Home Improvement Show 02-21-26

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
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want to check us out. All right, what have we
got today for us for you? Rather well, we'll be
talking about roof Inspections. Summer from Beaver Roof can Gutters
is going to be on the program today Free Roof
Inspections these are a great idea. I would and I'm

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sure we'll talk about this, but I would forewarn you
that be very careful who you call to get a
free roof inspection, because not all local roofers here in
the Midlands do roof for pairs. A lot of them
just do roof replacements. That's it, So free roof inspection
we'll find out why you should be calling Beaver roof
Can Gutters. This morning on the program, Marcus Greenwell always

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a treat with Marcus drops by to say hias a visit.
He owns Lifetime Cabins and countertop with the locations on
Fernandina Road over near Costco and also adding Chapin at
the one fifty three Chapin Road location, which by the way,
they still got retnants out there selling get their dealer cost.
He'll be about to talk about not resting on his laurels. Listen.
They just again one best to open the state newspaper

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reader's pull, but they are upgrading their presentation at their
showroom over on Fernanentina and he'll be here to tell
us all about all the exciting news. And it's getting
close to that spring season everybody wants to fix up.
What's the time I looking right now? We'll talk about
that with him first up though it's my old friend
and yours too. I hope James Carwell, the owner of

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Freedom Plumbing here in the Midlands, he gets the start
of this morning on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Good morning, James, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
How you been.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I've been all right and.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
You doing good? Doing good, excellent.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I've been meaning to ask you because we talked about
this a couple months ago. How ironic that you in
the plumbing business had an issue with a flood in
your home that really set you guys for a loop.
As I recall, y'all, y'all all recover from that now.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Still dealing with it altho.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's got all the floors in downstairs, but still no
furniture in the house. It's got two beds upstairs and
uh waiting on the moving company once we get the
floors done. I think it's been about a four month
process at this point.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I'm going to say it's been months, hadn't it?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Woh yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
The power of water, the destructive power of water in
this case.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's right, Just a failing appliance can cause quite a
bit of disruption in your life.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So you're not the only person that I've talked to
check on them. Yeah, you know, the only person I've
talked to recently has had an appliance fail through no
fault of their own and had an issue with that.
It's uh seems to be going around or the cheap
stuff they're building in China. I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Anyway, they don't make things like they used to.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
That they don't do they got If you got something
old and works, hang on to as long as you can.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Today's topic houses that got smells, and uh, maybe the
default thought for everybody would be, well, it's got something
to do with my plumbing, but not necessarily.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yes, I would say it is probably one of the
hardest things to diagnose, just because there's a lot of
variables that could be causing some type of smell in
a home. So yeah, you know, get a customer call
in all, we got sewer smell in the house, and
the most likely culprit I would say, would be the

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wax ring on the toilet if it gets compromised. Basically,
what you have is those gases in the plumbing system
and your drain system can escape from underneath the toilet
and get into the home.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now, this is a ring. You can't see. This is
underneath the toilet up underneath.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It correct right now, Typically there's other evidence that could
suggest that that's going on. If you've got a cross space,
the first thing we would do is go underneath the
house full some insulation, back where your toilet is, check
and see if there's any moisture around where the drain
pipe comes through.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
For the toilet on.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
A slab a little bit more difficult that. If you
have linoleum, if there's any discoloration around the toilet, kind
of a purplish or darker color around that toilet, then
that would suggest that water is getting underneath that planoleum.
But other than that, it can vary. It could be
fixtures that don't get used very often. Let's say like

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a shower you never use in a guest bathroom. If
the water in the pea trap, which is the part
that intentionally holds water to keep gases from coming up,
if that water evaporates over time, then basically you have
an open airway to your sewer system, which will allow
those gases to come up.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I guess we's time to think about it. I mean,
there are a lot of potentials here, so it really
is pretty phenomenal that you know, for the most part,
day in and day out, everything works as it's supposed
to it and keeps them having those issues.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, as long as the pea traps have water in
them and everything is sealed properly. You know, again the
toilet being the major one, because there is that this
is the only fixture that you have, really a seal
with a waxy substance is on your toilet, and then
if there's any kind of rocking or movement, once that

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wax is compressed, it doesn't bounce back, So if it
rocks off of the wax, then you've compromised that seal
at that point. That way, that's one reason you need
to make sure when the toilet's installed, it's you know,
if there's any gaps from the porcelain to the floor,
that that you support this properly with wedges so there

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isn't any rocking of the toilet over time.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, how did you bring that up? When when new
homes are built new construction, do contractors typically hire plumbers
like yourself to install these fixtures or is it just
a you know, guys building a house pop me in there.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, typically you'll have like a two stage process with
your plumbing contractor, one called the rough end, which is
where the all the pipes in while the walls are
still open, and then a trim out, which is where
they come and put the toilet in, put your shower
handles and shower heads on, and all the faucets and
the sinks and stuff like that. So I would imagine

