November 29, 2025 • 28 mins
Today’s first caller has a downspout that goes into the cement. During heavy rain, it took three days to drain, so he’s wondering about the best way to seal the stucco, so it doesn’t get waterlogged.
The next caller's toilet is weak and doesn’t flush properly, what can she do? It’s her third toilet, and it might be a plumbing issue, so let’s get Dean on the tank case.
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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 Whisper, Custom home Builder, custom home Designer, and every
week your guide to better understand that place where you live.
(00:24):
Whether home for you is a castle or a cottage,
doesn't matter to me. You know why, because luxury does
not a great homemake. It is design that matters most.
And I invite you to think of it this way.
New parts for a home, that's home repair, and we
talk a lot about that. We'll probably be talking a
good amount about that today. New paint, that's home maintenance.
(00:46):
New design, though m that is the true definition, at
least in my book of home improvement. Good design makes
all the difference. Every house deserves it, every house should
enjoy it, because once good design is at work, every
else has a path forward toward becoming a great home.
Thanks for joining us on the program today. How is
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your Thanksgiving? Let's talk about that a little bit. Give
me a call, tell me how Thanksgiving went, and how
the home is holding up, and what your prospects for
the rest of the holidays are of course. Today it's
an all call Saturday morning. Your calls the number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,
the numeral two, and then you just spell out ask
(01:29):
Dean eight three three to ask Dean anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. Whatever's got you scratch
in your head? Design, construction, diy stuff inside, outside, landscape, decor.
I got you. We'll put our heads together. We will
get it figured out. So give me a call. Pull
yourself some coffee, Slap yourself across the face couple of times.
(01:51):
Wake up, get out of that food, Koma. Let's talk
about your home. Nikki is standing by. The phone lines
are open. We are ready for you. And as soon
as the phones the call star rolling in, we will
go to it. In the meantime, let's say good morning
to Sam. Hey Sam, how's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good morning, Dean. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you had a
wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We did, we did. It was very chill, very quiet
this year. But you know, we we made ourselves a
little meal. Have made a few pies that got a
little out of hand at one point, and then uh,
and then we took those pies over to my brother
in law's house and joined them for their Thanksgiving feast
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for dessert, and it was a good time was had
by all. And we may have I'm not confirming this,
but we may have been over at the Magic Kingdom yesterday,
spending the day after Thanksgiving insanely at Disneyland. But actually
that was a good time too, So we had a
we had a good time. I heard that you went
to enchant out in.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Uh Santa Anita at Sam Conway's favorite stomping ground.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Conway and I were talking about it
last week and I was thinking, wow, I've never heard
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This was the first year, right, Yeah. It was really fun.
Brought the kids out there. We had a really fun
time that had an ice slide, ice skating, great food,
a lot of festivities that had a big maze that
you can go through and try to you know, like
they give you scratch your cards, side identify landmarks and
you gradually like you work your way through the maze.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was really fun. It was a great time. And
it's all lit up at night, like amazing lights, just
very festive and holiday, right, It is beautiful. They also
have a very nice Ferris Wheel. It was a lot
of fun. All right, So I'm gonna put I'm gonna
plug that like Conway did. It's that Santa I Nita
Racetrack off the two ten and and this is its
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first year running. But they seem to I mean, and
Sam confirms it just class act. I mean, fun for
the whole family. So if you like that, kind of
like disconso Garden La Zoo night walk with the lights everywhere.
Plus uh and I was surprised by this. Maybe I
shouldn't have been surprised because it's Santa I Needa. But yeah,
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you said the food was like top notch.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, it was really good. Mac and cheese with brisket on.
It was great. They had a lot of different options.
It's some great dessert options and a turkey leg. We
walked out with the turkey leg and a turkey leg.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All the kids loved it. It was it was both
barbaric and regal at the same time. That's the thing
with turkey legs. People, you either love it or hate
the idea. I kind of like the idea of going
on a turkey leg.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh is it Heather? It's Heather, Hey, Heather Brooker, Hi girl.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Speaking of turkey legs, I also am a turkey leg advocate.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh I thought you were gonna make fun on my legs. Yeah,
speaking of turkey legs, it's taking legs. Don't never wear
shorts in here again. Never, I would never.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
One of my favorite things to do is when my
husband and my daughter go on the Credit Coaster at
Disneyland and I will go and get a turkey leg
and then when they get off, we'll all kind of
share it. It's the most disgusting and we all look
like ravenous animals, but like, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's a good time. We love a turkey leg moment,
you know what. I agree. And if you're looking for
food at Disneyland, that is actually not completely unhealthy other
than it being I guess maybe a giant salt lick.
But apart from that, it really it is an actual
turkey leg made from real turkey, So that works. Yeah.
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And I was your Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
It was so good, it was so nice. I went
to New York with my whoa. Yeah, yes, I've been
in New York for the past like week and a half.
I flew back Thursday, Thursday afternoon because I had to
do wake up call yesterday for Amy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Otherwise I'd still be there. Otherwise I'd still be there
Where in New York? Where in New York?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So we went to We stayed in Midtown East, not
right in the Midtown area, but we were in Manhattan.
And we actually started our trip in Massachusetts. I'm one
of my best friends from middle school. We've been friends
since we were thirteen years old. Lives there with her family,
and we stayed with her for a few days, and
then we drove down, did like a little, you know,
a little road trip through Connecticut and whatnot, and went
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to Manhattan for a few days and just had the
best time getting in the holiday spirit. And my husband's
a big music fan, so I took him to the
East Village and there's a lot of music history there
in the East Village. They that's where the punk rock
scene started. It's where bands like Blondie, you know, got
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their start and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So we did like a little tour there.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We saw David Swimmer from Friends just randomly walking by.
