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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The

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Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: my friend, Dean Sharp, The House Whisper Here. It's just

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Speaker 1: about six well, actually, what is it now? It's just

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Speaker 1: after six o'clock. Six's oh seven ish? Yep, looks that way.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, Custom home Builder, Custom

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Speaker 1: home Designer, and every week, right here, right now, your

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Speaker 1: guide to better understand that place where you live. Whether

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Speaker 1: home for you is a castle or a cottage, doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: matters not to me, you know why, because luxury does

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Speaker 1: not a great homemake. It is design that matters most.

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Speaker 1: Good design makes all the difference. Every house deserves it,

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Speaker 1: every house should enjoy it, because once it's at work

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Speaker 1: in your home, that is when your home has a

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Speaker 1: path forward towards becoming a great home. And of course

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Speaker 1: you got to take care of your home as well.

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Speaker 1: And I'm here to talk to you about all of it,

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Speaker 1: from great architecture and design for your home, all the

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Speaker 1: way down to the nuts and the bolts and the

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Speaker 1: leaks and the squeaks that our homes, that happened in

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Speaker 1: our homes all the time. I'm going to help you

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Speaker 1: out with them all. And how do we do it

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. We do it by just taking

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Speaker 1: your calls. You get to set the agenda today. The

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Speaker 1: number to reach me is eight three three two. Ask

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Speaker 1: Dean eight three three the numeral two ask Dean eight

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Speaker 1: three three to ask Dean, it's just that simple. Whatever

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Speaker 1: has you scratching your head about your home design, construction,

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Speaker 1: DIY inside stuff, outside stuff, landscape decor. I got you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put our heads together. We're gonna get it

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Speaker 1: figured out. Eight three three two ask Dean. As soon

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Speaker 1: as we've got calls on the board, we'll be going

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Speaker 1: to the phones. And this is the time when I

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Speaker 1: normally say, sitting across the table from me, my design partner,

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Speaker 1: my better half, my best friend in all the world,

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Speaker 1: Tina is here, but she's not now. She was feeling

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Speaker 1: under the weather. We're letting Tina sleep in today, and

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Speaker 1: so you know what, I'm just gonna have to turn

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Speaker 1: to my studio buddies, Sam and Heather. Sam, how's it going, Bud?

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Dean, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good.

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Speaker 1: I would turn on the microphone for who is sitting

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Speaker 1: across the table from me. But it wouldn't it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: help too much because it is a sleeping beagle. Oh

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Speaker 1: with Tina normally sits. I have Sam the beagle, so

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Speaker 1: do everybody. Just imagine Sam. He does not have his

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Speaker 1: headphones on. He's all curled up up. He just opened

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Speaker 1: one eye to look at me, like, what are you

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Speaker 1: talking about?

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Speaker 3: Buddy?

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Speaker 1: Uh, just go back to sleep. But it's all well.

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Speaker 1: So Sam's keeping me company in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see Tina later today, but not right now.

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Speaker 1: She needs a little shut eye for her. Hey, Heather,

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Speaker 1: how's it going?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning to you. What's up.

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Speaker 5: I'm a I'm you know, just doing the news over here. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: a little multitasking today where we don't have a writer

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Speaker 5: this morning to help me out. So it's all me today.

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Speaker 5: You and I are both flying solo today.

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Speaker 2: No, what's with that? What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Doing a little bit of everything today? But that's okay.

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Speaker 5: We make it work.

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Speaker 2: So apparently half the country is frozen today, No.

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Speaker 5: It's not wild. I'm looking at this map and you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm originally from Oklahoma and I've been like checking on

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Speaker 5: my friends and family who are still there, and they're

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Speaker 5: just like hunkered down, you know, they're all expecting to

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Speaker 5: lose electricity. And it's a yeah, pretty nasty storm it is.

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Speaker 1: It is just just just one of the one of

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Speaker 1: the worst we've seen in a long time.

