August 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Dean takes you from the attic to the electrical panel with practical advice for homeowners looking to make smarter decisions about comfort, efficiency, and safety. First, Dean breaks down the differences between fiberglass insulation and spray foam in attic spaces — especially when you're converting to a conditioned attic. He also explains how baffles work and why proper attic ventilation is critical, even with modern insulation materials. Then, a caller asks about tinted windows. Dean shares the pros and cons of window films, how they compare to low-E glass, and what to consider when upgrading for heat control and privacy. Later, Dean dives into pest control, focusing on termite prevention and elimination. Learn the warning signs of an infestation and which treatments are most effective without overpaying for unnecessary services. To close out the show, another caller wants to do some electrical upgrades without damaging their walls. Dean walks through clever ways to run wiring with minimal disruption, and when it’s best to call in a professional.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome home.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Dean Sharp, the house whisper, custom home builder, custom
home designer, and your guide to better understanding that place
where you live. We're here every Saturday morning from six
to eight for you early risers or you East Coasters
who are just up and getting your day rolling. So
glad that you are with us today and tomorrow on
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the Big Show that is from nine to noon every
Sunday morning. Tomorrow, we're going to be talking about something
that is very near and dear to my heart, very
very relevant to most of us, and that is how
to do our best with small rooms. Small rooms. Now,
it's easy to read big, you know, interior design magazines
(00:54):
or look online and find big, gorgeous rooms that have
been designed in decord to the hilt, and you're like, ah,
that's great, But what about my little room. It's barely
bigger than a closet. What am I gonna do with that?
I guess that's not really a room that deserves design.
Not true, Not true, my friend. In fact, if anything,
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it's just the opposite. Believe me. I you know, you
know you know that we do a lot of a
state level home design work a state level meaning big houses, big, big, big,
big houses. And I'll tell you this right off the
bat that when we're designing a large home for a client,
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you don't really have to struggle with space constraints. You
can actually waste a lot of space. Now, if any
of my estate clients are listening, I'm not wasting your space,
I promise, I'm just saying it's like, well, should this
hallway be six feet wide or should it be eight
feet wide? I mean we're talking tens of thousands of
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square feet. That's not the most pressing question because there's
plenty of room. It is actually when space is limited,
when every inch counts, that we really have to make
sure that all the design working at every level. That's
why I love working on small places, sometimes more than
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the big ones, because it's greater challenge and it's more necessary.
So Tomorrow on the show Working with Small Rooms, Tips,
tricks and design theory for small Rooms. You're not going
to want to miss it. That's tomorrow's show, or if
you're a podcast listener, the next episode right after this one,
our big show, Sunday Mornings Live nine to Now, all right,
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there you go. Let's get back to the phones. I
want to talk to Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hi Dean. I have a question about insulation. I want
to insulate my wrap and I can do it myself
if I do the fiber glass, but I have to
put baffles in. And so my question is, if I
have the spray on, I don't have to have baffles.
Is that a correct?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
When you say baffles, you mean the the the the
space at the bottom to keep your vents clear.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Correct, correct, So the rafts can breathe, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's I mean, well, the rafters don't have
to breathe. The atta cast to breathe. That's the key, Okay,
the attic cast to breathe. And so so the spray
on doesn't need a baffle in the sense of allowing
the rafter line to breathe. But what's critical is that
unless you're vaulting the ceiling, in which case yes, the
individual raptor has to breathe a little bit. But with
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spray foam insulation, no, you don't have the same baffle
needs that you do with bats. Because bats are very large,
they're very fee and they're very easy to close over
vent openings, especially where the rafters join the bottom wall
in the attics. So yeah, I'd say that that's a
fair assessment. So you weighing back and forth the idea
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of fiberglass versus spray poam, You're correct.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And I'm wondering what would you're And also you know
I have safas in the facia board. I mean, so
if the spray on, what would I do with the
soft events?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, those soft events, you want to keep them clear. Again,
you want to keep them clear, and there are ways
of keeping those soft events clear and doing the spray.
I mean a spray insulation company they deal with this
all the time, so they'll make sure that that still
breeds into the attic space. If you're asking my opinion
about the two, I mean, there's no question that spray
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foam insulation provides a tighter air seal and gives you
more r value per inch than any other kind of
insulation any kind at all. But you know it also
has an associated price attached to it, And so I
tend to well, let me ask you this. I'm gonna
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get ahead of myself here. I don't want to get
ahead of myself, Well, why are we insulating the rafters
and not the attic roof the attic floor?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Got still with me?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, do you not hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, now I can hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I have a two story and the air conditioner,
the venting is all in the attic on the attic floor,
and so I'm in two story living riverside gets really hot.
So I'm just trying to trying to figure out how
to get the better air conditioning, cooler air, you know,
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not going through one hundred and twenty degree addicts.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Got you? Okay, that's what I suspected.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just wanted to hear it from you so that
I could point you in the right direction. So the
newest concept in insulating homes is headed in the direction
of that you are headed in. And that is what
we call conditioned attic space, in which we're going to
now insulate the rafters, the roof, rafters themselves. Make that
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the insulation envelope for the home, not the floor of
the attic.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And you can't do that with blown in insulation. You
can do it with bats, but quite often fiberglass bats.
In order to get a good R thirty seal up
there are not are. They're going to be way larger
thicker than your rafters themselves the depth of the rafters.
