May 16, 2026 • 31 mins
We have a caller who lives in a motorhome and needs to refinish the cupboards and cabinets, which are presently raw materials. How best to do this without ripping everything out?
When you’re building a house from the ground up like our next listener is, it’s tricky to figure out the best cupboard and counter height when there’s a height difference of a foot and a half between you and your wife.
Lastly, how best to repair the hairline cracks in the exterior stucco facade of your home?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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go back to the phones. I want to talk to Ellie. Hey, Ellie,
welcome home, Ellie. Are you with me?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I am Dean.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes? I can? Good morning. How can I help you, okay, Dean.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I live in a mobile home, and basically I want
to know what my options are to give new life
or different looks for my cupboards. I discovered the hard
way that it's paper, and I went to clean and
started to peel it off a little bit, and yikes,
I tried to match the you know fart what is
that fiber board or press board?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeap?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The material? Yeah? Do I have any options at all
other than replacing them?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, if you've already damned image the surface, you know.
In part, I'm not sure exactly what all of your
options might be. If they are a laminate or you know,
a rap, which a lot of less expensive cabinets are,
(02:19):
you might might be able to paint them, but I
can't guarantee it because I don't normally recommend painting over
some cabinet wrap surfaces. And then if you painted them,
of course whatever damaged area could be patched and that
would go away in the paint as well. One of
the options, though, is a partial replacement. And but I
(02:44):
mean partial replacement, I mean that if you're not ready
budget wise to step up to changing them all out,
then then it may be within your budget or a
stretch to think of about replacing just the doors and
the drawer fronts, and that can make you know, I mean,
(03:04):
the doors in the drawer fronts are ninety eight percent
of the cabinet that you're looking at, and so replacing
those with a higher quality door or drawer front could
make a massive difference without having to tear out the
cabinet boxes and so on. And another option would be
going with a company that does cabinet resurfacing, which is
(03:27):
in which they will take another Now it's another veneer, okay,
but it's a very very you know, high quality strong
laminate that gets glued over the top of what you've got,
and then there would be replacement doors and drawers as well.
I don't normally recommend that technique because there is some savings,
(03:52):
some but not as much savings as somebody might think,
and so from actually just finding a lower budget, high
quality cabinet. So yeah, I don't exactly know what to
tell you in that regard. I wish there was a
magic bullet for it, but unfortunately, when we're already working
(04:13):
with you know, kind of cheap materials, it's not always
the easiest thing to rehab them.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You know, no, I do appreciate what you're saying. And
the damaged area isn't even an inch and I get
natch it with a paint, and I think I'll live
with it that way until I might consider resurfacing it
with a company if they're budget wise to my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, So I would have a I'd have a
painter take a look at the cabinet and say, please,
please give me an honest assessment of this material. Can
you treat it in such a way that you can
you can paint over it and and you know, if
you get the thumbs up, then that would be a
great way to go. It'd be a great refresh And
(04:56):
you know what, that's not a that's not a cop
out either. I mean there are there are kitchens that
we go into all the time in which there are big, beautiful,
you know, luxury cabinets, and Tina and I look at
each other and we're like, Okay, if we're updating this kitchen,
we want all of these base cabinets painted. Now they're
staying gray, now we want them all painted.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So paint on a.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Cabinet is not at all a side step of quality.
Sometimes it's exactly what the designer orders for you know,
a full kitchen refresh and a really good quality paint
could actually, you know, only serve to protect the cabinet's
longer term for you and give you some you know,
breathing room in time to save up money for replacements.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Just excuse me, it's just one last question by a painter,
you mean, just a regular painter paint a room.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, yes, you'd be surprised. All you want to do though,
you just want to interview them and make sure that
they've done this kind of work before. But for instance,
the painters that we use regularly to paint the outside
of the house the inside of the house, they also
know how to paint cabinets in cabinet boxes as well.
So no, it's not a it's not a It is
a specialty, but it's not a specialty in the way
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that you think that there are only cabinet painting companies
out there. Any qualified painter with you know, with spray
gun experience on cabinets knows how to paint a cabinet.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well, I really appreciate all that advice.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I do have options, Yeah, you do, you do, you do?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I just I wish I could give you every option.
But I grew up in a mobile home, by the way,
I don't know if you knew that, but I grew.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Up in an appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I grew up in a double wide twenty four
x sixty mobile home. And and so I am well
familiar with the the the fun, and the and and
the drawbacks of living in that situation where but you
know what, at the end of the day, it's home
and you can take care of it and enjoy it
(07:06):
as much as anything else. So good on you for
that and smart thinking. Yeah, just take whatever you do.
Just take the smart move, don't take the you know,
a cheap way out with patches and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I will definitely remember that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Thank you, jes be all.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right, Ellie, you and have a great weekend. Thank you
so much for the call.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, some things about mobile home living there are limitations
just because they're built a little differently than a regular house.
Other things, they're just the same. In her situation, there's
no reason why she couldn't have brand new, regular cabinets.
It's just that, you know, these are the ones that
they came with, and and they're usually not the best
(07:53):
in the world. Say the least ours lasted I don't
know a long time, but they definitely started showing where
near the end of our time in that mobile home.
