Charlie
“Daniel is in Southwest Houston and he’s interested in demo-ing his den. It’s an addition, he says, the previous homeowner put on. I had one of those one time. I would have liked to have demoed it. Anyway, he said, “Poor job on the foundation by not adding steel beams so I can’t use a foundation repair company to level it because due to no steel beams they can’t use piers.” Does that sound right?
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Tom:
“Not steel beams but steel in the concrete.”
Charlie
“Rebar?”
Tom:
“Yeah, it’ll start to crack it. The steel is like bones in your arm. If you don’t have any bones and somebody starts pulling your muscle around it gets kinda limber.”
Charlie
“That’s not to be confused with people who are spineless. ”
Tom: “Those are in Washington.”
Charlie:
“I want to … moving along. “I want to demo an entire addition and re pour a foundation and new frame for the addition.” It sounds like a pretty ambitious undertaking.”
Tom:
“At least he’s putting on addition now properly instead of doing it improperly.”
Charlie
“And your advice?”
Tom:
“TriFection. If you want somebody to call, because they do that. There’s gonna be a lot of people involved in this. You’re gonna have concrete people, framers, cornice people, sheetrockers, electricians, plumbers maybe. It goes on and on. So this is a general contractor type job. Now that doesn’t mean that people can’t do it themselves but you’re gonna have to go out and find your subcontractors. You’re gonna have to work deals with them. Negotiate the whole project. And, remember, you’re the boss so if something goes wrong it’s on your back. You can only yell at yourself so get a big, giant mirror because you’ll be sitting in front of that yelling at yourself.”