Home Improvement Show 10-04-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's the Home Improvement Show on one of three point
five FM and five sixty AMWVOC. Good morning to you
and welcome to a Saturday. I'm Gary David and we
got a full hour of fixing it up or get
it fixed coming your way right now. Marcus Greenwell Lifetime
cabas and Countertops, going to drop by and say hi
here in a little while. I'm pretty sure the remnant

(00:47):
sales still going on. We'll see we can't maybe drag
another special item for the month of October. We'll try.
He'll be joining us a little later on the half hour.
We'll talk about water leaks, the issues the fixes with
the James Carwell, he owns Freedom Plumbing here in Columbia.
Right now, though, we get things started with us Summer
from Beaver Roofing and Gutters Summer, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
To you, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Let's talk about some roofs today, shall we? Big part
of what y'all do over there. Of course, it's right
there in the name for Beaver Roofing and Gutters, yes, sir.
And the fact that, well, as I've said many times before,
there are a lot of local roofers out there, but
a lot of things set you guys apart at Beaver

(01:31):
roofing and gutters. And one of the big things is
that you do replacements, of course, but you do repairs
as well. And not all roofing companies are willing to
do a repair on your roof. And we've had yeah, exactly,
and we've had great success. I mean, y'all put a

(01:51):
new roof on our new home late last year. Stunning,
by the way, I get more compliments on that roof by.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Crammy. What you know a little shingle change can do exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, we went with the architectural shingles, first time I've
ever had those on a roof. And you know, I
mean a roof around these again shingles. Well, we always
hear thirty years shingles, I think you've told us before.
You know, in this environment around here, in this climate
in South Carolina, you don't usually get thirty years out
of a shingle. But exactly, I'm thinking, at my advanced

(02:25):
age now that that's probably my roof for life right there. Okay,
that's that's what I'm That's what that shy. Of course,
any natural disaster that could befall it, which again, you
guys take care of that too. But my parents' home,
which we put on the market a couple of years ago, uh, well,

(02:46):
we wondered that they need a new roof or not.
So we called you guys, and y'all came out with
with again one of your free roof inspections. Yes, sir,
and it turned out in that case that there was
just a really minor issue. And as I recall, it
was like maybe four hundred bucks y'all hopped up there exactly. Yeah,
you got it fixed, and that home was getting ready

(03:06):
to go on the market. Needless to say, it's sold.
It passed inspection, no problem. Oh so thanks for that.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Again absolutely, but again it always trusting us too.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, absolutely we have for years at our household. But
an example there of how okay, you didn't need a
new roof, you just needed a mine a repair even
though you're getting ready to sell it you wanted to
pass inspection. It would have been tempting to say, put
a whole new roof on that thing, for well, roofers
that only do replacements so they don't have any other options.

(03:40):
But thanks you guess for both.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, so that's exactly so you say, we we do.
We like to say Hey, give us a call, let
us come out and do an inspection on your roof.
You don't know what you're going to find up there.
That's why we always suggest having an annual once you know,
once a year, have us come out take a look
at what's going on. Because, like you said, harsh weather.

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We have all sorts of a mirroad of weather in
South Carolina, from storms.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
To cold to the baking sun.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
So you know, that's why we always say, give us
a call, let us come out, let us take a look.
A lot of times, like you said, we can get
up there. Everything shingles look great, you know, the granulation's great,
everything's looking good. However, the sun really does a number
on the on the pipe boots and just the ceiling
around the ceiling around those, and we can just put on,

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you know, put a little bit of call and it's
good as new. However, if you do leave small things
like that un unrepaired or unfixed, you know, it can
cause larger problems stains on the ceilings on the inside,
and then you know, just all kinds of different things.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Can can come from just a small, small fix.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
So that's always say, hey, like you said, we're not
going to tell you need a full new, full roof.
If you don't, we'll get up there take a look. Okay, great,
we'll just do a little you know, ceiling. You're good
as new and that really goes.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
A long way for the maintenance of your home. It's
just like taking care of your car.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Got to do the maintenance to make sure that the
longevity is there.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Right, don't do the oil change. You got problems coming.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Your way, right exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
And typically I think you mentioned it when your folks
get up there on these roofs.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know, one of the most common issues are are
those those post pipe boots? Yes, sir, exactly, I know
what's the ones you put on our roof. Now, they
look a little different than the ones that I'm used to.
They they seem to be a little taller, maybe a
little beef heer. I mean that is that exactly change.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Those are the lifetime boots, and they are they're a
little bulkier, not bulkier, so they're doing their job, exactly
going We're going to make sure that they're doing a job.
They are, They're they're going to last longer, and they
just in my opinion, they do. They're just a little
pop and they look just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Nicer too, So they do.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
You know, you're you're getting a quality product out of that,
out of that lifetime pipe boots. So we do.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Whenever we replace, we always use those.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So when you do hop up there, that's maybe one
of the first things y'all look at, right, because that
seems tends to be a problem for a lot of folks,
is those leaks around those pipe boots, right exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's going to be the most common if anybody come
calls us in and says, oh, I have some you know,
stainings and stains on the ceilings, and I all went
my first question, what's where the where you see in
the stains is in the kitchen? You know, is it
in the bathroom because those are obviously places that the
home is vented out, you know, the bathroom fan and

