1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Good morning, 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: my friend, Welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: custom home Designer, custom home builder, and every week your 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: guide to better understanding that place where you live. Hey, 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: whether home for you is a castle or a cottage, 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: it matters not. You know why, because luxury does not 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: a great homemake. It is design that matters most when 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: it comes to your home. And I invite you to 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: think of it this way. New parts to a home. 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: That's home repair, new paint that's home maintenance, all important. 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: New design that is truly the definition of home improvement, 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: and home improvement is our ultimate goal here on the program. 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: Of course, i'm gonna help you fix your house. Of course, 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna help you figure out what's going wrong with it. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: But but after we've taken care of what needs to 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: be taken care of, after we've fixed what needs fixing, 18 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: then we get onto the serious discussion about how can 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: we truly improve it and turn it from an ordinary 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: house into an extraordinary home. And that's when we talk design. 21 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: And of course every Saturday morning that you and I 22 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: sit together. It is an all calls Saturday morning. You, 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: my friend, get to determine the content of the show 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: today by giving me a call. So let's talk about 25 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: your home. The number to reach me as always eight 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: three three to ask Dean. It's just that simbol eight 27 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: three three the numeral two. Ask Dean A three three 28 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: two Ask Dean. Whatever's got you scratching your head about 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: your home? Of course, design, construction questions, DIY issues inside, outside, landscape, decor, 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: everything about your home. 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: I got you. 32 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: We'll put our heads together. We will get it figured out. 33 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: How does that sound? It is a sleepy Saturday morning 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: after a long storm, A very unusual time through the 35 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five, has it not been? It's 36 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: been an unusual year. I'll tell you that right now, 37 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: and you understand that fully. It is just it's been 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: a year. And so what was the last time we 39 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: actually had a torrential not just a little sprinkled or 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: something like that, but a torrential rain storm all the 41 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: way through Christmas week? Wow? What a thing. But here 42 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: in southern California, and I know we're still looking at 43 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: all sorts of crazy weather across the country, but here 44 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: in southern California the rains should be passed us now 45 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: for a time, at least until end of next week 46 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: when the Rose Parade rolls around. Prediction of possible rain 47 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: on Rose Parade Day, by the way, ten times in 48 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: the one hundred and thirty five thirty seven one hundred 49 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: and thirty something history of the Rose Parade, ten times 50 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: only as it rained on that day. The last one 51 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: was in two thousand and six, and the time before 52 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: that nineteen fifty five. So literally in my lifetime once 53 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: once did it rain during the Rose Parade. But the 54 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: Rose Parade goes on rain or shine. So anyway, it's 55 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: been an odd year for weather for sure, but here 56 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: in southern California we are looking at hopefully bright sunny 57 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: skies today and cool temperatures highs in the mid to 58 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: upper sixties at most, lows in the fifties or the 59 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: upper forties for the next few days. As we just 60 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: soored out everything that's been going on in relationship to 61 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: the rains, and if you've got rain issues, flood issues, 62 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: water intrusion, leaky roof, anything like that, then you and 63 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: I should talk about that today as well. Sitting across 64 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: the table from me, my design partner, my better half, 65 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: my best friend in all the world, the person I 66 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: celebrate the most every time Christmas rolls around. There is 67 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: her spirit animal in the background. Tina is here. 68 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,239 Speaker 2: Welcome home. 69 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: How you doing. 70 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah, it's been a lovely Christmas. 71 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to me about it. Well. 72 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 2: I love the rain made it extra cozy and fun. 73 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: It wasn't great for all the people that did have 74 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 3: trees fall and flooding, and that's terrible. 75 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 1: We had a big branch on one of our trees 76 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: come down. 77 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: We did. 