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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now time for the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
on WVOC and coming up this morning, Marcus Greenwell, Lifetime
Camas and Countertops, will join me. By the way, I'm
Gary David, just meeting for the first time. Thanks for
joining us. We appreciate that. James Carwell, the owner of
Freedom Plumbing, is going to hop on board and join
us too in the next half hour. First up, it's
Beaver Roofing and Gutters and one of the owners there,
Summer Purpose, who joins us now a company that's one
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lord's like best of in the State newspaper reader's poll
when it comes to roofing to gutters into contracting too.
But I don't want aybody to be misled because if you,
if you happen to go back and glance at that
very slickly produced State newspaper best of catalog, that that
was not they spend some money on alum, you want
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to see under that category roofing, gutters, contracting, the winner
is Anthony John Construction.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, got it?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, But list again in our mind, folks that
it's Beever Roofing and Gutters. It's it's still you, it's
still aj It's one. Yes, it's it's still the folks
who work for you, who put on these gutters. Folks
like Heath and the gang are there, the roofing folks
and the warranties, the guarantees, the uh the reviews you
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find online at Facebook and Google and Angie and home Advisor. Yeah,
it's same.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Same thing, right, same thing, same thing, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Thank you, Thank you for that congratulations.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It does mean a lot to us.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, we work really hard to make.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Sure that our customers still appreciate it, and you know,
we give them the best quality work and and just
do the best that we can for them.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So you know, it was such an honor to have.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Been nominated, much less one those.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
You know, those categories. So it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We we got to thank our customers too, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you know, if we back up a little bit,
I mean, you guys have been in business. You and
Aj started this company a little over ten years.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Ago, I guess, now, right, that's right, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Okay, So I mean this is this is a local,
homegrown company. How did you start? Was it the contracting stuff?
I mean, how did it all begin? Summer.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It was the contracting stuff. So AJ you know, he
started out with just him doing smaller kind of bidding
jobs and you know, he would he would, you know,
do a job and it would be great, you know,
and then we get the inspection and then just you know,
little by little word of mouth, you know, we grew,
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we grew, we grew, we grew, and and here we
are today, you know, and it's just it's it's incredible
really to.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Think where, you know, where we started to where we
are now.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, I in the beginning.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Stages, I say, when I used to work, I you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Know, I didn't always work with the company, but I
guess about five years ago when I actually got pregnant,
and you know, he was like, well, no better time
now than to quit work and you know, hop on
board full time here and you know, have you know, have.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The babies with you. And that's that's what we've done.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
So it's been a whirlwind to think that, you know,
where we've where we've come and and whatnot. So we're
we are so thankful and very appreciative to our customers
for their continued support and you know, just for everything.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well it is well deserved summer. I mean, it really
is that you guys have done work for my family's been.
You've done contracting work. You know, you guys upgraded a
home of ours about four years ago or so. We
put it up for sale, and I know for a
fact that we wouldn't have gotten more than top dollar
like we did. And this was a pre pandemic now, okay, right,
pre pandemic had it not been for the outstanding work
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y'all did you have this past summer y'all put gutters
on our home, the six inch seamless gutters, and I
think probably next spring, you know, pubbly talking about, you know,
replacing our roof.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So whenever you're ready, we are here.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let's let's talk about roofs because we haven't talked about
them in a little while now, because that's a that's
a big point. And again let's point out that because uh,
the roofing and gutters portion of your business has grown
so amazingly over the years. This is this is why
you've kind of branched it out and at least rebranded
as Beaver Roofing and Gutters.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That is exactly right, So, like you said, we've just
we've grown and grown and grown that roofing, the roofing part, and.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah we.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Sorry, yes, it's mom time. That's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, so we've we've we've grown and grown and grown
and the roofing and the gutter portions, and you know
what we were said, it's time to just to split
that off.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And here we go.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We're going to have new name, same people, but new name.
We want to be more recognizable. You know, before Anthony
John Construction, it didn't have roofing in the name, right,
So here we are Beaver Roofing and Gutters. Bam, plain
and simple. That is exactly what that company does.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So yep, that is it growth. And here we are
with Beaver Roofing and Gutters and we are super.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Excited for branding and and to get our name out
there because we are the same. We want everybody to
know the quality, the work. Everything's the same, the people
are the same.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But we just have a new name and a new number.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Which that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
New number eight oh three, nine nine one roof.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Easy to remember. That's by the way, absolutely so those
like me challenged on the computer on the telephone keyboard,
that's seven sixty sixty three.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, well, let's let's talk a bit about roofing here.
And you know what, during the week when we talk
about y'all's business, all to mention and I refer back
to an email I got from a listener. This would
have been Thanksgiving, probably about three years ago, now, maybe
maybe two three years ago. Who made a mistake. We
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had a thunderstorm roll through that time of the year,
that that that that fall, that late fall, and he
had not a big problem but just just a minor
hole in his roof that he needed to be fixed up.
And rather than call you guys first, he called somebody else.
He listens to the show all the time. He knows
all about you, but for whatever reason, he wound up
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calling somebody else, and surprise, surprise, he was told, well,
it's going to be three months before we can get
to you. Three months. Now again, you got a hole
in your roof. I don't care how big, house small.
You don't need the whole roof replace, but you need
that fixed.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And you got you got somebody who.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Says they do roof repairs telling you it's going to
be three months before we can get to you. All right, No, right,
nobody's incredible. Nobody's that busy summer.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean, come on, there is plenty of work for everybody,
you know, but it's just how you treat your customers
and how you know, it's basically how you want your
home treated.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, you can't, like you said, you can't have
a hole in your roof for three months. What is
this gentleman or homeowner supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So yeah, I I remember specifically the customers. You know,
we got out there, got him taken care of, and
he was just ecstatic, you know, like you said, No
he did not need a full roof replacement. And we're
not here to sell everybody a full roof every time
when it's not warranted. Right, you know, we're out there,
we're going to evaluate it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We're going to get you back, you know, back to
no water penetration. No, you know, not where you're you
got your dry.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
How about that, you're your dry, You're not.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Getting leaked on or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So we may repairs, we do replacements.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, we're not here just only roof only roof replacement.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
That's not what we're here to do.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And as I recall, that listener told me that y'all
rather within twenty four hours and uh yeah, once you
were done, you couldn't even tell it was ever a problem.
So congratulations again. But this brings us up to another
issue here, summer, that there are also companies out there
who just plane flat don't do roof repairs, which is
really weird to me, but they don't. So But but
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here's the danger, right if you have an issue with
your roof and you wind up with a company that
only does roof replacements, guess what, You're going to get
a roof replacement.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So let's talk about from an educational standpoint here. As
a homeowner, when you have an issue with your roof,
are there any things you want to be on the
lookout for for If a roof for just comes in
right away and says, yeah, you need a whole new roof,
I mean, how can you know as a homeowner whether
you're getting straight scoop or not.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
So absolutely totally get it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So what there are so a lot of different reasons
why you know, people will call in.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Here.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Of late, obviously we have had a lot of storm
damage or you know, storms, winds, high winds like that.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
So that's a that's a whole another situation.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But you know, we'll go down that hole in just
a second, or that route in just a second. So
whenever you know, we come out, we're gonna get up
on the roof.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We're gonna take photos. We're gonna show you what you
have going on. So that's the main thing.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You know, a lot of times they're just oh, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So a lot of stuff going on up there, but
it's probably best. Let's just go ahead and you know,
let's replace it all. No, we're gonna take into a can't.
We're gonna take a look at your pipe boots. We're
going to look at the grit and the granule on
your shingles that are still less.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You know, we're going to educate you about what you
have going on with your roof right now.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And a lot of times, you know, roofs are they're
still they're in great condition, but they just need a
little bit of PLC, if you will. So we'll put
an extra feeling around those pipe boots that bent out
from your your bathroom fans or you know, your the
fans over your ovens and.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So we'll put a little extra cock around there.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Sometimes roofs get nail pops.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We can put some feeling over that. That's not a
big deal, you know. We're just gonna and we're gonna
make sure that it's it's it's in good shape. Because
if you still have the good granule you're decking feels great,
you don't have any leaks on the inside, you don't
necessarily need a whole new roof, right And I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
One of the things that kind of protects the consumer
and situation like this is if if a roofing company
comes out and says, yeah, you need a roof replacement,
well you could be calling your insurance company to begin with.
I guess if there's been damage, that.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is correct, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And that's that's what I want to point out. Whenever
we get up there, we're going to take a look
at what you have going on in that in that time.
And if we don't see marked uh you know, shingle
lifting and hail spots.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And things like that all over the roof.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
There's no real reason to get that roof replacement. However,
if we do get up there and we do see
damage where wind has lifted the shingles and we see
creeping or if there's.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Hail or you know you have your shingles are in
bad shape.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We're gonna let you know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And the new thing I know that you guys do
then is you don't leave it just up to the
homeowner to deal with the insurance company.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Right, We're gonna help you along the way because a
lot of times, you know, you haven't done acclaim or.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Where do I what do I do? Who do I call?
How do I go about this?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So, yeah, we're gonna be there every step of the way.
We're gonna help you. We'll be there when you call
your insurance company.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Let them know what you have going on.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You've had a roofing contractor out, they've seen some damage.
You'd like to have an adjuster out. We're gonna be
there to meet that adjuster, talk with him, go over
things that we've seen and things of that nature. You know,
we're not gonna leave you high and dry, and we're
gonna be We're gonna advocate for you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
So let's let's talk about this here for a second. Summer.
Let's say somebody listening today just built a brand new home.
