October 18, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our number two Wi Sands Remodeling show. Welcome back to it.
I'm your host, Paul krown Force. This hour, Abby Bender
is my guest from Abby Home. Welcome back in Good morning,
Abbey Morning, Big weekend. You're at the Nary Home improvement
show at State Fair Park. It started yesterday. We'll talk
about that. And it's boy, it feels like fall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's getting there. Well, it's done. Such a beautiful end
of the summer. And you know we haven't I haven't
even turned my heat on yet, so that's that's a plus.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've done the fireplace. I don't think we've we've touched
a furnast maybe one night. Cool nights and shorter days. Obviously,
daylight saving is coming up. Abby, do you know when
November two?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So that is when your body clock gets used to it. Right,
that one.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hour change, I can feel the difference. We are going
to really focus today on Abtoberfest.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Get it, Abby, Abtoberfest. I saw your TV commercial.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well done, thank you, well done, creative play on words.
Let's start out with that promotion. What's going on this
month and it runs through the end of October, Abbey.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We have twenty percent off everything, so twenty percent off
any project you're looking at having done. We do everything
on the extra of your home, from roofing, windows, siding, doors, gutters,
soopp it, facia, attic, insulation, glass block, or we do
bats and showers as well. So if you're looking at
having a tub removed and taken out and having a
shower put in so that you can walk right in,
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we can do that. Or we can take the shower
out and put a tub in. So if you have
a little kid on the way and you want to
put a tub and we can do that too.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I like that little kid on the way. Maybe where
do you wash your dogs?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Do you wash the wash mine in the tub?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Most I think most people do. What are you gonna
do in the winter. If you have to wash your dog,
you can take them to those you know whatever, they're
called spas doggy spine.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right, that's the nice thing about having a little dog.
Just throw them in the tub.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You throw them in the tub and it's over.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Or if it's a kid, or if it's yourself, we
will talk about those bathroom conversions. Really, they've become very popular.
Abby easy on the budget, quick in and out. You
don't do the entire bathroom. We should mention you're not
touching the toilet.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Or the vanity correct, just the wet area exactly. But boy,
what a change glass doors instead of a shower curtain.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Get rid of that old fiberglass stained, twenty thirty year
old unit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, And a lot of times people think that they
want to replace the fiberglass with the fiberglass. But a
lot of times the problem with the problem with that
is that's all one unit and there's no way you
can even get that back in your in your home
because a lot of times those were put in when
you were building the home initially, and now that everything's
finished off and there's doors, it's hard to get that
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around the bend to be able to install even into
your bathroom. So that's why we do ours in three panels.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You can see. You can stop by the showroom and visit.
We'll talk about that. It's in Waukesha this weekend. You
might be better off just going to the Narry Home
Show and you've.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Got a booth there, two booths there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh, you got biggie.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So we'll we'll have our baths and showers on display
at one spot and then all the exterior stuff at
the other spot with our windows as well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh very cool. It started yesterday's at State Fair Park.
Today it runs ten to seven tomorrow. Yes, there's a
Packer game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The hours are ten to five, but the Narry Show
is letting you in free the final two hours. Everybody
gets in free the last two hours, and you know
the TV's will have the.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Game on, right. It's just I think, a way to
promote it. Obviously, a lot of times people the traffic
dies down when the Packers play. We tend to be
pretty religious here in Wisconsin to our Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Seventy five percent of wisconsinight's tune into the game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That is an l huge number.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's just an if you think about anything in life,
seventy five percent is a massive number. So whether it's
listening on the radio or watching on TV, yes, the
game is on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The Packers hard does is to believe. I was telling
you this before the show. Going into this weekend, they're
ranked second in the NBFC only behind the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers tie.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Without that time, if they had won that game, oh
well they should have won that they three to one
and one, they'd be four and one mm hmm. Yeah,
well they should have won the Dallas game. They should
have beat the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I know, all because of a field goal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They that block field goal. Joe Flacco comes back as
a Bengal, he plays a Packers twice and loses last.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Week that game at Lamafield. It's not like no one
reminded me of sometimes during the far years. They weren't
the best team and clicking on all cylinders, but their
talent overcame some of those errors and they still won anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right, That's what last week was. They found a way
to win and they did. So go pack go.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Tomorrow they play at Arizona. It's a three twenty five
late game start and you'll be at.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That Nary show.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
We're going to focus today Abby on your October Fast
which is twenty percent off windows, bathrooms that we'll talk
about a bit and siding as well.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Also, let's give up your website and phone number quick.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's four one four four three six abbeys four one
four four three six two two two nine, or you
can go to our website. It's abbyhome dot com. So
it's abby home dot com. You can stop into our
showroom or open Monday through Friday from eight to four
and that's at four zero seven Pilot Court in Waukesha,
just south of the Waukesha County Airport off of Pewaukee Road,
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which is Highway Jay.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You've got everything on display, including windows in the window
brand you carry is.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Our windows are called the Loopo windows and that is
Italian for wolf.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
There is a reason that you'd call those loopos.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
My right, my hunting rifle is a Banelli Loopo, so
we named the windows after that, which is the wolf,
which is the predator of the north, so it fights
the Wisconsin storms.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And that if you offer all it's a triple pain
that you like, but you offer double p too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We do so, I mean, I'm a big proponent of
triple pain just because in our climate, with the humidity
levels and the way they need to be in the winter,
a lot of times can cause condensation issues in your house,
and so we like to have the triple pain so
that you don't have to have your humidity levels as low,
and so you can have your house be warmer and
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not have the condensation issues that double pain can bring.
And it also feels warmer because it can be as
warm as your walls by having the triple pain compared
to the double pain.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, and we're talking.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know if you heard about the Farmer's Almanac
or even meteorologists say in this winter it's supposed to
be significantly colder and a lot more snow than last
the last two years, Abby, which are.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Very mild because of the len Nina.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is that what it's called el Nina La Nina?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think it's lean Nina this year. And if you
look at patterns coming down almost like the year we
had the polar vortex. I'm not sure what that cold
that was bad. That was where people went on social
media with a bottle of water, you walked outside and
you could see the ice for them within seconds.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's hard to believe, just because we've had such a
mild fall, and so just thinking about winter, it's just,
you know, we're at almost at the end of October.
Already middle of October.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm telling you, we've had snow on Halloween. We're just
a couple of weeks away from Trick your treaters. I'm
not ready, Abby now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm not either. I haven't even cut down my perennials
or anything yet.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, we're talking through baseball going into October football season.
I'm cut cutting down the perennials, cutting my grass. Final
fertilizing is still going on.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I'm not saying we're going to get snown. Nobody knows.
It might be after Christmas till we get that first snow.
But you've got to plan. And when you talk about windows,
part of the coldness and draftiness in our house, a
big part is windows and doors.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It is that we call that the fenestration industry. Windows
and doors. It's something that obviously opens and closes, and
it's one of those things that requires some some service
once in a while, just because of the fact that
you're operating them and they're and you're using them, which
is why you want to choose a product that you're
not going to have the issues with. But if you do,
you can make easy adjustments to it and you're going
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to have a company that's going to stand behind it
and be able to call and still be in business.
So obviously, we just celebrated our fifteenth year in business.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Congrats on that, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's amazing to me, though, how many companies go out
of business and they call us to try to service
their product, and we don't carry that brand or work
with their brand, so unfortunately we can't and we try
to steer them in the right direction. But you know,
when you're choosing a company, that's one of the things
that you want to think about is the longevity of
that window and are you going to have services, because,
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like I said, it's something that opens and closes all
the time, and especially doors that you're opening and closing constantly,
you want to make sure it's made of a high
quality product that's going to last, not just be good
for a year or two.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And what's your advice, Abby Off? People look at their
house and everybody. You know your house better than anybody
you live there. What windows are problematic? Some are awful,
some are well. I think we're okay, we can buy
some years out of this. Yet, what's your advice? Do
you start with the worst ones? Maybe four, five, six
windows first?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I can't. I think it kind of depends on what
you're looking for. If you're looking for like an overall
of like our energy bills want to go down, that's
not gonna you're not gonna see that change until you
start doing all of them. But I would definitely say yeah,
budgetary wise, if you're looking at doing this in phases,
go around, look and see which ones are worse. Maybe
only do one side of the house. Sometimes people do
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just the front of the house. Sometimes people just pick
a side or pick a level. Just do the downstairs first,
or just the bedrooms first. It kind of depends on
where you spend your time and where you're noticing the issues.
You know you can you can probably leave like that
that guest room window that you're not in very often.
