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04/16/2025 Ask the Expert with Foster Foundation Repair · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 3: Andry Plus A good morning too. You're listening to ask
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  Speaker 3: the expert you see HS the voice of charleson AM
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  Speaker 3: del Cooper. Thanks so much for tuning in one of
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  Speaker 3: this uh on this one two thream Wednesday morning. It's
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  Speaker 3: a Wednesday morning in the state of West Virginia, the
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  Speaker 3: city of Charles and Am Deel Cooper, and we have
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  Speaker 3: a good show for you this morning. All better morning
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  Speaker 3: that I expected waking up this morning. Kind of sunny outside,
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  Speaker 3: kind of on the warm end of things, so I
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  Speaker 3: don't have no complaints as far as UH as the
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  Speaker 3: weather goes this morning. You can give us a call
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  Speaker 3: this morning if you have any questions about foundation repairs.
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  Speaker 3: Foundation repairs, we have in the studio with us this
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  Speaker 3: morning is Brett Hashinen here. He is the owner of
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  Speaker 3: Foster Foundation Repair. How you doing this morning, Brett doing
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  Speaker 3: very good. Appreciate your time and coming in this morning
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  Speaker 3: and the discussion that we're going to have lots of
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  Speaker 3: stuff going on out there in the world and of
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  Speaker 3: course in the Canall Valley here. We know about the
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  Speaker 3: unusual issues that we sometimes have when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: our foundations and our basements and things along those lines.
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  Speaker 3: Brett is here this morning to help answer those questions.
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  Speaker 3: If you have any questions about something that you're dealing with,
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  Speaker 3: you and give us a call this morning. Threes are
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  Speaker 3: A four three four five, fifty eight fifty eight three
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  Speaker 3: zero four. It's our office line number. I'm sorry. Threes
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  Speaker 3: are A four three four two eight one three one.
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  Speaker 3: I think in a week we might actually be back
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  Speaker 3: to our old number. By the way, threes are A
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  Speaker 3: four three four two eight one three one. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: you in to talk to Brett this morning if you
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  Speaker 3: have any questions about your foundation. Foster Foundation Repair, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is located here in Charleston on woodrom Lane, and their
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  Speaker 3: phone numbers threes are A four seven, seven six, sixty
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  Speaker 3: two sixty three, seven seven six sixty two sixty three.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get you that contact information out one more time
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  Speaker 3: before we leave the airwaves today. Or it's been on
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  Speaker 3: the air with us several times, not only through Foster Construction,
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  Speaker 3: but through some previous incarnations when asked the expert, but
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  Speaker 3: I thought that, or you thought, one of the great
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  Speaker 3: things that we can do today is not only talk
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  Speaker 3: about the core services that Foster offers, but also just
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  Speaker 3: remind folks of what makes it a little bit different
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  Speaker 3: to come to Foster, because it really makes a difference
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  Speaker 3: depend on hometown spend and also to have some extra
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  Speaker 3: levels of expertise that's included there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we are, of course, my wife and I
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  Speaker 4: own the business. She is the president, I'm the VP.
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  Speaker 5: But we bought the.
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  Speaker 4: Business, well, we actually bought the assets of the business.
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  Speaker 4: We've we've been in we've owned this company for it'll
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  Speaker 4: be four years in August, so about three and a
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  Speaker 4: half years in at this point. But we bought the
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  Speaker 4: business from Dave Foster, who I worked with quite a
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  Speaker 4: bit over the years when I was back in my
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  Speaker 4: home inspection in engineering days. We would we would refer
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  Speaker 4: back and forth a lot of work to one another.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But we so we started about three and a half
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  Speaker 4: years ago and it's it's been a whirlwind, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're we're a small, locally owned business. My wife and
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  Speaker 4: I own it, owned the entire business. There's there's a
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  Speaker 4: there's about five companies uh here in in the valley
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  Speaker 4: that that are located in the valley that are that
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  Speaker 4: I would that we compete with, and we're we're one
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  Speaker 4: of only two that are actually owned locally, fully owned locally.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: The other ones are are either owned by a large
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  Speaker 4: corporation or significantly by uh another individual that that is
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  Speaker 4: not local.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And then one company is fully owned by an outside
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  Speaker 4: uh individual. So we are we are one of the
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  Speaker 4: two locally owned small businesses that in the Canal Valley
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  Speaker 4: that really focus on this work that I compete with.
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  Speaker 4: There there's I'm sure there's others that that dabble into
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  Speaker 4: this work that are small and locally owned. But the
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  Speaker 4: companies I have in mind are the ones that I
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  Speaker 4: I typically seeing their estimates or you know, they've been
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  Speaker 4: to the house before or after me to provide.
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  Speaker 2: In this moth.
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  Speaker 3: A couple things about that that I think is very important.
