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06/17/2025 Ask the Expert with Foster Foundation Repair · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: Miner if us A good morning to you. You're listening
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Speaker 3: to ask the expert WCHS the Voice of Charleston, am
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Speaker 3: Deel Cooper. Thanks for tuning in on this Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm I have to check my dates here because Brett
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Speaker 3: Hadston is here, the owner of Foster Foundation Repair, and
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Speaker 3: usually we see each other on Wednesday, but for the
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Speaker 3: next several weeks anyway, or who knows how long. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't really matter to me. We're going to be on
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Speaker 3: Tuesday or several months, I should say, and it's not weekly,
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Speaker 3: but will be here on Tuesdays. Good morning, how you
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Speaker 3: doing this morning?
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Speaker 2: Good morning?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we have my wife does be and I
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Speaker 4: on Wednesdays, so I'm taking the kids to summer camp
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Speaker 4: on Wednesday mornings now for the foreseeable feature.
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Speaker 3: Brad Hasson is the owner of Foster Foundation Repair. You
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Speaker 3: can give us a call this morning if you have
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Speaker 3: any questions three zero A four three four five fifty
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Speaker 3: eight fifty eight. You can also send over text questions
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Speaker 3: as well. Three zero four non three five five zeros
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Speaker 3: you eight. Three zero four non three five five zeros
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Speaker 3: you eight. Right before we came on the air, we
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Speaker 3: were hearing a report from Metro News about the massive
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Speaker 3: flooding that's been wheeling and obviously great empathy from us
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Speaker 3: on this part of the state goes out to those Well,
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Speaker 3: we've suffered it here many many times in our recent past,
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Speaker 3: and we know what that's like and the unfortunate loss
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Speaker 3: of life that's taking place there. I want to kind
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Speaker 3: of use just the the climate situation from this as
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Speaker 3: something for us to talk about a little bit this morning,
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Speaker 3: because when you have massive rain that comes in and
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Speaker 3: some things get washed out, and there's there's disasters that happen,
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Speaker 3: and that's a that's like a separate thing, and obviously
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Speaker 3: that needs to be addressed. But things can happen when
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Speaker 3: there's massive amounts of water that comes through an area.
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Speaker 3: They can give you some some clues about your home,
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Speaker 3: Like you can observe things that are happening with like
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Speaker 3: different drain each, different things like that that in your
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Speaker 3: own home that when you're having these uh these weather
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Speaker 3: issues and things like that, you might want to pay
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Speaker 3: attention to. Like if you started having some seeping into
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Speaker 3: the uh into your basement. Maybe normal rain, it doesn't happen,
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Speaker 3: but if you get a lot of rain and suddenly
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Speaker 3: you start seeing some seeping, is that an indication of
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Speaker 3: a problem in the future, or just like a once
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Speaker 3: in occasional thing that happened that overflowed a system somewhere.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there could be some questions that come up.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it could be it could be just
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Speaker 4: a one off excess of rain that overwhelmed the system.
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Speaker 4: But oftentimes it's a you know, some sort of debris
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Speaker 4: in a system or or a failed system. I looked
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Speaker 4: at a looked at a property earlier this week and
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Speaker 4: there was basically kind of small sinkholes developing around a
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Speaker 4: drain pipe where what I deduced was water was dumping
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Speaker 4: off the roof, and then it was eroding the soil
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Speaker 4: into the downspout drain system because it was a lower
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Speaker 4: quality corrugated black corrugated system which does not have water
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Speaker 4: tight joints. So the soil, you know, the access water
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Speaker 4: was collecting there and it was eventually finding its way
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Speaker 4: into the drain, not through a proper channel, but it
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Speaker 4: was taking the soil with it, so it was kind
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Speaker 4: of creating a sinkhole. So yeah, that's that's certainly things
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Speaker 4: of that nature. Erosion is something to definitely look for
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Speaker 4: if you if you're having erosion of your mult or
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Speaker 4: your top soil around your foundation, you've got water flowing
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Speaker 4: obviously around your house and something needs to be addressed there.
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Speaker 3: And if you think about the last couple of years
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Speaker 3: just here in the Kanaala Valley, we've both gone through
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Speaker 3: drought and you know, we've gone through periods of excess
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Speaker 3: rain where we've gotten more in dazed than we get
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Speaker 3: sometimes in a season recently. So depending on where you're at,
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Speaker 3: what your home is, I mean, you could see some
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Speaker 3: issues that start create them up from when you get
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Speaker 3: to extreme ends of the weather.
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Speaker 2: We have unique, unique soil in this area.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of things that kind of
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Speaker 3: goes into that and I just wanted to bring that
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Speaker 3: up as something as obviously as a home owner myself,
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Speaker 3: you run across these things sometimes. I saw a new
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Speaker 3: crack the other day that I didn't see that I
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Speaker 3: hadn't seen before, and I was trying to apply some
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Speaker 3: of the things that we've talked about.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know about this thing.
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Speaker 3: We might have to get it looked at some point
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Speaker 3: in time, but I don't know that it appeared overnight.
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Speaker 3: But it's an area of the house that it's not
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Speaker 3: like I never look at, you know, So I don't
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Speaker 3: know where I missed it at or if it's something
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Speaker 3: that just recently happened. But it was a little concerning
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Speaker 3: to see. Relatively small and doesn't seem to be in
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Speaker 3: a major area.