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Speaker 5: Makes you really grateful to be in Socow.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are there any pretty how long it's going to last.

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Speaker 1: I've heard all about it, but I haven't heard.

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Speaker 5: At least through the weekend, is what I initially heard.

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Speaker 5: But it could, you know, slow down, it could move

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Speaker 5: into middle of next week. It's hard to tell because

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Speaker 5: it's taking up such a large part of the country,

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Speaker 5: like from New Mexico to Maine, you know. I mean

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Speaker 5: that's just a massive swath of the country. So at

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Speaker 5: least through the weekend for sure.

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Speaker 1: That was the thing that surprised me, that there was

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Speaker 1: this diagonal swipe from Maine to yeah, down to the southwest,

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Speaker 1: like what the heck from from high deserts all the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got a state of emergency in sixteen states.

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Speaker 2: That's how bad it is.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, if you are listening to us

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Speaker 1: from one of those states. Please stay warm, make sure

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Speaker 1: those pipes aren't freezing. And uh, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: good weekend for football.

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Speaker 5: I guess yeah, have you got if you've still got

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Speaker 5: electricity and can watch the games.

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Speaker 2: We'll tell them that. Don't say that, don't remind them

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Speaker 5: Maybe they can listen on the radio like that, oh

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Speaker 5: in the old timey days.

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Speaker 1: Old timey football days. Right, all right, Well, I am

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Speaker 1: glad you guys are here. Thanks for being with us

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Speaker 1: and working so hard as you guys always do. And

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Speaker 1: guess what it's time to get some news from our

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Speaker 1: friend here. And what am I gonna say? I'm gonna say, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we got a couple of calls on the board. So

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we're going to the phones your

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Speaker 1: home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper Whisperer, Dean Sharp,

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Speaker 1: the house Whisper. That is some funky music man here

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Speaker 1: to help you take your home to the next level.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. Are you

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Speaker 1: awake yet? You're waking up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're awake.

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Speaker 1: If you're in the eastern part of the US, you're

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Speaker 1: awake because it's cold, cold, cold outside. If you're here

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Speaker 1: in southern California. It is not cold, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: are still asleep, but there are those of us who

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Speaker 1: are up and adam and you know what, I love you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I love you guys. We've got some calls on the board.

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Speaker 1: It is an all call Saturday morning, and I just

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Speaker 1: love early morning question askers, because man, it means you're

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Speaker 1: up and getting it done today. Without any further Ado,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. Oh, let me give out

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Speaker 1: the number, by the way, because there's always room for you.

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Speaker 1: Eight three three two, ask Dean eight three three the

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Speaker 1: eight three three. I gotta get my mouth working today?

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 1: Eight three three two Ask Dean eight three three the

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Speaker 1: numeral two? Ask Dean. Anything you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: regarding your home today. Let's talk to Freddy. Hey, Freddie,

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Speaker 1: welcome home.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. Yes, there is a trying to replace a

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Speaker 3: deck down to the Joys. And there is a membrane

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Speaker 3: I think you refer to it or a barrier seal

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Speaker 3: that replaces roof paper. And I'd like to know the

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Speaker 3: name and where I can buy that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we're talking about a deck. Yeah, So roofing

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Speaker 1: paper really is a very very archaic product. There are

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Speaker 1: still roofers and people who use it uh and technically

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Speaker 1: the code still allows you to use it.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it has been a thing for a long

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Speaker 1: time now. There are various brands of this freddy and

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Speaker 1: it's a a roofing membrane is what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: a modern roofing membrane. Uh to Pot makes it. Tivek

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Speaker 1: makes a roofing membrane. Owen's Corning makes a roofing membrane.

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Speaker 4: W R.

