Home Improvement Show 08-23-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Morning. Welcome in. It's the Home Improvement Show of the
Midlands now on one O three point five FM and
five sixty amwvoc. Hey, great to have you withus. Appreciate
you joining us and spending some time this morning. We'll
make it worth your while. I got a lot of
great information to pass along to you. Were talking this
summer from Beaver, Rufic and Gutters. Coming up in a
little while, Marcus, Marcus Greenwell, the owner of Lifetime Cabins

(00:38):
and account of Cops countertop set is it is going
to drop by. We'll talk about folks that are flipping homes,
upgrading and building new homes and how they're helping them out.
And the remnant sale is still going on out there
the champin Oad location. We'll check in with Marcus on
that one. So that's on the way before we hit
nine o'clock this morning. First up by James carr Well,
the owner of Freedom Plumbing, is here to get us

(00:59):
started off. Good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Sir, Good morning Gary, how you've been.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know what? We got some college football being played
this weekend. Week zero. We got kro On and Clemson
kick it off next weekend. So yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm good in the Little League World series.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah. How about them boys from Herbo huh wow, Yeah,
what a great story they have been. Uh, we want
to talk about something this morning. If we've talked about
it's been a long time, and that is something that
I have never encountered. I've never had at a home.
Uh and there you know again you don't see them everywhere,
but depending on well, depending on what part of the

(01:36):
middlands you're in, you may see a lot more. But
that's wells.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, we actually have a well on our home.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh do you Okay, So you come from some experience
rather than being a plumber of having having your own
And my parents, well, they had a well at a
home they owned, but it was they were just using
that for like the irrigation system.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah. A lot of people do that too. Yeah yeah,
over time and definitely save some money once the well's in. Really,
the only thing you're using is power to have powered
up pump.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right. Gosh, seeing my water building his house we're in
right now for irrigation. I might want to consider that myself, but.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's definitely an option. I had a neighbor in in
my lies the neighborhood do it, so he says, just
for irrigation.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now, let me ask you this. Obviously not and if
you're in a neighborhood with an HLA, I'm sure there
are restrictions on that. But are there restrictions about certain areas,
neighborhoods of what have you where you can or are
just plain not for whatever reason, a DC reason or
not DC anymore, whatever you call them now, that you
can't have.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, I believe something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I'll always be known a d heck as me,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But yeah, yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Are the places where they just tell you can't you
can't do it, like in a typical residential neighborhood with
smaller lots and such.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
There are definitely some setbacks that you know are in
and we don't drill the wells, so I don't know
all of them, but I do know you have to
be a certain distance from your septic system, of course,
because you don't want those cross contaminating themselves. Yeah, you've
got to be a certain distance from the house. Just
certain things like that that you kind of got to

(03:17):
keep in mind. So, yeah, definitely some restrictions ho as
may have their own restrictions because you know, drilling and
well can get a little bit messy, and uh, you
know they're they're yeah, you can. You can have some
left residual things occur when you're drilling the well, especially
if you're doing it on a hill that you know,

(03:39):
everything they're using may run downhill and do a neighbor's yard.
So something to think about. Sometimes they do really good
job of keeping that stuff contained. So it depends on
your neighborhood and and your location and your setbacks from
septic systems and things of that nature.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And if you're on city water, is that a concern
there as well? If you're not on a septic.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Tank, If you're not on a septic tank and you're
on city sewer, then yeah, you should have you know,
pretty open rain around the property. Just depending on the
setbacks from the property, you know, the house itself, of
the property lines and things of that nature. As long
as you got those setbacks, then there should be no

(04:24):
issue as far as your sewage is concerned.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now, as you mentioned, James, you guys don't drill for
these wells. I mean, you fix them right, you make
them work if there are issues afterwards. But as somebody
who's who's got a will on your property. That whole
drilling for a well thing, that's I've always heard. I
don't know, I've never had one, but I will. You
never know how far down they're going to have to go, right, That.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Is true from dealing with a well drillers in the past.
You know, you could have to go really deep two
hundred feet wow, I think ours went seventy and then
you know, so that would typically the more shallow wells
are considered sand wells and the deeper wells are considered
rock wells, and that just means they're having to drill

(05:07):
through rock to get to that underground source of water.
So we were lucky and didn't have to drill as far,
which of course saves you money. They do up to
one hundred feet, and anything after that is as per
you know, cost is per foot, and it goes up
when you're dealing with rock. You know, per foot in

(05:28):
rock is more expensive than perfect through sand. So it
all depends on what you hit. It's like, you know,
it's strange if you look at underground aquifers and you know,
bodies of water underground, it's almost like a reverse mountain range,
so you might have that water come up close to
the surface, or you might have to go down pretty far,

(05:52):
like drilling through an upside down mountain. So, yeah, I've
seen them three hundred feet. I can only imagine what.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
That Oh, if you don't mind me asking, I mean,
for you said in your case, you only had to
go down seventy feet. What did that cost?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was around well, now granted they only drilled the hole.
We did everything outside of that, but it was around
I think somewhere around three thousand just for the drilling,
just for the hole, in the in the well casing.
So they put the casing in, which is the part
that you know, the top part comes out and it's
got the little plate on it that tells you how

