May 10, 2026 • 29 mins
It's Mother's Day and Dean has a very special episode by detailing how small changes can turn 'normal' bathrooms into a 'spa like retreat.' Simple additions like: towel warmers to more extensive options like radiant heat flooring and shower saunas, you can make changes to any bathroom at any level of budget.
Dean also takes listener questions on how to fix single sash windows, the best company to get a home loan for a home remodel, how to fix a Toto toilet that makes a 'water hammer' sound after filling up with water, whether you need to hire someone special to do a bathroom remodel in a mobile home, the best way to clean solar panels on the roof and how to properly install a 'french drain.'
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
On the show, we're talking about transforming that old primary
bathroom into a spaike retreat and we're dedicating that to
Mother's Day today because who needs it more than mom?
Zero people need it more than mom. So Mom's this
is for you today. Now we have come to that
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part in the show in which I turn to the
calls and you know, take a few calls and I'll
be honest with you. Right at this moment, it's a
little bit of a sleepy morning on the callboard. We
have a call waiting and I'm gonna take it. But
if we don't have any more calls by the time
I'm done with that, then we're going to move back
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and just get back into the bathroom again. But this
is your time. So if you've always wanted to try
and call in and never gotten through, then now would
be a perfect time. So it's you know, you set
the agenda. We'll either continue with the bathrooms or I'll
take some calls. The number to reach me right now
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
(01:16):
The numeral two asking anything you want to talk about
regarding your home. It it happens from time to time.
It's totally fine, it's cool. It just keeps the show
interesting as we go. So, uh, let's talk to Ed. Hey, Ed,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Thank you. So I have to replace both spring load
balancers for a single sash window because the nylon cord
in one of them broke. I sent pictures, length measurements,
and the part number printed on one of them to
a vendor, and that vendor says they can get replacements
for me.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So far, so good.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now for the balancers I have, I used a tape
measure to measure the lower shoe element depth at one
in one one and three thirty seconds inches, which is
one point zero nine three seven five inches. The vendor
says they're available. Replacement balances have a lower ishoe element
depth of one point zero eight eight inches, which is
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a little smaller by in my notes here zero point
zero zero five seven five inches. That seems really small
to me, but that's just my guess, and I'd like
to know would this difference become a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, let me just process out that you've got a
lot of numbers rolling there, I'm guessing. I mean, we're
talking we're talking about zero point zero inch differences, and
in our book, generally speaking like as a as a
as a carpenter and a finished builder, my guess, shooting
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from the hip, is that that is not going to
be a differential that you have to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Great another whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If for any reason you're you're setting up and and
I mean, that's that's what we call fudge fudge able,
meaning oh okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
A little tighter then, you know, or it's a little.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Looser, like we can shim it, we can tweak it,
uh and uh and get the effect. In fact, it's
actually really common when it comes to replacement parts, especially
for an older window something like that. Yeah, we're not
going to find the exact you know, manufacturers spec identity
of a component, and so we get as close as
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possible and we fudge the rest and you know, ninety
nine times out of one hundred we make it work
just fine. So I'm going to encourage you to go
ahead and commit.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And then as you start to play with it, uh,
you know, see what happens. But I'm guessing it's gonna
work for you.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
This is very helpful and I was kind of hoping
I would hear this and I look forward to getting
these balancers new new replacements in Solve. And I thank
you so much.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Thanks Ed, appreciate it, buddy. Uh hey, look at that.
Just you know what you just ask for? Uh, you know,
you let everybody know where you're at, and you ask
for it. And now we've got calls on the board.
So let's move on. Let's talk to Kelly. Hey, Kelly,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Hi, Hi, thank you, Hi.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm great? How can I help you?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Okay, So I'm in a situation where I am very
house rich and don't have the money to upgrade the home.
So now I'm thinking of taking out like a home
equity loan.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Basically I was called you to see if you have
any companies that you like to go with or whether
or not you're not allowed to list them, but I mean,
have you you know what I'm saying, like, oh, yeah,
what I do? Besides, I don't on a REFI obviously
I have a really low interest rate exactly into the
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house if I can.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, uh, yeah, I feel you. Uh, and I have
no you know, I there are no limitations on me.
