November 9, 2025 • 31 mins
Dean is on the case regarding major appliance updates for 2025 to make your kitchen a culinary experience! Plus, the best home theater experience and games for guests during the festive season.
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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 iHeartRadio app. Custom home Builder,
Custom Home Designer, and your guide to better understanding that
place where you live today on the show, and thanks
for joining us. By the way, we are talking about
the things that we can do to our home before
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the holidays without having to call the contractor out, without
having to tear into walls or make big changes, but
things we can do to our home to kind of
hit jush up the big three categories of things that
the holidays tend to ask of us. We're eating, So
we're going to talk about some appliance changes that have
happened in the appliance world in case you've been thinking,
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you know, I want to change out that cook top
or that oven or whatever. Major appliances for twenty twenty
five updates and changes you need to know about. How
to get more out of your home theater experience without
breaking the bank, how to improve the whole screen watching
because you know we're watching holiday movies the Hallmark channel
where yes we are, and games big games of course
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happened all throughout the holidays, So how to jush up
and improve your home theater experience. And right now we're
just finishing up, or we will be finishing up talking
about lighting, how to improve lighting in your home, just
so that you set the mood. I'm not talking about
Christmas lights. I'm talking about lighting period, the changes that
you make now that are going to last you a
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lifetime in your home. We're going to get back to
that conversation in just a bit. But guess what, it's
a second hour of the show, which means it's time
to go to the phones find out what's going on
with you and your home. Let's talk to Susie. Hey, Susie,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I have a question regarding the concrete on our sideyard
where it shifted and no longer drained and there are puddles.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, so explain it to me a little bit more.
Tell me exactly what's going on and why you think
it has shifted. And when you say shifted, exactly what
you mean. Just paint me a little clear picture and
see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm guessing it could be from the tree roots. It
used to all dream properly, and now it puddles away
from the drain and then it's like turning green because
it's not draining because the water is coming from the
part of the sprinklers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So so it has When you say shifted, is it uplifted?
Is that the thing? Because there are two ways forward?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's low lower than another area.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, so this area where the water is collecting has
sunk lower. Is this new concrete? Is it old? How
old is this sideyard concrete situation?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Twenty eight years?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ah? Okay? And how long has it shifted? How you know?
How how long ago did this become a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It probably started over a year go and has just
gotten worse.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wow? Okay, Well, uh do we have any other drainage
issues over there and excess of water? Has there been
any you know, uh, you know, unusual circumstances last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Nope, nope, just staging house.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, all right, just decided to let go and shift down.
Something in the soil condition there has changed and this
thing has decided to let go. All right. Last question
before I give you some input, and that is is
it cracked at all? Or are we just sagging and shifting?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I think it is primarily sagging and shifting, But I'm
actually gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Look okay, all right, well, you know what, this is
very similar to a call I actually took on the
show yesterday in in application, you got two choices, essentially,
my friend one, Susie is you know, we could remove
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the offending concrete. We can check the soil conditions underneath, recompact, refill, relevel,
reform up and pour some new sideyard concrete there to
make sure that the shifting and the changing is gone
and we are pouring now and draining properly to the drains.
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It sounds to me like that would be a viable
option for you. It's the more expensive option, but it's
definitely something that should be taken a look at as far,
you know, because you don't want to have the drains
not functioning for you properly. There aren't any surface top
coat solutions there that I'm going to give you that
are worth a dime when it comes to exterior concrete.
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So the idea of like, oh, well, you know, we
can just float this out and get yeah, it's going
to be ugly number one, it will only work for
a short period of time number two before it starts
cracking and fracturing, and then you just got an even
bigger mess on your hands. So that's option one option two.
Sometimes and this was like yesterday's caller had this situation.
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They didn't have any cracks. It was simply one section
of a sideyard concrete sidewalk that had shifted out of
place for them. And I said, well, this is always
a possibility in which you can dig under the lowered side,
the shifted side, dig under an attempt to pry up
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and or jack up that side of the concrete. Now,
his didn't have any cracks in it. Yours does, and
so it may not do it uniformly or easily, but
we have successfully at times jacked up that side of
the concrete and then supported it underneath. Now we've got
a void underneath, right, We've jacked it up a bit
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until it's back up to where it should be. Then
we try and shove under some solid shimming underneath, whether
it's in the form of bricks or piece of concrete
or large rocks, to kind of hold it in place
against the soil. And then there is such a thing
as expansive foam landscaping foam, and what that will allow
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us to do is we can spray expansive foam underneath
the jacked up concrete in the void, and it'll fill
up the void and become a pad basically a shim
to hold that concrete in its new position now and
not have any voids under the soil and also not
create and or encourage further erosion of the soil underneath,
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which might be the cause in the first place. So essentially,
I'm explaining that to you because that I don't know
that that's possible or doable in your situation, but you
should look at it from both of those perspectives. One
is to just take out the offending piece of concrete
and replace it report at the proper level. That's more comprehensive,
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and it's also going to allow you to address whatever
soil conditions have shifted and changed there so that they
don't continue to be a problem with the rest of
the sidewalk. Or Two, you can jack up that piece
if possible, intact, and then shim it underneath with expansive
foam and then refill and then hopefully that holds for
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years to come as well. All the fixes that we've
accomplished that way are still holding, and I don't think
we've returned to a single one even a decade plus
later and found a problem. So I'm confident in recommending
either one of those solutions to you.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Excellent, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, Susie, thanks for the call. Yeah, you know,
apparently people are having that issue. We had a call yesterday,
this call today. You know, sometimes these things come in clumps.
