1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Kf I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: the house Whisper on demand on the iHeart radio app. 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones, and I want to 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: talk to Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome home. 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: Oh good morning Dean. First, I'll say, thank goodness. We're 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: past the color stage of our renovation project. 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: Really we have rest with that as well. 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: Oh, we certainly did. We finally hired a designer to 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 2: help us with it, and it came out just fine. 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 3: That's we are. 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: We have a stove that's on a stovetop that's on 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: an island and we've lived there for twenty years without 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: a hood, but we're moving out and converting it to 14 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 2: a rental unit now, so we need to put in 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: a stovehood. I understand many of the ones I've looked 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: at say that they're convertible, and I'm understanding that to 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: mean that either or you can put a duct from 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 2: the unit up through the attic and the roof, or 19 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: alternatively by two carbon filters for twenty five bucks apiece 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: and not have to duct it. And I'm wondering, am 21 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 2: I understanding that correctly or not? And what is your 22 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: recommendation concerning this. 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: Okay, really, really good question. It's a confusing world of 24 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 1: vent hoods. By the way, let me ask you first 25 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: and foremost, the stovetop itself, the stove gas electric. What 26 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: do you got going there? 27 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,839 Speaker 2: Gas? Thirty six inch gas? 28 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So let me explain this real quickly, just because 29 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: people are confused by it, and rightly so, because it 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: is a confusing area of the code. Okay, Technically speaking, 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: the Internet Building Code has no concern whatsoever how much 32 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: fish smell or smoke from searing your steak fills up 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: your kitchen great or your home. Okay, the technically technically, 34 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: if you have an electric cook top, then there is 35 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: no code requirement for a hood at all. Because the 36 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: hood idea was was added to the code as a 37 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: way of exhausting uncombusted gas fumes out of the house 38 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: as a safety issue, uncombusted fumes and particulates from a 39 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: gas burner, because no gas burner combusts all the gas 40 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: that is coming out of the burner, there's always some 41 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 1: you know, leftover, So that would that would lead us 42 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: to the conclusion then that Okay, if that's the case, 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: then why isn't it also a code requirement that every 44 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: time I turn on my gas burner, the hood vent 45 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,839 Speaker 1: has to turn on automatically to evacuate those gas particulars. 46 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: But that's not a part of the code. You can 47 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: install one of these things and never turn it on 48 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: for your entire life, and uh, it's perfectly okay with 49 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: the code. It's a gigantic, gaping hole in the way 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: that the building code handles, you know, this particular issue. 51 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: So I just want to explain that to everybody. If 52 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: you have an electric cook top, an induction cooktop, or 53 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: an electric cook top stand, you know, conventional old electric 54 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: cook top, technically you don't need a vent hood. If 55 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: you have a gas burner, technically you do need one, 56 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: and you never have to use it. Most people, though, 57 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: are most concerned about, all, right, well, when I when I, 58 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: you know, see a steak, or if I accidentally burn something, 59 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: or if I'm cooking fish or something like that, I 60 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: want to get rid of the odors and I want 61 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: to get rid of the excess smoke and or steam 62 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: or whatever is coming off the cook top. Is what 63 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: most people are thinking about when they think about vent hoods. 64 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: And there are two ways to go about it. You 65 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: conduct it, meaning that the hood leads in, brings all 66 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: that to smoke in and directs it with a fan 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: through a ducting system and blows it to the outside 68 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: of the house. It doesn't have to go straight up. 69 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: It can go sideways. Once it's in the attic. It 70 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: can go through ceiling joists or floor joists, or whatever 71 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: the case may be, as long as it gets to 72 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: the outside of the house and the fan is powerful 73 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: enough to push it along, and there you go. The 74 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: other option is often found in apartments and things like that, 75 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: are hoods that can also utilize a two stage charcoal 76 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: filter and draw the air up through the charcoal filter. 