I've got a beautiful, nice roof on there on average
around here, how long can they expect that roof to
be to be fully functional? At what point in time
should they think? How many years down the road? And
I need to look at replacing this thing. Okay, brand
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new roof, just just finished it yesterday. What's the life
of a roof in a place like the middles of
South Carolina on average?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Sure, so we hear, Oh, I've got lifetime shingles.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I'm going to be good to go forever. Not necessarily,
not so much.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So generally, like you said, brand new roof, we're gonna
start thinking maybe fifteen to twenty years down the road, maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
We need to start thinking about replacing the roof.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
However, however you maintain your roof is going to give
that longevity as well, so as long as you are
doing what you need to do to maintain it, getting
just annual roofing inspections, to take a look to make
sure all of my pipe boots are in good shape,
my ridgevent's in good shape, all of the components of
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your roof are in good shape. You know, if you don't,
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It can it can be sooner.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You know, the water can.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Get to it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
If you have pine straw and leaves that are just
piled up on your roof. That makes these all of
these things impact the your roof, you know, and how
it how it how it does its job.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Beaver Roofing and Gutters always a pleasure to talk to
you summer and give us that brand new phone number,
that brand new website.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I folks can get a hold of you absolutely so
you can find us at Beaver Roofing dot com. And
then eight oh three nine.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Nine one roof nine seven six six three and again, congratulations,
best of in the state newspaper reader's poll for roofing
and Gutters. It's Beaver Roofing and Gutters all.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Right, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
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as he usually does, it is Marcus Greenwell, Hello, Columbia, Lifetime, Cavis,
Agata Toughs, joining us here on the Home Improvement Show
of the Middle. Say thank you for joining us this
morning here on one oh three point five FM at
five sixty am WVOC, and anywhere around the planet on
the iHeartRadio app. I would venture to say it, no
matter where you're listening, you're not going to find people
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who know more about this topic and who do more
to make it happen for you than Marcus and his
crew at Lifetime, Caves and Catta. How are you, brother?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thank you, my friend. Is the best day of my life?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Good?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You know, I was thinking that when I woke up
this morning. I'm just so blessed. I got such good
people around me, and guys in the shop, the girls
and the girls in the showrooms and the boys in
the showrooms, and and I mean, you know this interior
designer that we've hired, Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No, that's uh. That was about She's been on stat
with about a month or so again.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, and she has been doing just unbelievable. She
just I mean, she's got a construction background, so she
knows all the color variations that I mean. It just
makes it so easy for clients. You know, I had
a commercial contractor in there yesterday and I was he
was he was actually my customer, and she was helping
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him design the commercial spot up in Blythewood where he's
building a big building right across from Scout. As a
matter of fact, but uh yeah, well I don't want
to left Inwood. Yeah. So uh so these people are
building a building and she's like, yeah, this is what
I would go with. And then he pitched that color
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to his designer that's side of Charleston. And she's like, yep,
that's the one. So she is doing amazing. Yeah yeah.
He's like, yeah, it just I'm gonna make myself look good.
That's exactly what he said. Yeah, so if you want
to make your wife look good, are you look good
in front of your wife? How does that sound?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah? Wife already looks good.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And as a matter of fact, you get some smoking
hot ideas at Lifetime Cabinets and countertops. We got two
spots in case she didn't know, I twenty six and
Piney Grove over by Greens and any other one is
one fifty three Chapin Road. That's out and Chapin. It's
about five miles from the super Walmart right there in Valentine, Okay,
so it's not very far. And that's where I got
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all the remnants and such. My brother, Yeah, my brother
David's going to be out there today. He's been instructed
to sell those remnants at cost. So if you go
in there, you could save a lot of money not
have to buy minimums. And then we do the job
start to finish. So we have in house guys that
installed for us, so every part of our business is
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handled by one of us.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I got it one day. We got to get Enrique
in here. We do Uh, that would be so much
fun because the last job you did for us, you know,
we and and I we went to Marcus and we said,
here's what we want to do. It was a little
out of the ordinary. You know. We had a you know,
a countertop of the home we bought about a year ago,
a little a year ago that we were okay with
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the countertop and maybe one day we're a place, but
in the meantime, we wanted to get a little bit bigger. Now,
how are you going to do that? Well, so you
come over and you say, well, you know, we could
probably do it like this, and you know, do a
what do you call a sushi bar?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Buck it up underneath.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Underneath the current countertop, and it has a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Of space to it, have a little tiny drop down.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, and then we had to figure out of course,
you know, you know, I don't know how old this
granted countertop in that kitchen is, but it's been there
for a while. I'm sure you're never going to match
it up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It was so close to the original.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So you had an idea, we'll go with this color.
What the man said. You know, I just you know,
when you I just look over here and say, well, honey,
what do you think. I just I'm going to defer
to her on all these things. Obviously he says, yeah,
that'll work. But when Enrique and the guys came out
to installing you, you were there at the time. Yeah, yeah,
And I'll never forget the look Enrique gave you. He
looked at Marcus like, hmm, what have you done got
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me into? Now? I said, this is my friend Enrique,
and within thirty seconds Marcus was bolting out the front door.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah yeah, okay, I'll check going in a little bit,
all right, so you you scratched his heady, I remember,
I remember his book. He's had his hand on his chin,
rubbing his chin with his hand, going hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, how do we make this work? Well? He sat
there and thought about that for a little while and
then okay, and he got the crew and they I'm
gonna bet they went in and out of that kitchen outside,
cutting and trimming m yeah a dozen times and bringing
it back in and yeah. It's unbelievable the precision that
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he demands from his crew. Because they would bring it in,
they'd slap it up there. I'd be gone, it looks
great to me, and he'd look at it and nope,
a little more back outside down the steps they went
with that slab again, trimming a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Let me set the stage. Now, you have like one
hundred and eighty two degree angle on your on your
sushi bar. So it wasn't just like a straight piece.
Oh no, right, they were trimming it to fit the angle, yeah,
and back and forth and just making sure it's exactly so.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
When you when you work with the folks at Lifetime.
Marcus is the face of the company. Okay, he's the
guy you're on the radio every couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, but I'm not the one that went bootwork.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But the people behind him, you know, the new interior
designer Enrique, and the crew, the fabrication installation folks. They
all make you look good man.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And my brother David, So he does a fabulous job
depending on what look he has this week. Sometimes he
has a cowboy looks and sometimes his motorcycle look. He's
a beautiful man.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Go by it and see what the look is today.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You think everybody kids around they think we're twins. Yeah,
we do joke around about that though, well we do
have the same color eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You got that going for it again. The point being that,
I mean, this is when you talk about one stop shopping.
When people think about you know somebody who sells countertops,
they go, okay, they sell countertops.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It's his family.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, this family and a lot of folks sell countertops.
But nobody's doing what you guys do. I mean, you
take care of every possible detail.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, there's nobody else going to do that. You're
not gonna you probably won't even talk to the owner
of the granite company around here and nobody.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I would challenge you to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And as a bonus, when you when folks work with you, guys,
they're going to get to meet you, you're out of
the if you're out of the store at the time
you get me, well, yeah, if you call eight oh
three seven seven, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right now, if you call me right now, it would
ring on the air. Well, I do have it on mute, but.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Beg you have it on mute. But not only that.
Then then somebody's gonna come out and do the exact measurements.
And that's just so happens to be this guy right here.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, And I can walk you through to get us
to get your price too. On the phone, I could say, Okay,
here's how you do it. You take some rough measurements
so your kitchen, you know, and get take a picture
or two of your space send.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It to me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I could tell you it's gonna be two thousand, three thousand,
four thousand, kind of ask you what kind of colors
you're looking for, and I don't know, you know about
what you're gonna you know, probably pay before you come
to the store.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, you've told us of you've had instances. I remember
one one Saturday mornings last year. You told us the
story out some folks who heard you on the radio,
and they came by I think it was on a Saturday. Yeah,
and they had something else they had to get to it,
and probably they're thinking, was, well, we'll drop by and
just take a quick look and get some ideas. That's right. Well,
(24:13):
like they were only there like ten minutes. Yeah, yeah,
and y'all made the deal happen, I mean right there
in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, I remember that. I walked straight out of the
shop with them, pointed at the piece she described. She said, honey,
that's it, just like we did with you in hand,
right in fact, and we turned around, we walked back
in the store. I wrote down the paper I have
doctor handwriting. My nickname is doctor Marcus. Wrote it down. Boom.
(24:39):
He paid a deposit. We installed it I think within
a week. I mean it was I mean it was
a small vanity, you know, just the guy was close
just went by and zipped the measurement on it and.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, I mean I'm not saying that's you know, don't
hold me to that. Timeline. But no, but you know,
typical is you know, right now is around on three
or four weeks something like that. If I had to
get something sooner, I could, you know, just talk to me,
you know, let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But be prepared for this because if you go in
not having a clue as to what you're looking for,
we got you. You got some. Yeah, but if you
want to see everything out there, especially if you go
out to the Chapin location and you want to see
everything on the lot out of there, be prepared to
be there for a while because you've got a bunch. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, And now the snow's all melted off, so
you can come out and look and see it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah. That kind of got everybody's way in and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They have its stacked up around the slabs pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Get some good pictures of the slabs.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. And the dog.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Let me ask you this, Marcus. Uh. We hadn't talked
about this in a long time, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
People will think, hey, listen, you know I can go
to a big box store and I can save money.
All right, now, all that we just talked about aside,
because all the things We just talked about the fat fabrication,
the installation, the interior design expertise. Yeah, you know you
don't get any of that at a big box store.
But that's okay. You know, I'll sacrifice that because I
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can save a lot of money like getting it at
a big box store. That's that's the general consensus.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Right, Yeah, No, they will not save any money from that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well why is that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, there's a lot of reasons. They add on different
line items that we don't edge propose, so that.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
That price you see on that slab hanging up on
on the rafters or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh yeah, they'll even quote your low price when they
talk to you, and then they'll send the measure guy
out there. And I'm not picking on box stores because
I use them all the time for talk and stuff
like that, but not on specially installs like this. You know,
you want somebody in there that can care. And but
they do charge more. I end up beating them one
thousand dollars, two thousand dollars really four thousand dollars on
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different products. Yeah, once it gets to the point of installing,
because they charge by the inch and uh on some
some of the edge profiles and ends up addening several
thousand dollars to the job by the inch. Yeah, yeah,
I think it's eight dollars or twelve dollars an inch
and inch. Yeah no, wait, way, w wha, wha, wha, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah. How long does it take somebody like Enrique to
put an inch?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
One inch?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
One more step in the process. So it's it's so
that beveled edge or whatever, it's just pretty much one
more step. So you got you're gonna have the same
steps regardless, but you have one more step with the machine.
