December 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Another caller has a beautiful, old level made from solid wood and brass with a glass top, but the company that manufactured it no longer exists. Is there a company that repairs antique tools?
What about baseboards and Dean’s 7% rule? This caller has 8-foot and 15-foot ceilings in his house, and he’s wondering about baseboard height when you have different vaulted ceiling heights throughout the home — do you change the baseboard height depending on roof height?
One of our regular callers has a palmetto riviera stone brickhouse with concrete siding panels that need painting, and he’s wondering about Dean's opinion on color. He’s thinking black!
Joyce has a home built in 1988 with a pinhole in her hot-water copper pipe under the slab in her utility room that’s presently being dried using professional equipment. Does she re-pipe the whole house or reroute the one pipe? She does live near the ocean, does that add to the issue?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Good morning,
my friend, and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the
house Whisperer, custom home builder, custom home designer, and every
week your guide to better understanding that place where you live.
(00:23):
It is a Saturday morning here in southern California. The
sun is coming up. I don't think it's fully up yet,
but the sky is bright. It's a little on the
cool side, which I'm glad. It was a shock. We
were in Bozeman, Montana, like I was saying earlier in
the show, this last week. High's in the thirties, low's
(00:44):
in the upper teens, and then came home to eighty
four degrees. Yeah, so I'm glad it's cooling back off again.
I am a Southern California boy. I'm not complaining about that.
I'm just saying that was that was a big shift.
Fifty degrees. That's a big swing right there, big swing.
(01:07):
So anyway, glad that you're with us this morning. It's
an all call Saturday morning. The number to reach me
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
The numeral two, ask Dean, and like every Saturday morning
are all call show. You get to set the agenda.
Whatever is going on with your home. Let's talk about it,
all right. I'm going to go back to the phones.
(01:29):
I'm going to talk to Dan. Hey Dan, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Home by Hey Dean. I have this beautiful old hardwood
with brass trim level. It's all that the level bubbles
are plastered in. I don't know is there a company
(01:55):
that could restore it to new It's still one bubbles
still works, but there's like five in it and the
rest of them, don't you know. Obviously, most levels you
get you just throw them away when they don't work.
But this thing is beautiful. It's called an American. That
is the name brand. It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, I you know what I am always hesitant
to say, just because of the nature of my business
and where I've come from in the world of ultra
custom everything. I'm hesitant to say that there isn't a
company out there that would repair that for you. But
(02:37):
my guess is that no, I don't think there are
companies who make it their business to repair masonry levels.
That's what you got there by the way and all
wood level is what we call a masonry level, and
they are beautiful. They can be just gorgeous brass stripping
down the corners, right, oh yeah, beautiful, beautiful hardwood running
(02:58):
through it. And the other trick is, yeah, a masonry
level typically the bubbles are are you know, cemented in
with putty on the edges and uh. And underneath that
putty is undoubtedly a metal ring or a seal, a
gasket of sorts that's holding the glass in place for
(03:19):
the final chamber there. Uh and then so on. I
will tell you this. I don't know. Here's the thing
you're saying that the bubbles aren't working on you know,
four out of five of the bubbles aren't working. But
when the when the bubbles are working, I do know.
And it's a long shop. You should check it out.
Go online and uh search for masonry level repair kits.
(03:42):
I know there are kits out there. Smith Level. Smith
Smith is a great masonry level company, a great level company.
I know that they actually make and sell a repair
kit for their levels, okay, including the oval glass and
the putty, uh and the rings. I don't know that
it's going to fit exactly, but the glass is actually
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the easiest part. I mean, if you're absolutely in love
with this level, you can go to a glass shop
and have them cut new glass for you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
For those What it is is it's it's I said,
it's gorgeous. You can't, I can't, you know, American, it
doesn't exist. How do you get it? To make sure
that it's level? Once you try to get the glass in,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well here's the age old test. You flip it.
You flip it end to end. Okay, I got a level.
When it's breeding level, you get it laid out on
what you hope is a very level surface. Test a
surface with another functional level. Okay, make sure that the
level surface that you're on is in fact level. Test
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that with another level, and then then align the bulb
so so that you're getting a you know, a middle bubble.
And then to double check it once it's fixed in
place there temporarily, you flip the level over end to end,
and if it still reads level in the opposite direction,
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then you know that the bubble is aligned properly with
the level.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, good advice. Hey have you seen that dual
scraper cutting tools? You can cut with it like an
exact non exact a knife, but I can't even think
of the name of it. You know, the one you
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use to cut drywall. It's a dual. It's very mechanical
and it cuts, but it also you can use it
as a scraper when you flip it around.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think I know what you're talking about. I think
I think I know what you're talking about. I'm not
a drywall or so I'm not up on all of
that kind of stuff. But you know, I've said why, why,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I just wanted to know what your opinion. It looks
like it's very mechanical because the blade will slip around,
right right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen drywallers use those before. Oh Honestly,
I'm not the guy to ask whether that's the best
tool for that or not. So I would just call,
you know, literally, when I have a question like that,
I would just call my drywaller and say, hey, is
this good? Should I be using this? Or is there
a better way to go? I love stepping up to
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the old masters and asking guys who really know what
they're doing with a specific discipline, a building discipline, or
a craft discipline, what are the tools that I should
be using for this or should I not be using
the tool that you're using because that one takes, you know,
ten thousand hours of mastery. Should I be using the
baby kindergarten version of that tool to get it safe?