77 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: The charcoal filter, in theory, catches most of the particulates 78 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: from the smoke, and there are a lot of the 79 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: odors from the cooking, and then that air is blown 80 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: back into the kitchen space, which again is ironic when 81 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: you think about the fact that if that hood is 82 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: venting a gas you know, cook top, then that gas 83 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: those the charcoal filter does not capture the gas let off, 84 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: and it blows it back into the kitchen space, the 85 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: same space that it started in. And yet the code 86 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: allows that to so just a little bit of confusing 87 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: part for the code. But yes, you are correct. Either 88 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: ducked less, which is running through standard charcoal filters, or 89 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 1: duck did out of the house, which is better. Well, 90 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: ducked it out of the house is always going to 91 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: be better. I mean, you don't find many ducked lists 92 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: hoods in you know, professional kitchens, in executive kitchens or 93 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: in restaurants. In fact, they're not allowed in an executive 94 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: kitchen to recirculate the air back into the kitchen environment. 95 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: They have to take it out and has to be 96 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: blown outside. So yeah, that's better, but both are allowed. 97 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 2: And then did you say it could be inducted into 98 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: the I mean not ducted, but into the attic and 99 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: out the vents or up through the roof. 100 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: Either it can be taken out through the roof. It 101 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: can be taken out through the side gable of a 102 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: roofing system. We can't just run it up to We 103 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: can't just run an open ducked up to an outside 104 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: vent and just sort of allow it to sort of 105 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: push its way out there. It needs a positive connection 106 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: to the outside of the house. But it doesn't have 107 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: to go through the roof. It could go through it 108 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: could run horizontally and go through a vent attachment on 109 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: the outside of a house or on the outside of 110 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: a gable. 111 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay, well that answers 112 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: my questions. I certainly appreciate that. 113 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: And Joe, if you want to take a look just 114 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: for fun, if you want to take a look at 115 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: literally what the cutting edge of duct less hoods are, 116 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: then go to Plasma Plasma Maade dot Com Plasma. I'm sorry, 117 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: Plasma made USA dot com Plasma. They're the company Tina 118 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: and I saw them at the last builder show. They 119 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: have They have created a series of electronically high voltagely 120 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: charged filters that create a plasma field that literally does 121 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: eliminate all smoke, odor, and micron particulates out of the 122 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: air and then restores clean air into the room without 123 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: using a duck. Now, the filters themselves cost I don't know, 124 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: eleven twelve dollars, but their filters are designed this is 125 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: the cool thing to be used with any vent hood 126 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: so they don't make vent hoods. They simply make this 127 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: filter which installs in what looks like a duck leaving 128 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: the room, but could literally just be a pipe or 129 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: a flu that goes up to the seat and goes 130 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: no further. It's pretty impressive, so you guys should you 131 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: should check that out as well. It's plasmamade USA dot 132 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: com if you want to see what is currently the 133 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: cutting edge of efficient recirculated nonducted benthoots. Pretty impressive stuff, 134 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: but yeah, it either has to go out or recirculate 135 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: through some kind of filter. More of your calls on 136 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: the way. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp. 137 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 4: The house was free. You're listening to Home with Dean 138 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 4: Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty. 139 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl, welcome home. 140 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 5: My question is with regards to dream maintenance. I love 141 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 5: my husband very much, but I'm noticing that the bathroom 142 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 5: drain bath sink drain is a little bit slower. I 143 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 5: have no blockages anywhere, but I'm thinking it's from his 144 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 5: shaving cream and shaving. So what is the proper drain maintenance? Monthly? Weekly? 145 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 5: I went to a local store and there was chemicals 146 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 5: and enzymes, and there were things for the disposer, and 147 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 5: then another product for the toilet, another product. What's the 148 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 5: best product to use baking soda, vinegar and hot water. 149 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 5: I also read, so how often and what is dest 150 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 5: for maintaining a drink and the drains weekly or monthly? 151 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: Okay, great question, and so here's the answer. Now you're 152 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: dealing specifically with a bathroom drain, okay, And but also 153 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: people are wondering like, okay, but what about my kitchen 154 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: sink too, That's where my problem is. And so here 155 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: the first rule is for drain maintenance is don't put 156 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: the wrong stuff down the drain. 157 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 3: Okay. 158 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: So if your husband in shaving cream or whatever, let 159 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: him pull the stopper on the sink and let the 160 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: sink fill up, okay with water as he shaved, so 161 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: that the the shaving cream is diluted in the water 162 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: before it goes down the drain. Don't let just big 163 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: clumps of shaving cream go down the drain undiluted. And 164 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: the reason is that they have a tendency then to 165 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: cling more to the sides of your drain pipes, and 166 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: it's that eventual build up that leads eventually to some 167 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 1: kind of clog. The same is true for women who 168 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: are prepping out a sink. If you're doing your hair 169 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: or something like that, pull the stopper on the drain. 