Home Improvement Show 11-29-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Good morning, my friends, and welcome an. It's signed for
the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on one of
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(00:38):
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between now and then, let's talk about your house, your home,
your business, fixing it up or get it fixed. That's
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Midlands and we're happy to have you with us this
Saturday morning summer. We'll be by from Beaver Rupeg and Getters.
I think we're going to talk about some insurance teps

(00:59):
when it comes to root for replacements and roof for
pairs and such. I believe that's what's on tap this morning.
We'll find out when she joins us. Marcus Greenwell the
folks at Lifetime cabs and countertops. This past week, just
finished up another job for us at the house. Did
a fantastic job and this one was a little more
intricate than most. So we'll talk about that process when

(01:19):
Marcus joins us. Coming up in the next half hour.
We start with this guy though, who Well Freedom Plumbing
and James Carwell, and you had your guys out of
the house this past week too. After This is what
this is our this is the way we do things.
Marcus comes in, replaces countertops that you guys come in
behind him and rehook up the plumb and stuff because
he don't do plumbing and you don't do countertops. James,
Good morning, Zough, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's right, man.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You don't want you don't want plumbers doing countertops and
countertop guys doing plumbing, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
And not only did you guys rehook up the the
plumbing fixtures for us, but you dropped in a new
toilet for us too in a guest bathroom. That's something
else you got to be careful about, right, Just getting
some guy who's maybe we've talked about this in the past.
Somebody comes in and maybe they you're replacing flooring in
a bathroom, and you know, you trust that person who's

(02:11):
not a plumber to a yank out old toilet and
dropping a new one and sometimes running some problems there,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, that's it's definitely true.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I had it happened at one of my old houses,
my first house actually, you know, bought the house, didn't
realize there was a problem until the tile started popping
off of the floor and come to find out there
was a leak at the at the wax ring of
the toilet that, of course, from up top you can't
even see, but down below, underneath the cross.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Space, you could see that the water had.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Traveled from the bathroom into two adjacent rooms as it
soaked into the sub floor. So definitely want to make
sure that everything's done properly when it comes to toilet installs,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
And that particular case, James, that the part that wasn't
installed properly. Was it a seal or the o ring?
Did you say what? Did you say?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
It was?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
So, the way the toilet seals to the with the flange,
which is basically the drain line that's attached to the floor,
is a wax ring. That's what we use. That's what
they've used for years and years. So when that wax
ring gets compromised, there's a lot of times you won't
even notice it. Sometimes you'll get a smell like sewer
gas will escape, and that's kind of a giving you

(03:27):
a heads up that something's going on. Toilets are always
our first thought when it comes to sewer gas mouse
because you know, if toilet rocks it breaks that seal,
you'll definitely get some sewer gases coming up from around
that drain line. Because the pea trap is built into
the toilet, so.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's above that seal, So yeah, it does your floor.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
You definitely want to make sure that the flange, which
is the part that holds the toilet down, is actually
bolted to the floor and is at the right height
you wanted about a quarter inch above floor level.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
So in this case, that that that seal. To replace
that seal itself, I mean, the actual seal itself would cost.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
How much we had to pull the toilet up. Have
a price, right, okay, but wing everything.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Up without the installation, just the seal itself, just that
little seal. You know, if you had to buy them one.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Part the party cost five to ten dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
For five or ten dollars, Yeah, you could wind up
with you know, thousands and thousand dollars worth of work
having to be done because you know, that thing wasn't
functioning properly. It would installed properly by somebody, wouldn't a plumber,
And now sub flooring's got to be replaced, and that
could be tens of thousands of dollars be for you know,
for for a ten dollars seal.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yep, we had a ripper whole bathroom out. Matter of fact,
we had to tear floor out in the adjacent room
in order to replace it and get everything back up
and running properly. So yeah, wow, one one incorrect Toolet
install and you know it takes a while, of course
for it to happen get to that point. But a

(05:05):
lot of times, like I said, you can't see it.
Everything that's happening is underneath tile or you're flooring, that's
that's in the room, and then below you might have
a disaster.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
So that's the the scary part about it, isn't it though?
You know, I mean you think of you know, you
got a leak and you're gonna see, it's gonna be
spewing more over the place. And sometimes that happens, but
it could be spewing war over the place, in the
place you don't even know it, underneath your home, your
cross space, you're sub flooring, and that's just a scary thought.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, I would definitely recommend getting people under the ear
as often as possible, your bug guy, your HVAC guy,
your plumber. The more times you can get somebody under
your home, the more likely you are to catch something
before it comes a big issue.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, because we don't want to get it into ourselves.
Not fun, No, not fun at all. Well, it's it's
a chilly Saturday morning here in the middlands of South Carolina.
So I thought, you know, I've got my little what
do you call them, the things you put on the
hose bibs outside, on the of the faucets, on.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
The little you know, insulated covers.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, you tipped me off that out a number of
years ago. Now we're not we're not cold weather like
you know, pipes are going to burst kind of cold weather.
It's been a while since we've had to deal with that.
How what temperature do we really need to be concerned about,
you know, the potential for pipes bursting. I do remember
the I guess it was what Christmas Eve or the

