1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: talking about the best of the Consumer Electronics Show Home 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Edition today, my views and perspectives on some of the 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: things at CES that apply best to our homes. We're 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: going to dive back into that in just a second. 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: After this next break though, we will be going to 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: the phones right here middle of the show. So here's 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: the number eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: to three the numeral two, and then you just spell 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: out ask Dean, A three three to ask Dean. And 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: of course when it comes to calls, you get to 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: set the agenda. Anything that's going on with your home construction, 14 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: DIY design, landscape, de core, you name it. We'll put 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 1: our heads together, we will figure it out, all right, 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: that's coming up next. Phone lines are open, Okay. I 17 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: want to finish up this section of CEES stuff that 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: really is kind of screen oriented, because then I want 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: to move on to some other elements. We've talked about wallpaper, TVs, 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: very very thin television's nine millimeters thick, thinner than the 21 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: width of your pinky. I just talk to you at 22 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: length about bias lighting for your TV. Not only to 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: alert you to that there are new brands of TVs, Lenovo, Samsung, 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: and Phillips coming out with these new models, not new brands, 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: new models with their own built in color changing LED 26 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: bias lights, that they are very very smart AI driven 27 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: bias lights, but also to make you aware you don't 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: have to go out and buy these new things. There 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: are LED bias light kits that you can buy right now. 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: You can order them off Amazon to put on the 31 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: backside of your own flat screen TV to give it 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: bias lighting. Bias lighting is all about easing eyestrain as 33 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: you watch. It's maximizing your viewing. It actually deepens the 34 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: contrast and the colors when your eyes are not having 35 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: to wrestle with that heavy, heavy contrast between the brightness 36 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: of the screen and the darkness of the wall behind it. 37 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: And worst case scenario, if you don't want to go 38 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: to all that trouble, think in terms of lighting the 39 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: room or at least the wall that the TV is 40 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: on in some very very gentle and subtle ways to 41 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: create the bias lighting because it just enhances performance. So 42 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: I'm just using that whole technology as a way of saying, 43 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: everybody who does serious flat screen watching shouldn't do it 44 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: in a deeply, deeply dark room without a little bit 45 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: of light against the wall. Just you know, the more 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, all right, here is an application though, that 47 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: was all over ces of this high tech TV screen 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: we've talked about in the past, the Samsung Frame, which 49 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: is a TV that I love, the Samsung Frame. What 50 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: is special about the frame? The Samsung Frame was introduced 51 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: a few years back. It's only gotten better and better 52 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: at doing this. It is a TV relatively thin, I 53 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: mean very thin, not wallpaper thin at this point, but 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: thin enough. And it comes with its own frame, a 55 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: selection of frames around it. And the whole idea of 56 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: the frame is that when you're not using it as 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: a TV, and it's a full service, full on, gorgeous, 58 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: full viewing home theater TV. But when you're not using it, 59 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: it becomes a piece of art hanging on the wall 60 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: and you can put up any art you want in 61 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: it and it hangs on the wall. Now, how is 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: this different than just like putting an art up on 63 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: your regular TV? Though, the Samsung Frame is constantly sampling 64 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: the intensity of light, ambient light in the room and 65 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: lowering its own low energy light projection so that it 66 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: doesn't really look like it's actually pumping light out into 67 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: the room. So therefore the images on it look really 68 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: realistically like you're just looking at a painting or a 69 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: landscape photograph or whatever. In other words, it doesn't look 70 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: like it's lighting it up, backlighting it. It simply looks 71 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: like that picture is being driven off of the existing 72 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: light in the room, like a real work of art is. 73 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: So that's a full featured TV that mimics, while it's 74 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: not in TV mode, a work of art. So it's 75 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: the whole idea of like, well, I don't want to 76 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: really put the flat scream over the TV, I mean 77 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: over the fireplace because I'd rather have art there. Well, 78 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: you could do both with the frame. It can be 79 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: art or TV when you need it. That kind of stuff. 80 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: A lot of applications for us in the design world 81 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: of the Samsung Frame. Now at CEES, let's move away 82 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: from the TV part. Let's just talk about that technology. 