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: Are we going to use that as an excuse to 79 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:58,239 Speaker 1: no longer advocate for trees near a house? Nope, no way, 80 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: Uh it is. It's just kind of nature sorting itself out. 81 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 4: You know. 82 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: We had a pretty sizable branch come down, fortunately did 83 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: not fall on anything. It's gonna have to get in fact, 84 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: it's actually yeah, yeah, it's kind of propped up into 85 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: place right now. So we're gonna have the guys, uh 86 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: kind of address that on Monday when when the gardeners 87 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: get here, Like, let's slowly remove that from the rest 88 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: of the tree. But no damage. You know, we had 89 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: some stuff get ruffled around here, that's for sure. That's that, 90 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,239 Speaker 1: you know what, it's not just that it's not the rain, 91 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: it's the rain and the wind. And that wind went 92 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: it went like cuckoo cuckoo for cocoa pups kind of 93 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: wind and uh, and then the power went out. And 94 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: that always helps. It always helps, just kind of round 95 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: out the entire storm experience, does it not? So anyway, Uh, 96 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's been a week for some of you. 97 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: I feel it. I feel you here to help. We 98 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: got some calls coming up on the board, so we 99 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: will go to those when we come back from our 100 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: next break. But tell me what's your favorite part of 101 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: Christmas this year? Geting together with family? Yeah, we spent 102 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: some good time with family. 103 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 2: We did. 104 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 3: We actually took a little mini vacation which was a 105 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 3: lot of fun. We'd never done that as a big 106 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 3: group before. And we went to the Cambria Finds Christmas Market. Yeah, 107 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: and that was really fun. We've done that last year 108 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 3: just the two of us, well, the four we went 109 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: with a couple of friends. But we went last year 110 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 3: and we absolutely loved it and said, oh, we have 111 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 3: to bring the family back. 112 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 2: And we managed to bring the family back this year. 113 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 1: I kind of feel like this is going to become 114 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: or like I wanted to become an annual tradition. I 115 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: would love that, don't you think that would be nice? 116 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 2: It would be really really fun. 117 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: I mean it's a little bit of a drive, but 118 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: not a crazy drive. What it's three three and a 119 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: half hours from where we are up to Cambria, and yeah, 120 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: and you make stops along the way. We stopped in 121 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: Solvang on the way up there, which is just a 122 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: cute little town. But there are some things that I 123 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: love to see in Solvang. There's a clock store in 124 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: an antique store in Solvang that might as well be 125 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: an amazing museum of claw. I mean, they've got trum 126 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: what is it, Renaissance antiques, it's what it's called. And uh, 127 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: I think it's worth going to Solvang. I'm a nerd 128 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: when it comes to those things anyway, but I think 129 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: it's worth the trip just just for that, just for that. 130 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: But we also had Turkish coffee. 131 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: Oh that was amazing. 132 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: First time I've had Turkish coffee served to me in 133 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: the classical Turkish coffee way. And that was that. I 134 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: swear there was chocolate in there. It was so rich 135 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: and so earthy, but there wasn't. It was just the 136 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: way it's done, kind of surprisingly like cowboy coffee that 137 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: my dad used to talk to me about and once 138 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: served to me. And I was like, but just you know, 139 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: finely ground coffee put in the bottom of a of 140 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: a little brew cup, no filter, no drip, pour the 141 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: hot water in, let it steep and then carefully pour 142 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: it into a small cup and to try and keep 143 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: most of the grounds back behind. Man, that was good coffee. 144 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: I mean, man, that was good coffee. Wow. So anyway, 145 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: so we can stop in solving. You stop in Pismo 146 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: for We'll give all the recommendations here. We stop in 147 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: Pismo for Old West cinnamon rolls in Pismo. We were 148 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: gonna stop and see the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Pismo, 149 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: but lo and behold. 150 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 2: Badly their population is quite low. 151 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a not a good year for the monarch 152 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: butterflies in California. There were I called ahead and I'm like, 153 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: what do we got? And one of the lowest years 154 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: in recent history. Like the entire saying to where they 155 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: said that they'd spotted or counted like four hundred of them, 156 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: which is not anything for that sanctuary. So we skipped that. 157 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: But we went on a Passo Robles, awesome place to 158 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: spend time. We love the plaza and downtown Passo Robles. 159 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: And we went and went up to Piedris Blanca's Point, 160 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: saw the elephant seals. Always a joy to see those 161 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: little fatties crawling around on the beach. 