My PhD project is about tracking and gathering as ways of knowing landscapes in the Kalahari desert. There I worked with indigenous sand peoples who know how to track and are expert trackers to not study them and their knowledge, but to work with them to use tracking as a way to describe the environmental change and relations between multiple entities in the landscape. I'm very concerned with the rapid environmental destruction happening around the world and disturbance and the roles that humans have played in this and what has motivated me most has been to look for new methods and ways of describing environmental change in which humans are part of non-human worlds. I'm originally from Botswana, which is where I do my research, but at a young age I moved overseas to the US and now I live in Denmark and through my life I've been moving between these different worlds and trying to make sense of them and over that time I've been seeing the environment, particularly in the Kalahari desert, being increasingly encroached upon by a variety of forces, whether that's cattle or mining companies and I wanted to bring attention to that while also showing that people live in these environments and know about them and that environmental conservation and human interests are not separate things. There's so many things that are cool and interesting about being a researcher today, but one of my favorite things is collaborating with different ways of knowing and that's both across disciplines, but also across different knowledge traditions and I'd also say one of the coolest things about being a researcher is being given a platform to describe the kinds of wonderment that we engage with in our daily work. I want to continue work in the Kalahari and I've got a research position now that allows me to do that to now track and follow the movement of natural gas energy or natural gas prospectors as they move through the desert, but in addition to that I want to build and foster collaborative relationships across universities in Southern Africa and in Denmark so that students in Denmark and South Africa or Botswana can learn and collaborate with each other.


Welcome to Tano Kalin. I like this one. The sunglasses nizachiyo afterwards, I'm about to net. Nizpikti your manager? I'll tell you manager. I see. But Karibu Tano Kalin, please introduce yourself from the music of Fanyanga, and everything else that you get.  So if you need to hope people laugh, then go for it. And if you want to come and take a family, then shout out. Okay. Mine tojibu imsafi. Brother to Ekodida. The youngest. I do hip-hop. I started with hip-hop. But right now I'm in the music industry. I do love songs here. Love songs of any genre. Love songs of R&B, love songs of reggae, love songs of which genre? R&B. I love peyabadubu. We can say mezote too. Nachyapa zote. Bo rati le flo ni taflo na haho. Bo rati flo kamaji, le flo le ka river. So I'm just going to go out then. I'll tell you, I'm sure the most common you asked. Growing up with someone who atumagrapna in music as Ekodida. What is that, what inspiration did they have in the kind of music on Fanyanga? How are you doing music in general? Okay, the music in me na Fanyanga. Actualy peyali nishawisha ka nambia. We Fanyanga kitu ni koko hatiako. Follow your heart. Uiskuo na kwa na vitu mo. Skizu na hatu sa. Na skizu na God na hatiako. Na vitu zako zote sa kwa poa. Right, it's nice to have that kind of music. So after growing up with him, when did it start for you? Nya piso li kujuku kanda kujen. But you know what? Fanyanga kitu professionally. Not just for vibes. Nya tagaku Fanyanga kitu na ni make money out of it. So what do you do with the music? Nili anza kitambo. When I grew up, when I grew up with Shida Shida, I had a tough life. Actualy hekwa li tuwacha ocha. Hekaku jamadare actually. So me ni kwa baki ushago. Niki baki na mzazi. So tu kilimali mapale. But when I started, actually the way I started, I started singing in music officially. Kwa nangu. Tili kwa nga kwa napenda futubola actuali. So ea nga jo saya kwa talentiki kwa kujuhagi na flowa aji. Una semu na kwa dekitari, unna kutaw me flowa kuku kengine. So ea li jari bwiva kwa flowa kwa mziki. So mi has started with comedy. Oh like stand up comedy? Am I like what? Comedy, we started to li anza na kina Eri Komondi. The way they are starting kwa chachil. So big up kwa na kwa chachil. Pa len dambuki mi na mtambuka dambuki. So mi pia mi pusahidi a nini nini. But he come up certainly pole pole tu, niko naizi vitwa insahidi pia saa na onona. Juna mi a god na jari bwiva. Kukusama ni kukusahidi a inotwe. Uru kuna fil kama nyotwa kwa kwa kwa comedy. Amu uru kuna fil kivi pukusama ikusahidi. Okay. Niki jari bwik na jari bwik kusama evim. Niki jari bwik na jari bwik uche shi uku juna jari bwik kwa chachil, kwa chachil atri na zwa kwa 2 maz. Una kutawunenda live, unapigwea kwa 5000 maybe. Alas, mi mbio 5000 uta uta kula fwaulong. Nm maybe umenda live maramoja umetchizo maramoja. So inakwa ayezika ni nini. But music ni lukwa doe, ni kwa mdogo. Lukwa na jari bwiku funzo nini nini nini. But God ni ulemse. Aka ni raise. Niki jari bwiku imba pole pole pole. Niki kwa na menisidia paka place ni nini mefika apa. Ya. So at this point ukiwacha comedy, ukiwacha music, ini uchi what ya was this alafu yo experience ya kwa kutafuta a team. Taka kutafuta producer, kumik beats, kwa ndika. What ya was this na Elianza? Tafuta watu kwanza maulianza? Ulu kwa ready, kwa ready dani funda team. Okay, mi kwanza kwangu. Ay kwa rahisi kwanza kichua kwanza. Nili asesa una jwa Niki kwa tiki kwa dogo ya miin nojosa do ni kuji kwanza music nili na kwa na penda kuskiza music tuli kwa na skiza kina akina willili wein kwa na eko tiki kwa dogo ya actually. So ni kwa na nini ni kwanza tuku imba kidugo kidugo ni ni ni ni ni ni kwanza kui imba na nzatu ya ni kimchezo michezo na nkajiku tatu ya ni Godame yuki tiki konda ni angu. Onona. Niki kwa na yuki tiki konda ni angu. Niki rahaku pasu. Niki rahaku pasu. So the first time when I pursue niki kwa na niki kwa na inawak na watu akai accept actually my mom pia kaya accept na ya. I love you. So fast forward to right now. So I believe you have a new single out melody. What was the process like? Did you write? Did you have someone write for you? Am I your experience here? Kwa niki kwa zi salasang siyo? Kwa na inspiration behind it kaka development here it was like a good vibes. Okay. Ono jen ni kwa na suma Bible. Hey. Sa ni kwa funguatu Bible ono jen ni kwa na kambia Godin pote new song nisiki zi ni gani. Godin uli hem say. Sok funguatu Bible ni kwa funguatu Solomon. Hey. What are the odds? Hey. So ni kwa na I like