Home Improvement Show 11-01-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Good morning and welcome an. It's the Home improvement Show
of the Midlands and thank you for joining us this
morning here on one of three point five FM and
five sixty AM WVOC. If we have met, I'm Gary David.
Nice to make your acquaintance. We're introduce you a couple
more of my friends this morning, including James Carwell, the
owner of Freedom Plumbing. He drops by twenty or so

(00:37):
next half hour. It'll be Summer from Beaver Ruffig and
Gutters paying us a visit. First up, it's the star
of the show, Marcus Greenwell, self proclaimed lifetime cabins and countertops.
Nothing personal, James, since since well you know, since you're
the summer, since you're the star, I'm gonna go ahead
and take a break and you can carry the next hour.

(00:59):
You can talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Please, Good morning, come lumba long enough. The world of man,
that's right, that's right, the world, the world worth, worldwide,
the only heart ready absolutely so good morning in Vietnam.
I've heard that before somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Who is that some guy that you copyright?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is that coll right now?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Just just don't say let's get ready to rumble, because
that is right, and you'll get in Big trouble. Oh yeah,
that guy. He spends his life going after people who
use that line commercial. Oh yeah, you get a cease
and assist in a heartbeat from Michael Buffer.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Hey are you ready for some granted as a matter
of fact, then you're.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, what do we gues? Marcus was over the houses
past week. Yeah, drop by.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
To see I got to see Anne, beautiful Anne and Charlie.
Charlie and the Oli cat. Cat was supervising and all.
He was wanting to play all day.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Charlie wouldn't leave that dog alone. Yeah dog Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, he loved me. I love him too. I picked
him up a couple of times because he wanted to
go home with me. I think he's a little dense,
isn't it. Yeah, little pug, he's a little crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah. Yeah, we're doing so. Our latest project with y'all
lifetime is a we called sushi bar.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sushi bar.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah I eat sushi because I don't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, a little breakfast bar area over there on the
back side of the Eye Peninsula. We're going to call that.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, just kind of extends it out a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah yeah, and go up underneath it. We had some
remnants over there and came by and picked it out.
And actually this time it was very.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Very quick, very quick. Yeah, we're doing the granite in
the kitchen, and then we're doing the vanity in the
guest bathroom and that's I can't remember what we picked
for that now.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was so quick we forgot, I know, but it
wasn't it was it. I think it's a court court, yeah,
I think so. Yeah, that's mark with your name on it,
though An's name on it.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, god, I mean put my name on there. So
this is this is but this is the service that
that if you purchased counter drops and this guy right
over here, Marcus, that's right, trust me, you ain't seen
the end of them yet.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's right. I did get hugs by everybody to including
the wife and the dog and the cat and you.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah. I even gave Marcus a hub.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's been a decade since we've known each other now,
it's been about that right at it? Yeah, right on
the show.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, and gosh, how many this is our fourth or
fifth project with you guys.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah. Yeah. The gift that keeps on.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Giving now yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And neighbors, yeah, everywhere, the porch people, porch people and
uh glory.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The old house. Yeah. Yeah, So I come to this
with some experience in working with Lifetime gavins and countertops. Yeah,
and uh, just a simple idea that Marcus paid us
a visit. Income he likes me. Uh, it's because this
is the way you do. You do work, right, I do.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I measure every every job. Yeah, every job I measure
just to ensure the piece size and the you know,
any good ideas that might I might come up with,
and I run it by Enrique in the back. He's
amazing at coming up with ideas.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Master fabricator, he really is.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And so I like to go over all those details
just to make sure you know that they're right. So
I love my job now.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
And we should probably explain to folks too. I think
many of you already know this. But for if you're
have you never heard us talk to Marcus before you
think about buying countertops? Well, okay, you're thinking about Okay,
I go to a place that sells countertops. That's what
they do. They sell countertops. Well, in the case of
Lifetime cabinets and countertops, yeah, you guys sell them. But uh,

(04:52):
if you buy countertops, a lot has to happen, right,
I mean the fabrication process is very detailed.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, what a lot of details in the middle.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
What what are those details in the middle that need
to be taken care of?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, what I'd like y'all to do as a client,
a potential client is bring in some measurements of the
space you're going to do. So if you want a remnant,
I've got a remnant yard and chapin at one fifty
three Chaping Road where you can come pick a remnant
like you did for your sushi bar in your bathroom,
and just like you did, bring in those measurements and

(05:27):
then I'll look at the measurements and talk to you
or your wife or whoever is you know, the ultimate
decision maker.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Guys, it'll be your wife, thank.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
You, and and I'll I'm really good at picking out stuff.
That's why it was so quick, because I was like,
once well meaning, you know, Anne told me what she wanted,
what look she wanted. She didn't necessarily tell me what
stone she wanted. She just said, here's the look I'm
looking for. And then I walked you over. I walked
her over to it, and she's like, that's it. Yeah,

(06:00):
oh yeah, and then she looked at Gary and she said, Gary,
do we need to look at it anymore? He said, uh, no,
I said, do you Yeah, that's right he did, you know,
she says, no, Okay, let's go.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
So you make that And by the way, those remnants
are still moving your costs.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right, that's right, absolutely, And yeah, I need to get
rid of them. So I've got a lot at one
fifty three Chaping Road over there. Now, I do have
a showroom where we do sells just like off of
samples and stuff like that. But you still get to
see your slab. Well at the end of the uh,
once you put the order in, you'll come out to

