[speaker001:] So, uh, what kind of home repair work have you done?
[speaker002:] Well, um, done a little, uh, repair on the, uh, shingles on the roof recently. We've had a lot of wind around here.
[speaker001:] Been pulling them up, huh, or just loosening them until the rain came in?
[speaker002:] Yes. It looks like I'm going to have to get up there again, because we may have a leak.
[speaker001:] Are you in the section of Texas that's been getting so much rain?
[speaker002:] 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, Plano's just north of Dallas
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] and there are parts of downtown or near downtown Dallas that are under water right now, I guess, I saw on the news.
[speaker001:] Yeah. But you're probably, what, about halfway across the state from San Antonio, though, aren't you?
[speaker002:] Well, we're up, uh, we're north
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and, uh, oh, about, uh, I don't know, uh, eighty to a hundred miles south of the Oklahoma line, I guess.
[speaker001:] Yeah, okay. But you're still getting a good bit of the rain, though.
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I had something else planned today, so I guess I'll let it go awhile.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Is it asphalt shingles, or, or.
[speaker002:] They're, uh, no, they're, uh, wood shake.
[speaker001:] Ooh, that should be a lot of fun.
[speaker002:] Yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Did you put them up originally or just going up and stopping leaks in them?
[speaker002:] 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, uh, 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.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] 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?
[speaker001:] Uh, we're in, uh, campus apartment buildings with flat top, uh.
[speaker002:] Oh, then you don't have to do too much with it [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Not too much. They're just tar and gravel
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] treated flat top roofs. Have you got pretty well pitch on that roof, or is it pretty steep?
[speaker002:] Oh, it's pretty steep. Uh, parts of it are steeper than others.
[speaker001:] What do you use to keep from sliding off that rascal?
[speaker002:] Well, uh, [LAUGHTER] you wear, uh, shoes with good traction, and, and, and try to remember where you are at all times [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah, I imagine, I imagine.
[speaker002:] And remember to yell Geronimo,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] if all else fails.
[speaker001:] Yeah, yeah, that would be just too much of a fall for me. Um, have you been, uh, was, was the house reasonably new, or you been doing some remodeling work on it.
[speaker002:] It's actually just twelve years old, now.
[speaker001:] That's pretty new house yet.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it, uh, this part of the country, actually, they say that when the house is, uh, fifteen, it's already old, but just take good care of it.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Thing is, we've, uh, the main thing that we've had with this house recently has been some, uh, squirming, I call it, of the foundation. We're just on a concrete slab, you know
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] but, uh, the soil right under this is a clay, and it, uh,
[speaker001:] It's settling unevenly?
[speaker002:] Well, it, uh, depending on its moisture content, it either swells up or shrinks, and, uh
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] of course the soil right under the slab retains its moisture a lot longer
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and so during the dry season you have to water the foundation to keep your foundation from, uh, from, uh, drooping
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and, uh, but anytime there's a change in the weather, like the temperature, drastic changes in temperature or in, uh, moisture, uh, you get little spider web cracks all around, uh, windows and doors.
[speaker001:] Well, that sounds like a lot of fun.
[speaker002:] Well, usually what you do is just wait until you think it's stopped, and then you patch them up [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Um. What is it like, uh, stucco walls or,
[speaker002:] Uh, well, this is all, uh, it's all drywall
[speaker001:] Oh, drywall.
[speaker002:] uh, I think, with, uh
[speaker001:] Wood framing?
[speaker002:] yeah, right.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] 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.
[speaker001:] they plastered over drywall.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I think it is.
[speaker001:] I remember my parents home is drywalled and then they, uh, almost like a small grade stucco type plastering over the drywall
[speaker002:] I expect that's what it is, yeah.
[speaker001:] to give it a textured sort of a look, and made for kind of a hard shell on the, on the drywall.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I think that's the way this is done. Fortunately we haven't had any real big holes in it yet so I,
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, that would, that would be in terribly, terribly exasperating to have the, the slab floor like that swelling and giving like that.
[speaker002:] Yes, well, the previous owner had a major problem with it, because, uh, oh probably a variety of things. His neighbor used,