Home Improvement Show 03-07-26

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
And it's time again, my friends, the Home improvement Show
of the Midlands. Well, good morning, I'm Gary David. Always
great to have you join us on Saturday mornings for
the program, and we'll be talking to well folks you know,
and hopefully folks you've worked with before like I have.
I worked all of these folks. James Carwell, the owner
Freedom Plumbing, is on deck. He'll be joining us here
in a short while. Summer from Beaver Rufig and Gutters

(00:40):
joins us in the second half hour of the program
this morning, and we start off with a guy who
I've done a lot of work with over the years.
It's Marcus Greenwell, the owner of Lifetime Cadinets Encounter. Tis morning,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Good morning Columbia and surrounding the United States area.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
The whole world on that matter.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
On the Iheartradioheart Radio app. Yeah, worre you brother, amazing?
Aren't kidding me? That's the best day of my life, man,
every day I got to see you this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well absolutely, man, And.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's what a beautiful day.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
You do.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Make me laugh and smile though when I see I'm like,
all of a sudden, I'm in.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
A good mood. Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, seriously. I mean it sounds like I might love
man right right. When I was in the in the
what do you call it? This? This the room, in
the room, in the green room there, I was in
the green room waiting and uh for you to come
out like a little celebrity that you are. Oh yeah,
I was on the telephone and I said, hold on
a bigger name on the I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well you were, And then I walked out there and
you're you're talking to a guy. I mean, you're wheeling
a deal in here early on this morning. That's right,
Will sounds like what a four slab project for a kitchen? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Four four slabs of court site?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, the kitchen man.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
On the lake, we do a lot of a lot
of projects for people remodeling on the lake, fixing up
the old older homes.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
We talked about one before a couple couple months ago.
But this one now has a waterfall island, so on
both sides of the island has a piece that goes
down to the ground. Have you seen that before? Yeah?
And where the the three pieces Mary marries at an angle,

(02:27):
so it's kind of like almost a seamless looking edge
right there. On the edge of each side. So on
the island is I don't know, it's one slab for
the island part the top, and then half a slab
for the other two pieces, maybe two thirds of slabs,
so just that is one in a quarter slabs or

(02:48):
one and two third slabs or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right now, when you do something though, you really can't
put a stool up to it though, and put your
legs up underneath the canyon.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Or on the sides. No, well, most people don't have.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
All the site on the rotting back, okay, sir, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
On the front it's got a big overhang fourteen sixteen
inches something like that. And then around the perimeter of
the kitchen they went full backsplash, and then they have
of course behind the stove areat goes all the way
up on the wall, and then it's kind a pot
filler hole in the pot filler.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And those always freaked me out, by the way. I mean,
if you're if you're, if your foster, your sink starts
to leak, Okay, it's looking in the sink, but yeah, right,
if it's a pot filler, unless you keep a pot
under it all the.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Time, right, I hadn't seen any leak yet. But that's
not a bad thought. I never thought about it, thought
that we do know James Carwell Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Then that's true. You could take care of that problem
for you right there.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And by the way, we use him a lot of
times too for our reconnects after after the customers get there.
If that you know, Yeah, I just refer James out.
He's a natural referral partner being in that business, and
he's on your show, and you know, we're we like that.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Every time you guys have done pun for us, James
has been right in behind you. Yeah. Yeah, so, and
that's important to note that. So when you get your
installed date, which oh, by the way, when you work
with these guys at Lifetime cabins and countertops, you get
you get guaranteed install date.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, well a matter of fact that what we do
is we'll give you a guaranteed date and is what
I call it, and we'll put you on the calendar
and then I'll try to back it in or or
push you up to if you can.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Right now, we're four to six weeks, so we're busy.
So if you want to get something done quick, you know,
come see me quick because and they called me personally too,
because I can try to work it in, uh, you know,
as as we can. Uh, but I like to guarantee
that date to you. Give you a guaranteed so something
you can hang your hat on, say, okay, that's my date.
You can set up other trades behind me.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're going to do with James, and James come back
in and hook up the plumb because bpically twenty four
hours or so, give or take.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, twenty four hours. For why is that I just
let all this silicon set up and everything that way.
You don't want the plumber under there torqueing on the
sink and then and then twist it a little bit,
even though we do clip our sinks to the bottom
of the stone. But you don't want somebody to go
in there and bust that watertight seal at the top
of the sink area or at the bottom in this case,

(05:18):
because it'd be underneath the countertop and then on top
of the sink rim. But you don't want that seal
to be Jimmy around Jimmy. Okay, I'm doing a plug
for Jimmy better day and tell me you better start
talking about countertop. I go in after the countertop got

(05:40):
we got granted. I love Jimmy though, he's a good
old fellow.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Good old boy is.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
But we do granite, marble, quartzite, uh courtz natural uh
natural as the courts is. Oddly enough, the name sounds
like it should be their natural, but the court site
is actually the natural stone. And that's what we're doing
in this big house that you're talking about or we're

(06:06):
talking about.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, and you know, I bring this up again because
you guys do it. You guys do a lot of
well you do a lot of just you know, go
in and put a countertop down, but you do a
lot of really specialty type work. Yeah. Did did you
guys have taken on projects before that other people, you know,
would would shy away from in fear. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah. I've learned also that that some other companies are
let's not name any names, but are charging extra for
templating and stuff like that, where we don't. We just
it's all part of the deal.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
For what does that mean?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Just doing just angles, specialty angles like going around corners
and stuff like that house exactly exactly exactly that they're
shying away from doing that kind of work because they
can do the other work is quicker, you know, and
we'll do it, so you just come see us. A
lot of a lot of our jobs have the templates
that we have to do on book now, so we