(06:37):
my chaping store and view the slab and that kind
of thing.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
And why is that so important that you see the
whole stone.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Because there's different inclusions and stuff like that in it
Fisher's natural stone, so it's going to have marks that
some people may or may not like, and we can
work around them. I mean, we we go out there
with decorators and their clients and we'll we'll actually and
natural home owners just like us, but U and we'll
go over the cut location of the slab and stuff

(07:05):
like that. Oh I want to put this on the island,
or I'd rather have this over here in the back corner,
or you know things like that. I mean, there's certain
limitations that we have working with the slab because it's
just one piece or so so to speak. But we
we really do embrace going over those things with the
customer because that's how we got number one six out

(07:29):
of seven years in a row with the state readers,
and then really number two the one year that we didn't,
we got number two in two categories don't even do yeah,
which is cabinet.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
So if you want some countertops where you go to
source for that, start to finish, Like you were just saying,
we love what we do. My brother works for me,
my daughter works for me. All the guys in the
bike have been working for me from the start from
since twenty ten on. I mean, we've had some different

(08:05):
salesmen that have moved on but staying in the industry
and that kind of thing, just kind of moving on
to different parts of the industry. But matter of fact,
one guy just moved on he used to be on
the show, moved on to be a business coach.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah. Yeah, so that's that's the point. You don't just
sell these countertops. You do the fabricator. And that's where
the hard work is. Is that fabrication If I think
installation is a hard part. You know, once you get it,
your guys get it cut just right to fit. You
may do a little trimming up on the song side

(08:41):
with the back, that's where the bulk of that work
goes into.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, they're the ones. They're the reasons for the awards.
As much as I'd like to believe it's me, it
has nothing to do with me. They the guys in
the back are literally And now I do make things
a little easier, you know, because I know the details
of the job. When I come measure your house, you know,
I know the exact details.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
So what are the what are the things that THEO
are the most important things that you're looking for when
you go out to a home. And I guess number
one to make sure that whatever measurements were giving you, yeah,
by the potential customer, you know, are accurate.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Right, Yeah, make sure the measurements are right, you know,
because we're going to do it for cutting. When I
come out to go over details, meaning let's let's make
sure that the cabinets are level, are flat. That's the
that's one of the main things. Make sure what if
they're not Marcus, then they have to be. That has

(09:36):
to be. We had a case just yesterday that uh
customer came in. We came in and took countertops off,
and the cabinets were out of out of square and
out of whack and everything. So we we actually just
a nominal charge and fixed it for them. While we
all do that, yeah, well we don't like to, but
we you know, to keep progress going because we're busy,

(09:59):
so we don't like to. So we just offered it
to fix it for them in that case. But you know,
ideally we walk in and everything's flat or and or
a level and we go in. But that's one of
my parts of my job going take a look at
it and make sure everything loves solid. There are cases

(10:20):
where we come in and I have to add bracket
support brackets across the countertop cabinetry rather you know, from
the front to the to the back wall. But uh, shoot,
maybe one out of one hundred jobs, so once a month,
maybe two months, you know, and that range one month

(10:41):
and a half. Every now and then we run into
something that has to be addressed.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
But you know, if well, see that's but that's the point, Marcus.
Somebody walks into a big box store by a countertop,
you they'll sell your countertop mm hmm, and that's the
end of it. Yeah, Now, no, they'll they'll you know,
they'll arrange to you know, have some third party come
out and I guess measure and yeah, and do the installation.

(11:07):
You don't really know who's behind the scenes fabricating that thing.
And you know, with that example you just gave, for example,
if a third party contractor shows up to install your
countertop and running an issue like that, that's probably not
going to.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
End well, oh yeah, they're definitely walking out right, turning around. Hey,
call your guy.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Called a big box store, tell them the.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Good getting back on the schedule, all right, and.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Next thing, you know, I mean, you're months and months.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
And months, yeah, back on the back end.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And let's say they've already ripped off the existing countertop. Wow,
what happens then?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
But so this is you know again one of these
reasons why time and time and time and time again,
you guys are voted the best of the state newspaper readers,
bull because you take care of everything.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, Now we don't do the plumbing. That's what James.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Carwell, we rely on James for you and has already
bought the fixtures for yesterday, ready to go, yeeah. The
other day you can't buy. So when it comes to
the actual countertop itself, do you find that when most

(12:17):
of the times when folks come and they know exactly
what type of stone they want or because granted countertops
is kind of the just the big grab bag. Yeah
I want granted countertops. Yeah okay, well but do you
want granted countertops?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Right? I typically try to find out the look that
they want, and that's why it makes it easy because
the look is going to depict what kind of stone
it is. So if you want something that looks like marble,
well you're not going to be able to buy granted
because granted doesn't look like marble. So then I would
take them to show them marble. You know our courts

(12:53):
it looks like marble. Our court site that looks like marble.
Depending on what the budget.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Is and you're talking about the I was surprised when
we came out there a couple of weeks ago because
you think of a remnant in my mind. I'm think
of a remnant as a maybe big enough to do
a bathroom bandy like in our house that you're doing.
But I mean you have some huge remnants here there. Yeah,
close to almost a full slab in some case little slab.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, a lot of times we'll have one pie. I
had a friend of mine that builts cabinets that he
on his house. I had to get two slabs and
then use one little two by three out of the
corner of your fla. Yeah, so you know that's a
big piece. I mean I could do a kitchen, a
pretty good sized kitchen out of that. If you're talking