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: There are companies like blooming eight and a switch Spot 84 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: that entert deuced at CES this year. E ink Art 85 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: frames okay, e ink e dash ink If you were 86 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: to go search, like during the break, if you want 87 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: to go search e dash ink art frames, you'll see 88 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: these companies come up. Okay, these are pieces of they're frames, 89 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: picture frames. They go from seven and a half inches 90 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: in diagonal right now. I think the largest one I 91 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: saw was thirty one and a half inch. That's a 92 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: big picture frame. Frames that are battery driven that are 93 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: using that essentially that same Samsung frame concept. But they're 94 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: not TVs. They're just picture frames, digital picture frames that 95 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: can be hung all over the house. No wires, no plugs. 96 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: The batteries last four years before recharging, and they look 97 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: exactly no different than a complete normal picture frame. Got 98 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: the mat in the the whole thing. The difference is 99 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: there's a little lap on your phone and you open 100 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: it up and you dial it up and you say, Okay, 101 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: this frame here that's hanging in the hall closet, in 102 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: the hall closet in the hallway, this frame here, I 103 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: want that to have that picture of the kids and 104 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: us on vacation last year. Or I'd like this one 105 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: that's hanging in the dining room to have, you know, 106 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: a Picasso on it, or I'd like that to to 107 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: you know, have a Starry Night by Van Kuch on 108 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: it and so there you go, anything and you can 109 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: have them rotate. It means that imagine just and Tina 110 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: and I are just starting to think about the possibilities 111 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: of the but imagine that if every frame in the 112 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: house was essentially a digitally controlled app fed frame, that 113 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: you could have all sorts of art all over the house, 114 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: change it up without changing picture frames as you wish. 115 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: The frames could be all sized proportionate to a room. 116 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: You never have to move them or change them out, 117 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: but you can change the art in them for nothing. 118 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: And if it's somebody's birthday party, like oh, suddenly, every 119 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: frame in the house is filled with that photos of 120 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: that individual, plus happy birthday messages and everything. That is 121 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: a piece of tech that, in my opinion, is utilizing 122 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: this digital looks like paper, looks like ink technology and 123 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: taking it to places that we really haven't gone before. 124 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: And that is worth noting. All Right, that's it for screens. Okay, 125 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: the digital art probably the one thing I'm most impressed 126 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: with at CES this year of all things, but there 127 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: are other things as well, and we'll talk about it, 128 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: but first when we come back, we're going to the phones, 129 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. 130 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 131 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 132 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Glad to have you on board. We're talking about the 133 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: best of the Consumer Electronics show this year to That 134 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: was about three weeks ago, and I had some other 135 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: priorities that I needed to talk to you about, but 136 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: I wasn't going to forget about it. So we're talking 137 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: about that home edition, the best stuff as it relates 138 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: to your home. We'll get back to that in a bit, 139 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: but as we do mid show here, it is time 140 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: to go to the phones. If you've got a question 141 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: for me, the phone lines are open eight three three 142 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: to ask Dean A three three the numeral two and 143 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: then you just spell out ask Dean A three three 144 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: to ask Dean. Phone lines are open. There's room for 145 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: you right now, though, I want to talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, 146 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: welcome home. 147 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 3: Yes, I have. I live in a one bedroom apartment 148 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 3: on the ground floor. And the flow out of the 149 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 3: hot water kitchen. Actually, of all the things which should 150 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 3: be the bathroom and and the kitchen, it's pretty low. 151 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: It's pretty feeble. And I asked a plumber about it, 152 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 3: and he said, I said, is there any way of 153 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: increasing the flow? And he said, well, you got to 154 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 3: put in a new hot water line I guess from 155 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 3: the water heater to the to the kitchen sink. I 156 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 3: want to know there's any other way of doing that 157 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: without having me having to rip out, you know, to 158 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 3: rip out the wall to get to the pipe and 159 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 3: replace the pipe. 160 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, okay, so yeah, a couple of things here. One, 161 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: the low pressure could be the result of bad pipes, okay. 162 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: And so if the plumber is basically saying, listen, these 163 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: old pipes, the inside of them, they've got so much 164 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: mineral build up in it that, you know, even though 165 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: it's a half inch pipe water pipe, technically you've only 166 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: got an eighth of an inch of water moving through 167 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: it on the inside, then he would be absolutely right 168 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: about the flow and the pressure increasing only as a 169 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: result of pulling out the old stuff and replacing that line. Okay, 170 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: But but quite especially in an apartment setting. It's just 171 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: the nature of the plumbing of the building you might 172 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: be getting, you