your figure, like your highs vitu ka highs ono na. Nani kambia Godin kwa umama ikwa evi ni evi so ika ikakam through ono na. So ikakam through nani kakam na melody. The song called melody actually inafanyapo we thank God for that. Ya. So has that now available on all streaming platforms? Ikwa kila maaliata saibu. Is it available on all streaming platforms? Is it available on all streaming platforms? Is it available on all streaming platforms? Is it available on all streaming platforms? is it available on all streaming platforms? is it available on all streaming platforms? Has it access to Access to music on a mala platform? Is it available Altatani na iwa Forget music in So, eight kais, nine two kais yos. One low. Bring a lot to the day. I umm, Right, so, melody also, apart from the inspiration behind it. What is it about a melody that you feel, it will come out now? Ok, so the melody and the inspiration behind it come out when you hear it. h resulta kalima yangu m какое tu walaater ni yazimola milimu ni zim charts Kuwa paru ka calming kaka sa boliku sinsimole k ad� fieldền y sewing biko pangahu na sen shapes n clappingume n this is your camera ah this big illa illa illaiza. Actually, I do have my studio. Uh-huh. Ya, also ni kuna studio pali ongata rungahi, ni ito Abriels na unia za ni follow pali Chini, ita kwa Fiti sana Ando alizu zangu ni Jboi, ni msafi, kila maaili manze So just Jboi? Jboi Kuna underscore kuna kikita wapu katikatemi ni Jboi Ni Jboi, ni msafi, Jboi, then ni msafi Ya, love also my team, RDA dancers Ando mi ni mewale apia Ando wana fanya kazi po Ya, ishatsu, wana kwapa the other date Ya, mili fry kaziwa wana fanya po Actually it's my first time show kwa TV Ah, for real, this is ya For real On the month of love As you have a lot of out I would love to receive So what's the Jboi perform? Please give any pali socials And Mr. Maya has a tiktok challenge for his song Melody Please go check it out We stand a chance of winning a whole 10 G Just for executing your talent Hey, kimieni, Ajay Boy Tiktok ni Ajay Boy apia Ajay Boy msafi Ajay Boy, sorry Ajay Boy msafi So tiktok, Instagram, Facebook Na piu kwa X ama ko ilikat Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili Kila maaili


If you would have told me the Ravens are getting ready to clear out a significant amount of cap space to add an offensive player Who's first and last name both start with the same letter? Who has gone to the Super Bowl and played against the Tom Brady? Then I would have been like, okay I know a lot of people been expecting the Ravens to add Julio Jones for a long time now. So I guess they finally doing it wrong Cory Clement so the Ravens Because there was a lot of speculation that all Ravens they they clear not all the salary cap room to ask somebody Well, a lot of people got their wish. They did they added it running back now Please do not get upset about this. Please do not get all up in arms about this. Please do not get oh, oh, man Why did they look it? Training camp Training camp you don't have your running backs. You need to implement running plays. Who are you gonna have run the ball? Jk Dobbins out Gus Edwards out You ain't just gonna be Mike Davis and Beatty and Justice Hill and they McCrary even though that that's like a plethora of running back You got a lot of guys already but All this is is just somebody to come in during training camp to just help take the load off some of the other guys That's it simple as that This is not anybody that's gonna start for the Ravens is not anybody that who knows he could possibly make the team You never know but this is not such a significant move was oh This it's okay. It's okay Stay ready. So you ain't got to get ready. And if you got somebody that's not ready Then you got to have somebody take their place. That's all that this is. That's it That's it The the Ravens are just they're doing their due diligence man You got a hat especially for training can too cuz it's gonna be hot people gonna be getting tired and You want to have as many bodies as as many positions as you possibly can That's why they would always sign a quarterback every year. Some people be like, oh, man, it's a quarterback controversy and it's not That's why they got about 20 offensive linemen right now 50 tight ends. They got about 63 cornerbacks Because the more bodies the Mariah depth Competition it's real now the veterans they're reporting tomorrow and then Wednesday it's on Wednesday, it's on and I'm I'm so happy for anybody that's gonna be at that first Ravens Training camp practice that should be a lot of fun Because y'all are gonna get that first practice energy and this it should be wild Thursday and Friday. I'm sure they still gonna bring it then again the open practice this Saturday Shout out to anybody who's gonna be there. That should be a lot of fun I'm happy for y'all in advance. Enjoy your week. Enjoy yourself We have a lot to talk about we have a lot to cover. I know y'all been seeing all the It's like it's people with the disrespect to mr. Lamar Jackson We always say how not everything is for everybody and y'all know that that's old news We're gonna talk about that more tomorrow in detail because it's like if you're gonna say something especially something like that if We're gonna all gonna talk about it tomorrow. We got so much stuff to say What if the video will come out tomorrow? We're gonna talk about it tonight, but y'all will see the video tomorrow, but Mmm. Wow. We got a lot to say but anyway team keep it clean. I love y'all. I Appreciate y'all so much y'all just keep being great keep being good to people keep being nice to each other and We out


