Home Improvement Show 03-08-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning and welcome. It's the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands and welcome to it for this eighth day
of March. Good morning, I'm Gary David. Happy to have
you along, and we'll be joining this hour by Marcus
Greenwell from Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops. He'll be dropping by
later on this half hour. James Carwell, our man at

(00:35):
Freedom Plumbing, is going to be on the program as
well this morning, and we'll chat with him in the
next half hour. We get things started with a Jessica
Smith Lexington Kim Drive. Jessica, good morning, How are you.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good morning, I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Good to see you as always. Wow, it's March eighth,
it's almost when does when is spring?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I always somewhere somewhere in the mornieth something like that.
There's always in the twenties, somewhere soon earlier tournies rather
than later. But we're just a couple of weeks away
from spring, and we know. Matter of fact, I was
talking to somebody, Oh gosh about a week ago, Uh,
you lived in Beauford. He said, they were all ready

(01:18):
covered in pollend.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it's it's here, It's I'm feeling it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Not seeing it quite not to any extent.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
You're feeling the allergies already. Yeah this season.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah, it really is so uh yeah, it's uh
we do spring cleaning and pollen season around here's what
we do.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like spring cleaning and then you have to do
keep up with pollen season, and then it's like post
pollen clean up. Yeah right, it's you have to make
but if you if you wait and not maintain that,
you're gonna have a ton of allergens in your house,
which worse.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
So you have folks who probably do before and after.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I guess yeah, we well, coming in from coming off
of Christmas, I guess you would you have your post
Christma clean up and then you'll have your spring cleaning
and then usually you're after kids get out of school
post pollen season. That's a good time to clean.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
The problem with pollen is you could keep your house
sealed up tight.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It doesn't matter as soon as you open that door.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Soon as you open the door, yeah and uh.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, dogs going in and out.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, and people coming in and out because you can
try your bad unless you take your shoes off and
leave them in the front door.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
But your carpets are your biggest filters in your house.
So you know, you have your HVAC filters that filter
out the allergens and dust, and you have to change
out your filters because they get really nasty. Just the
doors being open. Your carpets will collect all of that
pollen allergens. Or you have dogs like mine, they come
in from outside covered in it and then they start
rolling around on the carpet.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's always fun.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, and all of that transfers over into so you
end up having all of that that needs to be
cleaned and be removed.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Unlike your HVAC filter, you can't just change, I can can't.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know that'd be very expensive to do every month
or so depending on the filters.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So so hence legs and kim drive to the rescue.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, we can do that. The area rugs are good
for good pickup and delivery of deep clean we'll be doing.
We have some customers that have tile and grout instead
of carpets, but they have area rugs, so we'll collect
the area rugs, do a deep clean on those, and
then when we clean their tile and grout, we will
put the area rugs back down for them lots.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Of folks are curious as to why they dontle the
area rugs. You take them back to your place.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
For a good deep clean. Now some of them who
we have a couple customers that are elderly and they
have big, heavy pieces of furniture and those pieces sit
right on top of the erigs. There's no way we
can get them off like the china armoires and things.
Oh yes, and so we will clean those on site
because we can't take them out of the house and
with our low moisture system we don't get way down

(03:50):
to the backing. But if you have pet urine on
your area rugs, those have to be cleaned off site
so we can rinse, clean and treat to get rid
of that odor. And then of course we dry them,
clean them, dry them and get them back to you.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
So maybe they need a little more moisture.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
More TLC to get rid of everything. And the yearine
treatments can't be done on site because those have to
be rinted specifically.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, okay, a turnaround on that. If you pick up
an area rug.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Today, so probably about about a week week and a half,
we try to get them back or if we know
that a customer, we've done it to where they're moving,
So we'll pick them up at their old house, get
them clean, wrapped up, and then delivered to the to
the new one.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yep, well beautiful. See you all in the move business.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Too, Yeah, well sort of, I guess. And we can
wrap them end to end as well if they're going
to store them for a little bit. So if they're
doing like home improvements, like moving into a new house,
but they want to paint and things like that, we
can deliver them to the new site, but they'll be
wrapped end in so they can be stored so that
they're not getting dirty before they lay them down.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
When it comes to pallen, since since you brought it
up or did I? When it comes to there are any
special different things you got to do to get pollen
out of carpets and upholsterry as such, is it pretty
much the standard.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
It's the same with our cleaning system, our solutions, and
that deep clean with the extraction will remove allergens and
things from the carpet. We also in upholstery, we also
have a specialized solution that will help with an entrapment
type of the molecules in order to extract those as well,
So they kind of like basically encapsulate the pollen allergens

(05:28):
and then we can extract those as well.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh, okay, are there are there mistakes that we homeowners
or business owners make when we try to do something
like this ourselves. When it comes to in particular pollen,
it makes it worse.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Not necessarily unless you're not vacuumting. So you really need
to vacuum more often, especially if you're suffering from allergens.
I know people can use like a purification system, you know,
to help and of course change your HVAC filters as
well to help with that.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
But don't we all make the same mistake when we
try to diy it that we wind up putting too
much water.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
If you're going to try to clean your like clean
your own carpets using a home machine or especially like
a rental from a you know, the grocery store rental one,
you never know who used it before you and what
they put in it and what they took out of it,
I guess extracting from their home, right, But we had

