Home Improvement Show 01-11-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning and welcome in the home improvement show of
the Midlands here on one of three point five FM
five sixty am WVOC always free on the iHeartRadio app,
and wonderful to have you joining us this morning. We
appreciate that. My name is Gary David and we got
a very busy hour. Folks gonna drop by and say hi,
including Jessica Smith from Lexington Kim Drive. She'll we buy

(00:34):
later on this half hour, Marcus and Todd from Lifetime
Cabinus Encountertops. We'll be talking remnants and misconceptions about stone countertops.
They'll be here in the next half hour, and James
Carr Well, we'll be buy with some timely tips when
it comes to your plumbing in cold weather. He'll join
us before we wrap things up at nine o'clock and
make way for the Health and Water shop. We get

(00:56):
things started with John and Kathy Figner from a Rock
that Toppery Surface and happy to you to both of them. Gary, Yeah,
we could come off this holiday schedule like I hadn't
seen y'all forever.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know we got to get back on this routine.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Is it ten o'clock? Did I wait? Wake up?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's the only little lefter nine. But that's okay. Your
your your clock will spring ahead here in a couple
of months and on time. There you go. Hope you
had a good holiday.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, you too good.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
This this is a you know, we're kind of like
in that you know, calm before the storm period. I'm
not talking about the weather, but the calm before the storm.
It's January and you know, everybody's in the doldrums and
such and not thinking about doing a whole lot of anything.
Maybe trying to pay off you know, Christmas bills and such.
But uh, you know, before you know it, something weird happens.

(01:47):
Right the sun comes out, the weather starts to turn
a little warmer. Say the same thing every single year,
and everybody in there, the ollow.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Thing shines in the sky and people go outside with
paper and a pencil, and they start writing down all
the projects they want to get right, all the stuff
we want to get done.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So my recommendation is always on the show, why wait
till then, right right, get her done, Get her done.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
We were inside your home, so.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Right, so this is not it's rock the top resurfacing.
Let's uh, you know, let's go back to the start here,
all right, because you know, new folks join the show
every every week and tell us exactly what it is,
you guys, do.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm want John ticket. You explain it really well?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
All right, So based in a nutshell, this is going
to be a super quick version. But in a nutshell,
we spend a lot of time in you know, ugly
bathrooms yellow green, pink and blue ceramic tile walls, same
thing on the floor, maybe chicklets, showers, bathtubs all yellow, green,
pink or blue or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Just they're just bad colors.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
And people think, oh my gosh, it's making me sick
they even look at it. I gotta gut this thing,
and it's going to cost so much money. Well, it
doesn't cost money with this option, and basically what it is.
We leave everything right where it is and.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
We see money, but it costs a whole wholes yes,
I mean thousands. I don't want people that stuff for free.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it's so inexpensive. It's kind of shard to believe
it just about free. Yeah, it's just about it's crazy.
But so we just leave everything right where it is
and we resurface it and the new colors that we
put on. Number one incredibly durable. Number two, the grout
lines get done too, so you don't have to ever
worry about grountlines again. They don't mold, can't grow in them,
Dirt's not going to stick to it. It's non porous,

(03:32):
one hundred percent waterproof and beautiful. And it's also like
for the whole Bathroom'm talking walls, floors, tubs, showerstalled the
entire bathroom three days. So you can't beat that. It's
impossible to beat that. I'm sorry, Evan. I used to
renovate everything and not anymore. It's just this saves so
much time and money.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
And the landfills don't get filled up with all that junk.
So and it's not a super big, dusty mess.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
So if there's missing tiles or tips or cracked tiles,
we can repair all them.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
You could throw a baseball through the wall, it doesn't matter.
We can fix it. I guess that's one of the
problems of you know, as you say you've got a
crack or a missing tile, who knows how long that
tile has been in that bathroom? Yeah, right, could have
been fifties, forties, sixties one ever, good luck finding that again.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
They don't make that smore. The four by fours are
they used to be like actually four by four. Now
they're like, well, actually they were. Now they're actually four
by four. They're just a little bit larger. So if
one falls off the wall you can't find one, it's
not gonna be replaced to replace it, so we actually
shave them down to put new ones in. But but
to get it to look well, if for nothing else,
even if you found the same tile, the same color