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Speaker 2: But what do I know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we're all prone to it. I've got
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Speaker 4: a few little hairline cracks that have developed We've owned
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Speaker 4: our house for around three years that have developed since
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Speaker 4: we bought the house, and there's nothing there's nothing that
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Speaker 4: I can identify that is that I can address to
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Speaker 4: reduce the risk. So it's just one of those where
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Speaker 4: we're all kind of prone to it in this region,
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Speaker 4: just the build practices and again there's this oil conditions
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Speaker 4: are conducive to two issues developing over time.
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Speaker 3: Bret Hauschen is here once again. He is the owner
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Speaker 3: of Foster Foundation Repair. More information online Foster Foundation Repair
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Speaker 3: dot com. Foster Foundation Repair dot com located on Woodrom
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Speaker 3: Lane here in Charleston. We'll give more of the contact
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Speaker 3: details as we go along here this morning. You're welcome
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Speaker 3: to give us a call about any question when it
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Speaker 3: comes to a foundation repair, your basement, anything like that
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Speaker 3: that Foster Foundation Repair can help you out with. You
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Speaker 3: can give us a call. Don't forget that Brett is
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Speaker 3: an engineer as well, so looks at these things from
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Speaker 3: a critical appraisal that maybe you don't get from every
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Speaker 3: company that does foundation repairs, and so you get an
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Speaker 3: analytical eye when it comes to those things. So if
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Speaker 3: you have a little bit of a complex issue that
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Speaker 3: you've been that you've been worried about, you're welcome to
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Speaker 3: give us a call this morning or send us a text.
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Speaker 3: The phone number three or A four three four five
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Speaker 3: fifty eight fifty eight threes are A four three four
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Speaker 3: five fifty eight fifty eight. The text line numbers three
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Speaker 3: are four non three five five zero zero eight. Threes
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Speaker 3: are a four nine three five five zero zero eight.
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Speaker 3: And we actually did get a text line question from
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Speaker 3: the three zero four nine four one, and that is
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Speaker 3: my basement floods seasonally every spring. This is just what
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Speaker 3: we were talking about though. What could be some of
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Speaker 3: the causes of that, Uh.
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Speaker 4: Well, too much water obviously, but it's you know, seasonally
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Speaker 4: in the spring. Sometimes it's a result of the snow
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Speaker 4: melt and a rising water table or a fluctuating water table.
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Speaker 4: It could be that you have poor drainage around the
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Speaker 4: foundation that is directing water towards the house. In older areas,
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Speaker 4: house I looked at a few few probably months ago,
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Speaker 4: had a singular failed terra cotta downs about drain where
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Speaker 4: they were where they were having water infiltrate. So you know,
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Speaker 4: throughout through the course of the inspection, we're walking around
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Speaker 4: the house and I can see standing water at the
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Speaker 4: top of the pipe and evidence that the water was
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Speaker 4: backing out of the pipe. So you know, there's there's
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Speaker 4: a lot of different things that that can cause that
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Speaker 4: or contribute to that. Typically, if it's occurring. It really
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Speaker 4: depends I don't want to get into too many specifically,
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Speaker 4: it really depends on the era of when the house
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Speaker 4: was built, of what type of techniques would have been
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Speaker 4: used to attempt to manage the water. A lot of
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Speaker 4: older homes, like here on the East end of Charleston,
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Speaker 4: the basement floor sloped to a center or multiple center
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Speaker 4: located floor drains. They were never really intended to be
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Speaker 4: a bone dry basement, more of a utility or a
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Speaker 4: storage area, which is much different than many of the
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Speaker 4: basements people built more recently where the goal was to
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Speaker 4: have a finished living space, and many people, many many
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Speaker 4: contractors and over the years have have used a more
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Speaker 4: of what is considered a damp proofing method to seal
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Speaker 4: the basement, which is more like a tar based roll
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Speaker 4: on material. More a better product. Better products are out
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Speaker 4: there than that that type of material that are actually
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Speaker 4: when when defined in the codebook, they're actually considered water proofing,
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Speaker 4: and they they are much more reliable. That's the type
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Speaker 4: of systems working to install as it typically as a retrofit,
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Speaker 4: we don't do a lot of new construction waterproofing. Normally,
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Speaker 4: the general contractor is going to handle that on those
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Speaker 4: type of setups. But the waterproofing is a very important
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Speaker 4: part of what we do.
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Speaker 3: So for this particular situation, for this person, if they're
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Speaker 3: having this issue, it doesn't necessarily mean that their entire
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Speaker 3: system is jacked up or something like that. They could
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Speaker 3: just need to take another step somewhere, like to take
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Speaker 3: the pressure off a little bit during the spring seasons.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, depending on the age, it may be
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Speaker 4: the way the house was designed and set up. Now,
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Speaker 4: flooding that I've heard a lot of different descriptions of
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Speaker 4: flooding in a basement where it might just be a
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Speaker 4: small yeah edge to where there's six inches of standing
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Speaker 4: water seasonally. So there's wide just definitions that people may
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Speaker 4: have there. So that's certainly something that I'd be more
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Speaker 4: than happy to speak more thoroughly directly with you. If
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Speaker 4: you want to give us a call.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you give Foster Foundation Repair a call. The numbers
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Speaker 3: threes or four seven seven six sixty two sixty three
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Speaker 3: three zero four seven seven six sixty two sixty three.