(06:31):
night before Christmas Eve about two years ago, we had
that really hard freeze.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
And oh yeah, I think I got into the teens.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, at least they had the windshield. And it's more
than just a temperature too, it's the it's the windshill.
It actually can cause problems, right.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, especially for the outside fawcetts because they're exposed to
the elements. So definitely take the hoses off, you know,
put those covers on. I would say thirties too bad,
but when you start getting in the twenties and teens,
it's definitely recommended.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
To take all of the crossing scheme and make sure that.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You don't have to file an insurance claim because of
the water damage from a leaking pipe.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
And we had I guess we did have one morning,
what's been several weeks back where we're just one morning
with some spots got into the you know, mid twenties
and had some windshills in the teens. But that's kind
of cool. Way we haven't had yet, but but it'll
it'll come, and so you know, again, that's just one
of the things that you want to be cognizant of
when it does turn really cold is to Yeah, so

(07:36):
detach the hoses. And why is that? Why should you
detach the hose? What's the point there, James?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Depending on you know, you may have residual water sitting
in that hose and that water freezes and then it's
more likely to freeze the hose bid itself and the
water inside of it and then potentially crack and cause
a problem for you. And you usually don't even see
that until maybe noon the next day, just because it

(08:03):
takes time to thaw out, you know, So whenever the
sun hits that fall outside fauset and eventually falls and
then then you have a leak.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Good point, Yeah, you wake up you hey, hey, oh,
leak's great. Yeah, it's because the water is still frozen.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
And we have that happen on tankless water heaters, especially
the ones mounted well all of them are the ones
mounted outside on the on the outside of the home,
because they're not properly insulated. I always recommend if you
do have a tankless it's mounted on the outside, make
sure the pipes are insulated. And also if you get
just a bat of insulation like you would use in

(08:40):
a wall or a floor something like that.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Put it in that.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Housing, that pipe cover and just give it a.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Little bit more protection. That's always a good thing.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
But yeah, we'll get calls for customers that don't have
any water running through the hot side and come to
find out it's typically the pets pipes are whatever's going
to that heater have frozen and water just doesn't traveling
through the line until later afternoon. Then they'll get their
water back and.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Hopefully there's no leaks.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Luckily, with the text pipe now it's a little bit
more resilient than your copper and your CPBC, especially CPBC.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
But yeah, so you can go.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
To a big box store and but I don't know
exactly what you call them, but it's kind of that material.
I don't know what it's made of, but you can
actually you know, it opens up a little bit. You
can put it around a pipe and it kind of
seals back. Is something like that sufficient enough to insulate
pipes with you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they

(09:41):
got the pham, Yeah, all these kind of foam stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, Yeah, the phone's good.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
But again, I would I would add that just that
fiberglass insulation, like a bat of it, just a maybe
a two foot by two foot piece and put it
in that pipe cover, especially the bottom. Try to keep
it wedged in the bottom there because that bottoms opened
up typically on those tankless pipe covers, and that wind
will get in there and you know, could potentially freeze pipes.

(10:08):
So just another added layer of protection.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, it never hurts. Never hurts, so unhook your hoses
from outside. But the little covers over the actual faucet itself,
those things don't seem to be that terribly sturdy. I mean,
I guess they do what they need to do, right.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, as long as it's kind of pushed up against
the wall and it's keeping that wind out from getting
behind it, and it usually has a little foam like
seal around where it contacts the wall, it usually does
a pretty good job of keeping that pipe safe. Now,
they also have things like heated tape that you can
wrap around you know, like well pipes or stuff something

(10:50):
that you don't have.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
You can't just buy a big blanket and throw over it.
I mean you could if you wanted to, but an
easier way.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
To do it is just get you next inji cord
and get you some of that heated it's almost like
heated tape around the pipe. Secure it with some zip
ties and plug it in and that'll I'll keep that
pipe protected as well out in the well housing.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Okay, I know what about you? The first that heated
tape on my heated tape? Okay, yeah, you plug it in.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Okay, it's just like a it's almost like a heating pad,
but it's a long strip, like a strip of tape
and just wrap it around a pipe.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Genius, genius, So that will definitely have Yeah, outside those
construction lights.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
If you've got a well house, you know, a little
hut that you're well and your ladder tank sit in,
that's what I do. I have these construction lights or
the old du Waltz style that get pretty warm. Just
point those lights at it. That does the trick for me.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, don't anything, don't do.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Don't do a space heater.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I wouldn't recommend it.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, No, what about inside the house and the age
old Okay, I got to leave the fauceage drip? How
much are we? You know, I think you've proven me,
proven to me before that I have never let it
drip quite enough. What is your suggestion here?