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and everything, well, that one's been there for forty years
or it's going to look right. So that doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
But you could come in with any tile, any color,
any color throw purple would have, doesn't matter. Put it
gray one, I don't care what it is.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
And then we resurface them some minor fiberglass repairs on
any crack. Soap dish holders and tooth brusholders, all half
of are cracked off the walls. And that's actually dangerous
because if you fall on one, oo, you can get
cut bad, thought about that. But so we usually take
those things right off the wall and yep, do a
little repair and five resurface the whole thing and it's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, So in a prior life, as you alluded to you,
you did do total bathroom O yeahs oh yeah, we
do our business where you do your business. We uh,
I mean we were renovating.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I had a painting company, had thirty guys working for
us in northern Virginia back in the day. And we've
been in business for how many years now?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh my god, five.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Thirty five years. It seems like just yesterday. Well Kathy
got started when she was three.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, right, yeah, but yeah, it's the technology it just developed.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You know, it all started in one bath tub. I
was in the bathtub.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
We had like seven hundred of these things to do,
and I'm in the bathtub with the saws all getting ready.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
To cut it out.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
And one of my painters came in and said, you know,
mister John, why don't you just leave it alone.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Let me resurface this for you.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
This is a long time ago when resurfacing just took
started to become a thing. I'm like, you know what,
go ahead, let's see what. And the next day I
came in to look at it and.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I'm like, why am I replacing all these bathtubs when
I could do that? So you know, I showed it
to the regional and he totally agreed. And then that
became if I could do the bathtub, why can't I
do the ceramic tile walls? And if I can do
the ceramic tile walls, why can't I do the ceramic
tile flour This I hate to call it paint, but
I mean, these chemicals are incredibly durable.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Now, Elephant, I'm glad you brought that up, because Cathy,
let's talk about that that you may may think, well,
I'll just come in and put putting paint on something.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, there's several layers in the huge process that goes
into getting getting this done right, and we do off
orangey on it to make sure that everybody's satisfied, and
it's gonna last for very long time, probably till you
get tired of that color.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Had that happen, right, Oh yeah? People call me all
the time.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
We did your kitchen countertops about nine years ago, John,
and I need you to come back and do it again.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
And I'd be like, why, Oh, I just want to
trying new color because.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It doesn't And.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, but there's a there's a lot of science involved
in what you do.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh yeah, a lot of chemistry. A lot of chemistry, yeah,
lots of chemicals. And the chemical chemicals are changing all
the time. We work with the you know, the chemists,
and they call us and we're beta test and all that.
How does this perform? How does it spray? How what's
the caure of time? Anything you would like to see happen?
You know, does it lay down nice? Just all kinds
of questions that they ask us, and how they can
tweak the four meals and keep on chain. And the
government changes them too, you know, they might not want

(07:40):
so many VOCs and a in a chemical and they
make a law and all of a sudden, we got
to figure a hack around this now. But the industry is,
it's better and better and better looking every single year.
I can't wait till next year. We get better looking
every year. Now again, we talk all about bathrooms and cases.

(08:00):
But for example, we picked you guys did come in
and do a bathroom? Yep, but you also did ceramic
tile four floor was Yeah, So it doesn't have to
be a bathroom or a kitchen, Nope. Anywhere where there's
a ceramic tile floor, if it's ugly, we can take
care of that.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, without ripping it out, rip it out if you
don't have to.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yep, there's no reason to be doing that making a
big mess, well super expensive, no way.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well again, to contrast the two things we're talking about here,
all right, and you know, because you've done this before
in a past line. If if you hire somebody today
to come in and just redo an entire bathroom, Okay,
what are we time wise, money wise?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
What are we talking at least fifteen grand up to
I mean, depending on the bathroom and how beautiful you
want to make it. But I mean it can go
up to forty grand easy for a super nice bathroom.
But and that can take I mean it can literally
take over a month to do something like that. But
when we go in there, if.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I spend forty grand and reading bathroom, I'd live in it.
Oh yeah, I mean a lot. I'm living it super
super nice, but typically I do already anyway. But I.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Mean, like if you want to move your your bathtub
somewhere else and make it become a shower, now that's
a whole different ball game.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, call it a contractor and have it all. Do
you like the pieces where they all? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
But if everything's functional it's just pink, that's where we shine.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Or even if it's just dingy looking.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
We're walked in one yesterday.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
It was a shower stall and this lady's like, I
have tried everything, I cannot get this thing clean. Well
I'm sorry, man, but you know the mold is impregnated
into the surface. Now you're not going to be able
to get that out. It's not gonna You could spend
days on it, it's not going to happen. So dawless,
we can totally take care of that. So this hand
over here you got, we'll just take the mental them.

(09:53):
You're talking about fifteen thousand dollars and maybe upwards of
thirty days before you back in that bathroom begin. I
hope you've got a second bathroom by the way, yes,
Uh so that's that rock the top resurfacing. I mean
we've done them as low as four thousand, three thousand dollars,
and that's for the bathtub.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
The tile walls.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
All the way around the room now all the way around,
and a ceramic tile floor and the vanity top.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
We do the vanity tops to make them look like stone.
In a couple of days.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, we come back the third day typically to pull
the paper and plastic. But that's yeah, that's a quick day.
It's a half a day, not even a half a day.
All right, you've heard it.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
You want to call Kathy how to folks.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Reach you and then call us a eight oh three
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up online Rock Thetop Resurfacing dot com.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Y'all have a great week and be safe out there
you too.

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of the Midlands and thank you for joining us this
morning here on one O three point five FM and
five sixty AMWVOC. I'm Gary David, now joined by Jessica
Smith from Lexington Kim Dry and well happy new you
haven't seen you since the new year started?

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Yeah, happy New Year too.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
How's y'all earn that now? Mad post holiday rush? I
guess we are folks clean things up after.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
The fact, post holiday clean up yep.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
So what do you do more? Pre holiday or post holiday?
Which time is busier for you?