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Speaker 3: After the show, I mean you could probably call it
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Speaker 3: open now, yeap. Yeah, there, so you can call and
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Speaker 3: get the ball rolling right now. But if you want
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Speaker 3: to call in on the show and talk to Man himself.
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Speaker 3: You get to call and talk to breat this morning
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Speaker 3: and then maybe follow up after that. You can give
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Speaker 3: us a call first at three zero four three four
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Speaker 3: five fifty eight fifty eight. Three zero four, three four
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Speaker 3: five fifty fifty eight, just like the last caller did.
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Speaker 3: If you'd like to get on the text line, you
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Speaker 3: can do that as well. Three zero four nine three
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Speaker 3: five five zero zero eight three zero four nine three
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Speaker 3: five five zero zero eight. We've spoken many times about
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Speaker 3: sort of your background and you know, having being an
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Speaker 3: engineer not previously. It's not something like that you forget
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Speaker 3: or you're you're no longer do you apply that with
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Speaker 3: the in the course of the job that you have
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Speaker 3: now recently in this area, has there been a have
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Speaker 3: you noticed any uptick in any particular types of issues
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Speaker 3: or anything that you could give f so like a
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Speaker 3: cautionary for is or anything that just in your experience
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Speaker 3: in the last short amount of time that you're seeing
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Speaker 3: more people have problems with.
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Speaker 4: So through through last the drought of last summer and fall,
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Speaker 4: we had a lot of most most people who were
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Speaker 4: contacting us were suffering from drought related settlement and uh
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Speaker 4: so that was that was and that was a severe
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Speaker 4: drought that we went through last year. Since then, now
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Speaker 4: we've had a lot of water, so we're getting a
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Speaker 4: lot of water related issues with water related calls now.
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Speaker 4: But you know, this area is just prone for for
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Speaker 4: foundation movement, vertical and lateral movement either be caught caused
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Speaker 4: by soil pressure acting on a basement wall or downhill
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Speaker 4: subsidence of the hillside. And that's that's just unfortunately, it's
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Speaker 4: very consistent no matter what. But the drought related settlement
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Speaker 4: typically is going to occur more in areas where the
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Speaker 4: soil is very expansive. So there's some aary there's some
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Speaker 4: areas and cross lanes and taste valley that are very
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Speaker 4: pre to that type of movement, and it's a result
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Speaker 4: of the soul characteristics there.
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Speaker 3: I've asked you this question before, but I'm going to
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Speaker 3: be a little selfisher because this is something that I'm
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Speaker 3: currently in the market for, and so I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out the right decision to make. I want to
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Speaker 3: replace my entire drainage system. As far as gutters and
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Speaker 3: stuff go, mine's old. I've been clearing them out forever
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Speaker 3: and they're just I mean, they're really probably the most
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Speaker 3: basic form of gutters that you could possibly have. They're
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Speaker 3: basically just ten shoots that come off the house. There's
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Speaker 3: no coverage join them. I mean, and I have trees
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Speaker 3: in my yard. I mean, they get gunked up easily.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's an ongoing process. So I'm thinking it's
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Speaker 3: time to upgrade, you know, I need to get something
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Speaker 3: that upgrades. Are the ones that are covered worth it?
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Speaker 3: Is there different types of systems or something that you
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Speaker 3: would recommend for somebody looking to really try to make
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Speaker 3: a difference in the drainage.
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Speaker 4: So a standard gutter, you know, a standard aluminum gutter
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Speaker 4: will be sufficient in I mean every situation. Of course,
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Speaker 4: there's all kinds of different gutter products out there, but yeah,
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Speaker 4: gutter guard I believe are very important, especially in canall
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Speaker 4: city or any wooded lot. It's also very important to
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Speaker 4: know that the gutter guards should be selected based on
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Speaker 4: the foliage that's around. If you have a lot of
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Speaker 4: pine needles, you don't want to have a large open screen.
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Speaker 4: Gutter Guards are not in no maintenance item, though a
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Speaker 4: lot of people believe it, and it's very much advertised.
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Speaker 4: There's some national advertising going on for that that you
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Speaker 4: never have to clean them again. Well that's not true.
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Speaker 4: The house I described earlier with the water dumping off
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Speaker 4: the roof, the mesh screen had become matted with with
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Speaker 4: debris that had washed off the roof and kind of
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Speaker 4: got baked into the screen. So there, I've I had
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Speaker 4: the last two installations that I did for myself on
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Speaker 4: my current home. In my last home was a Low's
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Speaker 4: Home Depot bought product that that I had. I was
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Speaker 4: very pleased with. I never had any issues. Now I
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Speaker 4: didn't have a ton of overhanging foliage either, But yeah,
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Speaker 4: to me, gutter guards are very critical. They're going to
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Speaker 4: reduce the risk of water dumping off the roof, along
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Speaker 4: the foundation or clogging up the end ground drains. I mean,
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Speaker 4: if an acorn falls on the roof and rolls down
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Speaker 4: into the gutter, it's going down into the pike.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe I see this all the time with
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Speaker 3: my house because the acorns exactly, they just get so
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Speaker 3: many of them around my house. They drop onto the
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Speaker 3: roof and they roll around all over the place. They're
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Speaker 3: really hard sometimes to get control of. When you see
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Speaker 3: people with the the downspouts going into like sometimes you
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Speaker 3: see like obviously they just go into the yard, or
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Speaker 3: they have something some people create, like they'll use the
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Speaker 3: water for other things, Like you could put a rain
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Speaker 3: barrow and then create some sort of irrigation for for
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Speaker 3: your garden or something along those lines.
