Home Improvement Show 06-14-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, good morning. We welcome you into the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands on one O three point five
FM and five sixty AM WVOC. It's great to have
you with us this morning. I appreciate you tuning in.
My name is Gary David and we've got an hour
full of well you need to get it fixed or
get it fixed up. That's what we're all about here
on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. All the way,

(00:39):
we're going to talk to Summer from over at Beaver
Rufing and Gutters. Our discussion, I believe this morning will
be about roofs. Summer will join us here in a
just a little while. Marcus Greenwell, he owns Lifetime cabins
and countertops where that revenond sale has been going on
now for a while. What are they there? Not used
but unused pieces of a beautiful stone countertops, granted marble,

(01:03):
court side courts, you name it. And he's selling these
at his cost, moving them off the lot out in
Shape and at one fifty three Chapin Road. Well, this
morning we're going to talk with Marcus for a bit
about well, maybe some of the alternative uses things you've
never thought about using countertops for whether it's the big
full slab or these remnants. So we'll discuss that and
maybe pass along some good ideas. I'm sure he's got plenty.

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So that's coming up this morning on the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands. First up, though, it is James Carwell,
who is the owner of Freedom Plumbing here in the Midlands.
He joins us on this weekend's edition of The Home
Improvement Show of the Midlands.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Good morning, James, Good morning Gary. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm doing well, man, I hope you are too.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
We want to stay.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Talk about stoppages this morning. All sorts of is a
big part of your business. How many how many times
you called out on a weekly basis because something stuck somewhere?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Quite a few you actually make. Could be as small
as you know, lavatory blockage, which is typically right in
the pop up assembly and that's the part that you
know you stop to sink up to fill the bowl
up with water. Usually it's right there. We do have
some cases where it's further down the line. On older systems.
You know, it could be anything from a garbage disposal

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to the whole house backing up. So yeah, we get
we get called up quite a bit for him. So,
and we have equipment to deal with all kinds of
different types of stuffes.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right, So let's start simple here, James, Uh, I don't know.
Let's start with out of garbage disposals.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, so great devices, you know, put stuff down there,
grind up and send it on down the system. There's
a few things I wouldn't recommend putting down anything starchy, noodles,
things of that nature. Yeah, kind of just get ground
up and turn into one big glove of noodles rather

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than get chopped up. Very well, anything soft and mushy
like that has angel for hitting that little tee. There's
a there's a tea underneath most sinks, unless it's a
single bowl sink, there's a tee that kind of catches
the other side of the sink on a two bowl system.
And I guess when people think about that tea they
think of it being as being a wide open there's

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actually a baffle in it which kind of restricts how
much stuff can go from the disposal side to the
drain side, so that that glob of stuff typically gets
caught right in there at the tee. And what you'll
have is the disposal side won't drain, but your other
sink will. And that typically means that the stoppages is

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right there, or that always means the stoppage is right
there underneath at that tea. Most of the time that
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Never really thought about that. So nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
If bost thinks are stopping up, then we know we
have a bigger issue. Hopefully at that point it's at
the pea trap, which is still underneath your cabinet. But
if it's past that pea trap, that's that's the point
where we get to U break out the machine and
and run the cable down the drain line and try
to get that that line unstopped, right.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
All right, So nothing starting in a garbage suppose Well,
what else should you not be putting down that thing?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, I went to call the other day where some
chicken got put down the drain that's you know, cook chicken.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, that's just a crime to begin with. We have
a chicken shortage in this country. We should not be
putting the garbage exposal. I mean, come on for crying
out loud.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But right anyway, Yeah, and again what it did is
just shredded it up and kind of turned it into
one big mushy glob of chopped up chicken, and it
luckily got caught right in the peat trap, which we
can just take a part onnath the cabinet and clean
it out and put it back together and test everything
out and make sure it's flowing properly. So yeah, potatoes,

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potato peels, stuff like that. And if you have an
old system, I would be careful with quite a bit
of things. Actually on older systems. Let's see, you have
the galvanized drain line. It starts to rust from the
inside and crowe from the inside, and that that line
can close down almost like a bad artery, is I

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guess the best way to describe it. And you start
introducing more than just water, which I mean you're going
to get some stuff down your kitchen sink is just
gonna happen. Yeah, But when you start shoving plate full
of food and the disposal to try to get rid
of them, that I could potentially create an issue as well.
I typically recommend just scrape it off into the trash