So that's awkward and weird and difficult, and so that's
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why we am almost always without exception, when we're doing
a conditioned attic space and we're pushing the exterior insulation
envelope to the outside edge of the roof, then we're
going to use the spray foam insulation to see that
all up and to get the r value that we need,
and then we pull insulation out of the floor of
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the attic. So that and the last step here, we
are going to take the air conditioning system and provide
in the attic a vent, an actual duct that's going
to blow into the attic, and a small return that's gonna,
you know, allow air that's blown into the attic to
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also recirculate. In other words, we're going to treat the
attic like we treat any other room in the house,
so that it's got a return air and a feed ducted.
They don't have to be big up there, but just
adequately sized, and almost every system can handle adding that
to it generally speaking. In that case, Scott with one
exception of maybe a moisture vent near the top of
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the ridge. You don't have to have your attic vents open.
In fact, you don't want your attic. You don't want
a ventilated attic anymore. You want it completely sealed off,
completely air sealed. And guess what if you're doing a
conditioned attic, the code allows you to do exactly that,
to eliminate all the exterior ducts for the attic space.
And then you're essentially if the second floor is it
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sitting at seventy seventy two degrees, the attic is sitting
at seventy two maybe seventy four degrees. The reason that's
so brilliant is because, well, you know, during the day,
during the summer, that attic is staying cool. It's not
putting stress on the AC equipment. Your cool air is
not coming out of a zone that's one hundred and
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forty to one hundred and sixty degrees up there. It
doesn't radiate heat down into the house at night. There's
a thousand reasons why building of new homes is shifting
now in a very definitive way towards no longer insulating
the attic floor. But insulating the rafters and making the
attic conditioned space. And you also get the benefit that
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if you've got a little bit of room in your attic,
you can now finally throw some plywood up there and
store some holiday uh you know, stoage lightweight holiday storage
up in the attic because the insulation doesn't have to
be on the floor of the attic. That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That makes a lot of sense. And also you would
not go with a DIY spray home, would you are?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's worth it.
It's a major move for your house, and it's permanent.
It's worth talking to you know, getting multiple bids from
pro insulation installers and and doing.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It that way as you and I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Scott, thank you great call. And uh I love what
you I love how you're thinking about it. If it
fits into your budget, and believe me, it will pay
you back in spades. It really really will years and
years and years of more comfortable home, better energy savings.
Uh So look about look that up though, look into
literally conditioned attic space, and you'll see all the theory
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behind it and all the necessities. And I think you're
gonna head in that direction. That's my guess. I wish
more people would or at least know about it. But that's
why we take calls here on the show. So thousands
of you listening right now are like, maybe for the
first time hearing that you can insulate your attic differently
than has always been the case. And by the way, yeah,
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by doing that, you also make the attic fire safe
without the need for ember proof ens because there are
no vents into the attic at that point. All right,
more of your calls when we return the number to
reach me eight three to three two. Ask Dean eight
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
Very aligned.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Them there here to help you take your home to
the next level. Hey, some of you are thinking, you
know what, I love this show and what we really
need though, is Dean and Dina standing in our mess,
looking at our problem with very very specific solutions and
guess what well that could actually happen. If your home
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needs some personal house Whisper attention, you can book an
in home design consult You just go to house Whisper
dot Design for more info, house Whisper dot design. Yeah,
we do them all the time. They are great fun.
They are game changing usually for our homeowner clients, because
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we help you see what your house is capable of
becoming and then boom head you in the right direction.
Makes all the difference. You Remember I say design matters
most Yeah, yeah, well consults, that's one of those ways
that first steps in taking that journey of a lifetime
of transforming your house into a true home. All right,
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it is Saturday morning. We are taking your calls. Thanks
for joining us on the program. Let me give the
number out again because there's always room on the board
for you. Anything you want to discuss regarding your home today.
I am here live taking your calls. Eight three three
two Ask Dean A three three the numeral two ask
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Dean eight three three to ask Dean. It's just that simple.
Give me a call and we'll talk about what's going
on with your home. Right now, I want to talk
to Al. Hey, Al, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Good morning. I'm tired of having my blinds closed, so
I want to open my blinds, put some window tinting on,
but still keep the UV out to keep the house
cool and not be bleaching out my carpet and furniture. Yep, Okay,
what sort of recommendations would you have?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, a couple things. Number one, how old are your windows?
Do you have dual glaze windows? Do you have single
pane windows? What's going on with your windows?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Dual glaze? Twenty years old, two story tracked house.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, so twenty year old windows. So that's two thousand
and two of five. Okay, so those are gonna be yeah, okay,
So your dual glaze windows, by the way, have the
coatings on them necessary to block out most harmful UV
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that's coming in through the window, Just so you know,
you know right up front that was code. Then those
coatings have improved, They keep improving. But what doesn't keep improving.
But that doesn't mean that those windows are by any
way junk. They are in they've got good, good coatings
on them, blocking most of the UV that is coming
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in that would bleach a floor, bleach furniture, so on
and so forth. So number one, let's just know that
we're not starting with a bad windows situation to begin with. Secondly, yeah,
a little bit more private see at home during the day.
I just want to be clear during the day. Okay, tinting,
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you can do tinting that does everything from just adding
a little bit more UV protection. You can do tinting
that gives your windows fire proofing protection. Uh not in
the sense of making them a fire rated window, but
there are there are tint films that you can put
on the inside of windows that if a fire actually
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arrives at the outside of the window and causes that
standard window glass to shatter, the film is fire resistant
and will hold that shattered glass in place, much much
like the film that's hidden inside your car windshield. It
will hold the glass in place so that it doesn't
become an opening for flames to lick up into the house.
