okay sorry
wow that's okay so tell me about your home
oh it's uh it looks like a little shot gun house almost
it's got three bedrooms going along one side and the living room and kitchen on the other
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it's uh
an older home it's not new i like it though it's big
oh really what kind of square footage
oh i wouldn't know i measured it one time
because i was uh
we had saw some termites and we thought about getting it sprayed i think it was like
i can't remember i'm sorry
that's okay that's okay
it's big enough for us though we kind of need maybe one more room we've got two children
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okay so where do you live at i mean what what part of town
in here in Dennison
okay let's see that's north
or down here in Dennison yeah
okay i live i live in Plano so it's north to me
okay up here then i say down i'm really from Kentucky
i was going to say you didn't have the typical you have a southern accent but you don't have a Texas accent
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right
well i'm originally from uh Ohio Cincinnati so i'm familiar uh familiar with uh
oh okay
that area that dialect
right right also i lived in Georgia for about four years so the uh there's a difference too between east and west in the south
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and uh the way in which people speak anyway my home is um
i guess it's about twenty five hundred square foot and i have uh four bedrooms at the present we're busting out walls and things like that
that's what i want to do how many kids do you have
we have two
do you have enough bedroom space then
we have two
yeah we'll have enough bedroom space it's we're rearranging our house because the bedrooms are kind of small
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and so we're going to enlarge our master bedroom and take out a couple of walls and enlarge it and then shuffle the rooms around a little bit
that's kind of like what we would like to do we just had a baby a couple months ago and we've got a den that's more or less a spare room we rarely go in there except for to play chess
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we want to make that a bedroom for my stepdaughter and my daughter and uh
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we need the one extra room like like i said our rooms are too small the bedrooms are too small the living room and kitchen are huge but the bedrooms are too small where you've got to
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leave the furniture just one certain way you can't rearrange it at all
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there's they uh i know what you're saying there ours is the same and they tend to put windows in the strangest places
yeah
You know we have windows in our bathrooms which really makes it difficult for
yeah we've got two great big windows in our back bathroom
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no privacy
uh no we don't have a lot of that yeah
well we've got at least two windows on every wall in the house it
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i'd hate to clean these windows i really would
i figured i'm going to have to hire somebody to remove our windows and put new ones in that are easier to clean ours are the double pane and you can't really clean them on the inside
ours are those too yeah you must live in an older home too then
you know
right i do the house is about um i'd say almost thirty years old
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so it's not a new home it's it's seen some wear and tear
ours has too now when we moved in the man that sold it to us had said he had remodeled it
you know
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and
he did it hisself so most of that by now is falling apart
oh
you know well i mean it's not just horrible but like this tiles come loose off the wall the whole bathroom is covered from ceiling to foot in tile and i don't like that at all
um
oh that is awful
with that
uh the great big tiles square tiles like that you put on the floor
uh-huh he did it in that
the the huge one yeah instead of wallpaper i wouldn't mind it if it was like short tiles for that
the normal tiles right
you put right that you put around a bathtub that would be prettier
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but this looks like floor
covering on the wall it just doesn't look good
oh and also they're very heavy and so they tend to come off a whole lot easier
right there's one big one that has come off and short of putting nails through it we can't get it back on
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so
and he rewired the house and it's shorting out here and there and
oh wow i that's one of the things we've been fortunate with is our wiring been okay we don't have a we don't have enough power
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um our our breakers aren't aren't powerful enough to take to to really help with the load in the house i mean we need to redo some rewiring ourselves but our plumbing is awful there is nothing there is a shut off valve that's outside that doesn't work
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and there's no other real shut off valves inside the house so if something breaks we have to shut it off from the main in the street you know and oh it's it can be really bizarre and we never know where it's going to flood
yeah
yeah
we've got power surges on the west side of our house we've got our stereo hooked up
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well that the power makes it run it's never ran it's always ran just fine the clock and stuff but it runs about ten minutes fast except for about a month for about a month the the clock ran normal
