May 9, 2026 • 31 mins
Our caller at the top of Hour 2 has a low-pitched rock roof on her 1950s-built house that has never been replaced or redone, and now they’ve found mold up there! How serious could it be and what's the treatment to repair it?
Next up, a listener needs to know if she can place epoxy or acrylic over a heating element for a radiant-heat floor.
Morris has an old house built in 1951 that suddenly has plumbing issues, particularly a leaky kitchen faucet. Apparently, the anchor valve is frozen, so how would he go about fixing all these issues?
If the final caller were to install carpet as a stair runner, does it have to have a finished edge, and does it have to be a certain kind of tack board?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp,
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including this fine program today. And speaking of this program,
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let's go back to the phones. It's an all calls
Saturday morning, and uh, let's say, let's just talk to Monica.
Hey Monica, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Thanks, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Monica. You're cutting out a little bit. Can you get
closer to the phone or let's just try.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It try it's too loud.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, that's great, that's great, that's much better.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Okay, great, sunny guy that there's old fifty tolls. And
I've never done the roof, but it really never leaked.
But what happened is my friend who's kind of like
a construction worker, sauce in a little marks on the
roof and we had it mold tested and you know,
it showed you know, you know, mold or whatever. And
you know, I've had like a cough for almost a
(03:27):
year now, and so I don't know should I do
the whole knock down the whole roof or you know,
or get it tested more or what.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, So what kind of roof is it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's actually got some rocks on it and it's like
flat and it's got kind of like I guess the
black papers in those days they put on them.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, so it's a flat rock roof, is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, that's just the the topical that's just the aesthetics.
A long time ago, they could rock us. So it's
just kind of got a it's just real flat and
it's got like a paper on and it's probably got tar.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, yeah, well uh so you so you've got some option.
Do we know how old the roof is? Oh, it's
never been redone? No, okay, all right, so uh okay,
(04:37):
that's not actually on that unusual for a uh uh
a flat or a low pitched rock roof. And there
is a chance that and I mean, unless you've lived
in the home since the fifties or your family has
had the home since the fifties, and you absolutely know
it's never been redone, there's there's a good chance that
(05:00):
it's been at least recodd at some point. Right, it
looks like the original rock because the thing with a
rock roof is that we can broom all the rock
off to the side, do patches, repair work, recod it,
and then it spread the rocks back out and it's
still you know, the original esthetic on top. But the
point is this, if there's mold in various places growing
(05:21):
up on the roof, it's not the end of the world.
You can hire a service to come out and actually
spray down the roof and knock it down and eliminate it.
I don't want there to be an issue where there's
mold growing up there and it's throwing spores now off
all around the perimeter of the house, and that you're
breathing them in every time you go inside and outside.
I mean, that would be a pretty serious mold issue
(05:43):
up on a house. And it's I got to say
it's rare for a rock roof to be in that
situation because sunlight does a number on mold and it's
hard for it to exist. But the trick is if
it's gotten underneath any of the layers, the tar paper layers,
and its hiding down there in the moist shade, then
it's probably having a heyday and and that's an issue.
(06:06):
So two things. One, you can always have it sprayed down.
There's lots of stuff. I mean, it's not super expensive either.
You can have a company come out and spray it
down with a with a you know, a mold killer
that will last for a good long time and then
that's one and done for whatever's on the surface. If
(06:30):
it's underneath, then you know it's finally time Monica, for
a reroof for the for the house, and that means
new underlayment. You know, you could still maintain the whole
rock look though, again the rock can be shoveled off
to the side and then added to a little bit
and replaced on top of it. But ultimately it sounds
(06:51):
to me like you're overdue for a roof replacement at
least of the fundamental underlayment membranes. And that, of course,
is gonna get you restarted from ground zero and there
will be no mold to worry about beyond that point.
So if it's a surface issue, you can spray it down.
If not, it's time to replace the roof. And that's
(07:11):
essentially your two options. Monica, thanks so much for the call.
We're gonna go to break here and when we come back,
more of your calls. Your home with Dean Sharp, the
house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help
you take your home to the next level. Can I
say this, Heather? Can I say this that the news
(07:32):
today is just flat out weird. It's just weird weird news.
There's a ceasefire in the Iran War while we're shooting
at each other that's called a ceasefire. The postal Service
has a record year and has lost two billion dollars.
People apparently are just strolling across airport runways getting sucked
into jet engines.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There are samurais running loose in Venice. Well okay, maybe
that's not out of the ordinary, but for Venice at least.
But otherwise, up is down, down is up. Things are
no longer required to make sense in the world. So
does that make me sound old? No, I'm just commenting.
It's just it's there, it is. I promise you this,
my friend. Things make sense here. That's why I'm here
(08:18):
to help you make sense out of stuff. And so
with that, and are all calls Saturday morning, let's go
back to the phones. I want to talk to Yvonne. Hey,
von welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, yes, good morning, thank you. Question is can you
place apoxy or aquilic over a heating element floor or
doesn't need to be tile?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No, you can. Now, acrylics, certain acrylics, Uh, you just
have to check the uh their their Certain acrylics are
a little bit softer. Other acrylics are a little harder,
and they react differently to heat. Okay, and so You're
just gonna have to check on the specific acrylics.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Epoxy absolutely, yes, yes, as long as it's compatible with
the concrete substrate that's going down first. Over the heating
element epoxy is it's very hard and it has excellent
heat retention and uh and thermal properties. So yeah, if
you want to have an epoxy finish on a floor,
(09:25):
but you want to actually uh, you know, do the
radiant heat, absolutely doable. I know this sounds a bit bougie.