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or you're composts, and you know, wash the plate off
initially on the garbage disposal side and run that to
break up any large particles that might have still gotten
into the sink. Other than that, I wouldn't recommend putting
a lot of leftovers down in there.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I was going to ask you that because most plumbers agree,
right if the garbage disposal you probably really shouldn't use
if you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
I don't. And a big reason I don't even have
one in my home really because we we built on
a site with a subject tank and I just didn't
want to entice myself to use it when I really
don't have to. So we scripe everything off from the
trash can and just rinse the dishes off before we
put them in the dishwasher.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
And those suckers are a pain to replace, at least
for the lay person like me. I've I've replaced one
or two in my day, and that ain't a lot
of fun. Man. The little suckers are heavy.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Plumbing's always in an awkward place too. It's not usually
in a place it's very accessible under sinks and under
cabinets and stuff like that, or interesting places to contort
and get inside of.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't know how y'all do that, man, I really don't.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh my goodness, get used to it.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
After a while while.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
We're talking about garbage disposals, what's the interconnection here between Okay,
you got a two sink unit. We talked about that
that tea right there, But what's how does this all
work when you now you talk about a dishwasher involved,
because it all drains the same place.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Right, typically, yes, sir, the the dishwasher usually drains into
the side of the garbage disposal, so there's a there's
a little fitting. It's got a plug initially inside of it.
So if the customer does not have a dishwasher, that
means that that that plug remains in there so you

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don't get any water coming out onder your sink. If
they do have a dishwasher, we knocked a plug out
with a screwdriver and remove it from the unit and
then attach the drain of the dishwasher to the garbage dispussal.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
So what's going on when I've spent a long time
we actually have a dishwasher, we almost never use we do, no,
we I take that back, we do me. Uh, but
it seems like I recall every now and then something
will back up into the dishwasher.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yes, So there's always the potential for if if you
have a sink stoppage, because of that connection between the
garbage disposal and the drain of the dishwasher, you can
get water from the kitchen sink backing up into the dishwasher.
That's that's the possibility. Okay, that just happens when you're
sink can't drain the whole. You know, if you allow

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the sink to fill up high enough, it could potentially
spill over into the dishwashers through that connection.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Gotcha. Now, if you if you have put something down
that garbage disposal and you back things up, I mean
it is without having to call you to come out.
I mean, is there anything you can do as the
as the homeowner.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
If you feel comfortable with removing the undersink piping, which
is called tubular piping and it's typically done with compression nuts,
then yeah, you can remove that piping starting at that
at that pe trap and then the tee and kind
of work your way through the system. See if the
clog is underneath the sink, if it's further than that,

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you know, again depends on how handy you're feeling. If
you want to go try to get your hands on
some equipment to run down the drain line. That's always
a possibility as well.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay, I might could do that, but you know my
rule of I'm here, hey, listen, I'll play around to
a degree with electrical stuff. Maybe not a good idea,
but I ain't touching plumbing. Man. She makesulf a big
old mess in her in a her and and ruin
a lot of stuff. So I just kind of stay
away from me. But I just called James Carlot freedom

(09:26):
plumbing whenever I had that, all right. Grease? Yeah, So
is there any truth to the fact that if you
run hot water down the drain then you're okay to
put a little bit of grease in there? Or should
you never do that? Period?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm not big on putting grease down any kind of drain,
to be honest with you. Hot water, cold water, Yeah,
it doesn't. I mean, there's a couple of different theories.
And being used cold water helps solidify the grease quickly
and helps go down the draining chunks. If you use
hot water and that grease remains liquefied as it travels

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down the drain, let's just say some settles and doesn't
make it all the way out, and you're going to
have a dried puddle of grease at some point. So yeah,
I'd just rather not introduce grease into the drain system
at all. If you're gonna get some down there off
a plate, you're gonna get grease down the train. So

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definitely good idea to run the line for a little bit,
allow that to make it all the way through the system.
But yeah, Greece is one of the harder things to
get out as far as when there is a stoppage.
So what typically happens is your cable will run through
the grease blockage, make it through the other side, and
then as you're pulling the cable back, it just kind

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of closes back in on itself. There's been cases where
I've had to run a kitchen sink drain ten times
before the line drain, just because you're only getting very
little bits out at a time. As you go through
that grease blockage and you have to continually run it
back and forth. You can always tell when you pull

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the cable back and then you've got a grease blockage.
It's typically all over the cable. Once you pull it out, Oh.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, let's get out of the kids. You get into
the bathroom, a couple of opportunities here for blockages.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, so again the lavatory sink will being one of
the most common that we find. And usually what happens
is there's a lot of build up in the initial
part of your drain, which is the pop up assembly.
There's a rod you know, that you can typically pull
up behind the faucet that makes the pop up drop

