Home Improvement Show 10-12-24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning and welcome in the Home improvement Show of
the Midlands. Hey, it's so good to have you here
on this Saturday morning, the twelfth of October. My name
is Gary David. Coming up a reminder in less than
one hour now our best game Cock coverage with Christopher
Thompson the team as the game Cocks taken on Alabama
in Tusca, LUSA.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's all task.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We'll see what goes on, but all the analysis pregame
coming up here in less than an hour on WVOC.
But we got this hour, my friends, and coming up
Courtney and Renee Avent going to drop by from Diamond
Concrete Solutions, the solutions for different issues you may have
with your concrete. Is it dirty, is it nasty? Is
it cracked? We'll get the answers and the solutions from
Courtney and Renee. Jeremy Holliday will be joining me. He

(00:58):
is mister electric around here and the summer from Beaver
Roofing and Gutters. Boy, they've been busy, matter of factor,
putting a new roof on our home.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Fortunately that well, actually I say fortunately if you're fortunately
have damage, but a little bit nice because the insurance
coming to pay for it, but or at least try
to get them to.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But in this case, we just wanted a new roof.
And you know something else, who want our new house
and that's we want a new paint job. So let's
say good morning to a a fellow. Will first introduced
you to a couple of weeks ago when he came
in with with Renee even from my Diamond Concrete Solutions.
It's Russ MARQUESI, Marcasey crazy Marquesy, not really Russ Finishing

(01:36):
Touch Team, our newest member of the home improvement show
of the Middlands. Russ, how are your brother just move
one up that we pull that microphone?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, got it?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well, it's great to meet you a couple of weeks ago.
And then we learned a lot about matter of fact,
some tips that we've kind of taken at the house.
We just moving to this new house. We did a
couple of small painting jobs. Sure, and uh you some
terrific ideas on technique. Absolutely that I wasn't aware of.
Share with my wife who does the bulk of the
paint because she loves the pain ah faind absolutely, but

(02:09):
she has her limits though she and she knows what
she can and she can't do sure.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So often.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Folks try to take on something like this on their
own and find out they've just made a disaster of things.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
We go through it all the time, we really do.
We uh.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
You know, we get calls constantly, at least at least
once or twice a week, to be honest with you,
Gary of homeowners who have tried to take on a project.
Sometimes it's cabinetry like we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sometimes it's just.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
A room or maybe you know, the great room is
a little higher than they expected and they don't feel
comfortable doing it. So we go through this all the time,
and you know, look, it's we all try to save
as much money as we can these days and do
things ourselves as much as we can, right but sometimes
you know, it's just beyond our reach and we have

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to call professional or somebody to to be able to
handle something like that. And that's that's definitely where we can.
We can come in and help anybody out in any
of their painting needs whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
We're looking forward to because there's a bathroom that you're
all going to do for us, absolutely looking forward to it. Yeah,
I can't wait to see that because I gotta tell you,
I you know, I don't believe I've ever had a
professional painter come in to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is that right, people who have done other things? And Okay, yeah,
I can paint that and then oh man, it looks
like I do a good job far as I can tell.
But I know I am going to be blown away.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
You are, you are, absolutely yeah, you're gonna especially if
this is your first time, You're definitely going to see
a uh you know, uh, you know, a big difference
in just you know, professionalism and quality with that for sure. Yeah,
we we strive on it. Gary, It's our it's our
number one you know motto.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
For sure, let's talk about is it finishing? Touch team?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
And you've been at this for twenty two years, twenty
two years, two years, twenty two years. So you come
from a family of painters, right I do.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm a second generation painter. Actually, my father, Russ Senior,
you know, taught me basically everything I know. I went
to work with him when okay, you were just out
of diapers. I sure have, I sure have, and uh
he actually just he was my partner for twenty one
and a half years. Basically he just retired. So he

(04:15):
just retired and he's unfortunately he's down in Florida actually right.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Now, so oh digging out from all that takes some prayers.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
For him, but here he is. But yeah, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
My my grant, my grandfather was actually a plaster worker
and uh in upstate New York originally. Yeah, that's what
he would do. He would go through and do the
old school plastering on all the walls.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
So well, I got to tell you since you brought
that up, because I get my wife, she's she's pretty handy.
We first got married, she owned a condo and it
was built in the forties and had plaster walls.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh yeah, and it had grass cloth.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh and I got home the worst combination.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
And she decided she was going to take the grass
cloth in the bedroom down on a plaster wall. And
I have never seen so much dust in my life.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh sure, wow, So you're a messaw that worked in plaster.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
He did, he really did. And you know there's a
there's a lot of homes still in Shandon actually that
had plaster walls all throughout there. Yeah, and we've worked
on many, many, many of those homes and.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
There's certain ways to fix it.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
You can't just go about it the same way you
go about sheet rock regular sheet rock walls. There's definitely
a method and a means to repair those type of walls.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, what's easier for you guys when you go into
a new construction, let's say, and you're okay, you got
a blank slate, or you go into a place that's
been around for a while, and who knows what's on
that wall and you got to figure it out because
it matters what's up there is what you've got to
put over top of it?