(06:28):
deep they drilled, how deep the casing is. It gives
you all the information about the well, typically how many
gallons per minute you're getting out of it, things of
that nature.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is it like the images we have of you know,
drilling for oil. They know when they're there because water
starts spurting up, or like some kind of a sensor
or something.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, they for.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
From what I saw, it looked like they force the
air into it. And push the water out to kind
of get it gauge how much they're getting. But yeah,
they got to do something to get that water up.
It's not going to just start shooting up itself because
it's just kind of sitting down in there, almost like
an underground river or or lake, depending on if there's
there's move movement to that underground aquifer.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay, so now I have again, I have no experience
with this at all, So I may ask some dumb
questions here, but it no questions, right. It would seem
to me that I mean, if you if you put
a drill anywhere, are you going to hit water eventually
or or it seems like that you mentioned aquifers, maybe

(07:31):
you won't. I mean, how do you know?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's a good question, And because we don't drill, I
don't have a good answer for you. You know. I
think they just keep drilling until they hit it, because
they just they say, okay, it's up to the first
hundred feet. Now, I can't imagine drilling three hundred feet,

(07:54):
having to pay for drilling three hundred feet, and then
not getting water. So I'm not sure what they would
do in that circumstance.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
To one other words, anywhere you walk in your backyard,
you may have to go way way down, but somewhere
down there there's going to be water.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I would imagine, so, but that might not be the case. Wow,
on the on the drilling half, I'm definitely not the expert.
Once they got the whole drilled, I can tell you
exactly how the whole system works. But drilling the hole
and how far and if you get hit water eventually,
that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Though, no guarantees you're going to get that all gas. Yeah,
I don't know. So it says you mentioned. Okay, when
they come out, they drill, they drill the hole, they
put the the the casing whatever you call it, on
the top there and this and that, and then what
happens next. Is that where you got to get a
plumber involved or is there somebody else that that does
whatever it takes to finish off the project.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Some companies will do the whole install but of course
at our home, we just had them drilled the well
and they said your plump needs to be x feet deep,
and you know that's how we installed it. So you know,
we take the pump, we connected to the pipe, we
connect the wires you know, watertight sealed those with some
heat shrink and then drop the pump down to the

(09:12):
specified footage, and then you got to run the power
to your pressure switch, which controls when the pump is
on and off. It's almost like a light switch, and
that light switch is a control by pressure. So typically
you're either going to have a thirty fifty switch or
a forty sixty switch. And what that means is it's

(09:35):
going to cut on at thirty or forty and then
cut off at fifty or sixty. So the lower number
would be your turn on, the higher number would be
your turnoff. And then you got, of course a breaker
box that has a wire going from the breaker to
that switch. And then when that connection's made, it's almost
like sending the power to a light sending the power

(09:58):
to your pump that starts pumping water up. Once that
switch is satisfied, it opens the connection and then your
pump shuts off.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
So this point you guys come in when somebody has
got an issue with a well.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I guess correct, So we'll come in the first thing
we're going to check is to make sure that the
pressure switches is making connection and sending power to the pump.
If that's not happening, then we check the breaker to
make sure the breakers even on. I've had some cases
where the breaker is tripped. You know, it could be

(10:31):
a power surge or something like that. So something as
simple as you're resetting a breaker. Now you got water again.
So if it happens to anybody out there, you lose
water on your well, check your breaker. That's the first
thing I would do before you call it a plumber,
electrician or anybody. It might save you some money. Might
just have to reset that breaker and then you're good
to go.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
What sort of things can go wrong here when we
talk about wells, James.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
The pressure switch could be bad. So you know the
switch like when you turn a light on. If the
light doesn't cut on, that switch isn't making that connection.
So if you have power getting to the switch from
your breaker but not getting to the pump, then there
would be either an issue with the switch or an
issue with the wire going down to the pump. So

(11:16):
the next step is check the pressure switch and you
can check power on the incoming side and then power
on the outgoing side. Once that connection is made. If
you're getting two forty on both ends, of that spectrum.
Then you've got power going to the pump.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
But all these are again electrical issues. We're talking about
power issues. Are there any other things that can go
wrong that do you guys get called out for that
you can remedy.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, so we do those because that pressure switch. The
pressure switch is actually connected to the plumbing system that
tells it when to cut off, so we would be
the ones to replace the pressure switch. Yes, there's other
things like the You know, there's typically a large tank
it's called a bladder tank that holds a certain amount

(12:06):
of water. It could be twenty gallon. We got up
to eighty to one hundred gallon tanks out there. So
that tank inside has like a balloon. That balloon fills
up with water. The air pressure around the balloon pushes
that water out to your house. Once that balloon gets compromised,
it's what we call water logs the tank. So your

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whole tank then is full of water. See, and then
you don't have that buffer of going from forty pounds
to sixty pounds back forty pounds. There's like a twenty
psi buffer in your tank slowly pushes water out until
the pressure drops to forty. Once it reached forty, kicks
back on. Water goes back into your tank and that

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bladder refills. If the bladder's not there, your pressure drops immediately.
So as soon as you turn a falcet on in
the house, your pump kicks on it and it can
kick on, kick on off, kick on, kick off, and
then we have an issue with potentially causing damage to
the pump. So ladder tank goes bad, that bladder has failed,