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Speaker 2: Is there a wrong thing to do though?
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Speaker 3: As far as if you're trying to do something like
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Speaker 3: how far away from the house did you make sure
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Speaker 3: that your water's being diverted? Is there a certain angle
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Speaker 3: like do you want to go downhill or uphill? Like, well,
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Speaker 3: what should you make sure of when you're putting your
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Speaker 3: your drainage coming out of the downspouts?
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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna address rain barrels first, don't I don't
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Speaker 4: love rain barrels. They fill up and they collect debris.
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Speaker 3: I felk, they're kind of dirty. I mean like bugs
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Speaker 3: and mosquitos and things like that is what I think.
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Speaker 4: And they're right next to the house, and they're supposed
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Speaker 4: to have an overflow, so once it fills up, it
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Speaker 4: it overflows off somewhere. But I just I don't love
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Speaker 4: rain barrels. But downspout water coming off a roof, obviously
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Speaker 4: we want to get into a piping system. Ideally it's
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Speaker 4: a below grade system that takes water. I recommend a
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Speaker 4: minimum of five feet away from the foundation. With sloping lots,
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Speaker 4: we can typically take them, you know, a long way
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Speaker 4: away from the house, so there's no risk of erosion
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Speaker 4: or any type of foundation movement as a result of
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Speaker 4: them discharging clothes. So I recommend a minimum five feet.
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Speaker 4: A friend of mine, another engineer that does is in
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Speaker 4: this industry that I think his is ten feet. I'd
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Speaker 4: say it really depends on the scenario. To say a
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Speaker 4: blanket five or ten feet is probably not accurate. But
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Speaker 4: just a minimum of five is my opinion.
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Speaker 2: And make sure that you do that, and you could.
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Speaker 2: You can get the pieces for that.
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Speaker 3: And the nice thing about that is I've noticed there's
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Speaker 3: all kinds of aftermarket pieces you can get it, Like
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Speaker 3: you said, home depot or somewhere like that. If you
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Speaker 3: need to make sure that you extend them a little
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Speaker 3: further or anything like that from what you have that
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Speaker 3: you can do that. I just want to make sure
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Speaker 3: I do it right this next time that I do it,
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Speaker 3: because they're in pretty bad shape right now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, water mean waters. Water's the root of all that.
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Speaker 4: Pretty much all that I do is addressing either something
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Speaker 4: that has been caused by water or to prevent damage
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Speaker 4: in the future. Crawl spaces are prone to collecting both
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Speaker 4: liquid water and water vapor, which then results in condensation
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Speaker 4: and mold growth and things of that nature. So there's
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Speaker 4: a lot of different things that we can do to
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Speaker 4: address those those kind of situations without having to dig
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Speaker 4: up a yard or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: Sign number three or four non three five five zeros
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Speaker 3: or eight threes or four non three five five zeros
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Speaker 3: er eight from the threes are of four four one five.
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Speaker 3: Can crawl space and calpulation help prevent mold under my house?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely? Yeah, that's what the deal is, right, Yes, So
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Speaker 4: an encapsulation system is designed. The intent of that is
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Speaker 4: to well, let me back up. Most most houses in
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Speaker 4: our region have what is called a vented crawl space.
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Speaker 4: You have your wall vents that go around the house,
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Speaker 4: and the idea is that air wind blows through the
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Speaker 4: house and dries out the wood and the insulation. The
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Speaker 4: problem is, on a day like today, when it's ninety
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Speaker 4: five percent humidity, you're bringing ninety five percent humid air
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Speaker 4: into the crawl space and a lot of times that's
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Speaker 4: where your ductwork is and your cold water lines are,
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Speaker 4: so you'll end up with condensation. So I've been in
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Speaker 4: crasl spaces where it's literally raining in waters dripping off
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Speaker 4: things in the crawl space. So a crawl space encapsulation
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Speaker 4: system is is converting in a situation where we're converting it.
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Speaker 4: It's converting a crawl space from a vented crawl space
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Speaker 4: to an unvented crawl space. And what we're doing is
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Speaker 4: we're sealing off the earth and the outside air with plastic,
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Speaker 4: and we also change the way in which the insulation
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Speaker 4: the house is insulated or functions. Essentially, you're bringing the
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Speaker 4: encapsulation excuse me, the crawl space into the conditioned space
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Speaker 4: of the home. So what we're going to do is
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Speaker 4: we're going to take the floor insulation out and we're
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Speaker 4: going to install either spray foam or rigid foam board
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Speaker 4: insulation around the perimeter to insulate the outside. And then
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Speaker 4: we're going to install drainage mat on the ground and
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Speaker 4: plastics that wrap up the wall and all the seams
17:38
Speaker 4: are taped, so that's going to keep the majority of
17:41
Speaker 4: the water vapor out. This does not address a crawl
17:45
Speaker 4: space encapsulation system does not address liquid water in the
17:48
Speaker 4: event they're standing water that has to be dealt with
17:51
Speaker 4: with an interior foundation drain or exterior waterproofing. But once
17:58
Speaker 4: we seal everything up, we then have to dress the
18:00
Speaker 4: water vapor because we've now created a stagnant area. So
18:04
Speaker 4: typically in a retrofit application, we're going to install a
18:07
Speaker 4: dehumidifier that will automatically come on and off. It drains
18:12
Speaker 4: to a either a condensate pomp or some pump. It
18:15
Speaker 4: drains somewhere automatically, so it's a no maintenance item. And
18:20
Speaker 4: then that's going to control the humidity. And it also
18:25
Speaker 4: brings the temperature of the room or the cross space
18:27
Speaker 4: into more a little warmer than it might be otherwise.