170 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: Let the hair get stopped in the sink, and then 171 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: grab that hair, throw it in the trash can. Don't 172 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: let it go down the drain, and your drains will 173 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: be happier. And in the kitchen, stop putting food down 174 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: the garbage disposal so much of it you macerates it 175 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: into this mush, this biological mess, and that stuff clings 176 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: to your drain pipes as you go down. So that's 177 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: just first the tip number one, number two is I 178 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: am a fan of drain maintenance. No heavy chemicals, so 179 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: definitely not the draino, definitely not the liquid plumber or 180 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: any of that kind of stuff. It ultimately does damage 181 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: to the drain pipes themselves. What you can put down. 182 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: Don't put bleach down the drain either. Bleach is useless 183 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: down to drain, doesn't that's not what it's made for. Okay, 184 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: vinegar and water, hot water. Fill up a sink with 185 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: hot water, add some white vinegar. Let that go down 186 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: the drain. That's great because vinegar has an acetic acid 187 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: in it, and that acid eats away at the junk 188 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: that sits on the edge of your drain pipes. Baking 189 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: soda also a good answer, because it has its own 190 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: way of breaking down that material. Never baking soda and 191 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: vinegar together, because even though you get this fizzing action, 192 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: that's not extra cleaning power. That's the acid and the 193 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: pH neutral balance neutralizing itself. In other words, it's canceling 194 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: itself out and rendering both less useful than they are 195 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: on their own. So pick the vinegar or the baking soda, 196 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: but not both at the same time. That's good for 197 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: making your kid's high school volcano project, but not for 198 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: cleaning anything around the house. The thing that I like 199 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: the best, though, Cheryl, this is my preference, is a 200 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: nice well referenced enzyme. You know, I mean well referenced 201 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: meaning that has good reviews. Right, you can buy this 202 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: stuff just about anywhere at the local hardware store. You 203 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: can buy them at the big box store. I'm staring 204 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: at one right now. I just pulled it up. Green 205 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: Gobbler is a really, really good one, and they sell 206 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: it in gallons jugs at a place like home Depot. Okay, 207 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: it costs you about twenty five bucks for a gallon. 208 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: You use very little of it, and you just use 209 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: it regularly. You don't have to use it every other 210 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: day or anything like that. You know, once a week, 211 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: once a month, pour a little of it down. Enzymes 212 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: they're not critters, They're not alive, okay. They are though 213 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: naturally occurring biological molecular structures that dig in and break 214 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: down biomass material. So enzymes will just basically coat over 215 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: the slime that's building up on your pipes and start 216 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: to break it up so that the next time you 217 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: flush the drain more and more of it goes away. 218 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: Enzymes are not going to do any good to clear 219 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: a clog to drain, but they are the best thing 220 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: out there at keeping a drain from clogging in the 221 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: first place. There you go, that's my best shot, Cheryl. 222 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for your call so much more to come 223 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: your Home with Dean Sharp the house whispering. 224 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 4: If you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand 225 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 4: from KFI, AM six forty. 226 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: John, Hey John, Welcome. 227 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 6: Home, Hello Dean. How are you today? 228 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: I am well? How are you sir? How can I help? 229 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 2: Feeling good? 230 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 6: I have some dad looking cement my patio, my sidewalks, 231 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 6: out on the side of my house, even the front porch. 232 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 6: I don't like the look of the cement. And I 233 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 6: was thinking about staining it. I got a quote for 234 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 6: staining everything, including some papers in the back, some pebble 235 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 6: in the back well, one about three quarter inch rock 236 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 6: around the pavers, and I like the wet look. But 237 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 6: then the guy said, you know, I asked him how 238 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 6: long it would last and the river. I'm out in Riverside, 239 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 6: so you know, it gets hot and sunbeats down in 240 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 6: the backyard mainly, and he said about two years. And 241 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 6: it's an investment. You know, it's three thousand to do everything. 