Home Improvement Show 10-19-24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning, Hey, thank you for joining us this morning.
It's time for the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
here on two point five FM and five sixty AM WVFC.
I'm Gary David. It is wonderful to have you with
us this morning. We really do appreciate that. A quick program.
Note best Gamecock coverage this morning at nine to thirty.
If I got my ducks in a row here, yeah,

(00:30):
it's a twelve forty five kickoff nine thirty Health and
Well I'll show you normally here at nine. We're going
to put that off until again this week, second straight week,
until two o'clock this afternoon, as we will move that
show because of our best Gamecot coverage as the game
Cocks are traveling first time ever to Norman, Oklahoma take
on the Sooners, So we'll be breaking that down starting
up here in just about an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Coming up in.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
This hour though, we've got a full hour for the
Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. Lifetimes Marcus and Casey'll
come by here. I hear rumors of another remnant sale
going on and if you've had some storm damage. We
had a lot of homes in the state that were
destroyed and many with major damage. They're standing by to
help you out if need be. Got some holes in
their schedule. James Carwell, Freedom Plumbing's going to drop buy

(01:15):
in vas a visit and we'll talk about resurfacing instead
of refinishing, saving a bunch or instead of replacing, I
should say, saving a bunch of money in time with
that rock the top resurfacing. John and Kathy Fickner will
drop by as well. But we get underway with Jessica
Smith from Lexington. Kim Dry Jessica, good morning and good
to have you here.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
By the way, Before we get a roll in here,
I gotta tell you we had your husband came out
to our new place a couple of weeks ago. My
wife the bathrooms a beautiful white tile, not big big tiles,
but smaller tiles, and a whole lot of ground. And
we first moved in and she thought she tried to

(01:54):
get down there with the old toothbrush and do that thing,
and she says it's not doing anything. She says, maybe
I'll just paint the ground, paint over it. And I said, no,
wait a minute, halt. We're going to call lex and
Kim Dry and I gotta tell you the number one.
The price was fantastic. And when your husband and his

(02:17):
folks got done with it, I was here at work
and she called me. She says, you're not gonna believe this.
I mean, it was amazing. It looked like a whole
brand new floor and it didn't take long at all.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I think they over maybe an hour of that probably
I think probably about an hour, hour.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And a half or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And it looks like a brand new floor. So thank
you for that. That's just one of the many things
you may not think about it. You think, okay, you
do carpets and upholstery and stuff, but I mean child grout.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Especially when it gets deep into those grout lines, the
dirt build up, and people don't realize that what the
right solutions and a high pressure rents can do.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Right, so yeah it works fabulously. And then thank you
so much for that. Have you all been involved in
a lot of the storm clean up? You had folks
that have needed some assistance.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
We've had well, we've had a lot of schedule ray
ranges and cancelations of course, because kind of hard to
well being that we're self contained with our carpet cleaning slushi.
We can still service without power, but in order to
get it good and deep clean, you kind of got
to see what you're.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Doings that out.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
But the strange thing is a lot of our customers
have had to have their families come stay with them,
you know, due to the power outages or water outages
where they're or even storm damage for like their son's
you know, children's homes that are having to move in
and stay. So you have those unexpected guests. So we've

(03:41):
been actually coming in now that power is being restored
and people are going back, we've been coming back in
and sprucing the home back up after the unexpected visitors
come in. We've also had some customers that have been
getting repair work done, you know, in their home and
have occurred some soiling with foot traffic of people come

(04:02):
in and out, or even minor roof leaks or window
damage that come in. So we don't do water remediation,
We don't do any of that, nope, but we can
clean up small you know water spots for where something
has spilled or come in or gotten this little section
you know wet, and then we can help with those

(04:23):
with those cleans up. So we've been doing a lot
of airy rug pickups for deep cleaning of those, and
we've been doing where, like I said, getting getting rooms
ready for family members to stay that have been like
storage rooms, you know, where everything's been piled up in there.
But like now, my my family's staying in a hotel,

(04:45):
I'm going to have them come in with me for
a while. So we're coming in and getting those rooms
ready for those unexpected guests.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, okay, very good.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
And speaking to guests, I mean, hey, don't look now,
but it's you know, it's October the nineteenth. I mean
we are a little over a month away from Thanksgiving, and.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's when you have expected guests, the ones.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
You expected to have come.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, yep, so it's a good time to clean up
before the holidays.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
We want to put our best foot forward, right, I mean,
come on.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
And it's also now is a good time to schedule
so when we can clean for you to get an
added stain guard or that protection to your upholstery or carpeting,
so when you do have guests over and spills and
things happen, it gives that protection to clean it.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Up because it never fails, doesn't.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yep, done, Someone's going to spill something, It's.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Going to happen.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I think you've told us before, Jessica, that most manufacturers,
whether it's carpet, upholstery, whatever, or suggesting this this ceiling
done on really, I think an annual basis is that right, Yep.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
It depends.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Usually it's between twelve and eighteen months to get that
carpet protect and renewed in order to maintain the manufacturer warranty.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
So always look at what it states.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
And then just you said it, with foot with vacuuming
and foot traffic, that manufacturer protectant wears off overtime. So
it's a good idea to get it renewed so that
when spills do happen, it provides you that window of
opportunity to clean up the spots and spills before they
become set in and permanent.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
With the Okay, let's let me ask you this. Let's
say you don't you don't have that that that sealing.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
On a polster.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
We'll go to the polstry okay, for example, And I
don't know what's what's the toughest thing to get out
what you.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Say on upholstery, probably believe it or not. Like a
coffee spill.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
The coffee spill really okay, I've done that a time
or two. So if you get if you got no
no seali protect it on, what are the odds you're
going to get that out?