Speaker 7 (13:07):
Pre holiday is always busier first to go around and
then once usually the first couple weeks after the new
year slows down a bit because people are still enjoying
the holidays, and then it picks up for the post
taking down decorations in trees and being cooped up in
the house cleanups.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I guess you'd say, seems like these days people are
leaving things up a lot longer than they used to.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
I think you have your the pre holiday seasons. I
like to set up their trees come November first, you know,
station down sooner, and then some people like to set
them up a little bit later and keep them up
till you know, the end of January. We've had some
some I have some customers to actually keep up trees
all year round that we work around.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Really yep, that's funny because my wife mentioned somebody the
other day, did she They like there so much they
left it up all year round. I don't know anybody
that does.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
That, but you runner that we have a couple of
customers that do. And know so those aren't real trees, no,
not real trees, but they it's sentimental for them, and
so they keep them up all year round.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's cool. That's cool. Well, so now, yeah, if you've discovered,
if you've taken everything down, then discovered that will okay
mess on our hands. Time for colection and kim drive.

Speaker 7 (14:20):
Right. So, when you're setting up your decorations and you're
taking them down from the attic, people are very surprised
see how much dust collects for that year as it's
sitting there. So now, as the decorations are up and
you're having to work around all the little knickknacks and
Christmas things, when you start taking them down, the dust
and things settle and so or plus you know, the
holiday of people coming in and out visiting family and friends,

(14:43):
so you just have that clean up in the winter
months the air quality in your home. With running your
furnace and keeping your windows closed, the dust settles and
so the your biggest filters in your house, so of
course are your your carpet and your polsteres. So if
you think about changing your air filters for your heating
an air unit and they get all dusty, your carpet

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and upholstery air rugs collect all that dust as well,
so it's good to clean that up post holiday season.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I hear that said a lot about carpet being the
biggest filter in your home, although I guess technically yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
I think if a filter is something that traps something
but then keeps from getting somewhere else. But in this case,
it is just trapping it and keeping it right, shooting
it right there the floor in your house.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
So you're thinking about your foot traffic of the patterns
where people are walking in and out of the house,
and you're having the darker grayish areas. It's the same
thing as like air filter running through your house. The
carpet collects that dust that settles in, and so now
is a good time to get that pre pre spring
clean up, you know, when you're being trapped inside. Plus

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it's when you're having cold and flu season and germs
and different.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Things and having that right now.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, it was so when you're stuck inside the house
and all that is settling in, it's a good time
to get that cleaned as well. During that after the
after the virus came through.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Going back years and talking to Larry Harrison Classic Systems
when he was on the program, he used to tell
us about how you know, back you know, nineteen mid
nineteen seventies earlier, this wasn't as big of a problem
with houses, but the arab oil embargo back during the
Jimmy Carter years. Of course, the late Jimmy Carter New

(16:38):
rules came to effect that really tightened up houses. You know,
windows had to be a certain thing, and you know,
the materials and all that, and they just you know,
houses got so sealed in order to try to save energy.
That that help, That worked, but it also meant that
whatever you had inside the house got trapped there too,
and that was not such a good thing.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
And with the old weather and everything, everybody staying inside,
don't really have too much of going outside. So when
you're stuck inside, especially when you have illnesses through the house,
it's a good time to have us come in and
clean with that. Also, it's a good time to even
think about getting your granite renewed during this time as well,

(17:20):
because you know, during the holidays you're cooking, cooking and
cleaning and wiping down. So if you have granted and
the sealing's starting to wear off because you are cleaning
up more, it's a good time to get that clean,
sealed and polished.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Interesting unless you have lifetime granted, a lifetime capity countops grant,
which they put like a twenty five year seal in
those things. But yeah, those guys are join us here
just a few minutes. Maybe we'll ask them about that. Well.
So in most situations now it sounds to me like, yeah,
we're talking about a do everything kind of thing here.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Yep, we can do everything. We can bundle to where
we're doing your carpet, upholstery, tile and grout. We have
a home that we do once a year to where
we take their area rugs out to deep clean them,
and when we return them, we schedule the tile and
grout cleaning of the downstairs because it's all tile and grout.
So when we do the tile and grout clean and seal,

(18:11):
that will lay out the nice clean airy rugs and
they're good to go.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Of course, now we talk about tile and LVP and
hardwood floors and such, they don't act like the same
sort of leads out to the degree of as a
filter as a carpet upholstery wood.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
But right, you still want to get them deep clean
because if you're just mopping a solution, or if you're
just you know, just dust mop in or sweeping, even
that dirt can settle into the little grooves of the
LVP and the hardwoods, and it's good to get those
deep clean because our machine actually lifts it and extracts
into a waste.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Tank when we mop, for example, or whatever we do
with you know, hardwood flooring or LVP, do we really
wind up just kind of moving to the junk around.

Speaker 7 (18:52):
Basically, if you're using a microfiber mop head, that does
like to attract the dirt into the microfiber mop heads
so it doesn't push it around. If you're using something like.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
The old SpongeBob, that will just push.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
Things around that won't really clean up too much. So yeah,
you definitely want to get it deep cleaned if you're
using one of those.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
So someone us have been doing that wrong for a
long time.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
In other words, sometimes well, technology changes and the flooring changes,
so when you cleaning, methods change as well, so you
have to keep up with whatever, especially whatever the manufacturer
recommends for that type of flooring.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I suspect a lot of folks we're surprised to hear
that you can you have processes for things like hardwood
flooring and LVP and such. They wouldn't expect that that's
something you can do.