So it's just going right you're talking about you know,
but yeah, you get fours hour two hours.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, but you can pay eight dollars an inch, and
let's say you got to get it free. Yeah, you
could do that, or you can get it free because
you guys include a number of different edges for free, right.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, the beveled edge, the ease edge, and the
demi bule edge.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, yeah, all right, but if you know those aready
to look them up and go see markets and you
can show them to you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And we put the demi bul edge on the new
George Roberts bar that we are what you call it,
George Roberts restaurant that's going up in casey right there,
I'll get the bar to sushi bar, or that it's
not a sushi bar, it's a oyster bar. Where do
you where you pop the oysters open?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Right there?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They've got a big Oh yeah, it's gonna be great.
They got one in where's it? A Valentine that we
did already for Rob Schoolmaster? Yeah, so you've done all
his restaurants. Actually, we're doing every all the Carolina Wings
and wow, okay, what a blessing.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Right, so your handy works all over town?
Speaker 9 (28:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Vina Rosso, I can name them all.
Prohibition down there on main stream and you guys a
big beautiful bar.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
We haven't mentioned the Facebook page in a while, but
I used to call it like the Pinterest for countertops.
Yeah yeah, because if you're just looking for an idea,
I don't go to pints, go to go to your website.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, Lifetime, counter cabinets, countertops. If I could say to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Me, yeah, your Facebook page, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Facebook, our visit my page. Okay, I hadn't been as
active putting up stuff on my page lately, but h
you know, because I'm a granddad, so you might see
you have to feel that.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
There's still a lot of that that. Yeah, but I
mean you have so many pictures up there of the
jobs you guys have done over the years. Oh yeah,
and I mean they they they range from the you know,
regular every day to the really out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah too, exotic colors and waterfalls and marbles and court sites.
Like I was said earlier in the year here, the
court site right now is just unbelievably popular. It's expensive,
so you know, don't think you're going to get out
on the cheap by going with court site. It's going
to be you know, one hundred plus, you know, in
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that range. You know, maybe a little bit less on
some cases, but you know it's this first lab quote
for those colors, but they're one hundred dollars probably at least.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well that's interesting because you know last year, the year before,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Quartz was the hot court product and it still is.
Which is the man made It's neck and neck with
quartzite now, I would say probably, I would say in
my shop, I would say quartz still running up number one,
quartzite because it's so expensive. Number two and granted number
three in my and in marble, Marble's up there too,
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I'd say, right right there with granite.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, why do you any reason why I suddenly out
of the blue Qurt site just jumps to.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The top of the Everybody wants the next hot thing,
you know, and plus it's pretty. It looks like marble
and performs like granite.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, so explain that for folks on anything about countertops before, like, granted,
what does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, grant, it's harder. I mean, you know, you dull
your knife out if you try to cut something on it.
Then marble, marble, some softer stone, you know, on the
hardness scale at rates lower than the granite. You know,
the marble does so. But everybody wants that marble look,
but they don't necessarily want to have to worry about
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a scratch here or there, or or it could possibly stain.
Even though we put a stained ceiling on it. Rate
it twenty five years. But even though you get that
on there, you still have people that are going to
be concerned or go on to the online and say, oh,
well this is going to stain or whatever. You know
what I'm saying, because they got a stain on it
(31:32):
because they didn't take care of it problemly. I mean
it's been out there that it's been on. That building
out on Mainstream, was at Gervais Street and Assembly. The
big buildings take capital. Yeah, the biggest one in Columbia.
Oh okay, yeah, that one whatever, I forget what it calls.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It depends on what it is, what it's called.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, So that big cause it's got white marble on
outside of it. So it's going to perform over the years.
I mean, you know, as long as you take care
of it's gonna look good.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, it does. Marble looks fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
And there's a lot of granite on the State Capitol.
I've done some of the granite on the walls on
the interior back when they did the remodel in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I know that. Yeah, oh god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So so the courts, the courtz site Bank of the
America building I did out there, see name dropper you
on Main Street.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So courts. How you get the look of the marble, Yeah,
you get the functionality of the granite.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, boom. And heat resistance is more heat resistant than
any of them. Oh really okay, Yeah, I mean you know,
I think marble, I mean marble marble, and granted, so
marble's probably the least that there three natural stones heat wise,
but you know you're not gonna you're not gonna mess
up the marble. I mean, Corava is down there on
Harps and they got they got marble on their pass
(32:53):
through white marble. And that's when I started realizing, oh,
that stuff's not so bad after all. Right, if there,
if it's going to have an Italian rush pushing food
through it, you know it's got to be okay. And
it didn't have any stains on its.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
A little bit of tomato sauce involved in all that, right, yeah, right,
yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So so so I like the court site looks like
marble performs like granted, you know, there's things that we've
learned about it over the years. You know, you got
to put a good sometimes two or three coats of
the high dollar ceiling on it and make sure it
doesn't absorb water on the cut edges and stuff like that.
(33:30):
So you know, we've worked our way through that and
learned about that, and now we just know we got
on certain ones. Not all of them are like that,
but there are certain ones that like where you cut
holes in them for for the sink cut out, and
where you cut the faucet holes and stuff like that.
You got to make sure you put a watertight ceiling
on there.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah. Well, I hate to break the brad news to
you here, but if we don't wrap this up, James
Carl was don't have any time to talk here, so
I love you. We got to put it, put it
in all the fun here.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Okay. So you're at twenty sixth and Piney Grove, next
to Greens That's where you'll be, Okay, and then Well
and Megan will be there. I'm helping her out still
interior design on her. Yeah, and then David's going to
be at my Chapin store today, one fifty three Chapin Road.
Give us a call, come see us. We'd love to
help you. Put you on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Get you done all right, Marks, Good to see your buddy.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Good to see you.
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back into the final segment of the Home Improving Show
of the Midlands and James Carwell is on the line
now from Freedom Plumbing, joining us again this morning. James,
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Good morning Gary.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
How are you man well?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And I gotta I gotta shout out to you guys
at Freedom Plumbing because you've you guys are lifesavers. Man.
We were, Yeah, I've been talking about this project we've
been involved in and uh doing some re innovations at
my parents' house and getting it put up on the
market after they moved out, and uh, I mean just
earlier this week, like the pretty much the last day
(36:33):
of you know, things to be you know, major things
to be done. At least we discovered the painters over
there and discovered that the I guess the uh the
outside hose that that faucet there and they turn it
on and heard something popping, heard something hiss And next
thing you know, there's water coming out underneath the house. Wow,
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And this is like what yeah, I first thing I did.
They called me and luckily they had just been painting
the garage like the day before and noticed, well everything
else was out of there that that was the key
to the shut off olve and thank goodness for that.
So they were able to get it shut off. And
I don't know what I called you on. It was
like maybe five thirty or so, and luckily we got
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the water cut off of the house and you got
your guys were out there, you know, just as you
told me they would be at nine o'clock the next
morning and taking care of the problem. So so thanks
for that, man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Of course, absolutely well. Appreciate you keeping us in mind,
and you know we would have been able to do
it the same night. Thing is if they get the
water off, save the emergency service. So anytime we could
save somebody money, you know, we try to give information
over the phone that can help with that kind of
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like mainline stoppages. We get emergency calls somebody's saying that
their sewer line is backed up, and typically the first
thing we tell them to do is contact their uneunicipality
whoever they pay their sewer bill to and make them
come out first, because they should be able to tell
them whether or not it's on the city side or
the customer side. And if it's on the city side,
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you pay for them to maintain the system. You know,
it's you don't have to pay anything if we come
out there first, open the clean out and tell you,
then you just spend that money on emergency service charge
just for us to tell you it's on the city side.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
There's nothing we can do so well the delineation between
where the city side is and where the homeowner or
business owner side is.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
So sometimes it's basically the property line in most cases,
and you know, usually there's that little buffer where the
city has easement onto your property for utilities or things
of that nature. Side I would say about ten to
fifteen feet from the road. Typically I've seen them go
into the middle of the yard before, So it really
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just depends on the municipality. But if you have to
clean outs, which are the access points to your sewer line,
they typically stick up out of the ground, a little
white pipe with the screw cap on it. There's one
usually close to the house near the foundation two three
feet from the house, and then there's one usually out
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in the yard about ten feet or so from the road.
And the way to know whose side the issue is
on is by opening those cleanouts. If you open the
one at the house and there's water in it, and
you know the water is getting past that clean out,
so then you go to the city. If you open
that one up and there's water in it, then you
know the issues on the city. If there's no water
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in it, then the issue is going to be in
between somewhere, which means it's going to be on the
homeowner side, in the yard somewhere. Okay, typically roots.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
But yeah, that happens a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
It does.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But here's the question, and maybe different municipalities it's different.
But I'm thinking, yeah, if I've got a sewer, stop
it your backup. You know, I hear what you're saying.
You know, if it's an emergency situation, we're you gonna
pay the emergency feed to get you know, Freedom Plumbing
or any plumber out there. But it seems to me
like calling the municipality, I mean, how quickly will they
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get out there, because you know, it seems like the
day sometimes.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Well, luckily, when it's an emergency like that, they're out
there pretty quick. I told the customer this the other week,
and it was actually a friend of mine. So he
was texting me back and forth, and I said, Hey,
call the municipality. Let's just verify it's not on their
side before we send somebody out there. Yeah, he goes,
(40:41):
I don't want to wait that long, and said, they're
usually pretty quick about it. And sure enough he texted
me back he said, hey, man, thanks, they're coming out.