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that most of the time it is the plumbing contractors
that do those installs, but there are some companies out
there they may, you know, do floor replacement or something
like that. They may take the toilet out or replace
the floor under it and then put the toilet back in.
But a problem with that is if they don't know

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what they're looking for, there could be potential issues that
need to be addressed before that toilet can be reinstalled.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
So it's always good.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
To have a plumbing contractor do that removal and replacement.
That way, any issues can be addressed before you wrote
your brand new floor out or cause damage to something
that you just got freshly installed.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
That's great tip there. I don't try to go on
the cheap with that thing right there, because the the
ensuing costs and uh and and and hardship and and
all could could could be pretty sizable if it's not
done correctly.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh yeah, the first house we bought, uh, I'd say
a few months in, I noticed tiles start to pop
off of the floor and our guest bathroom went under
the house, pulled some insulation back, and found wet wood
all the way from the bathroom into an adjacent bedroom.
Whole bathroom had to be ripped out. Oh, sub sub

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floor was rotten underneath the tub and everything like that,
So at that point everything had to come out. Do
you guys, I know it's all due to a wax
ring on a toilet.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't know if I've ever asked you this
or not, or if you do, uh yeah, and and
and by the way, how much was that wax ring?
I mean, if you bought one new, what would it
cost you? Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Maybe six dollars six bucks?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah? Yeah? Do you guys?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
In some of those situations, you can't even tell that
it's happening because let's say they calk around the entire
base of the toilet when they install it. If it leaks,
the water would never typically if it's caked good, it
would never come out there. It would just seep into
the wood, you know, on a cross space floor or
second story floor. Now on the second story, you would

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probably notice evidence of you know, water in the ceiling,
which is you know, a sign of a potential leak,
especially underneath the toilet, of a wax ring.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's never a good day.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
No, no, that's not.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
And you know a lot of people don't want to
cut their sheet right out.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
But the problem with not cutting and just guessing as
you're doing exactly that, well, it's probably your wax ring
because the water is here. Well, water takes the path
of least resistance and it always goes to the lowest spot.
So I've done a leaking a ceiling before where the
water was dripping through the ceiling in one spot. We
cut it open there and there's not even plumbing in

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the area. The plumbing was ten feet away. It just
happened to be that the ceiling was sloped in such
in a way that the water ran all the way
down and came out of a nail hole or a
screw hole in the sheet rock.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I've been there. Too, we're a leaking a ceiling
and it wasn't The source of the leak was nowhere
near where it was manifesting itself on my ceiling.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, So cutting the steeling open is really.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
You got to see.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I always say, you got to recreate and see where
that water is actually coming from before you can, you know,
make a diagnosis on a repair.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Do you guys, James, do you guys do annual inspections?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
We do, Okay, we go through the whole house. Check
the fixtures, make sure the fixtures are operating properly, make
sure there's no drips leaks under the home. Check the
piping system, the drain system, make sure it's hung properly.
We'll check water pressure in the home, things of that nature.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Things that.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
In some inspections, as far as new home purchases and
sales aren't checked. I don't believe they check water pressure
and I've.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Never seen that inspection for them now as you mention it.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah so, and that could be a cause of premature
failure of fixtures, running toilets, leaking falsets, if your pressure
is too high. I think we've talked about that in
the past. But yeah, I don't think that's something that's
that's checked. We could also do camera inspections of sewer lines.
I've had people buy a home, the move in. A
month later, their sewer line stopped up. Come to find

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out they got a root infestation in their sewer line
and they have to spend another you know, three four
thousand dollars depending on the circumstances, after they just purchased
a house to replace the sewer line.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Probably a great murder the creat myrtles create. Myrtle create murdery.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, they're definitely.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Ones that tend to find their way into sewer lines,
that's for sure. Those root systems move out pretty good ways.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm glad we brought that up because typically, you know,
we don't think about calling on plumbers we have a problem.
Why not call a plumber before you have a problem.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's especially if you know, I would
almost suggest if you're purchasing the house, to do a
separate inspection on the plumbing system so we can come
in and say, hey, you know, this this is a
potential issue.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
May you know, may want.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
To have it addressed before you purchase, or just know
that once you get it, this is something you're going
to want to take care of in the near future.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
How often, James, I mean, well, you know it's possible
to say. I know, but but if you had to
put a percentage number on it, how oft will you
guys go out and do an inspection on a home.
Do you find an issue? And what do you find?
Most often?