Maybe I'll just use that word, but you know, we
have a lot of highering clients. We've done radiant heat
floors in garages for appliance for clients before and then
(09:50):
you know, done the full on garage epoxy coating after
the fact.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Here in southern California. So it's not like, you know,
an Arctic garage benefits a greatly from a radiant heat floor.
That's a great thing. But yeah, here in SoCal just
because owners want to walk out and just have a warm,
comfy garage to work in. So I know for a
fact that epoxy does just find over radiant heat coils.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
May I follow up with a question, sure this is
an original concrete floor when the house was built in
seventy nine. I don't know what it's made of. Will
that be an impact on the epoxy at all?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's an original concrete well you know, in other words,
this is the slab of the floor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Correct, it's correct, it's original slab.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah. No, no, it's not gonna it's concrete. It's just
it's just concrete. It's Portland cement. So what you're going
to do or now are you doing a hydranic system
or do an electric radiant heat system?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I don't know yet. I have to research the hut.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, all right, well here's the thing either way, either way,
what happens is the epoxy is not going to go
right down onto the coils or onto the actual heat pad.
You're going to lay down whatever the radiant heat system
is and then you're gonna embed that at least in
a layer of lightweight concrete or thin set, and then
(11:23):
re level the floor and then the epoxy will apply
on top of that surface. So the epoxy is not
going to make direct contact with the heating coils. I'm
not saying that it couldn't, but there's no need to
because the epoxy is expensive, and so what we want
to do is we're going to embed the heating system
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very thinly. I mean, if it's an electric heating system,
the pad is only you know, an eighth of an
inch thick. And then by the time we get it
all set up and glued to the concrete and then covered,
maybe we've come up may be not quite three eighths
of an inch. And then the epoxy is that final
coding that you put on that looks like the whole
(12:07):
floor's concrete and solid and all of that. But the
fact is, you know it's a finished layer on top.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Okay, okay, beautiful. Well, thank you so much for your insight.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You're very very welcome.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Von.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thanks for the call. We still have calls on the board.
There's still room for you. By the way, eight three
three two Ask Dean is the number to reach me.
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back to the phones. It's an all calls Saturday morning.
I want to talk to Morris. Morris, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah, good morning. I have an old house built in
nineteen fifty one, and all of a sudden I started
having plumbing issues the kitchen faucet. The water wouldn't stop leaking,
and I attempted to turn the water off. The valves
are frozen. What they call the anchor valve is frozen.
(13:33):
Both hot and cold water is frozen. I went to
the outside meter of the house, coming from the city
of Los Angeles, DWP went to turn the valve off
there and that's frozen. So I don't know how to
run freeze these valves to turn the water off. I
called DWP. They came out and they used a blow
(13:53):
torch and they actually sweated the valve to be able
to turn the water off. Once I turned the water off,
I went to home depots and try to get new
parts for this kitchen fox and they said no parts
are available. Where do we go from there?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, so you got two or three things happening. I'm
glad DWP came out and fixed their meter valve. That's good,
so you can at least go to the curb and
get into the water meter box and turn all the
water off on the property from there. Secondarily to that Morris,
there should be an outside shut off valve for all
(14:32):
the water going into the house. That's your main so
somewhere on the outside of the house, after the meter
and on the outside of the house where the pressure
regulator should be by the way for the house. It
should be a main shut off valve, so you shouldn't
have to go to the meter to shut off the
water to the house. That shuts off the water to
(14:52):
the entire property, including the irrigation lines, anything that's running outside.
There should be a shut off valve right next to
the house on the outside somewhere that usually older houses,
it's in front wherever the.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Main line there is. The valve that's frozen. Two.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, so number one that needs to be replaced. Okay,
whether you diy that or have a plumber come out
and replace it, you need to have a great shut
off valve that's functional, and I would recommend using a
you know, a quarter turn linear ball valve if at
(15:33):
all possible, instead of a gate valve. A gate valve
is the classic you know handle that you turn and
turn and turn and turn and turn. It's called a
gate valve because it's lowering essentially a gate down in
front of the water line. Far easier, far quicker is
a ball valve, which just simply turns to the side
and there's just a handle on it and you just
(15:53):
whoop and it's done. It's off, it's on, and so anyway,
but that needs to be replaced because you need to
be able to have control over turning the water off
to the house at that point. Also, while they're doing that,
for an old home that has you know, that hasn't
had much plumbing done to it, you should also just
have the plumber inspect the pressure regulator because pressure regulators
(16:16):
also give out over a number of years. Make sure
that that is is running well and that it's controlling
pressure into the house, because we don't want to have
too high a pressure running into the house because that
puts a strain on appliances and old plumbing lines. Okay,
so there there's that. That's that. Now in regards to
(16:36):
inside the house, you got two things happening. You got
frozen angle stops. That's what those valves are underneath the
sink in the cabinet. They're called angle stops. Those valves
really really common, even on newer homes. It's not an
unusual thing to have an angle stop frozen because you know,
(16:57):
the fact of the matter is they get installed and
the house is built, and we hook a faucet up
to them, and we leave them on, and they're on.