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So those are those films are out there, and then
you've got every layer and every consideration of hinting, from
heavy tinting all the way up to just barely anything
all the way up to just full on mirror tinting
on the outside. They also provide privacy, the heavier ones
and the mirror codings during the day, but they will
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not provide privacy at night when the only light source
is coming from the inside of the house. Out then
people are just still gonna be able to see in
through the windows. So if privacy is a factor, just
know you can get more privacy during the day with
the blinds up, but not at night, not when you're
the source of the light going outside. If it's just
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about knocking down harsh sunlight, though, you have a lot
of options, and I would go with a reputable company
that installs reputable products like three M products. Three M
is pretty much the tip of the sphere when it
comes to these window tinting products. They have done the
most research, They've got the best products out there. You
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know their name, they have an excellent reputation. You can
go on the three M website and actually look at
tinting films that are available and see, you know, all
the ones that they offer and that they sell both
retail and wholesale. But I think al it's really a
matter of, you know, kind of figuring out how much
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you want and exactly what you want it for. I
want to recommend the least possible that you can get
away with to keep you happy, because I don't want
the I mean, some of these tints can actually make
the inside of the room really really dark. I mean
they're pretty heavy tinted. Don't just jump to the heaviest one,
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especially if what you're looking for is less heat and
more light inside the room.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Ceramic versus metallic.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
What was adam?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Sorry, what do you think about ceramic versus metallic sings?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Or yeah, yeah, the ceramic versus the metallic coatings. I
have found the ceramics and we've just had a lot
of good luck with them. The metallics, they're highly reflective,
but they they tend to build up heat and I've
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seen them actually bubble more than the ceramics have. The
ceramics tend to just be a better tinting quality, less
mirror reflective, and we find less future bubbling because you know,
it's always the risk with tinting. You got to have
it installed really well so that you don't end up
with that. You know that guy that you followed on
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the freeway who tinted his windows like four years ago
and now it's just a series of air bubbles, And
you don't want that for your home, clearly, because this
stuff isn't necessarily cheap, but it's a good way to go.
So that's what I would recommend now, and good luck
with that. Thanks for the call, yep, Are we up?
Against break.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, we are all right, We're.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Gonna go to a break and when we come back,
more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 3 (18:14):
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper here to transform your ordinary
house into an extraordinary home.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's doable. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We do it every week and we were here with
you every weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And I thank you for joining us on the program.
You very elite.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Saturday morning, get up and get it done people, Yeah
you are, and good on you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm here with you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's an all call Saturday morning, as is our custom
here on Saturdays. The number to reach me eight three
three to ask Dean eight three three, the numeral to
ask Dean A three three to ask Dean. Just I
need to ask Dean a question. So let's get back
into it. I want to tell to Gary, Hey, Gary,
(19:01):
welcome home. Hi Deen, there you are, sir. How can
I help you?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I just inherited a seventy five year old house from
my mom, and I noticed that there's some TERMI droppings
around and when I look for tags, I find that
the last time it was fumigated was about nineteen ninety eight,
so they tags say that they use something called Viking,
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and I'm wondering, is that the gold standard still or
is there something better these days? And what do I
do with the damage that's I've found.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, we've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm not familiar with every chemical process that is part
of a tent fumigation, but I can tell you this, Gary,
We've come such a long way in the last twenty
five twenty seven years since the house was fumigated before,
and you've got a lot of options these days. My
encouragement to you is that you talk to a a
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pest control company that has, in fact in their arsenal
a lot of options. And you'd be surprised how few
of those companies are out there, because a lot of
pest control companies they just get into the biz. They
just pick up the stuff that everybody does. They'll do
a little spot treatment here or there, but if anything
is beyond what they're comfortable with, then they'll just say
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tent the house. And so you tend the house, you
move all the stuff out, you stay out of it,
and it gets fully tented and it's going to be
that way for a few days, and it's you know,
if you're not living in the house, it's base.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
It's such generally empty. So I'm not opposed to having
it tented and taking as much time as they need.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, understood, So, but I want you to know that
you know there's a cost involved in that, obviously, and
it may or may not be justified. So the point
is this, just because you find some droppings here and
there doesn't mean that it is an entire whole house infestation.
You need to get conscientious eyes on and that's why
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I say I want you to go with a pest
control company that has a lot of other options other
than just what we call the nuclear option, which is
just tenth the house and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Because we've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
We can electrocute termites in walls shockingly. Shockingly, Ah, I
did not mean to say that that way. There's a yeah,
because they are We can find termites and walls and
run a current through them because they've got water in
their bodies, and actually electrocute them through the walls to
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dispose of them. There are various other forms of spot
treatment that are highly highly effective that don't require ten
the house. And there's heat treating a house instead of tinting.
And I'm a huge fan of whole house heat treatment
as opposed to tinting, just because it leaves no chemical residue,
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no harmful things behind. Heat treating a house is also
a whole house treatment. It's sealing up the whole house
using heaters and fans to bring the internal temperature of
the house up to about one hundred and thirty one
hundred and forty degrees. They hold it there for a
few hours. That is lethal to every termite everywhere inside
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the place. And it doesn't require a tent. It's done.
It starts at the beginning of the day, early in
the morning, and it's done and you're back in the house,
or anybody could be back in the house by that evening.
No chemical residue, you don't have to pull stuff out,
and you know, and I know the house is relatively empty,
but just so you know, it doesn't leave behind any toxicity.
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It just a heat treatment, massively popular, yeah treatment. So
my biggest recommendation, Gary, I'm up against a break here.
My biggest recommendation is to find the right company now, yeah,
of course I'm going to tell you that Eco LA.
They are my preferred pest control company for southern California's
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precisely because they have a full arsenal and I don't
know of a pest control company that's more conscientious when
it comes to approaching the house. They simply don't want
to do more than is necessary. And they are as
everybody who has the nuclear button in front of them
should be. They are loathed to just turn the key
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and press the button. But they always get the job done.