(06:30):
a customer that did that on her upholstery and it
almost turned it like an orange type color. Because she
overwet it and so we had to come in with
and it changes the pH and the fabric, so the
pH gets changed, so our solutions can reverse that more
than in this case. We did a good job of

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reversing that and getting rid of the orange and keeping
it as a neutral pH so it's not water damaged
as of overwetting.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I guess if you think about it, I mean, you're
you're a neighbor down the streets yard is full of weeds,
and you're not going to borro.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
A long oior, right, you don't need to spread things.
It's the same thing about rinsing your boat off from
going from one link to another. You don't want to
share stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's what That's what I think of when I think
of a home machine and you're walking by and like
the little clear top compartment thing is all the dusty
and gross. Yeah, no, thank you. We can take that
out and we can get them clean and it goes
into our waist tank and you don't have to worry
about it.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
So for the most but you're you're regulars now, Okay,
you're regular folks on the rotation. They've probably done the
post holiday cleaning. At this point in time, you're going
to see them again here probably in a couple of months.
Get rid of the pollen and all that stuff. Let's
say that, you know, I'm having a big get together
at the house a week from now. Never use you before.

(07:57):
Can you help me?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah? We can start can so if you have. I
had a customer called me this morning that's having a
wedding at the end of the month, and she's the
one that has the air rugs and the tile. So
we're going to come in. Brad's gonna assess it whether
or not he can do them on site, just because
there's not very much foot traffic. But if not, we'll
take them off. We'll do the tile and grout, get
it cleaned and sealed for her, and then we'll deliver
her air rugs before the wedding.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
You keep mentioning tile and grout. That's probably something that
most people would think, Well, you know somebody like Kim Dry.
You know Lexi and Kim Dry. You do you do rugs,
you do upholstery. Yeah, people get that, but it doesn't
stop there.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Nope, we can do the tile and grout to clean
and seal floors. Showers get it nicingly, especially for house
guests coming if you are having a get together graduation,
bridal showers, baby showers, weddings, anything like that that you're
having company come in. We can certainly take care of
all that so they're not standing in gunk in the showers.

(08:54):
We can do the LVP in hardwoods to get those
good and deep cleaned using our machine, so we don't
we don't. That's not the same machine that we use
for carpet and upholstery, which gets really really hot yep,
because it's not you're not supposed to steam mop hardwoods
and LVP it it can start peeling and ruining the
poly like breaking down the layers. So you don't want

(09:17):
to do anything like that because that starts to ruin that.
But you with our cold machine, because it's just room
temperature of water specialized solutions for like LVP, it's a degreaser.
You know, foot foot traffic of bare feet walking around,
The oils from your feet, so it ends up getting
on there. So we can extract with that and some

(09:37):
dark dark water comes out of that. One has a
bristle brush to work in that solution and the extracts
into a waste tank, and our customers can actually see
that one versus our van tank.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I'm betting the other. You have customers that I don't
want to see it.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
You have that, and then you have someone's like, hey,
would you get out this time, and and we oblige,
so let you see what's in that tank?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Sure it with them? Okay, So okay.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
It makes this to think about it for LVP because
one of the great things about LVP is you get
water on it is not going to cause any damage
long as you get it up. But hardwood floors that
that seems like, you know, most people wouldn't think that
you could you could do that on hardware.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So we can clean hardwoods. We have a specialized hardwood
floor solution, and we can even if somebody has used
a like a mop and glow or a rejuvenate carylic
coating to make it shiny. After time, that starts breaking
down and it starts to look dull and thick and
black because the more you apply it, you're not it

(10:36):
just sticks on layers. So we actually can use a
finish remover to get it all those acrylic layers off
of like the mop and glow and stuff to get
it down to the original hardwood poly So if it's
someone that's looking at it and saying, hey, I use
you know, that's one of the questions I asked when
someone says, you know, I need my hardwood floors clean, Well,
did you use any of this? And we will test

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it to make sure if there's a coating on there,
and if we have to remove it to get the
original hardwoods, we can do that as well.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now the process itself, I know we've talked about this before,
but if you're coming in and do with the carpet,
let's say, and I guess one of the secrets is
again it's right there in the name, like you do
and kim dry. You're not soaking this carpet, So I
would think I can get on it and use it

(11:27):
a lot quicker you can.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
You can. We recommend letting it dry for least a
couple of hours. If you have to walk in it
right away, you know your foot just know that your
foot might be damp. So we'd caution you if you're
going to a smoother surface like a hardwood or a linoleum,
just to put a towel down to wipe your feet.
But it can leave like fluffy little footprints as well,
because you're walking on the fibers that had just been

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brought back up. So just give it a little bit
of time. Sealing fans or fans will help it to dry.
Speed up the dry time, and then of course it
just depends on the humidity here South Carolina, yeah, right,
and then of course the humidity with spring as well,
not only dealing with the pollen season, but the rains
that's come in. Yes, you may be caution homeowners just

(12:12):
if they have pets. You may start to notice urine
smells if they've had accidents that you didn't know about,
and that's.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Just due to the higher humid levels in the air,
and that brings that out right, Yep.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
The humidity in the air will bring those odor molecules
and have them off gas and you'll start to smell them.
So urine can off gas between five and seven years
what m hm, five to seven years a half life.
If those urine crystals aren't treated properly and you're just