So there are always always options. You just have to
evaluate it all and for everybody. Whatever situation you're in, again,
you evaluate all of your options, make the best decision
(08:15):
for you and for the house. All right, when we
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I want to talk to Braiden. Braiden, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Hey, Games, I've actually spoken to you before about this
about counter heights and whatnot. Because my wife and myself
are about a foot and a half dinners.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
A foot and a half. Holy cow, that's a that's
a good spread there.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Uh well, not a foot and a half foot in
three inches maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
So what we're looking at is we are actually building,
constructing our new home from the ground up, and we're
going into the kitchen design side of it. Yeah, and
cabinet heights and counter heights are obviously very different between
(09:52):
the two of us.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I I would like to go full ceiling height with
the cabinets.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Just I don't like the best collector of top you know, yep? Okay,
So my question is aesthetically, how does that? What are
your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So, first of all, I got to know what the
ceiling height is. You're building your own home, are we?
Are we looking at this kitchen have an eight foot ceiling,
a nine foot ceiling, a ten what do we got?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's eight four?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So uh so it's my wife is five foot.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So yeah, so she's not reaching the top of those cabinets. Yes,
Now without a step stool. Now, how how tall are you?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Wait, I should be able to figure this out. You're
you're six three six two okay, all right, So you know, uh,
so you are reaching the top of the cabinets, but
you're not actually reaching into those cabinets. You're both gonna
need a step stool when it comes to full storage
up there. And so I always tell people that that's
(11:14):
sort of the that's sort of the equalizer when it
comes to that. I'm six' three AND i can always
grab stuff that's at the front of the eight foot tall,
cabinet But i'm not you, know If i've got to get,
back you, know six or seven inches back to whatever
is back behind. It i'm not reaching that thing because you,
know standing flat, FOOTED i can touch with my fingertips
(11:36):
the the eight foot ceiling up above, me But i'm
not reaching into. Cabinets so you're both gonna need a
step stool to get to that. Storage when we do
eight foot tall, cabinets which we do all the. Time,
Uh and that's actually the usually the practical. MAXIMUM i
tell people, anyway that top shelf is still going to
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be accessed for most people unless you're AN nba player
with a step stool along the. Way so that's not
really a reason not to go that. Tall the reason
to go that tall is simply to maximize storage and
if you don't want the shelf up there and the uplighting,
(12:20):
effect which is also a really cool. Vibe but you,
know an eight foot ceiling is not a tall. Ceiling
it's not even what we would, call by today's standards
the standard ceiling because that's moved up to nine. Feet
so just you, know it's a modest. Ceiling it's What
i've got in our kitchen as, well just an eight foot.
Ceiling the vast majority of folks have eight foot ceilings
(12:42):
in their, kitchen and so the idea of running cabinets
all the way to the ceiling line is it's not
a bad idea at all because it gives you that
additional in kitchen. Storage you just don't plan on accessing
the stuff on those upper shelves on a regular. Basis
that's the key.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There and, esthetically what would do we've paid dabnett and
have got the top or Straight?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Uh you know, What, braden you're starting to break up
there a little. Bit let's do. This we're up against
a BREAK i want to answer that question and let's
see if we can get a little bit of better
connection for. You So i'm gonna pop you on, hold
and when we come, back we will talk further about
your cabinet, questions, height, countertops the, aesthetics the whole. Thing
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happy to answer that, question but let's take a quick
break and we'll come back and we'll figure out how to.
Handle by the, Way tina AND i have about, well
just we have eleven inches between. Us i'm six,' three she's,
five four so we are well familiar with the height
differential in. Kitchen needs so we'll talk. About it on the.
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Speaker 4 (14:10):
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Dean Sharp The House whisper here to transform your ordinary
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Saturday morning the number to reach me eight three. Three
Two ask dean eight three three the Numeral Two. ASK
dean I got braiden on. The line he had questions
about we're talking about his cabinetry that they're planning out
for their. New home by, The, way braiden congratulations on
building the.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
New house so.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Thank you so eight foot ceiling in the KITCHEN and
i can hear you much, Better now so shoot me your.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Next question, All RIGHT so.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I want to go full cabinet height up to. THE
ceiling i don't want that best collector. UP there i
don't like that in. The kitchen so, for, that obviously
my wife is shorter and she can't. Reach that then
(15:34):
we go to the countertop height and we have an
island in an open kitchen in, our plans how can
we make that look so that it's tall enough for
(15:54):
me but short enough for her in some areas and.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Aesthetically, pleasing okay sometimes we can split the island height
and and change it up depending on.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The configuration this is where you really want to talk
to a really good kitchen designer and work through the
aesthetics of. THE kitchen i am a huge fan of
multi counter heights in. A kitchen i love, To cook
TINA and i love, to cook and sometimes we.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Have a ten burner stove that we have on order.
RIGHT now i am.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So, you guys love to. Cook clearly so here's. The,
Thing okay so first, of all just give you. The
rule the rule, is this the optimal, countertop, height right
is going to vary between the two, of you but
it may not vary as much as.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Think uh the optimal countertop hip for prep, prep work
and that's really the heavy labor in, the kitchen not
so much over the cook top or anything. Like that
according To The American, culinary institute the ergonomics have been.