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you know the fan in your kitchen. So a lot
of times that's just an indicator. And you know, first
thing we look at, and you know, obviously we look
at other things when we're doing our inspections. We're gonna
look at the granulation, how much grit is left on
the shingles, We're gonna look and see if there are
any shingles that may be damaged, you know, lifted or
you know, cracked, or if there are any inventions. You know,

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that's just gonna be signs of you know, a weather
event that we've had, whether it be hail or if
it's strong winds that have you know, lifted increased the shingles.
And then you know, obviously we're gonna check the ventilation,
you know, the vents on top of the roof. We're
gonna check the gutters, you know, when we do our

(07:39):
inspections too.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
So it's not just.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh, get up there and you know, looking at a
couple of things. No, we're gonna check out everything, make
sure that everything is tip top and you know, and
it's good to go, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
And like I said, if we do get up there
and we do.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
See you know, widespread what you know, weather signs of
the weather events. If it's you know, crackhing bules or
we see hail or something like that, we may say, hey,
you might have a you might have an insurance claim
on your hands.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Here it's all.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Over your roofs, and you know, we we would suggest.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
That you do make a claim. We think that you
might have a good claim here on your hands. And
if we get up.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
There and we don't, we won't urge you to do
that because it's just it's.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Not it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know what I mean? Right, Well, what we're fair,
honest upfront and you know, like you said, and I'm
not saying every roof or but you know it construction,
they just it's we get a bad name. And you know,
we always want to be fair upfront.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
With all of our customers.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, you guys are the only people I know who
when you when you advertise, you say that you encourage
people to go to websites that you don't control to
read the reviews. Absolutely, I don't know what anybody else
whoever does that somemer to tell you, I've never heard
of that before except for you guys.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, you know, and it's just it's just shows, Hey,
we want you to see what other people are saying.
You know, obviously we do have we have a great
review and we have great reviews. We have high high
you know.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's either four point nine.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Five, you know, five star reviews on Google's and you
know we're really proud of that. And you know, sometimes
things come up and it's construction, it's it's life. You know,
things don't go perfectly the first time. But we do
like to say, hey, if there is a problem, we
we talk with our customer and we get that resolved,
you know, so and I always encourage customers to say that, hey,

(09:39):
I know that it is things didn't go right the
first time, but if you wouldn't mind you know, sharing
your sharing your experience on how we did correct the issues.
You know, it's just to me, that's a big thing
of it, you know, because you know, if things do
go wrong, hey, they didn't ignore us, they didn't not
call back, they didn't you know that we come back.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We stand by our work.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
You mentioned earlier. One of the things you're looking for
is the amount and I think grit granulation on those shingles.
What is the purpose of that that that that grit
granulation stuff on shingles, What does that do?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
So that is going to.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
That that protects what's underneath the roof, you know, and
obviously that's going to be your color that you were
talking about how nice it looks and whatnot, and especially
with the architect that's the pops of color and the
different colors and there. So whenever you're seeing that coming
off the granulation, you'll see you may see it like
coming out of your gutters, you know where the downspouts are.

(10:40):
You might see some of that that shows signs of age.
So whenever that the granulation is just coming off, you
know that it might be getting time for you to
have you know, your roof replaced.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
So those shingles are getting thinner, they're weakening, they're not
protecting the.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Correct yet, they're getting brittle.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
They're not going to be able to withhold like you know,
if you have a brand new, brand new shingles and say,
you know, sometimes you know you'll have a limb fall
on it. Perfectly fine because those shingles are nice new
you know, they're flexible, they're they're able to do their job.
But if they're older, they're, like you said, sin brittle.
They don't have that protection of the granules on the top.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
So boom.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
You know, shingles are obviously going to be compromised when that,
you know, say a limb falls on the older shingles.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
So and again getting a free roof inspection with you guys,
I mean, unless you're a lot younger than me and
a lot more adventurous than me. You're not getting to
get up on your roof, okay, and.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Right, yeah, and I mean you shouldn't have to, you know,
and and and again, like I said, it's construction and
they do get a bad name just from the industry,
you know. And but you know, we will show you
photos of what we see when we're up there, so
you know, some people I want to see from myself, understand,
But it's not always the safest if you don't know

(12:05):
what you're doing getting up there.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
So that's why I always say, give us a call.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
We'll show you what's going on up there.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
And you know, we're happy to help.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
To show you, Hey, this is the problem, or hey
you don't need you know, you don't need a brand
new roof. You just need a little a little maintenance.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
And we talk a brand new roof here summer for
folks who've never had a new roof put on a home.
And we're we're we're talking the shingles and the whatever
that underlayment that fabric is. But but you you could
run into situations where uh, that that that what underneath
there needs to be replaced as well. Although that doesn't
seem to be as common, does it.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's not as common there, sir, But yeah, the roof decking,
and sometimes yes we do it. Comes we come across
it sometimes say you've you've had a leak, but you
don't you don't know that you've had a leak, you know,
and that and that happens too sometimes. If you know,
if we get up there, we're taking off the shingles,
we're taking off the underlayment, and we come across rotten wood,