(06:56):
And so you never know which answer they're going to
give you, and but I it from them in one
way or the other. Dan, thanks for your call, Bud.
Good luck on your level. Dan is very connected to
this level. I mean he I appreciate that. I appreciate
a guy who appreciates a good old tool. And so
as long as as long as you're willing to put
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the effort in, you know, you can probably get it fixed.
I just don't think there's a company out there that
does it as a specialty. I can't imagine them staying
in business because the need is just not that great.
All right, my friends, when we return more of your
calls your home. Dean Sharp the house whisper, Dean Sharp,
(07:38):
the house whisper. Good morning, my friend, thanks for joining
us on the program. We are spending today enjoying some
of the melodious tunes from our friend Dick van Dyke,
who friend to all right, who is celebrating his one
hundredth birthday today. Happy birthday, Dick. All right, it is
(08:00):
an all call Saturday morning. I'm so glad that you
are here. You are setting the agenda of what we're
talking about today, as always the case with the calls
here on the program. So let us, without further ado,
go back to the phones. I want to talk to Richard. Hey, Richard,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Hey Dean, how's it going.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey, I've got a design question for you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I feel like I'm an alumni of the Dean Sharp
School of Design, and this is something you've talked about
a lot base boards in your seven percent rule. Yeah, However,
the only thing I've the only thing I've never heard
you talk about is and I've got a situation right
now where I've got a vaulted master, a normal eight
foot hall and bathrooms, and then I've got a vaulted
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living room, dining room, and kitchen. So we've got eight
foot ceilings and fifteen foot What are you do in
that case?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Ah, that's a really good question. You're right. I may
not have ever addressed the differentials before, so all right,
so just set some context for what Richard's talking about
here at the Dean Sharp School of design. We are
strong proponents of tall base boards for your home. It's
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just one of those things that the vast majority of
homes have baseboards that are puny and too small, too
small for the room. What is too small? Well, we've
talked about this, the seven percent rule. Now, this is
a general I even hesitate to call it a rule.
It's a general guideline. But it works that the height
of a base board in a room can easily be,
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and probably should be, a minimum of seven percent of
the height of the wall itself. Now what does that mean.
It means that for an eight foot ceiling, okay, the
lowest of standard home ceilings, for an eight foot ceiling,
we're talking about a baseboard that is pushing seven inches
in height. And some of you are gasping, like, oh,
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that it's incredibly tall. No, it's not. It's not. Believe me,
my little cottage that I live in the vast majority
of these areas, and this is where I'm getting to
your answer, Richard, most of my home still eight foot ceiling.
I have no choice because of attic requirements up above
and where the HVAC unit is in the attic and
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all of that stuff. I don't have the option of
vaulting most of the bedrooms and the hallway area in
my little house because my roof pitch is not too
heavy and so I just don't have that option. So bedrooms, hallway,
bathrooms all eight foot ceiling. Okay. The house was built
back in fifty eight, and so we got eight foot ceilings,
and we have seven and a half inch tall base
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boards throughout that entire area. Nobody gives it a second
thought except to say when they walk into our home,
I love your baseboards. I love the way this room feels.
So yes, tall baseboards. Now the question is do we
upscale those base boards as we get into even higher areas,
And only in the most extreme circumstances do I actually
(11:08):
switch up Richard, Because I personally find a nice seven
inch base board works just about everywhere, and so you
don't have to scale down when you go into a
smaller Obviously, there's no reason to scale down and scaling up.
And this is why I say the seven percent rule
has its limits, okay, because, for instance, if we were
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to apply it to a let's say we've got a
mansion that has a ballroom with thirty foot ceilings in it, Okay,
does that mean that we put in a twenty four
inch tall base board. No, we do not, because that
starts looking really ridiculous. It starts making you feel like
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you're walking in and you're you've been you know, shrunk
down with the honey, I shrunk the kids things when
you're walking next to a two foot base So, just
so you know, the biggest base board that I have
ever myself designed or specked for any size ceiling whatsoever,
is just a little over eleven inches. Okay. So, and
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the smallest base board that I prefer to put in
to any room whatsoever is seven. So the range of
baseboard that I work in within is seven to eleven
seven eleven, and that's it. But generally speaking, Oh and
back to my house. So the living room area of
my house, which used to be the garage, that is
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an area that I was able to vault. The living
room and the dining room area that wraps around I
was able to vault that. So now I've got like
a total height of a twelve foot ceiling. But the
important thing is this, it's not the center vault of
the ceiling, okay, where it goes up to. It's actually
still the wal height, and the wal height where the
vault starts is still at eight feet. In other words,
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it starts at eight and then climbs to the middle
of the room. So relative to the baseboard heights for
the rest of my house, we're still looking at an
eight foot high wall there, because then the ceiling, you know,
it reaches its crease and then heads up. So in
that situation, I haven't changed. You know, it's just all
seven inch baseboards throughout. If the wall height was fifteen
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feet tall at that point, then I might up that
room to you know, eleven inch baseboard, just for a
little bit more proportion. But I never go over that, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
So in general, consistency is part of that design and
keep keeping that same flow throughout the building. And I
do have a the one wall does end in a
fifteen foot high but it's fifteen foot high ceilings on
one side and like you said, eight on the other.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, yeah, seven and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I would default to the shorter of the two as
long as they're nice and tall, the shorter of the
tall baseboard heights, and just run with it there, because again,
there's a point in which if we're just running off
of the strict percentage that it you know, it just
gets ridiculous because you know, thirty foot tall wall is
not going to have a you know, honestly, honestly, if
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we walk into like Notre Dame Cathedral and where we've
got you know, sixty seventy foot walls. Yeah, if you
look to the side, you know what's coming up from
the floor is probably two or three feet tall. But
that's that's a cathedral and not a warm, cozy space
that we live in. So you're supposed to walk into
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a cathedral and feel you know, diminutive. But I don't
want you having a you know, a complex when you
when you walk into your great room, you're like, the
one thing about my great room is every time I
walk in there, I just feel lesser of a person. So,
you know, a nice tall seven inha baseboard there, especially
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if some of the walls are shorter, it is going
to work just fine.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Okay, excellent if you have the time, do you what's
your default for the thickness of a real simple flat
profile with a you know, a relief on the upper edge.
