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MR. Get-R-Done: The Maverick Story
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ISBN13: 9798178080269
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A quick timeline, for anybody who wants to know what came before what.
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1982 - The Saturday Slab. Wichita Falls, Texas. Eighteen years old. Dad pours a twelve-by-forty shop addition on a Saturday, leaves me and Ted with it, and the customer asks for a slick finish. First job that was mine.
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1982 - The Saturday Slab. Wichita Falls, Texas. Eighteen years old. Dad pours a twelve-by-forty shop addition on a Saturday, leaves me and Ted with it, and the customer asks for a slick finish. First job that was mine.
The 1980s - Learning the envelope. Two-by-six walls, wet-spray cellulose instead of fiberglass, caulking every crack in the house before the sheetrock went on. Low-E glass before it was code.
The 1990s - Iowa Park. Geothermal heat pumps with Greg. Rebates through Tommy at the power company. PVC ductwork buried in the slab instead of cooking in a 160-degree attic.
1998 - The Award. NAHB Energy Value Housing Award, for a 1,656 square foot single-story in Iowa Park, Texas. One-ton geothermal unit. Hjordis wrote the submittal.
1999 - Honorable Mention. A second house. Proof the first one wasn't luck.
1999-2001 - The Switch. Dad brings up insulated concrete forms and works on me for a month until I look at them. Then light gauge engineered steel framing, and learning to design the trusses myself.
2000-2008 - The Road. Reward Wall Systems, then Greenblock Worldwide. Training contractors to build with ICF: Ireland, Belize, Curaçao, and the eleven-story high-rise in Florida - the tallest ICF building in the country at the time. A church in New Mexico with bowed walls. A five-story Marriott in DeSoto, Texas, and a rent house with Allan asleep in the master closet.
The 1990s - Iowa Park. Geothermal heat pumps with Greg. Rebates through Tommy at the power company. PVC ductwork buried in the slab instead of cooking in a 160-degree attic.
1998 - The Award. NAHB Energy Value Housing Award, for a 1,656 square foot single-story in Iowa Park, Texas. One-ton geothermal unit. Hjordis wrote the submittal.
1999 - Honorable Mention. A second house. Proof the first one wasn't luck.
1999-2001 - The Switch. Dad brings up insulated concrete forms and works on me for a month until I look at them. Then light gauge engineered steel framing, and learning to design the trusses myself.
2000-2008 - The Road. Reward Wall Systems, then Greenblock Worldwide. Training contractors to build with ICF: Ireland, Belize, Curaçao, and the eleven-story high-rise in Florida - the tallest ICF building in the country at the time. A church in New Mexico with bowed walls. A five-story Marriott in DeSoto, Texas, and a rent house with Allan asleep in the master closet.
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