December 27, 2025 • 31 mins
Whether built in the 1830s or 1930s, Dean is a massive fan of California design style, including the beautiful Adobe homes.
Our next caller phoned all the way from Tampa, Florida, and wants Dean’s opinion on the proper maintenance of his new 8x10 Tuff Shed from Home Depot.
Another caller has a double-wide mobile home from the 1970s with a metal roof that’s leaking over his car port, and he’s wondering how best to seal up that roof leak.
Listener Cindy wants Dean’s recommendations on the right mixture for alleviating mold in the tile grout. Dean says mold is kind of a wimp!
And our final caller was wondering how best to choose a legitimate duct-cleaning service.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper, your guide to better understanding that place
where you live. It is an all call Saturday morning,
on this final Saturday of twenty twenty five. It's Saturday,
the twenty seventh of December. Do you know where your
(00:30):
year went? I do, right down the drain. No, it's
been It's been an interesting year. I wonder if you're
feeling that the same way that I am. I gotta
tell you I'm not too sad to see twenty twenty
five pass into the history books. I'm looking very very
(00:51):
forward to the year ahead and some new stuff coming.
And you should be looking forward to that too. If
you're a fan of the show. We got some new
stuff coming, so be encouraged. I am here and we
will move forward together and we'll figure out how to
turn your ordinary house into an extraordinary home like we do.
(01:11):
All right, it's an all call Saturday morning. I'm going
to get back to the phones. I just want to
say one more thing, one more thing about Monterey Adobe style.
Brad Our Caller this morning, he's like, oh my gosh,
we launched an entire tirade that Dean is on. He's like,
he's doing a tear up of this. It's just a
it's a great architectural style, and I know, I'm just
(01:33):
kind of geeking out on it. For those of you,
this is just a little bit of local news for
those of you who live out in Ventura County like
I do. If you, by way of trivia, would like
to know something about an original, not a revival, like
Brad lives in. Brad lives in a revived a revival
(01:53):
Monterey Colonial home that was built in the nineteen thirties,
but it is the eighteen thirties, one hundred years earlier
in which the style was actually created. And uh, if
you live out in Ventura County, the Olivas Adobe, Yeah,
that one, the Aliva's Adobe is in fact, Uh I think, uh,
(02:18):
what did you say, Tina? The is it the actual
the last remaining one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's the only remaining one the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Original style Monterey Colonial. Yes, built in eighteen forty seven, Yeah,
just ten years after the style was created. So anyway,
if you live in Ventura County and you're interested in
taking a look at a Monterey Colonial. Just drive on
by the Aliva's Adobe and you will see it there.
An adobe house, a two story adobe brick house with
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a cantilevered balcony that runs along the entire front and
symmetrical doors and windows across the front. A classic and
not not a revival style, not a return to, but
in the original form.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And if you have children, I think fourth grade is
the year that all.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The public schools county sends you a field trip to
leave us a doe.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You go on a field trip and you get to make,
oh are you mad? Tortillas?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You make tortillas. You might make adobe bricks out out
in the yard. If it's muddy enough, they'll make the
because the bricks were made right.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
There on the thing that certainly was when our kids
were young.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it should be still a thing. Let's just make
it still.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Still a thing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's still a come on, Ventura County, make it a thing. Oh,
come on, No, they do good things out there. They
do concerts out there at night. You know that whole thing. Anyway, Okay,
let's go back to the phones. Uh, hey, we got
a caller from Florida. Eduardo needs to get on with
his day because he's three hours ahead of us at Eduardo.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Welcome home.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey Dean, has it going well. I feel sorry for
you guys, and Leaven your too with the wather, so
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
From a guy who has to put up with hurricanes,
don't feel sorry just because we got a little bit
of heavy rain. Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I mean this year we didn't get anything, but last
year we got two in August. Yeah, we're in Tampa. Yeah,
although I only lost the internet, I mean that was
it for me because I'm in North Tampa. I'm near
a bush gardens and I'm not near the water, so
that that helps a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I love Tampa, I do, I do.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, yeah, I wanted to let you know. So I
got an eight x ten shed over here and I
put it in last week and it's able to withstand
one hundred and sixty miles per hour. I think they
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did a good job. Okay, these I don't know what
to call these metal things on the corners. I guess
they're to hold a shed so doesn't fly when we
get these high winds.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, they got a whole downs right.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah yeah right now yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, you can
still smell the wooden that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's great. So how can I help you with it?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
No, I just wanted to, you know, put that out there.
I know, I don't know if you guys actually use that,
but anybody interested in you know, I want to recommend
tough Shed, which is with home Depot.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh it's a tough shed. Oh my gosh, EDWARDO, I'm
not sure. I am. Okay, here's the thing, my friend.
Here's here's what you and I share in common. Now,
I am sitting right now, all right, because I'm broadcasting
from our home today, right from our home studio. Our
home studio is an eight by ten tough shed. I'm
sitting in an eight by ten tough shed right now.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, okay, that gives me an idea. How about a
Tampa podcast from my There you go, there.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You go. We'll just hook it up. We'll go coast
to coast, my friend. So, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Saying you're going for you on vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah. So here's the thing. You got to call tough
shed for me and say, hey, man, listen, this guy
out on the West coast in southern California. He's a
home designer, does a great show. No show like it.