Worked out you both stand upright, Fully upright you both
bend your elbows to ninety degrees so that your hands
(17:17):
are out in front of you at, ninety degrees and
you measure four inches below that. Bent elbow, that is for,
that individual the ultimate prep height for. A. Countertop okay
so now that doesn't mean that anything above or beyond
below that. Is awful it just means that's. The ultimate
that means you could. Stand upright, for me that's about
(17:40):
a forty two, inch, Countertop okay and THAT'S JUST i
i can stand fully erect without having to bend my
back that. Little bit that makes a huge difference for
me spending like six hours in. The kitchen Right, for
tina it's it's lower, than, that okay when she bends,
her elbows it's a low countertop. Than that but we
(18:03):
compromised on our island height at kind of, the midway
and so our ISLAND is i think at forty maybe
forty and a, half inches which honestly is plenty tall
for me and very. VERY comfy i don't, you know
notice the inch difference of from optimal. To That and
tina really likes it at that height. As well so
(18:25):
the two of you should measure up and play around with,
certain heights, level heights, you know test it out with
an adjustable table, or whatever and figure it out and
see if you can't arrive at a comfortable compromise for the.
Island height but the fact of the matter is there's
the other way, to go is that there are, you
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Know specialize every, great kitchen in, my opinion now has specialized.
Countertop heights thirty six is. The standard thirty six is
where the sink is, gonna sit and thirty six is
the standard height for burner free standing range or anything.
Like that that's kind of, the standard and that works especially,
you know you want it below optimal prep type for.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Pots and pans, between yeah cut in and.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Cooking exactly and then for baking for, baking purposes you
want it. Even lower actually you want the kitchen table
which is thirty inches because if you're kneeding dough and things,
like that you really want to get up on top
of that dough with the locked elbows and really be
able to put your weight. Into it so for, baker's
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kitchens we put a lot of counters or at least
some of the counters at. Thirty inches and if we've
just got the full orbed, cooking experience and in the,
same kitchen we'll have, thirty six thirty and forty plus,
inch countertops all depending on the activity that's taking. Place
there and the uniformity of counter heights is a myth
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when it comes to an attractive. Sexy kitchen the fact
of the matter is customizing them and having stations that
fit everybody along. The way there's absolutely one percent nothing wrong.
With that he just incorporated into the design in a
way that esthetically really really works well for. The kitchen
it can take some effort and, some creativity but you
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can figure. It out and if it's just the big,
bold island which is probably where most of the prep work.
Will happen then you guys should consider, that compromise that
halfway point in between your optimal, and hers because even
though there's more than a foot difference, between you because
your arms are likely longer and your elbows to your
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torso and hers, are shorter there's probably less of a
difference between your optimal countertops than. You think but that's.
The test four inches below the, bent elbow and then
figure out where you can meet in.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
THE middle.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I actually greatly appreciate THAT because i, was thinking we
need to keep. Everything LEVEL but i like that idea
of different. Different.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Heights, YEAH yeah i talk about breaking up a kitchen
in a really really. SEXY way, i mean and it
Is the it's kind of our. Standard approach it has
been now for well over a Decade for TINA, and
i and we're a little bit ahead of the curve
when it comes to those. Things sometimes but we're seeing
other designers set up kitchens exactly the. Same way i've,
always said whoever designs, the kitchen whoever it does the
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most cooking in, the kitchen they they're the ones who'd
get to do. The layout and the fact of the
matter is when we've got a couple that both enjoy
cooking in, the kitchen then why not why not break
it up? Into stations, you know every executive kitchen on,
the planet. All right and that was one of the
things that really changed my approach to. KITCHEN design i
started touring the kitchens of restaurants and seeing that back
(21:58):
in back in the kitchen in a, good restaurant there
are all of these, countertop. Heights right there's, prep stations there's,
cooking stations there's kneading and. Dose stations they're all at.
Different Heights and, i'm like why can't we do this in?
Residential kitchens and it turns out they're sexy. As heck, All,
right braiden thanks for, The, call bud good luck. On
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that don't hesitate to call back when more questions arise
in regards to that custom home. Of, yours wonderful. Wonderful opportunity, all,
right y'all when we, come back more of your calls.
Your Home, dean sharp The, House Whisper, dean sharp The,
house whisper thanks for joining us on the program. This
morning it's an All calls. Saturday MORNING before i take the,
(22:41):
NEXT call i just something hit ME as i was
sitting here during the BREAK and i realized there was
one MORE thing i wanted To. Tell Braiden hopefully braiden is.
Still listening, And y'all braiden was our previous caller talking
about custom cabinets in his kitchen for wanting full. Height
kitchens now he's got a eight foot four and ceiling
height in, his kitchen and they were talking about the, fact,
(23:04):
that hey we want the cabinets to go all the
way up to, the ceiling which, is GREAT but i
just want to make this clear. For everybody everybody and
your cabinet person is going to catch, this probably, you know,
very likely but just, in case you can't have full
height cabinets in that kitchen in the sense that the
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cabinets are literally the cabinet boxes are literally going up
and touching. The ceiling and. Here's why if you have
any full height pantries like that are floor. To, ceiling
now if it's, just uppers, that's fine but if because
uppers are disconnected and they just hang on the wall
and you can put them at any level. You want
but if you've got any full, heith cabinets which most,
(23:47):
kitchens do like from floor. To ceiling that's the kicker.
