September 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Today it's all about windows and doors...we welcome Chris Perez of American Vision Windows to talk about how to improve the window and door situation in your home, a critical component of your home and the value of making sure both are as energy efficient as possible. Dean tackles listener questions about asbestos in the attic of an old house and how that might affect the sale of the house, and whether or not you can place another layer of insulation over it, where to find motorized sliders to put over a kitchen sink with a box window, how to fix a damaged 'weep strip' on a common stucco wall, and how to find the source of a water leak that seems to have originated in a bathroom, but has no obvious sign of source.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I Am
Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, custom home Builder, custom home Designer,
and every week your guide to better understanding that place
where you live. Today. On the show, I've got a
very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, president of American
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Vision Windows. American Vision doing windows all over California from
San Diego all the way up through San Jose and
even further north if you really really need them. We're
going to get back to our conversation on doors and
windows in just a bit. But guess what, it's the
middle of the show. It's time to take your calls.
And when it comes to you and your calls, you
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get to set the agenda. Anything you need to talk
about regarding your home, we'll put our heads together and
we'll figure it out. So why don't we go to
the phones. I want to talk to Ann, Hey, Ann,
welcome home, Oh Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And Jean before about the efflorescence under my house. I'd
lived by the beach and you mentioned all these de
hamidifiers and some of them have like like ventilation tubes
that would go to the outside and then a summer
I guess maybe have a reservoir inside that you would
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look at an empty you know, And I just wanted
to ask you. You gave me some names, and the
ones you gave me there was one on Amazon called Sebon,
and then there was ninth Sky. But those are kind
of small, and I don't know which is the best one.
I mean, some of them are very very expensive and
some are you know, like ninety dollars fifteen one hundred
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or something. And it's like, I don't know what to
do and I don't know what to choose. And there
was that question, and then I had a question about
installation with asbestos.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, well, let me order to answer that first one quick,
and then we can go on to your insulation or
asbestos question. You know, I'd have to actually look the
space to know exactly which one to recommend. But I
will tell you this, the key in figuring out dehumidifiers
for crawl space is when you're actually looking at the product,
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is to figure out what kind of cubic air space
they actually handle and how much of the cubic air
space they are going to exchange per hour or per minute,
it's cubic feet per minute CFM. That's how fans are rated.
And you measure out the square footage of your crawl
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space plus the height of your crawl space, which is
probably somewhere sixteen to eighteen inches tall, plus an extra
space for the floor joist, so you just call it
maybe two feet tall of cubic airspace. And then you
figure out which one of those units can actually handle that.
Some of them say that they you know that, you
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know the ninety nine dollars ones, right, but you find
out that they are exchanging very little air per hour
as we go.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And so the key is, I have a jot of
four foot four foot, it's if I can almost stand that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, so you're going to need a slightly larger unit
or more than one of the smaller units. That's the key.
But you got to find out the rating on each
of them and uh and figure out it's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Though, because I mean, you just can't keep that money
in every single day. Might like to build it in
the outrageous No no.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah no, that's why a more powerful one is better,
because you want to hook them up to what we
call a humidistat which is just basically the same as
a thermostat, except all it reads is uh, moisture content
in the air. And so, just like a thermostat with
your HVAC system in your house, a crawl space dehumidifier
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runs off of a humidistat. So when the humidity reaches
a certain level, they kick on and you want them
to deal with it as quickly as possible, turn themselves
off and stay off for as long as possible. So
that's why the larger units are usually more effective.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay, so, uh, you have to sermostat and the humidistat
in built into that system, right, because I don't want
tubes hanging out of microsted Yeah no, no, no, no, you
have that tubes and I'm like, what's that? He and
some have a reservoir you have to go down and
empty and I'm not opposed to that, but if you
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have to do that like every month or something, yeah,
that's going in there too much.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The best ones, the best ones will have actually a
drain tube that should actually exit one of the crawl
space events at some point, because if you're collecting humidity
out of the air, you gotta get it out of there,
right it's not you know, it doesn't just magically disappear.
So just like your air conditioning you may not even
realize this. Your air conditioning system is a dehumidifier, and
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the coil in your air in your air conditioning system,
it condensates liquid around it all the time. And that's
why there is a small PVC pipe coming out of
it called the condensate drain that drips outside your house.
It takes the moisture out of the air and puts
it outside your house. So, uh, these dehumanifiers for a
crawl space, they operate essentially the same way. Don't get
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one with a reservoir because then you got to crawl
under there and empty it. Get one that actually has
that actually has a discharge tube or pipe that you
can send outside the house real quick. And what was
your question about what was your question about the attic?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The insulation is ancient. Everybody has asbestos in it. And
then that the the I don't have air conditioning because
they're so close to the ocean. So we don't need
air conditioning. Although today's kind of fun and humid, but
give me nice but but generally we don't need it.
So we have a central heating system and the central
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heating ducts and everything that. Yeah, the big stinks up
there in the attic. They're all wrapped around with asbestos.
So I guess my question is, can you lay down
like the role of asbestos rolls on top of the
blown in the asbestos that's so old it's ancient. But
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you know, everyone says, don't touch it, leave it alone.
But the main house does get cold in the winter,
and I just wanted to ask you, is there something
that we could do like that instead of having a
company come and think all that out, would be that
I was quoted about sixty six thousand dollars. Yeah, it
was like six.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
When was when? And when was the house built?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The house is built in seventy one.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, seventy one okay. So here's the thing. Your blown
in insulation does not have asbestos in it. It's fiberglass.