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, it depends on how long it's set.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
How quickly do you have to get it out?

Speaker 4 (06:54):
So you better start blotting that right up up away,
but not rubbing, not rubbing, blotting bloody, transferring it to
Usually we recommend a white towel because you can see
that transfer until it doesn't transfer anymore.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
But you want to make sure you get on that.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Because just like they say coffee stains your teeth, it's
going to stain your fabric.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
So but now if you're upholstery, whether it's carpet, chairs, whatever,
is got that ceiling on there, how much more time
are you buying yourself here?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
So it helps to get you that blotted up and
it doesn't soak into the fibers.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Okay, say say at the top levels, getting deep down
in there right okay, But now when you guys come
this is part of your service though, I mean when
you come out and you're cleaning a polstery or a carpet.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
We offer that protecting.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yep, you do offer that. It's always a good idea
to take advantage of that. Yes, okay, good now, and
I want to go back to it again. This whole
job y'all did for us with that, with that that
ground and that tile. I mean, I didn't know when
we moved in that grout was actually white.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I can truth. I thought it was some kind of
an off wet.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Okay, that's interesting, but whatever, what is the deal with
that grout that makes it so hard where you just can't.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Get it up on your own.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
So grout when it gets installed should have a ceilant applied.
Some manu or some installers don't apply a sealant, and
so people think that it's protected. So nothing's getting into
the grout line. But grout is porous, so it's actually
soaking into that grout line, and dirt and things just
get because you're not because you're mopping, usually mopping onto

(08:39):
the tile surface, the grout SIT's just that little bit lower,
so you're kind of pushing that dirt.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Into the ground line.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I thought about that.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
And so it just sells up, building up, building up,
and changing if you would, changing color over time, just
because the dirt is staying on top of that surface
and getting into that grout line. So when we come
in we have to use this. We have different solutions
for different types of tile and grout, and you can
get into that where you're breaking up all that dirt
and loosening it all up. And then when you do

(09:08):
the high pressure rents are high pressure rents not leaving
any dirt behind, and then we know it's clean and
we can come back and see all those groutlines well.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
And even when your folks first came over just to
take a look at it and give us an estimate
on that, I mean, they had one of those solutions.
They tried a couple of different ones, but just like
just like a tooth brush kind of.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Brain to figure out which one will work.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
And even just.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
That did a remarkable job in cleaning it up. And
I thought, wow, if we get that, I'd be happy.
But then again that was without the step too.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
But that because we just test with our solutions to
see which one will do the best for it.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
So what all can can folks count on y'all to
be able to take care of it? Luxit and Kim Dry,
we were pitching carpets and polls.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
From the entile ground carpets of polsteries.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
We've been doing a lot of believe it or not,
mattresses and fold out sofas, really preparing for holiday guess yeah, okay,
and then yeah, as long as it's not memory foam,
memory phone can't get wet like that. But any standard
pillow top, standard mattress we can clean. Just to prepare
that for the guests that are coming. We've been doing

(10:16):
a lot of showers for tile and grouts for mom
and Dad's visit, so we want to make sure that's
nice and clean. Yeah, and then of course air rugs.
But believe it or not, people are getting ready for
the cooler weather with the gathering around the fire pits.
So we've been doing a lot of patio cushions picking
up and delivery.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's something you.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Pick up and take back to your place, and yep,
you're the old treatment.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Deep clean those and return them so it's nice and
clean for guys. You don't want to lift up the
cushion and see all those matted leaves from last year
still sitting in them. Yeah, we gotta get those so yeah,
between the area rugs, hardwood floors. It's a good time
to bundle right now. So if we do an area
rugs pick up, we can clean your hardwoods or LVT.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
It might surprise a lot of folks that you can
do that sort of material.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
It was the same thing of so like for LVP
getting in those grooves with our machine so it can
get we do because of the storm damage've been doing
a lot of post construction clean up, so our hardwood
floor machine can get into those cracks and crevices those
grooves to clean and extract so you're getting a nice
clean surface versus trying to mop that construction dust which

(11:29):
just gets sticky and pushes at everybody, which is right
back into those crevices. Yes, right, yeah, So it's a
good lace that you can bundle. We can do tile
and grout at the same time we're doing your carpets
and upholstery to get your whole house ready for the
holidays for guests coming over. We can do the I
says like storm damage cleanup where you're getting the foot
traffic from contractors coming in and cleaning up, so we

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can do a whole bunch of things.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, well again, heads up that we're what five six
weeks away from Thanksgiving Day?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Is it really happen?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Whatever?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Thursday in November? That is?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
You can never remember, but we ain't far off right,
So again you get want to get ready for it.
A call today would not be a bad idea at
election and Kim drive Jessica had to. Folks, get a
hold you get on your schedule to get it done
by the holidays.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Reach me directly at eight oh three five hundred four
seven zero seven or visit us at lexingtonkmdriid dot com.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Good to see you nice.