You know, those are the kind of ones that I
put on the back burner and try to get the
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ones where you're focused in, the ones you're operating more
done first.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Maybe the master bedroom where you are every night, or
if you've got a little one, a toddle or baby,
a nursery exactly, let's focus on that window, whichever one
has ice on the inside.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You might want to look it right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That living room window, if you have like a big
picture window in there that's from like the nineteen fifties,
A lot of times those can create a lot of issues,
So getting that out and getting a new window in
can help.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And that's fixed glass. You guys, take those out. You
custom fit all the windows, Abby.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do. We custom fit everything to the sixteenth of
an inch and we make sure that everything is sealed properly.
We just had a job this week where somebody tried
to save money and they went with a company that
was more cost effective and they ended up pocket fitting
metal out windows, which is a huge no no for us.
And then we signed up to do their siding. So
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we go and start doing the siding, and we realized
that that company not going to name on the air,
but that company that pocket fitted all those metal out windows,
all the metal that when we tore it off, it
was all rotted underneath. And the only way to rectify
that is to now take their brand new windows, rip
those out, rip the frame out, and then put in
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a full frame window. So it's gonna cost you more,
so they're gonna pay twice.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And they just had those windows done within the last
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Note that's like Abby, I bought cheap paint once. I
don't know what the best paint out there is. I
know sure when Williams is near the top for quality.
You buy cheap paint, you're gonna end up doing two, three,
sometimes four coach to.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Make it look good.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, you're spending more by buying more paint and pay
more labor and more time.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Think about how much time it takes you to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And it still looks kind of crummy at the end,
and it might start flaking early. Buy the better product
up front, you will not regret it down the road.
That's just with everything. What kind of windows do you offer, Abby.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Everything, everything as far as bay windows, bow windows, patiodors,
double hung sliders, pretty much everything, casement windows, awnings. And
if you're you know, thinking about getting that project done
and you just don't know where to start, the easier
to do is just give us a call and we
can kind of walk through it with you and try
to help you out.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's October Fest through the end of the year. In
celebration of that, Abbey's offering twenty percent off windows, bathrooms
and siding.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now would be a good time to call.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Four one, four, four three six Abbey four three six,
two two two nine. Of course, stop by the showroom.
Stop by the Narry show today the hours. It's at
State Fair Park since.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
They moved, well it's been there for quite a few years,
but the parking is so much easier than the downtown
Convention Center.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I've never done a show down there, and so I've
been doing the Narry Show for fifteen years, so it's
been it's been out at State for Park for at
least that long.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I don't want to blast the convention Center. What I'm
blasting is the parking.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
If you're if you're like you a vendor, Yes you
got park trailers, you got to back them up and
then you gotta wait for the next set of get
a well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
State fairst huge.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And it's just more centrally located and just prepped for
that type of show. So it's it's been good for us.
We're there today from ten to seven and then tomorrow
from ten to five.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And those last two hours, So from three to five
tomorrow Wisconsin Exposition Center on State Fair park Grounds. You
get in free the final two hours, so walk around.
Maybe the packers will be getting blown out, or the
other way, maybe they'll be blowing a team out.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
How nice would that be? It seems as a Brewer
fan and a Packer fan, I'm always a nervous nelly.
Can you just blow somebody out for.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think that's any fan of any sport.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think you're right. We're not alone.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I've been so nervous and stressed out about these Brewers.
Oh it's been. It's been a crazy fall.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I know, the ups and the downs.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Overall, you gotta admit, what a what a team, what
a season?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Best record in basis.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Absolutely, I mean, I'm not taking anything away from it.
It's been fun. They won the division right the canoe
ever thought we'd even do anything, And come May when
they were really tanking, I thought, why am I even
paying attention to this year? And they just started taking
off and it's just even it was just fun to
even see them win so many in a row to
get the George Webergers.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I haven't.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It was a web seeson and they did it almost twice, two.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Huge winning streaks. Got to remember that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They also it's good for the city of Milwaukee, even
if you don't follow baseball. They bring lots of money
into the city, a lot of attention on the city national,
not just ESPN sports channels.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But news across the board. So it's all good, it's
all positive, just like the Packers and the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
When things are rolling. I will not say anything about
the Badger football team. They are in a free fall.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's it's brutal. I can't watch it. It reminds you of
the Don Morton years, and that was you weren't even born.
They sucked.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It was the seventies bad football across the board growing
up when I was a kid. The Packers stunk and
the Badger's stunk.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The Bucks are pretty good like.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Those years, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, the seventies, What a decade it was. I was
like kid, but I was around and I do remember it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Abby.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
We will after the break. So we kind of talked
a lot about windows. I do want to dive into
the bathroom topic, and of course, siding with regards to bathrooms,
how can you do it so fast?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's what people are wondering. How can you come in?
Do you pull a permit? Are you cutting corners? What
are you doing to make that happen? Atby? I'll ask
you right now before the break and then we'll dive in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So, yes, we always pull a permit of plumbing permit
every time, and depending on the municipality of building permit
if they require one. What we do is we come
in in the morning and we demo everything out so
we take it all the walls down, so a lot
of times we don't even have to take so you
don't have to take each individual tile off because you're
taking that whole wall out, so you can just cut
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the whole thing out so you're not having to worry
about like chiseling all that tile off that Usually that
backer just comes off with it. And then we get
it down to the rough opening, so you just have
the studs and we'll wait for the plumber. To plumber
comes in and it puts on the mixing valve and
does make sure that everything's up to code as far
as from the plumbing aspect, and then we wait. We
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already have the plumbing inspection with that with that city
set up, and so they'll usually tell you know, they'll
be there eleven, twelve, one, whatever time they can make it.
So we're kind of then in a holding patternuntil we
wait for the inspector. Inspector comes in, he passes it,
or he says he wants something fixed, We fix it,
and then we close it all up, close all the
walls up, and by that night you can have a
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whole new bathroom.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You could go from one of those shower curtains, stand
up showers. That's just looking to a brand new shower,
and that means the shower handle, all.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The hardware, everything, the grab bar, you know. I mean,
take a look at your website. You've got a lot
of photos right right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And you don't just have to do plain like a
plain white bathroom. We can do a lot of the
same kind of marble tile, granite stuff that you see
in countertops. We can do that with all of our
bath slabs. So whatever you're kind of looking at having done,
we can kind of match that up.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, they look fantastic and it is a quick turnaround,
so we'll explain how that's done. Also, you will have
them on display at the Narrow Show going on today tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We will absolutely it started yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's a three day Nary show, the Fall one. Obviously
the Spring one's a little bit bigger, I.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Think, but Spring one's definitely bigger.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, this is still the largest chapter in the country,
so a lot of contractors are down there. You'll see
a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Stop by and say hi to the crew from Abby
Home celebrating now fifteen years right. It is Abbyholme dot
Com is the website. We'll take a quick break. It's
our number two on wisen's Remodeling Show. My guest Abby Binder.
I'm Paul Krownforce to your host. Will be right back
back with Abby Binder on WISEN. My guest, This is
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the Remodeling Show, and I'm Paul Krown Force. It's the
second hour seven to nine every Saturday morning. Great to
have Abby, who has owned Abby Home for fifteen years,
celebrating their anniversary last month. This month is Abtoberfest, twenty
percent off all windows, bathroom remodeling and siding. And yes,
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we're going to talk about the bathroom side right now.
Also at the Nary Home Show. It's this weekend, folks,
it started yesterday. Please stop out say hi to Abby.
Two boots one for the bathrooms right correct.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, we'll be out there today from ten to seven
and tomorrow it goes from ten to five.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Last two hours. He getting free you know Wisconsin. It's
we like our Koopin's and we like our free things
and are being frugal is something to be proud of.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Charlie Bearns talks about it and that guy's getting better
and better. If you've never seen Charlie Bears. His standard
routine is good.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, he's booked solid through like the next six months, and.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It's all over the country. Right, So he's got that
Wisconsin lingo down. It's self deprecating humor, having the ability
to laugh at oneself, and he does a really good job.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Abby I said, we talked bathrooms, but I want to
talk about the fun part of bathroom remodeling. You literally
in a day, in one day, can change the entire
look of our bathroom.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We call it the wet side of you know, the
wet area. Yeah, so it's the conversions right to tub,
tub to shower.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It is. And we take everything down to the studs,
so nothing we do goes over your existing tile or
your existing tub or anything like that. We don't just
fit that over it. We take everything down, make sure
nothing's moldy or rotted. We check everything. We make sure
your plumbing is up to code, so that when we
walk away everything, you have a brand new bath and
you don't have to worry about anything. We have all
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the permits pulled and inspections pass and everything.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
What about the the messiness of any remodeling project, whether
it's siding, windows or whatever bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Do you have a dumpster? Do you take it everything?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We actually have a big trailer that we put everything
in the trailer and then we take it to our
shop and we have a dumpster there that we dump
everything in. So that way the customer doesn't have to
worry about the dumpster going on their driveway or removing it.