(07:01):
it just adds an extra step and extra time, manpower
stuff like that. But other people are charging extra to
do that, especially you know the box stores. You know
we got Yeah, but I did hear of some other
local uh vendors that are doing that as well. Okay, yeah,
so just something that we do that we don't charge extra.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
For over the years. I mean, I'm sure somewhere you
could find a number here, but I mean how many
how many jobs you guys have done over the years,
I mean tens of thousands, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh is there are there any that stick out to
you that you go, well, I remember that one?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah? There? You know, I love that Panda Marble it's
granted Marble infusion and I've done a lot of work
with that with Page Butler to interior designer that we use,
and now we have the in house designer, interior designer
Megan Right. Yeah, we're gonna have to have her on
the show. Yeah, she's a little mini celebrity on her own, right.

(08:01):
But but we're gonna get her to come out and
do a little show with us, and hopefully she'll be
hearing this and say hm hmm, yeah, okay, I'll do it. Yeah.
But just a real good talent and and but as
far as the specialty work, she's she's always uh on
top of the game as far as you know, what's

(08:25):
new on the market, what's new to do. You know,
we were talking about some specialty work the other day. Uh,
she had me looking into We'll just leave it at
that right now. We'll do a big reveal soon. But
you know, we're just but doing waterfall with that panda.

(08:46):
Going to answer your question, just going down the side
of the cabinet with a with a white and black
swirly you know, like the Supreme swirl. Yeah, it looks
like the panda's white and black. It's white that white
dolomite marble and granite infusion. So it kind of whenever
it was formed, it was kind of pushed together like

(09:08):
a swirly pattern.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
So we came it comes that way acturently. Yeah, out
of the ground, yes, sir, Wow, Yeah, you know, real
neat and it could come in leathered finish. We don't
talk about finishes a lot, but yeah, but that forced
lab job.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
We're doing is a leathered finish.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay. And I've seen that before on your lot out
in shape it.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we've seen it. We've been doing it.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
How do you how do you? What do you do
to get that? Look?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's just a different process to polish it instead of
the I think it's probably less a process to polish
it that way than it is to do the polished.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, yeah, because they got smoother than everything else. Yeah,
kind of the idea of popcorn ceilings. Right, Yeah, it hides.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah yeah, instead of standing the down right. Uh so
so yeah, the leather uh is real popular now. We
use it a lot on outdoor you know, kitchens and
stuff like that, but we're starting to use it more
and more inside too. Some people will do like a
even change colors, like do a leathered island or vice

(10:12):
versa leathered perimeter, you know, and then have a polished
something here, you know. So I would say the specialty
work has really really been kicking up, and it probably
has a lot to do with Megan. You know, she's
been you know saying hey, you could do this, and
making suggestions to people, and so it's really it's really
upped our I mean we've been on top of the

(10:34):
top of the game, but it's really upped our game
as far as hey, we got to We're we're doing
the showroom over right now. As a matter of fact,
I mentioned that last week we're going to do some courts.
Two weeks we're doing court site. I mean, well we're
doing court site too, but we're doing the main thing.
It's going to be the courts. We're doing waterfall and
all the way up behind the where the stove is

(10:56):
going to be and all that stuff. And we've got
a template area that that you'll be able to see
with the angles that that I'm talking about now.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
So so she's really helping us up our game as well.
And we got Gateway supply. Not to mean to drop
any Beth Riddle you know over there, not to drop
any names, but but she's a local uh sink and
vendor fawcet rep that we have that's got a couple
of nice locations. But she's put some faucets in there,

(11:29):
some of the new quote unquote gold finish and I'm
not sure, you know, I'm not the decorator. But we'll
ask Megan when she comes on here what the names
of them are? Some kind of braun still, God, I
don't know what it is. But there's a couple of
fancy faucets that she's got put in there for us,
and we're we're teaming up with her, and you know, kind.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Of now I've asked you this before you've answered it,
I'll ask you again. I'm sort sure I get it.
These backsplashes and sometimes if you're putting like huge slabs
up there on a wall, Yeah, how does that stay
up there? That's heavy? It takes four guys to bring
it in? Yeah, how do you get it to here

(12:13):
here to that wall?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
We we it's not so much as a hearing to
the wall as the perimeter of it, because we do
put a couple of dapts of construction. He's up here
and there on.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
The back still.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
I mean, but it's just really it's just the weight
of it that's holding it in there. I mean, you're
gonna have to get it off. You're gonna have to,
you know, get in there and pull it off, because
we silicon it around the perimeter to the edging, and.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You've explained that before. That just makes no sense to him.
A full slab, I mean, what kind of weight we
talking here?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, I mean, yeah, fifteen hundred pounds, but normally it's
not a full slab. More normally it's a three foot
by eight foot, which is twenty something twenty So you're
talking about five hundred pounds, so it is. It's a
big It is a lot of pounds. Oh yeah, but
a lot of cases. We go in and we have
to make sure the cabinets are reinforced enough to hold
the weight and stuff like that, and that's okay, that's