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Good afternoon everybody and thank you for joining us for another episode of condo insider. It's our weekly show done with in conjunction with white council of community associations. Thank you so much for spending your afternoon with us with me today I have as my guest. I have two individuals Roy shishito with surface shield Hawaii, and we also have Sam with Almeida with Carlisle Carlisle is the company that actually does the warranty for the product. So first of all we're going to start off with Roy. So Roy surface shield has been around for about 15 years. And they're one of the major players in the marketplace for roofing. And I know you guys do a bunch of different roofing products from shingles to that, the one that comes on a roll and to the liquid applications you know where you just kind of code it with like that white stuff. And that now I know comes in different colors, but I kind of want to narrow in for condo buildings one of the most frequently used or one of the ones that are being widely used now is the TPO, the TPO from gas. So why don't you introduce yourself and then tell us a little bit about the TPO product. Hi, my name is Roy shishito rest surface shield roofing. Yeah, a lot of condos now that getting re roofed are re roofing with some type of single ply like TPO or maybe a PVC roofing type of material. The good thing about TPO is a long term roofing system. It does help reduce temperature within the building itself. And, and it's a lot more economical in installing in most most times. There are a lot of different ways to install TPO. This is just like a standard way and all these different ways of installation and everything else and depending on the design of the roof or what is specced out for the project really would depend on the cost of the TPO itself. So what would be. How, how is that TPO applied. TPO can be applied. There are a couple different ways it can be mechanically fastened with cap, or it can be fully adhered with adhesives. Normally fully adhesives are better, better when uplift and things like that. It would be really depending on maybe the spec writer, or after you meet with the board of directors was involved in to come up with a game plan. Like a sample of the TPO product right here. And it's kind of got like a felt bottom to it. And I'm assuming because I for the other, what they call, I just know it comes in a role and you see the guy with the torches. Right so this wouldn't be the same type of method application. This is a fleece back so it'd be a here with adhesive. So you got fleece back, and they'd be 115 mil fleece back or 135 mil fleece back. What they're really equivalent to is a 150 mil is basically a 60 mil TPO and 135 would be 80 mil. And it really depends on how you're going to be installing this roof and the method or what you are trying to achieve. If you're trying to achieve some type of positive slopes to the drains, then you most likely would not be using a fleece back. You'd be using a reinforced type of TPO with a dense deck and probably installation that would be tapered to your drains. So it really depends on the project and the situation that you're trying to achieve. So usually when you lay this project, this product on the roof, the existing roof has to be completely torn off. If you go fleece back, you can go over an existing system, depending on making sure that the substrate is no blistering has a real good pool test to it. Then you can go over the existing just to help to try to control costs. And normally going over the existing would be kind of being your fire barrier also. So it really depends. If you're doing condos, most times it's going to be done to cold, especially if you're doing an old condo. So you're going to probably do some type of installation to get the ARF value. And then you're going to do a recovery board and then a TPO on top of that. And under all of that you're probably going to be doing a temporary roof while you're roofing it so it doesn't leak into the facility itself. So when you actually go to a site visit and you look at the existing roof, you're also examining, not just the roof, I mean you're looking at where there's existing ponding problems. Also, if the water is being slope to goes off the roof. And you're also going to be looking at their drains if they have drains that lead into gutters. Yes. And that will basically looking for positive slow to the trains, or if it is sloping to the ends if you have a nice process will slope to the ends yeah. So that you don't have no sitting or standing water. Every, every flat roof will have some type of standing on sitting water after rain. What you don't want is ponding water and ponding water is something that stays there every day, all day long, 12 months a year. You know, but if it dries up with an X amount of time that would be okay. So if it dries up within, you know, 24 to 36 hours in most times after the rain with its most times within the warranty. Okay. So in that that time you'd also be examining or at least letting like say we're dealing with a condo board you'll be looking at their drain slopes making sure that that drains into if they have a gutter like a gutter system I would assume that most of them have a gutter system, that that gutter system is in order. Otherwise, you might need to have the board consider that they need to fix their gutter system or their drainage. Yeah, yeah. So that there would be a really good examination of the roof and the other components of that roofing system. Yes. So at times would even order roof the existing roof to core it to see what the composition of the existing roof is at that time. And that way we can tell if it's already been slow or not slow. Tell us some stories about the roof to ourselves. Yeah. What if the building because some of these condos have like, you know, like the cell towers, or they might have PV what happens at that point. Well, if you're doing TPO, they have special booth that will waterproof around the penetrations. So PV they have a pre made boost that can go around the penetrations or you can also pre fabricate boots on the job site itself, depending on the situation. What about the cell towers. Same thing you would sell towers you probably probably modified at the at the job site. Okay, okay. And what about maintenance, the big thing because we maintenance. Okay. With costs going up, you know, and maintenance fees in that equation. How will TPO be able to possibly maybe on the reserves, like they can extend it life a little bit longer. So how can a board try to get a longer life. Okay. Well, what keep you yourself, it'll last longer than a natural or basic modified bit of me roof itself the ground you want the road ones that you're saying. That it will last longer than that. But to maintain it you should make sure that the drains are always cleared off from vegetation nothing growing in that the roots cannot get into seems and break down the roof. You want to make sure you check the flashing and detail areas on the roof as it ages to make sure that nothing is opening. And if it's under maintenance, you would look at those things and you would do those repairs as needed. Drain wise is usually up to the condo association maintenance people to make sure they have it on a program to be checking those drains, and also to have it on a, like an emergency storm situation where you know, the storm is coming like a hurricane that automatically all the drains and gutters get pre checked prior to the storm coming so that you don't get no excess overflowing in your gutter system that gets