And I want to keep it thick enough obviously to
capture the tiles so we don't have to screw around
with any kind of a shoe molding or anything. Do
you like like five eights or even three quarter?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I like five eighths. Five eighths is usually my
default thickness there for baseboard, and sometimes I'll go to
three quarter. You just got to be careful. It's not
the it's not the floor. I'm worried about. The thickness
of the baseboard should always be just ever so slightly
set back from the thickness profile of the doorcasings that
it's running into. And so a lot of people get
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very excited about putting in three quarter inch thick baseboard
and find out that it's actually protruding from the casing
on the door edge. And so make sure that your
doorcasing stands proud of your baseboard, not the other way around.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Okay, great, all.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right, Richard, Thank you for your call, my friend design question.
I eat them up, all right, y'all, More of your
calls when we return. You are Home with Dean Sharp
the House Whisper.
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the phones. Let's talk to Henderson. This is my old
buddy Henderson. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I have concrete panel siding at standing around black framed windows.
But most of the material of the house is palmentto
riviera with white grout, which is a brown brick with
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like white dusting on it. So that's the whole house.
But the windows are a black framed windows, and we
have that concrete panel around the windows. And I was
just wondering what's a good color to paint right now?
It's trying, but I was trying to get an idea
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to paint color.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh of course you asked me the sight unseen paint
color question. You know it is, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Think about some form. I was thinking of some form
of black, or maybe a gray dark gray to black.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You know what. I am so glad you said that,
because I was afraid I was gonna suggest this to
you and it was going to be too much that
you weren't gonna have the courage to go in that direction.
But here's the thing. Palmetto Riviera stone has got it.
It's got browns in it. It also has a good amount
of gray as well, and some black backgrounds in it.
(19:31):
It's kind of like an old slate kind of vibe
on the brick, and either something very light or very
dark is what I was going to suggest, and not
middle of the road. What you don't want to do
for most when you're matching up against most stones is
try and find a complimentary tone or a primary tone
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in the stone and go with that as a paint. Now, again,
for everybody who's listening, every color, every material out there,
whether it's paint on your house, whether it's stonework, brick
like Henderson has, or whatever, every color out there has
a primary color and then it has what we call
undertones in it. Okay, the primary color. It's almost always
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a mistake to match the primary color. So you've got
a grayish, you know, kind of a Paul Meto Riviera
if I remember right. It's kind of modeled. It's got
kind of smoky, foggy tones all across it, but it
does have a primary kind of you know, a grayish
brown tone. Painting the house right next to it grayish
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brown would just make it all muddy. It doesn't allow
the brick to stand out the house. It just it
just gets a ball, just like smush mush. So what
we want to do is we want to create as
much contrast as possible to accent both the wall color
and the brick in this case. And the key to
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the contrast is a complimentary color, not the same color
and the complementary color you decide on Henderson by looking
for the undertones, by matching an undertone, that secondary undercolor
in the brick. And here's a quick tip for everybody
if you're looking to figure out what the undertone of
a color is. Okay, all you need to do you
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can do this on your phone. You can pull up
like a color wheel on your phone. You need to
look at a primary color next to the material that
is in question. So, in other words, you need to
pull up.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
In terms of materials, it's cyan, magenta, and yellow, okay,
not RGB. RGB that's for that's you know, red, green, blue.
That's for emissive colors like televisions, all right, But reflective colors,
which is everything else just stuff that the sunlight reflects
off of. It's it's CMYK is the four and that's cyan,
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magenta and yellow or aka red, blue and yellow. Okay,
if you hold up a primary color one of those three,
and K stands for black, by the way, that's just black.
But if you hold up one of those colors next
to an item, if there's any of that color back
in there, it'll pop. Suddenly, the material will come forward
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and it will draw it out of all right, So
it's a it's a designer trick, but it is a
it's science. You hold up a yellow next to, you know,
your brick wall, and if there's yellow as an undertone
in that gray brick wall, suddenly you'll see it, and
you'll know that something in the cream's cream colored paint,
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if you're going light, will work. Okay, So that's what
I'm saying. You want to find that.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The Palmetto Riviera brick has got a lot of black
and ash in it, and I love, I love a
home that is bold enough Henderson to step up and say,
all right, we've got this brick work and then the siding,
we're gonna go dark. We're gonna go dark, and uh
and strangely enough, it's not broody. It's warm. That dark
(23:17):
color just warms the house. It just tells you I
am a safe place and people just want to get
inside there. So uh yeah, I'm all for it, Henderson.