It's just a lot less hassle for the customer. So
anytime we have something that's a little bit small of
a project that we can remove it and do it
in at our shop, we take care of that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The glass door, I'm guessing most people go to you
don't have to abby. I could stick with the shower
curtain if I want.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
To, you can. The glass door definitely makes the shower
or the tub you can put it on either, and
it just makes it easier for you. You don't have
to worry about cleaning that shower curtain and washing that
because those can get kind of moldy sometimes, So this
just makes it convenient. Just looks a little bit richer
to me.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah. And colors, do we have our choice?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have brush nickel, we have Matt Black. Are the
two main ones I believe you can get. I don't
know if you can get brass anymore, actually, I think
and Matt Black and the nickel are the two main
ones the chrome bright chrome you can get.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I like the boldness of those colors. You know how
many shows have I said, don't worry about trends, But
don't worry about trends, do what you like, whatever you like.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I would just stay away from brass. It's just one
of those things that kind of goes in and out.
And Matt Black seems to be a pretty classic look.
So is brushnickels. Either of those two tend to be
classic looks that don't really fade.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What about windows? We talked about windows earlier in the show,
but we didn't talk about colors. Are black windows still
a thing?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They are? Actually? I think they just go with so much.
And you can do black on the inside or the
out or the outside or both black in and out.
But you could do a wood grain stain on the
inside and then do black on the outside. It all
kind of depends on your siding and what kind of
look you're going for, but it does give it a
very clean, slim look that I think will be around
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for a while. I don't think it's going to date itself.
Some people think it is, but I don't think it is.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think it's a bold look. It looks very rich
to me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And well, as we'll talk about siding sometime this hour,
let's just bring it up.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
What goes best with the color of your siding. If
you're going charcoal gray, black would look good against that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Absolutely, that's the main colors that we recommend, and that's
probably one of our more popular looks. One thing you
can do if you're on the fence about siding, you're
not sure what color you want, you can actually take
a picture of your house and put it in chat
GPT and tell it to make my house black, make
my house white, make my house gray, and it'll do that,
so you can get kind of an idea of what
it would look like. You can tell it to put
shake up in the gables, put vertical board and baton
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siding in the gables. You can tell it to do
so much stuff before we even get out there, so
you kind of have a pin board of what you're thinking,
and then we can kind of go off of that.
The other thing is that you want to consider with
when you're looking at siding is the energy efficiency of siding,
because if you're going to take the time to spend
the money on siding and redo the whole house as
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far as the exterior, because whenever you're doing the siding,
you're literally taking off the entire facade of your home.
You want to think about, is this an opportunity for
me to add some energy efficiency to my house. Because
when we put up our insulated siding, we're putting up
a pre engineered wall system. We're not just putting upsiding.
So what we'll do is we'll take your house and
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if you added up all the studs on your house,
because a lot of times people say they don't need
siding or insulation because they have insulation in their walls.
And if your house is built in the nineties or new,
or you have two by six walls, but one stud
is not insulated. So if you added all those studs up,
an entire wall of your home, which is about twenty
five percent of your home, is now uninsulated. So that's
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why we want to add that insulated siding so that
your entire home is insulated, and then it actually creates
what we call a thermal break, so you don't have
thermal bridging happening, which is when that heat and that
cold transfer over and then because you have a transferring,
you can actually get condensation and ice forming on those
studs because those studs are not insulated.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You explain that very well, Abby. Do people realize homes
in Wisconsin stick built usually on site with two by four.
Recently it's almost all two by six construction, right right,
So you got a two by six, you've got the
bats of insulation in between, but you've got those wood
studs and there is no insulation between the stud correct
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and the exterior of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That's why I'm a huge fan of the of the
insulated siding. And we have ours call it an R
five panel, but it's it's our three point eight is
it's the highest insulated panel on the market, and it
comes in sixteen and a half foot length, so you
have thirty three percent less seams, so it just looks
a lot nicer. It has a really nice shadow line,
so it looks more like Cedar the six inch profile,
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and it has a lifetime warranty on it, so a
lifetime against fading, against any damage like to like from
hail or anything you can install it in the winter
because it doesn't crack like vinyl siding wood, like an
uninsulated vinyl panel. And I just say, at least look
at it and consider it, because it's not something that
you see every single day.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I mentioned charcoal graat earlier for setting. What are some
of the other hot colors right now? Or how many
colors can I choose from?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I guess, so we have I believe sixteen different colors
in that insulated panel. We have a midnight blue that's popular,
Charcoal smoke obviously is popular. We have just your standard
kind of tan colors like a tusky, clay, a wicker,
and then we have some other ones called ones called storm,
which is kind of that grayish grayish brown color that's
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a popular one. And we have a couple other grays
that they are a popular. So I would say the
gray family is still popular.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Let me bring up the two obvious colors, white and black.
You don't see many white white homes or black, so.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You have to be careful when you go with with
darker colors like a black or you know what do
they call it? Tricorn black? Some of that stuff. You
need to then match up the cock with that, and
when you get really dark colors like that and you
get the south side of a house, that can cause
a little bit of fading or it can cause it
to move. So that's why a lot of times they
don't offer that color, Like we don't have a dark
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that darker color in that product, So you just have
to be kind of careful for longevity with that. The
white we definitely can do. It's just it's trending right now,
like that farmhouse look, so you want to make sure
that it's more of a timeless look or that you're
okay with it if it does kind of start to.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Actually out You're right, I am wrong. There are white houses,
but they mix it up a little bit, right the border.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Black windows, yeah, bord and baton.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And they mix it up like the gables will be
back that I do like that look. I don't know
if it's maybe it is trendy again.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, you couldn't do it on like your house because
your house is a colonial, so you it would only
work on homes that have more of that farmhouse style
like gables. If you have more of that salt box
or a ranch style.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
House cape Cod maybe.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Cape Cod, you probably could get away with it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The walkie bungalow, the classic bungalow.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And that that kind of hexagon look wouldn't really work.
It's got to be more of that cape cod yep,
that would that would work. That's those sharper triangle kind
of lines.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, it's just it's a neat look. It kind of
takes you back a little bit. But it's fresh and
it's new. So you've got twenty percent off that too, siding,
twenty percent off windows, twenty percent off bathroom remodeling projects.
Let's highlight your crews, your carpenters. You're very proud of
the talent skill that goes into being ace in the
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skilled trades. And it can be the best window, it
can be the best product out there.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's got to be installed.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right abby exactly. And like I was just telling about
the story or earlier with pocket fitting full frame, you know,
stuff that should have been a full frame. And there's
a reason why we don't cut corners like that. And
now the poor homeowners in a position where they're going
to probably have to get windows twice and it sucks.
But up front, it seems like it's all about price, price, price,
and a lot of times, even for siding, for example,
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when you're when you're trying to think in your head
how much is this product going to cost me or project,
I should say you don't think about with siding. It's
not just siding that you're getting installed. You're tearing all
that old stuff off. Most of the time. You got
to think about the dumpster. You got to think about.
Siding is never just siding. You're putting a house wrap up,
you're putting insulation on. You're doing soffit and facia. Usually
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with the siding that kind of goes hand in hand.
And if you're gonna do the soft in facia, you
might as well do the gutters at that time, because
the gutters have to come off anyway. So now you're
doing siting, soffit, face shoot cutters, and then you got
to do window trims with that, so then you have
to add all that aluminum flashing and trim. So when
you're pricing it all out and you're like, oh, this
should only be this much, you have to add all
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those other different parameters to it. And that's kind of
how siding gets done.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Let's talk about those carpenters. Do they work throughout winter?
What stuff will you and will you not put in?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
So we don't do asphalt shingles in the winter because
it's too cold and it needs that heat to be
able to have that tar kind of melt together. So
asphalt shingles we really don't do. We do have a
product that's metal roofing that we can do year round siding.
As long as it's our insulated product or LP, we'll
do that. Year round windows. We do year round doors.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I got it. I love the metal roofing. I just do.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It looks great.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Not talking about it much today, but you guys do it.
It's phenomenal and it just looks good and it's going
to last. Speaking of lasting, it gives you peace of mind.
But it's also very important that you check first off
the contractor are you licensed?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Ensured?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Abby you are, you're a member of all of that
stuff now exactly all the stuff. Make sure.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Please, it's very important if there's accidents on site, if
something happens, if something's broken, and things can go south,
accidents can happen.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Somebody can drop something. A homeowner's kid could I don't know,
through a baseball through a window. Right, is the warranty valid?
How are your warranties abby?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Pretty Much everything we do is a lifetime warranty. All
the products that we carry, I've done a lot of
research and make sure that it's the last product you'll
ever put on your home, whether that's a rough siding, windows, gutters, doors,
everything that we do. I don't think there's a higher
quality product out there, and if I did, we'd sell it.
So that's the first thing. And then as far as
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warranty goes, class breakage warranty, so any accidental glass breakage,
So if somebody throws a baseball through window, if your
house moves and shifts and gets a stress crack, that's
all covered. And if you read the fine print, and
a lot of other brands out there that's not covered,
that fine print is going to tell you that they're
not going to cover accidental glass breakage or stress cracks.