(13:08):
we replace it. You know. Obviously we can't nail into
into that because it's not a nailable surface, right and
it won't be able to hold that. But yeah, we
do have to replace that sometimes.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
And it's not always.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh we've got to replace all of the decking. It's
just you know, some areas where there was a leak
and whatnot, and we just take care of.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
It and we go from there and we just proceed
as normal.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I guess this is one of these situations. Summer.
We're so often as a homeowner, we think that Okay,
I don't see any stains on my ceilings, and my
roof must be a okay, uh. Not always the case, though,
it's not and I.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Mean it happens very very often. And then things like that,
you know, we don't we don't see any things on
the ceilings, but.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
You know when you do, it might it might be.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Hey, now all of the insulation and.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
The attic is so heavy out that it's just boom,
come on through. You know, it just falls out. So
there is just there.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Is a many, many, many different things that could just happen,
and it's like, oh, wow, had I just done maintenance,
I would have you know, I would have avoided that.
We could have avoided this and it and it would
have cost a lot less money to take care of
it if we were just in the maintenance process instead of,
oh man, now.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
We have to repair this.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
And again, when it comes to replacing a roof, as
as you mentioned earlier, if there's damage that's been done
to your roof and mother Nature's at fault, and the
insurance comes into play. And one of the things you
guys specialize in and and you do a very good job,
is that you've got folks who actually work as almost
your attorney, your your lawyer, your advocate, say that.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Is your roof attorney exactly?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yes, sure, we you know we we do we do so, y'all.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Will will stand by the homeowner. You make your assessment
and then you'll you'll you'll argue it out with the
with the adjustm. I guess to try to get the
best deal possible.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Uh exactly.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
You know we always think, oh, well, yeah, my insurance
wants what's us for me?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
They'll it's not it's not always the case.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know, they don't want to just dole out money
and dole out brand new roofs.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
But you know, we're gonna stand by.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
You and if your roof warrants, you know, if you
have enough storm damage, you know, we call it, then
you should. You're you deserve one, you know, like you should.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
You've paid your premiums, you've done everything you're supposed to
be as a homeowner.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Uh, your insurance owes that to you, you know, and
it's you know here and we document everything and we
go to bat and you know, yeah, absolutely, we're gonna
stand by your side and go hand in hand and
do whatever we can to make sure that you get
what's what's what's deserved, you know.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
O to you, is there a rule of thumb how
much of a roof surface has to be damaged before
it wants kind of like ef you you wreck a car,
you know, between well it's fixable. No, it's a total,
it's total. So you know with insurance companies where they
going to say okay, yeah, we'll pay for the whole
roof or not.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
So yes and no.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
So each carrier is is a little different in their
size and area, so to say. But they usually look
at a ten by ten area and that's you know,
that's one square and there needs to be a certain
amount of impacts. Say, you know, if it's hail impacts
and that's and like I said, that's different carrier by carrier,

(16:35):
and you know, or if there's oh well there's creasing
and we see lifts up of the shingles, and it's
a case by case man, so to say, rule of thumb,
because some insurance companies will say, oh, well, we just.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Want to do the front half, you know it.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
And it's just and that's when we come into play.
You know.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's it's not you can't mix. You can't mix. You know,
whenever you start.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Taking off layers and putting down new, it's just the
shingles don't lay together when they're old and new and
that's like I said, that all comes into play whenever
we get you know, we step in and say, hey,
we're not going to they don't need just the front
half or just the front or the front left elevation
and things of that nature, because they will they'll try

(17:22):
to say that or oh, we'll give you twenty seven
shingle repair.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah that's just slightly.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Ye, we're not going to have that. It's it's it's
not even smart for them to say to do that,
because then you're mixing new and old and it's not compatible.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
So, you know, like I.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Said, that's when we have our roof attorneys come in
and go to bat for you.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
That free roof inspection. It's a great idea of summer
folks that want to get and take advantage of it.
How do they get a hold of you? Beaver Roof
again Gutters.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Absolutely give us a call at eight oh three nine
nine one roof and check us out facebooks and us
messages and we're happy to help.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
We can't wait to.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Hear from you all right, summer, Thanks so much, Thank you.

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back to the Home improvement Show of the Midlands and
thank you for joining us this morning here on one
O three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC in
around the globe on the iHeartRadio app, where I would
argue you could travel the globe and you're not going
to find a better deal, a better company to work
for or with that is, or a better guy than

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this guy. Right here is Marcus Greenwell from Lifetime Cabins
and Countertops.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'll tell you what, Gary, Good morning, brother. You're looking
good in that shirt. Man. You look like you're at
you got your beat shirt all well?

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Not today, next weekend?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Okay, okay, today though? Are you looking good?

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
You brother?

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Amazing. I feel like I'm been gone for a while.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
See well. The next fifteen minutes or so is our
biweekly stream of consciousness with Marcus Greenwell, who.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Knows where we'll grow deeply relax.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Where should we start?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Let's start start with countertops. Okay, why not court site, marble, marble,
don't have it all. I do all that stuff. We
fabricate it. We were just what is that?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Wait?

