May 9, 2026 • 31 mins
Life in a cottage is great, especially when you tailor it to your life!
Today’s first caller had a bit of bathroom bad luck: His suspended tempered-glass shower door literally exploded into fine pieces, and now they have to repair and replace it — how would he go about that, and should he apply a safety film to the new glass door?
Next up, our listener has new kitchen cabinets with a trim color she doesn’t like, and that doesn’t match the cabinets. How best to remove the laminate trim and replace it? Or better yet, should she punt this one back to her lying contractor?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
House Whisperer on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, Hello, my friend, and welcome home. I am
Dean Sharp, aka the House Whisperer, custom home Builder, custom
home Designer, and every week your guide to better understanding
that place where you live. Whether home for you is
a castle or a cottage, it matters not to me.
(00:30):
This is my theory. There is a dream home hiding
in the house that you have, and I'm here to
help you find it. It's just that simple luxury, by
the way, does not a great homemake. That's why it
doesn't matter whether your home is a castle or a cottage.
I live in a cottage and life is great here.
(00:51):
It's design that matters most in the end, not the
luxury aspect. The design and good design, ultimately, in my book,
is the greatest of luxury because it means that the
house fits you. Good tailoring is far more important than
the expense of the material, and that's simply a truth
(01:12):
that goes across the board. Many disciplines embrace that, and
it is very very true when it comes to your home.
Good design makes all the difference. Every house deserves it,
every house should enjoy it. Once it's at work, that's
when we find the path forward, and that's when we
get momentum of making your home truly great. So that's
(01:33):
the show. That's what I'm all about. I'm glad that
you're here with us, and of course every Saturday morning
for all of us bright early risers, you actually are
in charge of the show. It is an all calls
Saturday morning, and you get to set the agenda. Anything
you want to talk about regarding your home, whether it's
(01:55):
design or construction issue or a DIY concern or stuff
on the inside, stuff on the outside, decor landscape. I
got you. We will put our heads together and we
will get it figured out. Here is the number to
reach me. Eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
(02:15):
three the numeral two Ask Dean A three three two
ask Dean. It's just that simple. The phone lines are
open now and we will simply wait for a couple
of calls to roll in before we go to the phone.
I'm gonna say that my business partner and my life
(02:35):
partner and my best friend in all the world actually
woke up with me at the same time this morning.
She's gotten plenty of rest and she will be in
studio with me very soon. Tina is here and you
will get to enjoy her company. Shortly she's on her way.
That's what I've heard. In the meantime, let's talk to
(02:56):
the rest of my complicit gang of early morning risers.
Sam is on the board. Good morning, Sam, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'm well, I'm well. How are things with you?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Good? Good?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I had a nice day yesterday with the family, and
now i'm I'm my parents. My kids are still in Spain,
so I miss them dearly. But right now I got
a chance to hang out with my parents and my
brother yesterday, which was nice.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Any Mother's Day weekend plans.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna pop up there hang out with them.
I have to find a gift for my mom, so
if y'all ain't have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know what I gave my mom this year? What
I gave my mom, it was a photograph of Tina
and I and we had it engraved in one of
those little three D crystal things.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh nice, I've seen those that would actually be really cool.
I think my mom would like me to get one
of those, but of my dog. I think she'd rather
have a picture of my dog like that than me.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, hey, you know, maybe both of you together and
that way you don't have to feel jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't want to sully the image of my dog.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
My dog's awesome. All right, all right, I'm just saying, Oh,
is she there?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is Heather there? She's here?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh my goodness, Heather broke her. How's it going?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Good?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Good? Happy Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What do you have Mother's Day plans?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
So after k if I live with Heather Brooker, I
am going to go and get my mom and my
family and we're going to go and have nice lunch
together and then I might take a nap.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't know. The world is my oyster.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Have you been given a nap coupon by the family.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, I just sort of create my own. No guarantees,
no guarantees.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But I'm hopeful that there might be a nap involved,
some kind of rest day of rest. But we're for
sure going to go out and have a nice lunch
and then just you know, spend some time together.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That sounds lovely.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, it's so nice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I set aside a special day for Teena. Yesterday, I
spent the day with Tina kind of doing special things
for her because it's kind of a wonky Mother's Day
this year for her, just the circumstances of the way
things lay out. And then she's as always totally focused
on her mom and serving her needs. So that'll be
what Sunday is all about tonight, though, is this sounds
(05:22):
a little fancy, just as the two of us following
are one of our favorite comedians, We're going down to
the Into It Dome tonight to see Nate Bargetzi.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love that you're doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh my gosh, I want to hear you think he's
one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh, he absolutely is so funny. He's talented.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If I'm not mistaken, he's filming his special there tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Oh that would make sense. I mean, the into A
Dome is such a huge venue, and it is it's
for Netflix as a joke, right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's part of that whole festival that's been
going on for a week or so.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Now, Oh, you're gonna have so much fun. He has
such a natural cadence and a natural style and makes
it look effortless up there, So you're gonna have so
much fun. I can't wait to hear what you think.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, we've I mean we've seen him live two times before.
I mean we're huge nat Oh my gosh, I so.
But yeah, and we've kind of followed his career right
from little like little venues.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I mean he's blown up since honestly, in the past
four or five years since COVID.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Really oh yeah, yeah, A lot of these comedians.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
When they started posting their clips on TikTok and social media,
really gained traction, like him and Leanne Morgan are good
examples of that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and we love Leanne too, oh so great. Yeah.