On the planet. And you know what, I've been courting
Tough Shed for several years, trying to get because they're
a little chintzy when it comes to their advertising budget.
(06:23):
You know, that's what happens when you get hooked up
with a place like home Depot, They're like, now they're
just kind of sitting on their laurels. But Tough Shed
just makes a great, great product. It is the very
first shed that I ever recommend to anybody if they're like,
do I need a storage shed? How can I get
one in my I mean tough Shed. It goes so far.
I mean, you know this because you just got this done,
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but it goes so far beyond just sheds. Right. You
can get a little bicycle shed, a little tiny lean
to bicycle shed from them. You can get a full garage,
you can get a basically one step short of an
ADU from Tough Shed. That the whole gambit. You can
be involved in the design, customize it however you need it.
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And they're just incredibly, incredibly well made. So yes, I
am sitting in one. When COVID hit and UH and
they issued remote broadcast packs to most of the hosts
here at KFI I just went ahead and said, you
know what, let's just take that one tough shed that
we've been using as kind of a play room for
our granddaughter. I kicked her out, didn't get out of here,
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and uh and you know, sound proofed it, treated it
and uh and had it has been my my broadcast
studio ever since. On the days that I did, I
don't feel like driving into Burbank and uh. And nobody
can tell the difference, except, of course you occasionally hear
Lucky our rooster in the background because there's there are
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no roosters at the main station in Burbank.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So I got to mention I met you at a Positan.
So I go to California. I used to go a
lot since when I was in Chicago. Oh, but I
relocated here Tampa two years ago. But you guys do
great remotes and great you know, everybody's great during the week.
So I look forward to going back to one of
these remotes and in your future. And thank you for
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the recommendation on top Shed. Yeah, thank you for the
good feedback on it. Thank you very much. Hopefully if
anybody is interested, definitely get tough Shed.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And they are the ones that
are available at home depot that are just out on display.
But if you actually go to the Tough Shed, it's
tuff tough shit. Man. They should be a sponsor in
the show because I'm handing them so much biz. Come on,
Tough Shed, step up, partner with me anyway, Tuff Shed.
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You'll go and do their website and basically you can
design and build your shed right there and then just
order it up and it just shows up and boom.
You got it, sall. But yeah, we've got one that
we're sitting in right now and it's a beautiful thing,
all right, y'all. When we returned, Duardo, thanks for your call, man,
Thanks for calling in from Sampa, Florida. We've got calls
(09:02):
on the board. We'll go back to the phones right
after this. You are home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help you take
your home to the next level. Thanks for joining us
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The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
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(09:25):
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to askting anything you want to talk about regarding your
home today, let's go back to the phones. I want
to talk to James. Hey, James, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Good morning. Yes, I have a double wide mobile home
from the seventies with a metal roof. One side there's
a car port and the other there's a screen in porch.
And when it rains, there's a gap on both of
those constructions out a half inch to three quarter inches,
(10:03):
and the water just pours down the wall. And I'm
wondering what's the best way to steal that up. I'm
looking at acrylics and silicon.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, it's a it's a good way to do it.
You're gonna need first of all, though. Okay, so let
me just back up, by the way, I grew up
in a metal roofed double wide mobile home, so from
the seventies, and so I feel, you know, I know
where you're at. I know what you got over your
head there the car port and on the other side,
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the screened in area. Most leaks that happen on a
mobile home assembly like that happened at the point where
the car port joins the mobile home and where the
screened in area joins it, where the deck joins it.
That's where almost all the leaks that happen on a
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mobile home roof occur. And that's because sometimes when those
things are built, sometimes they're kind of built as almost
as if they were kind of free standing, and they're
not tied in properly into the mobile home roof. Now
you've got about a three quarter inch gap. That's a
big gap for sealant to handle all by itself. Okay,
(11:20):
So I wouldn't recommend. And there are some great roof
celants out there that are used for mobile homes that
will last a long time, that'll put up with a
lot of heat, a lot of sunlight, and so on.
But I'm not going to recommend that you just pump
in sealant into that gap because it's a big spread.
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Three quarters of an inch is a big spread. Now,
at first it will it'll work, but eventually it'll crack
again because we're asking too much bridging of that sealant.
What I will recommend, though, is that and you may
need to talk to somebody about this, a roofer about
this is a piece of flashing to bridge first of all,
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to bridge the gap and then seal the flashing using
your really good sealans to the mobile home roof or
the edge metal on the mobile home and over on
top of the car port area and the screened in area.
So in other words, let's use metal to actually bridge
the gap, and we'll use it. We'll employ the ceilings
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in order to seal the metal down on both sides
in order to make sure that we've got a good connection,
because three quarters of an inch is a long way
for calking to span all by itself.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
All right, we're looking to that. That sounds very good.
Thank you very much, and you have a good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You too, James, thanks so much for the call. It's
so nice when I can just answer a question and
they're like, oh, thanks, see you. It's awesome. All right.
Do I have time to Yeah, we got time. Let's
talk to Cindy. Hey, Cindy, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Hi, good morning, Thanks again. Been listening to you for
a long time. Calling from San Diego Point Loma area.