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Sorry sorry, we were voted best by the readers in
the state newspaper again. It's back, it's been. It was
really really. I consider it as seven years in a
row because last year we last year we came in
second in both categories cabinets and countertops. They accidentally split.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
It up even though you haven't done countertops cabinets. You
haven't done cabinets in a long time.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, a long time, people. Yeah, yeah, So we were
voted best in the state readers. Real proud of that.
And Lexenon like Lexing and Chronicle Chronicle number one on
that too. You know Lexanon Life. They don't have the
countertop counter category yet, but at any.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Rate, always referred to you guys as the award winning
lifetime Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, we got it again.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I wanted to ask you there before you said rudely
interrupted me with a great news.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I'm so sorry. I didn't want to get.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, we throw this term out there all to time, fabrication.
Some of the one people understand what we're talking about.
We talked about fabrication.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, we actually cut it. So we'll we'll we'll
get the slab from a distributor and you'll pick it
out or whatever however we end up doing that process. Yeah,
and uh, then we'll fashion it to your kitchen. So
I'll go out and measure I do every measurement. I'm
the owner of the company. Also take all the phone calls,

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so if you call two twenty, then you'll get me
and I'll guide you through the process if you don't
know it. But but we're the fabricator. We're the end guy,
the last guy in the house, which well, I mean
you got to get the plumber after us. But uh,
we don't do plumbing, so we got Freedom Plumbing for that.

(22:47):
We always recommend James.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Carwell and Jay.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah. Yeah, I love James. Matter of fact, we did
his house, so I mean we we actually partner together
on projects all the time.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Having talked to James about this house, I'm gonna I'm
gonna venture to say, probably you're you're your counter of
installation was probably the smoothest thing that happened over there,
because he had a time with that place.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh yeah, we had a great time over there. It
was easy, super super people. His wife's a sweetheart, and
their son is just a just a gym. He's a
great little kid. And uh So, anyway, we're the end.
We're the fabricators, so we cut it. You know, do
I do all the measurements, you know, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
So and you guys do that for even other companies, right,
they send you stuff to fabricate, Is that right?

Speaker 4 (23:36):
What do you mean exactly?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, I mean, at least at one time, other people
who you know.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
They could do what you're saying they could, Oh yeah
yeah yeah yeah. Other like cabinet and countertop stores, Yes, yes, absolutely,
and contractors too.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
They send over to you the fabricator.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like uh, you know the one out
in Valentine. Anyway, Like if it's a cabinet and countertop store,
they don't actually do the fabrication of the stone. They
might buy the cabinets and put them in and then
we'll come in behind them, and we do. We work
with a lot of different cabinet companies like that. Yeah,
that's a good points. Matter of fact, I'm making some

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samples for Lighthouse Lighthouse Carpentry our cabinet try. Sorry, I
don't know it's Lighthouse, but anyway, they're a custom builder.
I don't know exactly the name, but Taylor, Taylor Williams
is a good friend of mine. I've done apparent well.
I just it is like Lighthouse Carpentry.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
But h.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Taylor, I'm sorry. I love you brother. Well, I mean
we've done.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
The parties that I have known each other. We could
do that each yet.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
I love you, brother, I mean, you do you the best.
I get. So many people come into the store and say,
Gary David, he's so awesome. You know, you guys have
such a great camaraderie on the show. That's why we're
in here doing business. We feel like we know you.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
I mean, I'm already go out have family members to
send over here to say that you.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Know, well, we've seen Anne enough. We feel like he's
family for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, exactly exactly. By that reminds me. Yeah, I got
to talk to you about remnants because she wants to
do one of our bathroom vanities. Oh good, which is
just perfect for a remnant.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Right, that is perfect. I have tons of them. I
mean I can sell them to you at cost. Yes,
you would do that for me, for you and the listeners.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh, we do that for anybody.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well I felt special to Anne.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
No you are, you are. Don't tell Anne that and
just tell her it's that costs because of us.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
But anybody and everybody, you get that.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yes, right, yeah, yeah, anybody comes in, I'll hook you up.
You just come in. You don't have to pay minimum
charge on square footage and stuff like that of stuff
I have on the lot. You know, if if I
have a remnant, you're not gonna have Like if you
go to a big box store, you're not gonna be
able to buy a vanity. They're gonna say, oh, you

(26:10):
got to buy twenty five square feet with a granite
or stone or whatever stone, and what you're gonna do
with the rest of it exactly? Yeah, yeah, then you're spending.
You might as well just do the whole all the
bathrooms while you yeah, maybe the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
So you got and but but this is not that's
not the way you guys do business.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
I got a good idea. I got a good idea.
How about how about we do this. Anybody that hears
this on the radio, mm hmm, calls me up, does
a kitchen with us. I'll do a free single vanity.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Whoa whoa wa, whoa whoa wa.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Throw it in? Yeah, yeah free.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Did this come with any four sid on your part?
That's just right off is a steady stream of consciousness
in this segment.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I took a deep breath right at the beginning. You
remember the steady stam of consciousness came right in.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, all right, So per just countertip, do the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Do the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
You're gonna throw in a single sink bathroom.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Vanity yep, somewhere in that thirty inch rains or whatever
something I have. I have a little section. I'll let
you pick from several hundred pieces over there. Wow, I
would say thirty inches and below. You know, thirty thirty
six is fine. Whatever, if it's close. If I got
a little piece over there in that stack and it's
forty inches or whatever, whooped you do right, all right,