18:32
Speaker 4: So essentially we're managing the water vapor, which is what
18:35
Speaker 4: is causing, would cause or lead to mold growth. Anytime
18:38
Speaker 4: the wood in a cross base gets to about twenty
18:42
Speaker 4: percent moisture content, that's when you're prone to mold growth.
18:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a problem I've been dealing with
18:48
Speaker 3: in my house for quite some time. I know I've
18:49
Speaker 3: talked about it in here before. By the way, TJ. Meadows,
18:51
Speaker 3: the co host of Metronews talk line. Just send me
18:55
Speaker 3: a text. I think you guys are out of his
18:56
Speaker 3: house right now. He said, you're doing a cross space
18:59
Speaker 3: and cappulation for him, and it's going very well. He
19:02
Speaker 3: high recommendations.
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Speaker 2: I forgot.
19:04
Speaker 4: I forgot about that where the de humidifiers going in. Today,
19:07
Speaker 4: there we go.
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Speaker 3: So he's very happy with the progress of that so far.
19:10
Speaker 3: So that's an interesting question. That's something that here's a
19:14
Speaker 3: and again, I'm just kind of probing my own personal
19:16
Speaker 3: thing because I'm looking to maybe sell my house sometime
19:18
Speaker 3: in the relatively near future, and so there's some things
19:21
Speaker 3: I've left go that I need to start really thinking
19:23
Speaker 3: about taking care of this week. This past weekend, I
19:26
Speaker 3: was doing some work around my house and I had
19:28
Speaker 3: a clear away. I have an outbuilding that it was
19:31
Speaker 3: a temporary shelter, you know, a built one that I
19:33
Speaker 3: got from lowers or whatever. I was able to move myself.
19:35
Speaker 3: So I was able to move. I found a a
19:38
Speaker 3: in my back steps. I found a piece that has
19:43
Speaker 3: caved in that was hidden by this thing. And it
19:45
Speaker 3: looks to me like at some point in time that
19:48
Speaker 3: animals had gotten in under my steps. And I think
19:50
Speaker 3: that I've now solved how I had a groundhog in
19:52
Speaker 3: my house last year. I haven't had any in there
19:54
Speaker 3: since then. However, I'm pretty sure that must be how
19:56
Speaker 3: he got in, because I had looked and looked and
19:58
Speaker 3: looked and couldn't find anything for that something that big
20:00
Speaker 3: to get in. And so finally I solve that mystery,
20:02
Speaker 3: I think. But that got me thinking because I've been
20:04
Speaker 3: thinking about cross space and capitulations and stuff like that.
20:06
Speaker 3: You really want to make sure you don't get any
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Speaker 3: critters getting into your cross space before you go through
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Speaker 3: with the encapitulation encapsulation.
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Speaker 4: I would imagine, no, no, you don't, because they'll they'll
20:13
Speaker 4: choose true through it.
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Speaker 3: Right exactly. That's the first thing I thought of. I
20:16
Speaker 3: could see myself investing in this and then suddenly having
20:18
Speaker 3: a family of critters living in my crawl space.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We Actually that reminds me of a small project we
20:24
Speaker 4: did not long ago on a house in Saint Albans
20:27
Speaker 4: where there was a situation where a crawl space was
20:30
Speaker 4: connected to a lower basement and the soil that the
20:33
Speaker 4: gentleman was replacing his deck, and he found this big
20:36
Speaker 4: hole in in that particular location where water had actually
20:39
Speaker 4: eroded the soil into the crawl space and created a hole,
20:42
Speaker 4: and he was having raccoon, raccoons or some sort of
20:45
Speaker 4: ferm and was getting in there. But we ended up
20:48
Speaker 4: just forming it up and pouring it and filling it
20:50
Speaker 4: and then filming the whole outside for.
20:52
Speaker 3: Him, like a stinking Disney cartoon. My cameras picked up
20:56
Speaker 3: have been picking up now for about two weeks a
20:58
Speaker 3: family of raccoons that lives somewhere near my house, and
21:00
Speaker 3: not I don't think they're on my property, but they
21:02
Speaker 3: traverse my property almost every night. There's five of them,
21:06
Speaker 3: and it is just like a Disney cartoon in that
21:08
Speaker 3: you see the big, fattest one, which I guess is
21:10
Speaker 3: mom or dad, and then the next biggest one and
21:12
Speaker 3: then like the the little siblings coming after it. If
21:14
Speaker 3: it wasn't for the fact that they were, you know, pests,
21:17
Speaker 3: it would actually be a little bit cute because you
21:19
Speaker 3: see these chunky things walking around. Then I can't help
21:21
Speaker 3: but to think, man, what kind of damage are they're
21:23
Speaker 3: doing to our neighborhood, to the trash, to like everything
21:25
Speaker 3: that's out here that that can't be a good sign.
21:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got a raccoon loves my trash can as well.
21:32
Speaker 3: I had to say, I think I told the story
21:33
Speaker 3: I had to save my house from a from a
21:36
Speaker 3: possum last year. And uh, and possums, of course, I don't.