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  Speaker 3: First thing that we realize and from doing this show.
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  Speaker 3: One of the great connections that we make on this
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  Speaker 3: show that I think that you're finding is that we
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  Speaker 3: really cater to people exactly in your situation, whether it
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  Speaker 3: be Larry Dawson or Harvey Payton or whoever that offers
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  Speaker 3: their exemplary services. Also from a hyper local perspective, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they are local companies. They celebrate their locality being in Charleston,
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  Speaker 3: being born and bred and raised here and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: And why that makes a difference. Of course, we want
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  Speaker 3: to treat our own well. I mean, that's just neighborly,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean, but also it matters because you
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  Speaker 3: have a vested interest in the community. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you have somebody that and I don't. This isn't you
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  Speaker 3: talking badly about your competition. This is just me observationally
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  Speaker 3: making as a consumer of services, I know for a
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  Speaker 3: fact that when you're dealing with a company that has
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  Speaker 3: community ties, that has roots here, somebody that you're likely
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  Speaker 3: to see at the grocery store or something else, and
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  Speaker 3: that's run by upstanding people. Anyway, the level of service
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to get, the buy in the communication
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to get is a lot different than
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  Speaker 3: when you're dealing with somebody that, ultimately the corporation doesn't
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  Speaker 3: set foot on the ground here. You know, they don't
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  Speaker 3: have a vested interest in the community and what happens there.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a difference there. There's a difference in the
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  Speaker 3: level of a buy in that you get not only
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  Speaker 3: as you as a consumer, but also as the person
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  Speaker 3: that's offering the service.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, we are. My wife was born and raised
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  Speaker 4: in Huntington. I was an import. My family moved here
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  Speaker 4: when I was around eleven.
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  Speaker 3: We claim it.
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  Speaker 5: That's yeah, well I'm here long enough exactly.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I grew I was raised in Winfield, moved
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  Speaker 4: around after after I went to Tech West Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 4: So I went to college locally and lived in the
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  Speaker 4: valley ever since. South Charleston Saint Albans for a little
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  Speaker 4: bit into Charleston, and we're back in Winfield now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if you call, you call our the main number that
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  Speaker 4: you gave out a moment ago, you're gonna you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: speak with Amber any any real dealings with you know,
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  Speaker 4: a project is either going to be me Amber or
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  Speaker 4: we do have an operations manager named Jacob who's with
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  Speaker 4: us now, which is very helpful to me and and
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  Speaker 4: also you know everybody, it helps everything goes more smoothly.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we're we're we're sponsoring little league teams and
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  Speaker 4: my daughters had an awesome volleyball league that I was
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  Speaker 4: not unaware of for young girls that they played in
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  Speaker 4: Winfield that we had. We sponsored a team there this year,
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  Speaker 4: but a lot of girls from the valley. This was
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  Speaker 4: elementary school age, like third, fourth, fifth graders, which that
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of fun to watch that she's really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 4: It was her first year. But yeah, that's that's usome.
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  Speaker 4: The nutshells is it's great small local business.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great stuff, and that's that's why we do
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  Speaker 3: what we do. There is no question about that. And
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  Speaker 3: the the level of other services that you can include
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  Speaker 3: into what you do. We've talked about this on the
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  Speaker 3: program before, but the fact that you're an actual engineer
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  Speaker 3: and that you approach these job sites. You make a
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  Speaker 3: note in some of the information game this morning, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a great that's a great point. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that we bring up enough. You're the only company, but
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  Speaker 3: you don't work on any sort of commission scale at all.
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  Speaker 3: So when you were doing the scope of a project,
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  Speaker 3: you're legitimately giving options to the client that you're providing
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  Speaker 3: the service to. You're not trying to sneakly give them. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you go this way, it's really going
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  Speaker 3: to be better, if you know what I mean hahab
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  Speaker 3: meaning that you get that's not what you do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm not commission commission based. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: blind to the fact that the more business we do,
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  Speaker 4: the more.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you're in business, it's okay, it's okay to
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, yesterday I spoke, I went to a
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  Speaker 4: house and they were concerned about some humps in the floor,
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  Speaker 4: and basically I told them, there's nothing to be overly
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  Speaker 4: concerned about. No life altering issues would come of this,
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  Speaker 4: and ultimately we're not going to do any work on
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  Speaker 4: that project. We were going to discuss a deck, which
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  Speaker 4: was not even in this you know, not even the
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  Speaker 4: reason they called me. They're they're thinking about replacing their deck.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, oftentimes we we don't even have to do
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  Speaker 4: a work, do a job, and there's there's you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a salesperson. I was not that's not my background.
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  Speaker 4: My background was the engineering the home inspection UH aspect
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  Speaker 4: of what we do, which is the identifying of a
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  Speaker 4: problem or figuring out why something has occurred UH and
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  Speaker 4: then coming up with a solution or solutions on how
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  Speaker 4: to fix it, which which to me is the most
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  Speaker 4: important step is is if you can't identify, excuse me,
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  Speaker 4: if you can't identify the problem, you don't know why
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  Speaker 4: a crack developed, or why the water's coming in, or
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  Speaker 4: what what's causing the issue, how do you fix it?
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  Speaker 4: And and that's that's my focus is always to to
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  Speaker 4: identify the cause and if and if if I can't
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  Speaker 4: do that, then then there's typically needs to be some
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  Speaker 4: other investigation like a drain inspection, or maybe drywall has
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  Speaker 4: to come down or something to to expose some other
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  Speaker 4: aspect that's not visible.
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  Speaker 3: That just that level of honesty right there is is
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  Speaker 3: something that that that someone looking for service is going
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  Speaker 3: to require, because there's people out there that will sometimes
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  Speaker 3: try to sell you a bill of goods of some
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  Speaker 3: sort like I can repair at all, I can do this,
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  Speaker 3: and and they just want to get their work done
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  Speaker 3: and get out of there. They don't necessarily want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that the person follows the proper procedures in place,
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  Speaker 3: because it might mean a delay in their work getting
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  Speaker 3: started or something. So so having somebody that will that will,
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  Speaker 3: that will stand up for the correct way to do
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  Speaker 3: the job and not just necessarily looking out for well,
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  Speaker 3: when can I get in here and how much can
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  Speaker 3: I make at it? Having somebody that you can trust
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  Speaker 3: to do that is really important.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, And you know the non salesperson issue or you know,
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  Speaker 4: for me, you know, I'm the one providing the warranty.
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  Speaker 4: If something doesn't work, I'm coming back in five years
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  Speaker 4: at my cost an employee. And you know this is
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  Speaker 4: not to you know, this is just how we operate,
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  Speaker 4: but it's it's my warranty. I'm the one that has
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  Speaker 4: to spend the money. Whereas if it's a salesperson, it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's the company's absolutely truble. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: five years, whether that salesperson is there or not, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to be here. I can't go anywhere unless unless
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  Speaker 4: my employees buy me out or.
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  Speaker 3: Something exactly, and really lean in on that, because that
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely what we run into. Oh heck, we had
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  Speaker 3: a situation in this expansive rebuild that we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: around here. One of the issues that we've had over
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  Speaker 3: the years. The silliest thing that it is, but it's
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  Speaker 3: our cable for our televisions. And if you look at
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  Speaker 3: the building and the way that it's laid out, you
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  Speaker 3: would have no question. I mean, we've just had cable
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  Speaker 3: ran so many different ways. We have cable going to
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  Speaker 3: different rooms, and of course the cable company's trying to
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  Speaker 3: keep that stuff regulated, so they're charging the proper amount
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  Speaker 3: and doing their business right. I mean, I get all
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  Speaker 3: of that. You want to make sure you're not getting
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  Speaker 3: free cable to someone and everything else. We've had huge
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  Speaker 3: issues here and we had a guy that came in
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago that basically solved the entire thing.
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  Speaker 3: He's spent for the company, for the cable company. He
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  Speaker 3: spent like a week in here doing all the work,
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  Speaker 3: doing all the jobs and stuff like that. He figured
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  Speaker 3: out what was going on. He gave us the right
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  Speaker 3: research and everything else. We were able to take the
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  Speaker 3: proper notes. Now we're ready to take the next step
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  Speaker 3: in it, and we needed to rely someone his expertise.
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  Speaker 3: He's no longer with the company, he's no longer there
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  Speaker 3: and Luckily he made some schematics and stuff, so our
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  Speaker 3: engineers are able to go off of that and do
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  Speaker 3: some work. But the bottom line is there that unless
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  Speaker 3: you have a vested interest and if you're working for
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  Speaker 3: a company that keeps that repository of knowledge, if you're
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  Speaker 3: just cycling out employees one after another, you might lose
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  Speaker 3: that connection that you had with someone, even if it
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  Speaker 3: was somebody that worked from one of these slightly larger corporations.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, another thing about about us. Over the last maybe
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  Speaker 4: five to ten years in this industry, there's been a
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  Speaker 4: lot of i'm gonna call them gimmicks that have come
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  Speaker 4: into gimmick repair that.
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  Speaker 5: That have come out.
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  Speaker 4: One one that comes to mind is the spring loaded
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  Speaker 4: ibeam that's going to straighten your wall over time. And
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  Speaker 4: a spring has an equal and opposite reaction against the
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  Speaker 4: against the foundation wall, but also against the house. And
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  Speaker 4: I have seen situations with this type of install that
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  Speaker 4: that actually further failures occur as a result of that
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  Speaker 4: type of repair. The repair doesn't cause the failure, but
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  Speaker 4: it prevents to. What it does is that actually changes
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  Speaker 4: the weak point in the wall and causes a failure
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  Speaker 4: at a different place, which is oftentimes near the base
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  Speaker 4: of the wall, and it creates a more serious issue as.
