so let me hit at least
one more thing before we are done and out today.
And this is exciting news for me. I just love
(28:49):
to see this because you know, I understand. I have
come from the world of a state level design. This
is where I've spent the vast majority of my time
as a custom home designer, working on big stuff, big, big,
big stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I was just very fortunate to be able to enter
into that field because a lot of creativity. Also a
lot of the solutions that I hand to you for mainstream,
middle class homes, even tiny little cottages and apartments and condos,
come from the lessons that are practiced and learned on
(29:29):
the on the kinds of homes in which there are
very very few limits, and the kinds of homes in
which the very best of architectural design is applied. And
that has something that has always bothered me about the
design world is that, you know, it's really one of
(29:50):
the secret sauces if you want to what I do
here on this show, and that is democratizing good design,
good architectural design. It doesn't just belong to the big
house on the hill behind the private gates. It should
belong to everyone. Good design belongs to everyone, including access
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to great designed materials and access to all sorts of
interesting ways of doing a thing. And here is one
from the International Builder Show that I'm so happy about
talk about democratization of good design. Masonite. Mason I it's
a massive company. You might know them for the boards
(30:35):
that they've created, but they also happen to be now
the largest door manufacturer in North America, all sorts of doors,
entry doors, interior doors of all shapes and sizes. They
are mainline I mean Masonite doors. You can order them
at lows and home Depot and big Boxes and every
door specialty company everywhere. Okay, Masonite is huge. And so
(31:01):
they have introduced a couple of things that the show.
One Dura style real wood doors. These are real wood doors,
not fiberglass simulated door. These are exterior doors like your
front door okay, or back door, anything that exposed to
the element real wood, solid wood okay. But they have
(31:22):
improved their assembly technology. They use a product a process
called aquaceele and combine that with torrified wood torrified wood.
I'm not going to get into the big thing. It's
simply this. It is wood that has undergone a thermal
heating price process that has changed the molecular structure of
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the wood, essentially has aged it and dried it way
beyond kiln dride, way beyond that, and it basically renders
would virtually weather proof on every level. So a combination
of their new aquacal technology and their torripe wood exterior doors,
you now have real wood doors twenty two times greater
(32:08):
weather protection than any standard wood door. That is massive.
That's just massive. So Masonite introducing a fantastic material across
the line for now available for any homeowner. And also
Masonite is now handling oversized pivot doors. Pivot doors are
(32:34):
almost exclusively and have been a luxury market item, and
now Masonite has essentially come in and said, listen, everybody
should have access to a good pivot door. A pivot door.
You know, I'm going to talk about a little bit
more tomorrow the advantages and the reasons that we would
apply a pivot door. But a pivot door, if you
don't know, instead of having hinges on the edge attached
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to a jam has pivot pins top and bottomn about
you know, a few inches in from the edge of
the door, and it allows us to put a much heavier,
much larger, oversized door in a door opening. It's very
cool how it opens by the way, and it's a
stronger door. It is a it holds up longer, it
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doesn't put pressure on the jam or the door edges
or the hinges. Almost exclusively before. Now a luxury item
that masonite you're you know, the Toyota of door manufacturers
is now introducing and and expanding out to a much
wider audience. And that kind of stuff gets me excited
because design options, real design options. And no it's not
(33:40):
for everybody. It's not gonna be for everybody, but the
point is it's available and it's out there, and now
you're gonna know about it. Uh And instead of just
it being a secret in the pocket of luxury designers
like me, you know, for our wealthy, wealthy clients. It's
just I love the idea that really good design is
out there and available to everybody. And that's what we
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strive for here on the program every weekend. So here's
the deal. I want you to get out there and
have a great day today. Join me back here tomorrow
from nine to noon, where we will dive even deeper
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Show for you for twenty twenty five. Don't forget that
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All right, we're taking calls. I'm talking to Joan. Let
me make sure I didn't hang up on her. Joan,
are you still with me?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes? Yeah, sure, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay. So Joan has a plumbing link. She has a leak.