Speaker 7 (19:40):
Yeah, like steam mopping is not recommended because that can
it can strip away, like a hardwood floor can strip
away that poly over time, so you're not keeping it,
you're cleaning it, but you're breaking that surface down, So
you don't want to use that. With LVP, steam mopping
can actually start to loosen the it's not a glue,
but loosen the adhesive to it to where it starts

(20:02):
to peel. And you don't want to do that either.
Oh no, no, So our solution is not our machine
is not steam like our hot carbonation solution is it's
a cold solution that gets put down, scrubbed in, and
then extracted for hardwoods and LVP, so.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's a different process depending on the material.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Correct.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, one cleaning is not a one size fits all
method for carpets or upholstery even and we can even
do pigmented leather to where we can clean that using
a leather cleaner and conditioner. So that's good to get
keeping your leather nice and soft.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Interesting. So, yeah, this is something I've I've never thought
about before, but you're right. I mean, this time of year,
we're all trapped inside.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
All trapped in whatever's there, with whomever is there, Yeah,
whomever's there.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, and it won't be a lot, but you know,
it's January the eleventh, before you know it will turn
it around. It'll be April the eleventh. Then we got
a whole other thing to.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
Deal with, yep, the whole thing of getting ready for
Easter cleaning and another chance for family to come in
and visit and pallen and pollen the lovely pollen season.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
And let's face it, I mean we all know this.
You could unless you take your shoes off at the
front door. And even then there's no, get you're going
to be tracking that stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
For your house.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
You should see it with our dog prints that they
go out to the backyard and then they come in
because we have LVP in the downstairs and you'll see yellow,
yellow footprints and you know they've been outside.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
That cute.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
Yeah, great, And.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I've bet a lot of folks make the same mistake
there too. They're just either sweeping or they're mopping, and.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
They're just pushing it, pushing it around. Yeah, So it's
good to get that extracted every now and again. So
if you so, we have some customers that do our
quarterly cleanings, so we come in around this time of
year post Christmas, come in again towards the end of
pollen season, and then the fall, and then right you know,
before the holidays, so that they get their home nice

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and clean for all the different seasons and all the
different things that can tracked in at different times of
the year.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's such a good idea. I mean, that's pretty good
schedule right there. You're doing you know, either pre or
post holidays. You're doing post pollen season mm hmm. Then
you know in the summer.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
Right before the kids go back to school, yeah, or
that first couple of weeks when they're back at school,
so you can get your house in order from the
summer messes. Yeah, then there's that, and then before the
holidays beautiful.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
So and but you have a variety of plans. I mean,
you don't have to have it every quarter.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
We can do once a year, we can do every
six months. We can do the quarterly cleanings. We can
do something where you know you want to be on
a yearly schedule. But then hey, I've got company coming
in and it's only been five months. We can take
care of you then, just to get you spruced up
before family visits.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Okay, I go and you can pick and choose too.
I mean, if you get carpet upstairs, but you never
go up upstairs.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
So that could be your once a year get your
whole house done. If you have like the airy rugs
downstairs or the LVP downstairs, and then six months in
we just live in the downstairs, so we'll come in
and just do the airy rugs and or the LVP again,
and then once the year comes up, do the carpeting again.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
So let me ask you that, for how long are
we for lack of a better word, inconvenienced. Okay, you're
coming in, you're doing this, let's say's carpet for example,
you're doing this cleaning. How long do we have to
stay off of it before we can use that space again?

Speaker 7 (23:31):
So we recommend if you stay off of it for
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If you need to step on it, you can walk
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fluffy footprints depending on the pile of the carpet. And
then we just caution you transitioning to a smooth surface
like a hardwood or linoleum, to put a towel down.

(23:51):
So if your feet are damp from walking on it
right away, you just wipe your feet. Therefore you don't
slip going onto a a smoother surface.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, okay, and then baby surprise people tip with a
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for a good half a day or more.

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Speaker 1 (26:45):
We welcome you back to the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands on one of three point five FMN five
sixty AMWVOC and of course free on the iHeartRadio app
take us wherever you go, James Carwell, now do you
want to get some freedom plumbing? James, good morning. I
thought it might be a good idea to maybe hopefully
it's not too late for some folks, but to talk
about a few cold weather tips here this morning. And

(27:08):
depending on where you're listening to us today, you may
be getting rain, you may be getting snow, you may
be getting freezing rain, you may be getting anything at all.
But in general, for some it's a big mess. Man.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
Absolutely, good morning, Gary. How are you all right?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Brother?

Speaker 8 (27:25):
So it is cold weather? Canriek gavoc on your plumbing system,
that's for sure?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, regardless of whatever's falling from the sky today in
your location. That the cold weather we've had in place
now really all this past week pretty much, and we
had some mornings that I know here at the radio
station that got down to the upper teens and oh yeah,
this is the time of the year and unfortunately you
guys started getting a lot of calls from folks who
were unaware of maybe what they should be doing. So

(27:50):
what should we be doing in weather like this?