21:40
Speaker 3: I don't think they can. I mean, they have tea,
21:41
Speaker 3: so I guess if they really got mad, they could
21:42
Speaker 3: probably hurt you. But there's no there's no, there's no
21:45
Speaker 3: there's no fear of a possum, right and less unless
21:48
Speaker 3: the possum is in your rafters and you didn't know
21:50
Speaker 3: it was there, and you go downstairs and you look
21:52
Speaker 3: up and there's this relatively big possum just hanging off
21:54
Speaker 3: the rafter with its rabid looking teeth at you. And
21:59
Speaker 3: I have to admit I gave a little holler. It
22:01
Speaker 3: scared me just a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I don't do the animals and in buildings either. If
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Speaker 4: they're there, we're gonna We're gonna let you get it
22:08
Speaker 4: handled and we'll come back.
22:09
Speaker 2: My daughter said.
22:09
Speaker 3: I came upstairs and explained to my wife what scared me,
22:12
Speaker 3: and I said it was a possum, and I'm sure
22:14
Speaker 3: it's not gonna hurt me. I'm gonna go back down there.
22:16
Speaker 3: And it took about a month for me to corral
22:18
Speaker 3: this thing eventually. But the first night my daughter looked
22:21
Speaker 3: at me and said, you mean the things that play dead? Thanks? Thanks, baby,
22:26
Speaker 3: I appreciate. Yeah, let's do this. Let's go ahead and
22:28
Speaker 3: take a break. We have to pay some bills. We're
22:29
Speaker 3: gonna come back. We're go to have plenty more to
22:30
Speaker 3: talk about.
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Speaker 2: I'm Del Cooper.
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Speaker 3: You can call us this morning if you want to
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Speaker 3: ask Brett Hutchon from Foster Foundation Realfair any question about
25:38
Speaker 3: your foundation how to repair it. We've had a lot
25:41
Speaker 3: of strange weather in the Canall Valley over the last
25:44
Speaker 3: couple of years. We've gone from drought to extreme to
25:47
Speaker 3: extreme wetness and frankly some some sub zero degree temperatures too.
25:51
Speaker 3: Not as much the last couple years, but man, three
25:53
Speaker 3: years ago, I know we had that snap around Christmas
25:55
Speaker 3: time where we were below zero for about a week straight.
25:57
Speaker 3: So it's hard to tell what happens with your foundation. Heat,
26:00
Speaker 3: cold water, all those things can play some pretty massive
26:04
Speaker 3: Tuney join your on your foundations and basements, right.
26:06
Speaker 4: Yep, Mother nature is relentless undefeated, as it turns out, Yeah, undefeated.
26:12
Speaker 3: We did have a text question about patio slabs while
26:17
Speaker 3: we were on break, just wondering if there's anything they
26:19
Speaker 3: can do.
26:19
Speaker 2: Let me see, where did it go?
26:20
Speaker 3: My concrete patio is sinking? How can I get that fixed?
26:26
Speaker 4: So I would say it depends on depends on what's
26:29
Speaker 4: causing it. A lot of times if it's a newer home.
26:32
Speaker 4: A lot of times it's the soil around the foundation
26:36
Speaker 4: was not backfield adequately, and over time the soil consolidated
26:40
Speaker 4: or settled, and so did the pad. Most concerning would
26:44
Speaker 4: be if the pad is settled and is now diverting
26:46
Speaker 4: water towards the house. That's going to result in either
26:51
Speaker 4: water entry or excess hydrostatic pressure on the foundation. But
26:55
Speaker 4: the fix, again, it kind of depends on the situation.
26:59
Speaker 4: Of course, you can tear it out and replace it,
27:01
Speaker 4: which is really typically the direction. Well that's the direction
27:06
Speaker 4: we will go, unless it's unless we don't. There's there's
27:09
Speaker 4: methods in which a slab can be raised, which works
27:14
Speaker 4: sometimes not all the time, but they also don't address
27:19
Speaker 4: just by simply raising a slab, you're not addressing the
27:22
Speaker 4: root cause if there is something that is causing that
27:25
Speaker 4: that issue. So if if there are there are certain
27:29
Speaker 4: applications where a grout pump is applicable. We do small
27:35
Speaker 4: grout pump jobs we don't do We don't have the
27:39
Speaker 4: equipment to do large grout pumps or foam injections. It's
27:42
Speaker 4: not a it's not a market that I want to
27:44
Speaker 4: be in. There's, in my opinion, too many times it's
27:49
Speaker 4: appropriate to actually take it out and replace it. But
27:53
Speaker 4: in some cases it can be lifted. It's it's it's
27:55
Speaker 4: if it's right up against the house, there is risk
27:58
Speaker 4: of exerting pressure on the foundation of the house. So
28:02
Speaker 4: the installer has to be very skilled and very careful
28:05
Speaker 4: because anytime you inject a material under pressure that is
28:09
Speaker 4: a liquid, it's observing pressure in three hundred and sixty degrees,
28:11
Speaker 4: So the force that it takes to lift it, you're
28:14
Speaker 4: putting on your foundation. If you're right there on your foundation,
28:18
Speaker 4: you also run the risk of filling pipes. If there's
28:22
Speaker 4: pipes under the ground that are the cause of the
28:24
Speaker 4: failure or the settlement, you run the risk of actually
28:28
Speaker 4: filling the pipes up and reading the fine print of
28:31
Speaker 4: the contracts of companies that do this, those are not
28:35
Speaker 4: covered under their warranty. That's unfortunately, that is a risk
28:39
Speaker 4: that you assume as the owner. So basically you have
28:42
Speaker 4: the You can lift it through injection, injecting material below
28:46
Speaker 4: it under pressure, or it can be taken out and replaced.