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thank you for joining us this morning here on one
O three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're just joining us. My name is Gary David. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Sorry you missed our first segment, but hey you're in
time for the second one, so thank you so much
for that.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Those you have been with us up the whole run.
Thank you. We got a lot more to do in
this hour. Right now.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
We welcome into the studio to enlighten and brighten your day.
Marcus Greenville and Casey Alexander the best, those wild and
crazy guys countertops. Good morning, Good time, Kevins again it
being men. You look a little on the tired side
this morning.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Mister coffee, I think I needed I didn't. I usually
go with the Vini. I stop at Starbucks. It's a
triple pump. I had this. They got this camel drizzled thing.
Now that I like that apple camel drizzle, and I've
always I've always preferred the apple over the pumpkin.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Oh, I about a pumpkin guy at all.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Yeah, my daughter loves the pump it's.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
That time of the year.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I'm not a pumpkin guy opparently because I can't feeding.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
It for you.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
We got some pumpkin spice counter for you. Yeah, yeah,
probably you know when I leave here on the way over,
probably stuff at the one right there by Piney Grove store,
you know, more and get.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
Ready to go.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
I can, I mean I can have sugar again, just
I have. I've been off of it, but uh, a
little bit of sugar and maybe.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
We'll be careful because you know I did that one
time too. Once you get you get used to it,
then you get a little bit. I'll just do a
little here, you know. It's a little there.

Speaker 8 (15:57):
Yeah, keeps on growing.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, that's stuff you get off that stuff, man.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, sugar, sugar, got sugar in it.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I think ye done everything?

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah? Right, really, well, seriously, it's been a rough couple
of weeks or.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, it has been.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, for for most it's back to normal, but not
for everybody. Right, And if y'all have y'all encountered any
folks that have had like damage that you know, that
they need to. Yeah, I know, a lot of what
happened was, you know, trees fell on We had one
in our neighborhood, tree fell on a car.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, during Helene.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Uh, and we had several trees down and power out
for a while and such. But yeah, I'm I know
that I do know this, and I wish I had
the number in front of me right now. But I
want to say there were at least several hundred hundred
homes across the state that were destroyed, and they were
I think seventeen hundred. Thought they termed this major damage
because and a lot of that was maybe not right

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here in the immediate Midlands area, but certainly it ever
toward a Aken or Augusta upstate, you guys on.

Speaker 8 (17:00):
The Lake areas state, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Mean we're in Achin in august area everything.

Speaker 8 (17:09):
What's the down there by the by the beach, Kingston
or whatever. Yeah, I mean my brother sold one yesterday
down in Kingston, king King Street. Yeah that's a king
Tree Yeah yeah, yeah, well yeah, that's it.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
So yeah, I mean there's I've seen you know, half
houses split down the middle, and you know, once that
water starts getting in there and they have to rip
everything out, you know. Sometimes you know it's it's not
just you know, our friends that we can recommend that
that you need, but you know we can help too,

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and I will do anything we can. And the thing
is it also you know, it kind of allowed us
to catch up a good bit because I mean there
were days you know, some of some of the installs
didn't have power, had to move them, and so you
know we were able to you know, get other things done.
And we've had you know, quite a few big, big

(18:06):
jobs lately, but we've we've actually got time right now.
And so yeah, you come on in if you've got
I mean, if you need your kids can put back
together as far as the countertop portion, let us know,
and we're working for you, and we can get we

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can turn it pretty quick a.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Couple of weeks, probably three weeks in that right, This
is normally the time of year when there's no way
you could do.

Speaker 8 (18:33):
It for six weeks booked up normally. Yeah, but everybody,
like you said, was down for the for.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
The power and all that disrupted so much.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yeah, you know, it was it was wild. We had
you know, I had to close stores without power and
then then when we got back up with it and
didn't have internet, and you know that that's the scene
is mild compared to a lot of what I saw
and and the displacement and everything else, and especially going
up towards uh you know, yeah, past Greensville, Spartanburg pass,

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websone passing up in Nashville. And I mean that's I mean,
that's just tragic.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
But you still got people on accounted for us around that.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Right, It's it's unreal. And yeah, out about those families
and everything else. Yeah, you know, if if you have
something that you need help with putting back together, let
us know you can hop all we can do is help.

Speaker 8 (19:32):
Yeah, we got countertops, we got a lot out and shape,
and I got lose pieces. I was just thinking about that.
You have to start just giving them away. Just about
it the way. If y'all got some I gotta sell,
I'll call it a bone yard sell.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Now, how about that.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
By just invented it?

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Is this official? Now?

Speaker 8 (19:51):
By official? I'm the I'm the boss, so I.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Can do that.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, well, the boneyard don't be Komala Harris on us
here be specific.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
Fifteen dollars off? How about that.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Look at that.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
There you go, that's what that's true leadership right there.
That's a naked an opportunity economy right there.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, sorry, I to the weekday show. My bad.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
Yeah yeah, but that's okay. Those boneyard cell fifteen dollars
off for real person square per square foot square foot
yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
I just fifteen dollars for the whole slab for.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Square yeah yeah, per square foot.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:25):
I need to get these things. I mean I put
the like level one at like thirty dollars foot something
like that.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
And that's for a remnant.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yeah yeah, not a kitchen.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, it has fifteen dollars off full slab. No, no, no, no, no,
that's it's it's the remnants that we have already cut.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:45):
We can't cut it out the middle of the remnant either. Yeah,
you have to use to pick a corner.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
And this is you guys have always got a lot
of remnants out there at the Chaping location one fifty
three Chapin Road. Yeah, but we probably should more often
explain why it is you have so many renders, because
it's it's a function of the way you all do business.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Right, And I mean I just saw yesterday. Not everybody
does business that way, And we get people coming all
the time just assuming they have to buy. How many
slabs do I need to buy? And done the square
foot you know, what's your square footage? What do you mean?