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down and stop the sink ups. You can fill it
up with water. Yes, well, the rod that's used to
raise lower that pop up typically tends to catch things
as it goes down the drain, hair being the biggest
one that it catches. But then you also get that
build up right there of course, toothpaste, all kinds of stuff,

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face washed, the soaps, and you just start getting built
up right right there underneath where the sink the stopper is.
And the easiest way that that I've taken care of those,
even on my own sinks, is just by using one
of those small little handheld devices that you can get
from your box store, one that's called the drain weasel.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
They're very good. Yeah, I'd use it a lot, and.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's the easiest way to get you know, to see
if if that's what's kind.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Of back up.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Of course, you've got two sinks, you know, like a
double lavatory in that bathroom. If you're only having issues
with one, again, more likely you're dealing with the stop
it right underneath that pop up stopper. So easiest way
to do that, I think they're like four dollars at
your local box store, you know, give that a shot
before you know you spend the money to get a

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plumber out. That's always the easiest route to take. What
about could save you some money?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
What about the you know, I want to mention names here,
but you know, the liquids that are supposed to bust
that stuff up. Do they work? Yes?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Some of them are pretty good with, you know, breaking
down biodegredibles. We carry a product called Thrift and it
does a good job. It's supposed to be a non
toxic type of drain cleaner and it's activated by warm water.
So basically what you do is, if if you don't
have any drainage at all, the liquids, the you know,

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the dissolvable drain cleaners really not going to help you
much because you've got to be able to get that
product to where the blockage is right, So if you
just absolutely have no drainage or very little at all,
all this products really aren't going to help you. You're
gonna need something mechanical to remove that blockage.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
So, I mean we've all used those things all the time.
Of course, if you've got a slow drain, okay, but
if it's if waters is not going anywhere, you're gonna
need to do something other than that then.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
In other words, yeah, because you could be creating more issues,
especially for your plumber if to come out and you've
got to sink full of drain over whatever product you
put down there. You know, those those are pretty corrossive
materials or grossive products. And I've gotten some splashback from
removing fee traps and stuff like that underneath sinks where

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product like that has been used. And you know you
can definitely uh cause some irritation and almost I guess
chemical burns.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Maybe. Yeah, I'll stay with Matt. Got about two minutes
left here, James, for we're out of time. But you
mentioned that the onset of the segment full house stoppages.
Now that sounds bade.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Typically when you're dealing with the whole house stoppage. My
recommendation would be the first off called the municipality that
you pay your sewer bill to have them come out
and determine whether it's on their end of the system
and they have to take care of it at no
cost to you, or if it's on your end of
the system. And at that point, I would recommend calling
a plumber nine times out of ten, if not more,

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you're dealing with the roots situation. If the stoppage is
outside of the home. That's the number one thing we
run into is roots getting into the train lines. They're
using this thinin wall PVC drain line pipe to go
from the house to your city tap, and that typically
just kind of goes into that pipe. It's not very
structurally sound.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Okay, why not? Do you think they'd have thought about
that ahead of time?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, that's kind of we were going to all schedule
forty PVC. I'm not sure why they allow the thin
wall to be used out doors. They required the thick
stuff to be used under the house, But as soon
as you leave the house you can use a thin
wall pipe and I I mean, honestly doesn't make much
sense because's where you're gonna encounter most of your issues.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Okay, You're right. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
And of course you'll know if you got a got
got a whole house stoppage because things are backing up everywhere.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I guess, huh, that's right. You'll typically get You'll notice
in the toilet's gurgling, bubbling the lower fixtures, toilet, showers, tubs.
You might flush toilet and it come up in your tub.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Not a good day, no, especially if you're in the
tub and somebody else flushes.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, all right. James Carwell are a guy from Freedom Plumbing.
The guys riding around town the big red, white and
blue patriotic trucks can miss him. James, howd of folks
get a hold of you.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'll give us call at eight oh three four four
seven four seven one, or visit our website at Freedom
dash Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Hi, buddy, have yourself great weekend, will you.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Do the same?

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Summer from Beaver Roofing and Gutter Summer. Good morning to you,
Good morning, always good to talk to you. We've talked
a lot with Heath recently from Beaver Roofing and Gutters
about about gutters. And let me say this right off
the bat, by the way, in both roofing and in
the guttering gutter category, Beaver Roofing and Gutters best of