162 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 3: Told us why it was blancos meaning white because of 163 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 3: all the bird poop. 164 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: Yes, they. 165 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true or if that's become 166 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 3: a you know, a legend. 167 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I mean pages bluncus means white rocks, 168 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: so the they, that's what has got named by like 169 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: the I think this the Spanish and so there's a 170 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: reason the rocks are white. 171 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 2: It's not snow. 172 00:09:53,920 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: It's not snow. Don't eat the rocky snow. So yeah, anyway, 173 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: all good things, and we're back and we're here with you. 174 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: We are live here in the final weekend of twenty 175 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: twenty five, tomorrow's big show. By the way, we're going 176 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: to be talking about predictions, as I always do, trends. 177 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: Predictions will look back a little bit, but not so 178 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: much looking back, got to look forward. You got to 179 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: look forward. What's going to be hot? What's what are 180 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: the things that to be looking for for homes in 181 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, for your home in twenty twenty six, 182 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: And I do I've got some gems for you, for 183 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: those of you who are students of design and who 184 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: long to transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. 185 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to miss tomorrow's show as well. 186 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: And you're not gonna want to miss today's show. And 187 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: we'll tell you what. When we come back, We're going 188 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: to go to the phones, because guess what, on this 189 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: sleepy Saturday morning, we've got calls on the board, so 190 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: we will address them. The number to reach me, and 191 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: there's room for you eight three three two Ask Dean 192 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: eight three three Read the numeral to ask Dean more 193 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: great stuff on the way. You are home with Dean Sharp, 194 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: the house Whisperer. Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, here to 195 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: help you take your home to the next level. With 196 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: some lovely smooth jazz in the background. Hey, good morning 197 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: to you, my friend. No, I'm not throwing you know, 198 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty percent of vocal energy behind the mic, 199 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: because I just thought i'd be doing you as solid 200 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: if we all just kind of woke up together and 201 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: relaxed and had some serious conversations and some good conversations 202 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: about your home. So here we are, and we've got 203 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: calls on the board, but we also have room for you. 204 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to be going to the calls in just 205 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: a moment. But here is the number. It is an 206 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: all calls Saturday morning, which means anything you want to 207 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: talk about regarding your home, or just call me in 208 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: tell me how your holidays were. Truly, I'm fine with 209 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: that too. The number to reach me eight three three two, 210 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: ask Dean, eight three three, the numeral two beep, ask Dean. 211 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: You just spell it all out, eight three three to 212 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: ask Dean. It's just that simple. All right, let's go 213 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: to the phones. I want to talk to Brad. Hey, Brad, 214 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: welcome home. 215 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 4: Hey, thank you Dean. Merry Christmas to you and your 216 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 4: production team. 217 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: Oh well, Merry Christmas to you, my friend. Did you 218 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: have a good one? 219 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 4: I did? Thank you. I'd like your show and I'm 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 4: an early writer and I wanted to call you this 221 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 4: morning with a question. I wanted to get your professional 222 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 4: opinion on the following. With all the recent rains, it 223 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 4: reminds me in the back of my mind, I'm always 224 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 4: thinking to my doing more harm than good when it 225 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 4: comes to rain seepage that goes into my basement. My 226 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 4: home is a nineteen thirty five Monterey Colonial. It's so 227 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 4: it's an older home and it's never had a sump 228 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 4: pump put into the basement. So as you know, in 229 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 4: so call, it doesn't rain very often, but when it does, 230 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 4: I get about two inches of rain down there. So 231 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 4: about seven or eight years ago, I bought a pump 232 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 4: at home depot and I plug it in, but I'm 233 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 4: going to run a hose up the stairs, out the 234 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 4: front door, down the porch, down to the sidewalk, so 235 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 4: it's about twenty six feet of hose. It works. The 236 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 4: floor is still wet, the ground floor in the basement, 237 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 4: but eventually it evaporates, you know, with the airflow down there. 238 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 4: So my question is that remedies it. But am I 239 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 4: potentially doing more harm than good? Would you say, Brat, 240 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 4: you need to get a sump pump. You're wrecking your house. 241 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 4: So there's my question for you. 242 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: Oh, it's a really good question. It's a really good question. 