It may be old and ratty and terrible and gross
and thin and falling apart and makes you itch and
it's not pleasant to look at. It does not have
asbestos in the blown in insulation. Those rigid pipes around
the outside of your heating vents, those are asbestos. Okay,
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But there's nothing to worry about, okay, because asbestos when
it is inert, asbestos when it is not disturbed, is
of no risk to anybody. It's only when asbestos gets
disturbed and kicked up into a dust form that it
can be breathed in in the air and then it's
a problem. But just sitting there in your attic, and
you could wrap insulation around those asbestos things, you could
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wrap foil insulation around them, just to encapsulate them. But
there's really no reason too. It's not going to hamper
the sale of the house or the value of the
house or anything like that, because everybody knows home inspectors
included that asbestos up in the attic where nobody's touching
it is not a risk to anyone. But the blown
in stuff, the good news is, don't don't listen to
a company that's telling you got to get that stuff
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out of there because it's an asbestos contaminated It's not okay,
it's just blown in insulation. Now, maybe you want to
clear all of that out and put in new stuff,
that's fine, or maybe you just want to blow in
new insulation on top of the old that's fine too.
I'm not saying that that's the best look. But then again,
you know you're probably not showing off your attic to
many people. So if it's it's just about insulation, pick
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some new cellulose borate insulation, blow it all in, get
it up to our thirty or more, and yeah, it'll
be like putting a beautiful warm stocking cap on the
house during the winter to keep it that much warmer.
And I got to go. We're up against a break.
Thank you for your question and for your call. We'll
take some more calls when we come back. Your Home
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with Dean Sharp the House whispered.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm sitting here with talking shop with the president of
American Vision Windows, Chris Perez. We were just talking about
things we have to do for the building department that
have nothing to do with our actual jobs or the
reason you're on the job. But that's the joy of
working with the city, just the nature of things. So
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we're going to get back to our conversation with the
doors and windows in just a bit, but you know,
it's middle of the show, so we're taking some call
and uh, let's go back to the phones. Shall Well,
let's talk to Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome home?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
All right.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, I've got a four x six window over a
kitchen sink. The kitchen sink has a locked window over it,
so it's a long reach to open the windows or sliders.
Three Bantel centers, Fitch, the ends will be. Are there
any motorized sliders that I can get to operate promote
me for that size window.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm not familiar with them. Chris, Oh wait, we got
to get Chris's mike on good. Yeah, there you go,
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I'm not familiar with anything that has a motor for
a slider. I have motor options for casement windows, but
not sliders that I that I know of.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Got clearance issues, casements and awnings will work in this application.
Got you got to be a slider or a double hug?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is it a critical? Is a critical that tell them
that this is a opening, that it's that it's an
openable window, or that it's a or that it's even
a box window? Is it critical?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, it's critical that it'd be a box window because
it's already trimmed out on the outside with brick and timbers.
It's the way the house is built originally. We just
cleaned up the look of it and I've got a
huge whole house stan now. And what I've learned is
that if I leave the two windows in the kitchen
open at night and run the fan, I can drop
the temperature five to ten degrees inside. Oh yes, I
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really want to be able to open them like every
every evening in the summer and then close them up
mid morning every day.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Got you by, by the way, if everybody's listening to
box window, this is a casement window, I mean, I'm sorry,
a garden window. So we've got straight sides going out.
Have you thought about the idea that leaving the the
main front panel fixed glass and actually operable casements on
the sides going out, because then the crank would actually
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be just right at the edge of the countertop.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, the problem is not the crank, it's the window itself.
On the inside. We've got the kitchen counter to deal with,
which would make the kitchen counter useless if the windows
crank in, And if they crank out, there's a very
narrow walkway between the box window and the pool and
people won't be able to walk past the windows if
they're cranked open.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, no, but I'm talking about this. I'm talking about
the sides of the garden window. The sides, not the front.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
No side, it's not a garden window. It's a fully
fully framed in box window with brick trim on the sides.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Oh, I got you, I gotcha. Okay, I thought it
was a garden window too. So basically, you have sides
that you said, like a box. You go out, you
have to put your hand out to get you can't
reach it the window that's.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, twenty four inches of counter and then another
twenty inches of the box itself. And I had my
rotator cup prepaired, and I just can't move the windows anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, I wish we had the silver bullet for you,
but I'm not sure that what you're looking for is available,
Chris is. I can see Chris's eyes. He's he's staring
up at the ceiling thinking what can we do there?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I mean, there is there's poles that we use for
windows that are high, you know above, they're called the
anyway a Tan. Windows that are up high you can't
reach them. We have poles that open those up. But
I'm just saying, how would that work? Because they are
because you can put a latch it's called it's called
variable latch that has a place to put a pole.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
In the crank a crank pole.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Yeah, but I'm not sure it's going to be able
to have enough strength to open up left right, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, these are these are big, heavy windows. They're double glazed,
they're they're Marvin Integrity, the pultruated fiberglass stuff, yep, and
they're heavy.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well, Tom, I am afraid that it's a swing and
a miss. Sorry, I don't have a solution for you,
and only because and if Chris doesn't know if this
window exists, then I'm guessing this window doesn't exist. That's,
you know, for me, I'd be like Chris over to you, Bud.
But my guess is that you're probably you're probably.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, we know that they have those windows. I mean
we have automatic sliding doors and things for sure. Yeah,
but is it cost effective to try to figure out
someone's going to go put that together for you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, that's that's a thing. That's a thing. I mean,
anything can be done, Anything can be done. I should
return to my regular mantra where I tell people. I
tell my clients all the time, the answer is never know.
If you say, can this be done, the answer is
never know. The answer is just how big is your
checkbook and how much is this worth it to you?
Because of course we can do it. But if it's
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a one off, then you know there we go. All right, y'all,
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I love the info, but I really need them here. Well,
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All right, I am sitting here in studio with my
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Vision Windows. American Vision Windows they handle things everything from
the southern border of the state and San Diego all
the way up past San Jose. There are a premiere
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going to return to that conversation is just a bit.
