Wet Basement Quiz - Question 10
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Continuing the wet basement series this very wet Central Ohio morning. Flash flood warnings in Central Ohio. Heavy rains all night. Super Dry Basement guy’s (he wrote the book on Super Dry Basements) Wet Basement Quiz that he e-mail spammed me with says:
“Question #10: I’ve heard about a lot of scare tactics and High pressure sales being used by Waterproofing companies. Is there an honest contractor that can be trusted? ”
No answer? There was no answer to that question on the email spam. I looked at his website and there’s no answer to question 10 there either.
I think the quiz itself sounds like scare tactics.
Scare tactics?
I met a Central Ohio basement water proofing celebrity once, Norm, Ron the Basement Doctor of JD Basement Systems . We had a couple of offices in the Worthington Real Living HER office that flooded in heavy rains. My office was one of them… the company kept trying different things to fix it and finally (after years of the problem) brought in JD Basement Systems to get it fixed.
Norm Ron is pictured in the link above at the top of their website. Norm Ron is on their TV commercials.
When I met Norm Ron did I ask for his autograph?
No.
I gave him a piece of my mind over the one employee of his company I’d ever met. The guy from JD Basements was one of four contractors called in to give an estimate on a repair to a crawl space on a “little old ladies” house… the representative tried to sell a big job rather than give an estimate on the repair an engineer had outlined based on the home inspection.
Their estimate for the repair fifteen times the cost of the repair that was requested by the buyer and outlined by a home inspector (an engineer.) Fifteen times the cost of the repair that was estimated by the other contractors who gave the seller estimates. Fifteen times the cost of the repair that was completed. Why was the estimate so much higher? The representative of JD Basement Systems got creative. He did not think the home inspector had suggested the best repair. He went into a big “what if” scenario based on ??? He put on quite a show for the audience of a little old lady home seller, her listing agent and the buyers agent.
When I met Norm Ron, he apologized and asked me who the representative of his company was. This salesman was no longer with the company (I called in looking for him to verify it.) JD Basement Systems call their people inspectors on their website:
“The Basement Doctor”®, J&D Basement Systems has some of the finest individuals out in the field serving our customers. Our inspectors would be happy to visit your home to complete your FREE Estimate. Please select names from the following drop-down menu to view our inspector biographies. “
Do representatives of water proofing companies sell a job? Use scare tactics? Some do. Some of the best do. If I had to use someone I would use a company like Norm’s Ron’s. I would still be wary of the “inspectors” selling a job.
Wet Basement Quiz Question #8
Wet Basement Quiz Question 7
Wet Basement Quiz Questions 5 & 6
Wet Basement Quiz Question 4
Wet Basement Quiz Question 3
Wet Basement Quiz Question 2
Central Ohio Wet Basement Quiz…
What happened to question number 9?