(13:09):
what I do. Yeah, okay, I go in and look
at everything and make sure it can hold it. You know,
you can't have it.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, it looks fantastic, Yeah, you know. I mean, and
more and more people are going that route. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, we've been doing it. I probably did it five
times in the last two weeks with the full backsplash.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
You mentioned that things just look like they're good wrapping
up a little bit earlier.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
This year, Yeah, oddly enough. I think everybody's you know,
it's been eyeballing their tax returns and stuff like that,
and all that. So, yeah, we're, like I said, four
to six weeks. So if you need something done quick
and you talk to me about it, and I can
kind of push it through and see where we're at
and give you that guaranteed date and then try to
work it back in. Had a buddy of mine came

(13:52):
in with a job a couple of weeks ago, and
we're going to be doing it on Monday. So so
it's you know, it just depends on you know, if
you drop Gary David's name, you know you got it's
worth apparently.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, the uh, the time by four to six weeks
you mentioned, yeah, yeah, uh oh, I remember what I
was going to ask you something. Remnants.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're still trying to get rid of them.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've got you know, the way you guys do business though,
and the way you go about doing business, and you
have these remnants again we mentioned before, because you know,
somebody only needs three quarters of a slab. You're not
charging for a full slab. That's right now, you're cutting
off a quarter of it and you know put it
out in the bone yard out there at shaping and
uh and then you you know, resell it for the
first time to somebody. Yeah, so there's nothing used about

(14:49):
these they just weren't.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, so they're being able to buy it for that price,
the same person that person, the boss the kitchen for
So you're saving a lot of money like that by
not having to have a minimum.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Right, and you're selling a dealer costs. But the way
I was good at my point was the way you
guys do business. And as much business as you do,
are you never gonna get rid of all these remnants?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's just think.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I think I might have to start giving some away.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Let me know what you do, you know, right, I'm like,
you know, probably need to give that one away.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Let me look at that one. You want that one?
I got level one stuff I'm willing to get rid
of really cheap. So if you have something you want
to throw, some little something, a piece of stone on,
come see me When I say, I don't want to
talk numbers on the radio, No, I don't want anybody,
you know, Yeah, but if you want a level one.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I can see it right now. David's over there, is he.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Is he a chap?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
David's good. Your brother Marcus said just to come on out.
You're gonna give me a level one. No, that's not
what he said. You might want to let Dave know that.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, I'm a column right now, Hey David well In. Yeah, okay,
he's still getting ready.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
But what point is that you guys have a ton
of money on.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
These Yeah, that's right, right, okay, yeah, yeah, I'd say
at least fifteen bucks at square foot of a standard
on the standard level one.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, when you talk at level one, you already
talk about a great price to begin with, exactly knocking
the fifteen bucks off of square foot just about giving
them away.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that my cost.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, so that but again, and I had a listener,
this was months ago. I wasn't real specific one day
and mentioning that these are at the shape and road location.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh good point. Yes, yeah, if you come to Piney Grove,
I have a couple of things you could look at
that that we could say, yeah we have that color. Yeah,
we can do a better you know, and give you
like the courts for example, I'm stalking all those courts
colors from Core Corps. So all those colors you can

(17:02):
go in and say, oh it's says sixty five square
foot on the back of it. Well, that's what you're
gonna get it for. You can buy a roomnant from
there quote unquote sixty five a square foot and be
able to buy that. So ill if I don't have
a piece of slab of it over there, I'm just
gonna I'm just bringing in this. This is something we started,
so nobody knows about it that Megan. Megan will be

(17:24):
at Piney Gold.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Day making news this morning, Prince.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
She knows about it. She'll be at Piney Grove today.
I got to tell David about it. But we've already
started this the last couple of weeks. So if you're
doing a vanity and you want to you don't want
to go to Chapin store, then you can go over.
If you're gonna do courts, you can go over there
and fix pick from the core courts. They have thirty
different colors to pick from. The Pine Grove at the

(17:49):
Piney Grove of forty Fernandina Road, over by Greens over
Rock Costco right there, go to Costco. You know, come
on over Northern Tool. I'm not gonna mention the two
box stores around the corner, but they're there. I dare
you to go price them and bring their price, well,
we should, We'll be We'll be glad to entertain the

(18:10):
experience you get over there compared to ours. But long story, short.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Good because we're out of time. If we go ahead
and finish your story.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
We love our job. We've been voted best seven years
in a row. We're working on number eight. They just
sent us a thing. I think.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
I could be wrong on that. I don't keep up
with that, but I think they're gonna start voting on
it pretty soon if I'm not mistaken. But if y'all
have anything you need, come see us. We'll take care
of you. Like family.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Lifetime Cabins and Countertops, you call eight O three seven seven.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
This guy is on the other end tops above the rest.
Marcus Greenwell Goods. Good to see you, brother, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops is your locally owned source for countertops.
Great selection, great prices, and they've pride themselves on superior
installation and customers.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Servis the owner.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Marcus will even personally come out to do all your measurements.
See the selection online at Lifetimecabinets sc dot com or
stop buy one of Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops two conveniently
located showrooms on Fernandina Road in Columbia or Chapin Road
in Chapin and check out the hundreds of slabs in stock, granite, marble,
courts court site. They've got it all and if you

(19:24):
can't find exactly what you were looking for when you're there,
and that's rare, they will find it. And it's not
just kitchens and bats. Lifetime Cabinets Encountertops, does outdoor patios, vanities, bars,
man caves, you name it. Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops Fernandina
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(19:44):
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Midlands on one of three point five FM and five