I was like, oh my god, So yeah, we just
we went all over and got in the holiday spirit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was really just a fun time with my family,
Tena and I loved New York and we love New
York in the fall. Not at the risk of sounding
all very cosmopolit we just love we love being in
that city.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There is something very It's like, we don't have seasons
here in LA which is great. You know, it's you
get used to it and you're like really spoiled with
all this beautiful weather that we have. But every once
in a while, it's nice to go and feel a
season and be like, oh, look at the leaves changing colors.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
This is what fall is like. Absolutely, well, i'll tell you,
you know what, after the news and the break, I'll
tell you about the the little season starter that we're
going to be doing. Yay, that's coming up here. But yeah,
New York in the fall it's awesome. I think we're
taking our our niece Evy after she graduate as a
graduation president in the fall next year. So uh, totally
(07:39):
looking forward. It's been too long since I've been back. Well,
this is your sign you gotta go. Yes, that's exactly it.
That's confirmation. Speaking of Tina sitting across the table from me,
very quickly, my design partner, my better half, my best
friend in all the world. Tina is here. Welcome home. Hey, Hi,
how you do. I'm good. Let's go to the news. Okay,
(08:01):
more great stuff on the way. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Jean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to help you take your home to the
next level. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Here this Saturday morning, right after Thanksgiving? Is it the
twenty ninth? It is? It's the twenty ninth of November.
It's only one day left and then man, Monday, We're
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into December and we are on the road. Are we
not today? Correct me if I'm wrong? Heather, you know this.
This is today. Yesterday was Black Friday. Today is Small
Business Saturday, isn't it? That is correct? Small Business Saturday.
This is the day after you have raped and pillaged
all the major chain stores for the deals that you
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take the money that you've got left and go invested
in your community. Go invested in small businesses all around.
Go buy some artisanal cheese, Go buy go buy some
really good, beautiful things, lovely things for the holidays from
local business owners who are just working hard to not
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only build themselves a life and a business, but also
be a part of the community. I love on every Thanksgiving,
well at least every Thanksgiving I think for the last
four years or so. I could be wrong about that
could be longer. But our local coffeehouse, the one that's
literally closest to my house and my favorite five oh
seven here in Thousand Oaks, they just do the major
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lift and sponsor a what they call the Turkey Dash.
Is it the Turkey Dash? Yeah, which is just a
run for charity where they raise money for charity on
Thanksgiving morning and a thousand plus people sign up for
it and show up and run. It's just the greatest thing.
So anyway, just a reminder of everybody small business Saturday today,
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get out there and support local in your community. So
many people, especially in California, Southern California, complain, Yeah, we
just have a big sprawl in all these companies and
we don't really have a sense of community. Well, you
know what, invest in all these little places, get to
know you. You want to not to, you know, run
the risk of sounding like I'm on cheers here, but
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you do. I love doing this in our town and
we've established it with tens of businesses. I feel just
walk into a place where where people know your name,
you know their names, they know your name. It just
there's nothing like community when it comes to you know,
living in a place. It's just the best thing ever.
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All Right, that's my plug there it is. Here's the
thing I want to tell you, guys. I've got a
bunch of stuff to talk to you about this morning.
And I'll tell you why I do. Because I had
my suspicions that we might be low on calls today
because people are still in their food comas and now
you're in your shopping coma. But I'm just letting you know.
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The phone lines are open right now. They're wide open.
Nikki is standing by ready to take your call. I
am ready to talk to you about whatever's going on
with your home. If you've tried to call in in
the past and gotten frustrated because you haven't gotten through,
now would be a perfect time because the phone lines
are completely open. The number to reach me eight three
three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two
(11:26):
ask Dean. You know, there are some schools of thought
that say I shouldn't say that because it somehow betrays
the fact that we don't have listeners. Well, I've never
pretended to that we had listeners. No, of course we do.
We have a lot of listeners. It's just you know,
there's Saturday mornings, early Saturday mornings, and then early Saturday
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mornings right after a holiday. I get it. I get it.
So anyway, Heather, I was going to tell you that
we're starting our holiday out by uh, We're going to Bozeman,
Montana this week. Ooh, I've always wanted to go there.
I've heard it's beautiful. The first week of December every
year in Bozeman they do the Bozeman's Stroll, which is
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they shut down Main Street. They turn it into a big,
beautiful night market. All the shops, all the restaurants are open,
plus all sorts of stuff going on in the street,
and and you know, and it's not it's not like,
oh nobody else has ever done that. No, it just
but it's Bozeman, Montana. And the cool thing is literally
the cool thing is that they are just stalwart about it.
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They are gonna do it whether it is forty degrees
or negative forty degrees, the Bozeman Stroll is happening. I
just love that. I love it. And they've got snow.
They've got temperatures in the highs in the thirties right now,
lows in the single digits. And and so we're gonna
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go We're gonna get our cold on. We're gonna get
our winter on, just like you and New York in
the fall. We're gonna get jump started for winter with
a little bit of of oh you better zip that
jacket all the way up, weather.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Get your scarf's ready. There is something sort of cozy
about it. You got a scarf, you know, little maybe
a little like ear muffs or a hat. And it's
just something we don't do very often here, if ever.
