Inspecting FLAIR'S Tornado Damage! (This is NOT Good...)

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[@dalegereaux1863]

After watching you build those houses, seeing how beautifully they turned out, and then seeing all the tornado damage is enough to make a person cry. 😢 I sure hope the right insurance person comes out to check it so they understand all of the damage so it gets the attention it needs to look like new again.

[@readytodefend1325]

I really enjoyed watching your videos during the house build and fixing flaws at the end. However, I have deep respect for what you're doing for Flair and his family after the devastating tornado damage. You are truly a good person and friend!

[@rynhanson]

I'm a patch guy in Lincoln. Seems to be a lot of drywall damage. Insurance adjusters never give enough for drywall repair

[@dawnkangas2968]

Absolutely devastating prayers going to you all Macy looks so pretty Flair is busy at work hopefully everything will be ok God bless you all

[@windycityrosin]

I dig the addition of the light instrumental background music, adds a nice little touch to the scenes and transitions 👍

[@seanpayne8331]

I work with insurance every day being a Restoration Estimator! And I got to tell ya, some adjuster got their credentials out of a crackerjack box.

[@williamsethman2434]

Good video Brad. Glad you are looking out for Flair & his family. For sure the adjuster will miss a lot of things. Hope it all works out for everyone.

[@dalegereaux1863]

Great update on the beginning of the repairs ! 👍🎺

[@inlinejdm]

Was great meeting you Brad! I had no idea you and Flair were that close to my parents. Subbed.

[@frenchysandi]

Good thing you were able to point out all the damage, the cost to repair it (if insurance didn’t pay) has to be very high.

[@dannyd-rockmahaffey3087]

WOW, Great video Brad....Glad you guys are doing well!

[@cherylcooper2838]

Macy looks so pretty even after all that they have gone through!

[@heatherd.9390]

This may be the soonest after posting a video that I've managed to get on here and see it. To be the 33rd comment is unheard of, haha! I sure hope Macy sees this video, because I just want to say that she looks FANTASTIC. I'm not even going to add "for a woman who just had a baby" because she just looks lovely. I need you to put a bug in Andrew and Macy's ear though, Brad. Other than knowing the baby was born the night of the tornado, we haven't learned anything else. Name, weight, how she and momma are doing, does Brooklyn love being a big sister, see a picture (or better yet part of a video)... you know - things that nosey ladies like to know. Ask Mary if you need to know what things are important. I'm just so thrilled for them. Andrew works really hard (and has fun doing it) and they've made a lovely home inside the house you built them. I just couldn't be more happy for them. This video was really interesting, unfortunately. It was a great show of just what a tornado can do. We all think of he exterior damage and maybe some water or debris inside where windows have been blown out, but all that minute damage like the pock marks on the drywall, etc. It really goes to show you how powerful and scary those things are! I'm so glad that no people or animals were hurt at their house or yours. Oh... one last question. Andrew and Heavy D managed to get Nate's girlfriend's car out of the fallen shop. Is she able to get it repaired and keep on with it? It seemed to be ok other than some cosmetic things, but that's thru a video. Take care, Heather

[@markdavid4773]

Just think of the people that don’t have someone like Brad to watch out from them because we all know how insurance companies are

[@troybrooks2066]

To be fair, while it’s nice having your home builder live right next door, Flairs insurance check will inevitably end up being signed over to Brad for the work, so he’s not likely to leave anything out! 😆😆

[@TashaOneal-l8h]

​@@troybrooks2066all that money y'all donated should be able to build 80 houses

[@Rknowles813]

Or having a bunch of money and great insurance like Flair and Brad

[@joanneganon7157]

Hey Brad, thank goodness you are there to protect Andrew and Maci,and get them what they deserve❤. You are scoring the goodies Taday! Ralphie loves a hat. ❤! Awesome,I haven't seen the baby Ducklings😍. Thanks for being you🤗. JO JO IN VT 💞

[@whatsjeffdoing9945]

those are the installers that did my house... they made new windows look like they had been installed when the house was built in 1916. Absolutely great installers.