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sixty AMWVOC and we welcome in our favorite plumber in
the world. It's James Carwell, the owner of Freedom Plumbing.
Good morning, my friend, Good morning Gary. Are you I'm well?
I hope you are too, Buddy. Good. Absolutely, today this
is going to be a good one because we want
to help you out here. We want to make sure
you don't do some of the things that we're getting

(20:52):
set to talk about today's topic with James. The most
common mistakes we homeowners make when it comes to plumbing. Oh,
this should be good and without telling us what they are,
I'm gonna guess you've probably had some experience with probably
all these games over the.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Years, absolutely pretty frequently, to be honest with you, but
you know, if they can be avoided, that's the goal here.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Right, all right, So let's sell well, let's let's you
got it. What we got? What four of them we're
going to talk about today? Is that right? Okay, well,
let's start. Let's let's let's let's count down to number one. Right,
let's start at number four. The fourth biggest or most
common mistake we homeowners make when it comes to plumbing.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Number four, I would say, the uh DEI y repairs
that could possibly make things worse.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Boy, know your limits when it comes to plumbing.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Right, if you don't feel comfortable, call your plumber because
water can do a lot of damage. So we definitely
want to minimize that. That's the goal in all of
these here is minimizing things that could damage your property.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
So what do you what do you most commonly see
is you know diy fixes that turn out to be disasters.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
One of the things is overtightening stuff you can do
your own repairs, and if you don't know what to
tighten my hand and what to tighten with a wrench,
you could possibly cause damage to certain parts on those repairs.
So just know and read the directions. I'd say that
even my technicians read the directions. Things change, procedures change

(22:33):
for installs, so definitely read through all the directions before
you get started on those repairs.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
And that's just human nature for us to think that, well,
the tighter it is, the safer it is, right, the
less chance of a leak or whatever. But well, I've
seen this. We had somebody you guys had to come
out like on an emergency basis and help us out
of my parents' house a couple of years ago, and
we were doing renovations there when one of the painters
went out back to the hose office stuff, and when
he tightened the the hose he just went a little

(23:02):
too too hard with and it snapped that that that
that feeder line there.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
That happens a lot, doesn't that it does, especially with
CET PVC water lines, And if the hose rip isn't
anchored properly, you're putting a lot of pressure on that
seat PVC. So definitely be cognizant of that. If you're
having trouble getting the hose off of one of those,
make sure you're putting counter pressure and if it becomes
too difficult, just could get a plumber out there. I
would say you take yourself an emergency.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
You guys have installed some outside hose fixtures for us
in the past, and I noticed that you guys use
well I don't know whatever it is, but it looks
different from the other ones I've got. It's it's more stable,
it's more secure.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
We use them with larger flanges so we can get
a good foothold on on whatever you have, whether it
be brick or the board behind the vinyl. We want
to make sure we can secure that thing properly.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, that's the way to go. What are some of
the other big common di y mistakes you see you
you come across Jane.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
I would say incorrect parts being used. And you know,
one of the bigger ones is too much drain cleaner.
Some strange things can happen, especially if you combined two
different drain drain cleaners. I've seen it turn into a solid,
almost candlelike form.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
We had to pull out of.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
A drain line, and that was at a restaurant that
we went to. There's two different types. They had some
kind of chemical reaction and they turned to again what
looked like a candle wax inside the drain. Luckily it
was at closer to the top of the drain so
we were able to fish it out with a retriever head.
But yeah, if that would have gotten down the line,

(24:38):
been very difficult to get that thing out.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Somebody should they go to put the warning labels on
these drain cleaners do not mix.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
With the right and they do they have them on there.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, nobody reason, well, but how does how is using
too much create a problem? What have you seen? What
are the issues you've seen with you using too much
strain cleaner? Is that eat away?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Let's say you have no drainage at all, You're sinking
and going down at all. You're just pouring drain cleaner
inside of a stopped up drain. It's got to be
able to get to the stoppage. So I would say,
don't use drain cleaner if it's not going anywhere, because
it's never going to make its way, especially if it's
down the line, say ten feet or so, it's never
going to get there. And then what you have is

(25:17):
a hazardous situation for when your plumber does come out.
Now he's got to deal with these chemicals that are
in the line. And I've just been splashed with some
stuff that came out of a kitchen sink drain and
had red dots all up and down my arm because
I got on my arm.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
So well, I gotta fess up. Definitely, I've been guilty
of doing that before. Yeah, I count me amongst the
offenders when it comes to that. Okay, good, anything else
they that stands out before we move on.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Like I said, incorrect parts, I would say, just make
sure you book the toilet parts, flappers, stuff like that,
rebuild kits for fausets, make sure you're using the right
stuff because you can damage that faucet or damage the
our valve or something like that. If you're trying to
do one of those, and if that gets damaged, there's
no getting around it. You've got to cut your wall
open to get that valve out and get a new

(26:07):
valve in. So just make sure if you if you
feel comfortable with doing it, make sure you're getting the
right stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
It with di I we mistay is coming at a
number four on the list with James car Well, you're
afraid of plumbing now up to number three, I.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Would say ignoring small issues such as leaks and things
of that nature. Dripping faucets, running toilets and small pipe leaks,
things like that, they're not going to get better. And
what you don't want to do is take a situation
that's not an emergency and have it turned into emergency
and create property damage and things of that nature. So