I think I grabbed my jacket all the way out
the door this morning because I was like, oh, it's
a little chilly. But then I'll by the time I
leave here today, I won't need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Whenever you guys travel, do you look at home prices
wherever you go?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, well, you know what Tina does. Tina does she
looks at home prices everywhere everywhere we go. She looks
at home.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
But I just I'm like, I wondering how much it
costs to live here, Like I can we move here?
Especially if it's somewhere we love. I am not going
to just let me say this officially. You know, the
people of Bozeman, the people of Montana love the fact
that we come to visit because of tourism is a
big thing now, it's a big part of Montana economy.
But they do not want to showing up buying up houses.
(13:58):
Oh yeah, because they don't have any they don't have
property tax control. And so one of the issues in
Bozeman is, you know, rich Californians showing up and raising
property values, and you would think, hey, what's the problem man?
Your house now costs three times as much. You know,
it's worth three times as much as it was last year.
But they now are paying three times the property tax
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that they paid last year. And some people can't afford
to stay in their home. I've seen Yellowstone. I know
what's going on in Montana. Yes, I see Yellowstone the
TV show.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So I mean you're shooting
people up there.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They don't don't come up there buying homes and developing properties.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Those Californians, they are serious about it. Let me tell
you they're serious about it. But if you tell them, hey,
I'm from California and I'm leaving next week. They're like,
we love you. What would you like for dinner? All right? Anyway, Hey,
it looks like we might have a couple of calls
on the board. Plus when we come back, I want
to talk to you about the Stall House. The Stall House,
this is in the news this week. It is a
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mid century Modern, possibly one of the most famous mid
century Modern homes in southern California. Actually went on the
market this week for the first time in I think
ever since it was built. Anyway, it is an iconic
piece of architecture. We're going to talk about that and
your calls. The number to reach me eight three three
(15:22):
to ask Dean your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And we're back, Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, here to
help you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Hey,
I was gonna start talking to you about the Stall House.
I really do want to talk to you about that
this morning, if all I can, But we have to
give priorities to callers. And guess what I asked and
I received calls on the board. Let's go to the phones.
(15:54):
Let's talk to Doug. Hey, Doug, welcome home, Hey Jean.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Uh, I got kind of a deal going on here.
I I have a down spout that comes down, goes
into the ground, and there was just dirt there, but
it ran into a drain. Everything worked fine for years. Well,
I had that side of my house. Uh probably put
cement in there in there next to my house, in
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about three or four feet out. So I put the
the guy put the down spout down into the uh
where it goes into the cements there. Well, anyway, this
was a couple couple of years ago, and I wanted
to see what was going to happen. And everything worked fine.
Everything worked fine, So I had my house. The next year.
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The rain didn't bother so that next year I had
my house restucco to paint it. So anyway, now I
guess with this heavy rain, it must have rained more
in this year than last year. It it came up
through the when the down spout goes down in it,
it sprayed up on my stucco in kind of a
moon shape, maybe about maybe about two and a half
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feet up and uh, three feet across and it got
pretty wet. Well, it took about three days to dry out,
but it did dry out, And I'm wondering if that's
a pro going to be a problem, or I some
way I can seal it up. I talked to one
guy and he told me to put some coking in there,
but I don't know. If that coking flips down and
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falls down into the drain, then I'm more worried about
clogging up the drain. So do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, so let me ask you where the down spout
runs into the concrete. Is it just the down spout
just running straight in or did he take the time
to actually put a fitting there to connect the down
spout to the drain at the point of the concrete.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, there's a fitting there around around fitting.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Okay. So there's a round fitting that transitions into a
square or a rectangular you know, rectangular on top where
it receives the down spout. But the fitting then, uh,
you know, shoves down into the drain. Yes, correct, okay?
And where is it spraying up? Is it spray is?
What was the water spraying up where the where the
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rectangular fitting is there? Or was it coming out at
the concrete level.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
No, or I believe. I'm not sure because I wasn't
out there, but I believe it was coming up through
the the down down spout. It wasn't coming up through
the cement. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean here's the thing. First of all,
I don't want to you know, we want to make
sure that the drain is clear. Sometimes drains can get overwhelmed,
and and that's simply you know, you could call it
insufficient drainage for the one hundred year storm, you could
call it, you call it whatever you want. But there
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are times, you know, I've got a very dear friend
who lives in a really really nice, beautiful big home,
and we've done a lot of work on his backyard,
and he's got like seven or eight area drains out
in his backyard that the original builders decided they would
all run into one three inch drain line that feeds
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out to the front of the house. And that's just
ridiculous because you know, in light southern California rain, fine,
nobody cares, nobody notices. But in the downpours, yeah, he
gets it all backing up and pooling and puddling because
the main drain can't handle it. So sometimes it's just
built into the design and it's not always going to
be a problem for you. But on that occasion where
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we've got, you know, four inches of rain in four days,
you're gonna notice it. So is it an intrinsic problem
for the stucco. Not really, not when it happens like that.
But do we want that to be the case? No,
not at all. So calk is not a bad idea,
but I don't want to jump to that right now.
I want to just pressurize a system where there could
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be a clog. And so the first thing I want
you to do is take the fitting off and remove
the down spout from the hole. And now that you've
got the open drain hole, you know, get a rooter
down there, make sure that make sure that that drain
line is unencumbered, and that it's clear of roots or
obstructions or mud or anything else that could be contributing
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to it from anywhere else in the yard. Make sure
that's completely clear. And if it is all clear, all
good draining away from the house. Then it may just
be so much rain and maybe not quite enough slope
on the drain that to avoid the water from backing
up and coming back out of that fitting. You know,
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some calking would not hurt and it's not going to
hurt anything. It's not going to drip down and clog anything.