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Speaker 1: Grace makes a roofing membrane. So the key gaf every

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Speaker 1: major roofing company makes a roofing membrane. The key is

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Speaker 1: that that you find one that is helf ceiling. That

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Speaker 1: means that when you roll it out, it will it

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Speaker 1: will seal to the deck and it also seals onto

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Speaker 1: itself the next course of it. So as you roll

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Speaker 1: it out, you're overlapping at four to six inches and

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Speaker 1: it's ceiling onto itself. And that's where that means by

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Speaker 1: the time you're done, you have one membrane, one continuous membrane,

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Speaker 1: not just a bunch of courses of paper, especially on

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Speaker 1: a deck, especially on a deck situation. And so these

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Speaker 1: membranes can actually be found, you know, right here in

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Speaker 1: town at a roofing supply company or at the big

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Speaker 1: box stores like Home Depot or Lows. You just go

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Speaker 1: back into the roofing department, you'll find them sitting on

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Speaker 1: the shelf, and you may want to talk to somebody

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Speaker 1: about which one works best for you. The thing that

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Speaker 1: I love about them, the thing that's so great about

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Speaker 1: them is that they remain pliable. That's the biggest problem

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Speaker 1: with courses of building paper. It's fine in the waterproofing

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Speaker 1: department as long as it's sloped properly, but as it ages,

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Speaker 1: it gets brittle, it cracks, and that's a problem and

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Speaker 1: has no expansion in contraction in hot and cold weather

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Speaker 1: that really works against it. But these membranes, they stretch,

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Speaker 1: they shrink, and they stay water tight. So you'll find

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Speaker 1: them in the roofing section at the lower.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm trying to help my friend who

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Speaker 3: has an upper level. It's on the second level. It's

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Speaker 3: I think it was added to the house in the forties,

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Speaker 3: and it has a very thin cement top and then

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Speaker 3: a plywood underneath, and it looks like crazy, and he's

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Speaker 3: been trying to plug it, and I total him he

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Speaker 3: needs to just gut it down to the joist, replace

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Speaker 3: it with like a with the plywood, and then just

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Speaker 3: use a membrane rather than roofing paper. And then he

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Speaker 3: can use I think like a luxury vinyl planking or

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Speaker 3: something exterior for the look on that upper level deck.

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Speaker 3: Am I telling him the right late approach? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, essentially essentially, yes, yes, And that's that's a decent

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Speaker 1: DIY way to do it. Now, a professional roofing membrane

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Speaker 1: or a professional deck contractor might actually decide to use

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Speaker 1: like a fiberglass combination or PVC mem brain up there.

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Speaker 1: That's another option for you as well for flat roofs.

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Speaker 1: But the key is this, and this is really important.

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Speaker 1: He needs to make sure if he's going to take

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Speaker 1: it all down to the joist, need to make sure

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Speaker 1: that when that when the plywood goes back on that

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Speaker 1: we've got slope.

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Speaker 2: We need slope on this thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's got to be sloped so that water is

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Speaker 1: going to move off of it because the layers of

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Speaker 1: concrete and whatever else is going on there, those are

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Speaker 1: those are layers that absorb water. That water moves right

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Speaker 1: through them. And so they are not going to you know,

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Speaker 1: convey the water. Now, yes, the membrane is waterproof in theory,

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Speaker 1: you could make a little bathtub or a pool with it,

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Speaker 1: but we never want to tempt fate. Okay, we want

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Speaker 1: everything working towards the same end. And so not only

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Speaker 1: do we want a really good membrane that's going to

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Speaker 1: last and stretch and stay sealed, but we want to

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Speaker 1: give it the best chance of doing its job at

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Speaker 1: all times and not have water sitting on it. So

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Speaker 1: they've got to have some slope on that deck. So

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Speaker 1: if we go all the way down to the joist,

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Speaker 1: we we might want to make some furring strips that

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Speaker 1: make sure that the plywood is actually sloped so that

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Speaker 1: the membrane will work. You could do it on top

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Speaker 1: of the plywood if you want, or you could do

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Speaker 1: it under the plywood. But the point is slope. And

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Speaker 1: a great membrane flashed into the house properly the wall

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Speaker 1: and the edge, and yeah, you're on the right track,

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Speaker 1: good start. It's a good start to the show. We've

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Speaker 1: you now. Eight three three two ask Dean eight three

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Speaker 1: the House Whisper.

