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Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty you Welcome home. I am Dean Sharp,

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Speaker 1: the house whisper, custom home builder, custom home designer, and

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Speaker 1: your guide to better understanding that place where you live today.

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Speaker 1: On the show, it's all your calls. The number to

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Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two ask Dean A three

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Speaker 1: three the numeral two ask Dean. Let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones. Hey, Sal, welcome home.

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Speaker 2: I'm in my fourth house in here in LA. I

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Speaker 2: tend to buy houses in great neighborhoods but need a

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Speaker 2: lot of work.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I get you. I feel it.

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Speaker 3: I feel it.

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Speaker 2: And the one I'm in now, great house, a great neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Trying to deal with the front doors, original front doors,

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Speaker 2: French doors with sideline. Yeah, and I get confusing quotes.

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Speaker 2: Every contractor is different. I'm thinking I wanted to just

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Speaker 2: replace the flabs, and they say they can't do it.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to look for types of manufacturers. It's hard.

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Speaker 2: I can't It's not like a Chevy or Ford. You know,

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Speaker 2: you can't compare. So I wanted to get some opinions

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Speaker 2: whether or not to just try to change the slabs,

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Speaker 2: you know in the seventies home with you know the frame,

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Speaker 2: you know, the door on the top it's a little off,

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Speaker 2: and they're saying it's not going to be level, we

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Speaker 2: have to just do pre hung. But the whole front

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Speaker 2: unit is built into the house, and I wanted to

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Speaker 2: keep the integrity and just change the slabs and the sidelights.

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Speaker 2: Do what do you think? What's what do you think

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Speaker 2: is my best option?

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Speaker 1: So we got double doors, double doors, and sidelights, Yes, sir, okay,

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Speaker 1: double doors and sidelights. And so you're not confused as

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Speaker 1: to the style that you're going for, right, You're just

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Speaker 1: going to go with the nineteen seventies. It's like a

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Speaker 1: little bit modernist slab door or is it a different style.

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Speaker 2: The glass is like this frosted yellow with like a

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Speaker 2: diamond pattern in it, and it's you know, it's on

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Speaker 2: the top half of the door, but on one side

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Speaker 2: of the door frame is off centered a little bit

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Speaker 2: on the top jam to accommodate the lignement of the

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Speaker 2: of the glass. So that's saying because of that, I

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Speaker 2: can't just change I can't change the slabs because we're

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Speaker 2: going to end up shaving it and it's going to

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Speaker 2: be off again like the original door is. And I

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Speaker 2: thought maybe I could just change the slabs and the

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Speaker 2: jams and the winnerizing, you know, the weather stripping and

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Speaker 2: all that. But they don't want to, you know, put

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Speaker 2: in the work. They just want to change the you know,

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Speaker 2: do a pre hung system. But that's you know, we're

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Speaker 2: getting into almost ten.

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Speaker 1: Grand now, all right, my friend, So here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: It can be done. Of course it can be done.

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Speaker 1: And so the situation that you're in right now is,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I grow weary. I'm not I don't

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Speaker 1: grow weary answering this question. I grow weary of giving

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Speaker 1: this answer because I wish I didn't have to. But

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Speaker 1: you're just going to need to search longer for the

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Speaker 1: right builder to do the job. Okay, because of course

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Speaker 1: it can be done. Of course, we can change out

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Speaker 1: the jam and you can buy you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to go with a pre hung situation where it's

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Speaker 1: all been just factory put together. Of course, it can

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Speaker 1: be custom installed and in a lot of ways it

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Speaker 1: might end up saving you money along the way. Plus

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Speaker 1: you get exactly what you want. Now, if there's some

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Speaker 1: weird jam condition that can be resolved too. Okay, everything

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Speaker 1: can be fixed. Everything can be fixed. It is just

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Speaker 1: a question these days of there are so many builders

