On October 12, 2008 I got a call around 7pm from a cell phone company next door to the dental office I was building in the same shopping center. The caller said that there was a lot of water coming from my unit and it was getting flooding into their space. I immediately got off the phone and called my contractor. “What’s going on, why there is water in my unit?! You’ve got to go and check it out!” After I got off the phone with him I drove to Fort Worth. It took me an hour to get there since I live in Dallas. I was out of my mind worried about my brand new office, still under construction. Once I got there, before I even got out my car, I saw my headlights shining through the windows of the unit. Inside, I could see a lake of water about 2 feet deep. It had been raining for hours and there was a hole in the roof. My contractor and his brother met me there. We got on the roof of the shopping center using a ladder he dragged out of the back of his truck. It was pouring down rain with lighting and thunder non stop. Sealing a big hole on the roof during a thunderstorm proved to be very difficult. It took hours before it was finally completed.
Standing on the roof of the shopping center, soaking wet, in the middle of the night, with the rain still coming down, I looked at beautiful skyline of Fort Worth and thought how I would have done things very differently if I had the chance to choose to go back and choose the right contractor.
I have been a dentist in Fort Worth for over 20 years with multiple offices