You know, all things being equal, those valves never get
touched for years and years and years and years and years,
and so they get mineral build up around them, and
the next thing, you know, you can't actually close them.
(17:18):
And angle stops are usually always you know, gate valves
also that kind of thing. So so changing out the
angle stops that's your next step. Okay. None of this,
by the way, fixes the leak. Okay, this just basically
brings everything up to par so that any other issues
(17:40):
can be easily handled. Now we can turn the water
off instead of going out to the main or instead
of going out to the sidewalk and actually at the
at the main meter valve. Now we can just turn
the water off underneath the kitchen sink. For a kitchen
faucet problem, you have clearly an old kitchen faucet, and
(18:03):
and so I'm not gonna say that that. Well, here's
the thing. Just because Home Depot in the local big
box store doesn't have replacement parts for it doesn't mean
that you can't find replacement parts for it. It also
doesn't mean you can. But the proper place to go
would be an actual plumbing supply house and talk to
(18:25):
real plumbing experts behind the counter and say, here is
this faucet. I really want to keep it, and it's leaking.
Can are there any parts available? Those are the guys
whose answer I would accept definitively, not the guys working
in the plumbing section at home Depot. Not to put
(18:46):
any you know, disparagement on them, but they are. There
was a time when everybody who worked in every department
at home Depot was a retired expert in that field.
That time is long gone. So you know, not necessarily
talking You might be talking to somebody with a lot
of experience of their stuff, but you're not necessarily talking
(19:06):
to a plumbing expert there. So all that being said, though,
if you get the angle stops and the valves replace
the frozen valves replaced as they should, it sounds like
it's just time to replace the kitchen faucet. And that
just means, you know, counting the holes that you've got
through your sink or your countertop, going out and finding
(19:26):
another faucet that's going to match up with that whole
set and having it replaced. And if you've got plumbers
coming out to replace the angle stops, just have them
install the new faucet while they're at it, and uh,
problem solved.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, what's interesting. I went and bought end caps, half
inch end caps to put over the valves, because you
I couldn't. I finally got the valves to shot off
by using a torch and sweating the valves. I can
turn the valves to close it and that did work then,
but he wouldn't stop leaking. So I bought in caps,
(20:03):
cap them off, and tomorrow I'm going to attempt to
put in a kitchen faucet myself. They wanted quite a
bit of money to put it into install a kitchen faucet,
several hundred dollars. That's old pricey. Yeah. So I'm going
to attempt to do that tomorrow. But it's been an
uphill battle with us even to get information to try
(20:23):
to get the water shot off. And for the most part,
I have galvanized plumbing. It's an old house, yeah, and
so I'm going to attempt to do that tomorrow to
do this project. And I bought a new faucet and
they said its aren't available. I'm just going to replace
the whole thing and get it over with. It's been
(20:44):
quite an experience here. And I also have a ball
valve that froze too. I have ball valve over the
hot water here and I went to turn the hot
water off and that was frozen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So here's the thing. This is going to be something
for you to just keep up on.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Eventually the house is going to need to be repiped
and get rid of the galvanized pipes. Because a house
that old with galvanized pipes in it, I guarantee you
those lines are full of mineralization. And it's those minerals
that's that hardened water mineralization that is clogging up, not
clogging that's not exactly the right the word freezing up,
(21:27):
attaching themselves to all those mineral particulations, attaching themselves to
and causing the valves to freeze up. So ultimately a
repipe is in order to save up for it, and
you know, bide your time while you're at it. As
far as those angle stops, I can appreciate that you
put heat on them and got them to open, but
(21:48):
if they were still leaking when they were closed when
you closed them down, then they still need replacing because
they're not functioning properly. I know you capped them. That's
great as a very practical move, but if it's again
galvanized plumbing system, then you don't have to sweat anything.
There's no there's no flux or copper or sowder being used.
(22:10):
So if it's the galvanized system, then you should be
able to just you know, spin off those old angle
stops and put on new threaded ones yourself. Have new
valves that actually close down and stop the water and
open and let it go. That's all I'm saying. You
might as well do that while you're replacing the faucet
as well. Marris, thanks for the call, buddy, and for
(22:31):
the question. More of your calls when we return your
home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper here to remind you your house deserves great design.
Why because you're living your life in it. That's why,
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path towards transforming that ordinary house into something truly truly extraordinary.
(22:53):
Here we are at the end of the show. I
still have time to take a call, so I'm going
to take Ken's call in just a second. I just
want to remin mind you. Tomorrow, Mother's Day our big show.