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in the latest State newspaper reader's poll.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
It's definitely an honor.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
We we we couldn't have done it without the customers
and and everybody's support. And we are very thankful as.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes, absolutely and well deserved too, by the way. Uh
So let's talk. Let's talk a little roof at the
board this morning. And I continue to be stunned by
this summer that there are local roofing companies where if
you call them and they need a repair job done
on a roof, you'll be told that, well, we only
replace roofs. That's it.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yeah, all right, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Are these here's my that You've got some companies out
there that again, even if you had something that could
be repaired, they're going to try to talk into a
whole new roof.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's unfortunately, that's you know, I want to say the industry,
you know, they just hey, let's just go ahead and
replace it, when when that's not necessarily the case.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know, there are a number of reasons. You know, hey,
I've got to leak on my roof.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I see stains on my ceilings. Well, it doesn't necessarily
mean your entire roof is bad. A lot of times
it's the we call their pipe boots that come out
of your roof.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
That vent from your house.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know, the kitchens in your bathrooms and things of
that nature. They just need to be sealed around, you know,
just the and we say a good tune up. But yeah,
I mean, you know, with an expansion and contraction of
that silicone that seals it down.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
You know that are wild harsh heat we have.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
You know, that just needs to be maintained. You know,
just like anything else. Just like your car needs to
be maintained, your roof should be done the same. And
that will definitely get you longer, you know, longevity of
the roof.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
You just mentioned it too, your car. You mentioned a
tunea but you guys offer a tune up package for roof.
Tell us about those yep.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
So you know, like I said, the expansion and contraction
of the call uh, you know the ceiling around your pipe,
foods and things of that nature. You know that needs
to be just maintained. We go up there, we make
sure that your roof is completely free of debris. Just
the accumulation of leaves and pine needles and things of

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that nature can actually.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
It can damage your roof.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
You know you think, oh, that's not doing any harm. Well, uh,
that holds water in those areas and then you know,
water leads to you know, right things of that. So
that's one thing that we do during our tune ups.
We make sure that the roof is completely free of
debris leaves. We also feel all penetrations in the roof,

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penetrations being the pipe boots or any kind of vents,
any other thing like that up there. And sometimes our
roofs get what we call nail pops, just little different
things as you know, as it ages.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
And we will also feel those and make sure that.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Those are nice, nicely topped off with fresh ceilant and
there's no way that water can penetrate.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
And then also the.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Ridge vent on the very top, you know, the vents
and the attics and things like that, we make sure
that that's secure, it's down and everything is just in
tip top shape and you know, ready for this unpredictable
and wild weather that we have. You know, these storms
are just popping up all the time.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
So yeah, that's what we do.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
How often do you suggest that we should be doing
something like this getting a tuned up?

Speaker 3 (23:01):
So I think, you know, every year to two years.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
It's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
To have your roof tuned up. And I also I
didn't mention, but during these tune ups, you know, we're
gonna be checking your shingles seeing you know, how they look.
What's the help, I guess you would say of them.
You know, I just mentioned these pop up storms that
we have. The winds they're just whipping, and you know

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during that time we can also be checking for things
that you know, might hey, you might need to.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Get this replaced.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'm seeing a whole lot of hail damage up here.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I see all kind of creasing in your shingles.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
From wind damage, you know. So that's why it's really important.
I mean, I'm I'm.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
In the roofing business, and I'm not up on my
roof every other.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Week looking oh well this is new, this is new.
So it's just a good idea to.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Know what's your roof is looking like what.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
It's been, you know, taking on from the heats and
the elements and things of that nature.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Makes sense. Okay. I don't know if there's a good
answer to this or not summer, but I'm gonna ask
it anyway. I mean, short of calling you guys would
be roofing in gutters. Let's say somebody's got a leak.
Is there a way as a homeowner or a business
owner that you can kind of ascertain, all right, this
is something that can be repaired or maybe it's gonna

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need a new roof. I mean, are there any I
don't know? Is there any way you would know? Again
aside from getting.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
You folks out there, right, So that's that's a good question.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
You know, overall health and age of the roof. You know,
you don't want to make repairs on a roof that's
like twenty five years old. There's no grid on.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
The shingles, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
It's I mean, we can, but we can't guarantee that
it's not gonna be leaking.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
In another spot.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
And you know, so it's really it's like you said,
it's really a good idea for us to just come
out take a look.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
And see what we're working with.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
When that when the when you start to see the leak. However,
like we mentioned the pipe boots venting out in the
bathroom or in the kitchen, if you're seeing like ceiling
stains in those areas, you may think, oh, okay, I
might just need to have these places sealed. So that's
kind of like, okay, good that that's a relief. That's

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one indicator that I don't need a brand new roof.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
I just need to have some ceiling done.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
And that could happen also with like the little nail
pops that you know occur. If you're thinking, all right, well,
my roof, I know is only about.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Five to ten years old.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
I don't think I need an You're probably not going.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
To need a new roof.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's just a little repair. It's something that we can
go up there, diagnose and take care of.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, you mention, Yeah, you mentioned the grit. What what
purposes that that grit serve?

