811 Call Before you Dig

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If you’d like to dig at your property, pick up the phone and call Shana now or 811. Yes. So 811 is a number that you would call if you do want to dig it all. And you think you know your property well, but you often don’t. But you don’t always know those. We talked previously about the sewer lines. You need to you need to make sure before you dig to call and they will come out and do. What like really quickly. Really fast. It’s shocking how quick they are. You call and I actually did this on the website, so we’re going to go over here and show them off their website in particular. And you want to dig. Right. So you just click on that button, I want to dig and then you tell them what you want to do. Yeah. And then once you do that, you fill out some quick paperwork and then the paperwork that you fill out basically says what you want to do. You’re a homeowner. What you what you intend to do, where you intend to do it. You give them some information and then immediately, boom, it gets sent out to a ton of people and all the different services. Look up and see the utility contractors. Anyone looks up that has some something related to your property, whether it’s gas, water, sewer, electric, telecom, and they come out and mark all of the lines for you. So you know exactly where they are. And when I say, like immediately I was, I put it in and like an hour later I got a call from the gas guy. He’s like, I’m at your property. And I’m like, What? And I just could not believe how quick they got there. Yeah, that’s good. Yeah, that’s awesome. So that is how quick that is. The water, I think took til the next day. There was no other utilities there that were in in and around that place. But they mark them out. They talk to you about what you plan on doing, how you plan on doing it and where it’s going to be. They Oh, that’s good right there. If we look at the colors, if we scroll down just a touch, what we have are different colors that they mark everything. So the paints a different color for each particular one for what it happens to be. So now you know where those lines are. So when you dig, you don’t hit them. That’s kind of it. You might be doing this for a tree root. Barriers for foundation, barriers for putting in a new fence, for some type of landscaping, for digging up bushes, whatever it is, right? Oh, yeah, cool. Especially they’ll definitely call on that. But there’s all types of reasons that you may dig in your yard and there’s all types of reasons to also dial 811. Shana, how do you feel about that? I feel that was great. You do? Yeah. On the web or on a call. Doesn’t matter. They’ll take care of it all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realestatenewstv/message