243 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: So here, you know the basement, it's partial basement, what 244 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: we could call a California basement, I assume for the 245 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: old furnace, Yes, what you've got down there. Yeah, by 246 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: the way, if you're listening anywhere across the country at 247 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: California basement, not a full basement like you've got you 248 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: know in homes that are you know east of the Rockies, 249 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: California basements. Just enough space down there to service and 250 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: locate the old gravity furnace, which is just a furnace 251 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: without a fan, and it's low. It has to be 252 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: lower than the rest of the house because you know, 253 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: hot air rises, and the whole idea of a gravity 254 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: furnace is it heats up, the air goes in and 255 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: it rises up through the ductworks and comes out of 256 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: the floor vents. And that's how it all used to 257 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: work back in the day. Now, of course, nearly one 258 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: hundred years later, Brad has no use for the gravity 259 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: furnace down there, but he does have a basement still. 260 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: And going on one hundred years plus here or headed 261 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: towards one hundred years, especially in California, very very rarely 262 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: do we have to deal with moisture down there. But man, 263 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: when it rains, like it has been raining, water builds 264 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: up or in the soil around the house and you 265 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: can end up with some stuff there. So here's the thing, Brad, 266 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: are you doing yourself a disservice? Well, no, of course not, 267 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: because this is the house that you've got and this 268 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: is how it has functioned for nearly a century. And 269 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: you know you're basically in good shape. Now it's a 270 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: pain in the booty. I know that. But here's the 271 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: solution to that. Could I mean, the total solution to 272 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: that basement would be waterproofing it. Okay, waterproofing that basement 273 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: is a chore. I mean it is a chore at 274 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: this point because it's down in the ground. Now, can 275 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: it be done, Yes, it can be done. Would it 276 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: be very disruptive of the whole situation. Yes it would, 277 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: and it would be costly. And if it's important enough 278 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: to you, if it's important enough to you, then you 279 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: could actually waterproof the basement. But yeah, you have to 280 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: do it from the outside of those concrete walls, which 281 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: means they have to be dug around and they have 282 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: to be dealt with. And you know, our foundation repair 283 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: la experts. We've done this with them before. They've done 284 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: just this kind of thing. In fact, they at the 285 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: beginning of last year out in I want to say, 286 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: Studio City. Studio City had a client in Studio City, 287 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: beautiful client, and they bought a nineteen thirty five single 288 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: story ranch out there with almost a full basement. Okay, 289 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: this is an unusual situation, and that thing leaked like 290 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: a sieve. And so we actually took an honest bid 291 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: from Foundation Repair LA for excavating around those exterior walls 292 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: and dealing with waterproofing that basement better. And it was 293 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: going to be pricey, but it would also be effective. 294 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: So just you know, and no, I do not know 295 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: how to tell you how much it's going to cost, 296 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: because every situation is different, but just so you know 297 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: it can be done if that is something that you're 298 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: interested in doing. But that is kind of the nuclear 299 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: option and it's expensive. Now, if you're not experiencing undoe 300 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: toil or trouble and undo humidity down there, I mean, 301 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: it sounds like you've got your routine down pretty dang 302 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: good when it comes to what you do when you 303 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: get rain and water intrusion down there and it doesn't 304 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: sound like you've got anything valuable down there that's going 305 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: to be damaged by an inch or two of water 306 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: standing and you get out your some pump and so on. 307 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 4: So if I may interrupute, You've got all the right thoughts, 308 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: and I think I heard every word you said makes sense. 