Keyword: Monte Leeper
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Q. We need some advice on the contractor we hired. He signed with us in December for a start date in March. We knew he was busy, so when he didn’t start until the second week in April, we held our breath that this was just a hiccup and we were going to get moving.
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7/10/13
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Q. I’m hiring a contractor, and he wants to hire the architect. The contractor came up with a sketch, and I’m happy with his ideas.
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7/3/13
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Q. We just had a heavy rain, and our crawl space is filling up with water. Our sump pump has been running, and we noticed a small geyser from the side of the pit. We received estimates for either a French drain around the crawl space, with two more pumps, or adding another 4 inches of concrete on top of our crawl space slab to hopefully seal out the water. Which do you recommend?
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6/27/13
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Q. We just returned from wintering in Florida. Our home was flooded in Hurricane Sandy, and we were lucky enough to find a contractor and get our house back in order before we left.
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6/20/13
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Q. I had my house roofing redone. It’s an older house with cedar shakes.
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6/13/13
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Q. I’m wondering about opening up my interior walls and installing some windows at the corners that are frameless so the views out the windows at the corners don’t have the corner look.
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6/7/13
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Q. I’ve had it with my insurance company. Their engineer said my Hurricane Sandy damages were “pre-existing” — the floor cracks were already there, the foundation had already sunk — and the money I got was based on prorating my damages “due to age.”
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5/31/13
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Q. Recently the Long Beach City Council hired a firm to rebuild the boardwalk at a cost of $44 million. The city has decided to rebuild using ipe wood as the main material.
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5/10/13
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Up at 5:20, on the bike in spin class by 5:45, home by 7. Woke up visiting nephew so he could see the Statue of Liberty. At work by 8:15, in time to get the first emergency call of the day.
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5/2/13
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Q. I have to re-roof, and I’m being told to put a vent in the top of my roof instead of an attic vent fan that sticks up. They described it like a slit under the top shingles that is more hidden than the fan cover sticking up above the roof.
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4/19/13
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