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and then the power went off again lightning or something knocked it out and we hooked it back up and now it's running ten or fifteen minutes fast again but on the east side of the house it runs fine
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oh boy you do have a strange wiring problem there
he put new wiring in it's all new wiring up in the attic or i guess crawl space
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but uh
oh no he didn't know what he was doing he really should have hired people
well that's something my husband's in construction and he won't even touch electrical stuff he i i mean he'll do a little minimal things but he won't do any major rewiring he says he'd rather pay the electrician to handle it
right he'll end up killing himself
pardon
end up killing theirselves
that's right
my husband he'll change out a light switch but that's about as far as he'll go
well that's the way mine is you know i mean he he well he said he went up in the attic and looked around and he was like
yeah
oh my God he says looks like a bunch of spaghetti up there and we had squirrels in our attic when we first moved in because the roof was so sorry
uh was a what
the roof was really sorry i mean when we moved in we had no idea how bad it was it was a wood shingle roof and we the first year we were living there we had to replace the roof
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well he put which i heard it's a law that you're only allowed to have three layers of shingles is it three or five your husband probably knows
he probably knows i don't know what it is off hand
well he's got seven layers of shingles up there and he told us it was a completely new roof like i said he didn't know what he was doing
yeah he must not of we stripped ours we stripped ours off we didn't put it over because we put composition roof on and we completely stripped completely stripped all the old wood shingles off put decking up
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put the paper down and i mean just started from scratch unfortunately when we were doing that it decided it wanted to snow and hail and rain and we and we had we had almost i'd say about half of the roof off
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oh no
and uh uh a house full of snow
and it did this
and a house full of snow and rain and it came down it did this in the middle of the night we have plastic you know just tied down on everything you know as best we could real thick gauge stuff i mean
and the wind came in from the north and just blew everything off in the middle of the night and we were asleep and and i woke up and i got up and it was about four o'clock in the morning and i heard all these these drips drip drip drip drip drip drip
oh no
i had water coming in every light fixture
that's yeah
i had water coming in everything that was in the ceiling everywhere and i mean it filled up my light fixtures because they're the old kind
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and i would go in and i'd turn on a light in the room you know and the light would come on and the whole thing would be full of water and i mean the light would still come on it didn't blow up or anything
my neighbor or a friend of mine when i lived in Louisiana her
we all lived on base my husband was in the Army
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she woke up about three or four o'clock in the morning water dripping from hers the neighbor's uh washing machine
had uh
overdone something i don't know but it was leaking just pouring water and it all went through to her roof and it was coming out of the lights fixtures
oh
the fire alarm went off for some reason it shorted it out or something
so she woke up with about six
oh yeah that'll happen
feet of water in her house
oh my Lord
no not six feet but
but it's quite a bit quite a bit you know that
yeah you might as well so did you have carpets and stuff
oh several of our rooms got ruined we have um we have are on pier and beam we don't have concrete slab underneath our house
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so it it got into the carpeting got into the floor the carpeting was already awful anyway but it got into the floor and rotted the floor and made it stink so
your house sounds like mine because mine's pier and beam too
oh really
yeah
yeah they came in and they had it one room they completely cut up the floor in and removed it we had to call the insurance company i mean the insurance company was paying for the new roof but they also ended up having to pay for the damage when the roof roof was being repaired
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you know which really wasn't our fault i mean we'd done everything we could to keep out the weather
that's right right
you know and stuff and
well you got to redo it the way you wanted it in are you finished with it now
oh yeah it it
uh the roof oh yeah yeah it's it's been done for quite some time we're really glad with all the rain we've had in the last couple of years that we have a really good roof
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how long have you lived there
uh see it's three it's just been at at three years we've been in the house just the three years we've been doing a lot of remodeling i mean it's
it had a detached it had a drive detached garage and my husband's built a walkway across and we're going to brick up the garage to match the house and things like that so we
you all did it yourselves
what uh the walk
the home improvements
oh yeah yeah he see he does this for a living i mean this is what
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