28:49
Speaker 3: Very good, great information from Brett Hashton from Foster Foundation Repairing.
28:52
Speaker 3: Give us a call this morning. Threes or a four
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Speaker 3: three four five fifty to fifty eight text threes are
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Speaker 3: four nine three five five er ars or eight. This
28:57
Speaker 3: is a question that I came across. It was unanswered
28:59
Speaker 3: on a forum. I forgot all about it and I
29:00
Speaker 3: just came across it after a heavy rain. White stains
29:03
Speaker 3: on the basement walls. Is that a bad sign?
29:06
Speaker 4: So that is likely efflorescence, which is evidence of water
29:11
Speaker 4: seeping through the block or the concrete, and as the
29:14
Speaker 4: water is moving through, it's picking up minerals and salts
29:17
Speaker 4: in the concrete or the block. And then once the
29:19
Speaker 4: water gets to the inside surface of the wall, it
29:21
Speaker 4: evaporates and leaves those minerals behind. So it is evidence
29:24
Speaker 4: of some minor water. If it's just efflorescence that white
29:28
Speaker 4: powdery material, it is evidence of some minor water seepage.
29:33
Speaker 4: It could in some cases be evidence of condensation. But
29:37
Speaker 4: that you know, that's just going to take somebody figuring
29:40
Speaker 4: out what the culprit is. But ultimately that's something you'd
29:44
Speaker 4: want to look at doing some taking a look in
29:46
Speaker 4: the area and seeing seeing if you can divert water
29:48
Speaker 4: away from the foundation, and that that could result that
29:50
Speaker 4: But ultimately it suggests that the waterproofing or damp proofing
29:55
Speaker 4: system on the exterior is not fully functional anymore.
30:00
Speaker 3: Yea, that I thought of a question a little bit ago,
30:02
Speaker 3: and I forgot about it. But this kind of dovetails
30:04
Speaker 3: into that a little bit still too, so I wanted
30:06
Speaker 3: to ask about this. You mentioned something earlier that a
30:08
Speaker 3: lot of basements in this area were made to get damp,
30:11
Speaker 3: not wet, but damp. You know, they weren't meant to
30:13
Speaker 3: be completely to be completely dry. If you're somebody that
30:17
Speaker 3: has a home owner and you have one of these
30:18
Speaker 3: basements and you're like I have a relatively small home.
30:21
Speaker 3: I want to expand my livable square footage en if
30:23
Speaker 3: it doesn't, you know, go towards home value or anything.
30:26
Speaker 3: I want to finish my basement or partially finish my
30:28
Speaker 3: basement or something along those lines. That's really a major
30:30
Speaker 3: consideration that you have to take in place. You probably
30:33
Speaker 3: want to have that upgraded from allowing dampness, and you
30:37
Speaker 3: want to take the next step if you can before
30:39
Speaker 3: you want to go through and finish that in any way.
30:41
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, So you in nant event, you have two options. Essentially,
30:46
Speaker 4: you can do a next year waterproofing system, which is
30:50
Speaker 4: very viable. It's the most appropriate means to address a
30:54
Speaker 4: water related issue, so that that requires excavation of the
30:58
Speaker 4: yard and it is a it's one of the more
31:02
Speaker 4: labor intensive projects that we would undertake. The other option
31:06
Speaker 4: to do would be to install what is called an
31:08
Speaker 4: interior foundation drain. A lot of the industry refers to
31:11
Speaker 4: that as as refers to that as basin water proofing.
31:14
Speaker 4: It is not. It's an interior water management system. So
31:18
Speaker 4: when when this type of system is installed, the water
31:21
Speaker 4: is in the house, it is collected and diverted either
31:25
Speaker 4: to a sump pump or back outside of the house
31:27
Speaker 4: through through a gravity drain, and then the perimeter foundation
31:32
Speaker 4: walls are covered with a either a sheet plastic or
31:36
Speaker 4: we normally are going to use rigid plastic sheets four
31:40
Speaker 4: by eight sheets of plastic that are adhered to the
31:43
Speaker 4: foundation with plastic rivets.
31:45
Speaker 2: Uh there.
31:46
Speaker 4: We tend to go that route because it's a very
31:49
Speaker 4: heavy material that is very terar resistant or damage resistant,
31:53
Speaker 4: whereas some of the other contractors are going to use
31:56
Speaker 4: sheet plastic which can tear very easily, and then you
31:59
Speaker 4: tape your tear. It's about the only option because it
32:01
Speaker 4: all extends below the concrete once it's all finished, so
32:03
Speaker 4: you can't just easily take a piece out and replace it.
32:06
Speaker 3: Great information yet again, and get ready to wrap up
32:08
Speaker 3: the conversation coming up here pretty soon. About three and
32:11
Speaker 3: a half minutes left in the program. You can get
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Speaker 3: in a text message if you like, threes or four nine, three, five,
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Speaker 3: five zero zero eight, probably running weight for a phone
32:18
Speaker 3: call at this point. A couple questions that I had
32:20
Speaker 3: that I don't think we've ever brought up before, and
32:23
Speaker 3: probably on me for not asking this. I'm assuming the
32:25
Speaker 3: answer to this one's probably yes. But for people that
32:29
Speaker 3: are having insurance work done that had damage done with insurance,
32:32
Speaker 3: you work with insurance companies.