Speaker 3 (12:13):
As long as you get some water moving through the pipes,
I think you're good. That's that's kind of the old thing,
you know. It's it's a It takes a river a
lot longer to freeze than a lake or a pond
because you've got moving water. So anytime there's moving water,
it's it's takes a lot longer for freeze. So if
you've got multiple faucets, you know, I just do a

(12:34):
constant drip here, it's just a one. Maybe you drip
every second and make sure you're doing the hot end
of the cold. Now, what you don't want to do if
you have a tankless is drip too many to where
you're running enough water through the system to make your heater,
your tankless water heater stay on, which is about half
a gallon a minute. That's typically the cut on for

(12:55):
your tankless water heater.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
So about it enough about a drip a second, both
hot and cold, and.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
That would be mainly on your exterior the fosses that
are mounted, you know, close to the exterior of the home.
I have two lavatory faucets that are up against an
exterior wall, so I typically run those two just to
make sure water's moving through. And because it's on an exterior.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Wall, that's the fixtures that I.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Want water moving through the most interior faucets, Like if
you have a kitchen sink on an island, not really
concerned about that. Now, if you don't have any and
you just want water running through the system, I mean
that Faust's fine if you have nothing that's on the
exterier wall. But I usually recommend this on the exterior walls.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, so here's here's the here's the million dollar question.
You got any secrets for actually being able to turn
that faucet just right so it's ripping one drip a second.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
It can be a little more, a little less, Okay,
if you're doing multiple faucets, a little less is fine
because you got you know, you can add up the
drips over the faucets, and you got more water moving
through than just one faucet dripping. Of course, but I
usually use a little tap method. I'll just tap it
until the water starts dripping.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
I try that.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Time, and that's too much. I tap it back the
other way. Sometimes it takes a.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Few Okay, yeah, I said I'm watching going okay, is
I don't know a little bit more and you know
that almost too much? The next thing, I've cut it
back off again.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, that's that's the way it goes with me as well.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, So I thought maybe you had a good, a
good solid tip for us here. James accomplish that. But
that's okay, that's all right.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Patience, patience, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Patience and persistence, any any other things that we need
to be concerned about, I mean, when it when it
does get you know, down to the twenties or whatever.
I mean, as far as any the things we should
be looking out for, or any other tips you can
pass along this morning for us.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Well, say, usually the stuff in the costs crawl space
is okay, the foundation of the home usually does a
good job.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
But you do have those vents, I.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Would recommend probably closing those try to keep that keep
that heat from the house in that crawl space as well,
because you know you're going to have transfer of heat
through the home into.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Your crawl space. So typically a cross.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Space is going to be a little bit warmer than
the outside air. But if those all those vents on
the outside of the house are open, you are allowing
that air to travel through that crawl space, so there
may be a potential for freeze there. So good good
idea to just shut those, you know, for the cold weather.
Probably not a good idea to keep them shut because

(15:48):
it does allow air flow and keep the moisture level
down inside your crawl space. I'm not a cross space
expert by no means, but that's that's what I would
recommend to shut it for the time being, until you
get past that cold weather.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
That's one of those things. Unless you're happen to be
out in the yard and take a look down, you
don't even think about.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, you know, most people don't.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, I'm not even sure. I messed with the ones
in this house. We've been in more in a year.
I couldn't have it open or closed. Uh, okay, I
have to some of my list of things do today. Okay,
they can take a look at that.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
No worry about that.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Thanks, keep giving me stuff to do. Man. Uh, when
you let's let's scenario here, okay, because you've been through
this many times. Unfortunately, when we do have a hard
freeze and uh, and pipes do burst, what's man, I

(16:45):
is it gonna if you have one burst pipe underneath
your home, I mean, you're gonna really need to shut
the water off to the entire house, aren't you to
keep that thing from now you've lost water for for
everything for a period of time. Correct.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
It depends on whether the leak is on the hot
or the cold line. If it's on the hot side,
you can just shut the heater off, you know, at
your water heater. So whether that be a tank style,
there's typically a shut off out on it incoming cold line.
More you're tankless, they shut offs on both the hot
end the cold typically if it was installed properly. But yeah,

(17:17):
if it's on the cold mine, yes, you are going
to have to shut your house off at the typically
at the meter. Some people have shut off ouls in
the garage.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
You have season with that recently, Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, they're doing that a lot more. And basically that's
you know, making it more easily accessible for customers not
have to go out and open up a meter box
and you know, messing around with digging out a shut
off out of this buried or getting a meter key
to turn a meter off. But whatever you have, definitely
want to know how to do it. That's The biggest

(17:48):
thing is know where your shut off is. Know how
to shut your water off. I could definitely save you
a lot of damage because water can do a lot
of damage if.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
You get as you know firsthand. Yeah, I know. If
you get nothing else out of this segment with James,
get that. Know where your shut off valve is. If
it's outside, you need a key, have the key, know
how to do it. Just go ahead and try it
out today and make sure you're set just in case. James.
It's always a pleasure to spend time with you, my friend,

(18:19):
and thanks so much for another outstandings off from Freedom
Plumbing at our house. We've used you guys a lot
and we'll continue to do for sure. If you need
to get a hold of them Freedom Plumbing, the guys
riding around the big red, white and blue trucks. How
do they reach you, my friend?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
And give us call at a three four four seven
zero four seven to one or visit our website at
Freedom dash Plumbing dot com.