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  Speaker 5: Well as more costly repair.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it goes back to the cause of you know,
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  Speaker 4: identifying the cause and how to fix it. That that's
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  Speaker 4: the kind of things that we're looking at as we're
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  Speaker 4: looking at long term permanent solutions.
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  Speaker 5: I actually had a yesterday as well.
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  Speaker 4: I had a client that wanted me to do a
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  Speaker 4: certain repair option that she was kind of dictating what
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  Speaker 4: she wanted, and I just basically said, that's we can't
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  Speaker 4: do that because my point, my repairs need to last
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  Speaker 4: outlast me is the goal that when I'm when I'm gone,
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  Speaker 4: they're still holding tight and doing what they need to do.
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  Speaker 4: But the gimmick repairs is is big, and it's what
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  Speaker 4: it's all about, the speed in which the installation can
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  Speaker 4: occur to cut down labor and and and they do
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  Speaker 4: they undercut. There's a lot of times that I get
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  Speaker 4: beat out on a project with one of my estimates
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  Speaker 4: with with what we're going to plan on doing versus
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  Speaker 4: these other options. And I do my best to educate
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  Speaker 4: my clients as to why we're going to do it
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  Speaker 4: this way, but oftentimes sometimes they'll go with the less
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  Speaker 4: expensive option. Unfortunately due to their the lack of knowledge
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  Speaker 4: or the persuasiveness of the other individual who can sell
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  Speaker 4: that product, and that's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm understanding my understanding with this, and again this is
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  Speaker 3: me speaking, but much like how there was a big
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  Speaker 3: uproar years and years ago about pharmaceutical companies going into
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  Speaker 3: doctor's offices and pushing off the newest medicines to do
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  Speaker 3: things that older medicines work just fine at and in
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  Speaker 3: some case didn't work as well, but doctors would sudden
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  Speaker 3: start prescribing that over the older ones because you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe there was a conference in Morocco, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 3: But my understanding is that this this this type of
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  Speaker 3: relationship works in places like construction space and stuff too,
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  Speaker 3: where suddenly, you know, somebody comes in from a company
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  Speaker 3: representing a spring loaded uh uh uh a spring loaded
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  Speaker 3: uh uh ibeam or something like that, and uh that
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  Speaker 3: becomes the new uh, the new, the new toy from
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  Speaker 3: that larger company. You know, you get a national company,
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  Speaker 3: you have a relationship with another national company who's bringing
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  Speaker 3: in their spring loaded product uh product. Maybe there's other
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  Speaker 3: relationships involved, and so the salespeople on the ground are
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  Speaker 3: then Hey, you know, if you sell this item, maybe
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  Speaker 3: there's a bonus that month or whatever. It is that
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  Speaker 3: you see these types of incentives for the person, not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily for the customer, not necessarily for this person seeking
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  Speaker 3: the service, and those two things are incongruent from from
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  Speaker 3: a service standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: And that's something I've never thought about that there could
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  Speaker 4: be incentives like that within other companies.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's interesting I've heard about I've heard about that
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  Speaker 3: and in different similar spaces to this. So I've started
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  Speaker 3: when I equated it immediately with the old pharmaceutical thing
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  Speaker 3: back in the in the doctor's office, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that it's probably similar. Yeah, And as far as when
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  Speaker 3: you identify problems, and that's part of the whole solve
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  Speaker 3: of this is that when you go you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to recommend something like a spree long beam. You're having
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  Speaker 3: your notes here, something like a top of foot or drains.
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  Speaker 3: This is something else that you've seen that that is
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  Speaker 3: really not the best solution to problems. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So this is another example of the quick fix.
