Wow, how did I do this one? This john bubber video is effecting my Company. This site seems to be fueling google authority and it shows up everywhere. The only wahy I can combat it is to loaxsd up my rebuttle on as many sites as I camn. The video says it all. Steve Williams aka deranged, demented creepy little man
Darren, did you notice that the above question was not answered?
All I know for sure is John Bubber is a stand up guy (albeit crusty) and THIS VENUE is not the place to hash this out. Be men and talk to each other and handle it person to person!
Hi Larry, I’m just saying, taking Dan out to the shed for speaking out against someone in his trade just seems a little off, when John Bubber has literally filled - filled - the structural forum with thrash-videos and negative commentary for the last 14 years. If you ask me, the two of them are doing the same thing - trashing folks from their keyboard, and using this website to do it. It’s beneath the profession, imho.
Darren, doing the same thing… really? hahaha
if you did any homework on THIS subject you’d have seen that i bash those who screw over, lie to homeowners for self gain!
so it’s okay for these INT system chumps to lie and scam homeowners, is that what you are stating Darren?
and it is NOT okay for me to bash them, to call them out… is that right Darren?
And Darren or anyone else, go back in the archives and READ the bashing i went through, repeatedly, from HI’s etc, hmmm you didn’t bring this up Darren, why not? I wasn’t and am not on ANY damn board looking to screw any homeowner, UNLIKE your fellow NJ brother O’Conner,
“Doing the same thing”… total bullshtt, wrong man, BIG time wrong!
Look at what you just wrote, and look what Oconner wrote above. It’s like you you two guys are literally the same person, but one is on the interior system side of the fence, the other on the excavate-the-foundation side of the fence. Is this really the place to do this?
wrong, i bashed him because he not only screwed over homeowner but also lies n misinforms others, BIG differnce you don’t apparently see
example , Hydro Armor video… he claims n wrote, “Hydro armor uses weep holes to relieve pressure OFF OF your foundation walls”
This is a LIE, this is nonsense, it is misinforming anyone watching it
Drilling weep holes will allow water that is geting into the blocks from, the outside, out onto floor… it does NOT 'relieve pressure OFF OF anyones foundation walls", it s a lie or simply incompetence. Only way one is going to RELIEVE some pressure off-of the foundation wall is to go outside and dig and remove the soil, roots etc, THAT is what can relieve some pressure, sheesh lol. Yeah sure, go ahead and try and keep some surface water away, that’s fine, it may help reduce some soil from swelling but it won’t on, during long, heavy rains
Yes it is one place, thankfully where i can call out these lying cheating contractors , i don’t have their $$$ to do advertising like they do to continue their lies n scams, another BIG difference… why does it bother YOU Darren, that i post facts which have and may continue to help some homeowners in other states not get screwed ?
And Darren, did you read the bashing i took years ago? Did you bother to read that crap? No? That doesn’t bother you huh? lol It only bothers you that i bashed Danny, and some others who have cheated homeowners lol that’s a BIG wow
here is one of the numerous videos i posted, i BASHED a company… why? Because they LIED to the homeowners that’s why! Homeowners were getting water in basement on floor and some mold asnd efflorescence on walls and walls were bowing in, YET, the INT system company lied, scammed the homeowners out of $25,000 ish for an INT system and wall anchors that didn’t fix the existing problems, see for yourslef… SHHHHESH unreal!!!
Now Darren, if you don’t bother to watch it then that’s your choice but to sit back n shttt on me and say i am just like OConnor is another LIE.
Hi Darren, and what I am saying is it doesn’t belong here…They can be men and work it out somewhere else…thanks.
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One for sure fact…
Mr Hydo-JERK has now negatively ingratiated himself with approx 2000 members here on the forum. good marketing - huh…
This is what happens when you spout off without having a formal thought process.
What’s my buddy Robbie say? OH yeah!
Too bad
So sad
I think the video posted 3 years ago tells it all. Hydro Armor aka Dan OConnor umm bad review, beer cans The public should be made aware of this sh it. Whether it is exposed here or there don’t make a damn bit of difference.
