you go ahead and tell me about your last home repair
well let's see my last home repair i put an office in my garage i uh took down one of my uh uh two car garage doors and i uh
i made an office out of it and uh the funny thing was
um it i i didn't think i needed a permit
you know because i wasn't yeah i wasn't changing the the looks of the of the outside
a building permit yeah
um-hum
and my neighbor called the uh city on me yeah he turned me in and i i was halfway done with the office
oh he turned you in huh
huh
and uh so oh well what they did was i i called i'm a contractor myself and i'm i'm a roof contractor so
did they fine you or what uh
okay
um-hum
uh i went down and got some permits from some uh roof work that we were doing
and i uh i talked to them about my you know my garage
and uh so they said well you need to get a permit for this and that and you know electrical and all that kind of stuff so they here's the funny thing they said they uh
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they wouldn't give me the permit because they needed a uh pre inspection
okay so they came to do the pre inspection and they they didn't pass it because i didn't have a permit on site
yeah uh-huh
oh you're kidding
so how'd you finally get a permit
oh we're i'm still in my office and they i still don't have one and no huh
you're kidding did you finish it
did you finish it
uh yeah yeah
and without a permit
yeah that that that is funny
so it's it's quite comical in fact um i'm starting in my i i'm actually not starting my bathroom but i couldn't help but start at my bathrooms i uh taking a shower one day i i uh
um-hum
put my hand on the on one of the tile walls to support myself
and put my hand right through
huh you've got to get a permit even to like remodel a bathroom
well um yeah i think i yeah yeah here in in Plano that's uh yeah
is that right
jimminy Christmas
it's pretty strange
hum i didn't realize they were that stringent i uh have done a little bit of remodeling on my house i'm i'm an accountant but i sure enjoy um
you know messed around and doing some things and i finished a couple rooms in the basement and i built a real nice storage shed on a concrete foundation and and uh i've never got a building permit yeah in fact i
uh-huh
is that right well here yeah even even uh even just putting uh little uh uh patio outside you have to have a permit
i know
huh
yeah it's it's pretty strange
i'm thinking about building a room on my house and i you know i haven't thought twice about getting a permit
yeah
yeah you have uh i i think things you know are are different from city to city or from state to state but
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well i'm not sure i think i'm supposed to have one i just never have gotten one
oh
maybe my neighbor'll turn me in too
yeah well i i think my neighbor was a little bit uh put out because he came over to you know he he asked to to help me
and he's pretty busy guy i thought anyway and i said well i've i've got my guys from work they're gonna to come over and do most of the work you know i said i appreciate your your asking but
uh-huh
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it was funny because right the just the day after he called
is that right huh
yeah you know i i guess i should have let him come over and
i
and did my garage i mean i wouldn't have mind but i you know i thought he was he was pretty busy and
uh-huh
yeah
wouldn't have time to do it
but that's how things are
well that's interesting well i know you don't have any good horror stories about home repair then because you probably uh don't have any problem if you're in the profession
no actually um
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do you install metal roofs
we do um yeah well we we don't install we we do mostly repairs we do some uh reroofing with built up roofs
or
or just the asphalt type shingle
and uh but we do repair uh metal roofs
uh-huh but but like if you were doing a residential if somebody a residential person uh house wanted you to come in and reroof their house but you do that kind of stuff uh-huh
yeah
uh-huh
we do that yeah
uh we do work we do mostly commercial stuff uh and we do work on a lot of metal roofs but we we don't install them we just uh uh repair them
uh what's your opinion about those i'm my my home's gonna need to be either reshingled or reroofed in the near future we don't have a lot of heavy snow right here in Twin Falls
uh-huh
but uh i was looking towards getting a whole aluminum you know or metal or whatever is
uh i'd be real careful extreme temperature changes uh affect the metal roofs
in in what way
it it expands and retracts and um
just
hum more so than the asphalt shingles
yeah