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Does?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
It really does?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I Mean there's so many variables when it comes to this, right,
I get questions like this all the time where they'll
even ask me, hey, can you give me a roundabout
of this type of area, And there's just so many variables.
It's it's it's hard to to you know, quantify that
without actually putting her eyes on it. But what it
really comes down to is the amount of preparation. That's

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where it's really at. So you could have a brand new,
you know, brand new home like you're talking about, but
you still have to calk fill holes, you have to prime,
put multiple coats on. Whereas an existing property or existing room,
let's say, you know, it could be it could have
a terrible sheet rock job in there and you have
to do tons of repair work. We're actually doing a

(06:29):
home right now in Irmo just like that. It's a
newer home, it's only about eight or nine years old,
and the sheetrocks just it's horrendous. Unfortunately, it just do is.
They just didn't do a great job in there. So
we're in there fixing it.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Up for them.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
So you take care of that part too, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Oh yes, yeah, anything that that coincides with the painting
like that is what we'll provide. Absolutely, It's just it's
part of our paint job.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Gary.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
So when we come into your walls, once all the
switch play covers are removed, everything's covered up like you know,
drops and plastic very thoroughly.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
We stand the walls. We repair all the walls first.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
So standing before your painting in every absolute eason really.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Okay time, Yeah, it's a must. Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
You have to stand the wall to uh get better
adhesion for the paint. Really, if there's any little marks
or anything in the paint that will come off with
a sander, and then we go and we repair the walls.
Any nail pops, cracks, stress cracks, things like that, or
just simple nail holes from taking a picture down. It's
all included in our paint job. Oh okay, absolutely, okay,
this is the whole nine yards it is.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
It really is.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, it's a turnkey situation. We don't we don't leave
any any stone on you know, uh, not turned over
when we go into a home.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
To because when it's done, whether the faulty sheet rock
was your your fault or not, it doesn't matter, because
your job when it's done, is going.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
To look like our names on it afterwards. So we
have to make it right and we go above and beyond.
We really do. We do things that most people will
would never think of doing or even ever do.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Uh you know.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Will will recok the corners of your ceilings. Okay, even
though there's not actually a crack there, we'll recock it
to define a new line up there. So when we
cut our paint line to it, it's as sharp as
can be and you could shave with that line. That's
that's the importance of it. It really is.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
So these are the mistakes that we as ad I
wires do right on. You just slap a code of
paint up over another code.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Of paint and yes or unfortunately and maybe we what
is what is the what's the rule of thumb? You
don't put oil on top of latex over oil, no latex,
no go.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
You can always put oil over latex, Okay, you sure
it can'tunds.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Like the old beer and then liquor and never been sick.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I don't yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's uh, it's true
and it still stands.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It does.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
They're coming out with with awesome products these days. Though
they really are hybrids, uh type type products that clean
up with water, so you know it's it's actually a
late tex product. But the hardness when it dries, the
tensile strength of the actual paint is just like an
oil base, which gives you that longevity and that deep
deepness that look. And some of them you can actually

(09:13):
go over an oil base, certain ones, not all of them,
you got to be careful, but certain ones you certainly can.
So they've come a long ways.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Let's switch gears for a second, Russ and talk about
something else. And you mentioned it a few minutes ago,
and that is cabinets, kitchen casts. Absolutely because you have
a service that could say people a whole lot of money.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
We sure do, Gary, we sure do. So.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
One of our specialties is cabinetry, paint, refinishing, painting, cabinetry. Okay,
we have a state of the art spray booth at
our shop right here in Nermo and Will. What we
actually do is we come to your home, We remove
all the doors, all the drawers, We number them, you know, correctly,
so they go back to the same spot, bring them
to our shop. We do all the preparation on them.

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If there's little nicks, you know, cracks, whatever it is,
we repair all of that. We use Bondo all sorts
of different products to repair those. And then we refinish
those and we paint them in our spray booth they're
at our shop, and then reinstall them. And I'll tell
you the finish is absolutely amazing. I mean, it looks
fantastic and it's a fraction of the price of replacing cabinetry,

(10:19):
a fraction of the price. That really you get a
lot of bang for your buck when you repaint your cabinets.
And but you got to do it right because it
can be a mess. If if if you don't do
it correctly. Yeah, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, and that again that that probably that's all done
off site.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
It is, it is, Yes, so we we actually remove
all of them. We bring them to our shop.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
We have a six thousand square foot warehouse uh connected
to our office with our with our spray booth back there,
and uh we do all of our preparation back there.
We have exhaust fans all like I said, say, the
art spray booth with you know, giant ten thousand lumen
led lights shining on the door so you can see

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every little detail in those cabinets.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Right, That's important because that's really where it's at. It
really is.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
And we do all sorts of We switch from stained
cabinets to painted. We can restain cabinetry, we can revarnish
cabinetry pretty much you name it.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
And we've been talking so far mainly about homework, but
use a lot of commercial work too.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
We do.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
We do, so our business pretty much consists of eighty
percent commercial. Okay, painting it this sure does. We do
high schools, office buildings, hospital, a lot of medical facilities.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
We do.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
We did a lot of the painting up here at
Lexington Hospital when they built the new towers. Yeah, but yeah,
and then twenty percent is residential. We really love doing residential.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
We do.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
We like, you know, conversing with homeowners, build those relationships.
We sure do, you know, putting our name on that
and you know, beautifying someone's home. We take a lot
of pride in doing that.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Gary.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
We're looking forward to you doing that.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
For absolutely can't wait. I cannot wait.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
And I know you're probably looking around at the studio
and going, oh my gosh, what is this?

