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Speaker 1: House Whisperer on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I

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Speaker 1: am Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer, custom home Builder, custom

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Speaker 1: home Designer, and every week your guide to better understanding

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Speaker 1: that place where you live. Good morning to you. It

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Speaker 1: is a fine, fine day here in southern California. I

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Speaker 1: wish believe me, I don't mean to hold it over you.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could transfer our weather to those of

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Speaker 1: you who are suffering through the polar vortex right now.

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Speaker 1: Stay warm, stay safe, make some chili, get ready to

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Speaker 1: watch the football games this afternoon. That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Do your best. We're with you anyway we are. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about bedrooms today. We're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: talk about bedrooms. But guess what, it's middle of the show.

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Speaker 1: You know what that means. It means it's time to

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Speaker 1: go to the bones. I want to talk to our callers.

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Speaker 1: If you have a call about anything or question about

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Speaker 1: anything regarding your home design, construction, or otherwise, give me

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Speaker 1: a call. The number to reach me eight three three two.

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Speaker 1: Ask Dean eight three three the numeral to ask Dean,

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Speaker 1: and yes, We've got calls on the board, but I

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Speaker 1: the programs. There you go, all right. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: let us begin. I want to talk to Tom. Hey, Tom,

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Speaker 1: welcome home.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. So I'm remodeling my fat I'm fine, thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's a lovely day and I'm enjoying it even though

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Speaker 2: ready to remodel the family room and build out an

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Speaker 2: entertainment center. Not a home theater, just an entertainment center

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Speaker 2: in a nine foot wide alcove. And I'm planning to

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Speaker 2: put you to an eighty three inch o let or

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Speaker 2: an eighty five inch LEDTV in there, and.

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Speaker 1: I want to come over.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious about well, I put in a ninety five

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Speaker 2: the stereo system. So I'm wondering what your thoughts are

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Speaker 2: about bias lighting behind the TV. I know that a

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Speaker 2: effect it actually has on the viewing experience In terms

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Speaker 2: of how the human eye works. Yeah, poked around somewhat

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Speaker 2: online and I don't find any any literature on that,

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Speaker 2: at least not yet. I'm wondering what your what your

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Speaker 2: experts think when you bring them in for a job

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Speaker 2: like this.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, keep keep thinking in that term, in

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Speaker 1: those terms, because you're you're onto something, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: from a design perspective. Honestly, I mean, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people assume that bias lighting and let me

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Speaker 1: explain what bias lighting is for everybody. Bias lighting is

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Speaker 1: light that we throw on the wall behind the TV

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Speaker 1: get back to my point here, that it's just a

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Speaker 1: the truth is that bias lighting actually has a scientific

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Speaker 1: the track that you're on here, Tom. Bias lighting can

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Speaker 1: so you're backlighting bias lighting, backlighting the TV. It's important enough.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Tom, you should look into this, not

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Speaker 1: But science has proven that if we put some light

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Speaker 1: Not only does it reduce glare strain, eye strain while

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Speaker 1: But primarily, Tom, the point is to improve the viewing experience,

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Speaker 1: It helps. The scientific version is it helps. That is science.

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Speaker 1: It's just it removes strain and it helps deepen contrasts.

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Speaker 2: Fighting behind the TV. Yeah, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You're very very welcome. Tom, Thanks for the call button,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the question, great question, great question. Tom is

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Speaker 1: on the path, my friends, He is on the path.

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Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: I am continuing to talk about bedrooms, bedroom design ideas

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Speaker 1: M all right. It almost made me feel as I

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Speaker 1: It's so good and it's organic, local honey. Hopefully that'll

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Speaker 1: hear you saying? You're very inconsistent? Sometimes you say super

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

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Speaker 5: Thank you, I have a water heater. I had a

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Speaker 1: And the plumber.

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Speaker 5: Will tell you they give it a once over, because

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Speaker 5: I had a plumber tell me, oh, no, these are good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the way you give it a once over is

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Speaker 1: to flush it. Okay, that's a process. There's a procedure.