Speaker 8 (21:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
So there are places where let's say you're doing a
kitchen and you need a slab and a quarter.

Speaker 8 (21:32):
Mmmm, they'll charge you for the extra slab they have
to get.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
So for a quarter of a slab, you're going to
pay for a whole slab.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Yeah yeah, well the whole Yeah, the whole slab, and
then that other second slab you have to pay for, right,
so then you.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Get paying for two slabs, but using a slab and
a quarter.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
So, and what happens to that three quarters of a slab?

Speaker 8 (21:50):
They keep it and sell it, or they give it
to you, you know who knows where you people doesn't
have called me last week actually then said hey, can
you move this piece out of my garage? Like, uh, yeah,
it's gonna cost you a little bit though, I gotta

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have five guys to pick it up.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Wow, it's like going and buying a mazdan't paying for
a mas Rodney.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, it's more like going in and look at the
leftover on somebody's McDonald's table and say, hey, you know,
i'll give you that price for they go bust the
table and like, well you can, you know, buy if
you want some cheaper food. It's been picked through, it's
been you know, sitting down.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
But we got a lot of rem and though I
mean I've got colors, I mean I probably have several
thousand at this point.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Thousands, Yeah, yeah, I would. I would hate to actually
have to do inventory on it, that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (22:55):
Thousands. Like they're they're lined up and down the side
of the building, which is it feels like it's quarter
mile long.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I see the add Now Casey doesn't want to
inventory all these remnants. Yeah, so Marcus is giving you
to get fifteen dollars off of her square foot bone
yard the boneyard sale, Yeah, happening now. Now, of course
you got out on the obligatory don't miss.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
It, don't miss it, let's go.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Why do all commercial copywriters put that in there.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
Don't let's go get it, get it?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
How many times I said don't miss it? Yeah, Okay,
I'm sorry, I'm really digress.

Speaker 8 (23:30):
This is a goods I mean, y'all.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Just wrapped up a big remnant. Say back Labor Day weekend,
that was a phenomenal sale.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yeah, it worked out. I sold a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
And it was funny. Uh page end of the day
and she's like, I've gotten rid of a lot of
stuff out here, and I'm like, finally, yes, we're moving them.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
But again, because of the volume of business that you do,
it doesn't take you long to build.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Them back up again.

Speaker 8 (23:54):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
So how long does we go on for mister green,
mister green will, mister market.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
I'll say, well, let's just go with it. We'll revisit
time frame here in two.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Weeks, okay, so until we meet again. Yeah, this remnant
sale is happening. Yes, okay, fifteen dollars off per square
foot remnants only now remind it's only okay, you got granites, right.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
I got courts, got courts, got granites, court site, marble, marble.
What else is that? Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah? Pretty much unless they've invented to do when we
don't know about it.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
Yeah, that's it. I think we covered it all. I
think we got Yeah, we do. We have literally remnants
of all of those stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Y'all. This is not like cash and carry me. Y'all
will do.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
The install and everything, right, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
I mean, of course we have install charge, but you
know that has nothing to do with the square foot charge.
You know, with the holes and all that other stuff.
You got to cut out the sink holes and you know,
if you want to sink and all.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
That plus transportation, A lot of people don't think about it. Oh,
I can just put it in better my truck. Well,
you lay it down flat in the back of your truck,
you hit a bump and right, remember where we need
you need an a frame. Yeah, I mean you don't
want to try to transfer the pick them up though. Yeah.

(25:22):
They they don't care for the responsibility, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
And once it's in the back of your vehicle, it's
it's all you're in.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
You break it, you pay for it.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
I broke one last week. I had to pay for it.
We were pulling it off. The truck dropped it.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, it's because those things waste so dog gone much. Yeah,
that's it's a lot of pressure. Yeah, yeah, I think. Okay,
all right, So two things to take away here this morning.
Number one, because of the disruptions we've had you all
got holes open, and if you have been disrupted and
you need work in the kitchen, get ahold of these
guys today.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
And yeah, another thing to address is, you know we've
kind of skirted this a little bit, but we've addressed
it at some point like that, you know, the issues
at the port that's going to come back up, and
it's coming back around. Yeah, yeah, so around I mean
we yeah, we've got stuff, you know, finally unloaded and

(26:20):
we've got i mean, there were we were held up
a little bit with some of our vendors with stuff
sitting you know, either in port or on a boat.
But that's not over over.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
I mean, it's it's just that in January.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah. So uh, what I'm saying is while get while
getting good, because it ain't going to be.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Talking about slab orders stuff like that. Your kitchens good.
If you get the order in you you can go
and lock in the price, even if your project's done
down the road a little bit and you can go
ahead and lock it in.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
I've been telling people that every day. I'm like, look,
go ahead and get your ordering, get your positive. Then
we'll get it here on Harlan and we'll keep it
safe on our lot. That way you don't have to
worry about, you know, the importer raising prices when they
have to and so good.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, So somebody hur up and tell your brother Davi.
But you got a big reminicyal going on.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
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Speaker 2 (27:22):
What you will be at Ferndina today, mister, okay.

