April 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Dean gives listeners small, easy tips to do a little 'makeover magic' in their homes. Dean answers listener question on how to repair a roof and aluminum siding damaged by a hailstorm, the pros and cons of canned lighting vs lamps, how to repair a concrete block wall damaged by tree roots, can galvanized steel be painted effectively and how to repair damage to bricks caused by removing the bolts for a satellite dish.
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an all Calls Saturday morning, and I was talking to George.
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George is still on the line. You're still with me, George, Yes, Sam,
all right, So George is George is looking to light
his house differently, a lot of lamps around, a lot
of cords, lying about. He was thinking about putting in
recess can light But he's a longtime listener and so,
like so many of you, he fears my opinion about
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recess canlights. So he wanted to call that he doesn't
fear it. He wanted to call and uh and see
what I had to say about putting ress can lights in.
So here's the thing, my friend, I am not against
recess can lights in a home. I'm all about them.
They're great, they're fantastic. But yes, most houses that I
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walk into are houses that have been abused by recess
can lighting, not because of the lights themselves, but because
of the way that they've been used improperly. And so,
how do you properly use a recess canlight? Well, let's
put aside. They're the standard, straightforward use in utility areas
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like kitchens, laundry rooms, and you know, even bathrooms. Here
you just have standard can lights going down onto countertops
without causing shadows in front of them, onto floors. General lighting,
it's great, light up, light it up like a stadium,
because these are areas where we want as much light
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as possible. But in romantic areas and you're like romantic
when you're talking about boudoir, No, I just mean areas
of architectural romance, living rooms, bedrooms, that kind of thing
where we're going for max effect and ambiance. Here is
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how we use a recess canlight. Here's how professional lighting
designers use recess canlights. Are you ready? Everybody, listen to
the words I am about to speak. We do not
light rooms. We light things. And there you go. There's
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the rule. If you remember nothing else, remember that we
do not light rooms. We like things. Now what does
that mean? It means this. It means that you know,
around the perimeter of let's say a living room, there
are walls, and those walls have space on them, space
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where you're going to hang family photos, space where you're
going to hang a piece of art, space where you
may have bookshelves, or you may have a stone finish
on your fireplace, those kinds of things. These are things
and I love lighting, and recess can lights are usually
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the best way to do it, ceiling mount can lights.
The key is this, we don't want a recess can light,
just dropping general lighting in the room. Overhead general lighting.
It's the worst kind of lighting for human beings. It
dissipates all shadows, and shadows are something that we want
in a room because shadows bring texture and dimensionality and
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interest to a space. We want shadows. We don't want
to drive all the shadows out of a room. We
want them. But overhead lighting on a human being is
ask any photographer, no, no, no, We're not going to
light you that. That's like Halloween lighting. Right, big shadows
under your eyebrows and so on. It's just the worst
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kind of general light. Not to mention the fact that
the last thing world you want in a room is
to gaze towards the ceiling and be staring into essentially
what is the headlight of oncoming vehicles. Glare. Glare is
a massive, massive enemy of recess can lighting. We don't
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want it, So how do you achieve this? When I
buy recess can light to inspect it for a house easily,
and I'm not exaggerating, well over eighty percent, sometimes well
over ninety percent of the recess can lights that we
purchase for use in homes are directional. It means that
they are what's called a gimbal style recess can light.
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A gimbal simply means Back in the eighties, when these
first came out, we used to call them eyeballs because
they kind of there's a big round part that sticks
into the room and you rotate it around. But the
point is they're not eyeballs anymore. Gimbal lighting. Gimbal lighting
means that you can direct the light, and I don't
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want to direct the light down onto the floor if
there's a section of wall where we're gonna potentially hang
a piece of art. Then I'll put a recess can
light about thirty inches or so off of that wall,
right in front of that section of wall, and it's
a directional light so that I can aim the light
at the art, so that I'll put up I'll put
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lights in front of bookshelves so that i can aim
the light at the bookshelves. I'll put lights in front
of family photos so i can aim the light at
the photos. And guess what, these aren't lasers. That light
bounces around and also fills gently fills up the room
with ambient light as well, but the direction of the
light is aimed toward the wall, away from your eyes
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so that you are not staring up into glare. So
we've solved the glare problem. And we're not just generally
doing overhead lighting. We are lighting things, not the room,
and that's the goal. So think that through as you
lay out any room in bedroom, you got a wall,
you're gonna put art, you're gonna put photos, you gotta
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put something attractive there. Light it. Throw a light on
to it, not next to it, onto it. Okay, don't
make the mistake of putting recess can lights straight down
as reading lights over a bed, because as soon as
you are laying horizon and look straight up, you will
never turn those lights on because glaire glare into your eyes.
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No one likes it. Even if you don't think about it.
People shy away from it. Nobody likes it, and so
does Dean Hate recess candlights, No, not at all. They
have their use. There are only two kinds of lights
in the world. There are lights that do the job
of lighting something without drawing attention to themselves. It's just
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the light that we want out of them. And there
are lights that light a thing and also say hey,
look at me, So like a chandelier is one of
those lights that does lighting but also says, hey look
at me, I'm gonna gugi, I'm sexy. A recess candlight,
by definition, is meant to go away, not draw attention
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to itself, and simply provide the light on the object
of its focus. So yeah, taking a living room and
laying out eight to ten recess can lights all over
the ceiling in an organized grid wrong, absolutely, one hundred
percent not good. Wrong. But picking where we have open space,
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where we have walls, where we have objects that we
want to light, and directing a specific light against that wall,
against that object, against that thing. We light things, not rooms.