242 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 6: So I wanted to hear your opinion on the wet 243 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 6: look versus a colored stain versus not doing it at all. 244 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha? So all right, let me I'm going to 245 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: draw some lines to just to make sure you been 246 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: informed fully and everybody else listening can kind of understand 247 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: the process if when it comes to rehabbing an old cement, 248 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of stain because it's it's something 249 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: that can be done if you can embrace the vibe 250 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: of the look that you're going to get from it. 251 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: A good stain job. It's going to darken the concrete, 252 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: it's going to model the concrete model. M O t 253 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: led is that right modeled contry. Okay. In other words, 254 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: it's going to be an uneven color. It's going to 255 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: be uneven if but unevenness can be worked into the vibe. Okay. 256 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: If you if you had a situation where the concrete 257 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: was going to just beautifully stain all one color, then 258 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: you probably don't have unattractive concrete to begin with. So 259 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: the whole idea is that getting a kind of a naturalistic, relaxed, 260 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: modeled look, and a good staining company knows exactly how 261 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: to do that and make it look fantastic. And the 262 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: reason I'm in favor of stain stain versus what stain 263 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: versus all the cost of tearing it all out, or 264 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: stain versus the cost of a coating on the surface 265 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: that never works out. So people are like, well, what 266 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: kind of paint should I put on my concrete? And 267 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: my answer is always, if you can avoid it, no 268 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: paint on your concrete at all. And that's because concrete 269 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: is a synthetic stone. It's porous, it's soaking up moisture 270 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: from underneath. Moisture in the concrete is gonna eventually push 271 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: off from underneath, push off whatever sealed surface you set 272 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: up on top of that cement, it's gonna push it 273 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: off eventually. It's going to fail eventually, I garin darantee it. 274 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Stain is a is something that 275 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: soaks into the concrete and doesn't sit on the surface, 276 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: and so the effective stain is it's never gonna flake, 277 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: It's never gonna get pushed off. It's going to last. 278 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the color. Now, will it eventually depending 279 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: on the quality of the stain and how UV resistant 280 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: the stain is, will it eventually kind of bleach out 281 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: and fade and light, Yes, it will. Will it do 282 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: it uniformly? Yeah, it pretty much will. And so eventually 283 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: stained concrete most people get around to restaining it again. 284 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: But we're not talking about a couple of years from now. 285 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: We might talk about a decade or a two from now, 286 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: depending So but here's where I'm gonna split the hair 287 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: because this is what I think I heard when you 288 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: said you like the wet look. Okay, let me be 289 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: really clear, got to get real technical here. 290 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 3: Okay. 291 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: There are stone enhancing treatments are that say that they 292 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: are wet look okay? And there are stone enhancing treatments 293 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: that are color enhancing. Okay, now what is the difference. 294 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: Let's just take a look at two things happen. When 295 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: you take a hose and you spray a rock right 296 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: with a hose, two things happen. One, the rock is enhanced. 297 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: The color in the rock is enhanced by that water. 298 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: It darkens and it riches, it enriches, and like the 299 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 1: all the character of that stone suddenly pops forward. 300 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 3: Right. 301 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: That's the first thing that happens. The second thing that 302 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: happens is the surface of the rock is glistening because 303 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: of the water that's sitting on the surface. There's a 304 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: shiny glisten. I mean like what, Yeah, you look at 305 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: and you're like wet. That is the difference between a 306 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: product that says color enhancing and wet look. I for 307 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: the same reason that I just explained to you, I 308 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: stay away from, and I urge people to stay away 309 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: from in extreme heat and sunny environments, the wet look product, 310 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: because the wet look product not only darkens and enriches 311 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: your concrete or stone, but it leaves a surface glaze. 312 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: Ah surface glaze, And guess what that falls right back 313 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: into the category of something that water underneath or in 314 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: the stone will eventually push off. And that is what 315 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,239 Speaker 1: I suspect the guy you were talking to is saying, Hey, 316 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: it's only going to last a couple of years. The 317 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: wet look with the shiny surface is only going to 318 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: last a couple of years before it starts to peel 319 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,959 Speaker 1: from the back. But a stone enhancing a color enhancing, 320 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: all that does is it digs into the stone. It 321 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: doesn't leave a shiny, wet look on the top, but 322 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: it does accomplish the first part of what water does, 323 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: which is deepen and in rich the color of the stone, 324 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: and that will not get pushed off by water inside 325 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: the rock. Does that make sense, Yes, it does. 326 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 6: That's great. Do you have a brand name that you 327 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 6: prefer over one or the other or