309 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 4: I do want to point out I do have a 310 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 4: replacement three year old furnace down there. The gravity You're 311 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 4: absolutely right with the original with the gravity furnace feed 312 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 4: up through the house. So what I have down there 313 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 4: is a expensive two zone heater system that's tied into 314 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 4: the air conditioning and it's on a you know, a 315 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 4: standard pedestal down there. And so what I do notice 316 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 4: when it rains, I keep one eye on it, like 317 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 4: is that water going to crest that pedestal? And if 318 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 4: it does, that's not good. That would be very bad. 319 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 4: So I wanted to make sure you knew that and 320 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 4: I and I think it might change your thoughts. Possibly 321 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 4: it hasn't changed mind completely because I do deal with 322 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 4: this This pump I put down and it takes about 323 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 4: an hour and gets the water out, but it does 324 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 4: have that furnace, and I do have storage down there 325 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 4: of some you know, old artwork, you know, memorabilia up 326 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 4: on shelves, So I just wanted to point that out. 327 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: Great, Okay, that's really good info. So you do have 328 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: some valuable things down there, especially the furnace, which you 329 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: absolutely don't want that thing getting soaked. All right, So 330 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: here's the thing, bred There is another option in between 331 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: the rolling out the sum pump and running the hose 332 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: and doing all that thing, you know every time it 333 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: rains severely. In between that option, which is, you know, 334 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: the labor intens of geez, if I'm not home when 335 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: the rainstorm hits, you know, I'm worried situation, and the 336 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: dig out everything and waterproof that basement for you know, 337 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 1: major Bucks. There's something in between, and if you can 338 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: hang tight, we're up against a break. When we come back, 339 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: I will give you that middle of the road option, 340 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: which I think you might find pleasingly acceptable and quite 341 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: a bit more worry free than what you're dealing with 342 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: now without breaking the bank. So can you hang tight? 343 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 4: Yes, I'll stand by all right, Brad. 344 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 1: You hang on. We'll come back and we will address 345 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: this very very interesting situation. More and more older homes 346 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: here in southern California, and across the nation, and that's 347 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: not changing. Our homes are aging a good amount. I 348 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: mean when I you know, when we come back, we'll 349 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: talk about what percentage of homes are in the United 350 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: States are approaching the century mark now as compared to 351 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: a year's past. We will do that will answer Brad's question. 352 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: We'll also take more of your calls. The number to 353 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two Ask Dean A three 354 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: three the numeral to ask Dean. You are Home with 355 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. You're listening to Home with 356 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp on demand from KFI Am six forty. Good 357 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: morning to you, Dean Sharp, the house Whisper here to 358 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: help you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. 359 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: It is our all calls Saturday morning, as we do 360 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: every Saturday morning here on the program. And it is 361 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: the final Saturday of twenty twenty five. So you know what, 362 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: if you're just sick of twenty twenty five Saturdays, this 363 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: is it. Don't worries, and if you love them, then 364 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to tell you that this is the last one, 365 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: but there will be more, I promise you. In twenty 366 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: twenty six. We are taking calls the number to reach me. 367 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: By the way you get to set the agenda for 368 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,959 Speaker 1: today's show eight three three two, Ask Dean eight three 369 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,479 Speaker 1: three the numeral two. Ask Dean, you just spell it 370 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: out and boom, here you and I are. We were 371 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: talking to Brad before the break about his nineteen thirty 372 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:42,239 Speaker 1: five Monterey Colonial home. He's got a what we call 373 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: a California basement, which is a basement just large enough 374 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: for the old gravity furnace, but he now has a 375 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: very modern furnace set up down in there and storage. 376 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: And you know, a house that's ninety plus years old, 377 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: he is experience seeing water down there in the bottom 378 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: of that basement after heavy rains like what we've just 379 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 1: gone through. And Brad, you know, he does the whole, 380 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: the whole procedure of getting out the sump pump and 381 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: making sure that water stays under control. And you know, 382 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: that's a worrisome thing, especially if you find yourself not 383 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: around or near when it starts to happen. Because it's 384 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: got some storage down there. He got things that are 385 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: valuable down there, and that furnace doesn't You don't want 386 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: that furnace getting messed up. So the question that Brad 387 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: had for me, was you know, am I doing myself 388 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: a disservice just by doing this? As there something else 389 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: I should do? I explained before the break that yes, 390 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: there are ways. It's it's not inexpensive, but there are 391 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: ways to after the fact, take this nearly one hundred 392 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: year old basement, excavate all around it, and actually do 393 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: a better job of waterproofing it. But that is heroic, 394 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: to say the least, and I think there is a 395 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: better way. And Brad, by the way, after we talk 396 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 