WEBVTT - Dean’s Back From Boseman with House Tips and Décor Tidbits! 0:00:00.530 --> 0:00:04.880 KFI AM 640, you're listening to Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer, 0:00:05.170 --> 0:00:10.670 on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Every week, your guide 0:00:10.710 --> 0:00:15.450 to better understanding that place where you live. Whether home 0:00:15.550 --> 0:00:19.330 for you is a castle, very nice, or a cottage, 0:00:19.829 --> 0:00:22.150 even nicer. It doesn't matter to me. 0:00:22.170 --> 0:00:22.650 You know why? 0:00:22.710 --> 0:00:25.680 Because it's not luxury that makes a great home. It 0:00:25.770 --> 0:00:29.240 is design that matters most. And I'm here to help 0:00:29.260 --> 0:00:33.019 you find that dream home hiding in the house that 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.740 you have. Good design makes all the difference. Every house 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.620 deserves it. Every house should enjoy it because once good 0:00:39.659 --> 0:00:42.700 design is at work in your home, that is when 0:00:42.740 --> 0:00:47.770 it has a path forward toward becoming something truly, truly special. And, 0:00:47.830 --> 0:00:50.589 of course, I'm here to help you with, you know, 0:00:50.650 --> 0:00:54.630 other things about your home. The contractor builder side in me, 0:00:54.910 --> 0:00:58.330 always ready to help you figure out how to fix 0:00:58.390 --> 0:01:01.900 that thing that's broken. or to improve that thing, or 0:01:01.990 --> 0:01:06.000 what do you do next, all of those. And Saturday mornings, 0:01:06.580 --> 0:01:09.800 all calls. That means you set the agenda for today's show. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.460 The number to reach me right now, 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 833, the 0:01:17.140 --> 0:01:22.830 numeral 2, and then you just spell out ASK-DEAN. 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 0:01:22.930 --> 0:01:25.729 It's just that simple. Whatever's got you scratching your head 0:01:26.090 --> 0:01:31.209 about your home. whether it's design, construction, DIY questions, stuff inside, 0:01:31.270 --> 0:01:35.190 stuff outside, landscape, decor. I got you. We will put 0:01:35.230 --> 0:01:38.060 our heads together. We will get it all figured out. 0:01:38.220 --> 0:01:42.740 So we will simply wait for you to make that call. 0:01:43.180 --> 0:01:45.400 You're up. I'm up. We might as well talk about 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.680 your home this morning. And as soon as we've got 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.100 calls on the board, we will do exactly that. Until then, 0:01:51.180 --> 0:01:55.870 let's say good morning to Mario. How you doing, bud? Hey, 0:01:56.010 --> 0:02:02.390 good morning. What the heck is going on? 0:02:02.450 --> 0:02:05.370 Top of the morning, everybody. Good Saturday morning, Dean, and 0:02:05.390 --> 0:02:06.550 to everybody listening. 0:02:06.730 --> 0:02:09.560 Mario, you're always so kind of just down in the 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.220 mouth on Saturdays. We have to have a talk about, 0:02:12.300 --> 0:02:15.139 you know, just getting your attitude elevated a little bit. 0:02:15.690 --> 0:02:19.110 Yeah, I think it's about time. I've been thinking about 0:02:19.130 --> 0:02:20.690 that talk that we should have as well. 0:02:20.750 --> 0:02:21.169 I agree. 0:02:21.490 --> 0:02:24.369 This depression of yours, it's really infectious. 0:02:25.270 --> 0:02:25.810 Yeah, yeah. 0:02:25.830 --> 0:02:27.929 It's going around. It's starting to affect Heather a little bit, too. 0:02:28.669 --> 0:02:33.070 Probably. Probably it's going to affect Heather. By the way, Heather, 0:02:33.570 --> 0:02:34.110 how you do? 0:02:34.730 --> 0:02:35.730 Good morning. 0:02:36.230 --> 0:02:37.630 What's going on? I'm back. 0:02:38.050 --> 0:02:38.609 I know. 0:02:38.669 --> 0:02:40.250 I can't wait to hear about your trip. 0:02:40.990 --> 0:02:42.450 Well, you don't have to wait. I'll tell you about 0:02:42.490 --> 0:02:42.990 it right now. 0:02:43.110 --> 0:02:43.510 Amazing. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.079 That was easy. Yeah. 0:02:48.580 --> 0:02:49.300 I can't wait. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:49.919 Here you go. 0:02:49.940 --> 0:02:53.430 Yeah, we had a great time. We had a great time. 0:02:53.540 --> 0:02:58.190 We went to Montana, one of our favorite places in 0:02:58.210 --> 0:03:02.369 the universe. And, oh, my gosh, what can I tell 0:03:02.389 --> 0:03:06.400 you about it? Just time spent with that lady for 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.400 our 30th anniversary is just always great. She is a 0:03:10.620 --> 0:03:15.860 fun date everywhere. And she and I just love that place. 0:03:16.340 --> 0:03:20.470 We love Bozeman, Montana. We love Livingston. We actually stayed 0:03:20.510 --> 0:03:25.169 in a cabin that was so convenient and so remote 0:03:25.270 --> 0:03:27.090 at the same time, which is, I know that sounds 0:03:27.130 --> 0:03:30.570 like a bizarre combination, but it's up in the mountains. 0:03:30.630 --> 0:03:33.410 It was a half a mile driveway to get up 0:03:33.490 --> 0:03:36.820 to this cabin. It's in the Bozeman Pass, which is 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:42.280 basically at about 6,200 feet in between Livingston and Bozeman. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.880 But once you get in the car, if you feel 0:03:43.900 --> 0:03:46.220 like going into town, you're in town in 15 minutes. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.860 And so, you know, compared to the way we have 0:03:49.900 --> 0:03:53.760 to drive around here, it's amazing. But when we were there, 0:03:53.780 --> 0:03:56.020 the skies, when the skies were clear, there was no 0:03:56.100 --> 0:04:02.190 moon out and unbelievable stars everywhere. wildlife all around us 0:04:02.250 --> 0:04:05.230 the elk uh right now are in their autumn rut 0:04:05.490 --> 0:04:08.770 which means that the male the bull elks are making 0:04:08.790 --> 0:04:11.910 these weird calls to each other uh in the early 0:04:11.970 --> 0:04:15.089 morning and in the evening uh talking to each other 0:04:15.230 --> 0:04:18.469 trying to intimidate each other and attracting the ladies uh 0:04:18.529 --> 0:04:21.070 i'm not exactly sure how that works with that sound 0:04:21.170 --> 0:04:24.630 but it it happens uh and it's just it was 0:04:24.710 --> 0:04:27.190 just fantastic we took a drive we were only an 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.740 hour outside of yellowstone so we took a drive down 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.690 to uh to the North Gate of Yellowstone, drove through 0:04:33.750 --> 0:04:37.969 the Lamar Valley, which again, if it's something that you've 0:04:38.070 --> 0:04:42.390 never seen before, the Lamar Valley is the Serengeti of 0:04:42.510 --> 0:04:45.920 North America. That's what they call it. And rightly so, 0:04:46.020 --> 0:04:49.020 because the wildlife that you just get to see there 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.180 crossing the road and feeding in the valley, hundreds of 0:04:52.279 --> 0:05:00.220 bison and pronghorn antelope and mountain goats and just on 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.840 and on it goes. It's just, I don't know, it's 0:05:02.860 --> 0:05:05.479 just our cup of tea. So yeah, we had a great, 0:05:05.779 --> 0:05:06.380 great time. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.080 I'm so glad. It sounds like a lot of nature. 0:05:09.860 --> 0:05:12.140 It's a lot of nature. That's what we love. We 0:05:12.180 --> 0:05:15.480 love a lot of nature and sometimes not so many people. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:21.120 And because we're people, we're people people, you know, but 0:05:21.180 --> 0:05:23.750 sometimes it's just great to take a break, a breather 0:05:23.810 --> 0:05:24.089 from it all. 0:05:24.110 --> 0:05:24.690 A little reset. 0:05:25.089 --> 0:05:25.429 Yeah. 0:05:25.850 --> 0:05:26.170 Yeah. 0:05:26.330 --> 0:05:28.630 So we had a great time. Well, good. I'm so glad. 0:05:28.650 --> 0:05:31.210 Well, we missed you. Mario and I held it down 0:05:31.270 --> 0:05:32.190 last weekend for you. 0:05:32.470 --> 0:05:35.409 I have no doubts. We're glad you're back. No doubts whatsoever. 0:05:36.130 --> 0:05:36.390 All right. 