I mean, we here's the thing, here's how radio works.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If we had a you know, a home loan sponsor
on the show that we're partnering with, then I wouldn't
be telling you, you know, others along the way.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But we don't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So I'm completely free and I don't have a problem
recommending somebody. But here's my situation. I'm not really a
home loan expert when it comes to that kind of thing,
but I will tell you from experience that honestly, I
don't care who the company is. I don't care. What
I want are the right terms and the best interest
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rate when it comes to a helock. And that's what
we're talking about. Uh, a home equity loan that is, uh,
you know that open up some equity for you so
that you you know, your house rich cash poor, and
that sets you up and you know what, honestly, just
a little commentary here. I missed the days when you
could take a second out on your house without have
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you know, and that you could just take a second
mortgage out on the house and let it sit there
and be what it needed to be. But finance has changed,
and now if you try and refin your house. You
got to refine the whole thing, as you know, and
now you're going to change your interest rate and we
don't want to touch that. So heelock is the right
way to go. That that would be the right instrument
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forgetting what you want. And it kind of has replaced
the idea of the second deed they you know, And
so my my instruction to you, my advice to you
is the same I would give for anything, any of
the work that you're going to have done on your house,
which is, shop it around, get get three or four
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different quotes so that you can find the right place
because honestly, who cares if they've got the money and
uh and they and the interest rate is right and
there's no weirdness in the terms. I don't care where
the money comes from, because uh, I just want to
get you set up with the right to repayment plan
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at an interest rate that you know is most beneficial
for you. So you know, probably don't go with you know,
Jerry's heelock company h down the street, you know, because
he works out of a van. Probably not that guy,
but as far as anybody established, just find the best rate.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And go for it.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Okay, okay, thank you very much, because I've run into
a situation where I was gonna I lifted the house,
I got all those top offer and then I had
an exper come in literally like just told me everything
was wrong with the house. And at that point I
felt like, oh, is this is this a scam or
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they just trying you could be to give them a
huge credit, or are they legit? And at the end
of the day, I just pulled out of the deal
because by the time they gave me all the repairs
that they, in their opinion, I needed to do, just
it wasn't worth it to tell the house. So I said,
you know what, I'm going to keep this house. I'm
going to fix it up and then I'll turn around
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and smell it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, no, absolutely, And it's not really a scam per se.
But I will tell you, you know, I mean, buyers
use those inspectors in order to hopefully get a credit
and and you know, push the price down. I mean,
there's no question about that. So you know what, Hey,
if you love your home and you think you can
transform it, and you know, you know me, I'm a
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huge believer that every house can be transformed. So if
it works for you, then let's go this route and
let's make it. You know, that dream home that's hiding
in the house you have, Kelly, thank you so much
for the call. I'm up against a break, but awesome.
We got a board full of calls. How awesome you
(09:04):
guys are. We'll go back to the phones when we
come back. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're talking about, well, it's our Mother's Day special. We're
talking about transforming that primary bathroom, that old primary bathroom
into a spa like retreat for mom, for anybody, but
you know, especially for Mom, because she deserves it more
than you.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's the way it works on Mother's Day. At least.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're gonna get back to that conversation just a bit.
But right now we are taking calls mid show, and
I'm going to go back to the phones. I want
to talk to Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Hey, Hey, good morning, Dean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thank you, you're welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I just recently installed a Toto toilet and with the
wash and but it's at the end of filling. It
sounds like it's almost like a water hammer right at
the very end. And if the shower happens to be running,
then you like there's a surge in the water as well.
And I was wondering if I really have a water
hammer or it's just that's just how total toat's work.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Ah, that is a really good question. Now, all right,
So on a on a whim, is there any chance
that this is a Drake model toilet?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Uh no, no, it's it's not the drake, it's the
what's it called.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It's okay, it doesn't matter what. I just there was
a time, there was a there was a there was
a there was a period there where the drakes from
Toto were shipping with these really the the the older
fill valves, and and we were seeing this a lot.
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But to be honest with you, I see it more
often than you might think with Toto toilets. They simply
have a pretty sensitive shut off valve. And what happens
is it sounds like a water hammer issue, and it
can be dealt with a little bit like water hammer,
but it's really the amount of water pressure coming into
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the valve and the total valves like to shut off abruptly.
And when they shut off abruptly, that kind of reverberation.
It's kind of like slamming a door, you know, instead
of just shutting a door quietly, the valve, the fill
valve shuts off abruptly, and it really kind of punches
a vibration through the system. It's not their finest hour now.
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And don't get me wrong, I love Toto toilets, but
I don't like the over sensitive valve. But here is
how we've mitigated them in the past. Number One, we
can do a very simple thing, and that if it's
a new install. Anytime we do a brand new install
of a water based appliance, whether it's a faucet or
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a toilet or something like that, it's always a good
idea after the fact, after we've run it a bit
to open it up and open up like the phill
valve inside, which is usually just a quarter turn, to
kind of pop the top off of the phill valve
inside the toilet, and to check for debris because sometimes
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just opening a line, a water line can attract sand
and grit and stuff, and it can get stuck in
valves or in filtration screens and it can end up
causing a problem. So I know that sounds really super basic,
but it's always just a super simple first step to
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just check and see if we've got some aggregate in
there that's aggravating the problem. Now, assuming that's not the case,
the other thing that we like to do, especially with
an older home, is check the water pressure on the home.
We want that water pressure down in the sixty psi range.
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And the reason I say that not only for the
sake of the pipes, but again, modern appliances like Toto
toilets have much more sensitive valve situations to higher pressure
and that helps that door slam and by reducing it. Now,
I've got a couple other things for you, but we're
up against a break, tim, So if you can hang tight,
(13:32):
I'll handle this right on the other side. Your Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Today we're talking about transforming an ordinary primary bathroom into
an extraordinary spalike retreat in honor of Mother's Day for Mom.
We're gonna get back to that conversation in just a bit,
but it's mid show and I'm taking calls and I
want to get back to Tim, who installed a Toto
toilet and now is getting kind of a water hammer
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sound as it's filling up. And Tim, I'm assuming and
I think I heard you say this. That really you
hit that hammering sound as it finishes filling up, And
that is that valve snapping clothes like a slamming door. Again,
it can be aggravated by particles in the line. That's
always worth just checking out. I doubted that that's the case,
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but it's worth checking out because it's a simple check.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Toto toilet valves and a lot of manufacturers, and I
love Toto toilets, by the way, just FYI, I'm not
woo pooing them at all, but their valves, their fill
valves are more sensitive now. And that's just across the
industry in general. So if we've got overly high water
pressure in the house, then we're going to see that
valve snap shut harder than if the water pressure is
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down in the prescribed range, which should be about sixty
in the sixty psi zone when it comes to water pressure.