(26:41):
I would say if you see something, like they say,
if you see something, say something right. Definitely a good
idea on that. And a lot of these things kind
of are are issues that occur because of something else
like dripping falsis, running toilets. Usually that has something to
do with high water pressure. So that will which is

(27:02):
an easy chicks right.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
I tuirly fail.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yeah, you install pressure reduced the valve or some call
it pressure regulating valve on your main water service coming
in and that'll really regulate so you don't get those
surges at night and and different things that could cause
big problems. We had a customer with a pressure shirt
by pressure surge that actually bleww the screen out of

(27:25):
their water softener and all the resin beads in that
software are now in their plumbing system. Oh so yeah,
big big issue. There a lot of stuff you're going
to have to get replaced.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Interestingly enough, on that topic, the last home I lived
and you guys had to come out and raise the
water pressure for us because we could get wet in
the shower. It was crazy. But the home work is
how you guys had to come out and actually put
a pressure regulator on because we had too much water pressure.

Speaker 6 (27:52):
Yeah. Yeah, And you know, pressure and volume are kind
of two different things. They go hand in hand a
little bit, but they're also if you have high pressure
but low volume, you're still gonna it's gonna look like
low pressure. It'll get up to that pressure once you
shut it off. The volume just can't keep up with
what the pressure is because there's some type of restriction.

(28:13):
So those pressure regulators typically come set at forty five
ps high. We usually like to set them to around seventy.
Especially if you have high pressure like one twenty, you're
going to notice on one twenty to forty five psi drop,
So we'd rather you not even notice that you got
your pressure reduced and set it to the higher range.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Anything under eighty is.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay, okay, all right, So the small issues, yeah, I mean,
obviously they're not going to all of a sudden fix themselves. Sure,
you know, but sometimes maybe you're okay, yeah, that that
faucet drips a little bit, other than you know, it's
every time it drips and you're not using that water,
you're just throwing away money. But still, yeah, a big deal.
But your point is is that it may lead might

(28:56):
be an indication of something bigger going on that could
cause a bigger pro down a road.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right exactly.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
For example of a customer you know that had a
shower leak for a long time and eventually got to
the point where they couldn't shut it off and it
was too high of a flow for them to you know,
be able to shut their water off, so they had
to shut the water off to the house to stop
the flow of water coming out inside their shower or tub.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
So ignoring this support comes an emergency.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Number three, which leads us to number two.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Number two, I would say, pouring grease down your kitchen
sink drain.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Doesn't everybody know not to do that? I mean, I
would hope so.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
But another thing that kind of coincides with that is
putting certain things down your garbage disposal as well, because
you know, you see the commercial big garbage disposal they
stick a pineapple down it and drain it and run
it out. And yes, it might chop it up, and
it might put it in your drain, but can your
drain handle it, especially older drains? Probably not not a

(29:58):
good idea. As matter of fact, I don't even have
a garbage disposal.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Scrape your plates.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
I was going to say, and I guess most plumbers
aren't fans of garbage disposals, right. They can lead to
a lot of issues.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
It does, you know, provide job security. However, we're talking
about things to prevent stuff. I would say, just scrape
your plate, and any leftovers that on the plate, I
would put it on the garbage disposal side. Rints it off.
Small stuff like that is fine, go straight down the drain.
But I wouldn't be grinding stuff up that you're just

(30:34):
throwing in their eggshells or happening. Those just sit in
your drain. They're heavier than water. They just sit in there.
Starchy foods, potatoes, things of that, potato peels, and they'll
just grind up and turn into one big, plumpy potato.
And we see those a lot noodles. So I just

(30:56):
scrap the plate and move on.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
So is it an old wives tail or dot? People say, well,
if you're going to put grease down down your drain,
just want a bunch of hot water first. I've heard
that said, I've seen people do that. I mean, is
there any truth to that? I'm sure the best bet
is just don't do it period. But does is that
helpful if you do it like that?

Speaker 6 (31:19):
Well, here's the problem. You don't know the link that
you're kitchen sink line. Most most people don't. Is it
going to cool before it gets all the way out
of your plumbing system? I mean this thing, it could
go all the way out to your main and you
could be getting grease billed up in your main sewer line.
Just because it gets out of the sink doesn't mean
it's not going to create a problem on somewhere on
your drainage system because it goes down as a liquid,

(31:41):
but eventually, as it cools, it's going to harden, and
eventually it'll create almost a dam or an obstruction for
things going down that can potentially catch filet paper and
create a snowball effect where you eventually have a sewer stoppage.
So I just pour it in a coffee can and

(32:02):
save it if you want to save it, and when
it fills up, toss it. If you want to try
to recycle it, you can.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I've seen some.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
Videos on that. So I'm not a cook, so I
don't know the ins and out of that, But don't
put it down your sink. I can tell you that.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
So number four DIY mistakes. Number three ignoring the small issues.
Number two grease down drains and be careful what you
put in the garbage disposal are our top four most
common mistakes that we homeowners make, which brings us drum roll, please,
oh we don't have it. Oh there, that works to

(32:35):
number one, the number one most common mistake we homeowners
make when it comes to plumbing.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
James, I would say, flushing things down your toilet that
shouldn't be flushed. Now, that's kind of similar to the
kitchen sink. However, when this could create that whole house
stoppage where now you turned the situation that, oh your
sink's have stopped up, Well, now you're flushing stuff down

