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Do you have a soil testing engineer you’d recommend for a foundation?

Charlie: Thomas in Magnolia, “Do you have a soil testing engineer you’d recommend for his foundation?” Do you recommend that?

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Tom: If you’re building a new home.

Charlie: Yeah.

Tom: You have to have a soil report done.

Charlie: Yeah.

Tom: There’s a bunch of engineering companies out there. I can tell you the one I use the most in my career.

Charlie: Yeah.

Tom: I’m sure they’re still around. It’s called, Geotech Engineering.

Charlie: Geotech.

Tom: Yeah.

Charlie: G-E-O-

Tom: There’s a lot of … You can-

Charlie: T-E-C-H, got it.

Tom: You can Google them and you’ll find a bunch of engineering firms that will do soil reports.

Charlie: All right. It’s pretty much, a soil report’s a soil report, right?

Tom: Yeah, if it’s an engineer, they’re going to come back about the same.

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