What you do is you're going to put that fitting
back on, make sure it's snug in the pipe, and
then when you put the down spout in to the
rectangular receiver, that female receiver end, you could feel free
to calk around that. It's not going to go down inside.
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It's just going to seal that seam and that may
keep the you know, excess water from bubbling it out
over at least spraying onto the stucco.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah. I was a little bit concerned about taking the
pipe off because it's kind of stuck to the stucco
and I'm praying and then I'm gonna have to call
the stucco guy out. Of course I could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh I see this, So the stucco is kind of
they they kind of they kind of screted right up
next to it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Huh right, correct?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Uh yeah, Well again, the other option is find the
other end of the drain pipe and uh where where
it's actually coming out, and check it and root it
from that direction up just to make sure that it's
clear and clean. Then way you don't have to remove
the and then go ahead and do some calking around
the down spout and stand back and wait. That's about
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That's about the best that's going to happen at that point,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So just run a router down through it through another
hole it runs.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Past that, yeah, or or from the terminus point out
at the curb, run a router up, uh, you know,
and and try and get as close to that down
spout as possible as far as it's uh, its course goes.
The goal is, of course, instead of just doing some
call to actually figure out if we can clear the
line or if the line needs clearing, that's all. And
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it may not need clearing, it may just be too
much water. But uh, but that's the answer, Doug. That's
I mean, that's as far as you can go with
it without tearing everything up. Doug. Thanks for the call,
my friend. Good luck with that. More of your calls
when we return your home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, here to remind you that
every home deserves great design, every home, especially yours. Why
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because you're there. We are doing an all call Saturday morning.
I took a little nudging, but I got calls on
the board, so I am going forward. Let's talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy,
welcome home.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Oh Hidane, thank you so much. I'll for taking my call. Okay,
the toilet, why is it not flushing?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I have a one point two gallon tank. I don't
know if I should have war but it's just so sluggish.
It will barely like flesh. And this is about like
the third toilet we've had. And yeah, I'll just sude. Hello.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
H So, all right, all right, Kathy, when you say
it's sluggish, is it not filling? Uh? Is it is?
The tank filling?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Yeah, the tank is filling. And but like like when
you flush it, it's just like there's like no power.
My husband actually cleaned out, you know, the parts where
the water comes in and then it goes out. He's
cleaned it with a screwdriver, and you know, but I
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thought it was maybe hard water, you know, you know,
I live in SoCal here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So okay, so here's the thing. The the it's very
doubtful that it's a hard water issue with the toilet. Now,
the bowl isn't being cleaned with every flush. Maybe that's
a hard water issue, because here's the thing, Kathy. Unbeknownst
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to most people, eighty percent of the water that's in
the toilet tank you never see come down the side
of the bowl when you flush it. Okay, that is
not We're most Only a little bit of the water
comes down the side of the bowl through the spray
jets along the side, okay, And sometimes an older toilet
in a hard water condition, it can get calcification build
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up there and those jets aren't allowing the water to
go down, and so people complain that the bowl is
not getting clean, it's not getting cleaned. Well, there's hardly
any water coming down the side of the bowl. That's
one thing that doesn't actually affect the flushing though, the
actual flushing away of the water. The flushing away of
the water has to do with is the tank full
when you and when you pull the handle, does the
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flapper come up all the way and does all that
water in the tank rush out of the tank? And
if it does, then it's rushing into the toilet, and
then the toilet is overflowing in the back as it
should and taking everything with it down the drain. If
that is being sluggish. If that's sluggish, then one you
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make sure that the flapper is being opened up all
the way when you when you when you press down
the handle right. If it's not, you need to adjust
the chain connection to the flapper so that when you
push the handle down, the flapper comes up all the
way really fast. Okay, so all that water can rush out.
If that's not the case, then it may be time
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to actually take the toilet off of its off of
its bolts and actually have a plumber snake that line,
because I'm wondering whether or not you've actually got build
up in the line that's just not allowing the water
to rush out the drain fast enough.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Well, it's not a flapper. I have that other thing that,
you know, a taller thing. I don't know what. It's
called a fluid master or something like that. It's not
the it's not a flapper one. I don't think it's
it's that, you know, we have that other thing.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, but there's always a flapper. There's always a gasket
that seals the hole at the bottom of the tank
that it opens up. I'm not talking about the fill valve.
You have a fluid master phill valve, a flow master
fill valve. I'm talking about the actual gasket at the
bottom that has to open up big and wide to
allow all that water to rush out of the tank.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Okay, so maybe like just look at.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That, Yes, take a look at that. And if it's
not that, and if the water is rushing out of
the tank, just fine, or at least the flapper is
allowing it to move out of the tank. Maybe there's
a clog inside the toilet, very very rare, super super rare,
that there's a clog in the toilet. More likely the
drain needs some attention, needs some rootering, and because the
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drain itself may be not allowing the water to escape
from the toilet fast enough to do its job.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Out altogether, take the whole toilet out and road or
that the drain.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yes, exactly, rooter the drain out, and if if it's not,
the other elements. But it sounds like the tank's filling up, okay,
Just a question of whether the handle is adjusted to
the flapper so that it's letting the flapper come up
all the way, because it's just got to open up
its mouth, really fast, and that's when all their water
rushes out with force, out of the tank. Kathy, thank
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you for your call. I'm up against a break. Good
luck with that. It's going to be one of the two.