0:05:36.490 --> 0:05:36.840 So.... 0:05:38.210 --> 0:05:40.880 There'll be more. I'll share some more tidbits. And I'm 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.340 also going to, I'll send you a photo. You won't 0:05:43.380 --> 0:05:45.440 believe the photo of the nice guy that I took. 0:05:45.500 --> 0:05:46.640 I'm going to have to send it to you during 0:05:46.660 --> 0:05:50.159 the break here. And you can, you can comment on 0:05:50.180 --> 0:05:53.480 it with my iPhone. Nonetheless, you have to tell me 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.240 what you think. Anyway, do we have a call? Well, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.580 we're waiting for calls to come in. The number to 0:05:59.620 --> 0:06:05.000 reach me, 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 833, the numeral 2, ask Dean. Home 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:06.880 with Dean Sharp, the house whisperer. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.500 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.680 KFI AM 640. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.920 Good Saturday morning to you. It's a sleepy Saturday morning, 0:06:18.100 --> 0:06:20.490 even though I'm starting to see light in the sky here. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.289 It's a sleepy morning. Everybody's just chilling. No calls on 0:06:25.310 --> 0:06:28.270 the board yet. I'm just saying. Just saying. Sometimes I 0:06:28.290 --> 0:06:30.409 got to nudge you a little bit on a Saturday morning. 0:06:30.630 --> 0:06:34.810 You know, I never take offense because when, you know, 0:06:34.850 --> 0:06:41.020 years and years ago when... When it was first, you know, 0:06:41.460 --> 0:06:44.350 presented to me like, hey, how about you do, you know, 0:06:44.510 --> 0:06:47.970 an all calls show on Saturday morning at six in 0:06:48.010 --> 0:06:50.290 the morning? I'm like, are you kidding me? No one 0:06:50.330 --> 0:06:52.830 is going to ever call in. Well, of course, we 0:06:52.860 --> 0:06:55.300 always get calls, but sometimes I got to nudge you 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:56.960 a little bit. So here's the thing. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:58.200 Nudge, nudge. 0:06:58.570 --> 0:07:04.680 The number to reach me, 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 833, the numeral 2, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.720 and then you just spell out Ask Dean. And as 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.170 soon as we get a call on the board. I 0:07:09.230 --> 0:07:11.430 am happy to talk to you about your home. 0:07:11.450 --> 0:07:13.010 Dean, I got your pictures. 0:07:13.310 --> 0:07:13.770 Did you? 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.390 Yes. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:14.880 And? 0:07:15.260 --> 0:07:17.700 Oh, my gosh. How beautiful. 0:07:18.220 --> 0:07:18.800 Right? 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.280 You must have been really close, like the buffalo. 0:07:21.300 --> 0:07:24.260 Oh, yeah. We just drove right by them. I'm like, well, 0:07:24.300 --> 0:07:26.739 maybe you should roll up the window just in case. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.320 That bear is massive. 0:07:28.380 --> 0:07:34.060 You know what? That's Max. Max lives. So Heather and 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.400 Mario are taking a look at a picture here of 0:07:36.430 --> 0:07:42.570 a bear. He's not a grizzly. He's a brown bear, 0:07:42.630 --> 0:07:48.060 a Kodiak, an Alaskan Kodiak bear. Huge. Max lives at 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:53.930 the Bozeman Grizzly Encounter, which is just a couple minutes 0:07:53.990 --> 0:08:00.120 outside of Bozeman. And Max was orphaned. At four months old, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.430 they found him in Alaska up a tree outside a 0:08:04.450 --> 0:08:06.850 set of houses. And, of course, they waited for a 0:08:06.870 --> 0:08:08.610 while to see if mom was going to come back. 0:08:08.670 --> 0:08:10.810 And mom never came back. And then they verified that 0:08:10.870 --> 0:08:15.600 mom had passed. And so Max got handed around a 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.720 little bit at first. He ended up at the Bozeman 0:08:17.740 --> 0:08:21.340 grizzly encounter where they just absolutely love taking care of 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.080 rescue bears. But here's the thing about him. He's three 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.540 times the size of a normal Montana grizzly bear. In fact, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:34.040 