Just but do the color trick, okay, because again, there
are different forms of deep gray charcoal and black. You
don't want to go black black, okay, because that's that's
not gonna get you anywhere. But something in the deep
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earthy charcoal, whether it leans brown on the back side
of it, or it leans a little reddish, you'll be
able to discover that by using the primary colors. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It's a I think that makes no difference whether it's
a black window frame itself or whether, for example, whether
if it's.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
A white window frame. Yeah, I would say either way.
But but you've got black window frames. You've got black
window frames, so uh so you're already halfway there, You're
already there. Uh So yeah, I would I would side unseen.
You know, that's always my my my qualification. It sounds
to me I'd give you this advice over the phone
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here that you know I may I'd may go in
dark my first priority, see if you can pull that off,
because I think it would be gorgeous. Henderson, I got
to go. Thank you for your call. My friend Henderson's
doing some good work on his house. I will tell
you that he's called in before. Always poignant questions. The guy.
He's got his finger on the pulse of it. All right,
(24:39):
when we return more of your calls. You are home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Thanks for joining us on the program. It's an all
calls Saturday morning. We're also honoring Dick van Dyke, who
turned one hundred two day. Happy birthday, Dick van Dyke.
All right, Uh, we've got just a little bit left
(25:01):
and we have just burned through, as we always do,
two hours of show here and I want to get
to at least one more call. Let's talk to Joyce. Hey, Joyce,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Hey Hi. I have a Cape Cod home built in
nineteen eighty eight and it's about eighteen hundred square feet.
I now have a pinhole in my hot water pipe
under the slab in the utility room exud me. I
now have a choice. It's now being dried with professional equipment.
(25:38):
My choice is to repipe the whole house with pex
a or reroute the pipe, and I don't know what
to do. I am near the ocean and I hear
that there are problems with pipes near the ocean. So
what do you suggesting?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well, okay, so oh it's a pinhole. And I am
never going to be the one who's telling somebody that,
you know, they have to go to an extreme measure
just because one leak showed up in this situation. However,
I'm going to give you my best advice because that's
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what you're asking for. If I were in your shoes,
I would be repiping or planning on repiping the whole
house in impex a. And here's the reason why the
house was You said the house was built in eighty eight. Correct, Okay,
so the house is built in eighty eight, it has
it has copper piping in it. And that copper piping
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for the first floor. I didn't ask whether it's two
stories or not, it doesn't matter. But for the first
floor at least, the copper piping is running underneath the slab.
And you've got a pinhole leak, and that piping is
now thirty eight years old. By my calculations, we have
I've learned Back in the eighties, we were still under
the belief that copper was forever and it's not. Now.
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The plumbing industry will tell you that copper piping has
a lifespan of about twenty to twenty five years. Yours
is thirty eight, okay. And the fact that it's a
pin hole leak is the most indicative part of this
whole thing by way of my diagnosis choice. Because if
this was a trauma leak in other words, there was
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an earthquake and the slab shifted and it broke the
pipe open, or if this was a leak coming out
of a fitting, meaning where the two pipes come together,
in other words, a solder had failed or something like that,
that would be a different story because that would be
kind of a mechanical failure in terms of the pipe
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or trauma to the pipe that caused the leak. But
a pin hole leak in copper, a pinhole is simply
an indication that became because of mineralization in the water
and the age of the pipe. Those pipes are wearing
thin from the inside out, okay. And because they're wearing thin,
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a pinhole leak is literally where the wall of the
pipe has gotten so thin that now water is oozing
out of the wall of the pipe. And where there
is one pinhole leak, there will be another, and another,
and another and another. And the last thing in the
world that I would want to tell you is to
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dig up that pipe, open up the concrete, pull back
the flooring, repair that one leak, which you could do
and go through all of that hassle, only to have
in the next year or so another pinhole leak, threatening
another floor in the house, and doing it all over again.
And so, in my opinion, once we see a pinhole
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leak occur in copper piping that is way older than
its life span indicated, then I think it's time to
just reroute all the plumbing out of the slab and
go overhead with pecks and you will never have to
worry about that again. It's more cost upfront to repipe
the house now, for sure, but if you do that,
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you'll never have to worry about the next failure. And
there will be, mark my words, there will be a
next failure of that underground piping.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Floors drying out professionally, Do I have to tear up
my hardwood floors and the walls and.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Everything No, that's the good thing about it is that
we're not going to remove the copper that's down there.
We don't have to mess with that. If we're going
to repipe the house, we don't remove any of it.
We simply abandon it. We simply abandon it. Now, there
may be some dry wall work to be done near
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the tops of certain rooms when they're repiping and sending
stuff in through the top, a little bit of drywall patching,
but there won't be much there really really won't be much.
And a good repipe company is going to patch that
drywall for you. But you don't have to touch the floors.
That's the expensive stuff. Drywall is pretty cheap to patch up.
Floor removal that's a mess. And so if your floor
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has not been damaged by it, and it's being dried
out and you don't see any hardwood reacting or anything
like that, then no, we don't have to do that.
And that's why again I'm saying the best thing we
can do is to go overhead. Now, we're just going
to abandon those lines. We're not gonna tear them out,
We're just gonna leave them there. They're gonna do nothing,
and they won't cause anybody any more problems. Joyce, thank
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you for your call. We are pushed against it. We're
out of time. Hey, here's a little primer on tomorrow.