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Speaker 1: Sam is really working me with the music, the bumper

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Speaker 1: music today, Dean Sharp, the House Whisper here to help

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Speaker 1: you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. You

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Speaker 1: know that's something that you just never hear anybody say, Sam.

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Speaker 1: You never hear somebody say these days, Hey, guys, guess

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Speaker 1: what I've been taking xylophone lessons. I was wondering if

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Speaker 1: I could just play you tune.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that was a mean marimba in that one.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I was violent fans right, yep, gone, daddy gone.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just saying, who do you know?

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Speaker 1: Who do you know that plays the marina?

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Speaker 5: I did when I was I was? Is that so nerdy?

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Speaker 2: It is? Yeah it is? How dare you it is?

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Speaker 5: I went to competitions in middle school and high school

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, do you have a xylophone?

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Speaker 2: Now? No, I don't break it out for the fan.

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Speaker 5: I should. No, I stopped playing after a high school. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: You should, you should, because you know what, Yeah, come

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Speaker 5: There is something that's sort of like classic about that sound,

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Speaker 2: You know here I thought I was safe to make

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Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, that's right, xylophone. Heather's like, excuse me,

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Speaker 5: Uh, I used to carry my mallets around with me

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Speaker 1: Don't say that, yes, don't tell okay, all right, all right, my.

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Speaker 5: I'm just scaring. Do you play any instrument? Sne you

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Speaker 1: No, I'm instrument illiterate. Oh well you know what? Well okay. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: See that's cool. There you go, just a little bit,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But here's the thing. I don't carry it around

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Speaker 1: I'm carrying the mallets around with me. Like what just

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Speaker 1: there's a xylophone here. I wish somebody had mallets.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm ready, Heather.

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Speaker 5: Always be prepared.

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Speaker 2: Hey, oh that was awesome. That just made my morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad in my morning. I'm done. I'm done

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Speaker 5: I'm such a nerd. When you said that, I was

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Speaker 2: Is there a doctor in the house? Well the doctor?

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Speaker 2: Why got you covered?

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Speaker 5: Dina? We're good over here? Where got you?

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Speaker 2: Right? Sam?

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Speaker 1: I need some you find Heather's yes, sylophone YouTube videos

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Speaker 1: and let's let's bump the next segment with that. All right,

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Speaker 1: I have to get back to work now. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: I kind of regret even mentioning it, but that's really amazing.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phone, shall we. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk to DDI. Heydd welcome home.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 4: So I have a gas fireplace, beautiful wooden mantle. But

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Speaker 4: the mantle gets so hot it melts like candles. Oh no,

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Speaker 4: it melted. I have to put you on it melted,

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Speaker 1: Okay, how this is really important? How high above the

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Speaker 4: Let me not care ya, fallo.

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Speaker 1: I mean really the top of the firebox, and it's

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Speaker 4: Maybe foot? Okay, maybe a foot let's see, gosh I

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Speaker 4: could have happened. It's about a foot out of the wall.

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Speaker 4: about eight inches past the fireplace.

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, so it's eight inches above the fire place.

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Speaker 1: The bottom of.

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Speaker 1: From the top of the firebox. Two yes, two inches

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Speaker 4: Correct, Okay, that's half an inch. It's a gorgeous mantle. Okay.

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Speaker 4: So here's the black little vent things above the gas

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Speaker 1: Okaya, all right, my friend, here's the thing. You got

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Speaker 1: a gorgeous mantle. You need to call somebody and talk

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Speaker 1: about moving it. Because here's the thing. The code, National

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Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want to bury everybody in

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Speaker 1: you how it ends up working out in the real world.

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Speaker 1: The bottom of any mantle made from noncombustible material, So

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Speaker 1: unless that mantle is stone or you know, concrete, if

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Speaker 1: it's wood, whatever else it may be made out of.