It's either going to be the flapper or it's going
to be time to rooter out the drain a little bit,
call a plumber out and have them do some work there.
We will answer more of your calls when we return.
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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my friend, and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper, Custom home Builder, custom home Designer, and every
week your guide to better understand that place where you live.
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Whether home for you is a castle or a cottage,
doesn't matter to me. You know why, because luxury does
not a great homemake. It is design that matters most.
And I invite you to think of it this way.
New parts for a home, that's home repair, and we
talk a lot about that. We'll probably be talking a
good amount about that today. New paint, that's home maintenance.
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New design, though m that is the true definition, at
least in my book of home improvement. Good design makes
all the difference. Every house deserves it, every house should
enjoy it, because once good design is at work, every
else has a path forward toward becoming a great home.
Thanks for joining us on the program today. How is
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your Thanksgiving? Let's talk about that a little bit. Give
me a call, tell me how Thanksgiving went, and how
the home is holding up, and what your prospects for
the rest of the holidays are of course. Today it's
an all call Saturday morning. Your calls the number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,
the numeral two, and then you just spell out ask
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Dean eight three three to ask Dean anything you want
to talk about regarding your home. Whatever's got you scratch
in your head? Design, construction, diy stuff inside, outside, landscape, decor.
I got you. We'll put our heads together. We will
get it figured out. So give me a call. Pull
yourself some coffee, Slap yourself across the face couple of times.
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Wake up, get out of that food, Koma. Let's talk
about your home. Nikki is standing by. The phone lines
are open. We are ready for you. And as soon
as the phones the call star rolling in, we will
go to it. In the meantime, let's say good morning
to Sam. Hey Sam, how's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good morning, Dean. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you had a
wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We did, we did. It was very chill, very quiet
this year. But you know, we we made ourselves a
little meal. Have made a few pies that got a
little out of hand at one point, and then uh,
and then we took those pies over to my brother
in law's house and joined them for their Thanksgiving feast
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for dessert, and it was a good time was had
by all. And we may have I'm not confirming this,
but we may have been over at the Magic Kingdom yesterday,
spending the day after Thanksgiving insanely at Disneyland. But actually
that was a good time too, So we had a
we had a good time. I heard that you went
to enchant out in.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Uh Santa Anita at Sam Conway's favorite stomping ground.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Conway and I were talking about it
last week and I was thinking, wow, I've never heard
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This was the first year, right, Yeah. It was really fun.
Brought the kids out there. We had a really fun
time that had an ice slide, ice skating, great food,
a lot of festivities that had a big maze that
you can go through and try to you know, like
they give you scratch your cards, side identify landmarks and
you gradually like you work your way through the maze.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was really fun. It was a great time. And
it's all lit up at night, like amazing lights, just
very festive and holiday, right, It is beautiful. They also
have a very nice Ferris Wheel. It was a lot
of fun. All right, So I'm gonna put I'm gonna
plug that like Conway did. It's that Santa I Nita
Racetrack off the two ten and and this is its
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first year running. But they seem to I mean, and
Sam confirms it just class act. I mean, fun for
the whole family. So if you like that, kind of
like disconso Garden La Zoo night walk with the lights everywhere.
Plus uh and I was surprised by this. Maybe I
shouldn't have been surprised because it's Santa I Needa. But yeah,
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you said the food was like top notch.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, it was really good. Mac and cheese with brisket on.
It was great. They had a lot of different options.
It's some great dessert options and a turkey leg. We
walked out with the turkey leg and a turkey leg.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All the kids loved it. It was it was both
barbaric and regal at the same time. That's the thing
with turkey legs. People, you either love it or hate
the idea. I kind of like the idea of going
on a turkey leg.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh is it Heather? It's Heather, Hey, Heather Brooker, Hi girl.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Speaking of turkey legs, I also am a turkey leg advocate.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh I thought you were gonna make fun on my legs. Yeah,
speaking of turkey legs, it's taking legs. Don't never wear
shorts in here again. Never, I would never.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
One of my favorite things to do is when my
husband and my daughter go on the Credit Coaster at
Disneyland and I will go and get a turkey leg
and then when they get off, we'll all kind of
share it. It's the most disgusting and we all look
like ravenous animals, but like, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's a good time. We love a turkey leg moment,
you know what. I agree. And if you're looking for
food at Disneyland, that is actually not completely unhealthy other
than it being I guess maybe a giant salt lick.
But apart from that, it really it is an actual
turkey leg made from real turkey, So that works. Yeah.
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And I was your Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
It was so good, it was so nice. I went
to New York with my whoa. Yeah, yes, I've been
in New York for the past like week and a half.
I flew back Thursday, Thursday afternoon because I had to
do wake up call yesterday for Amy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Otherwise I'd still be there. Otherwise I'd still be there
Where in New York? Where in New York?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So we went to We stayed in Midtown East, not
right in the Midtown area, but we were in Manhattan.
And we actually started our trip in Massachusetts. I'm one
of my best friends from middle school. We've been friends
since we were thirteen years old. Lives there with her family,
and we stayed with her for a few days, and
then we drove down, did like a little, you know,
a little road trip through Connecticut and whatnot, and went
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to Manhattan for a few days and just had the
best time getting in the holiday spirit. And my husband's
a big music fan, so I took him to the
East Village and there's a lot of music history there
in the East Village. They that's where the punk rock
scene started. It's where bands like Blondie, you know, got
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their start and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So we did like a little tour there.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We saw David Swimmer from Friends just randomly walking by.