And so that's the guarantee they're going to get the
job done at whatever level it needs to go. And
so talk to them, give them a call, Eco LA,
e CEO LA, give them a call, and and you know,
have them consult with you about the termite situation. How
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extensive is it. They may say, hey, Gary, we need
to tent the house, or they may offer some other
solutions that you might be far more comfortable with and
that your wallet may actually be more comfortable with. So
the moral of the story for everybody who's listening is
you find the right doctor, not the one who just
says got an infected splinter. There amputation, no, no, no, no, no,
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Let's find a conscientious doctor who gets to the route,
gets it done with the minimal amount of invasive surgery
along the way. That's the goal. Gary, Thank you for
your call, my friend. When we come back, we'll go
back to the phones. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Here to
remind you design matters most when it comes to transforming
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your home. Do not forget this one message. It is
perhaps the central message around which we have built our
entire time here on the show, that good design matters most.
Of all the transformative things that I tell you, And
of course I'm here as a builder giving you building advice,
giving you home improvement advice, all of that fixed advice,
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lots of that too, But of all the things that
I communicate to you, it is the design principles that
I hand you that are truly the transformative issues when
it comes to taking your home from where it's at
to where it could be. Not just a matter of
materials and craftsmanship. It is design that matters most. We
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are at the end of yet another two hour show
here on a Saturday morning, the first Saturday in August.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But we are not done yet.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We still have a couple of calls on the board,
and so let me see if I can get to
at least one of them, maybe both. I don't know, Monica,
Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Tidine and I have one of these old houses and
fifties and it's got it's on the relay system, I
think the electrical and it's only some lights work. I
mean enough for me. But if I really sold it,
I want to upgrade. And if I put electrical new
ones in or whatever is that like, does that make
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lots of holes in the ceiling and the roof because
I have a really huge skylight and I don't want
anything to you know, go into that.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Okay, all right, well okay, so what kind of uh
what what kind of electrical are you thinking about upgrading
or adding to the house? What what's what's your concern.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Just you know, you know, push the button on the wall,
I mean instead of just turn the light on the wall.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, you know, okay, so things aren't working that
way right now?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
No, uh uh, but I have the ones that are
plugged in the wall.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
They're working. But this is this is just for you.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So, you know, there's a couple of different factors here.
Your house built in the fifties, It depends on how
the builder did it. If it was a unusually talented
and conscientious builder back in the fifties, they might have
run conduits in between all of the electrical boxes, flexible
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metal conduits. If that's the case, then those conduits have
just open wires in them that can be pulled out replaced,
and no holes anywhere in the house. Chances are, though,
I'm just don't want to set you up for disappointment,
but chances are that they just use standard sheathed cables
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what some people call Romex. That's just a brand name,
you know, we call it that, like Kleenex for bathroom tissue.
It's just a brand. But a sheathed cable and sheath
cables are way less expensive for electricians and builders to
use the only problem is that they don't allow you
easy access to pull them out to replace them. And
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so if you're going to run new wiring, okay, and
sometimes just so you know, most of the time the
wiring problem inside a house is not because the wires
in the walls are bad. There just may be some
problems and so the best thing to do is to
consult with an electrician, get two or three different opinions
from two or three different reputable electricians to actually address
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what's going on with the house. Okay, wiring is durable.
Electrical systems are durable. In other words, when they're done
right and they're in the wall, they're there for good
and they don't require maintenance. They don't just go bad
on their own over the years. Sometimes a wire gets
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loose in a receptacle. Sometimes a wire gets loose in
a switch, and that just requires changing out the switch
or retightening the wire in order to get things working properly.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Again.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
So electrical is durable. But worst case scenario, let's say
you got some major redos to do. Most electricians are
very very talented at being able to work new wires
down in from the attic down into the walls, down
to switches. There will be some holes, not big chasms,
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not large openings of dry wall or plaster in the house,
just some holes. Usually holes that are near when we're
running new wires holding the ceiling, right next to the
corner of where the ceiling meets the wall. Maybe a
hole right underneath where the ceiling meets the wall in
order to guarantee that we're drilling out the plate there
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so that we can feed the new wires in because
it's tight. It's tight up in the attic, and that's
almost always on the very exterior walls of the house.
That's very rarely on the interior walls of the house
because interior walls we normally have more access from the
attic to just drill those walls and feed new wires
down there without making holes in the ceiling. But yes,
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a full on whole house redo of electrical wiring is
going to make some holes, not a lot, and nothing
that is going to you know, usually disturb the esthetics
and any of the other functioning systems in the house
skylights or otherwise. So again I can't tell you how
many holes. I can't tell you where they're going to go,
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or if that's even the essential issue or your electrical
because like I said, if the wires were run correctly
at first and something has gone wrong, usually that can
be fixed and remediated pretty easily unless there's a bigger problem.
So the key is bringing in the wire doctor, bringing
in electrician, getting a good evaluation of the house, what
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switches work, which ones don't. Adding switches and switch controlled
light fixtures to a room not that big of a deal.
And often there's a way to do it without making
many holes, or sometimes any holes at all. Call in
that qualified electrician and then call in more than one
and that's the key. All right, Monica, Thank you for
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your call. Good luck with that. Take that advice. Trust
me on that you're going to call in the doctors.
You're going to get more than one opinion before you
operate on the patient, as it were.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, everybody, that's it for us today.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I hope that you have benefited from our time together.
