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Speaker 1: Kf I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp,

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Speaker 1: the house Whisper on demand on the iHeart radio app

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Speaker 1: A three three, the numeral two asked Dean, let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the phones.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to Nisha. Nisha, welcome home.

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Speaker 3: I have a situation going on with my front lawn.

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Speaker 3: It hasn't worked its way to the backyard yet, hopefully

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Speaker 3: it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I have this statching going on.

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Speaker 3: I am not sure like what it is.

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Speaker 2: I've been told it's possums.

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Speaker 4: I've been told it's raccoons.

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Speaker 5: It's like I go out and all my grass has.

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Speaker 4: Been ripped up, and I'm getting these false spots in.

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Speaker 3: The lawn and I am not sure how to make.

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Speaker 2: It go away, premature balding of the lawn. Have you

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Speaker 2: have you done any surveillance so I do.

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Speaker 3: Have cameras, and I have not I've never noticed any

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Speaker 3: creatures roaming around.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, it kind I kind of figured that

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Speaker 2: was the case. Yeah, you know a lot of people

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Speaker 2: blame possum and raccoons for messing up lawns, but you know,

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Speaker 2: as if they just get come out in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the night with their shovels and just decide, you

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Speaker 2: know what, let's get under her skin and just take

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Speaker 2: some of this lawn away. It really doesn't happen that way.

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Speaker 2: It's more likely, you know, like the only larger mammal

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Speaker 2: that really terrorizes lawns on a regular basis are you know,

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Speaker 2: like gophers and prairie dogs, those kinds of things that

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Speaker 2: come up from underneath and leave little mounds of dirt,

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Speaker 2: and those are easy to identify because they've left behind

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Speaker 2: the dirt from the tunnel that they've dug. But by

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Speaker 2: and large, you know, I don't know. There's a handful

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Speaker 2: of causes for balding lawn areas. It could be heavy

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Speaker 2: foot traffic, but obviously that doesn't sound like it's a situation.

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Speaker 2: Could be poor soil condition that is starting to kind

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Speaker 2: of spread. That's a possibility. Of course, you're classic the

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Speaker 2: neighbor's dogs or peeing on your lawn, but that usually

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Speaker 2: starts with a noticeable yellow patch first. But when you

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Speaker 2: just find that there's bare soil in the lawn, I

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Speaker 2: have found generally speaking that it's a grub infestation and

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh, coross, what is that. It's very simple.

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Speaker 2: There are little tiny little beetles out there that are

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Speaker 2: all around us. And there are some species that like

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Speaker 2: to lay their eggs in the soil of our lawns

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Speaker 2: because they're nicely protected areas. And then as the grubs

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Speaker 2: start to hatch, the little grub beetles, they're feeding on

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Speaker 2: the roots of our grass and as a result of

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Speaker 2: these bald patches start to occur. So it could be

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Speaker 2: any one of those issues. I mean, you could have

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Speaker 2: like a fungal disease or a chemical burn. But I'm

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Speaker 2: putting my money on grubs because by and large that's

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Speaker 2: my experience with this. Fortunately, it's not that difficult to

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Speaker 2: deal with. What you do is, first of all, you

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Speaker 2: go get some grub treatment and you will find that

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Speaker 2: on the shelf of just about every garden center everywhere.

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Speaker 2: That you mix into the soil and that gets the

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Speaker 2: grubs under control. They're not spreading everywhere, They're just where

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Speaker 2: the bald patches are. And you rough up the soil,

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Speaker 2: add a little amendment to it, figure out what kind

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Speaker 2: of grass you actually have, add some seed, keep it moist,

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Speaker 2: and you'll grow the grass back.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So add the grub killer and this and fertilizer

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Speaker 5: at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, good to know. And then you need

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Speaker 2: to reseed that area and keep it extra moist and

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Speaker 2: you know, give the give the new seeds a shot

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Speaker 2: the best fighting chance possible.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what do you suggest for watering times?

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Speaker 4: I'm always confused on that.