Speaker 2 (13:04):
I mean you're always going to find something just because
high pressure is pretty prevalent, especially in Northeast Columbia. I
would say, but yet, I mean shut off alves that
don't show off all the way, just systems that weren't
installed properly. Like you're supposed to hang pipes with a

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certain amount of hanging strap on different types of materials,
you know, PVC, Galvini and stuff like that. There's a
certain footage that you're supposed to have support, and we
see that that's really not checked during even building inspections
as far as that's concerned. So, I mean, there's definitely

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some cases where everything's great and we just go on
on about our day and let the customer know, Hey,
your system looks amazing. We'd like to give a good information.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Information.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, well happy information.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know that's not every day that we can go, hey,
you don't have any issues, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is there is there any specific case, Yeah, any specific
case that you recall when you guys were doing an
inspection and you caught something that had had that person
done had that inspection, they'd have been looking at a
whopper of a of a of a bill at some
point in time.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
I would say the biggest thing would be copper water
line discoloration. And when I say that, it basically what
you're what you're approaching is the end of that lifespan
of that material. If you go underneath the home and
you see green spots, not necessarily at the fittings, because

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that could be from leftover flux that's used to solder
the copper. But if you start seeing that green discoloration
in the middle of a straight piece of pipe, you're
that starts from the inside. Once you start seeing it
on the outside, it's time to do something about it
before it starts spraying underneath home, because that can create

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a huge issue. I went to one leak. It was
in a basement, kind of crawl basement area. It was
a kind of a split access to the home underneath,
and it was a hot water line that was just
missing water out. Well, it had missed it for so
long and it created steam in this cross space where

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it was almost raining in their cross faces had water
dripping off the insulation almost the entire cross space because
of just that that mist of hot water that was
coming out.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, we think about you know a water Aye, Okay,
you got to drip. You're losing water, but it's more
than just you're wasting water. You're causing damage.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, and you know, the drip. A lot of times
the drip.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You know, if you have a vapor barrier, that drip
can't go anywhere and it's going to keep dripping in
that water is just kind of pool.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, that water can attract you know, things bugs, varmints,
things like that that want to find that water. So
other things can come about because of just a simple drip.
Not only that, a simple drip can turn into you know,
it's only going to get worse. So that drip eventually
turns into a spray. And depending on what direction that

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thing is spraying, it could be spraying.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Up towards your floor.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Typically you see it at the bottom of the pipe,
so it'll just be spraying down. But if it's on
the hot line, which typically goes. It tends to be
the line that fails first. Then you're dealing with hot
water spraying under your house, which is creating steam, which
is causing more issues with moisture and would rotten things
of that nature.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
If you start seeing spikes and you'll let your water
build out. It can vary, I know. But if you
look over a trend maybe of a couple of months,
and you know they haven't raised the rates that you're seeing,
suddenly this water bill is more than expensive and it
used to be. Is that a good indication you got
an issue somewhere? What can there be other reasons?

Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's very very possible, and a good thing that these
municipalities have been doing is they've been switching these digital
meters and they'll actually send you a notice say hey,
we think you have a leak because your meter is
constantly registering water flow. So that that's a good thing
that they're doing. And then we go out there and

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you know, first we check see if there's running toilets,
dripping faucets, things of that nature, go underneath the house
and see if there's anything we can check if nothing
is showing up The likely scenario is you either have
a slab leak or you have a leak from the
meter to the house. And that's not always doesn't know,

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you don't always find evidence like oh, I got a
wet spot in the yard. Sometimes you do, and that's
a pretty simple process. But even a wet spot in
the yard doesn't mean that's where the water line is,
the same with the ceiling. I've had situations where water
is gushing out of the ground. Dig it up, there's
nothing there. The waterlinees ten feet away. It just happened
to be the path of least resistance for that water

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to get out of the ground.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
The way it always is, Yeah, it's always that's that's
the way it is. Kind of like us, usually a
path of least resistance. We take that back all we
got to run. James Carwell, Freedom Plumbing, thank you as
always my friend. Always great to talk to you. And folks,
if you need a good plumber, happen to know one
you call James. How can folks reach you, buddy?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
They can give us a call aight oh three four
four seven zero four seven to one, or visit our
website at Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Don't forget the dash the guys riding around town. They're
big right, red white and blue trucks. All right, James,
thanks so much, buddy, have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, sir, Gary, you too, thank you.

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Speaker 5 (20:21):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I want to talk about roofs today and uh in
particular a service that you offer at Beaver Roofing and Gutters.
And we talk about this when I you know, talk
about y'all all the time here on on during the
weekday show. And you know, you guys, sure you do
roof replacements absolutely, but not all local roofing companies do
roof repairs. You do, and you are not going to

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put somebody to the back of the line just because
they have a minor problem of problems, a.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Problem exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Let's talk about you know, doing doing our best and
not get to the point where there is a problem
and that comes from something else you do on a
regular basis, and those are free roof inspections absolutely.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
So we always say, you know, new year, new me
kind of thing, or you know that through a thing, well,
new year, let's check out your roof. A lot of things,
like our cars, we're like, oh okay, it's kind of
in our face. We need to get the oil change,
we need to do these maintenance things. But you know, roof,

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your roof doesn't come with a pop up light or
something that just goes off. It's just you know, you
start seeing stains on your ceilings and things of that
nature before before you're like, oh my gosh, this is
a problem. So yeah, we do free roof inspections and
that is where you know, we just go up there,
take a look, see what's going on with your roof.