Got it all right? George? There you are, my friend,
best advice I can give in the shortest amount of
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time possible. These are the pearls that you get when
you come on the show. Recess can lighting good thing
for a home. Don't overuse it. Lamps work way better
in most situations. But if you've got stuff on the
walls you want people to see, light it up. But
turn those lights toward those objects, not towards people's eyes.
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It's that simple, all right. When we come back, more
of your calls, Thank you, George, appreciate you, appreciate you listening.
Good luck on picking those lights for your home. And yes,
these things are available, these movable directional they're available at
the big box stores and at lighting outlets and at
hardware storage. You just got to know what you're looking
for and insist on the directional lights. More of your
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calls when we return. Can't buy Dean sharp the ouse was.
We're at your service. We're doing an all call Saturday morning,
just doing what I love to do more than anything,
talking directly to you about what's going on with your home.
So we've got calls on the board and let's talk
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to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Home, Good morning, Dean, thank you for taking my call.
I have I will be removing a satellite dish from
the chimney. And after I remove the dish, I'm going
to have holes in my chimney. It's a red brick chimney,
and I would like to know what how I can
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fill it and how I can get the color fairly
close to the brick.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Gotcha, gotcha. Uh, there are products out there that will
do this for you. This is the good news. But uh,
there are better and worse places to find these products.
And so I'm just gonna you know what, where where
do you live, Richard?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I live in ranch Ugarcamannga.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Okay, so I'm going to recommend that you find your
nearest stone yard or or a builder supply. And by
builder supply, a lot of people get this confused. Not
a hardware store, not a big box store. Builder supply
is usually uh, you know, quite often stone rock, those
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kinds of things like TOMPs, like Thompson Building Materials. This
is the kind of place you want to go in
southern California, Thompson. They've got places, They've got outlets all
over the place. There's gonna be one within driving distance
of you. I'm sure there are kits out there that
have color matching boards, like colored stucco matching and you,
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but you don't normally find these at the big box stores. Okay,
So you go to a stone yard and you just
tell them that he was like, hey, I got brick
and here's a particular color. If you can take them
a little chip or a little sample, they might be
able to color match it right there for you off
of one of their color codes. If you've got used
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brick and each brick is a different color, then you
know you're gonna need a little, tiny, little sample of
each one. But it's relatively easy to do, and the
color matches are dang close, and so you can just
you know, putting knife right into those holes, seal them
all up, and the bricks look great after it's all
said and done. You just need to find a pro
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version of a kit. They're not harder to use than
anything else. They're just better. And they are sold specifically
at stone yards because that's the kind of stuff that
they deal with all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So what the material that that would be going into
the into the holes. It would be more like like
a putty type material.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's putty ish, but it's actually kind of a concrete.
It's a you know, it's it's a it's a dynamic
polymer concrete and as a result, it matches texture, it
structurally fills the hole just fine. Uh and uh it
comes the good ones come in various Uh. You know,
we we find ourselves having to match concrete colors with
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crack filling all the time, and brick cracks and brick holes,
all of this. It's a common thing in industry, but
it's usually something reserved for professionals in terms of you know,
people asking for it. But they're very very easy to use.
You know, you'll get a little you know, basically a
cup of it, or sometimes they come in little baggies
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and you mix it to the consistency of pace that
you want and you just putty it in and that's
pretty much it. It's just that there aren't many homeowners
who do it themselves as opposed to it happens in
the context of a bigger repair, so the contractors handle it.
So those kinds of materials you find at pro building
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supply suppliers like stone yards like Thompson, which is a
fantastic builder supply for stone and veneers and all of
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
No, well, thank you so very much. I appreciate your
help this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You are very welcome, sir. Good luck with that. I
know you'll find it. You will. You'll be shocked that
you're like, oh, is this easy? Wow? You can also
find these things, by the way, if you are not
near one of those builder supply places like I just
talked about, you can find this kind of thing on
You can find it on eBay, you can find them
on Amazon. Just don't commit to a color yet. Act
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ask have them send you a color selection chart first,
and then you can match it up to your brick
and then you can order the right pigment to repair
whatever brickwork you've actually got going on. I've got it
all right, more of your calls.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
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Speaker 2 (15:36):
I AM six forty live streaming in h D everywhere
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That's the name of the show home Why, because it's
about your home. That's why I'm here to help you
transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Saturday mornings
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love to take calls. We've got calls on the board.
I want to go back to them. Now, let's talk
to Bailey. Hey, Bailey, welcome home. I am well, how
can I help you? My friend?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I have been told that I need a sub floor
under four rooms in my house because it tends to
slope in certain areas. So I'm calling to I know
what type of person I need to do that and
questions to ask so it gets done right.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
The first time.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Okay, well, tell me a little bit about the house.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But what do you want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm assuming you've had a raised foundation house. Is it
a really old house, is it a relatively new house?