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Speaker 2: Most or wood, the.

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Speaker 1: Bottom of the mantle has to be at least six

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Speaker 1: inches above the heat dispersing top of the firebox. Okay,

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Speaker 1: at least six that's the bottom of the mantle six inches,

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Speaker 1: all right, But that's that's if the mantle only sticks

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Speaker 2: When I'm just walking.

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Speaker 1: and says, Dean, how high should a mantle be above

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Speaker 1: the firebox opening? I'm like, code is twelve inches. The

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Speaker 1: bottom of the mantle. Bottom of the mantle, the lower

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Speaker 1: edge needs to be twelve inches minimum above the firebox. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that that gives that gives room for the heat that's

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Speaker 1: the reason everything's melting on your mantle is that it's

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Speaker 1: way too close. It's not code and it's technically, you know,

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Speaker 1: a safety violation as well. Just it's not safe to

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Speaker 1: have the mantle that Now the mantle itself may not

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Speaker 1: you know, may may withstand the heat of what's coming

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Speaker 1: out of the firebox, but that's why everything you're setting

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Speaker 1: so that mantle, gorgeous as it may be, needs to

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Speaker 1: be higher about that opening. I'm sorry to tell you,

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Speaker 1: but that's just that's the way it is.

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Speaker 2: Dedie.

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Speaker 4: Would it be easier to get a smaller.

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Speaker 1: Box, a smaller firebox, Yeah, I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really has a lot to do with how much

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Speaker 1: you paid for the mantle and all of that, But

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Speaker 1: most people wouldn't do it that way. Most people wouldn't

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Speaker 1: just you know, switch out the fireplace if you're going

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Speaker 1: to switch out the fireplace at that point, you know

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Speaker 1: you can't just take that fireplace and choke the box

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Speaker 1: down either, Okay, it has to have its own clearances,

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Speaker 1: so it would be a new gas fireplace. And if

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Speaker 1: you're doing that, you're moving the mantle anyway, you're removing

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Speaker 1: it and putting it back. So I would just stick

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Speaker 1: with the fireplace that you've got and raise the mantle.

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Speaker 1: Raise the mantle. Now you might have fancy legs coming

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Speaker 1: down the side and you're thinking, oh, they touched the floor.

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Speaker 1: They've already cut. But we could put like a plinth

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Speaker 1: and get the whole thing up and it could all

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Speaker 1: be blended in decoratively. But I'm just telling you, my friend,

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Speaker 1: that mantle has got to go up minimum twelve inches

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Speaker 1: up from the firebox, okay, for anything that projects more

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Speaker 1: than six inches out from the wall. Just that's the

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Speaker 1: way it is, and the code takes it very very seriously. Datie,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your call, Thanks for calling in. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I wish I had better news for you. All Right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: when we come back, more of your calls your home

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Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, no.

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Speaker 2: Tan shirt, the house Whisper. There to remind you every

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Speaker 2: home deserves great design. It's an all call Saturday morning.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 1: It's an all xylophone Saturday morning. You boy, are you lucky? Wow? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Of all the Saturdays to tune in and listen to

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Speaker 1: the show, it's an all xylophone morning.

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Speaker 2: Hea there.

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Speaker 1: What is the difference between a xylophone and a marimba?

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Speaker 5: I think one is bigger. Yeah, that's my That would

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Speaker 5: be my guess.

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Speaker 2: The marimba is bigger.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the marimba is much larger. But I think essentially

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Speaker 5: they're the they're the same, but the marimba is is

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Speaker 5: much larger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And apparently you play it with felt and the

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Speaker 1: the mallets have felt tips, so it's like a softer

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Speaker 1: sound on the end, and the the xylophone mallets are

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Speaker 1: like hard rubber.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: When I played the xylophone, it was yeah, it was

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Speaker 5: a harder mallet. Okay, It's just a different different vibes.

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Speaker 5: People are like, should I put a xylophone in my home?