[@ChewyLocos210]

Flair always hated that pergola and wanted to make it into structure. He got it! 😂

[@B_Rad4Real]

One of those leaf vacuums will get that glass out of the yard and the rocks but may be cheaper to just replace the rock landscape

[@9milsOn2wheels]

Tell Andrew to use a cast net to catch the rabbit.

[@Fun.Guy.Forager]

Andrew is just showing off for the camera pretending to work LOL. Now I know where banjo hides his never ending stash.

[@strydershadow391]

Amazing the amount of damage done. Have you considered that the entire structure might have been twisted or shifted on the foundation? Watching the damage you have shown looks like it might have been. I've done training on 3D modeling and precise surveying of structures. It would have been interesting to compare a 3D model of the entire house (interior & exterior) to a before and after the tornado to really visualize the effects of the storm digitally.

[@dawnsutherland3461]

Love your video. Laughed at you getting free jerky and candy for life . Lol

[@thomassteed390]

Great content as usual.

[@BradtheBuilder]

Thank you 👍

[@MrNiccholas]

As an insurance adjuster on the Catastrophe Response Team, we know we will miss things. That's what supplements are for. We only have so much time at each property and we do our best to get as much as we can. If you think you are busy, my deployments were a minimum of 21 days straight 12-14 hours each day. So I know everyone likes to hate on insurance companies, but please be understanding with your adjuster. Get lots of pictures, get bids, and send them in to the insurance company.

[@marshalltille7770]

Besides the open and obvious, some blue painters tape would have been nice. Simply stick some on the smaller, visual damage.

[@jesusalaniz4608]

It's funny u took the jerky with your shirt saying "the bandit" lol

[@mikedelacruz3135]

🤣 spot on…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌

[@carolinemitchell3620]

Awesome video as always Brad 🎉❤ free Jerky and candy for life what it's like to have amazing neighbours x ❤🎉

[@Matt-yg8ub]

Imagine being an insurance adjuster trying to lowball on the cost of repairs and having Brad standing right there telling him exactly what it’s going to cost to fix it….. because he built it all in the first place, and it’s not even a year old.

[@troybrooks2066]

And Brad will be getting paid to get his subs to do all the work lol Insurance adjuster nightmare is showing up and seeing the builder on site lol 😆

[@mikedelacruz3135]

Awesome update episode Brotha Brad ✊🏼🧐!! lol, Macy is DEFINITELY the CONNECTION for all the goodies 😉👌,lol. Keep em coming Sir 👊🏼😎🤙🏼🎺🎺

[@james.morris247]

Great El Bandido shirt

[@nateroberts1978]

I love the feel of this video. There must be a different editor because he makes me giggle at Brad more than before

[@oksooners]

Dang, that 1st bag of jerky was the prototype bags! That's a collectible lol

[@lawrencejones1517]

You collect it, I'll eat it. 😁

[@joelblair8339]

Major situations... and don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure it's Greg the goose.

[@bigfootmcelveen2617]

Love the video brad great work

[@seanowheels]

9:06 Amazing! 😂😂

[@BradtheBuilder]

That was fun! 😜

[@seanowheels]

It only got better!

[@workinonitsteve]

Cool video 👍

[@BradtheBuilder]

Thanks 👍

[@CocoDevlin]

The goose is called Greg 🥰

[@ronlindsey5295]

Agro tires are a must on a zero turn on any type of slope. Especially a commercial grade those are heavy and slide easily on regular turf tires.

[@THEKILLERISBACK]

use a janz 36inch or a power washer with 2000 psi for the concrete pavers

[@WiiHunt95]

Go for new drywall and replacement of any wet insulation. The adjusters hated me

[@BradtheBuilder]

They don’t like me either !!👍

[@badbilly429]

If Andrew didn’t have you Brad he would absolutely get hosed by his insurance company!