1: about this middle of the road solution, which in my 397 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: mind is probably what I would do if I had 398 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: your home, and by the way, beautiful home, and I 399 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: after we talk about that, I want to talk about 400 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 1: your home just a little bit to introduce people to 401 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: the Monterey Colonial, if you don't mind, because that's a 402 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: very very special house here in California anyway, So we'll 403 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: get out my architecture nerd along the way too. But 404 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: here's my thought, Brad. My thought is this, and that is, 405 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: you know, if we were going to build this home today, 406 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: of course the basement would be waterproofed and all of that. 407 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: But the way that we would build this home is 408 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: that any home that has a full basement of course, 409 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 1: has an integrated some pump into it, and that integrated 410 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: some pump, let's say we're building in the east, would 411 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: would be down below the concrete of the floor in 412 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: its own little pit, and all hooked up with a 413 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: permanent ejection line. And that is something that without breaking 414 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: the bank in terms of excavating and trying to waterproof 415 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: the entire basement, that is something that I wouldn't hesitate 416 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: to do if I was in your position. So, in 417 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: other words, right there in the center of the basement floor, 418 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: you could have that a portion of the floor cut out, 419 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: a square in the floor cut out of the slab there, 420 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: and then have a small pit just to house the 421 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: sump pump installed there. The sump pump goes down in 422 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: the pit, it has permanent power running to it. It 423 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 1: has a permanent ejection line run up and out of 424 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: it and out of the basement, so you don't have 425 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: to run the hose through the house and over the 426 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: top of the foundation walls and all of that stuff. 427 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: And it is just sitting there, ready ready to go 428 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: anytime water collects on the basement floor. And of course 429 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: you would finish this off with a great, a standable 430 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 1: grate so that you can just walk on it and 431 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: then no concern. But the grate of course perforated so 432 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: that water that does accumulate as it starts to seep 433 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: through would find the lowest part, which is the water's 434 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: going to run into the pit, and then the sump 435 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: pump will take care of it before the water ever 436 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: has a chance to build up and actually start rising 437 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: up that one to two inches that is so worrisome 438 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: in the basement itself. So a deeper hole in the 439 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: center of the basement floor to permanently house the sump 440 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: pump pit. You can access the pump, you'll be able 441 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: to service the pump and with a permanent ejection line. 442 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: How does that sound? 443 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 4: Sounds good. It sounds a little bit more involved, obviously 444 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 4: than what I'm doing the manual, And I guess the 445 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 4: water trips the pump. It as probably something that just 446 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 4: you know, water gets in, boom, it kicks in. Well, 447 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 4: that's a good, good thought. I appreciate those suggestions. Thank 448 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 4: you so much for that team. 449 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: You're very welcome. It's just it's a middle of the 450 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: road thought, and yes it is. It's going to involve 451 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: a little saw cutting of the concrete and so on, 452 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: but it really compared to the other alternative, so you know, 453 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: it's just that middle of the road. And basically, hey, 454 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: if what you're doing works and you don't want to 455 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: spend the money, then you know, just stay with it 456 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: and do the diligence of getting the sump pump down there. 457 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: But yes, the pump in the pit would activate on 458 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: a float, on a little bit of float, so just 459 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: like the just like the valve inside your toilet tank, right, 460 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: so when the float lifts up, it turns on the pump. 461 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: It the potter pumps out until the float drops down 462 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: it turns itself off. So would all be automatic. I 463 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: don't know that it's going to one hundred percent alleviate 464 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: your worries about it, because anything mechanical like that, something 465 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: can always go wrong. But it's a much much less expensive, 466 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: more permanent and resolution to moisture intrusion than trying to 467 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: waterproof that whole basement and or and it's it's it's 468 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: more convenient than you having to roll out the gear 469 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: every time the big storm hits. But let me ask 470 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: you this, right, how long have you been in your 471 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: Monterey Colonial where is it and how much do you 472 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 1: love it? 473 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 4: Well? I love it. I mean I've been here thirty years. 