Speaker 8 (27:25):
One fifth Chapin Road and forty twenty Fernandina right by Costco.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay. And of course if you want to call and
get more, you call this guy right.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Here, Marcus three twenty two twenty.

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Absolutely have great weekend, y'all.

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Speaker 2 (29:34):
All right, we're back with James Carwell the Order of
Freedom Plumbing. James, Good morning, my friend, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 12 (29:40):
How you been.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I've been well? Brother? How about you? Man?

Speaker 12 (29:43):
Good been good?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
We've vote a couple of days ago. Yeah, but not
quite as cold as morning, but we have had some mornings.

Speaker 13 (29:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (29:52):
Yeah, you never know if it's that that that falls
fall or right right, if it's actually going to come
in full fledged. But yeah, always a good time nowadays
to talk about that cold weather. It's going to be
coming through eventually whenever, you know, whenever it actually gets here.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Well, I know that.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I guess I'm gonna have to start thinking here soon
about getting out my old I hope I can find it.
My whole little uh big thing for the the the
outdoor faucets you turned me onto a couple.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Of years ago.

Speaker 12 (30:21):
Yeah, those are always a good idea. I'm gonna have
to locate mine as well. If not now, it would
be a good time to start looking for those at
your uh you know, the local stores your home depot
lows and plumbing supply houses. That way, you don't run
into that situation where they're all sold out because everybody
went out and got that and bread and water and

(30:43):
everything else for the you know, it's going to be
frozen here.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
They're very inexpensive, only a couple of bucks, as I
recall or not, they're chilling you. I mean, I guess
there's those outside uh those outside faucets. Uh, the you
know that most susceptible to freezing problems, I.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
Suppose, huh, yeah, Well they're out there.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
You know, they've got water right there at the end
point of that faucet, you know, just a couple of
inches in so, and they're exposed to the wind, which
could you know, make the temperatures on those drop even more. So,
definitely a good idea.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
To cover those.

Speaker 12 (31:20):
And if you find yourself in a situation where you
know those are sold out, the covers are sold out,
and those temperatures getting down you know, usually low twenties,
that's the time that you really want to make sure
you address those certain points to protect your plumbing system.

(31:43):
And if you do run into a situation where you
don't have one, you've got to do something. I've even
done this myself, taking a towel or socks or something
of that nature, wrap them up and then put a
ziplock bag over them, zip tie it onto it. That
that'll do the trick as well.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
If you're in a pinch, so and of course this is.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Going to necessitate you remove the hose from from the nozzle,
which even if you don't cover up that faucet, you
should be doing it anyway, I think, right.

Speaker 12 (32:14):
Yes, sir, especially if you got one of those spray
heads on the end of your hose, because that will
hold water in that hose and then the hose can
freeze and then turn freeze that hose bib as the
water runs up, as the frozen water runs up that hose.
So definitely good idea disconnect that hose, cover the hose bibs.
It's easier to do with the actual ones you could purchase,

(32:36):
but if you're in a pinch you can you can
improvise and still protect your plumbing system.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
All right, Well, let's work far away from there kind
of in now the pipe that runs under the home
consuming you have a cross space of course that that
leads to that outside faucet. Do you do, you need
to be concerned about that as it's close to that
exterior wall.

Speaker 12 (32:55):
There typically not anything in the cross space. As you know,
if you have a cross space, it's gonna have insulation,
and that insulation tends to and your foundation wall going
around the home tends to insulate it enough to where
there's typically not a concerns with that. I mean, it
does happen on rare occasions. The more likely scenario would

(33:19):
be a fixture on an out exterior wall that's not
properly insulated in the walls, such as you know a
lot of kitchen faucets are located on the exterior wall
with a window in front of them. We've had those
pipes going up to that. You know, those faucets freeze
in the past and have to you know, go into
exterior walls, you know, taking siding down and things of

(33:41):
that nature, or cut into the wall from underneath the sink.
So good idea in that case would be run a
little bit of water, you know, just enough to get
some movement through the through the faucet on the hot
end cold side, and then open the cabinet doors that
that would definitely have up just to get that air

(34:01):
from in the home into that Cabinet's keep that temperature up,
keep that temperature up in that cabinet.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is it necessary to like a small space heater type
of thing outside of it? I mean have a bitterly
cold I guess to be concerned about that. But I
mean that is that an option too or is that
just overkill?

Speaker 12 (34:20):
Well, there's certain other things you can do, Like, especially
if you have a well or well house, you can
put those incandescent bulbs or those you know, heat lamp
bulbs in there. Just hang them inside of your well house.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (34:34):
They also make a like a almost like a tape.
It's just kind of a heat wrap. Just plugs into
an outlet. Wrap it around your pipes, maybe secure it
with some electric tape or something like that that we'll
just you know, stay keep it warm and keep it
from freezing. So there's a couple of different options depending

(34:55):
on you know, your scenario that you have and you know,
just want to do everything and to protect it.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
So James, when when you hear people say, yeah, it's
going to be below freezing or you know, way twenty
degrees or fit in the teens, wrap your pipes, people
say that all the time wrap your pipes.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
No yet, Well, yes you can.