I don't know why. I don't know how that works
in the universe, but it does, all right, when we
return more of your calls your home Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six meters.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thrilled that you're with us here. I know what Sunday
mornings mean to you. They mean the same thing to me,
and so it is a privilege and a pleasure to
be spending time with you talking about this all important thing,
your home, especially as we roll into the holidays. That's
what we're talking about today. We're addressing three categories. Appliances
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in the kitchen, lighting in the rest of the home
or throughout the home, and some upgrades to your audio
video system, the home theater system. Because what are we
doing the holidays. We're eating, we're hanging out with people,
we're setting the mood all of these things. But these
are all lasting changes that go way beyond the holidays.
But there's stuff that you could get done if you
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want to, right now, without calling the electrician or the contractor,
without tearing up any walls, to make some big, big
changes in the way that your home feels and functions.
We're going to get back to that conversation just a bit,
but we're in the center hour of the show, which
means we're taking your calls, and if you've got questions
for me, the number to reach me is eight three
to three two. Ask Dean, eight three to three. The
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numeral two. Ask Dean eight three to three two Ask Dean.
It's just that simple, and you get to set the
agenda for that anything you want to talk about. All right,
I think I got Louis back on the line. We're
going to try again. Hey Louis, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Hi Dean.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
How are you, Sarah? Jimmy, Yes, I gotta hear you.
How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Good? Stackable washer and dryer to go in the closet
the breaker boxes. Right out side the closet, there is
plumbing with a door to get to the back of
the bathroom. What is it's eventless stackable? What is the
proper voltage and amborage that I need to put in there?
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And is going up with space on the above? There
is space above to go across the ceiling and get
back down. Is at the best route to take the conduit?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay? Well, let me ask you what what's the brand
of the washer dryer?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I'm looking at? Probably LG.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are you looking at the are you looking at like
the l G tower?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It's you, I guess it. Call it a stack of ble.
It's one on top of one another. The dryer on
top of it opens forward, and the the washers on
the bottom and it opens up right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Okay, all right? So so for a standard washer and
dryer combo you're looking at, uh you know, and that
let me ask I got to ask this question. Gas dryer?
Is it a gas dryer?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
No, it's all electric.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's all electric, okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I understand it's not a heat pump type of thing.
It draws with to the process of condensation or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, so, uh you know what, I don't have it
from me right here in front of me. So here's
the thing, old school electric dryers. Okay, they can pull
a lot of energy. Now, typically most of them these
days are still twenty amp one twenty volt okay. The
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new style of combo units are still, to my knowledge,
one hundred and twenty volt twenty amp circuits. Right. The
important thing.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Now, when you say combo, are you talking about the
one unit. I'm talking about the two, one on top
of each other.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, I understand, I understand, the stacks on top of
each other. Okay, it should be it should be one
twenty volt and not two forty okay, and just a
twenty amp circuit. The key is though, twenty amp. Right.
So a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's
just like the electricity in the rest of my house. Well,
technically the outlets running through the rest of your house
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can be fifteen amp. That's not enough. It's going to
have to be a twenty amp circuit for that unit.
But chances are you're not gonna have to run two
forty volt over there, big, big heavy duty stuff, just
twenty amps. So you can need a twenty amp breaker
and you're going to need twelve gauge wire to go
inside that system in order to make that happen. The
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reason why that's important is that you can get away
with fifteen or fourteen gauge wire for the rest of
your outlets in the house, but for something heavy duty
like that a twenty amp or you're going to want
to have twelve gauge wire. And as far as the
conduit is concerned, now double check all of this, louis
against the spec sheet of the unit. Right, I'm giving
you my general understanding of it, just shooting from the
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hip here and I don't have time on the air
to look up your specific unit and get the tech
data on it. But the tech data is going to
be there. But chances are it's one twenty vault twenty
amp and the conduit can run from anywhere anywhere it
needs to go.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Just run the easiest way through, the easiest.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Way, the easiest way, whatever, whatever. The easiest way into
that closet is. If you're running on the surface of
the closet, then you know you need to have rigid
electrical conduit that protects the conduit. Or if you're going
to go inside the wall, you can go inside the
wall and put in a standard outlet box.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
But you know you can go either way. You could
go in or out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, but the only part is if you go outside,
then you just need to have rigid conduit. But you
can't run the romex cable that the flexible cable exposed,
because that's against code. It has to be protected from
impact and from you know, and so on. Exactly, it's continered.
It's considered protected if it's inside the wall, behind the
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dry wall, or it it's outside the wall inside a
rigid conduit. And there you go.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You are so welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call,
and thanks for once you got cut off trying to
get back with me. All right, more of your calls
when we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Whisperer listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Here to help you transform your ordinary house into an
extraordinary home. Is that a bold claim? Yeah, I guess
it is. But it's totally doable. It's totally doable if
you know the path forward and the path I guarantee you,
my friend. It's not just about getting little diy things
handled around the house. It's not just about mister fix
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it stuff. That's why I am happy, happy, happy, happy
to help you with those items. That's why when we
take calls, give a lot of mister fix it kind
of advice. But I gotta tell you the difference between
what we're trying to do here on this show and
just to fix it show is that I'm trying to
transform your home, not just repair the little things that
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are going wrong, but transform it into something truly, truly
better than where it started. And just fixing the stuff
that's already you know, design apps from your home. Eh,
all we're doing is maintain status quo. I want to
transform it and to do that, we've got to turn
to design. Design has to matter most when we're approaching
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the transformation of your home, and that's what I'm here
to help you with every week, not just the practical
stuff in terms of, like, you know, what's wrong with
this pipe? Happy to do that. The builder in me
is ready to roll, But the designer in me wants
you to understand that true transformation is design based, and
that's why we're giving you education on that. And I
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hope you appreciate that there aren't many places, if any
other than right here where you're going to find that
message rolling every single week. So glad you're here with
us speaking of mixed or fix it stuff. Though. We
are in the center hour of the big show here
and we're taking calls, and we've got some folks who've
got issues going on with their home and I'm happy
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to help. Let's talk to Judy. Hey, Judy, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, Hello, this is Judy. And are you able to
hear me?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I am, I am? How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Great?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I have a pond outside, a coy pond, and it's
about eleven hundred gallons and it's square, mostly in the ground,
a little bit above and then I have a little
bit of a spill over around the pond and part
of it. What's happening is the smaller part is overflowing
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and we can't figure out where this extra water is
coming from and why all of a sudden it is
leaking over the smaller part of the pond. Outside of
the pond, nobody has added water to it. The bigger
part of the pond is going down a little bit,
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you know the line of the water. I can tell
that it's going down a little bit, but I have
had multiple people come. Nobody can really figure out it
is a concrete pond. It is probably about twenty years old.