into your roof and and everything else. So what if you they find that there's mold growing on the roofs, you know, like, would they just pressure wash it or do they apply a detergent to it. Normally, you would just use water pressure wash it with water. Yeah. No chemicals. Yeah, you don't want to use too many chemicals getting it into your dreams into the grass into environment. Yeah, you try to keep it more green as possible. Yeah. And then I think I was reading somewhere that this product is led certified or something like that. Can you tell me a little bit more about that with some buildings trying to be more energy efficient, because I think the sun's lowers the water pressure or something. Yeah, because it is white, right. So it does reflect. And that's why if you're doing an older building and you're trying to do it to cold you're going to put in all the necessary installations and everything to to achieve your your your your factor. Okay. And it'll give you some value no matter what. But if you're trying to get it to cold, then you got to add in for, you know, installation to get the actual or 20 or whatever you're trying to achieve. Is this le lead certified, you know, those people that are trying to go all I can jump in there. Yeah, yeah, lead is is for architectural type of systems, and it's more designed from a ground up. So typically that would be more for projects that typically new construction, where they're trying to meet a certain level of environmentally friendly type of materials and installation. So lead is just an organization where they're trying to go green. So in most condo applications because there's reroof, you will typically apply for lead will be more for new construction, where it takes into an organization where the products are manufactured if they're recycled, how much energy saving so it's a little bit of a complex program but that's more reserved for the new construction types. What your homeowners or condo owners are going to be looking for is basically like Roy had mentioned the r value and what our value is is reduction in temperatures in the interior building so you want to high r value and reflectivity. represented with sri, which is a solar reflective index, and that basically reflects the heat coming in from the exterior of the building so those as condo owners what you want to look for is a high sri or reflectivity and a high r value and the r value comes from insulation. The sri comes from the reflectivity of the membrane. So the person that's on the top floor would get added benefit with this product because it might lower that temperature down. Yes, but if your buildings air conditioned, like some condominiums are you know they condition the whole building or at least the hallways and that then everyone will benefit there because you're reducing the load on the air conditioning. But yeah, like you mentioned, the buildings that don't have fully air conditioned it's only the top hormone and really reaping the benefits. So I've seen that happen. So Roy how many, like, how long has TPO been around. Well people have been around for a long time you know it's probably into its fourth or fifth generation already you know they just keep making it better and better. I can give you a little bit of history on it. I think it's pretty interesting. So the TPO actually, you know, for the for the older guys. So if you remember, when you're young, the P the dashboard on your car, it would be cracking. That's because they should be PVC and the PVC crack so they changed that and the car manufacturing industry came up with TPO. So the TPO started off in the car manufacturing industry because it had good UV resistant. And then someone said hey we should put this on the roof. So they started doing a roof. That was about roughly 30 years ago. So it's been around for around 30 years. It became really popular about 20 years ago. So it's had a pretty good life cycle and that's sort of like, you know, you don't want to do a sort of system that's been around 10 to 20 years. And it's gone through like Roy had mentioned like a couple generations already. And so that's why it's become more popular. Well I had checked out the website for this part for the GF website and are they still doing testing because they have certain buildings that they're actually that they had put this product on. And after so many months or years, they've actually gone back and retested the product. And so that's really the possibility and it's tinsel strength and all that kind of stuff. Is that project still ongoing? Yeah, they've always doing these testings and they're doing them out in these big farm areas where they have membrane set up and they're taking constant measurements. And so they've had a couple of different tests. I know the Midwest Roofing Contracts Association, they had one and that's got a pretty good interest in report. Like Roy had mentioned, there's TPO and PVC. Those are the two type of plastic membranes that are out there. And so they, and there's a couple of different variations of them as well. So each manufacturer, they try to differentiate themselves. So some might add more certain different types of weathering packages. And so they're just trying to try to figure out, you know, which one lasts and what they claim to do. And also all the manufacturers require to meet ASTM is the American Society for Testing Materials. So they have to meet those minimum requirements.  But recently, about probably about 10 years ago, they did see some deterioration on membranes because as you know, building designs change a lot. And what they found out was there was deterioration that was not planned for. And that was because a lot of buildings nowadays have a lot of windows. And so you see all these new high-rises. So a lot of the TPRs were getting extra reflectance from the actual windows.  So, you know, they've gone and revisited and say, well, what's causing all this? And they, you know, they do these studies that try to find out, you know, what's happening here. So they found out that's some of the new challenges that come up with new building designs. Wow. Yeah, pretty fascinating. It's really scientific and I could probably talk for two hours. I don't think I want to bore everyone. Okay, so Roy, TPO is really more for what kind of residential or condominium properties. Like you can't just put it on any kind of roof, right? It's going to be for a low-pitch flat type of situation. So like anything with a, you know, like that. Yes, anything less than a 312 pitch, you would normally put a membrane on it. So you're like low-rise town halls automatically out of the picture or pretty much, right? Low-rise town halls with a very low pitch, you would put that on there. Anything with a pitch less than 312. Okay, so what is meaning that is meaning is, you know, three inches per foot on the rise on the pitch. So basically anything under 312, you would do some type of membrane type of product. Okay. Can you think of any townhouses around that would, as you can think of in the short time? Because I only think of... Yeah, you know, the only... Most townhouses are fairly pitched there, so I wouldn't really say there's one out there.  