So I just you know what, here's the thing, though,
I get attached and I try, I tell myself not to,
but I get attached to to certain entertainers and I
just think, Okay, you're so awesome. I just love your way,
I love your vibe. I love the whole thing, and
I love the backstory. And I'm like, just stay you, man,
(06:52):
stay you. Now that you're hitting a big time, just
please stay you. I don't want to hear, you know,
stories down the road of like, well the marriage is
over and then I'm just divors. Please just stay, you stay,
you buy.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
He's got a movie coming out, to the bread Winner.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You want to see that because they're just throwing him
all this stuff now right because but of the success
so right now, like I would say, on the top
of my charts right now would be Nate and uh
and sheng Wang.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh my gosh, I love him.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is he unbelievable?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Oh so smart, so smooth with a You must like
the the Chill Delivery guys.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I like the chill Delivery guys. Uh. I also am
a huge Anthony jessel Nick fan.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Also yes, but but uh, but I just you know,
I I'm you know, I don't care about blue. It
doesn't really bother me. But I don't like things wrapped
around it, like the whole you know, the the whole vibe.
And so I just love, you know, kind of like
old school sign feldie and observational humor. I just like
smart observations about life that just make us all laugh.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Well, you're gonna have the best time tonight. I cannot
wait to hear what you think.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, looking forward to I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, All right, y'all, let's get Roland. Shall we head.
There's going to give us some news and then we're
gonna dive into some calls. It's an all call Saturday Morning,
your home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Dean Shark,
the house whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level. Thanks for joining us on the
program today. It is and all calls Saturday morning, as
(08:27):
every Saturday morning, is the number to reach me about
all things regarding your home. Eight three three two Ask Dean.
Eight three three the numeral to ask Dean eight three
three to ask Dean. It's just that simple. I want
to ask Dean. There you go, let's go to the phones.
(08:48):
I'm going to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good morning Dean. I had a question. I have a
friend that I'm trying to help him with a shower door.
They have a presumably a tempered glass shower door that's suspended,
hanging from two points that are on like a roller,
and it's the door is about six years old and
(09:15):
it just exploded into the shower and so I'm trying
to help this the friend decide what to buy to
replace that door. In particular, temp I know tempered glass,
but are there better brands? And should I put a
safety film? Should I have them put a safety film
on the inside of the door inside of the shower.
(09:37):
You know it referred to as an explosion proof film.
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, okay, so no, the I mean, they're they're really
the world of glass manufacturing is is not really a
branded world. In other words, there aren't like specific brands
out there like, oh, get this one. You just want
a rated tempered glass door, They're going to be the
(10:05):
same level of quality depending on the thickness of the door.
Thicker doors are more durable. Although the whole the idea is,
you know, it's a sliding glass door that's that's held
clamped at the top on rollers. I suppose this is
my guess because I've never really heard of it happening otherwise,
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that somebody through that door open too fast and or
the bumper that normally protects it from hitting the side
of the wall, or the track was missing or broke down.
Because tempered glass is incredibly durable glass. If you hit
the face of it with a hammer, then the chances
of it actually shattering are minimal. It's tough stuff. However,
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it has as all things do. Every strong thing has
a weakness, and the weakness of tempered glass is its edge,
its edge, so just even I'll tell you a story.
Back in the day, I was doing a big custom
beach house home in Malibu, I mean literally a beach
house literally hanging out over the water in Malibu, and
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the patio or the deck that the water literally ocean
water would go up underneath. We wanted to use just
solid tempered glass panels as decking railing out there, and
so that we didn't encumber any views, right, just all
glass railing, and that was half inch thick tempered glass.
(11:37):
That is thick stuff, crazy thick stuff. And we had
designed these channels for the glass to go down in
and set and then we pour this light weighty POxy
concrete around it and sets the glass in place so
that it's just a clean install And the guys who
were starting to do it, they messed up with a
couple of pieces, and I got a call saying get
(11:58):
out here, Dean. So I drove out from Beverly Hills
where we were working on this guy's other house and
got there and two of these panels.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Were out of plumb.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
They were like leaning outward, and they were they had
been there for half an hour trying to hit them
with hammers, and they even got out a ten pound
sledge at one point and were just banging away on
this panel. Nothing is happening, nothing is you know, they're
barely even marring it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And I'm like, guys, guys, guys, guys, and.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Obviously not glass professionals who were doing this work. And
so I took a small hammer and just on the
top edge of the glass tapped it, I mean barely
tapped it, and the whole panel exploded. That is the
achilles heel of tempered glass, the edge. Okay, so the
bumpers are the most critical component to saving that glass panel.
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A sliding glass panel, it cannot afford to slam up
against the wall directly or hit a screw head over
there or anything like that, or it will explode. So
just to be clear, and now, the other thing about
tempered glass is that it's already rated as safety glass
in the sense that when it breaks, it breaks into
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a ga billion little cubes, not shards like a regular
annealed glass. So the chances of actually getting damaged or
injured by tempered glass exploding, and I know it's shocking
when it happens, but the whole idea of it breaking
into a million pieces is that it's safe in that regards.
I mean, as safe as breaking glass can be. There
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aren't any big knife like shards that's gonna slice anybody's
skin open, anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's just these.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Tiny, little quarter inch sized glass cubes. So, yes, you
could put a film on the back to keep it
from making a mess, but it's not really safety film
in the sense that it's gonna actually you know, I mean,
it just keeps it from making a mess. It's like
a car windshield in that sense that if it gets
it's got an invisible uh you know, nylon film in it,
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so if it gets hit, it stays in place. Now,
the car window is a different thing. It's not tempered,
and it has a whole different kind of thing going on.