right now, he is 1300 pounds. He's seven years old. 0:08:34.100 --> 0:08:40.140 He stands nine feet tall and he is the largest 0:08:40.340 --> 0:08:46.020 bear on record in North America right now. He is 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:51.430 a massive, massive creature. And He, uh, he just sits 0:08:51.510 --> 0:08:54.550 in his, uh, pond all day long and plays with, uh, 0:08:54.630 --> 0:08:56.860 his giant ball in the pond. And he's just a 0:08:57.020 --> 0:09:00.920 gigantic teddy bear, like the world's largest teddy bear. I mean, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.620 not that I want to go in and, you know, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.440 I would love to go in and hang out with 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.970 him if it was safe to do so. But, uh, yeah, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.870 so he's grown up in captivity. He's never going to 0:09:09.910 --> 0:09:13.179 live in the wild. Um, Because, you know, didn't have 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.860 those skills with mom, but they're taking really good care 0:09:15.900 --> 0:09:17.720 of him. And he's happy as a clam at the 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.600 Bozeman grizzly encounter. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.080 And the night sky picture you took as well is 0:09:22.300 --> 0:09:24.640 absolutely stunning. You took that with just like a regular 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:25.480 camera or what? 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:26.730 With my iPhone. 0:09:27.020 --> 0:09:27.500 No. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.270 Yeah. What model? I have a little tripod for my 0:09:30.350 --> 0:09:32.770 iPhone and you set it up for, you know, night exposure. 0:09:32.790 --> 0:09:35.450 You get 30 second exposure. It is that you're looking 0:09:35.470 --> 0:09:37.810 at the center of the Milky Way cluster. That's the 0:09:37.850 --> 0:09:38.630 center of our galaxy. 0:09:38.710 --> 0:09:39.730 Yeah, that's what it looks like. 0:09:40.010 --> 0:09:43.170 So I ran it through AI after the fact, after 0:09:43.210 --> 0:09:45.260 I got the picture tuned up. And I said, hey, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.280 is there an algorithm or something you can use to 0:09:47.340 --> 0:09:51.140 count these stars? And AI is like, yep. And it 0:09:51.179 --> 0:09:57.070 was like 20,000, give or take 20,000 stars in that photo. Wow. 0:09:57.550 --> 0:09:57.770 Yeah. 0:09:58.290 --> 0:09:58.650 Only 20,000. Oh, no. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.400 Like the number should be higher. 0:10:01.540 --> 0:10:05.109 Just only 20,000. Just that little blink of the night sky. 0:10:05.170 --> 0:10:06.969 Are you going to put these up on your Instagram? 0:10:07.330 --> 0:10:10.740 Yeah. Well, Tina is because, you know, I don't know. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.920 Because you don't do the Instagram. So, yeah, that's the plan. 0:10:16.179 --> 0:10:17.939 You definitely should. They're great pictures. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.780 Look, calls on the board. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.719 Yay. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.980 You just got to nudge people awake in the morning. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.920 Why don't we do this? Why don't we go to break? 0:10:28.300 --> 0:10:31.490 Because we're right on the edge. It would be unfair 0:10:31.550 --> 0:10:34.590 to start a call and just immediately say, wait. And 0:10:34.610 --> 0:10:37.170 then when we come back, we're going to take calls 0:10:37.230 --> 0:10:38.910 because we got calls on the board. And that's why 0:10:38.970 --> 0:10:41.070 we're here. We will be right back. 0:10:42.250 --> 0:10:45.550 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 0:10:45.610 --> 0:10:48.550 KFI AM 640. 0:10:48.620 --> 0:10:52.000 All calls Saturday morning. You get to set the agenda 0:10:52.020 --> 0:10:55.670 for today for whatever we're talking about. We've got some 0:10:55.730 --> 0:10:57.609 calls on the board, but we've got room for you. 0:10:57.750 --> 0:11:03.630 The number to reach me, 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 833, the numeral 2, 0:11:03.630 --> 0:11:08.770 and you just spell out ASK-DEAN. 833-2-ASK-DEAN. Give me a call. 0:11:09.150 --> 0:11:12.069 All right. Let's talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome home. 0:11:12.630 --> 0:11:12.970 Hello. 