Anybody that works like that should not be in business period.
hydro-dude used a backhoe to dig, did ya see the pizz poor, TERRIBLE jon he/they did tarring n that visqueen just hanging there? lol
yeah Marcel, with all hydro-dudes ‘fame’ lol n followers on youtube, the job, the work i watched in that video was very sloppy, like a dang rookie or drunk was there, i just don’t see the problem posting videos like this where quite a few in this business screw over homeowners, sheesh i am such a villian
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Danny, Hi Danny… you there Danny? lol I see Danny slapped on a video from 2016, he popped it on you tube, guess he needs some attention, Mr wanna be Tough guy, read the caption too lol
his recent vid
see if Unc Bubb’s gets a reply or two from Dan or from 1 of his guys who apparently don’t stick around too long, folla? Why? Uh huh (read the yelp NOT recommended revie below link)
Ya see, i don’t care for contractors who lie, who cheat homeowners, can you dig that? No not some, see above who kiss this guys behind
Ok video, lol, i won’t crap on it too much, i like the dog much better than Dan O, of course doggy may help Danny sell an extra couple jobs
So it appears he is digging along a breezeway and one side of garage… ? lol
2:00 digs under walk to side door, ok if that what HE wants to do okay but not me, i would have cut n knocked out 18" or so of that walk, dunno if it’s cracked under the PAVERS n don’t wanna take any chances of it falling on my head or 1 of my guys melons
2:30 lol
2:45 yeah, sometimes blocks deteriorated, disintegrate… that what happens when builders etc don’t apply anything on em but whatever lol (he aka Dan O might have HIT 1 or more of those blocks, folla?)
6:30 that’s it, a couple inches of stone for backfill, then all the same backfill huh, okay Dan O
12:10 Backfilling with equipment, not the best idea, why? Because that soil is going to settle, it’ll pull down the top of the visqueen etc, not good but his job, so be it eh lol (should backfill with most-all gravel you cheap terd)
a few yelp reviews, he has some crappy google reviews too, sorry just saying - does he do some good work? He prolly does, but i can tell for CERTAIN, zero doubt, he does some crap work as well plus imo he scams at least some homeowners outta $$$, yeppers.
HERE, the NOT recommended reviews, one in particular is the first…in-part it goes,
"Do not hire this company… the hot headed psychopath of an OWNER uses shotty makeshift techniques when he starts getting frustrated towards the end of a job… he takes no responsibility n blames it on employess, i shoud know i worked for him…
…also know that anyone who he sends to work on your house has NOT been waterproofing with the company for more than 2 months (loolol), as Dan cannot retain his employees for any length of time with his hot headed temper"… and so on
ok back to Dan’s recent video, the CAPTION lol… in part goes,
'We’ve been real busy but i don’t work on most jobs anymore, only the near impossible ones, he’s 63 and he has THE BEST people working…"
lol, the best people huh, okay, but doesn’t ring true to me, nor to the ‘not recommnded review’ dig?
By the way Danny, if you ever read this tough guy, i’m 62… you and your boys have done mostly INT system crap, that isn’t anything like what we’ve done for 40 yrs, HAND DIGGING all jobs, BIG BIG BIG az difference so save me the crying crap, i recommend you let the dog do all the yapping for you, folla?
Idiots galore in this business, hey Dan O… if you n your guys are that good n so tough, come spend a few days with us, let’s see FIRST HAND, on VIDEO, what you n your boys REALLY got, hey i’ll pay ya’s $ loollll “IF” you can handle the work, i very much DOUBT you can
Thanks for the info, Mark.
Keep doing the great jobs! Your clients, I’m sure, appreciate it. 
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Hello My Friends. I’ve seen a few things here and perhaps u all might consider another possible perspective. At least be open minded that the video Mr. Williams made could be completely false. The job was 80% finished. The last day I was there I got a call from his Home Owner Insurance Company that he was turned down for his claim and that he made five other attempts, each turned down. Evidently he used my paperwork. Red Flag? Originally I was sympathetic toward Mr. Williams about his issues. It was a $26K job and I took only $6,500 deposit. Late that day one of my guys came and said Mr. Williams said directly to him that he didn’t know what he was going to do because he didn’t have the money. It was after 9;00 p.m. Dark. Steve did try to leave the job without my knowing. Long story short I asked for a ten thousand payment. He gave me a check for $2,000 and another for $4,500. So what do u all think was happening? 2 checks? He said he was transferring money.
Monday was a holiday and we were going back Tuesday. Here’s the e mail I received Monday night. He also sent me a video of himself shooting a phone with his 38 Special. And of course both checks were no good.
Monday On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Daniel J. OConnor <hydroarmor1@gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Williams <swilliams.pa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:02 PM
Subject: No access to property
To: “Daniel J. OConnor” <hydroarmor1@gmail.com>
Cc: Anne Day
<ADay@elionlaw.com>
Hydro Armor,
The property at 158 Bennett Drive Williamsport,PA 17701 has been posted “NO TRESPASSING”. Access to this property is not permitted without express permission of the owner, Steven Williams. Mr. Williams must grant specific permission and must be present at the property should access be granted.
