May 30, 2025 • 5 mins
The House Whisperer Dean Sharp is back on Wake Up Call for another edition of ‘Waking Up with the House Whisperer!’ Today, Dean talks about fun new things to take your home into the future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
on KFI our house, whisper Dean Sharp. Welcome back from vacation.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dean, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, you're welcome. So today we're talking about like cool,
new futuristic things that you can get for your house,
not in the future, but right now here in the present.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is true. This is true. Every year or so
I try and set aside at least a couple of
shows and we talk about new stuff that's out there
that really could change the game, as it were, when
it comes to your home or home building or some
aspect of home. And we've got a really cool list
this year.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, so give us, give us a couple of
the highlights. It sounds like you're fighting a bit of
a cold as well.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, I'm I'm a little nasally this morning, so forgive
me for that. But all right, so right at the
top of the list. Super wood. What is super wooderwood? Well,
here's the thing. It's not so much a particular wood,
but it is a process now that any kind of
wood can go through that makes it get this stronger
(01:03):
than steel, eighty percent lighter than equivalent steel, and rot resistant,
fire resistant, water resistant. It's really kind of an amazing idea.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, So here's my one question on this, because in
the wake of the wildfires in La County, they're talking
about how these all these fire burn areas are toxic
because the houses are built with thing with chemically you know,
altered building materials, right, right, So is that does that
(01:38):
superwood fall into that category?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Not at all, not at all. It is wood, it
is in fact, In fact, the strength of superwood doesn't
come from adding anything to the wood. It comes from
removing something from the wood. So it goes through a
little chemical treatment and the chemicals don't stick around. Okay.
The chemical treatment is the equivalent to the kind of
tree that we already take wood through to create pulp.
(02:03):
And what that does is it removes this part of
the wood that are lignins and what we call hemicellulose,
which are kind of the carbohydrates and the sugars inside
the wood. By the way, those are the materials that
bugs like termites like to eat. Okay, So imagine imagine this.
(02:24):
Imagine you take a regular piece of wood and you
let termites just get to it. You know, we've all
come across it that's got all these tunnels inside it,
all these voids, spaces where they have just eaten out
all of the goodness inside this wood. What they've left
behind are actually the strongest parts of the wood. And
now we take that after chemically removing those areas, We
(02:48):
take that kind of spongy, open hollow wood and we
apply heat and pressure to it to press it down,
recompress those areas and get them to find to each
other again the walls of those inner voids. And what
we end up with is a wood that is unbelievably strong,
(03:10):
no added chemicals to it whatsoever. It's wood. It's just
wood that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And is it available now?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It is available now, just this year, just this year,
and they're beginning their rollout now because they're talking about
the possibilities of even creating car body frames, airplane frames,
and skyscrapers out of this material.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But this year the rollout starts with siding and decking
materials and then it will move on to structural beams.
So imagine this. You talk about wildfire areas. Imagine that
you have an house on the open space edge of
a wildfire area. Imagine the freedom you have now from
a design perspective to say, you know what, I'm going
(03:55):
to put wood siding on my house and it's gonna
be entirely class A fire rated because super wood burns
at the same temperature that's stone and brick burn.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, okay, And you're going to talk about more about this,
and I would love to talk more about this, and
your list of things is all things that I want
to find out more about. But we don't have time
here now, but we will this weekend on Home with
Dean Sharp, and that is Saturday from six to eight
and Sunday from nine to noon. And I will be
(04:29):
particularly tuned into the firefly petunia.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They glow in the dark.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's a petunia that glows in the dark. Yes, and
there's no radioactivity.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No no. They've mixed it with a lubinescent mushroom gene
and now they glow at night.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That is so cool. All right, Dean Sharp, thank you
so much. Can't wait to listen to your show this
weekend again. It's a Home on KFI. It's six to
eight on Saturday morning and nine to noon on Sunday morning.
Cool things in the future that you can get right
now in the present.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We'll see you there, all right.
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
on KFI our house, whisper Dean Sharp. Welcome back from vacation.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dean, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, you're welcome. So today we're talking about like cool,
new futuristic things that you can get for your house,
not in the future, but right now here in the present.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is true. This is true. Every year or so
I try and set aside at least a couple of
shows and we talk about new stuff that's out there
that really could change the game, as it were, when
it comes to your home or home building or some
aspect of home. And we've got a really cool list
this year.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, so give us, give us a couple of
the highlights. It sounds like you're fighting a bit of
a cold as well.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, I'm I'm a little nasally this morning, so forgive
me for that. But all right, so right at the
top of the list. Super wood. What is super wooderwood? Well,
here's the thing. It's not so much a particular wood,
but it is a process now that any kind of
wood can go through that makes it get this stronger
(01:03):
than steel, eighty percent lighter than equivalent steel, and rot resistant,
fire resistant, water resistant. It's really kind of an amazing idea.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, So here's my one question on this, because in
the wake of the wildfires in La County, they're talking
about how these all these fire burn areas are toxic
because the houses are built with thing with chemically you know,
altered building materials, right, right, So is that does that
(01:38):
superwood fall into that category?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Not at all, not at all. It is wood, it
is in fact, In fact, the strength of superwood doesn't
come from adding anything to the wood. It comes from
removing something from the wood. So it goes through a
little chemical treatment and the chemicals don't stick around. Okay.
The chemical treatment is the equivalent to the kind of
tree that we already take wood through to create pulp.
(02:03):
And what that does is it removes this part of
the wood that are lignins and what we call hemicellulose,
which are kind of the carbohydrates and the sugars inside
the wood. By the way, those are the materials that
bugs like termites like to eat. Okay, So imagine imagine this.
(02:24):
Imagine you take a regular piece of wood and you
let termites just get to it. You know, we've all
come across it that's got all these tunnels inside it,
all these voids, spaces where they have just eaten out
all of the goodness inside this wood. What they've left
behind are actually the strongest parts of the wood. And
now we take that after chemically removing those areas, We
(02:48):
take that kind of spongy, open hollow wood and we
apply heat and pressure to it to press it down,
recompress those areas and get them to find to each
other again the walls of those inner voids. And what
we end up with is a wood that is unbelievably strong,
(03:10):
no added chemicals to it whatsoever. It's wood. It's just
wood that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And is it available now?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It is available now, just this year, just this year,
and they're beginning their rollout now because they're talking about
the possibilities of even creating car body frames, airplane frames,
and skyscrapers out of this material.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But this year the rollout starts with siding and decking
materials and then it will move on to structural beams.
So imagine this. You talk about wildfire areas. Imagine that
you have an house on the open space edge of
a wildfire area. Imagine the freedom you have now from
a design perspective to say, you know what, I'm going
(03:55):
to put wood siding on my house and it's gonna
be entirely class A fire rated because super wood burns
at the same temperature that's stone and brick burn.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, okay, And you're going to talk about more about this,
and I would love to talk more about this, and
your list of things is all things that I want
to find out more about. But we don't have time
here now, but we will this weekend on Home with
Dean Sharp, and that is Saturday from six to eight
and Sunday from nine to noon. And I will be
(04:29):
particularly tuned into the firefly petunia.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
They glow in the dark.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's a petunia that glows in the dark. Yes, and
there's no radioactivity.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No no. They've mixed it with a lubinescent mushroom gene
and now they glow at night.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That is so cool. All right, Dean Sharp, thank you
so much. Can't wait to listen to your show this
weekend again. It's a Home on KFI. It's six to
eight on Saturday morning and nine to noon on Sunday morning.
Cool things in the future that you can get right
now in the present.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We'll see you there, all right.
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