And not a bunch of the townhouses, like towards more on the older side of Mililani. A lot of them have those flat roofs, and sometimes you get a mixture. You get where he has the pitch roof with the shingles, and then he has some flat roofs, like for breezeways or garages. So sometimes you just see a mixture of those. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So a little bit more about how the material gets applied. Okay, the way they get applied, like I said, there's basically two different ways. One, it's going to be either mechanically fastened to your substrate, or it's going to be fully adhered with adhesives. So adhesives are always stronger, you know, they get better wind uplift. It depending on the substrate, yeah, and I guess in economics. Okay, so let me ask about the adhesive. So how long what is the life of that adhesive because, as you know, one quarter of my roof, kind of like lifted up and when I, when I check they go, yeah, sometimes the glue gets you know, so I'm like, yeah, how does the, how long does that adhesive last? Well, that was, I would say would last the lifetime of your roof versus a modified bitumen. It just held on with heated tar or self-hearing surfaces that will break down over a period of time because it'll dry up, the resin will dry up and then the adhesive will give way. The adhesive that are used for roofing materials are, I mean, they don't break down, they're there forever pretty much, you can't even, you can't even separate it, you know. Yeah, I would say last the duration of the roof until the day that you're going to be a roof fit. I've never seen a TPO that's pulling it, I hear delaminating off the roof. Yes, the adhesives, there's a couple of different types. There's one like a contact cement and so that's very high adhesion rate and like Roy says it does last the lifetime of the roof. Then we also on the fleeceback membranes, they're like a urethane type of adhesives and as in the industry, urethanes are one of the best that he sees around. So they have a pretty good lifespan and typically give a life cycle of approximately around 30 plus years in those type of systems. Okay, yeah. If it did delaminate, it would still be covered under warranty for what, if it did, for, you know, worst case scenario, right? Well, it depends on the type of warranties and I was talking to Roy about that. So that's one thing that condo owners can understand but it can be a little bit dizzying array of different types of warranties that manufacturers offer. So when you do look at a warranty and on a commercial property that this, this is different from a residential one, you're looking for what they call a full system or total system warranty. Sometimes indicators that NDL or no dollar limit and what that means is they're going to get a warranty that covers any, any sort of defects in the material, the application, the adhesion, and why they call a total system warranty because it's not just the top surface, it's the glue, the insulation, the screws and it covers everything. So, you know, in that case, if you're going to get that total system warranty, you're going to have the manufacturer supported because they provided all the components of the system. And they've had long term testing with each component. So it's not like, you know, you're getting the membrane from manufacturer A and the adhesion from manufacturer C and the insulation from someone else. It's just all one system and all warranted by the manufacturer because they have these systems work within conjunction with each other. And so there's no dissimilar materials so that's what's important. Having those components that have been tested and tried and true. And then you're going to get a warranty that's worthwhile. If you're just going to get a warranty where it's just material only warranty. Then they just basically warranting fact that that membrane will last X amount of years. And if there is a defect. They'll replace the membrane but they won't basically cover any defects related to adhesion or any moisture intrusion and workmanship. So those are the two main types of warranties out there. So, right. Let me talk a little bit more about OSHA. So, every, your company, all your employees have trained about OSHA. So, who actually oversees the project when they're on the job site. Because there has to be a level of comfort with the board and everybody that these guys are wearing their appropriate gear. And so what kind of training does your company use to make sure. We always have a farming on the project. We always do a pre site of the project before we start. So we know what we're getting, I mean getting into. We also have a safety officer that will come to the job site to make sure that everybody is harness in and hooked up properly and following all OSHA rules and regulations. And we monitor those things. And we monitor that pretty strictly. So, we have somebody that checks out the project every day. Is there an inspection done. Well, I think I'm leading up to the warrants, but I don't want to go too much into it because Sam's going to be on another segment. So, during the application process, is there a check to make sure that the application is being done correctly to make sure that it's, you know, according to the manufacturer specs and also making sure that, you know, is being according to the warranty and all that kind of stuff. You know, it's being applied correctly, not just. Yeah, yeah. So we do pre site. We do safety monitoring. And we do post inspections when the job is completed. So on T field will be picking all the intersections, picking on the patches that T joints. All of the accessories or protrusion or anything on the roof, they will be doing a pick test on it to make sure everything is fully adhered to the roof. So we do check our work before we're done. We don't just go, we're finished today and we're off the roof.  Like I said, we do a pre site and we do a post inspection. Okay, so I think we only have like about three more minutes. Any other words or advice you have Roy that you want to give to your boards.  