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Trevor Smith
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Joined: 21 September 2006
Location: Canada
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| Posted: 09 February 2026 at 10:56am | IP Logged | 1
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"Now, why did I think that you were in Calgary?"
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I'm not sure how I missed this JB, but no idea! Outside of
my couple of years abroad, I'm a maritime lifer.
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Robin Taylor
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Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: Canada
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| Posted: 09 February 2026 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | 2
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Like Evan my basement floor has to be completely replaced because it wasn't dug low enough and heaves with every freeze thaw cycle, and this year's freeze thaw has been a series of massive swings
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Joined: 04 July 2022
Location: Canada
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| Posted: 09 February 2026 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | 3
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East York (a borough of Toronto for those who are unaware) is notorious for basement flooding due to the soil conditions I described previously, to the point where basements can’t be insured against it. When we did our home reno, and the foundation had been laid bare, I asked our construction guy how everything was looking. He assured me it was fine -then applied the drywall ahead of a storm that resulted in severe flooding down there. On top of the $20k we had to unexpectedly pay to waterproof the foundation, we had to rip up and replace $5k worth of fresh drywall. I’m still salty about that.
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