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Speaker 5: Should we build a little music area?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Listen to that? Love it all right?

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Speaker 1: I've d kind of turned a corner. Now, xylophone might

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Speaker 1: be my thing. It's so soothing though. It is kind

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Speaker 1: of soothing.

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Speaker 5: I think every time I go see the Nutcracker at

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Speaker 5: Christmas time, they have that classic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course there's a context for it. Yeah, of

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Speaker 1: course there's a context. I just can't get that image

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Speaker 1: of you carrying your mallets around and your backpack.

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Speaker 5: I will look for I will look for a picture

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Speaker 5: of me playing. I don't know if I have one

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Speaker 5: on my backpack, but I'll look for a picture of

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Speaker 5: me playing.

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Speaker 6: I'm picturing her wearing holster with like like having the

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Speaker 6: matelets in the gun like gun holster. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 6: because granted, a xylophone is not really the most portable

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Speaker 6: of instrument.

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Speaker 5: No, that always stayed in the band room, and I

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Speaker 5: didn't have one at home. I only played it at school.

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Speaker 5: But then when we went to competitions, we would load

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Speaker 5: it up in the in the van and take it

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Speaker 5: with us.

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Speaker 2: But so did your did your music teacher require you

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Speaker 2: to supply your own mouth? I brought.

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Speaker 5: I bought and brought my own mallets. See I was

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Speaker 5: there's a larger picture here. I was a first chair

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Speaker 5: in percussion, so I also played the drums, and I

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Speaker 5: did also carry my drumsticks around. But I'm really loved

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Speaker 5: in middle school, especially the xylophone. Yeah, so I had both.

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Speaker 5: I had my mallets and my drumsticks.

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Speaker 1: Look at you hidden depths right first chair and percussion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now o, drummers take their take their drumsticks everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Yes, you have to, you know, to become one with

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Speaker 5: the drumsticks.

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Speaker 1: Because you can break those out and just yet, you know,

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Speaker 1: right on the countertop.

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Speaker 5: At any moment, wherever somebody needs a beat, you're ready.

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Speaker 1: You're like, wait, I've got something, and you pull out

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Speaker 1: the xylophone.

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Speaker 5: Mallek, Yeah, you can't. It doesn't have the same effect

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Speaker 5: with the xylophone, Malek. I think I won like a

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Speaker 5: state competition with my with my rendition of the nutcrackers

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Speaker 5: bump bump boom boom bum bum boom bum.

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Speaker 1: See that's exactly perfect for a xylophone, right, it's perfect perfect,

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Speaker 1: all right, all right there, you forgive me, forgive me.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just getting my I'm getting my head

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Speaker 1: wrapped around.

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Speaker 5: I know it's wild. It's a very niche instrument, but

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Speaker 5: I love it. Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, get it, you know, in the xylophone community,

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Speaker 1: that's how we cheer each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get it, get it, nut cracker, that's it. All right,

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Speaker 2: I'm dying. I'm like crying, all right.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Hey, by the way, uh hello, good morning, Dean.

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Speaker 1: Sharp the house whisperer here, not the xylophone whisper.

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Speaker 2: You can't you could? Well? All right, maybe, all right,

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Speaker 2: I've got to go back to the phones.

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Speaker 1: I do. I just need to do that. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get started with a call. I'm so sorry. I'm just

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Speaker 1: just taken by the xylophone.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's its power. It's power. It'll seduce you, it will.

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Speaker 1: It just just draw you in. All right, Let's go

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Speaker 1: to the phones and then uh, we'll start a call

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Speaker 1: and then we'll go to break and finish it up. Pam, Hey, Pam,

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Speaker 1: welcome home and sorry for the xylophone stuff.

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Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Dean. I have a weird thing going on.

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Speaker 7: I have grass growing out of my shingles on my roof.

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Speaker 1: Mmm mmm mmm uh where ye at? Where where's the house?

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Speaker 7: I'm in northern California, Yuba City area, Marysville.