Speaker 3 (25:57):
So the grit is actually it's it's.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
I'm sorry, it's like it's waterproofing.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's keeping the water, the ev rays, it's keeping everything
out of the underlayments and that sort of thing. So
when that grit comes off, it's just easily seeping through
and it can just go in between like roof decking
and things of that nature. So if that's another thing,
if you have gutters like that grit at your down spouts,

(26:27):
or if you don't have gutters, you see that grit
kind of the breed and littered all the way around
the house. When it's just rolling off.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
So if it's to the point where it's brittle enough
that it's rolling.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Off, it might be time to consider a roof replacement.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
And when it comes to replacing a roof, let's say
that you, as a homeowner business owner, know that well,
your neighborhood hasn't been impacted by a severe storm in
a while, but it's it's still possible that insurance could
cover something from storms that have taken place, maybe quite
some time ago.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Is that correct.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
That's correct.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
So there's a three year window for for storm damage,
you know, damages caused by wind, caused by hail or
other you know weather a bit so.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
Freeing. We offer free inspections just like I mentioned.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
You're not up on your roof every other weekend checking
Oh well that's new.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
We had a storm, you know, that's what that's what
we'll do. Will come out, take a look, you know,
and if if you.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Have one shingle lifted up here, one all the way
over there, it's just scattered and it's not calls for you,
you know, to call the insurance make a claim.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
We're not going to go through all of that.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
We're not going to tell you hey, yeah, I give
them a call, because the likelihood of that getting approved
by your insurance is slim.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
So we're always going up there.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
And making sure that it is it's you know, that
it's warranted that that you call the insurance company.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
So yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Then you know, if you do call your and we say, yes,
you have a whole, you have considerable amount of damage,
we think that it's a great idea for you to
call your insurance company and start a claim.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
And you guys, I know you guys like to show
up when the adjust or does to the advocate the right, right.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
We're on your side.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
You know, we're not saying that the insurance is bad,
absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
By any means.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
However, that's their job they to you know, not.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
Just hey, yep, you get a new roof.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
If you get a new roof, you get a new rooms.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
You know, we're on your side.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
We want them to say, hey, you know, check out
these areas well, did you see this? So yeah, we're
gonna be there. We're gonna fight for you and make
sure that if it's you know, if it's if it
should be in the cards, we're going to help you
get that that new roof.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
All right, before I ask you how folks can reach you, Summer.
I know there's something you want folks to do before
they give you a call. What is that?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Check our Google reviews, check our our you know Facebook,
We are really really conscious of customer service. Do you
want to make sure that they're satisfied and that you
know you would tell your neighbor, you would tell your
mom to give us a call?

Speaker 6 (29:12):
From your experience with beaver roofing and gutters?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
So Facebook, Google, of Angie, I guess, home Advisor, all
of those places, all of that, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Check us out on all all social avenues to see
what customers are.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Saying about it.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
There you go, and your website is what summer.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Beaverroofing dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Easy enough, beaver roofing absoletely all right, folks want to
reach out by the old telephone? How do they reach you?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Summer eight oh three nine one roof.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Nine nine one, Ruth, that's as I recall nine nine
one seven six sixty three.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
Right, that's it, yes, terrific.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
All right, Summer, have yourself great weekend. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1 (30:47):
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Leave it to Beaver Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters And

(31:39):
welcome back to the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
on one O three point five FM and five sixty
am WVOC and bringing up the rear on this Saturday
morning Flag Day by the way, and for those of
you heavy into politics, it's Donald John Trump's birthday today.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
No, I didn't even know that.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, it's Marcus Greenwell from Lifetime catch Countertops.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
It's me the best.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yes, it's been established.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
It's been established.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
But let me mention this too because I think we
mentioned it one time. We brought up one time, but
you know, it is what it is. But it still
rubs me the wrong way, Okay, because five straight years, Yeah,
Lifetime Cabins and Countertops, your organization, yeah, your company, Yeah,
was named best of in the state reader's pole.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
It was something really weird happened in their last.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Poll last year.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, they kind of put you in what two different categories?
That's your vote got split.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, well it makes sense so because it does have
cabinets in my name, even though I'm only countertop.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeahs from a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Yeah, So so that's kind of how it happened. They
put to put us in two categories, cabinets and countertops.
And a lot of my friends and people that have
done jobs with us, like a lot of these, a
lot of you guys on the radio here have done
the jobs with us, and I thank you all for that.
I had gentlemen last week and they're saying, hey, did