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having a company come in to mask the odor, it
doesn't do so well and you'll notice it on the
damp days. So our patented solution actually treats it on
a molecular level and gets that removed for you. Wow,
so much to think of.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, but is there such a thing as yeah, well,
you know Fido had that accident too long ago, and
there's nothing we could be done.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You'll be surprised and how we can come in and
get that odor out. Or We've had customers that have
moved in and did their walk through whatever. Everything seemed
to look good, but now all of a sudden it's
damp and I'm like, I'm smelling something, and we'll come
in and perform the UV evaluation to determine where that
urine is coming from and be able to treat it effectively,

(13:31):
even though it was like the house has been vacant
for a year and you know, we just bought it
and moved in and now you're noticing the odor.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, if that brings up an interesting point there that
maybe something home inspectors are trouble you maybe do that
same sort of UVY observation on on carpets through home.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think they look for like I don't know, I
had have to ask the home a home inspector if
he I don't think they do that type of thing.
They're more looking like, Okay, the carpet is in good condition,
you know, but they're.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Not sure, but maybe.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
They should maybe and then they could call us.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Say just saying all right, so Carpets, Upholstery, LVP, Hardwood Flooring,
Tyler Grat. And I know this because because Brad came
out we first moved into this house last summer, and
uh yeah, I've told the story that my wife thought, well,

(14:24):
I'm going to do the old toothbrush thing in this crowd, but.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
You can't extract.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's the problem. You're basically just pushing this stuff down
in further.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Right, while you're just kind of like scrubbing it around
in the grout line and just not getting it out
of the grout line right.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
And then she thought, well, i'll paint it.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
You can do that too.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
You could do that.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's time consuming because I've done it, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Right, And I said, no, wait a minute, Uh let
me get Lexiy Kim dry over here. And I don't
think the whole process and y'all did both bathrooms. And
I don't think Brad was there more than an hour.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Probably probably an hour hour and fifteen minutes or so.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I just happen to get home, right about the
time he was leaving. Anyway, blow blown.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Away where you think you have a gray line and
it turns out to be white.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, one of those. So you do that too, We
do that too.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
All right. Now, folks can get on a regular schedule
with you or just do a one off.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, you can get a regular schedule like our one
off's usually like this, Timy. You're also the patio cushions. Yes,
so we've been doing a lot where we pick them
up and we'll deep clean. We can even shrink wrap
those so they stay clean for a in a storage
room and then once pollen season's over with, you get
to lay out all your nice patio furniture so like
it's brand new, it's brand.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
New street and everything. Yeah, beautiful. All right, so hell
of folks get on the schedule. Jessicain Drive.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Reach me directly at eight oh three five hundred four
seven zero seven or visit us at Lexington Chemdrive dot com.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
All right, good to see.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You, nice seeing you.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
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Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on one O three
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Speaker 3 (17:54):
Morning for one and only baby that much more.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Time and I can enjoy the the greatness of Marcus Greenwell.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
And I am very humble. I want to say that
I always say that I'm granted, rich and cash poor,
rich and cash poor. Yeah, I got so much granted
that I can give it away. Now.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
You're going to be uh running the show out in
the chapin for next das right.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I am my star at the store at Fernandina over here.
Todd Hudson is normally to my right and he ain't
there today. No, you're left my right. Uh, he is
out having knee replacement. Oh so we'll have to put
prayers out for big guy. Yeah. Yeah, he's my buddy
for thirty years. He's been working for me for twenty wow,

(18:46):
or with me, I should say, if I said for me,
he might want to fight, and we might have done
that a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I'm yeah, well, the best, the best for todd Man.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get side bust for Tide and
prayers to them. So uh so that I guess you
shift your brother over to Yeah, David's gonna be at
Fernandina Road and I'm going to be manning the Chapin
shop and recover. I've been slinging granted and slinging stone,
slinging rock, however you want to say it, because I

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got different stones, you know, marble quartz, quurtzite, all the
things we put in your house actually marble quartz, qurtzite,
and your friend had marble, so marble marbles getting pretty popular.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
We've had everything, but but granted.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
But granted, you got granted in the bathrooms. I forgot,
that's right. Yeah, we've done them all. We haven't done
court courts. Yeah, you got it. Get we'd in court site.
Oh you did my parents' house. Yeah, man, you're like
a walking billboard for us. I am man. Just ask me.
I'll tell you the gift that keeps on giving. So, uh,

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I know.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
We've talked about.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Oh yeah, well I'm going to be out there slinging
those rocks. I'm gonna get rid of them.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
What you got for us?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Man, I've got probably thousands of remnants, so everybody listening
probably could come get a remnant from me, and I'm
giving them away almost. I mean, I got to get
my cost out of them, you know. And then but
I've got stuff out there that that we can clean up.
It's got dust and dirt on them, and we can

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clean it right up. I got some stuff it's called
Magic Woman, and uh yeah, okay, well I don't want
to tell you the story about that. The guy came
in and said it used to be called magic Man
but his but his wife got prostate cancer. I get