And what kind of uneven floors are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It is almost one hundred years old? Is a raised foundation?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Is a raised foundation? And it's just like when you
walk on it, you can just feel it sloping down
in two bedrooms and mostly like in corners and stuff. So, yeah,
I had the foundation. What do you call it?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Retro fitted.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, but just yeah, I kind of made solid and
then it seemed like it got worse after that happened.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, all right, and the guy said.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That he can't make it even because I needed the
sub floor, which I'm assuming is plywood.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well yeah, okay. Sub Flooring is simply the flooring that
you're walking on. That's where That's what it is. Uh it.
Sub floor can be a number of different things, but
it's the overall component that is a raised floor. That's
the sub floor. The sub floor is what everything that's
underneath your finished floor. Okay. Uh And so so here's
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the thing. Of course, our first concerned is why is
the house sloping and settled? It's not at all unusual, Okay,
but you got to ask the questions. You got to
ask the question one hundred year old home. You know. Foundation,
Sometimes foundation are failing, Areas of a foundation are failing.
Other times, after a century, they've just settled, they've just
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settled in a little bit and they've sunk down a
little bit. But the foundation is not failing. So you're like, well, wait,
what's the difference. If a foundation is out of level,
doesn't that mean it's failing? No, A failing foundation is
when when the one of those concrete stem walls or
what's going underneath is cracked and is sagging now and
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is in need of repair. But there are sometimes at
one hundred year old house areas have just settled in
a little bit more half an inch of settled three courts,
sometimes an inch of settling. The foundation is in good shape.
It's just a little tipped and so it's holding up
the house just fine. But it has settled in crooked
over the number as the decades have passed by. So
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our first concern as always is there a foundation problem,
and for that it is well worth calling a foundation
repair company out. They are foundation engineers. There's a number
of them in the southern California area. You call a
foundation repair company out and you have them do a
crawl and do an examination to make sure that we
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don't have any serious damage. Now, if that's fine, let's
say we're good. We're just settled. Okay, If that's an issue,
then that has to be addressed. But let's say we
just have settlement. Well, your foundation. Depending on where these
rooms are at, it may be possible to jack them
up from underneath to actually raise up that corner and
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then reblock them, repost them because you do have a
raised foundation. It may may be possibly has everything to
do with where the rooms are at and how they're
sitting on the foundation. But it is quite often possible
to do some jacking up of the roof of the
sub floor itself. Now, when that's not possible, it may
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be possible to from to affect the repair from the
room side of things, which means a one hundred year
old home. Can I assume it it's got hardwood flooring, Bailey?
Are you with I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I think we
cut you off there. Do we have a hardwood.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Floor No, it did at one time.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
What have you got now, I've got the laminate.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, you've got lamb okay, all right, all right, great,
so you've got a laminate floating floor, right, okay? So
uh so two other things real quick. One, if let's
say the foundation is not failing and yet it's not
really qualifies for jacking up underneath from the room side. Okay,
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from the room side. If we pull up the laminate
flooring in your case, right, and we've underneath, if we
are sealing off, in other words, if underneath. We don't
have just those forty five degree diagonal one by six
strips that were originally built under the hardwood floor. But
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if we have like plywood or solid sheeting underneath that, okay,
then in your case you're leveling those rooms may be
as simple as using some some floor self leveling compound, okay,
which is on top of that plywood underneath the laminate
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before you put the lamin it back. This is a mixture.
It's like a cement mixture. It's got epoxies and resins
in it. You can find it at the big box store,
or you can have a company do this for you.
But the idea is we mix this up. We mix
it up in five gallon buckets, and we can pour
it out onto a sub floor condition that's the floor
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underneath your floor. We can pour it out and we
mix it up to the consistency of like runny pancake batter, okay.
And the whole idea is that this stuff finds its
own level. It pours out across the floor, it finds
its own level in the room, and we keep pouring
it out until we've leveled out the whole floor. You
don't trowl it. You don't. You don't have to work,
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you don't have to be a concrete expert. This stuff
just pours out into the room, and it's so it's
so liquidy liquidity is that a word. It's so liquidy
that it finds its own level. You walk away, you
come back two hours later, it's walkable and it's level. Okay,
Now the room is still tipping, you know, the ceiling
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is still gonna be but most of the time you
don't perceive it up there. It's the floor that you
perceive it on. So this is good for out of
level floors. It's good for floors that have wavy, you know,
weirdness in them. Self leveling compound and I'm only saying
that I'm jumping to the to that point because you've
got a laminate floor a floating floor on top of it.
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We'd treat this differently if you still had your old hardwood,
but you've got these laminate floors. So the laminate floor
comes out, deconstruct it, stack it off to the side,
self level the room, and then you can lay the
laminate floor back perfectly level. Now, perfectly level floor, all
of the inequities taken out. But again I got to
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emphasize first, we got to make sure that the foundation's
in good shape. Then we're going to see if any
of actual repair meaning jacking up is possible, and if not,
then you can approach it from the room side of
things for the sake of the feel of your walking
across the room and the esthetics inside the room.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, if I can do the last part except the
third idea once I get the other two things that
I discus.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
One who installs floors or is it more advanced?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, no and all.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, self loving. I mean it's for a lot of
people treat it as a DIY project honestly because you
can find the stuff sitting at the home depot and
lows in the buildings supply section. But yeah, a floor
installer often use self loving. So you can contact floor installers, Uh,
they are totally accustomed to using that material. Contractors in
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general use the material, so it's not a it's not
a big specialty item. But if you don't want to
tackle it yourself, talk to a floor installation company. They'll
be the ones that if you want to hire them
for it, they can, you know, deconstruct your laminate floor
set it aside self level of the room and then
reinstall the laminate for you.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Okay, fantastic, Thank.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You very much, Bailey. Well you are welcome and good
luck there are You know, there are special conditions of
special ways that to one hundred year old homes need
to be taken care of. And that's one of the
most common things that happens to one hundred year old home,
which is the foundation not necessarily failing, but has just
settled in. And you know it's a little out of level.