Somebody had mentioned ground water, but nothing outside the pond
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is wet, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, have you taken a look at yeah, and this
is a this is a hard concrete. Ponds are tricky.
They're tricky, Judy, because they can act up on you
in strange ways. Uh, do you have a way of
referencing the water line on the main pond to see
if not not that the water is dropping down. I
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understand that you can tell that, but to see if
the water line or across the main pond is still
level with the top of the pond, like even with
the top of the pond. Because I'm I'm wondering if okay, uh,
you know, the only thing that comes to my mind,
a ground groundwater doesn't make sense to me. I got
to be honest with you, because groundwater groundwater. If the
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pond is holding water, then ground water should not be
relevant to adding water to the pond. However, if the
pond is soaking through, Okay, if water is either collecting
under the pond, or if there's a some kind of
a leak and the water under the pond or the
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water the soil under the pond has softened. Okay, you
wouldn't necessarily see this around the outside edge of the
pond if it's happening underneath. But eleven hundred gallons of water,
that's fairly heavy. You know, that's a lot of water. Okay,
just so you can do the calculations on your own.
You know, the old phrase for water is a pint's
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a pound the world around. In other words, one pint
of water weighs one pound. Okay, you've got eleven hundred
gallons of water there, so that's a pretty heavy pond
plus the concrete. So if the soil underneath the pond
has softened, it all surprise me. If the whole pond
has ever so slightly, maybe even imperceptibly tilted a little bit,
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tilted a little bit in the direction of the overflow,
which means uh huh, that water from the pond is
finding its way into the over the overflow is constantly
getting this little seepage and overflowing and running over because
the level of the pond water has changed a little bit.
And if that's the case, I'm not saying that it's disaster.
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That's you know, like, oh, you got to tear it
all out. But you may to keep that from happening,
you may want to drop the level of the of
the main pond down a little bit to compensate so
that it's not tipping into the overflows easily. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
We did do that, Yes, what we did to do
an experiment. We emptied the shallow part around the pond right,
completely lowered the main pond three inches. And I kept
looking at it, and that main pond filled up and
started overspilling into the shallow part that we had drained.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It filled up on its own.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yes, and without adding any water to it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh, I wonder if you've got a broken sprinkler line
or or a water issue underneath the pond.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because here here's the thing. Unless you're unless you you know,
unless you are involved in an ancient Jewish prophecy of
the of the water jug refilling on its own every day,
or your pond is haunted. Okay, uh, it should not
be refilling itself. Okay, it shouldn't be refilling itself. So so, yeah,
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here's the thing. Maybe I would run maybe one or
two other tests on it. Okay, Number one, let's find
out if you have a leak. Have you noticed any
water bill increase in the less you know recently?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Do you know what I need to really check?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So here's the thing. Here's the thing, because I'm
pushing up against the break. So I'm gonna give you
these last two pieces of advice of a test that
you can run. Okay. Number one, find your water meter. Okay,
everybody should understand and learn this. The water meter out
by the sidewalk, right out near the street, right the
main water meter, right next to the curb. Find that
water meter and flip up the little lid on the
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top of your water meter. Inside there on the screen
that looks like it reads like a little odometer, right,
like a car odometer. That's what the thing that tracks
how many gallons of water you're using. Somewhere on that
screen there is a tiny, tiny little it's either a
square like a red square or blue square or a triangle. Okay,
there's some and sometimes it's like a starburst little dial. Anyway,
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it's the tiniest little dial. That thing is your leak
detection gauge. Okay. So in other words, you go out
there make sure nothing is run in the whole house,
no water's being used. Go out there and take a
look at that tiny little gauge. If it's moving even
the tiniest bent, okay, then we've got a water leak.
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Now here's the thing I don't suspect. So that's one
thing I want you to check. I don't suspect that
this is probably a main house water leak. I suspect
that it might be a broken irrigation line. And you're
only gonna know it's only going to be leaking when
the sprinklers are on. Okay, So the second thing that
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I want you to do is whatever sprinklers are under
or near the pond, I want you to turn them
off for a couple of days, off completely, maybe off
for a week. I mean, the weather isn't that crazy
right now. You're not gonna lose plants by doing this.
And then run that test again. Take the pond water
down with no sprinklers running in that yard. Let's see
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if it refills itself again, because if it doesn't, it's
a broken sprinkler line. That's somehow injecting water into the pond.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Okay, sounds great. Thank you, Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Core so welcome. Thanks for the call Judy. Always interesting
stuff and everybody gets to learn a little something. Yeah,
that water meter, that tiny little device on the screen
of your water on the gauge face of your water meter.