(33:01):
the job. You know, I'm in here because of the
radio show.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Great.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Yeah, absolutely, hear you every week every other week. So
so that being said.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
So some folks voted in the cabinet category.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
The cabinet cat Yes, correct, they voted in the cabinet category.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Now I'm curious where did the cabinet category. Did you
actually wind up second second? You don't even do cabinet.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yeah yeah, I got second in both in cabinets and
the countertops. So technical probably number one again years in
a row, six years. It's okay. I still got a bronze,
which is our silver or whatever. Yeah, so, I mean
it's that's hysterical.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
You you were number two in the category that you
don't even.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got It's easy to do
because you know, you go in there and you see
cabinets and then you click because it comes up before countertops,
see a so people go in there, oh, the cabinet,
so because it does go on the cabinets. But that's okay.
I don't know if it's straightened out this year. But
the voting is this now right now. Yeah, so if

(34:08):
you go on the state newspaper, you can vote for
countertops for lifetime. Cabinets and countertop, don't vote the cabins,
don't vote under cabinet. So I don't even know. I
didn't even look to see if it was on there.
It's fine, you know, it doesn't it's not a huge deal.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Still, it just kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah, well, thank you for that. I appreciate that.
We'll have to call the state newspaper and get them straight.
I didn't even call them. I was just like it's fine.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, but so the bottom eyes people, people know what
you guys do. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
So we are voted the best five years five point
eight years in a row.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I'm going to say six with an asterisk.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, And we have a lot of remnants. Remnants, yes, yeah,
I need a matter of fact, I'm making them every day.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
You just keep making more. Okay.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
When we do a kitchen so readers that are readers
listeners that don't know. When I cut a kitchen countertop,
I have a piece or two or three leftover, sometimes
half a slab that that customer did not have to
pay for because the day that they you only have
to pay for what you use.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
So okay, let me stop you right there, because people
are probably hearing that and saying, well, of course, but
the true truth of the matter is is that not
everybody does it that way.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
No, not everybody does it that way at all. As
a matter of fact, they'll make you pay for that
second slab, and if you don't use it, they keep
it and then they sell it and charge you for
it double. They're double it up. Yeah, that way they
covered a cost, is what they're thinking they cover there.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh, you will be kind of funny to do it
somewhere like that and and book a job. Well, you
need a slab and a half, let them pay it
for boats, have them, you know, make you pay for
both slabs, and then go back in there like an
hour later and say, yeah, I want to buy the
other half slab.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
I want that other half now if I we charge
you for it.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, but that's not the way you guys have ever
done business.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Al No, No, we do straight up business. I've got
a I got thousands of remnants out there that I
got at selling at costs. So if you come down there,
you talk to me today, David on Monday through Friday,
that's my brother. Oh no, no, I'm out there on
Wednesday too, So if y'all want to come see me,

(36:25):
you come see me today ten to six or on
Wednesday ten to six. I'm there both days all day.
I don't even take lunch. I'm a machine. They don't
need to get a robot to replace me. I just
keep going. Robots needed, But I mean, I'm really good
at it too. You can describe to me what you want. Yesterday,

(36:50):
I went in there while my brother was there, and
I listened to the lady what she wanted. I walked
straight there to the piece. I said, this is what
you just described to me. We were there less than
five minutes. He said, nope, I don't need to look anymore.
And uh, that's what I want you. You found it,
and I said, okay, let's go. That happened three times.

(37:10):
You were just that good this past week, I mean
within the Yeah, I mean well, I mean I listen.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
You bought this stuff, you've paid for it, you've been
looking at it, you've been wanting to get rid of
you know exactly what's out there.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Yeah, I need to get rid of it because this
I got pieces like everywhere there coming up in my ear.
If you can use them on like I used to, Well.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Let's talk about that, because again these are okay, a remnant.
And again let's be very specific here. This is not used.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
It's unused, correct, okarect So this is brand new stuff,
brand new, but not big enough to do your typical
kitchen of the house, right, little some small kitchen Steah.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well yeah, so what I'm curious because you know, for example,
at our old house, when we put put in a
marble countertop in the kitchen, we liked it so much
that that Anna said, well, hey, let's get see we
get that same stone and put it on the fireplace
and we used a fireplace top right on the heart thing.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
We did that one right. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about
that and.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
It came out very nice. It was beautiful. So so
what are some other uses you could have, like we
use these remnants for that we maybe not don't think
much about.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Uh well, I made a reverse bevel table coffee table
out of one last month. Yeah, matter of fact, I
posted I just happened to post it on Facebook. They said,
can you do a reverse bevel? A large reverse bevel
which is about two inches beveled backwards. So it was
really cool looking. It was went into the House on