And my question is could you give me the formula
again for making a paste to get rid of mold
in two grout areas in the kitchen area, which is
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right near courts, like a countertop area and also in
the bathroom where it has tiles. I know you said
this many years back, or was it, you know, if
you could share again please Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, So you know, when we're talking about mold, the
best way to alleviate it and to fight against it
is to just do it like a fifty to fifty
water and bleach. Okay, water and bleach, and if but
if we when you say paste, what we do is
we add in a third component there to the water
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and bleach mixture. And this component is not necessarily a
chemical component that aids in the removal of the mold
or the killing of the mold. That's what the bleach does, okay,
And you just don't need one hundred percent bleach. That's
just it too caustic for you, and it's not necessary
because mold, mold is really once you're dealing with mold,
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mold's really kind of a wimp, all right. So everybody's
fears mold is growing everywhere, and I get it, and
it should be addressed. But mold is not like some
alien creature that cannot be killed by conventional weapons. It
actually dies really easily once it's exposed to you know,
to sunlight and too certain chemicals like bleach bleach will
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just like knock it out. So a fifty to fifty
mixture water and bleach, and then you can add if
you really need it to sit there and stay on
that area to really penetrate and do its job, then
you add in just a little bit of baking soda,
just basically baking soda in or to make it a paste.
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And baking soda is honestly, it's it's the thing that
is recommended the most. I've heard people say, well, you
could also make a paste just by adding in flour,
you know, And yeah, that's true. But the problem is
flour is a food and it's got carbs in it
and sugars that actually encourage the mold a little bit more.
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So we don't want to do that. The baking soda
is just mold has no use for it whatsoever. And
it's powdery enough that it can take that bleach and
water mixture and convert it into a paste. And that
way you can kind of spread it on walk away
and let it sit there for an extended period of time.
And so, but just to understand that the real agent,
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the killing agent, is the bleach. You don't need it
one hundred percent. So you cut it fifty to fifty
with water, and you add some baking soda as necessary
if you want to make a paste that that you can,
you know, backle it on, walk away and come back,
you know, a day later, and wipe it off because
you've allowed the bleach to stay and to and to
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really do its shop. Does that make sense?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Yes, So the bleach won't do anything to the tiles
or the courtz countertop.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It really won't bleach bleaches. A lot of people think
because they see what bleach does that it's an acid.
But bleach is not an acid. It's not an acid.
It will it will not etch.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Okay, okay, all right, I just want to make sure. Okay,
thank you so much, really enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Thank you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Appreciate the call. Happy holidays to you, all right, when
we come back, more of your calls. You are Home
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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all calls Saturday morning. I got to tell you, I
don't know if we had a little glitch here, but
we ended up losing some calls here. So I've got
an open board ready for your call. Anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. The number to reach
me eight three three two ask Dean. Very very rare situation.
(19:51):
I got a wide open board. First caller is gonna
get on the air right now. Eight three three two
ask Dean. A three three the numeral to ask Dean.
In the meantime, I always have a collection of questions
that people have asked that I'm ready to answer, and
I don't always get the chance to do this. Uh,
(20:12):
somebody asked me to explain the the Wiener at Disneyland.
I get a lot of because from time to time
I talk about the Wiener at Disneyland and they're like, wait,
what are you talking? What is that? Are you being obscene? No, No,
I'm not being obsen This is a this is uh.
(20:34):
If you've ever been to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando
or Disneyland out here. Uh, there's a story. And it's
an anecdotal story. Okay, I don't know to what degree
it's absolutely one percent accurate, but it is a famous
kind of you know, myth that is wrapped around the
(20:55):
creation of Disneyland, and I use it from time to
time as a great example of great design intent. So
here's the thing, Disneyland. Actually, you can learn more about
designing your home by making a self conscious trip to Disneyland,
by the way, than you will from sitting down with
most architects. Sorry, it's just true. Disneyland knows how to
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design an experience wrapped around architecture. So here's the thing.
You show up at Disneyland and you walk in, the
very first thing that you encounter, quite intentionally is the
nostalgia of Main Street, USA. Right now. For Walt at
the time, this was hearkening back actually to a town
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that he lived in and actually experienced himself. Okay, but
the way it has worked out, even now in the
twenty first century, there is something about this late eighteen
hundred's Victorian architecture Main Street, USA town that invokes all
this nostalgia. And I know it's a little strange because
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you and I never lived in that town ever, because
it was like one hundred plus years ago. Okay. Nevertheless,
there's something about that era and we you know, you
know what we do. We over romanticize the past. We
have this longing each of us for a simpler time,
(22:22):
or at least a perceived simpler time. Nostalgia just carries
you away, and the esthetics of the architecture in the
late Victorian era and so on. So this is really
a psychological, you know, work over for adults coming into Disneyland.
Main Street is for those adults, kids, the young kids,
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they're just thinking about, you know, where's Star Wars Land,
where's all that stuff happening? But for adults, you're the
one who is being taken back, even to an area
that you never lived in, but taken back and softened emotionally.
He made to feel young again and safe and relaxed
by walking into and experiencing Main Street. So there it is.
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But Walt then had to get us off of main
Street and moving further into the park. And how does
that happen? How do we get off of main Street
and move further into park? This is where the Wiener
comes into play. Walt had a dog, and famously at
this time when Disneyland was originally being designed, he had
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trouble training this dog. It just did not want you know.