I was like, oh my god, So yeah, we just
we went all over and got in the holiday spirit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was really just a fun time with my family,
Tena and I loved New York and we love New
York in the fall. Not at the risk of sounding
all very cosmopolit we just love we love being in
that city.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There is something very It's like, we don't have seasons
here in LA which is great. You know, it's you
get used to it and you're like really spoiled with
all this beautiful weather that we have. But every once
in a while, it's nice to go and feel a
season and be like, oh, look at the leaves changing colors.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
This is what fall is like. Absolutely, well, i'll tell you,
you know what, after the news and the break, I'll
tell you about the the little season starter that we're
going to be doing. Yay, that's coming up here. But yeah,
New York in the fall it's awesome. I think we're
taking our our niece Evy after she graduate as a
graduation president in the fall next year. So uh, totally
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looking forward. It's been too long since I've been back. Well,
this is your sign you gotta go. Yes, that's exactly it.
That's confirmation. Speaking of Tina sitting across the table from me,
very quickly, my design partner, my better half, my best
friend in all the world. Tina is here. Welcome home. Hey, Hi,
how you do. I'm good. Let's go to the news. Okay,
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more great stuff on the way. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Jean Sharp, the house
Whisper here to help you take your home to the
next level. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Here this Saturday morning, right after Thanksgiving? Is it the
twenty ninth? It is? It's the twenty ninth of November.
It's only one day left and then man, Monday, We're
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into December and we are on the road. Are we
not today? Correct me if I'm wrong? Heather, you know this.
This is today. Yesterday was Black Friday. Today is Small
Business Saturday, isn't it? That is correct? Small Business Saturday.
This is the day after you have raped and pillaged
all the major chain stores for the deals that you
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take the money that you've got left and go invested
in your community. Go invested in small businesses all around.
Go buy some artisanal cheese, Go buy go buy some
really good, beautiful things, lovely things for the holidays from
local business owners who are just working hard to not
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only build themselves a life and a business, but also
be a part of the community. I love on every Thanksgiving,
well at least every Thanksgiving I think for the last
four years or so. I could be wrong about that
could be longer. But our local coffeehouse, the one that's
literally closest to my house and my favorite five oh
seven here in Thousand Oaks, they just do the major
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lift and sponsor a what they call the Turkey Dash.
Is it the Turkey Dash? Yeah, which is just a
run for charity where they raise money for charity on
Thanksgiving morning and a thousand plus people sign up for
it and show up and run. It's just the greatest thing.
So anyway, just a reminder of everybody small business Saturday today,
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get out there and support local in your community. So
many people, especially in California, Southern California, complain, Yeah, we
just have a big sprawl in all these companies and
we don't really have a sense of community. Well, you
know what, invest in all these little places, get to
know you. You want to not to, you know, run
the risk of sounding like I'm on cheers here, but
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you do. I love doing this in our town and
we've established it with tens of businesses. I feel just
walk into a place where where people know your name,
you know their names, they know your name. It just
there's nothing like community when it comes to you know,
living in a place. It's just the best thing ever.
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All Right, that's my plug there it is. Here's the
thing I want to tell you, guys. I've got a
bunch of stuff to talk to you about this morning.
And I'll tell you why I do. Because I had
my suspicions that we might be low on calls today
because people are still in their food comas and now
you're in your shopping coma. But I'm just letting you know.
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The phone lines are open right now. They're wide open.
Nikki is standing by ready to take your call. I
am ready to talk to you about whatever's going on
with your home. If you've tried to call in in
the past and gotten frustrated because you haven't gotten through,
now would be a perfect time because the phone lines
are completely open. The number to reach me eight three
three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two
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ask Dean. You know, there are some schools of thought
that say I shouldn't say that because it somehow betrays
the fact that we don't have listeners. Well, I've never
pretended to that we had listeners. No, of course we do.
We have a lot of listeners. It's just you know,
there's Saturday mornings, early Saturday mornings, and then early Saturday
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mornings right after a holiday. I get it. I get it.
So anyway, Heather, I was going to tell you that
we're starting our holiday out by uh, We're going to Bozeman,
Montana this week. Ooh, I've always wanted to go there.
I've heard it's beautiful. The first week of December every
year in Bozeman they do the Bozeman's Stroll, which is
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they shut down Main Street. They turn it into a big,
beautiful night market. All the shops, all the restaurants are open,
plus all sorts of stuff going on in the street,
and and you know, and it's not it's not like,
oh nobody else has ever done that. No, it just
but it's Bozeman, Montana. And the cool thing is literally
the cool thing is that they are just stalwart about it.
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They are gonna do it whether it is forty degrees
or negative forty degrees, the Bozeman Stroll is happening. I
just love that. I love it. And they've got snow.
They've got temperatures in the highs in the thirties right now,
lows in the single digits. And and so we're gonna
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go We're gonna get our cold on. We're gonna get
our winter on, just like you and New York in
the fall. We're gonna get jump started for winter with
a little bit of of oh you better zip that
jacket all the way up, weather.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Get your scarf's ready. There is something sort of cozy
about it. You got a scarf, you know, little maybe
a little like ear muffs or a hat. And it's
just something we don't do very often here, if ever.
I think I grabbed my jacket all the way out
the door this morning because I was like, oh, it's
a little chilly. But then I'll by the time I
leave here today, I won't need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Whenever you guys travel, do you look at home prices
wherever you go?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, well, you know what Tina does. Tina does she
looks at home prices everywhere everywhere we go. She looks
at home.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
But I just I'm like, I wondering how much it
costs to live here, Like I can we move here?