Steven Williams
U could think he didn’t want me back because of the work? We all have liability Insurance, why not contact and make a claim? Why not? I would have told them the job was not finished and he didn’t have the money. My insurance Company would have checked into it; would have checked with his Home Owners insurance Co. about the claim. Would have gotten Mr. Williams banking accounts and would have seen he never did have the money. Wouldn’t that be insurance fraud?
So Mr. Williams made a video. Why? As an excuse not to pay me? Make it look like I had done damage? But gentleman, if my Liability Insurance Co was called in I would get an opportunity to defend myself and explain what was real. I’ve seen a lot of comments here. Is it OK if I call them attacks toward me personally? So ask yourselves if it’s a professional thing to do. Especially here with a calling me out?
My defense is this. Start with the beer. If there was all kinds of beer drinking on the job would we throw the cans all over the property? I think we’d want to hide the cans don’t u think? Seeded and landscaped? My paperwork says "not responsible for landscaping. Doesn’t yours?
The grading: an obvious first rough grading. - The end of the 2 ft. ADS pipe and how beat up it is. He knows he was going to finish it because I put down 40 ft of it FREE, with stone around and filled. - And the ruts in the drainage trench? He says he doesn’t know what the hell I was doing there? I was installing the 2 ft ADS. ( FREE ) He had that continuous drainage trench along his side yard and wanted it covered over so he could put in a driveway to the back yard. Which brings me to the stone in the yard. Beginning of a driveway stone base? And Top soil saw on him.
The back yard. Look at the dirt on the left he say’s I’m supposed to grade out? It’s the side of the mountain. Not anything we dug out nor anything that could be graded. Watch the video as he walks around to show our wood pile, you’ll see it’s the mountain. It was originally dug out to put the house in. -The wood pile? We pulled the forms off that "RAZOR sharp concrete late at night. Don’t we all clean up and haul at the end of a job? The dents in the aluminum siding do they look like any kind of dents that could b caused by an excavation machine? Or since you might be starting to see Mr. Williams setting me up, could it be Mr. Williams might have done that himself? And the poly going all the way up the wall? The basement windows were coming out and being blocked over. Behind the poly r damaged but repaired block. After windows were out and poly over we were putting mesh on and 2 coats of cement then ad grade to pitch away from house. The settling soil and cracking? Yes when backfilling it was tamped. It rained and further settled the fill thus the cracks.
Inside the basement. Beer cans on the floor? Really? And the water on the floor is from spraying and cleaning it the night before. And as I said, the razor sharp concrete, we pulled off the forms late that night. The water heater and the carbon monoxide? The vent cover? Cleaning up cement on pipe? Give us a break it was 9:00 P.M. and we were supposed to go back Tuesday.
And now the cracked up wall. Watch the video again. There was an original bow in the wall we were going to push back into place but someone had previously put wall pins ( rebar and Concrete ) in the blocks and when attempting to push it back the bow stayed but the top of the wall went out. Which is what we repaired outside and brought poly all the way up. It was decided that we would put in I Beams. “Tuesday.” And the wall was to be cleaned up and painted. There’s more but I hope u r getting the picture.
All that said, if Mr. Williams made a claim with my liability insurance company yet his Bank accounts did not show he had the money to pay for the job and his home owners Insurance co informed of his attempted claim, would that be Insurance Fraud?
And now I have to say there r millions of homes waterproofed from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Companies doing drainage from inside. Mr. Anderson, maybe there r circumstances for doing interior jobs and doing exterior jobs? You have your conclusions that water proofing should be done from outside but interior systems have been around for quite some time. A hundred thousand or so waterproofing Companies can’t all be wrong. The entire Industry can’t all be wrong.
I myself do many exterior jobs when required. I’ve loaded some videos to show you. And to watch the kind of work I do is it possible Mr. Williams video might be a set up so I don’t sue him? I truly do not mean any disrespect and I’m sure u do top shelf work but to be so judgmental and condemning me without knowing the facts? Or allowing me to defend myself?
I’m aware of other judgements on the site. In no way am I being aggressive or disrespectful to any one but I think it is only fair that I have an opportunity to defend myself. Answer a few accusations. Explain with a few more videos?
(https://youtu.be/wvKK2ABd0jM)[Hydroarmor A K A Dan OConnor Foundation Repair]
(https://youtu.be/RgDXk6wxb5E)Hydroarmor I Beams - Structural Foundation SupportHydroarmor - A K A Dan OConnor Foundation Repair/Waterproofing [Hydroarmor Exterior Waterproofing ]
I spoke about I Beams so I included here. Having explained a few things perhaps there can be a mutual respect. - Daniel J OConnor
I would like to add that I don’t think about reviews. Don’t look for. Don’t know where I might be showing up on the Internet. I haven’t joined or had anything to do with Yelp for many years. I don’t ask customers to write reviews. I do have competitors write fake ones. Like years ago when I did Google Ad Words. Competitors would click on my ad and drain the budget.