But right now we're in the middle of the show,
which means it's time to take some more calls. And
is it Fanny of Franny, I want to talk to Franny. Hey,
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fran Anny, welcome.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Oh, thank you so much. We're having well, I think
a potential problem with our weep strip. We're in a
little complex with common walls, so our house is on
the outside. We have a house in the middle, and
then another house on their side, the neighbor on our
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common wall side. He says, that's our wall, so I
guess it is. He told me yesterday we might have
damage to our weep strip. Over the years, he has
done a lot of stuff in his patio, which is
not that large. At one point he tried to put
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a jacuzzi above ground. Jacuzi in almost against our wall,
and he was running the electric and water along the
base of our wall. My husband called him on it,
and the city made him take that down. But I'm wondering,
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what is the likelihood if there is damage to the
weep strip, that he's done something to cause it, and
is he responsible for repairing it even though it's our wall.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, all right, Well, so first of all, it's weep screed,
just so you know. Weep screed. Okay, it's a little
metal flashing that is the termination point at the bottom
of a stucco wall. They're very important for them to
be there because that little metal flashing, triangular flashing, and
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if you can't see it by looking at it, but
if you reach underneath, you'll feel that it's got holes
all the way underneath. And what it does it allows
the stucco to drain the water that it collects inside it. Okay,
Otherwise that water is going to push itself out through
the paint or through the stucco finish, and that's when
people think my stucco is deteriorating. It's not really, It's
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just water is pushing out from the backside. That's why
the weep screed is important. And it runs all the
way along, or it should run all the way along
at the bottom of all exterior stucco walls and be
at least a couple inches, if not more, above the
hardscape and the patio and all of that stuff out there.
You know, just about every house I know has damage
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to their weep screen because it's just easy to bump
things into it and kind of smash it a little
bit or bend it in. When we say that it's damaged,
we don't mean that it's not working anymore. It just
means that. You know, it's like saying that a ding
in your car is going to keep it from running
and driving it to the grocery store. Not the case.
All right. It may not be attractive looking at that
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point of contact, but the weep screed has got holes
in it the entire way along. And believe me, even
if one hole got smashed in for some reason, it's
still doing its job just fine. The question of whether
it's unsightly or whether it's causing a bigger problem, that's
an important question. And uh, you know I should just
tell you, Franny, because you called in and you asked
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me the question. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
jump on your side and say, yeah, of course, that guy,
that jerk, that's totally it's totally his fault, and he
should pay forevery he should be he should buy you
a new furniture in your house. I think too, how
we do that too? Did I lose you, Franny?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Now I'm here?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Okay? So anyway, the point is when you say the
weep screen is damage, what do we mean by that?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I have no idea. He showed me on our alley
side where it is. But as far as possible damage,
I don't know unless we get somebody in his patio
to look at it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay. So I don't exactly know how to answer the question,
but I will tell you this. Like I said, weep screen,
it's a system. It's not just one isolated thing, right,
So it runs under the entire stucco wall. And you know,
it would be one thing if somebody said, yeah, something
came along and ripped it all out from the bottom
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of the stucco, and the stucco's hanging loose and it's
all cracking and it's delaminating from the wall, all right,
that would be something of concern. But the idea of like, oh,
something bumped into it, something cracked it a little bit
or dent It's hard to tell without a real clear
description what exactly the issue with the weep screed is.
But I will tell you they're very durable and you'd
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have to do a lot to damage it to the
point where it's not doing its job anymore. Esthetically. That's
I think it seems to me what this conversation is
probably really about. And I wouldn't let him get under
your skin. I would just ask him, well, why need
you to take some pictures for me and show me
exactly what you're talking about. If you say that this
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is my wall, and if it's my wall, and you'll
and you're the only person who has access to it,
isn't that actually your wall then? Because if I can't
even get over there to see what's going on that,
I think if it's in your patio, I think it's
your wall, my friend. I'm just saying, Frannie, thank you
for your call, appreciate that. I wish I could help
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you out a little bit more clearly, but I'd need
to know exactly what's going on with it. All right,
Let's see if we can at least get one more
call started here. How about Jeanjeane, welcome home, Hi.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I think no one would be welcome here. It's not
looking very good.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh no, yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Didn't handle some things a long time ago, which you
always say, don't procrastinate, but I did. And now a
little water that was under one of the things in
the downstairs the bathroom is a huge water and now
there's mold. And so I have two different companies, two
different technicians came over, and one guy says that he
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wants to water blast it. The other guy had turned
the water off, but he turned the water back on.
And then the first guy he wants to do a
reeval removal of the old phil valve on the toilet
downstairs and install a new pill valve. And then they're
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but they don't know where the leak is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Okay, all right, Jeane, everything plugged up, all right, Gene,
I'm gonna hold you. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
hold you right there, okay, Number one. I mean, I'm
gonna have you answer this question. When we cut on
the other side of the break. I'm gonna pop you
on hold because we've got to go to a break.
But I want you to think about this, Uh is
this are these mold people who have looked at this
situation or plumbers and if it's plumbers, but.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
It doesn't smell good.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Okay, all right, no, no, just hang tight, hang tight with me.
I'm going to help you wade your way through this,
right Mold technicians are plumbers, very very different people, very
very different trades, and I want you to think about
this before we talk about remediating any of the other problems.
We need to know what actually is happening and where
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the water is coming from. That's what I want to
talk to you about right on the other side. So
you hang type buddy, okay, and we'll get back to it.
We'll get it figured out. That's what we do. You're
listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (22:35):
Here to help you transform your ordinary house into an
extraordinary home. We're doing that today with my very special
in studio guest, Chris Perez, the president of American Vision Windows.