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it anyway, I told you that way. That was a
true story though. That's what he told me. But the
reason why not, there's a really fabulous cleaner. So we'll
just clean all that stuff off for that brand new again.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
But but let's let's start right there, because this is
brand new stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
This is brand new. Yeah, I'm just saying a lot
for a while. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, not the dust
off of it, that's all.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Okay, So it's not used, hadn't been in somebody anything
else like that.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
We're not allowed to sell used stone, well unless it's
to my brother, give it to them.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
So the remnants again, Now, if you're looking to do
a full kitchen, okay, you're not going to get unless
you want to mix and match remnants.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well maybe, but but but it's yeah, it's done that
before in showrooms. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
But I mean, let's say, for example, uh, maybe you
live in a condo, you own a condo, a smaller kitchen,
you could you could probably do a kitchen in a
in a smaller ca.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Oh yeah, I've got two thirds of slabs all over
the place because when a when a customer comes in
and buys a kitchen, they only pay for the square
foot that they get. So what happens is that some
of them are sixty square feet and you have to
cut a corner off the top of the slab, so
that leaves two thirds of the slab on the second

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slab right left over that I can sell as a
remnant for a small condo slash kitchen, like a small
galley kitchen in some cases, you know, the thirty square.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Feet maybe a bar area or yeah, you know, it's
certainly a bathroom vanity outdoor kitchen. I know, I know,
I'm still I'm still working in on the outdoor kitchen idea. Man,
once I deal with Uncle Sam, I'm gonna have to
save up after that to get out outdoor kitchen. But

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once I get that out of the way here, I'm
not one of those fortunate souls. It gets a big
refund back from Uncle Sam. And yeah, but having said that,
if you are, this is a great time because all right,
so I didn't want to think about how far we
were less than a month and a half away from
now from that date, but this will be a good

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time to start to get making your.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Plans absolutely because certainly we're about four weeks out now. Okay, yep,
maybe I could get it done sooner if you're if
you tell me you're on the show, I could certainly
push it through. There's a couple of spots here and
there that come free. I had two this past week
that the customer well, the contractor for the customer wasn't

(23:23):
ready yet, so we had to push them back. Uh.
So I had bumped some other people up the schedule.
Uh As a matter of fact, I had one for
a realtor came in and I'm doing him next Tuesday.
That was a slot that came open because I bumped
somebody up. So it can happen. So I could do it,
maybe even even if you picked out some pieces there,

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maybe even a week or two. But the easy button,
like I always say, is four weeks. I put you
at the end of the schedule, we put you in line,
and then you know, whenever it's your turn, we do
it guaranteed date. Right, So come Hecker high Water. We're
they are on that day.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Okay, yeah, quite possibly mentioned you heard Marcus here on WVOC.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
And yeah, you come talk to me at one fifty
three Chapin Road. Yeah, I'm gonna be out there slinging rock.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
So since you're out there and you're run the show
now for the next couple of weeks, as you always
do anyway, but you're right there on site. Any other
specials you might think about cooking up here?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Man, Well, we've got some quarts at very good pricing.
It's on sale at fifty five square foot starting price,
which is amazing. So that's some white quarts and then
it kind of goes up from there. We've got that
core courtz on sale as well, and that's you know,
you could get some stuff that during COVID and before

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was one hundred and ten square foot you can get
for seventy five square foot square foot. Right, you know
that calcutt of looking swirls and gold and grays, veins
and stuff like that. Right, So if you come see
me or David in that case, if you didn't picking
out Courts, you can do it right there at Fernandina
Road if you're closer. Yeah, and let's right right. If

(25:07):
you want to bottle liquor, one top shopping. Matter of fact,
Courts does real good with wine. So if you drink wine,
you can spill it all over there and leave it
and come back the next day and clean it.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
We suggest if you're gonna go by the liquor store,
do that after you go by Lifetime, not before.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Oh yeah, I've had the other, I've had the opposite.
It's kind of comical at that point, and I can't
say that when I used to drink that. I might
not have had a drink with them before, not now
I don't think. But congratulations on that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
So let me ask you this, Marcus. So when you
say you got like this, you know, white quartz, beautiful
white white courts, say as low as fifty five a
square foot? Yeah, okay, what all goes into that price?
When you say fifty five dollars.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
A square cut, install and everything. Now, we do have
labor cuts, you know, for the sinkholes and stuff like that.
If you're doing full back splash, we have some them
charges of cutting the little outlets out and stuff. But
mainly it's you know, just the fifty five plus the
the five hundred and twenty dollars, which includes the sink
you know, and the installation. So so the if you

(26:15):
were to cut a piece of white courts and pick
it up for my store fifty five square foot if
it's ten ten square foot, you know, for a vanity
or whatever, and well the vanity you have to cut
the hole. That'd be a little small charge to do that.
But we don't have a whole lot of line items
like the big box store. I was.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
We're going to ask you so I said, well, well,
wait a minute. I went to the big box store
and saw the same slab hanging up there and it
said forty five a square.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Huh yeah, but we see them. We beat them by
one thousand dollars, those guys. Yeah, so we go get
a price from them and we'll match it all day. Yeah.
But but but but that doesn't that's kind of a
lost leader, isn't it. I mean, yeah, they add well
the car for you.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Know, ten thousand dollars, but oh that doesn't do the wheels.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, they go and go out to the house and
measure and then they add thousands of dollars to it.
With the edging. We give a choice of three edge
profiles for free, and you could make bevels. You know,
you can make a three bevel quarter bevel that's one edge,
but you get eased edge and the rounded which is
the demi bull. So you can get all those for free.