just let a 328 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 6: guy that doesn't pick what he likes to use. 329 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: Well, I like to. I like to let experts pick 330 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: what they like to use. But I also want to 331 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: see him. In other words, I want to I don't 332 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: want to just say to the staining guy, yeah, just 333 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: go for it, man, No, tell me what the product 334 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: are you using, And then I do a little research 335 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: on it on the side, and I find out, oh, 336 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: this guy's using literally the cheapest stuff out there, or 337 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: he's using the best of the best. So you know, 338 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: I always check up on contractors to make sure what 339 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: they're doing and what they're using. But you know, let 340 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 1: him make his recommendations because there's probably a reason he's 341 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: using it that way. 342 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 6: Okay, that's great, all right, buddy Doom. 343 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: You are very very welcome, my friend, and good luck 344 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: with getting that concrete looking great again, bringing it back 345 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: to life. Yeah, guys, don't put shiny surface ceiling stuff 346 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: on exterior stone and concrete unless your plan is a 347 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: year or two from now doing it all over again. 348 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: Surface ceiling products on porous materials that sit outside are 349 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: going to flake and crack and peel. They just aren't 350 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: the end. Okay. Up next, more of your calls your 351 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: Home with Dean Sharp house whistler. 352 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 353 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty tony Welcome home. 354 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 3: We're doing a complete kitchen remodel with cabinets, floors and appliances. 355 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 3: And my question is do the cabinets should those sit 356 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 3: on the subfloor or do we install all of the 357 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 3: wood floors first. And the part that seems the most 358 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 3: trickiest from what I've read, is how to handle the dishwasher. 359 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,479 Speaker 1: Ah, yes, okay, So it's a good question, really good question. 360 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: And it depends. It depends. And I say that in 361 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: all sincerity because I don't know. Maybe I would say 362 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: maybe seventy five percent of the time. Typically we will 363 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 1: not install on top of the floors, on top of 364 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 1: the hardwood floor or the tile, sometimes just purely from 365 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: the practicality that you know, why do you want to 366 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: run the expense of hardwood all the way underneath cabinet 367 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: kicks where it will never be seen again, so simply 368 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: to save square footage of cabinets. But there's also another reason, 369 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: I see, I'm sorry, save square footage of flooring material. 370 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: The other reason is that sometimes, quite often floors are 371 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: not perfectly level, and so your cabinet installers will quite 372 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: possibly have to shim up the rough cabinet kicks. Now 373 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: these days, rough cabinet kicks get shimmed and then there 374 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,360 Speaker 1: is a finished kickplate that goes over it, and then 375 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: the shims are hidden and they meet the floor very nicely. 376 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: So but that's a consideration as well. But I would say, 377 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: typically what we're aiming for is to not run material 378 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: underneath the cabinet kicks because it's unnecessary. Now when it 379 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: comes to the dishwasher, whatever the flooring is in the 380 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: room that we do run into because the dishwasher is 381 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 1: just an area of avoid area. So we go ahead 382 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: and run that material into the dishwasher area so that 383 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: the dishwasher doesn't get trapped behind flooring material down in 384 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 1: the recess there. And I know some people are like, well, 385 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to run hardwood in there, 386 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: because what if the dishwasher leaks. I guarantee you, if 387 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: the dishwasher leaks and you've got hardwood in your kitchen, 388 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: it's going to go way beyond just the wood that's 389 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: directly underneath. It's going to affect you know, wood in 390 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: the whole area there. So it's kind of a moot 391 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: point when it comes to that argument. I just prefer 392 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: the idea that we can easily slide the dishwasher in 393 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: and out for installation or service or what have you. 394 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: So my recommendation is typically save the money on the 395 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: extra flooring material. Now, occasionally there is a situation where 396 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 1: it's like, well, I don't want to put the cabinets 397 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 1: in yet, because there's all this other stuff and if 398 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: we have to set the cabinets then then they're going 399 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: to get in the way and they're going to get 400 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: beat up. So I'd rather have the flooring go in 401 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: without the cabinets. Well, you can ask your cabinet manufacture 402 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: or installer to put in rough kicks, just the kicks 403 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: themselves detached from the cabinet boxes, and that way, once 404 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: the kicks are in place, they determine the cabinet set 405 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: and then your flooring people can get in there and 406 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: lay all the flooring in the kitchen without the cabinets 407 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: in their way. That's only something that happen weapons though, 408 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to cabinets that have detachable kicks, where 409 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: the kicks are separate from the boxes themselves, and you 410 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: have to talk to your cabinet person about that. But typically, eh, 411 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: we wouldn't you recommend wasting material underneath the cabinet kate? 412 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: Does it matter? 