As always, it is a pleasure and a privilege to
talk to you about this most important place that you
call home. I want you to take whatever weather the
weather gods are handing you today and make a day
of it. Get out there and get busy building yourself
(31:56):
a beautiful life, and we will see you right back here. Well,
we'll see here tomorrow more morning from nine to noon,
and right back here next Saturday morning.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
See you.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Then.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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Welcome home.
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I'm Dean Sharp, the house whisper, custom home builder, custom
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who are just up and getting your day rolling. So
glad that you are with us today and tomorrow on
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the Big Show that is from nine to noon every
Sunday morning. Tomorrow, we're going to be talking about something
that is very near and dear to my heart, very
very relevant to most of us, and that is how
to do our best with small rooms. Small rooms. Now,
it's easy to read big, you know, interior design magazines
(00:54):
or look online and find big, gorgeous rooms that have
been designed in decord to the hilt, and you're like, ah,
that's great, But what about my little room. It's barely
bigger than a closet. What am I gonna do with that?
I guess that's not really a room that deserves design.
Not true, Not true, my friend. In fact, if anything,
(01:16):
it's just the opposite. Believe me. I you know, you
know you know that we do a lot of a
state level home design work a state level meaning big houses, big, big, big,
big houses. And I'll tell you this right off the
bat that when we're designing a large home for a client,
(01:39):
you don't really have to struggle with space constraints. You
can actually waste a lot of space. Now, if any
of my estate clients are listening, I'm not wasting your space,
I promise, I'm just saying it's like, well, should this
hallway be six feet wide or should it be eight
feet wide? I mean we're talking tens of thousands of
(01:59):
square feet. That's not the most pressing question because there's
plenty of room. It is actually when space is limited,
when every inch counts, that we really have to make
sure that all the design working at every level. That's
why I love working on small places, sometimes more than
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the big ones, because it's greater challenge and it's more necessary.
So Tomorrow on the show Working with Small Rooms, Tips,
tricks and design theory for small Rooms. You're not going
to want to miss it. That's tomorrow's show, or if
you're a podcast listener, the next episode right after this one,
our big show, Sunday Mornings Live nine to Now, all right,
(02:44):
there you go. Let's get back to the phones. I
want to talk to Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hi Dean. I have a question about insulation. I want
to insulate my wrap and I can do it myself
if I do the fiber glass, but I have to
put baffles in. And so my question is, if I
have the spray on, I don't have to have baffles.
Is that a correct?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
When you say baffles, you mean the the the the
space at the bottom to keep your vents clear.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Correct, correct, So the rafts can breathe, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's I mean, well, the rafters don't have
to breathe. The atta cast to breathe. That's the key, Okay,
the attic cast to breathe. And so so the spray
on doesn't need a baffle in the sense of allowing
the rafter line to breathe. But what's critical is that
unless you're vaulting the ceiling, in which case yes, the
individual raptor has to breathe a little bit. But with
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spray foam insulation, no, you don't have the same baffle
needs that you do with bats. Because bats are very large,
they're very fee and they're very easy to close over
vent openings, especially where the rafters join the bottom wall
in the attics. So yeah, I'd say that that's a
fair assessment. So you weighing back and forth the idea
(04:13):
of fiberglass versus spray poam, You're correct.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And I'm wondering what would you're And also you know
I have safas in the facia board. I mean, so
if the spray on, what would I do with the
soft events?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, those soft events, you want to keep them clear. Again,
you want to keep them clear, and there are ways
of keeping those soft events clear and doing the spray.
I mean a spray insulation company they deal with this
all the time, so they'll make sure that that still
breeds into the attic space. If you're asking my opinion
about the two, I mean, there's no question that spray
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foam insulation provides a tighter air seal and gives you
more r value per inch than any other kind of
insulation any kind at all. But you know it also
has an associated price attached to it, And so I
tend to well, let me ask you this. I'm gonna
(05:12):
get ahead of myself here. I don't want to get
ahead of myself, Well, why are we insulating the rafters
and not the attic roof the attic floor?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Got still with me?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, do you not hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, now I can hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I have a two story and the air conditioner,
the venting is all in the attic on the attic floor,
and so I'm in two story living riverside gets really hot.
So I'm just trying to trying to figure out how
to get the better air conditioning, cooler air, you know,
(05:50):
not going through one hundred and twenty degree addicts.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Got you? Okay, that's what I suspected.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just wanted to hear it from you so that
I could point you in the right direction. So the
newest concept in insulating homes is headed in the direction
of that you are headed in. And that is what
we call conditioned attic space, in which we're going to
now insulate the rafters, the roof, rafters themselves. Make that
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the insulation envelope for the home, not the floor of
the attic.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And you can't do that with blown in insulation. You
can do it with bats, but quite often fiberglass bats.
In order to get a good R thirty seal up
there are not are. They're going to be way larger
thicker than your rafters themselves the depth of the rafters.
So that's awkward and weird and difficult, and so that's
(06:44):
why we am almost always without exception, when we're doing
a conditioned attic space and we're pushing the exterior insulation
envelope to the outside edge of the roof, then we're
going to use the spray foam insulation to see that
all up and to get the r value that we need,
and then we pull insulation out of the floor of
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the attic. So that and the last step here, we
are going to take the air conditioning system and provide
in the attic a vent, an actual duct that's going
to blow into the attic, and a small return that's gonna,
you know, allow air that's blown into the attic to
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also recirculate. In other words, we're going to treat the
attic like we treat any other room in the house,
so that it's got a return air and a feed ducted.
They don't have to be big up there, but just
adequately sized, and almost every system can handle adding that
to it generally speaking. In that case, Scott with one
exception of maybe a moisture vent near the top of
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the ridge. You don't have to have your attic vents open.