It is suspected in her main line somewhere between the
house and the water meter, right, Joan, correct, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And also the driveway slopes down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The driveway slopes down, and the line is under the
drive way, right, correct. Yeah. And here is the sticky wicket, now, okay,
because it's not just about I shouldn't say it's a
sticky wicket. I should say that this makes this makes
the the in my opinion, the strategy very very clear, Joe,
(02:17):
very very clear. Because here's the thing. First of all,
we don't need expensive leak detection in your case. Okay,
if we were trying to spot repair this pipe, this mainline,
then and if it was traveling through let's say the yard,
where we could dig down and actually get to it, okay,
(02:39):
without destroying something like a driveway in order to do it,
then it might it might behoove us to get a
leak detection service out there and try and pinpoint it. Also,
if there's no concrete on top of it, the leaked
detection fee would be much less than what was quoted
to you, because we're not wrestling with the concrete and
(02:59):
the d bar in the concrete and all of the
other things. We're just trying to find a leak with
a pipe that's buried in the yard. But we're not
going to be able to get to that leak per
se underneath the concrete. And it doesn't sound like it's
a catastrophic leak. It's just a leak, and I think
(03:20):
if they suspected that it's more of a pinhole leak,
I'm assuming it's a copper line that's running.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Between That's what I've told Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, and that's what tends to happen. It's why we
don't like burying copper anymore in ground, because copper is
not a lifetime pipe when it's buried in the ground
in contact with soil and various minerals, because we realize
that it can corrode away in certain conditions, and so
(03:50):
we would much prefer to do a PVC pipe main
to the house a pottible PVC line. So anyway, the
point is, we don't want to tear up your driveway.
We don't need to know exactly where the pinpoint leak is.
All we need to know for sure is that there
(04:11):
is a leak, and that can happen super simple, and
maybe they already did this. But the fact of the
matter is, if it's a leak between your meter and
the house, all you have to do is turn off
the main line the valve going into the house. Okay,
now the water can't flow into the house. Now, the
water in between the water meter and the house is
(04:34):
trapped right there. Right if at that point with the
house water turned off, if the tiny leak detection arrow
or star. Sometimes they're blue, sometimes they're red, sometimes they're yellow,
but it's a tiny little device. Sometimes it's star shaped
or a triangle, if that is still moving on the
water meter gage, that means water is moving. That means
(04:58):
there's a leak. And since we we've already turned off
the water to the house, we know that the leak
is somewhere between the house and the water meter and
it's all underneath the driveway. Anyway, we don't need to
know anything else. Then my suggestion is that you call
out a plumber who specializes in epoxy linings for water lines.
(05:22):
And what they can do is a qualified plumber who
does this a lot. Okay, they can blow out that
line with an epoxy coating on the inside of that
copper line. These epoxy coatings, they're not good for catastrophic
breaks or crushes or anything like that, but specifically for
(05:47):
a copper line that's starting to pit and pinhole leak.
This epoxy will line the inside of the pipe. It's
essentially giving you a brand new pipe that cannot pit
any longer from the inside out. And it's essentially a
new water line. And it's going to be not cheap.
(06:09):
But if you save the money on the leak detection,
and when you consider the cost of manually digging up
your waterline underneath your concrete driveway, it's going to be
considerably less than that. And of course I want you
to call three or four qualified plumbers who do this
and get quotes so that you know that you're not overpaying.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
For Do you have any suggestions on a particular company.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, because they're all over the place. They're they're virtually
all over the place, everywhere. I just want you to
do some careful searches in your area and look for
companies that specialize in this, not just a plumbing company
that's like, oh yeah, every once in a while we
do this because it's a tricky process. It's got to
be done well in order for it to really take
(07:00):
and to hold. But I've seen it done so many
times effectively. So just start doing a little search for
your area and call them out and start getting prices,
and then you can compare those quotes and those prices.
But that would be my suggestion. It seems to me
that at this point we don't care about where the
leak is in between. If we know it's in between
(07:22):
the meter and the house, then we're going to just
reline that main line the whole thing, and guess what
the leak will be handled, because it's going to get
caught somewhere in between the meter and the house.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Uh huh. So I want to look for a plumber
with a specialty in epoxy lining for water lines.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, exactly that, Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And on a separate note, what you know, if I
decide to do the house sometime after that two bedroom
three bath house. What would be your estimate on the cost?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh, I couldn't do that. I couldn't, couldn't, right, Yeah,
I couldn't give you an estimate on that because it's
not just about the number of bedrooms. It's about the configuration.
It's about where the pipes are running, it's about access. Again,
I will say this for everybody who's listening. Whenever you're
getting a quote, the way you're going to find out
(08:18):
is not to compare it to some random average out there.
Of this is about what you should call. It's to
bring in three or four well vetted contractors and let
them bid the same thing, apples and apples, and then
you take a look at those prices. It's like a
Venn diagram. You will see where the prices will clump together,
(08:39):
and you'll know that's the range. Because that's what everybody
is telling me. That's the best way to do it.