Especially if it's somewhere we love. I am not going
to just let me say this officially. You know, the
people of Bozeman, the people of Montana love the fact
that we come to visit because of tourism is a
big thing now, it's a big part of Montana economy.
But they do not want to showing up buying up houses.
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Oh yeah, because they don't have any they don't have
property tax control. And so one of the issues in
Bozeman is, you know, rich Californians showing up and raising
property values, and you would think, hey, what's the problem man?
Your house now costs three times as much. You know,
it's worth three times as much as it was last year.
But they now are paying three times the property tax
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that they paid last year. And some people can't afford
to stay in their home. I've seen Yellowstone. I know
what's going on in Montana. Yes, I see Yellowstone the
TV show.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So I mean you're shooting
people up there.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They don't don't come up there buying homes and developing properties.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Those Californians, they are serious about it. Let me tell
you they're serious about it. But if you tell them, hey,
I'm from California and I'm leaving next week. They're like,
we love you. What would you like for dinner? All right? Anyway, Hey,
it looks like we might have a couple of calls
on the board. Plus when we come back, I want
to talk to you about the Stall House. The Stall House,
this is in the news this week. It is a
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mid century Modern, possibly one of the most famous mid
century Modern homes in southern California. Actually went on the
market this week for the first time in I think
ever since it was built. Anyway, it is an iconic
piece of architecture. We're going to talk about that and
your calls. The number to reach me eight three three
(15:22):
to ask Dean your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And we're back, Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, here to
help you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Hey,
I was gonna start talking to you about the Stall House.
I really do want to talk to you about that
this morning, if all I can, But we have to
give priorities to callers. And guess what I asked and
I received calls on the board. Let's go to the phones.
(15:54):
Let's talk to Doug. Hey, Doug, welcome home, Hey Jean.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Uh, I got kind of a deal going on here.
I I have a down spout that comes down, goes
into the ground, and there was just dirt there, but
it ran into a drain. Everything worked fine for years. Well,
I had that side of my house. Uh probably put
cement in there in there next to my house, in
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about three or four feet out. So I put the
the guy put the down spout down into the uh
where it goes into the cements there. Well, anyway, this
was a couple couple of years ago, and I wanted
to see what was going to happen. And everything worked fine.
Everything worked fine, So I had my house. The next year.
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The rain didn't bother so that next year I had
my house restucco to paint it. So anyway, now I
guess with this heavy rain, it must have rained more
in this year than last year. It it came up
through the when the down spout goes down in it,
it sprayed up on my stucco in kind of a
moon shape, maybe about maybe about two and a half
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feet up and uh, three feet across and it got
pretty wet. Well, it took about three days to dry out,
but it did dry out, And I'm wondering if that's
a pro going to be a problem, or I some
way I can seal it up. I talked to one
guy and he told me to put some coking in there,
but I don't know. If that coking flips down and
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falls down into the drain, then I'm more worried about
clogging up the drain. So do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, so let me ask you where the down spout
runs into the concrete. Is it just the down spout
just running straight in or did he take the time
to actually put a fitting there to connect the down
spout to the drain at the point of the concrete.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, there's a fitting there around around fitting.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Okay. So there's a round fitting that transitions into a
square or a rectangular you know, rectangular on top where
it receives the down spout. But the fitting then, uh,
you know, shoves down into the drain. Yes, correct, okay?
And where is it spraying up? Is it spray is?
What was the water spraying up where the where the
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rectangular fitting is there? Or was it coming out at
the concrete level.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
No, or I believe. I'm not sure because I wasn't
out there, but I believe it was coming up through
the the down down spout. It wasn't coming up through
the cement. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean here's the thing. First of all,
I don't want to you know, we want to make
sure that the drain is clear. Sometimes drains can get overwhelmed,
and and that's simply you know, you could call it
insufficient drainage for the one hundred year storm, you could
call it, you call it whatever you want. But there
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are times, you know, I've got a very dear friend
who lives in a really really nice, beautiful big home,
and we've done a lot of work on his backyard,
and he's got like seven or eight area drains out
in his backyard that the original builders decided they would
all run into one three inch drain line that feeds
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out to the front of the house. And that's just
ridiculous because you know, in light southern California rain, fine,
nobody cares, nobody notices. But in the downpours, yeah, he
gets it all backing up and pooling and puddling because
the main drain can't handle it. So sometimes it's just
built into the design and it's not always going to
be a problem for you. But on that occasion where
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we've got, you know, four inches of rain in four days,
you're gonna notice it. So is it an intrinsic problem
for the stucco. Not really, not when it happens like that.
But do we want that to be the case? No,
not at all. So calk is not a bad idea,
but I don't want to jump to that right now.
I want to just pressurize a system where there could
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be a clog. And so the first thing I want
you to do is take the fitting off and remove
the down spout from the hole. And now that you've
got the open drain hole, you know, get a rooter
down there, make sure that make sure that that drain
line is unencumbered, and that it's clear of roots or
obstructions or mud or anything else that could be contributing
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to it from anywhere else in the yard. Make sure
that's completely clear. And if it is all clear, all
good draining away from the house. Then it may just
be so much rain and maybe not quite enough slope
on the drain that to avoid the water from backing
up and coming back out of that fitting. You know,
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some calking would not hurt and it's not going to
hurt anything. It's not going to drip down and clog anything.