And we're going to be returning to that conversation right
after the next break. But right now, I got Gene
on the line. Gene, did I hang up on you?
Are you still there?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay? Here, So Jean's got some issues under bathrooms sink
that nobody can find the source of the leak from Okay,
So I just wanted to make this really clear, Gene,
that there are a lot of you know, once there's
blood in the water, there are a lot of people
who will be attracted to your situation, right, Mold remediation companies,
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you know, all sorts of different people. But when we're
dealing with a leak, okay, unless that leak has been
fixed already, then the very first thing we've got to
do is figure out where the leak is and stop it.
I don't want you to spend a dime on anybody
else for any other reason whatsoever. Then figuring out what's
leaking and getting the leak fixed, because then we're just
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throwing good money after bad, right, because we'll get it
all fixed up, and we get it all cleared out,
and then the leak continues, and that doesn't make any sense.
So what is the source of this water? Where is
it showing up? And you're setting you gave me the
impression that it's still happening.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
If when you flush.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
A toilet all the water comes up, and then the
bathtub doesn't always drain, But today it did, and then
the thing downstairs. I'm not even going in that room.
I'm the one that said mold. But these guys. One
guy comes over and he said he'd been sick for
five days, and I'm like, well, no, wonder, you're acting weird,
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you know. And then the second guy, oooh, I don't
need a mask. I said, you better get a mask on.
Don't you guys wear masks? So it was all crazy,
and I just, like you said, I just need to
know where the leak is. I'm the one that brought
up the bowld.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Okay, all right, all right, good, good good. I mean
I just wanted to make sure. I wanted to make sure.
I had a recent run in with a mold remediation
company that I'm not going to go into. But I'm
just saying first things first. Okay, So if water is
backing up sometimes in the toilet, in the tub, when
the toilet gets flushed, or at any other time, it
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sounds to me like you got to get a plumbing
company out there to run a camera down your drains
first of all, and see how occluded or gunked up
the drains are. Okay, because that's that it may not
be an absolute one percent clog, But it's the kind
of blockage that occurs when a lot of stuff builds
up on the inside of drainline pipes. The actual functioning
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interior diameter of that drain may be way, way less
than the size of the drain pipe, and as a result,
every time water goes down the drain, it's backing up
into the tub for a short bit and then it
drains out or the toilet doesn't want to flush completely.
It sounds to me, first and foremost like you need
to see somebody to get a camera down there and
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maybe rooter out and clear out the drains. And then
if that's the case, uh, to keep it from happening again,
we probably need to get you on and I'm talking
like a doctor here. We're gonna get you on a
regular prescription of dropping some enzymes, some sewer enzymes down
your sink and the toilet and the tub, and enzymes
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are just a marvelous little kind of protein that breaks
up organic matter and keeps the inside of those pipes
clean and clear, so you don't have that backup again. Now,
if there are other forms of water dripping around, I'm
assuming it's not just water dripping out of a bad
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pipe or bab hose under the sink, because that would
be really easy to see. Chances are if there's other
forms of water, it may be around the sink drain itself,
or the toilet may need a new gasket underneath it,
a new wax ring. These are all things, by the way,
that are incredibly inexpensive and very very easy to do.
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So I don't want anybody charging you up the wazoo
for this kind of stuff, as if it was some
kind of high tech thing. Pulling the toilet off and
putting a new wax ring down. A wax ring is
all of like six bucks, okay for the really really
nice ones and popping those in place to seal up
the toilet. But I would start with the drains. So
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the point is this, gene. I want you to talk
to a plumber. I want you to talk to more
than one plumber. Okay. This is the kind of situation
where you know I can't come over to your house
unfortunately and help you out, because I would tell you
exactly what the scoop is and then you could just
go and act for it. But this is a lesson
for everybody to learn when it comes to problems a diagnosis.
I want you to treat your house like a loved
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one or like your own body. Okay, going to the doctor.
We don't just have somebody come by take a cursory look,
hand you an estimate, and then you're like, Okay, well,
I guess that's what I have to do, noe. When
it's a potentially serious situation and the question is how
much should this cost? Well, we're only going to know
that if you get three or so qualified, well vetted,
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reputable plumbers to take a look at the situation, which
they're happy to do and to give you their assessment.
Because that's like calling in other doctors for a second opinion.
It's like, Doc Listen, I came in complaining about, you know,
a sore elbow. You recommended an amputation. Would you mind
if I got an actual second opinion on this? And like, yeah,
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that's probably a good idea. So I want to get
eyes on plumbers eyes on, and I want to get
their bids and their estimates. And what you'll see after
two or three of them, Jeane, is you're going to
see that they're gonna at least a couple of them
are going to start to group together, you're going to
find out that like, oh, okay, well, these two guys
are only like a one hundred or two dollars apart,
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and they're both saying the same thing, and maybe all
three of them are saying the same thing. Uh, And
you start to see and maybe there's an outlier, maybe
there's somebody who's like, no, it's not that, it's this,
And then you can figure that out as you go along.
But the idea is there's you know, there's an old
proverb that says there's a there's safety in a multitude
of counselors. Right, So what we want to get is
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multiple eyes on this situation. Free estimates, they're not costing
you anything except time and energy. But it's time for
you to stop procrastinating and actually take the time and then,
you know what, I'm sure you're going to get to
the root of the problem and not overpay as you do. Gene,
thank you for your call, my friend. Good luck with that,
but yeah, it's time to address it. Don't start with
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the mold, start with the leak, all right, y'all. When
we come back, we'll get with our special guest, Chris
Perez of American Vision Windows and get back on doors
and windows for your home. This has been Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast
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Vision Windows. American Vision doing windows all over California from
San Diego all the way up through San Jose and
even further north if you really really need them. We're
going to get back to our conversation on doors and
windows in just a bit. But guess what, it's the
middle of the show. It's time to take your calls.
