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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the phones. Hey, John, welcome home.

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Speaker 2: I'm calling you from San Diego, and my story is

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Speaker 2: to save a few dollars. I installed my own water heater,

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Speaker 2: all right, and in so doing I read the instructions

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Speaker 2: and one of the things that I remembered was the

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Speaker 2: water pressure. They recommend the maximum eighty pounds per square

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Speaker 2: inch pressure in the water lines. Well, I installed the

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Speaker 2: water heater and I had the city come out and

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Speaker 2: test my pressure, and it's up around eighty six eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: And I'm concerned about that. If what are the average

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Speaker 2: home water systems of piping and everything, how much more

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Speaker 2: than eighty can be tolerated? What could I do about

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Speaker 2: it to lower that water pressure?

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Speaker 1: Great question, and kudos for reading the instructions, John, Good job,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: I learned how to read a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: So okay, first of all, water pressure around eighty five

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Speaker 1: eighty six. You know you don't have an emergency concern

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Speaker 1: on your hand, okay, because it's just you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just etching over the the you know the

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Speaker 1: upper limit. However, you are right to address it. You

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Speaker 1: should address everybody should know. This is why that's why

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Speaker 1: I take calls all right, because not only am I

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Speaker 1: gonna answered John's question, but it should help everybody who's

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Speaker 1: listening understand a little bit more about their home. So,

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Speaker 1: residential water pressure should ideally fall in the sixty to

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Speaker 1: eighty psi range. Sixty to eighty, So that's the optimum range. Okay,

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Speaker 1: below sixty, it's not going to hurt your house, but

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Speaker 1: you know everybody's going to be like, what the heck

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Speaker 1: is wrong with my water? Why is it clogged?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: So we all like nice water pressure in our lines.

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Speaker 1: But above eighty psi, and here's the key, above adpsi,

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Speaker 1: it puts a strain on the fittings in your water system,

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Speaker 1: the fittings of the pipes themselves, and even more important

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Speaker 1: than that, which you know, there are systems that, if

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Speaker 1: they're well built and well put together, could withstand a

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Speaker 1: heck of a lot more pressure than that. But more

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Speaker 1: important than that is all of your appliances. The interior

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Speaker 1: guts of the washing machine and the dishwasher, and water

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Speaker 1: based appliance is like your water here. None of them

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Speaker 1: are rated to have more than eighty PSI sitting in

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Speaker 1: the term right, So we just don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to damage. We don't want to you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to blow out the ice maker line

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Speaker 1: to the refrigerator or anything like that. So, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: got to get your water pressure down, all right. Uh

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Speaker 1: So I recommend nattin for the house just to bring

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Speaker 1: the pressure down. No, there are no such things. But

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Speaker 1: here's the simple it's a simple fix. Okay. Every home

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Speaker 1: has a pressure regulator on the mainline going into the house.

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Speaker 1: And I would say, well, okay, then then it's time

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Speaker 1: to get yourself one, my friend. UH a pressure regulator valve,

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Speaker 1: all right, And it's and it's almost always located right

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Speaker 1: where the main water cutoff valve is, right before the

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Speaker 1: water lines enter the house. I'm not talking about the

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Speaker 1: meter out in the you know, on the UH in

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk out there in the little concrete pit. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about the irrigation and UH and water control valves,

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Speaker 1: the gate valves right before water and your home right

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Speaker 1: then and there, that is where we want a pressure

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Speaker 1: control valve. We don't have to have a pressure regulator

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Speaker 1: on the irrigation lines for your home, because they don't

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Speaker 1: hold pressure. They're empty lines. You know, the sprinkler system

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Speaker 1: is empty until you activate it and then and then

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Speaker 1: they fill up with water and then they irrigate your house,

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Speaker 1: and then you turn them off and they drain out again.

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Speaker 1: They don't hold pressure twenty four seven three sixty five.

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Speaker 1: But the rest of the pipes inside your house do

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Speaker 1: always standing water there under pressure. So the point being,

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Speaker 1: pressure regulators are not expensive in the long run of all.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot less expensive than your water.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about two or three hundred dollars at the most.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't if there isn't a union hook

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Speaker 1: actually have one, then you need to get one. You

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Speaker 1: at the big box stores. Make sure they're sized right

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Speaker 1: how am I going to hook this up? Then yeah,

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Speaker 1: to install a pressure regulator right here, I would say,

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Speaker 1: And I don't have a scientific this is not a

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Speaker 1: empirical experience. But I would say probably eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: right now have a worn out pressure regulator. They wear out, okay,

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Speaker 1: overtime and so, and that's why. So once originally it

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Speaker 1: and now it has just given out, and as a result,

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Speaker 1: we've got too high pressure in the house. So everybody,

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Speaker 1: it would.