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Because I mean some people may but not a lot
do get up on the roof and just take a
check see what's going on. We have harsh summers, we
have harsh winters and when that, you know, expansion contraction
of the ceiling and our roofs and you know, things

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can get out of whack before we know it. So yeah,
we we loved doing those free inspections and helping out
our customers and seeing what we have, you know, what
we can do.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean all came out to my parents' home
not long ago when we put that house on the
market and did a roof inspection. In fact, just a
couple of small things and it's a couple hundred bucks
to get fixed. But I mean that was it. But
that that that certainly could could could save you down
the road because those little things eventually become big things.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Absolutely, And like you, like you mentioned, you know you're
going on going on the market, you know for the
new buyer, just you know, having that peace of mind knowing,
hey we we have a roof inspection. We just had
this taking a look at Yep, we did the repairs
that were needed, but everything else looks good. So that
also is like a good you know, hey we do
have a report for our roof. That's that right, because

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they can be costly if you know, you have to
have that replaced or you know, that's just in the
back of people's minds whenever they're making that purchase. So yeah,
that's exactly right. You know, we we make the small
repairs and you know, let it roll. We're not going
to say, oh, yeah, you need a replacement, absolutely because
it's not always the case.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right exactly, So when your folks get up there, what
spec specific things they're looking for? What were the big things.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
That get right? So you know, you know, just an
every day Ruth inspection. We're gonna get up there. We're
going to take a look at any penetrations in the
roofs and those will generally be pipe boots or events,
and obviously those do come out of the shingle, so
there is going to be a hole made there. So

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we're going to check around those to make sure that
the ceiling that was placed during the installation is not
dried up, shriveled up, or you know, even displaced from
wind or things things like that, because like I mentioned before,
harsh winter, harsh summer's expansion and contraction of that ceiling.
It happens, and and even those can be just a

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pest whenever they start, you know, if they start leaking,
they'll come through you you would see in the bathrooms
or the kitchens, just you know, water staining around that area.
And nine times out of ten that's what it's from,
one of those boots or penetration. So that's one main
thing we're looking at.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Does that seem to be the thing, the thing that
most often is is an issue? Do you see you
see that a lot, don't you?

Speaker 5 (24:32):
We do? We see it a lot. And and thankfully
it's a it's an it's an easy fix. You know,
it's not, oh my goodness, we need to you know,
take half of your roof off in this and that.
You know, generally it's a nice easy fix. If you
catch it early, you know, it can be more you know, extensive.
If it's leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking and you

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don't know it, that's another thing. If it's leaking, leaking,
leaking and it's not coming into the ceiling, if it's
just like say, you know, just going into the attic
or into the insulation and it's catching, that could lead
to bigger problems. So that's another reason it's great to
have these these routine roof inspections every year It doesn't

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matter if your home is new or old, because it's
just nice to know what's going on. So that's, you know,
another thing we're looking at around.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Those yep, the pipe boots and fittings. All right, what
else are your folks looking at? Carefully?

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Here, we're going to be looking for nail pops. And
that's exactly what it sounds like. You know, sometimes the
nails pop up in the shingles from the installation. That
generally happens once the roof is showing a little bit
of age, or if the if the shingle kind of
gets worn down a bit, not a big issue. What

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we do with that is we put you know, a
little dava ceiling over that to make sure that that
is sealed and water cannot penetrate through that. Through that area,
we're also going to be looking for if there's any
debris on the roof that holds moisture. If you have
a lot of leaves, pine straw, things like that that

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accumulates on your roof and it doesn't you know, come
off very easily, that can hold water, and that water
is just going to be sitting there and that can
make its way through those cracks and it can lead
to possible decking lot and would need to be replaced.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Right, you've mentioned before. I know we always hear the
thirty year shingle, the thirty year shingle in an environment
like we live here in South Carolina. Up about you
that summertime heat. I believe you've told us before. Yeah,
thirty year shingles aren't really thirty year shingles.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
They're not. No, they're getting about half of that life expectancy.
If you're getting about fifteen years out of yours, that's
a great that's that's good. That's really really good because,
like we mentioned, the harsh, the heart our of the
environment that we live in, hot cold, expansion, contraction, the
asphalt granules are coming off, you know, drying up the ceiling.

(27:12):
So yeah, yep, there are not thirty years there last
thing about fifteen if if we're lucky.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, if you see granules in your gutter, that's that's
a sign there's an issue. Or if you don't have gutters,
then called beaver roofing and gutters too. By the way,
Absolutely that problem all you're at it. So now, okay,
you get up there and you I guess it depends
on the roof of the situation summer, at what point
do you go, well, you maybe you really do need

(27:41):
a roof replaced here. That's case by case base.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
It is kind of case by case. Like I said,
new old inspections. Whenever we get up there, and like
I mentioned, if the granules are just completely gone there's
nothing left on the roof, if there there are seeing
shingles tabbed, you know that sort of thing, we're gonna say, Okay,
you know what it's we need to get our new roof.