474 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 4: It's in Westwood, and in the back of my mind 475 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 4: everything you've said is, you know, great suggestions. I always 476 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 4: think of that danky mold issue. It's kind of the 477 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 4: elephant in the room topic, like am I doing the 478 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 4: disservice number one to the structure number two? Do I 479 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 4: have mold that I don't even realize I have mold? 480 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 4: And is you know that's kind of a residual effect 481 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 4: of maybe having too much moisture. Again, it just doesn't 482 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 4: rain that much, and so cow that's I always need 483 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 4: to put it off. 484 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and if it's well ventilated and you know, another thing, 485 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 1: of course you can do it. Actually is helpful that 486 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: the furnace is down there because but if you need 487 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 1: additional help during times then the furnace is not rolling 488 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: during the dead of winter, which of course is when 489 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: it rains most of the time, you could always add 490 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: a dehumidifier down there just to dry the air out. 491 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: Mold is not going to survive dry air. It needs 492 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: the moisture. It needs moisture in the air to continue 493 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: to thrive. And so you know, if you haven't seen 494 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: mold issues, you're going to see the molds first. And 495 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: that's the thing. Mold does not go into its dangerous 496 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: spore phase until after it's been growing and establishing, establishing 497 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: itself on surfaces. You're gonna see mold first, and then 498 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: if that mold is allowed to grow after that, it's 499 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: going to develop into the spore giving stage that becomes 500 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: you know, a danger for people to breathe and so on. 501 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: So it doesn't do it in reverse. So if you 502 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: don't see it, you don't have it, Okay, if you 503 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: don't have evidence of it anywhere. If you're worried about it, though, 504 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: then you add a dehumidifier along the way. Okay, great, Brad, 505 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: thank you so much. When we come back from the break, 506 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm still going to talk about Brad's house because I 507 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: because we just had two comments basically saying, what in 508 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: the world is a Monterey Colonial and so you know 509 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: we're going to take the time and explain it out, 510 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: plus more of your calls when we return your home 511 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, 512 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: here to remind you that every home deserves great design 513 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: especially your home. Why because that's where you live, my friend. 514 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: And great design simply means this. It means the house 515 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: has maximized its potential, but specifically in the direction of 516 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: merging with your best life. That is what a true 517 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: successful custom home is is when a house becomes a 518 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: home because it merges its very best with the very 519 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: best life of the owners within it. That's what custom 520 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: design is all about. And that's what I'm here to 521 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: help you with. Every weekend. It's an all call Saturday morning. 522 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to the phones in just a second, 523 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: but got to indulge me here, Brad our caller, Brad 524 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: who lives in a nineteen thirty five Monterey Colonial. That's 525 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,959 Speaker 1: a term that is not familiar, I know to most 526 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: of you. And you got to give me an opportunity 527 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: to just geek out on some architecture here. So I 528 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: just want to share that with you. Most of you 529 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: who live in southern California or California in general, up 530 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: and down the coast, most of you have seen, you've 531 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 1: had eyes on at some point in your life. A 532 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: Monterey Colonial, just didn't know what it was. Because it's 533 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: a unique home, arguably one of the very very few 534 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: truly an indigenous home architectural styles to the US and 535 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: specifically to California. There go California Colonial or Monterey Colonial 536 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: started in Monterey, and so it has a very very 537 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: interesting history. A guy named Thomas Larkin back in eighteen 538 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: thirty two. Okay, just let that wash over you. Eighteen 539 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: thirty two, Okay. He was a merchant who arrived in Monterey, 540 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: California in eighteen thirty two. All right, he is the 541 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: one who's credited with coming up with this style. Okay. 542 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: The prototype is now known as the Larkin House, and 543 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: it was built in eighteen thirty five. All right, so 544 00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: that was almost two hundred years ago. Now, okay, so 545 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: the prototype, now what was it? 546 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 4: Now? 547 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: Imagine this what's going on in California in the eighteen 548 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: thirties is most dwellings are Spanish slash Mexican Adobe. You know, ranchos, Okay, 549 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: single story ranchos. Now Larkin, he's a guy from the 550 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: East Coast, from New England, right, and he's coming out 551 