(27:28):
it's just a piece. I got them. I got him
everywhere at my boneyard taping road.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, I almost said, don't go to the location. I
don't want to say that you could go.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
There, go there, you do the order, bring your measurement,
So take a little rough sketchy kitchen, bring your measurement
to Fernandina. And then anytime you can go out to
Chaping to pick out that extra vanity for that bathroom.
So if you were to go into Fernandina, it's fine,
we'll still do that free vanity for you. Just just

(28:02):
remember to go out there and you can go today.
You know, I'll be out there all day today so
you can see me. Yeah, one fifty three Chapin Road
with Fernandina Road you're talking about is at forty twenty
Fernandina Road, right, that's right by Costco and Northern Tool
and Greens. Not that I'm trying to plug Starbucks, right,
but you can come there, get you a liquor drink,

(28:23):
or get you a coffee and pour some liquor in it.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, that's put Greens and Starbucks that close together that
that can happen.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yes, yes, one of my favorite drinks.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Now is this is this like a today only thing?
You mentioned today or how long you gone?

Speaker 4 (28:38):
No, No, let's do it for the month of October.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, okay, there you go.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Heck, yeah, let's do it for the month.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, So let's reisteriate that.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
So if you do the order within that this month, yeah,
within that time period this month. If you come in
and do the order, you don't have to have it
installed by the end of this month or anything like that.
Just do the order, bring your bring your job in.
There is kitchen okay, minimum Okay, I don't really care
about the minimum square foot. I mean, you know whatever,

(29:07):
if you do a kitchen, come on in, you know,
in your house, not anyway, So do the kitchen, come in.
You get a free vanity, single hole, one sink vanity.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
And you'll fabricate it, you'll install it, you'll do it
all for free.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah. If you do, you know a little bit more
or something like that, I'll give you a deal on
the on the double vanity. So don't think that, oh
well I can't get a double vanity. Yeah, yeah, you can.
You just pay a little bit more, you know.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Steaming over here now, I agree. Well, I'm scheming because
let's see here in the past, I bought two kitchen countertops.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yes you did.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
You know where I'm going with this right yeah?

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about your dad's house first, because
you came back and did that Vanity mm hmm right right, yeah, yeah,
you said, hey, can we have that? Vanity should have
gave it Tree should so.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
So.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
So here's what I'm scheming. Yeah, yeah, I'm a past
customer of not one, but two kitchens. Can I get
a free.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Van right whatever? They're like family.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well now, but but even if you're not doing a kitchen,
you you're still selling those bathroom sized that that those
remnants a cost.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, and it would be like a family deal.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
And let's be clear this is there's nothing used about
these countertops.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
They are new, yeah, the new countertops. Yeah, they just
don't have any used countertops. We bust that up. Make
the road when we pull it out of kitchens, We
make the little extra road in our it's a nice driveway.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, you don't see those y maybybe Maybe you could
talk to do O T about.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, yeah, some of that's most solid road in Columbia,
South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Now you mentioned there. Okay, just just make the purchase
this much at the October. Yeah, you don't have to
have it installed backto because truth of the matter is,
if you went in there today and brought your measurements
and purchased granted or marble or courts or courtside countertops
for your kitchen. Well, it's unless something really weird happens.

(31:16):
This is not the time of the year. We can
even get it installed really by the end of the month, right,
I mean, so for folks to get done for the holidays. Yeah, yeah,
we're are the holidays. Where do you sit right now?

Speaker 4 (31:24):
You need to hurry up and get in there if
you want it before Thanksgiving, like you could still. I
can still get it before Thanksgiving barely, okay. Yeah, so
I mean maybe a whole bit of this week, you know,
maybe it might be different. Hopefully, No, I mean, you know,
not that I'm hoping that somebody can't get it done it.
Hopefully you can get in there before we can get
all the slots taken.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Okay, because y'all have been pretty durn busy.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Rea, We've been blessed. I mean, we are so fortunate.
We've been, you know, getting so many referrals from you
and Ann and all the listeners I've done. So many
people come in and you don't even believe it. Just
come in and say, yeah, I heard you on the radio,
so I recognize your voice from anywhere.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I think the last time we were over there at
your shaping store, we ran into some folks that had
hurt us on the radio. Yeah, yeah, we were out there. Yeah,
we got no conversations, I remember.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, can you believe it?