But yeah, so yeah, you could have a film put
on it, and that's going to be extra expense, but
it's not really necessary. The most important thing is simply
to make sure that the new panel from your local
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glass company, anybody can do it. The new panel has
adequate bumpers on a sliding tempered glass door so that
that edge does not get activated, because that's what made
it explode.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
So you're not concerned with a local company drilling the
whole that's that's necessary to mount the bumpers. There's all
not at all.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
No, And the bumpers, by the way, the bump the
bumpers I'm talking about are actually mounted on the wall. Okay,
they're mounted in the track. In other words, the glass
slides over and and touches a rubber bumper that keeps
it from touching the rest of the wall, versus that
bumper being you know, a part of the glass panel itself.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Well, this glass sheet is suspended from a bar overhead
and it grabs it grabs a glass with I'm describing
it as rubber clamps.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I guess, yeah, rubber class.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
But I would think they would. I haven't seen it
in that detail, but I would think there'd have to
be like a bolt or something going through the glass panel. Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
If there are, it's it's entirely possible. But again, Uh,
any glass company is going to make that order to
the foundry, and the foundry will put together that glass,
have it pre drilled. Uh in its formation that's the thing.
There's no drilling through a tempered glass panel. Okay, it's
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pre formed at the foundry and then it's set in place.
We don't cut them, we don't drill them on site
because again, you're activating that edge kind of thing and
that's what makes them go. So yeah, tempered glass panels
come pre ordered with all of their holes already dimensioned
out and in place. Anything like that has to be
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set before installation and before it actually reaches the hands
of the glass company who's going to install it for you.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh okay, so you answered a key question that a
local glass company, i mean a local glass installer should
not be drilling a whole to put the clamps on.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
That is correct.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
All right, Mike, you are very welcome. Great question. All right,
when we come back, more of your calls your home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're listening to Home Dean Sharp on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Dean Sharp the House Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. It is an
all calls Saturday morning. That means you get to set
the agenda. My friend, you're you're in charge of the show.
It's a good show. It's on you. It's a bad show. Yeah,
just saying you might not get the call back next week.
(17:27):
The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Dean eight three three the numeral two. Ask Dean. You
just spell it right out there on your phone. Eight
three three two ask Dean.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
One little side note. As I was sitting here sitting
my coffee and relaxing during the break, I just wanted
to We got a couple of reactions to my comment
to Mike about tempered glass. Is that really true? You
can't touch temper glass. Nobody does anything to it except
at the fabricator, That is absolutely one. Just wanted to
(18:00):
clarify that for y'all. Regular glass is a very very
different proposition. So when you order tempered glass for a
shower or steam room or whatever, you're ordering outside rails,
like the story I was telling you about, all of
those details have to be worked out before the glass
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is made because any penetrations or notches or beveling or
anything like that at all has to happen while the
glass is still regular glass. Okay, Because the tempering process
is what builds up this equilibrium between this intense surface
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tempering and the internal core of the glass. And so
once tempering takes place, no one can do anything to
that piece of glass. Nothing nothing, No grinding, no edging,
no drilling, no, no, nothing, because that activates that that.
You know, think of temper glass. It's weird because it's
(19:05):
so tough, right, The whole reason we order it is
that it's so tough. But in terms of its equilibrium,
think of temper glass as a balloon. Okay, like a
balloon made of titanium or whatever, a really tough balloon.
But the fact is, once that balloon is inflated, you know,
mess with the surface in any way, shape or form,
(19:26):
clip it, poke it all right, the whole thing pops.
And that's that's what temper glass is all about. Okay,
So yeah, all of that stuff has to happen at
the fabricator, at the at the foundry.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
With that said, ladies and gentlemen, you know her, you
love her at least, I can't live without her. As promised,
Tina is here.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Excuse me, welcome home?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Howdy?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That was that was quite the introduction. You weren't ready
for the drums? I wasn't. Wow, I feel so special.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There you go. How's it going great? How's your Mother's day?
Weekend so far?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Really fun? You're the best?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No, No, I didn't say that to get to get
that reflected stuff back. I just just want to make sure.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
You Yesterday you took me to brunch with runch.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
At one of our favorite places.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
And then flower shopping.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Not bouquet flowers, flower garden, Yes, garden dahlia's we we
we pulled down some seriously beautiful dahlias from Armstrong Nursery.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yesterday, did so.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And then that was Tina's wish. She's like, then I
want to go home and just plant them. Yeah, we
did great, They're so pretty. Maybe i'll post a picture later.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Sounds good, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And did we tell everybody we got bees last week?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Too?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Did?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's right? All right, So we're good to go. We're good,
we're set, we're set, we're fired up, we're ready, we're
ready to go. All right. So we're going to take
care a little newsbiz right here, and then when we
come back, we're going back to the phones. The number
to reach me eight three three two, Ask Dean A
three three the numeral two. Ask Dean, it's an all
calls Saturday morning. More of your calls, Dean Sharp the
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house Whisper Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Glad to have you on board. Hey.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, as you listen to me answer calls and
answer questions and make commentary all through the weekend, today
and tomorrow, at some point you might think to yourselves, gosh,
you know what we really need Dean and Tina standing
in our troubled space staring at the problem. If only
(21:46):
that were possible. Well, actually it is possible. We do
consultations for folks all the time, and they could be you.
All you have to do to find out more is
go to house Whisper dot Design. Not house whispers design
dot com, but house Whisper dot Design. That's our website,
(22:08):
and you will find the contact information to request a
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up to three hour consults standing in your space giving
you specific live vision, casting a commentary on what's going
on with your home. House Whisper dot Design. There you go,
(22:31):
all right back to the phones. Let's talk to Kathleen. Hey, Kathleen,
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Hi, I am remodeling my kitchen, and the contractor or
cabinet maker said, we can save some money by getting
standard sized boxes built, and then he will install them
and put trim around and stores and all that. When
the boxes arrive, they're plywood and they have a trim
(23:00):
on them. And in every other kitchen I've ever seen,
the trim would match the color of the cabinet. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Yeah, So anyway, the trim is silver. Everything in my
kitchen is white. With the cabinets are white, the paint
will be white. And the silver is such an eyesore.