That's why I always tell you, guys, three or four
estimates for everything. Joan, thank you for your call. Really
really good question. I hope that helps, and good luck
with that. But I think that's what's going to get
it done. All right, y'all, We're gonna hear some new
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and then we'll get back to the best of the
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It's Saturday morning, I'm allowed. H Hey, we're talking about
the best of the International Builders Show, which just wrapped
up this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. All right, so
I'm gonna do this one quickly and then we're going
to get some news and then we'll come back and
dig into another one. But u okay, prepare, Prepare for
(15:54):
an opinionated designer to speak for a couple of minutes here.
One of the best of at the show was Hover
Photo Realistic AI based design online design tool. Okay, what
(16:14):
does this mean? There are a ton if you've been
toying around with the idea of a remodel, there are
a lot of them, and there were a lot of
them at the show as well. And I'm not going
to pick on Hover. I'm not even gonna mention them
again here because I'm not trying to critique one company.
But yeah, you would expect as is the case. What
(16:36):
happened at the Consumer Electronics Show this year that AI
was everywhere. Everybody's touting the power of AI at the
at the show. So many products, so many envisions, especially
when it comes to software, and especially especially especially when
(16:56):
it comes to quote unquote using my air quotes here,
and whenever I do them, I use them pretty sarcastically,
especially when it comes to air quote design software. Now,
what is Dean's beef with this? He doesn't want to
be replaced with AI. No, I'm not worried about that. Really,
(17:17):
I'm truly not worried about that. I will tell you
what I am concerned about. I'm concerned about a program.
And there are a billion of them out there that say, hey,
guess what. Now we've got this advanced AI, and all
you have to do is input a photo of your room,
(17:37):
or a photo of your kitchen, or a photo of
the front of your house, and then pay us our
nominal fee, and our AI goes to work and will
give you all sorts of renderings photo realistic, super hype
of realistic renderings of what your house will look like
if we redesign it. In other words, here's a little
(17:59):
cottage front that they have on their website, and look
at it with all these different front doors, different windows, styles,
different This one has a stucco facing, this one has
horizontal sighting, this one has brick facing, and so on
and so forth. Just a computer generated and produced and
it does give you some really cool perspective as to
(18:23):
what these different surfaces would look like if you put
them on your house. So what's my beef? If I
don't have an issue with that, I think my main
issue is the use of the word design as opposed
to decor. Now here's the thing. What I get called
(18:45):
out to do in consults and with clients all the
time is to solve design problems. Very rarely, I will
tell you, very rarely, and I have nothing. I mean,
there are some incredibly talented interior designers, decore experts, some
(19:06):
of them are very dear friends of mine, but they
tend to not get involved in architectural design, in other words,
moving bones of the house around. And that is always
my first approach to a home when I'm looking at redesign. Oh,
you're one of those expensive ones. Now that's not what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that design
(19:30):
is more and should be more when it comes to
your home and the money you're going to spend on it.
Design should be more than just having a discussion about
changing a superficial surface aesthetic. Okay, it's more than just
changing the color of the wall, the paint on the walls,
(19:51):
more than just options of wallpaper. As important as these
things are, it's more than just well, should we redo
these kitchen cabinets. Give an example from a yesterday's consult
lovely lovely couple absolutely fell in love with them. We
were down in Garden Grove and uh, what was the
(20:11):
key to unlocking their home? They had already had ideas about, Oh,
we're going to gut this kitchen, we're going to replace
these cabinets, we're going to replace these countertops. They had
their ideas about how it was done. But after about
a half an hour of talking with them and looking around,
I moved their kitchen to another room. I did not
all on the other side of the house, just a
(20:32):
few feet away. The key to unlocking their home was
actually moving the kitchen about ninety degrees and shifting it
to an adjacent space. And you're thinking, oh, see, that's
the kind of expense we can't have dean bah ah.
But here's the thing. They were already planning on gutting
their kitchen, taking out all the kitchen cabinets, all the countertops.
(20:53):
I mean, it was a full kitchen redo. Okay, that's
tens of thousands of dollars. That's the it's gonna be,
okay for about Let's say, let's be liberal and say
the two thousand dollars more, we could saw cut the
concrete slab, move the drain lines over, because those are
(21:16):
the only really important things that are happening down the
slab for a kitchen, move the drain lines over to
this adjoining room, and simply rebuild the whole new kitchen there.