That's how you know whether there's any tiniest little I mean,
if you were to turn on just the hose, just
dribbling barely, you'll see that thing spin. It is super
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sensitive and it's there for you to be able to
figure out whether you've got to leak in the house.
All right, more of your calls. When we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the house whispering.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Here to remind you every home deserves great design, especially yours.
Why because you live there, my friend, and you mean
the world to us. So, yeah, your home. Why is
this the thing? Why is this the thing for me? Well,
happens to be my profession. I am a custom home designer.
That meaning that I only do custom home home designs
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for custom homes, okay, not luxury homes, two different categories.
We do some of that too, but that's not the point.
Custom versus not custom is a completely different category than luxury.
Versus modest home. Okay, these are totally different categories. What
I want you to have, whether you live in a
castle or a cottage, is a custom designed home as
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much as humanly possible. Why. Because it's like tailoring a
piece of clothing to your body. We are tailoring your
home to your life so that that house that you
lived in amplifies assists you in living your best life possible.
That's what a custom home is really all about. It's
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not just about impressing your friends. Actually about impressing your
friends at all. They will be impressed when they walk
into your home if you have tailored your home to
your life because it just feels right. I mean, it's
blood and bone, a part of you and an extension
of you. And it helps because home is HQ of
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our lives. Right, we all live at home? Okay we are.
I'm going to take one more call and then we're
going to get it back to our conversation on things
we can do without tearing up the house or calling
the contractor before the holidays to make significant and lasting changes.
I'm not talking about holiday to core. I'm talking about
things to do before the holidays that will help the holidays,
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but make lasting changes to your home, in your home
theater system, in your kitchen, with your appliances, and in
your lighting. So we're going to get back to that
in just a bit, but before we do, I want
to talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How are you doing so today?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I have a problem where the leak.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Of my house is bringing out thirty water. It's making
all the people in.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
The house thirty.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I want to know why we want to have thirty
We want to have the ladies off, but nothing can
go right.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Can you tell me what is going on my pipeline?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The pipeline is bringing up chatty.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh my gosh, Michael, don't panic, my friend. You are
very excited about that. All right, let me ask you, so, so,
is this something that's just just happened all of a sudden.
You're just you're you're there's no leaks, there were no problems,
and now you're turning on the faucets and you're getting
dirty water in the house. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I was sitting down with my lady friend and the
wizard drink is off tequila.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I don't know better, she said.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I need someone that I want to go get butter.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The butter is brown. Ah, I gotcha, all right, all right,
all right, So no problems at your house. It has
just started to happen this way. And where do you live?
My friend?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I leave all the day in San Diego?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
My friend by two leves.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Stuff. Let the fun time happen, all right, all right,
I got you, I got you, all right, Michael's ready
to party. Clearly he's got brown water coming out of
his pipes. Uh. It is not unusual for this to
happen from time to time. It's shocking when it does.
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And so how is it that you live in a
house for all these years and you've always had clean
water coming out of the pipes, then all of a
sudden it's brown. Okay, Well, first of all, first thing
to do is just for the heck of it, you
got to call the water company and tell them that
this is what's happening. Okay, just in case there is
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a mainline break that's sucking water in there. They'll check
it out, just to make sure everything is status quo
in your region, in your area, for your neighborhood. So
that's job one, is to call the water company and say, hey,
this is what's happening all of a sudden to my home.
Job one second second thing is is that they're very
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likely to tell you, Okay, we were working on some
lines near your home. We had a break, we did
some maintenance, and so on. When the water company does
that kind of stuff, when municipal water lines get opened
up for servicing, sometimes it can bust loose all sorts
of elements, corrosion, things inside the pipe. It disturbs the
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pipes and minerals that have been hanging on and clinging
to the sides of the pipe for years and years
and years in a static position, in stasis, and suddenly
they are cut loose. And part of that can be
iron elements, things that put rust in the water. It's
I doubt it's sewage, very unlikely that's sewage. You don't
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have to worry about that, Michael. But rust elements in
the water sometimes hard minerals, they can come flooding through
into residential pipes. You should also, I want you to
talk to your neighbors. I know they're not partying as
hard as you, but talk to your neighbors left and
right of you. Ask them if they've experienced the same
thing there. If no neighbor is experiencing any of this
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and only you, you may have an issue with a
break in your mainline that's actually sucking dirt from the
property into the line with you. But I'm not thinking
that that's the case. What is far more common, far
and far more common, is in your neighborhood, in your area,
when the water company does work on the lines for
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a short period of time, it can result in dirty
water flowing. And by dirty we don't mean dirt, but
we mean mineral elements and rust that can show up
in the water supply. Now, to get it out of
your house, you go to the all of the cold
water taps. Take the aerators off the facets. Okay, the
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aerators are those little screens that filter. Take those all
off the facets, and you don't have to do this
with the hot water. But turn on all the cold
water valves in the house and let them run for
a bit, let them flush out. It may take several
minutes to do so run it for or you know,
five to ten minutes if necessary. See if that clears.
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If it doesn't, try it again, and if that doesn't
clear it, then I guarantee you you've got something outside
the property line of your house that the water company
has done that they need to address, and or that
they already addressed, and this is the runoff from it.