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Speaker 1: out there who and believe me, you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: I feel for them too. Construction is no is you know,

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Speaker 1: is no get rich quick scheme. It really isn't. And

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Speaker 1: the guys who use it that way, they usually like

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Speaker 1: end up in jail. But it's just it's tough because

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Speaker 1: people want what they want, and they want it for

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Speaker 1: an unbelievably low price, and people have to really put

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Speaker 1: the effort into it in order to get good at work.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying an unbelievable low price, but just the

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Speaker 2: fact that, you know, everybody's quotation and manufactural representations are different,

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Speaker 2: so it's very hard to choose.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's why. And you're in a good situation

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Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, I can feel this. I can

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Speaker 1: feel the vibe that you're in the right situation to

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Speaker 1: do this. What you got to do is you have

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Speaker 1: to take control of the situation. In other words, your

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Speaker 1: best bet, I think from what I'm hearing from you,

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Speaker 1: your best bet is to choose your doors. Okay, now

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Well, once you know the style

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Speaker 1: of the door that you want. Right, then you just

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Speaker 1: shop out that style of door, and yeah, they're going

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Speaker 1: to be varying price points for that style of door,

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Speaker 1: but you make that selection. You make the selection of

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Speaker 1: the door that you want to go in that unit

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Speaker 1: at the price point that you are comfortable of paying.

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Speaker 1: There are a good billion doors out there, I know,

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Speaker 1: and it can seem very very overwhelming. But first thing

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Speaker 1: we do is we eliminate, you know, ninety eight percent

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Speaker 1: of them because we've chosen the style, the specific style

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Speaker 1: that you want, and within that category, you locally shop

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Speaker 1: out what it is that you're looking for. Is it

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Speaker 1: going to be a standard solid wood slab door and

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Speaker 1: that's going to be at one price. Is it going

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Speaker 1: to be a fiberglass resin door, is it going to

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Speaker 1: be a steeled you know, all of these choices that

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Speaker 1: we've got, you can narrow that down right, forget about

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Speaker 1: the manufacturers, just looking at price point and the construction

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Speaker 1: of the door. Then you pick out those doors. You're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: these are the two doors that I'm going to use,

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Speaker 1: and these are the sidelights that I'd like to see.

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Speaker 1: And then then you start showing contractors. Listen, here are

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Speaker 1: the doors, these are the sidelights, there's the opening. I

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Speaker 1: want you to make it work. And some guys are

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Speaker 1: going to walk away saying, ah, I know, don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Other guys are going to give you that BS statement

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Speaker 1: that I hear all the time, it can't be done.

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Speaker 1: It just means that they don't want to do it

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Speaker 1: and they're not used to doing it at their convenience

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Speaker 1: level for a profit. And that's fine too, you can

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Speaker 1: let them walk. I just hate the fact that they

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Speaker 1: say it can't be done. I'd rather a contractor just

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Speaker 1: tell you that goes beyond what we normally do, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. But to tell people

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Speaker 1: a thing can't be done, that's not the world that

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Speaker 1: I live in as a builder or a designer. So

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Speaker 1: get you take control of your materials and you say,

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Speaker 1: these are the doors I want to use, here's the

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Speaker 1: configuration that I want. Give me a price accordingly, and

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Speaker 1: if you look long enough and you take your time,

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Speaker 1: sal you're going to find guys who are going to

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Speaker 1: give you prices, and you'll see that those prices will

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Speaker 1: start to align themselves and you'll be able to choose

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Speaker 1: the person to do the work for you and get

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Speaker 1: it done the right way. Okay, quick break and then

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Speaker 1: more of your calls. Your home with Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: house Whisperer. Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help

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Speaker 1: you take your home to the next level. It's an

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Speaker 1: all calls show today. Let's get back to the phones.

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Speaker 1: Talkt to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome.

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Speaker 4: Home, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I just had a question on whether the foundations that

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Speaker 2: are left after a home fire can be reused.