413 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 5: Though? 414 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: Not really, it's not really going to change the install much. 415 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: Always account for the height of the hardwood floor, though, 416 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: so don't set yourself up for a thirty six inch 417 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: tall countertop then put in you know, five eighths or 418 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: three quarters of an inch of hardwood, and find yourself 419 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: with shorter cabinets, so the kicks have to be taller 420 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: if they're going to go in before the hardwood. Thanks 421 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: for the question, Tony. Let's talk to Gary. Hey, Gary, 422 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: welcome home. 423 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 7: Moved into a new house and my dryer is not 424 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 7: drying the clothes. Check out. That's all fine. It goes 425 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 7: through the wall, forty five goes up eight feet, another 426 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 7: forty five goes out ten feet, so that puts me 427 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 7: at about twenty eight feet. And I've read that it 428 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 7: should be at thirty five feet, but it's just not 429 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 7: getting enough. I don't know. I've run a camera, garden 430 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 7: blower through there, vacuum cleaner so it's clean. What are 431 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 7: your ideas other than put it in a booster fan. 432 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: I have no ideas other than putting in a booster fan, 433 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: because putting in a booster fan is what you should do. 434 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: When they give you ratings about how far a dryer 435 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: vent can go, you know, you take that, you know, 436 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: with a grain of salt, because a dryer is not 437 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: a high pressure air blowing scenario. And you got to 438 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: think you got all that humidity, all that moist air 439 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: in there, and now we're asking it not only to 440 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: travel twenty plus feet away from the dryer, which is 441 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: enough on some dryers to just shut down their effectiveness 442 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: right there, even if it was purely horizontal, but in 443 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: addition to that, you're asking it to turn a couple 444 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: of corners and go up eight feet vertical all at 445 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: the same time. In my opinion, it is absolutely too 446 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: far to ask that moist are to go on the 447 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: part of the dryer. But the good news is, as 448 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: you are already aware, there are these things that when 449 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: we run an extra long dryer vent out of necessity 450 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,479 Speaker 1: from design or the access in a laundry room and 451 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: or a garage area, there are dryer vent booster fans, 452 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: and they are air activated or switch activated along with 453 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: the dryer. They turn on when the dryer's on, they 454 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: turn on when the dryer's off. And yeah, so what 455 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: you need is a mechanical boost to the air flowing 456 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: so that you get the moisture out of the dryer. 457 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: Bottom line, booster fan is the way to go. Unfortunately, 458 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: that's the only proper solution in that situation. But fortunately 459 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: you know they don't necessarily break the bank to install them, 460 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: and they're pretty easy to put in. 461 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 7: I just didn't want to climb up in the attic, biotricity. 462 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 7: I was hoping I could find one that I could 463 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 7: just put right at the bottom of the dryer. 464 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. Their best, Yeah, no, they're they're actually best, you know. Okay, 465 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: so you remember hot wheels, you know, I had a 466 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: hot wheel set when I was a kid, and they 467 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: in order to in order to keep your hot wheels 468 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: going on the track, there used to be this little 469 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: booster station, which are these two little disks that spin 470 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: and they grab the car right as it's starting to 471 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: kind of poop out on the energy, and that throws 472 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: it forward and you can just keep your hot wheels 473 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: going in the loop all day long. The booster fan 474 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: is not best at the dryer. It's it's best somewhere 475 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: along the way, like at the halfway point or maybe 476 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: a little further along, right as it's all starting to, 477 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, to to lose its momentum, that's where the 478 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: fan is going to be most effective. You're going to 479 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: have to get up in the attic and put that 480 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: boister fan up there. Thanks for your call, Gary, I 481 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,479 Speaker 1: appreciate your spirit and yeah, booster fan on the dryer vent. 482 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: Do not run your dryer vent a half mile away 483 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: from your dryer and expect it to expect the air, 484 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: which is just passive air coming out of the dryer, 485 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: to blow all the lint and the moisture out. It's 486 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: not gonna work, all right, more of your calls right 487 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: after this your home Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This 488 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: has been holed with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 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