(28:07):
So then at that point, like we can kind of think,
all right, number one, what is the age of this roof?
Number two? Is there storm damage? So that's another thing
that our guys are going to be looking at whenever
they go up there. If there's storm damage, tail, when
anything along those lines. You know, we can kind of say, hey,

(28:28):
maybe we can you know, look into getting insurance to
pay for this, or if it's too old, hey it's
time for a new roof, and you just you know,
do that retail. But there are a couple of things
that we look at to say, hey, let's go to
the insurance rout. Hey it's time to do retail.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, Now you mentioned you maybe a storm damage. Maybe
it's just old, but it could be both. Right, it
could be old roof is still have storm damage and
still insurance.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Exactly that is exactly right. And even that combination, you
know what they're doing, so it has if you just
have one oh, here's one piece of hell that's hit. Oh,
there's just two shingles that have been folded up from
the way from wind damage, that's not Insurance is not
going to warrant that. And we're not going to say, oh, yes,
let's call your insurance. We're not going to have you

(29:18):
call them if we know that it's not going to
be you know, an actual a good case for you,
because you know we're going to help you through that
whole process. We're going to stand beside you. And if
we you know, if we had you call your insurance
company and we got up there, that's just silly, you know,
because we don't. That's not how we're going to be.
We want these insurance companies and adjusters, you know, Biaber,

(29:41):
we know what we're doing. We're not being silly. We're
not trying to get anything over on anybody. We you know,
we're respected and and that's how we want to stay.
We don't want to just be calling and trying to
get claims any and everywhere.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Sure, sure, absolutely, that's that's not good business there, right,
I tell the customers, sure Stuffy could cover this, and
the find out they don't, then then they're mad at you.
I mean, there's there's no reason exactly.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
You know, when we're going to go to bat for you,
we're gonna know, hey, we're up there. Yes, there, there
is a good reason for you to call your insurance company.
And when they're up there, they're going to take photos.
They'll show you. Hey, do you see all of this,
so so you know exactly what's going on. If hey, yep,
you got a good looking roof, you know every everything
is fine, or noe, Hey look at all of this

(30:25):
damage here. So that just so you know, you want
to be informed about your roof too, because it's not
something that that many people do know about.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Is there a rural thumb summer? How much of the
area the roof has to be damaged before you got
a pretty good case for an insurance claim. Does that
be the entire roof for portions or right?

Speaker 5 (30:45):
So whenever, generally they're looking at like a ten by
ten area one square area of your roof, and they'll
just you know, take that on separate areas of the roof.
You know, it doesn't have to be all over it,
but yeah, front, back side, you know, elevations, that's what
they want to see.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Some insurance companies will say, hey, we're only going to
do the front part of your roof because that's only
where the damage is.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Right.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
So it is case by case when it comes to
insurance companies, and yeah, so we do the best that
we can and say, hey, well there is some on
the other side. Here's this, but yeah, they're looking at
at a tent like a tent, a square area and
then for it to be throughout the roof.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, okay, so there's no Succhi as a partial roof replacement.
It just means they'll cover that front half and the
back half is on the home owne. I guess right.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Sometimes yes, other times, And like I said, it's very
case by case on your insurance. And we you know,
if they do say oh, we only want to do
the front, we help as much as possible to show hey,
well we know that there wasn't quite as much on
the back as it was the front, but you know it,
case by case, some say yep, we'll do the whole roof,

(32:03):
and others will say, hey, we'll only want to do
the front half. But whenever, the partial roof replacements are
not nearly as common as you know, the hope the
insurance companies say, oh, yep, we do see that. Let's
go ahead and replace the whole roof because it just
doesn't make sense. But there again, we don't want to
step on any toes. That's the insurance company, because why

(32:24):
have an eight year old roof on the back and
a brand new roof on the front.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, it make munch sense, right exactly. Well, again, you
can't control mother nature, but there are things you can control,
and that starts with that that inspection, which is which
is absolutely.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Free, right again, absolutely free?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yes, all right, Now, before before people call you, I
know there's something you still want.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Them to do, right, absolutely, we want you to go
and check us out on Google, check us out on Facebook,
see what other people are saying about us, and you know,
make your decisions from those from those reviews that we.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Have there you go, all right. Beaver Roofing and Gutters
winner in the state newspaper readers pull both for roofs
and for gutters, which we'll probably talk about some gutters
next time. You hopefully got gutters on your home this morning.
Hopefully If not the numbers, then the number is the same.
Whoever whichever you want to talk about. To give you
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(33:18):
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Speaker 5 (33:20):
You call us at eight oh three non none one
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six six three all right?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
And what is that website.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Beverroofing dot com terrific?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
All right, summer you and Ajay and the folks have
yourself a great weekend. Always wonderful to talk to you,
and we shall chat again soon.

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(35:23):
back the home improvement Show of the Midloks. One of
three point five FM five sixty a m w v OC.
The hour is flying on bias. Here we're back to
wrap things up this morning with Marcus Greenwell from Lifetime
Cabins and Countertops. Good morning to you, my friend.

Speaker 8 (35:37):
Drum roll. Please the best last.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
When whenever, whenever you're last in the program, that's what
every couple of weeks, we save you the best for last.

Speaker 8 (35:49):
Yes, yes, I always say that, Nonna.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
It's okay.