The only price difference between spending sixty thousand dollars or
sixty two thousand dollars, okay, was that two thousand dollars
(21:37):
on the kitchen remodel, and by putting it in this
other space, completely changed and unlocked the magic of their home.
They hadn't thought of it that way, but that's what
they pay me to do. My point is AI based
design quote unquote software doesn't think like that. These things
(21:59):
are set up. They're set up as marvels of design.
It's so inexpensive to get your home redesigned. But it's
not redesigning, it's just superficial change out. And if that's
all you're looking for, great, pay a nominal fee and
get different looks on the front of your house. But
I'm telling you right now, if you're really looking to
(22:21):
make sure your house gets transformed in this next remodel,
then pay a designer to come in and give you
their opinion. They're going to do more than AI software
ever could. And so again I've got nothing against AI
or inexpensive decore suggestions. It's just not the game changer
(22:41):
that usually the house needs. That's all I'm saying. All Right, more,
when we come back, you're home with Dean Sharp the
house Whisper.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Hem HIM forty live streaming and in d everywhere on
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Dean Sharp the house Whisper. That is me and we
are talking about the best of the International Builder Show,
which just wrapped up this week in Las Vegas. It's
an annual event. It is the largest industry construction and
(23:18):
design industry event on the planet, and every year we
pick through the best of and I bring you things
that I think are relevant to you looking forward to
the future, anybody who's interested in homes, in custom home
building and remodeling, all the things that affect us as
(23:39):
homeowners that I think are most pertinent. And there are
a goa billion things that happen at the International Builder Show.
A lot of them are industry within industry show items,
but these are the things that really approach you as
a homeowner. And we're doing it today and tomorrow because
it's a big list. Even though my list is tiny
(24:03):
compared to everything that was at the show, it's still
a big list. So this is part one, next episode
A next broadcast tomorrow the Big Show will be part two,
so don't miss it. All right, real quick, I'm running late,
so I need to adjust some time here, but I
want to talk to you about one of the things
that still I just absolutely love and not everything that
(24:26):
comes out at the Builders Show is amazingly expensive, and
you know, innovation does not have to necessarily, you know,
cost a billion dollars. How about something that costs about
nine dollars. Yeah, that sounds nice. Now that I've mentioned
them before, so this is not brand new in concept,
(24:50):
but the good people at door Saver have introduced this
year the door Saver three doorstop. So this is the
third generation of their door or stop doorstops. You know
they're they're what they are right there there. You've got
really two choices when it comes to keeping a door
(25:12):
from swinging and banging against the base board or the handle,
banging into dry wall or hitting a piece of furniture
or whatever. Right you've you've essentially you've had two choices.
One is you get the little door stop peg that
you mount down on the base board and you screw
that in and it's sticking out about three and a
(25:32):
half four inches, and sometimes they get kicked and ripped
out of the wall, or maybe you've decided, well, I'm
not going to do that again. You get one of
those spring ones. We all know the sound that those
things like that. You know they're there. They're not all
together attractive, they're in the way. They get hit by
(25:53):
vacuum cleaners and people and stuff. The other option, if
you don't want that happening, is that you get one
of those those little hinge pin door stops, which means
you take out like the top or the middle hinge
pin and you slide this little adapter on and it
basically is kind of a triangular shaped thing, and it's
(26:14):
got a pad where it pushes against the door and
then it makes contact with the wall, and there's usually
like an adjustable screwpad. And you know it's fine, it's
not down in the way where you kick it, but
still that thing is still pushing against the door in
one particular place, and it's also pushing against the wall
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in a particular place. And if you open the door
hard enough and push hard enough, it might push through
the wall and do damage to the wall. Nonetheless, So
you would think in this day and age that somebody
could design a doorstop that would not rely on the
pressure points on the wall or the baseboard. And they
have the good people at door Saber, and I believe
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you can get these even now at lows and home
deepot places like that. Door Saver has designed a hinge
pin based door stop. It does not put pressure on
the door, It doesn't even touch the door, and it
doesn't touch the wall. It is its own cam activated
system that controls the swing of the door, just as
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an addition to the hingepin. It's very very low profile.
It comes in multiple finishes and it installs in seconds.
You take out the hingepin, you replace it with the
door saver pin and stop, and you actually get to
set it. You can set it as to how far
it allows the door to open. It has a geared
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system inside. It's brilliant and I'm gonna stop describing it
to you and just tell you you can look it
up right now online Door Saver three, Hidden Door Stop.