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Speaker 1: That is a really really good question. Is that just

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Speaker 1: a curiosity or do you have a foundation that is

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Speaker 1: in question yourself.

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Speaker 2: It's a curiosity professional and personal.

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Speaker 1: There are always exceptions to every rule, so I'll just

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Speaker 1: start by saying that, and there is a I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there are a handful of foundations out there that might

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Speaker 1: be salvaged from this disaster, even though the house above

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Speaker 1: them was burnt to the ground. However, I think the

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Speaker 1: proper expectation is that to know the foundations underneath the

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Speaker 1: house when it has burnt to the ground, especially in

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Speaker 1: a mass fire event like this, are very very likely

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Speaker 1: not going to be saved. And there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: reasons why. Number One, there is no it's not. It

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the fact that that you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't catch on fire. But if you take a

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Speaker 1: look at concrete, concrete is actually not affected by flame

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Speaker 1: per se. But concrete is affected by high heat. And

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Speaker 1: when an entire house is burning to the point where

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Speaker 1: it's all coming down, the heat inside that zone is intense.

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Speaker 1: You know, fifteen hundred degrees plus is easily easily achieved.

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Speaker 1: And when you think about the components of concrete, concrete

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Speaker 1: is is a is a recipe. It is a cement

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Speaker 1: that is the actual you know, adhesive binder in concrete cement,

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Speaker 1: portland cement. And then you've got large aggregates like gravel

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Speaker 1: three quarter inch gravel and sand. And it's the sand

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Speaker 1: inside the concrete that at high temperatures turns to glass.

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Speaker 1: As we all know, if you melt sand down, you

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Speaker 1: can turn it to glass. So there is a there's

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Speaker 1: a process that when concrete is exposed to extreme heat

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Speaker 1: in which the concrete actually becomes siliconized. It actually, even

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Speaker 1: though it looks the same as it did before, it

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Speaker 1: has actually changed its chemical structure and it's become more brittle.

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Speaker 1: The sand, which originally was a fine aggregate inside the

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Speaker 1: cement is now a glassy component inside the cement. So

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Speaker 1: that's one reason why a lot of the foundations, most

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Speaker 1: I would say, of the foundations in the houses that

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Speaker 1: the second reason is that under again that high heat,

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Speaker 1: any lines of value that are running underneath that concrete,

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Speaker 1: like plastic abs, drain lines coming off of toilets and

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Speaker 1: sinks and so on, any electrical lines, even though the

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Speaker 1: conduits themselves probably were unaffected, but those conduits heat up,

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Speaker 1: the conductors inside those conduits will absolutely have to be

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Speaker 1: tested and replaced. And the chances are the damage of

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Speaker 1: the lines that are running underneath the slab are such

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Speaker 1: that we'd have to even if the slab was in

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Speaker 1: perfect shape, we'd have to saw cut the slab open

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Speaker 1: in order to run new lines, or you know, we

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be yanking out the old ones, we'd just be

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Speaker 1: running new lines. And by the time we have dealt

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Speaker 1: with the fact that the slab has changed its chemical

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Speaker 1: composition somewhat and we've got to make a lot of

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Speaker 1: sow cuts in it in order to get new drain

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Speaker 1: lines or pull old ones out of the way. Now

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Speaker 1: we've pretty much messed up this slab in extreme So

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying, by and large, it will be

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Speaker 1: more cost effective and wiser from a structural perspective to

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Speaker 1: just pull most of those slabs, scrape the lot, and

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Speaker 1: restart from new. Does that help understand the situation?

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Speaker 2: Certainly does?

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Speaker 1: All right, Richard, thank you for your call. Sir, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk to Julie. Hey, Julie, welcome home.

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Speaker 4: Hi Deine.

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Speaker 5: We're looking at getting new windows, and I love the

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Speaker 5: black frame windows, but they're obviously a lot more expensive.