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  Speaker 4: If you have a basement and you're getting some water entry,
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  Speaker 4: there are systems called into your foundation drain systems which
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  Speaker 4: we install as well. We just do them differently. But
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  Speaker 4: this top of foot or drain is essentially wherever the
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  Speaker 4: water's coming in. Six inches of concrete is cut out
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: of the basement floor, a three inch by four inch
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: rectangular shaped drain, per freated drain is installed in that trench,
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: and then one inch of concrete is put back in
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: on top of the of the drain, and the drain
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: system works perfect the water well, I mean, it will
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: keep the basement interior dry if done correctly. We looked
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: at one the other day that wasn't working correctly. But
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: the concern there is the basement floor slab is a
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: critical structural component for the foundation wall. The foundation wall
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: is holding dirt back on the outside a basement, the
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: foundation walls holding soil back on the outside, and that
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: basement floor is acting to laterally pin or stabilize the
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: bottom of the wall. And when that drain, when that
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: concrete is cut out and replaced with a plastic drain,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: you thereby eliminated that base pin in action of the slab,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: and you risk lateral displacement at the.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Bottom of the wall.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: The way we do it is we cut a larger
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: amount of concrete out. We put our drain down below
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: the slab next to the footer, and we put that
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: full slab back in place. So it's the original designed
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: intent of the foundation, how it was built, remains intact.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: And that's the function of of the type of foundations
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: we have here. Residential construction typically is what is called
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: a restrained retaining wall, so it's it's not an engineered
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: rigid retaining wall like you might see out on an interstate.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: So that's that's why we do.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: It differently, and that's and it's a significantly less amount
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: of work to do that top of foot or drain
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: versus the way we do it. And but I will
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: not I will not do the top of foot or drain.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to again. I'm not going back five
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: years and having to do a stabilization repair because of
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: some failed drain system that we put in.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: It seems like, I mean, in having you explain it
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: as an expert, it seems logical to me. But it
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: seems logical that you're you're keeping more of the original
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: intent of the structure and tact when you're doing it
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the proper way as opposed to putting it above. So
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: it seems like, yeah, that makes sense that it would
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: that it would last longer and it would keep its
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: an original tent longer. Yeah.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So one engineer we work with quite a bit does
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: not when when he's involved in the project, does not
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: allow that top of foot or drain for the exact
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: same reasons I've picked his brain on why, and the
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: same reasons that I've I have always come up with
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: another thing about these about us we're local, about being
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: the local, and you know, my experience is all hyper local.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, I've my when I was doing inspections, I
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: pretty much kept my radius about forty forty minutes. So
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I'm very familiar with the different areas Tayese Valley versus
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: South Hills different. You know, there's different challenges there, and
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of these these again, these gimmicks products
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: that out there that that may work in other regions
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: might work perfectly fine in Virginia Beach where they've got
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: sandy soils, but we have some of the most severe
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: soil conditions there are that we're dealing with to try
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: to I mean, that's why we have a five companies
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: in this little region doing this this work is because
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: we have some severe conditions as well as we didn't have.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: The greatest building practice is in the fifties through the
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I mean even still today, there's there's some not great
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: building practice out there.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And that makes another great point. There's not there's nothing
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: wrong with like a larger national or a large regional
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: company or something owning a business. There's nothing wrong with
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: that at all. It's just that they're not going to
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: know the specific situations beyond their professional ability in particular
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: regions when it comes to the soil makeup and the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: different problems along those lines. They might be able to
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: get to it eventually, but they're not going to necessarily
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: have all of that stuff in inventory ready to deploy
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: having the right things, which might be why you have
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: mismatched repairs to projects. Sometimes if you want it done now,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: well I have this stuff ready to go right now,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and we can go ahead and get it done, it
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: may not match up exactly right. Again, that's why going
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: local with somebody that really knows the area makes a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: big difference. Yeah.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as far as you know, quality control goes, we
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: are we are pretty heavy on quality control. We've got myself.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I get out to jobs as often as I can.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: We do have Jacob, he's our operations manager. He's been
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: with us for about about six months now, but he's
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: got fifteen years experience in the construction industry, used to
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: work on multimillion dollar projects before coming to join our
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: little team. But he's in charge of our quality control.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Our guys know there's no you know, they have no
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: incentive to hide things up.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: We're not.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: We're not you know, there's no incentive to cover something up,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: and so we do have very good quality control, very
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: few callbacks.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: We do. We're imperfect, but we do go.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Back and fix it if if we've made a mistake.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: But in a good portion of our business is going in,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: going in and redoing stuff that was done previously, five ten,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: fifteen years ago, two years ago by other contractors that
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: it didn't work for whatever reason, was the wrong repair plan.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I've seen plenty of times where houses have been stabilized
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: because of settlement, or at least that's what they thought
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: was going on, and they underpin or stabilized with vehical
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: piers or push peers the side of the house that's
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: the highest and the other end of.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: The house is the actually the issue.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: So I've seen where repairs have been done that were
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: not even necessary or were the completely wrong repair and
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: didn't address the issue.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: One last anecdote and then we'll get out of here
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: for a break. That reminds me of a car repair
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: that I was having done once that I took it
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: into a place, got the estimate on it, and then
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: other situations came up for I couldn't get my car
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: repair that weekend, and so I ended up pulling it out,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: and then like a week later, they were super busy.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I couldn't get it back in, so I took it
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: somewhere else, and I took it back into the other
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: place and told them what the other place told me. Hey,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I'm expecting this work, this work, and this work. They
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: called me back later and said, fully, half of that
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: work that I was expecting to have done didn't need
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: to be done at all. That person could have easily
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: just did it. I was expecting it to be done,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and charged me for it, and I would have been happy.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I was like, this is what needs to be done.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He's like, you don't need to do this. Yeah, he
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: saved me three hundred bucks, But it made me think,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: why was this other guy charging me for this for
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: this repair, you know, and it just goes to it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: And now I go to this other place all the time.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Now that's become my main place because I was like that,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: well that's honest, and so if I go there all
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the time.