(13:40):
about a seventy square foot slab on this case, so
you're talking about using six square feet, So you got
sixty square foot, which will cover almost every average kitchen
in America for court site. So I got a big
remnant of that leftover.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I mean, this could be your lucky day, right, yeah,
because otherwise if that was if that had not been
cut before, you're selling it at regular price exactly. Yep,
it was a little bit missing off of it, and
you're selling it at your dealer costs. Yep.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, that's a beautiful thing chaping road. Matter of fact,
I'll be there today ten to six, so I might
leave a couple of minutes early, but so you better call.
If it's five thirty, you better call.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
You gotta get home time to watch football game.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
That's a.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Oh my goodness. Well we're again always delighted to work
with you guys.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
And yeah, we appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, I know Anna's and we haven't even talked about
it installed date on our project. Well, let's put it
this way. You were on top of it originally that
we had to, you know, because of things that were
transparted in our last last couple weeks, had had to
put it off. But I know that again. You give
folks a guaranteed installed.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Eight that's right.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
And once you see the things, you know, open up
and you can get there sooner you will.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's all right, absolutely, and that happens a lot.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, yeah, can you still do Thanksgiving for folks. We're
closing in on that here, I mean for a month out.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, we're not even a month now, it's three weeks.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
You're right, we're not, are we we?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Third Thursday?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Isn't it last Thursday?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay it's like a twenty seventh or something. Yeah, well
three weeks that's quite yeah. No, I'm a little bit
hooked up for that, I think. So yeah, yeah, Christmas.
You're getting focused on by Christmas now, yeah, yeah, there's
a couple of spots left before Christmas, so okay, yeah, definitely,
and you want to come on in though, if you
want to do it before Christmas, you will come on in.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
And if you go shop somewhere and they tell you
we can get installed next week.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Run, yeah. You might not want to use them.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's the way. Who's not doing good work right there?
And do much business for There's always a reason for that,
isn't there.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah yeah, I mean everybody's business right now. That's any good?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
So yeah yeah. All right, So you're in Chapin today.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right one fifty three Chaping Road and forty twenty Fernandina Road.
My brother will be there ten to six. He doesn't leave,
he's not gonna leave any couple of minutes early today.
But David is his name. Bring him the measurements of
your kitchen and we'll get you started on your journey
to get in some countertop.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
All right. It is lifetime cabinets and Countertops. Marcus good
to see your brother.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
He best, good to see you.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
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installation and customer service. The owner, Marcus will even personally
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online at Lifetimecabinets SC dot com or stop buy one
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(16:42):
Fernandina Road in Columbia or Chapin Road in Chapin and
check out the hundreds of slabs in stock, granite, marble, quartz, quartzite.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
They've got it all. And if you can't find exactly
what you were looking for when you're.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
There, and that's rare, they will find it. And it's
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man caves, you name it. Lifetime Cabinets Encountertops Fernandina Road
in Columbia, Chapin Road and Chapin and online at Lifetime
Cabinets SC dot com.

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back to the Home improvement Show of the Midlands, and

(17:58):
thanks for joining us this morning here on one of
the three point five FM and five sixty AM. Wvoc
Well Marcus Greenwall, who just left the studio. Reference this
guy right here. It's James carr Well, the owner of
Freedom Plumbing, who joins us on the program.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Now, good morning sire, Good morning dear. How are you.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm doing good? Doing good? Yeah, we were talking with
Marcus about countertops and such and how they do everything
when it comes to countertops and everything, but the plumbing.
He says, that's what you call, that's what you call.
James Carr. We have were freedom plumbing for.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Marcus over there lifetime. He has a great energy, loves
what he does. You can tell you.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Right, Yeah, if you can't, you might want to check
your pulse. So, and we're we're getting ready to do this.
We're just talking there in the break that. Yeah, we're
as we mentioned in the last segment, they're upgrading some
countertops at our place and including a bathroom vanity. And so,
of course can I make an appointment with you right now,

(18:58):
I'll call the office. But yeah, so we'll have to
get you guys out there to to to rehook up
the new fixtures because yeah, you don't do countertops and
Marcus doesn't do plumbing. And but this morning we want
to talk about some plumbing that as a homeowner you
can do, uh, and some tips on how to do it.
I guess James, with a caveat of it is plumbing,

(19:21):
it is water, and you want to be very careful
about how far you want to get into this.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I guess absolutely. Yeah, water can do a lot of damage.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You know that firsthand.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, so I would take caution and you know, dealing
with water situations, whether it be Fawcett installs, you know,
toilet installs. There's things to look for to make sure
that it's being done properly, and there's things to be
very careful about when you're doing it so you don't
cause any other issues rather than the ones that you're fixing.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Right, Right, So you've got some tips for a few
things that uh, you know, not for everybody to try.
I get it, you know, there there will there will
be a few things that I'll do, but I think
I know by limits as to how far I want
to go, because, as you just said, I don't want
to create an even bigger.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Problem, right, Yeah, But but some of the I would
say things, Yeah, first thing I would say would be, uh,
you know, if if you have to shut the water
off to a fixture, whether it be a faucet, a toilet,
be very careful when you're shutting off, you know, the
supply line and the emergency shut off out to those fixtures,