And yes the video I just loaded was a job from 2016. I’ve 30 or so I never edited. Lots of new stuff also. A few other things not about waterproofing.
I didn’t know u guys were beating me up in here until last Thursday. Brutal. All good though. Professional difference of opinions. I will have to start answering and will support my explanations with videos. Not to prove myself right or you wrong but to provide an explanation of those things u may not agree with. We all have our own experiences and different ways of doing things. Perhaps if I explain why I do whatever I do when u disagree or have a different way of doing things it can be a discussion. And don’t take my videos wrong, I do have my ways but will never say mine r the only ways. You might be doing something I’m not aware of which is better and quicker. I’m not stupid. Always up for saving time and money. Daniel J OConnor
ha! Just like i thought, okay well right off the bat Bubba is going to have to shoot ya down (your bogus claims in your own video… in your own WORDS!), shtt man, i would like to get along with you and ALL others but the INCOMPETENCE on this subject is just too much!
From where i sit after watching many of your videos and the videos originally posted, the job that was done is sad, garbage, not professional AT ALL! And you Dan charged this homeowner $26,000 ??? In my honest and experienced opinion, you waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overcharged this homeowner and quite likely, many more, yeppers! NO way the job you did, that i can see in videos should cost any homeowner anything close to $26K, not surprising though as i see THAT CRAP done all the time, you folla man?
PROOF of incompetence in your own words, in your video… here’s the video again
:20 mark in your video you show… you show an interior system that was previously installed by some idiot
:25 mark, you falsely and INCOMPENTLY claim,
“Had this system been installed properly, this would not have happened”( claiming the wall would not have bowed in, NONSENSE!)
:35 mark, you go on and erroneously claim,
“This is called a PRESSURE RELIEF system, it is supposed to relieve LATERAL PRESSURE”
hahahhaaa, TOTAL incompetence, bogus, false claim baby!!
An interior system, an interior pressure relief system and you or anyone can title it… does NOT ‘relieve lateral pressure against the damn wall!!!’. UNREAL lie or again incompetence, wow!!!
:45 mark, you show a horizontal crack in block wall and again incompetently & ignorantly claim,
“The reason it’s here is because of lateral pressure that SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED by the INT system”
Total nonsense, bogus bs, incompetenr claim! NO interior system, no INT pressure relief system can ‘Relieve lateral pressure on-against the exterior of the block wall’, this is fruitcake crap, you are dreaming or again incompetent with these claims man!
Only means of relieving, removing, lessening lateral pressure on-against a foundation wall is to on the EXTERIOR, NOT interior! You would need to remove the soil and any underground T roots etc in order to relieve lateral pressure.and it is the ONLY means of waterproofing-repairing all the exterior cracks in the wall!!! Installing ANY type of INT system will not relieve lateral pressure and will NOT seal-waterprooff any of the exterior cracks in these walls which are WHY the dumb az basement leaks!!! smfg Unreal, bogus, incompetent crap… you don’t know this man??? lololll hahahhahahaaaaaa
Example if you can fathom it… a tree limb or 2 land on a ROOF, causes damage to the roof, ummm pressure aka weight of tree limb eh lol, what are YOU gonna do?
Would you install a PRESSURE RELIEF system in attic, and a sump pump and carbon fiber straps? lollll
OR are you gonna REMOVE the tree limbs that caused the damage AND then repair the roof on the ummm OUTSIDE so that no water enters , what YOU gonna do bro?
Here’s an UNBIASED article (they don’t do waterprofing or foundation repair eh lol duh!), yes unbiased!
Pages 6 and 7… Damage to Foundation Walls… see their image of F wall BOWED IN, duh!
In-part they say, ‘Based on application submissions and project reviews, the most SUCCESSFUL repair method for foundation walls… is to remove and replace the clay soil with sandy or gravelly materials and to place waterproofing material along the OUTSIDE of the wall…’
Do they tell homeowners to, install an INT system, a PRESSURE RELIEF INT system? Hlll no!
And they try and inform people to ALSO, waterproof the EXTERIOR of the wall… Why?