• 22:12
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• 22:14
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• 22:17
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• 22:20
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• 22:22
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• 22:24
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to, asked the expert w c HS, the
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  Speaker 3: voice of Charleston talking about critters and cross spaces. That
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: was something that I wondered if bred had came across
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in all of his travels, and of course he has
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: critters and cross spaces is pretty normal. I had a
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: possum last year that I had to it became an issue,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: you know, as the man of the house. The first
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: time that I saw the possum, it was hanging from
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the rafters and I looked up and there was just
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: a possum above my head and it kind of gave
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: me this and it scared me. I mean, I mean,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: what am I going to do? I look up and
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: there's like a and it was a big possum. And
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: so of course, you know, my my my kid, of
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: all people, Like I was exwlaying with my wife. I
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: was like, there's a possum in the basement. It was
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah. She's like a possum. I was like, yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: she's like, you mean the things that played dead. I mean,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: it didn't play dead at this at this point. It
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: anyway got the thing out of there. But that's got
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to be a problem. Does that mean that you have
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: an issue somewhere else? If you're getting animals into your
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: crass space, that means you have an issue somewhere right.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And again yesterday, yesterday it was an active day
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: for me. Somebody tore their deck off and they were
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: in the process of putting their decking back on. They're
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: just redoing their decking, is all, and they exposed a
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: hole next in the dirt next to their their house.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: And it happened to be right where a full basement
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: and a crawl space attached together. And this is a
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: common problem where soil will water will we road the
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: soil into the crawl space, creating that opening, But a
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: rodent had got got in there, but we don't do rodents.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, we'll certainly seal up a hole in the
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: foundation for someone. But oh yeah, that's uh yeah, if
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I see an animal going the other way, yeah, yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: that's not my cry.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Right now. That you were telling me during the break
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: that snakes and addicts were actually kind of common, that
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: kind of put a chill on the spine.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I've seen more snakes and addicts than crawl spaces.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: I guess the heat and overhanging limbs. They'll climb a
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: tree and drop down onto a roof and find a
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: way in through something.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, I don't see it a ton.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sure the snakes, if they're in the crawl space,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: they probably just hide and sneak up in an insulated
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: area where I can't see them or something.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the ede zone will always be my spirit
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: animal when it comes with snakes. Just don't like snakes,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: not for me, just like Indy. We were talking a
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: little bit about some of the quick fixes and sort
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: of scam fixes right before we went to the break
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: one of the ones that we left off the list,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: and I was kind of interested in this because I've
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: sort of heard about things like this before. Secondary steel
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: wall that you pump water, pump foam in behind it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: What is this for?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: So I've never seen one personally. I've seen it in
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: advertising documents from local contractors. But yeah, essentially, they'll they'll
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: throw up some steel eyebeams, some steel some steel sheet
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: metal in front of the wall and then it's it's
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the walls deformed, so it must be in pretty.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Bad shape to go to this do this.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: But uh, then reportedly they'll they'll fill that void between
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: the foundation and the steel with foam. And maybe that
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: I mean at the at the end of the day,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: at the foundations that damaged. Uh, again I touched on
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: it early. We have restrained retaining walls, so the walls
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: is restrained by the basement floor slab as well as
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: the floor diaphragm overhead. So that type of repair every
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: in fact, every type of repair except for one, relies
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: on the floor different floor floor diaphragm for the top
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: of the wall stabilization. So if if a wall is
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: that damaged, if there's that much pressure there's there, that
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: type of repair is still probably not gonna work because
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: you're still relying on the floor system.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: And that's a that's a you know, common.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Thing that that I'm well aware of that I'm looking
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: for when I'm looking at diagnosing a problem and coming
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: up with a solution, is is understanding that that floor
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: system's purpose and what what it serves. So in the
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: event that a wall is bode or deflected inward from
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: the lateral earth pressure, it can actually push the floor
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: system through the opposite side of the house, creating cracks
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: at the corners. And if that's ever occurred, then you
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: really only have two options. One is to reduce the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: pressure and reinforce the wall so the floor diaphragm is
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: capable of resisting that pressure or using a helical soil
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: anchor to counteract the pressure. That's the soil anchor is
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: the only repair option that we have in our toolbox