(27:23):
And they have charge like it's crazy, like twelve dollars
an inch or something like that for that edge. Yeah yeah,
uh huh yeah exactly, and they charge per inch, which is
fine for me.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, so important note here, Yeah, okay, you don't and
I know the experience. I mean when we let's talk
about that experience. Okay, it's real simple. If I can
do it, anybody can do it. You get out your tape.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Measure Oh yeah, you just you don't have to be perfect.
Wait is that?

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is that an eighth of an inch? Or is that?
You know, don't worry about it. Just getting the ballpark
right now?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
You get it through the inch. I like to it
and do everything in inches, as far as the links
of the countertops. So if you take a measure and
if it's you know, five ft to be sixty inches,
so just give me the inches all the way on
the long part. Just make little boxes on your drawing,
just like the kitchen sets, say sixty inches one hundred
and twenty inches, however big the space is. And then

(28:24):
of course the standard depth on the countertop. So that's easy.
So I can usually get it within one hundred dollars
of the final price if somebody gives me a close
enough measurement.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
But that's the whole point of taking the measurements with you.
It is just to get the final price.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, otherwise just conversation. Right. If you don't have the measurements,
we can't really quote it.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
You too, But again, Tea, you're not cutting on those measurements.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
No, no, no, no, yeah, don't worry about that. I
will come out and measure but I need I need
the measurements up front so we can tell you how
much it's gonna cost with what you pick out. So
if you come in there and pick out something and
you don't have measurements, then we're not going to know
how much. Oh well, it's maybe it's a thousand dollars,
two thousand and three thousand, you know, I don't know
until we get the measurements. But we can get it

(29:08):
down to the one hundred within one hundred dollars all
the time.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
But again, if you I guess, if you drop by
without the measurements and say I think it's about such
and such, well yeah, go back home, you know. Yeah,
we get you measurement and call me back and you
can figure it out that one.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
We can give you an idea for such and such
if you say, hey, I had a customer did that
not too long ago, and I was pretty close. He
was pretty close because he gave me a pretty good
accurate scription, you know, walking around the showroom pointing at
the two different countertops. That one is about this big
as big as this one. He turned to the other
one and he's like, oh, yeah, that one's this big.
So we were pretty close on the quote.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Are there any kind Are there any like special conditions
that might wind up changing the price from the like
a standard installation.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
No, the installation that we had. It's funny. My assistant,
I guess you'd call her whoever, I don't know exactly
what you call her, but keep her slash and you
know she's kind of my right hand girl. Oh she
runs the operation operation. Yeah, she she said, you know
what this is, Yeah, Shannon, she said. She goes, Oh, Marcus,

(30:12):
she goes, I think it's funny that your install is
only five twenty. We had we had material costs at
thirteen thousand dollars for this court site for this customer.
It picked out this exotic court site and it was
thirteen thousand dollars And she's like laughing at me, going,
and you still have five hundred and twenty dollars for
the labor.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The labor's the same though, right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's the same for every kitchen. You know. There are
a couple of things that added up as far as
if you do the outlets or something like full back
splash or do some ports. We you know, some some
countertops have overhang and we help them support it. And
you know, there's a little extra charge here there that
waterfowlage thing. Waterfallage would be an extra charge.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
And how do you by the way, how do you
that waterfol edge? How do you keep that attacked to
the side of the of the cabinet?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Right? Yeah, we actually build it together, so there's one
big Yeah, we actually attach it at we'll do we'll
put them together at at the house. But we'll cut
the forty five at the shop and then bring it
over to the house and put it together and POxy
that just like a seam, just like it was standing

(31:22):
on top. And then some of them are are like
a dangling down type. Nowadays they're doing like a three
inch table. It looks thick and it looks like a box.
And then we put it together and we'll do that,
and we'll build that in advance as well, so that
little three inch drop down will just be sitting there
out up in the air. You know, it's.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Amazing what you guys, can I mean, tell me if
I just dreamed this, but I'm pretty sure that a
while back you told me the story about actually putting
a countertop I mean like up.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
On a wall. Yeah, yeah, in Page Butler's house. Yeah,
interior designer, Page Butler, our friend. How do you I
mean that stuff heavy man? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
What do you use to keep it attached to that surface?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Well, the Nation's Builders built, uh, went in there and
did the pan and all that, and then we we did.
They put a lentil on the bottom, like a metal
ledge on the very bottom above the shower pan. So
the stone wall set on the metal attached to the
two by fours. So they actually recessed that metal into

(32:24):
the two by four, attached it to the two by
four and then we set it right on that metal
and this you know, construction adhesive on the sides and
you know on the back I mean, I'm sorry, and
the silicon on the sides.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, I mean, so you guys, I mean, you've you've
done some pretty incredible installations at the past. I mean,
there's really basically nothing you can't do. You may even
doing this for a long time, Marcus. I know you
think you've come across pretty much everything over the years,
or I think you get a surprise every now and every.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Now and then. You know, I always put on my Facebook.
I always, matter of fact, you can check me out
on Facebook. It Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops and on my
Facebook as Marcus Greenwell and you can see some of
that work. But h I put on there bring me
a challenge, you know, so a lot of people. I
had one customer not long ago went from his kitchen