They're only going to cover a seal failure, which would
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be a manufacturer type of defect. So that's one of
the things with our sighting. It's a lifetime warranty, doors,
lifetime warranty. The only thing we don't cover is if
a screen were to tear. If you bring that to us,
then we'll fix it for you for free.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Oh I never asked that before. Screens are a part
of the window. They come with it, right, No more storms.
Storm windows are a thing in the past, correct, But
you get the screen so with them. And Abby is
a proponent I know this of keeping screens in your round.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I am. I just think the more you mess with
them and start taking them out and putting them and
storing them, you're more subtum to getting loose.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And even the patio door, would you keep that into Yep, yeah,
you're right about that. By the way, the more you
take them in and out, the more they get a
little bit you know, twisted and cranked around, and they
don't fret as good when you put them back.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, And then the screen itself gets loose or it
gets a tear in it because you had it leaning
up against something and now you got to replace it.
So it just makes it a lot easier. Just leave
it how it is.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And then if you want to open those windows up
whenever you want some fresh air, you don't have to
worry about a bird flying.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In that too. Let me think I had this crazy
blackbird in the spring and it would just the noise
of a blackbird will forever torment me from this bird.
It was like territorial. No. It was on the outside
of my pet or and it kept flying in. It
pooped everywhere on my deck. I couldn't get this thing
to go away, and it just it kept looking at
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itself because it saw its reflection and was like dive
bombing at itself over and over and over, just obsessive, like.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
A woodpecker is on wood siding on.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So this thing was just crazy. And finally I put
an umbrella up and like like on the side, and
it went away. And then it was by my boat
lift and it was it was making that noise you
know that like weird. Yeah, some kind of thing that
they do.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And it's not the pleasant bird sounds like a spring Now.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It was a tormenting blackbird. The opposite is a red
wing blackbird. They have a specific sound.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Abby.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So here's a rule at my house, but I'll break
the rule myself. I like keeping my garage doors. I've
got two of them closed all the time.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I just do.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
We had a cat in our garage wandering. I had
a squirrel in my garage. Birds can come in. Well,
now you got to get them out, not to mention security.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
You never know. Now if I'm working on a Saturday
around the house it's.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Open, never know it's gonna happen up in crazy Cedarburg.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Crazy Cedarburg, I got some nutty people out there. Boy,
the crime rates through the roof.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I just like keeping it closed for drafts and everything else.
When guests came over to a packer party last week
that I had, we had family over, I don't want
them coming in my garage.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I just don't. I know that's a Wisconsin thing. I don't.
I want them to come in the front door. It's
all about curb appeal. I agree with that or not.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I let people come through my eyes set.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
To everybody does I'm alone in this. I send them
to the front door. And then here's the one problem.
You got tons of shoes that people take off. You know,
twenty people at your.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
House, right, that's forty shoes. You gotta put them somewhere.
So that was my job put the shoes over there.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Well, anyway, that's just me. It's a little little quirkiness
that I have. Abby benders here wisin through modeling show.
Don't forget to stop by the Nary show.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
It started yesterday and it is today ten to seven.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You said, right, we'll be there from ten to seven
today and ten to five tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Remember the last two hours tomorrow and I think they've
got all the military, firefighters, police first responders with ID
You get in free, that's awesome, But the final two
hours tomorrow ten to five, So from three to five,
everybody gets in free.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Enjoy that show and stop by and say hi to Abby.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Abby's website is abbyhome dot com and doing Abtoberfest twenty
person off windows, bathrooms and siding. We'll be right back
on WISEN with Abby Binder. I'm Paul Crown forced the place, Abby.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Bender, my guest.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Welcome back Wisen's Remodeling Show Saturday mornings. It is the
weekend of the NARY Milwaukee Show, the National Association of
the Remodeling Industry. They've been on the last month at
least twice promoting the show.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
It started yesterday. Abby's got two booths.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Make sure you stop by today ten to seven, Tomorrow
ten to five. We mentioned that's at State Fair Park. Also,
Abby's got a great showroom in Walker show that's open
Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Went through Friday from eight to four.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Let's talk about doors. You do patio doors, you do
front doors. Will you do a service door? A small
service door?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Like I said, you know, I don't like people coming
in my garage. There's a door that goes from the
garage to the house. Many times it's the laund room, right,
sometimes it's the kitchen. Let's make that look nice, right.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And we do fire yted doors there, so you have
to have a fireyed door there. We can do a
twenty minute or a ninety minute, so not wood. No,
we can do fiberglass though, so it looks like would
and that that fiberglass fire rated door is heavy. It
feels like a concrete slab.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Can I pick the color or do I have to
paint it?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Does it come prime, It'll come all finished, It'll come
all stained or painted, whichever you prefer.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Your crews installed.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
We do everything. So we'll take the old one out.
We'll basically put it full frame door in and then
a lot of times you have to have fire rated
hardware with that, so you get to pick out new hardware.
We can also do a steel door, so we can
do something that's more affordable. So then you can do
a painted or a stained look with that, and we
do custom sizes if we need to, so it all
kind of depends on where your header is and how
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that's aligned. Same thing with your front door. If you
have a soft that's really tight to your your door,
a lot of times that has to be custom sized.
We don't want to be cutting into the header or
just notching that. But some contractors do and get away
with That's not us, so we'll we'll make sure that
we custom size that. Even though that there's a little
bit higher price point to that. We feel it's important
to do it right and not have to compromise the
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entirety of your home by cutting your notching into your header.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
And I talk about my guests coming to my front door.
That's why I want a nice door heavy. If you're
coming up to the front door, I don't care who
it is, that's your impression of the house.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That is curb appeal exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
You want your eye drawn to something that looks nice.
Getting put side lights in and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
It depends on how much room you have, but we
definitely if you have existing sidelights, we'd replace that whole
unit transom above it. We'll replace that and you can
decide between. You know, we have triple pain decorative glass.
We have grids on the inside. You can have grids
on the outside. You can just do clear glass, you
can do obscure glass. We have about six different types
of obscure glass.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I like to frosted. Look, many privacies of.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Concern, right, Yeah, we can pretty much do any of that, Sony,
anything you're kind of looking at. We can customize and
design and we have an app that we can actually
take a picture of the outside of your house and
we can show you kind of what a different door
would be like with more glass or less glass or
different colors. You can kind of see all those different
options and get an idea of if you like it
or not on your home.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Okay, Abby, to storm or not to storm the front door?
Yes or no to a storm door.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
For me personally, I always get a storm door because
I have dogs and I want to be able to
corral them in. But if you're somebody that doesn't have
dogs or kids and you don't really have a need
for that, you know, obviously the actual entry door itself
without a storm door is going to look nicer. But
from a use point and in our winters and stuff.
The storm door definitely helps, so I would recommend one.
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But the one thing that we can do is if
you're on the fence is we can always put the
new entry door in without a storm door, and you
can always wait and decide later. And if you decide
later you want to put a storm door on, that's
not a big deal at all. We can just order
you a storm door.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Also the new store.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I mean, if you want to cross breeze or any
fresh air coming in, you gotta have a storm door.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Right. Patio doors, yes, you guys install patio doors.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Do we do? And actually, one thing I should mention
about the entry door, what we did at a few
homes is if you don't want to have a storm
door and it's more of like a back door or
a laundry room that leads out to the backyard, we
can actually put in a half view with a storm
window inside of it, so you wouldn't have to put
a storm door on and still get that ventilation. So
it doesn't look as good for like a front door,
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but for a back door, it's it's kind of a
nice option.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It's at Toberfest at Abby Home, we'll tell you more
about that next on wysn Bob.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's the place wrapping it up with Abby Bender. Don't
forget it's Abtoberfest. What does that mean? Abby?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That means we are having a twenty percent off sale
on everything. So twenty percent off any project you're looking
at having done, whether that's windows, roofing, siding, bathrooms, showers,
anything you want to have done. Just give us a call.
You can go to our website. It's abbyhome dot com.
So it's abby home dot com. Or you can go
you can give us a call. It's four one four
four three six Abby So four one four four three
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six two two two nine. You can call right now.
Our call center is open today, so call anytime and
set up an appointment. If you go to our website,
you can actually set up an appointment right online, so
you don't even have to call. You can just set
up a time that works on your schedule and we'll
call it confirm some details. But it just makes it
easier to kind of secure that slot.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Twenty percent off windows, bathroom remodeling, siding during Obtoberfest. Of course,
a play in words with Abby Bender. Very creative that
I like that I see what you're doing there, Abby,
Till the end of October. You've got some time. Today's
only the eighteenth Packers beat the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yes, no, of course, gotta go with pack.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I think they got it. They got they got to
get in that groove right that mid season. Let's start
kicking some butt.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Abby. Have a great weekend. Don't forget to get up
to the Navy Show. Abby will be there.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Today's ten to seven, Tomorrow ten to five, the last
two hours of free It's at State Fair Park.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Wow, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Have a good weekend, Abby, Thanks you as well.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Stay tuned for the Redefine Realty and Auction Show next
on WISEN
Our number two Wi Sands Remodeling show. Welcome back to it.