Tomorrow show is happening. We will be broadcasting live. However,
we're preempted in the LA area by the Chargers game.
If you are a Chargers fan, that's great news. Tune
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or listen to the Chargers your choice. Just wanted to
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Good stuff coming all right, y'all, You get out there
today and take advantage of this beautiful mid December day,
do something lively in honor of Dick Van Dyke's birthday,
and get busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see
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It is a Saturday morning here in southern California. The
sun is coming up. I don't think it's fully up yet,
but the sky is bright. It's a little on the
cool side, which I'm glad. It was a shock. We
were in Bozeman, Montana, like I was saying earlier in
the show, this last week. High's in the thirties, low's
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in the upper teens, and then came home to eighty
four degrees. Yeah, so I'm glad it's cooling back off again.
I am a Southern California boy. I'm not complaining about that.
I'm just saying that was that was a big shift.
Fifty degrees. That's a big swing right there, big swing.
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So anyway, glad that you're with us this morning. It's
an all call Saturday morning. The number to reach me
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
The numeral two, ask Dean, and like every Saturday morning
are all call show. You get to set the agenda.
Whatever is going on with your home. Let's talk about it,
all right. I'm going to go back to the phones.
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I'm going to talk to Dan. Hey Dan, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Home by Hey Dean. I have this beautiful old hardwood
with brass trim level. It's all that the level bubbles
are plastered in. I don't know is there a company
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that could restore it to new It's still one bubbles
still works, but there's like five in it and the
rest of them, don't you know. Obviously, most levels you
get you just throw them away when they don't work.
But this thing is beautiful. It's called an American. That
is the name brand. It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, I you know what I am always hesitant
to say, just because of the nature of my business
and where I've come from in the world of ultra
custom everything. I'm hesitant to say that there isn't a
company out there that would repair that for you. But
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my guess is that no, I don't think there are
companies who make it their business to repair masonry levels.
That's what you got there by the way and all
wood level is what we call a masonry level, and
they are beautiful. They can be just gorgeous brass stripping
down the corners, right, oh yeah, beautiful, beautiful hardwood running
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through it. And the other trick is, yeah, a masonry
level typically the bubbles are are you know, cemented in
with putty on the edges and uh. And underneath that
putty is undoubtedly a metal ring or a seal, a
gasket of sorts that's holding the glass in place for
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the final chamber there. Uh and then so on. I
will tell you this. I don't know. Here's the thing
you're saying that the bubbles aren't working on you know,
four out of five of the bubbles aren't working. But
when the when the bubbles are working, I do know.
And it's a long shop. You should check it out.
Go online and uh search for masonry level repair kits.
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I know there are kits out there. Smith Level. Smith
Smith is a great masonry level company, a great level company.
I know that they actually make and sell a repair
kit for their levels, okay, including the oval glass and
the putty, uh and the rings. I don't know that
it's going to fit exactly, but the glass is actually
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the easiest part. I mean, if you're absolutely in love
with this level, you can go to a glass shop
and have them cut new glass for you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
For those What it is is it's it's I said,
it's gorgeous. You can't, I can't, you know, American, it
doesn't exist. How do you get it? To make sure
that it's level? Once you try to get the glass in,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well here's the age old test. You flip it.
You flip it end to end. Okay, I got a level.
When it's breeding level, you get it laid out on
what you hope is a very level surface. Test a
surface with another functional level. Okay, make sure that the
level surface that you're on is in fact level. Test
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that with another level, and then then align the bulb
so so that you're getting a you know, a middle bubble.
And then to double check it once it's fixed in
place there temporarily, you flip the level over end to end,
and if it still reads level in the opposite direction,
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then you know that the bubble is aligned properly with
the level.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, good advice. Hey have you seen that dual
scraper cutting tools? You can cut with it like an
exact non exact a knife, but I can't even think
of the name of it. You know, the one you
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use to cut drywall. It's a dual. It's very mechanical
and it cuts, but it also you can use it
as a scraper when you flip it around.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think I know what you're talking about. I think
I think I know what you're talking about. I'm not
a drywall or so I'm not up on all of
that kind of stuff. But you know, I've said why, why,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I just wanted to know what your opinion. It looks
like it's very mechanical because the blade will slip around,
right right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen drywallers use those before. Oh Honestly,
I'm not the guy to ask whether that's the best
tool for that or not. So I would just call,
you know, literally, when I have a question like that,
I would just call my drywaller and say, hey, is
this good? Should I be using this? Or is there
a better way to go? I love stepping up to
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the old masters and asking guys who really know what
they're doing with a specific discipline, a building discipline, or
a craft discipline, what are the tools that I should
be using for this or should I not be using
the tool that you're using because that one takes, you know,
ten thousand hours of mastery. Should I be using the
baby kindergarten version of that tool to get it safe?
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And so you never know which answer they're going to
give you, and but I it from them in one
way or the other. Dan, thanks for your call, Bud.
Good luck on your level. Dan is very connected to
this level. I mean he I appreciate that. I appreciate
a guy who appreciates a good old tool. And so
as long as as long as you're willing to put
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the effort in, you know, you can probably get it fixed.
I just don't think there's a company out there that
does it as a specialty. I can't imagine them staying
in business because the need is just not that great.