Because bowed in walls have exterior cracks, BLOCK and brick F walls have EXTERIOR cracks, cracked parging which is why they leak, it’s where the damn water is first getting into the hollow blocks!! sheesh
Don’t forget, quite a few foundation walls have some tree roots growing against the wall or right along the wall, can cause similar problems! So can settled concrete slabs or a porch-footing that can settle against a wall, and that happens loooolll often because the builder didn’t seal/apply anything to the footing to help keep the footing from cracking, deteriorating… when part of a footing for a porch etc begins to deteriorate, disintegrate well then the likelihood of the footing moving, settling against a wall can occur, duh!
Bottom line, the claims i sited in your video are BS, are bogus, are incompetent, INT systems, interior pressure relief system do NOT relieve lateral pressure against a foundation wall, fricken nonsense man!
So if you can muster some real integrity then please explain how YOU came to the moronic conclusion AND falsely claimed in your own video that, ‘interior pressure relief system relieve lateral pressure’, smfgdhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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one more thorough article/report from an UNBIASED source, U S Army Corps Eng’s
maybe sit the hll down for several moments and LEARN something instead of talking crap
Causative Factors, Foundation movement, LATERAL WALL PRESSURE
3.1 sure several things can cause F movement
3.2 lateral wall pressure
3.2.1 Symptoms
The inward bowing of a basement wall is the simplest indication of a lateral pressure problem. The bowing generally occurs when EXTERNAL forces exceed the wall strength… if bowing becomes severe, basement walls can collapse inward.
CRACKING can also occur when stresses induced by lateral pressure exceed the strength of the concrete or CMU wall. The most common originates in the corners (step crack), often these cracks terminate at a long horizontal crack… the thrid crack type is vertical…
3.2.2 Soil weight
… the weight of the retained soil induces lateral pressure on the basement wall
3.2.3 Soil SWELL
…cyclic shrink/swell…
3.4.5 Backfill
3.4.11.1 Modeling results
… granular backfills can reduce lateral pressure
NOT an interior system, NOT an interior pressure relief system… PFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
Dan O, 3 vid’s of same house/basement… brick basement walls, leaks eh, some efflorescence etc
INSIDE view, see any cracks in walls and, you can’t see/tell on any basement wall from inside if the PARGING on the outside of these walls has cracked, deteriorated or if builder slapped on any parging to begin with, sheesh
Homeowner sadly got talked into getting a new driveway poured and was erroneously told the new pitch of the stupid drive slabs would keep basement dry loollll, MORE incompetent crap, lies, damn straight
2 vid’s of the oustdie of the foundation wall, showing how-where the water was FIRST getting in and it was then see inside basement, most of it coming in where the bottom of the wall meets the stupid floor! had nothing to do with the suppsoed need for better drainage or some goofball idiotic need for a dumb az pressure relief system! smfg again
see the cracked, deterioated parging, loose bricks etc, well THAT is where the water was getting in, why the basement leaked in this area
1:10 mark… here it shows where water was getting in where the gas line and water line comes in through the stupid wall and more cracked parging etc, NO interior drainage system and 101 sump pumps would do anything to stop further water and would not stop further deterioration
This job cost a tad over $3,100, a ONE day job, hand dug, was 45 linear feet… backfilled with all gravel and waterproofed NOT damproofed, ya dig?
Not all is lost Dan, i do agree with you when you said in 1 of your vid’s, something like many city building inspectors are full O sht on this subject.
I agree many are, NOT all but quite a dang few are incompetent, go by codes that were prepared and agreed to by many MORONS who don’t know much if anything on this subject.
Keep the cool dog Dan O, lose the lies and misrepresentative BS, you just might feel better deep inside yourself , maybe not lolll
this is fruitcake crap with 9PM beer cans.
The devil made 'em do it.
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" with 9 pm beer cans", hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! AAAaaahahahahhahhahhaaa!
Dan-O,
here is another bowed in block foundation wall, very similar to the one in your video where
a) some other knothead put in an INT pressure relief system, lool, funny, pressure relief… like a fart relief system bruh?
b) then you did the same thing, installed your int-system, smfg
Outside look at the multiple EXTERIOR cracks in block wall that those who install INT systems… leave OPEN!!! They leave em open and these cracks will get worse, widen… all the while this is WHY water is entering causing some mold or efflorescence on inside blocks, bricks etc
another view on the outside, where the settled driveway WAS… see the clay soil man? See what goes back in? Yeah man lool
One day job Dan-O, hand dug… pretty sure it cost $2,700 for all that friggin work n materials
INSIDE the same basement… SAME basement!!! lololll An idiot installed an interior drainage system that cost MUCH more $$ than what exterior cost, buyer moved in, basement continued to leak, why? lollll Because nobody fixed/waterproofed the EXT CRACKS n other ext-openings!!!
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