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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. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to Jason. Hey, Jason, welcome home.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thank you. I'm an original homeowner and as such,

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Speaker 2: I have all the original photos of the framing, plumbing, electric.

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Speaker 2: The house is about fifteen years old, three thousand square feet,

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Speaker 2: two story. I'm in Orange County. We want to do

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Speaker 2: a modest extension or expansion of our existing dining room

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Speaker 2: so that we would push out an exterior wall to

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Speaker 2: basically capture an existing outdoor alcove type area that also

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Speaker 2: has there's an exterior entrance to the kitchen that goes

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Speaker 2: into that same area. So if you can imagine a

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Speaker 2: first story, little maybe hundred square foot alcove, there's an

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Speaker 2: exterior door from the dining room to that alcove. There

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Speaker 2: is an exterior door from the kitchen to that alcove.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, hey, if we just pushed out

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Speaker 2: that wall maybe eight feet, we could have a way

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Speaker 2: to get into the kitchen from the dining room, and

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Speaker 2: we'd gather up another one hundred square feet. I reach

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Speaker 2: out to various contractors and they're like, Hey, do you

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Speaker 2: have the drawings? I'm like, well, what do you mean? Well,

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Speaker 2: if when you go to get permits, they're going to

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Speaker 2: want a drawing of the entire house, not just that

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Speaker 2: little section, And I'm like, gosh, I'm yours aloner, but

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Speaker 2: I don't have any drawings. Well, you know, you either

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Speaker 2: have to get a firm to draw up the entire

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Speaker 2: elevation of the house as it's existing and the plan

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Speaker 2: for that wall, or find another way to get them.

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Speaker 2: I'm sort of perplexed on like, a does the whole

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Speaker 2: house really have to get drawn up just to move

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Speaker 2: one wall? And secondly, do I, as like an original homeowner,

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Speaker 2: do I have any sort of entitlement to maybe those drawings?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm learning to hire an engineering firm to come

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Speaker 2: in and draw the whole house. It's quite expensive for

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Speaker 2: a small project like.

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Speaker 1: This, right, Okay, all right, so let me help you

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Speaker 1: kind of break this down. First of all, your contractors

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Speaker 1: are right ish, but they're probably correct. It changes municipality

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Speaker 1: to municipality. But generally speaking, if you are doing a

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Speaker 1: structural addition onto a house just for context sake, right,

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Speaker 1: the city is going to be bare minimum. They're going

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Speaker 1: to be looking for an exterior elevation of that three

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Speaker 1: sides of that push out and and three sides meaning

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Speaker 1: three cardinal directions. Right, So, if you're pushing out on

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Speaker 1: the south side of the house, they're going to want

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Speaker 1: the south elevation looking straight on. They're gonna want the

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Speaker 1: east and west elevations looking at the sides of that alcove.

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Speaker 1: As a pushout, they won't care about the other side

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Speaker 1: of the house. Okay. They basically want context, and they

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Speaker 1: want context in relation to where this alcove is in

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Speaker 1: relation to the first floor. Now, if you're not affecting

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Speaker 1: anything on the second floor, they your city may not

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Speaker 1: need second floor drawings, okay, they may not care about that,

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Speaker 1: or they may feel like, okay, what is this affecting

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Speaker 1: upstairs if anything. So that's that's the first thing you

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Speaker 1: need to know, and the answer to those questions reside

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Speaker 1: at your local building department, not with contractors, but actually

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Speaker 1: just making a trip down and saying, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: what we're planning on doing with our home. Secondarily, your

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Speaker 1: city may may it's getting rarer these days, but they

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Speaker 1: may actually have your original house plans on file, especially

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Speaker 1: if it's only been fifteen years since the house was built.

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Speaker 1: So while you're there, you should also ask the city

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Speaker 1: at the planning department, do you have the original blueprints

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Speaker 1: for my home or at least my tract, And maybe

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Speaker 1: they've got blueprints for your floor plan that are flipped,

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Speaker 1: that have been submitted by the builder of the developer

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Speaker 1: back in the day. Those will work. That gives you

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Speaker 1: a massive head start. Now sometimes the city will say, well, yes,

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Speaker 1: we do have that. We can't release it to you

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Speaker 1: though without notifying the builder, the original developer, or the

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Speaker 1: architects first. That's just a technicality, And most of the

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Speaker 1: time what happens is they'll tell you, listen, we're going

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Speaker 1: to do the official notification and we will let you

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Speaker 1: know in seven days if we haven't heard back from them,

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Speaker 1: we're going to release the plans to you and you

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Speaker 1: can have them on you, usually a digital file that

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Speaker 1: to the races as far as plans are concerned for

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Speaker 1: still going to have to draw the plans, right. You

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Speaker 1: having to remeasure the whole house and go to that expense,

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Speaker 1: so it's going to reduce the cost. Finally, the thing

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Speaker 1: that I want to tell you is that never ever

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Speaker 1: hire an engineering firm to draw your house. The engineers

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Speaker 1: As far as the rest of the plan, whatever the

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Speaker 1: You can hire a draft I mean technically, Jason, you