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: that does not rely on the floor diaphragm for stabilization
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: is completely essentially, it's completely independent of all else to function.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: It relies on the soil that's ten twelve to fifteen
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: twenty feet away from the house, that is dense and
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: very stable to counteract the act of pressure on the foundation.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: May kind of brings me to another question, then, when
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: we're talking about some of these things that are questionable
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: as far as repairs go, are there situations where you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: could have like one of these quick fix type things
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: put in, and if you're a homeowner, that then turns
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: into a seller that an engineer somewhere down the line
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: is want to take a look at one of these
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: repairs and be like, Nah, that's not gonna that's not
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: gonna work.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Certainly, I mean there's certainly been you know, plenty of
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: times I've seen you know, before I don't do the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: inspections anymore, but back when I was just doing inspections,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: plenty of times I'd see repairs that showed signs of
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the ongoing movement or I knew, or inadequate for one
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: reason or another. Yes, that is certainly possible, and that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: that's another you know, kind of leads me down a
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: different road. About the engineering aspect of this is, I mean,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: eventually every house is going to get sold, and having
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: an engineer, whether it's myself or or another engineer, which
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I've got referrals if somebody wants their own independent, third
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: party engineer, which I fully support and think is a
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: wise decision, but they will come up with a plan
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: and they'll document the repairs that's being done, and then
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: they'll they'll you know, provide documentation when it's all said,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: one of the repairs complete that can be used as
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: a selling feature. I've had I had clients that would
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: take all my paperwork late right out next for sure,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: to the realtors. You know, the house costs X, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: they'd have my stuff there and they'd use it as
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: a selling feature, not as a negative that that it's
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: been fixed.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, can.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, there's a lot of neighborhoods that the houses have
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: been fixed or need to be fixed, and it's you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: their streets that way.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I'll give this insight as well. I've done shows. I've
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: done many shows with realators in the past before too,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: all from all different all different places. But one thing
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: that I found interesting is there's some realtors that love
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: engineers and some realators that don't love engineers. Yes, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: from at least again from my perspective as a consumer,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I sort of lean towards the ones that like engineers,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: you know, because it seems like that if you if
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: you're if you're hesitant to to bring on an engineer
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: to take a look at the property, it means that
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you're maybe trying to hide something. I mean, I don't
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: know that for sure. Maybe the excuse that I hear
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: on the other side is well, you know, engineers just
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: make it way too complicated to get this done, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: they raised way too many red flags in order to
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: get this out. But on the other side of things,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: like what you just talked about, from the buyer perspective,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: there's two parts to this equation. From the buyer perspective,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: you're waiting to get into that house that has a
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: solid engineering recommendation on it. I mean that you feel
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: much better.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to have a couple handful of realtors
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: that I doubt I was exclusively recommended, but we did
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of work. I did a lot of work
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: for their buyers. Obviously, when they're the seller's agent, unless
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: they know they have a problem that they needs to
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: be addressed up front, they're not typically referring the inspection community.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: But yeah, there's certain realtors I would work with more often,
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  Speaker 4: and I wouldn't work with them necessarily, but I would
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: be on their referral list more often. And then some
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  Speaker 4: that we just didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Literally talking about the same engineer. One time I had
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  Speaker 3: a realder in here who can plan to no end
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  Speaker 3: about the engineer. And then the very next time that
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  Speaker 3: I had a real estate show, which may have been
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: a couple of years later, but they were talking about
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: the same engineer and how much they loved them, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: loved them. And I was like, Wow, this is a
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: completely different experience than uh, than than well, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: you can learn a lot when you just keep your
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: ears open and you're doing doing a show like this,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you can learn a lot of things, but then
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  Speaker 3: that and that kind of boils us down to because
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  Speaker 3: of uh, the overall experience with going through Foster construction
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  Speaker 3: as in your in your incarnation of it, Brett, is
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: that the the holistic experience that you get from this
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  Speaker 3: is you get someone who is a hometown person who
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  Speaker 3: is an engineer, although that's not primarily what you do,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't help but to look at every job
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  Speaker 3: from that perspective. So when you're coming out and you're
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: looking at job, and you're there and you're the person
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  Speaker 3: who's the uh, the quality control, that's that stops at you.