All right, my friends, when we return more of your
calls your home. Dean Sharp the house whisper, Dean Sharp,
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the house whisper. Good morning, my friend, thanks for joining
us on the program. We are spending today enjoying some
of the melodious tunes from our friend Dick van Dyke,
who friend to all right, who is celebrating his one
hundredth birthday today. Happy birthday, Dick. All right, it is
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an all call Saturday morning. I'm so glad that you
are here. You are setting the agenda of what we're
talking about today, as always the case with the calls
here on the program. So let us, without further ado,
go back to the phones. I want to talk to Richard. Hey, Richard,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Hey Dean, how's it going.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey, I've got a design question for you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I feel like I'm an alumni of the Dean Sharp
School of Design, and this is something you've talked about
a lot base boards in your seven percent rule. Yeah, However,
the only thing I've the only thing I've never heard
you talk about is and I've got a situation right
now where I've got a vaulted master, a normal eight
foot hall and bathrooms, and then I've got a vaulted
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living room, dining room, and kitchen. So we've got eight
foot ceilings and fifteen foot What are you do in
that case?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Ah, that's a really good question. You're right. I may
not have ever addressed the differentials before, so all right,
so just set some context for what Richard's talking about
here at the Dean Sharp School of design. We are
strong proponents of tall base boards for your home. It's
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just one of those things that the vast majority of
homes have baseboards that are puny and too small, too
small for the room. What is too small? Well, we've
talked about this, the seven percent rule. Now, this is
a general I even hesitate to call it a rule.
It's a general guideline. But it works that the height
of a base board in a room can easily be,
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and probably should be, a minimum of seven percent of
the height of the wall itself. Now what does that mean.
It means that for an eight foot ceiling, okay, the
lowest of standard home ceilings, for an eight foot ceiling,
we're talking about a baseboard that is pushing seven inches
in height. And some of you are gasping, like, oh,
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that it's incredibly tall. No, it's not. It's not. Believe me,
my little cottage that I live in the vast majority
of these areas, and this is where I'm getting to
your answer, Richard, most of my home still eight foot ceiling.
I have no choice because of attic requirements up above
and where the HVAC unit is in the attic and
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all of that stuff. I don't have the option of
vaulting most of the bedrooms and the hallway area in
my little house because my roof pitch is not too
heavy and so I just don't have that option. So bedrooms, hallway,
bathrooms all eight foot ceiling. Okay. The house was built
back in fifty eight, and so we got eight foot ceilings,
and we have seven and a half inch tall base
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boards throughout that entire area. Nobody gives it a second
thought except to say when they walk into our home,
I love your baseboards. I love the way this room feels.
So yes, tall baseboards. Now the question is do we
upscale those base boards as we get into even higher areas,
And only in the most extreme circumstances do I actually
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switch up Richard, Because I personally find a nice seven
inch base board works just about everywhere, and so you
don't have to scale down when you go into a
smaller Obviously, there's no reason to scale down and scaling up.
And this is why I say the seven percent rule
has its limits, okay, because, for instance, if we were
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to apply it to a let's say we've got a
mansion that has a ballroom with thirty foot ceilings in it, Okay,
does that mean that we put in a twenty four
inch tall base board. No, we do not, because that
starts looking really ridiculous. It starts making you feel like
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you're walking in and you're you've been you know, shrunk
down with the honey, I shrunk the kids things when
you're walking next to a two foot base So, just
so you know, the biggest base board that I have
ever myself designed or specked for any size ceiling whatsoever,
is just a little over eleven inches. Okay. So, and
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the smallest base board that I prefer to put in
to any room whatsoever is seven. So the range of
baseboard that I work in within is seven to eleven
seven eleven, and that's it. But generally speaking, Oh and
back to my house. So the living room area of
my house, which used to be the garage, that is
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an area that I was able to vault. The living
room and the dining room area that wraps around I
was able to vault that. So now I've got like
a total height of a twelve foot ceiling. But the
important thing is this, it's not the center vault of
the ceiling, okay, where it goes up to. It's actually
still the wal height, and the wal height where the
vault starts is still at eight feet. In other words,
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it starts at eight and then climbs to the middle
of the room. So relative to the baseboard heights for
the rest of my house, we're still looking at an
eight foot high wall there, because then the ceiling, you know,
it reaches its crease and then heads up. So in
that situation, I haven't changed. You know, it's just all
seven inch baseboards throughout. If the wall height was fifteen
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feet tall at that point, then I might up that
room to you know, eleven inch baseboard, just for a
little bit more proportion. But I never go over that, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
So in general, consistency is part of that design and
keep keeping that same flow throughout the building. And I
do have a the one wall does end in a
fifteen foot high but it's fifteen foot high ceilings on
one side and like you said, eight on the other.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, yeah, seven and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I would default to the shorter of the two as
long as they're nice and tall, the shorter of the
tall baseboard heights, and just run with it there, because again,
there's a point in which if we're just running off
of the strict percentage that it you know, it just
gets ridiculous because you know, thirty foot tall wall is
not going to have a you know, honestly, honestly, if
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we walk into like Notre Dame Cathedral and where we've
got you know, sixty seventy foot walls. Yeah, if you
look to the side, you know what's coming up from
the floor is probably two or three feet tall. But
that's that's a cathedral and not a warm, cozy space
that we live in. So you're supposed to walk into
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a cathedral and feel you know, diminutive. But I don't
want you having a you know, a complex when you
when you walk into your great room, you're like, the
one thing about my great room is every time I
walk in there, I just feel lesser of a person. So,
you know, a nice tall seven inha baseboard there, especially
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if some of the walls are shorter, it is going
to work just fine.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Okay, excellent if you have the time, do you what's
your default for the thickness of a real simple flat
profile with a you know, a relief on the upper edge.