They'd be about within forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
So most municipalities have an emergency service program as well
in these cases, so they have somebody on call that's
going to come out and take a look. And unless
you know whether or not it's on their side or
your side.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well it's good to know, okay, because yeah, I would
have thought it could be days, you know, before government
could respond.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
Well if you have, especially if you let them know, hey,
I got sewage backing up into my house, is flush,
my toilet's coming up in the shower, then yeah, most
likely they're going to send somebody out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
When that kind of thing happens. James and you notice
that is that the sort of thing that okay, well,
as long as you don't flush another toilet is not
going to get any worse or will it get worse,
regardless of what you do or don't do.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Yes, it should stop as long as is the issues
on your side. It should stop when you don't use
any more water, no water in the house at all.
That's what I recommend all the time. Some people think
upstairs is flushing, Well, the upstairs just coming downstairs. It's
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all going to one pipe. That one pipe leaves the
house and goes out to the municipality. So no matter
what you use in the house, and unless it's just
one you know toolet that's backing up. You know, you
can have branch line stoppages. But typically anytime that happens,
until we get out there and take a look at it,
I'll just say, you know, hey, just stop using water.
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That way you don't cause any damage or overflow toilets
or showers. Matter of fact, the gap called me the
other other day said it was coming out of the shower.
So it had filled up the shower base enough to
overflow out of that lip of the shower. Yeah, so,
and and as clean as that stuff looks, it does
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not clean it's it's considered black water, which is a
Class three contaminants.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So yeah, yeah, time for call a d Heck, yeah,
that sort of thing happens.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Well, a restoration company, somebody that knows what they're doing
to make sure because typically anything purse that that touches
at that point needs to come out. And now there's
some stuff that they could do with microban and to
clean up. But definitely a situation I would be calling
a restoration company.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Now do you need to in that situation not only
not use any water until they can be fixed, you
need to actually turn the water off to the house
or is that not necessary?
Speaker 7 (43:28):
Only if there's fixtures that won't stop. But a drip
typically isn't going to be enough to do anything. So
what you can do if you know someone feels comfortable
enough is if they know they have those clean outs,
they can relieve the pressure. I would be very cautious
about doing this, but outside by taking one of the
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cleanout caps off, Beware there could be a good bit
of pressure in there and you take that thing loose
in it start spraying sewage, So you know, kind of
do it slow careful and step back.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, nothing else, I think so far we've established it's
a it's a pretty good idea to to a you know,
know where your water shut off valve is and and
and have the appropriate key in order to turn it off.
Is that key universal? By the way, is there just
one size fits all when it comes to that.
Speaker 7 (44:26):
Typically now there's some like really small keys that I've
seen that unless you have a new meter, that key's
probably not going to help you out that much. You
can get large the larger keys, and sometimes the store
carries two different sets. There'll be a real cheap, tiny
little meter key and then they'll have a bigger, more
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heavy duty one. I always recommend it the duty one
because you know, there's there's some meters where you got
to put some put some force into it to get
that thing to spend, especially the older ones andtown Columbia area.
If it hadn't been replaced, then it could be difficult
to turn off.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, who knows how long? Right?
Speaker 7 (45:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (45:12):
Or you know some people have shut off valves easily
accessible in their garages right outside their house. There's other
ways to shut it off other than the meter. Our
old house had a shut off valve and a pressure
reducing valve in the garage, so pretty convenient. A lot
of new houses are doing.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
That and finding is it pretty easy to find the
shut offvalve, I mean, the the main shut off alve
is is there a.
Speaker 7 (45:41):
So, I mean, we we've spent quite a bit of
time trying to locate some of these meter boxes because
they some of them haven't been using so long. They're
they're covered with landscaping. I've seen them in little you know,
land escape to islands and molts, just covering and you've
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got to just go around where you think it might
be based off of you know, the hoose bob in
the front or certain indicators and just kind of go
around and see, wait until you hit that metal or
plastic lid and you know, yeah it can it could
take a while, So I would I would try to
know where that is as well, just so you you
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have it in your mind if anything happens, you have
to go to it right away instead of more property
damage your current wall. Catastrophic happened with the waterliner.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Yeah, all right, So we've we're talking about sewer backups
and stoppages. There's a you know, over the years that
technology and how to to you know, find these things
and fix them as evolved quite quite a bit, hasn't it.
Speaker 7 (46:49):
Yeah, So it used to be, you know, you send
your cable down and you relieve the blockage, and you
pull your cable out and lay it on the ground
and say, all right, well this is where this is
how far I had to run my cable to get
to where the blockage is. So this tope where the
roots are or whatever issue is. But you know, technology
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always advances. So now we've got cameras that we can
send down there, and they've been around for quite a while,
but you know, we got a newer one that we
can actually send down the entire sewer line and trace
the whole wire instead of just tracing a camera head.
So makes it a lot easier for one person crew
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to do the job. In some cases, you know, especially commercial,
you'd have to have one guy pushing the camera, one
guy following the head of the camera and kind of
locating where it's going through the building and where you
know where we got to potentially dig to do a repair.
With that analogy, it just makes it to where you
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can just trace it all the way from the start
to the finish.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Okay, it's the cost setting for the consumer, right. Because
you you do one man crew instead of a two
man crew, you can get to the problem faster, you
get it fixed faster.
Speaker 9 (48:07):
Yeah, and it's really precise, and.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
I'll get your whole yard dug up in the process.
Speaker 7 (48:13):
Because that's right. We can tell exactly where it is
and how deep it is, so you know, and that
helps us on bidding certain projects because a seweral line
repair at two feet is going to be a lot
different than the seeral a lined repair at six feet. Now,
we don't run into six feet sewer line repairs very often,
but you know, once you go a certain depth, you
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can't just dig down that far. Let's see, you're eight
feet in the ground. You can't dig an eight feet
an eight foot hole. You have to have, you know,
certain safety measures in place to make sure that that
hole can't collapse on any workers in there, whole things
of that nature. So the cost goes up pretty substantially
when you're when you run into situations like that. So
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knowing the depth is really key to be able to
know what you need on site to do the repair,
and then how much that repair is going to be
so you don't surprise the customer, you know with a
larger build thing they were expecting, right, because you didn't
know it was eight foot deep not three feet deep.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
This is one of those things we just take for
granted until something goes wrong. Right, you expect to flush.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
We don't think about it. But it's funny. I ride
through neighborhoods and okay, they got to clean out. They
got little little things like that, and I'll use that information,
you know, on jobs. If I can't find somebody's clean out,
I'll walk down the road and I'll say, okay, well
you know their line comes out here. They have a
city clean out. They have a city clean out. The
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likelihood is that the customer rat has one. It just
might be buried or or something like that. So you know,
the neighbors systems can help us identify some things that
help us locate devices that we need to locate, whether
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it be meters, clean outs and things of that nature.
So you just gives us an idea on what could
be going on.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Sure, since you brought up earlier, James, the fact that
we were talking about you know, getting the met or
were getting get turned off and sometimes older homes harder
to do. What have you the actual line itself. I
know we've talked before about how you know, you know
over the older homes have a you know, certain types
of water lines. You know, newer homes use. Is that
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the the plex's what's what's the what's the world? Pex?
Plex is the place out in they'll just saying okay pex. Yes,
the actual material used for sewer lines. Has that changed
over the years too?
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Uh? Well mainly, I mean over the years. Yes, it's
gone from terra cotta. At one point they were using Orangeburg,
which is like a rolled up tar paper type of material.
I mean you could take a shovel and go straight
through the line. So anytime we run into Orangeburg, it's
a it's you know, we have to replace it. Uh
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there's there's no getting there. There's just no integrity left
to the pipe to reattach to it. So but yeah,
there's concrete pipe. We've run into that before, which is
just a it's a concrete like just like what it
sounds like cast iron. But typically what we're running into
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is going to be your thin wall PBC. Now we
don't use that, We're going to use schedule forty, which
is a pressure graded EBC and we could put a
ten of warranty on that. So but it's rare. It's
rare to see of root penetration. I think I've only
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seen you know, two or three in a schedule forty
pipe unless sometime wasn't properly during installed and.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
If you had, if you had to go in and
actually repair us, who are lined are you going to
have to if you've got to replace a section? Do
you have to use the original material? Are you able
to use some newer material and just draft it in er?
What have you? How do that works?
Speaker 7 (52:16):
Typically we can use transitions to transition from the older
material to what we use, which is Schedule forty PVC.
We just did one the other day. It was thin
wall PVC going out. There was an issue in a
portion of the line. We replaced probably fifteen feet and
it was stin wall and we just used, you know,
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a transition to make it fit. So we can put
Schedule forty in between. So our repair is going to
be all scheduled forty pipe and then the remaining line
is going to be your thin wall.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Okay, we're out of time. My friend Freedom Plumbing, the
guys have helped my family quite a bit over the
years and just recently as well. Always appreciate it, James.
How do folks get a hold of you if it
needs you at Freedom Plumbing?
Speaker 7 (53:02):
They can give us call at eighth three four four
seven zero four seven one or visit a website at
Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
All right, you guys, right around town the big red,
white and blue trucks, it's Freedom Plumbing. James, thanks as
always for joining us, and you have yourself a good weekend.
Speaker 7 (53:15):
Buddy, you do the same thing, Gary, Thank you. I'm
James Carwell, local owner and operator of Freedom Plumbing right
here in the Midlands. After working as a plumber for
nearly a decade, I decided to open my own business
and Freedom Plumbing was born because of my love for
this country and the great respect I have for the
men and women of our armed forces and our first responders.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I named my company Freedom Plumbing.
Speaker 7 (53:39):
What sets us apart from other companies is our customer service.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
We have a five star rating on Google, a five
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Speaker 7 (53:46):
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forward to servicing you for all of your plumbing needs.
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Speaker 1 (54:05):
That's Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now time for the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
on WVOC and coming up this morning, Marcus Greenwell, Lifetime
Camas and Countertops, will join me. By the way, I'm
Gary David, just meeting for the first time. Thanks for
joining us. We appreciate that. James Carwell, the owner of
Freedom Plumbing, is going to hop on board and join
us too in the next half hour. First up, it's
Beaver Roofing and Gutters and one of the owners there,
Summer Purpose, who joins us now a company that's one
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lord's like best of in the State newspaper reader's poll
when it comes to roofing to gutters into contracting too.