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Speaker 1: Okay, one side or all over the place, and these

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Speaker 1: are wishings.

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Speaker 4: On one side.

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Speaker 7: No, they're your real you know what are those shingles?

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Speaker 2: Asphalt light?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, how long?

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Speaker 7: It's only on the front side of the roof. I

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Speaker 7: barely bought the house, been there six months and I

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Speaker 7: noticed them when I was taking down my Christmas lights.

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Speaker 7: The backside has panels, solar panels all the way across,

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Speaker 7: and we did check and there's no grass growing on

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Speaker 7: the backside.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now we're talking grass, not not not algae or moss.

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Speaker 1: It's grass.

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Speaker 4: No, it's grass like it's tall.

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Speaker 3: Even just didn't notice it.

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Speaker 2: How long has it been happening.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I was procrastinating and barely took my Christmas lights down

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Speaker 7: and that's when I noticed it. And it's right above

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Speaker 7: the garage area, so not so much over the main house,

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Speaker 7: but right above the garage is where it's really I

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Speaker 7: mean ends a fake patch of grass.

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Speaker 1: Wow. That's impressive. That is impressive. Okay, well it's not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a huge problem. You gotta kill it.

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Speaker 1: You got to get up there, okay, and you know,

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Speaker 1: use some weed killer or if you want to go

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Speaker 1: natural and organic, you know, vinegar and water or bleach.

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Speaker 1: But but you just kill it, kill it, don't and

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Speaker 1: it's believing as a using as it is. Now there

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Speaker 1: are people listening saying, hey, grass gets grown on roofs

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Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, not by accident, that's the thing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there is such a thing as a live roof.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Live roofs are amazing, by the way, they're absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: But you have to design the roof for soil and

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Speaker 1: in order to grow you know, stuff on the roof intentionally.

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Speaker 1: But a regular shingled roof like that at asphalt composite roof.

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Speaker 1: The problem is, you know, roots, roots, just like it's

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Speaker 1: the roots. It's not the grass coming out the top.

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Speaker 1: Nobody cares about that. It's the roots. And the roots

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Speaker 1: have obviously found some form of nutrient. There's enough moisture

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Speaker 1: there and maybe enough dirt and door, you know, just

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Speaker 1: deposits there that they're taken hold, and the roots will

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Speaker 1: get under the shingles and disrupt shingles and mess with

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Speaker 1: the membrane and the next thing you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: a leak and we don't want that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you just got to get.

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Speaker 3: Up there.

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Speaker 2: Again, because it wouldn't be a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: It would not be. So this has literally popped up

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Speaker 1: since you bought the house.

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Speaker 7: Yes, because I put the Christmas lights up in late October,

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Speaker 7: right November first, did not see it, So it literally

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Speaker 7: just happened.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I I think, that's I think that's

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Speaker 1: what you should do. You should get it inspected to end.

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Speaker 1: But you got to get up there. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be like, oh, you know, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna call me back three years from now saying hey Dean,

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Speaker 1: it's Pam.

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Speaker 2: You remember I'd grasped on my roof. I guess what.

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Speaker 1: I tried to deal with it and just keeps coming back. No,

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Speaker 1: it won't, it won't you But you gotta gotta take

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Speaker 1: it out and then then you know, maybe have somebody

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Speaker 1: come out and take it and just make sure that

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Speaker 1: the that it hasn't done any damage already. I doubt

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Speaker 1: it because it's just been a recent thing. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't don't let it stay up there because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: belong there. And again the roots are the thing that

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Speaker 1: could cause a problem. All right, Well that was simple enough, Pam.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. It's just this is the way

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Speaker 1: the morning is going right, I'm mentioned xylophone. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, we got grass growing

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Speaker 1: on the roof, We've got you know, fish flying through

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Speaker 1: the backyard. Who knows what happens next, but don't miss it.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. You're Home with Dean Sharp. The house whisper

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Speaker 1: will be right back right after this.

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