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Speaker 2: Be the lifespan of a regulator.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's impossible for me to tell you, but

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I haven't seen many that

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Speaker 1: doing their job. Okay, Oh, I don't know. You know,

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Speaker 1: high pressure, and if you haven't ever checked the water

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Speaker 1: pressure on your house, you should. Most people, by the way,

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Speaker 1: can test this themselves because most homes. Most homes have

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Speaker 1: a wall mounted water spigot somewhere. Okay, now I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about out in the yard. You can't trust those.

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Speaker 1: If you've got a water spigot and you know, hooked

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Speaker 1: very likely that that is part of the irrigation system

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Speaker 1: and not pressure regulated. But if you on the outside

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Speaker 1: if you've got a just a hose spigot coming out

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Speaker 1: is very likely part of the house water line system

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Speaker 2: It screws on.

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Speaker 1: It screws on to the end of the hose bib

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Speaker 1: needle goes. And that's how you can pressure test your

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Speaker 1: own water. And everybody can check that out for themselves. So,

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Speaker 1: my friend, it's time for a pressure regulator and bring

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Speaker 1: that out and take that expertly installed water heater of

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Speaker 1: yours and make sure that as a long healthy life.

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Speaker 2: I did a good job on it for the first time.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there's another thing that I learned that

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Speaker 2: I think other people should be aware of. And these

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Speaker 2: water heaters is the anode rod. Yes, I'm thinking to

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Speaker 2: change that every four years.

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Speaker 1: It is not all a bad idea, my friend John.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your call, my friend, good luck. It's

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Speaker 1: no big deal. You're going to get your pressure under control,

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Speaker 1: bring it down to about seventy psi once that new

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Speaker 1: regulator is in and happy water, happy house, happy life.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Thanks John. More of your calls on

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Speaker 1: the way.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: Here to help you take your home to the next level,

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Speaker 1: which we're doing today by going to the phones. Let's

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Speaker 1: get back to them. Why don't we talk to An

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Speaker 1: Hey and welcome.

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Speaker 5: Home Hidin Okay. I just have a quick actually two

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Speaker 5: quick questions. When I plug in my like vacuum or

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Speaker 5: a fan or something like that, and of course you

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Speaker 5: know your vacuum for a few minutes, when I go

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Speaker 5: to unplug from the wall, well, the plug is so

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Speaker 5: hot you can hardly hold it. Is that something I

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Speaker 1: The actual plug at the end of the vacuum planer, Yes,

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Speaker 1: has has has gotten super hot?

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Speaker 6: Huh?

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Speaker 5: And you know I vacuum for let's say at least

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Speaker 5: ten minutes, because the room is kind of large, and

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Speaker 5: I go over to unplug it to take it to

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Speaker 5: another room, and the plug when I unplug it from

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Speaker 5: the wall, it's really hot.

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Speaker 1: Well that you know what that's that's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a quandary, I got to tell you, because it's it's

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Speaker 1: normal for an appliance plug to become warm after you've

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Speaker 1: used it for a while. It is abnormal for a

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Speaker 1: plug to actually get hot. Okay, it's usually some kind

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Speaker 1: like like if it's drawing so much power that it's

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Speaker 1: going to overwhelm the wires in the plug. Sometimes an

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Speaker 1: improperly grounded electrical connection can also cause a device to

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Speaker 1: draw more power than necessary. So, you know what, it's

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Speaker 1: a bit of a mystery to me, I have heard.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen this firsthand, but I've heard that a

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Speaker 1: properly an improperly grounded plug can sometimes allow an appliance

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Speaker 1: cord on the appliance gets way too hot. Now, if

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Speaker 1: can hardly hold it. That would be a concern. Does

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Speaker 1: that happen to the vacuum cleaner, Let's say when you

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Speaker 5: Well, that's what I was going to suggest, is maybe

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Speaker 5: I should try another because normally I use the same

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Speaker 1: that happens on every single outlet. If that's the case,

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Speaker 1: it's very likely. By the way, when was your house built.

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Speaker 5: Well, the house was built in like around sixty But

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Speaker 5: the two plugs that I use for the vacuum they

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Speaker 5: So when you said it could be not grounded, I

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Speaker 5: just wonder if the electrician didn't you do something that

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Speaker 5: he was supposed to do with those two new additional

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Speaker 1: I mean, Okay, so Let's do what you were saying.

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Speaker 1: Let's plug the vacuum cleaner into a couple of other

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Speaker 1: outlets in the house and see run it for the

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Speaker 1: same amount of time. See if we get the same

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Speaker 1: could just be an issue with the vacuum cleaner. It

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Speaker 1: really could. But here's another thing that you can do.