know, the raw deal as far as 173 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: flow and pressure is concerned. Overall, sharing water pressure for 174 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: your section of the apartment building because you know, it 175 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: is shared amongst lots of other folks and lots of 176 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: other units. If that's the case, then no, you don't 177 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: have to do all that. You could actually invest in 178 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: a pressure booster pump. Okay, and this could either go 179 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: on if you want to improve pressure to everything in 180 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: the apartment, then it would actually it would attach to 181 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 1: the hot water line coming out of the water heater. Okay, 182 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: not going into the water heater because that's cold water 183 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: coming in, but it would the hot water line coming 184 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: out of the water heater, and it would boost the 185 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: the flow and the pressure of all the hot water 186 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: to both the bathroom and the kitchen. If it's just 187 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: something you want to you know, locate very very locally, 188 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: then the kitchen is the perfect place. Bathroom sinks are 189 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: tricky because a little booster pump like this requires electricity, 190 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: and there's very rarely, especially in an apartment, set up 191 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: an outlet underneath a bathroom sink because why right, but 192 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: the kitchen sink usually has a garbage disposal going on, 193 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: and therefore there's a power outlet underneath the kitchen sink 194 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: and the cabinet down below, which means there's room for 195 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: you're a little booster pump to plug in, and there 196 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: are booster pumps about one hundred and fifty bucks or 197 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: so one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars that 198 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: you could hook up in line, not tearing up the walls. 199 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: You would disconnect the hose going to the faucet coming 200 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: out of the wall, and the pump would go in 201 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: between the two. And there's a few little attachments that 202 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: you've got to you know, put in place there. But 203 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: this would basically sense. It's the pump would turn itself 204 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: on as it sends is water flowing, like you turn 205 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: the faucet on and go to the hot water, and 206 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: the pump would kick in and it would add pressure 207 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: and flow to your line. Assuming that the problem is 208 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: not that the flow is so bad, because literally the 209 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: water is restricted. So there again two kinds of flow 210 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: flow problems coming to any particular water feature in our home. 211 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: Either there's a flow problem because there is occlusion inside 212 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: the pipe and so even though it's a half inch pipe, 213 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: it's only delivering an eighth of an inch of water 214 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: because of the build up of gunk on the inside 215 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: that's mineral build up. Or the second thing is just 216 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: poor pressure. And by the way, for homeowners, you know, 217 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: if you've just got poor city pressure coming into your 218 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: home and you complain about it everywhere all the time, 219 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: then there are pumps that you can buy that actually 220 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: mount and can be a part of the main line 221 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: coming into the house that will boost pressure for you. 222 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: Those are more expensive, but Michael, in your case, yeah, buddy, 223 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: there are take a look online. You can find some 224 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: at the local big box store in the plumbing supply place. 225 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: They're usually selled next to reverse osmosis machines or filters 226 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: because those tend to really screw up water pressure coming 227 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: into the hot water. But you'll find them there somewhere 228 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: between one hundred and fifty and two hundred dollars. You 229 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: could get it done and you can take it with 230 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: you should you leave that apartment and go elsewhere. Michael, 231 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: thanks for the call, buddy, your Home with Dean Sharp, 232 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: the house Whisperer. 233 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 234 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 235 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: All right, let's say we're in the middle of the 236 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: show and I'm going to the phones. We're taking calls, 237 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: and then we'll get back to our conversation about the 238 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: best of the Consumer Electronics Show for twenty twenty six 239 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: and how that applies to your home. But right now 240 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: I want to talk to Linda. Hey, Linda, welcome home. 241 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 4: Hi, Hi Dean, thank you. I have a quick question 242 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 4: and then I just want you to wax eloquent on 243 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 4: duct cleaning. How much do you think it should cost? 244 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 4: Are they going to poke through the desks all the 245 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 4: things my husband's afraid of? Okay, My quick question is 246 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 4: we have a house on the mountain in Idle Wild 247 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 4: and that supposedly is granite. Do we need earthquake insurance? 