uh what is the last home repair that you did
oh gosh i'm trying to think well i guess ours have mostly been down at our lake house we built a house built a house down on Cedar Creek Lake
um-hum
so
i guess i'd have to say that because we've kind of let this house go
oh
so we had a shell built and then we did everything else
um-hum
so it was quite a bit of work
yeah
what have you done
well uh repaired the back fence it's uh well of course they get old you know after about ten years anyway but uh
oh yeah ours is nineteen years old
yeah the the street the alley's on a kind of a slant
uh-huh
and it makes all the fences tilt or or slowly you know
oh do you have to have like a retaining wall or
yeah somewhat right
yeah that makes them more difficult we we've just my husband has just um repaired repaired ours a lot it really needs to be replaced but we haven't done it
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but uh
anyway well have you done anything else
um had to replace the the ridge row the shingles on the corners of the the roof from all the storms and everything
um-hum um-hum
yeah
and uh
yeah i you know i'm wondering myself now why i checked this one because my husband is who does all the things like what you're talking about
right yeah
i haven't
done those things and of course
you know inside stuff
but um
now down at the lake we had to like put in floors and put in
wall and you know do the painting and the
uh cut and make the like the
uh window sills and
things around the door and all that kind of stuff you know so we we did quite a bit
um-hum
uh down there that i had never done or we haven't done that much in our own house
weather proofing and
yeah yeah uh we do have still have a problem down there we built us a two story house and the bottom story uh oh it's more like walk out basement
yeah
uh-huh
and when it was built with these blocks you know these old gray blocks i think they're called Hadite blocks
yeah
and uh we found now with some as much rain as we've had the past year it seeps through
those blocks and comes into the downstairs
and uh so now we have bought some uh
what's uh
uh
water proofing paint
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and that's our next project the next time we go down there we've got to paint all those block walls downstairs with this waterproof paint and then hope that maybe that will do it
but what they should've done i think is they should have put plastic or something like that against the house before they put the dirt back you know when it was built
right
and uh they didn't do that didn't think they'd need to
and then that it's that it's that white paint i've forgotten what it's called Tight Bond or something like that and those bricks are very porous
yeah
and it soaks in to those bricks really well and it seals all the water out
oh have you ever used that anywhere
just a little bit
now people up north that have basements i think
yeah they use it all the time
you and do you know if it if they've had good luck with it
yeah it seals the water out
we had a hard time even finding it down here in fact you know you go in a store and they say oh well that we don't have anything like that you know
right
uh-huh
and then finally found some one somewhere that was familiar with it probably lived in the North
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and well that's encouraging then because i haven't known that many you know there's just not many basements down here are you from around here
yeah
right
yeah i'm from Dallas
oh okay well we're from you know Texas too so
but uh
uh-huh
uh but i we have a partner in this deal and he's from the North so he was the one that and it gave us a lot more space you know it gave us double the space
right
and toward the lake it looks like a two story house you know because it gradually the back it looks like a one story house you know
um um-hum
yeah and it's set into the earth so
uh-huh built kind of into a hill a little hill you know
um-hum
so it was a good idea to give us a lot more space for the money
right uh-huh
we just uh hadn't solved our water problem yet
yeah
but we always