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Speaker 2: Well, for watering times for a lawn in southern California,

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Speaker 2: it all depends on the efficiency of your sprinklers. But

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Speaker 2: not too long, you know. I mean, most lawns can

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Speaker 2: will water down with good sprinkler system in a half

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Speaker 2: hour or so. It also has to do with your

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Speaker 2: soil condition, whether you've got clay or you know, rocky

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Speaker 2: soil or sandy soil. In other words, how well how

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Speaker 2: to it. But here's a general rule. There are some

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Speaker 2: guides out there that you can look up and say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I've got this kind of grass and this kind of lawn,

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Speaker 2: I live in southern California. How long should I be

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Speaker 2: watering my lawn with decent sprinkler coverage? And then what

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Speaker 2: I like to do? And I think this is just

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Speaker 2: the most efficient, most effective ways I like to break

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Speaker 2: that up. So let's say, in fact, my smart watering

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Speaker 2: time that that an area needs to be irrigated, then

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Speaker 2: my smart watering system will break that up into three

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Speaker 2: twenty minute sessions that are about a half an hour apart,

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Speaker 2: so that we water a little bit, we let that

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Speaker 2: soak in fully and become fully effective, and then we

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Speaker 2: water again and then you know, you understand what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: So breaking it up into two or three cycles. And

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Speaker 2: always here in southern California, in the middle of the night, okay,

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Speaker 2: not in the early morning when everybody can see the

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Speaker 2: sprinkler's going off. Not during daylight hours. And the very

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Speaker 2: simple reason is that sun evaporates water. I want all

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Speaker 2: the water going into your soil. Now, this is not

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Speaker 2: true if you live back east, or you live somewhere

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Speaker 2: where it's much colder and much wetter, because there we

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Speaker 2: want a water during daylight hours so that we're not

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Speaker 2: building up too much water content and creating mold and

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Speaker 2: fungal growth and all of that kind of stuff. But

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Speaker 2: not here in southern California. No one in southern CALIFORNI

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Speaker 2: and you should ever see your sprinklers going off unless

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Speaker 2: they're up in the middle of the night. That's how

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Speaker 2: we take most efficient use of our water. I want

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Speaker 2: it all in the soil and so it's doing its

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Speaker 2: job fully and effectively. Nisha, thanks for the call. Go

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Speaker 2: check that out. Check out your watering times, and go

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Speaker 2: check out the grub treatments that you'll find at the

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Speaker 2: garden center and also figure out what kind of grass

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Speaker 2: you've got and buy that receding mix so that once

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Speaker 2: you get the grubs under control, then you know you

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Speaker 2: can grow in those patches. It's not a terminal situation.

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Speaker 2: You can fix it, I promise. Okay, quick break and

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Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: It's an all calls show today. Let's get back to

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Speaker 2: the phones. Lydia, Welcome home.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, Dean.

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Speaker 5: I have a question that's been posed I think a

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Speaker 5: few times to you or you've explained it, but I'm

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Speaker 5: not sure if my problem applies or I have a

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Speaker 5: problem where we did a remodel box and extension about

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Speaker 5: in twenty two, so it's been a couple of years.

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Speaker 5: Immediately the shower, I thought the water went like hot

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Speaker 5: and cold. Now we did go.

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Speaker 3: From a regular.

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Speaker 5: Tank heater to a tank less and this is a

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Speaker 5: direct vent tankless waters eater.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what information.

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Speaker 5: You need, but anyhow, it goes from hot to cold.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it takes a long time compared to what

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Speaker 5: it used to to get hot in my opinion, right,

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Speaker 5: and then it goes where it begins to get warm

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, and then it goes cold again.

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Speaker 5: And have wait like fifteen seconds in the middle of

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Speaker 5: a shower for it to get hot again.

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Speaker 2: So okay, I know.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned like a recirculation plump and a bridge now,

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Speaker 5: but there's actually two things.

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Speaker 2: We're actually talking about two different things there, Okay, So okay, well,

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Speaker 2: first let's talk about the the the going cold on

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Speaker 2: you situation. Okay, the going cold on your situation. Are

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Speaker 2: you aware that of any other water being run when

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Speaker 2: it does it always do this, no matter no matter

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Speaker 2: whether it's the only water that's running in the house

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Speaker 2: turns a faucet on somewhere else. Or something like that.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. I'm home of My husband's a fireman,

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Speaker 3: so he's often you know, away from home, and so

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Speaker 3: I can be home alone. I'm not running anything, so

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Speaker 3: I mean I've looked at that, you know, but no,

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Speaker 2: Who that was the most important answer to the question. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: tell you that you need to have somebody look at

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Speaker 2: that water heater, okay, because a water heater should be

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Speaker 2: a tankless water heater should be putting out outputting a

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Speaker 2: consistent temperature all the way through. It should not be dipping.