(33:01):
the toilet that should be stuffed. Your whole line is
going to back up and turn that, you know, situation
into emergency because if you can't use your sewer, you
know you're going to need to call a plumber at
that point. So, okay, don't flush it if it shouldn't
be flushed.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Maybe it's easier to put it this way. What can
you flush toilet paper? That's about it, right, And of
course waste well, yeah, okay, Yeah, it goes without saying.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
If something, if the product is labeled flushable, do not
believe it. That's the easiest way to do other than
toilet paper. If they got flushable toilet cleaners, that should
just pop off the end of the wand and flush it.
If it doesn't dissolve in a bowl of water with
just swirling around, do not flush it.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
So there's there's the test right there.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Huh yeah, bowl of water. Place it in there, swear
your finger around in it. If it dissolves.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
Like toilet paper, should You're okay, But I haven't seen
anything other than toilet paper do that. Don't flush paper towels,
don't flush anything labeled flushable. Cleaning wipes the dude wipes.
A lot of people use those.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
In the trash you got.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
You got a lot of businesses. You'll see this in
the restrooms. Don't don't flush whatever. But people do it anyway,
don't they?

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Oh? Man?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yeah, we get all kinds of stuff. I pulled a
spright can out of a toilet one time. What that
was intentional?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
What was let's spride can?

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (34:34):
That was a disgruntled tenant I believe was getting evicted
and want to call some havocs.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, yes, and so all right, that's great stuff. There
the four most common mistakes that the homeowners make when
it comes to plumbing, the things you want to avoid.
But if you make one of them and you want
to put an emergency on your hands, or if you
just want to make sure everything is honky door, it's
your place. These are the folks to call. It's Freedom Plumbing, James.
What's the best way to folks to get around to
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Speaker 6 (35:01):
They can give us a call at eight oh three
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dot com.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Thank you, my friend, Thank you Gary.

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Speaker 1 (36:07):
Hi, this is Gary David. You've heard me talk for
years about Anthony John Construction and the wonderful jobs they
do for folks all across the Midlands. When it comes
to roofing and gutting, well it's the same people doing
the job, but the name has changed. That's right now,
it's Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters. Leave it to Beaver
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(36:29):
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leave it to Beaver. Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters were

(36:50):
back on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on
one of three point five FM and five sixty am
wvoc Okay, I lied to you. I told you this
summer was gonna join us from beaver Roofing and Gutters.
Well we got from beaver roof and Gutters. Stepping up
to to to pinch hit able lye as always this morning. Hey, Heath,
how are you, buddy?

Speaker 3 (37:08):
No, I'm doing all right. I'm sure you'd rather talk
this summer, but here I am.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
No, that's not true, man, that's not true at all.
You and I have talked a lot, you know. It
occurs to me, Heath, that man. Over the years, my
family has worked with y'all on a lot of different.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Projects, a lot of different projects.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, we were talking about Beaver ruficn Gutters is really
our focus. But you know also with Anthony John Construction,
which is you know, be ver ruficn Gutters became kind
of a subsidiary of Anthony John a couple of years ago.
But many have done remodeling work for us in the
past on a couple of occasions, several Actually, uh, you've
done roof repair work for my parents. You've replaced a
roof for us, you put gutters on a home for us.

(37:48):
I mean, you guys have done it all.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah. Yeah, we fixed gutters on one and none gutters
on another. We've done a lot of them over the years.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
I forgot I'm going by quick. I think.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, we'll getting old man, no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, we're getting close to retirement age.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
It's about time, right, Well, you know this morning, I
don't know, let's let's talk about roofs, shall we. I mean,
this is uh sure, this is a this is a
time of the year where we're getting into that that
that that mode where people want to get things done
and you know, fix things up and all that. But
you know that that roof that's a that's a that's
a major investment right there.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
That is And and it's the time of year where
we're going to be in what we consider our rainy season.
If you have any roof issues, they're going to manifest themselves.
If you've noticed any before now it's probably the time
to call and get them looked at and taken care
of before the you know, the rains really come in.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, And the part of the problem I guess heath
is that you know, we just don't unless we see
a water spott of a ceiling, we just don't know,
or you know, we see the shingles are blown off
or what have you. I mean, there's a lot, a
lot that's a that's a big system, and there's a
lot of things that could happen to it. I mean,
which is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
The thing about the roof is that typically, now there
are exceptions and they're few and far between, but typically
anywhere you have a penetration is where you have worry.
So you have an event pipe coming up with the
roof boot, you have the death of the roof, which
is the chimney skylight combination. You know, those are all

(39:20):
the places where you will typically see water coming in.
The problem is if your house is well insulated, or
you have a lot of insulation up there, or you
have a floor on your attic, typically the signs of
that don't get to you until you have a much
bigger problem. We do offer roof inspections. If your roof

(39:43):
is getting you know, twenty years plus, it might be
a good idea to have a commount of spector roof.
Let you know what the issues are. Let you know
what the costs either repair or replace. Like I said,
now is the time to do it. South Carolina is
very The weather here is very hard on all construction materials,
but especially on your roof.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
And you know, I know some of it. I talked
about this in the past. You know, the shingles that
are out there today, they're always you know, marketed as
you know, thirty year shingles and all. But She's told
us many times, in this environment, of this climate here,
you're you're real lucky to get thirty years out of
a set of shingles.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
You're real lucky to get thirty years, twenty years. The
people I run into that typically don't have issues long
term are the people who look to put a new
roof on twenty twenty five, maybe thirty years. Depending on
your location. The closer you get to open areas, the
closer you get to the lake, it tends to be