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Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. Most most most

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Speaker 1: Here to remind you every home deserves great design, especially yours,

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Speaker 6: Thank you. Dean. I've had a water heater replace recently

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 6: Was he was he pulling my leg? Or what?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, it's a there there, it's a it's not

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Speaker 1: an it's not a super common thing. But uh, that

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Speaker 1: being said, it's not a rare thing either. It's called

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Speaker 1: a drip leg. Okay, it's a drip leg. Or also,

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Speaker 1: what's known as a sediment trap, and it's installed, you know,

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Speaker 1: not uncommonly installed on residential gas lines, and its job

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Speaker 1: is to collect condensation and debris in the gas line, okay,

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Speaker 1: and it keeps moisture from reaching appliances, which is a

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Speaker 1: really good thing. And when a plumber installs one in

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Speaker 1: the right place, meaning the low edge of a gas

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Speaker 1: line come in, they actually, you know, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: The debate around drip legs or sediment traps is whether

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Speaker 1: it's been researched out to really extend the life of

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Speaker 1: appliances and the lines themselves. It's really about protecting appliances

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Speaker 1: more than anything else. And the question is always whether

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Speaker 1: or not it has been studied so much that we

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Speaker 1: can definitively prove that they extend the life. So the

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Speaker 1: fact is it's hard to see what they do because

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Speaker 1: what they do is a negative thing. It's it's, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't allow this thing to get to your appliance

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Speaker 1: and hurt your appliance. Okay, Well, then the only way

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Speaker 1: you can judge then what's going on is whether appliance

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Speaker 1: is connected to gas systems with drip legs lasts longer

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Speaker 1: than appliances connected to gas systems without drip legs, So

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Speaker 1: my point being, it doesn't hurt anything. It does definitely

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Speaker 1: does not hurt, and it may actually help in theory,

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Speaker 1: that's what it's supposed to do. It collects. When we

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Speaker 1: say water, we're not worried about large amounts of water

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Speaker 1: intruding your natural gas line, but we are talking about

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Speaker 1: ongoing condensation and gas does carry with it water vapor

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Speaker 1: as well, and so there you go. It's a drip leg,

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Speaker 1: it's a sediment trap. Is it a bad thing?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: It does it. You know, are there studies that prove

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Speaker 1: that it makes appliances last longer? I haven't seen one,

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of an issue of ongoing debate whether

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Speaker 1: you need one in your gas line system or not.

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Speaker 1: But it's not hurting anything. How's that.

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Speaker 6: That's great? Thank you very much. Relieved me quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, Darryl. You know what, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would say this your plumber. If he's being extra

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Speaker 1: safe and he's extra concerned and he just wants the

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Speaker 1: best system possible for you, you know, good on him,

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Speaker 1: and good for you for having a conscientious plumber who

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Speaker 1: just wants to keep your system as safe and healthy

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Speaker 1: as possible. It's not like it was such a big

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Speaker 1: thing that they get to charge, you know, massive amounts

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Speaker 1: of money for it. It's a precautionary thing. So great, great,

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Speaker 1: why not? Why not? Darryl, thanks for the call, but

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Speaker 1: appreciate that we had some great calls today, I mean

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Speaker 1: really good calls on bringing up some unique subjects. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure I've ever answered the question of a drip

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Speaker 1: lit or sediment trap on a gas line before, and

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Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: gave the advice that securing a front door is more

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Speaker 1: about the jam than it is about the door. So really,

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Speaker 1: really good calls today. I thank everybody for calling in.

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Speaker 1: As always, that'll be it for calls today, because when

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Speaker 1: we come back right after this break, let's get back

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Speaker 1: into the bedroom and start talking about closets. Closets are

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Speaker 1: always a fun conversation. Most people want more of them,

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Speaker 1: I tend to I want you to have just enough

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Speaker 1: closet space and not too much. Well, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the difference and the efficiency of a standard closet versus

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Speaker 1: a walk in closet, and if your space challenged, should

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Speaker 1: you have a walk in closet. Well, you can probably

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Speaker 1: already guess my answer, but I'm going to explain why

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Speaker 1: we'll do all of this and more when we return

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Speaker 1: your home to Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has

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