And it's like a laminate kind of plasticky stuff that
I think hides the plywood edges and so it doesn't scratch.
(23:35):
And you know, anyway, I cannot stand the silver. And
I know you only see it when you open the
cabinet doors. But is there any way I can take
maybe a heat gun or something like that to remove
it and replace it. Certainly this stuff has to come
in every color of the rainbow, don't you think it?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Does?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Absolutely? Does?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I just have before I give you that, before we
get into that, I just want to you know, how
long ago did this happen? And why haven't you made
the beef with the contractor, like, hey, what the heck
is this stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I did?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
And he's like, well, silver is a neutral and this
is just how they come. And I'm like, that is
not true. And I said, please show me on the
contract where I signed off on silver. I don't like silver.
I don't want silver. And he's like, well, there wasn't
a signature or you know you didn't sign off on it,
because this is just how they come. I said, in
(24:34):
no stretch of my imagination have I ever seen this.
And silver is not my accent color. So the cabinets
are not some of them are up, you know, the
boxes are kind of like up on the wall. But
none of the doors have been put in, nor has
the countertop has not been installed yet, so we're kind
of I feel like, if this is like where I
(24:58):
have to freak out, this is where you know it
has to happen, because.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, so are you asking me? Because the reason I
asked you that question, Kathleen, is that this is on him,
This is on them to deal with. So are you
just getting like the insight from me so you can
go back to him and say, hey, listen, you know,
do this and get that changed out for me, or
you're gonna have you have you let them off the hook,
(25:22):
and you're going to try and di why this yourself?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
They don't seem One response I got from his assistant
or you know, like the person that does the scheduling
or something was like, well, we would have to take
everything down and this is simple. It take it back
to the shop and then they would have to put
it through their machine and that would be sixty five
hundred dollars basically. I mean, that's kind of I think,
(25:51):
ridiculous for something that just seems to me. I mean,
it just seems to me like maybe I could do
this myself. I just don't want to look at it.
So at the end of the day, it's my kitchen
and I have to look at it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So yeah, okay, So I just I just want to
be clear about this that you know, unless you're under
a massive time crunch and this has just got to happen, Okay,
you should really put this back on him, because not
only is there an oversight in communication, but on top
(26:25):
of it, it's compounded by the fact that what really
steams me is that now they've lied to you. Okay,
they've lied to you about this, Well, that's just the
way it comes. What are you talking about. That's the
way it comes. Okay, I have seen zero cabinets in
my life. I mean, here's the thing, Kathleen, I do
(26:47):
this all the time. And uh and so you know
I've seen I've seen the silver tape before.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Okay, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
But you know, we normally have clients it's specific, requesting
it because it's so not normal. It's so not normal. Okay,
whatever the you know, if we've got if we've got uh,
you know, completely hidden away cabinets like zero face frame,
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what we call full coverage cabinets through doors and drawers
cover everything when they're shut. That's all you see is
doors and drawers. You don't see face frame, the actual
face frame. So the edge of the plywood box has
to have some kind of laminate tape put on it. Now,
sometimes it's a wood veneer tape. If it's an authentic wood,
you know, like if we're doing a maple cabinet and
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maple doors, and then we'll have maple veneer on the
front face. If it's a if it's just white paint gray,
then we'll have white you know, laminate on the on
the front face that matches the interiors, or matches the
doors and drawers, whatever it could be. I mean, the
world of cabinet tape front laminates is you know, there
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are hundreds of colors. Uh, there's not such a thing
as well, that's the way they come. Uh, that's just
not true. It's simply not true. And there's no excuse
that tape should either a match the drawer color the
drawer or door face color, or b it should match
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the interior color. Okay, it shouldn't be a third element.
So you know sometimes you know, like I have white
cabinets in Buy and Large in my kitchen, Uh, but
with maple interiors. Okay, So when you open the white
cabinet door, the white shaker cabinet door, you see a
maple wood interior of the cabinet. Therefore, the face of
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whatever taping is done is maple to match the interior.
It's just a you know, a continuity between the two.
So what peeves me more than anything is I mean
one Okay, so they made a mistake or they didn't
communicate clearly to you what you were getting. That was
mistake one. But to follow it up with a live,
it says, well, that's just the way they come. You know,
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that's just not acceptable. So I want you to put
the thumbscrews to these guys so that it gets done right,
and then over blowing the price sixty five hundred dollars dollar.
I mean, the fact of the matter is if they're
going to retape them, they can do them in place.
That's what you're contemplating doing them in place, and that's
why you called me. And yes, the answer is a
heat gun, and it just takes a little bit of
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a time. It's just that those laminets are connected with
with basically rubber contact cement. Okay, it's not rocket science,
and a heat gun will soften that cement. Heat gun
and in a steel putty knife that gets underneath and
you'll be able to scrape them all off and then
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reapply new taping to that same surface. With rubber contact cement.
It is not a six thousand dollars procedure. The material
itself probably costs all of one hundred and fifty dollars
for the whole kitchen, the labor to do it. Okay,
so I would really get on their case. You can
tell them fail free to say, hey, you know the
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house whisper. You know that guy that the designer and
master builder here in southern California. Yeah, I had a
conversation with him this weekend and he says, you're full
of it and you need to step up and do this.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Right for me.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Okay, I just wanted to confirm I wasn't completely crazy
and that it should.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Not have happened.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Now, I've seen the I've seen the the you know,
the silver banding before and you know what I mean.
If it's what you want, it's what you want. But
that is just one of several hundred color options you
have for the for the taping on the front of
a cabinet box.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Okay, well, thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You are very very welcome, Kathleen. Best of luck with that.