We're going to be live. We're going to be doing
our part because our Mother's Day activities are happening in
the afternoon. So I'm here for you, and if you're
available to let's make it a date. We're going to
(23:14):
talk about the Ultimate Mother's Day Gift, which is a
complete redo of the master bathroom, the primary bathroom and
turning it into Mom's the Spalike Retreat and all the
components that go into that. So if you've ever wondered
what all can go into a bathroom and how practical
(23:35):
are they, you're not going to want to miss tomorrow's show.
That's from nine to noon. I'll see you there. All right,
let's take another call. Let's talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Hello Dean, thank you for taking my call. We really
enjoy your show. We find it extremely informative as we
have an extremely antique house. Two best question, two part question. Yeah,
when installing carpet on stairs to be a runner, so
(24:08):
you have the gaps on the sides?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
You can you just use regular carpet from the roll
or does it need to have a finished end? Second part,
does the tachboard you use have to be different than
the standard tech board used for carpeting.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, those are really good questions. So now first let
me ask the most important question. Tell me about the stairs.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
They're pretty steep, pretty narrow. I'm sure they're not to
code because the house was built probably more than one
hundred and forty years ago, so they're functional.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, okay, the stairs though, are solid hardwood treads and
risers all the way across uninterrupted. I mean, just this
is a we're not trying to fake it. The reason
I'm asking is I've got to clarify. And you said
an older antiquus, and so that's a very antique house,
you know, and I applaud you for it. But you know,
(25:05):
starting in about the nineteen late nineteen seventies early eighties,
builders started faking the whole hardwood stair thing by just
putting hardwood end caps on each side and running carpet
up the center, you know, to make it look like
a runner, when in actuality, it isn't a runner at all.
(25:26):
It's not sitting on top of any hardwood. It is
just a regular carpet that's run with a tucked, you know,
tacked edge in between two little you know, pieces of
what you know, the fake thing is, the is the
theater of it is the hardwood end caps. Now you've
got legitimate staircase that you want to put a carpet
(25:49):
runner on top of. So here's the thing. You've got
two approaches when it comes to a carpet runner. The
tacking is a little different. It's shorter, it's lower profile,
and and if we're not going to use actual retention
rods then then yeah, it is a little bit different,
(26:13):
and the installation method is a little different. Answer to
your first question, yes you can use normal carpet off
the roll, but no, it can't have it can't be
without an edge. But not a lot of people realize
you can go to the carpet store and buy any
carpet you want there and simply have it cut and
(26:37):
edged by the carpet manufacture in order to create your runner.
So there's no limit to what you can use as
a carpet runner. You don't have to buy some specialty,
you know, fancy carpet runner from a carpet runner shop.
You just buy the carpet that you want and you
can have an edge sewn onto it so that you
(26:58):
know it's not fraying on the side. It's my recommendation
sight unseen. Of course, now a lot of people living
up where homes want a more modern look and so
they just want the carpet runner running up unsupported. But
my recommendation is if we've already, if we're are we
working from a classic vintage house and we want to
(27:19):
add a carpet runner too stairs, is to literally use
carpet retention rods or runner retention rods, and those are
rods that are visible. They add to the to the
vibe of the of the staircase. They can be brass,
they can be dark bronze, they can essentially, you know,
be minimized and go away, or they can stand out,
(27:40):
but they hold a carpet runner in place, in which
case you're not using any tax strips. You're not you're
not putting anything down or nailing anything into your beautiful staircase.
You're simply holding a runner in place. And the advantage
of that is also carpet runners wear out just like
carpet do. In fact, carpet runners take a lot of
(28:01):
abuse that a regular carpet doesn't take because it's being
bent around ninety degree corners and people are walking right
on that front edge. It takes a lot. You know,
runners wear out, that's the point. And so using a
rod system holds the runner in place and yet allows you,
you know, five ten years down the road, to simply
(28:23):
disconnect the rods, pull the rods out, pull the existing
runner off, replace it with a new one, easy pasy,
and you're back in business. So that's my kind of
full orbed answer to that question.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Well, thank you very much, and it answered your question.
I think the stairs are original to the house, with
fur beveled tops and pine verticals, so.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Lovely sounds lovely. They're worth protecting. I think I would
lean toward honoring it with a with a carpet runner
retention system, just to keep it easier for you down
the road. And you know, bring more because I'll tell
you what if they were going to get a carpet
runner one hundred and forty years ago when the house
was made, that was all that was available, and that
(29:08):
is the most authentic move towards that staircase.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And you mentioned that edging has to be a little
different from the store and can you elaborate on that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, I'm just saying that you have to have a
finished edge on it so that it's not fraying out,
and so they instead of just cutting the carpet and
just using it. Otherwise you're going to lose fibers off
that edge, it's going to prematurely where and it's not
going to be an attractive You can see the edge
of the carpet backing, so the store can do that
for you. In fact, a lot of people don't realize
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you can have any kind of area rug you want.
You don't have to go to an expensive rug store.
If there's a piece of carpeting that you love and
you're like, i'd like that to be an area rug
for my living room. Then you just tell them, hey,
I want that carpet. Give me a ten by nine
and a half piece of it, and you know, put
a finished sown edge. It's another piece of fabric that
they sow on to the edge, or they loop the
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existing carpet fabric to make a looped edge. There's a
couple of different variations of it, but you get a
finished edge to it. And now it's a rug or
a runner that doesn't fray and doesn't wear on the
edge prematurely and it's a nice finished piece. And there
you go. Ken, thanks for the call, Thanks for hanging
in there for me, Bud, and I hope that answers
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your questions. And good luck with that beautiful old home.