(20:31):
especially if they're CPBC. C PBC can get brittle over time.
I've had customers just turning the shut off out and
snap a line and then have to go shut their
whole house down and then call us out to do repairs.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
That that is that little line down there behind the
toilet or whatever.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Behind the toilet, underneath the cabinet and you're you know,
under the faucets. Sometimes it's best, and we do this
a lot, is you shut the meter off even if
you're just working on one fixture. That way, you don't
even have to, you know, causing any damage to the
shut off house. And in some cases they're old and
if you start turning them, they start leaking through the
packing of the shut off out where the handle is,

(21:10):
so you know, sometimes it's best to not even touch it,
depending on the age. So a lot of times we'll
shut the whole house off while we're doing repairs.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
It's a good call. Yeah, so shut all the water
off first at the shut off valve that key. I
just saw this last weekend. My one of our boys
is house hunting, and I didn't realize you're doing this
in some newer homes now that those shut off alves are.
In this case, it was actually in the garage in
the wall will be. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
We had one in the garage, so very convenient. The
shut off out and the pressure reducing valves both in
the garage, which makes it easy you don't have to
hunt for it in the yard. You don't have to
get a meter key and go shut it off at
the meter. So yeah, definitely makes it easy. And if
you're on a well, the simplest way I would say,
shut your breaker off and then just drain the water

(22:03):
out of the system at a hose bit of outside
faucet something like that. That way you don't have to
worry about fighting with a PBC ball valve or whatever
kind of shut off you might have on your well,
or trying to get to that shut off out.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
But the lesson here is number one, no matter what is,
know where your shut off out is.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Know where to shut off is, and just know to
be careful with if you're just shutting off one fixture,
you know, put some back pressure on it while you're
turning the handle. Make sure that thing doesn't get too
much pressure put on it.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
And that can happen, because it happened to my parents'
house a few years ago. Well, I got to get
you guys outre to do a fix because the painters
just just shutting off the hose outside. Yeah, busted the
line that that can happen too, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, we've had you know, dogs chewing on hoses, pulling
hose bins off, So it can happen on any kind
of line. Really, I think that one that I'm speaking
of was a h a copper line and it just
came off at the at the solder joint. So you know,
be careful with any type of shut off out and

(23:08):
if things aren't secured properly, like outside of hosebiz, definitely
use your hand to put some back pressure while you're
turning it and make sure it doesn't spin in an
odd manner.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Okay, So put your hand on it, turn that part
to the right and of the valve to the left correctly.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Okay, try to keep the stable while you're turning it.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, gotcha. Okay, a good tip there.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
What else, So, one thing we run into quite a
bit would be, uh, when falsets have low flow and
it's just one faucet in the house, it's not every faucet.
That would kind of point towards that fixture having an issue,
and you'll be able to tell if it's the same
flow on the hot side as it is on the

(23:53):
cold side. That kind of tells you that it's past
your water lines. It's past your faucet as far as
the on off portion of that valve, the cartridge or
the stems, and it's probably most you know, it's most
likely an errator, which is the part where the water

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actually comes out of the part at the tip of
the faucet that kind of gives it the bubbles when
it comes out. So that would be the part that
I would remove, and in some cases you need to
you know, the aerator removal tool that comes with the faucet,
because they recess a lot of these erators inside these
faucets nowadays, so you can't just unscrew them.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Most mesh looking thing you look up in there, you see,
is is that what we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
It usually has like a couple of wire mesh layers
and then a lot of times there's a flow restrictor
in that thing as well. And sometimes the flow restrictor
can go bad, which is just a small O ring.
In most cases, once that O ring starts to deteriorate,
it can actually swell and create more of a restriction

(24:58):
than it's supposed to. So that would be, you know,
the thing to take out. You know, take it apart.
What I like to do with anything, I take a
part is take a picture of it so you know
how to put it back together the proper way. Or YouTube,
you know YouTube university that can definitely help.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, my wife's graduate of YouTube University.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
I've quite a few things on YouTube myself, not plumbing related,
but other things that I kind of delve into. So,
but yeah, you can.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
That's the sort of thing that you can do without
having to turn the water off, right, I mean removing an.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Area correct, as long as it's shutting off at the
handle wherever you turn the water on.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
A faus it.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, you can do that without even messing with the
water shut off. Let's make sure the fossil's off, get
your tool, remove it, take it apart, rinse it out,
flush it, put it back together, and put it back in.
See if that solved your problem. If not the quickest way,
if it's still that part that's caused an issue, and
you can kind of tell when you turn to falset
on without that errate or in, you'll notice the flow

(26:01):
if it's if it's an improved flow at that point
without the air rator in, then you know that the
aer rtor is the issue. Right at that point, if
you've got a newer falset, you know, labeled with the
model and serial number. You can call the manufacturer, say
Delta MOW and whoever it might be. They can send
you a new aerrator. Typically, most of the faucets are

(26:23):
covered with a limited lifetime warranty, which means that they
will send you parts if the parts go bad.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, and uh this in this instance, let's say you're
having a hard time getting it back together again. I mean,
you're not totally without us of that faucetting and somebody
to do that for you, right, you can still use
it without the aerrator in it.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
I guess, huh, it's it's not going to have your
you know, whatever the flow restriction is down to one
point five to one gallon, whatever that faucet's rated for,
it's not going to have that restriction anymore. So the
war is going to come out pretty yeah, forcefully and
without direct and sometimes the area it really gives direction