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It's typical, right, the older we get just a little
out of level, all of us just slightly like yep.
It's the age and life and pressure just makes us
all a little at a level. But we can fix it.
We just trowl in enough stuff into the cracks. All right,
more of your calls, Kyfi Dean Sharp the house.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
With for.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
It's an all call Saturday morning tomorrow, by the way,
on the Big Show from nine to noon Pacific time,
We're going to talk about makeovers. Makeovers in uncertain financial times,
some people are holding back on remodels, innovations. I'm gonna explain,
(26:02):
by the way, tomorrow. What's the difference between remodels, renovations, redecorating,
and makeovers. But in uncertain financial times, you may hold
back on the big, big changes, and you still want
to make an impact. Now we're in the world of
the makeover, and if you do it right, you save
a lot of money and you have a lot of
(26:24):
change in your home, a lot of money saved, big
change made. That's what a makeover is. And we'll be
giving you tips and trips, tips and tricks for every
room tomorrow, so don't miss the big show. All right,
let's take one more call before we're out of here. Today,
I want to talk to Kim. Hey, Kim, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I've got
a roof challenge. I have a house. It's in the Midwest,
got some hail damage and I'm getting two contractors that
looked at it said that whole, the whole roof needs replaced.
(27:08):
I need to know if you have any advice on
how to proceed because the insurance company is saying only
half the roof needs to be replaced because there inspectors
see it differently than the contractors.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What's your advice, well of course they do. Uh so, okay,
so why is the insurance company saying only half the
roof needs to be replaced.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
They said that that doesn't show any the damage that
they would cover, but half the roof does, and that
I take it up there because you know, I let
that young guys do that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah. Okay, So here's the big question for the insurance
This is always the biggest question for the insurance company.
All right, let's let's just a let's just entertain the
idea that half of the roof has been damaged by
the hail. Is it? Is it just one side of
the roof, like this section over here, but this side
of the house somehow damaging hail didn't fall. Or is
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it When we say half, are we talking about fifty
percent of the roof all over the place has been
damaged by hail.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
And it's probably because the angle of the wind that
came in. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I have their inspection reports.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, but here's the thing, my friend, you don't have
to go by that inspection report. If you've got two
professional roofers or contractors looking there and saying this whole
thing has to go, I can imagine a number of
scenarios in which that's the case. Number one, if every
other you know, fifty percent, if every other shingle up
on the roof has got damage, it doesn't matter. There
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is there is no practical way to leave the undamaged
shingles in between damaged shingles all around. You know, we
can't just pick and choose when it comes to that
much damage on the roof. Cost effective thing and the
proper way is to pull the roof, recheck, redo all
the underlayment, and put all the new roofing material back on.
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That's number one from a just a logistics standpoint. Number two,
the insurance company is responsible for restoring your roof to
its original condition. And how old is the roof?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I think it's close to fifteen years, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So, it's been out in the sun for fifteen years.
Do we know if the roofing material of that roofing material,
that exact color, that exact brand, that exact texture is available,
Because if it's not, then you are not you are
not responsible to live with a patchwork of non matching
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colors and non matching materials. It is one material, one roof.
That's what your roof looked like. Before the hail damage.
That's what it should look like after they are done
with the repair. So yet another argument. We deal with
this with insurance companies inside the house all the time.
They'll say, well, the only damage was in the living
room hardwood. I'm like, well, okay, this is twenty year
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old hardwood. It's been bleached by the sun. And this
hardwood continues down the hallway into the bedrooms and into
that kitchen area. Can you replace this and match exactly
these floors because that was the pre existing condition. And
then the insurance adjuster is like, well, no, no, And
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I get contractors to say, impossible, we can't match it.
All the wood in all the rooms has to be replaced,
even though they weren't damaged. The fact is they all
have to match the damage replacement area as well. And
the same holds true with any surface, including your roof.
Even if that roofing material KIM is still available, they
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have to be able to prove that that color still
matches your roof shingles that have been bleached in the
sun for the last fifteen years. And the answer to
that is going to be no. So the moral of
the story is, use those contractors and let them ride
up their recommendation, their strong recommendation, not just their recommendation,
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but the reasons why half of this roof should not
be replaced and half left in the place. And you
tell the insurance company this is the way it's going
to be. And if you need to get an independent
inspector in their public adjuster helping you out, then step
up to a public adjuster, pay them a little bit
of money in order to force the claim so that
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you get your roof replaced in its entirety and properly. Kim,
thanks for your question, Thanks for hanging on so long.