Speaker 8 (27:54):
Well, if they're not sold out, I would definitely recommend
the outside falls it covers, get those things covered up,
because those are the first things that typically freeze because
they got they're exposed, they're open to the wind. Not
only do they have the you know, the low temperatures,
but you get the wind chill factor as well that
that aids and freezing and causing those to break, or

(28:18):
or just your water stops coming out of certain fixtures,
depending on what's frozen. Tankless water heaters for example, if
they're not insulated properly, then you got to cut your
hot water on and there's nothing there, and you know,
there's things that you can do to prevent that from happening,
and then things you can do if it happens to

(28:40):
thaw it out. The first thing I would recommend is
get some you know, just some bat insulation and put it.
If you got an external unit, put it in the
pipe cover. Got to keep that wind away from those pipes.
Even if the pipes are insulated, it gets cold enough
it could still freeze.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
So I got a quick question about those little bib covers,
and you can get them. I know, I've got one
or two that are the man some sort of a material.
Then they got the ones that are kind of little
cone looking things. I guess that you can you can
put over them. Is either one of those better than
the other or.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
I typically use the uh, the foam, I don't know,
cone shaped ones, Okay. I feel like they provide a
little bit more insulation than the I guess there's like
a bag style that you can kind of put over
and they'll crow around. I feel like you get a
better seal. Yeah, there's more insallation factor to the foam. Okay, covers,

(29:45):
So that's what I typically use. And again again I
always recommend dripping faucets.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you're doing a little.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
Bit of hot a little bit of cold.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
That's a mistake we make, isn't it. We just usually
go cold because we're we don't want to turn that
hot one on.

Speaker 8 (30:01):
You want movement through both both lines, that's for sure.
Make sure that hotline doesn't freeze on you. Open cabinets.
Get some of that, especially on exterior walls. Allow the
warmth of the house to get inside that cabinet, help
heat's over to, you know, to the wall, and hopefully

(30:22):
keep your pipes from freezing. That's that's the goal.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Get back for a second to the hose bib covers.
Number one. Just connect your hose obviously you have to
you have to to do that, but if you don't
do anything else, do that, right.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
We first make sure the waters off. Yeah, we've had customer,
uh the spray nozzles at the end and the hose
bib completely in the on position and the spray nozzles
stopping it and then the hose wind up bust and yeah,
you got a mess on your hands.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, but when did you put that cover on? I
think you alluded to this because it's still going to
get cold. But I think you mentioned before one of
the things you're really trying to do is keep that
wind off of it, keep them getting colder than already
that that it otherwise would have. I guess that's the
secret to this thing.

Speaker 8 (31:07):
Huh, absolutely, Yeah, the wind is a big factor. But
you know there's some cases where there's not much you
can do. I had a neighbor a couple of years
back had a waterline freeze in his wall going up
to the second floor, so uh, he had no he
had just wait for the the sun to come out

(31:27):
shine on that side of the house and fall the
line out and hope that it didn't bust anything.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
So wow.

Speaker 8 (31:32):
You know, it just depends on how they built it,
how well it's sinsulated, as far as what issues you
may run into. And a lot of times you don't
even notice the issues till noon one, one, two pm,
you know, until it gets warm enough to fall out.
I think that one lasted a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, now, how do you know if you get up
in the morning and you've got frozen pipe, so you
just got no water? I guess right.

Speaker 8 (31:57):
It seems to be on what where the pipe is
frozen at. But yeah, you go to turn a fosset on,
nothing comes out. That's the first indicator and hopefully it's
just frozen and not busted and spraying somewhere.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
Again, typically it stays frozen until it falls and then
if you got a league, that's that's when you find out.
It's a little bit later in the day.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
So if you wake up to something like that and
you've you've and again, it won't be like throughout the
whole house. It may be just one water supply line
and a kitchen or a bathroom or whatever. Right, I mean,
it's not gon affect the everything.

Speaker 8 (32:33):
It could be just just depends on how they piped
it in and where your main comes in and how
well it's insulated. There's what they're doing now typically is
they're coming into the garage with the main main water service,
especially if you have a slab house, and then they'll
put a shut off alve and a pressure regulator inside

(32:54):
the garage for access. So it just depends on how
cold your garage gets. Keep door open. Uh, you know
how well insulated that wall is. It could freeze that
main water service coming in and you wouldn't have water
to the whole house. Luckily, with the PEX is what's
typically being used nowadays, it has a better possibility of

(33:19):
not bursting, uh, and then just unthawing and giving your
water back, so it expands with the frozen water and
then contracts once once it falls back out from materials. Yeah,
pretty good U. When it comes to freezing, I think
I've only come across to cases where it froze and
bursts and it was right next to a fitting where

(33:41):
it really didn't have the the possibility for expansion.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
So your your experience over the years, and again with
with some of the better materials being used now and plumbing,
but in your experience, when when a pipe does freeze,
what are the odds that it's going to wind up,
you know, busting a pipe as a those are just
you know, thawing out and things are back to normal again.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
I would say that depends on the material. Sure, CPVC
most likely is going to shatter. It gets brittle over time,
so it doesn't sometimes you know, just turn it off
or shut off. Out to a toilet, you can snap
it off, so there's you know, if it's got enough
age on it, and you know, depending on your water content,

(34:24):
you know what kind of minerals, haw, acidic and all that,
it determines you know, how quickly it's going to get brittle.
So yeah, c PVC is probably going to be the
most likely to bust on you pecks most likely to
just freeze and then thaw back out. Now, I would

(34:44):
say definitely try to purge the lines going down to docks.
You know, shut the water off if you can before
it goes out it comes out of the ground to
feed the dock on the lakes. Make sure because that
so that's typically what we see the most leaks on
are exposed water lines, especially on dots.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
And when it comes to for example, you have a
guest bathroom in the center of the house, you know,
somewhere not exposed with outside wall. Do I need to
keep the water running there too at night?