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Speaker 1: can do this yourself. You are a homeowner and you

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Speaker 1: could actually draw the house yourself, but that is a

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Speaker 1: headache for a lot of people. You can hire a

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Speaker 1: drafts person. There are rafts people out there for hire

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Speaker 1: who will give you a really good price to draw

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Speaker 1: up the layout of your home and draw the elevations

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Speaker 1: for it. Believe me, there are a lot of drafts

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Speaker 1: people out of work and looking for work. It's a

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Speaker 1: good time these days to hire a drafts person. It

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Speaker 1: does not require a licensed architect or a licensed engineer

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Speaker 1: to draw your home. I am not a licensed architect

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Speaker 1: right and yet I design and build custom homes and

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Speaker 1: have for the nearly forty years now because in the

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Speaker 1: state of California, you do not the city. The state

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Speaker 1: does not require a licensed architect to be in involved

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Speaker 1: in most cases up to three stories in a residential home. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so when it comes to residences, anybody who knows what

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Speaker 1: they're doing can draw and submit those drawings generally speaking

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Speaker 1: as a general rule in most municipalities. So it all

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Speaker 1: starts with you go into the city getting the info

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Speaker 1: you need from them, finding out if your plans are

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Speaker 1: on file. If they're not, yeah, you're going to have

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Speaker 1: to break down to follow whatever they are looking for,

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Speaker 1: and you just give them the minimum of what it

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Speaker 1: is that they're looking for. They're not going to be

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Speaker 1: super impressed if you give them extra extra ectorate. They

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Speaker 1: just want what they want and you start it there.

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Speaker 1: But don't hire an engineering firm to do it, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: those those guys are engineers and they make engineering money.

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Speaker 1: Hire and don't hire an architect. Hire a drafts person

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Speaker 1: who work for engineers and architects in order to actually

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Speaker 1: put the drawings together. By the way, you hire an

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Speaker 1: engineering firm to all your house, they're going to hand

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Speaker 1: to get charged engineering prices for the whole thing. So

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Speaker 1: there you go. You sub it out as you need

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's great, all right, buddy, Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you can get that done for way less, okay, and

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Speaker 1: get it done well all right, So but start with

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Speaker 1: the city. That's the key. Jason, Good luck my friend

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Speaker 1: on that remodel. Hope everything turns out really really well. Okay,

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Speaker 1: quick break and then more of your calls your Home

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to Beth. Hey, Beth, welcome home.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Den So, the question is what is the

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Speaker 4: bare minimum that we needed to do to keep a

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Speaker 4: property alive, if you will, because the property is going

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Speaker 4: to be closed, have been closed for about eight months,

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Speaker 4: then it will be closed for a little while until

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Speaker 4: one of the owners passed away. They were moved to

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Speaker 4: a senior living assisted living, and it doesn't make sense

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Speaker 4: to sell the house because they are going to pay

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Speaker 4: huge capital gain taxes, so we're going to wait until

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Speaker 4: one dies. They don't need the money. So but I'm

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Speaker 4: nervous that the house is just closed and is deteriorating.

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Speaker 1: Ah Okay, well, it's a good question, a really good question, Beth.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure anybody's asked me that in that way before. So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, where is the house as far as

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Speaker 1: Hontington Beach? Okay, so you're here in southern California. So

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Speaker 1: the reason I asked that is because there are different

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Speaker 1: requirements for doing this for different homes across the country. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to areas that get severe and freezing winters,

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Speaker 1: there are things. There's additional things i'd say that have

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Speaker 1: to be added to the maintenance of an empty house,

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Speaker 1: including not just not just putting in bleeder valves so

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Speaker 1: I would suggest at least running the bare minimum amount

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Speaker 1: a moderate temperature. But here in southern California that's not

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Speaker 1: the temperature shifts to extremes. If you're in an extreme

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Speaker 1: temperature environment. One of the best ways to take care

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Speaker 1: a moderate mid range. And that, you know, not a

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Speaker 1: lot of people think about that. That a neglected home,

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Speaker 1: meaning a house that just doesn't anybody living in it,

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Speaker 1: very temperate. Your main concern there will be letting, making

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Speaker 1: sure that somebody's dropping by and flushing toilets and running

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Speaker 1: water in all of the sinks. Okay, And here's why.

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Speaker 1: There's this little thing underneath every sink and in every

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Speaker 1: that way not because we're peeing in it, because it's

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Speaker 1: shaped like the letter P. And that trap holds water

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Speaker 1: It's a trap for water. That water that's in the

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Speaker 1: pea trap is what's keeping sewer gases from coming up

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Speaker 1: that's why houses that have been not lived in for

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Speaker 1: a long time in realtors who have not been doing

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Speaker 1: this going. That's why you open up a door and

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Speaker 1: And sometimes it's bad enough that it can start to

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Speaker 1: permeate walls and things like that. We don't want that

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Speaker 1: is because if those sinks aren't being used, and that

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Speaker 1: new water isn't being put down into the pea trap,

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Speaker 1: if the shower isn't being used, if the tub isn't

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Speaker 1: to evaporate out. And when it evaporates out, there's a

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Speaker 1: point where it drops down and it's no longer blocking

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Speaker 1: the sewer gases and those elements are inside the house.