Speaker 4 (12:04):
We I know that's you know, it's a it's a
blessing and a curse at the same time. We unfortunately
get away from you, I really really do. It's uh,
it's crazy. I can point out a million things all
the time.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So yeah, I'm like that. I'm like that. Listening to
the audio, I'm like, oh my gosh, that's horrible.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Anyway, Uh, finishing touch Team Russ Marks. It is wonderful
to have you as part of the program and look
forward to a lot from you about uh who know
you could who knew you could know so much about
painting right exactly.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
There's a lot too thing, it really is. There's a
lot to it.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Terrific.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, So, uh, I know you guys pride yourselves
on customer service and getting back to people absolutely, so
if you're looking for an estimate, you're not going to
sit around for days waiting to hear back. How do
folks get a hold of your us and then you
get so.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
You can always you can always give me. You can
call our our business line eight oh three four six
seven six seven five nine, or you can always uh
go to our website Finishingtouchteam dot com.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
It's the name, it's the name, the name, finish Simple
Team dot com. Yes, sorry, all right, wonderful to have
you in and we'll see in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Rus sounds great, Thanks Garry.

Speaker 7 (13:14):
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good to have you with us this morning on the

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Home Improvement Show the Midlands on one O three point five.

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Speaker 1 (15:13):
And don't forget we are counting down to our best
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Speaker 2 (15:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:29):
And Wellness Show will air this afternoon. We'll be back
on with that about at two o'clock. All right, so
a little change in the schedule for today. But right
now we're talking about your home or your business. It's
Home improvement show in the middle has but a lot
of businesses benefit from the things we talk about on
this show, getting things fixed up or getting them fixed
And right now let's talk about your concrete it's Courting

(15:50):
and Reneve and Diamond Concrete Solutions.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hey, good morning to both of you. Hey, well what
did I do to get both.

Speaker 9 (15:56):
Of you here?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
You just won the lottery? Here you go, how.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Y'all do it very well?

Speaker 5 (16:04):
How about yourself?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Very nice? Thank you, Thank you, y'all. Love. I know,
I always staying busy.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
I mean, what's uh yeah, yeah yeah, under ode.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
All the time.

Speaker 11 (16:14):
Yeah, covering you know, the whole state. We're on the
road a good bit these days.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
But good stuff.

Speaker 11 (16:19):
You know, a lot of a lot of indoor work
this time of year as well. It's cooled off and
we're able to get to some of those pool decks
and garages and things.

Speaker 9 (16:26):
Now now that's cooled some.

Speaker 11 (16:27):
But I'm definitely really staying busy with some indoor projects.

Speaker 9 (16:32):
You know.

Speaker 11 (16:32):
The polishing and the stain and ceiling is always a
really big thing for us, especially really just year round.
You can do it with any type of weather if
it's inside.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
So I'm gonna put all the curve ball this morning,
calling an audible as they were saying football, I get
a couple of questions.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
I want to ask you.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I don't know sure we've ever quite done it this way.
But if I describe an issue I have with concrete,
you give me the solution.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sure, what you'll do, right, Yeah, So my concrete just
just looks horrible.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Right, It's it's just you know, it's concrete will get
it gets dirty, and.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I've tried to clean it.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, but it seems like the more I try to
clean it, say power washing, for example, the dirty or
it gets.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
Why is that, Well, technically, when you power wash your floor,
very often it's too strong, so it kind of opens
up the pores and almost destroys the floor. So there
are different techniques to use to take care of the
floor from grinding and then seal stain and seal the

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floor versus really.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Getting hot on the floor.

Speaker 10 (17:45):
Very often chemicals involve, so it's not really very helpful.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Okay, So it's it's it's just like it's opening up
the because we always forget concrete is porous thing.

Speaker 9 (17:56):
Yeah, I mean soft pressure washes.

Speaker 11 (17:58):
I think what renee means is, you know, all's going
to be a little better than maybe like a really
hard hard wash. Those those commercial washers are great for
cleanup after storms like we've just had, you know, things
like that. But you know, then reprotecting things is always
the way to go. And so you know, you can
just seal things, but we always recommend putting an extra
layer of something down, whether it's a stain and seal

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or if you're going to do some polishing that'll strengthen
the floor, or you can do any type of an
overlay of stone or would look overlay that really gives
you some good protection that's going to keep things from
getting back down into those pores and causing you know,
any compromise.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
So you'll always talking about it. One of the first
steps you do is grinding. You always get to the
grind and what is that and why I guess grinding it?
But why is that important? What is that doing?

Speaker 10 (18:43):
So it definitely opens up the course even better, and
it cleans up the top surface off the floor and
helps when we stain the floor or polish the floor
that everything goes really deep into the confer Okay, so okay,
that makes sense.

Speaker 11 (18:59):
And then that's so those pores soak in what we
put down and then when it gets uh you know,
a layer or then a seiler on top of that,
then that really closes everything back up so that if
you know, you get fluid or water or you know,
even just rain and mildew or if you drop me.
If it's in the garage and something drips there, obviously

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it needs to be wiped up, but it's going to
protect it from really soaking into those pores again as quickly.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I see. So you don't want to be surface level
this seal. You want to get down in there.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
Yeah, yeah, fill it up, Yeah for sure, exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, So first up would be to grind.