He tried various trainers, and he tried all himself, and
he just wasn't getting the dog to do what he
wanted to do. He discovered one day after a trip
to the butcher's shop, and he brought home a strand
of wieners. That's the wiener, okay, it's sausages. Basically that
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he could toss a wiener wherever he wanted to in
the yard and lo and behold, no great mystery. The
dog would go there, and pretty soon he started using
the sausages as a way of motivating his dog to
get him to do what he wanted to do. And
this was the phrase that he used with the engineers
at the imagineers at Disneyland in the early days before
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they were building it, to figure out. Listen, once people
are on main Street, now we have to move them
into the park. There has to be something that draws
them in. In other words, I want to take a
wiener a sausage, and I want to throw it down
somewhere to get the crowds off of Main Street further
into the park. What was the wiener going to be?
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And you can imagine right now, if you've ever been
to Disneyland, you know what the wiener is. It is,
in fact, Sleeping Beauty's Castle. It's the castle. It's the
one thing at Disneyland. It's the one area that is
time inconsistent, period inconsistent, because once you walk into each
of the lands at Disneyland, you don't see the other lands,
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and it's very immersive. You're completely immersed in that period
of time. But main Street and the Castle, that's the discontinuity,
because you're standing in a Victorian late era Victorian American
downtown and you're looking down at a medieval castle off
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in the distance, and it's that wondrous thing that draws
you through main Street into the main plaza, in which
you then decide which way you're going to go to
experience the rest of the park. That is the Wiener
at Disneyland. It is is it Sleeping Beauty's Castle at
Cinderella's Castle in Orlando and Sleeping Beauty's Castle out here?
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But it's the castle there you go. Motivational architecture, How
does that apply to your home? Think about it? When
people walk in your front door, what do they see?
What are they experiencing when they first walk into the
entryway of your home. That's essentially what main Street is.
And where do you guide them next? In other words,
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where do you toss the wiener next? For your home?
Visually is there anything else that bates them into like, oh,
I really want to move to this part of the
house now, I'm drawn into it because of this focal
point that I see. And that's essentially what the wiener is.
It is architecturally a focal point that draws you further
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into the experience. That's what the castle is at the
end of main Street. And what is it in your home? Well,
that's for you and I to think through, right, All right, hey,
lo and behold some calls on the board. When we
come back, we'll go back to the phones your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to remind you every home deserves great design,
(26:49):
especially yours. Why because your life has lived right there
in my fear, and a great designed home is a
tool to maximize you living your best life. That's what
we specialize in around here, taking your ordinary home and
making it truly extraordinary. It's an all calls Saturday morning.
(27:10):
I got some calls on the board. I want to
go back to it. Now. Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura,
welcome home.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Hi. My question is how do I select a duck
guy to clean my air? Ducks. That's legitimate.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
That's a good question, Easier said than done. Why do
you want to clean your ducks.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
We did a lot of construction, and unfortunately we didn't
block up those air vents, and I just have a
feeling that there's a lot of gunk in there before
we start the system.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. It's not a bad idea.
I'm not really product cleaning generally speaking. There are businesses
out there that's all they do, and they try and
push the idea that if you don't have your DUTs
cleaned every few years, then you're facing really, you know,
severe health problems. But here's my opinion on that, and
(28:11):
the opinion of every qualified HVAC contractor I've ever talked to.
They're like, you know what, no, no, no, no. If
you've had major construction and the ducks weren't blocked up,
so you've got dust inside them, that's a legitimate need.
If there's been a big, you know, intrusion, like you've
had ducks ripped open in the attic, that's a legitimate
(28:31):
reason to have the ducks cleaned. If you've had a
major leak or something like that and you've got water
in the ducks. Of course, that's a good reason too.
Apart from that, generally speaking, nah, no, no real need
for duck cleaning in this reporter's opinion, so yours is
a legitimate need to kind of blow them out all
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of the services Laura out there. I mean, they'll do
a decent job. When I talk about the difffficulties of
finding a legitimate duct cleaning company, I'm not really talking
about the work that they do. I mean they're going
to come in with the duct brushes and blow it
all out and clean it all out. I just talk
about the fact that I think most of those businesses
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run on a false premise that they push to the public.
So you could get any of them to actually do it,
because they're not trying to sell you on it. At
this point, you already know it needs to be done,
so I would just shop it out and get best price.
But if you want the truly most legitimate duct cleaning,
then I always tell people talk to your HVAC contractor
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call an actual heating and air conditioning contractor. And the
reason why when you're getting a legitimate opinion about duck
cleaning that you call them is that their business is
not dependent on your ducks getting clean. They make their
money actually building and installing and maintaining air conditioning systems,
not cleaning ducts. They will c ducks, most of them
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will clean ducks, but they aren't dependent upon that. So
they're not going to sell you a bill of goods
trying to tell you that something is necessary that isn't necessary.
So yeah, I rely on the opinions and the service
of the actual HVAC contractors and not the specialized duck
cleaning services. Other people will disagree with that. You're entitled to.
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This is my program, and so I'm giving you the
best advice I know how, and that is simply talk
to your heating and air conditioning company. Laura, thanks for
the call. Thanks everybody for the calls today. I wish
we had more time. Of course, if you didn't get
through today, in call tomorrow during the big show from
nine to noon Pacific time, we're going to be talking
(30:48):
about predictions, trends for the future. Where is the housing
market going, Where is the trending in remodeling and new builds,
the styles, the concerns for twenty twenty six. We'll cover
it all, plus your calls all of that's happening right
here Tomorrow morning, from nine to noon. Join me, will you?