Right there that guy you can't just that guy's gonna
have to come into the house horizontally because, you know
an eight, foot ceiling an eight foot cabinet has to
come in through your, front door which is only six
foot eight, inches tall eighty, inches tall has to be carried,
in horizontally and then it has to be tipped up,
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into place which means that you don't allow for just
the overall standard height of. The cabinet you have to
measure the diagonal height of. That cabinet because of the diagonal,
tipping differential right the cabinet, is taller it needs more
room than. Eight feet an eight foot cabinet needs about
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eight foot three inches in order to be tipped. Into place,
so anyway so my point, is this when we talk
about full, height cabinets what we're doing is we're setting
cabinets in that go up close to, the ceiling and
then the last couple three inches are made up for
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with a piece of trim or molding that goes up to.
The ceiling and that's always the. Wisest, thing anyway give
yourself the freedom of space there to make up, for
inequities something un level on the, kitchen floor the material
of the, kitchen floor a wave in. The ceiling you
just just give yourself space to accommodate the potential imperfections
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of the room so that you're not trying to wedge something. In,
there now, in theory you could use a full height
cabinet there and squeeze. It in it's, not wise but
you'd have to build it in two pieces so you
don't have to tip it. Diagonally anyway just wanted to
make sure everybody understood when we talk about like an
eight foot four ceiling is probably the biggest cabinet you could.
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Fit in there is Eight one, i'm THINKING but i
would just go for an eight foot cabinet in an
eight foot. Four ceiling and if you have an eight,
foot ceiling then you're going to go under eight feet
by about three inches or so in order to get
those full height cabinets. In, PLACE okay I know i
was nerdy, and technical but sometimes it just has to.
Be said john's been sitting on the horn here for a, While,
(26:00):
now john. Welcome, home.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yes HOW can i?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Help? YOU sir.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I have been living in a house for since twenty
twenty block, first floor, first story, wood framing, second STORY
and i am noticing hairline cracks in. THE stucco.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I am.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Never worried, Go, ahead, sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No, no no, go ahead, go.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Ahead finish we were approached when we first moved in
about a class lawsuit against the subs about inferior.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
STUCCO layering i passed, on IT and i, was wondering
what you your opinion on when we paint? The house
what do we do with the? Hairline?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Cracks gotcha now where are the? HAIRLINE cracks i, could
GUESS but i want to hear.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
From you, UH well i can only see on the,
first floor but of different areas on the on.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
The walls are they kind?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Of random or are they coming off the corners of windows?
And doors is there a hairline crack that tends to
appear between the first and second floor.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
More on. The surface there's nothing around? The, WINDOWS okay
I can't and they?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
ARE they, i mean? ARE they i know?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Their hairline but are there a lot, of them like
an unusual amount or just?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know there?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
They?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Are there? They are there's they don't seem to be
very many.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Of, them, yeah okay well you were wise to pass
on the class action suit, because uh here's. The, thing
uh stucco. Was concrete AND as i like, to say
like we Like, to joe in, the industry there are
only two kinds of concrete in. The world concrete that
has cracks and concrete that hasn't cracked yet because It's
gonna hairline cracks. Are, normal yeah, so, now yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
There is a there is a third type, of concrete
and that's one that won't.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Be stolen, go there. You go.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So the point is a, hairline cracker what we call,
spider cracking is not a. Structural crack it's a. Settlement
crack it's, it's uh it's, it happens it'll continue to
happen over the life of, the home less and less
as the home, gets older and, so uh it's really
it's really nothing to be. Worried about we worry about
(28:46):
cracks that, open up cracks where, there's uplift where there's
a change from one surface level to. The other those kinds.
Of things hairline cracks are. Simply, that now could there
be things that a that a builder can do to
minimize the amount. Of, cracking sure, you know sometimes builders
do things out. Of order they'll stucco the house before
they load, the roof and the additional weight on the
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roof will cause the house to settle prematurely and. Crack
it that kind. Of stuff, so yeah hairline cracks are
never unless they're just. Literally everywhere they're nothing to worry
about when you paint. The house what you want to
do is have the painters address those cracks with a.
Flexible calking calk the cracks so that now you've got
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something in those those those grooves that are is going
to stretch and flex if it continues, to shift and
then you paint the house and they'll. Go away or
you can also choose to paint the outside of the
house with a paint that has a somewhat elastomeric finish
and then they that will continue to bridge any new
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cracks that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Show up so you've.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Got options but a good, paint job even with standard
high quality exterior paint and the right kind of calling
should really make the cracks go away and it shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
An, issue yeah these cracks are, So hairline i'm not
sure if you could get any cocking or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
In them, so, yeah yeah and again that's a great that's,
great news but you should still. Do it in, other
words what we'll do is we put some some surface
level calking across, the crack smear it across the crack,
and uh and should it shift, any further it'll, bridge
it it'll, hold it and it won't show up through the.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Finish paint. And uh and there.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You, Go john THANKS for i know you were on
hold for a. While there thanks for hanging tight. With
me here we are at the end of another couple.