And then I wanted you to hang tight, Tim, because
I wanted to talk to you about a more comprehensive
solution to that, and that is uh, Okay, you've checked
the thing. You've checked, you've checked for sediment, you've checked
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the water pressure. Uh, and we're still getting that snap
on the valve. We can actually mitigate that some if
not completely, with a water hammer a restor.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And what a lot of people don't know is that
it doesn't take complex plumbing or having to get into
the wall or anything like that to do that. You
can get yourself a water hammer arrestor that is specifically
made for toilets, and it's not going to go inside
the tank. It's going to go right up next to
the tank. So it's literally you turn off the water supply,
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you disconnect the hose, the water supply hose from the
tank where it connects, and with one of these water
hammer arrest the trick is there. You know, their their brass.
They have a hose female hose connector on one side
and a male hose connector on the other. So they
just basically attached to the end of the fill hose
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and then attached directly to the toilet. So your water
hammer arrestor is sitting there underneath the toilet tank where
nobody sees it, but it is absolutely as close to
the film. It's just inches away from the fill valve.
And when the pill valve shuts off, uh, even if
it's shutting out hard, the water hammer arrestor is gonna
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muffle that and quiet it down considerably and in the
end of the day that this is how we normally
deal with a snappy fill valve on a new toilet.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Okay, currently my PSI is at seventy two, so I'm
gonna drop it down to sixty like you recommended. And
then for the arrest or, my valve is three quarter
inch coming to the toilet. Now do they make the
toy of it?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you can. You can
get them.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I've seen the washing machine ones.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, you can get them pipe threaded, you can get
them hose threaded, and so you just you know, do
the search. I'm in fact to me, Yeah, I'm staring
at one on I'm staring at a two pack on
Amazon right now for thirty one dollars. So yeah, it
was about what I thought it would be. It's going
to set you back a whopping fifteen bucks and it's
going to help you a great deal.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, thank you very much, sir, You're very.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Very welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call and for
the question. All right, let's hit up Randy. Hey, Randy,
welcome home. Good morning, Dean, good morning, have.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Your mother day to Tina and women that are listening
to your fantastic show.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
No, thank you. I having a.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I have a home that was build in sixty one.
I'm out here in your year area, and I have
a raised foundation, and I'm the last two years I
looked under my house and I had about two inches
of water. I looked like a lake underneath. And I
was told that I had a spring that was under
my home. So what I did was I dug out
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the foundings, and I should say I dug out around
the footings about two feet. Specifically, I ran box fans
and kept the air going on underneath the home. And
this has gone on about a year and then it's
dry under knees. And what I've discovered is is when
I look at my backyard, it's about ninety feet long
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and about thirty five feet wide. I'm getting a lot
of water from my neighbor behind me and adjacent to me.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There you go, I wanted.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
To put in a franch drain, and my home on
the backside is about sixty feet long and it has
a patty of that jets out from the middle of it,
and I want to put a French drain in, and
I'm just not sure should I put that right up
against where the concrete is where I'm going to be
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pouring at two feet away from the next year at home.
I'm just looking for how I should put the French
train in the ground. And secondly, I was going to
use three quarterings crush rock, and I was told it
might be better if I use like a river rock.
So those are my two questions I have specifically for
that French drain.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, great, great question, No problem. Putting the French drain
right up against the foundation wall, not a problem at all.
But you could move it a further way if you
need to. That is really kind of non critical. That's
sort of non critical. What's more important is that you're
rimming the edge of the foundation to protect that so
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that the French drain is picking up the moisture before
it has a chance to get in underneath, you know,
and underneath your subfloor, as you well know, not really
critical whether you get to you know, all the way
up against the concrete. In fact, I might advise to
hold it off a little bit so that we're not
overly soaking the footing, because water will soak through the footing,
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but again not a critical component there, So keep it
a few inches away, give yourself a little bit of
working space, and don't worry about that. The French drain
configuration debate, it really should not be a debate, but
I hear all sorts of bizarre and interesting opinions about
how to put a French drain in the ground. But
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I will tell you the best way, and this is
going to be, you know, arguably, unarguably the right answer
to this. Okay, a French drain is a large pipe
that has perforations. Now the first question is where the
holes go. Okay, Ideally a French drain that you're gonna
buy has got two sets of perspirations that are set
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at not quite about ninety degrees from each other. Okay,
those holes go down, They go at four and eight. Okay,
so we want a little bit of solid pipe running
at the very bottom and with the holes, you know,
flanking that pipe on each side. The holes down, not sideways,
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not up, down at four o'clock and eight o'clock. Next
thing is we want to put that drain in the
middle of you know, of a rocky trench surrounded by rock.
But let me be really clear. The next thing that
most people are going to talk to you about is
the sheath of fibrous filter sheath that a lot of
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people are going to say, put it on the pipe.