It will likely end, but you're going to have to
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put up with it in the short time. Maybe get
some bottled water or something until that gets resolved. I
wish I had a better answer for you, Michael. That
just solves the problem. But this is not an uncommon
thing when water lines in the area get disturbed. So
check that out. Make sure it's not your property. I
doubt it is, and check what the water company, see
what the issue is. All right, more when we return
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your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has
been Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into
the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday
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Custom Home Designer, and your guide to better understanding that
place where you live today on the show, and thanks
for joining us. By the way, we are talking about
the things that we can do to our home before
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the holidays without having to call the contractor out, without
having to tear into walls or make big changes, but
things we can do to our home to kind of
hit jush up the big three categories of things that
the holidays tend to ask of us. We're eating, So
we're going to talk about some appliance changes that have
happened in the appliance world in case you've been thinking,
(00:44):
you know, I want to change out that cook top
or that oven or whatever. Major appliances for twenty twenty
five updates and changes you need to know about. How
to get more out of your home theater experience without
breaking the bank, how to improve the whole screen watching
because you know we're watching holiday movies the Hallmark channel
where yes we are, and games big games of course
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happened all throughout the holidays, So how to jush up
and improve your home theater experience. And right now we're
just finishing up, or we will be finishing up talking
about lighting, how to improve lighting in your home, just
so that you set the mood. I'm not talking about
Christmas lights. I'm talking about lighting period, the changes that
you make now that are going to last you a
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lifetime in your home. We're going to get back to
that conversation in just a bit. But guess what, it's
a second hour of the show, which means it's time
to go to the phones find out what's going on
with you and your home. Let's talk to Susie. Hey, Susie,
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I have a question regarding the concrete on our sideyard
where it shifted and no longer drained and there are puddles.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, so explain it to me a little bit more.
Tell me exactly what's going on and why you think
it has shifted. And when you say shifted, exactly what
you mean. Just paint me a little clear picture and
see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm guessing it could be from the tree roots. It
used to all dream properly, and now it puddles away
from the drain and then it's like turning green because
it's not draining because the water is coming from the
part of the sprinklers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So so it has When you say shifted, is it uplifted?
Is that the thing? Because there are two ways forward?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's low lower than another area.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, so this area where the water is collecting has
sunk lower. Is this new concrete? Is it old? How
old is this sideyard concrete situation?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Twenty eight years?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ah? Okay? And how long has it shifted? How you know?
How how long ago did this become a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It probably started over a year go and has just
gotten worse.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wow? Okay, Well, uh do we have any other drainage
issues over there and excess of water? Has there been
any you know, uh, you know, unusual circumstances last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Nope, nope, just staging house.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, all right, just decided to let go and shift down.
Something in the soil condition there has changed and this
thing has decided to let go. All right. Last question
before I give you some input, and that is is
it cracked at all? Or are we just sagging and shifting?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I think it is primarily sagging and shifting, But I'm
actually gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Look okay, all right, well, you know what, this is
very similar to a call I actually took on the
show yesterday in in application, you got two choices, essentially,
my friend one, Susie is you know, we could remove
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the offending concrete. We can check the soil conditions underneath, recompact, refill, relevel,
reform up and pour some new sideyard concrete there to
make sure that the shifting and the changing is gone
and we are pouring now and draining properly to the drains.
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It sounds to me like that would be a viable
option for you. It's the more expensive option, but it's
definitely something that should be taken a look at as far,
you know, because you don't want to have the drains
not functioning for you properly. There aren't any surface top
coat solutions there that I'm going to give you that
are worth a dime when it comes to exterior concrete.
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So the idea of like, oh, well, you know, we
can just float this out and get yeah, it's going
to be ugly number one, it will only work for
a short period of time number two before it starts
cracking and fracturing, and then you just got an even
bigger mess on your hands. So that's option one option two.
Sometimes and this was like yesterday's caller had this situation.
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They didn't have any cracks. It was simply one section
of a sideyard concrete sidewalk that had shifted out of
place for them. And I said, well, this is always
a possibility in which you can dig under the lowered side,
the shifted side, dig under an attempt to pry up
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and or jack up that side of the concrete. Now,
his didn't have any cracks in it. Yours does, and
so it may not do it uniformly or easily, but
we have successfully at times jacked up that side of
the concrete and then supported it underneath. Now we've got
a void underneath, right, We've jacked it up a bit
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until it's back up to where it should be. Then
we try and shove under some solid shimming underneath, whether
it's in the form of bricks or piece of concrete
or large rocks, to kind of hold it in place
against the soil. And then there is such a thing
as expansive foam landscaping foam, and what that will allow
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us to do is we can spray expansive foam underneath
the jacked up concrete in the void, and it'll fill
up the void and become a pad basically a shim
to hold that concrete in its new position now and
not have any voids under the soil and also not
create and or encourage further erosion of the soil underneath,
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which might be the cause in the first place. So essentially,
I'm explaining that to you because that I don't know
that that's possible or doable in your situation, but you
should look at it from both of those perspectives. One
is to just take out the offending piece of concrete
and replace it report at the proper level. That's more comprehensive,
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and it's also going to allow you to address whatever
soil conditions have shifted and changed there so that they
don't continue to be a problem with the rest of
the sidewalk. Or Two, you can jack up that piece
if possible, intact, and then shim it underneath with expansive
foam and then refill and then hopefully that holds for
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years to come as well. All the fixes that we've
accomplished that way are still holding, and I don't think
we've returned to a single one even a decade plus
later and found a problem. So I'm confident in recommending
either one of those solutions to you.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Excellent, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, Susie, thanks for the call. Yeah, you know,
apparently people are having that issue. We had a call yesterday,
this call today. You know, sometimes these things come in clumps.