I'm your host, Paul krown Force. This hour, Abby Bender
is my guest from Abby Home. Welcome back in Good morning,
Abbey Morning, Big weekend. You're at the Nary Home improvement
show at State Fair Park. It started yesterday. We'll talk
about that. And it's boy, it feels like fall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's getting there. Well, it's done. Such a beautiful end
of the summer. And you know we haven't I haven't
even turned my heat on yet, so that's that's a plus.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've done the fireplace. I don't think we've we've touched
a furnast maybe one night. Cool nights and shorter days. Obviously,
daylight saving is coming up. Abby, do you know when
November two?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So that is when your body clock gets used to it. Right,
that one.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hour change, I can feel the difference. We are going
to really focus today on Abtoberfest.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Get it, Abby, Abtoberfest. I saw your TV commercial.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well done, thank you, well done, creative play on words.
Let's start out with that promotion. What's going on this
month and it runs through the end of October, Abbey.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We have twenty percent off everything, so twenty percent off
any project you're looking at having done. We do everything
on the extra of your home, from roofing, windows, siding, doors, gutters,
soopp it, facia, attic, insulation, glass block, or we do
bats and showers as well. So if you're looking at
having a tub removed and taken out and having a
shower put in so that you can walk right in,
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we can do that. Or we can take the shower
out and put a tub in. So if you have
a little kid on the way and you want to
put a tub and we can do that too.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I like that little kid on the way. Maybe where
do you wash your dogs?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Do you wash the wash mine in the tub?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Most I think most people do. What are you gonna
do in the winter. If you have to wash your dog,
you can take them to those you know whatever, they're
called spas doggy spine.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right, that's the nice thing about having a little dog.
Just throw them in the tub.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You throw them in the tub and it's over.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Or if it's a kid, or if it's yourself, we
will talk about those bathroom conversions. Really, they've become very popular.
Abby easy on the budget, quick in and out. You
don't do the entire bathroom. We should mention you're not
touching the toilet.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Or the vanity correct, just the wet area exactly. But boy,
what a change glass doors instead of a shower curtain.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Get rid of that old fiberglass stained, twenty thirty year
old unit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, And a lot of times people think that they
want to replace the fiberglass with the fiberglass. But a
lot of times the problem with the problem with that
is that's all one unit and there's no way you
can even get that back in your in your home
because a lot of times those were put in when
you were building the home initially, and now that everything's
finished off and there's doors, it's hard to get that
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around the bend to be able to install even into
your bathroom. So that's why we do ours in three panels.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You can see. You can stop by the showroom and visit.
We'll talk about that. It's in Waukesha this weekend. You
might be better off just going to the Narry Home
Show and you've.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Got a booth there, two booths there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh, you got biggie.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So we'll we'll have our baths and showers on display
at one spot and then all the exterior stuff at
the other spot with our windows as well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh very cool. It started yesterday's at State Fair Park.
Today it runs ten to seven tomorrow. Yes, there's a
Packer game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The hours are ten to five, but the Narry Show
is letting you in free the final two hours. Everybody
gets in free the last two hours, and you know
the TV's will have the.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Game on, right. It's just I think, a way to
promote it. Obviously, a lot of times people the traffic
dies down when the Packers play. We tend to be
pretty religious here in Wisconsin to our Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Seventy five percent of wisconsinight's tune into the game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That is an l huge number.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's just an if you think about anything in life,
seventy five percent is a massive number. So whether it's
listening on the radio or watching on TV, yes, the
game is on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The Packers hard does is to believe. I was telling
you this before the show. Going into this weekend, they're
ranked second in the NBFC only behind the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers tie.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Without that time, if they had won that game, oh
well they should have won that they three to one
and one, they'd be four and one mm hmm. Yeah,
well they should have won the Dallas game. They should
have beat the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I know, all because of a field goal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They that block field goal. Joe Flacco comes back as
a Bengal, he plays a Packers twice and loses last.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Week that game at Lamafield. It's not like no one
reminded me of sometimes during the far years. They weren't
the best team and clicking on all cylinders, but their
talent overcame some of those errors and they still won anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right, That's what last week was. They found a way
to win and they did. So go pack go.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Tomorrow they play at Arizona. It's a three twenty five
late game start and you'll be at.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That Nary show.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
We're going to focus today Abby on your October Fast
which is twenty percent off windows, bathrooms that we'll talk
about a bit and siding as well.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Also, let's give up your website and phone number quick.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's four one four four three six abbeys four one
four four three six two two two nine, or you
can go to our website. It's abbyhome dot com. So
it's abby home dot com. You can stop into our
showroom or open Monday through Friday from eight to four
and that's at four zero seven Pilot Court in Waukesha,
just south of the Waukesha County Airport off of Pewaukee Road,
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which is Highway Jay.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You've got everything on display, including windows in the window
brand you carry is.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Our windows are called the Loopo windows and that is
Italian for wolf.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
There is a reason that you'd call those loopos.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
My right, my hunting rifle is a Banelli Loopo, so
we named the windows after that, which is the wolf,
which is the predator of the north, so it fights
the Wisconsin storms.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And that if you offer all it's a triple pain
that you like, but you offer double p too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We do so, I mean, I'm a big proponent of
triple pain just because in our climate, with the humidity
levels and the way they need to be in the winter,
a lot of times can cause condensation issues in your house,
and so we like to have the triple pain so
that you don't have to have your humidity levels as low,
and so you can have your house be warmer and
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not have the condensation issues that double pain can bring.
And it also feels warmer because it can be as
warm as your walls by having the triple pain compared
to the double pain.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, and we're talking.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know if you heard about the Farmer's Almanac
or even meteorologists say in this winter it's supposed to
be significantly colder and a lot more snow than last
the last two years, Abby, which are.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Very mild because of the len Nina.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is that what it's called el Nina La Nina?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think it's lean Nina this year. And if you
look at patterns coming down almost like the year we
had the polar vortex. I'm not sure what that cold
that was bad. That was where people went on social
media with a bottle of water, you walked outside and
you could see the ice for them within seconds.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's hard to believe, just because we've had such a
mild fall, and so just thinking about winter, it's just,
you know, we're at almost at the end of October.
Already middle of October.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm telling you, we've had snow on Halloween. We're just
a couple of weeks away from Trick your treaters. I'm
not ready, Abby now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm not either. I haven't even cut down my perennials
or anything yet.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, we're talking through baseball going into October football season.
I'm cut cutting down the perennials, cutting my grass. Final
fertilizing is still going on.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I'm not saying we're going to get snown. Nobody knows.
It might be after Christmas till we get that first snow.
But you've got to plan. And when you talk about windows,
part of the coldness and draftiness in our house, a
big part is windows and doors.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It is that we call that the fenestration industry. Windows
and doors. It's something that obviously opens and closes, and
it's one of those things that requires some some service
once in a while, just because of the fact that
you're operating them and they're and you're using them, which
is why you want to choose a product that you're
not going to have the issues with. But if you do,
you can make easy adjustments to it and you're going
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to have a company that's going to stand behind it
and be able to call and still be in business.
So obviously, we just celebrated our fifteenth year in business.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Congrats on that, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's amazing to me, though, how many companies go out
of business and they call us to try to service
their product, and we don't carry that brand or work
with their brand, so unfortunately we can't and we try
to steer them in the right direction. But you know,
when you're choosing a company, that's one of the things
that you want to think about is the longevity of
that window and are you going to have services, because,
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like I said, it's something that opens and closes all
the time, and especially doors that you're opening and closing constantly,
you want to make sure it's made of a high
quality product that's going to last, not just be good
for a year or two.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And what's your advice, Abby Off? People look at their
house and everybody. You know your house better than anybody
you live there. What windows are problematic? Some are awful,
some are well. I think we're okay, we can buy
some years out of this. Yet, what's your advice? Do
you start with the worst ones? Maybe four, five, six
windows first?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I can't. I think it kind of depends on what
you're looking for. If you're looking for like an overall
of like our energy bills want to go down, that's
not gonna you're not gonna see that change until you
start doing all of them. But I would definitely say yeah,
budgetary wise, if you're looking at doing this in phases,
go around, look and see which ones are worse. Maybe
only do one side of the house. Sometimes people do
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just the front of the house. Sometimes people just pick
a side or pick a level. Just do the downstairs first,
or just the bedrooms first. It kind of depends on
where you spend your time and where you're noticing the issues.