(13:09):
you waterlogged the tank at that point, you got to
replace that tank.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now. And of course you've got the lines that the
pipes that have to run from that location into the home.
I mean, obviously that's something that you guys encounter and
that there could be an issue. I guess yep.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
We've run into leaks on the line from the ladder
tank to the house. We've run into issues where the
line going down to the pump has a leak on
it and you're losing water out of that. So it'll
pump up and then it'll lose pressure, and then it'll
pump up and lose pressure. So the pumps continuously kicking on,
so and you can't see where the water's going, you know,

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you're losing water, but you just can't see where it's going.
So sometimes you just have to pull the pump. And
we've found in some cases where it was just barely
hanging on the pipe was on us broken half, and
that water was just going right back down into the
well up and going right back down into the well.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
What's the average lifespan one of these pumps, I mean,
that's kind of the the integral part of all this.
If it ain't working, you getting.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
None, no water unfortunately. And I'd say fifteen years is
ten fifteen somewhere in there. And you know, a lot
of it depends on usage. You incorporate a irrigation system
and your house, that pump's getting used more, so you know,

(14:39):
something to think about. Maybe a second well for your irrigation,
one for your home, one for your irrigation may make sense.
It just depends. And I would talk to the well
person that the person that drills the well. Make sure
you got enough volume for that to begin with, for
both of them.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
If you're as let's say it from there. Okay, So
let's say you're you just want to drill for irrigation
and not for you know, drinking water for example, the
I'm gonna say again d Heck, whatever they are, now,
are there different restrictions if you're if you're pumping for
you know, bottable water as opposed to just irrigation. I mean,

(15:21):
are they getting involved at a different level? Are there
certain other things that have to be done if you're
going to be drinking this stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
And again not being a driller, I'm just going under
the assumption that it would still be the same because
you have the potential to run that well to your house,
because there's that potential of cross contamination if you're close
to a septic system or something like that. I think
they look at it as you have the possibility of

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creating an issue, even if you say it's just for irrigation.
I believe the same setbacks and rules apply.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
And we know because there's always that raging debate, you know,
menuspalat as of putting things in water, fluoride and whatever.
Do you have to treat this well water in any
sort of way before you're supposed to be doing it,
before you consume it.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
So my recommendation is do like we did. We sent
our water off to d Heck for testing. It came
back we had a company that does filtration come out
and test and come to find out we had low pH,
which means our water was acidic to the point where
he says, I wouldn't drink it if it was me.
So they installed a system that raised the pH of

(16:37):
the water, balanced it back out around eight, you know,
made it more alkaline, which is definitely better for you
and better for your plumbing system. The more acidic the water,
the more it's going to wear down on your any
any kind of metal pipe inside your system. So definitely
want to drill the well, get it checked, make sure
one there's nothing contaminating it, there's not a lot high

(17:01):
level of iron anything like that in that water, and
then if there is, there's always typically there's remedies for that.
If it's filtration, you'd be light anything like that to
make sure that you're getting the best quality water you
can get. And of course you're not dealing with the chlorine,
so that's a plus in my book anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
So as you mentioned typical pump life, you could expect,
if you know, heavy usage for fifteen years bubbly max.
Aside from just losing pressure or losing it all together,
any of the signs that maybe your pump is starting
to age and might need to be replaced or at
least looked at.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, if you start getting low water flow, let's say
the pump pumps up, and it pumps the bladder tank up,
it satisfies the switch, the switch cuts off. You use
that water and it reaches that kick on point. And
when that kick on point is reached and your water
flow slows down. And let's say you're taking the shower
slows down in the shower as the pump is running,

(18:05):
that would suggest that maybe that pump is starting to
wear down, the impellers, might be going bad in it,
on things of that nature. But typically we just usually
see them just fail. So what customer would say, I
don't have water, and that's sometimes the switch, Sometimes the pump.

(18:26):
We've got to go through a diagnosis process to figure
out exactly what's going on with it.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
All right, Well, if you're on a well water and
have issues, these are the guys to call, or if
you're considering maybe a well. One of these days, he
just called James up and pick his brain on it,
because see, you've even know a lot about that brother.
It's all when it comes to fluids, of all sorts.
All right, it's freedom plumping. The guy's riding around the
big red, white and blue trucks all over the Midlands.

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How to folks get a hold of you, James?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
They can give us a call at eight oh three
four four seven zero four seven water Well. Visit our
website at Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

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from Beaver Roofing and Utters, who is sitting in again
ably for some of this morning, Heath, how are you, buddy?
I'm well, man, I am well. Now, you are the
gutter guy at Beaver roof and Guys, you're the the
head honcho over there when it comes to all things gutters,
and we always get together and talk about gutters. But

(21:19):
we want to spend a little time this morning and
talk about the other part of the business. And oh,
by the way, and in case you you don't don't
don't know, this is all under the Anthony John Construction umbrella,
which does a whole bunch of stuff. You'll have all
sorts of work in our places over the years and
remodeling and fixing things up and all and and and