(33:16):
inside through the window outside into the back porch like
a pass through. I mean, you know, so you know
I've seen a lot.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, and again, these are the These are the sorts
of thing if you go to the big box store
and say, hey, I want to try that.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, good luck. You ain't gonna charge you a
lot of money. That was just a square foot charge.
Same price as the install, I mean the five twenty install,
same thing. It's a great deal.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah all right, So you got the two locations in
Fernandina Road.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Well, yeah, first and foremost go to one three chap
and yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
But do you want to be you're the owner.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
You don't worry about commission here, right, that's right. I
just want to sell the pieces. Come on, come get them.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Scheck out there and again, we should let's be very
clear here. The remnants are at the Chapin Road creation.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, so you can buy a vanity at at Pining Grove,
but you just kind of limited on what you pick.
You know, I only have like eight slabs out there
to pick from. And then my brother does know the
inventory because he normally works at Chapin, so he does
know the inventory out there. So it's the possibility he
might say, well, I've got this since your dream is
this color and da da dah, so he might he

(34:30):
might be able to do something there. But ultimately you'll
be a good starting point. You can kind of find
a price, you know, and if you're just price shopping
right now, you can stop there get a price for
your bathroom vanities or something like that. And then so
that's pretty much. Yet, you could do the kitchen right
there on the spot. You can pick from the sample
similar to what Low's does there, or you could see

(34:53):
a lot more slabs out in my Chapin store. Okay,
so we do a lot of ordering right there at
the Pine Grove Roads.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Sure, yeah, yeah, so forty twenty piney Growe.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Forty twenty and Dan Road, Yeah, Pine Grove.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, and then ten to fifty three shape and road.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Chap and fifty three tay you no one one fifty three.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
I always want to add another antees.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
I like those numbers one, five, three Apparently yea, apparently
you do one three.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
And again if you want to call, any time you
call seven seven two twenty two.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Twenty, you get the owner, you get you yeah, every time.
And I I can do phone quotes too. So we
like to meet people's prices. Not well, you know, we're
not really trying to beat everybody's price, but we're we'll
give you a price, and you know, give you a
fair price right right there on the good to see
your buddy eight to three seven seven twenty two twenty
call that man right there me.

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Speaker 1 (37:01):
Hey, look, it's our old pal James Carwell, the owner
of Freedom Plumbing, joining us now here on the Home
Improvement Show of the Midlands.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Good to have you, James. Good morning, sir.

Speaker 8 (37:11):
Good to be here Gary.

Speaker 9 (37:11):
How are you.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I'm doing well, man, I see you all over the
place these days.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Man, we get around, apparently you do.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
And you've been in my neighborhood quite a bit recently too.
I've noticed.

Speaker 8 (37:24):
Oh yeah, did a tankless water heater install for one
of your neighbors terrific.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I'm sure she's happy with that. We that's something we
hadn't talked about in quite some time, James, tankless water heaters.
Maybe we'll talk about that today.

Speaker 8 (37:36):
What do you think absolutely sounds good of the.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Water heaters you're installing these days?

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Is it? Is it getting to be.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Where, you know, you're doing more of than tankless ones
than any other any other type.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
You know, they're definitely more prevalent nowadays than they were,
and you know, the situation kind of dictates which which
route is the best route to take. You know, if
you get a small home, just one person in the house,
yes you can get some energy savings out of switching
from an electric to a tankless natural gas or propane tankless,

(38:14):
but not every situation really is needed to have a
tankless as far as the expense, so it's typically about
twice the cost of the install of a normal water heater.
What taken think of a normal water heater around fifteen
a tankless around three thousand. All parking, I'm.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Getting it, is that installed or is that just for
the unit of.

Speaker 8 (38:36):
South Yeah, that's that's installed, and again it can range.
We've done some tankless installs for forty two.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
They go with the.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
Bigger unit that has a built in recirculating pump and
it's a condensing model, which means it's more efficient. So yeah,
it can, it can range, and depending on the house
size and how many bathrooms and everything.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Now, just curious here from a cost standpoint, So let's
say you go twice as much using your example of
fifteen hundred for the conventional old style three thousand of
the tankles installed. What sort of over the course of
a year, I mean, what sort of cost savings are
we talking about in lower electricity.

Speaker 8 (39:20):
Costs From the numbers I've run and from what I've
heard as far as recovery time on your investment above
and beyond what you would spend on a regular heater,
it's about a fifteen year recovery time and that's about
the life span of the heater, so you know it
kind of breaks even so to speak over the life

(39:41):
span of the heater.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
OK.

Speaker 8 (39:43):
But the benefit is more in the fact that you
have endless hot water, so situations where you have soaking
tubs or elderly might have had all, yeah, those you're
not Typically you're not going to be able to fill
up a tub like that with a standard tank style heater.

(40:05):
You're gonna run out of hot water before that thing
is full. So certain cases, a lot of people in
the home, teenage kids, got taking showers, back back, Running
out of hot waters not something you have to worry
about with a tankless water here, what could.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Should you expect? And let's go let's go here. Okay,
regular style water heater I'll just call old fashioned for
sake of argument here. They come in different sizes, right,
I mean, depending on the size of the home, the
number of showers and fixtures and things like that.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
What are your options there?