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Speaker 1: If you run down to the hardware store or home

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Speaker 1: outlet tester. Okay, it's specifically an outlet tester. It's a

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Speaker 1: end of it, and it has a three prong plug,

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Speaker 1: just like you plug in the any appliance. The thing

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Speaker 1: you plug it into any outlet in your house, depending

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to it. Hey, Jim, welcome home.

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Speaker 1: it in like decking boards, right planks. But that's why

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Speaker 1: to do that, we wouldn't use plywood on top of it.

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Speaker 1: We would just use open decking planks. We would treat

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Speaker 1: the supporting joysts underneath that are holding up the deck

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Speaker 1: and uh and boarded on the tops. That way, water

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be shed off of it. It'll just

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Speaker 1: run through the deck boards to what's underneath. So that's

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Speaker 1: why I'm asking you what's underneath. Normally when we do

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Speaker 1: a waterproof deck, it's because what's directly underneath, you know,

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Speaker 1: we want coverage so that rain water doesn't you know,

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Speaker 1: so we can be out there and rain doesn't get through.

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Speaker 1: Is that's what's going on.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's actually it's overlooking. It's on top of my

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Speaker 9: service porch.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 9: Also I have the wash and dryer and it's farm

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Speaker 9: of the house undernak there. So it needs to be

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Speaker 9: you know, water tight sealed.

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Speaker 1: So options, you got a lot of options. One is

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Speaker 1: the one option you don't have though, is to just

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Speaker 1: put some sealer on that plywood, okay, because that's not

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Speaker 1: going to hold up. It won't hold up, so we've

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Speaker 1: got to cover that up. In the past, people have

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Speaker 1: hot mopped right tar and asphalt. You don't need to

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Speaker 1: do that anymore. If you're interested in making a decorative

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Speaker 1: surface out there on the deck. In other words, if

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Speaker 1: we're going to put tile or stone or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Then you would use a brush on membrane or a

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Speaker 1: PVC rollout membrane, or a roofing membrane that is designed

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Speaker 1: not to be attractive but to become that waterproof membrane.

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Speaker 1: So you could use a regular roofing membrane that seals

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Speaker 1: at the seams. There are rush on materials like red Guard,

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Speaker 1: which you can pick up. It's not cheap, but again

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Speaker 1: they work really really well. Red Guard materials they roll

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Speaker 1: on and you just put on several layers of it,

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Speaker 1: so you get a thick mill rubberized coating finish on

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Speaker 1: top of that plywood. All of these things, though, are

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Speaker 1: things that you would then proceed to cover with your actual,

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Speaker 1: you know, attractive esthetic material on top. If that's not

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Speaker 1: the option, then you could have a decking company come

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Speaker 1: out and do a fiberglass coating for that, and the

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Speaker 1: fiberglass coating in itself is designed to have its own attractiveness. Now,

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Speaker 1: attractiveness is a question that you know, it's relative, right,

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Speaker 1: because some people are like, I hate the way those

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Speaker 1: fiberglass decks look well, But the point is that is

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Speaker 1: a situation where the decking material itself has its own

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Speaker 1: finish to it, and there are some companies out there

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Speaker 1: that do some amazing stuff. It isn't just the rough textured,

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Speaker 1: beige colored material, which is pretty much the least expensive

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Speaker 1: way to go. They can do simulated stone, they can

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Speaker 1: do simulated plank and so on. So basically, I'm breaking

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Speaker 1: it down into two categories. You're either a going to

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Speaker 1: go in that direction where the waterproof membrane is in

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Speaker 1: and of itself, also the decorative finish has it built

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Speaker 1: into it, or you're going to lay down any number

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Speaker 1: of efficient waterproof membranes, be it a roofing membrane or

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Speaker 1: roll on membrane like the Red Guard, but those you're

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Speaker 1: gonna end up covering up with a finished material tile, wood, stone,

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Speaker 1: what have you.

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Speaker 9: All Right, thank you very much, Jee.

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Speaker 1: And make sure, Jim, make sure that before any of

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Speaker 1: that happens, make sure that that deck is properly pitched,

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Speaker 1: because especially if you've got you know, space underneath it

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Speaker 1: that has to stay dry. It's not just about hopefully

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Speaker 1: they rebuilt the deck with pitch to it. That deck

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Speaker 1: should be shedding water off to its edge at least

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Speaker 1: an eighth of an inch per foot of drop, just

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Speaker 1: like a driveway or so on. Quarter inch would be better,

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Speaker 1: but at least an eighth of an inch per foot,

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Speaker 1: so that water will shed off and not pool on

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Speaker 1: that decking surface. Because if we're inviting the water to

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Speaker 1: stay put, then you know, amazingly enough, any kind of

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Speaker 1: decking membrane can be defeated ultimately by water that is

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Speaker 1: hanging around too long. All right, more of your calls

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Speaker 1: right after this your home Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.

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