(21:39):
great stuff. But I guess it was what about a
year or so ago, I guess kind of kind of
split up and and and put this under the umbrella
beaver roofing and gutters to be very specific about that
part of the business of which you're a part of.
So gutters is your the main thing you do. But
you're round enough roofs and all enough roofs and a
little bit about roofing too.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Right, Well, I wouldn't say I'm on enough roof but
I'm around enough of them to know.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
At least that, yeah, right, I'll put right up underneath them,
you know, with those gutter and they do go hand
in hand. I mean, they really do, because I guess
you know, I mean, one of the one of the
big problems you see in a lot of gutters is
well stuff it's come off the roof. Whether I want
to talk about the rain, but actually the stuff on
the roof, that grit, yeah huh yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
You get that organic material coming off the roof, It
comes down, sits into your gutter. You know, this twofold
problem fills up your gutter. It allows when you see
trees and other things growing in it. But every time,
every time that debris comes off your roof, every time
the shingle grit comes up your roof, your roof is
getting just a little bit less effective every time. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Now again you're not the roof expert, but you know
something about them that that grid on that shingle, I
mean that that serves a purpose.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
It does, it does. Can't tell you what it is,
to be honest with.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
You, neither, but I know it does on purpose.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right, it does. And you know that's one of the
main things you look for when it's time to replace
your roof, is you know how brittle your shingles are,
and you know how much grit you have left. You know,
the less grit you have, which means the less oil
you have left in your shingle, which is less protection.
It allows them to break in a you know, a
heavy rainstorm when you see the or heavy windstorm when

(23:23):
you see the shingles break, and typically that's a a brittle,
loose shingle, and you know there's obviously here we get
some winds that it doesn't matter if your shingles brittle
or not. It may come off sure, but you know,
we get up to clean gutters. That's one of the
things we tell the homeowner if we find small pieces
of the actual shingle in there, right, you know, it's

(23:44):
it's getting on to time to maybe look at replacing
your roof.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I know Summers told us before because we always hear this.
You know, shingles with a thirty year warranty a thirty
year get thirty year shingles. But that depends on where
you live, I guess, and around here it doesn't sound
like it's really possible for a shingle to typically last
thirty years. Not in this heat. Huh.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, I think you're going to get thirty years out
of them, But are they as effective? You know, are
you going to have the same level of protection because
you and I talk about gutters a lot and protecting
the foundation of your home. Yes, but you know, the
roof is protecting your entire home, it's protecting your largest investment.
You know, it keeps out water, heats on everything. And

(24:30):
you know, one of the hardest things for a homeowner
to run into is you know, we get calls at
two in the morning or you know, seven o'clock in
the morning after rainstorming. I have water porn in through
my roof, through my ceiling. And that's as it can
be a scary thing from owners. You don't know where

(24:50):
it's coming from. You don't know how bad your roof is. Sure,
and we're one of the few companies that will actually
go out and not only inspect your roof, but if
it'll repair is warranted, we'll do that for you as well.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
That continues to surprise and I've done this for a
long time. But but yeah, I mean there are local
roofing companies right here in the Midlands who don't do
roof repairs. I mean to me, that's kind of like
a dentist who will be happy to pull a tooth
but want doesn't want to fill it.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, and and that's a that's a roofing thing nationwide. Yeah,
you know, I sold before I moved down here. I
did sell roofs, and a lot of the companies there
wouldn't do repairs. They will only quote a full roof,
you know, even on the gutter side of it. Sometimes
somebody will ask us for a repair, and you can repair,

(25:44):
But are you throwing good money after bat With our guys,
you know, they'll they'll be upfront with you. You know,
I'll go ahead and try to fix it for you.
May not be able to warranty it if it's too
far down. We don't like to do anything we can't warranty.
Or yeah, we can go ahead and fix it, and
you're going to get another you know, maybe five years
out of it, maybe ten years out of it. That's

(26:06):
that's worth the money for the repair. But sometimes, you know,
one thousand dollars repair to a ten thousand dollars roof
that's only going to last three or four months. I mean,
you'd be better off putting that money towards your new roof.
And our guys are very good and very upfront to
tell you here's your options. You know, we need to
decide what's in your best interest.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I suppose heath that you know, at least to me,
and I don't want to cast too wide of a
net here. I know all of them don't do it,
but to me, the impression would be that if I
called a roofing company because I had a you know
what I thought to be maybe a minor problem, and
they say, well, we don't do repairs, will come out
and look at they're going to Basically they're going to

(26:47):
try to sell me a new roof and I don't
need it.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Correct, And that is not only I wouldn't say a
cop out, maybe because trying to single out where the
actual leak is coming from can be a long process.
Whereas if I can go out measure roof, give you
a price for a new roof, and you do a roof,

(27:11):
the money's better and the works less.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, whereas you know, we would prefer you not throw,
not throw your money weagh on something you don't need to.
It could be something as simple as a pipe boot.
It could be something as simple as a missing shingle
and nail pop. I mean, there's all sorts of items
flashing around your chimney. All those things can be solved,

(27:36):
you know, a lot less expensive than ripping your roof off.
Having shingles and nails in your yard for months and
years to come. No matter how well you clean up,
you don't nail always pops up fail. Whereas if we
can get up there, pop your old roof boot on
or put a new perma boot on, those things can
get you a lot of time out of your roof