(27:04):
and slows the flow down.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
But it won't do it won't do damage to the
actual fixture itself, will.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
It unless that water pressure kind of goes Some fawcets
have a little trim plate where the water comes out,
and that trim plate. Will you know they got a
little coppa tuba and the inside that you know, spits
the water out. Well, it's covered by a casing and
if the water goes back into that case and to

(27:34):
potentially get underneath inside your cabinet. So it depends on
the make of the faucet. I can't say it won't
do damage. But you want to make sure that you
when you look for all that and you're you're running
the faucet, open the cabinet doors, look underneath, just test
everything to make sure there's no drips leaks underneath the
cabinet of the faucet.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
That's funny you mentioned that My wife always makes fun
of me for this. But we replaced the and we're
gonna get to the flappers here in a second. We
replaced the entire assembly inside our toilet tank a couple
of months ago. I've done that a number of times.
It's not hard to do, you know, I mean, but
I always get a bowl and put a piece of

(28:18):
get get a get a piece of I'm drawing a
blank here, not toilet paper, but you know, bounty or whatever.
You know, why can't I think of the dame of
this thing? Right, the stuff you used in the kitchen
on the roll, you know that stuff?

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Oh wow, I'm either getting old or dumb or both. Yeah,
paper towel, I'll just put it on top, because I'll
leave it there for like two weeks, you know, to
make sure that Okay, there's no drip. There's no drip,
there's no drip. Okay. I'm a little antal when it
comes to that, I guess, but this, she always makes
fun of me for that. I guess. You don't really
need to let it sit there for two weeks like

(28:56):
I had, usually an hour or so. It's going to
tell you if not, if even that long, I guess.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
So what I typically do is take a square of
toilet paper. After everything was dried up, and you know,
first leak tested before we leave, I'll take a square
of toilet paper, and I'll go over every fitting or
connection to make sure because toilet paper, you'll you'll be
able to notice a drop of water pretty easily on
a piece of toilet paper. So that that's how I

(29:22):
check every fitting and connection. After we do a repair
or install.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Which brings us to another dili tip of that is well, again,
it's pretty easy. I mean, replacing the interns of your
toilet tank is not that terribly hard to do. And
maybe the easiest thing to do is is the flapper.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Right, Yeah, a lot of times you'll get what we
call a ghost flush, and that's when you hear the
toilet fill up and nobody flushed it, and you'll get
that periodic filling up of the toilet tank. And basically
what's happening is the flapper isn't holding the water in
the tank properly. It's leaking past and going into the
bowl and that water level starts to drop, and actually

(30:00):
the phil valve says, hey, we need more water in here,
so it'll fill up and we'll leak out and fill
up and that will just be a reoccurring process. So
the flapper is what keeps that water in the tank.
So an easy fix is just replacing that flapper. Granted,
all the parts in that toilet are probably the same age,
So what we typically recommend is a minor rebuild because

(30:23):
we don't want to replace a flapper and then come
back a week later and replace a phill valve and
then so but if you're looking to get by without
having it fill up and drain out a flapper will
do the trick.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
But again, remember before you get into all that, go
back to tip one. You gave us that shut off valve.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Some people can do it quick enough where you just
take a flapper out, the water runs down into the
bowl and you put a new flapper in and and
you just make sure you set your level butt.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, I was thinking about a replace of the entire
assembly there. Yeah, that that you're going to need to
drain that with you.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
So you got water running into the as you're Yeah,
as you're trying to put that flapper in. So if
you're not well versed in that, you could be wasting
a good bit of water until you get that flaper
in properly. So, yeah, shutting off the water would be
a good idea, I would say. And if the shut
off I was older, again, shut it off at the
at the main whether it be in the garage outside.

(31:19):
But I would say, remember that all flappers are not
created equally.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
That was my question, the exact same thing. Are all
flappers created equal? And no, okay, why not?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, there's a couple of things. Some of them are
larger than others. There's three inch flappers there's two inch flappers,
and then they got these flush towers which use like
a gasket and a ring gasket that kind of goes
into the flush tower. So just make sure that you
figure out what flappers in there and get the same
exact one. The downside to getting the same one that's

(31:52):
in there is if somebody has replaced it in the
past and didn't put the proper one in it right.
And a lot of times you'll know that if your
toilet doesn't flush all the way or it double flushes,
so you know, like American standard toilets, for example, have
these floats on the flappers, a little styrofoam float, and
that float controls how long that flapper stays open because

(32:15):
you're not supposed to flush all of the water out
of the tank in those style of toilets, so it
only allows, you know, maybe half of the water in
the tank to go out. You still need all the
water in there to get the proper pressure to push
that water out the way it's supposed to. But yeah,
you've got to get that. Make sure that you position
the float to the proper height to where when you
flush the toilet all the water goes down. It's got

(32:38):
a little bit more after it goes down and then
the flapper shuts, So something to make sure that you got.
If you put the wrong flapper in a lot of
times you'll get a double flush in those toilets, so
the flapper will stay open, all the water will come
out of the tank. It'll flush once, it'll flush twice,
and then the flapper closes.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
So if you move into an overholme or you've been
a home for a while, but you know there were
multiple owners before that, yeah, it may be that the
flapper size is not right. Is there another way to
determine the right size? I mean, can you measure the
hole in the when pulled flapper up? Measure that hole?
I mean, does that tell you anything?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Or most of them are two inch, the newer ones
like the Champion I believe it's the Champion toilets or
three inch, so most of them are two You should
be able to tell the difference. But nowadays you can
probably take a picture, use the Google ends or the
AI and it'll tell you the brand. You know the

(33:32):
parts and everything. But the easiest way is to just
know what brand your toilet is because a lot of
them you can just google Let's say it's a coler
toilet coler flappers. Some of the colers also use floats,
so you just need to make sure that when you
put that flapper in there that it's only doing one flush,
and that it's flushing properly with that one flush, that
you have enough water to complete it.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Anything else, any other di y tips for us this morning?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I would just say, starting to get colder, now it's
time to start thinking about getting your covers for you
outside hose bibs. That's an easy thing to do on
your own and start, you know, doing that winterization as
we start getting into these colder months.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Sounds good. Yeah, it'll be here for you. Not right time?
Is flat all bilen here, it's already November one. How
about that?