Hours together great questions, this. Morning, everybody uh you were
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welcome home, Ellie. Are you with me?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I am Dean.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes? I can? Good morning. How can I help you, okay, Dean.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I live in a mobile home, and basically I want
to know what my options are to give new life
or different looks for my cupboards. I discovered the hard
way that it's paper, and I went to clean and
started to peel it off a little bit, and yikes,
I tried to match the you know fart what is
that fiber board or press board?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeap?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The material? Yeah? Do I have any options at all
other than replacing them?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, if you've already damned image the surface, you know.
In part, I'm not sure exactly what all of your
options might be. If they are a laminate or you know,
a rap, which a lot of less expensive cabinets are,
(02:19):
you might might be able to paint them, but I
can't guarantee it because I don't normally recommend painting over
some cabinet wrap surfaces. And then if you painted them,
of course whatever damaged area could be patched and that
would go away in the paint as well. One of
the options, though, is a partial replacement. And but I
(02:44):
mean partial replacement, I mean that if you're not ready
budget wise to step up to changing them all out,
then then it may be within your budget or a
stretch to think of about replacing just the doors and
the drawer fronts, and that can make you know, I mean,
(03:04):
the doors in the drawer fronts are ninety eight percent
of the cabinet that you're looking at, and so replacing
those with a higher quality door or drawer front could
make a massive difference without having to tear out the
cabinet boxes and so on. And another option would be
going with a company that does cabinet resurfacing, which is
(03:27):
in which they will take another Now it's another veneer, okay,
but it's a very very you know, high quality strong
laminate that gets glued over the top of what you've got,
and then there would be replacement doors and drawers as well.
I don't normally recommend that technique because there is some savings,
(03:52):
some but not as much savings as somebody might think,
and so from actually just finding a lower budget, high
quality cabinet. So yeah, I don't exactly know what to
tell you in that regard. I wish there was a
magic bullet for it, but unfortunately, when we're already working
(04:13):
with you know, kind of cheap materials, it's not always
the easiest thing to rehab them.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You know, no, I do appreciate what you're saying. And
the damaged area isn't even an inch and I get
natch it with a paint, and I think I'll live
with it that way until I might consider resurfacing it
with a company if they're budget wise to my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, So I would have a I'd have a
painter take a look at the cabinet and say, please,
please give me an honest assessment of this material. Can
you treat it in such a way that you can
you can paint over it and and you know, if
you get the thumbs up, then that would be a
great way to go. It'd be a great refresh And
(04:56):
you know what, that's not a that's not a cop
out either. I mean there are there are kitchens that
we go into all the time in which there are big, beautiful,
you know, luxury cabinets, and Tina and I look at
each other and we're like, Okay, if we're updating this kitchen,
we want all of these base cabinets painted. Now they're
staying gray, now we want them all painted.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So paint on a.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Cabinet is not at all a side step of quality.
Sometimes it's exactly what the designer orders for you know,
a full kitchen refresh and a really good quality paint
could actually, you know, only serve to protect the cabinet's
longer term for you and give you some you know,
breathing room in time to save up money for replacements.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Just excuse me, it's just one last question by a painter,
you mean, just a regular painter paint a room.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, yes, you'd be surprised. All you want to do though,
you just want to interview them and make sure that
they've done this kind of work before. But for instance,
the painters that we use regularly to paint the outside
of the house the inside of the house, they also
know how to paint cabinets in cabinet boxes as well.
So no, it's not a it's not a It is
a specialty, but it's not a specialty in the way
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that you think that there are only cabinet painting companies
out there. Any qualified painter with you know, with spray
gun experience on cabinets knows how to paint a cabinet.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well, I really appreciate all that advice.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I do have options, Yeah, you do, you do, you do?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I just I wish I could give you every option.
But I grew up in a mobile home, by the way,
I don't know if you knew that, but I grew.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Up in an appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I grew up in a double wide twenty four
x sixty mobile home. And and so I am well
familiar with the the the fun, and the and and
the drawbacks of living in that situation where but you
know what, at the end of the day, it's home
and you can take care of it and enjoy it
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as much as anything else. So good on you for
that and smart thinking. Yeah, just take whatever you do.
Just take the smart move, don't take the you know,
a cheap way out with patches and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I will definitely remember that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Thank you, jes be all.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right, Ellie, you and have a great weekend. Thank you
so much for the call.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, some things about mobile home living there are limitations
just because they're built a little differently than a regular house.
Other things, they're just the same. In her situation, there's
no reason why she couldn't have brand new, regular cabinets.
It's just that, you know, these are the ones that
they came with, and and they're usually not the best
(07:53):
in the world. Say the least ours lasted I don't
know a long time, but they definitely started showing where
near the end of our time in that mobile home.