Speaker 8 (35:53):
I love it. I love I love being on this show.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
And I appreciate you and and your wife because she's
a long time customer of Urts.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
It's Ann who spent all the money with you guys.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
But I do you know, I woke up this morning
and I always look out the window and what I'm
grateful for, and you were on that list, You and
Ann were on that list.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
But I was not outside your window this morning.

Speaker 8 (36:17):
Yeah, I was thinking I was thanking God and thinking this.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Be don't well. We've worked together for a long time.

Speaker 9 (36:23):
We have, man, and I appreciate that our friendship, and
I want to tell you a quick stories, just not
about countertops and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yet.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
I was talking to somebody last week and I said, well,
let me give Gary David a call. I called you
on the phone. Yeah, And this person was sitting across
from me just lit up like. After I hung up,
I said, why did you get so excited? You had
a celebrity on the phone. I said, yes, you're right here.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That I'm just like everybody else, right, all right, the
same problems everybody else. Great, great, great, the same opportunities.
But thank you, thank you much, man, appreciate you. You guys.
You guys, once again are the best over the streate readers.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
Yeah, seven years in row, seven in a row. Yeah,
you can google that too.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
There you go, but you're not.

Speaker 8 (37:22):
I can't believe it. I'm still like, oh my god,
what are a blessing?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Huh? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (37:28):
Three out of four?

Speaker 1 (37:29):
You guys are celebrities too.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Uppare on because you three out of four on the
Lexingon's Best. We're Both of my stores are in Lexington County,
so we've got even though the one is that Piney
Grove next to Green's forty Road and the other one
is one fifty three Chapin Road. Uh, just where Boho
Links or I think what they call it now, but

(37:51):
just a poor three golf course slash driving towards shape
changed Loho something. Yeah, the guy Ben Hooker bought it
and uh it's really he's fixing it up real nice.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
He's got something that owns Bojos and Lexing.

Speaker 8 (38:05):
The he is a partner in that.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
This is his solely and he's a partner with some
other fellas I know too over in Lexington. Which Boho
Pizza is that one? Yeah, real good little venue too.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Oh yeah, absolutely love that place. So we digress.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
So we're excited. We're really excited. We're we're over there
at Piney Grove Road. We're we're taking out the old stuff.
We're putting in the new.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
We're doing a full back splash courts.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
Right when you walk in in the kitchen on the left,
white court with a waterfall edge going down. Uh, so
you can you're gonna be able to see that over there.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (38:42):
We just put in some marble over there. It's called
Lumen marble and it's real cool.

Speaker 8 (38:48):
Gary. Yeah, you can backlight it.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I was gonna say, but based on the name of it,
I'm guessing that's it's luminous.

Speaker 9 (38:56):
It's it is a marble, so it's gonna perform good
like marble, you know. But you can light it up
and it looks really cool. So we haven't lit it
up yet, but we've got the piece in there. We're
gonna do the full back splash and light the whole
thing up. We're putting in some quartz uh. Okay, I
said that about the courts. We're also going to put

(39:17):
in on the other side some quartzite with a bathroom,
and then on top of the bathroom, between the two mirrors,
we're gonna put a piece of crystalo and back like it.

Speaker 8 (39:28):
It's onyx.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Okay, say what crystal is? You introduced us to onyxt
a couple of weeks ago, Yes, which we've never talked
about on.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
It I know, right, but it's very expensive, right yeah?
And I don't know.

Speaker 9 (39:39):
I guess Facebook is following me or something with with
my words. They keep popping it up on my Facebook.
After I said that, I was like, all of a sudden,
all these islands and stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (39:51):
It's really cool stuff, So.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
What makes it so expensive? It's hard to come by?

Speaker 6 (39:55):
Her?

Speaker 8 (39:55):
I guess.

Speaker 9 (39:56):
And it's it's hard to pull out too, because it's
got a lot of crystals in it, so whenever it's cut,
a lot of times it'll fall apart, so they probably
lose a lot of it. Whenever they're manufacturing it, you're
not making it, but meaning like you know, cutting it.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Out of the process, right. Yeah, and again we tend
to forget that. We haven't talked about this in a
long long time. Then aside from the courts, which is
man made, everything else has come from mother Earth.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Yeah, yeah, all love it.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
It's got to be a fascinating process on how that's
extracted and from I mean if you saw, if you
saw it, I guess when you first brought the grand Okay,
what's the big deal here until the point when it's
you know, cut and polished and everything else. I mean,
there's a lot of work that has to go into
that from starting to finish.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
And it definitely is.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
And my designer was doing a little geology geology.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Class over there with a young girl that was in there.

Speaker 9 (40:57):
Maybe five or six, maybe a little older, I don't know,
but she was sitting there showing her how you know,
has different types of stones in the rocks and stuff
like that.

Speaker 8 (41:06):
I thought that was cool. I really enjoyed that.

Speaker 9 (41:09):
And their grandparents were with her and they were just
eating it up and they were loving it.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
So if you want your geology lessons, drop by.