Speaker 3 (34:20):
It's always better to be more prepared than the less,
especially when these things can go out of stock pretty
quick when the freeze alerts come in.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah. Yeah, James Carwell, he is the owner of Freedom
Plumbing and he is bringing us some terrific tips this morning.
But if it's something that's beyond something you're willing to do,
and there are a lot of things like that when
it comes to plumbing, how good folks read you my friend.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
You can give us a call it eight oh three
four four seven zero four seven one, or visit our
website at Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Right, thank you, James.

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How it going, buddy, Yes, sir Gary, you too, Thank
you so far.

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Speaker 1 (35:46):
Hi, this is Gary David. You've heard me talk for
years about Anthony John Construction and the wonderful jobs they
do for folks all across the Midlands. When it comes
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Leave it to Beaver Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters Summer
from Beaver Roofing and Gutter Summer. Good morning to you.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Let's talk about some roofs today, shall we? Big part
of what y'all do over there. Of course, it's right
there in the name for Beaver Roofing.

Speaker 8 (36:31):
And Gutters, yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
And the fact that, well, as I've said many times before,
there are a lot of local roofers out there, but
a lot of things set you guys apart at beaver
roofing and gutters. And one of the big things is
that you do replacements, of course, but you do repairs
as well. And not all roofing companies are willing to

(36:58):
do a repair on your roof. And we've had as yeah, exactly,
and we've had great success. I mean, y'all put a
new roof on our new home late last year. Stunning,
by the way, I get more compliments on that roof by.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Crammy. What you know a little shingle change can do exactly.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, we went with the architectural shingles, first time I've
ever had those on a roof. And you know, I
mean a roof around these again shingles. Well, we always
hear thirty years shingles. I think you've told us before.
You know, in this environment around here, in this climate
in South Carolina, you don't usually get thirty years out
of a shingle. But exactly, I'm thinking, at my advanced

(37:40):
age now that that's probably my roof for life right there. Okay,
that's that's what I'm that's what that shy. Of course,
any natural disaster that could befall it, which again, you
guys take care of that too. But sir, my parents'
home which we put on the market a couple of
years ago. Uh, well, we wondered that they needed a

(38:01):
new roof or not. So we called you guys, and
then y'all came out with again one of your free
roof inspections. Yes, sir, and it turned out in that
case that there was just a really minor issue. And
as I recall, it was like maybe four hundred bucks
y'all hopped up there exactly. Yeah, you got it fixed,
and that home was getting ready to go on the market.

(38:22):
Needless to say, it's sold. It passed inspection, no problem.
Oh so thanks for.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
That again absolutely, but again.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Well absolutely we have for years at our household. But
an example there of how okay, you didn't need a
new roof, you just needed a minor repair. Even though
you're getting ready to sell it, you wanted to pass inspection.
Uh it would have been tempting to say, put a
whole new roof on that thing, for well, roofers that
only do replacements so they don't have any other options.

(38:54):
But thanks you guys for both.

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Yeah, so that's exactly so you said.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
We we do. We like to say, hey, give us
a call, let us come out and do an inspection
on your roof. You don't know what you're gonna find
up there. That's why we always suggest having an annual once,
you know, once a year, have us come out take
a look at what's going on.

Speaker 8 (39:17):
Because, like you said, harsh weather.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
We have all sorts of a mirroad of weather in
South Carolina, from storms to cold.

Speaker 8 (39:28):
To the baking sun.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
So you know, that's why we always say, give us
a call, let us come out, let us take a look.
A lot of times, like you said, we can get
up there. Everything shingles look great, you know, the granulation's great,
everything's looking good. However, the sun really does a number
on the on the pipe boots and just the ceiling
around the ceiling around those, and we can just put on,

(39:55):
you know, put a.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
Little bit of call and it's good as new.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
However, if you do leave small things like that un
unrepaired or unfixed, you know, it can cause larger problems
stains on the ceilings on the inside, and then you know,
just all kinds of different things can can come from
just a small, small fix.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
So that's always say.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Hey, like you said, we're not going to tell you
need a full new, full roof. If you don't, we'll
get up there take a look. Okay, great, we'll just
do a little you know, ceiling. You're good as new,
and that really goes a long way for the maintenance
of your homes, just like taking care of your car.
Got to do the maintenance to make sure that the
longevity is there.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Right, don't do the oil change. You got problems coming
your way, right exactly, And typically I think you mentioned
it when your folks get up there on these roofs.
You know, one of the most combin issues are are
those those those pipe.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
Boots, Yes, sir, exactly, I know, just.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
The ones you put on our roof.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
Now.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
They look a little different than the ones that I'm
used to they they seem to be they're a little taller,
maybe a little beef heer. I mean, is is that
is exactly?