And when it comes to you and your calls, you
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get to set the agenda. Anything you need to talk
about regarding your home, we'll put our heads together and
we'll figure it out. So why don't we go to
the phones. I want to talk to Ann, Hey, Ann,
welcome home, Oh Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And Jean before about the efflorescence under my house. I'd
lived by the beach and you mentioned all these de
hamidifiers and some of them have like like ventilation tubes
that would go to the outside and then a summer
I guess maybe have a reservoir inside that you would
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look at an empty you know, And I just wanted
to ask you. You gave me some names, and the
ones you gave me there was one on Amazon called Sebon,
and then there was ninth Sky. But those are kind
of small, and I don't know which is the best one.
I mean, some of them are very very expensive and
some are you know, like ninety dollars fifteen one hundred
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or something. And it's like, I don't know what to
do and I don't know what to choose. And there
was that question, and then I had a question about
installation with asbestos.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, well, let me order to answer that first one quick,
and then we can go on to your insulation or
asbestos question. You know, I'd have to actually look the
space to know exactly which one to recommend. But I
will tell you this, the key in figuring out dehumidifiers
for crawl space is when you're actually looking at the product,
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is to figure out what kind of cubic air space
they actually handle and how much of the cubic air
space they are going to exchange per hour or per minute,
it's cubic feet per minute CFM. That's how fans are rated.
And you measure out the square footage of your crawl
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space plus the height of your crawl space, which is
probably somewhere sixteen to eighteen inches tall, plus an extra
space for the floor joist, so you just call it
maybe two feet tall of cubic airspace. And then you
figure out which one of those units can actually handle that.
Some of them say that they you know that, you
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know the ninety nine dollars ones, right, but you find
out that they are exchanging very little air per hour
as we go.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And so the key is, I have a jot of
four foot four foot, it's if I can almost stand that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, so you're going to need a slightly larger unit
or more than one of the smaller units. That's the key.
But you got to find out the rating on each
of them and uh and figure out it's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Though, because I mean, you just can't keep that money
in every single day. Might like to build it in
the outrageous No no.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah no, that's why a more powerful one is better,
because you want to hook them up to what we
call a humidistat which is just basically the same as
a thermostat, except all it reads is uh, moisture content
in the air. And so, just like a thermostat with
your HVAC system in your house, a crawl space dehumidifier
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runs off of a humidistat. So when the humidity reaches
a certain level, they kick on and you want them
to deal with it as quickly as possible, turn themselves
off and stay off for as long as possible. So
that's why the larger units are usually more effective.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay, so, uh, you have to sermostat and the humidistat
in built into that system, right, because I don't want
tubes hanging out of microsted Yeah no, no, no, no, you
have that tubes and I'm like, what's that? He and
some have a reservoir you have to go down and
empty and I'm not opposed to that, but if you
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have to do that like every month or something, yeah,
that's going in there too much.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The best ones, the best ones will have actually a
drain tube that should actually exit one of the crawl
space events at some point, because if you're collecting humidity
out of the air, you gotta get it out of there,
right it's not you know, it doesn't just magically disappear.
So just like your air conditioning you may not even
realize this. Your air conditioning system is a dehumidifier, and
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the coil in your air in your air conditioning system,
it condensates liquid around it all the time. And that's
why there is a small PVC pipe coming out of
it called the condensate drain that drips outside your house.
It takes the moisture out of the air and puts
it outside your house. So, uh, these dehumanifiers for a
crawl space, they operate essentially the same way. Don't get
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one with a reservoir because then you got to crawl
under there and empty it. Get one that actually has
that actually has a discharge tube or pipe that you
can send outside the house real quick. And what was
your question about what was your question about the attic?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The insulation is ancient. Everybody has asbestos in it. And
then that the the I don't have air conditioning because
they're so close to the ocean. So we don't need
air conditioning. Although today's kind of fun and humid, but
give me nice but but generally we don't need it.
So we have a central heating system and the central
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heating ducts and everything that. Yeah, the big stinks up
there in the attic. They're all wrapped around with asbestos.
So I guess my question is, can you lay down
like the role of asbestos rolls on top of the
blown in the asbestos that's so old it's ancient. But
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you know, everyone says, don't touch it, leave it alone.
But the main house does get cold in the winter,
and I just wanted to ask you, is there something
that we could do like that instead of having a
company come and think all that out, would be that
I was quoted about sixty six thousand dollars. Yeah, it
was like six.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
When was when? And when was the house built?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The house is built in seventy one.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, seventy one okay. So here's the thing. Your blown
in insulation does not have asbestos in it. It's fiberglass.
It may be old and ratty and terrible and gross
and thin and falling apart and makes you itch and
it's not pleasant to look at. It does not have
asbestos in the blown in insulation. Those rigid pipes around
the outside of your heating vents, those are asbestos. Okay,
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But there's nothing to worry about, okay, because asbestos when
it is inert, asbestos when it is not disturbed, is
of no risk to anybody. It's only when asbestos gets
disturbed and kicked up into a dust form that it
can be breathed in in the air and then it's
a problem. But just sitting there in your attic, and
you could wrap insulation around those asbestos things, you could
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wrap foil insulation around them, just to encapsulate them. But
there's really no reason too. It's not going to hamper
the sale of the house or the value of the
house or anything like that, because everybody knows home inspectors
included that asbestos up in the attic where nobody's touching
it is not a risk to anyone. But the blown
in stuff, the good news is, don't don't listen to
a company that's telling you got to get that stuff
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out of there because it's an asbestos contaminated It's not okay,
it's just blown in insulation. Now, maybe you want to
clear all of that out and put in new stuff,
that's fine, or maybe you just want to blow in
new insulation on top of the old that's fine too.