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In the meantime, get out here in this looks to
be a beautiful Southern California winter post storm day, and
wherever you are, get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
We'll see you tomorrow
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper, your guide to better understanding that place
where you live. It is an all call Saturday morning,
on this final Saturday of twenty twenty five. It's Saturday,
the twenty seventh of December. Do you know where your
(00:30):
year went? I do, right down the drain. No, it's
been It's been an interesting year. I wonder if you're
feeling that the same way that I am. I gotta
tell you I'm not too sad to see twenty twenty
five pass into the history books. I'm looking very very
(00:51):
forward to the year ahead and some new stuff coming.
And you should be looking forward to that too. If
you're a fan of the show. We got some new
stuff coming, so be encouraged. I am here and we
will move forward together and we'll figure out how to
turn your ordinary house into an extraordinary home like we do.
(01:11):
All right, it's an all call Saturday morning. I'm going
to get back to the phones. I just want to
say one more thing, one more thing about Monterey Adobe style.
Brad Our Caller this morning, he's like, oh my gosh,
we launched an entire tirade that Dean is on. He's like,
he's doing a tear up of this. It's just a
it's a great architectural style, and I know, I'm just
(01:33):
kind of geeking out on it. For those of you,
this is just a little bit of local news for
those of you who live out in Ventura County like
I do. If you, by way of trivia, would like
to know something about an original, not a revival, like
Brad lives in. Brad lives in a revived a revival
(01:53):
Monterey Colonial home that was built in the nineteen thirties,
but it is the eighteen thirties, one hundred years earlier
in which the style was actually created. And uh, if
you live out in Ventura County, the Olivas Adobe, Yeah,
that one, the Aliva's Adobe is in fact, Uh I think, uh,
(02:18):
what did you say, Tina? The is it the actual
the last remaining one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's the only remaining one the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Original style Monterey Colonial. Yes, built in eighteen forty seven, Yeah,
just ten years after the style was created. So anyway,
if you live in Ventura County and you're interested in
taking a look at a Monterey Colonial. Just drive on
by the Aliva's Adobe and you will see it there.
An adobe house, a two story adobe brick house with
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a cantilevered balcony that runs along the entire front and
symmetrical doors and windows across the front. A classic and
not not a revival style, not a return to, but
in the original form.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And if you have children, I think fourth grade is
the year that all.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The public schools county sends you a field trip to
leave us a doe.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You go on a field trip and you get to make,
oh are you mad? Tortillas?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You make tortillas. You might make adobe bricks out out
in the yard. If it's muddy enough, they'll make the
because the bricks were made right.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
There on the thing that certainly was when our kids
were young.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it should be still a thing. Let's just make
it still.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Still a thing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's still a come on, Ventura County, make it a thing. Oh,
come on, No, they do good things out there. They
do concerts out there at night. You know that whole thing. Anyway, Okay,
let's go back to the phones. Uh, hey, we got
a caller from Florida. Eduardo needs to get on with
his day because he's three hours ahead of us at Eduardo.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Welcome home.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey Dean, has it going well. I feel sorry for
you guys, and Leaven your too with the wather, so
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
From a guy who has to put up with hurricanes,
don't feel sorry just because we got a little bit
of heavy rain. Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I mean this year we didn't get anything, but last
year we got two in August. Yeah, we're in Tampa. Yeah,
although I only lost the internet, I mean that was
it for me because I'm in North Tampa. I'm near
a bush gardens and I'm not near the water, so
that that helps a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I love Tampa, I do, I do.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, yeah, I wanted to let you know. So I
got an eight x ten shed over here and I
put it in last week and it's able to withstand
one hundred and sixty miles per hour. I think they
(04:51):
did a good job. Okay, these I don't know what
to call these metal things on the corners. I guess
they're to hold a shed so doesn't fly when we
get these high winds.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, they got a whole downs right.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah yeah right now yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, you can
still smell the wooden that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's great. So how can I help you with it?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
No, I just wanted to, you know, put that out there.
I know, I don't know if you guys actually use that,
but anybody interested in you know, I want to recommend
tough Shed, which is with home Depot.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh it's a tough shed. Oh my gosh, EDWARDO, I'm
not sure. I am. Okay, here's the thing, my friend.
Here's here's what you and I share in common. Now,
I am sitting right now, all right, because I'm broadcasting
from our home today, right from our home studio. Our
home studio is an eight by ten tough shed. I'm
sitting in an eight by ten tough shed right now.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, okay, that gives me an idea. How about a
Tampa podcast from my There you go, there.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You go. We'll just hook it up. We'll go coast
to coast, my friend. So, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Saying you're going for you on vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah. So here's the thing. You got to call tough
shed for me and say, hey, man, listen, this guy
out on the West coast in southern California. He's a
home designer, does a great show. No show like it.
On the planet. And you know what, I've been courting
Tough Shed for several years, trying to get because they're
a little chintzy when it comes to their advertising budget.
(06:23):
You know, that's what happens when you get hooked up
with a place like home Depot, They're like, now they're
just kind of sitting on their laurels. But Tough Shed
just makes a great, great product. It is the very
first shed that I ever recommend to anybody if they're like,
do I need a storage shed? How can I get
one in my I mean tough Shed. It goes so far.
I mean, you know this because you just got this done,
(06:43):
but it goes so far beyond just sheds. Right. You
can get a little bicycle shed, a little tiny lean
to bicycle shed from them. You can get a full garage,
you can get a basically one step short of an
ADU from Tough Shed. That the whole gambit. You can
be involved in the design, customize it however you need it.