(40:40):
a little bit worse. You have to do it a
little bit quicker. But if you can get if you
can get thirty years out of your roof here, you're
doing pretty good. The sun, the combination of the sun
and the wind just they just tear a roof up.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Well, it's going to ask you what you said an
open area And okay, now I understand. So an open
area you're not getting the shade from trees, not getting
anything to block wind and that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
But yeah, and you have you know, the trees present
a whole different problem. If you have a lot of trees,
the same the same theories apply. You're still going to
have wear to your roof. Keeping limbs cut back from
your tree from your roof is paramount. You know, you
don't want them blow and scrape and knocking granules off.
Then you know, you get a ton of debris on

(41:23):
your roof that also is going to cause issues. You know.
It's just it seems to be in the in the climate,
in the area in which we live, everything is out
to damage your property. Yeah, yeah, you know that's the
That's the easiest way I can explain it. I have
yet to find a construction material that that in a

(41:44):
more temperate climate would would go bad as quick as
some of the things do here. Deck boards, siding, roofs,
foundation issues. It just seems like everything exposed to the
weather here it's done significantly gets worn out significantly faster

(42:04):
than it does other places.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, yeah, lucky yes, huh lucky ess.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah. Well, it's like you know sometimes when you see
the size of mosquito, do you think you live in
Jurassic Park? Yeah? And the weather does the weather does
you know lend into that?

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Absolutely now, But on the bright side, it's not forty
blow zero at any time either.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
There you go, right, Yeah, we had our bout with
what was for us cold cold weather. That was enough
of that.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
So when you guys go up and do one of
these roof inspections, and again those are free, I'm gonna
guess Heath that it's a combination of what you see
and what the homeowner or business owner wants to do
as to whether or not. Yeah, you come down, you
identify some areas of concern as to whether or not
it's a repair or a replacement, because again, unlike a

(42:53):
lot of local roofers, you guys do both. You've done
both of my family over the years. Is there a
kind of a rule of thumb to where if you
find X amount of damage or whatever that is, it's
just time to punt this thing and start all over
again and replace a.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Roof the rule of thumb will apply. If you're looking
at insurance damage, Okay, you know, typically your your carrier
will set a number or a percentage of your roof
that has to be damaged before they'll replace the whole thing.
When it becomes a retail job where you're paying out
a pocket, we're going to look and say, okay, we

(43:32):
can do repair X, Y and Z and maybe buy
you five good years if I get up on a roof,
or let me rephrase that. If I send somebody up
on a roof and i'm there, I'm going to tell
the homeowner. You know, if I'm doing a repair and
I don't believe it's going to to get you at
least five more good years, I think you're throwing good

(43:55):
money after bad and you may be better off to
put that money toward the new roof. Right. You know,
I don't want to charge somebody a couple thousand dollars
for roof repair and then come back four years later
and charge them another nine thousand dollars for a new roof. Right.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
And when we talk about replacing a roof, is that
is it always? Yeah? Because there's there's multiple layers we're
talking about here. You know, you got you got what
we always see, of course, the shingles, but there's there's
there's stuff happening underneath there too. So when we talk
about a roof replacement, are we talking about everything or
is it just new shingles.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Or well, once again there's there's you know, mitigating factors
and all that. If we strip off the roof and
we strip off the underlayment okay, which you know, the
older roofs typically have tar paper. Now they have a
synthetic material that holds up a lot better. That's what
we use when you strip that off and get that
back to the actual decking. Okay, so you're getting to

(44:50):
your your osb or in the case your older houses,
you're you're one by six or one by four slats,
and you look at those. If those are in good shape,
at those aren't water damaged, if those aren't soft and broken,
then you're just talking about the underlayment, the shingles, your boots,
your vent covers, whatever you have on your roof. But

(45:13):
you know there are times where we strip the roof
off and the decking shot. You know, maybe maybe that
roof's been replaced three times since the nineteen fifties, but
they've never replaced the decking. Well, you know, maybe time to.
We had one yesterday where the gentleman had one by
six old school one by six slats all the way around.

(45:35):
Insurance company only allows so much room between those slats.
He had more room. We had to redeck the house.
You know, that's one hundred and twenty two sheet supply
with that have to go up there first, right, So
it's on a case by case basis. The majority of
our houses do not get decks. We offer two free
repairs with every roof job, so typically your problemaries are

(45:59):
around your vents. We've had any leaking, you know, included
in the price we give you will be that repair
and another repair than anything over that. We do price
by the board, so we're not going to go over
and above what needs to be done just to charge
you money because we let you know ahead of time. Hey,

(46:19):
I did nine boards on your roof. It costs you
X amount of dollars. You already knew that before you sign,
so there's no surprise, right right.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah, As you mentioned a lot of times, the big
problem spots when it comes to leaks is around those
boot fittings and such. Has the way they're made over
the years, Has that gotten better where we have fewer
problems with that or is that just always going to
be an issue.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
No, it's gotten significantly better. You know, it used to
be a lead boot, and you know then they went
to the plastic, to the collars, and now they have
a composite what you call the lifetime pipe boot, significantly larger,
significantly larger flange that will you know, protect your roof
farther under, eat the shingles and hopefully cut those leaks