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Speaker 2: There may be something wrong with a setting. There may

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Speaker 2: be a problem with a thermo coupler or a thermostat

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Speaker 2: gas supplied to the water heater. I literally it could

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Speaker 2: couple of different things. And I know it's only a

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Speaker 2: or a plumber will will pick one out, or plumbers

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Speaker 2: that is undersized for the home. Undersized meaning that, you know,

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Speaker 2: the idea of picking a tankless water heater is all

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Speaker 2: all at the same time, and that therefore you get

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Speaker 2: a water heater that's capable of that kind of an output,

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Speaker 2: so that if you're taking a hot shower and then

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Speaker 2: that that water heater has got enough hot running through

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Speaker 2: it that it can supply to all of them without

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Speaker 2: the temperature dropping. Typically, when a tankless water heater is

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Speaker 2: dropping in temperature right in the middle of something, it's

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Speaker 2: because another their faucet has been turned on, and therefore

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Speaker 2: now it's having to share its hot water load with

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Speaker 2: another fixture, and the water heater isn't big enough sized

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Speaker 2: enough for volume to be able to handle it. And

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Speaker 2: that's a problem with the selection of the water heater.

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Speaker 2: But in your case, no other hot water is running

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Speaker 2: anywhere else in the house and it's still losing temperature.

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Speaker 2: That's a problem with the water heater itself. Now, very quickly,

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Speaker 2: because it's a completely separate issue. Tankless water heaters are

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Speaker 2: endless hot water. They are not instant hot water because

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Speaker 2: the hot water still has to travel the distance from

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Speaker 2: the water heater to get to the faucet that you

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Speaker 2: or the shower head that is being used. And so yeah,

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Speaker 2: there are ways of getting around that recirculation pump bridge

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Speaker 2: valve underneath the furthest sink away from the water heater

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Speaker 2: is true to a certain degree, some old schoolers are like,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going for that tankless thing because my old

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Speaker 2: tanked water heater delivered hot water faster. Well, technically, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't deliver hot water faster. The water moves at the

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Speaker 2: same speed from the water heater to the fawcet. But

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Speaker 2: a tanked water heater is sitting there heating water all

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Speaker 2: further down the pipe because it's constantly heating it, whereas

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Speaker 2: a tank less water heater only heats on demand, and

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Speaker 2: That's something to consider, Lydia, when you're having a plumber

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Speaker 2: This is why we do this, because we just hit

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Speaker 2: It's an all calls show today. Let's get back to

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Speaker 2: the phones. Hey Scott, welcome home, Hidane.

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Speaker 4: I've got the nineteen eighty six house and I living

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Speaker 4: Riverside and it's trying to get a little hot. Two

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Speaker 4: Like the airflow I feel would be better in the

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Vents over entry doors are

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Speaker 2: and you got to understand that they weren't put there scientifically.

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Speaker 2: You've got to realize that it's a recirculating system for

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Speaker 2: all of those small vents that are blowing into rooms, bedrooms,

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Speaker 2: We want that air on the far side of the room,

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Scott?

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Dean, That's what I was thinking. But you're

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Speaker 2: Well, she will very much appreciate hearing that she actually

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Speaker 2: especially for those upstairs rooms which are so critical for you,

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to Stephen. Hey, Stephen, welcome home.

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Speaker 7: Hello Dean. I'm so glad to talk to you. You know,

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Speaker 7: I have a tankless water heater. I just replaced it.