Speaker 11 (19:33):
It or pressure washed soft pressure washing times brand new concrete,
newly poured concrete, usually the prep work. You know you
can because those pores haven't gotten you know, opened up
and stained so badly yet, you can pressure wash that
before you do something. But usually if it's existing concrete,
we recommend grinding it.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, gotcha. And typically I mean when somebody who just
had concrete pour they're not gonna whoever did that, They're
not going to seal it, are they? I mean, does
that happen much?

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Sometimes? Sometimes?

Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, it depends on the builder, depends on if its
interior versus exterior. Almost never are they doing a sealer
exterior to new builds. Sometimes withindoor you know, barn dominiums
or you know slab houses or multi family spaces where
they have concrete flooring. Sometimes there is a seiler that goes.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Down inside it. It really just depends on the project.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I got concrete that's cracked. Yeah, everybody's right. I mean
that's just that's that's just a given.

Speaker 9 (20:35):
That's a given.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Death taxes and cracked concrete.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, then the concrete cracked concrete is is that there's
a problem there, because once it's cracked, it's really always
gonna be kind of.

Speaker 11 (20:47):
Cracked, right, yeah, And I mean it's going to crack
the concrete. Does that you have a relief joint to
help you know direct where those cracks are going. Hopefully,
if you have good relief joints, you'll get cracks in there,
and that's what's supposed to happen. But if you get
cracked concrete, that just means you own concrete. At some point,
your concrete is going to show cracks somewhere, whether their
hairline or you know, big cracks things like that. But

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you know, you can again prevent more of that from
happening down the road and protect the life of it
by doing something to it quickly. If you can, or
when it's new still by protecting it with a sealer
or a polish or a stain and seal or an overlay.
And then you know, if you do have aging cracked
concrete and overlay will certainly cover some of that up

(21:32):
for you. Mask it, sort of camouflage it.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, take advantage of it, right.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
Take advantage of it, yake advantage.

Speaker 11 (21:39):
So even a stain and seal or a polish, you
may still see those cracks, but it gives texture and
character to the concrete even though you've you know, sort
of slightly covered it that way. But then if you
do want to completely cover it and overlay, we'll do that.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
And in case of that, we talk about taking taking
advantage of the cracks. It's an overlay like maybe a
slate or something like that. Yeah, correct that way anyway.

Speaker 11 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean, so use those to your advantage, make
them look like real stone or slate another material. Absolutely,
it's a great option.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
So, yeah, we talked about the grinding and the ceiling
and the staining and the polishing and the overlays, and
I think you were telling us a couple of weeks
ago what the new hot overlay is was it brushed
polished marble?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Was?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Well?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
I think it's a what flow overlay.

Speaker 11 (22:30):
Around this area, the rustic hardwood is really popular. You know,
we have a lot of really traditional homes in this area,
a lot of classic architecture, and so, you know a
lot of people want natural looking materials like hardwood. That's
really popular in South Carolina, South Carolina in particular. And
so rather than you know, trying to put hardwood down

(22:53):
somewhere where it's not going to perform, such as outside
or where there's moisture or something like that, rust of
hardwood overlay looks really great over your concrete, but it
looks and feels like real hardwood. So yeah, that's that's
really popular. And we did something really interesting lately. We've
not done a black one before, have we maybe once
or white, but we did a beautiful black floor. She

(23:15):
wanted it to be, you know, a painted look, but hardwood,
and so we gave her a beautiful hardwood overlay and
then painted it black the color that she wanted, and
gave it some texture and she's got you know, white
and black accent throughout that space. And wow, did that
come out really classy and stunning to have some white
walls and some white trims and then some black floors

(23:36):
and then other black trim in there.

Speaker 9 (23:37):
It was really beautiful.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I can imagine a color combination is pretty hot these days, wasn't.

Speaker 11 (23:43):
We thought she was going to put some garnet in
there and make it really hot.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
You know.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
It turns out she was a Clemson fan. We were surprised.
We thought for sure this was going to end up
being some sort of a game pok space. But it
was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
She didn't asked for the purple floor, the orange purple.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
You can do that if that's what they want.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
You can. We've done some of that in the Upstate
for sure, So.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I can imagine.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Well, you may not be getting too many calls after
last weekends Carolina game.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Maybe today will be a better story.

Speaker 9 (24:12):
I don't hopefully.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
So we've got.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Alabama, but we'll we'll find out.

Speaker 11 (24:16):
Oh you never know, they got upset you know recently too,
so oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
They that was stunning that.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, thanks by the way, Van, any favors, I know, yeah,
thanks a bunch. So, as you mentioned, this time of
the year, uh, and we've talked about this before when
the weather is so is when you're working outside, the
weather place is a big role and what you can
and can't do. Yes, so you know, we you know,

(24:44):
whether it's the dampness or the heat a big probably
during the summertime of course, so probably the pool decks
or you're probably busy with pool decks right about now.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, we're still very busy with pool decks.

Speaker 10 (24:54):
And then of course the hurricane pushed us a little
bit to the to the back, and get pushed everyone.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Everybody behind on the two storms.

Speaker 10 (25:03):
Yeah, and but now it's the time for us to
finish a lot of those jobs we pushed for quite
some time. And uh yeah, it's a perfect uh scenario
now somewhere in the seventies, which is really nice and
comfortable to work on the floor.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yeah, right, so yeah, we have a lot of jobs
to finish.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I mean, it's it's it's a detailed process.