You know, they only last between seven, eight years and you need to do some, some type of maintenance because the grand as we're starting to fall apart on it. There's a lot of themes on it because they're only three feet wide versus T fields can be, you know, six feet wide or maybe even longer wider at times. So, you know, and overall it's a lasting, a longer lasting product and it's cool right off the bat. You know, you don't have to go try to code it to try to make it cooler.  They're one of I think one of the few or only keep your company they have a puncture resistant warranty. So if something did puncture the membrane, you know, they would give us the patches of why we're to go out there and repair it. You know, so I think that's a really good warranty. Yeah, yeah, because, you know, hurricanes things get blown away right so that could be puncture. So that would be that would be a benefit. And again, it's a maintenance because after some kind of storm like that, any kind of heavy windy storm, then the roofs need to be checked. Yeah, for that kind of stuff. So what's not really into is that, you know, they have just a handful of installers that are approved. So to get those high end warranties, they have to be reputable company like surface shield that's been doing it for a while, and that they have been vetted and being trained. And, you know, once you have that combination there, and you're pretty good in terms of what roof system you're going to get. Okay. Okay, so I think we're nearing the end of our time. So I really want to thank both of you, Sam and Roy for being on the show today, we are going to follow up on our net and one of our another future segments with just Sam to talk about just the warranty. Because there's a lot I mean just a few minutes I talked with you the other day I'm like, wow, there's more to a warranty than I thought. Well, I go a lot more that I was like, wow, there's a lot. And I think that's going to be important for boards to know about these warranties. Because as we know there's been a roofing major roofing company that condos have always used, and is now now out of business of the roofing roofing industry. So that's affecting some people that had just recently got the roof stud and now they have no warranty right. So, I think boards now need to look at, not just the product, but also the warranty that can help to with some of those, you know, like product defects and, you know, that because they'll, you know, I think you know the long term over the life of the product is eventually could save them on if they really follow the right things. Because nobody likes main and fee increases, but you know it is what it is and I, I know there's going to be massive increases over the coming years with just a lot of things that's been going on, because of the Florida collapse and now we have the Fire Department and the life safety evaluation. It's, it's, it's a heartache. It's heartache that we all don't want to think about but it's the reality. So, thank you again, everybody, both of you are being on the show. Thank you. Nice to see your faces versus email and phone calls, you know, and we'll follow up again again we're going to have Sam on another segment in a couple of weeks that will just be on warranties. So, thank you both of you. I really, really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy days to do this condo insider and to educate our condo boys. Thank you. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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Hello, thank you for joining me. I've just arrived at Style Railway Station. I haven't come by train though. I've come in my larder What we're going to do in today's video, we're going to do something a little bit different. This isn't a history video as such Obviously up the road is quarry bank mill. We're not going to go there But we are going to go to some of the National Trust lands and we're going to go to style village And we're going to go and walk along the river Bolin because I've been looking at the OS map recently of this area And I noticed a footpath that looked rather exciting because it goes Very close to Manchester Airport. In fact, it goes so close It's actually going to go under the runway and I saw that and I thought I've got to go down that footpath So here we are. We're at style. We're going to jump in my lard I'm going to drive up to the village of style and then we're going to go and Hunting for footpaths that go under runways So here we are. We've arrived at style in my larder. What we're going to do We're going to head up towards the village. We're going to walk through the old workers village We're not actually going into any of the buildings, but it is quite an exciting day If you come to quarry bank mill You see the the big old mill and you can go you get tours of some of the workers houses and it really is Worth doing and so I did that last year. I had a great time. I didn't actually make a video Occasionally I sometimes go out and think I won't make a video today Most of those days I end up making a video but on that occasion I didn't actually make a video, but I looked around the whole place and really enjoyed it So that really is worth coming to see but today we're going down into the country park and We're going to follow River Bollin as I said, but it's really the fact that I've looked on them The OS map and seen this footpath that goes under the runway of Manchester Airport That's kind of what's brought us here But as we walk along look at here's some of the lovely houses you get in the village of style so I'm going to carry on walking up here and Soon we shall be able to get into the style estate properly So not much further just just a little way along here so I just walked up the road and Here we come into the style estate proper. So you can see there is the national trust sign which Says style. So we are officially in a national trust place now We're going to walk down this cobbled road up here. There's an interesting church. It's a non conformist Church, which is you know, the church the workers would have gone to So like I said, you and we're not we're not actually here to sort of have a look in and out all the buildings At quarry-bank mill, but I do recommend doing it They've even got steam engines in quarry-bank mill not not as in The railway or the road type but as in stationary steam engines. So, you know, it's it's a great day out You you really ought to come here But today we're going to to look for this footpath that takes under, you know I just sort of it's one of those things. I saw it on the