But I don't want aybody to be misled because if you,
if you happen to go back and glance at that
very slickly produced State newspaper best of catalog, that that
was not they spend some money on alum, you want
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to see under that category roofing, gutters, contracting, the winner
is Anthony John Construction.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, got it?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, But list again in our mind, folks that
it's Beever Roofing and Gutters. It's it's still you, it's
still aj It's one. Yes, it's it's still the folks
who work for you, who put on these gutters. Folks
like Heath and the gang are there, the roofing folks
and the warranties, the guarantees, the uh the reviews you
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find online at Facebook and Google and Angie and home Advisor. Yeah,
it's same.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Same thing, right, same thing, same thing, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Thank you, Thank you for that congratulations.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It does mean a lot to us.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, we work really hard to make.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Sure that our customers still appreciate it, and you know,
we give them the best quality work and and just
do the best that we can for them.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So you know, it was such an honor to have.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Been nominated, much less one those.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
You know, those categories. So it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We we got to thank our customers too, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you know, if we back up a little bit,
I mean, you guys have been in business. You and
Aj started this company a little over ten years.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Ago, I guess, now, right, that's right, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Okay, So I mean this is this is a local,
homegrown company. How did you start? Was it the contracting stuff?
I mean, how did it all begin? Summer.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It was the contracting stuff. So AJ you know, he
started out with just him doing smaller kind of bidding
jobs and you know, he would he would, you know,
do a job and it would be great, you know,
and then we get the inspection and then just you know,
little by little word of mouth, you know, we grew,
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we grew, we grew, we grew, and and here we
are today, you know, and it's just it's it's incredible
really to.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Think where, you know, where we started to where we
are now.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, I in the beginning.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Stages, I say, when I used to work, I you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Know, I didn't always work with the company, but I
guess about five years ago when I actually got pregnant,
and you know, he was like, well, no better time
now than to quit work and you know, hop on
board full time here and you know, have you know, have.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The babies with you. And that's that's what we've done.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
So it's been a whirlwind to think that, you know,
where we've where we've come and and whatnot. So we're
we are so thankful and very appreciative to our customers
for their continued support and you know, just for everything.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well it is well deserved summer. I mean, it really
is that you guys have done work for my family's been.
You've done contracting work. You know, you guys upgraded a
home of ours about four years ago or so. We
put it up for sale, and I know for a
fact that we wouldn't have gotten more than top dollar
like we did. And this was a pre pandemic now, okay, right,
pre pandemic had it not been for the outstanding work
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y'all did you have this past summer y'all put gutters
on our home, the six inch seamless gutters, and I
think probably next spring, you know, pubbly talking about, you know,
replacing our roof.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So whenever you're ready, we are here.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let's let's talk about roofs because we haven't talked about
them in a little while now, because that's a that's
a big point. And again let's point out that because uh,
the roofing and gutters portion of your business has grown
so amazingly over the years. This is this is why
you've kind of branched it out and at least rebranded
as Beaver Roofing and Gutters.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That is exactly right, So, like you said, we've just
we've grown and grown and grown that roofing, the roofing part, and.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah we.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Sorry, yes, it's mom time. That's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, so we've we've we've grown and grown and grown
and the roofing and the gutter portions, and you know
what we were said, it's time to just to split
that off.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And here we go.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We're going to have new name, same people, but new name.
We want to be more recognizable. You know, before Anthony
John Construction, it didn't have roofing in the name, right,
So here we are Beaver Roofing and Gutters. Bam, plain
and simple. That is exactly what that company does.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So yep, that is it growth. And here we are
with Beaver Roofing and Gutters and we are super.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Excited for branding and and to get our name out
there because we are the same. We want everybody to
know the quality, the work. Everything's the same, the people
are the same.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But we just have a new name and a new number.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Which that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
New number eight oh three, nine nine one roof.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Easy to remember. That's by the way, absolutely so those
like me challenged on the computer on the telephone keyboard,
that's seven sixty sixty three.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, well, let's let's talk a bit about roofing here.
And you know what, during the week when we talk
about y'all's business, all to mention and I refer back
to an email I got from a listener. This would
have been Thanksgiving, probably about three years ago, now, maybe
maybe two three years ago. Who made a mistake. We
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had a thunderstorm roll through that time of the year,
that that that that fall, that late fall, and he
had not a big problem but just just a minor
hole in his roof that he needed to be fixed up.
And rather than call you guys first, he called somebody else.
He listens to the show all the time. He knows
all about you, but for whatever reason, he wound up
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calling somebody else, and surprise, surprise, he was told, well,
it's going to be three months before we can get
to you. Three months. Now again, you got a hole
in your roof. I don't care how big, house small.
You don't need the whole roof replace, but you need
that fixed.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And you got you got somebody who.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Says they do roof repairs telling you it's going to
be three months before we can get to you. All right, No, right,
nobody's incredible. Nobody's that busy summer.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean, come on, there is plenty of work for everybody,
you know, but it's just how you treat your customers
and how you know, it's basically how you want your
home treated.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, you can't, like you said, you can't have
a hole in your roof for three months. What is
this gentleman or homeowner supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So yeah, I I remember specifically the customers. You know,
we got out there, got him taken care of, and
he was just ecstatic, you know, like you said, No
he did not need a full roof replacement. And we're
not here to sell everybody a full roof every time
when it's not warranted. Right, you know, we're out there,
we're going to evaluate it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We're going to get you back, you know, back to
no water penetration. No, you know, not where you're you
got your dry.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
How about that, you're your dry, You're not.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Getting leaked on or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So we may repairs, we do replacements.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, we're not here just only roof only roof replacement.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
That's not what we're here to do.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And as I recall, that listener told me that y'all
rather within twenty four hours and uh yeah, once you
were done, you couldn't even tell it was ever a problem.
So congratulations again. But this brings us up to another
issue here, summer, that there are also companies out there
who just plane flat don't do roof repairs, which is
really weird to me, but they don't. So But but
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here's the danger, right if you have an issue with
your roof and you wind up with a company that
only does roof replacements, guess what, You're going to get
a roof replacement.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So let's talk about from an educational standpoint here. As
a homeowner, when you have an issue with your roof,
are there any things you want to be on the
lookout for for If a roof for just comes in
right away and says, yeah, you need a whole new roof,
I mean, how can you know as a homeowner whether
you're getting straight scoop or not.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
So absolutely totally get it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So what there are so a lot of different reasons
why you know, people will call in.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Here.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Of late, obviously we have had a lot of storm
damage or you know, storms, winds, high winds like that.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
So that's a that's a whole another situation.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But you know, we'll go down that hole in just
a second, or that route in just a second. So
whenever you know, we come out, we're gonna get up
on the roof.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We're gonna take photos. We're gonna show you what you
have going on. So that's the main thing.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You know, a lot of times they're just oh, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So a lot of stuff going on up there, but
it's probably best. Let's just go ahead and you know,
let's replace it all. No, we're gonna take into a can't.
We're gonna take a look at your pipe boots. We're
going to look at the grit and the granule on
your shingles that are still less.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You know, we're going to educate you about what you
have going on with your roof right now.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And a lot of times, you know, roofs are they're
still they're in great condition, but they just need a
little bit of PLC, if you will. So we'll put
an extra feeling around those pipe boots that bent out
from your your bathroom fans or you know, your the
fans over your ovens and.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So we'll put a little extra cock around there.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Sometimes roofs get nail pops.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We can put some feeling over that. That's not a
big deal, you know. We're just gonna and we're gonna
make sure that it's it's it's in good shape. Because
if you still have the good granule you're decking feels great,
you don't have any leaks on the inside, you don't
necessarily need a whole new roof, right And I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
One of the things that kind of protects the consumer
and situation like this is if if a roofing company
comes out and says, yeah, you need a roof replacement,
well you could be calling your insurance company to begin with.
I guess if there's been damage, that.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is correct, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And that's that's what I want to point out. Whenever
we get up there, we're going to take a look
at what you have going on in that in that time.
And if we don't see marked uh you know, shingle
lifting and hail spots.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And things like that all over the roof.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
There's no real reason to get that roof replacement. However,
if we do get up there and we do see
damage where wind has lifted the shingles and we see
creeping or if there's.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Hail or you know you have your shingles are in
bad shape.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We're gonna let you know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And the new thing I know that you guys do
then is you don't leave it just up to the
homeowner to deal with the insurance company.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Right, We're gonna help you along the way because a
lot of times, you know, you haven't done acclaim or.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Where do I what do I do? Who do I call?
How do I go about this?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So, yeah, we're gonna be there every step of the way.
We're gonna help you. We'll be there when you call
your insurance company.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Let them know what you have going on.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You've had a roofing contractor out, they've seen some damage.
You'd like to have an adjuster out. We're gonna be
there to meet that adjuster, talk with him, go over
things that we've seen and things of that nature. You know,
we're not gonna leave you high and dry, and we're
gonna be We're gonna advocate for you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
So let's let's talk about this here for a second. Summer.
Let's say somebody listening today just built a brand new home.