Speaker 12 (35:19):
They make an insulation. It's a foam insulation that you
can put over exposed pipes.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
But that's the key.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Exposed exposed pipes, right that are right out there in
the elements.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Not necessarily, Yeah, those.

Speaker 12 (35:33):
Are the ones you need to really be concerned about.
So outside hose bibs, if you have those hose bibs
that stick up out of the ground, some people have,
you know, just pipes that come up out of the ground.
And we're not talking about the what they call yard
hydrants because those have their own protection built in. When
you shut them off, they train out of the bottom

(35:53):
and then your pipes in that in that case are
insulated by the ground. So if you haven't actual yard hydrant,
not really much concern there. But if you just have
kind of a you know, a piece of PVC pipe
coming up out of the ground secured to a four
by four or something like that out in the yard
that you use as a host bib, that would be

(36:14):
a pipe that I would be concerned about. So wrapping
that or just wrapping that whole structure at that point
would would help protect you when it gets down in
those low temperatures.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
What about talk about pumps outside pumps, whether it's for
an irrigation system or for a pool.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
We learned this the hard way.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
We bought our house couple of years ago that it
has got one of those for an irrigation system, but
the prior homeowner didn't drain it.

Speaker 12 (36:40):
And you definitely want to drain that system down because
typically in the winter months you're not using much irrigation.
I know, you want some water on the lawn, but
typically the amount of rain we get suffices to you know,
keep the grass, you know, alive, or if it's dormant,

(37:01):
like we have for mutigrass, it stays dormant during the winter,
so there's not much we really have to do with it.
So yeah, draining those systems down is definitely a step
that I would take to protect yourself from you know,
getting a crack pump or a crack pipe on the
pump system.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Let's say you got a pool, for example, and you
want to maybe maybe you don't just totally shut it
down for the winter. How often should that pump be
running that time of the year when it's really really
cold to keep it from freezing up?

Speaker 12 (37:28):
Well, when what we do when it gets down into
the teens. We just make sure that thing is running.
So typically it runs eight hours a day or so,
or twelve hours a day.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's got a little.

Speaker 12 (37:40):
Timer on it. I'll take the timer off when when
I know we're getting down in those teen temperatures and
just make sure that thing is running the entire time.
The last thing you want to do is have a
broken pipe on that or you know, crack the filter
cylinder or something like that. So definitely a good idea.
Just have that thing run and let run throughout the evening.

(38:03):
It's a lot less to pay for the power to
run your pump than it is to pay for a repair.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
So uh, any outside pipes that are exposed to the elements,
be sure to wrap those. Get those boat of those
hose bib covers. They're very inexpensive and they could save
you a lot of hassle down the road you mentioned
in particular. Usually I guess with kitchen faucets, some of
those lines right up right there at the exterior of

(38:30):
the home and that those could freeze, So take care
of those.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Anything else we're missing.

Speaker 12 (38:34):
Here, well, you can make sure that you don't have
a leak on a faucet outside because that could you know,
even if you put a.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Cover over it.

Speaker 12 (38:47):
I've seen almost icicles form from water just barely dripping
out of an exterior faucet. So what you can do
in that case is they make those little brass covers.
They're almost like a cap. It goes onto your host
bib you're outside fawcet, Yeah, and cap that thing off,
Tighten it up, make sure no water's leaking out of it,
because that could cause more issues as well.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
The guys riding around town in the big red, white
and blue trucks is Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
How do folks get a hold of you, James?

Speaker 12 (39:15):
They can give us a call at eighth three four
four seven zero four seven to one, or visit our
website at Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 14 (39:23):
I'm James Carwell, local owner and operator of Freedom Plumbing
right here in the Midlands. After working as a plumber
for nearly a decade, I decided to open my own business,
and Freedom Plumbing was born because of my love for
this country and the great respect I have for the
men and women of our armed forces and our first responders.
I named my company Freedom Plumbing. What sets us apart

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from other companies is our customer service. We have a
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Speaker 1 (41:18):
And we're back on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.
The hour is zipping on by already to the final
segment here on this Saturday morning. A reminder if we're
expecting to hear the Health and Wellness Show at nine
o'clock like usual after the Fox News at the top
of the hour, not again today because of our best
Gamecock coverage which actually starts at nine thirty this morning.
But rather than interrupt the Home of the Health and

(41:38):
Wellders Show, rather we're going to air it. We'll be
on its entirety at two o'clock again this afternoon, and
I guess next weeks and bye week, so we'll be
back at our normal schedule for the Health and Wellness
Show next Saturday morning at nine am. But the Home
Show not effected by all that, so we're roll on
through here and last up, but certainly not last. It's
John Fickner Rock the tile, Pree serface A good morning.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
My friends. Good morning Gary. How are you?