I'm not saying that that's the best look. But then again,
you know you're probably not showing off your attic to
many people. So if it's it's just about insulation, pick
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some new cellulose borate insulation, blow it all in, get
it up to our thirty or more, and yeah, it'll
be like putting a beautiful warm stocking cap on the
house during the winter to keep it that much warmer.
And I got to go. We're up against a break.
Thank you for your question and for your call. We'll
take some more calls when we come back. Your Home
(08:24):
with Dean Sharp the House whispered.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm sitting here with talking shop with the president of
American Vision Windows, Chris Perez. We were just talking about
things we have to do for the building department that
have nothing to do with our actual jobs or the
reason you're on the job. But that's the joy of
working with the city, just the nature of things. So
(08:52):
we're going to get back to our conversation with the
doors and windows in just a bit, but you know,
it's middle of the show, so we're taking some call
and uh, let's go back to the phones. Shall Well,
let's talk to Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome home?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
All right.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, I've got a four x six window over a
kitchen sink. The kitchen sink has a locked window over it,
so it's a long reach to open the windows or sliders.
Three Bantel centers, Fitch, the ends will be. Are there
any motorized sliders that I can get to operate promote
me for that size window.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm not familiar with them. Chris, Oh wait, we got
to get Chris's mike on good. Yeah, there you go,
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I'm not familiar with anything that has a motor for
a slider. I have motor options for casement windows, but
not sliders that I that I know of.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Got clearance issues, casements and awnings will work in this application.
Got you got to be a slider or a double hug?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is it a critical? Is a critical that tell them
that this is a opening, that it's that it's an
openable window, or that it's a or that it's even
a box window? Is it critical?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, it's critical that it'd be a box window because
it's already trimmed out on the outside with brick and timbers.
It's the way the house is built originally. We just
cleaned up the look of it and I've got a
huge whole house stan now. And what I've learned is
that if I leave the two windows in the kitchen
open at night and run the fan, I can drop
the temperature five to ten degrees inside. Oh yes, I
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really want to be able to open them like every
every evening in the summer and then close them up
mid morning every day.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Got you by, by the way, if everybody's listening to
box window, this is a casement window, I mean, I'm sorry,
a garden window. So we've got straight sides going out.
Have you thought about the idea that leaving the the
main front panel fixed glass and actually operable casements on
the sides going out, because then the crank would actually
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be just right at the edge of the countertop.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, the problem is not the crank, it's the window itself.
On the inside. We've got the kitchen counter to deal with,
which would make the kitchen counter useless if the windows
crank in, And if they crank out, there's a very
narrow walkway between the box window and the pool and
people won't be able to walk past the windows if
they're cranked open.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, no, but I'm talking about this. I'm talking about
the sides of the garden window. The sides, not the front.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
No side, it's not a garden window. It's a fully
fully framed in box window with brick trim on the sides.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Oh, I got you, I gotcha. Okay, I thought it
was a garden window too. So basically, you have sides
that you said, like a box. You go out, you
have to put your hand out to get you can't
reach it the window that's.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, twenty four inches of counter and then another
twenty inches of the box itself. And I had my
rotator cup prepaired, and I just can't move the windows anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, I wish we had the silver bullet for you,
but I'm not sure that what you're looking for is available,
Chris is. I can see Chris's eyes. He's he's staring
up at the ceiling thinking what can we do there?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I mean, there is there's poles that we use for
windows that are high, you know above, they're called the
anyway a Tan. Windows that are up high you can't
reach them. We have poles that open those up. But
I'm just saying, how would that work? Because they are
because you can put a latch it's called it's called
variable latch that has a place to put a pole.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
In the crank a crank pole.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Yeah, but I'm not sure it's going to be able
to have enough strength to open up left right, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, these are these are big, heavy windows. They're double glazed,
they're they're Marvin Integrity, the pultruated fiberglass stuff, yep, and
they're heavy.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well, Tom, I am afraid that it's a swing and
a miss. Sorry, I don't have a solution for you,
and only because and if Chris doesn't know if this
window exists, then I'm guessing this window doesn't exist. That's,
you know, for me, I'd be like Chris over to you, Bud.
But my guess is that you're probably you're probably.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, we know that they have those windows. I mean
we have automatic sliding doors and things for sure. Yeah,
but is it cost effective to try to figure out
someone's going to go put that together for you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, that's that's a thing. That's a thing. I mean,
anything can be done, Anything can be done. I should
return to my regular mantra where I tell people. I
tell my clients all the time, the answer is never know.
If you say, can this be done, the answer is
never know. The answer is just how big is your
checkbook and how much is this worth it to you?
Because of course we can do it. But if it's
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a one off, then you know there we go. All right, y'all,
more of your calls when we return your Home with
Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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Speaker 1 (13:50):
Hey, some of you might be thinking, you know what,
I just need Dean and Tina standing in our home
staring at the problem instead of call or listening in.
I love the info, but I really need them here. Well,
guess what that can be done too. You can get
yourself an in home design consultation. Just go to house
Whisper dot Design, House Whispered Dot Design and get more
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info along the way if that's something that you're interested in.
All right, I am sitting here in studio with my
very special in studio guest, Chris Perez, President of American
Vision Windows. American Vision Windows they handle things everything from
the southern border of the state and San Diego all
the way up past San Jose. There are a premiere
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Fantastic Window and Door Company. Fantastic Company, and Chris is
in here as my in studio expert today and we're
going to return to that conversation is just a bit.