In fact, you don't want your attic. You don't want
a ventilated attic anymore. You want it completely sealed off,
completely air sealed. And guess what if you're doing a
conditioned attic, the code allows you to do exactly that,
to eliminate all the exterior ducts for the attic space.
And then you're essentially if the second floor is it
(08:15):
sitting at seventy seventy two degrees, the attic is sitting
at seventy two maybe seventy four degrees. The reason that's
so brilliant is because, well, you know, during the day,
during the summer, that attic is staying cool. It's not
putting stress on the AC equipment. Your cool air is
not coming out of a zone that's one hundred and
(08:37):
forty to one hundred and sixty degrees up there. It
doesn't radiate heat down into the house at night. There's
a thousand reasons why building of new homes is shifting
now in a very definitive way towards no longer insulating
the attic floor. But insulating the rafters and making the
attic conditioned space. And you also get the benefit that
(08:59):
if you've got a little bit of room in your attic,
you can now finally throw some plywood up there and
store some holiday uh you know, stoage lightweight holiday storage
up in the attic because the insulation doesn't have to
be on the floor of the attic. That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That makes a lot of sense. And also you would
not go with a DIY spray home, would you are?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's worth it.
It's a major move for your house, and it's permanent.
It's worth talking to you know, getting multiple bids from
pro insulation installers and and doing.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It that way as you and I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Scott, thank you great call. And uh I love what
you I love how you're thinking about it. If it
fits into your budget, and believe me, it will pay
you back in spades. It really really will years and
years and years of more comfortable home, better energy savings.
Uh So look about look that up though, look into
literally conditioned attic space, and you'll see all the theory
(10:04):
behind it and all the necessities. And I think you're
gonna head in that direction. That's my guess. I wish
more people would or at least know about it. But that's
why we take calls here on the show. So thousands
of you listening right now are like, maybe for the
first time hearing that you can insulate your attic differently
than has always been the case. And by the way, yeah,
(10:26):
by doing that, you also make the attic fire safe
without the need for ember proof ens because there are
no vents into the attic at that point. All right,
more of your calls when we return the number to
reach me eight three to three two. Ask Dean eight
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
Very aligned.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Them there here to help you take your home to
the next level. Hey, some of you are thinking, you
know what, I love this show and what we really
need though, is Dean and Dina standing in our mess,
looking at our problem with very very specific solutions and
guess what well that could actually happen. If your home
(11:15):
needs some personal house Whisper attention, you can book an
in home design consult You just go to house Whisper
dot Design for more info, house Whisper dot design. Yeah,
we do them all the time. They are great fun.
They are game changing usually for our homeowner clients, because
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we help you see what your house is capable of
becoming and then boom head you in the right direction.
Makes all the difference. You Remember I say design matters
most Yeah, yeah, well consults, that's one of those ways
that first steps in taking that journey of a lifetime
of transforming your house into a true home. All right,
(11:56):
it is Saturday morning. We are taking your calls. Thanks
for joining us on the program. Let me give the
number out again because there's always room on the board
for you. Anything you want to discuss regarding your home today.
I am here live taking your calls. Eight three three
two Ask Dean A three three the numeral two ask
(12:16):
Dean eight three three to ask Dean. It's just that simple.
Give me a call and we'll talk about what's going
on with your home. Right now, I want to talk
to Al. Hey, Al, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Good morning. I'm tired of having my blinds closed, so
I want to open my blinds, put some window tinting on,
but still keep the UV out to keep the house
cool and not be bleaching out my carpet and furniture. Yep, Okay,
what sort of recommendations would you have?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, a couple things. Number one, how old are your windows?
Do you have dual glaze windows? Do you have single
pane windows? What's going on with your windows?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Dual glaze? Twenty years old, two story tracked house.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, so twenty year old windows. So that's two thousand
and two of five. Okay, so those are gonna be yeah, okay,
So your dual glaze windows, by the way, have the
coatings on them necessary to block out most harmful UV
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that's coming in through the window, Just so you know,
you know right up front that was code. Then those
coatings have improved, They keep improving. But what doesn't keep improving.
But that doesn't mean that those windows are by any
way junk. They are in they've got good, good coatings
on them, blocking most of the UV that is coming
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in that would bleach a floor, bleach furniture, so on
and so forth. So number one, let's just know that
we're not starting with a bad windows situation to begin with. Secondly, yeah,
a little bit more private see at home during the day.
I just want to be clear during the day. Okay, tinting,
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you can do tinting that does everything from just adding
a little bit more UV protection. You can do tinting
that gives your windows fire proofing protection. Uh not in
the sense of making them a fire rated window, but
there are there are tint films that you can put
on the inside of windows that if a fire actually
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arrives at the outside of the window and causes that
standard window glass to shatter, the film is fire resistant
and will hold that shattered glass in place, much much
like the film that's hidden inside your car windshield. It
will hold the glass in place so that it doesn't
become an opening for flames to lick up into the house.