I don't know why. I don't know how that works
in the universe, but it does, all right, when we
return more of your calls your home Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six meters.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thrilled that you're with us here. I know what Sunday
mornings mean to you. They mean the same thing to me,
and so it is a privilege and a pleasure to
be spending time with you talking about this all important thing,
your home, especially as we roll into the holidays. That's
what we're talking about today. We're addressing three categories. Appliances
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in the kitchen, lighting in the rest of the home
or throughout the home, and some upgrades to your audio
video system, the home theater system. Because what are we
doing the holidays. We're eating, we're hanging out with people,
we're setting the mood all of these things. But these
are all lasting changes that go way beyond the holidays.
But there's stuff that you could get done if you
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want to, right now, without calling the electrician or the contractor,
without tearing up any walls, to make some big, big
changes in the way that your home feels and functions.
We're going to get back to that conversation just a bit,
but we're in the center hour of the show, which
means we're taking your calls, and if you've got questions
for me, the number to reach me is eight three
to three two. Ask Dean, eight three to three. The
(09:05):
numeral two. Ask Dean eight three to three two Ask Dean.
It's just that simple, and you get to set the
agenda for that anything you want to talk about. All right,
I think I got Louis back on the line. We're
going to try again. Hey Louis, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Hi Dean.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
How are you, Sarah? Jimmy, Yes, I gotta hear you.
How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Good? Stackable washer and dryer to go in the closet
the breaker boxes. Right out side the closet, there is
plumbing with a door to get to the back of
the bathroom. What is it's eventless stackable? What is the
proper voltage and amborage that I need to put in there?
(09:48):
And is going up with space on the above? There
is space above to go across the ceiling and get
back down. Is at the best route to take the conduit?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay? Well, let me ask you what what's the brand
of the washer dryer?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I'm looking at? Probably LG.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are you looking at the are you looking at like
the l G tower?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It's you, I guess it. Call it a stack of ble.
It's one on top of one another. The dryer on
top of it opens forward, and the the washers on
the bottom and it opens up right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Okay, all right? So so for a standard washer and
dryer combo you're looking at, uh you know, and that
let me ask I got to ask this question. Gas dryer?
Is it a gas dryer?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
No, it's all electric.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's all electric, okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I understand it's not a heat pump type of thing.
It draws with to the process of condensation or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, so, uh you know what, I don't have it
from me right here in front of me. So here's
the thing, old school electric dryers. Okay, they can pull
a lot of energy. Now, typically most of them these
days are still twenty amp one twenty volt okay. The
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new style of combo units are still, to my knowledge,
one hundred and twenty volt twenty amp circuits. Right. The
important thing.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Now, when you say combo, are you talking about the
one unit. I'm talking about the two, one on top
of each other.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, I understand, I understand, the stacks on top of
each other. Okay, it should be it should be one
twenty volt and not two forty okay, and just a
twenty amp circuit. The key is though, twenty amp. Right.
So a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's
just like the electricity in the rest of my house. Well,
technically the outlets running through the rest of your house
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can be fifteen amp. That's not enough. It's going to
have to be a twenty amp circuit for that unit.
But chances are you're not gonna have to run two
forty volt over there, big, big heavy duty stuff, just
twenty amps. So you can need a twenty amp breaker
and you're going to need twelve gauge wire to go
inside that system in order to make that happen. The
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reason why that's important is that you can get away
with fifteen or fourteen gauge wire for the rest of
your outlets in the house, but for something heavy duty
like that a twenty amp or you're going to want
to have twelve gauge wire. And as far as the
conduit is concerned, now double check all of this, louis
against the spec sheet of the unit. Right, I'm giving
you my general understanding of it, just shooting from the
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hip here and I don't have time on the air
to look up your specific unit and get the tech
data on it. But the tech data is going to
be there. But chances are it's one twenty vault twenty
amp and the conduit can run from anywhere anywhere it
needs to go.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Just run the easiest way through, the easiest.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Way, the easiest way, whatever, whatever. The easiest way into
that closet is. If you're running on the surface of
the closet, then you know you need to have rigid
electrical conduit that protects the conduit. Or if you're going
to go inside the wall, you can go inside the
wall and put in a standard outlet box.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
But you know you can go either way. You could
go in or out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, but the only part is if you go outside,
then you just need to have rigid conduit. But you
can't run the romex cable that the flexible cable exposed,
because that's against code. It has to be protected from
impact and from you know, and so on. Exactly, it's continered.
It's considered protected if it's inside the wall, behind the
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dry wall, or it it's outside the wall inside a
rigid conduit. And there you go.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You are so welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call,
and thanks for once you got cut off trying to
get back with me. All right, more of your calls
when we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Whisperer listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Here to help you transform your ordinary house into an
extraordinary home. Is that a bold claim? Yeah, I guess
it is. But it's totally doable. It's totally doable if
you know the path forward and the path I guarantee you,
my friend. It's not just about getting little diy things
handled around the house. It's not just about mister fix
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it stuff. That's why I am happy, happy, happy, happy
to help you with those items. That's why when we
take calls, give a lot of mister fix it kind
of advice. But I gotta tell you the difference between
what we're trying to do here on this show and
just to fix it show is that I'm trying to
transform your home, not just repair the little things that
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are going wrong, but transform it into something truly, truly
better than where it started. And just fixing the stuff
that's already you know, design apps from your home. Eh,
all we're doing is maintain status quo. I want to
transform it and to do that, we've got to turn
to design. Design has to matter most when we're approaching
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the transformation of your home, and that's what I'm here
to help you with every week, not just the practical
stuff in terms of, like, you know, what's wrong with
this pipe? Happy to do that. The builder in me
is ready to roll, But the designer in me wants
you to understand that true transformation is design based, and
that's why we're giving you education on that. And I
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hope you appreciate that there aren't many places, if any
other than right here where you're going to find that
message rolling every single week. So glad you're here with
us speaking of mixed or fix it stuff. Though. We
are in the center hour of the big show here
and we're taking calls, and we've got some folks who've
got issues going on with their home and I'm happy
(15:55):
to help. Let's talk to Judy. Hey, Judy, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, Hello, this is Judy. And are you able to
hear me?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I am, I am? How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Great?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I have a pond outside, a coy pond, and it's
about eleven hundred gallons and it's square, mostly in the ground,
a little bit above and then I have a little
bit of a spill over around the pond and part
of it. What's happening is the smaller part is overflowing
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and we can't figure out where this extra water is
coming from and why all of a sudden it is
leaking over the smaller part of the pond. Outside of
the pond, nobody has added water to it. The bigger
part of the pond is going down a little bit,
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you know the line of the water. I can tell
that it's going down a little bit, but I have
had multiple people come. Nobody can really figure out it
is a concrete pond. It is probably about twenty years old.