Speaker 10 (25:27):
It is, yeah, very detailed. So it's hand made very
often and hand traveled and so it's very detailed. It's
not ever perfect just because it's hand made versus like
it's unique.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Every floor is very unique.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
It's very difficult to do the same floor again in
the same color. It is really possible so everyone who
gets a floor is usually very unique.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
For nice Yeah, I know it is so, but then again,
I mean the options are varied. I mean you just
maybe just want to seal that concrete, you want it
to still look like concrete, or you want to stay
in it, give it a little bit of a hue.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (26:08):
Absolutely, that's great for a lot of businesses. It's great
for larger spaces. It's very cost effective for a larger space.
So some of these commercial and business projects that we have,
you know, they they're they're larger than your home projects,
and so you want something that's going to protect the
floor and make it beautiful, but that's also not going
to be so expensive per square foot that exactly. So
you know, big big manufacturing facilities have us come in,

(26:31):
you know a certain times of the year, maybe when
they've got people on on off for holidays or foot
fur low or what have you come in and seal
the floor for them to come back. Maybe a manufacturing spaces.
Warehousing absolutely, polishing and ceiling for sure are wonderful options
for that type of thing for businesses, just for functionality,

(26:52):
but also to make it look better.

Speaker 10 (26:54):
Right, Yeah, we just finished a floor on Divine Street
and it was like a three thousand square feet polished
floor which we added a black into that floor, a
black dye and it looks really awesome. It had a
towel on it for I don't know, thirty years. So
the grout lines are still shoring through the floor somehow,

(27:15):
which is which.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Makes the floor very very unique.

Speaker 10 (27:18):
But since it's a business, it's very helpful for the maintenance.
It's pretty maintenance free, very easy to clean. So that
right because not bleach right, yeah bleach. Yeah, some some
customer used the wrong materials.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Clean it up. Okay.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
So as whether as retail spaces or warehouses.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Or your home, yeah, absolutely, Diamond Concrete Solutions to get
the solution for you. All right, How can folks best
reach you? And and and again go to your website.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, see what we're talking about.

Speaker 11 (27:51):
Check out some socials absolutely good pictures are a great
way to see what you want to do. You can
reach us at seven five nine, eight nine, that's eight
oh three and then Diamondconcrete Solutions dot com and you
can give us a call, make an appointment, come by
the warehouse and take a look at some of the
floors we have down there if you'd like, but definitely pictures.
We've got loads of pictures that we can send you
or show you or have you in for.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Good to see both of you for a Jane, very.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
Nasty, Ricky, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1 (30:05):
Hey, we appreciate you joining us this morning for the
Home Improvement Show of the Midlands and tuning into us
here on one of three point five FMN five sixty AMWVOC.
As we now turn our attention to something that's been
a hot topic of the last couple of weeks, around
these parts, and that is electricity.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's mister Electric. Jeremy Holliday, Good morning to you, my friend,
Good morning Gary. All right, so you're an electrician. Do
you lose power?

Speaker 14 (30:30):
I lost power? I sure did. I lost it for
four days four days, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (30:36):
Luckily we had a portable generator and we were able
to keep our food cold, so we didn't lose any food.
We had water, yeah, but tank gas water heater, thank god,
so we had hot water and water, so wasn't as
bad as some people had it.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
So we're blessed and thankful. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, we lost it for fourteen hours or so, and
that seemed like an eternity. But boy Ford, what some
folks have gone through. Man, that was nothing, obviously nothing
at all. So yeah, well, how does a company like
mister electric do you have any any role in restoring power?

(31:16):
I mean, you lose power, you contact your utility and
you expecting to come out and fix things.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
So they fix everything.

Speaker 14 (31:21):
Well, they they will fix their side of it, but
irresponsible for so you get your own side.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, You've got your own side you're responsible for.

Speaker 14 (31:29):
And that's normally the meter socket, the pipe that runs
up the side of your house, and the wire that
runs up the side of your house.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Uh, and then.

Speaker 14 (31:37):
From there back to the transformers the power companies uh.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Okay, the building.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
So the meter the power company puts on your home,
then the wire that comes up you cas in that
little pipe from from there up and then to a
certain point to the.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
End of that pipe.

Speaker 14 (31:56):
Pretty much there's normally what we call a weatherhead or
a cap you know, on the top of that conduit
that prevents water from going down inside the conduit.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And and then your.

Speaker 14 (32:10):
Your service wire will normally stick out of there about
three foot and then there's connectors, compression type connectors that
the power company will put on there to attach their
wire too, to deliver power to that service. And that
is where their responsibility stops.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
So you guys are probably pretty busy.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Then.

Speaker 14 (32:33):
Yes, we're actually still putting power back on or putting
services back on homes. And I've got a couple guys
out there today doing well, so.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
More than two weeks later. Yeah, two weeks later, we're
still doing them.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
So.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
But this gives a surprise to a lot of people
because that's the power company's meter on the side of
your home or business. Yeah, that's their meter. They put
it there, they own it, you don't. But somehow then
from that meter upwards to what you call the weatherhead there, Yeah,
is the homeowner of business responsibility?

Speaker 14 (33:02):
Then that's right, that's right. Yeah, they just plug their
meter into your socket.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Okay, yeah, okay, so you're the middleman, sounds like I guess.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Because you know us, as you know, there's non electrician people.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
What do we know? You know, power goes out? Will
you call it?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
We go online, we contact the power company. So I
guess some folks are in for kind of a rude surprise.
Then what what what happens when the power company comes
out and and sees that's kind of a situation.