(27:56):
and you can then prepare yourself financially to put a
new room roof on, which may be coming.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Down the line, right, isn't it true that again, aside
from you know, a storm dropping a limb on your
roof and busting a whole through it or whatever, they
usually if there is some sort of a roof leak,
it's going to come around some of that flashing or
some of that stuff around the pipe boots. Isn't that
the those that's usual suspects.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, that's typically. You know, you do have valleys sometimes
a lot of what we see is, you know, people
have a roof leak. Think they're roofs leaking, but you know,
going back to what I know, going back to the gutter,
if your gutter's full and the water can't go over
the front, it may go backwards. M you know, you

(28:40):
could have damage. A lot of what we see too
is you know, damaged end shingles. You know, maybe a
limb didn't fall on your roof, but maybe it caught
the edge of your shingle and busted it up. It
made your shingle too short for the water to properly
flow over the end of the roof, and it just
you know, water cohesion just then allows it to run
back under the sh angling back into your soffit. But

(29:03):
ninety percent of the time, I would say, it's going
to come from your chimney, your boot, your vents.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
And certainly if it's around to me, it seems like
that's a pretty easy fix because that's just like a
piece of what is that rubber that goes around those
that that fitting.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a collar. It's a rubber collar. You know. They
make a perma boot, which you know, my guys are
very they're very fond of. It seems to work really well.
It actually snaps over the existing and it's a long
term solution. We do. We put those on when we
put on new roofs instead of just doing the basic,
cheap small collar, we'll actually put the full perma boot

(29:42):
on as part of our standard roofing package, so that
only not only gives you a better look on the
install but it gives you more protection for a longer
period of time.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I want to be careful not to because again you're
especially oh there's gutters, but you've got roof experience in
the background. But I know you guys, will you mentioned
this back if if you think there's a roof damage,
maybe there's no damage to the roof at all, but
it's got a few years on it. I mean, I
know you do gutter inspections. You guys do roof inspections too, right,
we do?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know we do. We can do a free inspection,
just tell you what we think you need. Or sometimes
you need to have a roof inspection done for your
insurance company. That's the more detailed process with the write
up that does come with a cost. But if you're like,
if you call in and you say, you know my
roof twenty years old, I just need to know, you know,
am I coming up on eating a new roof? Do
I have issues right now? That we correct it? Will

(30:31):
come out and do that free of charge.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Are there some things that let's say you've got some
age on it and you're not quite ready to take
that leap to replacing it yet. But are there things
that can be done as a homeowner or with your
service and deep roofing and gutters to kind of give
it some more some more added life. I guess you know.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I don't know if you can extend the life of
the roof when you get to a certain point, but definitely,
especially in some of your more heavily wooded air area.
Is keeping your roof clean of debris, keeping limbs from
touching your roof. You know a lot of people have
those huge trees that overhang their roof. Yeah, well, if
that limb is constantly blowing in the wind scraping that roof,

(31:12):
that's just your shingle grit coming off every time. So
keeping limbs and other things from touching your roof, keeping
debris off your roof, especially out of your valleys, and
keeping your gutters clean.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah around here, you said, I have this as your
mile home. I got to get up there every couple
of weeks. It seems like you can try to blow
off as I can that pine straw. And I've had
that many pine trees in my yard, but apparently it's
just one of just a perfect spot. They'll drop that
pine straws in those valleys and that stuff just sits.
There's what's the problem with that when that happens, what's
it doing?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Well, not only are you allowing you know, you're not
keeping the correct direction flow of the water because it's
hitting a barrier and pushing more water to the other singles.
It's allowing its whole moisture. It's not allowing the roof
to dry off. You get a rain storm, you see
the roof, it's dark, you know it's gotten wet. It's dark,

(32:05):
and a couple hours later, some comes out and the
roof is back to, you know, being dry and regular.
Well there, you know that moisture that got under that
pine straw doesn't draw It doesn't dry out as quickly.
Not only that, it can build up. You know, your
valley comes down to a corner. If it builds up
in that corner, that water is going to eventually ride
out your facer board flow back underneath. So keeping your roof,

(32:27):
cleaning debris, allowing the water to flow over the shingles
in the manner that it's designed to do without putting
excess water on either side. You know, all those things
can extend the life of.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Your roof got you now on the gutter front, I
suspect this is kind of a busy time of the
year for you guys.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, typically, you know, economic factors way into that. You know,
a lot of people don't find the gutter to be
a necessity. We're seeing more and more necessity as opposed
to want currently, So it's not as busy as it
has been a year's past, but it's still a fairly
busy season. We'll get a we'll get a two week
reprieve this current weekend next week because school back to school. Yeah, sure,

(33:13):
people people tend not to want to worry about construction
people during that time. Then with the storm season coming in,
will we'll ramp up all the way to the end
of the year.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's a it's a good time to get it done
right now. And again it's I guess, I mean you
can really look at gutters heath as an investment, right,
I mean, hey, what what the average home around here?
I mean, what are we talking twelve fifteen hundred bucks
maybe for a depends the size of the.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Home currently now I'm seeing about a seventeen hundred dollars average.
You know, it all depends on how it's set up.
You can have a very small home that needs gutters
all the way around, and it'd be more expensive than
a large home with a lot of peaks that the
water only comes off on four sides.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well, you know you're looking at about seven teen hundred dollars,
which is, you know, significantly cheaper than a foundation repair
to the point, right, or even multiple additions to your
landscaping for what's been washed away.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, all right, we're out of time here. Good talking
roofs with you for a change. Heighth appreciated, buddy, Yeah,
something different. How can folks get a hold of your
beaver roofing and gutters and.