And you know what, if they give you more trouble,
give me a shoot me an email, okay, because I
just want to see that turnout right for you. And
it just heaves me to no end when contractors cover
a mistake with a lie and then all for the
sake of not wanting to do the due diligence to
fix a thing and just lay it on the homeowner, like,
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you know, they walk away and you're gonna live with
those things for you know, decades to come. Not cool,
not the right way to go about it, all right,
j'all When we come back, more of your calls Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, Hello, my friend, and welcome home. I am
Dean Sharp, aka the House Whisperer, custom home Builder, custom
home Designer, and every week your guide to better understanding
that place where you live. Whether home for you is
a castle or a cottage, it matters not to me.
(00:30):
This is my theory. There is a dream home hiding
in the house that you have, and I'm here to
help you find it. It's just that simple luxury, by
the way, does not a great homemake. That's why it
doesn't matter whether your home is a castle or a cottage.
I live in a cottage and life is great here.
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It's design that matters most in the end, not the
luxury aspect. The design and good design, ultimately, in my book,
is the greatest of luxury because it means that the
house fits you. Good tailoring is far more important than
the expense of the material, and that's simply a truth
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that goes across the board. Many disciplines embrace that, and
it is very very true when it comes to your home.
Good design makes all the difference. Every house deserves it,
every house should enjoy it. Once it's at work, that's
when we find the path forward, and that's when we
get momentum of making your home truly great. So that's
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the show. That's what I'm all about. I'm glad that
you're here with us, and of course every Saturday morning
for all of us bright early risers, you actually are
in charge of the show. It is an all calls
Saturday morning, and you get to set the agenda. Anything
you want to talk about regarding your home, whether it's
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design or construction issue or a DIY concern or stuff
on the inside, stuff on the outside, decor landscape. I
got you. We will put our heads together and we
will get it figured out. Here is the number to
reach me. Eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
(02:15):
three the numeral two Ask Dean A three three two
ask Dean. It's just that simple. The phone lines are
open now and we will simply wait for a couple
of calls to roll in before we go to the phone.
I'm gonna say that my business partner and my life
(02:35):
partner and my best friend in all the world actually
woke up with me at the same time this morning.
She's gotten plenty of rest and she will be in
studio with me very soon. Tina is here and you
will get to enjoy her company. Shortly she's on her way.
That's what I've heard. In the meantime, let's talk to
(02:56):
the rest of my complicit gang of early morning risers.
Sam is on the board. Good morning, Sam, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'm well, I'm well. How are things with you?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Good? Good?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I had a nice day yesterday with the family, and
now i'm I'm my parents. My kids are still in Spain,
so I miss them dearly. But right now I got
a chance to hang out with my parents and my
brother yesterday, which was nice.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Any Mother's Day weekend plans.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna pop up there hang out with them.
I have to find a gift for my mom, so
if y'all ain't have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know what I gave my mom this year? What
I gave my mom, it was a photograph of Tina
and I and we had it engraved in one of
those little three D crystal things.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh nice, I've seen those that would actually be really cool.
I think my mom would like me to get one
of those, but of my dog. I think she'd rather
have a picture of my dog like that than me.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, hey, you know, maybe both of you together and
that way you don't have to feel jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't want to sully the image of my dog.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
My dog's awesome. All right, all right, I'm just saying, Oh,
is she there?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is Heather there? She's here?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh my goodness, Heather broke her. How's it going?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Good?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Good? Happy Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What do you have Mother's Day plans?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
So after k if I live with Heather Brooker, I
am going to go and get my mom and my
family and we're going to go and have nice lunch
together and then I might take a nap.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't know. The world is my oyster.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Have you been given a nap coupon by the family.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, I just sort of create my own. No guarantees,
no guarantees.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But I'm hopeful that there might be a nap involved,
some kind of rest day of rest. But we're for
sure going to go out and have a nice lunch
and then just you know, spend some time together.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That sounds lovely.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, it's so nice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I set aside a special day for Teena. Yesterday, I
spent the day with Tina kind of doing special things
for her because it's kind of a wonky Mother's Day
this year for her, just the circumstances of the way
things lay out. And then she's as always totally focused
on her mom and serving her needs. So that'll be
what Sunday is all about tonight, though, is this sounds
(05:22):
a little fancy, just as the two of us following
are one of our favorite comedians, We're going down to
the Into It Dome tonight to see Nate Bargetzi.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love that you're doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh my gosh, I want to hear you think he's
one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh, he absolutely is so funny. He's talented.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If I'm not mistaken, he's filming his special there tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Oh that would make sense. I mean, the into A
Dome is such a huge venue, and it is it's
for Netflix as a joke, right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's part of that whole festival that's been
going on for a week or so.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Now, Oh, you're gonna have so much fun. He has
such a natural cadence and a natural style and makes
it look effortless up there, So you're gonna have so
much fun. I can't wait to hear what you think.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, we've I mean we've seen him live two times before.
I mean we're huge nat Oh my gosh, I so.
But yeah, and we've kind of followed his career right
from little like little venues.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I mean he's blown up since honestly, in the past
four or five years since COVID.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Really oh yeah, yeah, A lot of these comedians.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
When they started posting their clips on TikTok and social media,
really gained traction, like him and Leanne Morgan are good
examples of that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and we love Leanne too, oh so great. Yeah.
So I just you know what, here's the thing, though,
I get attached and I try, I tell myself not to,
but I get attached to to certain entertainers and I
just think, Okay, you're so awesome. I just love your way,
I love your vibe. I love the whole thing, and
I love the backstory. And I'm like, just stay you, man,
(06:52):
stay you. Now that you're hitting a big time, just
please stay you. I don't want to hear, you know,
stories down the road of like, well the marriage is
over and then I'm just divors. Please just stay, you stay,
you buy.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
He's got a movie coming out, to the bread Winner.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You want to see that because they're just throwing him
all this stuff now right because but of the success
so right now, like I would say, on the top
of my charts right now would be Nate and uh
and sheng Wang.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh my gosh, I love him.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is he unbelievable?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Oh so smart, so smooth with a You must like
the the Chill Delivery guys.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I like the chill Delivery guys. Uh. I also am
a huge Anthony jessel Nick fan.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Also yes, but but uh, but I just you know,
I I'm you know, I don't care about blue. It
doesn't really bother me. But I don't like things wrapped
around it, like the whole you know, the the whole vibe.