I know you've been on the board there for a
while during the show. Thank you to all of our
callers today. It's always great to talk to you about
your house. Join me on the Big Show tomorrow nine
to noon Pacific time. We'll be talking about makeovers. Until then,
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an all Calls Saturday morning, and I was talking to George.
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George is still on the line. You're still with me, George, Yes, Sam,
all right, So George is George is looking to light
his house differently, a lot of lamps around, a lot
of cords, lying about. He was thinking about putting in
recess can light But he's a longtime listener and so,
like so many of you, he fears my opinion about
(02:23):
recess canlights. So he wanted to call that he doesn't
fear it. He wanted to call and uh and see
what I had to say about putting ress can lights in.
So here's the thing, my friend, I am not against
recess can lights in a home. I'm all about them.
They're great, they're fantastic. But yes, most houses that I
(02:43):
walk into are houses that have been abused by recess
can lighting, not because of the lights themselves, but because
of the way that they've been used improperly. And so,
how do you properly use a recess canlight? Well, let's
put aside. They're the standard, straightforward use in utility areas
(03:04):
like kitchens, laundry rooms, and you know, even bathrooms. Here
you just have standard can lights going down onto countertops
without causing shadows in front of them, onto floors. General lighting,
it's great, light up, light it up like a stadium,
because these are areas where we want as much light
(03:25):
as possible. But in romantic areas and you're like romantic
when you're talking about boudoir, No, I just mean areas
of architectural romance, living rooms, bedrooms, that kind of thing
where we're going for max effect and ambiance. Here is
(03:46):
how we use a recess canlight. Here's how professional lighting
designers use recess canlights. Are you ready? Everybody, listen to
the words I am about to speak. We do not
light rooms. We light things. And there you go. There's
(04:08):
the rule. If you remember nothing else, remember that we
do not light rooms. We like things. Now what does
that mean? It means this. It means that you know,
around the perimeter of let's say a living room, there
are walls, and those walls have space on them, space
(04:28):
where you're going to hang family photos, space where you're
going to hang a piece of art, space where you
may have bookshelves, or you may have a stone finish
on your fireplace, those kinds of things. These are things
and I love lighting, and recess can lights are usually
(04:49):
the best way to do it, ceiling mount can lights.
The key is this, we don't want a recess can light,
just dropping general lighting in the room. Overhead general lighting.
It's the worst kind of lighting for human beings. It
dissipates all shadows, and shadows are something that we want
in a room because shadows bring texture and dimensionality and
(05:14):
interest to a space. We want shadows. We don't want
to drive all the shadows out of a room. We
want them. But overhead lighting on a human being is
ask any photographer, no, no, no, We're not going to
light you that. That's like Halloween lighting. Right, big shadows
under your eyebrows and so on. It's just the worst
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kind of general light. Not to mention the fact that
the last thing world you want in a room is
to gaze towards the ceiling and be staring into essentially
what is the headlight of oncoming vehicles. Glare. Glare is
a massive, massive enemy of recess can lighting. We don't
(05:55):
want it, So how do you achieve this? When I
buy recess can light to inspect it for a house easily,
and I'm not exaggerating, well over eighty percent, sometimes well
over ninety percent of the recess can lights that we
purchase for use in homes are directional. It means that
they are what's called a gimbal style recess can light.
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A gimbal simply means Back in the eighties, when these
first came out, we used to call them eyeballs because
they kind of there's a big round part that sticks
into the room and you rotate it around. But the
point is they're not eyeballs anymore. Gimbal lighting. Gimbal lighting
means that you can direct the light, and I don't
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want to direct the light down onto the floor if
there's a section of wall where we're gonna potentially hang
a piece of art. Then I'll put a recess can
light about thirty inches or so off of that wall,
right in front of that section of wall, and it's
a directional light so that I can aim the light
at the art, so that I'll put up I'll put
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lights in front of bookshelves so that i can aim
the light at the bookshelves. I'll put lights in front
of family photos so i can aim the light at
the photos. And guess what, these aren't lasers. That light
bounces around and also fills gently fills up the room
with ambient light as well, but the direction of the
light is aimed toward the wall, away from your eyes
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so that you are not staring up into glare. So
we've solved the glare problem. And we're not just generally
doing overhead lighting. We are lighting things, not the room,
and that's the goal. So think that through as you
lay out any room in bedroom, you got a wall,
you're gonna put art, you're gonna put photos, you gotta
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put something attractive there. Light it. Throw a light on
to it, not next to it, onto it. Okay, don't
make the mistake of putting recess can lights straight down
as reading lights over a bed, because as soon as
you are laying horizon and look straight up, you will
never turn those lights on because glaire glare into your eyes.
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No one likes it. Even if you don't think about it.
People shy away from it. Nobody likes it, and so
does Dean Hate recess candlights, No, not at all. They
have their use. There are only two kinds of lights
in the world. There are lights that do the job
of lighting something without drawing attention to themselves. It's just
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the light that we want out of them. And there
are lights that light a thing and also say hey,
look at me, So like a chandelier is one of
those lights that does lighting but also says, hey look
at me, I'm gonna gugi, I'm sexy. A recess candlight,
by definition, is meant to go away, not draw attention
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to itself, and simply provide the light on the object
of its focus. So yeah, taking a living room and
laying out eight to ten recess can lights all over
the ceiling in an organized grid wrong, absolutely, one hundred
percent not good. Wrong. But picking where we have open space,
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where we have walls, where we have objects that we
want to light, and directing a specific light against that wall,
against that object, against that thing. We light things, not rooms.