Speaker 8 (40:44):
Typically forty or fifty. You have some cases where you
can do an eighty. They're now considered more like commercial
than residential, but it could still be used in a
residential application. So I mean, is it is.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
It possible that you could say, well, I don't want
to you know, invest the extra money for the tangles.
I just want to get as big a model as
I can. Can you get a you know, one big
enough to ensure that let's say a family of four
is not going to run out of hot water.

Speaker 8 (41:16):
That's hard to say, depending on their habits. So if
you get somebody that hops in the shower and they
stand in there for thirty minutes, you're going to have
a problem. Typically you get about a seventy percent yield
from a water heater, so you know, forty gallons, you
get seventy percent of that, and then it's going to
start cooling down pretty quick after that.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Okay, an average shower, an average shower, Let's say you're
hopping in out of the shower and say five minutes.
You don't have that that teenager in the house that
likes a thirty minute shower, you know, a five minute shower.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Because yeah, I've had those.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Uh, the five minute shower is going to consume about
how much how many gallons.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
Of water depends on how hot you like the water,
depends on the temperature that the water is set at.
So I guess the best way to kind of describe
what happens there is the hotter your temperature the shower,
the less hot water you're going to use as far
as volume of actual water to reach the desired temperature
that you're trying to achieve. Because if you get one

(42:12):
hundred and forty degree water and you're mixing that with
seventy degree cold water. You're going to get that one
hundred degrees a lot with a lot less hot water
than if you had one hundred and twenty degree hot
water in seventy degree cold water.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I got you.

Speaker 8 (42:24):
So there's a lot of factors that kind of play
into how long and how you know, much of a
shower you can take with a certain gallon amount in
a water heater.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
So really, again, this is not so much that I'm
going to I'm going to go make the investment, take
the plunge here, so to speak, and go for the
tankless water heater. It's not so much a question of
I'm going to save that much more in electricity of
the course of a month or a year, even you
mentioned a fifteen year return on that this kind of
break even point. But it is, Yeah, I'm tired of

(42:57):
runing out of hot.

Speaker 8 (42:58):
Water mainly, and so you're definitely gonna have a lot
more energy savings if you're going if you're transitioning from
an electric style uh tank water here to a tankless
because that electric heater or even a gas on that
for that matter, is gonna heat cool whether you use

(43:19):
it or not. So let's say you left your house
for a month, that water heater is gonna cool down,
heat back up, cool down, heat back up, and then
can continue to cycle whether or not water is being
used in it or not, because eventually, you know, you
have transfer of heat. Heat's gonna leave the water and
it's eventually going to need to heat back up because

(43:41):
the thermostat says, hey, we're not hot enough.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Well, since you brought that up, let's say you are
going on a sabbatical of the sort you're gonna leave
for a month. Uh, you know, short of just I
guess going wherever it's located and shutting off the pilot
light or what have you, there's no real other way
to shut that thing down, or should you even try to.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
You can on a gas unit, you can turn your
guess thermostat to vacation, which is pretty much just means
the pilot light stays lit and it doesn't heat and
cool while you're going.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
All you said on electric right now, do all electric
water heaters have.

Speaker 8 (44:19):
That that's a that's a gas model.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Gas model, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:23):
You just this knob typically on the front of the unit.
Most of them are red red knobs on the front
of the unit. It'll have you know where you can
change the temperature setting on the thermostat right, and if
you go all the way down it typically is the
vacation mode for the gas unit. And on the electric
I mean you could always just flip the braker off.

(44:45):
I would also recommend if you're doing that to shut
the water off to the house. That way, if you know,
lo and behold, something happens that doesn't happen for the
entire time you're gone, or until you're one of your
neighbors sees water coming out of your front stairs.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
What.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's kind of the do with the water heater.
That's just in general. Yeah, no, I agreed.

Speaker 8 (45:05):
Yeah, it's a side note.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Yeah, that would be a horror story to come back
to you right there. Hey, for somebody who's purchased the
house in the last few years, they haven't replaced a
water heater and maybe they just never really thought much
about it. How can you quickly tell whether you've got
an electric water heater or a gas water heater.

Speaker 8 (45:24):
Well, the power cord going into the top of the
heater usually lets you know, and the gas heater is
going to have some sort of vent, whether it be atmospheric,
which means the vent goes straight up, typically through your
ceilings or your roof, or out the wall, which is
considered to direct that so it makes a ninety degree

(45:46):
turn and comes out the sidewall. Typically you'll see those
applications in a garage. You know, your heter be in
the corner of the garage, and then the vent will
turn and go out the wall, and you'll outside you'll
see the little vent cap, a termination cap for the
exhaust the combustion gases.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
I guess cross spaces will be that way too, pretty much,
wasn't they.

Speaker 8 (46:09):
I've seen some direct vent applications inside of a cross space.
You just got to have a lot of room for
it because they don't make like short right direct vent waters.
They're typically going to be pretty tall.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
So if you see some sort of a of a
vent on the on the outside of your home near
the water heater, let's say going to the cross space
for example, that's that's you got gas water here.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
Yep, and atmosphere. Event the vent will actually end through
the roof, so you'll see a little a lot of times,
just like a silver colored pipe coming out of your roof.
That looks different from all the other pipes sticking up
right through your roof, which are the vent pipes sure
you're plumbing.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Are gas heaters? Water heater is more efficient and giving
you more hot water than electric.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (47:01):
They definitely have a quicker recovery time, meaning once you
complete the hot water out of it's going to heat
that water a lot quicker. I think electric is one
of the most inefficient ways to heat, whether it be
heating the air or heating water gas. It's definitely you know,
that's why they say cooking with gas.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yeah, that's why they say that. Now, so you've decided
you're going to go with the tankless style water heater,
and there's a there's a misnomer here that you get,
you get to put in and of course, now you
work with a pro like James, this is all gonna
be explained to you, of course. But I can foresee

(47:42):
a situation where somebody says, yeah, I want the tankless
water heater, and somebody comes out and installs one, and
they cut the shower on hot right in and they're
surprised to find out they don't have hot water right away.