But right now we're in the middle of the show,
which means it's time to take some more calls. And
is it Fanny of Franny, I want to talk to Franny. Hey,
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fran Anny, welcome.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Oh, thank you so much. We're having well, I think
a potential problem with our weep strip. We're in a
little complex with common walls, so our house is on
the outside. We have a house in the middle, and
then another house on their side, the neighbor on our
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common wall side. He says, that's our wall, so I
guess it is. He told me yesterday we might have
damage to our weep strip. Over the years, he has
done a lot of stuff in his patio, which is
not that large. At one point he tried to put
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a jacuzzi above ground. Jacuzi in almost against our wall,
and he was running the electric and water along the
base of our wall. My husband called him on it,
and the city made him take that down. But I'm wondering,
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what is the likelihood if there is damage to the
weep strip, that he's done something to cause it, and
is he responsible for repairing it even though it's our wall.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, all right, Well, so first of all, it's weep screed,
just so you know. Weep screed. Okay, it's a little
metal flashing that is the termination point at the bottom
of a stucco wall. They're very important for them to
be there because that little metal flashing, triangular flashing, and
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if you can't see it by looking at it, but
if you reach underneath, you'll feel that it's got holes
all the way underneath. And what it does it allows
the stucco to drain the water that it collects inside it. Okay,
Otherwise that water is going to push itself out through
the paint or through the stucco finish, and that's when
people think my stucco is deteriorating. It's not really, It's
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just water is pushing out from the backside. That's why
the weep screed is important. And it runs all the
way along, or it should run all the way along
at the bottom of all exterior stucco walls and be
at least a couple inches, if not more, above the
hardscape and the patio and all of that stuff out there.
You know, just about every house I know has damage
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to their weep screen because it's just easy to bump
things into it and kind of smash it a little
bit or bend it in. When we say that it's damaged,
we don't mean that it's not working anymore. It just
means that. You know, it's like saying that a ding
in your car is going to keep it from running
and driving it to the grocery store. Not the case.
All right. It may not be attractive looking at that
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point of contact, but the weep screed has got holes
in it the entire way along. And believe me, even
if one hole got smashed in for some reason, it's
still doing its job just fine. The question of whether
it's unsightly or whether it's causing a bigger problem, that's
an important question. And uh, you know I should just
tell you, Franny, because you called in and you asked
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me the question. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
jump on your side and say, yeah, of course, that guy,
that jerk, that's totally it's totally his fault, and he
should pay forevery he should be he should buy you
a new furniture in your house. I think too, how
we do that too? Did I lose you, Franny?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Now I'm here?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Okay? So anyway, the point is when you say the
weep screen is damage, what do we mean by that?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I have no idea. He showed me on our alley
side where it is. But as far as possible damage,
I don't know unless we get somebody in his patio
to look at it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay. So I don't exactly know how to answer the question,
but I will tell you this. Like I said, weep screen,
it's a system. It's not just one isolated thing, right,
So it runs under the entire stucco wall. And you know,
it would be one thing if somebody said, yeah, something
came along and ripped it all out from the bottom
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of the stucco, and the stucco's hanging loose and it's
all cracking and it's delaminating from the wall, all right,
that would be something of concern. But the idea of like, oh,
something bumped into it, something cracked it a little bit
or dent It's hard to tell without a real clear
description what exactly the issue with the weep screed is.
But I will tell you they're very durable and you'd
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have to do a lot to damage it to the
point where it's not doing its job anymore. Esthetically. That's
I think it seems to me what this conversation is
probably really about. And I wouldn't let him get under
your skin. I would just ask him, well, why need
you to take some pictures for me and show me
exactly what you're talking about. If you say that this
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is my wall, and if it's my wall, and you'll
and you're the only person who has access to it,
isn't that actually your wall then? Because if I can't
even get over there to see what's going on that,
I think if it's in your patio, I think it's
your wall, my friend. I'm just saying, Frannie, thank you
for your call, appreciate that. I wish I could help
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you out a little bit more clearly, but I'd need
to know exactly what's going on with it. All right,
Let's see if we can at least get one more
call started here. How about Jeanjeane, welcome home, Hi.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I think no one would be welcome here. It's not
looking very good.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh no, yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Didn't handle some things a long time ago, which you
always say, don't procrastinate, but I did. And now a
little water that was under one of the things in
the downstairs the bathroom is a huge water and now
there's mold. And so I have two different companies, two
different technicians came over, and one guy says that he
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wants to water blast it. The other guy had turned
the water off, but he turned the water back on.
And then the first guy he wants to do a
reeval removal of the old phil valve on the toilet
downstairs and install a new pill valve. And then they're
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but they don't know where the leak is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Okay, all right, Jeane, everything plugged up, all right, Gene,
I'm gonna hold you. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
hold you right there, okay, Number one. I mean, I'm
gonna have you answer this question. When we cut on
the other side of the break. I'm gonna pop you
on hold because we've got to go to a break.
But I want you to think about this, Uh is
this are these mold people who have looked at this
situation or plumbers and if it's plumbers, but.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
It doesn't smell good.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Okay, all right, no, no, just hang tight, hang tight with me.
I'm going to help you wade your way through this,
right Mold technicians are plumbers, very very different people, very
very different trades, and I want you to think about
this before we talk about remediating any of the other problems.
We need to know what actually is happening and where
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the water is coming from. That's what I want to
talk to you about right on the other side. So
you hang type buddy, okay, and we'll get back to it.
We'll get it figured out. That's what we do. You're
listening to Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Here to help you transform your ordinary house into an
extraordinary home. We're doing that today with my very special
in studio guest, Chris Perez, the president of American Vision Windows.
And we're going to be returning to that conversation right
after the next break. But right now, I got Gene
on the line. Gene, did I hang up on you?