Speaker 5 (42:01):
I'm well?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
How about you? Man? You're enjoying this brisker air? I
actually am. Yeah, I like it a lot. It's nice, good.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Nice this weekend and certainly I mean temperatures are rebounding
a bit. But yeah, I enjoyed some of those upper thirties.
We had a couple of mornings ago nice resurfacing. You know,
it's it's a little every time we talk about this,
I feel a little guilty because I want people to
understand because this is something I've seen firsthand. Y'all did

(42:31):
some projects in my parents' house. When we talk about resurfacing, it's, uh,
it's not that simple what you do. The product is
that wish it was. It's it's resurfaced that it looks
brand new, But there's a lot that goes into what
it is you do. And again, don't think of this

(42:53):
as painting either, because it's not correct you do. You
use paints, not the stuff you can buy.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
You can't get the stuff at Benjamin Moore, sure will
you know, but.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
That's not that of itself is just a small part
of what you do at Rocket Toppery Surfacing. So explain
to us, my friend, how folks that are listening this
morning can save a lot of time and a lot
of money.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
By what you do. Yeah, So for the people out
there that don't know what this is.

Speaker 13 (43:23):
If let's say you got a let's say you got
a bathroom and it's got those yellow, green, yellow, blue,
or pink ceramic tile walls all the way around the
bathroom and maybe a ceramic bathtub or a ceramic shower stall,
and that's all, you know, bright colors and chick lit
ceramic colored floors, and you think, gosh, I really wish

(43:45):
this wasn't so incredibly pink or green or yellow or blue.
We can come in there and rather than tearing it
all off the wall and tearing it all apart and
then putting it all back together again for a month,
we leave it right where it is and resurface all
those surfaces, and when we're doing it, we make them
beautiful instead of pink. Now we can completely change the color.

(44:06):
We got many many colors to choose from. You know,
I can make your your countertops look like you know,
stone and When we do this, the grout lines are
also sealed, so you don't have to worry about them anymore.
The whole entire bathroom is completely waterproof, beautiful, and we
can do the entire thing in three days instead of

(44:26):
you know, a month, And because it's so incredibly fast,
it's incredibly inexpensive. And the only thing typically that will
end up in a landfill is going to be some
a little bit of paper and plastic because we mess
things off as if you're like going to spray a car,
and possibly the toilet if you got an old toilet
in there and it's got a huge tank on the

(44:46):
back and it sits really low. You know, while we're
going to do the floor, we're going to take the
toilet off anyway, So I don't mind putting the brand
new toilet on there for you too. So it's just
a win, win win. Everybody wins, you win, I win,
the planet win. I mean, it's just it's just wonderful.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Going back to the grout lines for a second, since
you brought that up, excuse me. Now, for folks who
have tile, let's just go with this example of the bathroom.
You know that you can use seal the grout line. Okay,
but that seal is not permanent. No, it's very temporary.

Speaker 13 (45:22):
Okay, and nobody, let's face it, let's be honest, nobody
goes around sealing the grout lines every year like you're.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Supposed to do. Yes, you're supposed to, But I mean
I don't do it.

Speaker 13 (45:30):
Of course I don't need to because I resurfaced everything.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
But but so now when you talk about with with
what you do, and you talk about those grout lines
being sealed, those grout lines are Now is it a
permanent seal.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yes, yeah, permanent waterproofing. It's wonderful. Yeah, wow, Okay, and
it's not going to change the color where the grout
line was, well, I guess it does.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
I mean if you had old, moldy grout lines, well
they're not going to be old and moldy anymore. Now
they're going to be the same color as the actual
tile because this is praying process. So the grout lines
get sprayed as well. But uh, yeah, nobody likes cleaning
grout lines. That gets really old. Yeah, and it's it's
a pain in the neck. And every time you scrub
those things, you're tearing groud out frankly, is what you're

(46:13):
doing well, yeah, exactly right now, So you.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Don't have to worry about that anymore. It's just that
alone is worth it. I mean, it's so again, like
so many things. You know, we got so many folks
on this show that do such great work. Yes, and
there's a consistent theme in everything they talk about, and

(46:35):
that is the key is the preparation.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yes, especially with what I do.

Speaker 13 (46:41):
I mean, if I do an eight hour day, let's say,
and when I'm done, you know I'm going to be done.
Maybe I'm doing kitchen Yesterday we did kitchen countertops and
they were horrible. If you go to my Facebook wall,
I'll probably make a post on there about how incredibly terrible.
I mean, totally delaminated the whole thing and all came
apart and had to rebuild it all. But that's it's okay.

(47:01):
I put eight hours into that job. Seven of those
hours we're just getting it ready to accept our primers
and multi molecular bonding agents.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
And getround to the spray. That's just the icing on
the cake. Yeah, that's the fun part.

Speaker 13 (47:16):
All the work is really involved in, you know, getting
your hands just you know, beat the heck, and all
the chemicals we use.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
There's a lot of a lot of chemicals, and you
got to be careful with those chemicals. What's the point
in the chemicals, John depends on the chemical.

Speaker 13 (47:30):
But you know, we start off giving in a typically
and if it's a ceramic tile, let's say wall or
or whatever, we get first give it an acid wash.
And the reason we give it an acid wash with
hydrofluoric acid is because we want to open up the pores.
We don't just want a good chemical bond, we want
a mechanical bond. We want to lock into that surface
with our molecular bonding agents. And then so after we

(47:52):
give it an acid wash with hydrofluoric acid, then we'll
give it an alkaline bath to neutralize the pH and
to clean any residues or so who knows what could possibly.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Be on there.