[@troybrooks2066]

Not necessarily. I’ve had claims and friends who unfortunately have had a very similar situation as Flair, and they had no trouble. Insurance adjusters are never friendly with home builders. One party is writing the check and the other party is cashing it. As crazy as it sounds, Brad is going to make a lot of money when it comes to the repairs and rebuild. He isn’t going to leave anything out and will be very detailed. Hopefully Flair doesn’t get any grief. Every industry has their bad apples and good ones too.

[@badbilly429]

@@troybrooks2066 I work in the industry on the car appraisal side, getting people more money than insurance offers on their totaled cars, insurance companies and adjusters are snakes in the grass. I average getting people 3-4k more for their cars and take 95% of what I look at.

[@masquinongy4652]

@@troybrooks2066They’re not friendly to the builders because they know what to look for, to add onto the cost of repairs, which in return means more money the insurance company is gonna have to cough up to cover the expenses, which they don’t like doing in most cases

[@MrNiccholas]

Believe it or not, most Adjusters aren't worried about the money. I worked as a Catastrophe Response Team adjuster for one of the larger companies and my goal was to get as much as I could for the homeowner. That is what we were taught and that's what the supervisors drill into us. It's underwritings job to make the company money not adjusters. A big reason we don't tend to like builders is because they tend to be the most condescending, arrogant, and downright rude people we have to deal with. Plus there are a lot of contractors who lie and try to cheat the insurance company as much as they can. They try to slow us down as much as they can and they insult us or curse us out every chance they get. The initial adjuster's job is to get in, get photos, put together a basic estimate with as much as we can see, and get that first payment into the homeowner's hand ASAP. Then we move to the next property. We know full well there will be things we miss on the first look. That's why there are supplements, to add things that were missed on the first estimate. The big reason we don't get everything is we just don't have time to track down every little detail. A normal deployment to an area after a storm is 21-28 days straight, 10-14 hours each day. I've seen guys go as long as 42 days with 2-3 days off over that whole time. So yeah, if the builder is helpful and he's honest, great! The inside adjusters love to have good builders to help find anything we missed or anything that wasn't even visible during the initial inspection.

[@EddieSchirmer]

have you heard of Monolithic Domes? i would love to see what you could design one into. there are an insane amount of possibilities with them, and they are tornado resistant to a huge degree. figure you might be curious about them as a builder =)

[@averysellers199]

Got to get yourself a glass magnet

[@Dirtay427]

Hardy panel is definitely one of the best products in the world. I had a car fire about 20 years ago and had a trim piece in my trunk that survived the fire and all said and done I took a brillo pad to the trim piece and it cleaned right up. The car was a total loss melted the aluminum rims.

[@edwardseddon9202]

So the James hardy board the word you were looking for is impact resistant....second the interlock or as you called concrete pavers saw pervious video of the product that was used it was Unilock product Unilock paveing stone or as well call it in Canada warranty there Stones

[@j.cv.bmerwe6304]

The glass you mite be abel to remove in the same fashion as the railway ballast cleaning

[@dpexoticsss]

Has someone who spent a decade working in lawn care to clean up that glass out of the grass and the rocks get a leaf vacuum play a lot of people use to clean up leaves out of their yard normally that'll have enough Force to get the glass out out of your grass in your Rock beds

[@brendan3081]

if we dont already have one we need a ralph in the brad the builder hat t-shirt

[@backlashbassin.5601]

You need to find a new gutter guy who uses premade corners

[@billrichmond4922]

Sometimes you can get lucky when there are major storms and they bring in 3rd party adjusters who write up everything, but you do have to watch because sometimes they may not know the rules in that particular state.

[@j.cv.bmerwe6304]

So wats the plan with the gun volt it waz a goed Tornado shelter but the dore geting blockt waz bad but ppl in there survived?

[@BradtheBuilder]

It worked great & they had cell service when inside👍

[@pugsly5857]

The goose's name is Greg not George and he's always very noisy lol.