Speaker 8 (41:04):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Those are the lifetime boots, and they are they're.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
A little bulkier, not bulkier, so.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
But like they're doing their job exactly, they're gonna We're
gonna make sure that they're doing a job.

Speaker 8 (41:16):
They are.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
They're they're going to last longer, and they just in
my opinion, they do. They're just a little pop and
they look just a little bit nicer too, So they
do you know, you're you're getting a quality product out
of that, out of that lifetime pipe boots.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
So we do whenever we replace, we always use those.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
So when you do hop up there, that's maybe one
of the first things y'all look at, right, because that
seems it tends to be a problem for a lot
of folks, is those leaks around those pipe boots, right exactly.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
That's going to be the most common if anybody come
calls us in and says, oh, I have some you know,
stainings and stains on the ceilings, and I all went
my first question, what's where the where you see in
the stains is in the kitchen? You know, is it
in the bathroom because those are obviously places that the
home is vented out, you know, the bathroom fan and

(42:10):
you know the fan in your kitchen. So a lot
of times that's just an indicator. And you know, first
thing we look at, and you know, obviously we look
at other things when we're doing our inspections. We're gonna
look at the granulation, how much grit is left on
the shingles, we're gonna look and see if there are
any shingles that may be damaged, you know, lifted or
you know, cracked, or if there are any inventions. You know,

(42:34):
that's just gonna be signs of you know, a weather
event that we've had, whether it be hail or if
it's strong winds that have you know, lifted increased the shingles.
And then you know, obviously we're gonna check the ventilation,
you know, the vents on top of the roof. We're
gonna check the gutters, you know, when we do our

(42:54):
inspections too. So it's not just oh, get up there
and you know, looking at a couple of things. No,
we're gonna check out everything, make sure that everything is tip.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
Top and you know, and it's good to go, you know.
And like I said, if we do get up there
and we do see you know, widespread what you know,
we weather signs of the weather events.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
If it's you know, crackhing bules or we see heil
or something like that, we may say, hey, you might
have a you might have an insurance claim on your hands.
Here it's all over your roofs, and you know, we
we would suggest that you do make a claim.

Speaker 8 (43:33):
We think that you might have a good.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Claim here on your hands, and if we get up
there and we don't, we won't urge you to do
that because it's just it's not it doesn't make sense,
you know what I mean. Well, we're fair, honest upfront,
and you know, like you said, and I'm not saying
every roof or but you know it construction. They just
it's we get a bad name. And you know, we

(43:56):
always want to be fair upfront with all of our customers.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Well, you guys are the only people I know who
when you when you advertise, you say that you encourage
people to go to websites that you don't control to
read the reviews.

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I don't know anybody else who ever does that. Summer
to tell you, I've never heard of that before except
for you guys.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Well, you know, and it's just it's just shows, Hey,
we want you to see what other people are saying.

Speaker 8 (44:24):
You know, obviously we do have we have a great
review and we have great reviews.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
We have high high you know, it's either four point
nine five, you know, five star reviews on Google's and
you know, we're really proud of that.

Speaker 8 (44:36):
And you know, sometimes things come up and it's construction,
it's it's life.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
You know, things don't go perfectly the first time. But
we do like to say, hey, if there is a problem,
we we talk with our customer and we get that resolved,
you know, so and I always encourage customers to say that, hey,
I know that it is things didn't go right the
first time, but if you wouldn't mind you know, sharing
your sharing your experience on how we did correct the issues.
You know, it's just to me, that's a big thing

(45:06):
of it, you know, because you know, if things do
go wrong, hey, they didn't ignore us, they didn't not
call back, they didn't you know that we come back.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
We stand by our work.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
You mentioned earlier. One of the things you're looking for
is the amount and I think you grit or granulation
on those shingles. What is the purpose of that that
that grit granulation stuff on shingles? What does that do?

Speaker 4 (45:29):
So that is going to that that protects what's underneath
the roof, you know, and obviously that's going to be
your color that you were talking about how nice it
looks and whatnot, and especially with the architect that's the
pops of color and the different colors and there. So
whenever you're seeing that coming off the granulation, you'll see

(45:50):
you may see it like coming out of your gutters,
you know where the downspouts are. You might see some
of that. That shows signs of age. So whenever that
the green elation is just coming off, you know that
it might be getting time for you to have a
you know, your roof replaced.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
So those shingles are getting thinner, they're weakening, they're not protecting.

Speaker 8 (46:14):
The correct Yeah, they're getting brittle.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
They're not going to be able to withhold like you know,
if you have a brand new, brand new shingles and say,
you know sometimes you know you'll have a limb fall
on it. Perfectly fine because those shingles are nice new
you know, they're flexible, they're they're able to do their job.
But if they're older, they're like you said, thin, brittle,
they don't have that protection of the granules on the top.

