{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #430 aquatechwaterproofing.ca","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":697,"description":"Aquatech Waterproofing https://aquatechwaterproofing.ca/\nThis episode of The Next Biz Thing looks at Aquatech Waterproofing, a Toronto basement waterproofing and foundation repair specialist that has served Ontario homeowners since 1996. Markus J. Diplama explores how the company earned a five star rating across more than seven hundred reviews by diagnosing honestly and recommending the cheaper fix when it is the right one, and why a twenty five year transferable warranty changes what a repair is actually worth. The episode also looks at why basement water is becoming a predictable problem across aging housing stock. Listen in, then go and see what they do.\nWhat if the single most important part of a house was the part almost nobody ever thinks about, right up until the moment it fails?\nWelcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and every episode I go looking for the companies that are quietly doing something exceptional in their own corner of the world. Some weeks that corner is a laboratory. Some weeks it is a design studio or a factory floor. Today it is about two metres below ground level, in the cool, dim space underneath a family home in Ontario, Canada.\nBecause here is the thing about basements. Nobody buys a house for the basement. Nobody photographs it for the listing. It is storage, it is the furnace, it is where the kids eventually claim a corner for a games console. And then one spring morning after the thaw, or one evening after a storm that dropped more water in three hours than the city drains were ever designed to carry, a homeowner walks down those stairs and steps into a centimetre of water. And suddenly the least glamorous part of the house is the only part that matters.\nThe company I want to tell you about today has spent almost thirty years standing between Ontario homeowners and that morning. They are called Aquatech Waterproofing, and they are based in Toronto.\nThey started in 1996. That is worth sitting with for a second,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}