[speaker001:] talk about home repairing I understand
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] did have you had any recent experience
[speaker002:] well I'm not a home owner but I consider myself to be pretty handy uh
[speaker001:] oh okay well I'm sure you are mean usually are
[speaker002:] but I don't I don't uh I don't uh it's kind of uh it's kind of a hard thing to to talk about having a limited experience base I mean I fix things around here rather than uh rather than bother a landlord with it I'll you know repair a sink or um
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] actually I fixed our water bed that was pretty handy but but how about you
[speaker001:] that's right well I had an experience uh this summer as a matter this past summer hm not this and what happened was that my closet rod fell down
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I went into the closet and this closet is probably fifteen feet long
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and all my clothes were on the floor and I said oh my word oh yes they're very heavy
[speaker002:] oh boy and they're heavy too you don't think about how heavy it is
[speaker001:] and um so I I thought now because I'm alone and I said now who am I going to get to do this because I sure don't I wouldn't I know one end of the hammer from the other one but that's about it I wouldn't know how to address a nail properly at all
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I scoured the little paper that we get in the neighborhood and I found uh uh a handyman and he said that he was an ex-teacher and I thought well he sounds like the kind of caliber that I would not be too leery of and I called him and he did a marvelous job and I and I got to know him pretty well and I said uh he said Catherine he says if you this house will fall down but these closet these close rods will not fall down he says that's how good they're in there he says I guarantee this for life
[speaker002:] hm yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] so that really pleased me and he did a marvelous he did a fantastic job and he also uh replaced my door in my garage uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I had been robbed uh the year before and um
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] they wanted to charge me six hundred dollars to replace the side door and I thought no you're not I'm not paying six hundred dollars
[speaker002:] six hundred dollars American money
[speaker001:] American money
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] and Ken did it for me for like two hundred and thirty dollars and he gave and he gave me a solid core door and you know I just said I knew that I would find somebody that would do this at a price that was realistic six hundred dollars for one single side door that's well he said well that's including labor and I thought okay Charlie I said that sounds silly
[speaker002:] hm boy
[speaker001:] very extreme
[speaker002:] yeah that was a that was a good deal you got
[speaker001:] yeah so
[speaker002:] actually it was a really bad deal that they they tried to give you I guess
[speaker001:] yes it was well see they thought that they could prey on my uh recent loss that I would be in a panic to have this door fixed because that was the door that the intruders broke through but but the insurance company had made it so that nobody could get in because they put two by fours over it and nailed it shut
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah that's kind of yeah that would
[speaker001:] and uh so I mean if they wanted to get in they would have had to use a mac truck to get through the bars
[speaker002:] and hey I'm sure someone probably if they if they were interested they would have you know that
[speaker001:] yeah well they you know the insurance adjuster said if if they are bent on getting your house they'll they'll they'll plow through your brick
[speaker002:] yep they won't stop it
[speaker001:] uh he said there's not anything that's going to stop them if they're determined
[speaker002:] the they'll stop at nothing but I'm glad you got your home fixed that's that's important I I put up uh closet organizers one year and uh uh I don't know if you're familiar with them up here they call them the California closets they're wire uh uh basically they subdivide your closets into all sorts of little nooks and crannies
[speaker001:] oh I see they organize them oh okay
[speaker002:] yeah and shelves and so instead of having just a little one rod you have racks and shelves and stuff and you have uh rods but those are bi-level rods there's two sets upper and lower then sort of doubles the hanging space then
[speaker001:] sure how how do you like that
[speaker002:] oh they're great
[speaker001:] oh wonderful
[speaker002:] they're great and um you know they're
[speaker001:] wonderful so you can utilize all of your closet space by having those
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh yeah and instead of having shoes or whatever on the floor and and things like that in your closet they have little shelves on the side that you can
[speaker001:] that's wonderful um-hum
[speaker002:] you can still stack things on they have they have all sorts and uh you know they sell them in our the local home stores here and uh I'm sure that you can pick them up down there but it's a really uh the way they put them together it's really not hard at all to put them
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] put them in it takes about an afternoon it was a Sunday afternoon you know and uh you lay it out and they give you little things that you mark uh on your wall tells you how to
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum