Home Improvement Show 11-16-24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, my friends, and welcome in the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands on one O three point five
FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Good morning. I hope
your a weekend is off to a fantastic start. We
got an hour of getting things fixed up or fixing
it up at your home of your business Rock the
Top Johnny Cathy Figner going to join us in a
short while. We'll be chatting with Jessica Smith from Lexing

(00:34):
and Kim Dry getting ready for the holidays and mud season,
Kim Dry and Lexing into the rescue and is the
remnist stale still going on? And can you get it
done by Christmas? Some of the questions we'll ask Marcus
Greenwell and Todd Hudson, who joined us this morning from
Lifetime Cabinus and Countertops. To wrap things up, we get
going though with our friend yours and mine, James Carwell

(00:57):
from Freedom Plumbing.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good morning, sir, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
How you been I've been well, buddy? How about you?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Bet? I've been good, good towly getting the house break together.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I was going to ask you about that because
ironically is a plumber. You had a big plumbing issue
with it.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Was a client's failure washing machine flood your house when
the drain when it was the appliants itself. So nothing
really plumbing related, right, No, but the end.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Probably is a house full of water and boy, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah upstairs downstairs.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I actually know of a couple of people that have
had an issue recently. They've been I know one maybe
like you've been out of his house for a couple
of months.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. Yeah, we're back in, but we've still got the
downstairs for that got to go in and ye, there's
some stuff we need to touch up.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But you know, well, glad to see happened.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You make a plan to move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's all I can do, right, I can do that. Uh.
Of all the things we talk about when it comes
to plumbing with you, James, uh, you know all the
different things that could happen, you know, there're maybe only
a couple of things that people feel empowered to do.
You know, maybe replace the stopper, the flapper, the and
the toilet tank. We've talked about that before. But you know,

(02:11):
one thing everybody says, oh, I can take care of that.
I don't, you know, I don't need any advice on that.
Something stops up. You know, it's that the water is
not flown, and we all think, well, I can fix that. Well,
we want to let's talk about stoppages this morning, because
there are some some things that well, A, you don't
want to ever put in any sort of plumbing device, and
maybe be some things you don't want to do if

(02:32):
you do have a stoppage.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sure. Yeah, So the first thing I would say, matter
of fact, we had the situation come up yesterday, is
if your toilet backs up, there's a couple of things
I would do to test the system before you plunge.
So the first thing I would do is run the
sink that's typically right next to the toilet. Okay, That

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way you can tell if it's actually just the toilet
or if it's deeper in the system, maybe on your
main line.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
So if you run the sink and you start to
see the toilet bubble up or the water rises and
the toilet tank or a toilet bowl, then you know
that there's more going on than just the toilet. And
at that point I would not recommend plunging. Because your
toilet is set on a wax ring that connects it
to the drain line. And that's what creates that seal. Well,
if the stop had just passed that seal and you
start putting pressure on it with a plunger, you can

(03:23):
actually blow that wax ring out, oh boy, and create
a leak at the toilet base, and that can do
lots of damage, especially if you don't even see it.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well yeah, then you're like you you're out of your
house for a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, it could be. You know, I've had saw situations
where the wax ring was leaking, you know, damage the
floor had to do a full bathroom remodel because it
right of the floor out and they had to go
sub floor all the way into an adjacent room.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
So okay, I've never heard that before. So before you plunge,
run some water in the sank and make sure it's
not backed up too.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, and better than a plunger, I would recommend an auger.
Oh yeah. And auger is just a device that she
used to snake through the toilet drained.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yes, yeah, I've got one of those last time I
used it. You have to be careful those things, don't you.
You can scratch that porcelain bowl if you're not careful.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah, the good ones come with the rubber protector
on the end.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Apparently didn't get a good one then.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, I would always recommend if you're going to get
tools to work on plumbing, get them at plumbting supply
houses because you're going to get the better quality. Meter
keys are a good example. You can go to loads
on depot get a meter key. You're gonna get this
tiny little thing that if your meter is hard to turn,
it may not turn because you just don't have that
much torque on it. So the supply houses carry the

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big ones with the nice revel rubber handles, and it
gives you a lot more torque if needed, especially downtown
Columbia area where they're hard to turn off.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
So is it because the water pressure of the age.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Of the home, just the age of the meter. Typically
those older meters, if they haven't been updated, they can
be very difficult to turn. I've had some twist my
meter key they were so hard to turn off.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
And I'm assuming you didn't get yours a Lowser home
depot nots sory. Okay, all right, so good tip there
on a backup too, good tips? Still, Why why is
an algar better than a plunger for a backup toilet.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
You're just not in case that stopage, just because you
could have a stoppage just past the wax ring that's
only affecting the toilet. You know, it could be a
turn in the drain line, and it's before the sink
cooks up, so you'd run the sink. The sink's running fine,
but you put that pressure on the toilet with the plunger,
and you're actually putting that pressure on the wax ring

(05:53):
in that connection. So the augur just goes through the
line without really putting any pressure on anything, and you
can clear any obstruction in the toilet. And some of
them are telescopic, so they'll extend an extra three feet, yes,
and you can get a little bit further down the
drain line with that ardor just in case that stoppage
has just passed that wacturing in the drain line itself.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, from from experience, I can tell you that they
work very well. They're not as convenient as a plunger,
but they work very.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, definitely, put some gloves on, have a plastic bag
and a rag with you.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, let's yeah, let's let's move from the bathroom to
the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh yeah, So garbage disposals can entice people to put
all kinds of things down the drain line. A few
things I would recommend not putting down there is coffee grounds,
anything starchy, potato peels, noodles. Noodles are Noodles are a
huge issue with stoppages. What happens is that it goes down,

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gets ground up, turns into one big glob of noodle,
and hits the back tea in the drain line under
the sink and just plugs it right up. And typically
what you'll have is you can run one side of
your sink, the one the side that doesn't have the
garbage disposal on it, and it drains, but then your
garbage disposal doesn't. Now if it makes it past that

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tea and gets into the p trap, then both sides
are going to stop up. Even worse than that, you
get past the p trap into the drain line itself,
especially if you have an older drainage system, galvanized or
cast iron, you start you're asking for issues anytime you
put a large amount of food down a garbage disposal

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on an older system.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think you've mentioned this before, and most plumbers would agree.
I mean you you basically I think of it. It
suggested just don't use it at all.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, I mean, for me, I'm on a septic tank.
We opted not to even put one in, so we
just scrape everything off into the trash. Now you're going
to get some stuff down the drain, and that's one
good thing that is there. For the stuff that slipt
over on the plate that you wash off. You know
that that kind of stuff shouldn't shouldn't create an issue,
but you never know. And as much as you try

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to get grease off your plates, and you're going to
get it down the drain line. And that's that's one
other large issue for kitchen sink drains is the grease
build up in the line and those can be pretty
difficult to break loose because your cable will just go
through them and they'll just close right back up when
you pull a cable out. So usually it takes a

(08:29):
few times of going through that line with that machine
in order to clear the grease out. Definitely, don't just
dump grease down the sink well.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Never. Yes, that may be the one thing that most
all of us know when it comes to plumbing is you.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Just want to throw it up just to be on.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
The safe side, because when when you do have a
garbage disposal, I mean, I've heard of I don't know,
to keep them clean, smelling good. I've heard various and
sundry things you can do. What are your tips?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
They make different products that you can put in there
for smell and stuff like that. If you're getting an
odor ice is a really good thing to put in
the disposal and grind up, just because it'll clean the
blades and clean inside of the of it pretty good
and you don't have to worry about it to create
many issues as far as block it. Just it's gonna
melt and drain on out the line.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, okay, well we'll go with lice then that sounds good.
Any you mentioned pasta grease?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, Pasta's no go. My best advice is to scrape
the plate off from the trash whatever's left, rints it
off on the garbage disposal side while you run the
garbage disposal. That way, you don't have to worry about
it because I mean, you're talking about biodegradable material anyway, right,

(09:57):
so you know it's gonna break down. So putting it
down the drain yeah, it's going to go away. Putting
in the trash is going to go away as well,
without the potential for stoppages in most cases.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And just so we're on the record with this, forks
are not biodegradable.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Forks are not biodegradable. I think we've all done that
from time to time. We just kind of slipped down
that hole when you weren't looking, you know, and the
next thing you know.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I had a customer the other day that washing
off a dish at his office and the plastic fork
popped out of the dish and landed right in the toilet,
and decided, well, I don't feel like grabbing it, let's
try flushing it. So, needless to say, we got a
phone call and went out there and took care of
it with an auger and we're able to pull the

(10:48):
fork out.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
The dude's washing washing the sins of the toilet.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was just in his office lunch. I figured he
was washed played a bathroom.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeut, okay, Yeah, just.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Happened to drop the four gread in the toilet.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'm back of toilets for a second, because you know,
there's a lot of things out there that claim they're flushable.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, but they will market things as flushable. And what
I would say my best advice is, don't believe it.
Only flush toilet paper and you know the other basics
that go in a toilet anything that's marketed. And they
have some cleaning ones that the sponge on the end.
You clean the toilet out and you hit a button

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and it pops a sponge off and you flush it.
I have no idea how they can market that as flushable. No,
I wouldn't trust it, wouldn't believe it. Nothing but toilet paper.
And some toilet papers can be cause an issue with
how thick they are and the fact that they don't
break down very well when they when they get in water.

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Toilet paper is supposed pretty much break down. And the
good way to test that is get a bowl one
square of paper, swirl your finger around in the bowl
of water, and if it breaks up, you're good to go.
If it's stays as one piece, then you could have
potential issues in your drand.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
You got issues, I would suggest folks call you, James.
How do the reach you over freedom plumbing? My friend?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, they can give us a call aight, oh three
four four seven zero four seven one, or visit our
website at freedomdesh Plumbing dot com.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Buddy, thanks for stopping.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
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we welcome you back to the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands on one of three point five FM and
five sixty a m WVOC and we welcome into the studio.

(14:29):
Hey look here, it's John and Kathy Figner Rock the
Top Resurfacing. That's okay. You can't break that microphone, Kathy.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
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Speaker 1 (14:38):
You can use the thing as a sledgehammer. I mean
it's a pretty big mike. I mean the kind of
where and Terry gets around here, and we ain't never
broke on yet.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
All right, how y'all do it great?

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Never better?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well?

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Doing great?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, let's say great, we use back down from never better.
Well I'm not doing but yeah, then there's that, right,
there is that? Then there is that.

Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Ah, this is that most wonderful time of the year
coming upon us. Is I do too? I love the
weather most days, you know.

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Not all of them, absolut.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Looking forward to that first Turkey sandwich and then the second, third,
and fourth and fifth Rock the Top Resurfacing. It's all,
as I always say, it's all about saving your time
and saving you money.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
Yes, lots of time and lots of money. Well, how
y'all do this? Well, let's let's letten.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Let's just assume for a moment, because I'm sure they're
folks listening to us this morning who have no idea
what we're.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Talking about no idea.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
What they've ever heard y'all speak about this about resurfacing,
and they may be thinking, well, so resurfacing, what do
you paint mean? What's what's going on here?

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Well, we take we spend a lot of time, you know,
in ugly, ugly bathrooms, yellow green, pink or blue typically
where these these tile walls they go half way up
the wall all halfway up to the ceiling, and there's
nothing really wrong with the tile walls are just ugly,
terrible colors. And you know, people think, well, I gotta
spend twenty thousand dollars tearing it all apart putting it

(16:08):
all back together, and that is typically what it costs
to do that. But we come at it from a
different angle. We leave everything right where it is and
refinish it. We acid wash it, and then we alkaline it,
and then we get it incredibly clean, and we open
up the pores through etching, and then we give it
a mechanical We get a mechanical bond from a molecular
bonding agent, and then we give it a really high

(16:29):
end epoxy primer coating, and then on top of that
we put some multi stone flecking and then on top
of that some acrylic poly of earth things, so it's
incredibly durable, one hundred percent waterproof, and the groutlines get
sealed two. So now the bathroom becomes beautiful and waterproof
like a bathroom should be. And we can typically do
that in three days, maybe four for all the surfaces.

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I'm talking to the whole bathroom, the entire bathroom, the floor,
the ceramic tile floor if it's ceramic tile, the ceramic
tile wall, the shower and or the bath tub, and
the vanity top as well. So like and when we
do this, we're gonna take the toilet off the floor.
So if it's an old, wasteful toilet, we don't mind
installing a new toilet for you. We're gonna take it

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off anyway. So it's actually easier to put a new
toilet on there, and so that pays for itself as well.
So we can do this for typically under four thousand
bucks and three days flat. Not much goes in a
landfill other than that wasteful toilet and maybe some masking paper.

Speaker 8 (17:27):
And with that, I will add I know you're always
talking about yellow, pink, green, blue, but just recently he
did a shower stall or a client in which it
was almost brand new, but they didn't like how hard
it was to clean all the GROUNTD lines, so they
had us do their floor first, the shower floor, right,
just see what it was like.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
They loved it, and he call.

Speaker 8 (17:51):
Us back and wanted us to do the shower walls.
So John just finished that up last week.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
So it's the same look right in this case, I guess.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, and this one she did change it.

Speaker 8 (18:03):
She did change it. She wanted a little bit lighter
color because it was too dark for her, but pretty much.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
Watched the floor. She looked at so much, and the
floor is anti skid, so she's she's like seventy six
or seventy seven somewhere in there. So the anti skid
feature on the floor big deal for her. But ultimately
she was all about, I do not want to clean
these grout lines anymore. And her husband's like, ma'am, do
whatever you want. So she just what great people. They
were a blast to work with.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
So yeah, can consider that, I mean, and the grout
lines get.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Them sealed where I thought Kathy was going to go
with a couple of weeks ago, and this is like
the fourth or fifth one lately we've been doing. People
love the color of what they do have that like
almost brand new, and the colors are still you know, modern,
and they want to keep that color. So we can
just go over it with a clear coat. And that's
great because no more seal. You're supposed to steal the
grout in the every single year, nobody does.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Nobody does that.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
So but if we can go over that with a
clear coat, it can be satin, it can be semi gloss,
could be high gloss. We can't do flat, but nobody
wants flat in a wet area anyway. But now the
groutlines are sealed, you don't have to no more toothbrush,
no more hands and knees, none of that, no more mold. Yeah,
I mean, why not? I mean, to me, it's a
no brainer. It's just it's makes perfect sense.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
And some people may be surprised to find out that
this process, this procedure has actually been around for a
long time. Has been how the people over the years
have just ripped out and redone when they could have
saved a ton of money by doing this instead.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
It all started with bathtubs. These are a lot of apartment
complexes that they don't have a big budget, and they
get a bath tub and it needs to be replaced.
There you know, the coating, the baked down coatings just
wearing off and it's you know, twenty years old or whatever.
And it also, this was forty years ago. This was happening,
I remember, and I started getting into that. I had

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seven hundred bathtubs to replace and I'm in number forty
and one of my painters came in. He's like, John,
why don't you just let me resurface. There's nothing wrong,
just let me resurface it. So I'm like, go ahead,
let's see what this looks next.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
What are you thinking when he says that he's a painter, right, well, yeah,
I thought he's just gonna paint it.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
But but I got my hands and I could not
scratch that coating with my and my nails are pretty
tough and it's incredibly hard. It's a got H six
hardness H five h six somewhere in there. So it
was right in the sweet spot. If it was any harder,
it would be brittle. Don't want that. So that I mean,
they got this figure and this is a long time ago.
Well that bathtub that industry has evolved. Now we don't