Sheath the pipe with this fibrous filter sheath. That is
not optimal because a fiber filter sheath can at spots
be clogged. So I don't want to sheathe the pipe.
But what I do want to do is filter the
water that's coming in so we're not picking up too
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much sediment. So I'm going to sheathe the trench. I
want to run a fibrous cloth all the way down
your rough dug trench and all the way up the
other side, and then I want to fill it with
three quarter inch gravel. Does need to be river rock.
Don't use pea gravel because that's too small and it'll
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actually fall into the drain holes. But it does not
need to be big river rock stone because the river
rock is not going to do a good job of
supporting the soil. There's too much gap, there's too much
access for soil. Three quarter inch gravel is the standard.
It's proper. It's what it should be. So you're gonna
line the trench with a filtering fiber. You're gonna fill
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the tree, put the pipe not all the way at
the bottom. You've got to have some gravel underneath it
an inch or two, and then fill the rest of
the trench with gravel. So we're forming a pocket that
water gets to. The filter. Cloth is going to clog
at some points, but not the whole thing. So it's
going to allow filtered water to get through. It's going
to keep the pipe empty of debris. And that is
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the right way to do a French train.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Wow, I have one other question with that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hey, you know what, uh Randy, we're up against it.
Hang out, we're up against a break. I want to
take your other question, but let's do it on the
other side. So you hang tight and we'll pick it
up right on the other side of the break. You
are Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What is a great house. By the way, what's the
very definition of a great house. I'll give you the
definition that Tina and I use. This is the bar
a beautiful home expresses and blesses the life of its occupants.
There you go, how's that?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You can just write that one down. You can write
it on your on your chalkboard, and just keep it
as a theme for your home. That is the standard
that we attempt to reach to with all of our art,
all of our design and construction knowledge, and all of
our creativity to find a place, the path where a
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house becomes a beautiful home that expresses your authentic life
and blesses your authentic life. Today on the show, we're
talking in terms of a mother's day and happy Mother's Day.
Yet again, we're talking about taking that primary bathroom, the
old master bathroom, and transforming it into a spawlike retreat,
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especially for Mom, a place where she can go to
just not have more responsibilities and burdens and things to handle,
but to take a well deserved break and just be
her be her in that space. And that's completely in
line with our definition of what a great home truly is.
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Right now, we're taking calls I want to get back
to Randy on the phone, because Randy called in about
controlling moisture under his house with a French drain. Randy,
you said you had another question. I just laid out
for you. I just settled the debate on how to
build a French drain by the way, I will review
for everybody very quickly. I don't care what anybody else
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has ever told you. This is the right way to
do it. You're going to set a French drain down
in a gravel filled trench, and that French drain number
one is going to have its holes pointing downward at
four and eight o'clock, okay, with a little strip of
solid pipe in between to convey the water and carry
it out. You don't want to wait for that trench
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to fill up with water before the drain starts handling
the water from the top. The holes go down, but
not directly down four and eight. Next, it's going to
be in a gravel trench, a gravel filled trench. But
we're not going to put a sheathe on the pipe itself,
because those little holes, that's they're small enough and the
filtercloth can get clogged up enough, especially with like high
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clave soil pipes that it can clog the filter, but
we're gonna ligne the entire trench with that filter. Moisture
is going to find its way in no matter how
much of the filter cloth gets clogged. So moisture finds
its way in the water finds its way into that
gravel enclosure. And then the gravel itself. Not big rocks
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and not pea gravel, but your standard three quarter inch
gravel is the right stuff to fill that trench with.
All right, So there you go, Randy. I know it've
blown your mind, but you still have a question.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Go for it one.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Last one, Yes, sir, your suggestion was it gets three quotes,
which I did. One of the quotes didn't care which
way they went. The other two one said to use
the pipe that you suggested. The other one said you
use a pipe that had perforation all the way around it,
and so that would be the only question of pricing
is about the same.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, The pipes that have perforations all the way around
it are usually corrugated and uh, and they're little slits.
I don't like corrugated Uh. Using corrugated pipe for French strains.
The slits are very small and uh and yeah there are.
It's not the all array around that. Uh, that is
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an issue. It's just the corrugations we're giving uh, whatever
sediment makes it in there. Uh, you know, opportunities every
three quarters of an inch to an inch to settle
in and get trapped and stuck in the pipe and
just build up and build up and build up.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's it's it's convenient, it's flexible. I get that, but uh,
but I prefer not to use it. I like the
old standard white soft PVC drain pipe that's three or
four inches in diameter with two rolls of rows of
holes again at four and eight.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
If you talk to most pros, they're going to tell you, yeah,
that's the stuff to use. Stay away from the corrugated
stuff in general.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Thank you for your help. I really appreciate your knowledge.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You are so welcome, my friend, and I really appreciate
you taking the time to call in and call back.
There's a little note here that you'd called in last
week and didn't get on. And by the way, anytime
I leave callers on the line because we didn't have
time to get to your call, just want you to
know when you call back if you call back next week,
next show, whatever the case may be, you let our
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call screen or know that you tried before, and you
get front of the line priority. That's the way we
work around here. I reward efforts, and you know, I
know how valuable your time is, and I appreciate everybody
who takes the time to try and make a call.
And on that note, we are at the end of
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taking calls for today and the end of this segment.