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So those are those films are out there, and then
you've got every layer and every consideration of hinting, from
heavy tinting all the way up to just barely anything
all the way up to just full on mirror tinting
on the outside. They also provide privacy, the heavier ones
and the mirror codings during the day, but they will
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not provide privacy at night when the only light source
is coming from the inside of the house. Out then
people are just still gonna be able to see in
through the windows. So if privacy is a factor, just
know you can get more privacy during the day with
the blinds up, but not at night, not when you're
the source of the light going outside. If it's just
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about knocking down harsh sunlight, though, you have a lot
of options, and I would go with a reputable company
that installs reputable products like three M products. Three M
is pretty much the tip of the sphere when it
comes to these window tinting products. They have done the
most research, They've got the best products out there. You
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know their name, they have an excellent reputation. You can
go on the three M website and actually look at
tinting films that are available and see, you know, all
the ones that they offer and that they sell both
retail and wholesale. But I think al it's really a
matter of, you know, kind of figuring out how much
(16:19):
you want and exactly what you want it for. I
want to recommend the least possible that you can get
away with to keep you happy, because I don't want
the I mean, some of these tints can actually make
the inside of the room really really dark. I mean
they're pretty heavy tinted. Don't just jump to the heaviest one,
(16:39):
especially if what you're looking for is less heat and
more light inside the room.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Ceramic versus metallic.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
What was adam?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Sorry, what do you think about ceramic versus metallic sings?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Or yeah, yeah, the ceramic versus the metallic coatings. I
have found the ceramics and we've just had a lot
of good luck with them. The metallics, they're highly reflective,
but they they tend to build up heat and I've
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seen them actually bubble more than the ceramics have. The
ceramics tend to just be a better tinting quality, less
mirror reflective, and we find less future bubbling because you know,
it's always the risk with tinting. You got to have
it installed really well so that you don't end up
with that. You know that guy that you followed on
(17:37):
the freeway who tinted his windows like four years ago
and now it's just a series of air bubbles, And
you don't want that for your home, clearly, because this
stuff isn't necessarily cheap, but it's a good way to go.
So that's what I would recommend now, and good luck
with that. Thanks for the call, yep, Are we up?
Against break.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, we are all right, We're.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Gonna go to a break and when we come back,
more of your calls. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Dean Sharp, the House Whisper here to transform your ordinary
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Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's doable. Yeah it is.
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We do it every week and we were here with
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Speaker 2 (18:28):
And I thank you for joining us on the program.
You very elite.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Saturday morning, get up and get it done people, Yeah
you are, and good on you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm here with you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's an all call Saturday morning, as is our custom
here on Saturdays. The number to reach me eight three
three to ask Dean eight three three, the numeral to
ask Dean A three three to ask Dean. Just I
need to ask Dean a question. So let's get back
into it. I want to tell to Gary, Hey, Gary,
(19:01):
welcome home. Hi Deen, there you are, sir. How can
I help you?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I just inherited a seventy five year old house from
my mom, and I noticed that there's some TERMI droppings
around and when I look for tags, I find that
the last time it was fumigated was about nineteen ninety eight,
so they tags say that they use something called Viking,
(19:33):
and I'm wondering, is that the gold standard still or
is there something better these days? And what do I
do with the damage that's I've found.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, we've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm not familiar with every chemical process that is part
of a tent fumigation, but I can tell you this, Gary,
We've come such a long way in the last twenty
five twenty seven years since the house was fumigated before,
and you've got a lot of options these days. My
encouragement to you is that you talk to a a
(20:09):
pest control company that has, in fact in their arsenal
a lot of options. And you'd be surprised how few
of those companies are out there, because a lot of
pest control companies they just get into the biz. They
just pick up the stuff that everybody does. They'll do
a little spot treatment here or there, but if anything
is beyond what they're comfortable with, then they'll just say
(20:32):
tent the house. And so you tend the house, you
move all the stuff out, you stay out of it,
and it gets fully tented and it's going to be
that way for a few days, and it's you know,
if you're not living in the house, it's base.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
It's such generally empty. So I'm not opposed to having
it tented and taking as much time as they need.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, understood, So, but I want you to know that
you know there's a cost involved in that, obviously, and
it may or may not be justified. So the point
is this, just because you find some droppings here and
there doesn't mean that it is an entire whole house infestation.
You need to get conscientious eyes on and that's why
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I say I want you to go with a pest
control company that has a lot of other options other
than just what we call the nuclear option, which is
just tenth the house and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Because we've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
We can electrocute termites in walls shockingly. Shockingly, Ah, I
did not mean to say that that way. There's a yeah,
because they are We can find termites and walls and
run a current through them because they've got water in
their bodies, and actually electrocute them through the walls to
(21:52):
dispose of them. There are various other forms of spot
treatment that are highly highly effective that don't require ten
the house. And there's heat treating a house instead of tinting.
And I'm a huge fan of whole house heat treatment
as opposed to tinting, just because it leaves no chemical residue,
(22:15):
no harmful things behind. Heat treating a house is also
a whole house treatment. It's sealing up the whole house
using heaters and fans to bring the internal temperature of
the house up to about one hundred and thirty one
hundred and forty degrees. They hold it there for a
few hours. That is lethal to every termite everywhere inside
(22:37):
the place. And it doesn't require a tent. It's done.
It starts at the beginning of the day, early in
the morning, and it's done and you're back in the house,
or anybody could be back in the house by that evening.
No chemical residue, you don't have to pull stuff out,
and you know, and I know the house is relatively empty,
but just so you know, it doesn't leave behind any toxicity.
(22:59):
It just a heat treatment, massively popular, yeah treatment. So
my biggest recommendation, Gary, I'm up against a break here.
My biggest recommendation is to find the right company now, yeah,
of course I'm going to tell you that Eco LA.
They are my preferred pest control company for southern California's
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precisely because they have a full arsenal and I don't
know of a pest control company that's more conscientious when
it comes to approaching the house. They simply don't want
to do more than is necessary. And they are as
everybody who has the nuclear button in front of them
should be. They are loathed to just turn the key
(23:44):
and press the button. But they always get the job done.