(47:03):
down to a minimum. When we do pipe boot replacements,
now we replace your boot with a lifetime pipe boot,
we give you the upgraded lifetime pipe boot when we
sell you a roof, so you do get a significantly
longer lifespan out of those boots now than you used to.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
We were talking earlier Heath, and we're talking to Heath
from Beaver RUFG and Gutters specifically about roofs. Although you
guys do gutters obviously, and a whole bunch of stuff
you've done for my family over the years. I'm very
appreciative of the of the craftsmanship and the and the
guarantees you offer. And you know, for the record, I've
never had to actually, you know, call you about one
of those guarantees you know, or an issue with an

(47:46):
install or whatever, because y'all have just done great work
for us, and thank.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You for that.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
You mentioned, you know, insurance companies and such, and I
know you guys pride yourselves on being well, let's just say,
an advocate maybe almost an attorney for the homeowner when
it comes to link with insurance companies. That's the general
feeling among us is that they're just out to rip
us off. I ass right, but you guys are are

(48:13):
are are there to you know, well to make to
make the homeowner's argument when it comes to yeah, when
it comes to you know, did did mother nature do
a number on your roof? I think a lot of
people aren't aware of this, and you miss out an
opportunity to have your insurance company pay We think that Okay, well,
you know the storm came through. It didn't damage my

(48:34):
roof that I'm aware of. But it's not just that
last storm. I mean, you can go back a little ways, right,
you guys can find damage that was done that you
could still qualify to have your insurance company pick up
at least part of.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
The tab for yeah, And the biggest thing is a
lot of times the damage that it's done, you can't
see from the ground, you know, unless you have shingles
laying in your yard, unless your ridge cap is blown off.
I mean, it's very difficult to see a hail strike
from the ground. It's very difficult to see the crease

(49:07):
in your shingles from the wind when you're on the ground.
You know, we offer you, we offer free consultation, we
offer the free estimate, we offer the free inspection. Take
advantage of those things, because you know, our guys can
get up there and we're not going to find stuff
that's not there, and we're we're not a company that
is going to push for things that aren't real. But

(49:28):
if we get up there and we find a damage
that your insurance company should pay for, we are going
to advocate for you. We're going to tell you, were
going to ask you if you want to file acclaim,
and at that point, if you do, we're going to
help you through the process and either get you that
repair you know that could prolong the life of your roof,

(49:49):
you know, five ten years that save you a significant
amount of money over that time, or if the codes
are you know, we know all the codes, We know
what the insurance company has to do. If if it's warranted,
we will argue with them this is what needs to
be done. And if the repair can't take hold, if

(50:10):
your shingle is not available, if your shingle has been discontinued,
if you don't currently have drip edge, all those things,
the guys that handle the insurance part of this can
can work with your insurance company and get everything upgraded
for you to what you what you're paying for.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Is there any statutal limitations on when the damage occur
as to when you can actually finally claim against this?
And how do you how do you determine?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
How have you done within three years?

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Three years? So when you look at it, how do
you know this was a year and a half ago
or two years ago or whatever it is? Does that
become an argument with the insurance adjuster from time to time?
Is that how will they tell you?

Speaker 3 (50:46):
But then, you know, we have a number of you know,
technology is a great thing. We have a number of
programs that say, okay, there was a storm with impactable
hail or impactable wind at this location on January twenty seven, six. Okay,
so we get up there and find damage. We can
show there was a storm there. It's a very difficult

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process for the insurance company to come back in and say, no,
that came from a storm six years ago at this location.
Because accrease shingle is a crease shingle, it's going to
be very difficult to say, well, that's been increased for
six years. You know. It's it's not like with metal.
You know, metal, if you get something done it if

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you lose the protective coding on your face metal six
years ago, you're going to have spots. You know, you
may get you may get rust, you may get oxidation.
You don't get those same things on shingles. So it's
a it's a much easier it's much easier argument for
us that as long as we have documentation that there

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was a weather event at that location within the statue,
we can make.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
That argument interesting did not know that? And finally, I
know we're about out of time here, but you guys
also inditionive roof inspections and you have the you still
do the roof tune the packages.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Heath, Oh, we do the roof tune up packages. We've
done five this week.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
What happened.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
What happens when you do that.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Well, we're gonna go up and we're going to cocker
and repair all your exposed nail heads. We're gonna cack
all your boots. We're gonna do a full, little more
in depth inspection. We're going to nail down any loose shingles,
basically tune your roof up to prevent It's like preventative
maintenance doing all change on your car. We're going to

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try to prevent the issues before they happen, because a
loose shingle may not be a damaged shingle, but the
next time the wind comes through and all of a sudden,
you have an exposed spot in your roof. Right, So
we're going to take care of that before it becomes
an issue. And may I throw in there that we
also do the gut or cleanout packages, which is probably
a good thing this time of year if you haven't

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done them in through January and Febry. Yeah, with the
rains coming, it's probably time to get those gutters cleaned
out high time.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
You can get your rest of us by calling Beverufica
Gutters eighth three nine nine one, roof nine nine seven
six six three Heath. Thanks as always, my friend. Have
a good week, kid, buddy.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
All right, I appreciate it you, sir.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
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

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from other companies is our customer service. We have a
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