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, small world, guys, here's a little word to the wise.
All Right, you take your spell your spouse out there.
Number one, Remember who's going to make the decision here?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Okay, yeah, bring the decision maker. Bring the decision maker,
unless you do some recon that's fine too, Okay, Yeah,
I got some guys to come do that.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay. But two, but to understand, because your situation is
probably gonna be a lot like mine was. Is while
you could, because you've got plenty of stories of folks
who know exactly what they want. They're in and there
out like in twenty minutes. Yeah right, you can do
it that quickly. But chances are pretty good, guys, your
significant other is going to want to take her time, okay,

(32:58):
like like she may have set the world record for
that one that time. I don't know what that was.
I love it, And that was like a hot August afternoon.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
But there's plenty to plenty to look at it right
there on that chapin.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, literally I have thousands at this point, I mean
of remnants, So yeah, I got plenty, all right, Well,
different colors between courts, courtzite, marble. Granted, we got you know,
from level ones to level fifteen, so I'm kidding about
the fifteen fifteen before. I do have some two hundred

(33:31):
and sixty dollars remnants too that are at costs at
that price, so they're they're you know, I mean some
of them are more more expensive than others.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
But yeah, well in my aestimation. Here's here's the great
thing about it, because again, you guys do everything, the selling,
the fabrication, the installation. You have you before we came
on the year you were mentioning, I mean you got
you guys just did like a forty thousand dollars job.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Now forty six if you count.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Forty six thousand dollars. I mean that's some fancy countertopping
right there.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Bro Oh yeah, court site and then ONYX on the
wall where they're back lighting it.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
But the point is is that your folks have the experience, Yeah,
pull off a forty six thousand dollars job. Yeah, and
you do the same thing, the same level of service
and commitment and the same expertise for a remnant in
your bathroom.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely right, I mean yeah, same people. You
don't have a group.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
You don't have a group that does the forty six
thousand dollar jobs.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Oh, these guys over here, yeah do the remnant stuff.
That means the same people, right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
And we'll have remnants so that big job too. We'll
have those court site remnants as well. So you get
to get to have the same type material sometimes as
the Maybe I should do.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
That if I got a forty six thousand dollars of
the town type over here in his bathroom.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Check this, Well, they do have. They had a beautiful
house on the lake and on the point and all
that and stuff, and just remodeled it and gut it
out in this big, old giant house from some old
school person Oliver Mission or whatever it was. Yeah, they
sold the house and then these people bought it. Yeah,

(35:11):
the owners of the Oliver Mission hadn't had this house
and it was brand new back in the day. And
then they took out walls and just really really made
it look nice.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
All right, let's reiterate before our time expires. Here this month,
the month of October, what's the special.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Come in, buy a kitchen, get a free thirty inch
vanity or a single bowl of vanity. Okay, ye, book
it this month up to thirty thirty six inches in
that range.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Okay, all right, and that starts right now to this month.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Two day, yeah, two day.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You're not at the shop yet, but you will be.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Soon, yes, okay, yep, Now to the end of the month.
Just sign up, all.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Right, and you go thecation to make that original purchase.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Either location, and we'll honor the vanity purchase as well,
and you can come in and pick that at a
different time if you go to forty twenty four and.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Okay, and the roombents are out at one fifty three
Chapin Road, Chapin.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Okay, yep, I got my bone yard out there.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
All right, brother, How to folks get a hold of you?

Speaker 4 (36:07):
My friend eight A three seven twenty comes right to
my cell phone. I got it transferred to my number.
You can see me at one fifty three Chapin Road, Chapin,
And you can see my brother David at forty twenty
Fernandina Road.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Two day to day.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Thank you brother.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Good to see you, brother, it was far.

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Well is on the line now from Freedom Plumming, joining
us together this morning. James, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Sir, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
How are you man well? And I gotta I gotta
shout out to you guys at Freedom Plummy because you've
you guys are lifesavers back we were. You know, I've
been talking about this project we've been involved in and
uh doing some innovations at my parents' house and getting
it put up on the market after they moved out,
and uh, I mean just earlier this week. It's like

(38:27):
the pretty much the last day of you know, things
to be you know, major things to be done. At
least we discovered the painters over there and discovered that
the I guess the uh, the outside hose, that that
faucet there, and they turned it on and heard something popping,
heard something hiss and next thing you know, there's water
coming out underneath the house. Wow, and this is like

(38:52):
what yeah, I first thing they called me and luckily, uh,
they had just been painting the garage like the day
before and noticed well everything else was out of there
that that was the key to the shut off olve
and thank goodness for that. So they were able to
get it shut off. And I don't know what time
I called you on it was like maybe five thirty
or so, and luckily we got the water cut off

(39:14):
of the house and you got your guys were out there,
you know, just as you told me they would be
at nine o'clock the next morning and taking care of
the problem. So so thanks for that, man. I appreciate it,
of course.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
Absolutely well appreciate you keeping us in mind. And you
know we would have been able to do it the
same night. The thing is, if they get the water off,
saves the emergency service. So anytime we could save somebody money,
you know, we we try to give information over the
phone that can help with that kind of like mainline stoppages.

(39:47):
We get emergency calls somebody's saying that their sewer line
is backed up, and typically the first thing we tell
them to do is contact their municipality whoever they pay
their sewer bill to and make them come out first,
because they should be able to tell them whether or
not it's on the city side or the customer side.
And if it's on the city side, you pay for

(40:10):
them to maintain the system. You know, it's you don't
have to pay anything if we come out there first,
open the clean out and tell you, then you just
spent that money on emergency service charge just for us
to tell you it's on the city side. There's nothing
we can do.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
So, well, what's the delineation between where the city side
is and where the homeowner or business owner side is.