(38:40):
the Lake for their coffee table.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
It was made out of gray courtz remnant that I
had left over. So she got a great deal. I
got to get rid of a piece and actually it's
a beautiful job. So you could use it as a
coffee table. It was not a huge coffee table, you know,
one of those big ones, because that would be hard
to move, but it was it was I mean it
was a two man lift. I mean, you know, I
wouldn't want to. I could have lifted it by myself,

(39:05):
you know that kind of thing, but I would you know,
if it was a box around, it'd say two man
lift right.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
A little stick figures on there too.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
So if you moved it, you know you want to
pick it up, move it with two people. But uh,
you could use it for tables. I mean I built
a table out by my hot tub out of marble
and use the marble stand that I made out of
the marble to to uh like cards put together. I

(39:34):
know the listeners can't see what I just did, but
I just took my fingers and kind of joined them together,
uh you know, finger them, yeah, kind of you know,
scissor them together. And then I put use that as
the base. Matter of fact, I've got an example in
my shop now. And then I cut a piece of
marble on top of that and put it beside my
hot tub. Very but the lake. And then another thing

(39:59):
I did was I cut the tree down and I
had a stump sitting there out in the backyard on
the lake. But this I don't live on the lake anymore,
but I put a table on that top on that
tree stump. Yes, yeah, yeah, you remember that.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I do remember that.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
I sure, it is just curious and I'm trying to
picture of my mind. Well maybe for certain outdoor kitchens
depend on how large they are.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Oh yeah, oh I knew outdoor kitchens not every day,
but you know once a week. Probably probably a lot
of outdoor kitchens.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
You could probably get a remnant for that.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Yeah, yeah, they're very popular right now. As a matter
of fact, the last one I did was fifty seven inches,
so it was a small outdoor kitchen. Yeah, so that
would definitely fall in that remnant category. But I mean
when I say I've got remnants, a lot of these
pieces that I have left over are half of a slab,
So that's about thirty square feet twenty five square feet

(41:01):
somewhere in that neighborhood, so you know, five by five
or two or three by one hundred and twenty inches,
you know what I'm saying, that kind of thing. So
I've got a lot of different pieces out there. So
if you call me on seven seven, eight or three
some some two twenty two twenty, I'll, you know, tell
you what we got over there. If you're looking, say hey,
do you have any white and gray yep, come on,

(41:23):
you know that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Please just don't call rate this second, because we're we're
doing the radio.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah, yeah, wait a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
We'll give us a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Well ten when I get there.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Okay, Well call you anytime other than that, because yeah,
you always answer the phone.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
I do, I do, and I do get a lot
of calls either before or after that time. Oh I
thought you'd be gone. I got a guy call me
at six thirty last night. Yeah, you got the owner.
I carry the phone, the cell phone with me, and
then that way, if somebody calls the office eight O
three seven some two twenty two twenty, they get me.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
It gets you. Yeah, so don't call now though, really, yeah,
give us, give us a few minutes. Let's wrap this up.
Give us five minutes, then five minutes. Okay. Now, So
somebody wants to do the purchase a remnant, for example, Yeah,
since we're talking about remnants here. Or is the whole
process the same as if you you bought a whole
slabrity in a whole kitchen, I mean, Or is this

(42:17):
like a cash and carry thing or how does that work?

Speaker 4 (42:19):
Well, it depends on what customer wants. So if you
want I do pieces something. I had a guy that
wanted a triangle piece with a curve put on the
outside end to use as a bench in his shower. Yeah,
we do that, you know. We cut it, we'll polish it,
you know. So we took a little remnant off the
scrap pile and cut it and polished it up for him.

(42:41):
Real good guy too, by the way, that use right there.
Patrick is his name, yep, real nice guy. So. But anyway,
I mean, even something as small as that will do,
you know. I mean I became friends with the guy
pretty much. I mean, I mean I know where he worked,
what his wife's name is. I mean, you know, it's

(43:01):
just like it at your house. I mean, same thing.
And when when when I came in there and talked
to Anne, and you met your dog and everybody else
we met your dog, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
And meeting our neighbors kind of work in your because
you then you wind up doing jobs for our neighbor
across the.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Street and right next door at the old Yeah, it's
probably four of the people in that neighborhood. I bet well.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
You know they say advertising is the best word of mouth.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
It's next to this program.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Of course, I love this program. I've been doing it
seven almost seven.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Years, long time, man.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Yeah, I love it. I'm very very much a proponent
of it.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Thank you. We kind of like it too.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
And happy belated birthday to you by.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh that's right, yes, my birthda. It's my birthday week.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
You say it's your birthday. They don't pay me to
thing to know.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
You'll get that to see you don't run off business.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Here, man, I know right, I'm why I won't think.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's the thing these days with this generation is as
long as a birthday. It's like a birthday week.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Yeah, really all right.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But it is Father's Day tomorrow. Yeah yeah, So happy
Father's Day to you.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Thank you and you. Yes, yes, I'm looking forward to it.
I'm gonna be a grandfather. That's news to everybody.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
This morning.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Yeah, some breaking news. I'll be a grandfather pretty soon,
eight months.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
You you got a little time you used to yeah, yeah, granddad?