[@budman4137]

Pergola is structure for the pond, Flairs words

[@YoDawg-v6l]

Note to self - if you have a butt load of $$ to spend building a house then build as much as possible with concrete and rebar to protect from tornados and bombs

[@EAGL3YT]

10:55 That's why you dont stand by Windows to watch a tornado that glass is shrapnel and will slice you

[@masquinongy4652]

I don’t even stand next to windows during a simple thunderstorm, cause you never know what can or will happen

[@jamesgillespy4178]

I just saw the headline and have not watched yet......I did let out a gasp when I saw the title

[@milesmcdonald4367]

What kind of pavers are those?

[@kylestewartt5990]

Love from Scotland uk

[@CocoDevlin]

I think there’s still 5 of the female rabbits loose, flair might have lots of babies running around soon 😂

[@davegordon6943]

If you can help it never ever ever let the insurance company "builders" fix anything on your property. Well they won't actually fix anything. They basically have duct tape that will match every surface available. I've done some work for insurance companies and what they consider fixed is just so bad. If you do use them then find the strictest inspectors you can find.

[@BradtheBuilder]

Thanks

[@Daveyjokes]

Flair weed eating that whole property without a shoulder strap? 😂 he felt that the nect day for sure

[@jnotravels]

Flair wanted structure he got it lol i bet his wife wont complain if the pergola ends up there!

[@txmarine82]

Never ending work. Insurance is ridiculous

[@DanielBeer-wn7wk]

Not sure how helpful but in a Larson farms video they used a vacuum to vacuum up rocks then you could just put down new without glass.

[@run_rabbit-run9762]

Being Flair's house was brand new, will the insurance company pay for his house and exterior property to be exactly the way it was when you handed him the keys or he get a couple windows and one garage door replaced?

[@michaelrichards6907]

Aren't you glad to have flairs shirt tales to make content 😂

[@lewiskemp5893]

As a bodyman I won't even talk about insurance. When you save 15 percent it comes out of my wallet

[@jebmcdonald5709]

any plans to make Eugeno a partner at Archi-structure he seems to be the brunt of the operation

[@Pmgraham]

Nation Wide is on your side 😂

[@stevethefishingsanta7771]

Is that siding also referred to as Hardee plank? My Dad built homes in Columbia SC for 43 years

[@texasfan3345]

What happened to big jr?

[@masquinongy4652]

He’s still around, think he was just in one of Flairs last video or two ago

[@lambert439]

Sounds like you need to order a glass magnet

[@retartedfreak]

19:33 I think the editor forgot to cut that out hahahaha

[@TimJohnson-x9k]

I thought it was funny

[@Trent_Editshits]

“u little sucker” 😂

[@NoChance797]

I think you mean insurance adjusters ignored to give a low bid.

[@bastiaanborman7704]

You made 2 new costumurs for beefcake lol

[@badgermaniac74]

The goat identifying as a dog is 😂

[@MilesHolt]

Fill the mower tires full of water

[@strangleholdoutdoors]

Queefcake can afford it

[@User_yhvz]

😂😂oh man

[@oksooners]

The insurance company absolutely loves when you sign up with them, and expect their money every month or 6 months whatever you pay.. but when it's time for them to pay you for what you pay for every day. They can't be bothered.. the fact you're required to carry insurance, yet they're not required to do everything they should is completely bs.. hope they pay for EVERYTHING damaged!

[@noelleon9754]

Im telling lair you stole jurky

[@lsucody3687]

500k In home damage 250k for new shop 75k in miscellaneous damage to vehicles 150k in items to be replaced 25k in tree work million bucks goes quick….my townhouse just flooded I can’t afford a new tire on my car life as a single parent after serving in military

[@jessed6379]

How is all smashed and he worried about weed eating

[@heatherd.9390]

Yikes - Not sure I want to be the 666th 👍🏼. Isn't 666 a bad number, haha!?

[@chief4223]

All I see is flair this flair that everyone helping flair but no one else. Why? Cuz he use to be KZbin star? Go help the rest of the community and not just one person

[@drakedawson3455]

Dumb comment.