0:11:13.630 --> 0:11:14.890 Hello. How are you? 0:11:14.910 --> 0:11:16.160 Oh, Gene, hi. 0:11:16.220 --> 0:11:16.380 Hi. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.240 This is Susan. 0:11:18.260 --> 0:11:20.180 I'm honored to be your first call. 0:11:20.900 --> 0:11:22.980 Well, I'm honored to have you as our first call. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:23.800 How can I help you? 0:11:25.460 --> 0:11:29.980 I have two wooden sliding glass doors, and I am 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.720 a woman of a mature age, and they're very difficult 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.460 for me to slide back and forth now. I've tried WD-40, 0:11:39.660 --> 0:11:42.800 and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do 0:11:42.830 --> 0:11:45.210 or even replace them if I have to. 0:11:45.870 --> 0:11:48.360 Okay. All right. How old are these doors, by the way? 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.440 17 years. 0:11:50.980 --> 0:11:51.300 Okay. 0:11:51.340 --> 0:11:56.450 Well, that's not actually that old for a sliding glass door. 0:11:56.490 --> 0:12:00.670 And you say they're wooden doors. They're probably... a pretty 0:12:01.010 --> 0:12:05.530 decent quality of door if they're an all-wood sliding door. 0:12:07.890 --> 0:12:11.140 Here's the thing about sliders in general that a lot 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.680 of people don't necessarily realize. Sure, there could be something 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:22.800 wrong with the wheels. It could have broken somehow, and 0:12:23.020 --> 0:12:26.110 as a result, it's dragging along or it's not rolling properly. 0:12:26.850 --> 0:12:30.620 And I'm assuming that you've cleaned out the track so 0:12:30.660 --> 0:12:33.900 that the track is all clear and not, you know, 0:12:34.020 --> 0:12:39.100 gunked up with stuff. Okay. So the most common reason 0:12:39.140 --> 0:12:42.600 that sliding doors end up getting really hard to open 0:12:42.660 --> 0:12:46.850 and close is settlement. Now, what I mean by this 0:12:47.150 --> 0:12:52.030 is you've got on that door– somewhere near the bottom 0:12:52.270 --> 0:12:55.949 on the left and the right side of the sliding 0:12:55.970 --> 0:12:59.910 glass door, there should be a hole. Now, sometimes on 0:12:59.950 --> 0:13:02.920 a wood door, that tiny hole has a plug in it. 0:13:03.730 --> 0:13:06.070 It's not always the most obvious thing to see, but 0:13:06.110 --> 0:13:07.969 it's right down near the bottom on the far left 0:13:08.030 --> 0:13:10.809 and the far right. Sometimes on a wood door, it's 0:13:10.910 --> 0:13:13.410 not on the face of the door, but on the 0:13:13.630 --> 0:13:16.670 ends of the door, depending on the manufacturer. But the 0:13:16.730 --> 0:13:21.290 point is, There's a place on every sliding glass door 0:13:21.690 --> 0:13:25.880 where a small screwdriver can be inserted into a hole... 0:13:26.150 --> 0:13:29.890 it engages with the wheel and the wheel can be 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:35.140 raised and lowered. Okay. Uh, and, uh, okay. And so 0:13:35.700 --> 0:13:39.980 what happens is the doors are installed and they're installed perfectly. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.540 And the wheel is, is holding the door way up 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.000 high on the track. But after time, after, you know, my, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.500 I've got a sliding glass door in my house that 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.530 I was literally thinking about this yesterday and, I'm like, 0:13:51.550 --> 0:13:53.090 you know what, I've got to raise that wheel again. 