What you do is you're going to put that fitting
back on, make sure it's snug in the pipe, and
then when you put the down spout in to the
rectangular receiver, that female receiver end, you could feel free
to calk around that. It's not going to go down inside.
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It's just going to seal that seam and that may
keep the you know, excess water from bubbling it out
over at least spraying onto the stucco.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah. I was a little bit concerned about taking the
pipe off because it's kind of stuck to the stucco
and I'm praying and then I'm gonna have to call
the stucco guy out. Of course I could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh I see this, So the stucco is kind of
they they kind of they kind of screted right up
next to it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Huh right, correct?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Uh yeah, Well again, the other option is find the
other end of the drain pipe and uh where where
it's actually coming out, and check it and root it
from that direction up just to make sure that it's
clear and clean. Then way you don't have to remove
the and then go ahead and do some calking around
the down spout and stand back and wait. That's about
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That's about the best that's going to happen at that point,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So just run a router down through it through another
hole it runs.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Past that, yeah, or or from the terminus point out
at the curb, run a router up, uh, you know,
and and try and get as close to that down
spout as possible as far as it's uh, its course goes.
The goal is, of course, instead of just doing some
call to actually figure out if we can clear the
line or if the line needs clearing, that's all. And
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it may not need clearing, it may just be too
much water. But uh, but that's the answer, Doug. That's
I mean, that's as far as you can go with
it without tearing everything up. Doug. Thanks for the call,
my friend. Good luck with that. More of your calls
when we return your home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, here to remind you that
every home deserves great design, every home, especially yours. Why
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because you're there. We are doing an all call Saturday morning.
I took a little nudging, but I got calls on
the board, so I am going forward. Let's talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy,
welcome home.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Oh Hidane, thank you so much. I'll for taking my call. Okay,
the toilet, why is it not flushing?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I have a one point two gallon tank. I don't
know if I should have war but it's just so sluggish.
It will barely like flesh. And this is about like
the third toilet we've had. And yeah, I'll just sude. Hello.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
H So, all right, all right, Kathy, when you say
it's sluggish, is it not filling? Uh? Is it is?
The tank filling?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Yeah, the tank is filling. And but like like when
you flush it, it's just like there's like no power.
My husband actually cleaned out, you know, the parts where
the water comes in and then it goes out. He's
cleaned it with a screwdriver, and you know, but I
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thought it was maybe hard water, you know, you know,
I live in SoCal here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So okay, so here's the thing. The the it's very
doubtful that it's a hard water issue with the toilet. Now,
the bowl isn't being cleaned with every flush. Maybe that's
a hard water issue, because here's the thing, Kathy. Unbeknownst
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to most people, eighty percent of the water that's in
the toilet tank you never see come down the side
of the bowl when you flush it. Okay, that is
not We're most Only a little bit of the water
comes down the side of the bowl through the spray
jets along the side, okay, And sometimes an older toilet
in a hard water condition, it can get calcification build
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up there and those jets aren't allowing the water to
go down, and so people complain that the bowl is
not getting clean, it's not getting cleaned. Well, there's hardly
any water coming down the side of the bowl. That's
one thing that doesn't actually affect the flushing though, the
actual flushing away of the water. The flushing away of
the water has to do with is the tank full
when you and when you pull the handle, does the
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flapper come up all the way and does all that
water in the tank rush out of the tank? And
if it does, then it's rushing into the toilet, and
then the toilet is overflowing in the back as it
should and taking everything with it down the drain. If
that is being sluggish. If that's sluggish, then one you
(25:52):
make sure that the flapper is being opened up all
the way when you when you when you press down
the handle right. If it's not, you need to adjust
the chain connection to the flapper so that when you
push the handle down, the flapper comes up all the
way really fast. Okay, so all that water can rush out.
If that's not the case, then it may be time
(26:13):
to actually take the toilet off of its off of
its bolts and actually have a plumber snake that line,
because I'm wondering whether or not you've actually got build
up in the line that's just not allowing the water
to rush out the drain fast enough.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Well, it's not a flapper. I have that other thing that,
you know, a taller thing. I don't know what. It's
called a fluid master or something like that. It's not
the it's not a flapper one. I don't think it's
it's that, you know, we have that other thing.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, but there's always a flapper. There's always a gasket
that seals the hole at the bottom of the tank
that it opens up. I'm not talking about the fill valve.
You have a fluid master phill valve, a flow master
fill valve. I'm talking about the actual gasket at the
bottom that has to open up big and wide to
allow all that water to rush out of the tank.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Okay, so maybe like just look at.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That, Yes, take a look at that. And if it's
not that, and if the water is rushing out of
the tank, just fine, or at least the flapper is
allowing it to move out of the tank. Maybe there's
a clog inside the toilet, very very rare, super super rare,
that there's a clog in the toilet. More likely the
drain needs some attention, needs some rootering, and because the
(27:34):
drain itself may be not allowing the water to escape
from the toilet fast enough to do its job.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Out altogether, take the whole toilet out and road or
that the drain.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yes, exactly, rooter the drain out, and if if it's not,
the other elements. But it sounds like the tank's filling up, okay,
Just a question of whether the handle is adjusted to
the flapper so that it's letting the flapper come up
all the way, because it's just got to open up
its mouth, really fast, and that's when all their water
rushes out with force, out of the tank. Kathy, thank
(28:11):
you for your call. I'm up against a break. Good
luck with that. It's going to be one of the two.
It's either going to be the flapper or it's going
to be time to rooter out the drain a little bit,
call a plumber out and have them do some work there.
We will answer more of your calls when we return.
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
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