All right, y'all, that's it for me today. Join us
on the Big Show tomorrow from nine to noon. We'll
talk about turning that primary bathroom into a spa like retreat.
That'll be tomorrow. Until then, get out into this beautiful
day and get busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll
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there is a you know, there's a Mother's Day connection
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to take that old bathroom and make it a true
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Spa like retreat for Mom that she so deserves. So
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into a spa like retreat and all the components that
can go into it and things that you don't normally
think about that make all the difference to make sure
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As our Mother's Day theme for tomorrow's show. That's tomorrow
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including this fine program today. And speaking of this program,
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let's go back to the phones. It's an all calls
Saturday morning, and uh, let's say, let's just talk to Monica.
Hey Monica, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Thanks, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Monica. You're cutting out a little bit. Can you get
closer to the phone or let's just try.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It try it's too loud.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, that's great, that's great, that's much better.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Okay, great, sunny guy that there's old fifty tolls. And
I've never done the roof, but it really never leaked.
But what happened is my friend who's kind of like
a construction worker, sauce in a little marks on the
roof and we had it mold tested and you know,
it showed you know, you know, mold or whatever. And
you know, I've had like a cough for almost a
(03:27):
year now, and so I don't know should I do
the whole knock down the whole roof or you know,
or get it tested more or what.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, So what kind of roof is it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's actually got some rocks on it and it's like
flat and it's got kind of like I guess the
black papers in those days they put on them.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, so it's a flat rock roof, is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, that's just the the topical that's just the aesthetics.
A long time ago, they could rock us. So it's
just kind of got a it's just real flat and
it's got like a paper on and it's probably got tar.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, yeah, well uh so you so you've got some option.
Do we know how old the roof is? Oh, it's
never been redone? No, okay, all right, so uh okay,
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that's not actually on that unusual for a uh uh
a flat or a low pitched rock roof. And there
is a chance that and I mean, unless you've lived
in the home since the fifties or your family has
had the home since the fifties, and you absolutely know
it's never been redone, there's there's a good chance that
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it's been at least recodd at some point. Right, it
looks like the original rock because the thing with a
rock roof is that we can broom all the rock
off to the side, do patches, repair work, recod it,
and then it spread the rocks back out and it's
still you know, the original esthetic on top. But the
point is this, if there's mold in various places growing
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up on the roof, it's not the end of the world.
You can hire a service to come out and actually
spray down the roof and knock it down and eliminate it.
I don't want there to be an issue where there's
mold growing up there and it's throwing spores now off
all around the perimeter of the house, and that you're
breathing them in every time you go inside and outside.
I mean, that would be a pretty serious mold issue
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up on a house. And it's I got to say
it's rare for a rock roof to be in that
situation because sunlight does a number on mold and it's
hard for it to exist. But the trick is if
it's gotten underneath any of the layers, the tar paper layers,
and its hiding down there in the moist shade, then
it's probably having a heyday and and that's an issue.
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So two things. One, you can always have it sprayed down.
There's lots of stuff. I mean, it's not super expensive either.
You can have a company come out and spray it
down with a with a you know, a mold killer
that will last for a good long time and then
that's one and done for whatever's on the surface. If
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it's underneath, then you know it's finally time Monica, for
a reroof for the for the house, and that means
new underlayment. You know, you could still maintain the whole
rock look though, again the rock can be shoveled off
to the side and then added to a little bit
and replaced on top of it. But ultimately it sounds
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to me like you're overdue for a roof replacement at
least of the fundamental underlayment membranes. And that, of course,
is gonna get you restarted from ground zero and there
will be no mold to worry about beyond that point.
So if it's a surface issue, you can spray it down.
If not, it's time to replace the roof. And that's
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essentially your two options. Monica, thanks so much for the call.
We're gonna go to break here and when we come back,
more of your calls. Your home with Dean Sharp, the
house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help
you take your home to the next level. Can I
say this, Heather? Can I say this that the news
(07:32):
today is just flat out weird. It's just weird weird news.
There's a ceasefire in the Iran War while we're shooting
at each other that's called a ceasefire. The postal Service
has a record year and has lost two billion dollars.
People apparently are just strolling across airport runways getting sucked
into jet engines.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There are samurais running loose in Venice. Well okay, maybe
that's not out of the ordinary, but for Venice at least.
But otherwise, up is down, down is up. Things are
no longer required to make sense in the world. So
does that make me sound old? No, I'm just commenting.