Speaker 14 (33:32):
Well, they're going to let you know that they won't
be able to put power back on your home until
you get it put back up. And they may refer electrician,
but they'll tell you it needs to be an electrician.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I know.

Speaker 14 (33:44):
Sometimes when these storms happen, you get a lot of
people that pop up. Oh yes, but insurance purposes, it's
better to go with a qualified electrician, reputable company, just
to be sure that you get reimburse from your path,
from your from your insurance company. Because you know, we

(34:05):
weren't hit as bad as some people, so it's probably
not as relevant to our situation. But when people pop
up and just knock on your door, sometimes they may
be out of town from out of town, you know,
and uh, you may not ever be able to get
in contact with him again. You might not have, you know,
no adequate type of invoice for insurance.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
And we're here, we're.

Speaker 14 (34:25):
Local, we're locally owned, we're operated here, and you can
always reach us. We're on Woodrow Street, so you can
reach out to us and we can adjust an invoice
if there's some wording that the insurance company didn't like,
you know, whatever. We take photos, we have those sent
to you. So we've been doing that a lot.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, so I'm visiting the scenario, Jeremy, Can I call you, Jeremy?
So so my powers out, I contact my power company
and who knows how long it might take them to
get out and listen, they did great work, and can Jack.
These are people working around the clock.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
And oh yeah, and again, I know one of the
problems that we've had is that in those individual homes,
you know, they could go out and restore power to
the most people possible at first the whole neighborhoods and
this and that, and then kind of work their way down.
So if it was just and I've heard of stories
of this people I've talked to who said, yeah, everybody
around me has got power but me, and it may

(35:30):
well be a situation just like you described. Yes, so
you've waited maybe a week, a week and a half
whatever to have the power company come out finally be
able to work their way to you. Then to be told, well,
you're going to have to get this fixed before we
can do anything.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, I bet there's some frustrated folks hearing that.

Speaker 14 (35:53):
Yeah, yeah, it can be. It can be disheartening for sure.
You think you're thinking about to get your power back
on and and you find out. So it's a good
I mean, it's good rule of thumb after the storm's over. Definitely,
not during the storm, but when the storm's over. If
you don't have power, stay away from the lines that
are down.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
If you see them down.

Speaker 14 (36:12):
Uh, but you probably should walk around your house and
just look and see what kind of damage you have,
so you're prepared, you know.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
So, so if you if you see that it's usually gray,
right that that that pipe plastic whatever matual that is
running out of the meat or up the side of
the house. If you see some damage to.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
That, you want to call us. You want to okay,
but now can you? They can they call you guys first,
or they have to call the utility first. In that situation,
you could call both of us.

Speaker 14 (36:40):
I would call the utility first, just to make sure
that you don't have a dangerous situation there that they
can disconnect the power, especially if you still have power, uh,
and then you know, maybe they can get your power
back on. It's more if you're out of power, you
want to call.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
The power company right first.

Speaker 14 (37:01):
Sure, and they will come out, depending on how busy
they are how fast they'll get out there.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
But you can always call us.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
So if you see that maybe some damage but you
still have power on, you need to get that fixed anyway, Yeah,
to call you first, maybe, but if you get I.

Speaker 14 (37:17):
Would always call the power company first, just to let
them know. And maybe you could if you told the
power company you had damage on the side of the house,
they may say, you know, you need to call electrician,
but they may be able to restore your power without
calling us, so you know, but they it also helps
them out. It helps them out too, because they have
to run around and check everybody's home. So the more

(37:40):
people and I'm saying this because it just I mean,
it's logical, is that if you let them know that
you have damage at your house, then they have a
log that they have that in they you're on record.
You know, we were out, you know, restoring power and
all those guys are out there working very hard going

(38:00):
from house to house, different contractors that work with Dominion
and uh checking holmes to see if they were able
to put power back on the homes because of all
the trees it fell.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, you guys run a lot of trucks. Yeah, we
have a few. I've seen you a lot. You got
a few. Yeah, Typically storm situation aside, you guys are
able to get the folks pretty dark on quickly. Yes,
you're our priority.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
What was the response time you were able to do
during this situation. I mean that's got to really it's
gonna take a lot longer to get there just because
of the sheer volume.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
I know.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, yeah, we were.

Speaker 14 (38:44):
We were able to get out by the next day
for sure. Oh good, okay, good, because we dedicated our
guys to doing that because we know that's important and
h we want to get people's power back on and
our customers, we have the best customers.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
They want their house done right, you know.

Speaker 14 (39:04):
But not only that is we call them up and
they understand what's going on. They live here, so if
they need recess lights put in their kitchen and we
tell them, hey, we got some customers calling that have
lost power, trees down and it's uh they need their
service put back up to get power, They're like, by
all means, sure take care of them. We'll reschedule, you know.

(39:24):
So uh, yeah, we have the greatest customers.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
And she said you brought recess light. You guys do
more than just restore power and you know, fixed issues.
I mean, yeah, we've talked about this before. I mean
the the enhancement lighting features you do. Matter of fact,
I probably you've got to our new house because we
got all kind of lights outside. I have no idea
it's to get them to work or why they're not

(39:48):
working anything. So that's a whole other story. We'll talk
about that another time. But uh, but you guys do
a lot of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, we can do.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
You don't call it home enhancement you gotta you got
a phrase for it. I can't remember what you call
it though.