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  Speaker 3: So you you oversee these jobs, you take a look
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  Speaker 3: at them, even though you have employees and stuff that
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: work at it, that that that work on them, you
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: can your perspective is always going to be from that
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  Speaker 3: engineering perspective, to look at things from all of the
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  Speaker 3: different angles, just that nature upon itself. If somebody is
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  Speaker 3: for example, we talked about people who might be a
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  Speaker 3: little cost shy on certain things, and I think sometimes
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: that's the opportunity for people to come in with some
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  Speaker 3: of these these bad repair ideas of somebody that's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit concerned about the cost a little too much. Well,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: if you call Foster Construction, you'll give options, and all
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  Speaker 3: of the options will be good. So if you're a
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  Speaker 3: little cost hesitant on some of these things, you're not
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: in the perfect situation right now, or something at least
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: make the cost. See what the spectrum is on repairs
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  Speaker 3: that you can have done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's you know, speaking about the cost, there's
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  Speaker 4: sometimes there's options we can do that aren't necessarily going
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  Speaker 4: to stabilize the foundation if the budget doesn't allow at
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  Speaker 4: that time. But there are things that we can do
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  Speaker 4: replace down spouts or something that reduces the rate of
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  Speaker 4: movement or in some cases can actually prevent the movement. Well,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: the movement ceases, it stabilizes on its own. So there
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: are certainly different different options there. One thing I do
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: want to mention is we are hiring.
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  Speaker 3: Oh way, if the job creator, it's always good.
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  Speaker 5: We're always hiring.
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  Speaker 4: So if there's anybody out there in the construction industry,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be love to talk with you.
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  Speaker 3: General construction, just pretty much any skill set or.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah yeah, operators, concrete finishers, yeah, just willing willing
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  Speaker 4: to work.
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  Speaker 3: Will to show up, that's the Believe me. I know
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  Speaker 3: that's the important part. And we love making a love
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  Speaker 3: connection on the show. When it comes to defining employment,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: we've done that many times in the past. So Foster
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Construction if that sounds like something not only to make
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: you have a job to do, but also if maybe
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: you're looking for a job, you can get Foster Construction
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: a call their number three er A four seven seven
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  Speaker 3: six sixty two sixty three, three zer A four seven
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  Speaker 3: seven six sixty two sixty three someone with construction background
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  Speaker 3: that may be able to help out with that. I
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: know that that's always the thing. As a business owner,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: you want to be a job creator as much as possible.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you need the people to come to you to
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: hire though.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's tough out there. It's tough.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand, especially when you're dealing with something like
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: you are that's not necessarily an easy job all the
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: time and requires for folks to show up, Tom Lee
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: run equipment things like that. Yeah, you have, you have
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: some barriers there. Yeah, good luck on Thatt. I hope
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: that everything works out.
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  Speaker 4: Now we've actually got we've got a very good crew
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  Speaker 4: right now. I'm very pleased with with our group of guys.
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  Speaker 4: We just need more and we we have a very
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: good really do they seem to all get along and
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: you know it's it's a good group.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: And that's that's a great information. As always the Brett
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  Speaker 3: Foster from Foster Construction. Just a couple of minutes left
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  Speaker 3: in the program before we wrap things up here today,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: and a few more things that we can cover before
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: we get out of here. First of all, let me
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: remind you that we do put all these shows on podcasts,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: So if you want to check out any previous show
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: that we have, Bred always comes in here with a
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: laundry list of items that we can talk about. Every
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: show is a little bit different, So if you want
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: to rest in the space of of kind of foundation
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: repairs and construction, you can go to w CHS network
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  Speaker 3: dot com slash expert and you can find all of
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: our expert shows that are on there, including this one,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: which will be up in about an hour or so
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: after the show concludes today, and each of the shows
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: that we have up there a lot of a lot
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: of good information. And Brett Show is on here every
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: month on Wednesday. What Are We Won? The second Wednesday,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Third Wednesday, Third Wednesday, I don't know where we are. Third,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I should know that, but I obviously didn't pay attention
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  Speaker 3: before I came out. Yeah, okay, So on the third
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday of every month, Brett Hoston is here from Foster
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Construction and you can tune into that program. So once again,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: let me get all the information out for you. Foster
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  Speaker 3: Construction and Foundation Repair located at forty two to twenty
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  Speaker 3: six Woodram Lane in Charleston, West Virginia. That's two five
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  Speaker 3: three one three. Their phone number three zero four seven
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  Speaker 3: seven six sixty two sixty three. Three zero four seven
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  Speaker 3: seven six sixty two sixty three is a number you
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: can call to get a hold of Foster Foundation Repair
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: and the website is Foster Foundation Repair dot com. Foster
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  Speaker 3: Foundation Repair dot com. It doesn't get much easier than that. Brett,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: thanks so much for your information today. I think we
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: covered a large piece of information hopefully made folks so
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: familiar with your work. Once again, yep, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yet, if you go to the website and click the
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: contact us, that email now will come directly to me
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  Speaker 4: and Amber, so one of us will get back to
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: you directly.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: That's the best way to do it. So that once
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: again is Foster Foundation Repair dot com. You can click
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: the contact button and get a hold of Brett in
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: any way that you need to there. That's going to
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: do it for us today. Thanks once again to Brett
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Hoston from Foster Foundation Repair for being our expert this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up next, it's going to be Dave Allen with
• 37:19
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• 37:22
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• 37:25
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