It's just it's there, it is. I promise you this,
my friend. Things make sense here. That's why I'm here
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to help you make sense out of stuff. And so
with that, and are all calls Saturday morning, let's go
back to the phones. I want to talk to Yvonne. Hey,
von welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, yes, good morning, thank you. Question is can you
place apoxy or aquilic over a heating element floor or
doesn't need to be tile?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No, you can. Now, acrylics, certain acrylics, Uh, you just
have to check the uh their their Certain acrylics are
a little bit softer. Other acrylics are a little harder,
and they react differently to heat. Okay, and so You're
just gonna have to check on the specific acrylics.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Epoxy absolutely, yes, yes, as long as it's compatible with
the concrete substrate that's going down first. Over the heating
element epoxy is it's very hard and it has excellent
heat retention and uh and thermal properties. So yeah, if
you want to have an epoxy finish on a floor,
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but you want to actually uh, you know, do the
radiant heat, absolutely doable. I know this sounds a bit bougie.
Maybe I'll just use that word, but you know, we
have a lot of highering clients. We've done radiant heat
floors in garages for appliance for clients before and then
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you know, done the full on garage epoxy coating after
the fact.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Here in southern California. So it's not like, you know,
an Arctic garage benefits a greatly from a radiant heat floor.
That's a great thing. But yeah, here in SoCal just
because owners want to walk out and just have a warm,
comfy garage to work in. So I know for a
fact that epoxy does just find over radiant heat coils.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
May I follow up with a question, sure this is
an original concrete floor when the house was built in
seventy nine. I don't know what it's made of. Will
that be an impact on the epoxy at all?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's an original concrete well you know, in other words,
this is the slab of the floor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Correct, it's correct, it's original slab.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah. No, no, it's not gonna it's concrete. It's just
it's just concrete. It's Portland cement. So what you're going
to do or now are you doing a hydranic system
or do an electric radiant heat system?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I don't know yet. I have to research the hut.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, all right, well here's the thing either way, either way,
what happens is the epoxy is not going to go
right down onto the coils or onto the actual heat pad.
You're going to lay down whatever the radiant heat system
is and then you're gonna embed that at least in
a layer of lightweight concrete or thin set, and then
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re level the floor and then the epoxy will apply
on top of that surface. So the epoxy is not
going to make direct contact with the heating coils. I'm
not saying that it couldn't, but there's no need to
because the epoxy is expensive, and so what we want
to do is we're going to embed the heating system
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very thinly. I mean, if it's an electric heating system,
the pad is only you know, an eighth of an
inch thick. And then by the time we get it
all set up and glued to the concrete and then covered,
maybe we've come up may be not quite three eighths
of an inch. And then the epoxy is that final
coding that you put on that looks like the whole
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floor's concrete and solid and all of that. But the
fact is, you know it's a finished layer on top.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Okay, okay, beautiful. Well, thank you so much for your insight.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You're very very welcome.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Von.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thanks for the call. We still have calls on the board.
There's still room for you. By the way, eight three
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back to the phones. It's an all calls Saturday morning.
I want to talk to Morris. Morris, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah, good morning. I have an old house built in
nineteen fifty one, and all of a sudden I started
having plumbing issues the kitchen faucet. The water wouldn't stop leaking,
and I attempted to turn the water off. The valves
are frozen. What they call the anchor valve is frozen.
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Both hot and cold water is frozen. I went to
the outside meter of the house, coming from the city
of Los Angeles, DWP went to turn the valve off
there and that's frozen. So I don't know how to
run freeze these valves to turn the water off. I
called DWP. They came out and they used a blow
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torch and they actually sweated the valve to be able
to turn the water off. Once I turned the water off,
I went to home depots and try to get new
parts for this kitchen fox and they said no parts
are available. Where do we go from there?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, so you got two or three things happening. I'm
glad DWP came out and fixed their meter valve. That's good,
so you can at least go to the curb and
get into the water meter box and turn all the
water off on the property from there. Secondarily to that Morris,
there should be an outside shut off valve for all
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the water going into the house. That's your main so
somewhere on the outside of the house, after the meter
and on the outside of the house where the pressure
regulator should be by the way for the house. It
should be a main shut off valve, so you shouldn't
have to go to the meter to shut off the
water to the house. That shuts off the water to
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the entire property, including the irrigation lines, anything that's running outside.
There should be a shut off valve right next to
the house on the outside somewhere that usually older houses,
it's in front wherever the.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Main line there is. The valve that's frozen. Two.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, so number one that needs to be replaced. Okay,
whether you diy that or have a plumber come out
and replace it, you need to have a great shut
off valve that's functional, and I would recommend using a
you know, a quarter turn linear ball valve if at
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all possible, instead of a gate valve. A gate valve
is the classic you know handle that you turn and
turn and turn and turn and turn. It's called a
gate valve because it's lowering essentially a gate down in
front of the water line. Far easier, far quicker is
a ball valve, which just simply turns to the side
and there's just a handle on it and you just
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whoop and it's done. It's off, it's on, and so anyway,
but that needs to be replaced because you need to
be able to have control over turning the water off
to the house at that point. Also, while they're doing that,
for an old home that has you know, that hasn't
had much plumbing done to it, you should also just
have the plumber inspect the pressure regulator because pressure regulators
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also give out over a number of years. Make sure
that that is is running well and that it's controlling
pressure into the house, because we don't want to have
too high a pressure running into the house because that
puts a strain on appliances and old plumbing lines. Okay,
so there there's that. That's that. Now in regards to
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inside the house, you got two things happening. You got
frozen angle stops. That's what those valves are underneath the
sink in the cabinet. They're called angle stops. Those valves
really really common, even on newer homes. It's not an
unusual thing to have an angle stop frozen because you know,
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the fact of the matter is they get installed and
the house is built, and we hook a faucet up
to them, and we leave them on, and they're on.