Speaker 14 (39:58):
Yeah, it was, uh well we accent lighting or home ENHANCEMD,
home enhancement, home enhancement.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Okay, that works. Yeah, that's It's amazing the sorts of
things you can do right now. Oh yeah, with the
you know, as opposed to the old days.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
We just ran a big, old, ugly orange extension cord
out into the front or backyard and plug stuff into it.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Man.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah, that's a big thing right now.

Speaker 14 (40:20):
We're getting a lot of calls and typical after the storm,
we get a lot of calls for generators.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well do you deal with in generators?

Speaker 14 (40:28):
Yeah, we do generators, you know, generator inlets for portable
generators if you don't want the whole house generator, you know.
And some things to think about when you're picking out
a generator, a portable generator, you know, you know have
thirty thirty amp and fifty amp generators that are you
know capabilities is to you can count the wattage of

(40:52):
the devices that you want to run and add those together.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
And then if you have a starting.

Speaker 14 (40:58):
Wattage of device the highest one of those, add that
in there and then that'll typically get you to where
you want to be with the generator side.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
So where do we find that information here?

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Man?

Speaker 14 (41:10):
It's normally on the item that you want to run
how many watchs those like that name plate rating on it.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
There'd be a little tag on there that has the
wattage or the voltage.

Speaker 14 (41:22):
Uh, and the wattage is what you want to add together.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
I think you use the phrase of inlet Yes, what
is that?

Speaker 14 (41:30):
So that's where we put a box on the side
of the house or under the panel.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (41:35):
You also want to keep your you know, your generator
twenty five foot away from the house. You know, you
don't want to run it inside the house or in
the garage.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
So this is while you're not running the extension cors
out of the house out to the generator to keep
your refrigerator plug in. Yeah, oh okay, okay, that makes
sense then, but we do all that so okay, good
information to know, Man, terrific stuff. Anything else post storm
here that that we should be thinking about when it
comes to electricity, Well.

Speaker 14 (42:02):
You always want to make sure that uh, you know,
I think we've talked about this before. If if you're
having power fluctuations in your home. Just the best thing
to do would be shut the main breaker.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Off, right, you know you get those spikes when it
comes back on.

Speaker 15 (42:17):
Right.

Speaker 14 (42:17):
Yeah, And if you don't have search protection, you know
it's time to you know, get some surge protection. Because
we have a lot of electronics in our home now,
not like it's not like it used to be where
we didn't have all these circuit boards all over the house.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Right.

Speaker 14 (42:29):
So normally, you know, back in the day, it was
I had a computer, I unplugged my computer and I
was good, you know, right, But now everything has a
circuit board in it, and some things you can't unplug.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
And I think you've said before, and it's not just as simple.
I'll just turn it off.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah, you got to get that power from getting into
unplug it.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I mean you don't have search protection, right, all right?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Terrific, good good advice man, Good stuff, Jerry. How do
they mister electric, how can folks reach out and touch you?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
My friend?

Speaker 14 (42:56):
So they can reach us at eight zero three eight
six eight four to two four three or they can
go to mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
All right, good to see you, buddy, Good to see you.

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Speaker 1 (45:04):
And we're back into our final segments on the Home
Improvement Show of the Middlands this morning. Don't forget our
best game cut coverage cranking up in just a few
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getting ready for that is ahead of the Carolina Alabama game.
They kick offs at noon today on ABC and we're
joined by Summer from Beaver Roof. I can get our
Summer good morning to you.

Speaker 6 (45:25):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
I'm gonna just guess y'all been a little busy here recently,
a little bit. Yes, well, y'all are always busy. We'll
put it that way. You're always busy.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I mean you are the state newspaper Best of Readers
pole winners when it comes to roofs and gutters by
the way, I should mention, but yeah, let's focus on
those roofs, because boy, you know, nobody was expecting Helene
to do what it did here. And I knew that
in times like these, and I've been saying this during

(45:53):
the Weekday Show over and over and over again. If
you need work done on your home, and especially when
it comes to roofs, be sure that you are are
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a name you can go online and check out the reviews.
And I know you guys like to tell folks when
it comes to reviews, Yeah, go to beaverroofing dot com.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
But go to other places too.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
Absolutely, absolutely, we love you to check out our Google
reviews or on Angie's List, the home Advisor Facebook. You know,
absolutely check us out to what others are saying. And
you know, I think you'll like what you.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Read right, I know you will, and you put a
new move on our house here in just a couple
of weeks, so we're looking forward to that. Well, I
guess maybe today, I guess we should maybe focus on
and hopefully folks that have had roof damage. You've already
reached out and are getting the ball rolling. But you know,
when it comes to something like like Helene, mother nature

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gets involved in the insurance process kicks in. And I
know in talking to Noah who works for you guys,
I mean Noah, he was telling me a couple of
weeks ago. He just loves negotiating with insurance companies. We've
talked about this before. You guys, are there as an
advocate for for your custom when it comes to the
insurance claim?

Speaker 6 (47:04):
Right, absolutely we are. Yeah, Noah, he's he is. He
is a notorious for that loves it and he loves
going to bat for you know, his customers, and we
we really want you to make sure that you're getting
what you're supposed to out of your insurance policy. You know,
That's that's what it's all about. At the end of
the day, we're we're we're going to bat for for

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you guys.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Does the entire roof have to be damaged Summer in
order to have your insurance company pay for a new roof.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
How does that work?