Got it all right? George? There you are, my friend,
best advice I can give in the shortest amount of
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time possible. These are the pearls that you get when
you come on the show. Recess can lighting good thing
for a home. Don't overuse it. Lamps work way better
in most situations. But if you've got stuff on the
walls you want people to see, light it up. But
turn those lights toward those objects, not towards people's eyes.
(10:02):
It's that simple, all right. When we come back, more
of your calls, Thank you, George, appreciate you, appreciate you listening.
Good luck on picking those lights for your home. And yes,
these things are available, these movable directional they're available at
the big box stores and at lighting outlets and at
hardware storage. You just got to know what you're looking
for and insist on the directional lights. More of your
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calls when we return. Can't buy Dean sharp the ouse was.
We're at your service. We're doing an all call Saturday morning,
just doing what I love to do more than anything,
talking directly to you about what's going on with your home.
So we've got calls on the board and let's talk
(10:48):
to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Home, Good morning, Dean, thank you for taking my call.
I have I will be removing a satellite dish from
the chimney. And after I remove the dish, I'm going
to have holes in my chimney. It's a red brick chimney,
and I would like to know what how I can
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fill it and how I can get the color fairly
close to the brick.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Gotcha, gotcha. Uh, there are products out there that will
do this for you. This is the good news. But uh,
there are better and worse places to find these products.
And so I'm just gonna you know what, where where
do you live, Richard?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I live in ranch Ugarcamannga.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Okay, so I'm going to recommend that you find your
nearest stone yard or or a builder supply. And by
builder supply, a lot of people get this confused. Not
a hardware store, not a big box store. Builder supply
is usually uh, you know, quite often stone rock, those
(12:03):
kinds of things like TOMPs, like Thompson Building Materials. This
is the kind of place you want to go in
southern California, Thompson. They've got places, They've got outlets all
over the place. There's gonna be one within driving distance
of you. I'm sure there are kits out there that
have color matching boards, like colored stucco matching and you,
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but you don't normally find these at the big box stores. Okay,
So you go to a stone yard and you just
tell them that he was like, hey, I got brick
and here's a particular color. If you can take them
a little chip or a little sample, they might be
able to color match it right there for you off
of one of their color codes. If you've got used
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brick and each brick is a different color, then you
know you're gonna need a little, tiny, little sample of
each one. But it's relatively easy to do, and the
color matches are dang close, and so you can just
you know, putting knife right into those holes, seal them
all up, and the bricks look great after it's all
said and done. You just need to find a pro
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version of a kit. They're not harder to use than
anything else. They're just better. And they are sold specifically
at stone yards because that's the kind of stuff that
they deal with all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So what the material that that would be going into
the into the holes. It would be more like like
a putty type material.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's putty ish, but it's actually kind of a concrete.
It's a you know, it's it's a it's a dynamic
polymer concrete and as a result, it matches texture, it
structurally fills the hole just fine. Uh and uh it
comes the good ones come in various Uh. You know,
we we find ourselves having to match concrete colors with
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crack filling all the time, and brick cracks and brick holes,
all of this. It's a common thing in industry, but
it's usually something reserved for professionals in terms of you know,
people asking for it. But they're very very easy to use.
You know, you'll get a little you know, basically a
cup of it, or sometimes they come in little baggies
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and you mix it to the consistency of pace that
you want and you just putty it in and that's
pretty much it. It's just that there aren't many homeowners
who do it themselves as opposed to it happens in
the context of a bigger repair, so the contractors handle it.
So those kinds of materials you find at pro building
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supply suppliers like stone yards like Thompson, which is a
fantastic builder supply for stone and veneers and all of
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
No, well, thank you so very much. I appreciate your
help this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You are very welcome, sir. Good luck with that. I
know you'll find it. You will. You'll be shocked that
you're like, oh, is this easy? Wow? You can also
find these things, by the way, if you are not
near one of those builder supply places like I just
talked about, you can find this kind of thing on
You can find it on eBay, you can find them
on Amazon. Just don't commit to a color yet. Act
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ask have them send you a color selection chart first,
and then you can match it up to your brick
and then you can order the right pigment to repair
whatever brickwork you've actually got going on. I've got it
all right, more of your calls.
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That's the name of the show home Why, because it's
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love to take calls. We've got calls on the board.
I want to go back to them. Now, let's talk
to Bailey. Hey, Bailey, welcome home. I am well, how
can I help you? My friend?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I have been told that I need a sub floor
under four rooms in my house because it tends to
slope in certain areas. So I'm calling to I know
what type of person I need to do that and
questions to ask so it gets done right.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
The first time.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Okay, well, tell me a little bit about the house.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But what do you want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm assuming you've had a raised foundation house. Is it
a really old house, is it a relatively new house?
And what kind of uneven floors are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It is almost one hundred years old? Is a raised foundation?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Is a raised foundation? And it's just like when you
walk on it, you can just feel it sloping down
in two bedrooms and mostly like in corners and stuff. So, yeah,
I had the foundation. What do you call it?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Retro fitted.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, but just yeah, I kind of made solid and
then it seemed like it got worse after that happened.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, all right, and the guy said.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That he can't make it even because I needed the
sub floor, which I'm assuming is plywood.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well yeah, okay. Sub Flooring is simply the flooring that
you're walking on. That's where That's what it is. Uh it.
