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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of home

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Speaker 1: on KFI. Our soggy house, whispered Dean Sharp, good morning, Ogi.

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Speaker 1: Well is it raining where you are?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, Well there you go.

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Speaker 1: Although I would imagine that your home is probably already

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Speaker 1: ready for the rain. But let's talk about rain and

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Speaker 1: your home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing. It's raining. The storms are here,

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Speaker 2: and so as far as getting ready, it's too late.

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Speaker 2: It's too late to get ready. I mean, there's if

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Speaker 2: you have any suspicion that you may have some flooding

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Speaker 2: problems up against the house, then it's not too late

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Speaker 2: probably to run down to the big box store, the

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Speaker 2: hardware store and pick up a couple of these great

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Speaker 2: little products called quick dam okay, bickdam. Are basically sand

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Speaker 2: bags without sand in them. They're a little packet of

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Speaker 2: I call them house diapers because that's how they work.

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Speaker 2: If you can imagine, the material inside these little bags

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Speaker 2: are kind of like the material in a you know,

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Speaker 2: a high tech diaper, in that they absorb a tremendous

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Speaker 2: amount of water and then they get heavy and then

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Speaker 2: they act like a sandbag and so. But the cool

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Speaker 2: thing is that they don't weigh one hundred pounds. They

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Speaker 2: weigh less than a pound when you carry out, you know,

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Speaker 2: a bag of six Now, they're a little pricey in

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Speaker 2: the sense that you know it's gonna set you back

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Speaker 2: thirty or forty dollars, But if it's the difference between

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Speaker 2: water coming in the kitchen door and not, then it's

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Speaker 2: well worth the investment. That's about all that I want

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Speaker 2: you to do at this point, other than get out

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Speaker 2: a bucket or two if you've got water dropping, you know,

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Speaker 2: leaking from the ceiling, because I don't want you up

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Speaker 2: on the roof. Get off. Don't no ladders, No up

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Speaker 2: on the roof while it's while we're in the middle

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Speaker 2: of a rainstorm. You are more important than your house

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Speaker 2: or your floor, and so just stay safe and then

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about the aftermath when the rain is cleared.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we can. I ask you one question about this

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Speaker 1: buick damn thing so quick, damn uh. They don't weigh

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Speaker 1: very much. What's in them? Is it like those gel things?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like those crystal and gels that you would find,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, if you've ever seen a kid's diaper,

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Speaker 2: you know they weigh nothing and pretty much. You know,

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Speaker 2: you could put a gallon of water inside a diaper

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Speaker 2: and it's still holding. And it's the easiest way to explain. Now,

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Speaker 2: obviously it's not exactly the same thing, but it's easy.

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Speaker 2: The easiest way to explain how these quick damn bags work,

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Speaker 2: and that is that you just roll them out and

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Speaker 2: they weigh nothing, and you wait for the water to

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Speaker 2: come and if the water arrives at them, they will

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Speaker 2: begin to absorb it and then they get very heavy

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Speaker 2: because they hold on to the.

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Speaker 1: Water very cool, and then create even more of a barrier. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so nothing to do besides put in a little barrier there.

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Speaker 1: And this is a problem actually at my apartment that

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Speaker 1: when it rains really really hard, I do get a leak,

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Speaker 1: and they've tried to fix it and tried to fix it.

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Speaker 1: So after the rain stops, how do you find where

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Speaker 1: the leaks are coming in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a tricky thing, even for an experienced professional.

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Speaker 2: I'll just tell you right now, we should not assume

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Speaker 2: that the leak in the roof is right above where

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Speaker 2: the water is coming into the room, okay, because there

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Speaker 2: are so many places for water to run and move

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Speaker 2: along wood elements and building elements before it actually drips

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Speaker 2: and then eventually finds its way down through the drywall

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Speaker 2: and into the room. So it's gonna be near it ish,

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Speaker 2: but not necessarily right above. So we don't want to

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Speaker 2: just again, we don't want to make the mistake of

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Speaker 2: getting up on the roof and saying, well, I know

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Speaker 2: where the leak is dripping through the house, so I'm

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Speaker 2: just gonna put a bunch of mastic or Henry's patching

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Speaker 2: compound right here. Yeah, not a guarantee. Water rolls downhill

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Speaker 2: and so anywhere higher on the roof, and you know,

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Speaker 2: within ten to twenty feet of where the leak is

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Speaker 2: could be the actual source of the water coming through

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Speaker 2: the roof. If you can get in the attic again

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Speaker 2: after the storm, look around, try and see traces of

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Speaker 2: where the water has moved against elements, framing elements and

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Speaker 2: so on. That's one thing. Probably though after the fact,

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Speaker 2: it's time to call in a roofer and door a

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Speaker 2: builder and let them try and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, see just a couple of great tips for you

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Speaker 1: as the rain is falling, and I would imagine you'll

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Speaker 1: be talking a lot about rain and its aftermath and

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Speaker 1: how to make your home ready for the next storm

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Speaker 1: on your show this weekend. You can listen to Dean

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Speaker 1: It's home right Here on KFI with Dean Sharp six

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Speaker 1: to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: you can follow them at Home with Dean.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Dean, Thanks Amy