And so I just love, you know, kind of like
old school sign feldie and observational humor. I just like
smart observations about life that just make us all laugh.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Well, you're gonna have the best time tonight. I cannot
wait to hear what you think.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, looking forward to I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, All right, y'all, let's get Roland. Shall we head.
There's going to give us some news and then we're
gonna dive into some calls. It's an all call Saturday Morning,
your home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Dean Shark,
the house whisper here to help you take your home
to the next level. Thanks for joining us on the
program today. It is and all calls Saturday morning, as
(08:27):
every Saturday morning, is the number to reach me about
all things regarding your home. Eight three three two Ask Dean.
Eight three three the numeral to ask Dean eight three
three to ask Dean. It's just that simple. I want
to ask Dean. There you go, let's go to the phones.
(08:48):
I'm going to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good morning Dean. I had a question. I have a
friend that I'm trying to help him with a shower door.
They have a presumably a tempered glass shower door that's suspended,
hanging from two points that are on like a roller,
and it's the door is about six years old and
(09:15):
it just exploded into the shower and so I'm trying
to help this the friend decide what to buy to
replace that door. In particular, temp I know tempered glass,
but are there better brands? And should I put a
safety film? Should I have them put a safety film
on the inside of the door inside of the shower.
(09:37):
You know it referred to as an explosion proof film.
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, okay, so no, the I mean, they're they're really
the world of glass manufacturing is is not really a
branded world. In other words, there aren't like specific brands
out there like, oh, get this one. You just want
a rated tempered glass door, They're going to be the
(10:05):
same level of quality depending on the thickness of the door.
Thicker doors are more durable. Although the whole the idea is,
you know, it's a sliding glass door that's that's held
clamped at the top on rollers. I suppose this is
my guess because I've never really heard of it happening otherwise,
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that somebody through that door open too fast and or
the bumper that normally protects it from hitting the side
of the wall, or the track was missing or broke down.
Because tempered glass is incredibly durable glass. If you hit
the face of it with a hammer, then the chances
of it actually shattering are minimal. It's tough stuff. However,
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it has as all things do. Every strong thing has
a weakness, and the weakness of tempered glass is its edge,
its edge, so just even I'll tell you a story.
Back in the day, I was doing a big custom
beach house home in Malibu, I mean literally a beach
house literally hanging out over the water in Malibu, and
(11:15):
the patio or the deck that the water literally ocean
water would go up underneath. We wanted to use just
solid tempered glass panels as decking railing out there, and
so that we didn't encumber any views, right, just all
glass railing, and that was half inch thick tempered glass.
(11:37):
That is thick stuff, crazy thick stuff. And we had
designed these channels for the glass to go down in
and set and then we pour this light weighty POxy
concrete around it and sets the glass in place so
that it's just a clean install And the guys who
were starting to do it, they messed up with a
couple of pieces, and I got a call saying get
(11:58):
out here, Dean. So I drove out from Beverly Hills
where we were working on this guy's other house and
got there and two of these panels.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Were out of plumb.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
They were like leaning outward, and they were they had
been there for half an hour trying to hit them
with hammers, and they even got out a ten pound
sledge at one point and were just banging away on
this panel. Nothing is happening, nothing is you know, they're
barely even marring it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And I'm like, guys, guys, guys, guys, and.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Obviously not glass professionals who were doing this work. And
so I took a small hammer and just on the
top edge of the glass tapped it, I mean barely
tapped it, and the whole panel exploded. That is the
achilles heel of tempered glass, the edge. Okay, so the
bumpers are the most critical component to saving that glass panel.
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A sliding glass panel, it cannot afford to slam up
against the wall directly or hit a screw head over
there or anything like that, or it will explode. So
just to be clear, and now, the other thing about
tempered glass is that it's already rated as safety glass
in the sense that when it breaks, it breaks into
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a ga billion little cubes, not shards like a regular
annealed glass. So the chances of actually getting damaged or
injured by tempered glass exploding, and I know it's shocking
when it happens, but the whole idea of it breaking
into a million pieces is that it's safe in that regards.
I mean, as safe as breaking glass can be. There
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aren't any big knife like shards that's gonna slice anybody's
skin open, anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's just these.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Tiny, little quarter inch sized glass cubes. So, yes, you
could put a film on the back to keep it
from making a mess, but it's not really safety film
in the sense that it's gonna actually you know, I mean,
it just keeps it from making a mess. It's like
a car windshield in that sense that if it gets
it's got an invisible uh you know, nylon film in it,
(14:09):
so if it gets hit, it stays in place. Now,
the car window is a different thing. It's not tempered,
and it has a whole different kind of thing going on.
But yeah, so yeah, you could have a film put
on it, and that's going to be extra expense, but
it's not really necessary. The most important thing is simply
to make sure that the new panel from your local
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glass company, anybody can do it. The new panel has
adequate bumpers on a sliding tempered glass door so that
that edge does not get activated, because that's what made
it explode.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
So you're not concerned with a local company drilling the
whole that's that's necessary to mount the bumpers. There's all
not at all.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
No, And the bumpers, by the way, the bump the
bumpers I'm talking about are actually mounted on the wall. Okay,
they're mounted in the track. In other words, the glass
slides over and and touches a rubber bumper that keeps
it from touching the rest of the wall, versus that
bumper being you know, a part of the glass panel itself.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Well, this glass sheet is suspended from a bar overhead
and it grabs it grabs a glass with I'm describing
it as rubber clamps.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I guess, yeah, rubber class.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
But I would think they would. I haven't seen it
in that detail, but I would think there'd have to
be like a bolt or something going through the glass panel. Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
If there are, it's it's entirely possible. But again, Uh,
any glass company is going to make that order to
the foundry, and the foundry will put together that glass,
have it pre drilled. Uh in its formation that's the thing.