(07:05):
And they're just incredibly, incredibly well made. So yes, I
am sitting in one. When COVID hit and UH and
they issued remote broadcast packs to most of the hosts
here at KFI I just went ahead and said, you
know what, let's just take that one tough shed that
we've been using as kind of a play room for
our granddaughter. I kicked her out, didn't get out of here,
(07:26):
and uh and you know, sound proofed it, treated it
and uh and had it has been my my broadcast
studio ever since. On the days that I did, I
don't feel like driving into Burbank and uh. And nobody
can tell the difference, except, of course you occasionally hear
Lucky our rooster in the background because there's there are
(07:47):
no roosters at the main station in Burbank.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So I got to mention I met you at a Positan.
So I go to California. I used to go a
lot since when I was in Chicago. Oh, but I
relocated here Tampa two years ago. But you guys do
great remotes and great you know, everybody's great during the week.
So I look forward to going back to one of
these remotes and in your future. And thank you for
(08:11):
the recommendation on top Shed. Yeah, thank you for the
good feedback on it. Thank you very much. Hopefully if
anybody is interested, definitely get tough Shed.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And they are the ones that
are available at home depot that are just out on display.
But if you actually go to the Tough Shed, it's
tuff tough shit. Man. They should be a sponsor in
the show because I'm handing them so much biz. Come on,
Tough Shed, step up, partner with me anyway, Tuff Shed.
(08:40):
You'll go and do their website and basically you can
design and build your shed right there and then just
order it up and it just shows up and boom.
You got it, sall. But yeah, we've got one that
we're sitting in right now and it's a beautiful thing,
all right, y'all. When we returned, Duardo, thanks for your call, man,
Thanks for calling in from Sampa, Florida. We've got calls
(09:02):
on the board. We'll go back to the phones right
after this. You are home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help you take
your home to the next level. Thanks for joining us
on the program today. It is an all call Saturday morning.
The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
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(09:25):
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then you just spell out. Ask Dean A three three
to askting anything you want to talk about regarding your
home today, let's go back to the phones. I want
to talk to James. Hey, James, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Good morning. Yes, I have a double wide mobile home
from the seventies with a metal roof. One side there's
a car port and the other there's a screen in porch.
And when it rains, there's a gap on both of
those constructions out a half inch to three quarter inches,
(10:03):
and the water just pours down the wall. And I'm
wondering what's the best way to steal that up. I'm
looking at acrylics and silicon.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, it's a it's a good way to do it.
You're gonna need first of all, though. Okay, so let
me just back up, by the way, I grew up
in a metal roofed double wide mobile home, so from
the seventies, and so I feel, you know, I know
where you're at. I know what you got over your
head there the car port and on the other side,
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the screened in area. Most leaks that happen on a
mobile home assembly like that happened at the point where
the car port joins the mobile home and where the
screened in area joins it, where the deck joins it.
That's where almost all the leaks that happen on a
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mobile home roof occur. And that's because sometimes when those
things are built, sometimes they're kind of built as almost
as if they were kind of free standing, and they're
not tied in properly into the mobile home roof. Now
you've got about a three quarter inch gap. That's a
big gap for sealant to handle all by itself. Okay,
(11:20):
So I wouldn't recommend. And there are some great roof
celants out there that are used for mobile homes that
will last a long time, that'll put up with a
lot of heat, a lot of sunlight, and so on.
But I'm not going to recommend that you just pump
in sealant into that gap because it's a big spread.
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Three quarters of an inch is a big spread. Now,
at first it will it'll work, but eventually it'll crack
again because we're asking too much bridging of that sealant.
What I will recommend, though, is that and you may
need to talk to somebody about this, a roofer about
this is a piece of flashing to bridge first of all,
(12:03):
to bridge the gap and then seal the flashing using
your really good sealans to the mobile home roof or
the edge metal on the mobile home and over on
top of the car port area and the screened in area.
So in other words, let's use metal to actually bridge
the gap, and we'll use it. We'll employ the ceilings
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in order to seal the metal down on both sides
in order to make sure that we've got a good connection,
because three quarters of an inch is a long way
for calking to span all by itself.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
All right, we're looking to that. That sounds very good.
Thank you very much, and you have a good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You too, James, thanks so much for the call. It's
so nice when I can just answer a question and
they're like, oh, thanks, see you. It's awesome. All right.
Do I have time to Yeah, we got time. Let's
talk to Cindy. Hey, Cindy, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Hi, good morning, Thanks again. Been listening to you for
a long time. Calling from San Diego Point Loma area.
And my question is could you give me the formula
again for making a paste to get rid of mold
in two grout areas in the kitchen area, which is
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right near courts, like a countertop area and also in
the bathroom where it has tiles. I know you said
this many years back, or was it, you know, if
you could share again please Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, So you know, when we're talking about mold, the
best way to alleviate it and to fight against it
is to just do it like a fifty to fifty
water and bleach. Okay, water and bleach, and if but
if we when you say paste, what we do is
we add in a third component there to the water
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and bleach mixture. And this component is not necessarily a
chemical component that aids in the removal of the mold
or the killing of the mold. That's what the bleach does, okay,
And you just don't need one hundred percent bleach. That's
just it too caustic for you, and it's not necessary
because mold, mold is really once you're dealing with mold,
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mold's really kind of a wimp, all right. So everybody's
fears mold is growing everywhere, and I get it, and
it should be addressed. But mold is not like some
alien creature that cannot be killed by conventional weapons. It
actually dies really easily once it's exposed to you know,
to sunlight and too certain chemicals like bleach bleach will
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just like knock it out. So a fifty to fifty
mixture water and bleach, and then you can add if
you really need it to sit there and stay on
that area to really penetrate and do its job, then
you add in just a little bit of baking soda,
just basically baking soda in or to make it a paste.