32:33
Speaker 4: We don't do a lot of insurance work. That's just
32:37
Speaker 4: not a route we've wanted to go. There's normally a
32:39
Speaker 4: time constraint to that, and our schedule stays pretty booked.
32:45
Speaker 4: We can certainly work with our insurance and we have
32:47
Speaker 4: in the past, but it's not there's a whole industry
32:50
Speaker 4: of I understand how that works also also industry insurance.
32:53
Speaker 4: Excuse me, it doesn't typically cover our bread and butter
32:58
Speaker 4: kind of construction work. We don't do wind damage to roofs.
33:03
Speaker 4: A tree falls in a house that's getting into roof
33:06
Speaker 4: the framing, we would certainly do drawwall we try to
33:09
Speaker 4: stay away from. We tend to do the heavy structural
33:12
Speaker 4: part and then either bring in a subcontractor to do
33:16
Speaker 4: the finished work or allow the owner to do it
33:19
Speaker 4: themselves or contract with another contract.
33:21
Speaker 3: And if you use foster correctly, a lot of could
33:23
Speaker 3: be preventive and you won't have to worry about these
33:25
Speaker 3: things in the future anyway.
33:26
Speaker 2: Good, that's probably the best thing for it.
33:28
Speaker 3: And then the last question I had was for massive projects,
33:31
Speaker 3: do you guys yourself offer any avenue to financing, like,
33:33
Speaker 3: do you work with any banks or is that just
33:35
Speaker 3: something you'd ask for the clients to occur.
33:37
Speaker 4: No, we do have an option for financing through Green Sky,
33:41
Speaker 4: which is a fairly common industry in the industry, So yeah,
33:45
Speaker 4: we do have options through that.
33:46
Speaker 3: So one stop if that's what you need to If
33:49
Speaker 3: that's what you need to do, let me make sure
33:51
Speaker 3: that I get the information out to you again before
33:53
Speaker 3: we have to leave the airwaves this morning. Foster Foundation
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Speaker 3: that we've done together. You can find those as well
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Speaker 3: at WCHS network dot com. Slash podcast there's all kinds
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Speaker 3: of our expert podcasts will be in there and you
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Speaker 3: can scroll through and find all of the previous ones
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Speaker 3: we've did if you want to go back and listen
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Speaker 3: to any of those, because we try to do those
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Speaker 3: from time to tom As far as I know that
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Speaker 3: you've mentioned a few times, your industry is projects can
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Speaker 3: take some time. You I'm sure get very busy. So
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Speaker 3: as far as what folks are looking at right now,
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Speaker 3: they're to contact Foster Foundation Repair, what kind of tom
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Speaker 3: frameworly looking at for work to get done.
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Speaker 4: We typically stay in the four to six month period
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Speaker 4: and we're doing. I mean the jobs we're doing are
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Speaker 4: typically the larger. You know, there's there's only a few
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Speaker 4: companies that will will take on the projects we undertake,
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Speaker 4: and I mean there's a lot that we also do
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Speaker 4: that other companies will take on, but the larger excavations,
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Speaker 4: foundation rebuilds, those are the kind of things that that
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Speaker 4: we're willing to take on. We had one of those
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Speaker 4: come in where a foundation wall had actually collapsed that
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Speaker 4: we were we were looking at to do. I think
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Speaker 4: that one is not going to go right at the moment,
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Speaker 4: but we were We're in the process of getting ready
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Speaker 4: to mobilize the go temporary brace temporarily brace the other
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Speaker 4: walls so they didn't collapse because they were that bad.
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Speaker 3: So so a little bit of a leadway. But that's
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Speaker 3: industry standard to this point. And you can if you
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Speaker 3: have any questions this, of course, that's something that you
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Speaker 3: can you can call about now. You can call Foster
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Speaker 3: Foundation Repair their phone number three zero four seven seven
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Speaker 3: six sixties two sixty three. Three zero four seven seven
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Speaker 3: six sixty two sixty three. Right, we'll be back here
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Speaker 3: the second Tuesday of next month. This is second of
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Speaker 3: the third. This is a second, right second, Pretty sure,
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Speaker 3: that's right. I'm terrible with that. I don't know why
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Speaker 3: of next month that you can tune in and follow up.
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Speaker 3: If you have questions, write them down somewhere so you
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Speaker 3: don't forget, and then the next time you hear it
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Speaker 3: Bred on the airwaves, give us a call, shoot us
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Speaker 3: a text, get your questions answered, or even better, just
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Speaker 3: give Bred a call over at Foster Foundation Repair that
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Speaker 3: phone number one again, three zero four seven seven six
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Speaker 3: sixty two sixty three three zero four seven seven six
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Speaker 3: sixty two sixty three. Thank you so much for tuning
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Speaker 3: in today. That's going to do it for me. Coming
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Speaker 3: up next is gonna be Dave Allen on five eighty Live.
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Speaker 3: He is going to be followed by Dave Wilson and
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Speaker 3: TJ on Talkin And I'll be back this afternoon with
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Speaker 3: Dave Weekly for Hotline at three o six. Have a
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Speaker 3: greatday everyone, Brett, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
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