Sub floor can be a number of different things, but
it's the overall component that is a raised floor. That's
the sub floor. The sub floor is what everything that's
underneath your finished floor. Okay. Uh And so so here's
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the thing. Of course, our first concerned is why is
the house sloping and settled? It's not at all unusual, Okay,
but you got to ask the questions. You got to
ask the question one hundred year old home. You know. Foundation,
Sometimes foundation are failing, Areas of a foundation are failing.
Other times, after a century, they've just settled, they've just
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settled in a little bit and they've sunk down a
little bit. But the foundation is not failing. So you're like, well, wait,
what's the difference. If a foundation is out of level,
doesn't that mean it's failing? No, A failing foundation is
when when the one of those concrete stem walls or
what's going underneath is cracked and is sagging now and
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is in need of repair. But there are sometimes at
one hundred year old house areas have just settled in
a little bit more half an inch of settled three courts,
sometimes an inch of settling. The foundation is in good shape.
It's just a little tipped and so it's holding up
the house just fine. But it has settled in crooked
over the number as the decades have passed by. So
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our first concern as always is there a foundation problem,
and for that it is well worth calling a foundation
repair company out. They are foundation engineers. There's a number
of them in the southern California area. You call a
foundation repair company out and you have them do a
crawl and do an examination to make sure that we
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don't have any serious damage. Now, if that's fine, let's
say we're good. We're just settled. Okay, If that's an issue,
then that has to be addressed. But let's say we
just have settlement. Well, your foundation. Depending on where these
rooms are at, it may be possible to jack them
up from underneath to actually raise up that corner and
(19:51):
then reblock them, repost them because you do have a
raised foundation. It may may be possibly has everything to
do with where the rooms are at and how they're
sitting on the foundation. But it is quite often possible
to do some jacking up of the roof of the
sub floor itself. Now, when that's not possible, it may
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be possible to from to affect the repair from the
room side of things, which means a one hundred year
old home. Can I assume it it's got hardwood flooring, Bailey?
Are you with I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I think we
cut you off there. Do we have a hardwood.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Floor No, it did at one time.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
What have you got now, I've got the laminate.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, you've got lamb okay, all right, all right, great,
so you've got a laminate floating floor, right, okay? So
uh so two other things real quick. One, if let's
say the foundation is not failing and yet it's not
really qualifies for jacking up underneath from the room side. Okay,
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from the room side. If we pull up the laminate
flooring in your case, right, and we've underneath, if we
are sealing off, in other words, if underneath. We don't
have just those forty five degree diagonal one by six
strips that were originally built under the hardwood floor. But
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if we have like plywood or solid sheeting underneath that, okay,
then in your case you're leveling those rooms may be
as simple as using some some floor self leveling compound, okay,
which is on top of that plywood underneath the laminate
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before you put the lamin it back. This is a mixture.
It's like a cement mixture. It's got epoxies and resins
in it. You can find it at the big box store,
or you can have a company do this for you.
But the idea is we mix this up. We mix
it up in five gallon buckets, and we can pour
it out onto a sub floor condition that's the floor
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underneath your floor. We can pour it out and we
mix it up to the consistency of like runny pancake batter, okay.
And the whole idea is that this stuff finds its
own level. It pours out across the floor, it finds
its own level in the room, and we keep pouring
it out until we've leveled out the whole floor. You
don't trowl it. You don't. You don't have to work,
(22:29):
you don't have to be a concrete expert. This stuff
just pours out into the room, and it's so it's
so liquidy liquidity is that a word. It's so liquidy
that it finds its own level. You walk away, you
come back two hours later, it's walkable and it's level. Okay,
Now the room is still tipping, you know, the ceiling
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is still gonna be but most of the time you
don't perceive it up there. It's the floor that you
perceive it on. So this is good for out of
level floors. It's good for floors that have wavy, you know,
weirdness in them. Self leveling compound and I'm only saying
that I'm jumping to the to that point because you've
got a laminate floor a floating floor on top of it.
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We'd treat this differently if you still had your old hardwood,
but you've got these laminate floors. So the laminate floor
comes out, deconstruct it, stack it off to the side,
self level the room, and then you can lay the
laminate floor back perfectly level. Now, perfectly level floor, all
of the inequities taken out. But again I got to
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emphasize first, we got to make sure that the foundation's
in good shape. Then we're going to see if any
of actual repair meaning jacking up is possible, and if not,
then you can approach it from the room side of
things for the sake of the feel of your walking
across the room and the esthetics inside the room.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, if I can do the last part except the
third idea once I get the other two things that
I discus.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
One who installs floors or is it more advanced?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, no and all.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, self loving. I mean it's for a lot of
people treat it as a DIY project honestly because you
can find the stuff sitting at the home depot and
lows in the buildings supply section. But yeah, a floor
installer often use self loving. So you can contact floor installers, Uh,
they are totally accustomed to using that material. Contractors in
(24:30):
general use the material, so it's not a it's not
a big specialty item. But if you don't want to
tackle it yourself, talk to a floor installation company. They'll
be the ones that if you want to hire them
for it, they can, you know, deconstruct your laminate floor
set it aside self level of the room and then
reinstall the laminate for you.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Okay, fantastic, Thank.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You very much, Bailey. Well you are welcome and good
luck there are You know, there are special conditions of
special ways that to one hundred year old homes need
to be taken care of. And that's one of the
most common things that happens to one hundred year old home,
which is the foundation not necessarily failing, but has just
settled in. And you know it's a little out of level.