Somebody had mentioned ground water, but nothing outside the pond
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is wet, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, have you taken a look at yeah, and this
is a this is a hard concrete. Ponds are tricky.
They're tricky, Judy, because they can act up on you
in strange ways. Uh, do you have a way of
referencing the water line on the main pond to see
if not not that the water is dropping down. I
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understand that you can tell that, but to see if
the water line or across the main pond is still
level with the top of the pond, like even with
the top of the pond. Because I'm I'm wondering if okay, uh,
you know, the only thing that comes to my mind,
a ground groundwater doesn't make sense to me. I got
to be honest with you, because groundwater groundwater. If the
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pond is holding water, then ground water should not be
relevant to adding water to the pond. However, if the
pond is soaking through, Okay, if water is either collecting
under the pond, or if there's a some kind of
a leak and the water under the pond or the
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water the soil under the pond has softened. Okay, you
wouldn't necessarily see this around the outside edge of the
pond if it's happening underneath. But eleven hundred gallons of water,
that's fairly heavy. You know, that's a lot of water. Okay,
just so you can do the calculations on your own.
You know, the old phrase for water is a pint's
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a pound the world around. In other words, one pint
of water weighs one pound. Okay, you've got eleven hundred
gallons of water there, so that's a pretty heavy pond
plus the concrete. So if the soil underneath the pond
has softened, it all surprise me. If the whole pond
has ever so slightly, maybe even imperceptibly tilted a little bit,
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tilted a little bit in the direction of the overflow,
which means uh huh, that water from the pond is
finding its way into the over the overflow is constantly
getting this little seepage and overflowing and running over because
the level of the pond water has changed a little bit.
And if that's the case, I'm not saying that it's disaster.
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That's you know, like, oh, you got to tear it
all out. But you may to keep that from happening,
you may want to drop the level of the of
the main pond down a little bit to compensate so
that it's not tipping into the overflows easily. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
We did do that, Yes, what we did to do
an experiment. We emptied the shallow part around the pond right,
completely lowered the main pond three inches. And I kept
looking at it, and that main pond filled up and
started overspilling into the shallow part that we had drained.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It filled up on its own.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yes, and without adding any water to it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh, I wonder if you've got a broken sprinkler line
or or a water issue underneath the pond.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because here here's the thing. Unless you're unless you you know,
unless you are involved in an ancient Jewish prophecy of
the of the water jug refilling on its own every day,
or your pond is haunted. Okay, uh, it should not
be refilling itself. Okay, it shouldn't be refilling itself. So so, yeah,
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here's the thing. Maybe I would run maybe one or
two other tests on it. Okay, Number one, let's find
out if you have a leak. Have you noticed any
water bill increase in the less you know recently?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Do you know what I need to really check?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So here's the thing. Here's the thing, because I'm
pushing up against the break. So I'm gonna give you
these last two pieces of advice of a test that
you can run. Okay. Number one, find your water meter. Okay,
everybody should understand and learn this. The water meter out
by the sidewalk, right out near the street, right the
main water meter, right next to the curb. Find that
water meter and flip up the little lid on the
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top of your water meter. Inside there on the screen
that looks like it reads like a little odometer, right,
like a car odometer. That's what the thing that tracks
how many gallons of water you're using. Somewhere on that
screen there is a tiny, tiny little it's either a
square like a red square or blue square or a triangle. Okay,
there's some and sometimes it's like a starburst little dial. Anyway,
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it's the tiniest little dial. That thing is your leak
detection gauge. Okay. So in other words, you go out
there make sure nothing is run in the whole house,
no water's being used. Go out there and take a
look at that tiny little gauge. If it's moving even
the tiniest bent, okay, then we've got a water leak.
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Now here's the thing I don't suspect. So that's one
thing I want you to check. I don't suspect that
this is probably a main house water leak. I suspect
that it might be a broken irrigation line. And you're
only gonna know it's only going to be leaking when
the sprinklers are on. Okay, So the second thing that
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I want you to do is whatever sprinklers are under
or near the pond, I want you to turn them
off for a couple of days, off completely, maybe off
for a week. I mean, the weather isn't that crazy
right now. You're not gonna lose plants by doing this.
And then run that test again. Take the pond water
down with no sprinklers running in that yard. Let's see
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if it refills itself again, because if it doesn't, it's
a broken sprinkler line. That's somehow injecting water into the pond.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Okay, sounds great. Thank you, Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Core so welcome. Thanks for the call Judy. Always interesting
stuff and everybody gets to learn a little something. Yeah,
that water meter, that tiny little device on the screen
of your water on the gauge face of your water meter.