Speaker 6 (40:30):
So sometimes it's basically the property line in most cases,
and you know, usually there's that little buffer where the
city has easement onto your property for utilities or things
of that nature. Side I would say about ten to
fifteen feet from the road. Typically I've seen them go
into the middle of the yard before. So it really

(40:53):
just depends on the municipality. But if you have to
clean out swhich are the access points to your sewer line,
they typically stick up out of the ground, little white
pipe with the screw tap on it. There's one usually
close to the house near the foundation two three feet
from the house, and then there's one usually out in

(41:14):
the yard about ten feet or so from the road.
And the way to know whose side the issue is
on is by opening those cleanouts. If you open the
one at the house and there's water in it, then
you know the water is getting past that clean out.
So then you go to the city. If you open
that one up and there's water in it, then you
know the issues on the city. If there's no water

(41:36):
in it, then the issue is going to be in
between somewhere, which means it's going to be on the
homeowner side, in the yard somewhere. Okay, typically roots.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
But yeah, that happens a lot, doesn't it. It does.
But here's the question, and maybe different municipalities it's different.
But I'm thinking, yeah, if I've got a sewer stoppage
or backup, you know, I hear what you're saying, you know,
if it's an emergency situation where you're gonna pay the

(42:05):
emergency feed again, you know, Freedom Plumbing or any plumber
out there. But it seems to me like calling the municipality.
I mean, how quickly will they get out there, because
you know, it seems like they can to day sometimes.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
Well, luckily, when it's an emergency like that, they're out
there pretty quick. I told the customer this the other week,
and it was actually a friend of mine. So he
was texting me back and forth and I said, Hey,
call the municipality. Let's just verify it's not on their
side before we send somebody out there. Yeah, he goes,

(42:38):
I don't want to wait that long, and said they're
usually pretty quick about it. And sure enough he texted
me back and said, hey, man, thanks, they're coming out.
They'd be about within forty five minutes.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Oh wow.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
So most municipalities have an emergency service program as well
in these cases, so they have somebody on call that's
going to come out and take a look, you know,
whether or not it's on their side or your side.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Well it's good to know, okay, because I would have
thought it could be days, you know, before government could respond, yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Well if you have, especially if you let them know, hey,
I got sewage backing up into my house, is flush,
my toilet's coming up in the shower, then yeah, most
likely they're going to send somebody out pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
When that kind of thing happens. James, and you notice that,
is that the sort of thing that Okay, well, as
long as you don't flush another toilet is not going
to get any worse or will it get worse, regardless
of what you do or don't do.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
Yes, it should stop as long as is the issues
on your side. It should stop when you don't use
any more water, no water in the house at all.
That's what I recommend all the time. Some people think
the upstairs is flushing, Well, the upstairs is just coming downstairs.

(43:57):
It's all going to one pipe. That one pipe the
house and goes out to the municipality. So no matter
what you use in the house, you unless it's just
one you know toolet that's backing up. You know, you
can have branch line stoppages. But typically anytime that happens,
until we get out there and take a look at it,
I'll just say, you know, just stop using water. That way,

(44:21):
you don't cause any damage or overflow toolts or showers.
Matter of fact, the gap that called me the other
other day said it was coming out of the shower,
so it had filled up the shower base enough to
overflow out of that lip of the shower.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
So, and and as clean as that stuff looks, it
does not clean. It's it's considered black water, which is
a Class three contaminants.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
So yeah, yeah, time for call a d Heck, yeah,
that sort.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
Of thing happens, well, a restoration company, somebody that knows
what they're dealing with to make sure because typically anything
pours that that touch at that point needs to come out.
And now there's some stuff that they could do with
microban and to clean up, but it really definitely a
situation I would be calling a restoration company.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Now do you need to in that situation not only
not use any water until they can be fixed, you
need to actually turn the water off to the house
or is that not necessary?

Speaker 6 (45:25):
Only if there's fixtures that won't stop. But a drip
typically isn't going to be enough to do anything. So
what you can do if you know someone feels comfortable enough,
is if they know they have those clean outs, they
can relieve the pressure. I would be very cautious about

(45:45):
doing this, but outside by taking one of the cleanout
cats off, Beware there could be a good bit of
pressure in there. And you take that thing loose in
it starts spraying sewage. So you know, kind of do
it slow, careful and step back.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Well, if nothing else, I think so far we've established
it's a it's a pretty good idea to a you know,
know where your water shut off valve is and and
and have the appropriate key in order to turn it off.
Is that key universal? By the way, is there just
one size fits all when it comes to that.