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the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on one of
three point five FM and five sixty am WVUS as
we welcome in Summer from Beaver Roofing and Gutters. We
want to talk about roofing today, but we want to
kind of maybe go a little bit of a different
angle to start things with you summer, and that is
you know, the insurance aspect of all of that, and
that that that whole angle, and let's talk about you know,

(20:39):
how all this works if you've had some roof damage.
I mean, we you know, we we we hope it
doesn't happen to you, but yeah, when it does, Like
I always say, because I talk about y'all all the
time during the week and you know, and just as
an assigne here and we're not gonna name names, okay,
but there are roofing companies out there that don't do
roof repairs biggest flat, don't do them then there are

(21:05):
I think I mentioned this to you a while back.
I got an email from a listener. Oh gosh, this
was Thanksgiving a year ago. Yeah, where we had had
a storm and it ripped his satellite dish off the roof,
which caused him. It wasn't a lot of damage, but
just just a little bit, right. Unfortunately, he didn't call

(21:25):
you guys first. He called another local roofing company and
they told him that it would be three months before
they could get to him.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Right, what's that which is it's crazy. You know when
when they put a satellite dishes on the roofs, they're
actually they're taking screws, so they're going through deckings. So
when that comes off or is ripped off, that's exposing
the inside of your home to water and put you know,
elements that can you know, harm the home, and if

(21:57):
it keeps getting water, getting water, it could cause and
more damage than you know what. We'll just go in there,
make that little repair done, right, so you know, that
small you know damage could could potentially be devastating.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
So but but he called you guys then right away
told me that in the email you guys got out
to them within like twenty four hours. You had it
fixed quickly, and you know, you knew anything that ever happened.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
So that's exactly what we like to hear. And that's
you know, we like to handle business that way. You know,
we we wouldn't want our own to be like that.
So we do try to treat all of our customers
as you know, family and friends. So and that's exactly
what you are after you deal with us. So we
you know, we like to provide give those types of
services to the to the community.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So let's talk about the insurance angle here, because that
could be a little confusing for folks. You know, homeotors
policies these days. I mean, when's the last time anybody
really read theirs?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Right?

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Yeah, exactly. There are all kinds of words and line
items and everything else that you know, us lay people
don't aren't very sure about. So you know, I'll tell
you a lot of times people don't even realize that, hey,
I have damage until we get a hard rain. And

(23:16):
like you said, we haven't had any you know, recent
wind or hail or anything along those lines that may
cause those types of damages to our roof. However, we
notice that we have those damages when we get these
hard rains and things of that nature. So or you know,
you're seeing them in the on the ground and that
sort of thing. But you know, we get a hard

(23:37):
rain and you're like, oh my gosh, I've got to
stain in my on my ceiling. So that's when you're like,
oh my goodness, maybe I should call somebody, so they
call us out. Whenever we come out for any type
of inspection, that sort of thing. We're going to get
up on that roof. We're going to take a look
at your shingles. We're gonna look for those type of

(23:57):
weather patterns, hail, hail, hit tail impacts on your shingles.
We're gonna look for the wind folds in the shingles
and that sort of thing. And you know, I'll tell
you one or two here and there. Insurance is not
going to say, oh, you need a brand new roof.

(24:17):
You know, it has to be a significant amount of
impact from the weather for Insurance to say yes, we'll
go ahead and cover this. We'll get you guys a
new roof. So that's what we're doing. When we're going
up on your roof, we're evaluating. We're taking a look.
We're looking to see if yeah, you probably do have
a claim here, or it's not that significant. You know,

(24:42):
we can do a small repair and get you taken
care of. So, you know, that's the main thing that
people tend to ask, well, what do I do? How
do I go about it? That sort of thing. So
the main thing is, let us come out. Let us
take a look first, because you don't want to call
the insurance company and and do all of that type
of thing before you know if you have significant damage

(25:04):
or there are you know, a claims for them to
come out to take a look at. So step one,
give us a call, we'll come out, we'll evaluate.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
You talked a bit of a moment ago about maybe
you have damage that maybe you've had it for months
and didn't know it until we got a hard rain
and something. You notice that spot on the ceiling and
you got an issue. Okay, let's talk about an insurance
standpoint from turns from the standpoint of Okay, you don't
need a whole new roof, but you do need some

(25:36):
repair work done. Is that covered?

Speaker 4 (25:40):
It is covered? However, sometimes you have a deductible. Most
times we all have a deductible sure on our policies.
So a lot of times the adjuster will come out
and say, hey, we see you have damage. This is
what we'll cover, you know, and they'll cover, say six

(26:02):
hundred dollars of you know, a repair, damage, whatever have you.
And they have a say they have a deductible of
one thousand dollars. Yeah, so with that being said, they're
not going to cover that repair. But you know, with
your larger repairs, say it's a thirty five hundred dollars
repair and you have a deductible of a thousand, you know, yes,

(26:25):
they'll cover twenty five hundred dollars. You cover that deductible.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
And we've always heard that with insurance companies it's not
even so much about the size of the payout but
the frequency of the payout, and that they will cancel
people's policies just because they have too many claims. They're
claim happy, they think absolutely.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
So that's why we always like to say, hey, let
us come out first and let us take a look, right,
because like you said, there is not everybody is like this,
but there are.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Some who are claim happy and and they're just nope, nope, nope,
you know, they're just they're shutting them down left and right,
so that we just like to come out take a look.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
We're gonna we're on your side. You know, we're not
out there to get every like you said, we do repairs.
We don't have to get a full roof every single time.
We're not out there to do that. We're out here,
We're honest, we're gonna let you know, yeah, you got
some damage, there's a there's a good cause for you
to call them out, have an adjuster come out. And

(27:28):
you know, with that being said, we're happy to come
out and kind of be your advocate because like you said,
they don't always want to you know, cover these repair,
cover a roof replacement. But that's you know, that's why
we like to be out there with the adjuster. We're
going to bat for you. Hey, take a look at this,

(27:49):
Take a look at this. This is what I'm seeing
because they they know the homeowner isn't gonna get on
top of that roof with them or you know, look
at these photos or no even.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
They're looking exactly right.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Exactly so you know, we're we're there to help help you,
advocate for you, and you know, just to be a
be a good buffer between homeowner and adjuster. And and
we're here to help. So you know, whenever we say, hey, yup,
give them a call, we always like to be there
to help advocate for you when that adjuster comes.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Okay, yeah, and I guess what it's all said and
done is up to the adjuster, right, but you can
put a little pressure on there and show the evidence.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
I guess exactly exactly, And that's that is exactly what
we will do. Like you said, we're going about. We're
going about for you. We take all kinds of photos.
We go inside the attics and show, hey, this is
where damage was, this is where the leak is, all
sorts of things like that. You know, there are different
things that they're looking for in reports and things along

(28:53):
those lines. They're looking for impacts. They're looking for when
I say impacts, how many times say hail hit and
a certain area of your roof. They're counting those those hits.
They're counting the times that shingles have folded back and
in that area as well. So we are we know
what they're looking for. And you know, if we think

(29:15):
it's just cause we're there for you to help you.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
So hypothetical scenario here, summer, we have a hailstorm, you
don't notice the media impacts of the damage. Maybe maybe
let's just say it's three months later. Suddenly you see
that staying on the roof yep, and you guys go out,
you take a look, and you determine that, yeah, wow,

(29:40):
you had some damage. And I guess you can kind
of get a feel for maybe how long ago that one. Well,
obviously it was a hail story, and you know, we
haven't had one in three months. It's you know, you
got this damage at least three months ago. But exactly so,
now you get the insurance company involved, is there a
scenario where they say, well, yeah, but that was three
months ago, you should have taken care of it.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Generally, No, okay, good.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Because until you see the evidence, how.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
You're gonna know, right exactly exactly because you don't, I mean,
you don't really know until you see it. And so
we get a super hard rain. Obviously when the hail,
when it's hailing it, we are generally having bad weather.
But water doesn't, you know, it just water travels in
the wildest ways. So yes, we're there for you, and no,

(30:31):
the insurance should not give you any pushbacks if it warrants,
you know, if there were enough impacts and things of
that nature. It can't just be one two hail hits
and oh yeah you need a brand new room. Say yeah,
that is when they would give us some pushback. No,

(30:52):
it's not warranted. We'll do a repair in this area,
things of that nature, and it may not even be
from the hail why it's leaking. So there are a
multitude of different scenarios and whatnot that could happen. But
time wise, no, it's you know, three months, six months.

(31:12):
They shouldn't give you any pushback on that.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
No far, okay, good to know, and I listen. I'll
talk about insurance companies like they're had to rob you,
and many of them do very you know, good work,
their upstanding, absolutely, but as a homeowner, you know, it
gets frustrating because you're paying those premiums every year and
you expect not to get any hashole right, but the
noise work that way.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Of course, you're exactly right, and you know, just navigating
an insurance claim or anything along those lines can be
really confusing if you've never done it before. You're like,
I don't know what to do. I'm not sure, you know,
so that we do this often. We do it with
a multitude of different insurance carriers too, so we are

(31:54):
very familiar with the process and how each carrier kind
of handles different diferent scenarios and documentation and and things
of that nature. So, you know, we're very familiar with
the process, even though it can be so unfamiliar to homeowners.
So that's why we were here along the whole way.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
And I know, I'm sure it varies from from insurer
to ensure a summer, but do you find when you
work with these insurance companies that they pretty much they
have kind of an algorithm. I mean, Okay, we have
to have this much damage or this much of the
roof with an issue before we'll we'll say, yeah, we'll
we'll accept a claim for a roof replacement. Or is
that does that? Does that vary from situation to situation? Uh?

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Not necessarily, You're you're right, you know, they are looking
for a certain amount of you know, impacts damage in
a in a I guess like a square okay area
ten by ten square area of your roof, you know,
and it's if they see you know, more significant on
the front, then on the back. You know, it really

(33:03):
just depends on the amount, you know, that's what it is.
And that square area on the front, on the back,
on the side, they're looking, they're evaluating the whole thing.
So but they're generally all the same.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Okay. Well, so again the point being you'll be there
to advocate for the homeowner with the adjuster shows, so
you don't have to feel like you're on your own
with this thing. And because again you don't have the
right questions to ask or if the answers you're getting
or are really straight answer it does. So that's that's
that's a piece of mind for you, right there, Beaver

(33:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:15):
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Leave it to Beaver Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters. Welcome
back to the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on

(35:57):
one of three point five FMN five sixty AM w
v OC. Happy to have you here on Thanksgiving weekend again.
I'm Gary David. If you're just joining us, so you
you showed up just in time for the treat my friends. Yeah,
hey it's market Screenwell.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
We Calumnia Lifetime Cabins encountertimes. We've spent a lot of
time together over the course of the pace. We we
did not have Thanksgiving dinner together.

Speaker 9 (36:22):
We did not we did not, but we did spend
a lot of time. I think three hours or so.
I think maybe two and a half three.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Hours, about three hours. That was a bauck what Monday
Monday night? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we I don't know, I've
lost track. How many times is this now that we
you guys we were together. It's spent a bunch.

Speaker 9 (36:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's over one hand now it's over. Definitely over.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, we're definitely over.

Speaker 9 (36:46):
Five projects is probably probably close to two, if not over,
so I think probably over to.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
This one was interesting.

Speaker 9 (36:53):
If you count your neighbors, I mean we're talking talking
about dozens. If you count your viewers, we're talking about
one hundreds.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yes, and we we thank y'all for for supporting our
our our friends like Lifetime Cavascy County.

Speaker 9 (37:06):
Yeah, we love it. Thank y'all because we couldn't do
it without you. And I'll tell you what, Gary, I
was telling your wife the other night, how much we
appreciate you and what you do for us. You're just
a pillar of the community. I mean, you're a fabulous.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Pillar of the community. I don't know all that might
be stretching and people.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
And I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Well we we I guess you got us a big
family here, very thankful. So we've talked over the years
about some of the uh detailed jobs you guys pull, yes,
sir and uh you know, for us, up until this point,
it's been pretty straightforward, right yeah, okay, you know, cut
it to fit, take it over there, you know, rip

(37:49):
off the old, put on the new. Well we we didn't.
We did two jobs this time around the other day,
and one went very quickly, and that was a bathroom.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
Vanity one man job. Really, it really was.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
I mean, one guy went in there and took the
old one out and put the new one in. One
guy boom done. It was yeah, it was.

Speaker 9 (38:06):
I mean, you know, you know it was like thirty
inches or whatever, little single vanity, not a double.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
But we took advantage of the remnant sale.

Speaker 9 (38:14):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Actually that actually we double dipped on markets on that one,
because that was back when you were doing you know,
you do a kitchen countertop and you get to get
a single sink bathroom vanity for free. So yeah, we
we came out smelling like roses. On that field. Yeah
you did.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
Don't tell anybody, right, but a lot of the people
did too.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
That month we had that special. You had to read
that back one day, I know, right, But with our
kitchen extension, it was such that we were able to
find a remnant piece big enough to do that. So
so we got that at that match at your dealer cost.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
And but all right, so here's our idea. I share
this because I want you to understand what these guys
are capable of doing. Here. We uh, you know, we
hit it and and we moved into this house last
year ago August, I guess it was. And it's got
a grand countertop in the in the kitchen and liked
it fine, you know, we boy the house we sold. Man,

(39:13):
you guys put in a beautiful marble countertop. I missed
that to this day.

Speaker 9 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was beautiful. Yeah, it's the same
we did this. So now you're not gonna want to
so go ahead.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
I'm sorry, but but Anne wanted it to. But it
didn't come out far enough to where you could put
like the stools underneath.

Speaker 9 (39:30):
It, right, So I'm not sure what it was.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, it was a design flaw to begin with. When
they built the house.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
So anyway, well, they were trying to probably sell the
house and they didn't want to put an extra foot
on there because it's going to be a you know,
extra money. Well yeah, that granted click on the on
the sell button, but they didn't want to spend the
money on the extra over So for.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Since we moved that house answers, we got to get
this thing in large. Yeah, okay, don't know how you
do it without just replacing the whole counter which she
likes to countertops in there. So you know, we got
you out there at the house a couple of months
ago and you said, well, we can.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
Do an extension sushi bar I used, Yeah, sushi bar,
just like if you went into the sushi restaurant and
how the bar is lower down.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, so you at the countertop and you got a
little bit of a lower level right there. Uh that
that that protrudes out.

Speaker 9 (40:21):
Yeah, so to get to get the picture right, he's
got a flat countertop and then the sushi bar just
tut tucked up underneath the edge of the existing countertop, right.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
But the the issue was was the shape and the
design of the existing countertop.

Speaker 9 (40:37):
Yeah, with the forty five degree angle and all that.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
So how do you make it look you know, not hot, weird,
not hodgepodge, not like crap, how do.

Speaker 9 (40:50):
You do that plastic poop?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
So you had an idea, yep, and then it was like, okay,
well we can't match up this actual countertop. We can that,
you know, we won't be able to.

Speaker 9 (41:01):
Do that to get an exact match, right, to get.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
An exact match. So your idea was to because that's
a kind of what it's got, the browns and blacks
and whites and all that. So you're like, well you
found that the if I don't say, it's called the
black and pearl black pearl pearl, right.

Speaker 9 (41:15):
And kind of had some gold's in it and browns
and blacks.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
And you know me, I'm not a visionary kind of person, right,
I can't envision what that's going to look like. My wife,
on the other hand, can so amazing. Yeah, we came
out to the shop back into September, picked them what
you took us. My wife said, Marcus, here's what I'm
looking for, and he said, okay, let's come over here
and point. You pointed right to it. Man.

Speaker 9 (41:38):
It was like crazy, Yeah, that was awesome. Uh, she's like,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
So and again, I don't making this story much longer
it needs to be. But the point is this, This
was not your typical run of the mill installation, right.
There was a lot of a lot of thought had
to go into this.

Speaker 9 (41:54):
Yeah, we had to put supports in to hold the
sushi bar up, then we had to cut it at
angles and everything else. So it took extra time. Heck,
it took us as long to do the sushi bars
that would have done to be the whole kitchen.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, and I told my wife that the other night.
I said, you, when you did the whole kitchen at
our old house, it didn't take as much time as
to do this. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (42:15):
Yeah exactly, because.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Well, number one, you guys can do this right, and
number two, Enrique is a sheer perfectionist. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
Yeah. How many times did he bring that piece back
out there?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I would say it was a minimum of eight.

Speaker 9 (42:33):
Yeah, I saw two of them. Yeah, I was tored
the end.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeah, maybe more like ten times. He and the guys
brought it in, put it up there and went and
I could just I see it. I'm just sitting another room,
I'm watching him, and he's looking at it, and he's
got his hands on the side of his face and
he's deep in thought and he's not saying anything. And
next thing I know, they're yanking it back out and

(42:58):
walking back out the steps, down the steps again, out
to the driveway, and you know, ten minutes, show again.
And this went on and on and on and on
until you got it exactly perfect. Here's the kicker. After
the first time or two, I probably would have noticed
the difference.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
But he did.

Speaker 9 (43:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
When when folks shop with you, this is what you
can expect. Okay, that's right. And I know we talk
about this from time to time. If we'd have bought
that from a big box store and uh and tried
to get it installed, number one would have been a
little bit of a disaster. Yeah. I'm not talking bad

(43:40):
about the big box stores or you know, the people
who installed, but you know, they they get their process,
they do this and this, and there would have been
no you know, back and forth or how do we
make this happen?

Speaker 4 (43:51):
And this and that.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Yeah, so this is they might have walked in there
and said, no, no, we can't do this.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Because quite honestly, when it rica first showed up the
other day and you were there, and he looked at you,
and you looked at him, and I thought, oh, Enriquez, thinking, Marcus,
what did you just get me into here, buddy?

Speaker 9 (44:10):
And then I said, I said we could do it
like this, right, he said maybe. I said, Okay, I'll
see him a little bit, but this is Gary, my buddy.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
It turned out it's beautiful, and it turned out fabulous,
all right.

Speaker 9 (44:27):
And then of course the main thing was is Anne
was happy and smiling and laughing when we were.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Right, right, that's what That's what was Charlie and David. David, Yeah,
he showed up.

Speaker 9 (44:38):
Yeah, I got so I got to meet the David
Charlie Arley. Ali, you can all at once, all one day.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
And if you show up with lifetime cabins and countertops,
guess what you get to meet Marcus too.

Speaker 9 (44:51):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
You dog, you cat, your kids, whomever whoever you want to.

Speaker 9 (44:54):
I measure every single job, so you definitely will see me.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
And how often do you go in to a situation
where you look at so okay, this is a little unique.
It's a little unusual, and they have to kind of,
you know, put a little brain power to it. Try
to figure out like that one.

Speaker 9 (45:06):
I know, right, that was the challenge. So it does
happen like we did a light wall the other day.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
A light wall.

Speaker 9 (45:12):
Yeah, onyx stone on the wall and then backlit it
with a screen light. Oh okay, yeah, so it was
a bar and so what they did is they put
glass shells in between. Now, you're going to spend a
lot of money. I don't want to sugarcoat that. It's
very expensive wall, very very expensive wall, like a car

(45:36):
type expensive wall. It is Crystalo was the color and
it was a back lit I can't wait to show
you some pictures of it really, So I wanted to
kind of get everything decorated up before I threw it
out there online.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
So yeah, yeah, if you haven't done that yet, to
go to their Facebook.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Lifetimes Facebook Lifetime Cabinets and Countertops, the.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
What is it?

Speaker 9 (46:03):
Marcus Greenwell is my personal page too, so you can
come visit my page as well. I post a lot
of pictures of jobs we've done on my page as well. Yeah,
it's uh forty twenty for indeeda road is where our
showroom is. Bring some measurements to the showroom and uh,
my brother David'll be there today and I'll be out

(46:23):
and shaping. Actually, actually he will not be there today. Okay,
he will not be there today because of the holiday,
so well, and I will not be in change.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Are you going to the football game? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (46:35):
Going to You better get out of here, man, Yeah,
I got a guy, I got a roll. I gotta
I don't. I don't drink anymore, so I won't be
drinking any memories like we used to. Yeah, like I
used to before the games when I was young.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Well, this morning, you gonna eat hot chocolate.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
Hot chocolate. Yeah, yeah, I got cocolate.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
And our best game cut coverage is gonna creak up
here and just to just a couple of minutes. Actually,
oh wow, I had about five six minutes here with
Christmal Jompson, the folks. He's he's out there all butdle
up right now. Oh yeah, in our location right there
across from Leams Rice Stadium.

Speaker 9 (47:05):
Yes, sir, I'm looking forward to it. It'll be fun.
My dogo's ready, he's got his little game jersey on.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Coo Joe. Oh, so you're not going into the stadium,
you're gonna know.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
We're we know, we got a my Buddy's got a
r V right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he works a
matter of fact, he works at the Fernandina store. And
he's been here before with us.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (47:27):
Uh, he's he's at the Fernandina store Monday through Friday, yep.
And then but he'll be down there. He's got a
r V, him and his wife and kids, and and Randy,
the the what do you call the principal, the school principal.
He'll be down there, good clean fun for us fellas.
They'll have all the food and all I got to

(47:48):
do is show up of it. Yeah, and that great.
He can't beat that. Tiger tails and it's the oxtails.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
That's what it is.

Speaker 9 (47:59):
Tiger tails.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yeah, so back to the countertip.

Speaker 9 (48:02):
We call them tiger tails.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Though. What is this time of the year look like
for you guys? I mean, here we are Thanksgiving, We've
got through Thanksgiving, we got Christmas in just a couple
of four weeks here, less than four weeks now.

Speaker 9 (48:13):
It's possible I could work something in for somebody if
I needed to. We're pretty busy though. If we hit
the easy button, i'd put you in maybe the second
week of January. If you're not in a hurry, come
down and you know, do some measurements quoting. We'll go
ahead and put you on the schedule with a deposit
and give you a guaranteed date. That's what I like

(48:33):
to say. And then if you're in a hurry, if
you've got a Christmas party or something like that, let
me know. I'll try to work on the schedule a
little bit and push some people up. There's some spots
in the schedule that are new construction that I automatically
put in there so I can have time for them,
but they're not ready yet. I got one coming up
next week that I know of that's not ready, so

(48:55):
I'm gonna have an extra spot for next week. Oh wow, Yeah,
so it does happen. So but the easy button would
be middle of January, you know, the first second week
in January. I think I could do it for you know,
my guaranteed date.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Could people still rob you with a bring a hamburger
or hot dog out there?

Speaker 9 (49:12):
Yes, yes, hot dogs, hamburgers. I love chicken Button Donuts
and Steve hot dog Man's got one down there, and
I like that I've done the work over there at
Higher Ground. You could check out some of our work yeah,
and then other places. Uh, Cash is Chicken. I did
the work for Jason over there at Cash is Chicken.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Can you guys do a job about years ago we
talked about this, I'm not sure, whereas some sort of
a business and so you did almost like an entire
marble wall or something.

Speaker 9 (49:44):
Yeah, the the Vena Rosa Rosa What is that r
how you say it nowadays?

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (49:50):
Rosa Yeaheena Rosa Rosa downtown on Gervais Street. It wasn't
the entire wall, but we've done some entire wall, but
not not in a commercial aspect. Yeah, okay, but yeah
we did, We've done We've done houses with entire walls
and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
How do you pull the I can see putting up
a backsplash, You getting good to stay, But I mean
you're talking about some heavy stone here. Yeah, how do
you keep that up on the wall? I mean you're
not super glowing that stuff up there?

Speaker 9 (50:20):
No, what we do silicon it around the perimeter to
the wall and stuff like that, depending on sometimes the
cabinet tree, you know, the upper wall, the lower wall.
So I mean it's kind of holding itself into place mostly,
you know, just the sheer weight of it. But uh,
and then they a lot of a lot of times
when you do those wall pieces, they're putting potholes called

(50:40):
pot fillers, and so they're they're actually getting stuff attached
to it and all that.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
So I mean, you know, I still want to be
the guy who's holding might slab while somebody else attaches
it to the wall. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:51):
Yeah, but we might put a dap of construction a
piece of on it here and there. But you know
which wait yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of holds itself there,
you know, because it's number one. It's just if you
stood it up on its on its end, it would
it would be you know, it wouldn't teeter because it's
on a you know, inch and a quarter pad or whatever.

(51:13):
So you just set it up there and then silicon
it in. And that silicon is so strong, I mean,
you got to cut it all out to get it off.
We just don't want to. It's just like on setting
it on a countertop. When you install it, you don't
put the silicon in construction. He'sive underneath it because then
when you take it off, it tears it up. You
just put it around the perimeter of the edge of

(51:34):
the cabinet that way, it won't slide back and forth,
just the sheer weight of it. Even for a small piece,
it's not going to go anywhere, you know, if you
just bumping into it and stuff like that. I mean,
if you maybe if you fell into it, you know,
I don't, I don't even think you know, you knock
a small piece off.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
If you told us that there's no dancing on top
of the system.

Speaker 9 (51:57):
I did, and Anne said she could not get garantee it.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
We only bring all this up because you guys have
done some really really cool jobs over the years. It
took a lot of thought, a lot of planning, a
lot of execution. So hey, if you're looking to put
a put a granite or a marble records record side
countertop on top of your existing cabins in your kitchen,
and it's just a big slab you it's a no
brainer for you guys.

Speaker 9 (52:21):
Yeah, we can handle them. We're actually taking off older
granite colors and putting in newer granite colors. People are
just tired of seeing the old ubatuba and stuff like
that in their kitchen. Yeah, hey, we want to change
that out. We don't like to wait up lunks. Okay,
we can do it.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (52:36):
We can pull it right off, put the new one
right on.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Lifetime cabins and countertops again your location, It's my friend.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
Forty twenty Fernandina Road and one fifty three Chapin Road.
Chapin one fifty three Chapin Road and forty twenty Fernandina Road.
Eight O three seven seven twenty two twenty two twenty twenty.
Gets the hold of me Ato three seven seven two
twenty two twenty. Gets me on the phone. I'll give

(53:02):
you a quote on the phone, and I can also
tell you what you need to do to you know,
on the little drawing or whatever. And I can send
you some diagram information and stuff like that. So just
give me a call. I can take care of you.
Cheat you like family, Marcus, you always do.

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Speaker 1 (53:16):
Good to see you, man, thankful.

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