Speaker 8 (35:18):
Or is that more of a typically just I would
say exterior walls. Exterior, yeah, just and usually one will
do it as far as your main as long as
it's running through the heater, as long as it's running
through you know, your your cold line. You got a
little bit of movement there. You know, rivers take longer

(35:40):
to freeze than lakes or ponds for the reason because
they're running. So that that's the the thought process behind
dripping a fauset is keeping some movement in those lines so.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
You don't have to turn onto one of the bathroom
and the one of the kitchen and everything else is
just one or the other.

Speaker 8 (35:59):
Is that what you're saying depends on where they're at.
If it's on an X tier wall, I would recommend
turn it on just because those pipes are located in
that wall, and you know, you could if it gets
cold enough, those x tier you know walls get cold enough,
it could freeze those pipes. And he fixtured us on
an x chier wall, typically a kitchen, because this is

(36:21):
going to be a lot of them are in front
of windows to the outside, so that's where we typically
see it happen. You know, there are some bathrooms that
have pixtures on exterior walls as well, so I would
I would drip those And.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Then you say drip, But I think you've told me
before most of us make the mistake of not keeping
enough water going through there. How much should be going
through that that faucet.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
I was thinking about that the other day when I
was dripping it in our conversations in the past, and uh,
you know, I thought about, what what is a quantity
or or a number that I could put on it,
And you know, I would just say one drip a second,
two drips a second, okay, somewhere somewhere in that.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
So maybe not a steady stream necessarily, but no, I
don't do.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
A steady stream. And I've had pretty good luck with
just having about two drips every second.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
I would say two drips per second.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
Okay, if we're gonna get technical with the time time
frame on the what.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
About the pipes underneath the house. I mean, it's it's
going to be they'll be uh, you know, protected from
the wind and such. But I know you can you
can go to a big box store and buy this
material foam kind of thing that you can just put
over those pipes. Do you recommend that for like bib
hoses and uh, you know, pipes going to outside foscets
and such.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
I mean you could take the extra extra precaution and
do that. We typically don't see frozen lines underneath houses
because one, they're protected from the wind, and too, there
is heat loss from the house into the cross space
through the floor. So yes, you got insulation in the
floor and all that. But if heat from your home

(38:09):
to the cross space so typically cross faces, they're gonna
get cold. But it's not typical to see frozen lines
in the cross space. It's not saying it can't happen,
but it's it's less likely for sure.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, So before we wrap it up here, folks listening
this morning, maybe you've woken up to no water supply.
Give it a little time, I guess is your advice.
And see this thing will fall out.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
Huh yeah. Make sure stay around until you got water
coming out the falls that. Just see to make sure
there's no property damage happening. If you have no hot water,
but you have cold water, and you've got a tankless
a mounted to the outside, you can go out there
with a hair dryer, open the pipe, cover up and
just hit that thing with the hair dryer, or put

(38:53):
one's old utility lights you know near it. There's Haligen
bulb lights get pretty warm. I've done that in the past,
and if we had just in your wellhouses, I would
recommend something like that. That's what I've been doing here
at my home is taking one of those work lights,

(39:16):
just setting it up and pointing it at my ladder
tank for our will.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Okay, and if horse comes to worse, you know, any good.

Speaker 8 (39:23):
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Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right, James Carwell Freedom Plumbing, You'll be safe out today.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
Brother, you do the same, Gary.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Thank you.

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Speaker 1 (40:38):
Then welcome back to the Home Improvement Show the Midlands
on one O three point five FM and five sixty
am WVOC. Hey, look here, Marcus Greenwell, Todd husson Lifetime, Captain.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
Cata House, Morning Morning Lumbia, and.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Sorry was a snort. That was a snort. We got
a snort out of Marcus.

Speaker 12 (41:05):
Oh man, I'm so good today this morning. I got
my coffee and me I'm feeling good. Everybody that drinks coffee,
good morning, Good morning. Have another sip. And I know
it's early.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I need another ship a bucket, right, catch up with me?
All right, we're off into a brand new year.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I got what a great year?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well, you know, let's let's hope it will be.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
And it's gonna be a better year this year. Let's
what it's gonna be. A great year.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Is this the time of year though in your business
where you know, people are kind of you get on
the fence a little bit, you know, Yeah, I want
to do something, but because we all know what happens
here and what about oh two months or three months
or so, Yeah, everybody and their brother gets the checks
and they the money comes. I have no idea, and

(41:59):
I don't know what that tax money coming into. That's
foreign to me.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Yeah, yeah, I in there.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
But for some folks, yeah, it's that's always the big
the big spring rush to do things.