0:13:53.110 --> 0:13:56.000 Because what happens is after all the use, the back 0:13:56.059 --> 0:14:00.000 and forth, the screw system that holds those wheels up, 0:14:00.420 --> 0:14:02.939 they settle a little bit. They unscrew a tiny bit. 0:14:03.220 --> 0:14:06.330 And before you know it, the door itself, the bottom 0:14:06.370 --> 0:14:10.230 of the door itself is rubbing on that little raised 0:14:10.309 --> 0:14:13.250 track piece that the wheel sits on. And so because 0:14:13.290 --> 0:14:16.069 it's rubbing, which it's not supposed to sit there and rub, 0:14:16.500 --> 0:14:19.400 It makes it really, really hard. You know, you basically 0:14:19.460 --> 0:14:22.239 kind of scraping the door along on top of the 0:14:22.300 --> 0:14:24.830 track piece. It makes it really, really hard to open. 0:14:25.210 --> 0:14:27.730 And it's one of those miraculous things where somebody knows 0:14:27.770 --> 0:14:30.030 what they're doing, comes in and like, oh, just hand 0:14:30.050 --> 0:14:34.990 me a Phillips screwdriver and go in there. And crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank. 0:14:35.090 --> 0:14:38.410 You turn them both up a couple of turns and 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.960 suddenly it's sitting on its wheels again and not touching 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.840 the track. And whoosh, the door is free and clear 0:14:47.100 --> 0:14:48.220 and working like it. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:48.860 Was brand new. 0:14:49.450 --> 0:14:53.330 So my guess is, my guess is, Susan, that that 0:14:53.630 --> 0:14:57.350 is that's what your door needs. And so find the 0:14:57.390 --> 0:14:59.670 little plugs at the bottom or look from the end. 0:14:59.710 --> 0:15:01.570 If there is no little plug at the bottom of 0:15:01.610 --> 0:15:04.650 your wood door, look in the end. If there are plugs, 0:15:04.670 --> 0:15:06.910 you can just pop them right out with a little 0:15:06.930 --> 0:15:09.800 screwdriver or something. You pop them out, save those plugs 0:15:09.820 --> 0:15:11.860 because you want to put them back in because they're decorative. 0:15:11.900 --> 0:15:15.440 They cover the hole. And then take a look inside. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.310 It's usually a Phillips head screwdriver, a small Phillips head screwdriver. 0:15:20.370 --> 0:15:23.250 Sometimes it's a flathead, but it's usually a small Phillips 0:15:23.290 --> 0:15:26.070 head screwdriver. And then you go in there and you 0:15:26.090 --> 0:15:28.730 give it a couple of turns, each one, see how 0:15:28.770 --> 0:15:31.190 the door feels. turn it a couple of more times, 0:15:31.370 --> 0:15:34.930 usually clockwise, turning it clockwise as if you were screwing 0:15:34.990 --> 0:15:38.210 in a screw is what lifts the door and doing 0:15:38.250 --> 0:15:40.950 it the opposite direction is what lowers the door. You 0:15:40.990 --> 0:15:43.700 don't want that. You want to lift it some and 0:15:43.750 --> 0:15:46.080 don't over lift it because you can crank those up 0:15:46.140 --> 0:15:48.280 so that now the door is pushing up against the 0:15:48.340 --> 0:15:51.080 top and sliding. You got to find the sweet spot 0:15:51.260 --> 0:15:53.680 in between so that the door is not pushing up 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.660 against the top of its, uh, of its frame or 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.940 resting on the track below. But the good news is 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.280 a little bit of that. And if you've already tried 0:16:03.300 --> 0:16:06.700 the WD 40, uh, and it hasn't changed anything. then 0:16:06.740 --> 0:16:10.000 it's not a lubrication issue. It's simply a matter of 0:16:10.140 --> 0:16:13.970 raising up that door back onto its wheels. I would 0:16:14.890 --> 0:16:17.950 bet good money that that's the situation that you're in, 0:16:17.990 --> 0:16:20.250 which means that the fix is pretty easy. 0:16:20.510 --> 0:16:23.380 Oh, yeah. So these little screws are on the. 0:16:23.420 --> 0:16:25.640 Side of it at the bottom. They may be on 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.380 the side or they may be facing into the room 0:16:29.820 --> 0:16:33.370 behind a couple of tiny little plugs at the bottom 0:16:33.390 --> 0:16:36.450 of the door. It depends. Wood doors, typically they're on 0:16:36.490 --> 0:16:39.110 the ends of the door, the left end and the 0:16:39.170 --> 0:16:41.210 right end of the door. You might have to look 0:16:41.250 --> 0:16:43.750 around for them a little bit, but you'll see them. 0:16:43.870 --> 0:16:45.490 And you may not see the screw. You may see 0:16:45.530 --> 0:16:47.700 a hole that you're like, yeah, I think a screwdriver 0:16:47.740 --> 0:16:49.560 could go in there. And if you look inside with 0:16:49.580 --> 0:16:53.660 a flashlight, you'll see the screw in there. And yeah, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.510 give it a couple of cranks both sides. Make sure 0:16:56.550 --> 0:16:59.250 you raise the door evenly, but the same amount of 0:16:59.310 --> 0:17:03.020 cranks both sides. so that it stays plumb in its opening. 