There's no drilling through a tempered glass panel. Okay, it's
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pre formed at the foundry and then it's set in place.
We don't cut them, we don't drill them on site
because again, you're activating that edge kind of thing and
that's what makes them go. So yeah, tempered glass panels
come pre ordered with all of their holes already dimensioned
out and in place. Anything like that has to be
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set before installation and before it actually reaches the hands
of the glass company who's going to install it for you.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh okay, so you answered a key question that a
local glass company, i mean a local glass installer should
not be drilling a whole to put the clamps on.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
That is correct.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
All right, Mike, you are very welcome. Great question. All right,
when we come back, more of your calls your home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're listening to Home Dean Sharp on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Dean Sharp the House Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. It is an
all calls Saturday morning. That means you get to set
the agenda. My friend, you're you're in charge of the show.
It's a good show. It's on you. It's a bad show. Yeah,
just saying you might not get the call back next week.
(17:27):
The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
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just spell it right out there on your phone. Eight
three three two ask Dean.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
One little side note. As I was sitting here sitting
my coffee and relaxing during the break, I just wanted
to We got a couple of reactions to my comment
to Mike about tempered glass. Is that really true? You
can't touch temper glass. Nobody does anything to it except
at the fabricator, That is absolutely one. Just wanted to
(18:00):
clarify that for y'all. Regular glass is a very very
different proposition. So when you order tempered glass for a
shower or steam room or whatever, you're ordering outside rails,
like the story I was telling you about, all of
those details have to be worked out before the glass
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is made because any penetrations or notches or beveling or
anything like that at all has to happen while the
glass is still regular glass. Okay, Because the tempering process
is what builds up this equilibrium between this intense surface
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tempering and the internal core of the glass. And so
once tempering takes place, no one can do anything to
that piece of glass. Nothing nothing, No grinding, no edging,
no drilling, no, no, nothing, because that activates that that.
You know, think of temper glass. It's weird because it's
(19:05):
so tough, right, The whole reason we order it is
that it's so tough. But in terms of its equilibrium,
think of temper glass as a balloon. Okay, like a
balloon made of titanium or whatever, a really tough balloon.
But the fact is, once that balloon is inflated, you know,
mess with the surface in any way, shape or form,
(19:26):
clip it, poke it all right, the whole thing pops.
And that's that's what temper glass is all about. Okay,
So yeah, all of that stuff has to happen at
the fabricator, at the at the foundry.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
With that said, ladies and gentlemen, you know her, you
love her at least, I can't live without her. As promised,
Tina is here.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Excuse me, welcome home?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Howdy?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That was that was quite the introduction. You weren't ready
for the drums? I wasn't. Wow, I feel so special.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There you go. How's it going great? How's your Mother's day?
Weekend so far?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Really fun? You're the best?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No, No, I didn't say that to get to get
that reflected stuff back. I just just want to make sure.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
You Yesterday you took me to brunch with runch.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
At one of our favorite places.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
And then flower shopping.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Not bouquet flowers, flower garden, Yes, garden dahlia's we we
we pulled down some seriously beautiful dahlias from Armstrong Nursery.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yesterday, did so.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And then that was Tina's wish. She's like, then I
want to go home and just plant them. Yeah, we
did great, They're so pretty. Maybe i'll post a picture later.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Sounds good, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And did we tell everybody we got bees last week?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Too?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Did?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's right? All right, So we're good to go. We're good,
we're set, we're set, we're fired up, we're ready, we're
ready to go. All right. So we're going to take
care a little newsbiz right here, and then when we
come back, we're going back to the phones. The number
to reach me eight three three two, Ask Dean A
three three the numeral two. Ask Dean, it's an all
calls Saturday morning. More of your calls, Dean Sharp the
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house Whisper Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Glad to have you on board. Hey.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, as you listen to me answer calls and
answer questions and make commentary all through the weekend, today
and tomorrow, at some point you might think to yourselves, gosh,
you know what we really need Dean and Tina standing
in our troubled space staring at the problem. If only
(21:46):
that were possible. Well, actually it is possible. We do
consultations for folks all the time, and they could be you.
All you have to do to find out more is
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dot com, but house Whisper dot Design. That's our website,
(22:08):
and you will find the contact information to request a
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you specific live vision, casting a commentary on what's going
on with your home. House Whisper dot Design. There you go,
(22:31):
all right back to the phones. Let's talk to Kathleen. Hey, Kathleen,
welcome home.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Hi, I am remodeling my kitchen, and the contractor or
cabinet maker said, we can save some money by getting
standard sized boxes built, and then he will install them
and put trim around and stores and all that. When
the boxes arrive, they're plywood and they have a trim
(23:00):
on them. And in every other kitchen I've ever seen,
the trim would match the color of the cabinet. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Yeah, So anyway, the trim is silver. Everything in my
kitchen is white. With the cabinets are white, the paint
will be white. And the silver is such an eyesore.
And it's like a laminate kind of plasticky stuff that
I think hides the plywood edges and so it doesn't scratch.