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Spy, yes they all right, have a good one, buddy,
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(36:22):
Welcome back to the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
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app and we're always there, all right. Final segment of
the show this morning, bringing up the rear. It's Marcus
Greenwell from black Syed Gavis say I'm sorry that I'm
sorry saving the best relast. Yeah is Marcus Greenwell.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Let's rewind Marcus screen Well creen Well.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Well.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
You getting this on Columbia about football season? I am,
I am, I'm pretty loud. My daughter is very impressed
with my whistle, by the way. She claims that it's
the loudest whistle she's ever heard in her life. She's
only twenty one, so she hasn't been around that long.
But it's pretty loud.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, it doesn't really whistle much.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
They say, hey, can hear you down there on the field, Dad?

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Are you hear the loud whistle? Waivers? Bryce? You know
it's this guy right here?

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah. Yeah. The people around us are like, oh my god,
oh loud Marcus is here again. Yeah, where's my earplugs?
It's louder than the music, you know. It's yeah, good, no, no, no, no, no, okay,
so yeah yeah, yeah. So anyway, so it's a beautiful weekend.
We're out there chaping today. That's where I'm going to
be one fifty three Chaping Road. I guess since you

(37:56):
were talking about Williams Bryce, we got the game next Sunday,
This Sunday, but next Sunday.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
So that Atlanta and Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, I wish I was going to be there, but
I'm not. I'm watching on TV. I guess you got
all the home games.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I do?

Speaker 3 (38:11):
I do. I love it. Yeah. I've been supporting them
since I was five years old, So five years old. Yeah,
they didn't even have the upper deck built on the
east side.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Oh I remember those days. Oh absolutely, Oh yeah, I don't.
I don't go as far as I don't go as
far back as when they didn't have either side.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
But yeah, me either.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
I don't know if they're going to any more games
on that one. My mom my mom used to say,
we're in the nosebleed seats, and literally we were three
rows from the top on the on the west upper. Yeah.
And as a little kid, I remember peeking a little
head over the top of the anyway, I will tell
you what you think.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
That's a bad seat. Go to the press box, Oh yeah,
years ago before they built that new press box there,
the press box was like mid level and it was
a great seat. Yeah, setting a few times. But and
after they built that new press box, I went up
here one time. I ain't coming up here again.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
It feels like you're in the air huh. Oh.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Man, It's like you're you know, you're you're on approach
to Owen's Field over there. Yeah, in an airplane. I
mean you're up there both.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, you're up there with the planes that come by,
the bombers that they have out there. Sometimes.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Man, anyway, but it's hard to believe it. I mean,
we're almost to the football season.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah yeah, so uh how matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Hey, college football season is starting this weekend. It's week zero. Yeah,
game's on. But yeah, I mean times just flow. Like
Mom always said, older, you get faster, it goes.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
It does go fast. I love it.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
How far out of you guys right now when it
comes to somebody comes in this weekend, but you go
in today and make a purchase. What's the timeline looking like?

Speaker 3 (39:47):
You need to get in line, That's what it looks
like quickly. Yeah right, well real quick. Let's we're running
six to eight weeks. We got a lot of stuff
that we're doing for house flippers and private homeowners. And
I've got a couple of big, big decorator jobs. I
mean like when I say big, I mean huge, Like
both of them are around one hundred thousand. I mean

(40:08):
yeah almost Yeah, it's huge. But on the lake, full houses,
full backsplashes, bars and back lit stone like it's just
you know, you can see the lights through it all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
How long has that little thing better the first time
I saw that? And how long this would have been?
Oh my goodness. More than twenty years ago, probably, I
was in Los Angeles and uh was waiting for a ride,
just stepped into a some kind of a pub or
something there and they had that Oh really, Like well
that's cool.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I call it Onyx is what it's called.

Speaker 7 (40:48):
Okay, yeah, what kind of stone do you use for that?
That's the Onyx stone? Yeah, yeah, what you just said?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
There's some of the different ones too that you can backlight,
some that are less expensive. Uh, that has some quarts
in it that you can kind of see through, and
some marbles. I got some marbles seventy dollars a square foot.
Not to speak of pricing or on the on the
air or anything, but seventy dollars a square foot and
get you some some real nice, pretty marble that you
can backlight and see the light through. It's not gonna

(41:19):
be as transparent and translucent as what we're talking about
the Onyx, And I forget the name of the stuff
we're about to do, but we're doing a whole wall
behind the bar, and it's gonna be lit up behind
the whole wall, so it's gonna be illuminated. Oh wow,
Oh yeah, this is gonna be one for the show,
you know here, there's gonna be one to show out

(41:40):
right here.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, well you get those because you, I mean you
post pictures left and right on the face Facebook page
of the job.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, that's a musty.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah. I got some big ones we've just done recently.
I'm about to post. We get did this huge island.
We had to We had to carry it in the
house sideways. They happen to have double doors at the
house that was so so big, and we had to
bring the slab. It was a super jumbo slab of
courtz eighty inches tall by one hundred and twenty inches