You know you can you can probably leave like that
that guest room window that you're not in very often.
You know, those are the kind of ones that I
put on the back burner and try to get the
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ones where you're focused in, the ones you're operating more
done first.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Maybe the master bedroom where you are every night, or
if you've got a little one, a toddle or baby,
a nursery exactly, let's focus on that window, whichever one
has ice on the inside.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You might want to look it right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That living room window, if you have like a big
picture window in there that's from like the nineteen fifties,
A lot of times those can create a lot of issues,
So getting that out and getting a new window in
can help.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And that's fixed glass. You guys, take those out. You
custom fit all the windows, Abby.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do. We custom fit everything to the sixteenth of
an inch and we make sure that everything is sealed properly.
We just had a job this week where somebody tried
to save money and they went with a company that
was more cost effective and they ended up pocket fitting
metal out windows, which is a huge no no for us.
And then we signed up to do their siding. So
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we go and start doing the siding, and we realized
that that company not going to name on the air,
but that company that pocket fitted all those metal out windows,
all the metal that when we tore it off, it
was all rotted underneath. And the only way to rectify
that is to now take their brand new windows, rip
those out, rip the frame out, and then put in
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a full frame window. So it's gonna cost you more,
so they're gonna pay twice.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And they just had those windows done within the last
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Note that's like Abby, I bought cheap paint once. I
don't know what the best paint out there is. I
know sure when Williams is near the top for quality.
You buy cheap paint, you're gonna end up doing two, three,
sometimes four coach to.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Make it look good.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, you're spending more by buying more paint and pay
more labor and more time.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Think about how much time it takes you to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And it still looks kind of crummy at the end,
and it might start flaking early. Buy the better product
up front, you will not regret it down the road.
That's just with everything. What kind of windows do you offer, Abby.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Everything, everything as far as bay windows, bow windows, patiodors,
double hung sliders, pretty much everything, casement windows, awnings. And
if you're you know, thinking about getting that project done
and you just don't know where to start, the easier
to do is just give us a call and we
can kind of walk through it with you and try
to help you out.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's October Fest through the end of the year. In
celebration of that, Abbey's offering twenty percent off windows, bathrooms
and siding.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now would be a good time to call.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Four one, four, four three six Abbey four three six,
two two two nine. Of course, stop by the showroom.
Stop by the Narry show today the hours. It's at
State Fair Park since.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
They moved, well it's been there for quite a few years,
but the parking is so much easier than the downtown
Convention Center.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I've never done a show down there, and so I've
been doing the Narry Show for fifteen years, so it's
been it's been out at State for Park for at
least that long.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I don't want to blast the convention Center. What I'm
blasting is the parking.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
If you're if you're like you a vendor, Yes you
got park trailers, you got to back them up and
then you gotta wait for the next set of get
a well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
State fairst huge.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And it's just more centrally located and just prepped for
that type of show. So it's it's been good for us.
We're there today from ten to seven and then tomorrow
from ten to five.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And those last two hours, So from three to five
tomorrow Wisconsin Exposition Center on State Fair park Grounds. You
get in free the final two hours, so walk around.
Maybe the packers will be getting blown out, or the
other way, maybe they'll be blowing a team out.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
How nice would that be? It seems as a Brewer
fan and a Packer fan, I'm always a nervous nelly.
Can you just blow somebody out for.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think that's any fan of any sport.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I think you're right. We're not alone.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I've been so nervous and stressed out about these Brewers.
Oh it's been. It's been a crazy fall.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I know, the ups and the downs.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Overall, you gotta admit, what a what a team, what
a season?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Best record in basis.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Absolutely, I mean, I'm not taking anything away from it.
It's been fun. They won the division right the canoe
ever thought we'd even do anything, And come May when
they were really tanking, I thought, why am I even
paying attention to this year? And they just started taking
off and it's just even it was just fun to
even see them win so many in a row to
get the George Webergers.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I haven't.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It was a web seeson and they did it almost twice, two.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Huge winning streaks. Got to remember that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They also it's good for the city of Milwaukee, even
if you don't follow baseball. They bring lots of money
into the city, a lot of attention on the city national,
not just ESPN sports channels.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But news across the board. So it's all good, it's
all positive, just like the Packers and the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
When things are rolling. I will not say anything about
the Badger football team. They are in a free fall.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's it's brutal. I can't watch it. It reminds you of
the Don Morton years, and that was you weren't even born.
They sucked.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It was the seventies bad football across the board growing
up when I was a kid. The Packers stunk and
the Badger's stunk.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The Bucks are pretty good like.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Those years, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, the seventies, What a decade it was. I was
like kid, but I was around and I do remember it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Abby.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
We will after the break. So we kind of talked
a lot about windows. I do want to dive into
the bathroom topic, and of course, siding with regards to bathrooms,
how can you do it so fast?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's what people are wondering. How can you come in?
Do you pull a permit? Are you cutting corners? What
are you doing to make that happen? Atby? I'll ask
you right now before the break and then we'll dive in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So, yes, we always pull a permit of plumbing permit
every time, and depending on the municipality of building permit
if they require one. What we do is we come
in in the morning and we demo everything out so
we take it all the walls down, so a lot
of times we don't even have to take so you
don't have to take each individual tile off because you're
taking that whole wall out, so you can just cut
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the whole thing out so you're not having to worry
about like chiseling all that tile off that Usually that
backer just comes off with it. And then we get
it down to the rough opening, so you just have
the studs and we'll wait for the plumber. To plumber
comes in and it puts on the mixing valve and
does make sure that everything's up to code as far
as from the plumbing aspect, and then we wait. We
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already have the plumbing inspection with that with that city
set up, and so they'll usually tell you know, they'll
be there eleven, twelve, one, whatever time they can make it.
So we're kind of then in a holding patternuntil we
wait for the inspector. Inspector comes in, he passes it,
or he says he wants something fixed, We fix it,
and then we close it all up, close all the
walls up, and by that night you can have a
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whole new bathroom.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You could go from one of those shower curtains, stand
up showers. That's just looking to a brand new shower,
and that means the shower handle, all.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The hardware, everything, the grab bar, you know. I mean,
take a look at your website. You've got a lot
of photos right right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And you don't just have to do plain like a
plain white bathroom. We can do a lot of the
same kind of marble tile, granite stuff that you see
in countertops. We can do that with all of our
bath slabs. So whatever you're kind of looking at having done,
we can kind of match that up.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, they look fantastic and it is a quick turnaround,
so we'll explain how that's done. Also, you will have
them on display at the Narrow Show going on today tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We will absolutely it started yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's a three day Nary show, the Fall one. Obviously
the Spring one's a little bit bigger, I.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Think, but Spring one's definitely bigger.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, this is still the largest chapter in the country,
so a lot of contractors are down there. You'll see
a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Stop by and say hi to the crew from Abby
Home celebrating now fifteen years right. It is Abbyholme dot
Com is the website. We'll take a quick break. It's
our number two on wisen's Remodeling Show. My guest Abby Binder.
I'm Paul Krownforce to your host. Will be right back
back with Abby Binder on WISEN. My guest, This is
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the Remodeling Show, and I'm Paul Krown Force. It's the
second hour seven to nine every Saturday morning. Great to
have Abby, who has owned Abby Home for fifteen years,
celebrating their anniversary last month. This month is Abtoberfest, twenty
percent off all windows, bathroom remodeling and siding. And yes,
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we're going to talk about the bathroom side right now.
Also at the Nary Home Show. It's this weekend, folks,
it started yesterday. Please stop out say hi to Abby.
Two boots one for the bathrooms right correct.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, we'll be out there today from ten to seven
and tomorrow it goes from ten to five.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Last two hours. He getting free you know Wisconsin. It's
we like our Koopin's and we like our free things
and are being frugal is something to be proud of.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Charlie Bearns talks about it and that guy's getting better
and better. If you've never seen Charlie Bears. His standard
routine is good.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, he's booked solid through like the next six months, and.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It's all over the country. Right, So he's got that
Wisconsin lingo down. It's self deprecating humor, having the ability
to laugh at oneself, and he does a really good job.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Abby I said, we talked bathrooms, but I want to
talk about the fun part of bathroom remodeling. You literally
in a day, in one day, can change the entire
look of our bathroom.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We call it the wet side of you know, the
wet area. Yeah, so it's the conversions right to tub,
tub to shower.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It is. And we take everything down to the studs,
so nothing we do goes over your existing tile or
your existing tub or anything like that. We don't just
fit that over it. We take everything down, make sure
nothing's moldy or rotted. We check everything. We make sure
your plumbing is up to code, so that when we
walk away everything, you have a brand new bath and
you don't have to worry about anything. We have all
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the permits pulled and inspections pass and everything.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
What about the the messiness of any remodeling project, whether
it's siding, windows or whatever bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Do you have a dumpster? Do you take it everything?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We actually have a big trailer that we put everything
in the trailer and then we take it to our
shop and we have a dumpster there that we dump
everything in. So that way the customer doesn't have to
worry about the dumpster going on their driveway or removing it.