So those of you who I'm leaving on the line,
we value you, we appreciate you. Call back, let us know.
We'll get you to the front of the line next time.
We'll get you on the air, and we'll get that
question answered.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Let's get back in that transformative spa like primary bathroom
and give you some more magic along the way. Your
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
On the show, we're talking about transforming that old primary
bathroom into a spaike retreat and we're dedicating that to
Mother's Day today because who needs it more than mom?
Zero people need it more than mom. So Mom's this
is for you today. Now we have come to that
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part in the show in which I turn to the
calls and you know, take a few calls and I'll
be honest with you. Right at this moment, it's a
little bit of a sleepy morning on the callboard. We
have a call waiting and I'm gonna take it. But
if we don't have any more calls by the time
I'm done with that, then we're going to move back
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and just get back into the bathroom again. But this
is your time. So if you've always wanted to try
and call in and never gotten through, then now would
be a perfect time. So it's you know, you set
the agenda. We'll either continue with the bathrooms or I'll
take some calls. The number to reach me right now
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
(01:16):
The numeral two asking anything you want to talk about
regarding your home. It it happens from time to time.
It's totally fine, it's cool. It just keeps the show
interesting as we go. So, uh, let's talk to Ed. Hey, Ed,
welcome home.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Thank you. So I have to replace both spring load
balancers for a single sash window because the nylon cord
in one of them broke. I sent pictures, length measurements,
and the part number printed on one of them to
a vendor, and that vendor says they can get replacements
for me.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So far, so good.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now for the balancers I have, I used a tape
measure to measure the lower shoe element depth at one
in one one and three thirty seconds inches, which is
one point zero nine three seven five inches. The vendor
says they're available. Replacement balances have a lower ishoe element
depth of one point zero eight eight inches, which is
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a little smaller by in my notes here zero point
zero zero five seven five inches. That seems really small
to me, but that's just my guess, and I'd like
to know would this difference become a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, let me just process out that you've got a
lot of numbers rolling there, I'm guessing. I mean, we're
talking we're talking about zero point zero inch differences, and
in our book, generally speaking like as a as a
as a carpenter and a finished builder, my guess, shooting
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from the hip, is that that is not going to
be a differential that you have to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Great another whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If for any reason you're you're setting up and and
I mean, that's that's what we call fudge fudge able,
meaning oh okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
A little tighter then, you know, or it's a little.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Looser, like we can shim it, we can tweak it,
uh and uh and get the effect. In fact, it's
actually really common when it comes to replacement parts, especially
for an older window something like that. Yeah, we're not
going to find the exact you know, manufacturers spec identity
of a component, and so we get as close as
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possible and we fudge the rest and you know, ninety
nine times out of one hundred we make it work
just fine. So I'm going to encourage you to go
ahead and commit.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And then as you start to play with it, uh,
you know, see what happens. But I'm guessing it's gonna
work for you.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
This is very helpful and I was kind of hoping
I would hear this and I look forward to getting
these balancers new new replacements in Solve. And I thank
you so much.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Thanks Ed, appreciate it, buddy. Uh hey, look at that.
Just you know what you just ask for? Uh, you know,
you let everybody know where you're at, and you ask
for it. And now we've got calls on the board.
So let's move on. Let's talk to Kelly. Hey, Kelly,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Hi, Hi, thank you, Hi.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm great? How can I help you?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Okay, So I'm in a situation where I am very
house rich and don't have the money to upgrade the home.
So now I'm thinking of taking out like a home
equity loan.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Basically I was called you to see if you have
any companies that you like to go with or whether
or not you're not allowed to list them, but I mean,
have you you know what I'm saying, like, oh, yeah,
what I do? Besides, I don't on a REFI obviously
I have a really low interest rate exactly into the
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house if I can.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, uh, yeah, I feel you. Uh, and I have
no you know, I there are no limitations on me.
I mean, we here's the thing, here's how radio works.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If we had a you know, a home loan sponsor
on the show that we're partnering with, then I wouldn't
be telling you, you know, others along the way.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But we don't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So I'm completely free and I don't have a problem
recommending somebody. But here's my situation. I'm not really a
home loan expert when it comes to that kind of thing,
but I will tell you from experience that honestly, I
don't care who the company is. I don't care. What
I want are the right terms and the best interest
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rate when it comes to a helock. And that's what
we're talking about. Uh, a home equity loan that is, uh,
you know that open up some equity for you so
that you you know, your house rich cash poor, and
that sets you up and you know what, honestly, just
a little commentary here. I missed the days when you
could take a second out on your house without have
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you know, and that you could just take a second
mortgage out on the house and let it sit there
and be what it needed to be. But finance has changed,
and now if you try and refin your house. You
got to refine the whole thing, as you know, and
now you're going to change your interest rate and we
don't want to touch that. So heelock is the right
way to go. That that would be the right instrument
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forgetting what you want. And it kind of has replaced
the idea of the second deed they you know, And
so my my instruction to you, my advice to you
is the same I would give for anything, any of
the work that you're going to have done on your house,
which is, shop it around, get get three or four
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different quotes so that you can find the right place
because honestly, who cares if they've got the money and
uh and they and the interest rate is right and
there's no weirdness in the terms. I don't care where
the money comes from, because uh, I just want to
get you set up with the right to repayment plan
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at an interest rate that you know is most beneficial
for you. So you know, probably don't go with you know,
Jerry's heelock company h down the street, you know, because
he works out of a van. Probably not that guy,
but as far as anybody established, just find the best rate.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And go for it.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Okay, okay, thank you very much, because I've run into
a situation where I was gonna I lifted the house,
I got all those top offer and then I had
an exper come in literally like just told me everything
was wrong with the house. And at that point I
felt like, oh, is this is this a scam or
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they just trying you could be to give them a
huge credit, or are they legit? And at the end
of the day, I just pulled out of the deal
because by the time they gave me all the repairs
that they, in their opinion, I needed to do, just
it wasn't worth it to tell the house. So I said,
you know what, I'm going to keep this house. I'm
going to fix it up and then I'll turn around
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and smell it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, no, absolutely, And it's not really a scam per se.