I've got a beautiful, nice roof on there on average
around here, how long can they expect that roof to
be to be fully functional? At what point in time
should they think? How many years down the road? And
I need to look at replacing this thing. Okay, brand
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new roof, just just finished it yesterday. What's the life
of a roof in a place like the middles of
South Carolina on average?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Sure, so we hear, Oh, I've got lifetime shingles.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I'm going to be good to go forever. Not necessarily,
not so much.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So generally, like you said, brand new roof, we're gonna
start thinking maybe fifteen to twenty years down the road, maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
We need to start thinking about replacing the roof.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
However, however you maintain your roof is going to give
that longevity as well, so as long as you are
doing what you need to do to maintain it, getting
just annual roofing inspections, to take a look to make
sure all of my pipe boots are in good shape,
my ridgevent's in good shape, all of the components of
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your roof are in good shape. You know, if you don't,
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It can it can be sooner.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You know, the water can.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Get to it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
If you have pine straw and leaves that are just
piled up on your roof. That makes these all of
these things impact the your roof, you know, and how
it how it how it does its job.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Beaver Roofing and Gutters always a pleasure to talk to
you summer and give us that brand new phone number,
that brand new website.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I folks can get a hold of you absolutely so
you can find us at Beaver Roofing dot com. And
then eight oh three nine.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Nine one roof nine seven six six three and again, congratulations,
best of in the state newspaper reader's poll for roofing
and Gutters. It's Beaver Roofing and Gutters all.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Right, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Get back to those babies as your the rest of
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as he usually does, it is Marcus Greenwell, Hello, Columbia, Lifetime, Cavis,
Agata Toughs, joining us here on the Home Improvement Show
of the Middle. Say thank you for joining us this
morning here on one oh three point five FM at
five sixty am WVOC, and anywhere around the planet on
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matter where you're listening, you're not going to find people
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who know more about this topic and who do more
to make it happen for you than Marcus and his
crew at Lifetime, Caves and Catta. How are you, brother?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thank you, my friend. Is the best day of my life?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Good?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You know, I was thinking that when I woke up
this morning. I'm just so blessed. I got such good
people around me, and guys in the shop, the girls
and the girls in the showrooms and the boys in
the showrooms, and and I mean, you know this interior
designer that we've hired, Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No, that's uh. That was about She's been on stat
with about a month or so again.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, and she has been doing just unbelievable. She
just I mean, she's got a construction background, so she
knows all the color variations that I mean. It just
makes it so easy for clients. You know, I had
a commercial contractor in there yesterday and I was he
was he was actually my customer, and she was helping
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him design the commercial spot up in Blythewood where he's
building a big building right across from Scout. As a
matter of fact, but uh yeah, well I don't want
to left Inwood. Yeah. So uh so these people are
building a building and she's like, yeah, this is what
I would go with. And then he pitched that color
(18:00):
to his designer that's side of Charleston. And she's like, yep,
that's the one. So she is doing amazing. Yeah yeah.
He's like, yeah, it just I'm gonna make myself look good.
That's exactly what he said. Yeah, so if you want
to make your wife look good, are you look good
in front of your wife? How does that sound?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah? Wife already looks good.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And as a matter of fact, you get some smoking
hot ideas at Lifetime Cabinets and countertops. We got two
spots in case she didn't know, I twenty six and
Piney Grove over by Greens and any other one is
one fifty three Chapin Road. That's out and Chapin. It's
about five miles from the super Walmart right there in Valentine, Okay,
so it's not very far. And that's where I got
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all the remnants and such. My brother, Yeah, my brother
David's going to be out there today. He's been instructed
to sell those remnants at cost. So if you go
in there, you could save a lot of money not
have to buy minimums. And then we do the job
start to finish. So we have in house guys that
installed for us, so every part of our business is
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handled by one of us.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I got it one day. We got to get Enrique
in here. We do Uh, that would be so much
fun because the last job you did for us, you know,
we and and I we went to Marcus and we said,
here's what we want to do. It was a little
out of the ordinary. You know. We had a you know,
a countertop of the home we bought about a year ago,
a little a year ago that we were okay with
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the countertop and maybe one day we're a place, but
in the meantime, we wanted to get a little bit bigger. Now,
how are you going to do that? Well, so you
come over and you say, well, you know, we could
probably do it like this, and you know, do a
what do you call a sushi bar?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Buck it up underneath.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Underneath the current countertop, and it has a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Of space to it, have a little tiny drop down.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, and then we had to figure out of course,
you know, you know, I don't know how old this
granted countertop in that kitchen is, but it's been there
for a while. I'm sure you're never going to match
it up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It was so close to the original.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So you had an idea, we'll go with this color.
What the man said. You know, I just you know,
when you I just look over here and say, well, honey,
what do you think. I just I'm going to defer
to her on all these things. Obviously he says, yeah,
that'll work. But when Enrique and the guys came out
to installing you, you were there at the time. Yeah, yeah,
And I'll never forget the look Enrique gave you. He
looked at Marcus like, hmm, what have you done got
(20:26):
me into? Now? I said, this is my friend Enrique,
and within thirty seconds Marcus was bolting out the front door.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah yeah, okay, I'll check going in a little bit,
all right, so you you scratched his heady, I remember,
I remember his book. He's had his hand on his chin,
rubbing his chin with his hand, going hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, how do we make this work? Well? He sat
there and thought about that for a little while and
then okay, and he got the crew and they I'm
gonna bet they went in and out of that kitchen outside,
cutting and trimming m yeah a dozen times and bringing
it back in and yeah. It's unbelievable the precision that
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he demands from his crew. Because they would bring it in,
they'd slap it up there. I'd be gone, it looks
great to me, and he'd look at it and nope,
a little more back outside down the steps they went
with that slab again, trimming a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Let me set the stage. Now, you have like one
hundred and eighty two degree angle on your on your
sushi bar. So it wasn't just like a straight piece.
Oh no, right, they were trimming it to fit the angle, yeah,
and back and forth and just making sure it's exactly so.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
When you when you work with the folks at Lifetime.
Marcus is the face of the company. Okay, he's the
guy you're on the radio every couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, but I'm not the one that went bootwork.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But the people behind him, you know, the new interior
designer Enrique, and the crew, the fabrication installation folks. They
all make you look good man.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And my brother David, So he does a fabulous job
depending on what look he has this week. Sometimes he
has a cowboy looks and sometimes his motorcycle look. He's
a beautiful man.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Go by it and see what the look is today.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You think everybody kids around they think we're twins. Yeah,
we do joke around about that though, well we do
have the same color eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You got that going for it again. The point being that,
I mean, this is when you talk about one stop shopping.
When people think about you know somebody who sells countertops,
they go, okay, they sell countertops.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It's his family.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, this family and a lot of folks sell countertops.
But nobody's doing what you guys do. I mean, you
take care of every possible detail.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, there's nobody else going to do that. You're
not gonna you probably won't even talk to the owner
of the granite company around here and nobody.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I would challenge you to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And as a bonus, when you when folks work with you, guys,
they're going to get to meet you, you're out of
the if you're out of the store at the time
you get me, well, yeah, if you call eight oh
three seven seven, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right now, if you call me right now, it would
ring on the air. Well, I do have it on mute, but.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Beg you have it on mute. But not only that.
Then then somebody's gonna come out and do the exact measurements.
And that's just so happens to be this guy right here.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, And I can walk you through to get us
to get your price too. On the phone, I could say, Okay,
here's how you do it. You take some rough measurements
so your kitchen, you know, and get take a picture
or two of your space send.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It to me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I could tell you it's gonna be two thousand, three thousand,
four thousand, kind of ask you what kind of colors
you're looking for, and I don't know, you know about
what you're gonna you know, probably pay before you come
to the store.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, you've told us of you've had instances. I remember
one one Saturday mornings last year. You told us the
story out some folks who heard you on the radio,
and they came by I think it was on a Saturday. Yeah,
and they had something else they had to get to it,
and probably they're thinking, was, well, we'll drop by and
just take a quick look and get some ideas. That's right. Well,
(24:13):
like they were only there like ten minutes. Yeah, yeah,
and y'all made the deal happen, I mean right there
in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, I remember that. I walked straight out of the
shop with them, pointed at the piece she described. She said, honey,
that's it, just like we did with you in hand,
right in fact, and we turned around, we walked back
in the store. I wrote down the paper I have
doctor handwriting. My nickname is doctor Marcus. Wrote it down. Boom.
(24:39):
He paid a deposit. We installed it I think within
a week. I mean it was I mean it was
a small vanity, you know, just the guy was close
just went by and zipped the measurement on it and.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, I mean I'm not saying that's you know, don't
hold me to that. Timeline. But no, but you know,
typical is you know, right now is around on three
or four weeks something like that. If I had to
get something sooner, I could, you know, just talk to me,
you know, let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But be prepared for this because if you go in
not having a clue as to what you're looking for,
we got you. You got some. Yeah, but if you
want to see everything out there, especially if you go
out to the Chapin location and you want to see
everything on the lot out of there, be prepared to
be there for a while because you've got a bunch. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, And now the snow's all melted off, so
you can come out and look and see it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah. That kind of got everybody's way in and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They have its stacked up around the slabs pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Get some good pictures of the slabs.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. And the dog.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Let me ask you this, Marcus. Uh. We hadn't talked
about this in a long time, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
People will think, hey, listen, you know I can go
to a big box store and I can save money.
All right, now, all that we just talked about aside,
because all the things We just talked about the fat fabrication,
the installation, the interior design expertise. Yeah, you know you
don't get any of that at a big box store.
But that's okay. You know, I'll sacrifice that because I
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can save a lot of money like getting it at
a big box store. That's that's the general consensus.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Right, Yeah, No, they will not save any money from that.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well why is that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, there's a lot of reasons. They add on different
line items that we don't edge propose, so that.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
That price you see on that slab hanging up on
on the rafters or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh yeah, they'll even quote your low price when they
talk to you, and then they'll send the measure guy
out there. And I'm not picking on box stores because
I use them all the time for talk and stuff
like that, but not on specially installs like this. You know,
you want somebody in there that can care. And but
they do charge more. I end up beating them one
thousand dollars, two thousand dollars really four thousand dollars on
(26:51):
different products. Yeah, once it gets to the point of installing,
because they charge by the inch and uh on some
some of the edge profiles and ends up addening several
thousand dollars to the job by the inch. Yeah, yeah,
I think it's eight dollars or twelve dollars an inch
and inch. Yeah no, wait, way, w wha, wha, wha, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah. How long does it take somebody like Enrique to
put an inch?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
One inch?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
One more step in the process. So it's it's so
that beveled edge or whatever, it's just pretty much one
more step. So you got you're gonna have the same
steps regardless, but you have one more step with the machine.