Speaker 8 (41:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
Yeah, Megan is over there at Piney Grove today. And
then my brother David is out in Chapin at my
chaping store where I have the boneyard which we got.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (41:27):
I'm trying to sell all those pieces.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
These are the remnants with the remnant piece. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:31):
Yeah, I've got thousands of them now, so ready to
rock and roll if you want to come in and
look at it. I'm selling them at cost save you,
you know, from fifteen to thirty dollars a square foot
doing it like that. Yeah, depending on what it is,
you know.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
And I would have pointed, I know, every time we
bring this up now, I mentioned this, but I think
it's important because I was in the misconception until then.
And I went out there a couple of months ago
and actually did two jobs. Both of them are remnants, now, okay.
One was a guest bathroom countertop single vanity yeap, of course.

(42:07):
The other was an extension of the kitchen countertop yeah, granted,
what I didn't. I just I've been working on this
false assumption all along that these remans are pretty small pieces,
and yeah, you got a lot of it, but you've
got them big ones.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 9 (42:23):
Some of them I have only has a small chunk
cut out of the whole slab, meaning like like one
pe like I had a job, a customer come in
that has sixty five square feet and I only have
to take one piece off the second slab. See, I
don't charge that customer for the entire slab. I only
charge them for what they use. So that piece that's

(42:44):
left over is a remnant because I can't do it
in the kitchen unless it was a small kitchen, of course,
but you know, probably sometimes I would do it condos, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (42:55):
Something like that. Yeah, there are some smaller kitchens.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Here and there.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
But you know, well I know my our kitchens.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
And it's been talking just so you know, she's she's
been talking about maybe one of our boys owns a
condo and helping him to upfit a little bit. It
would be a would be a condo. Kitchens is a
great opportunity for for one of these remnants.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
And now is that the one I met.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
No, this is the youngest one.

Speaker 8 (43:23):
Okay, yeah, I look for you.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
You haven't met him yet.

Speaker 8 (43:26):
I think that's the only part of the family I
have met.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
You have not met him, have you? Well, you know
when you see hi, because he's like six four oh wow,
oh yeah, eight towers over the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
But anyway, so we'll talk about that later on. But
so so, the Remnants cell continues. But now during the
commercial break here before we came on, you mentioned something
else about some other kind of seal you got to
you got brewing here, well, springtime or.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
Something, Yeah, the spring cell. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:55):
I was like, wait, wait, wait, yeah, we kind of
were just talking about it.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
You go.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
Man, I was like, wait what I say?

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (44:04):
We were.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
That's why I love you. Man. We come on this
program and suddenly you've just off the top of your
head you say, we're gonna do this. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
One one thing you know, if y'all don't know, I've
hired a no, I well I did hire the are
We sponsor a bass local bass fisherman, and we've done
it for almost a decade now, maybe if not maybe
a decade, I'm not sure. But we've been as main

(44:34):
spotsor the whole time he's in the Major League Bass
that he was in the Major League, now he's in
the Bass bass Masters. He just keeps on moving up
in the ranks and I mean doing a great job.
We've hired his wife up in Chapin to help part
time as well. Oh okay, yeah, her name is Shalise
Jonathan Croslin. You can follow him on Facebook for the

(44:54):
Bass Masters local guy.

Speaker 8 (44:56):
He's won the Lake Murray tournament here before for us
one year. Want a bass boat for him?

Speaker 9 (45:03):
Not for us, of course, we just sponsored, but I
mean we just sponsored his dream. I mean, he came
to me and he had a he had a vision,
he said, and he wanted to, you know, be a
bass fisherman and all that. And he's asked if I
could sponsor him and or we could sponsor him, and
I was like, yeah, let's go. And we've been doing
it every since. And his wife's now helping us out.
She retired and she's wanting to she's wanting to kind

(45:26):
of do something instead of sitting around all the time.
So I'm like, hey, come on, guy, she's a friend
of mine too, So yeah, she's young. I mean she's mighty.
He like Maggan, she's the young girl.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Well, I brought the whole spring thing because you know,
spring will be here for you know, I mean we
we we certainly have felt some spring like temperatures the
last couple of days.

Speaker 8 (45:47):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
What I was saying about the spring was, hey, if
it's if it's warm outside, you come on and get
you a deal.

Speaker 8 (45:54):
It's cold to stay at the house.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
It's the spring cell.

Speaker 8 (45:57):
It's a spring cel.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Now it is a good time of procause listen, there
are certain times you don't want to be out there,
quite honestly, and I know because I've been there. Yeah,
the first time we ever did business together and I
spent it was had been two hours because there's just
that much to see. Now this side of the chaping location.
You've got all those big old slabs and I mean
rose and rose and rose and rose and ruins of

(46:21):
that stuff.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
Uh, but we can we can help them there it
now for you nowadays. We got some good qualified people
in there, like Megan over at Piney Grove and then
me and David over at Chapin. I can get you
squared away quick.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Megan's been a big hit. Now again is this hit?
This is a young lady who owned her own interior
design business.