(25:15):
It's typical, right, the older we get just a little
out of level, all of us just slightly like yep.
It's the age and life and pressure just makes us
all a little at a level. But we can fix it.
We just trowl in enough stuff into the cracks. All right,
more of your calls, Kyfi Dean Sharp the house.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
With for.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
It's an all call Saturday morning tomorrow, by the way,
on the Big Show from nine to noon Pacific time,
We're going to talk about makeovers. Makeovers in uncertain financial times,
some people are holding back on remodels, innovations. I'm gonna explain,
(26:02):
by the way, tomorrow. What's the difference between remodels, renovations, redecorating,
and makeovers. But in uncertain financial times, you may hold
back on the big, big changes, and you still want
to make an impact. Now we're in the world of
the makeover, and if you do it right, you save
a lot of money and you have a lot of
(26:24):
change in your home, a lot of money saved, big
change made. That's what a makeover is. And we'll be
giving you tips and trips, tips and tricks for every
room tomorrow, so don't miss the big show. All right,
let's take one more call before we're out of here. Today,
I want to talk to Kim. Hey, Kim, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I've got
a roof challenge. I have a house. It's in the Midwest,
got some hail damage and I'm getting two contractors that
looked at it said that whole, the whole roof needs replaced.
(27:08):
I need to know if you have any advice on
how to proceed because the insurance company is saying only
half the roof needs to be replaced because there inspectors
see it differently than the contractors.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What's your advice, well of course they do. Uh so, okay,
so why is the insurance company saying only half the
roof needs to be replaced.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
They said that that doesn't show any the damage that
they would cover, but half the roof does, and that
I take it up there because you know, I let
that young guys do that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah. Okay, So here's the big question for the insurance
This is always the biggest question for the insurance company.
All right, let's let's just a let's just entertain the
idea that half of the roof has been damaged by
the hail. Is it? Is it just one side of
the roof, like this section over here, but this side
of the house somehow damaging hail didn't fall. Or is
(28:08):
it When we say half, are we talking about fifty
percent of the roof all over the place has been
damaged by hail.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
And it's probably because the angle of the wind that
came in. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I have their inspection reports.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, but here's the thing, my friend, you don't have
to go by that inspection report. If you've got two
professional roofers or contractors looking there and saying this whole
thing has to go, I can imagine a number of
scenarios in which that's the case. Number one, if every
other you know, fifty percent, if every other shingle up
on the roof has got damage, it doesn't matter. There
(28:47):
is there is no practical way to leave the undamaged
shingles in between damaged shingles all around. You know, we
can't just pick and choose when it comes to that
much damage on the roof. Cost effective thing and the
proper way is to pull the roof, recheck, redo all
the underlayment, and put all the new roofing material back on.
(29:10):
That's number one from a just a logistics standpoint. Number two,
the insurance company is responsible for restoring your roof to
its original condition. And how old is the roof?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I think it's close to fifteen years, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So, it's been out in the sun for fifteen years.
Do we know if the roofing material of that roofing material,
that exact color, that exact brand, that exact texture is available,
Because if it's not, then you are not you are
not responsible to live with a patchwork of non matching
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colors and non matching materials. It is one material, one roof.
That's what your roof looked like. Before the hail damage.
That's what it should look like after they are done
with the repair. So yet another argument. We deal with
this with insurance companies inside the house all the time.
They'll say, well, the only damage was in the living
room hardwood. I'm like, well, okay, this is twenty year
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old hardwood. It's been bleached by the sun. And this
hardwood continues down the hallway into the bedrooms and into
that kitchen area. Can you replace this and match exactly
these floors because that was the pre existing condition. And
then the insurance adjuster is like, well, no, no, And
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I get contractors to say, impossible, we can't match it.
All the wood in all the rooms has to be replaced,
even though they weren't damaged. The fact is they all
have to match the damage replacement area as well. And
the same holds true with any surface, including your roof.
Even if that roofing material KIM is still available, they
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have to be able to prove that that color still
matches your roof shingles that have been bleached in the
sun for the last fifteen years. And the answer to
that is going to be no. So the moral of
the story is, use those contractors and let them ride
up their recommendation, their strong recommendation, not just their recommendation,
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but the reasons why half of this roof should not
be replaced and half left in the place. And you
tell the insurance company this is the way it's going
to be. And if you need to get an independent
inspector in their public adjuster helping you out, then step
up to a public adjuster, pay them a little bit
of money in order to force the claim so that
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you get your roof replaced in its entirety and properly. Kim,
thanks for your question, Thanks for hanging on so long.
I know you've been on the board there for a
while during the show. Thank you to all of our
callers today. It's always great to talk to you about
your house. Join me on the Big Show tomorrow nine
to noon Pacific time. We'll be talking about makeovers. Until then,
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get out into this beautiful spring day and get busy
building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow. This
has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune
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