Speaker 8 (46:39):
So boom.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
You know, shingles are obviously going to be compromised when that,
you know, say a limb falls on the older shingles.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
So and again getting a free roof inspection with you guys,
I mean, unless you're a lot younger than me and
a lot more adventurous than me. You're not getting to
get up on your roof, okay, right, yeah, And I.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
Mean you shouldn't have to, you know, and and and
and again, like I said, it's construction, and they do
get a bad name just from the industry, you know.
And but you know, we will show you photos of
what we see when we're up there, so you know,
some people I want to see for myself, understand one.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
But it's not always the safest if you don't know
what you're doing getting up there. So that's why I
always say, give us a call. We'll show you what's
going on up there. And you know, we're happy to
help to show you.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Hey, this is the problem, or hey you don't need
you know, you don't need a brand new roof. You
just need a little a little maintenance.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
And we talk a brand new roof here summer for
folks who've never had a new roof put on a home.
And now we're we're talking the shingles and the whatever
that underlayment that fabric is. But but you you could
run into situations where h that that that what underneath
there needs to be replaced as well. Although that doesn't
seem to be as common, does it.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
It's not as common there, sir, But yet the roof decking,
and sometimes yes we do it comes we come across
it sometimes say you've you've had a leak, but you
don't you don't know that you've had a leak, you know,
and that and that happens too sometimes, if you know,
if we get up there, we're taking off the shingles,
we're taking off the the underlayment, and we come across

(48:21):
rotten wood, we replace it. You know. Obviously we can't
nail into into that because it's not a.

Speaker 8 (48:27):
Nailable surface, right and it won't be able to hold that.
But yeah, we do have to replace that sometimes.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
And it's not always oh we've got to replace all
of the decking. It's just, you know, some areas where
there was a leak and whatnot, and.

Speaker 8 (48:42):
We just take care of it and we go from
there and we just proceed as normal.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
And I guess this is one of these situations summer
where so often as a homeowner we think that Okay,
I don't see any stains on my ceilings, and my
roof must be a okay.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Not always the.

Speaker 8 (48:56):
Case, though, it's not and I mean it happened very
very often. And then things like that.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
You know, we don't we don't see any scenes on
the ceilings, but you know, when you do, it might
it might be. Hey, now all of the insulation and
the attic is so heavy now that it's just boom,
come on through.

Speaker 8 (49:16):
You know, it just falls out.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
So there is just there is a many, many, many
different things that could just happen, and it's like, oh, wow,
had I just done maintenance, I would have you know,
I would have avoided that. We could have avoided this
and it and it would have cost a lot less
money to take care of it if we were just
in the maintenance process instead of oh man, now we

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have to repair this.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
And again, when it comes to replacing a roof, as
as you mentioned earlier, if there's damage that's been done
to your roof and mother Nature's have fault and the
insurance comes into play. And one of the things you
guys specialize in and and you do a very good job,
is that you've got folks who actually work as almost
your attorney, your your lawyer.

Speaker 8 (49:59):
You're you can say that is your roof attorney. Exactly, Yes, sir, uh,
we you know, we we do.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
We do so y'all will will stand by the homeowner.
You make your assessment and then you'll you'll, you'll argue
it out with the with the adjuster. I guess, to
try to get the best deal possible.

Speaker 8 (50:16):
Uh exactly.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
You know we always think, oh, well, yeah, my insurance
won't slip us for me.

Speaker 8 (50:22):
They'll It's not it's not always the case.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
You know, they don't want to just dole out money
and dole out brand new roofs. But you know, we're
going to stand by you and if your roof warrants,
you know, if you have enough storm damage, we you know, we.

Speaker 8 (50:38):
Call it, then you should. You're you deserve one, you know,
like you should.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
You've paid your premiums, you've done everything you're supposed to
be as a homeowner.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
Uh, your insurance ows that to you, you know, and
it's you know, here and we document everything and we
go to bat and you know, yeah, absolutely we're going
to stand by your side and go hand in hand
and do whatever we can and to make sure that
you get what's what's what's desert?

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You know, O to you, is there a rule of thumb?
How much of a roof surface has to be damaged
before it won't kind of like if you you wreck
a car, you know between well it's fixable. No, it's
a total, it's total. So you know with with insurance companies,
where they going to say okay, yeah, we'll pay for
the whole roof or not.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
So yes and no.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
So each carrier is is a little different in their
size and area, so to say. But they usually look
at a ten by ten area and that's you know,
that's one square and there needs to be a certain
amount of impacts. Say, you know, if it's hail impacts
and that's and like I said, that's different carrier by carrier,

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and you know, or if there's oh well there's creasing
and we see lift up.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
Of the shingles, and.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
It's a case by case.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Man, so to say, rule of because some insurance companies
will say, oh, well, we just want to do the
front half, you know it.

Speaker 8 (52:05):
And it's just and that's when we come into play.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
You know.

Speaker 8 (52:10):
It's it's not you can't mix. You can't mix shingles.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
You know, whenever you start taking off layers and putting
down new it's just the shingles don't lay together when
they're old and new. And that's, like I said, that
all comes into play whenever we get you know, we
step in and say, hey, we're not going to they
don't need just the front half or just the front
or the front left elevation and things of that nature,

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because they will they'll try to say that or oh,
we'll give.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
You twenty seven shingle repair.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Yeah, that's just slightly.

Speaker 8 (52:41):
We're not going to have that.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
It's not it's it's it's not even smart for them
to say to do that because then you're mixing new
and old and it's not compatible. So, you know, like
I said, that's when we have our roof attorneys.

Speaker 8 (52:56):
Come in and go to bat for you.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
That free roof inspection. It's a great idea of summer
folks that want to get it, take advantage of it.
How did they get a hold of you at Beaver
Rufago Gutters.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Absolutely give us a call it eight oh three nine
nine one roof and check us out facebooks and us
messages and we're happy to help.

Speaker 8 (53:16):
We can't wait to hear from you all right, summer.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Thanks so much.

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