It's just a lot less hassle for the customer. So
anytime we have something that's a little bit small of
a project that we can remove it and do it
in at our shop, we take care of that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The glass door, I'm guessing most people go to you
don't have to abby. I could stick with the shower
curtain if I want.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
To, you can. The glass door definitely makes the shower
or the tub you can put it on either, and
it just makes it easier for you. You don't have
to worry about cleaning that shower curtain and washing that
because those can get kind of moldy sometimes, So this
just makes it convenient. Just looks a little bit richer
to me.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah. And colors, do we have our choice?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have brush nickel, we have Matt Black. Are the
two main ones I believe you can get. I don't
know if you can get brass anymore, actually, I think
and Matt Black and the nickel are the two main
ones the chrome bright chrome you can get.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I like the boldness of those colors. You know how
many shows have I said, don't worry about trends, But
don't worry about trends, do what you like, whatever you like.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I would just stay away from brass. It's just one
of those things that kind of goes in and out.
And Matt Black seems to be a pretty classic look.
So is brushnickels. Either of those two tend to be
classic looks that don't really fade.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What about windows? We talked about windows earlier in the show,
but we didn't talk about colors. Are black windows still
a thing?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They are? Actually? I think they just go with so much.
And you can do black on the inside or the
out or the outside or both black in and out.
But you could do a wood grain stain on the
inside and then do black on the outside. It all
kind of depends on your siding and what kind of
look you're going for, but it does give it a
very clean, slim look that I think will be around
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for a while. I don't think it's going to date itself.
Some people think it is, but I don't think it is.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think it's a bold look. It looks very rich
to me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And well, as we'll talk about siding sometime this hour,
let's just bring it up.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
What goes best with the color of your siding. If
you're going charcoal gray, black would look good against that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Absolutely, that's the main colors that we recommend, and that's
probably one of our more popular looks. One thing you
can do if you're on the fence about siding, you're
not sure what color you want, you can actually take
a picture of your house and put it in chat
GPT and tell it to make my house black, make
my house white, make my house gray, and it'll do that,
so you can get kind of an idea of what
it would look like. You can tell it to put
shake up in the gables, put vertical board and baton
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siding in the gables. You can tell it to do
so much stuff before we even get out there, so
you kind of have a pin board of what you're thinking,
and then we can kind of go off of that.
The other thing is that you want to consider with
when you're looking at siding is the energy efficiency of siding,
because if you're going to take the time to spend
the money on siding and redo the whole house as
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far as the exterior, because whenever you're doing the siding,
you're literally taking off the entire facade of your home.
You want to think about, is this an opportunity for
me to add some energy efficiency to my house. Because
when we put up our insulated siding, we're putting up
a pre engineered wall system. We're not just putting upsiding.
So what we'll do is we'll take your house and
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if you added up all the studs on your house,
because a lot of times people say they don't need
siding or insulation because they have insulation in their walls.
And if your house is built in the nineties or new,
or you have two by six walls, but one stud
is not insulated. So if you added all those studs up,
an entire wall of your home, which is about twenty
five percent of your home, is now uninsulated. So that's
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why we want to add that insulated siding so that
your entire home is insulated, and then it actually creates
what we call a thermal break, so you don't have
thermal bridging happening, which is when that heat and that
cold transfer over and then because you have a transferring,
you can actually get condensation and ice forming on those
studs because those studs are not insulated.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You explain that very well, Abby. Do people realize homes
in Wisconsin stick built usually on site with two by four.
Recently it's almost all two by six construction, right right,
So you got a two by six, you've got the
bats of insulation in between, but you've got those wood
studs and there is no insulation between the stud correct
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and the exterior of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That's why I'm a huge fan of the of the
insulated siding. And we have ours call it an R
five panel, but it's it's our three point eight is
it's the highest insulated panel on the market, and it
comes in sixteen and a half foot length, so you
have thirty three percent less seams, so it just looks
a lot nicer. It has a really nice shadow line,
so it looks more like Cedar the six inch profile,
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and it has a lifetime warranty on it, so a
lifetime against fading, against any damage like to like from
hail or anything you can install it in the winter
because it doesn't crack like vinyl siding wood, like an
uninsulated vinyl panel. And I just say, at least look
at it and consider it, because it's not something that
you see every single day.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I mentioned charcoal graat earlier for setting. What are some
of the other hot colors right now? Or how many
colors can I choose from?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I guess, so we have I believe sixteen different colors
in that insulated panel. We have a midnight blue that's popular,
Charcoal smoke obviously is popular. We have just your standard
kind of tan colors like a tusky, clay, a wicker,
and then we have some other ones called ones called storm,
which is kind of that grayish grayish brown color that's
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a popular one. And we have a couple other grays
that they are a popular. So I would say the
gray family is still popular.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Let me bring up the two obvious colors, white and black.
You don't see many white white homes or black, so.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You have to be careful when you go with with
darker colors like a black or you know what do
they call it? Tricorn black? Some of that stuff. You
need to then match up the cock with that, and
when you get really dark colors like that and you
get the south side of a house, that can cause
a little bit of fading or it can cause it
to move. So that's why a lot of times they
don't offer that color, Like we don't have a dark
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that darker color in that product, So you just have
to be kind of careful for longevity with that. The
white we definitely can do. It's just it's trending right now,
like that farmhouse look, so you want to make sure
that it's more of a timeless look or that you're
okay with it if it does kind of start to.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Actually out You're right, I am wrong. There are white houses,
but they mix it up a little bit, right the border.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Black windows, yeah, bord and baton.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And they mix it up like the gables will be
back that I do like that look. I don't know
if it's maybe it is trendy again.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, you couldn't do it on like your house because
your house is a colonial, so you it would only
work on homes that have more of that farmhouse style
like gables. If you have more of that salt box
or a ranch style.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
House cape Cod maybe.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Cape Cod, you probably could get away with it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The walkie bungalow, the classic bungalow.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And that that kind of hexagon look wouldn't really work.
It's got to be more of that cape cod yep,
that would that would work. That's those sharper triangle kind
of lines.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, it's just it's a neat look. It kind of
takes you back a little bit. But it's fresh and
it's new. So you've got twenty percent off that too, siding,
twenty percent off windows, twenty percent off bathroom remodeling projects.
Let's highlight your crews, your carpenters. You're very proud of
the talent skill that goes into being ace in the
(27:02):
skilled trades. And it can be the best window, it
can be the best product out there.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's got to be installed.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right abby exactly. And like I was just telling about
the story or earlier with pocket fitting full frame, you know,
stuff that should have been a full frame. And there's
a reason why we don't cut corners like that. And
now the poor homeowners in a position where they're going
to probably have to get windows twice and it sucks.
But up front, it seems like it's all about price, price, price,
and a lot of times, even for siding, for example,
(27:31):
when you're when you're trying to think in your head
how much is this product going to cost me or project,
I should say you don't think about with siding. It's
not just siding that you're getting installed. You're tearing all
that old stuff off. Most of the time. You got
to think about the dumpster. You got to think about.
Siding is never just siding. You're putting a house wrap up,
you're putting insulation on. You're doing soffit and facia. Usually
(27:54):
with the siding that kind of goes hand in hand.
And if you're gonna do the soft in facia, you
might as well do the gutters at that time, because
the gutters have to come off anyway. So now you're
doing siting, soffit, face shoot cutters, and then you got
to do window trims with that, so then you have
to add all that aluminum flashing and trim. So when
you're pricing it all out and you're like, oh, this
should only be this much, you have to add all
(28:15):
those other different parameters to it. And that's kind of
how siding gets done.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Let's talk about those carpenters. Do they work throughout winter?
What stuff will you and will you not put in?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
So we don't do asphalt shingles in the winter because
it's too cold and it needs that heat to be
able to have that tar kind of melt together. So
asphalt shingles we really don't do. We do have a
product that's metal roofing that we can do year round siding.
As long as it's our insulated product or LP, we'll
do that. Year round windows. We do year round doors.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I got it. I love the metal roofing. I just do.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It looks great.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Not talking about it much today, but you guys do it.
It's phenomenal and it just looks good and it's going
to last. Speaking of lasting, it gives you peace of mind.
But it's also very important that you check first off
the contractor are you licensed?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Ensured?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Abby you are, you're a member of all of that
stuff now exactly all the stuff. Make sure.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Please, it's very important if there's accidents on site, if
something happens, if something's broken, and things can go south,
accidents can happen.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Somebody can drop something. A homeowner's kid could I don't know,
through a baseball through a window. Right, is the warranty valid?