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don't just do bathtubs. Now we do full shower stalls,
ceramic tile walls and floors, kitchen countertops, and we can
make them look like stone vanity tops. I mean, you
could put a bowling ball through a kitchen countertop and
I can fix it and then resurface it. It's all
fiberglass works. Just like you're working on a you know,
Mercedes Benz or whatever. You hit your your fender and
you take it into the shop and they make it

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perfect again.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
And we've discussed this before, Kathy, that I mean you
do go those situations where somebody's got a hole in
a bathtub, for example, Yeah, and thinking they got no
choice but to have to replace the thing, because who
can fix a hole in a bathtub?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
We can, but you can, Yes, yes.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
Yep, that's a wonderful option.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah. So so, Kathy, I bet you you get some
phone calls.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
I get some calls. I molso get people wanting me
to schedule them for.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
That's good and good.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
And jobs and all that. But yeah, we get people
and some people ask me about the process, and I
try to explain it the way here John all the time,
because I've never done the press myself. Don't want to
leave that up to the eyes.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're the boss, you don't have to, but yeah, where's
the pants? And I just do what I told.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
People ask about colors and what about colors?

Speaker 7 (21:49):
Lots lots of options.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
And different textures as well, so we can do like
an anti skid texture or which.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Is really.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah, for any bathroom surface. Yeah, floor should just be
they should just come that way. Why would you want
a slippery floor. Nobody wants a slippery floor, But that's
the way tiles come these days, and they do have
some texture to them, but this is way better. And
again the grout lines get sealed too with this incredibly
strong I hate to call it paint, but I mean
that's the category that it is in. You can't get

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it from Sherwan Williams of Benjamin Moore. It's way higher
in than that. Nothing against Sherwan Williams or Benjamin Moore,
don't get me wrong. They have great walls and.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
For the kids, because we do have people saying, hey,
I got I got one of those kids, and I
did it myself. But now it's peeling up, so.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
That's when it becomes a little more expensive.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Because and quite honestly, yeah, if if you went in
there and just bypassed everything and just took your you know,
you know, high quality, super duper paint product and later
on that the same thing would happen, right eventually, Yeah,
because there's a lot that has to happen before you
get to trap point.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
The prep is super important.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
Yeah, prep is king, It's everything, even with regular anything
of walls. And I mean you spend ninety percent of
your time getting it ready to accept your coating. Right
then where the coding starts?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, I kind of cut you off a minute ago.
You're talking about tech different textures. People ask about the
textures and you start with the kind of the no
skid thing, and yeah, that kind of diverted from there.
But I mean, what are the options when it comes to.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
It's just pretty much, you know, the different finishes are
anti skid gloss, semigloss, Santon Matt.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
But where you want the.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
Textures typically are going to be the floor. Sometimes if
you have a rental and you're worried about a client
really messing up your countertops, you might want to put
it on the countertop.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Rock the top resurfacing. All right, uh So Kathy. Folks
want to get an estima, they want to call.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
You YEP at eight O three nine nine eight two
zero eight eight, or they can check us out on
Rocktopersurfacing dot Com.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, and remember we do a lot of our business
where you do your business.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Is that okay for the radio? Yeah? I get it out.
You'll have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
You do.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
Thanks Eric.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
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Speaker 1 (26:03):
We thank you so much for joining us this morning
and every Saturday morning for the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands here on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am WVOC. Hey, if you're just tuning in,
good morning. If you missed, you missed James with Freedom Plumbing,
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It's all posted as soon as the show ends today.

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It'll all pop up on our website on the iHeartRadio app,
just look for the WVOC Home Improvement Show of the
Midlands and you can catch it all right there. But
glad you're here and not missing the rest of the program,
or maybe you've been with us all hour and we
thank you for that. Jessica Smith now lexing and Kim
dry is joining us.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Good morning, Jessica, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
I hope you are well.

Speaker 11 (26:44):
Oh I am good.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's a busy time of the year for you guys.

Speaker 11 (26:47):
Right it is, and it's about to get busier as
people are getting ready for the holiday.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
We're twelve days from Thanksgiving Day, is that really? Yeah? Really,
that's it, and a compressed time frame between Thanksgiving Christmas
this year, yep.

Speaker 11 (27:01):
And then everybody is gonna we're already booking through pretty
much almost to Thanksgiving. We have a few spots left
if you're looking for pre holiday cleaning, and then of
course Christmas to holiday season. We're open in order to
get you service before you set up the trees.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Got to tell you, yeah, I was. We had our
master bathroom painted a couple of weeks ago by another
one of the contributors to the show Finishing Touch team,
and I was better looking at that. I looked at that.
I looked down on the floor because y'all came out
there and took care of the those that grout line
growl that was in that bathroom. We bought that house

(27:39):
and you did both our bathrooms, and I'm still I'm
just amazed. It was so bad that I can remember
what it looked like. Okay, and I'm a guy. Imagine
what my wife was feeling about that. And I still
look at it. It's just a phenomenal how and it
didn't take long.

Speaker 11 (27:55):
Doesn't take too long. As long as we can get
that dirt lifted from the grout lines, the high pressure
rents and the core ceiling behind it helps a lot
to maintain the I guess you'd say the correct color
of grout.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
M what it's supposed to be.

Speaker 11 (28:09):
It's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
You told a funny story one time about you had
a customer a long time ago. You came in to
clean the grout lines, and they were like, wait a minute,
it's it's just on the color. That's the color it
was to be.

Speaker 11 (28:21):
They had they had hunter green tile and there were
dark black grout lines, and she was cleaning them and
she thought it was supposed to be like a gray
but after we were cleaning, it turned out to be
like an avocado color green line, green grout line. So
you had your dark tile and the bright green grout line,
and she she was actually a little upset that it

(28:43):
was that color. I'm like, but now it's clean.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Color it originally was.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
What is what is the difference between what you do
and what if we get down there with a toothbrush
and whatever and try to clean those grout lines, it
just never seems to work.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Well.

Speaker 11 (28:56):
You don't have the right solution first of all, in
order to get into the ground lines to lift all
that dirt.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
And then of course you can fully Brad left us
a little bit of that solution.

Speaker 11 (29:05):
You can't home use machines. I don't know of a
home use like they have a home use carpet machine.
You don't have a home use machine to high pressure
rinse those grout lines. So it leaves us iconic action
in our spinner in order to suck all that dirt
out of the grout lines. Okay, So that's the difference.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's the difference right there. So, uh, you know, this
is also the time of the year and we've we've
seen some rain and you know, action has happened, whether
it's uh, you know Fido or you know, your your
your nine year old who's running in from outside.

Speaker 11 (29:41):
You never know what they're going to.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Bring in, bringing whatever in.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (29:44):
Yeah, So with all the rainesssy it's like the wet
boot shoe season, so season, Yeah, do you think of
north as like the winter boots of the wet wet
boots that you take off, But in South Carolina you
can still track in all that dirt. So some little
more than eighty percent of the soil and moisture on
carpets comes from the dirt on people's shoes from outside

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and just tracking in. And dog paws are even worse
because you got the little fur that they just come
tracking in and then ten square feet of carpet can
contain as much as three hundred and fifty ounces of dirt,
which comes out to be about forty four cups.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Of dirt in ten square feet.

Speaker 11 (30:28):
Ten square feet. Oh wow, yep, So just dump it on,
sprinkle it on. That's just tracking it in and out
from like I said, the wet shoes from there, and
then this one I found really fun using non natural
cleaning products. So things that you can buy over the
counter can result in in home air quality that is

(30:52):
five times worse oh really than the outside air. Oh,
because there can be toxic mm hmmm. So it's good
to always right. So you have little tips and tricks
for the holiday season. So one keep the dirt outside,
take off shoes when entering.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Put on dull with the dog in, your son in
the house, or.

Speaker 11 (31:14):
You could wait pause, especially when they're stopping wet wait pause.
But for shoes, you can put on cozy slippers or
house shoes, and that helps.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
I do I do. I know people who always when
they they come over our house and they will always
take their shoes that he.

Speaker 11 (31:32):
Have does to help track the dirt and having doormats
on the inside as well as the outside, So a
sturdy doormat outside the main entry ways and then place
another carpeting on the inside to help collect the loose dirt.
But even then, yeah, you could, you could place airy
rugs and high traffic areas that helps collect dirt, and

(31:53):
they do have they do have some inexpensive area rugs
that you can you know, toss and throw away and
replace if need be. But vacuuming before holiday parties helps
with dirt because if the dirt's on the floor already
and then the cut guests come in, that dirt can
ground get ground deeper into the carpet fibers.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well, okay, that makes sense, So it's.

Speaker 11 (32:17):
Good to vacuum before the holiday parties and that way,
with guests walking around, it doesn't get tracked. Whatever gets
tracked in is just on the surface. It's not getting embedded, right,
And then probably guess vacuum immediately after the party to
get up the dirt and prevent.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Staining before you wash the dishes.

Speaker 11 (32:37):
Vacuum is isa, yeah, as soon as I really just vacuum,
just get that dirt out. Keeping a spot remover handy
is another good way because spills especially during the holidays
and family come over are bound to happen.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, this is where it gets dangerous because you've told
us before. You know how often we as consumers will say, oh,
I'll use this spot remover for ever, right the.

Speaker 11 (33:02):
Way right, Because different stains are different compounds. So you
have a water soluble stain that'll come up with a
water soluble solution, and then you have an oil based
stain that'll come out with an oil based solution. So
somebody spills salad dressing, your water soluble solution is not
going to get the oil based stain out, Okay. So

(33:23):
there's not worse, it's just not going to make it better.
And there's not just one bottle that's a I can
do everything type of product out there, because it just
depends on what the stain is. Red wine is not
the same thing as salad dressing, so if you look
at it that way. So it's but it's good to
have a spot remover on hand so you can handle

(33:44):
those spots and spills before they become set in.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
But always blot, always.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Always blood, don't rub blod don't.

Speaker 11 (33:51):
Rub, always blot. You don't want to loosen up those
like carpet fibers and have a soft little stain because
on top of the spot and spill. And then of
course deep clean, a professional deep clean like sinking and
dry can do that.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
There's there's there's there's no alternative to doing that.

Speaker 11 (34:10):
No, not by yourself. No, But you can prepare your
home for the holidays, you know, for the harsh winter
months that are coming up. But you can leave your
home clean and ready as we start to get ready
to spend more time indoors. So you get your home
cleaned and set and then we can come in and maintain.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Okay, now, just general maintenance throughout the year. I mean,
how often should you be vacuuming, carbet? I mean other
than oh wow, that couple looks hideous, we got to
road the vacum cleaner over it. But if you're waiting
that long, it's probably.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Waiting too long, waity too long. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
So depending if you have pets and kids sometimes daily
really m.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
H which nobody's doing right. You're a professional, you know
these things.

Speaker 11 (34:57):
Yeah, Well we got you know, two dogs, but Jessica's
two dogs and kids. You know, they're tracking things all
the time. So even you know, for us, we have
to to dust and microfiber mop our hardwood or the
LVP that we have downstairs, because Ella's fur is not
the same color as the hardwoods, so right you can

(35:18):
see all of it. Especially she's a shudder too, so
you get mounds of little blonde tumble weeds that you
got to clean up. So but if you you know,
once a week, once every couple weeks, if it's just
you know, you and your spouse and you're not getting
many foot traffic in and out, you know, once every
couple of weeks should be fine.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
But as you were saying, I mean, the longer you
leave it on there and the more you walk over,
the deeper you're you're grinding it into the base of
that carpet.

Speaker 11 (35:43):
And then you're going to see the traffic pattern. So
you're going to have that darker gray area where you're
constantly walking and after a while that's setting in that
can actually start to dye the carpet fibers because no
longer the dirt's sitting on top, it's being embedded in.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Okay, So when that happens and you've got this stuff
ground way down at the base of that carpet, I mean,
is there such a thing aside from calling legs and
Kevin Dry is actually really going to be able to
suck that out of there? Not on these very expensive
you know, hye a Louten vacuum cleaners, which by the way,
we don't know in one of those, but I mean,

(36:18):
can even one of those really get it out.

Speaker 11 (36:20):
It doesn't have enough suction to do so it's not
going to happen. No, but of course make sure your canisters,
you know, emptied out. Yeah, sure, yeah, help with the vacuum.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Like you we got a dog at a cat, so
you know, we vacuum. Okay, yeah, you see the results
and first thing you can do his heading towards the
Herbie Kirby with that. Yeah. But this is a game
while we talk about and it's all it's all about
the well, don't even get me started on going to
a grocery store and written one of those things people

(36:51):
people make matters a lot worse, don't.

Speaker 11 (36:53):
They with that with that because it puts it lays
down a lot of water, a lot of solution, and
it does not extract enough out, so you're gonna step
on your carpet and your water is going to go
up around your shoe with those just not enough suction
power to get not enough extraction to get all that
moisture out.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
And you don't know where that thing's been, by the way.

Speaker 11 (37:14):
You don't. And the solutions that they use for that
leaves behind a dirt attracting residue that you can actually
see under UV evaluation.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, so we're sitting here twelve days away from Thanksgiving.
You've still got a few slots maybe available before before
the big.

Speaker 11 (37:32):
The turkey is carved, before the turkey's carved, we do
have some spots available.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
And of course Christmas, you know, we don't blink, and
this is going to be over with.

Speaker 11 (37:42):
It will be the new year before you.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Know, it won't to be. But this is a great time,
but a busy time for.

Speaker 11 (37:48):
You guys, busy time for us.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do a lot of help folks get ready for the holidays.
Certainly terrific, all right, Lexington kim Drive And we didn't
even talk. We didn't even talk about the polstery and
all the other things that you guys can can help
folks out with. But it's if it's a surface in
your home, basically, I mean, you can do it. Right.

Speaker 11 (38:06):
We have a pole Street carpet, Eerie, Rugs, Tyland Grout
LVP any flooring type surface. We're flooring and we can
clean all of it.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Lexing and Kim Dry Jessica always great to see it
and how can folks reach you to set up an
appointment and gets you out there?

Speaker 11 (38:19):
Call me directly ETO three five hundred four seven zero
seven or visit us at Lexington Kimdrey dot com.

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Speaker 1 (40:26):
Hey, we welcome you back to the Home Improvement Show
the Midlands on one O three point five FM and
five sixty AM WVOC And as this guy will tell you,
we have saved the best for last this morning. It's
Marcus Greenwell Life toimes, thinking that I knew you were.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
I knew you were lifetime Carrots and Cara tops.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Been sitting out there and lobby saying, man, the best
is here, Put me on, Put me on.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Bro. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like in the bullcage waiting.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
How you doing? Man?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Oh, it's the best day of my life.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Wait, two weeks ago was the best day, every day,
every day, Bunny. A lot ist transpired over the last
too since we last spoke.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Absolutely, we won't go there on that show.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
We're not here for that now.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
No, but yeah, yeah, a lot has been going on. Yeah,
Lord is good all the time, all the time.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Anthon And for some reason, I don't know why, because
this guy here has been with you for nearly a
quarter of a century. Yeah fourteen, Oh no, no, that's right,
not to twenty, right, so nearly fifteen years and making
his first appearance ever drum roll, on the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands. It's Todd Hudson. Tom Everyone not

(41:36):
only that Todd Hudson. Todd actually has a background before
he got smart in the podcasting radio. If I call
it a background, no, I mean you won an award
in high.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
School I did. Yeah, sports sports casting I did.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
So there go, there you go. Then you got wise
and said I really would like to, you know, make
some money in my career.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
You think I make money one million dollars?

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Knowing how many people work with you, guys, I'm thinking
y'all are probably doing all right. We digress. How you doing?

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Man? Doing well?

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Good?

Speaker 7 (42:12):
Well? How are you?

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I can't complain. I'm going from quite Marcus Green will
the best day of my life. But you know it
ain't bad every day.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Absolutely, yes, it's so good, all.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Right, rimnet sale. I hope it's still going on because
there the week I'm telling people that's still going on.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Absolutely, yes, absolutely. I got to get rid of those pieces, Gary,
I mean I got them running from here to the parking.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Lot and back out of the Bonnyard. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I at the Moonyard at one fifty three Chapin Road.
I'm gonna be out there today. I'm gonna leave a
little bit early though, because I'm gonna go catch the game.
Speaking of sports casting.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, I hope I do game Cock.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
So yeah, yeah, I'm gonna catch that game. Hopefully we'll
get a victory today.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
But our best Gamecock coverage, by the way, since you
brought it up, is on at one o'clock this afternoon.
Oh yeah, don't miss that.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Don't miss that.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
All right? So yeah, I mean I understand that.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, I'm practically giving them away. I mean, you can't
get a better price on a remnant than what I've gotten.
That's true.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
And Todd, I was telling you all before we came
on to the segment, I've almost we need to come
up with another word other than remnant. You know, I
hear the word remnants sometimes. You for Oh, it's a remnant. Okay,
it's been sitting around for a long time. It's listen,
this is this is These are brand new counterdear pieces.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
It's not used. No, it's not secondhand. It's not been
sitting around in a warehouse for decades. You're just trying
to get.

Speaker 7 (43:39):
Rid of it.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
I mean, how do you come about these remnants? Talk?

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Well, there are pieces.

Speaker 13 (43:43):
Uh, we don't make a customer pay for an entire
slab or even two slabs. When they do a kitchen,
we make them pay for what they need, so therefore
there's always remnants leftovers that have never been used.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (43:57):
And the customer of course gets to pick out something,
so they're they're looking at it, they're seeing it, and uh, yeah,
we're giving them away almost.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Absolutely, you're the boss man.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
That's it. You want to give away, You give them away, brother,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yeah, and you got them all.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
We were doing it pretty much at costs, you know.
So it's it's a situation where.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
We're any good to have a set down there.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Yeah. Yeah, I want to get them out of there.
I don't want to have them there anymore. I like them,
but I need some almost some big slabs out there.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
We are sitting here today, hard to believe, I know,
but true, twelve days away from Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Day, almost crazy breaking bread thyme?

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah? And what better to break bread? And a brand
new countertop?

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
However, however, okay, let's let's be real here. You know,
you getting a new countertop and installed by Thanksgiving days.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
I'm going to guess out a little bit of pushing
it now.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Okay, right, but what about Christmas?

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Definitely especially you got to get in there quick though,
because spots from moving up fast. You know, with that
uh that economy is starting to kick off a little bit.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
We got to compressed time frame between Thanksgiving and Christmas
this year. Certainly what Thanksgiving twenty eighth? It less than
four weeks?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Which means I gotta start thinking about shopping soon.

Speaker 7 (45:18):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
But yeah, I already got my mom something.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yeah, Christmas, you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
No, Mom, I got you something for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
You got a new countertop, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
I'm glad. Yeah, right, I'm glad I get to say
that still, thank God?

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Right, exactly right. Well, you know, we we typically do
this about this time of the year. We start to
wind down a year and look toward the next. One night.
I remember we had this conversation a year ago and
what would be the hot trends for twenty twenty four?
And I think I think Courts was it right?

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Courts was it?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Now?

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Guess what, Gary, I got.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Something new for you, Oh, twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Five trending for this end of this year, and this
court site it's been coming in strong.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
The real stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
It's more expensive, so you're gonna pay twice as much
as you know. There are some expensive quartz slabs, don't
get me wrong, but this courtzite is going to be
up there.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
So Todd, you get the courts, which is and this
has always baffled me. Courts is the man made. Ye,
court site is the real.

Speaker 13 (46:18):
Thing, right, Quartz is a good name rather than calling
it manufactured stone, which is what it is.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
But yeah, yeah, so and I because you know, y'all
put in the courts in my parents' home about a
year not quite a year ago before they put it
on the market, and it was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
But you see a difference between the man made and
the natural. It's more about depth thing, right, I guess
maybe true, but.

Speaker 13 (46:42):
Mean most quarterly that yeah, yeah, and it's become more popular.
I mean you watch HGTV almost every one of those
shows they're putting quartz in now.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Yeah, out of the standard almost really Yeah. Yeah for
a new like a flip house. Even the house flippers
are using it.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
So but if you put a quartz slab next to
a court site slab, is there anything similar between the
two other than they both start with courts?

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Sometimes, yeah, they do look a lot. It's very similar.
The court site sends to have more depth, like you
were saying, and then it, you know, has some neat
looking flow, natural looking flow patterns, where the the man
made courtz is going to have more of a it
looks like somebody kind of took a little swirl through it,

(47:33):
you know what I'm saying, as opposed to a natural
vein the natural vein flow, if that makes sense. But
you just what I tell people is pick what you like.
You start with there, you tell me what you like,
and then I'll kind of guide you to the look
you're looking.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
So don't come in other words todd and say yeah
I want Granted or I want Marble, or that's right whatever,
Come in and take a look. Is fantastic select.

Speaker 13 (47:59):
Oh absolutely, I have customers changed their mind. They come
in knowing they want Granted and they buy Quartz. So yeah, absolutely,
So see what.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
You like and don't worry about the labels.

Speaker 13 (48:09):
Well, you can't go wrong with Granted, Quartz or Quartzite.
I mean all are great countertops.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
So yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
But quurt Site, you think is gonna be a big
thing in twenty twenty five, I.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Think it is, well more so for private homeowners that
are at their house. They're not gonna move. They're set
and they're not gonna move, and they're like, I want
to put something nice in there, and nice the people
and the client that's gonna buy the quartzite if you're
gonna flip the house quartz granted. You know, it's in
between level one granted and a level one courtz typically

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for a flip flipper. So you know, just start with
what you like, the look you like, and then you
kind of take off from there.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
And I guess, todd as we've always talked about here,
if if you are in that market, to all your
homework to flip I mean, and I think I hope
most people know this by now. Everybody's gonna like, right, yeah, oh,
I'd be on the safe side. Up, I'll pick something
and really exotic. I really I liked. We did this
years ago with a house we sold, I mean decades ago,
and uh we came in and the man answered, I

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hate that countertop. I said, yeah, yeah, if we were
staying here, yeah, i'd hate it too. You know that
that ain't that ain't it ain't for us?

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Yeah, uh, before you knew me.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
That's long before I knew you yes, yes, I'd have
known better. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Yeah, you're not going to use anything other than what's
he like? Now what likes?

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Well? Yeah, come on, I wish we could have picked
up that marble countertop off the last home we just sold.
I'll put it in and taking it with us.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Because that's the job security man.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
That was beauty.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yes, I got I got another job in the pipeline.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Well, and by the way, you know my new place. Yeah,
I don't think got internesce to you. I now have
space for the outdoor kitchen. I've been just that.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Might that might be. That might be before the new kitchen.
I think maybe it might be I mean for the
remodel in the kitchen kitchen.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, I think it probably.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He might let you do that. You listen to.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Christmas Christmas, but again we can still get it done
because Christmas you can. You could get done absolutely in
time for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
I'm excited about that.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah. And you know, one of these days we've got
to bring in Enrique.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
We do, oh we should.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, that's a I mean, this guy is You guys
are like the brains of the operation, but this guy
is like the brawn.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah, he's the man, right.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Which one's the brains. I think now you are Todd
according to Todd, But I mean it's it really is,
is what the and I had. I had a chance
a couple of years ago to actually watch them for
a few minutes back in the shop.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Yeah, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
And I've seen on several occasions now the crews and
they come out to install it, and that is that's
something to watch right there.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
I mean just just just amazing the precision. Yeah, you
got you guys like like five people.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah. And then sometimes he'll take a piece and he'll
cut it. You cut it and cut it and cut it. Yes,
you know, he'll cut it five different times just to
get the exact tight fit you know. Yeah, I mean
he's really what's made us number one for five years
in a row for the state readers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
But how you how that many how many folks can
get in on a project and in the kitchen and
like not be knocking each other over. I don't know,
it's or old machine man. They just it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
I know.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
It's always like somebody's all constantly moving in there with
either cleaning the tops off or cleaning up, you know,
as they go.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
It ain't like driving by one of these row construction projects. Yeah,
everybody was watching one guy working for the guy whatever
that you know, in one of those.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Deals, we're in and out and boom.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
This is really what Todd makes all the difference in
your operation. I mean everything you guys do.

Speaker 13 (52:09):
You guys do, oh absolutely, and you know Green Rique
and our crew. I mean, I've had customers tell me
after the fact that when we left their kitchen was
cleaner than when we got there.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
They actually cleaned. It's hilarious. I had a contractor to
tell me that as well. Yeah, yeah, he said he
couldn't believe it. He said, the only way he knew
that we were in there is because it had new
countertops there.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
You all right, so take away today two things remnant
sale still going on.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
A lot of roomnants, y'all come get them from me.
And I'm gonna leave probably at two o'clock today, So
if you get it, if you're coming out and come
out between ten and two.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Okay, And where will you be today, Todd. I'll be
at the game.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, David's gonna be at Pinegrove. Yeah, he'll be at
the game with me. Okay, Actually we'll be in the
new RV.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
And he told me he wasn't making any mess.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah. The wife, his wife is real. Well, he's at
Piney Grove at forty twenty Fernandina Road between Monday through Friday. Okay,
so you can see Todd. I'll be at Chaping on
Wednesdays and Saturdays, and my brother will be at Chaping
on Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
And of course if you pick up the phone and
call eight O three seven seven two twenty who answers
the phone, you get.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Me the owner, Marcus Greenwell, I will help you out. Todd.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Good to meet you finally, brother, pleasure see you again soon.
Y'all have this great weekend.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Thanks. Hey, sure, hi, this is Gary David.

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