Speaker 6 (46:22):
Typically now there's some like really small keys that I've
seen that unless you have a new meter, that key
is probably not going to help you out that much.
You can get large the larger keys, and sometimes the
store carries two different sets. There'll be a real cheap,
tiny little meter key and then they'll have a bigger,

(46:44):
more heavy duty one. I always recommend it of you
duty one because you know there's there's some meters where
you got to put some put some force into it
to get that thing to spin, especially the older ones
in downtown Columbia area if it hadn't been replaced, and
it could be difficult to turn off.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, and who knows how long?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Right yeah?

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Yeah, or you know, some people have shut off valves
easily accessible in their garages right outside their house. There's
other ways to shut it off other than the meter.
Our old house had a shut off avalve and the
pressure reducing valve in the garage, so pretty convenient. A
lot of new houses are doing that.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
And finding is it pretty easy to find the shut
off alve? I mean though the main shut off alve
is is.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
There a so?

Speaker 6 (47:40):
I mean we we've spent quite a bit of time
trying to locate some of these meter boxes because they
some of them haven't been used in so long. They're
they're covered with landscaping. I've seen them in little you know,
landscaped islands and molts, just covering. And you got to

(48:00):
go around where you think it might be based off
of you know, the those bit in the front or
certain indicators and just kind of go around and see,
wait until you hit that metal or plastic lid and
you know, yeah it could it could take a while,
So I would I would try to know where that
is as well, just so you you have it in

(48:20):
your mind. If anything happens, you have to go to
it right away instead of more property damage your current wall.
Catastrophic happened with the waterliner.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah, all right, so we've we're talking about sewer backups
and stoppages, and there's a you know, over the years
that technology and how to to you know, find these
things and fix them as evolved quite quite a bit,
hasn't it.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Yeah, So it used to be, you know, you send
your cable down and you relieve the blockage, and you
pull your cable out and lay it on the ground
and say, all right, well this is where this is
how far I had to run my cable to get
to where the wockages to the spee, where the roots are,
or whatever issue is. But you know, technology always advances.

(49:09):
So now we've got cameras that we can send down there.
They've been around for quite a while, but you know,
we got a newer one that we can actually send
down the entire sewer line and trace the whole wire
instead of just tracing a camera head. So it makes
it a lot easier for one person crew to do

(49:30):
the job. In some cases, you know, especially commercial, you'd
have to have one guy pushing the camera, one guy
following the head of the camera and kind of locating
where it's going through the building and where you know
where we've got to potentially dig to do a repair.
With that analogy, it just makes it to where you

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can just trace it all the way from the start
to the finish.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Okay, So that's a cost setting for the consumer. Right
Because you do one man crew instead of a two
man crew, you can get to the problem faster, you
get it fixed faster.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
Yeah, and it's really precise, and I'll get your whole.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yard dug up in the process because it's hard to find, right.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
We can tell exactly where it is and how deep
it is, so you know, and that helps us on
bidding certain projects because a sewer line repair at two
feet is going to be a lot different than the
sewer alligned repair at six feet. Now, we don't run
into six feet sewer line repairs very often, but you know,
once you go a certain depth, you can't just dig

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down that far. Let's see, you're eight feet in the ground.
You can't dig an eight feet an eight foot hole.
You have to have, you know, certain safety measures in
place to make sure that that hole can't collapse on
any workers in there, whole things of that nature. So
the cost goes up pretty substantially when you're when you
run into situations like that. So knowing the depth is

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really key to being able to know what you need
on site to do the repair and then how much
that prepair is going to be so you don't surprise
the customer, you know, with a larger build thing they
were expecting, right, because you didn't know it was eight
foot deep not three feet deep.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
This is one of those things we just take for
granted until something goes wrong, right you expect to gosh,
we we don't think about it.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
But it's funny. I ride through neighborhoods and okay, they
got to clean out. They gottle little things like that.
And I'll use that information, you know, on jobs. If
I can't find somebody's clean out, I'll walk down the
road and I'll say, okay, well you know their line
comes out here. They have a city clean out. They
have a city clean out. The likelihood is that the

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customer rat has one. It just might be buried or
or something like that. So you know, the neighbors systems
can help us identify some things that help us locate
devices that we need to locate, whether it be meters,

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clean outs and things of that nature. So you just
gives us an idea on what could be going on.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Sure, since you brought up earlier, James, the fact that
we were talking about, you know, getting the meter getting
get turned off and sometimes older homes harder to do.
What have you the actual line itself? I know we've
talked before about how you know, you know over the
older homes have a you know certain types of water lines.
You know newer homes use. Is that the the plex?

(52:32):
What's what's the what's the world? Pex? Plex is the
place out in they'll just saying okay pex Yes, the
actual material used for sewer lines? Has that changed over
the years too?

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (52:46):
Well mainly I mean over the years.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Yes, we're out of time. My friend Freedom Plumbing, the
guys who have helped my family quite a bit over
the years and just recently as well. Always appreciated James.
How do folks get a hold of you? I needs
you at Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
They can give us call at eighth three four four
seven zero four seven one, or visit our website at
Freedom Dash plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
All right, the guys right around town, the big red,
white and blue trucks, it's Freedom Plumbing. James, thanks as
always for joining us, and you have yourself a good weekend, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
You do the same thing, Gary, Thank you. 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
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Speaker 4 (53:37):
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Speaker 6 (53:39):
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