That's how you know whether there's any tiniest little I mean,
if you were to turn on just the hose, just
dribbling barely, you'll see that thing spin. It is super
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sensitive and it's there for you to be able to
figure out whether you've got to leak in the house.
All right, more of your calls. When we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the house whispering.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Here to remind you every home deserves great design, especially yours.
Why because you live there, my friend, and you mean
the world to us. So, yeah, your home. Why is
this the thing? Why is this the thing for me? Well,
happens to be my profession. I am a custom home designer.
That meaning that I only do custom home home designs
(24:00):
for custom homes, okay, not luxury homes, two different categories.
We do some of that too, but that's not the point.
Custom versus not custom is a completely different category than luxury.
Versus modest home. Okay, these are totally different categories. What
I want you to have, whether you live in a
castle or a cottage, is a custom designed home as
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much as humanly possible. Why. Because it's like tailoring a
piece of clothing to your body. We are tailoring your
home to your life so that that house that you
lived in amplifies assists you in living your best life possible.
That's what a custom home is really all about. It's
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not just about impressing your friends. Actually about impressing your
friends at all. They will be impressed when they walk
into your home if you have tailored your home to
your life because it just feels right. I mean, it's
blood and bone, a part of you and an extension
of you. And it helps because home is HQ of
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our lives. Right, we all live at home? Okay we are.
I'm going to take one more call and then we're
going to get it back to our conversation on things
we can do without tearing up the house or calling
the contractor before the holidays to make significant and lasting changes.
I'm not talking about holiday to core. I'm talking about
things to do before the holidays that will help the holidays,
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but make lasting changes to your home, in your home
theater system, in your kitchen, with your appliances, and in
your lighting. So we're going to get back to that
in just a bit, but before we do, I want
to talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How are you doing so today?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I have a problem where the leak.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Of my house is bringing out thirty water. It's making
all the people in.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
The house thirty.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I want to know why we want to have thirty
We want to have the ladies off, but nothing can
go right.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Can you tell me what is going on my pipeline?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The pipeline is bringing up chatty.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh my gosh, Michael, don't panic, my friend. You are
very excited about that. All right, let me ask you, so, so,
is this something that's just just happened all of a sudden.
You're just you're you're there's no leaks, there were no problems,
and now you're turning on the faucets and you're getting
dirty water in the house. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I was sitting down with my lady friend and the
wizard drink is off tequila.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I don't know better, she said.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I need someone that I want to go get butter.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The butter is brown. Ah, I gotcha, all right, all right,
all right, So no problems at your house. It has
just started to happen this way. And where do you live?
My friend?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I leave all the day in San Diego?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
My friend by two leves.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Stuff. Let the fun time happen, all right, all right,
I got you, I got you, all right, Michael's ready
to party. Clearly he's got brown water coming out of
his pipes. Uh. It is not unusual for this to
happen from time to time. It's shocking when it does.
(27:07):
And so how is it that you live in a
house for all these years and you've always had clean
water coming out of the pipes, then all of a
sudden it's brown. Okay, Well, first of all, first thing
to do is just for the heck of it, you
got to call the water company and tell them that
this is what's happening. Okay, just in case there is
(27:28):
a mainline break that's sucking water in there. They'll check
it out, just to make sure everything is status quo
in your region, in your area, for your neighborhood. So
that's job one, is to call the water company and say, hey,
this is what's happening all of a sudden to my home.
Job one second second thing is is that they're very
(27:51):
likely to tell you, Okay, we were working on some
lines near your home. We had a break, we did
some maintenance, and so on. When the water company does
that kind of stuff, when municipal water lines get opened
up for servicing, sometimes it can bust loose all sorts
of elements, corrosion, things inside the pipe. It disturbs the
(28:12):
pipes and minerals that have been hanging on and clinging
to the sides of the pipe for years and years
and years in a static position, in stasis, and suddenly
they are cut loose. And part of that can be
iron elements, things that put rust in the water. It's
I doubt it's sewage, very unlikely that's sewage. You don't
(28:35):
have to worry about that, Michael. But rust elements in
the water sometimes hard minerals, they can come flooding through
into residential pipes. You should also, I want you to
talk to your neighbors. I know they're not partying as
hard as you, but talk to your neighbors left and
right of you. Ask them if they've experienced the same
thing there. If no neighbor is experiencing any of this
(28:57):
and only you, you may have an issue with a
break in your mainline that's actually sucking dirt from the
property into the line with you. But I'm not thinking
that that's the case. What is far more common, far
and far more common, is in your neighborhood, in your area,
when the water company does work on the lines for
(29:18):
a short period of time, it can result in dirty
water flowing. And by dirty we don't mean dirt, but
we mean mineral elements and rust that can show up
in the water supply. Now, to get it out of
your house, you go to the all of the cold
water taps. Take the aerators off the facets. Okay, the
(29:42):
aerators are those little screens that filter. Take those all
off the facets, and you don't have to do this
with the hot water. But turn on all the cold
water valves in the house and let them run for
a bit, let them flush out. It may take several
minutes to do so run it for or you know,
five to ten minutes if necessary. See if that clears.
(30:05):
If it doesn't, try it again, and if that doesn't
clear it, then I guarantee you you've got something outside
the property line of your house that the water company
has done that they need to address, and or that
they already addressed, and this is the runoff from it.
It will likely end, but you're going to have to
(30:26):
put up with it in the short time. Maybe get
some bottled water or something until that gets resolved. I
wish I had a better answer for you, Michael. That
just solves the problem. But this is not an uncommon
thing when water lines in the area get disturbed. So
check that out. Make sure it's not your property. I
doubt it is, and check what the water company, see
what the issue is. All right, more when we return
(30:49):
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