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Speaker 1: So as something as simple as getting by the house

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Speaker 1: every week or so and just spending five minutes turning

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Speaker 1: about thirty seconds, turning them off and going your merry

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Speaker 1: way is going to keep the house smelling normal. And

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Speaker 1: apart from that, there's not a whole lot at eight

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Speaker 1: ten months a year, not a whole lot you've got

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Speaker 1: more great stuff on the way you're listening to Home

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Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer.

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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty Suirley Welcome home.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Dean. I'm noticing a pattern. I am sixties,

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Speaker 5: we don't need to permit, and no one's going to

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Speaker 5: They're just respectful. So I don't know if it's something

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Speaker 5: they've reconfigured my whole They're telling me what to do,

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Speaker 5: intimidated by their quote, Oh, we're bearing this. I just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel you, I feel you. I wish I

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Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, there is a certain kind of

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Speaker 1: it is a relationship that you're having. Okay, You're going

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Speaker 1: And that's the way it's going to be. I'm not

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Speaker 1: So Number one, don't ever get into a relationship with

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty Brad Welcome home.

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Speaker 6: I have a nineteen sixty house with ten foot ceilings

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got obviously nineteen sixties fixtures their standard

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Speaker 1: screw in type bulbs. There there are LED. There are

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Speaker 1: It's a color temperature. It's not a heat temperature. It's

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Speaker 1: talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome home.

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Speaker 7: Hello young man. Hello Mike, Yes, how you doing. I'm

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Speaker 7: doing a great job. You're doing a great job. And

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Speaker 7: I would like to ask you a question about possibly

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Speaker 7: a plumber could help me. But we had our bathroom

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Speaker 7: redone and then ever since then, when we would turn

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Speaker 7: it makes a pounding noise like pressure or something. So

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Speaker 7: and I don't know if we have to dig into

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Speaker 7: the wall again. We did tile and everything in there.

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Speaker 7: We did the trick with the water heater, but that

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Speaker 7: didn't fix it. So what do you think?

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Speaker 1: All right, well, you are you have become a victim

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Speaker 1: of the water hammer effect. That's what you're water hammer

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Speaker 1: is common. It's not your plumber's fault. Nobody did anything wrong,

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Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, no, what it is. You know, water

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Speaker 1: rushes through pipes, it turns corners, and as it turns corners,

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Speaker 1: it causes what's like in the world of ships and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't turn a corner as smoothly as we think

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Speaker 1: it does. Some of that energy gets kind of bundled

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Speaker 1: up and it creates different kind of pressures that happen

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Speaker 1: just virtually impossible to know. We've plumbed entire you know,

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Speaker 1: eighteen thousand square foot homes with seemingly miles and miles

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Speaker 1: of hot and cold water lines and never had a

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Speaker 1: single water hammer issue with any faucet, And then we've

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Speaker 1: turned around and done very similar house and it's all

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Speaker 1: over the place. It really has to do with when

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Speaker 1: you think of your hot and cold running water system,

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Speaker 1: thinking of it as a gigantic flute, and sometimes it

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Speaker 1: makes noise and sometimes it doesn't, depending on the twists

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Speaker 1: and the turn. So here is the thing. It's not

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Speaker 1: the plumber's fault because there's just no way to anticipate it.

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Speaker 1: But fortunately the fix can be pretty dang simple. You

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Speaker 1: can find sitting on the shelf at the big box

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Speaker 1: store at your local plumber supply store, a device called

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Speaker 1: water hammer a restor, and what it literally is is

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a three to four inch sort

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Speaker 1: of copper nipple device. Inside that tube is a spring

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Speaker 1: and essentially a shock absorber. It's a shock absorber and

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Speaker 1: a water hammer arrestor can be put in line by

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Speaker 1: a plumber somewhere up in the attic, but it can

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Speaker 1: also they have them that it can be installed literally

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Speaker 1: underneath a sink in the new bathroom. You can take

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Speaker 1: off the uh, the the angle stop that's the valve

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Speaker 1: that's there, and install the water hammer arrest or first,

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Speaker 1: and then put the angle stop back on UH and UH,

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Speaker 1: you know, just with wrenches and more often than not,

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Speaker 1: one or two of these, one on the hot line,

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Speaker 1: one on the cold line will solve the problem. And

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Speaker 1: if if it doesn't completely solve it, then you find

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Speaker 1: another location under another sink, and you add a couple

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Speaker 1: of more. They're inexpensive, they're easy to install, and uh

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Speaker 1: that cavitation that's happening in the line, just because of

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Speaker 1: the configuration of the lines, these shock absorbers will do

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Speaker 1: their job. They'll absorb that shock instead of letting it

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Speaker 1: reverberate through the pipes all the way through the house

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Speaker 1: and cause that that that you hear when uh wait,

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Speaker 1: let me get the door, get the door. Oh there

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Speaker 1: you go, my friend. That's that's the solve, and so

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