248 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: Yes? Next question? Okay, okay, No, I understand the nature 249 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: of the question. I totally get it. I totally get it. Okay. Yeah, 250 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: you know, because there are certain obviously, there are areas 251 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: where houses get built that are more resistant to the 252 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: ground shifting moving, I should say, shifting in unfortunate ways. Okay. 253 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: For instance, yeah, out in the valley, back at the 254 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: north Ridge quake, back in the day, people realized out 255 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: in the West San Fernando Valley that you know, they 256 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: realized that that part of the valley that they were 257 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: living on a dry lake bed, and that the water 258 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: table underneath them was, you know, several hundred feet down. 259 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: But the nature of that earthquake produced a an effect 260 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: called liquefaction, and that suddenly, because it was kind of 261 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: a bouncing quake, the water rose up through the soil 262 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: temporarily momentarily liquefied, made it made everybody's soil around them jelly, 263 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: and and shifted whole houses on their foundations. And then 264 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: it dropped back down again. And as a result, I mean, 265 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: I went around, I saw a couple of houses, beautiful house, 266 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: no cracks in the slab whatsoever, very strong slab. But 267 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: now the whole house was out of level from one 268 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: end to the other almost two inches. Okay, no, no, 269 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: no damage to the slab. It was just that the 270 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: soil that shifted. So I get it. You're up on 271 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: the mountain, You're sitting on granite mountain and uh and 272 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: so there. So here's the thing, though, earthquakes happen all 273 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: throughout California, and depending on when it hits and how 274 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: it reverberates through even that mountain, UH is going to 275 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: shake and move and collapsing soil under a foundation is 276 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: not our only concern. Sometimes earthquakes bounce. Sometimes they come 277 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: in lateral, side to side shaking moments, and it doesn't 278 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: matter how firm the granite is underneath your feet. If 279 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: the earthquake hits you and it's doing lateral shaking side 280 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: to side, the house can be just as severely damage. 281 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: And so if you live in an earthquake zone, i e. 282 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: The state of California, it would be wise to have 283 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: earthquake insurance. So there you go. 284 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate that, Thank you, okay, and then tell 285 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 4: me about air deck cleaning. 286 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: All air deck cleaning. One simple question for you guys. 287 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: Have you recently had a mold problem or had major 288 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: construction in the house in which beforehand the ducks weren't 289 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: sealed up? 290 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 5: No? 291 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: Okay. Then here's the thing that I feel about duct 292 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: cleaning and duck cleaning services. There's nothing wrong with cleaning 293 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: your ducts, okay. And no, normally they don't poke through 294 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: and do damage to the ducks and so on. But 295 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: generally speaking, okay, it is a duct a dedicated duct 296 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: cleaning company that's telling you, oh, you should get your 297 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: ducks cleaned all the time. Well, yeah, because you're a 298 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: duck cleaning company, and that's what you do. Ask if 299 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: there's any question whatsoever, ask your HVAC company. Ask the 300 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: company who makes their main money from just installing and 301 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: maintaining your conditioning system. If they're telling you there's a 302 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: reason to get your DUTs clean, I would listen to 303 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: them for that purpose. But generally speaking, every HVAC contractor 304 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: that I've ever worked with have been they kind of 305 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: shrugged their shoulders. They're like, well, you know what, after 306 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: major construction, dust can find its way through the house 307 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: and settle in the ducks. It wouldn't be a bad 308 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: idea to blow out the ducks and get them all 309 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: cleaned so that you know you're not just recirculating the 310 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: dust that settled in them. Or if there's been a 311 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: moisture problem or a roof leak and moisture has gotten 312 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: into the ducks, then got to get the mold out 313 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: of there, and all the all of those are legitimate reasons. 314 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: But a house that's just been sitting there using its 315 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: HVAC system for decades, day in, day out, month in, 316 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: month out, Uh, it's pretty much a self cleaning system 317 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: unless something has gone wrong. And that's my opinion on cleaning. 318 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, nowadays, the plumbing companies, for example, the ones that 319 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 4: put our hvac in just two years ago. You know, 320 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 4: they want to come and do a duck cleaning and 321 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 4: four thousand dollars, which sounds expensive to me, but you know, 322 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 4: they give you a membership SATAN, so they've got a 323 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 4: hook in you and then they start selling you. 324 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: That I know, and you know what I'm telling you, 325 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: it's I'm just not a fan. I'm not a fan 326 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 1: of that approach because again, when I talk to HVAC 327 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,959 Speaker 1: experts and I know it's your HVAC company that's doing 328 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: a lot of HVAC service, companies are starting to add 329 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: that on to their stuff. Why because it's super easy 330 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: for them to do and they make buukou bucks okay 331 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: bukub I mean it's their Their labor is minimal and 332 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,640 Speaker 1: the profit is large. And so I don't I don't 333 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: appreciate that. Because we can scientifically test a dut system 334 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: that has been operating for the last twenty years in 335 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: a home against a brand new Dutch system or a 336 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: recently clean Duck system and get the same air quality 337 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: out of it. So again, if there's been major construction, 338 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: absolutely it's a great time, right after that big remodel 339 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: before you turn this is them back on. Clean the ducks. 