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In the episode, David gives the VP a piece of his mind.
“I told them from the very beginning, this is a wet area. I need at least twelve inches of dirt under my house. They put four inches of dirt when I asked for twelve,” he revealed. “They said, ‘Oh, no, well the inspector said it was fine!’… This is not how it had to be. This is wrong.”
He added, “This is probably the worst of the problem inside. See this area? There’s way more than the usual amount of settling happening in my house. My house is sinking!”
“They’ve never made any positive drainage! I’ve built houses, and I’ve rebuilt houses, and I’ve rebuilt foundations of houses. You can take that idea and shove it up your a** ‘cause my house is falling into mud.”
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He makes it very clear that he expects changes from the company. “I want my house on stilts or raised up or some dirt under it.” Then he vaguely threatens, “If I got to pay for it, I guarantee you… My wife has got about, I don’t know, 12 million followers on social media…”
But it’s clear that this is an ongoing problem for the family. In a later scene, Jenelle and David let off more steam about the state of their home.
“So when the modular home company came here, he talked to me for a while but he just didn’t seem to understand the true problem,” David reveals.
“It’s like, every time they come here, they want to tell me ‘Well, I think we should put a little drain in here, a little pump under the house, maybe we should grade some dirt.’ I basically told him that that’s not gonna work,” David says.