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: and what does he do. He pulls off what is 552 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: very rare in architecture, which is the merging of two 553 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: very very different styles together to actually have a baby 554 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: that is pretty gorgeous. And so you know you've seen 555 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: people before. You're looking at like you the husband, the wife, 556 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: those two partners, and you're thinking, wow, I don't know, 557 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm not sure they should have kids, because that kid's 558 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: going to look very interesting. So of course you've never 559 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: said that out loud, but you have thought it. So 560 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: here that's the situation. So what Larkin did was he 561 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: brought and I don't know, I mean, he was a merchant, 562 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: he wasn't an architect, but he brought his New England 563 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: colonial sensibility. Now, a New England colonial house is classically 564 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: a two story house. It's a two story house that 565 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: in the facade of the house, the front of the house, 566 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: you've all seen them, very very symmetrical central front door 567 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: and then windows to the left and the right, and 568 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: then upstairs windows to the left and the right, all 569 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: laid out very nice, a little colonial box of a house. 570 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: And he brought that and e merged it with Spanish 571 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: Mexican Adobe rancho style out here and actually made, by 572 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: the way, the very first two story homes in California. 573 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: And since he lived in Monterey, the style became known 574 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: as the Monterey Colonial. So imagine a a California Spanish 575 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: rancho now two stories tall and laid out like a 576 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,879 Speaker 1: New England Colonial as far as symmetry is concerned. Now, 577 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: they didn't remained completely symmetrical. But the one thing that's 578 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: really distinctive, and this is the thing that you will 579 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: probably think, oh, yeah, okay, I think I've seen one 580 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: of those before. Two story house, and the most distinctive 581 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: architectural feature of a Monterey Colonial is that the second 582 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,720 Speaker 1: story has a running balcony on it that cantilevers out 583 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: over the first floor. So the balcony protrudes past the 584 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 1: wall of the first floor, and it's usually a long 585 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: on some of them. On many of the classic ones, 586 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,280 Speaker 1: it runs along the entire front face of the house, 587 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: a functional, walkable, cantilevered balcony that extends out past the 588 00:34:54,520 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: first floor. And it kind of looks like a house 589 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: built on top of a ranch house, right, And so 590 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: if you can imagine that, then yeah, you've seen it. 591 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: And they don't have to have Spanish style roofs or 592 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: anything like that. Spanish tile roofs the original did. But 593 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: that's the idea of a Monterey Colonial home. A hybrid 594 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: of a Spanish rancho single story Adobe rancho and a 595 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: New England Colonial. These are two styles that most people 596 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: would argue should not be thrown together and have a kid, 597 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: but nevertheless they did and a whole new architectural home style. 598 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: And now so that was back in the eighteen thirties, okay, 599 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: but we saw a revival of that in the early 600 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds. From like nineteen ten to the late nineteen thirties, 601 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: there was a complete revival of Monterey Colonial styles, especially 602 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: here in southern California. And that is one of the 603 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: houses that Brad is living in, built in nineteen thirty five, 604 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: a revival a Spanish I mean a Monterey Colonial Revival style. 605 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: Wonderful home. And you know, why is it important to 606 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: know the kind of home you live in and what 607 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: it's capable of, because you know, it's all about turning 608 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 1: an ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Is all about 609 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: starting with really knowing what you've got, really understanding it 610 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: for what it is, what's its capabilities, what's its genetic heritage, 611 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 1: what is it capable of becoming? Because you know, anybody 612 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: can build anything on a lot. You can just tear 613 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: a house down and start over. Again. But if you 614 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: really want to change and move and work with the house, 615 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: then you've got to understand it first, otherwise you're going 616 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: to abuse it. You got to know the home to 617 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: start with, and then you're going to be in a 618 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: better position to make it everything that it could be. 619 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: And so there you go. There is your little architecture 620 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: geek out for the day. All right. I may not 621 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: be the last though, Just just know you can trip 622 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,280 Speaker 1: me into that mode anytime when we come back more 623 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,759 Speaker 1: of your calls. You are Home with Dean Sharp, the 624 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: house Whisperer. You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on 625 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: demand from KFI AM six forty