And so that's the guarantee they're going to get the
job done at whatever level it needs to go. And
so talk to them, give them a call, Eco LA,
e CEO LA, give them a call, and and you know,
have them consult with you about the termite situation. How
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extensive is it. They may say, hey, Gary, we need
to tent the house, or they may offer some other
solutions that you might be far more comfortable with and
that your wallet may actually be more comfortable with. So
the moral of the story for everybody who's listening is
you find the right doctor, not the one who just
says got an infected splinter. There amputation, no, no, no, no, no,
(24:30):
Let's find a conscientious doctor who gets to the route,
gets it done with the minimal amount of invasive surgery
along the way. That's the goal. Gary, Thank you for
your call, my friend. When we come back, we'll go
back to the phones. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Here to
remind you design matters most when it comes to transforming
(24:53):
your home. Do not forget this one message. It is
perhaps the central message around which we have built our
entire time here on the show, that good design matters most.
Of all the transformative things that I tell you, And
of course I'm here as a builder giving you building advice,
giving you home improvement advice, all of that fixed advice,
(25:14):
lots of that too, But of all the things that
I communicate to you, it is the design principles that
I hand you that are truly the transformative issues when
it comes to taking your home from where it's at
to where it could be. Not just a matter of
materials and craftsmanship. It is design that matters most. We
(25:38):
are at the end of yet another two hour show
here on a Saturday morning, the first Saturday in August.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But we are not done yet.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We still have a couple of calls on the board,
and so let me see if I can get to
at least one of them, maybe both. I don't know, Monica,
Welcome home.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Tidine and I have one of these old houses and
fifties and it's got it's on the relay system, I
think the electrical and it's only some lights work. I
mean enough for me. But if I really sold it,
I want to upgrade. And if I put electrical new
ones in or whatever is that like, does that make
(26:16):
lots of holes in the ceiling and the roof because
I have a really huge skylight and I don't want
anything to you know, go into that.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Okay, all right, well okay, so what kind of uh
what what kind of electrical are you thinking about upgrading
or adding to the house? What what's what's your concern.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Just you know, you know, push the button on the wall,
I mean instead of just turn the light on the wall.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, you know, okay, so things aren't working that
way right now?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
No, uh uh, but I have the ones that are
plugged in the wall.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
They're working. But this is this is just for you.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So, you know, there's a couple of different factors here.
Your house built in the fifties, It depends on how
the builder did it. If it was a unusually talented
and conscientious builder back in the fifties, they might have
run conduits in between all of the electrical boxes, flexible
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metal conduits. If that's the case, then those conduits have
just open wires in them that can be pulled out replaced,
and no holes anywhere in the house. Chances are, though,
I'm just don't want to set you up for disappointment,
but chances are that they just use standard sheathed cables
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what some people call Romex. That's just a brand name,
you know, we call it that, like Kleenex for bathroom tissue.
It's just a brand. But a sheathed cable and sheath
cables are way less expensive for electricians and builders to
use the only problem is that they don't allow you
easy access to pull them out to replace them. And
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so if you're going to run new wiring, okay, and
sometimes just so you know, most of the time the
wiring problem inside a house is not because the wires
in the walls are bad. There just may be some
problems and so the best thing to do is to
consult with an electrician, get two or three different opinions
from two or three different reputable electricians to actually address
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what's going on with the house. Okay, wiring is durable.
Electrical systems are durable. In other words, when they're done
right and they're in the wall, they're there for good
and they don't require maintenance. They don't just go bad
on their own over the years. Sometimes a wire gets
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loose in a receptacle. Sometimes a wire gets loose in
a switch, and that just requires changing out the switch
or retightening the wire in order to get things working properly.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Again.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
So electrical is durable. But worst case scenario, let's say
you got some major redos to do. Most electricians are
very very talented at being able to work new wires
down in from the attic down into the walls, down
to switches. There will be some holes, not big chasms,
(29:26):
not large openings of dry wall or plaster in the house,
just some holes. Usually holes that are near when we're
running new wires holding the ceiling, right next to the
corner of where the ceiling meets the wall. Maybe a
hole right underneath where the ceiling meets the wall in
order to guarantee that we're drilling out the plate there
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so that we can feed the new wires in because
it's tight. It's tight up in the attic, and that's
almost always on the very exterior walls of the house.
That's very rarely on the interior walls of the house
because interior walls we normally have more access from the
attic to just drill those walls and feed new wires
down there without making holes in the ceiling. But yes,
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a full on whole house redo of electrical wiring is
going to make some holes, not a lot, and nothing
that is going to you know, usually disturb the esthetics
and any of the other functioning systems in the house
skylights or otherwise. So again I can't tell you how
many holes. I can't tell you where they're going to go,
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or if that's even the essential issue or your electrical
because like I said, if the wires were run correctly
at first and something has gone wrong, usually that can
be fixed and remediated pretty easily unless there's a bigger problem.
So the key is bringing in the wire doctor, bringing
in electrician, getting a good evaluation of the house, what
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switches work, which ones don't. Adding switches and switch controlled
light fixtures to a room not that big of a deal.
And often there's a way to do it without making
many holes, or sometimes any holes at all. Call in
that qualified electrician and then call in more than one
and that's the key. All right, Monica, Thank you for
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your call. Good luck with that. Take that advice. Trust
me on that you're going to call in the doctors.
You're going to get more than one opinion before you
operate on the patient, as it were.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, everybody, that's it for us today.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I hope that you have benefited from our time together.
As always, it is a pleasure and a privilege to
talk to you about this most important place that you
call home. I want you to take whatever weather the
weather gods are handing you today and make a day
of it. Get out there and get busy building yourself
(31:56):
a beautiful life, and we will see you right back here. Well,
we'll see here tomorrow more morning from nine to noon,
and right back here next Saturday morning.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
See you.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Then.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
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