Speaker 6 (47:34):
So insurance can pay for a full roof, they can
pay for partial you know, partial roof. It really just
depends yes on the damage. Whenever our inspectors get up there,
they're gonna they're gonna check around to see if it's
widespread damage or if it's just kind of located in
one area or the other. A lot of times with

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with wind, it can just be on certain areas of
the roof, just the way if you have a lot
of angles and cuts in your roof. But you know,
with this recent storm, the wind was coming from all directions,
all different times, and you know, just the creasing up
of the shingles. You know a lot of people just say, oh,
I see a few of them are popped up. That's

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that is a concern.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
So why why is that? Why is that a concern? Summer,
Explain that to us that don't know a whole lot
about roofs with you, Oh, well, yeah there's a shingle
here or there.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
I no big deal. But it is a big deal.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Sure, So whenever you see that creasing. That is that's
number one sign one damage and that is breaking the seal.
So if one seal is broken, the next one's going
to start. It's it's compromised. It's gonna start going, gonna
start going, gonna start going, and it's just going to
cause a ripple effect. You know, you see one or
two now, oh, no big deal. But wait till the

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next big you know, rainstorm, windstorm and what have you.
You're gonna start no seeing leaks in your ceiling, and
that's when it becomes more involved than you have your
your underneath your decking that's involved in getting wet and
then your ceilings and then you know, insulation possibly. So
we're urging everybody to call and get a roof inspection.

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Let us take a look. If there's no leaks, now,
that's great, but it's always good just to have us
get up there look and see what we can find
for you.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
I'm glad you brought that up, Somemmer, because yeah, for
most of us, we we don't realize there's a roof
issue until we start seeing water on the ceiling.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Oh okay, but a lot of times.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Uh, but you guys are able to get up there
and uh and nip that thing in the bud a
lot earlier with these roof inspections, which again, as you mentioned,
absolutely for you, how you guys do.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
These all the time?

Speaker 6 (49:46):
We do?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
We do?

Speaker 6 (49:47):
So yeah there, like you said, we can nip a
lot of potentially large things in the bud quickly. You know,
we get up there, we see some minor things, little
nail pops or you know, your pipe boots might start
to have a little like you know, draw right so
to say, from the sun baking them, drying them out.

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I mean, we can we get up there, we see
those things, we seal them off and you know that
goes a long way. So that's just what we call
a little roof tune up, you know. But I think
here of late, a lot of people have a lot
more damages than they think, just because I mean, like
you said, we weren't expecting something as as strong as

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you know, Helene came through like that. We just weren't ready.
We weren't prepared, No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Well, let me ask you this summer, I mean, because
with so many folks needing needing help, have you what
what's your timeline?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Looking at it right now?

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Do you guys pride yourselves on getting out to folks
as quickly as possible and uh, and you've always done that,
but I mean, it's things have got to be maybe
a little backed up right now. What what advice do
you have for someone who you know is called and
has got maybe an issue?

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I mean, what what to do in the meantime before
you ca get that resolved?

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Sure? So, yeah, we we we are. We have we
have a lot of appointments going on and we have
you know, all of our technicians are out hitting the
ground as hard as they can. So right now, whenever
we have someone call in, the first thing we always ask, well,
the first was do you have a tree on your roof?

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Because we had so many calls with that and it
was just it's so disheartening to hear that. But we're
kind of past that. Thankfully. A lot of people have
been able to get all of those trees to breed
and whatnot off their roof and you know, get a
tarp or things like that on the roofs. But right now,
it's like, have you seen leaks? Did you have leaks
any leaking with you know, with the storm? And if

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it's a yes, we always try to make those a
priority because even if we can't like fix it right,
then we're going to try to get a tarp on it.
And in the meantime, you know, good yeah, and then
you know, if it's like, no, we haven't seen any leaking,
but we do we have noticed look, flipped up shingles
and whatnot, so then we try to We're just trying

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to you know, two three weeks later, we'll put you
on the schedule so then we can come out and
do an inspection, a routine inspection, and that way, you know,
if it is just those one or two little shingles
that have been compromised, we can get you know, shingle
replacement here and there, you know, do a little small
repair if there's nothing that they you know, that they
see at the time that hey, insurance will cover. But

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we can always just get those little repairs knocked out then.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
And I guess that's part of the other problem is,
you know, waiting for the insurance companies to make their
assessments and all because they're backed up to now with
so many claims, so that.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
That factors any of the equation as well.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
I guess, huh, We've had some customers say, oh, well,
you know, we we talked to our insurance suggester. He's
not coming out until I think November three. Wow, is
one that we've heard so far off Like wow, that's
and I mean they're doing the best they can too,
you know it is it was so so much damage,
so widespread, you know, yeah, well we're seeing you know,

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customers and aken Orth Augusta just yeah, very.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Bad around those areas.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Yes, yes, and I mean and right here and like
I could not believe Chrits photos that we we were
seeing coming in and it was just it's disheartening. But yeah,
we're glad to know that we can get out there
and help and be you know, a good advocate just
for your for you and your insurance company and to
help out.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Well, how to folks get a hold of you? Beaver
roofing and gutters? So what's the best way?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
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Speaker 1 (53:30):
One roof there it is or beaver roofing dot com.
All right, summer exactly.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
This has always enjoyed the rest of your weekend.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
I hope you do too.

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