map and until I've been there I'm just not gonna stop talking about it. I've kind of got to take myself to see I'm just gonna show this to you if you have a look over there See those houses. I had a look in one of them last year when I came here and Visited National Trust probably do tours of those houses and you can see them just as they would have been in in their day So I'm gonna carry on down here and further down into style So I've had a very nice walk down through the woodlands and we are now heading down towards the River Bolly So you can just see the river down down there. There's been a stream Flowing down below us down there quite a steep drop. So the stream is obviously a tributary of the River Bolly now I've said about the mill. I said we're not going there today But you know, it's something worth doing if you were visiting the mill as well Then you're the pre-parts in the mills car park. You could have walked down the way we came you get to hear this is the Gates to the garden. So this is a little shed you show them your ticket to show you've paid to come into the site And then that would admit you to the gardens and onto the mill But where we are now this is This is a permissive path. I believe so, you know, it's you can come down here pretty much whenever you like So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna follow this path over this Nice little bridge here and walk beside the River Bolly. We've got a lot to do before we do that There's like a little beach and there's some steps down to it. So we'll go down have a really close look at River Bolly So I will carry on down there. I don't know if the sound's picking it out But I can hear the sound of aircraft engine So as nice and as tranquil and as peaceful as this place looks it is nice and tranquil and peaceful but Get the odd interruption from aircraft noises, but you know, that's um, it doesn't bother me to be honest So come down here get a nice look at the bridge there There you go The bridge we just walked over The water flows into the River Bolly, so I'm gonna follow it on the path up there I'm gonna explore River Bolly until we get to the runway of Manchester Airport I've followed the meanderan River Bolly all around here So only 50 yards or so the river is over there and it is literally just down there So it's gone right around on this big meander now It's at this point on the path here if I follow the path Straight on along the river. It'll take me back up to style So later on when I walk back up to my car, that's where I'll be going. Well, what we're gonna do We're gonna go over this bridge. It's called the oxbow bridge That's because if it ever happens in about a million years time when the water goes straight across there And it's no longer is a meander This bit of water here will be known as an oxbow lake So we're gonna cross the oxbow bridge So it's very optimistic to call it that because like I said, it's probably about a million years away this section of water From becoming an oxbow lake, but you know, it's a nice name. You get more little beaches on the river and I'm gonna continue following the footpath along Maybe not quite the banks of the River Bolly, but on and off the banks of River Bolly until we get to that The runway of Manchester Airport Well, the footpath now has taken us some distance above the River Bolly. You can see it down there There's a weird down there. Now the area we're heading down for is known as Giants Castle I'm not sure why but this is where there'd be another bridge and we're crossed back onto the other side of the river So I believe this is Giants Castle. I don't know why but that's what it's called on the OS map So if you you know know and want to comment and tell me please do and I think that's a natural We're actually what we're looking at looking at the shape of it. There's another one around the corner. So keep going and See what we find so you see the water is very clear you clearly see the stone at the bottom of it There's another bridge ahead so we're heading towards We're gonna cross the river and the footpath, you know that it follows the river bank I'm not sure exactly which way it's gonna go But it's gonna take us as I keep saying towards Manchester Airport as a sign I just noticed it says the bridge is called Giants Castle Bridge. It's definitely Giants Castle Isn't that really nice? Natural weird there. I'll have another look actually from on the bridge itself You go to Giants Castle Bridge Up here Really nice And there is the natural weir and it looks like once I've crossed the bridge I've got some climbing up a Lot of steps Look at that. There's a little stream going up there I've got all those steps now. So I'm gonna climb up and keep going I'm just coming to the end of the National Trusts land the style of state. So There we go. There's the sign hiding in the trees and The path we've been following is the North Cheshire Way. Have a look at these little signs down here So maybe one day. I know I do say this a lot maybe one day, but maybe one day We can walk to North Cheshire Way and I'll make a whole series of videos I don't know when that'll be but you know be something I'd like to do I'm gonna go up there. You can see people part here to enjoy the walk. I've just enjoyed This must be What was once the old road? Because if we have a look at the river bolling from here, so we will Find a bolling again if ever up. You can see the new road there. There's a big in there I'm gonna carry on up here and cross the main road and then pick up the footpath again and Continue so I get to these tunnels and then what I'm gonna do. I've got a walk all the way back Back through the style of state, which is you know, very nice walk I'm gonna go all the way back through there because my car is still up at style probably now two and a half miles away So I've got all the way back to style Pick up the car and then my plan is to drive us Right round so I'm gonna have to go. I mean this won't all be on the video I'm gonna go drive down to Wilmslow come back up here Because this road not this road, but the one on the other side of the hedge the new road is What also goes through a tunnel under Manchester airport So we're then gonna drive through those tunnels under Manchester airport So we're gonna go when I say airport I mean actually just the runway drive through the tunnels under the runway at Manchester airport So it really is probably one of the most Unusual walks and drives.  