Speaker 8 (47:54):
Yeah, So it's it's what we call endless, not instant.
So typically we'd like to install the tanklesses near the
location where your old heater was, so you're not going
to notice a large difference in wait time that you
had before. So if you move that location of the
heater twenty feet away from where it was, you're going

(48:16):
to extend weight times for different areas of the home
and then decrease weight times for other areas. So, you know,
there may be some cases where the layout just didn't
work the way they had it, and you know, the
customer's like, well, I you know, hot water my kitchen
is not my main priority. I wanted it near. I
want it to the master bath quicker. So then those

(48:36):
cases where you know, we would consider relocating the tank
lists closer to the master bedroom or bathroom. That way
they get that hot water there quicker. The other option
would be going with a tankless that has a built
in recirculator circulates hot water through your system and decreases
that weight time for hot water.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
You mentioned that at the start of the segment there
that you and solved one with that feature on there.
How much quick are you going to get a hot
water when you go that route.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
So again, there's a lot of stuff that kind of
goes into it. You're plumbing layout as one of the
biggest things. So that basically you have a bypass that
gets installed on the furthest fawcet and it creates that
loop for the water to continuously circulate through the system.
So basically what it does is it pushes hot water
to the hot water side of that faucet and then

(49:28):
the loop it is created by pushing it to the
cold side. So you'll get a little bit of lukewarm
water on your cold when you cut it on, but
the het will be there fairly quickly. It does cut
off it around ninety degrees, so you'll have ninety degree
water instantly, but that one hundred and twenty degree water
is not very far behind it.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
How much more is it to go that route, James,
you're looking for the full inench of lada here.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
Now those can range I would say thirty eight to
forty two.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Somewhere in that total total price here.

Speaker 8 (50:02):
Now, yeah, total price installed with the bypass programming the pump,
because those pumps you can program to Let's say you
get up at six am. You want to be able
to take a shower by six point thirty. You can
program the pump to cut on at five o'clock and
recirculate that water within that time period to be able

(50:24):
to have it there, so it's not constantly recirculating and
you're not you know, using that energy to recirculate water
through your system, say at four in the morning when
everybody's sleeping.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Well, that's what I was thinking, because I mean, this
is a system that keeps that water if you go
that route, keeps that water hot really all the time.
That seems like that could be pretty cost prohibitive.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
You know, it's more of a luxury item as far
as wait times for how long you're how long it
takes for your water to get the hot water to
get to that fixture. Really, the best way to think
about it is you have to purge the water that's
cooled off in that line until the hot water gets

(51:06):
from that tankless to that fixture. So like in our home,
it takes a long time for it to get to
the kitchen. You know, we may have to run that
water for thirty forty five seconds before we have hot
water in the kitchen. Yep, same way, so you are
using more water in that case, but on the on
the flip side of that to recirculate it, you're using

(51:27):
more energy.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Best tip I ever got that you, James, was when
you told me about a year or so ago, think
that shower, turn the knob all the way to hot.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Every time I do that, I think, I.

Speaker 8 (51:42):
Yeah, I kind of thought about that.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
One day.

Speaker 8 (51:44):
I went to turn the shower on and I put
it where I normally would have the temperature right, and
I sat there and thought about it. I was like, well,
it's going to take longer for the water to get
hot because I'm just running cold water through it with
hot water instead of all hot water. So yeah, when
you want the water to get there quick hot, just
cut the hot side on by itself and all the

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way to hot, and then adjust back once you get
hot water at the fixture.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Don't don't forget you did that before you hop in.
Uh yeah, needless to.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
Say, it'd be a little warm, depending on how hot
your water here is set too.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I got my pad in the morning, man, I cut
it all the way hot. By the time I got
my teeth brushed, it's ready to go. Boom, there you go,
There you go. Freedom Plumbing James Carwell. He is the
owner and that folks have questions for you, or they
just need a little help. Maybe they want to go
to the tankless route or just ask you about that.
I can they reach you, my friend.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
Give us a call at eight oh three four four
seven zero four seven one, or visit her website at
Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
The guys riding around town all over the place of
the bigger, red, white and blue trucks Freedom Plumbing have
a great weekend.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
James, you do the thing Gary. Thank you.

Speaker 9 (52:51):
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

(53:12):
from other companies is our customer service. We have a
five star rating on Google, a five star rating on Facebook,
an A plus rating on Angie's List and an A
plus rating with a Better Business Bureau. I'm James Carwell,
local owner of Freedom Plumbing, and we look forward to
servicing you for all of your plumbing needs. Get fifty
percent off your next service call. When you mentioned you

(53:33):
heard us on WVOC. Learn more at Freedom dash Plumbing
dot com. That's Freedom dash Plum. This is Gary.

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