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Yeah right?

Speaker 1 (44:29):
You have you thought about what your name is going
to be?

Speaker 4 (44:32):
I don't know, Grandpa, Papa, I guess I don't have
no idea, Big Papa.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
You don't really have any say so I don't have anything.
The kid calls me back to the countertops here, countertops
right now again, let's let's stick with the remnants here.
If you got I mean, I mean yourself for a
brand new yeah, well I almost made that mistake right
that these are brand new countertops count left over pieces, okay,
but for you know, full installations. You got your grand

(45:00):
you got your marble, got your corse, got your court site.
Do you have all of those available and remnants as well?
Right now?

Speaker 4 (45:04):
I do? I do, Gary, I've got a lot of them.
I'll probably have thousands, like literally, maybe not of each category,
but granted and marble, like you said, white and gray marble,
white and gray courts. Court site is super popular right now.
It's kind of expensive, but you do get it at
costs on the remnants, so you will get a lot

(45:26):
better deal. So if you come see me, you know,
I'll take care of you like family. Yeah, absolutely, I.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Love it beautiful.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
So what else we got Piney Grove Road stores over
there by greens David's going to be there today, that's
my brother.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
You have some I know one time years ago it
was basically samples you had there.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
That's what we got, and we've got well, we got
to eight or ten slabs out there in stock you
could pick from for you know, and then a lot
of people go in there and then they'll come up.
If they're looking for remnants, they need to come to
one fifty three chapin Road. But if they're wanting to
just get ideas of color or start the process with

(46:12):
some kitchen, you know, bring your measurements up there. David
can figure out how much square footage it is right
there on the spot and give you a price. You say, oh,
I like this color. Oh well, that one's going to
be x you know, amount of dollars installed. We don't
do a whole lot of add on type pricing. We

(46:34):
do have some things we have to charge extra for,
like taking off tiles or something like that, but there's
not a lot of extra charges. Like okay, I'll.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Come with what what was it, three four five something
like that? Standard edge. Yeah, cuts that are included, right.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, yeah, the beveled edge, the demi bull edge, the
eased edge, and then you can do multiple size bevels
and roundovers stuff like that. So you know, if you
really wanted to get a price on your kitchen, just
bring some rough measurements, like what I do is and
what I say is just do like rectangles and just

(47:12):
kind of draw it out like the kitchen sets. That
way we can figure out how many slabs you need,
you know, and how many square feet you need.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Oh, you'll trust me because they were able to figure
out from my root have beenery drawing, they get figured
out from yours.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yeah, yeah, and it you know, normally we're within one
hundred dollars of what the actual cost is from what
you bring in to the final answer. And whenever we'll
do is we'll go ahead and set the order up
off of your measurements and your selections, and then when
I come out and do the measurement, I'll get it
down to the hundredth of a square foot, so I'll

(47:45):
get it. I'll get the measurements well, because we're cutting
off of that measurement too, so I'll get the measurement
really tight when I go out there, and we'll know
exactly how many square feet you're gonna have and all
that fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
All right, So you will be at the Chapin Old
location with all those beautifle.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
One fifty three Chapin Road. Yeah, and also yep, Fortywina
Road over by Greens and across from Costco. So if
you want to go up there at Costco or Northern Tool.
Matter of fact, we beat the box stores. Buy a
lot of money on whatever you're doing to even though

(48:21):
they advertise they're cheaper. When you walk in, you see
those slabs out front, there's little pieces out of scrout
and samples out front. That's not gonna be cheaper once
you get down to the bottom of it, once you
figure out, they'll they'll add on have this and that
and the other. Come on and see us. Had a
lady come in there. I found out who the lady was.

(48:41):
I tell you this real quick, that she went into
one of the box stores and the lady was in
there talking to the guy. She wasn't get anywhere good
with it, and uh she said, well I know where
you need to go. You need to go down here.
He's right around the corner. And the lady did she
told me the story. Wow, that's up promise.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
How about that?

Speaker 4 (49:02):
So if you want you want good service, you want
good people, come see us. One fifty three Chapin Road
and forty twenty Fernandina Road.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
All right, we're out of time.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
I want to keep talking my first day.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Boy, Thank you, thanks buddy.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
How good we get galty.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
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
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
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