So it's just going right you're talking about you know,
but yeah, you get fours hour two hours.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, but you can pay eight dollars an inch, and
let's say you got to get it free. Yeah, you
could do that, or you can get it free because
you guys include a number of different edges for free, right.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, the beveled edge, the ease edge, and the
demi bule edge.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, yeah, all right, but if you know those aready
to look them up and go see markets and you
can show them to you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And we put the demi bul edge on the new
George Roberts bar that we are what you call it,
George Roberts restaurant that's going up in casey right there,
I'll get the bar to sushi bar, or that it's
not a sushi bar, it's a oyster bar. Where do
you where you pop the oysters open?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Right there?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They've got a big Oh yeah, it's gonna be great.
They got one in where's it? A Valentine that we
did already for Rob Schoolmaster? Yeah, so you've done all
his restaurants. Actually, we're doing every all the Carolina Wings
and wow, okay, what a blessing.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Right, so your handy works all over town?
Speaker 9 (28:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Vina Rosso, I can name them all.
Prohibition down there on main stream and you guys a
big beautiful bar.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
We haven't mentioned the Facebook page in a while, but
I used to call it like the Pinterest for countertops.
Yeah yeah, because if you're just looking for an idea,
I don't go to pints, go to go to your website.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, Lifetime, counter cabinets, countertops. If I could say to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Me, yeah, your Facebook page, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Facebook, our visit my page. Okay, I hadn't been as
active putting up stuff on my page lately, but h
you know, because I'm a granddad, so you might see
you have to feel that.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
There's still a lot of that that. Yeah, but I
mean you have so many pictures up there of the
jobs you guys have done over the years. Oh yeah,
and I mean they they they range from the you know,
regular every day to the really out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah too, exotic colors and waterfalls and marbles and court sites.
Like I was said earlier in the year here, the
court site right now is just unbelievably popular. It's expensive,
so you know, don't think you're going to get out
on the cheap by going with court site. It's going
to be you know, one hundred plus, you know, in
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that range. You know, maybe a little bit less on
some cases, but you know it's this first lab quote
for those colors, but they're one hundred dollars probably at least.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well that's interesting because you know last year, the year before,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Quartz was the hot court product and it still is.
Which is the man made It's neck and neck with
quartzite now, I would say probably, I would say in
my shop, I would say quartz still running up number one,
quartzite because it's so expensive. Number two and granted number
three in my and in marble, Marble's up there too,
(30:29):
I'd say, right right there with granite.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, why do you any reason why I suddenly out
of the blue Qurt site just jumps to.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The top of the Everybody wants the next hot thing,
you know, and plus it's pretty. It looks like marble
and performs like granite.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, so explain that for folks on anything about countertops before, like, granted,
what does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, grant, it's harder. I mean, you know, you dull
your knife out if you try to cut something on it.
Then marble, marble, some softer stone, you know, on the
hardness scale at rates lower than the granite. You know,
the marble does so. But everybody wants that marble look,
but they don't necessarily want to have to worry about
(31:11):
a scratch here or there, or or it could possibly stain.
Even though we put a stained ceiling on it. Rate
it twenty five years. But even though you get that
on there, you still have people that are going to
be concerned or go on to the online and say, oh,
well this is going to stain or whatever. You know
what I'm saying, because they got a stain on it
(31:32):
because they didn't take care of it problemly. I mean
it's been out there that it's been on. That building
out on Mainstream, was at Gervais Street and Assembly. The
big buildings take capital. Yeah, the biggest one in Columbia.
Oh okay, yeah, that one whatever, I forget what it calls.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It depends on what it is, what it's called.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, So that big cause it's got white marble on
outside of it. So it's going to perform over the years.
I mean, you know, as long as you take care
of it's gonna look good.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, it does. Marble looks fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
And there's a lot of granite on the State Capitol.
I've done some of the granite on the walls on
the interior back when they did the remodel in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I know that. Yeah, oh god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So so the courts, the courtz site Bank of the
America building I did out there, see name dropper you
on Main Street.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So courts. How you get the look of the marble, Yeah,
you get the functionality of the granite.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, boom. And heat resistance is more heat resistant than
any of them. Oh really okay, Yeah, I mean you know,
I think marble, I mean marble marble, and granted, so
marble's probably the least that there three natural stones heat wise,
but you know you're not gonna you're not gonna mess
up the marble. I mean, Corava is down there on
Harps and they got they got marble on their pass
(32:53):
through white marble. And that's when I started realizing, oh,
that stuff's not so bad after all. Right, if there,
if it's going to have an Italian rush pushing food
through it, you know it's got to be okay. And
it didn't have any stains on its.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
A little bit of tomato sauce involved in all that, right, yeah, right,
yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So so so I like the court site looks like
marble performs like granted, you know, there's things that we've
learned about it over the years. You know, you got
to put a good sometimes two or three coats of
the high dollar ceiling on it and make sure it
doesn't absorb water on the cut edges and stuff like that.
(33:30):
So you know, we've worked our way through that and
learned about that, and now we just know we got
on certain ones. Not all of them are like that,
but there are certain ones that like where you cut
holes in them for for the sink cut out, and
where you cut the faucet holes and stuff like that.
You got to make sure you put a watertight ceiling
on there.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah. Well, I hate to break the brad news to
you here, but if we don't wrap this up, James
Carl was don't have any time to talk here, so
I love you. We got to put it, put it
in all the fun here.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Okay. So you're at twenty sixth and Piney Grove, next
to Greens That's where you'll be, Okay, and then Well
and Megan will be there. I'm helping her out still
interior design on her. Yeah, and then David's going to
be at my Chapin store today, one fifty three Chapin Road.
Give us a call, come see us. We'd love to
help you. Put you on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Get you done all right, Marks, Good to see your buddy.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Good to see you.
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back into the final segment of the Home Improving Show
of the Midlands and James Carwell is on the line
now from Freedom Plumbing, joining us again this morning. James,
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Good morning Gary.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
How are you man well?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And I gotta I gotta shout out to you guys
at Freedom Plumbing because you've you guys are lifesavers. Man.
We were, Yeah, I've been talking about this project we've
been involved in and uh doing some re innovations at
my parents' house and getting it put up on the
market after they moved out, and uh, I mean just
earlier this week, like the pretty much the last day
(36:33):
of you know, things to be you know, major things
to be done. At least we discovered the painters over
there and discovered that the I guess the uh the
outside hose that that faucet there and they turn it
on and heard something popping, heard something hiss And next
thing you know, there's water coming out underneath the house. Wow,
(36:55):
And this is like what yeah, I first thing I did.
They called me and luckily they had just been painting
the garage like the day before and noticed, well everything
else was out of there that that was the key
to the shut off olve and thank goodness for that.
So they were able to get it shut off. And
I don't know what I called you on. It was
like maybe five thirty or so, and luckily we got
(37:17):
the water cut off of the house and you got
your guys were out there, you know, just as you
told me they would be at nine o'clock the next
morning and taking care of the problem. So so thanks
for that, man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Of course, absolutely well. Appreciate you keeping us in mind,
and you know we would have been able to do
it the same night. Thing is if they get the
water off, save the emergency service. So anytime we could
save somebody money, you know, we try to give information
over the phone that can help with that kind of
(37:49):
like mainline stoppages. We get emergency calls somebody's saying that
their sewer line is backed up, and typically the first
thing we tell them to do is contact their uneunicipality
whoever they pay their sewer bill to and make them
come out first, because they should be able to tell
them whether or not it's on the city side or
the customer side. And if it's on the city side,
(38:12):
you pay for them to maintain the system. You know,
it's you don't have to pay anything if we come
out there first, open the clean out and tell you,
then you just spend that money on emergency service charge
just for us to tell you it's on the city side.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
There's nothing we can do so well the delineation between
where the city side is and where the homeowner or
business owner side is.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
So sometimes it's basically the property line in most cases,
and you know, usually there's that little buffer where the
city has easement onto your property for utilities or things
of that nature. Side I would say about ten to
fifteen feet from the road. Typically I've seen them go
into the middle of the yard before, So it really
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just depends on the municipality. But if you have to
clean outs, which are the access points to your sewer line,
they typically stick up out of the ground, a little
white pipe with the screw cap on it. There's one
usually close to the house near the foundation two three
feet from the house, and then there's one usually out
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in the yard about ten feet or so from the road.
And the way to know whose side the issue is
on is by opening those cleanouts. If you open the
one at the house and there's water in it, and
you know the water is getting past that clean out,
so then you go to the city. If you open
that one up and there's water in it, then you
know the issues on the city. If there's no water
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in it, then the issue is going to be in
between somewhere, which means it's going to be on the
homeowner side, in the yard somewhere. Okay, typically roots.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
But yeah, that happens a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
It does.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But here's the question, and maybe different municipalities it's different.
But I'm thinking, yeah, if I've got a sewer, stop
it your backup. You know, I hear what you're saying.
You know, if it's an emergency situation, we're you gonna
pay the emergency feed to get you know, Freedom Plumbing
or any plumber out there. But it seems to me
like calling the municipality, I mean, how quickly will they
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get out there, because you know, it seems like the
day sometimes.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Well, luckily, when it's an emergency like that, they're out
there pretty quick. I told the customer this the other week,
and it was actually a friend of mine. So he
was texting me back and forth, and I said, Hey,
call the municipality. Let's just verify it's not on their
side before we send somebody out there. Yeah, he goes,
(40:41):
I don't want to wait that long, and said, they're
usually pretty quick about it. And sure enough he texted
me back he said, hey, man, thanks, they're coming out.