340 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: If you've had a water leak or found a busted 341 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: open duct in the attic that's been sucking in attic 342 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: dust or stuff, fine, clean the ducks. If you've had 343 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: a moisture problem or found mold somewhere, clean the ducks. Okay. 344 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: I just recommended this yesterday on yesterday's call in show 345 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: because a gentleman calling from Texas had found, you know, 346 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: a mold in the plenum because there's such high humidity there, 347 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,239 Speaker 1: and he said, you know, should I just clean out 348 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,360 Speaker 1: the planeum? And I'm like, clean the planum and the ducts, okay, 349 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: and just get it out of there. So I'm not 350 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: against it, but it's there's got to be a reason 351 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: for it, Okay. Just the fact that you use your 352 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: system is not justification for coming in every two years 353 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: and cleaning out your ducks. Because guess what, there's a 354 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: filter that filters the air before it enters the air blower, 355 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: and the air that's coming out of the air blower 356 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: is clean air. Period. That's all I'm saying. Okay, Linda, Okay, 357 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: thank you. 358 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 4: I will call another time to ask about water heater 359 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 4: and odes. 360 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much than Dean, appreciate the call. 361 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: I love our callers. I love our call That's why 362 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: we do what we do with calls, and we will 363 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: take more of them. Right after this, you are Home 364 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. 365 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 366 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 367 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: Not only the design aspect, and of course you know 368 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: the reason. One of the things that sets our program 369 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: apart from every other home improvement program you will ever 370 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: listen to or watch is the fact that, as an 371 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: actual home designer who does this for a living, I 372 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: have a philosophy about design that is very very true, 373 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 1: and it has been proven to be true. And that 374 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: is simply this. When it comes to transforming your home, 375 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: design matter most, it matters most, okay, And so here 376 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: not only am I helping you fix that thing, tweak 377 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: that thing, understand your home better. That's the builder in 378 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: me here to help you, but the designer in me 379 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: is here to help you every single week. Understand that 380 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: real transformation comes from creative design control of your home, 381 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: and that happens first, and it matters most, and then 382 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: once the design is headed in the right direction, then 383 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: we pull in all of the actual building, contracting and 384 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: execution factors and make it a reality. Design matters most, 385 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: and I'm here for you to help you understand it 386 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: every step of the way. Right now, we are taking 387 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: some calls and then we'll get back to our topic 388 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: for the day, which is looking back at this month, 389 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: or actually technically last months. It's February first, the consumer 390 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: electronics show that just wrapped up in Las Vegas, and 391 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: we're looking at the best of those things that apply 392 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: to home. We'll get back to that in just a bit, 393 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: but right now I want to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, 394 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: welcome home. 395 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 5: Hey Deed, Hey, I've got a question for you about 396 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 5: a bathroom. I put down some vinyl plank floor, had 397 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 5: a guy do that, and I told him I want 398 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 5: to be sure to calk along the edge of the 399 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 5: bathtub where the bathtub meets the floor, and he sent 400 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 5: me a picture of the kind of cock he wants 401 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 5: to use, and I went out and bought it. I 402 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 5: looked at the reviews, and the reviews were there were 403 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 5: a lot of five star reviews, and it said in 404 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 5: conjunction with a promotion, So I think that was a 405 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 5: little bit of a. 406 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: Thing anyway, advertising there. 407 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so it looked good and the reviews initially, 408 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 5: and then I'm noticing that this cack can I say 409 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 5: the name of the cock? 410 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: Sure? 411 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 5: Quick seal bought it at home depot. And now that 412 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 5: it's gotten a little wet, it's starting to like degrade 413 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 5: and he rode. So I went back and looked at 414 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 5: those reviews and I flipped it and I said, show 415 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 5: me the one star reviews first. And there was a 416 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 5: ton of one star reviews. 417 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: A billion of them. Yeah, yeah, oh. 418 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So this stub is degrading. I got to 419 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 5: put some better stuff in there. Do I need to 420 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 5: like dig out the old call? Okay? I put just 421 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 5: like the new better call on top of it. Tell 422 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 5: me what to do. 423 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 1: Uh, did I dig out the old stuff? 