So there are always always options. You just have to
evaluate it all and for everybody. Whatever situation you're in, again,
you evaluate all of your options, make the best decision
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Speaker 4 (09:00):
Hey, Games, I've actually spoken to you before about this
about counter heights and whatnot. Because my wife and myself
are about a foot and a half dinners.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
A foot and a half. Holy cow, that's a that's
a good spread there.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Uh well, not a foot and a half foot in
three inches maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
So what we're looking at is we are actually building,
constructing our new home from the ground up, and we're
going into the kitchen design side of it. Yeah, and
cabinet heights and counter heights are obviously very different between
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the two of us.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I I would like to go full ceiling height with
the cabinets.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Just I don't like the best collector of top you know, yep? Okay,
So my question is aesthetically, how does that? What are
your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So, first of all, I got to know what the
ceiling height is. You're building your own home, are we?
Are we looking at this kitchen have an eight foot ceiling,
a nine foot ceiling, a ten what do we got?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's eight four?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So uh so it's my wife is five foot.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So yeah, so she's not reaching the top of those cabinets. Yes,
Now without a step stool. Now, how how tall are you?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Wait, I should be able to figure this out. You're
you're six three six two okay, all right, So you know, uh,
so you are reaching the top of the cabinets, but
you're not actually reaching into those cabinets. You're both gonna
need a step stool when it comes to full storage
up there. And so I always tell people that that's
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sort of the that's sort of the equalizer when it
comes to that. I'm six' three AND i can always
grab stuff that's at the front of the eight foot tall,
cabinet But i'm not you, know If i've got to get,
back you, know six or seven inches back to whatever
is back behind. It i'm not reaching that thing because you,
know standing flat, FOOTED i can touch with my fingertips
(11:36):
the the eight foot ceiling up above, me But i'm
not reaching into. Cabinets so you're both gonna need a
step stool to get to that. Storage when we do
eight foot tall, cabinets which we do all the. Time,
Uh and that's actually the usually the practical. MAXIMUM i
tell people, anyway that top shelf is still going to
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be accessed for most people unless you're AN nba player
with a step stool along the. Way so that's not
really a reason not to go that. Tall the reason
to go that tall is simply to maximize storage and
if you don't want the shelf up there and the uplighting,
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effect which is also a really cool. Vibe but you,
know an eight foot ceiling is not a tall. Ceiling
it's not even what we would, call by today's standards
the standard ceiling because that's moved up to nine. Feet
so just you, know it's a modest. Ceiling it's What
i've got in our kitchen as, well just an eight foot.
Ceiling the vast majority of folks have eight foot ceilings
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in their, kitchen and so the idea of running cabinets
all the way to the ceiling line is it's not
a bad idea at all because it gives you that
additional in kitchen. Storage you just don't plan on accessing
the stuff on those upper shelves on a regular. Basis
that's the key.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There and, esthetically what would do we've paid dabnett and
have got the top or Straight?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Uh you know, What, braden you're starting to break up
there a little. Bit let's do. This we're up against
a BREAK i want to answer that question and let's
see if we can get a little bit of better
connection for. You So i'm gonna pop you on, hold
and when we come, back we will talk further about
your cabinet, questions, height, countertops the, aesthetics the whole. Thing
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happy to answer that, question but let's take a quick
break and we'll come back and we'll figure out how to.
Handle by the, Way tina AND i have about, well
just we have eleven inches between. Us i'm six,' three she's,
five four so we are well familiar with the height
differential in. Kitchen needs so we'll talk. About it on the.
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dean I got braiden on. The line he had questions
about we're talking about his cabinetry that they're planning out
for their. New home by, The, way braiden congratulations on
building the.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
New house so.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Thank you so eight foot ceiling in the KITCHEN and
i can hear you much, Better now so shoot me your.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Next question, All RIGHT so.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I want to go full cabinet height up to. THE
ceiling i don't want that best collector. UP there i
don't like that in. The kitchen so, for, that obviously
my wife is shorter and she can't. Reach that then
(15:34):
we go to the countertop height and we have an
island in an open kitchen in, our plans how can
we make that look so that it's tall enough for
(15:54):
me but short enough for her in some areas and.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Aesthetically, pleasing okay sometimes we can split the island height
and and change it up depending on.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The configuration this is where you really want to talk
to a really good kitchen designer and work through the
aesthetics of. THE kitchen i am a huge fan of
multi counter heights in. A kitchen i love, To cook
TINA and i love, to cook and sometimes we.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Have a ten burner stove that we have on order.
RIGHT now i am.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So, you guys love to. Cook clearly so here's. The,
Thing okay so first, of all just give you. The
rule the rule, is this the optimal, countertop, height right
is going to vary between the two, of you but
it may not vary as much as.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Think uh the optimal countertop hip for prep, prep work
and that's really the heavy labor in, the kitchen not
so much over the cook top or anything. Like that
according To The American, culinary institute the ergonomics have been.