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Speaker 6: So I was wondering, what are your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: On if we just if someone just adjusted black frame

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Speaker 3: windows in the back of the house and kept the

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Speaker 3: traditional white frame ones in the front.

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Speaker 1: I have no general problems with that whatsoever. In fact,

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Speaker 1: if you hear me talk on the show quite often,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about the tech. One of the techniques for

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Speaker 1: upgrading a house without touching its traditional curb appeal is

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Speaker 1: to treat the facade of the house differently than the

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Speaker 1: backside of the house, because from the the facade of

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Speaker 1: I think you're completely free to do that in most cases.

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Speaker 1: All right, more great stuff on the way. You're listening

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Speaker 1: six forty. Dean Sharp the House Whisper here to help

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Dean, Ay, Hey, I live in a house it's

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Speaker 1: Okay, so all right, let me So you live in

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Speaker 1: You can call a foam insulation company. And but believe me,

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Speaker 1: Don't have to tear the old stucco out, don't have

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Speaker 1: It's not a inexpensive procedure, but it's a lot less

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Speaker 6: Can they even go bug and below the fire block?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? They get above and below the fire block, so

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Speaker 1: Very welcome, my friend. Good luck on that, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would recommend doing it absolutely and please don't forget

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Speaker 1: Jim the attic of all things. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: I am well, sir, How can I help you?

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking of changing my regular round toilets to the oblongs,

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Speaker 1: We just you know, have a new wax available three bucks.

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Speaker 1: that's what I'll do.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your health.

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Speaker 1: You are very very welcome. Good luck with that, joy

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Speaker 5: I bought an old house, probably from the thirties in

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Speaker 4: The problem one of the problems I'm having. There's a

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Speaker 1: Well, the safest way to get rid of it is

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Speaker 1: in the carpet pet moisture pet urine. I mean, every

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, it's pretty much just a mummified mess

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: There may be some parts that are gooey or sticky.

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Speaker 1: There are adhesive removers that will help you get that

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Speaker 1: we go uh Clean uh. The company Clean K L E. A. N.

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Speaker 1: Makes a great great adhesive remover that now you know

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Speaker 1: a little bit of acetone and adhesive remover. Also, Bostick

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Speaker 1: Bostick BO S T I. K. Bostic Ultimate adhesive remover.

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Speaker 1: Don't over use it because I'm assuming you might want

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Speaker 1: you don't want to over use it because it can

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Speaker 1: thirties hardwood floors that just might make this whole thing worthwhile.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and maybe just shop back it up.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, anything you can do, use

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Speaker 4: Do you mind if I ask you one quick question?

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Speaker 1: Sure, real quick?

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Speaker 4: Okay, what's your opinion on the Monsanto force field roughing

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Speaker 4: not much of a pitch?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the Monsanto roofing shield, the weather shield versus

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Speaker 1: versus just plywood.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a four x eight and you don't

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Speaker 4: It's all just one piece and then you just put

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good material. It's a solid material. It's

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Speaker 1: a solid concept. Okay, it's got to be applied exactly

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Speaker 1: how they speck it. The problem with the pre wrapped

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Speaker 1: to do the seams. You've got to work those properly

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Speaker 1: so that they're all sealed in one to the other.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise you're defeating the purpose of the whole thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: being what it is. And if that's in your budget

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Speaker 1: and it's something that's readily available to you, no problem. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: just laying down just standard old plywood and using any

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Speaker 1: number of overlapping seam sealed elastomeric roofman brains, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: work just fine for you. Honestly, gonna work just fine,

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Speaker 1: So thank you don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm finch plywood, I mean half inch plywood.

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Speaker 1: Half inch or five eighths plywood I'd prefer five eights

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Speaker 1: up on a roof so that it maintains its rigidity

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Speaker 1: So we prefer doing a roof in five eights uh

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Speaker 1: You're going to be fine, going to be fine.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much.

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