[speaker001:] one way or the other we're now recording
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] um um oh yeah home repair
[speaker002:] you were helping your parents
[speaker001:] right I still am really they're um sort of remodeling a house out in downtown Atlanta in Candler Park and uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] we've done lots to it we've taken out the glass and most the windows and the sashes and replaced them and
[speaker002:] so you're remodeling okay
[speaker001:] um-hum how about you
[speaker002:] well I I just live in a I live in apartment now I uh two summers ago I went to Massachusetts
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I went with a friend of mine and we undertook a building house
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and this was um a Lincoln log house where you have the wall partitions and it's preconstructed you might say
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we started in um we started from an empty lot with um trees and stuff on it and we had to cut them uh down and clear the lot we had to call in the escavators and have them dig the basement and pour the basement and um
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] went from the ground up our
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] one of our main problems was as well in Massachusetts I thought I was gonna well it was a fun time but I thought gosh summer time you know well all it ever did was rain and thunderstorms and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] one thing is that we're we had we were gonna pour the basement foundation
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we're in the process and it started pouring down rain
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] and I guess we had most of it done but the end result what happened was that some of the the water a lot of water settled on the top and it really didn't give a very good finish and some of the it was sort of sandy and and not um a very good finish
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but it turned it was okay and it's only the basement floor so it was okay
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but um it kept us pretty busy it was only um there was well me and my friend and then we just had like two helpers and uh sort of a
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] a family type it wasn't you know like a commercial project just something that sort of just you know like get your get his you know my brother brother and well maybe you know my cousin's coming over today to help us do that kind of thing and so the
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the scheduling and everything was kind of hectic sometimes and and then materials coming in and so we're we're hopping around pretty good but overall yeah we got it done and it's a it's a three bedroom two bath house and it's pretty neat
[speaker001:] wow um-hum nice
[speaker002:] yeah so
[speaker001:] nice so uh I mean what was it for you just
[speaker002:] well it was um for my friend's parents they had some property there and they'd lived in this this old it's sort of like a farm you might say and they live in this old house
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] for something like thirty years or something and his mom just wanted a a new house you know that was been her dream and so we did that and uh she was really pleased with it so we came really great so
[speaker001:] um-hum that's great wow
[speaker002:] so what why is it that the weather in Atlanta that gets very hot
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] where you live it gets very hot
[speaker001:] yeah it does
[speaker002:] and that's why you're and the the windows have you what type of windows are you putting in because the windows are something that is conducive to
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] temperature changes in um you know the solar game
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] have you what what are you putting in triple glaze or double glaze or
[speaker001:] no we just we just went into a building supply store and bought plate glass my parents do not have a whole lot of money to put into it
[speaker002:] oh okay okay
[speaker001:] and uh but see in a lot of the windows um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's the house is eighty years old and it's had several owners and stuff and um they had put plastic Plexiglas kind of stuff in some of the windows
[speaker002:] okay oh these are so you have the sash windows in did did uh did it go go up and down oh I see
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum yeah and so uh and and so we wanted to get all new stuff in there so
[speaker002:] um-hum yes there's a problem with those those are uh they usually most the time don't open very well
[speaker001:] yeah ours didn't and the ones that would open uh wouldn't wanna stay open they wanted to slam shut
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum and they also they're they they a lot of vibration and it causes the glass to crack it's a never never ending problem
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum yep
[speaker002:] afraid I haven't uh I haven't been in any really home repair things lately I