Speaker 12 (42:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think the spring really the spring cleaning.
Wanting to get a fresh, you know, fresh kitchen or
a fresh bathroom, stuff like that. They're cleaning it up
and boom, They're like, let's get some new countertops.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
So I guess the question is is more why.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Wait, let's get it now?

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
I agree.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
We've got some spots open. Uh.

Speaker 12 (42:29):
We we pushed, had a big push for Christmas and
New Year's wanting to get ready for parties and everything,
and we got people that were at the beginning of
this month put in last year. So we got a
couple of extra spots. Matter of fact, Uh, I think
I could probably do one next week, as early as
next week. So if you got something you need done, yeah,

(42:52):
I think I had one spot for next week. Then
I can put it in that spot. It's open. So
come see meat today with some measurements.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
As opposed to you waiting until April.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Yeah, I forget that.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yep, it's gonna be a little a little while then. Yeah,
well a lot of peach stacked up.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Yeah, yes, sir.

Speaker 12 (43:11):
A lot of people have projects that have been going on,
you know, with the cabinet remodeling and stuff like that.
They might have a remnant piece in the bathroom that
they're working with, and we've got a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Speak remnants. Yeah, still got a big big chunk up
out there at the Chapin room.

Speaker 12 (43:27):
Yeah, I got a beginning of the year's sale going
on on those Oh really, yeah, I tell yeah pretty
much to set my cost.

Speaker 8 (43:36):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (43:37):
And you know, those remnants I've got out there are
beautiful old stone or anything like that. They're brand new
pieces that just have come off of kitchens, you know,
that are left over from the kitchen that we purchased
for somebody. So they're out there, We're waiting to be
put into somebody's house.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
So Todd, why does Marcus have so many remnants on
a lot of there.

Speaker 13 (43:59):
I don't know, but we need to we need to
make room. And so he is, Yeah, he is given
pretty good prices. In fact, I'm gonna do my master bath,
so you know. Yeah, and he doesn't give me a deal.
But Cosma Hall, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
But there's there is a reason why you'll have so
many remnists. It's a function where you do business.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Correct.

Speaker 13 (44:21):
Correct, you buy a kitchen, you're not paying for the slab.
You're paying for the square footage that you require. And uh,
I think some places do it the other way, which
means you end up paying more.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
But so you mean you're paying for something you're not getting. Yeah, exactly,
go to the grocery store and pay for a bunch
of stuff you don't have in your cart, right, that's
what you're doing.

Speaker 13 (44:43):
That's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
That's insane, Yeah, loco.

Speaker 13 (44:46):
Some places do it that way, though not every place,
and we certainly don't.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
So so you only you only pay for what's you
what she is, and then nighttime cabinets and countertime. That's right,
Marcus stacks him up out there, he does. I got
a road.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Well.

Speaker 12 (45:01):
See, we used to sell them just at the price
that what they would do with the kitchen. But now
I've got so many of them that they're going below
the cost of actually what I would sell it for.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
That's a deal.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
And well, let's mention this too, because I heard from
a listener one time said, yeah, I didn't realize it.
To see the remnants selection, you've got to go out
to the chaping location.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, fifty three Chapin Road.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, fifty three Chapin Road. Yes, So not to show
them on Fernandina, but you'll find the remnants. Any I'm
glad you mentioned this too, because this is not you stuff.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Right, Okay, this is brand new.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
It's all brand new stuff.

Speaker 12 (45:39):
This is cut and left over all right. So I
had a customer come in last Saturday. I was at
Pine Groves store and they started with me, and then
they went out to see my brother David over at
Chapin Road. But what they did with me was did
some preliminary work. They're like, well, you know, how much

(45:59):
would it lost for a remnant and dah da da dah.
And I'm like, okay, it's thirty inches or however many
and this one's seventy inches or whatever, and it's going
to be X amount of dollars approximately from this range
to this range. I can give them a range, you know,
it's eight hundred to twelve hundred dollars or whatever, but
they'll they know what the range is, and then they say, well,

(46:20):
let's show me. They go out and see Davidson, show
me the eight.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Hundred dollars stuff.

Speaker 12 (46:26):
Okay, this, this and this, and show me what's twelve
you know, and okay, well some of this, you know,
some court sit like we might even have a piece
left over from Todd todz mahal.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
What's me ask you that? What sort of are there
any misperceptions people have when it comes to countertops, they
come in and say, question, you know, I heard so
and I saw this on the internet. It must be true.

Speaker 13 (46:56):
Well it's always either that or it's what they say.
They say, whoever they is, and I'm like, well, who
were they?

Speaker 4 (47:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (47:04):
Natural stone a lot of misconceptions about it not being
a great countertop, which it is. I've owned one for
fifteen years now, but people come in with misconceptions about
how it can stain so easily and because it's a
natural stone, and that's that's really not the case. I
have yet to ever stain my countertop, and my wife

(47:26):
will attest to the fact that I am not a
very clean person.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
If you heard that.

Speaker 13 (47:33):
Yeah, I mean the reality is simple. You know, granite
and quartz are both amazing countertops, and you could go
with either. Just depends on what you.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Like, right, I guess if you're going to be just
you know, you're gonna pour red wine on it and
let us sit there for a week.