Worked out you both stand upright, Fully upright you both
bend your elbows to ninety degrees so that your hands
(17:17):
are out in front of you at, ninety degrees and
you measure four inches below that. Bent elbow, that is for,
that individual the ultimate prep height for. A. Countertop okay
so now that doesn't mean that anything above or beyond
below that. Is awful it just means that's. The ultimate
that means you could. Stand upright, for me that's about
(17:40):
a forty two, inch, Countertop okay and THAT'S JUST i
i can stand fully erect without having to bend my
back that. Little bit that makes a huge difference for
me spending like six hours in. The kitchen Right, for
tina it's it's lower, than, that okay when she bends,
her elbows it's a low countertop. Than that but we
(18:03):
compromised on our island height at kind of, the midway
and so our ISLAND is i think at forty maybe
forty and a, half inches which honestly is plenty tall
for me and very. VERY comfy i don't, you know
notice the inch difference of from optimal. To That and
tina really likes it at that height. As well so
(18:25):
the two of you should measure up and play around with,
certain heights, level heights, you know test it out with
an adjustable table, or whatever and figure it out and
see if you can't arrive at a comfortable compromise for the.
Island height but the fact of the matter is there's
the other way, to go is that there are, you
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Know specialize every, great kitchen in, my opinion now has specialized.
Countertop heights thirty six is. The standard thirty six is
where the sink is, gonna sit and thirty six is
the standard height for burner free standing range or anything.
Like that that's kind of, the standard and that works especially,
you know you want it below optimal prep type for.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Pots and pans, between yeah cut in and.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Cooking exactly and then for baking for, baking purposes you
want it. Even lower actually you want the kitchen table
which is thirty inches because if you're kneeding dough and things,
like that you really want to get up on top
of that dough with the locked elbows and really be
able to put your weight. Into it so for, baker's
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kitchens we put a lot of counters or at least
some of the counters at. Thirty inches and if we've
just got the full orbed, cooking experience and in the,
same kitchen we'll have, thirty six thirty and forty plus,
inch countertops all depending on the activity that's taking. Place
there and the uniformity of counter heights is a myth
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when it comes to an attractive. Sexy kitchen the fact
of the matter is customizing them and having stations that
fit everybody along. The way there's absolutely one percent nothing wrong.
With that he just incorporated into the design in a
way that esthetically really really works well for. The kitchen
it can take some effort and, some creativity but you
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can figure. It out and if it's just the big,
bold island which is probably where most of the prep work.
Will happen then you guys should consider, that compromise that
halfway point in between your optimal, and hers because even
though there's more than a foot difference, between you because
your arms are likely longer and your elbows to your
(20:40):
torso and hers, are shorter there's probably less of a
difference between your optimal countertops than. You think but that's.
The test four inches below the, bent elbow and then
figure out where you can meet in.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
THE middle.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I actually greatly appreciate THAT because i, was thinking we
need to keep. Everything LEVEL but i like that idea
of different. Different.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Heights, YEAH yeah i talk about breaking up a kitchen
in a really really. SEXY way, i mean and it
Is the it's kind of our. Standard approach it has
been now for well over a Decade for TINA, and
i and we're a little bit ahead of the curve
when it comes to those. Things sometimes but we're seeing
other designers set up kitchens exactly the. Same way i've,
always said whoever designs, the kitchen whoever it does the
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most cooking in, the kitchen they they're the ones who'd
get to do. The layout and the fact of the
matter is when we've got a couple that both enjoy
cooking in, the kitchen then why not why not break
it up? Into stations, you know every executive kitchen on,
the planet. All right and that was one of the
things that really changed my approach to. KITCHEN design i
started touring the kitchens of restaurants and seeing that back
(21:58):
in back in the kitchen in a, good restaurant there
are all of these, countertop. Heights right there's, prep stations there's,
cooking stations there's kneading and. Dose stations they're all at.
Different Heights and, i'm like why can't we do this in?
Residential kitchens and it turns out they're sexy. As heck, All,
right braiden thanks for, The, call bud good luck. On
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that don't hesitate to call back when more questions arise
in regards to that custom home. Of, yours wonderful. Wonderful opportunity, all,
right y'all when we, come back more of your calls.
Your Home, dean sharp The, House Whisper, dean sharp The,
house whisper thanks for joining us on the program. This
morning it's an All calls. Saturday MORNING before i take the,
(22:41):
NEXT call i just something hit ME as i was
sitting here during the BREAK and i realized there was
one MORE thing i wanted To. Tell Braiden hopefully braiden is.
Still listening, And y'all braiden was our previous caller talking
about custom cabinets in his kitchen for wanting full. Height
kitchens now he's got a eight foot four and ceiling
height in, his kitchen and they were talking about the, fact,
(23:04):
that hey we want the cabinets to go all the
way up to, the ceiling which, is GREAT but i
just want to make this clear. For everybody everybody and
your cabinet person is going to catch, this probably, you know,
very likely but just, in case you can't have full
height cabinets in that kitchen in the sense that the
(23:25):
cabinets are literally the cabinet boxes are literally going up
and touching. The ceiling and. Here's why if you have
any full height pantries like that are floor. To, ceiling
now if it's, just uppers, that's fine but if because
uppers are disconnected and they just hang on the wall
and you can put them at any level. You want
but if you've got any full, heith cabinets which most,
(23:47):
kitchens do like from floor. To ceiling that's the kicker.