That's interesting There's another there's another entrance to the style of state there I might go about that way might be a slightly shorter route But I wanted to follow the river ball in as much as possible. So when I get to here And I'm not entirely sure where to go. So, oh, yeah, there's a big roundabout I'm gonna go off down there and somewhere when I was around about I should find the footpath I'll be able to continue till we get to the runway Well the footpath has now taken on a very different form No longer are we following the river Ball in we're out here on this bank and over there is yeah Well, you can clearly see the control tower. You can see all the aeroplanes waiting There's three terminals at the airport. So we're gonna follow this path. It goes down there So that's your two runways. So run one way ends about over there It's this second one that comes right down Out into the countryside and that's the one we're gonna go underneath So the footpath only goes under one runway if you drive which we're gonna do later You'll go under the two runways. So you go through one tunnel and then Come out into the open for a little bit and you go through the second tunnel under the second runways This really is quite an extraordinary Footpath is just so different to Probably any footpath. I've ever walked down before that was why you know when I saw on the map I just had to come and do it but anyway very soon. We shall be Going underneath the runway So after walking and walking I've probably walked at least three miles from where I left my car Up at style. I'm coming down towards the river Bolin again. I can hear the water and I can see the tunnel. It's Massive look at it. It's huge. I did not I didn't really know what to expect but that Let's go up onto this bridge. We're going through the tunnel. Let's go into the bridge and have a look that is so Huge I've never seen such a big a big arched tunnel in my life before that's amazing So that's what we've walked all this way to see so As I stand here on the river Bolin the next job is now to Go and and walk through that is just So we go down we'll walk through I probably won't film all the way through but I certainly show you when we get to the other side So yeah, it's um, I think now it's really been worth it this walk It's like I said it's been a very very long walk If you come to quarry bank mill when you're going for a nice sunny day out I don't suggest you do this walk if you like me And you're not walking on by rivers and looking for tunnels and you want to walk a long way then you know do come here, but So into the tunnel we go it's not dark at all. It's so big So when you land in an aeroplane in Manchester, yeah, you land on top of this Huge there's a weird stuff here. In fact, it's about four years in the course of the tunnel So I'll do I'll show you this we're now. I'm gonna walk through to the other side of tunnel and then I'll show you Things that are beneath airports. I'm gonna keep walking and when we get to the other end I'll let you see what I find Most of the other ends are walked through what seems to be the amplified sound of water The echoes and sound the water's echoing. So you just got this constant sound of water Which is quite a nice relaxing sort of sound.  I don't think ever Before obviously I've been through lots of tunnels long and short, but I've never ever seen a tunnel Like this. Look, even as I walk away. You can't even see there we go m m so it's built in 2000 you know when they extended the runway so Before that you only had the one runway, but there we go. We've just come underneath the runway in Manchester airport Because if that wasn't enough, I've got to go all the way back now We're going to go under the other two tunnels in my lard. So we can walk all the way back and Let's go for drive under the runways now. We've walked under them. Now. Let's drive under them Well, I'm now walking back to my car at Stiles.  I've nearly finished but I came a slightly different way up through the Stiles Country Park because I suddenly thought there's one thing I didn't show you this bridge here It's called the Chapel Bridge. It's an almost sort of fairytale mystical like bridge here up in the gorge Spanning the gorge here. Well, it's a little sign. It says the Chapel Bridge So what I'm going to do I'm going to take you over the bridge and I'm going to continue ascending the gorge on the other side and From there I'll get back to my car and then as I said, we're going to get in the car I'm going to go for drive go through the other tunnels So it seems funny we've gone from Stiles to Manchester airport back to Stiles We're going to go back to Manchester airport. Let's have a look at this bridge And down below us. I wouldn't exactly say they're raging water There's a trickle of a stream down right down there below the leaves And on this side you might see the stream a bit better The path then goes along zigzags up there. I can see a bench right up there Just see where that gentleman's standing just about above him. There's a bench up there So I'm going to make more up there and then I won't have too far to go to get back to my car So onwards and upwards So we're now in the car. We've driven around from Stiles. It's quite a long way around Even though it wasn't that far. We're just passing a hotel I went in there for a bike and I'll pay back to Stiles The forward stop there for a bike. This bridge here is over the river Bollitt Now this roundabout is where we In the wrong gear where we had to walk cross So we walked from the road over there We came across here and we went up some steps Just up there. Now the tunnel is ahead of us. We're just coming up to it now So ahead of us now is the tunnel under the newer of the wrong base And then we'll go through this one and look ahead now we can see We're just coming into the tunnel. Not as exciting and vast as what we went through on the river Bollitt More just the square box this one And what we went through on the river Bollitt really was so big and vast and exciting Now we're in between the two runways so we left one tunnel We're going into the older tunnel now And again it's um it's quite exciting but nothing like as exciting as that one We drove through onto the river Bollitt and that was a really nice surprise Just how big and exciting it was So this one's going on quite a long way We're just coming to the end of the tunnel now So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching And it's really worth going to Cory Bag Mill Maybe not walking quite as far as I did But you know if you want to see the tunnel you could park at that hotel And walk there like I did Because that tunnel that we walked through was just really exciting So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment Thanks very much. Goodbye