But I will tell you, you know, I mean, buyers
use those inspectors in order to hopefully get a credit
and and you know, push the price down. I mean,
there's no question about that. So you know what, Hey,
if you love your home and you think you can
transform it, and you know, you know me, I'm a
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huge believer that every house can be transformed. So if
it works for you, then let's go this route and
let's make it. You know, that dream home that's hiding
in the house you have, Kelly, thank you so much
for the call. I'm up against a break, but awesome.
We got a board full of calls. How awesome you
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guys are. We'll go back to the phones when we
come back. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're talking about, well, it's our Mother's Day special. We're
talking about transforming that primary bathroom, that old primary bathroom
into a spa like retreat for mom, for anybody, but
you know, especially for Mom, because she deserves it more
than you.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's the way it works on Mother's Day. At least.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're gonna get back to that conversation just a bit.
But right now we are taking calls mid show, and
I'm going to go back to the phones. I want
to talk to Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Hey, Hey, good morning, Dean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thank you, you're welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I just recently installed a Toto toilet and with the
wash and but it's at the end of filling. It
sounds like it's almost like a water hammer right at
the very end. And if the shower happens to be running,
then you like there's a surge in the water as well.
And I was wondering if I really have a water
hammer or it's just that's just how total toat's work.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Ah, that is a really good question. Now, all right,
So on a on a whim, is there any chance
that this is a Drake model toilet?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Uh no, no, it's it's not the drake, it's the
what's it called.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It's okay, it doesn't matter what. I just there was
a time, there was a there was a there was
a there was a period there where the drakes from
Toto were shipping with these really the the the older
fill valves, and and we were seeing this a lot.
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But to be honest with you, I see it more
often than you might think with Toto toilets. They simply
have a pretty sensitive shut off valve. And what happens
is it sounds like a water hammer issue, and it
can be dealt with a little bit like water hammer,
but it's really the amount of water pressure coming into
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the valve and the total valves like to shut off abruptly.
And when they shut off abruptly, that kind of reverberation.
It's kind of like slamming a door, you know, instead
of just shutting a door quietly, the valve, the fill
valve shuts off abruptly, and it really kind of punches
a vibration through the system. It's not their finest hour now.
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And don't get me wrong, I love Toto toilets, but
I don't like the over sensitive valve. But here is
how we've mitigated them in the past. Number One, we
can do a very simple thing, and that if it's
a new install. Anytime we do a brand new install
of a water based appliance, whether it's a faucet or
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a toilet or something like that, it's always a good
idea after the fact, after we've run it a bit
to open it up and open up like the phill
valve inside, which is usually just a quarter turn, to
kind of pop the top off of the phill valve
inside the toilet, and to check for debris because sometimes
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just opening a line, a water line can attract sand
and grit and stuff, and it can get stuck in
valves or in filtration screens and it can end up
causing a problem. So I know that sounds really super basic,
but it's always just a super simple first step to
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just check and see if we've got some aggregate in
there that's aggravating the problem. Now, assuming that's not the case,
the other thing that we like to do, especially with
an older home, is check the water pressure on the home.
We want that water pressure down in the sixty psi range.
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And the reason I say that not only for the
sake of the pipes, but again, modern appliances like Toto
toilets have much more sensitive valve situations to higher pressure
and that helps that door slam and by reducing it. Now,
I've got a couple other things for you, but we're
up against a break, tim, So if you can hang tight,
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I'll handle this right on the other side. Your Home
with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Today we're talking about transforming an ordinary primary bathroom into
an extraordinary spalike retreat in honor of Mother's Day for Mom.
We're gonna get back to that conversation in just a bit,
but it's mid show and I'm taking calls and I
want to get back to Tim, who installed a Toto
toilet and now is getting kind of a water hammer
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sound as it's filling up. And Tim, I'm assuming and
I think I heard you say this. That really you
hit that hammering sound as it finishes filling up, And
that is that valve snapping clothes like a slamming door. Again,
it can be aggravated by particles in the line. That's
always worth just checking out. I doubted that that's the case,
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but it's worth checking out because it's a simple check.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Toto toilet valves and a lot of manufacturers, and I
love Toto toilets, by the way, just FYI, I'm not
woo pooing them at all, but their valves, their fill
valves are more sensitive now. And that's just across the
industry in general. So if we've got overly high water
pressure in the house, then we're going to see that
valve snap shut harder than if the water pressure is
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down in the prescribed range, which should be about sixty
in the sixty psi zone when it comes to water pressure.