Speaker 13 (47:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, if you do that, you're going
to stain your countertop. Now that being said, we put
a quality sealer. We don't use the water based one
year sealers that you can pick up at your Lowser
Home Depot. We a solvent based sealer that is rated
at twenty years. Yeah, it's twenty to twenty five. I
mean it's it's a product that will protect your granite.

(48:09):
If you do mess up, it can probably be fixed.
So yeah, but the key of course is don't mess up.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
You know.

Speaker 12 (48:16):
Well, I've never seen anybody like you said, I've never
seen anybody mess them up.

Speaker 13 (48:20):
I haven't either, but it's still out there that. Oh
don't get granted, you know it'll it'll stain. No, no,
not the case.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yep. Can you cut on it? Well, granted to do
it all the time. You make your knife cutting boards
out of grantite, right.

Speaker 13 (48:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll doll your knife. It's not
good for your knife. In fact, I've ruined some knives
to be honest.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
But you can't cut on all of these. No.

Speaker 13 (48:45):
I probably wouldn't do it with a marl marble, but
with a granite.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Yeaheah, marble will definitely scratch.

Speaker 13 (48:50):
My little girl growing up, she's eleven now, if she
wanted a banana or an apple, I don't look for
a cutting board usually because I don't know where it is.
Because yeah, right, yeah, so I grab a knife and
I would use the granted and just chop it right up.
And again it's bad for your knives, but I have
cheap knives, so I'm not really worried about it.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yeah, you got the Ginzu set, don't you. Yeah, no,
I do not. That's a nice st yeah, yeah, right,
what about heat?

Speaker 12 (49:21):
Yeah, I looked for places to take it out of
the oven and put it onto the countertop. So yeah,
I looked for an open area in the countertop to
set it on. My daughter was asking me that last
this Sunday night last week, and she was saying, hey, Dad,
where do you want me to put this pan?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
It was a hot pan. She was frying up.

Speaker 12 (49:40):
Some chicken in not frying, but you know, skill it
whatever you call it, you know. Anyway, So I was like,
right there on the countertop, you know. So I've got granted,
So right there in the middle of the counter on
the island.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
It's hot. It's the same for any natural stone.

Speaker 12 (49:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Now, the the marble is is a
little bit less. I think it's rated a couple hundred
degrees less than the granite, So for probably three fifty
four hundred degrees or something, like that. So what I
always recommend to people, Hey, take a sample of it,
test it with what you do, how you do it

(50:18):
at the house. You know, if you if you're used
to making sauces or something, take that and set the
sauces on it, or if you're taking stuff out of
the oven, take a pen and put it right on
that sample right there, and test it. And if it
doesn't mess it up, you're good.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
Good to yeap.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
What about the man made the man Maid?

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I've got.

Speaker 12 (50:37):
My girlfriend is an Italian gal that how to cook, yeah,
and you know, how to eat, and she has cords
and it is really good. I mean, and she drinks
wine as you can imagine. So you know, Kiante if
you want to.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I've never met this girl, Gary, I don't even know.
She could be.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
She could she could be fake. If you're listening, Danielle,
I'm sorry, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
So uh you are real.

Speaker 12 (51:10):
So so the courts is she has quartz and I
was I was watching her in the kitchen the other
day and I was like, this stuff is really good,
because you know, she was she looked like a mad
scientist over there.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
She's a chef.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
She is a chef too.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Yeah, so she does exist that. I'm just trying to
be you know, get.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
To the wall this year, flowering cheese flying everywhere.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
But all right there using that that Courtz countertop. This
is like a big preparation tape.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
No worries.

Speaker 12 (51:45):
Yeah, there was nothing worried about the countertop whatsoever, cutting
it up all that, speaking of your cutting questions, cutting,
no issues.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Any other misperceptions out there, faulty disinformation.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
What do you think, Todd?

Speaker 13 (52:03):
Hmmm, Well, if you don't have granted a quartz or
a really nice hard marble, then I think you need
to come see me.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
That's a very good point.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Road today, Yep, it just no, I'll be on Fernandina today, right.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (52:24):
I mean I've had the same granted my kitchen now
for five years, and I'm to see it every morning.
It's like, wow, this looks good. And uh I've had
countertops where I did not do that. So if you're
not looking at your kitchen counter and going wow, this
looks good, didn't you think about you?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
All right? And so check out the remnants. Don't forget
because you can save a lot of money it's at
your costs, right, yeah, at my cost Yeah, your lips
to God's ears.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
They are old. Sale. My brother, I mean he's on it. Okay, Yeah,
he's there.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Him out there one Chain Road.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
He knows. I want to sell those remnants.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
And if you just want to talk to Marcus, give
me a call, because guess what you call all the
calls eight O three seven.

Speaker 12 (53:11):
Yeah, that's at forty twenty Fernandina Road, seven twenty.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
I'm the man. I can give you a quote.

Speaker 12 (53:18):
You send me some pictures to your kitchen and some
rough measurements. I'll give you a quote, you know, with
a range of of course, right there on the spot.
Beautiful are within minutes anyway, all right, Todd.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
It work, Todd will make it happen. Yeah, all right, Todd, Marcus.
Good to see you guys.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
See yeah, thank you.

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