(42:09):
one hundred and twenty six inches or something like that.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Yeah, that's a special order piece. I mean you still
get those from the wholesalers on a regular basis, right, well,
I mean special order.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Well, we do have them. We do have some of
them that were pretty pretty easy to get a hold of.
It is special order, yes, but I mean it's pretty
pretty simple to get. I'll just say, hey, I need
a super Jumbo and they send me the super jumper.
It's a court so it's man made. Courts is man
made and the COURTZ eight is the natural stone. Those
are the ones that you're talking about that you've got

(42:39):
to how to kind of find the super jumbo pieces to.
You know, it's got a special situation for those.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Okay, so these are the exoetic kind of installations that
you guys do on a regular basis.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean high end stuff, high high end. Yeah,
we do the standard stuff too, like I said, but believe.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Your business is you know, you're I'm putting ground on
somebody's countertop. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah, we got ten ten jobs going right now for
house flippers. I mean, I don't know if they've heard
us on the rais. Yeah, yeah, I don't understand. I
mean just boom boom, boom boom. And they're not doing
on the cheap either. They're making them look nice. I
mean they're putting in court that's I don't want to
talk price again, but very expensive courts in some of them,

(43:25):
and some of the you know, neighborhoods that aren't quite
as you know, they're not going to carry the weight
of the you know, more expensive stone. They're putting regular stone,
you know, I say regular level one, which there's no
quality difference between Level one granted and level four, but
they're putting that level one in there.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
So well that's a that's a good rule of thumb,
I mean right, I mean if you're if you're flipping
house number, you don't want to you know, outprice the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Right, That's exactly right, And that's that's what their thought
process is. Yeah, but they do want that click on
that internet to look at you know, whenever you look
at that that kitchen, and you know, you want that
wow factor. A lot of times, even in the lower
lower you know price neighborhoods, they are putting courts in there.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Well. And we talked about this, I think last time
we were together. You know, these online real estate search engines,
silos and such. I mean when when people go there.
I know this because I've watched my wife do with
the past time and time and time and time again.
You know, you go into your set up, Okay, what
am I looking for? And there's an option there that
you want, you know, Stille countertops or some kind of

(44:32):
up you know, and you know everybody clicks that.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, the filters, I think they call.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
It, Yeah, the filter. So if you if if your
home doesn't have that, your home's an getting seen. I
don't know it exists, but the caveat here is again,
if you're right, if if you're if you're upgrading your
home to try to.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Sell it, yeah, call Marcus, Call Marcus.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
That's that's rule number one.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Okay, it was my number eight O two eight O
three seven seven two too much coffee two twenty two
hundred twenty two to to two zero. That's it. Yeah,
not twenty two hundred seven twenty two hundred, twenty two
hundreds those two to two zero.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
Twenty two twenty Wait, what's my number?

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Seven seven to twenty two twenty.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Twenty two twenty yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, you know you call your own number, right, yeah? Yeah.
So anyway, company is it's lifetime cabinets and countertops. You
can go on Facebook, We're going on Google whatever. Uh,
we're we're rated the best around, you know, seven years

(45:43):
in a row. Yeah, yeah, and awards keep coming. We
just won another one from lexingon Chronicle. We're not we're
we don't even have a story. It's in Lexington County,
but and we still wont Lexington because we're all over
Lexing in uh Columbia. We go to northeast blythewood out
and we go over the state. Yeah, yeah, we do.

(46:04):
We go out to the beaches and everything. And we've
been up into the North Carolina a little bit too,
doing some Ashville for for some customers that you know
that I know that kind of thing. People are people
that get to know me.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Okay, just said the record straight. It's eight oh three
seven seven twenty correct, yes, which I have been called
for for ten years on this radio station, and now
we got it all messed up.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah. So if you call me then I and give
me some measurements. I can give you an idea of
how much is gonna cost. You know what I'm saying
for your kitchen. So if you just take some rough measurements,
you call me up on that number. I'll give you
my cell phone number, and then we can trade some
texts back and forth with some measurements, and I'll give
you a price, you know, just a base price, kind

(46:47):
of basing off of several different prices.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
You can do as all over text messages.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Yeah, yeah, I do it all the time. People will
call and boom boom, I throw my number. They text
me a little drawing. I'll even shoot you an exact
sample of a drawing. So you'll know what I need.
So it's simple. And if you get close to the inches,
I'll just say, hey, if it's twenty five inches, and
I don't care if it's twenty five and a half,
just do twenty five inches and send it to me.

