Whitby Free Press, 24 Jun 1992, p. 7

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PAGE -SEVEN 140M.) It's ail hM a haif- day's woek Perhaps you bave neyer bee a $450 hole. If flot, 'JR you may have difflculty visualizing the concept. But t4 there it was: four foot wide, three feet acros and, in theoiye, six feet straight down. 1q 'Thero be your crack," says Big Digger. 1 disguse bis nme because ho, weUl, is bigger tdm me. I follow B.D.'s tuby finger along the foundation wal, rippling like a stream from one corner of the basemont window, meandering down to where th. footings are supposed to bo, whatever footings are. The exorcise bas been to locate tbe crack in the baeetwall. Once found, the objective would b. to soal it up tight, to make it impervious to that sneaky villan, water. But, first let me tell you how we came to start_________ _______________________ igigthis expensive bol.. The tast shoot of basement drywall had gone slam, into place, fastened down by drywa]l tbingmees. ______________________________ Fifteen minutes later -- bey, 17m not making this up - along cornes this torrential tbunderstorm. Rain. Boom. Thon, trickle, trickle, trickie. We've lived in tbe bouse for five years, nary a sign Of moisturo. (From'1h. basement. We don't count the chimney waterfall, nor the dripping bot water faucet in the tub, nor the. leaking living room window. The water trickling into the basement counts because it is new water.) The choices: tear off the drywall ($275 plus drywall ropairs), i jecting a gooey stuf into concrete "... that, I know this is bard to beliove, Bill, my boy, but this stuif is barder dma concrote itef. If your wall were te crack again - God forbid, it would not crack in this epoxy, wbicb actually bonds to the'concrote and bolds it (Jboico two: dig a bol. «under my intorlocking brick --patio and glus a stick patch to the wall, insulate it.wi1h styrofoam and then.bury it. W. go for choice two. B.D. promises -te show up Friday morning. FrdayAi'N y 4 4Y m,* tt4 .t comeý with a slight misty rain, but no B.D. I get borne IRAI m'IN TFE'LOOKIG SOU'ITHROUGH B<O ,C. 1930 Friday evening and be'son th. phono. The building with the pôrch at rigbt is the Brooklin House Hotel, > ~ach12 oa "Hlad te go get a jackhammer. You got asphalt down Cn"00eWo.Tebidngo h e , oko h ar eteBoklnfs ie. 5, oa under thoso bricks, Young fellow." CndaLgo.lebidn n h et ako h aýi h rol fie 'That isn't asphalt, Thates érusbed limstene. I packed it in myseif. About six inches deep." "Oh, I don't work in tho, rain. l'il there eigbt, 1 G 0-à A--- fro1the WednesaJn 318Reiinc h 'The one tbing my son wvont load up-iii the truck," ho By&b' o i aeonte10YASG "Hoa' just waiting until e obi a nthIÃ"YABAG truc,"Isay.frm the I day, un 24, 1892 édition of the. Nosir," s o wr Bt.he want Im t.e sa'i cho i*Mies Aanis, lady principal et the Ontario Ladiées'Collegewas given a set cf silver and sboud bae tewor theway do. clinaware on ber retirement fio=. teaching. Sounda sonb But better not show hMm how e New monuments for the Duif, Hickingbottom anïd Nicol'families bave-boen éerted 'in much you biU for 'a balf-daY's work. Burns' Preshtenan Cemetery at Ashburn. Pour hundred and Mify dollrs That's even -more e Two hundred and flfy people attended Wùhlam Wite garden perty at BrooklU oen June &=a Whly Fre. Pross pubbishor Doug Anderson pays 17. eA blind vagrant named *Gardon bas been living for six monthsi the County Jafi on COIWDJIISt5. nterest fi-om $:4000 worth of bis pro"edeftom begging. M. 'Il

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