0:17:03.460 --> 0:17:06.740 But that's also another thing like sometimes a sliding glass 0:17:06.780 --> 0:17:08.879 door will get like out of adjustment. So all of 0:17:08.900 --> 0:17:11.050 a sudden it's touching the other door at the top, 0:17:11.170 --> 0:17:14.090 but not at the bottom or vice versa. That's again, 0:17:14.310 --> 0:17:16.890 settlement on those wheels. That's what they're there for. They're 0:17:16.910 --> 0:17:19.630 there to be adjusted. Not a lot of people realize that. 0:17:20.230 --> 0:17:21.910 And boom, you got a new door. 0:17:22.369 --> 0:17:23.730 Oh, great. Thank you. 0:17:24.230 --> 0:17:26.540 You are so welcome. You let me know how that 0:17:26.580 --> 0:17:27.379 works out, okay? 0:17:27.820 --> 0:17:28.220 Okay. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:28.780 Thanks, Dean. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.380 All right, Susan. Thank you. It's a great call. Great call. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.960 That's just one of those things that happens sometimes, you know? 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.720 It just happens. All right. When we come back, more 0:17:38.810 --> 0:17:43.790 of your calls. The number to reach me, 833-2-ASK-DEAN. 833, 0:17:43.790 --> 0:17:48.210 the numeral 2, Ask Dean Your Home with Dean Sharp, 0:17:48.390 --> 0:17:49.109 The House Whisperer. 0:17:50.150 --> 0:17:53.450 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 0:17:53.510 --> 0:17:56.990 KFI AM 640. 0:17:58.010 --> 0:18:00.609 Here's our working premise that there is a dream home 0:18:00.770 --> 0:18:03.330 hiding in the house that you have, and I'm here 0:18:03.350 --> 0:18:07.190 to help you find it. 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Hey, Robert, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.160 welcome home. 0:19:28.350 --> 0:19:28.669 Hello. 0:19:28.750 --> 0:19:29.530 Hello, Dean. 0:19:29.590 --> 0:19:33.149 Yes, here's my question. I live in a track home, 0:19:33.810 --> 0:19:37.400 and mine happens to be stucco. Well, I've noticed that 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:45.229 way at the bottom underneath the stucco, there's rusted-out pieces 0:19:45.290 --> 0:19:48.490 of metal that are falling off of the bottom of 0:19:48.570 --> 0:19:51.680 the stucco. Is that something I should be worried about? 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.340 Uh, it is definitely something for you to, uh, to 0:19:55.609 --> 0:19:58.410 take into consideration and give a serious look to. Now, 0:19:58.470 --> 0:20:01.229 is it happening everywhere around the bottom of your stucco 0:20:01.290 --> 0:20:02.890 or just in one particular area? 0:20:03.550 --> 0:20:08.600 Um, Just areas where the previous owners used to have sprinklers, apparently. 0:20:08.619 --> 0:20:12.220 And they hit the stucco wall, and then it just 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:13.080 got really wet. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.720 Yeah, yeah. So, okay, so here's the thing. That piece 0:20:16.780 --> 0:20:19.139 of metal at the bottom, I talk about it all 0:20:19.180 --> 0:20:20.970 the time when it comes to stucco because so many 0:20:21.010 --> 0:20:25.290 houses don't even have it, is called the weep screed. 0:20:25.570 --> 0:20:29.830 It is a termination piece of flashing at the bottom 0:20:29.850 --> 0:20:33.800 of your stucco. It's hold job. is to prevent something 0:20:33.900 --> 0:20:37.780 worse from happening than what you've got going on. Its 0:20:37.859 --> 0:20:41.649 job is to allow the moisture, the water that builds 0:20:41.770 --> 0:20:46.970 up inside stucco from rain, from just from from typical 0:20:47.150 --> 0:20:51.230 use to escape. OK, because if that weep screed was 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.800 not there, that water builds up inside the stucco and 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.179 then it pushes itself out from the backside and it 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.340