Are you still there?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay? Here, So Jean's got some issues under bathrooms sink
that nobody can find the source of the leak from Okay,
So I just wanted to make this really clear, Gene,
that there are a lot of you know, once there's
blood in the water, there are a lot of people
who will be attracted to your situation, right, Mold remediation companies,
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you know, all sorts of different people. But when we're
dealing with a leak, okay, unless that leak has been
fixed already, then the very first thing we've got to
do is figure out where the leak is and stop it.
I don't want you to spend a dime on anybody
else for any other reason whatsoever. Then figuring out what's
leaking and getting the leak fixed, because then we're just
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throwing good money after bad, right, because we'll get it
all fixed up, and we get it all cleared out,
and then the leak continues, and that doesn't make any sense.
So what is the source of this water? Where is
it showing up? And you're setting you gave me the
impression that it's still happening.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
If when you flush.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
A toilet all the water comes up, and then the
bathtub doesn't always drain, But today it did, and then
the thing downstairs. I'm not even going in that room.
I'm the one that said mold. But these guys. One
guy comes over and he said he'd been sick for
five days, and I'm like, well, no, wonder, you're acting weird,
(24:22):
you know. And then the second guy, oooh, I don't
need a mask. I said, you better get a mask on.
Don't you guys wear masks? So it was all crazy,
and I just, like you said, I just need to
know where the leak is. I'm the one that brought
up the bowld.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Okay, all right, all right, good, good good. I mean
I just wanted to make sure. I wanted to make sure.
I had a recent run in with a mold remediation
company that I'm not going to go into. But I'm
just saying first things first. Okay, So if water is
backing up sometimes in the toilet, in the tub, when
the toilet gets flushed, or at any other time, it
(24:59):
sounds to me like you got to get a plumbing
company out there to run a camera down your drains
first of all, and see how occluded or gunked up
the drains are. Okay, because that's that it may not
be an absolute one percent clog, But it's the kind
of blockage that occurs when a lot of stuff builds
up on the inside of drainline pipes. The actual functioning
(25:22):
interior diameter of that drain may be way, way less
than the size of the drain pipe, and as a result,
every time water goes down the drain, it's backing up
into the tub for a short bit and then it
drains out or the toilet doesn't want to flush completely.
It sounds to me, first and foremost like you need
to see somebody to get a camera down there and
(25:43):
maybe rooter out and clear out the drains. And then
if that's the case, uh, to keep it from happening again,
we probably need to get you on and I'm talking
like a doctor here. We're gonna get you on a
regular prescription of dropping some enzymes, some sewer enzymes down
your sink and the toilet and the tub, and enzymes
(26:07):
are just a marvelous little kind of protein that breaks
up organic matter and keeps the inside of those pipes
clean and clear, so you don't have that backup again. Now,
if there are other forms of water dripping around, I'm
assuming it's not just water dripping out of a bad
(26:28):
pipe or bab hose under the sink, because that would
be really easy to see. Chances are if there's other
forms of water, it may be around the sink drain itself,
or the toilet may need a new gasket underneath it,
a new wax ring. These are all things, by the way,
that are incredibly inexpensive and very very easy to do.
(26:48):
So I don't want anybody charging you up the wazoo
for this kind of stuff, as if it was some
kind of high tech thing. Pulling the toilet off and
putting a new wax ring down. A wax ring is
all of like six bucks, okay for the really really
nice ones and popping those in place to seal up
the toilet. But I would start with the drains. So
(27:10):
the point is this, gene. I want you to talk
to a plumber. I want you to talk to more
than one plumber. Okay. This is the kind of situation
where you know I can't come over to your house
unfortunately and help you out, because I would tell you
exactly what the scoop is and then you could just
go and act for it. But this is a lesson
for everybody to learn when it comes to problems a diagnosis.
I want you to treat your house like a loved
(27:31):
one or like your own body. Okay, going to the doctor.
We don't just have somebody come by take a cursory look,
hand you an estimate, and then you're like, Okay, well,
I guess that's what I have to do, noe. When
it's a potentially serious situation and the question is how
much should this cost? Well, we're only going to know
that if you get three or so qualified, well vetted,
(27:56):
reputable plumbers to take a look at the situation, which
they're happy to do and to give you their assessment.
Because that's like calling in other doctors for a second opinion.
It's like, Doc Listen, I came in complaining about, you know,
a sore elbow. You recommended an amputation. Would you mind
if I got an actual second opinion on this? And like, yeah,
(28:16):
that's probably a good idea. So I want to get
eyes on plumbers eyes on, and I want to get
their bids and their estimates. And what you'll see after
two or three of them, Jeane, is you're going to
see that they're gonna at least a couple of them
are going to start to group together, you're going to
find out that like, oh, okay, well, these two guys
are only like a one hundred or two dollars apart,
(28:38):
and they're both saying the same thing, and maybe all
three of them are saying the same thing. Uh, And
you start to see and maybe there's an outlier, maybe
there's somebody who's like, no, it's not that, it's this,
And then you can figure that out as you go along.
But the idea is there's you know, there's an old
proverb that says there's a there's safety in a multitude
of counselors. Right, So what we want to get is
(28:59):
multiple eyes on this situation. Free estimates, they're not costing
you anything except time and energy. But it's time for
you to stop procrastinating and actually take the time and then,
you know what, I'm sure you're going to get to
the root of the problem and not overpay as you do. Gene,
thank you for your call, my friend. Good luck with that,
but yeah, it's time to address it. Don't start with
(29:20):
the mold, start with the leak, all right, y'all. When
we come back, we'll get with our special guest, Chris
Perez of American Vision Windows and get back on doors
and windows for your home. This has been Home with
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