Right there that guy you can't just that guy's gonna
have to come into the house horizontally because, you know
an eight, foot ceiling an eight foot cabinet has to
come in through your, front door which is only six
foot eight, inches tall eighty, inches tall has to be carried,
in horizontally and then it has to be tipped up,
(24:09):
into place which means that you don't allow for just
the overall standard height of. The cabinet you have to
measure the diagonal height of. That cabinet because of the diagonal,
tipping differential right the cabinet, is taller it needs more
room than. Eight feet an eight foot cabinet needs about
(24:30):
eight foot three inches in order to be tipped. Into place,
so anyway so my point, is this when we talk
about full, height cabinets what we're doing is we're setting
cabinets in that go up close to, the ceiling and
then the last couple three inches are made up for
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with a piece of trim or molding that goes up to.
The ceiling and that's always the. Wisest, thing anyway give
yourself the freedom of space there to make up, for
inequities something un level on the, kitchen floor the material
of the, kitchen floor a wave in. The ceiling you
just just give yourself space to accommodate the potential imperfections
(25:14):
of the room so that you're not trying to wedge something. In,
there now, in theory you could use a full height
cabinet there and squeeze. It in it's, not wise but
you'd have to build it in two pieces so you
don't have to tip it. Diagonally anyway just wanted to
make sure everybody understood when we talk about like an
eight foot four ceiling is probably the biggest cabinet you could.
(25:38):
Fit in there is Eight one, i'm THINKING but i
would just go for an eight foot cabinet in an
eight foot. Four ceiling and if you have an eight,
foot ceiling then you're going to go under eight feet
by about three inches or so in order to get
those full height cabinets. In, PLACE okay I know i
was nerdy, and technical but sometimes it just has to.
Be said john's been sitting on the horn here for a, While,
(26:00):
now john. Welcome, home.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yes HOW can i?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Help? YOU sir.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I have been living in a house for since twenty
twenty block, first floor, first story, wood framing, second STORY
and i am noticing hairline cracks in. THE stucco.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I am.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Never worried, Go, ahead, sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No, no no, go ahead, go.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Ahead finish we were approached when we first moved in
about a class lawsuit against the subs about inferior.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
STUCCO layering i passed, on IT and i, was wondering
what you your opinion on when we paint? The house
what do we do with the? Hairline?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Cracks gotcha now where are the? HAIRLINE cracks i, could
GUESS but i want to hear.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
From you, UH well i can only see on the,
first floor but of different areas on the on.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
The walls are they kind?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Of random or are they coming off the corners of windows?
And doors is there a hairline crack that tends to
appear between the first and second floor.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
More on. The surface there's nothing around? The, WINDOWS okay
I can't and they?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
ARE they, i mean? ARE they i know?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Their hairline but are there a lot, of them like
an unusual amount or just?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know there?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
They?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Are there? They are there's they don't seem to be
very many.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Of, them, yeah okay well you were wise to pass
on the class action suit, because uh here's. The, thing
uh stucco. Was concrete AND as i like, to say
like we Like, to joe in, the industry there are
only two kinds of concrete in. The world concrete that
has cracks and concrete that hasn't cracked yet because It's
gonna hairline cracks. Are, normal yeah, so, now yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
There is a there is a third type, of concrete
and that's one that won't.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Be stolen, go there. You go.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So the point is a, hairline cracker what we call,
spider cracking is not a. Structural crack it's a. Settlement
crack it's, it's uh it's, it happens it'll continue to
happen over the life of, the home less and less
as the home, gets older and, so uh it's really
it's really nothing to be. Worried about we worry about
(28:46):
cracks that, open up cracks where, there's uplift where there's
a change from one surface level to. The other those kinds.
Of things hairline cracks are. Simply, that now could there
be things that a that a builder can do to
minimize the amount. Of, cracking sure, you know sometimes builders
do things out. Of order they'll stucco the house before
they load, the roof and the additional weight on the
(29:07):
roof will cause the house to settle prematurely and. Crack
it that kind. Of stuff, so yeah hairline cracks are
never unless they're just. Literally everywhere they're nothing to worry
about when you paint. The house what you want to
do is have the painters address those cracks with a.
Flexible calking calk the cracks so that now you've got
(29:31):
something in those those those grooves that are is going
to stretch and flex if it continues, to shift and
then you paint the house and they'll. Go away or
you can also choose to paint the outside of the
house with a paint that has a somewhat elastomeric finish
and then they that will continue to bridge any new
(29:52):
cracks that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Show up so you've.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Got options but a good, paint job even with standard
high quality exterior paint and the right kind of calling
should really make the cracks go away and it shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
An, issue yeah these cracks are, So hairline i'm not
sure if you could get any cocking or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
In them, so, yeah yeah and again that's a great that's,
great news but you should still. Do it in, other
words what we'll do is we put some some surface
level calking across, the crack smear it across the crack,
and uh and should it shift, any further it'll, bridge
it it'll, hold it and it won't show up through the.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Finish paint. And uh and there.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You, Go john THANKS for i know you were on
hold for a. While there thanks for hanging tight. With
me here we are at the end of another couple.
Hours together great questions, this. Morning, everybody uh you were
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(31:10):
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