WEBVTT - Home Safety for Grown-Ups 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.480 Ruby. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:09.800 I just go out there and I see it, I 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:11.879 know it, and boom. You need a boiler, you need 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.800 to hot water heater, you have lead pipes coming in 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.480 your house. You have mold over here, you got this 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.479 over here. I take pictures and then move on. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:20.759 Every house has problems. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:22.560 Well that feels ominous. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.560 Uh no, that's just true. But the question is whether 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.520 you know what those problems are because they're not always obvious. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.240 They could be quietly destroying your home while you're I 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.559 don't know, watching Netflix. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.960 And that's why today's episode is about all the things 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.800 in your house that can hurt you, poison you, flood 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:45.839 your basement, give you jingles for us. Leah, do you 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:47.720 know the joy it brings me to see your face? 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.280 I think I might because I feel that same exact joy. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.560 I've learned so much from hosting this show and looking 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.880 at like the list of episodes for making this season, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.760 we're just in for another dose of learning, and so 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.280 I'm so pumped to get into it with our topic today. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.040 A lot of people say you don't know what you 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.319 don't know, but this show really points out to me 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.240 everything that I don't know, and then I feel so 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.760 much better when I even learn a little tiny bit 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.600 about so many different things. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.360 Welcome back everyone to Grown Up Stuff, the podcast where 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.640 we figure out all the things you feel like you 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:21.760 should know by now. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.880 Uh, maybe don't. I'm Leah Paul. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.759 Mary and I'm Matt Stillo and today we're talking home 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.320 safety with home Inspector Joe Masa. Joe Masa is co 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.560 host of the HGTV series What's Wrong with That House 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.160 and previously Home Inspector Joe. He now runs his own 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.200 home inspection business. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.200 He's basically seen everything that can go wrong in a 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.200 house and more importantly, how. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:43.600 To prevent it. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.440 And not to humble brag, but he agreed to chat 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.880 with us before heading off to inspect a too big 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.000 to be mentioned celebrities house Fancy, very fancy. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:54.680 We were still the highlight of his day. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.600 Well stuff. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.079 So I'm inspecting her house. So she's probably gonna hate 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:08.960 me once I'm done. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.160 Well, I think that takes us right into it. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.840 Right, I'm the hater. Yeah, So, you know, just like 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.600 yesterday's job, it was a gorgeous, gorgeous house and they 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.200 have the cameras on the outside of the home and 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.560 I heard them talking. They're like you know, let's hear 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.160 what this a hole is saying. Right now, I can 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.400 hear him, and I turned around. I looked at the camera. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.720 I go, I hear you. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.000 God, all right, Matt, Well, let's hear what this a 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.840 hole has to say. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.639 Look, you know it's what every house, right, every house 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.080 has a problem. Yeah, house has a problem. Yeah it's 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.120 all it's just how big the problem is. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.119 Home hazards cause millions of injuries every year. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.679 And most of the hazards aren't dramatic. They're just things 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.480 that people ignore or don't know how to. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.760 Spot, water, air. This is like an episode of Avatar 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.400 the Last Airbender fire maintenance, basically all. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:01.400 Of the invisible stuff. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.639 So this episode is about catching problems early before they 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.280 become very expensive lessons and dangerous safety hazards, because. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.440 As Joe puts it, small problems don't stay small for long. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.960 Here he is describing exactly what he does. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.760 My job is to inspect a home. That typically is 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.920 people that are buying. I do pre sell home inspections 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.359 and I do regular home inspections for people that I've 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.799 been living there for a while. So my goal is 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.920 to tell you what's wrong and how to fix it 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.000 in a sense, I like to tell people how to 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.440 fix it because I know how to fix a lot 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.400 of things. I've been in construction for a long time. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:41.400 My big, big role is safety, safety, safety, safety across 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:41.960 the board. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.680 In your experience, what is one of the single most 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.320 preventable home safety issues that you see that you know, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.160 one that makes you think like, oh my god, you guys, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.040 this was so avoidable. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.120 Mold? Mold. Yeah, I can't stress mold enough. Actually, just 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.000 at a house. It was last week. In the garage 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.000 it had mold. In the basement it had mold, and 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.960 in the attic it add a lot of mold. These 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.040 are the typical spots of where you're gonna find mold. Dehumidifiers. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.040 You must have a dehumidfier in your garage and in 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.040 your basement. It is a must. It is a non 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.800 negotiable when buying a house, living in a house, you 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.720 want humidity fifty percent or less. If you don't have 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.279 it fifty percent or less, you are going to get 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.000 mold across the board. So a dehumidifier you spend one 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.160 hundred bucks on hundred fifty two hundred doesn't matter if 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.279 even if it was five hundred dollars you get those, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.200 and I have one in my garage and I have 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.120 one in my basement. So the house that didn't have it, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.960 they had mold in the garage and a lot of mold. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.400 You really couldn't see it. But when I take my 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.000 flashlight and I shine the flashlight on an angle, all 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.000 the spores is shine. And then in the basement you 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.520 need it as well. So the attic mold in the attic. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.800 So you have your sop advance where the roof comes 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.880 down over the gutters underneath there there is a sopping 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.080 and it has vents. Not every house but a majority 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.720 of them have vents there. People think there's air getting in, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.240 which there is, and it's supposed to. They stuff insulation 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.200 down inside there. What that does is it stops all 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.799 the airflow, now heat loss from the house in the wintertime, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.960 Condensation on the mails that are going through the roof mold, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.120 and it was just mold everywhere. And they didn't have 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.039 a lot of sunlight in that section of the home. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.800 And that was all avoidable, one hundred percent avoidable all 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.719 the way around. And they ended up paying twenty thousand 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.400 dollars to have it repaired WHOA. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.599 Let's take a minute to explain why mold in the 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.200 house can be a hazard. Most mold really isn't harmful, right, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.920 I mean, we use it to make yogurt, penicillin, cheese, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.800 all kinds of good things. Mold spores are in the 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.039 air we breathe, and it's usually not an issue. But 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.960 extensive indoor mold contamination that could cause some health problems, probably. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.719 Not more than the cheese though, But according to Harvard Health, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.479 the biggest issue for most people is coughing, congestion, scratchy throat, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.880 and if you already have allergies or asthma, it can 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.640 hit a lot harder, like real flare ups, not just 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:00.599 mild symptoms. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.479 Plus, obviously kids, older adults, people with weaker immune systems, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.160 they're more at risk. So if your house smells musty, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.360 that's your house telling you something. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.920 And let's be clear, mold doesn't need a big splashy 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.400 leak to show up. It just needs moisture and time 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.279 like twenty four to. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.000 Forty eight hours, which means humidity alone can cause it 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.040 big problem for people living in high humidity states like Louisiana, Mississippi, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.800 and of course Florida. Which usually ranks at the top 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.520 for most at risk from mold. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.320 So that dehumidifier Joe mentioned that is way cheaper than 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.960 ripping out drywall, because once mold spreads, you're not talking 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.599 about prevention anymore. You're talking about a costly remediation and 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.880 greater potential for health problems. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.520 Okay, Joe, So let's talk about the differences between an 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.800 old house versus a new house, because I feel like 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.880 I know which one might be safer overall. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.200 Yeah, you're buying one hundred year old house. You're gonna 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:53.280 have one hundred year old problems. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:53.919 Okay, great. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.480 I tell people, you know, they're like, Jo, my floor 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.560 is a little slope over here. I'm like, when you're 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.320 one hundred years old, I want to see you walk 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.920 a straight line. And everyone needs a V eight right 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.360 when you get that old, you gotta straight yourself out. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.080 A one hundred year old home has one hundre ye 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.960 old problems. You're gonna find a lot of different issues, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.840 especially insulation, the insulations in the walls. If they haven't 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.600 done anything, you're either one gonna have none or two 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.840 it's gonna be completely compressed. You're gonna have air leaks, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.360 all over. The house is going to be drafty, your 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.720 utility bills are going to be through the roof. A 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.800 newer house, everything is more air tight, which doesn't necessarily 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.280 mean a good thing. Because now your house is so 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.680 air tight you have no air moving in and moving out, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.400 which can also for breathing issues. Mold can grow easier 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.040 with that, So there's pros and cons of old and 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.119 of new old houses. Lead paint. Anything built for nineteen 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.240 seventy eight is assume to have lead paint. Galvanized pipes 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.840 Galvanized pipes are the worst to have. First of all, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.200 you don't want water lines to be galvanized because you 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.920 drink that you're gonna have a problem. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.640 And here's the problem. Galvanized pipes are basically steel or 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.160 iron pipes coated in zinc to keep them from rusting, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.080 and they were super common in homes built before the 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:05.160 nineteen sixties. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.440 They don't age well. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.720 Over like forty to seventy years. That protective coating breaks down, 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.200 and instead of preventing issues, it actually starts causing them 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.280 rust build up, weird brownish water, lower water pressure, and 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.320 more concerning, they can start leeching heavy metals, including lead, 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.280 into your drinking water. So it's one of those things 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.720 that used to be a smart solution but now is 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.200 more of a hidden risk. Okay, back to Joe. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.480 Two lead piping coming into the house. You don't want 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.400 that either. But galvanized pipes take the pipe to say, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.640 it's a two inch diameter in the middle. And I 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.880 always say to people eat fast food every single day, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.840 all day long for years and years and years. The 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.440 average person, their arteries are going to shut down. And 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.640 that's what happened with galvanized pipes, and they leak out 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.680 like the one I did the other day. The guy 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.040 thought it was a good idea to take scotch tape 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.600 and taped the hole in his pipe in his laundry 0:08:58.679 --> 0:08:59.800 room scotched. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.360 Oh my god, I don't even trust scotch tape to 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.480 keep an envelope close. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.120 Yeah, like, dude, scotch tape really, you know. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.520 Some guys are just scotch taping over all the problems 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:12.920 in their life. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.640 I mean, if that was a cave and I just 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.120 I'd invest in scotch tape, but you know it doesn't 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.079 work like that. But anyway, Yeah, older houses present a 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.120 lot of older problems. The house I did yesterday was 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.640 twenty years old. Monster foundation cracks. Wowly twenty years old? 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.240 Oh my gosh. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:29.880 So yeah. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.440 I mean, if you're buying like a pretty new house, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.800 is there anything else from like a new house that 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.880 you should be on the lookout to because you're thinking, oh, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.120 that's brand new, shiny, everything's good here. Is there still 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.880 something that homeowners should be making sure is double checked? 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.839 Yeah? Cheap labor, cheap workmanship, cheap materials on the home. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.480 I've done new new houses that were going for you know, 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.400 well over a million, two million dollars. They just use 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.920 horrible material It was just not done right. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.839 I think there's definitely this default assumption that newer homes 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.679 are safer, you know, like newer equals better built, fewer problems, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.360 less risk. But what Joe's getting at here is the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.880 newer homes just have different problems. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.000 Oh but they got problems because older homes are kind 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.480 of like you know what, you're dealing with, lead pain, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.200 older wiring, maybe some questionable plumbing choices. Yeah, but newer 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.640 homes they're tighter, more sealed up, less airflow, which sounds 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.800 cool until you realize that also means moisture and pollutants 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.000 they have nowhere to go. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.000 Yeah, and he said that there's also like the build 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.160 quality piece. With newer homes, people are building them faster 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.719 with like less quality materials, sometimes less oversight, so you 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.800 might not see the problems right away, but they could 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:46.360 show up later. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:46.800 Yeah. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.240 I mean, in trying to save some money right off 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.520 the top, you might be only adding on some more 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.000 later when you have some problems. So I want to 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.199 move on to detection. Now, how do we make sure 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.960 that we are set up to detect some of these 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.080 things before they become big issues aka. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:02.400 A lot more money. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.120 So I want to start with detectors because fire is 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.359 one of the big home safety considerations. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.240 Smoke detectors. Everybody needs one. In every sleeping court. You 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.800 need one. You walk in the room, boom right on 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.480 the ceiling. Put it there. I don't care if it's 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.360 wired in, I don't care how you want to put it. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.760 Just have one right there. Every hallway smoke detector and 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.320 COEO detector, carbon monoxide detector. Every level of the house 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.000 needs a smoke and carbonoxide I always like to have 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.199 one in the garage, a smoke and carbon You can 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.680 even put a heat detector in there as well. Any 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.800 room with a fireplace have a smoke and carbon monoxide detector. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.200 These are just the areas that produce carbon monoxide and smoke. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.240 They have a ten year life and they are on 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.800 the side of each one and it has a date 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.840 You put the data in that you installed it, and 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.440 in ten years throw it out. Most of them now 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.560 they don't even have batteries that go in. It's a 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.600 built in battery. You get it, you pull the tab out, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.160 install it, and then it'll tell you the ones I 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.160 have here. They talk to each other on every level. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.280 They're not Wi Fi. I don't want Wi Fi from 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.040 my own person reasons because let's say I lose power 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.439 in a home and I lose Wi Fi. Now my 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.960 smoke detectors don't work, and they're not talking to each other. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.880 But there's so many different kinds you can get out 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.840 there that go to your cell phone. They give your 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.880 heads up, this is what happened, this is what's happening. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.280 And if you are going to change a battery, change 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.920 a battery, don't take it down and not change a battery. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:19.640 I was with a real estate agent the other week 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.880 with a beautiful house. She had a fire in her 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.440 kitchen a year earlier, she took the smoke detector down. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.200 Want to change a battery put in her draw forgot 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.920 about it? Well, in her kitchen almost burned down. Avoidable, right, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:31.840 it's just avoidable. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.120 I did just want to ask you about the smoke 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:34.800 detectors too. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.559 We know you're not going for the Wi Fi option, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.600 but like, do I need like a really fancy expensive 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.480 one or just like a regular basic one works? And 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.680 also do you recommend the kind where like you have 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.040 to put in two double A batteries supposedly every time 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.920 you like change your clocks or is it just better 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.240 to have the kind that you were talking about where 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.040 you pull the tab and it's like good for a while. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.920 You don't need an expensive one. You really don't. If 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.560 you want them to talk to each other, which is 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.520 what I have. I like the ones I talk to 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.839 each other. So the basement talks to the first floor, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.440 first four talks to the second floor, so if there's 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.520 something happening on every level, it'll say, hey fire, first 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.079 floor fire, fire, fire, and then everyone has a panic 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.960 attack and they run out. I like those the ones 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.800 with the batteries you put in. I'm not a fan 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.520 of that. Don't get that the ones that have a 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.439 ten year life buy those. You just install it, put 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.200 the date on it, and move on from there. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.360 So just a shout out to women everywhere. I don't 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.120 know how I did it, but I went five years 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.520 without a smoke detector in my house because every time 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.240 I made pizza it just went off. And then my 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.600 wife moved in, was like, are you an idiot? Like 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.320 do you want to die? And now she cleaned my oven, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.000 which is why I was going off all the time. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.000 And she saved my life every day. So and she 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.720 didn't move out, she totally could have. She somehow is 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:49.160 still here. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.360 It's a good woman. Keep her. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:52.880 I try every day. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.480 One thing we didn't touch based on really quick. Let's 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.240 say you live in a house like mine. It's a cape, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.240 so upstairs, I have one way up, one way out. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.439 If there's ever a fire on my first floor and 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.520 it goes up, let's say and I can't get down 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.559 my stairs, I have ladder. It's one time you sladder? 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.760 Did I throw out the window? Now? If your five 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.360 stories up, make sure it's a five story ladder, because 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.600 mine is for two stories. So it's a one time use, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.440 you throw it out the window, and you know, we 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.040 have it in one of the rooms upstairs, and I 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.640 told my daughter, my wife, this thanking God forbid ever happens. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.560 This is how it latches on and you throw it 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:25.440 out and you climbed out. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.920 One question that I want to go back to, just 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.080 so the pretext to this question is, my wife and 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.960 I just were taking out like a child safety class 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:33.920 and one of the things that they had us watch 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.160 was like grease fires and like why you'd want to 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.320 have like a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. And they 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.280 specifically said to get a chemical fire extinguisher, which like 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.600 helps grease fires. So the question that I'd ask you, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.360 they're like, what are some of the most common fire 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.680 risks you see in everyday homes? And what kind of 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.200 fire extinguisher would you recommend people have on hand. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.360 So for the stove, what we bought was a fire blanket. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.640 Look into fire blankets first, the fire extinguishers. Because you 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.520 have a fire extinguisher, I'm like, good, good. I go, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.240 do you know how to use it? And I test 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.680 people show me how to use it, and they like 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.880 like this, I'm like, you're doing it wrong. You're spraying 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.080 through the flames, you have to step back six feet back, 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.360 spray it at the base of the flame versus through 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.680 the flame, because you're just wasting your time. So a 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.880 lot of people don't know how to use a fire extinguisher, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.600 but fire blankets for like a grease fire. It's a 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.040 very good option. And I'm not gonna lie. That was 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.720 not my idea. I came home and my wife bought it. So, Matt, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:31.680 your wife saved you. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.560 My wife is saving us, just saving lives. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.000 Why as you're saving lives? 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:36.920 Oh like that? 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.160 Why love that? Now? Things that cause fires that we 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:46.560 see all the time, extension cords. Stop using extension chords 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.120 all over the place. It's mind boggling. Some of these 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.760 houses I go to that just have extension chords to 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.240 space heaters, have space heaters all over the place. I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.480 did win this winter. They had extension chords going to 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.920 a space heater and they were using a space heater 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.720 to dry their clothes and clothes on top of the 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.080 space heater. And I call them all in and I go, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.000 what are you doing. They're like, we're drying our clothes. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.720 I'm like, dude, you're going to burn your house down. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.160 And kill everyone in your like, you cannot do that. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.000 So extension cords space heaters are huge. These are big issues. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.000 If you're not electrician, don't be an electrician, don't do 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:19.880 anything electrical. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.280 And for those of us who are not electricians, I 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.920 am someone who owns extension cords and space heaters, not 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.960 that they're I'm using them in that conjunction right now, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.040 I'm not. What is it specifically about the extension cords 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.040 and the space heaters that pose a fire risk. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.160 Extension cords people don't buy the right one. They'll use 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.120 like a cheap one. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.440 Basically people are buying whatever off of Amazon, or they 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.520 go to home depot and to power something like a 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.440 space heater, which takes a lot more power and that's 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.240 just causing kind of like maybe it's sparking or it's 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.720 overheating or. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.360 Yeah, yeah, and put them on a GFCI ground full 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.520 circuit interruptor if there's a surge, it's going to say 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.400 oh oh, and it shuts itself off. That's your added 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.320 protection on it. And never leave a house or don't 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.840 even leave a room. What a space heater running? Yeah, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.000 you know. The better ones that people use are the 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.520 oil filled ones, the ones with the red coils, and 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.040 those cheap ones. Please don't like the worst. Use them 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.560 outside in the backyard on concrete to warm your feet. Yeah, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:15.040 that's it. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.159 Some redemption for me. I do have an oil so 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.280 that's really great to hear. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.000 Fire safety is one of those things people feel like 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.320 they've already handled. It's easy to write like, yeah, yeah, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.320 we have a smoke detector somewhere, but the reality is 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.320 a lot of them aren't even working. Three out of 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.600 five home fire deaths happen in homes without working smoke alarms, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:44.080 not missing, just not working. So that's dead batteries, disconnected units, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.080 or ones that are just too old. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.320 Yeah. And then there's the stuff that Joe mentioned, like 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.239 extension cords, overloaded outlets, space heaters, the things that you know, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.200 we don't even think about. They're everyday things. They don't 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.679 feel like they're dangerous until they really really are. It's 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.120 kind of wild to hear how many risks come down 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.040 to convenience, like oh, I'll just plug one more thing in, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.960 or it's okay to dry clothes near this space heater. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.679