so uh what kind of home repair work have you done
well um done a little uh repair on the um shingles on the roof recently we've had a lot of wind around here
y'all been pulling them up huh or just loosening them until the rain came in
yes uh it looks like i'm gonna have to get up there again because we may have a leak
are you in the section of Texas that's been getting so much rain
we've been getting quite a bit maybe not quite as bad as some of the folks down around San Antonio but uh well i'm right uh Plano is just north of Dallas
oh okay
and uh there are parts of downtown or near downtown Dallas are under water right now i guess i saw on the news
yeah
so you're probably what about halfway across the state from San Antonio though aren't you
well we're up uh we're north in um
yeah
oh about uh i don't know uh eighty to a hundred miles uh south of the Oklahoma line i guess
yeah
okay
but you're still getting a good bit of the rain though
uh we did have a little bit of rain yesterday so far we haven't had any today and uh i suppose that means i should be uh
getting up there to look at that uh shingle but uh i had something else planned today so i guess i'll let it go awhile
yeah
yeah is it asphalt shingles or or clay
they're uh no they're uh uh wood shake
ooh that should be a lot of fun did did you put them up originally or you just uh uh going up stopping leaks in them
yeah
no i uh as a matter of fact we've never had a leak actually yet now this we just bought the house last year and um uh just before we took possession of it we had a fellow go up there and do whatever needed to be done on the shingles so
i've just recently had to start looking at it myself
yeah
so it's a small problem so far but i guess you just have to keep on top of it what kind of roof do you have
uh we were in um uh campus apartment buildings with flat top uh
oh
well then you don't have to do too much with
not too much they're just tar and gravel uh treated flat top roofs have you got pretty low pitch on that roof or is it pretty steep
uh-huh
oh it's pretty steep um parts of it are steeper than others
well what do you use to keep from sliding off that rascal
well uh you wear uh shoes with good traction and and and try to remember where you are at all times
yeah i imagine
i imagine
anyway
and remember to yell Geronimo if uh all else fails
yeah
yeah that would be just too much of a fall for me
um have you been uh visit was the house reasonably new or you been doing some remodeling work on it or
it's actually just twelve years old now
that's pretty new house yet
yeah it um this part of the country actually they they say that when the house is uh fifteen it's already old but uh if you take good care of it
yeah
thing is we've um
the main thing that we've had with this house recently has been some um
uh squirming squirming i call it of the foundation we're just on a concrete slab you know but uh the soil right under this is a clay and it um
yeah
it's settling unevenly
well it uh depending on it's moisture content it either swells up or shrinks
and um course the soil right under the slab retains it's moisture a lot longer
yeah
um-hum
and so during the dry season you have to water the foundation to keep your foundation from uh from uh drooping and um
uh-huh
but anytime there's a change in the weather like the temperature uh
drastic changes in temperature or in uh moisture uh you get little spider web cracks all around uh windows and doors
well that sounds like a lot of fun
well usually what you do is just wait until you think it's stopped and then you patch them up
hm what is it like uh stucco walls or
uh well this is all uh it's all drywall
or
wood
all drywall
uh i think with um
wood framing
yeah right
okay
but uh somehow or other that does manage to uh show these little cracks i don't know quite how that works maybe it isn't drywall
i don't really know
well if they've plastered over drywall i remember my parents home is drywalled and then they uh almost like a small grade stucco type plastering over the drywall
yeah i think it is
i expect that's what it is yeah
give it a textured sort of a look and made for kind of a hard shell on the on the drywall
yeah i think that's the way this is done fortunately we haven't had any real big holes in it yet so i
well that's good
yeah
well that would that would be in terribly terribly exasperating to have the
a slab floor like that swelling and giving like that
yes well the uh previous owner had a major problem with it because um
oh probably a variety of things uh his neighbor used to have