(23:35):
And you know, anyway, I cannot stand the silver. And
I know you only see it when you open the
cabinet doors. But is there any way I can take
maybe a heat gun or something like that to remove
it and replace it. Certainly this stuff has to come
in every color of the rainbow, don't you think it?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Does?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Absolutely? Does?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I just have before I give you that, before we
get into that, I just want to you know, how
long ago did this happen? And why haven't you made
the beef with the contractor, like, hey, what the heck
is this stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I did?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
And he's like, well, silver is a neutral and this
is just how they come. And I'm like, that is
not true. And I said, please show me on the
contract where I signed off on silver. I don't like silver.
I don't want silver. And he's like, well, there wasn't
a signature or you know you didn't sign off on it,
because this is just how they come. I said, in
(24:34):
no stretch of my imagination have I ever seen this.
And silver is not my accent color. So the cabinets
are not some of them are up, you know, the
boxes are kind of like up on the wall. But
none of the doors have been put in, nor has
the countertop has not been installed yet, so we're kind
of I feel like, if this is like where I
(24:58):
have to freak out, this is where you know it
has to happen, because.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, so are you asking me? Because the reason I
asked you that question, Kathleen, is that this is on him,
This is on them to deal with. So are you
just getting like the insight from me so you can
go back to him and say, hey, listen, you know,
do this and get that changed out for me, or
you're gonna have you have you let them off the hook,
(25:22):
and you're going to try and di why this yourself?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
They don't seem One response I got from his assistant
or you know, like the person that does the scheduling
or something was like, well, we would have to take
everything down and this is simple. It take it back
to the shop and then they would have to put
it through their machine and that would be sixty five
hundred dollars basically. I mean, that's kind of I think,
(25:51):
ridiculous for something that just seems to me. I mean,
it just seems to me like maybe I could do
this myself. I just don't want to look at it.
So at the end of the day, it's my kitchen
and I have to look at it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So yeah, okay, So I just I just want to
be clear about this that you know, unless you're under
a massive time crunch and this has just got to happen, Okay,
you should really put this back on him, because not
only is there an oversight in communication, but on top
(26:25):
of it, it's compounded by the fact that what really
steams me is that now they've lied to you. Okay,
they've lied to you about this, Well, that's just the
way it comes. What are you talking about. That's the
way it comes. Okay, I have seen zero cabinets in
my life. I mean, here's the thing, Kathleen, I do
(26:47):
this all the time. And uh and so you know
I've seen I've seen the silver tape before.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Okay, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
But you know, we normally have clients it's specific, requesting
it because it's so not normal. It's so not normal. Okay,
whatever the you know, if we've got if we've got uh,
you know, completely hidden away cabinets like zero face frame,
(27:16):
what we call full coverage cabinets through doors and drawers
cover everything when they're shut. That's all you see is
doors and drawers. You don't see face frame, the actual
face frame. So the edge of the plywood box has
to have some kind of laminate tape put on it. Now,
sometimes it's a wood veneer tape. If it's an authentic wood,
you know, like if we're doing a maple cabinet and
(27:36):
maple doors, and then we'll have maple veneer on the
front face. If it's a if it's just white paint gray,
then we'll have white you know, laminate on the on
the front face that matches the interiors, or matches the
doors and drawers, whatever it could be. I mean, the
world of cabinet tape front laminates is you know, there
(27:56):
are hundreds of colors. Uh, there's not such a thing
as well, that's the way they come. Uh, that's just
not true. It's simply not true. And there's no excuse
that tape should either a match the drawer color the
drawer or door face color, or b it should match
(28:17):
the interior color. Okay, it shouldn't be a third element.
So you know sometimes you know, like I have white
cabinets in Buy and Large in my kitchen, Uh, but
with maple interiors. Okay, So when you open the white
cabinet door, the white shaker cabinet door, you see a
maple wood interior of the cabinet. Therefore, the face of
(28:41):
whatever taping is done is maple to match the interior.
It's just a you know, a continuity between the two.
So what peeves me more than anything is I mean
one Okay, so they made a mistake or they didn't
communicate clearly to you what you were getting. That was
mistake one. But to follow it up with a live,
it says, well, that's just the way they come. You know,
(29:03):
that's just not acceptable. So I want you to put
the thumbscrews to these guys so that it gets done right,
and then over blowing the price sixty five hundred dollars dollar.
I mean, the fact of the matter is if they're
going to retape them, they can do them in place.
That's what you're contemplating doing them in place, and that's
why you called me. And yes, the answer is a
heat gun, and it just takes a little bit of
(29:25):
a time. It's just that those laminets are connected with
with basically rubber contact cement. Okay, it's not rocket science,
and a heat gun will soften that cement. Heat gun
and in a steel putty knife that gets underneath and
you'll be able to scrape them all off and then
(29:46):
reapply new taping to that same surface. With rubber contact cement.
It is not a six thousand dollars procedure. The material
itself probably costs all of one hundred and fifty dollars
for the whole kitchen, the labor to do it. Okay,
so I would really get on their case. You can
tell them fail free to say, hey, you know the
(30:07):
house whisper. You know that guy that the designer and
master builder here in southern California. Yeah, I had a
conversation with him this weekend and he says, you're full
of it and you need to step up and do this.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Right for me.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Okay, I just wanted to confirm I wasn't completely crazy
and that it should.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Not have happened.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Now, I've seen the I've seen the the you know,
the silver banding before and you know what I mean.
If it's what you want, it's what you want. But
that is just one of several hundred color options you
have for the for the taping on the front of
a cabinet box.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Okay, well, thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You are very very welcome, Kathleen. Best of luck with that.
And you know what, if they give you more trouble,
give me a shoot me an email, okay, because I
just want to see that turnout right for you. And
it just heaves me to no end when contractors cover
a mistake with a lie and then all for the
sake of not wanting to do the due diligence to
fix a thing and just lay it on the homeowner, like,
(31:12):
you know, they walk away and you're gonna live with
those things for you know, decades to come. Not cool,
not the right way to go about it, all right,
j'all When we come back, more of your calls Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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