And then I wanted you to hang tight, Tim, because
I wanted to talk to you about a more comprehensive
solution to that, and that is uh, Okay, you've checked
the thing. You've checked, you've checked for sediment, you've checked
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the water pressure. Uh, and we're still getting that snap
on the valve. We can actually mitigate that some if
not completely, with a water hammer a restor.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And what a lot of people don't know is that
it doesn't take complex plumbing or having to get into
the wall or anything like that to do that. You
can get yourself a water hammer arrestor that is specifically
made for toilets, and it's not going to go inside
the tank. It's going to go right up next to
the tank. So it's literally you turn off the water supply,
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you disconnect the hose, the water supply hose from the
tank where it connects, and with one of these water
hammer arrest the trick is there. You know, their their brass.
They have a hose female hose connector on one side
and a male hose connector on the other. So they
just basically attached to the end of the fill hose
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and then attached directly to the toilet. So your water
hammer arrestor is sitting there underneath the toilet tank where
nobody sees it, but it is absolutely as close to
the film. It's just inches away from the fill valve.
And when the pill valve shuts off, uh, even if
it's shutting out hard, the water hammer arrestor is gonna
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muffle that and quiet it down considerably and in the
end of the day that this is how we normally
deal with a snappy fill valve on a new toilet.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Okay, currently my PSI is at seventy two, so I'm
gonna drop it down to sixty like you recommended. And
then for the arrest or, my valve is three quarter
inch coming to the toilet. Now do they make the
toy of it?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you can. You can
get them.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I've seen the washing machine ones.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, you can get them pipe threaded, you can get
them hose threaded, and so you just you know, do
the search. I'm in fact to me, Yeah, I'm staring
at one on I'm staring at a two pack on
Amazon right now for thirty one dollars. So yeah, it
was about what I thought it would be. It's going
to set you back a whopping fifteen bucks and it's
going to help you a great deal.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, thank you very much, sir, You're very.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Very welcome, my friend. Thanks for the call and for
the question. All right, let's hit up Randy. Hey, Randy,
welcome home. Good morning, Dean, good morning, have.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Your mother day to Tina and women that are listening
to your fantastic show.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
No, thank you. I having a.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I have a home that was build in sixty one.
I'm out here in your year area, and I have
a raised foundation, and I'm the last two years I
looked under my house and I had about two inches
of water. I looked like a lake underneath. And I
was told that I had a spring that was under
my home. So what I did was I dug out
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the foundings, and I should say I dug out around
the footings about two feet. Specifically, I ran box fans
and kept the air going on underneath the home. And
this has gone on about a year and then it's
dry under knees. And what I've discovered is is when
I look at my backyard, it's about ninety feet long
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and about thirty five feet wide. I'm getting a lot
of water from my neighbor behind me and adjacent to me.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There you go, I wanted.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
To put in a franch drain, and my home on
the backside is about sixty feet long and it has
a patty of that jets out from the middle of it,
and I want to put a French drain in, and
I'm just not sure should I put that right up
against where the concrete is where I'm going to be
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pouring at two feet away from the next year at home.
I'm just looking for how I should put the French
train in the ground. And secondly, I was going to
use three quarterings crush rock, and I was told it
might be better if I use like a river rock.
So those are my two questions I have specifically for
that French drain.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, great, great question, No problem. Putting the French drain
right up against the foundation wall, not a problem at all.
But you could move it a further way if you
need to. That is really kind of non critical. That's
sort of non critical. What's more important is that you're
rimming the edge of the foundation to protect that so
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that the French drain is picking up the moisture before
it has a chance to get in underneath, you know,
and underneath your subfloor, as you well know, not really
critical whether you get to you know, all the way
up against the concrete. In fact, I might advise to
hold it off a little bit so that we're not
overly soaking the footing, because water will soak through the footing,
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but again not a critical component there, So keep it
a few inches away, give yourself a little bit of
working space, and don't worry about that. The French drain
configuration debate, it really should not be a debate, but
I hear all sorts of bizarre and interesting opinions about
how to put a French drain in the ground. But
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I will tell you the best way, and this is
going to be, you know, arguably, unarguably the right answer
to this. Okay, a French drain is a large pipe
that has perforations. Now the first question is where the
holes go. Okay, Ideally a French drain that you're gonna
buy has got two sets of perspirations that are set
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at not quite about ninety degrees from each other. Okay,
those holes go down, They go at four and eight. Okay,
so we want a little bit of solid pipe running
at the very bottom and with the holes, you know,
flanking that pipe on each side. The holes down, not sideways,
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not up, down at four o'clock and eight o'clock. Next
thing is we want to put that drain in the
middle of you know, of a rocky trench surrounded by rock.
But let me be really clear. The next thing that
most people are going to talk to you about is
the sheath of fibrous filter sheath that a lot of
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people are going to say, put it on the pipe.
Sheath the pipe with this fibrous filter sheath. That is
not optimal because a fiber filter sheath can at spots
be clogged. So I don't want to sheathe the pipe.
But what I do want to do is filter the
water that's coming in so we're not picking up too
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much sediment. So I'm going to sheathe the trench. I
want to run a fibrous cloth all the way down
your rough dug trench and all the way up the
other side, and then I want to fill it with
three quarter inch gravel. Does need to be river rock.
