Like Father, Like Son: 32 Years With the Same Client

Lynn & Scott of Chesterfield have a 150+ year old home, and they've had two generations of Mosby men work on it. Lynn talks of working with Scott's father Sam, and why she went with Mosby Building Arts again.

"Sam poured our concrete back porch in 1975. Sam and my mother-in-law were friends throughout school. After she was widowed, she was running for an election at junior college, and Sam helped her with the campaign. So, we knew his name.

"We had a wood floor porch and it was not looking good. When we started looking around, mother-in-law said, "Sam Mosby's a builder." So, we called him up. Sam poured the floor, which was a little difficult. There were stairs going up, so he had to pour under the stairs.

Scott actually remembers working on this project with his Dad while he was in college. I don't really remember him, but at the time, I had two teeny kids running around, so I was really preoccupied elsewhere."

What made Lynne call Mosby again? And when she did, was she aware that Mosby Building Arts' was Sam's business as now run by his son Scott?

"I knew it wasn't coincidence that they had the same last name (laughs). And I also knew (of Scott) from KMOX. When we decided to close in the porch, I asked around about people who did renovations on old homes, but that didn't work out. We wanted someone who would do a good job and not just slap something on the back of our house. So I thought, "I'm going to call Scott Mosby!"

We had him out about the porch, and Scott - the ultimate salesman - said, "So, we're going to have our painters and carpenters here. Is there anything else you need done in the house while they're at it?"

They proceeded to spend 7 weeks here, mostly doing work inside the house. They patched large cracks in the plaster walls up near the ceilings. Most all of the walls, doors and molding on the first floor were painted. They laid a new wood floor in the bathroom on the other side of the porch wall.

Our front door is 150 years old, and at the bottom was this crack in the wood so wide we could see daylight, and of course, cold air came in. A piece of the door jam molding was deeply cracked, too. They filled in all the cracks, and repainted. You can't tell where the cracks were anymore."

We often say that clients become a part of the Mosby Family. This one rings true on more levels than usual. Thank you to homeowner Lynn and to Sam Mosby.