#431: PRO TALK With Building-Moisture Consultant Guy de Verges

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Patrick and Guy talk about common wet-basement problems and fixes, what to look for when checking out a building lot, and using landscaping to control storm runoff and increase biodiversity.

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0:00.0	5,000 square feet houses that have
0:08.0	pergolence and sewing pools and all kinds of hardscaping
0:12.0	that in double, triple, quadruple amount of runoff.
0:17.0	And the drainage systems for those neighborhoods
0:20.0	were designed and installed 100 years ago.
0:27.7	Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.
0:34.3	Today I'm joined by geologist and building moisture consult Guy Divergis.
0:38.9	You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building
0:42.4	Podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast.
0:46.3	You can ask questions and leave feedback there too.
0:49.4	Guy, thanks very much for being on the show.
0:50.7	It's a pleasure to have you here.
0:52.3	Absolutely, Patrick.
0:53.6	You have a career that's a little outside the norm for our typical pro-taught guest. Can you
0:57.9	please tell me what you do? Well, I'm a geologist and environmental consultant and Tulsa, Oklahoma,
1:06.1	and I have been doing this, gosh, now for 35 years, and I kind of combine geology and environmental engineering and a niche market that I have developed.
1:20.5	And we work with a lot of unusual moisture issues and both from a commercial, industrial, you know, we've worked from
1:33.5	everything from museums and churches and homes and mansions and all the different spectrums
1:41.3	of moisture issues. And usually it's things where homeowners or building
1:47.2	managers have you know called plumbers electricians HVAC contractors roofers and
1:55.0	they can't figure out what's going on and we get called in to kind of analyze the situation and try to find a solution for them.
2:03.6	How do they find you, Guy?
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