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And baking soda is honestly, it's it's the thing that
is recommended the most. I've heard people say, well, you
could also make a paste just by adding in flour,
you know, And yeah, that's true. But the problem is
flour is a food and it's got carbs in it
and sugars that actually encourage the mold a little bit more.
(15:25):
So we don't want to do that. The baking soda
is just mold has no use for it whatsoever. And
it's powdery enough that it can take that bleach and
water mixture and convert it into a paste. And that
way you can kind of spread it on walk away
and let it sit there for an extended period of time.
And so, but just to understand that the real agent,
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the killing agent, is the bleach. You don't need it
one hundred percent. So you cut it fifty to fifty
with water, and you add some baking soda as necessary
if you want to make a paste that that you can,
you know, backle it on, walk away and come back,
you know, a day later, and wipe it off because
you've allowed the bleach to stay and to and to
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really do its shop. Does that make sense?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Yes, So the bleach won't do anything to the tiles
or the courtz countertop.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It really won't bleach bleaches. A lot of people think
because they see what bleach does that it's an acid.
But bleach is not an acid. It's not an acid.
It will it will not etch.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Okay, okay, all right, I just want to make sure. Okay,
thank you so much, really enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Thank you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Appreciate the call. Happy holidays to you, all right, when
we come back, more of your calls. You are Home
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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all calls Saturday morning. I got to tell you, I
don't know if we had a little glitch here, but
we ended up losing some calls here. So I've got
an open board ready for your call. Anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. The number to reach
me eight three three two ask Dean. Very very rare situation.
(19:51):
I got a wide open board. First caller is gonna
get on the air right now. Eight three three two
ask Dean. A three three the numeral to ask Dean.
In the meantime, I always have a collection of questions
that people have asked that I'm ready to answer, and
I don't always get the chance to do this. Uh,
(20:12):
somebody asked me to explain the the Wiener at Disneyland.
I get a lot of because from time to time
I talk about the Wiener at Disneyland and they're like, wait,
what are you talking? What is that? Are you being obscene? No, No,
I'm not being obsen This is a this is uh.
(20:34):
If you've ever been to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando
or Disneyland out here. Uh, there's a story. And it's
an anecdotal story. Okay, I don't know to what degree
it's absolutely one percent accurate, but it is a famous
kind of you know, myth that is wrapped around the
(20:55):
creation of Disneyland, and I use it from time to
time as a great example of great design intent. So
here's the thing, Disneyland. Actually, you can learn more about
designing your home by making a self conscious trip to Disneyland,
by the way, than you will from sitting down with
most architects. Sorry, it's just true. Disneyland knows how to
(21:18):
design an experience wrapped around architecture. So here's the thing.
You show up at Disneyland and you walk in, the
very first thing that you encounter, quite intentionally is the
nostalgia of Main Street, USA. Right now. For Walt at
the time, this was hearkening back actually to a town
(21:39):
that he lived in and actually experienced himself. Okay, but
the way it has worked out, even now in the
twenty first century, there is something about this late eighteen
hundred's Victorian architecture Main Street, USA town that invokes all
this nostalgia. And I know it's a little strange because
(22:02):
you and I never lived in that town ever, because
it was like one hundred plus years ago. Okay. Nevertheless,
there's something about that era and we you know, you
know what we do. We over romanticize the past. We
have this longing each of us for a simpler time,
(22:22):
or at least a perceived simpler time. Nostalgia just carries
you away, and the esthetics of the architecture in the
late Victorian era and so on. So this is really
a psychological, you know, work over for adults coming into Disneyland.
Main Street is for those adults, kids, the young kids,
(22:44):
they're just thinking about, you know, where's Star Wars Land,
where's all that stuff happening? But for adults, you're the
one who is being taken back, even to an area
that you never lived in, but taken back and softened emotionally.
He made to feel young again and safe and relaxed
by walking into and experiencing Main Street. So there it is.
(23:09):
But Walt then had to get us off of main
Street and moving further into the park. And how does
that happen? How do we get off of main Street
and move further into park? This is where the Wiener
comes into play. Walt had a dog, and famously at
this time when Disneyland was originally being designed, he had
(23:33):
trouble training this dog. It just did not want you know.
He tried various trainers, and he tried all himself, and
he just wasn't getting the dog to do what he
wanted to do. He discovered one day after a trip
to the butcher's shop, and he brought home a strand
of wieners. That's the wiener, okay, it's sausages. Basically that
(23:54):
he could toss a wiener wherever he wanted to in
the yard and lo and behold, no great mystery. The
dog would go there, and pretty soon he started using
the sausages as a way of motivating his dog to
get him to do what he wanted to do. And
this was the phrase that he used with the engineers
at the imagineers at Disneyland in the early days before
(24:18):
they were building it, to figure out. Listen, once people
are on main Street, now we have to move them
into the park. There has to be something that draws
them in. In other words, I want to take a
wiener a sausage, and I want to throw it down
somewhere to get the crowds off of Main Street further
into the park. What was the wiener going to be?
(24:40):
And you can imagine right now, if you've ever been
to Disneyland, you know what the wiener is. It is,
in fact, Sleeping Beauty's Castle. It's the castle. It's the
one thing at Disneyland. It's the one area that is
time inconsistent, period inconsistent, because once you walk into each
of the lands at Disneyland, you don't see the other lands,
(25:01):
and it's very immersive. You're completely immersed in that period
of time. But main Street and the Castle, that's the discontinuity,
because you're standing in a Victorian late era Victorian American
downtown and you're looking down at a medieval castle off
(25:22):
in the distance, and it's that wondrous thing that draws
you through main Street into the main plaza, in which
you then decide which way you're going to go to
experience the rest of the park. That is the Wiener
at Disneyland. It is is it Sleeping Beauty's Castle at
Cinderella's Castle in Orlando and Sleeping Beauty's Castle out here?
(25:44):
But it's the castle there you go. Motivational architecture, How
does that apply to your home? Think about it? When
people walk in your front door, what do they see?
What are they experiencing when they first walk into the
entryway of your home. That's essentially what main Street is.
And where do you guide them next? In other words,
(26:04):
where do you toss the wiener next? For your home?
Visually is there anything else that bates them into like, oh,
I really want to move to this part of the
house now, I'm drawn into it because of this focal
point that I see. And that's essentially what the wiener is.
It is architecturally a focal point that draws you further
(26:27):
into the experience. That's what the castle is at the
end of main Street. And what is it in your home? Well,
that's for you and I to think through, right, All right, hey,
lo and behold some calls on the board. When we
come back, we'll go back to the phones your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to remind you every home deserves great design,
(26:49):
especially yours. Why because your life has lived right there
in my fear, and a great designed home is a
tool to maximize you living your best life. That's what
we specialize in around here, taking your ordinary home and
making it truly extraordinary. It's an all calls Saturday morning.
(27:10):
I got some calls on the board. I want to
go back to it. Now. Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura,
welcome home.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Hi. My question is how do I select a duck
guy to clean my air? Ducks. That's legitimate.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
That's a good question, Easier said than done. Why do
you want to clean your ducks.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
We did a lot of construction, and unfortunately we didn't
block up those air vents, and I just have a
feeling that there's a lot of gunk in there before
we start the system.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. It's not a bad idea.
I'm not really product cleaning generally speaking. There are businesses
out there that's all they do, and they try and
push the idea that if you don't have your DUTs
cleaned every few years, then you're facing really, you know,
severe health problems. But here's my opinion on that, and
(28:11):
the opinion of every qualified HVAC contractor I've ever talked to.
They're like, you know what, no, no, no, no. If
you've had major construction and the ducks weren't blocked up,
so you've got dust inside them, that's a legitimate need.
If there's been a big, you know, intrusion, like you've
had ducks ripped open in the attic, that's a legitimate
(28:31):
reason to have the ducks cleaned. If you've had a
major leak or something like that and you've got water
in the ducks. Of course, that's a good reason too.
Apart from that, generally speaking, nah, no, no real need
for duck cleaning in this reporter's opinion, so yours is
a legitimate need to kind of blow them out all
(28:52):
of the services Laura out there. I mean, they'll do
a decent job. When I talk about the difffficulties of
finding a legitimate duct cleaning company, I'm not really talking
about the work that they do. I mean they're going
to come in with the duct brushes and blow it
all out and clean it all out. I just talk
about the fact that I think most of those businesses
(29:15):
run on a false premise that they push to the public.
So you could get any of them to actually do it,
because they're not trying to sell you on it. At
this point, you already know it needs to be done,
so I would just shop it out and get best price.
But if you want the truly most legitimate duct cleaning,
then I always tell people talk to your HVAC contractor
(29:38):
call an actual heating and air conditioning contractor. And the
reason why when you're getting a legitimate opinion about duck
cleaning that you call them is that their business is
not dependent on your ducks getting clean. They make their
money actually building and installing and maintaining air conditioning systems,
not cleaning ducts. They will c ducks, most of them
(30:01):
will clean ducks, but they aren't dependent upon that. So
they're not going to sell you a bill of goods
trying to tell you that something is necessary that isn't necessary.
So yeah, I rely on the opinions and the service
of the actual HVAC contractors and not the specialized duck
cleaning services. Other people will disagree with that. You're entitled to.
(30:25):
This is my program, and so I'm giving you the
best advice I know how, and that is simply talk
to your heating and air conditioning company. Laura, thanks for
the call. Thanks everybody for the calls today. I wish
we had more time. Of course, if you didn't get
through today, in call tomorrow during the big show from
nine to noon Pacific time, we're going to be talking
(30:48):
about predictions, trends for the future. Where is the housing
market going, Where is the trending in remodeling and new builds,
the styles, the concerns for twenty twenty six. We'll cover
it all, plus your calls all of that's happening right
here Tomorrow morning, from nine to noon. Join me, will you?
(31:09):
In the meantime, get out here in this looks to
be a beautiful Southern California winter post storm day, and
wherever you are, get busy building yourself a beautiful life.
We'll see you tomorrow
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