(47:11):
It'd be close. It'd be within one hundred dollars of
your real price by the time it's said and done.
Or go to twenty six and it'll be over and
then that way you'll owe less on the back end.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Right, Okay, yeah, I did rondic Well, I guess yeah,
because in the past we were with when we did
that marble at our old house. Yeah, that was sight unseen.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I mean that's right.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
We all sent us some links to some some stones. Yeah,
and you know me, they all look the same to me.
But Anne, like you guys, she could look at it
and tell the difference. And I was like, okay, go
with it.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
At blank marble. That was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
But there is this again, it's a big speaking of caveats.
Caveats when you do it that way like we did. Yeah,
there's before you guys start to do the fabrication work.
There's something that you need to do as the as
the buyer, and let's go out and take a look
at it. Make sure, oh, exactly what you.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Want right yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't want to if
you do business with the box or you're not going
to get to see that slab like what we do.
So you come out look at the slab before we
cut it, and we we really insist on it. There's
been several cases where I just sent a picture of it,
but most, you know, ninety eight percent, maybe ninety nine
percent of the people come and view their slab. I'll

(48:27):
go over to cuts with it if you want me to,
or we could do the best. You know, we're very
good at it, so we could. We can uh plot
out the cuts and everything on the slab as well.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
So sure, but.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
There's some people that say, hey, I'd really like to
have this on my peninsula or something like this in
this area right here, and I can say, yeah, you
can do it, no you can't, whichever, you know, whatever
the limitations of the slab size are, I can do okay,
And we were.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Talking about the timeline earlier, so right now, you guys,
you guys booked out to about Halloween.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Six eight weeks. Yeah, so if you got something that
wants to get pushed through. Let me know you heard
me on the radio, and I'll see what I can do.
Because I do run ahead of schedule on some days.
I had I think two jobs last week, one job
that I added in this week. Matter of fact, two
jobs this week. I did a vanity and I did

(49:19):
a small kitchen for a house flipper this week that
wasn't on my schedule. So there are some cases where
I can go in and get you in sooner if
you needed to. But the easy button is six to
eight weeks. We'll give you a guaranteed date. And this
is how we can get all the awards is because
we guarantee you a date. So you come in, you
give me a deposit. I put on that date all

(49:42):
right in six eight weeks or whatever the date is,
and then that's your guaranteed date.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
So what we'll do though, that's the latest it can be.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Yeah, we'll go ahead and get the process started. I'll
come out and measure that next week we'll take we'll
take the measurements, bring in the slabs or whatever the
case may be, if they're already there or whatever. I
don't know, but we'll take those measurements put them into
the shop and in that way, if it gets ready,

(50:13):
we'll call you and say, hey, we're on the way. Hey, hey,
we're on the way.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Clear out the cabins here we come.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that has happened. What Hey, we got
action because some people can't do their job for whatever
they've got emergency. You know, I don't want to say
any negative, but there's some things that happened with people. Yeah,
so you know, and then you have to slow down
on it and put but you know, it's just no problem.
Like I had a builder, for example, Well, this guy

(50:40):
that lives in the house just this week and this
past week, and that's why I got one of those
extra jobs in was because his hardwood guy, I wasn't
finished yet and I couldn't naturally put the stone on
top of the hardwood because I couldn't walk. He wouldn't finish.
He was still finishing it, you know. Anyway, So so

(51:01):
I had another slot. So I called one of my
customers up. I said, hey, you want to do this,
but this house flip press, Hey you want to do
this this week?

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Yep, and remember you say you heard this on WVOC.
Yeah you will get priority treatment.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Yeah, yeah, red carpet.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Red carpet, first class. Baby.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
That's right as well.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
You do first class for everybody anyway, that's true. Well,
before we get out of here, what about the remnants.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
I got a cell going on. I need to get
rid of them. I got a lot of them. If
you get there, I have sold a lot of them,
So you do want to come on in and look,
because they're going fast. I was just I was talking
to you about that earlier on the show. What a
great job you've been doing promoting that for us on
the on the commercials. Thank you, because they've been selling

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like hotcakes. I mean, they're the real pretty ones are
the ones that are going to it's the level ones
aren't quite as moving as fast. But I have moved
some of those too, So if you want to get some,
come on in and get those real quick before they
get gone. Because the pretty ones you can't. You can't
just buy, you know, a beautiful piece of court site

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for a bathroom unless it's a remnant. You see what
I'm saying. You can't buy, you know, you Otherwise you
have to buy like a minimum you know amount, like
you might have to do two or three bathrooms as
opposed to one. So come on in, look at me,
look at my stone. I'm at the boneyard today, one
fifty three Chapin Road, and my brother is gonna be

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at forty twenty Fernandina Road today. His name's David. He
can help you with kitchens and all that stuff. He'll
probably refer you to me for vanities. Maybe you can
catch a deal on it out there with me. I'm willing,
I'm dealing.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Let's go, all right, and those roomens at your cost.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Still at my cost?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, lifetime cabins and countertops.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Tops above the rest.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
You go forty twenty Fernandina out.

Speaker 7 (52:55):
Dear Costcos Chapin Road, Chapen, Yeah, well the Costco.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
There's there's Northern Tool right there. As a matter of fact,
we want you to go to home depot, I mean
the box stores down there and shop them and get
the price from them, and then comes see us and
see how much you're gonna say there you go five
hundred to one thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
All right? Well, yeah, out of time.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Marc over seeing me over there at one fifty three
Taved Road.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
I'm great weekend. Bye.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
I'm James Carwell Local owner and operator of Freedom Plumbing
right here in the Midlands.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
After working as a plumber for nearly a decade, I
decided to open my own business and Freedom Plumbing was born.
Because of my love for this country and the great
respect I have for the men and women of our
armed forces and our first responders.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
I named my company Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
What sets us apart from other companies is our customer service.
We have a five star rating on Google, a five
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I'm James Carwell, local owner of Freedom Plumbing, and we
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