424 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 5: Yeah? 425 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: Get it out. Just just start over, start over. Okay, 426 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: that's your bet. Let me ask you. Let me ask 427 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: you a question. So you got vinyl floor in there, right, yeah, 428 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: and the vinyl floor now is running up against the tub. Okay, yeah, 429 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: what is keeping the vinyl floor from moving? Okay, at 430 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: right up against the tub, like the up and down 431 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: because the vinyl floor. Is a floating floor or have 432 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: you glued this down in the bathroom? 433 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 5: Well I didn't do it. I hired a guy and 434 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 5: it looks really nice. That seems to be holding the 435 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 5: place like everything's kind of wedge to the place. 436 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay, I'm just saying my concern. Okay, here here, 437 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: let me just back it up just so you understand 438 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Absolutely luxury vinyl plank. One of 439 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: the beauties of it is that it's completely waterproof and 440 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: so you can have it running down the hallway and 441 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: run it right into the bathroom and cover the bathroom floor. 442 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: I mean, in theory, you know, you could run it 443 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: into your shower if you wanted to, and nobody does, 444 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: and I wouldn't recommend it. But the point is it's 445 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: impervious to water damage. That's why you can run it 446 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: into the bathroom. Okay, but it is a floating floor 447 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 1: in its major application, And why did he just say 448 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: it that way? I will tell you a floating floor 449 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: in its major application, meaning that it just floats. It 450 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: just lays there like carpeting on the top of the floor. 451 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: And when it comes to the other rooms, we put 452 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: the edge of the you know, where it comes to 453 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: the wall, we either run it up near the base 454 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: board with a little gap for expansion, uh, and then 455 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: we put like a base shoe or a quarter round 456 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: molding on top of it to hold it down the 457 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: edges down. Or we pull up the baseboards and we 458 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: run the vinyl plank, you know, towards the wall and 459 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: cover that edge at exposed edge with the baseboards. Because 460 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: there's really nothing controlling the edge of a floating vinyl 461 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: plank floor. When it comes to the bathroom. You know, 462 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: you can't you can't, you know, nail you know, a 463 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: quarter round or a baseboard up against your tub, okay, 464 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: because it's the tub. And so this is what I 465 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: recommend is if we're running vinyl plank into a bathroom 466 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: up against a tub or a shower dam or something 467 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: like that, then I always want the our clients to 468 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: purchase a vinyl plank floor that can also be glued down. 469 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 4: Uh. 470 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: And so what that means is that for that last 471 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: six inches or so as it approaches the tub, I 472 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: want that vinyl glued to the subfloor, to the slab 473 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: whatever it's sitting on there not because it's not going 474 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: to be held down. I want that thing glued down 475 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 1: because no matter what high quality caulking, and yes you 476 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: do have to calk that edge, but no matter what 477 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 1: high quality calking you're going to put in there, it's 478 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: gonna get bumped around, beaten up, and thrown off by 479 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: the simple fact that that floor, every time you step 480 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: on it is moving up and down, up and down, 481 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: up and down, and that calking is something you're just 482 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: gonna have to keep reworking. Now, this is not a 483 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: commentary on whether the quick seal was a good calck 484 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: or not a good calck for that area. It's simply 485 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 1: this don't depend, if at all possible, on the calking 486 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: to hold that floor in place. I'd rather see that 487 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: last little bit of the floor glued in place and 488 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: then calk it so that the caulking is sitting there 489 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: against two fixed, unmoving surfaces. That's the goal there. 490 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 5: That is great advice. And I didn't do it that way. Well, 491 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 5: the guy who put it in I don't think he 492 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 5: did it that way. But the good news is I 493 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,439 Speaker 5: have he Well. I didn't have the baseboards up, and 494 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 5: I put nice tall baseboarders like you suggested. I heard 495 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 5: you talk about that on top of the vinyl floor, 496 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 5: so that's kind of holding it down on the other 497 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 5: sides of the of the bathroom. What kind of call 498 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 5: should I get? 499 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: Just any good quality bathroom wet area, Caulking. I mean 500 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot of them out there. Anything that you 501 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: pretty much find at home depot that's got a major 502 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: name on it, like you know ge, I mean, you know, 503 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: a siliconized cock, lots of silicone along the way. You 504 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: know what. Let me throw a couple of comments at 505 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: you right after the break, because we're up against a break. 506 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has 507 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into 508 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday 509 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: morning from six to eight Pacific time and every Sunday 510 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: morning from nine to noon Pacific time, or any time 511 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.