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Speaker 7: want to add a recirculation pump under my kitchen sink,

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Speaker 2: The world of recirculation pumps has changed radically over the

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Speaker 2: it cools off sitting in the pipe, all right. So

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Speaker 2: the brilliance of the new fangled recirculation pumps and that

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Speaker 2: is a device that gets mounted underneath a sink, the

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Speaker 2: sink in question, and it gets mounted in. What it does,

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Speaker 2: it's a one way valve that actually joins the hot

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Speaker 2: Now why is this important? And what it does is

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Speaker 2: it allows you then to mount a small recirculation pump

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Speaker 2: And even though there isn't a return circuit, what it

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Speaker 2: does is it draws hot water off the hot water

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Speaker 2: water line, so that you get the action of a

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Speaker 2: recirculation pump. But we're not we don't have to run

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Speaker 2: a return circuit and we're not wasting water because it's

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Speaker 2: still your water. It sits in the cold line and

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Speaker 2: it cools off and it becomes cold water for you.

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Speaker 2: So that's how they work. And this this little brilliant

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Speaker 2: one way valve called a bridge valve in combination with

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Speaker 2: the recirculation pump. Now, configuring a re circ pump is

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Speaker 2: something that you can do a number of different ways.

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Speaker 2: You can put a recarc pump under every single sink

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Speaker 2: in your house. It's a little overkill in most homes.

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Speaker 2: The way that we like to do it typically is

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Speaker 2: if you're only concerned about getting the hot water at

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Speaker 2: the kitchen sink immediate, then fine, just put it right

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Speaker 2: one way to do it is you take the sink

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Speaker 2: that's furthest away from the hot water heater, the furthest

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Speaker 2: end of the tree branch, as it were, the furthest

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Speaker 2: branch on the very end, and you put the recirc

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Speaker 2: pump there on a timer, on a regular rotating timer,

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Speaker 2: so that it fires on and it pulls a little water,

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Speaker 2: and then it turns off that it fires on and

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Speaker 2: pulls a little water and it turns off, and the

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Speaker 2: net benefit of that it's drawing the hot water through

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Speaker 2: all of the main branches and getting hot water closer

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Speaker 2: to all of your with one research pump properly located

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Speaker 2: under the right sink, so you can do it under

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Speaker 2: every sink. You could do it under one sink that

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Speaker 2: you want to prioritize, or you can run it at

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Speaker 2: the end of the very very furthest branch in the

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Speaker 2: house and you'll get hot water quicker out of all

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Speaker 2: your sinks and all of your appliances. It won't be

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Speaker 2: instant it's not instantaneous, but instead of like waiting two minutes,

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Speaker 2: you know you're waiting ten seconds and that well, and

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Speaker 2: instead of.

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Speaker 7: Dump on how many gallons of water down the sink,

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Speaker 7: and then I don't waste the water and my kitchen

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Speaker 7: sink is ideal because it's the furthest away from everything,

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Speaker 7: and it'll cover my bathrooms, my laundry room.

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Speaker 2: All that perfect good.

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Speaker 7: I guess my only concern is there's nothing on the

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Speaker 7: back end, and so there's got to be a check

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Speaker 7: valve or something back there to keep water from flowing

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Speaker 7: in the wrong direction as it's using the cold side

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Speaker 7: as the return pipe, and that's want to make sure

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Speaker 7: I'm not going to pipes or you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not at all. No, that is what the bridge

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Speaker 2: valve is. The bridge valve is essentially a check It

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Speaker 2: serves as a as a bridge between hot and cold.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a one way valve. It allows

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Speaker 2: hot water to move into the cold. It does not

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Speaker 2: allow cold to come back into the hot. It is

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Speaker 2: both a bridge and a check valve. It in no

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Speaker 2: way threatens your plumbing system. They are approved, they are embraced,

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Speaker 2: and everybody really who can afford to get one should

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Speaker 2: get one. These research bumps, by the way, they range

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Speaker 2: in value anywhere from like the mid two hundreds to

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Speaker 2: the mid three hundreds and three hundred bucks three point

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Speaker 2: fifty or so two fifty to three hundred dollars. And

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Speaker 2: the check valve itself is you know, the bridge valve

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Speaker 2: is you know, it's like a sixty dollars item. So

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Speaker 2: it's a really really good setup. And I wouldn't worry

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Speaker 2: about your plumbing in any way, shape or form, Steven.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the it's one of the things water

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Speaker 2: heaters only. Does you know one of our sponsors is

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Speaker 2: one of the the benefit ads that they do to

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Speaker 2: a house when they're installing a new water heater. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: a really really good system and great questions, Stephen. It

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Speaker 2: allowed me to explain this to everybody who is listening,

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