Don't use pea gravel because that's too small and it'll
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actually fall into the drain holes. But it does not
need to be big river rock stone because the river
rock is not going to do a good job of
supporting the soil. There's too much gap, there's too much
access for soil. Three quarter inch gravel is the standard.
It's proper. It's what it should be. So you're gonna
line the trench with a filtering fiber. You're gonna fill
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the tree, put the pipe not all the way at
the bottom. You've got to have some gravel underneath it
an inch or two, and then fill the rest of
the trench with gravel. So we're forming a pocket that
water gets to. The filter. Cloth is going to clog
at some points, but not the whole thing. So it's
going to allow filtered water to get through. It's going
to keep the pipe empty of debris. And that is
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the right way to do a French train.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Wow, I have one other question with that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hey, you know what, uh Randy, we're up against it.
Hang out, we're up against a break. I want to
take your other question, but let's do it on the
other side. So you hang tight and we'll pick it
up right on the other side of the break. You
are Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What is a great house. By the way, what's the
very definition of a great house. I'll give you the
definition that Tina and I use. This is the bar
a beautiful home expresses and blesses the life of its occupants.
There you go, how's that?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You can just write that one down. You can write
it on your on your chalkboard, and just keep it
as a theme for your home. That is the standard
that we attempt to reach to with all of our art,
all of our design and construction knowledge, and all of
our creativity to find a place, the path where a
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house becomes a beautiful home that expresses your authentic life
and blesses your authentic life. Today on the show, we're
talking in terms of a mother's day and happy Mother's Day.
Yet again, we're talking about taking that primary bathroom, the
old master bathroom, and transforming it into a spawlike retreat,
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especially for Mom, a place where she can go to
just not have more responsibilities and burdens and things to handle,
but to take a well deserved break and just be
her be her in that space. And that's completely in
line with our definition of what a great home truly is.
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Right now, we're taking calls I want to get back
to Randy on the phone, because Randy called in about
controlling moisture under his house with a French drain. Randy,
you said you had another question. I just laid out
for you. I just settled the debate on how to
build a French drain by the way, I will review
for everybody very quickly. I don't care what anybody else
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has ever told you. This is the right way to
do it. You're going to set a French drain down
in a gravel filled trench, and that French drain number
one is going to have its holes pointing downward at
four and eight o'clock, okay, with a little strip of
solid pipe in between to convey the water and carry
it out. You don't want to wait for that trench
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to fill up with water before the drain starts handling
the water from the top. The holes go down, but
not directly down four and eight. Next, it's going to
be in a gravel trench, a gravel filled trench. But
we're not going to put a sheathe on the pipe itself,
because those little holes, that's they're small enough and the
filtercloth can get clogged up enough, especially with like high
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clave soil pipes that it can clog the filter, but
we're gonna ligne the entire trench with that filter. Moisture
is going to find its way in no matter how
much of the filter cloth gets clogged. So moisture finds
its way in the water finds its way into that
gravel enclosure. And then the gravel itself. Not big rocks
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and not pea gravel, but your standard three quarter inch
gravel is the right stuff to fill that trench with.
All right, So there you go, Randy. I know it've
blown your mind, but you still have a question.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Go for it one.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Last one, Yes, sir, your suggestion was it gets three quotes,
which I did. One of the quotes didn't care which
way they went. The other two one said to use
the pipe that you suggested. The other one said you
use a pipe that had perforation all the way around it,
and so that would be the only question of pricing
is about the same.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, The pipes that have perforations all the way around
it are usually corrugated and uh, and they're little slits.
I don't like corrugated Uh. Using corrugated pipe for French strains.
The slits are very small and uh and yeah there are.
It's not the all array around that. Uh, that is
(27:22):
an issue. It's just the corrugations we're giving uh, whatever
sediment makes it in there. Uh, you know, opportunities every
three quarters of an inch to an inch to settle
in and get trapped and stuck in the pipe and
just build up and build up and build up.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's it's it's convenient, it's flexible. I get that, but uh,
but I prefer not to use it. I like the
old standard white soft PVC drain pipe that's three or
four inches in diameter with two rolls of rows of
holes again at four and eight.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
If you talk to most pros, they're going to tell you, yeah,
that's the stuff to use. Stay away from the corrugated
stuff in general.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Thank you for your help. I really appreciate your knowledge.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You are so welcome, my friend, and I really appreciate
you taking the time to call in and call back.
There's a little note here that you'd called in last
week and didn't get on. And by the way, anytime
I leave callers on the line because we didn't have
time to get to your call, just want you to
know when you call back if you call back next week,
next show, whatever the case may be, you let our
(28:33):
call screen or know that you tried before, and you
get front of the line priority. That's the way we
work around here. I reward efforts, and you know, I
know how valuable your time is, and I appreciate everybody
who takes the time to try and make a call.
And on that note, we are at the end of
(28:54):
taking calls for today and the end of this segment.
So those of you who I'm leaving on the line,
we value you, we appreciate you. Call back, let us know.
We'll get you to the front of the line next time.
We'll get you on the air, and we'll get that
question answered.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Let's get back in that transformative spa like primary bathroom
and give you some more magic along the way. Your
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