You know, all things being equal, those valves never get
touched for years and years and years and years and years,
and so they get mineral build up around them, and
the next thing, you know, you can't actually close them.
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And angle stops are usually always you know, gate valves
also that kind of thing. So so changing out the
angle stops that's your next step. Okay. None of this,
by the way, fixes the leak. Okay, this just basically
brings everything up to par so that any other issues
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can be easily handled. Now we can turn the water
off instead of going out to the main or instead
of going out to the sidewalk and actually at the
at the main meter valve. Now we can just turn
the water off underneath the kitchen sink. For a kitchen
faucet problem, you have clearly an old kitchen faucet, and
(18:03):
and so I'm not gonna say that that. Well, here's
the thing. Just because Home Depot in the local big
box store doesn't have replacement parts for it doesn't mean
that you can't find replacement parts for it. It also
doesn't mean you can. But the proper place to go
would be an actual plumbing supply house and talk to
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real plumbing experts behind the counter and say, here is
this faucet. I really want to keep it, and it's leaking.
Can are there any parts available? Those are the guys
whose answer I would accept definitively, not the guys working
in the plumbing section at home Depot. Not to put
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any you know, disparagement on them, but they are. There
was a time when everybody who worked in every department
at home Depot was a retired expert in that field.
That time is long gone. So you know, not necessarily
talking You might be talking to somebody with a lot
of experience of their stuff, but you're not necessarily talking
(19:06):
to a plumbing expert there. So all that being said, though,
if you get the angle stops and the valves replace
the frozen valves replaced as they should, it sounds like
it's just time to replace the kitchen faucet. And that
just means, you know, counting the holes that you've got
through your sink or your countertop, going out and finding
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another faucet that's going to match up with that whole
set and having it replaced. And if you've got plumbers
coming out to replace the angle stops, just have them
install the new faucet while they're at it, and uh,
problem solved.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, what's interesting. I went and bought end caps, half
inch end caps to put over the valves, because you
I couldn't. I finally got the valves to shot off
by using a torch and sweating the valves. I can
turn the valves to close it and that did work then,
but he wouldn't stop leaking. So I bought in caps,
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cap them off, and tomorrow I'm going to attempt to
put in a kitchen faucet myself. They wanted quite a
bit of money to put it into install a kitchen faucet,
several hundred dollars. That's old pricey. Yeah. So I'm going
to attempt to do that tomorrow. But it's been an
uphill battle with us even to get information to try
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to get the water shot off. And for the most part,
I have galvanized plumbing. It's an old house, yeah, and
so I'm going to attempt to do that tomorrow to
do this project. And I bought a new faucet and
they said its aren't available. I'm just going to replace
the whole thing and get it over with. It's been
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quite an experience here. And I also have a ball
valve that froze too. I have ball valve over the
hot water here and I went to turn the hot
water off and that was frozen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So here's the thing. This is going to be something
for you to just keep up on.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Eventually the house is going to need to be repiped
and get rid of the galvanized pipes. Because a house
that old with galvanized pipes in it, I guarantee you
those lines are full of mineralization. And it's those minerals
that's that hardened water mineralization that is clogging up, not
clogging that's not exactly the right the word freezing up,
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attaching themselves to all those mineral particulations, attaching themselves to
and causing the valves to freeze up. So ultimately a
repipe is in order to save up for it, and
you know, bide your time while you're at it. As
far as those angle stops, I can appreciate that you
put heat on them and got them to open, but
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if they were still leaking when they were closed when
you closed them down, then they still need replacing because
they're not functioning properly. I know you capped them. That's
great as a very practical move, but if it's again
galvanized plumbing system, then you don't have to sweat anything.
There's no there's no flux or copper or sowder being used.
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So if it's the galvanized system, then you should be
able to just you know, spin off those old angle
stops and put on new threaded ones yourself. Have new
valves that actually close down and stop the water and
open and let it go. That's all I'm saying. You
might as well do that while you're replacing the faucet
as well. Marris, thanks for the call, buddy, and for
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the question. More of your calls when we return your
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Here we are at the end of the show. I
still have time to take a call, so I'm going
to take Ken's call in just a second. I just
want to remin mind you. Tomorrow, Mother's Day our big show.
We're going to be live. We're going to be doing
our part because our Mother's Day activities are happening in
the afternoon. So I'm here for you, and if you're
available to let's make it a date. We're going to
(23:14):
talk about the Ultimate Mother's Day Gift, which is a
complete redo of the master bathroom, the primary bathroom and
turning it into Mom's the Spalike Retreat and all the
components that go into that. So if you've ever wondered
what all can go into a bathroom and how practical
(23:35):
are they, you're not going to want to miss tomorrow's show.