They'd be about within forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
So most municipalities have an emergency service program as well
in these cases, so they have somebody on call that's
going to come out and take a look. And unless
you know whether or not it's on their side or
your side.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well it's good to know, okay, because yeah, I would
have thought it could be days, you know, before government
could respond.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
Well if you have, especially if you let them know, hey,
I got sewage backing up into my house, is flush,
my toilet's coming up in the shower, then yeah, most
likely they're going to send somebody out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
When that kind of thing happens. James and you notice
that is that the sort of thing that okay, well,
as long as you don't flush another toilet is not
going to get any worse or will it get worse,
regardless of what you do or don't do.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Yes, it should stop as long as is the issues
on your side. It should stop when you don't use
any more water, no water in the house at all.
That's what I recommend all the time. Some people think
upstairs is flushing, Well, the upstairs just coming downstairs. It's
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all going to one pipe. That one pipe leaves the
house and goes out to the municipality. So no matter
what you use in the house, and unless it's just
one you know toolet that's backing up. You know, you
can have branch line stoppages. But typically anytime that happens,
until we get out there and take a look at it,
I'll just say, you know, hey, just stop using water.
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That way you don't cause any damage or overflow toilets
or showers. Matter of fact, the gap called me the
other other day said it was coming out of the shower.
So it had filled up the shower base enough to
overflow out of that lip of the shower. Yeah, so,
and and as clean as that stuff looks, it does
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not clean it's it's considered black water, which is a
Class three contaminants.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So yeah, yeah, time for call a d Heck, yeah,
that sort of thing happens.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Well, a restoration company, somebody that knows what they're doing
to make sure because typically anything purse that that touches
at that point needs to come out. And now there's
some stuff that they could do with microban and to
clean up. But definitely a situation I would be calling
a restoration company.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Now do you need to in that situation not only
not use any water until they can be fixed, you
need to actually turn the water off to the house
or is that not necessary?
Speaker 7 (43:28):
Only if there's fixtures that won't stop. But a drip
typically isn't going to be enough to do anything. So
what you can do if you know someone feels comfortable
enough is if they know they have those clean outs,
they can relieve the pressure. I would be very cautious
about doing this, but outside by taking one of the
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cleanout caps off, Beware there could be a good bit
of pressure in there and you take that thing loose
in it start spraying sewage, So you know, kind of
do it slow careful and step back.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, nothing else, I think so far we've established it's
a it's a pretty good idea to to a you know,
know where your water shut off valve is and and
and have the appropriate key in order to turn it off.
Is that key universal? By the way, is there just
one size fits all when it comes to that.
Speaker 7 (44:26):
Typically now there's some like really small keys that I've
seen that unless you have a new meter, that key's
probably not going to help you out that much. You
can get large the larger keys, and sometimes the store
carries two different sets. There'll be a real cheap, tiny
little meter key and then they'll have a bigger, more
(44:48):
heavy duty one. I always recommend it the duty one
because you know, there's there's some meters where you got
to put some put some force into it to get
that thing to spend, especially the older ones andtown Columbia area.
If it hadn't been replaced, then it could be difficult
to turn off.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, who knows how long? Right?
Speaker 7 (45:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (45:12):
Or you know some people have shut off valves easily
accessible in their garages right outside their house. There's other
ways to shut it off other than the meter. Our
old house had a shut off valve and a pressure
reducing valve in the garage, so pretty convenient. A lot
of new houses are doing.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
That and finding is it pretty easy to find the
shut offvalve, I mean, the the main shut off alve
is is there a.
Speaker 7 (45:41):
So, I mean, we we've spent quite a bit of
time trying to locate some of these meter boxes because
they some of them haven't been using so long. They're
they're covered with landscaping. I've seen them in little you know,
land escape to islands and molts, just covering and you've
(46:03):
got to just go around where you think it might
be based off of you know, the hoose bob in
the front or certain indicators and just kind of go
around and see, wait until you hit that metal or
plastic lid and you know, yeah it can it could
take a while, So I would I would try to
know where that is as well, just so you you
(46:23):
have it in your mind if anything happens, you have
to go to it right away instead of more property
damage your current wall. Catastrophic happened with the waterliner.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Yeah, all right, So we've we're talking about sewer backups
and stoppages. There's a you know, over the years that
technology and how to to you know, find these things
and fix them as evolved quite quite a bit, hasn't it.
Speaker 7 (46:49):
Yeah, So it used to be, you know, you send
your cable down and you relieve the blockage, and you
pull your cable out and lay it on the ground
and say, all right, well this is where this is
how far I had to run my cable to get
to where the blockage is. So this tope where the
roots are or whatever issue is. But you know, technology
(47:11):
always advances. So now we've got cameras that we can
send down there, and they've been around for quite a while,
but you know, we got a newer one that we
can actually send down the entire sewer line and trace
the whole wire instead of just tracing a camera head.
So makes it a lot easier for one person crew
(47:33):
to do the job. In some cases, you know, especially commercial,
you'd have to have one guy pushing the camera, one
guy following the head of the camera and kind of
locating where it's going through the building and where you
know where we got to potentially dig to do a repair.
With that analogy, it just makes it to where you
(47:55):
can just trace it all the way from the start
to the finish.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Okay, it's the cost setting for the consumer, right. Because
you you do one man crew instead of a two
man crew, you can get to the problem faster, you
get it fixed faster.
Speaker 9 (48:07):
Yeah, and it's really precise, and.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
I'll get your whole yard dug up in the process.
Speaker 7 (48:13):
Because that's right. We can tell exactly where it is
and how deep it is, so you know, and that
helps us on bidding certain projects because a seweral line
repair at two feet is going to be a lot
different than the seeral a lined repair at six feet. Now,
we don't run into six feet sewer line repairs very often,
but you know, once you go a certain depth, you
(48:35):
can't just dig down that far. Let's see, you're eight
feet in the ground. You can't dig an eight feet
an eight foot hole. You have to have, you know,
certain safety measures in place to make sure that that
hole can't collapse on any workers in there, whole things
of that nature. So the cost goes up pretty substantially
when you're when you run into situations like that. So
(48:57):
knowing the depth is really key to be able to
know what you need on site to do the repair,
and then how much that repair is going to be
so you don't surprise the customer, you know with a
larger build thing they were expecting, right, because you didn't
know it was eight foot deep not three feet deep.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
This is one of those things we just take for
granted until something goes wrong. Right, you expect to flush.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
We don't think about it. But it's funny. I ride
through neighborhoods and okay, they got to clean out. They
got little little things like that, and I'll use that information,
you know, on jobs. If I can't find somebody's clean out,
I'll walk down the road and I'll say, okay, well
you know their line comes out here. They have a
city clean out. They have a city clean out. The
(49:44):
likelihood is that the customer rat has one. It just
might be buried or or something like that. So you know,
the neighbors systems can help us identify some things that
help us locate devices that we need to locate, whether
(50:04):
it be meters, clean outs and things of that nature.
So you just gives us an idea on what could
be going on.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Sure, since you brought up earlier, James, the fact that
we were talking about you know, getting the met or
were getting get turned off and sometimes older homes harder
to do. What have you the actual line itself. I
know we've talked before about how you know, you know
over the older homes have a you know, certain types
of water lines. You know, newer homes use. Is that
(50:34):
the the plex's what's what's the what's the world? Pex?
Plex is the place out in they'll just saying okay pex. Yes,
the actual material used for sewer lines. Has that changed
over the years too?
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Uh? Well mainly, I mean over the years. Yes, it's
gone from terra cotta. At one point they were using Orangeburg,
which is like a rolled up tar paper type of material.
I mean you could take a shovel and go straight
through the line. So anytime we run into Orangeburg, it's
a it's you know, we have to replace it. Uh
(51:12):
there's there's no getting there. There's just no integrity left
to the pipe to reattach to it. So but yeah,
there's concrete pipe. We've run into that before, which is
just a it's a concrete like just like what it
sounds like cast iron. But typically what we're running into
(51:33):
is going to be your thin wall PBC. Now we
don't use that, We're going to use schedule forty, which
is a pressure graded EBC and we could put a
ten of warranty on that. So but it's rare. It's
rare to see of root penetration. I think I've only
(51:54):
seen you know, two or three in a schedule forty
pipe unless sometime wasn't properly during installed and.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
If you had, if you had to go in and
actually repair us, who are lined are you going to
have to if you've got to replace a section? Do
you have to use the original material? Are you able
to use some newer material and just draft it in er?
What have you? How do that works?
Speaker 7 (52:16):
Typically we can use transitions to transition from the older
material to what we use, which is Schedule forty PVC.
We just did one the other day. It was thin
wall PVC going out. There was an issue in a
portion of the line. We replaced probably fifteen feet and
it was stin wall and we just used, you know,
(52:37):
a transition to make it fit. So we can put
Schedule forty in between. So our repair is going to
be all scheduled forty pipe and then the remaining line
is going to be your thin wall.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Okay, we're out of time. My friend Freedom Plumbing, the
guys have helped my family quite a bit over the
years and just recently as well. Always appreciate it, James.
How do folks get a hold of you if it
needs you at Freedom Plumbing?
Speaker 7 (53:02):
They can give us call at eighth three four four
seven zero four seven one or visit a website at
Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
All right, you guys, right around town the big red,
white and blue trucks, it's Freedom Plumbing. James, thanks as
always for joining us, and you have yourself a good weekend.
Speaker 7 (53:15):
Buddy, you do the same thing, Gary, Thank you. I'm
James Carwell, local owner and operator of Freedom Plumbing right
here in the Midlands. After working as a plumber for
nearly a decade, I decided to open my own business
and Freedom Plumbing was born because of my love for
this country and the great respect I have for the
men and women of our armed forces and our first responders.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I named my company Freedom Plumbing.
Speaker 7 (53:39):
What sets us apart from other companies is our customer service.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
We have a five star rating on Google, a five
star rating.
Speaker 7 (53:46):
On Facebook and a plus rating on Angie's List, and
an a plus rating with a Better Business Bureau. I'm
James Carwell, local owner of Freedom Plumbing, and we look
forward to servicing you for all of your plumbing needs.
Get fifty percent off your new service call when you
mentioned you heard us on WVOC. Learn more at Freedom
dash Plumbing dot com.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
That's Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.
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