Speaker 13 (48:02):
But we really wash it really really good. So it's
so incredibly clean you could eat off it if you
wanted to. After that, let's see what do we do
after that? Then we give it a final wipe with
a act tone figuring out polish remover.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Basically, it's acet tone.

Speaker 13 (48:18):
It's a really fast drying hot solvent and that gets
any impurities off the surface. So now I can spray
a molecular bonding agent on there to give a great
mechanical bond, which is also doubles as a primer for
the actual primer, which is a two part epoxy primer.
And then on top of that, we will spray some

(48:39):
multi stone flecking to make it appear to be like
rock stone if it's a countertop, or we could just
do you know, a clear acrylic poly earthane, or maybe
you want pure wide. I mean, it's just all kinds
of ways that we can make it look incredibly beautiful.
And again, while we do that, the grout lines are
sealed too, so the process. I spend a whole year

(48:59):
training my people before I ever let them go on
their own because it's so there's so much going on
with it.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
But people don't know about this, and they really need.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
You've been doing this for a long time, Oh yeah,
and it's amazing. Quite honestly, before you came on the program,
I didn't know this was available. Most people don't even
know about it, which blows my mind. I can't even.

Speaker 13 (49:21):
Believe as successful as this is, and this has been
around for a while, This is not happening just in
the last year or two, just correctly. Yeah, yeah, people were,
so you've had time to develop into the effect. And yes,
this all started with bathtub refinishing. This actually like forty
years ago, people were refinishing bathtubs with this stuff and

(49:41):
that evolved. I wasn't going to get into it at
the time, you know, I was a paint contractor, but
I ended up renovating apartments and I had seven hundred
apartments to renovate. And one of my painters came in
and said, you know, John, why are you tearing all
these tubs off? He knew how to resurface a tub.
And I'm like, you know what, I've seen this, Let's
go and do it. I won't even tell the regional
about it.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Let's just do it.

Speaker 13 (50:02):
I want to see firsthand what it looks like. I'll
tear it off the floor tomorrow if I have to.
And I came back the next day. I couldn't even
believe my eyes. I'm like, whoa, this looks like a
brand new tub. But I'm scratching on it, trying to
scratch it, can't even scratch it. And I went and
got the regional I'm like, hey, check this out, and
he's like, looks great, John, Why what, I'm like, it's
the same as the tub I ordered. I didn't have

(50:25):
to go buy a tub, therefore, I mean I didn't
have to tear it off the floor either. And by
the way, when you tear a tub off the floor,
you're tearing off three rows of tiles off walls too.
They don't make four by four tiles anymore. Oh no, no,
they were three point eight eight inches. Now they're actually
four by four tiles, so or vice versa, one of
the two. But they're not the same, so you cannot

(50:45):
get the original tiles if they are back in the fifties, sixties,
or seventies or even the eighties.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
I don't believe they don't even make it. So it's like,
I'm saving him so much money.

Speaker 13 (50:55):
The twenty five hundred dollars job which was replaced the
bathtub and the walls turned into it at that time
a three hundred and fifty dollars job. So you can
imagine how much you can say, And not only does
it save incredible amounts of money, it saves incredible amounts
of time. I can do that job now in a
half a day, so where it took before, it took

(51:16):
four days. Right right, you're rubbing all this stuff out
right and say you got to put it back in.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (51:21):
So now take that little example of what we do
and multiply that times all the walls in the entire bathroom,
the vanity top, the ceramic tile floor, the kitchen countertops,
even cabinet. I don't do cabinets anymore. I could, but
I passed it on to a friend of mine. But
you can just think about how much money that I
can save somebody in time. Yes, time is fun, time

(51:44):
is money, and it's not just my time, it's my
customer's time too. They don't want a contractor in their
house for a month or two months. And by the way,
when you tear bathroom apart, it's dusty. We ventilate our fumes.
We don't want to breed the fumes either, but we
do a really good job of elating the fumes because
I don't I don't want to die, So I mean, we.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Really go the extra mile with that.

Speaker 13 (52:06):
So you know what what typically costs, and you know
takes at least three weeks, and you know, twenty thousand
dollars I'm doing in three days and three thousand dollars,
and that is no kidding, which is why I can't
believe that everybody doesn't know about it. Yeah, so really

(52:26):
getting the word out is explaining it is the hardest,
you know, part of part of this whole deal.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
But once people see it, I would but go to
your Facebook page. Yeah, because the proofs in the pudding
right there, right there, rock your top surfacing, Yeah, how
it started, how it finished, yep.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
And remember these are not.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Photos of things that have been replaced, they've been resurfaced.

Speaker 13 (52:54):
Correct If you're fine with where everything is in the bathroom,
I mean you don't want to turn your tub into
a shower or move it over to the other corner
or whatever. This is a much better option than tearing
it all apart. But it's now humpty dumpty, all right,
all right, folks want.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
To get a free estimate and it gets you out
there to take a look and bestow some.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Good news upon them, or they need to do my friend, Yeah, they.

Speaker 13 (53:18):
Could just call my wife Kathy at eight oh three
nine nine eight two zero eight eight and you can
look us up. But we've got a really nice website
and We're very popular on the Facebook. We have Facebook
walled Rock thetopresurfacing dot com. I will save you many
thousands of dollars and a lot of time too. Yep, John,
always good to see you, my friend, You too, Gary,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Hi, this is Gary David.

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