That's from nine to noon. I'll see you there. All right,
let's take another call. Let's talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Hello Dean, thank you for taking my call. We really
enjoy your show. We find it extremely informative as we
have an extremely antique house. Two best question, two part question. Yeah,
when installing carpet on stairs to be a runner, so
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you have the gaps on the sides?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
You can you just use regular carpet from the roll
or does it need to have a finished end? Second part,
does the tachboard you use have to be different than
the standard tech board used for carpeting.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, those are really good questions. So now first let
me ask the most important question. Tell me about the stairs.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
They're pretty steep, pretty narrow. I'm sure they're not to
code because the house was built probably more than one
hundred and forty years ago, so they're functional.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, okay, the stairs though, are solid hardwood treads and
risers all the way across uninterrupted. I mean, just this
is a we're not trying to fake it. The reason
I'm asking is I've got to clarify. And you said
an older antiquus, and so that's a very antique house,
you know, and I applaud you for it. But you know,
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starting in about the nineteen late nineteen seventies early eighties,
builders started faking the whole hardwood stair thing by just
putting hardwood end caps on each side and running carpet
up the center, you know, to make it look like
a runner, when in actuality, it isn't a runner at all.
(25:26):
It's not sitting on top of any hardwood. It is
just a regular carpet that's run with a tucked, you know,
tacked edge in between two little you know, pieces of
what you know, the fake thing is, the is the
theater of it is the hardwood end caps. Now you've
got legitimate staircase that you want to put a carpet
(25:49):
runner on top of. So here's the thing. You've got
two approaches when it comes to a carpet runner. The
tacking is a little different. It's shorter, it's lower profile,
and and if we're not going to use actual retention
rods then then yeah, it is a little bit different,
(26:13):
and the installation method is a little different. Answer to
your first question, yes you can use normal carpet off
the roll, but no, it can't have it can't be
without an edge. But not a lot of people realize
you can go to the carpet store and buy any
carpet you want there and simply have it cut and
(26:37):
edged by the carpet manufacture in order to create your runner.
So there's no limit to what you can use as
a carpet runner. You don't have to buy some specialty,
you know, fancy carpet runner from a carpet runner shop.
You just buy the carpet that you want and you
can have an edge sewn onto it so that you
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know it's not fraying on the side. It's my recommendation
sight unseen. Of course, now a lot of people living
up where homes want a more modern look and so
they just want the carpet runner running up unsupported. But
my recommendation is if we've already, if we're are we
working from a classic vintage house and we want to
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add a carpet runner too stairs, is to literally use
carpet retention rods or runner retention rods, and those are
rods that are visible. They add to the to the
vibe of the of the staircase. They can be brass,
they can be dark bronze, they can essentially, you know,
be minimized and go away, or they can stand out,
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but they hold a carpet runner in place, in which
case you're not using any tax strips. You're not you're
not putting anything down or nailing anything into your beautiful staircase.
You're simply holding a runner in place. And the advantage
of that is also carpet runners wear out just like
carpet do. In fact, carpet runners take a lot of
(28:01):
abuse that a regular carpet doesn't take because it's being
bent around ninety degree corners and people are walking right
on that front edge. It takes a lot. You know,
runners wear out, that's the point. And so using a
rod system holds the runner in place and yet allows you,
you know, five ten years down the road, to simply
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disconnect the rods, pull the rods out, pull the existing
runner off, replace it with a new one, easy pasy,
and you're back in business. So that's my kind of
full orbed answer to that question.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Well, thank you very much, and it answered your question.
I think the stairs are original to the house, with
fur beveled tops and pine verticals, so.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Lovely sounds lovely. They're worth protecting. I think I would
lean toward honoring it with a with a carpet runner
retention system, just to keep it easier for you down
the road. And you know, bring more because I'll tell
you what if they were going to get a carpet
runner one hundred and forty years ago when the house
was made, that was all that was available, and that
(29:08):
is the most authentic move towards that staircase.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And you mentioned that edging has to be a little
different from the store and can you elaborate on that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, I'm just saying that you have to have a
finished edge on it so that it's not fraying out,
and so they instead of just cutting the carpet and
just using it. Otherwise you're going to lose fibers off
that edge, it's going to prematurely where and it's not
going to be an attractive You can see the edge
of the carpet backing, so the store can do that
for you. In fact, a lot of people don't realize
(29:41):
you can have any kind of area rug you want.
You don't have to go to an expensive rug store.
If there's a piece of carpeting that you love and
you're like, i'd like that to be an area rug
for my living room. Then you just tell them, hey,
I want that carpet. Give me a ten by nine
and a half piece of it, and you know, put
a finished sown edge. It's another piece of fabric that
they sow on to the edge, or they loop the
(30:03):
existing carpet fabric to make a looped edge. There's a
couple of different variations of it, but you get a
finished edge to it. And now it's a rug or
a runner that doesn't fray and doesn't wear on the
edge prematurely and it's a nice finished piece. And there
you go. Ken, thanks for the call, Thanks for hanging
in there for me, Bud, and I hope that answers
(30:24):
your questions. And good luck with that beautiful old home.
All right, y'all, that's it for me today. Join us
on the Big Show tomorrow from nine to noon. We'll
talk about turning that primary bathroom into a spa like retreat.
That'll be tomorrow. Until then, get out into this beautiful
day and get busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll
(30:45):
see tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the
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