And I want to keep it thick enough obviously to
capture the tiles so we don't have to screw around
with any kind of a shoe molding or anything. Do
you like like five eights or even three quarter?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I like five eighths. Five eighths is usually my
default thickness there for baseboard, and sometimes I'll go to
three quarter. You just got to be careful. It's not
the it's not the floor. I'm worried about. The thickness
of the baseboard should always be just ever so slightly
set back from the thickness profile of the doorcasings that
it's running into. And so a lot of people get
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very excited about putting in three quarter inch thick baseboard
and find out that it's actually protruding from the casing
on the door edge. And so make sure that your
doorcasing stands proud of your baseboard, not the other way around.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Okay, great, all.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right, Richard, Thank you for your call, my friend design question.
I eat them up, all right, y'all, More of your
calls when we return. You are Home with Dean Sharp
the House Whisper.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
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the phones. Let's talk to Henderson. This is my old
buddy Henderson. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I have concrete panel siding at standing around black framed windows.
But most of the material of the house is palmentto
riviera with white grout, which is a brown brick with
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like white dusting on it. So that's the whole house.
But the windows are a black framed windows, and we
have that concrete panel around the windows. And I was
just wondering what's a good color to paint right now?
It's trying, but I was trying to get an idea
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to paint color.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh of course you asked me the sight unseen paint
color question. You know it is, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Think about some form. I was thinking of some form
of black, or maybe a gray dark gray to black.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You know what. I am so glad you said that,
because I was afraid I was gonna suggest this to
you and it was going to be too much that
you weren't gonna have the courage to go in that direction.
But here's the thing. Palmetto Riviera stone has got it.
It's got browns in it. It also has a good amount
of gray as well, and some black backgrounds in it.
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It's kind of like an old slate kind of vibe
on the brick, and either something very light or very
dark is what I was going to suggest, and not
middle of the road. What you don't want to do
for most when you're matching up against most stones is
try and find a complimentary tone or a primary tone
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in the stone and go with that as a paint. Now, again,
for everybody who's listening, every color, every material out there,
whether it's paint on your house, whether it's stonework, brick
like Henderson has, or whatever, every color out there has
a primary color and then it has what we call
undertones in it. Okay, the primary color. It's almost always
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a mistake to match the primary color. So you've got
a grayish, you know, kind of a Paul Meto Riviera
if I remember right. It's kind of modeled. It's got
kind of smoky, foggy tones all across it, but it
does have a primary kind of you know, a grayish
brown tone. Painting the house right next to it grayish
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brown would just make it all muddy. It doesn't allow
the brick to stand out the house. It just it
just gets a ball, just like smush mush. So what
we want to do is we want to create as
much contrast as possible to accent both the wall color
and the brick in this case. And the key to
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the contrast is a complimentary color, not the same color
and the complementary color you decide on Henderson by looking
for the undertones, by matching an undertone, that secondary undercolor
in the brick. And here's a quick tip for everybody
if you're looking to figure out what the undertone of
a color is. Okay, all you need to do you
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can do this on your phone. You can pull up
like a color wheel on your phone. You need to
look at a primary color next to the material that
is in question. So, in other words, you need to
pull up.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
In terms of materials, it's cyan, magenta, and yellow, okay,
not RGB. RGB that's for that's you know, red, green, blue.
That's for emissive colors like televisions, all right, But reflective colors,
which is everything else just stuff that the sunlight reflects
off of. It's it's CMYK is the four and that's cyan,
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magenta and yellow or aka red, blue and yellow. Okay,
if you hold up a primary color one of those three,
and K stands for black, by the way, that's just black.
But if you hold up one of those colors next
to an item, if there's any of that color back
in there, it'll pop. Suddenly, the material will come forward
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and it will draw it out of all right, So
it's a it's a designer trick, but it is a
it's science. You hold up a yellow next to, you know,
your brick wall, and if there's yellow as an undertone
in that gray brick wall, suddenly you'll see it, and
you'll know that something in the cream's cream colored paint,
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if you're going light, will work. Okay, So that's what
I'm saying. You want to find that.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The Palmetto Riviera brick has got a lot of black
and ash in it, and I love, I love a
home that is bold enough Henderson to step up and say,
all right, we've got this brick work and then the siding,
we're gonna go dark. We're gonna go dark, and uh
and strangely enough, it's not broody. It's warm. That dark
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color just warms the house. It just tells you I
am a safe place and people just want to get
inside there. So uh yeah, I'm all for it, Henderson.
Just but do the color trick, okay, because again, there
are different forms of deep gray charcoal and black. You
don't want to go black black, okay, because that's that's
not gonna get you anywhere. But something in the deep
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earthy charcoal, whether it leans brown on the back side
of it, or it leans a little reddish, you'll be
able to discover that by using the primary colors. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It's a I think that makes no difference whether it's
a black window frame itself or whether, for example, whether
if it's.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
A white window frame. Yeah, I would say either way.
But but you've got black window frames. You've got black
window frames, so uh so you're already halfway there, You're
already there. Uh So yeah, I would I would side unseen.