Speaker 9 (46:41):
Yeah, construction build design. So yeah, so it's just just
she knows how to do it.

Speaker 8 (46:47):
You know.

Speaker 9 (46:47):
She's she's not for hire for you know, design construction
and all that. Now she's working for us or with us.
But we've really she's been a hit. She's she makes
things easy. I don't want to name drop or anything,
but some big construction people have come in there and
done business with us, you know, and their their personal homes,

(47:10):
you know. And I say big big ones around here,
you know.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Well you know again this this is the difference. And
and I know we I hate to continue to beat
up on you know, big box stores, but I will
anyway because I mean they are there for a good reason.
And then good reason ain't to buy countertops. Yeah, you
can find them there. And I just I will equate

(47:33):
this to experience that we had when we fixed up
my parents' house a couple of years ago. You guys
did the countertops there, but we went to a big
box store to to do some flooring. It was a nightmare. Yeah,
I mean, well, first of all, part of it upstairs
was was for carpet, and when the date was set

(47:55):
for the install the installer goes up there to pick
up the carpet. They don't sat somebody else.

Speaker 8 (47:59):
Oh no, okay, oh god, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
You never know. I mean, you purchase something and it's
it's the same, whether it's carpet, flooring, countertops, whatever at
a big box store and then they're gonna farm that
out to somebody else to come out and measure and
install and do the work and all that. They're having
all these different parties. You don't know who these people are. Yeah,
you know what the timetable is. You're you're waiting for
a call back to say, hey, when can you come
out and measure and good luck call in the store

(48:27):
to find out. Well, we'll just have to check in
with so on something to be called. So I mean,
with you guys, this is what makes us so great.

Speaker 10 (48:34):
Yeah, yeah, you call it so easy because everything you
get into, all.

Speaker 8 (48:37):
Of this, Yeah, we handle it, start to finish.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
You call eight oh three, twenty two twenty you get me,
You answer the phone.

Speaker 9 (48:46):
Answer the phone, call me up. Okay, I'll tell you
about the process. The best way to do it is
just take some rough measurements, a couple of pictures of
your kitchen and come on into the store. Because you
can't get exact price until you pick out a color.
So we can give you if you if you give
me a call, I can give you an idea of
how much is gonna cost for that kitchen. A lot

(49:08):
of times I could just look at the picture and say, oh,
that's gonna be two thousand dollars, it's gonna be three
thousand whatever.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
You know.

Speaker 9 (49:14):
I can say that you know what kind of material
you wanting, what kind of look, and I can kind
of price that based off of that material that that
you're describing. But the best way to do it, I
can get it within one hundred dollars. If you get
those measurements kind of close. I can get that price
within one hundred dollars every time, as long as.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
You have that square foot close. Okay, it's easy. But
now on top of everything else, you got to make
it over there. Yeah, at the Ponty Grove location.

Speaker 9 (49:42):
Yeap, coming to Piny Grove, Indina, forty twenty Fernandina Road,
right beside Greens Liquor Store right there across from Northern Tool.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
And which you switch you bring up for a guy
who doesn't drink.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
I know I don't drink.

Speaker 9 (49:57):
Uh, and home depot into two box doors and Lows
is right there around the corner. Sorry about name dropping
their but they're right around the corner and Fernandina Road
from us. And uh, if you want to go get
a widget or something like that, go down there and
then come see me. There you go, there you go, March,
come see Meghan. I'll be there part of the day today, okay. Yeah,

(50:17):
And we are trying to help her out.

Speaker 10 (50:18):
It's it's almost March man already, March madness baby, Oh yeah,
it's coming.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
So again the timeline right now.

Speaker 9 (50:25):
We're getting sick, we're getting busy, yeah, because everybody's anticipating
those tax refunds stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (50:33):
What Yeah, yeah, I had no tax what.

Speaker 9 (50:36):
I've been in business since I was twenty two, so
I had never had a tax refund.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
Anyway.

Speaker 9 (50:43):
So well I'm still blessed though, so it doesn't It's okay,
forty Adina Road, come see me and Megan, go see
David up and shaping today.

Speaker 8 (50:53):
We'll we'll get you hooked up.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
The busyness part is okay, four to six weeks standard installing.
If you're in a hurry or something like that, maybe
I can work something out for you. Just just talk
to me about it and we'll see.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
You know.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
I don't want to overpromise and under deliver, but just
just talk to me.

Speaker 8 (51:08):
We'll see what I can come up with.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
And it never hears to say. You heard him here
on this radio stage.

Speaker 8 (51:13):
Oh if you do you get the red carpetry.

Speaker 10 (51:17):
Yeah, absolutely, I didn't get the red carpet tree man
for man man.

Speaker 8 (51:21):
All you got to do is one call. That's all baby.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
I think you're allowed to say that.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. Sorry about that trade Martin.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Always good to see it, my friend.

Speaker 8 (51:34):
Thank you, We love you too.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
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.
I named my company Freedom Plumbing. What sets us apart

(51:58):
from other companies is our customer service. We have a
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(52:19):
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