It's just a few bucks and honestly it's a game
changer when it comes to doors in a home. You
need to check it out all right. More when we
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return your home with Dean Sharp The House Whisper. Can't
buye Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Welcome home. Hey, thanks
for joining us on the show today. Here we are
at the end of another two hours. I've still got
a little bit more for you. Don't go anywhere, but
a what a privilege it is to spend time with
you on a Saturday morning. We'll be right back here
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tomorrow morning for the rest of my list of the
best of the International Builder Show, which just wrapped up
this week. I'm glad you're here with me right now.
If you just joined us, hang tight, I've still got
some fun stuff here, so let me hit at least
one more thing before we are done and out today.
And this is exciting news for me. I just love
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to see this because you know, I understand. I have
come from the world of a state level design. This
is where I've spent the vast majority of my time
as a custom home designer, working on big stuff, big, big,
big stuff.
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You know.
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I was just very fortunate to be able to enter
into that field because a lot of creativity. Also a
lot of the solutions that I hand to you for mainstream,
middle class homes, even tiny little cottages and apartments and condos,
come from the lessons that are practiced and learned on
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the on the kinds of homes in which there are
very very few limits, and the kinds of homes in
which the very best of architectural design is applied. And
that has something that has always bothered me about the
design world is that, you know, it's really one of
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the secret sauces if you want to what I do
here on this show, and that is democratizing good design,
good architectural design. It doesn't just belong to the big
house on the hill behind the private gates. It should
belong to everyone. Good design belongs to everyone, including access
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to great designed materials and access to all sorts of
interesting ways of doing a thing. And here is one
from the International Builder Show that I'm so happy about
talk about democratization of good design. Masonite. Mason I it's
a massive company. You might know them for the boards
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that they've created, but they also happen to be now
the largest door manufacturer in North America, all sorts of doors,
entry doors, interior doors of all shapes and sizes. They
are mainline I mean Masonite doors. You can order them
at lows and home Depot and big Boxes and every
door specialty company everywhere. Okay, Masonite is huge. And so
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they have introduced a couple of things that the show.
One Dura style real wood doors. These are real wood doors,
not fiberglass simulated door. These are exterior doors like your
front door okay, or back door, anything that exposed to
the element real wood, solid wood okay. But they have
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improved their assembly technology. They use a product a process
called aquaceele and combine that with torrified wood torrified wood.
I'm not going to get into the big thing. It's
simply this. It is wood that has undergone a thermal
heating price process that has changed the molecular structure of
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the wood, essentially has aged it and dried it way
beyond kiln dride, way beyond that, and it basically renders
would virtually weather proof on every level. So a combination
of their new aquacal technology and their torripe wood exterior doors,
you now have real wood doors twenty two times greater
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weather protection than any standard wood door. That is massive.
That's just massive. So Masonite introducing a fantastic material across
the line for now available for any homeowner. And also
Masonite is now handling oversized pivot doors. Pivot doors are
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almost exclusively and have been a luxury market item, and
now Masonite has essentially come in and said, listen, everybody
should have access to a good pivot door. A pivot door.
You know, I'm going to talk about a little bit
more tomorrow the advantages and the reasons that we would
apply a pivot door. But a pivot door, if you
don't know, instead of having hinges on the edge attached
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to a jam has pivot pins top and bottomn about
you know, a few inches in from the edge of
the door, and it allows us to put a much heavier,
much larger, oversized door in a door opening. It's very
cool how it opens by the way, and it's a
stronger door. It is a it holds up longer, it
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doesn't put pressure on the jam or the door edges
or the hinges. Almost exclusively before. Now a luxury item
that masonite you're you know, the Toyota of door manufacturers
is now introducing and and expanding out to a much
wider audience. And that kind of stuff gets me excited
because design options, real design options. And no it's not
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for everybody. It's not gonna be for everybody, but the
point is it's available and it's out there, and now
you're gonna know about it. Uh And instead of just
it being a secret in the pocket of luxury designers
like me, you know, for our wealthy, wealthy clients. It's
just I love the idea that really good design is
out there and available to everybody. And that's what we
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strive for here on the program every weekend. So here's
the deal. I want you to get out there and
have a great day today. Join me back here tomorrow
from nine to noon, where we will dive even deeper
into my list of the best of the International Builder
Show for you for twenty twenty five. Don't forget that
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we are all over social media at home with Dean
on all the usual suspects, and if your home is
in need of some personal house Whisper attention, you can
book an in home design console with us at house
Whisper dot Design until tomorrow. Get out there and get
busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow.
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