You know, that's always my my my qualification. It sounds
to me I'd give you this advice over the phone
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here that you know I may I'd may go in
dark my first priority, see if you can pull that off,
because I think it would be gorgeous. Henderson, I got
to go. Thank you for your call. My friend Henderson's
doing some good work on his house. I will tell
you that he's called in before. Always poignant questions. The guy.
He's got his finger on the pulse of it. All right,
(24:39):
when we return more of your calls. You are home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Thanks for joining us on the program. It's an all
calls Saturday morning. We're also honoring Dick van Dyke, who
turned one hundred two day. Happy birthday, Dick van Dyke.
All right, Uh, we've got just a little bit left
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and we have just burned through, as we always do,
two hours of show here and I want to get
to at least one more call. Let's talk to Joyce. Hey, Joyce,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Hey Hi. I have a Cape Cod home built in
nineteen eighty eight and it's about eighteen hundred square feet.
I now have a pinhole in my hot water pipe
under the slab in the utility room exud me. I
now have a choice. It's now being dried with professional equipment.
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My choice is to repipe the whole house with pex
a or reroute the pipe, and I don't know what
to do. I am near the ocean and I hear
that there are problems with pipes near the ocean. So
what do you suggesting?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well, okay, so oh it's a pinhole. And I am
never going to be the one who's telling somebody that,
you know, they have to go to an extreme measure
just because one leak showed up in this situation. However,
I'm going to give you my best advice because that's
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what you're asking for. If I were in your shoes,
I would be repiping or planning on repiping the whole
house in impex a. And here's the reason why the
house was You said the house was built in eighty eight. Correct, Okay,
so the house is built in eighty eight, it has
it has copper piping in it. And that copper piping
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for the first floor. I didn't ask whether it's two
stories or not, it doesn't matter. But for the first
floor at least, the copper piping is running underneath the slab.
And you've got a pinhole leak, and that piping is
now thirty eight years old. By my calculations, we have
I've learned Back in the eighties, we were still under
the belief that copper was forever and it's not. Now.
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The plumbing industry will tell you that copper piping has
a lifespan of about twenty to twenty five years. Yours
is thirty eight, okay. And the fact that it's a
pin hole leak is the most indicative part of this
whole thing by way of my diagnosis choice. Because if
this was a trauma leak in other words, there was
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an earthquake and the slab shifted and it broke the
pipe open, or if this was a leak coming out
of a fitting, meaning where the two pipes come together,
in other words, a solder had failed or something like that,
that would be a different story because that would be
kind of a mechanical failure in terms of the pipe
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or trauma to the pipe that caused the leak. But
a pin hole leak in copper, a pinhole is simply
an indication that became because of mineralization in the water
and the age of the pipe. Those pipes are wearing
thin from the inside out, okay. And because they're wearing thin,
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a pinhole leak is literally where the wall of the
pipe has gotten so thin that now water is oozing
out of the wall of the pipe. And where there
is one pinhole leak, there will be another, and another,
and another and another. And the last thing in the
world that I would want to tell you is to
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dig up that pipe, open up the concrete, pull back
the flooring, repair that one leak, which you could do
and go through all of that hassle, only to have
in the next year or so another pinhole leak, threatening
another floor in the house, and doing it all over again.
And so, in my opinion, once we see a pinhole
(28:54):
leak occur in copper piping that is way older than
its life span indicated, then I think it's time to
just reroute all the plumbing out of the slab and
go overhead with pecks and you will never have to
worry about that again. It's more cost upfront to repipe
the house now, for sure, but if you do that,
(29:17):
you'll never have to worry about the next failure. And
there will be, mark my words, there will be a
next failure of that underground piping.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Floors drying out professionally, Do I have to tear up
my hardwood floors and the walls and.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Everything No, that's the good thing about it is that
we're not going to remove the copper that's down there.
We don't have to mess with that. If we're going
to repipe the house, we don't remove any of it.
We simply abandon it. We simply abandon it. Now, there
may be some dry wall work to be done near
(29:57):
the tops of certain rooms when they're repiping and sending
stuff in through the top, a little bit of drywall patching,
but there won't be much there really really won't be much.
And a good repipe company is going to patch that
drywall for you. But you don't have to touch the floors.
That's the expensive stuff. Drywall is pretty cheap to patch up.
Floor removal that's a mess. And so if your floor
(30:20):
has not been damaged by it, and it's being dried
out and you don't see any hardwood reacting or anything
like that, then no, we don't have to do that.
And that's why again I'm saying the best thing we
can do is to go overhead. Now, we're just going
to abandon those lines. We're not gonna tear them out,
We're just gonna leave them there. They're gonna do nothing,
and they won't cause anybody any more problems. Joyce, thank
(30:43):
you for your call. We are pushed against it. We're
out of time. Hey, here's a little primer on tomorrow.
Tomorrow show is happening. We will be broadcasting live. However,
we're preempted in the LA area by the Chargers game.
If you are a Chargers fan, that's great news. Tune
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Go listening on the Cogo stream, you'll hear the whole show.
I'll be live. You can even call in and just
business as usual. So catch us on co Go tomorrow
(31:28):
or listen to the Chargers your choice. Just wanted to
let you know I'll still be here doing the show.
Good stuff coming all right, y'all, You get out there
today and take advantage of this beautiful mid December day,
do something lively in honor of Dick Van Dyke's birthday,
and get busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see
(31:49):
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