How are your warranties abby?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Pretty Much everything we do is a lifetime warranty. All
the products that we carry, I've done a lot of
research and make sure that it's the last product you'll
ever put on your home, whether that's a rough siding, windows, gutters, doors,
everything that we do. I don't think there's a higher
quality product out there, and if I did, we'd sell it.
So that's the first thing. And then as far as
(29:48):
warranty goes, class breakage warranty, so any accidental glass breakage,
So if somebody throws a baseball through window, if your
house moves and shifts and gets a stress crack, that's
all covered. And if you read the fine print, and
a lot of other brands out there that's not covered,
that fine print is going to tell you that they're
not going to cover accidental glass breakage or stress cracks.
They're only going to cover a seal failure, which would
(30:10):
be a manufacturer type of defect. So that's one of
the things with our sighting. It's a lifetime warranty, doors,
lifetime warranty. The only thing we don't cover is if
a screen were to tear. If you bring that to us,
then we'll fix it for you for free.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Oh I never asked that before. Screens are a part
of the window. They come with it, right, No more storms.
Storm windows are a thing in the past, correct, But
you get the screen so with them. And Abby is
a proponent I know this of keeping screens in your round.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I am. I just think the more you mess with
them and start taking them out and putting them and
storing them, you're more subtum to getting loose.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And even the patio door, would you keep that into Yep, yeah,
you're right about that. By the way, the more you
take them in and out, the more they get a
little bit you know, twisted and cranked around, and they
don't fret as good when you put them back.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, And then the screen itself gets loose or it
gets a tear in it because you had it leaning
up against something and now you got to replace it.
So it just makes it a lot easier. Just leave
it how it is.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And then if you want to open those windows up
whenever you want some fresh air, you don't have to
worry about a bird flying.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In that too. Let me think I had this crazy
blackbird in the spring and it would just the noise
of a blackbird will forever torment me from this bird.
It was like territorial. No. It was on the outside
of my pet or and it kept flying in. It
pooped everywhere on my deck. I couldn't get this thing
to go away, and it just it kept looking at
(31:33):
itself because it saw its reflection and was like dive
bombing at itself over and over and over, just obsessive, like.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
A woodpecker is on wood siding on.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So this thing was just crazy. And finally I put
an umbrella up and like like on the side, and
it went away. And then it was by my boat
lift and it was it was making that noise you
know that like weird. Yeah, some kind of thing that
they do.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And it's not the pleasant bird sounds like a spring Now.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It was a tormenting blackbird. The opposite is a red
wing blackbird. They have a specific sound.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Abby.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So here's a rule at my house, but I'll break
the rule myself. I like keeping my garage doors. I've
got two of them closed all the time.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I just do.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
We had a cat in our garage wandering. I had
a squirrel in my garage. Birds can come in. Well,
now you got to get them out, not to mention security.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
You never know. Now if I'm working on a Saturday
around the house it's.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Open, never know it's gonna happen up in crazy Cedarburg.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Crazy Cedarburg, I got some nutty people out there. Boy,
the crime rates through the roof.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I just like keeping it closed for drafts and everything else.
When guests came over to a packer party last week
that I had, we had family over, I don't want
them coming in my garage.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I just don't. I know that's a Wisconsin thing. I don't.
I want them to come in the front door. It's
all about curb appeal. I agree with that or not.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I let people come through my eyes set.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
To everybody does I'm alone in this. I send them
to the front door. And then here's the one problem.
You got tons of shoes that people take off. You know,
twenty people at your.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
House, right, that's forty shoes. You gotta put them somewhere.
So that was my job put the shoes over there.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Well, anyway, that's just me. It's a little little quirkiness
that I have. Abby benders here wisin through modeling show.
Don't forget to stop by the Nary show.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
It started yesterday and it is today ten to seven.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You said, right, we'll be there from ten to seven
today and ten to five tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Remember the last two hours tomorrow and I think they've
got all the military, firefighters, police first responders with ID
You get in free, that's awesome, But the final two
hours tomorrow ten to five, So from three to five,
everybody gets in free.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Enjoy that show and stop by and say hi to Abby.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Abby's website is abbyhome dot com and doing Abtoberfest twenty
person off windows, bathrooms and siding. We'll be right back
on WISEN with Abby Binder. I'm Paul Crown forced the place, Abby.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Bender, my guest.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Welcome back Wisen's Remodeling Show Saturday mornings. It is the
weekend of the NARY Milwaukee Show, the National Association of
the Remodeling Industry. They've been on the last month at
least twice promoting the show.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
It started yesterday. Abby's got two booths.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Make sure you stop by today ten to seven, Tomorrow
ten to five. We mentioned that's at State Fair Park. Also,
Abby's got a great showroom in Walker show that's open
Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Went through Friday from eight to four.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Let's talk about doors. You do patio doors, you do
front doors. Will you do a service door? A small
service door?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Like I said, you know, I don't like people coming
in my garage. There's a door that goes from the
garage to the house. Many times it's the laund room, right,
sometimes it's the kitchen. Let's make that look nice, right.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And we do fire yted doors there, so you have
to have a fireyed door there. We can do a
twenty minute or a ninety minute, so not wood. No,
we can do fiberglass though, so it looks like would
and that that fiberglass fire rated door is heavy. It
feels like a concrete slab.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Can I pick the color or do I have to
paint it?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Does it come prime, It'll come all finished, It'll come
all stained or painted, whichever you prefer.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Your crews installed.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
We do everything. So we'll take the old one out.
We'll basically put it full frame door in and then
a lot of times you have to have fire rated
hardware with that, so you get to pick out new hardware.
We can also do a steel door, so we can
do something that's more affordable. So then you can do
a painted or a stained look with that, and we
do custom sizes if we need to, so it all
kind of depends on where your header is and how
(35:37):
that's aligned. Same thing with your front door. If you
have a soft that's really tight to your your door,
a lot of times that has to be custom sized.
We don't want to be cutting into the header or
just notching that. But some contractors do and get away
with That's not us, so we'll we'll make sure that
we custom size that. Even though that there's a little
bit higher price point to that. We feel it's important
to do it right and not have to compromise the
(35:59):
entirety of your home by cutting your notching into your header.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
And I talk about my guests coming to my front door.
That's why I want a nice door heavy. If you're
coming up to the front door, I don't care who
it is, that's your impression of the house.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That is curb appeal exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
You want your eye drawn to something that looks nice.
Getting put side lights in and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
It depends on how much room you have, but we
definitely if you have existing sidelights, we'd replace that whole
unit transom above it. We'll replace that and you can
decide between. You know, we have triple pain decorative glass.
We have grids on the inside. You can have grids
on the outside. You can just do clear glass, you
can do obscure glass. We have about six different types
of obscure glass.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I like to frosted. Look, many privacies of.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Concern, right, Yeah, we can pretty much do any of that, Sony,
anything you're kind of looking at. We can customize and
design and we have an app that we can actually
take a picture of the outside of your house and
we can show you kind of what a different door
would be like with more glass or less glass or
different colors. You can kind of see all those different
options and get an idea of if you like it
or not on your home.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Okay, Abby, to storm or not to storm the front door?
Yes or no to a storm door.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
For me personally, I always get a storm door because
I have dogs and I want to be able to
corral them in. But if you're somebody that doesn't have
dogs or kids and you don't really have a need
for that, you know, obviously the actual entry door itself
without a storm door is going to look nicer. But
from a use point and in our winters and stuff.
The storm door definitely helps, so I would recommend one.
(37:28):
But the one thing that we can do is if
you're on the fence is we can always put the
new entry door in without a storm door, and you
can always wait and decide later. And if you decide
later you want to put a storm door on, that's
not a big deal at all. We can just order
you a storm door.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Also the new store.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I mean, if you want to cross breeze or any
fresh air coming in, you gotta have a storm door.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Right. Patio doors, yes, you guys install patio doors.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Do we do? And actually, one thing I should mention
about the entry door, what we did at a few
homes is if you don't want to have a storm
door and it's more of like a back door or
a laundry room that leads out to the backyard, we
can actually put in a half view with a storm
window inside of it, so you wouldn't have to put
a storm door on and still get that ventilation. So
it doesn't look as good for like a front door,
(38:12):
but for a back door, it's it's kind of a
nice option.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It's at Toberfest at Abby Home, we'll tell you more
about that next on wysn Bob.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's the place wrapping it up with Abby Bender. Don't
forget it's Abtoberfest. What does that mean? Abby?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That means we are having a twenty percent off sale
on everything. So twenty percent off any project you're looking
at having done, whether that's windows, roofing, siding, bathrooms, showers,
anything you want to have done. Just give us a call.
You can go to our website. It's abbyhome dot com.
So it's abby home dot com. Or you can go
you can give us a call. It's four one four
four three six Abby So four one four four three
(38:49):
six two two two nine. You can call right now.
Our call center is open today, so call anytime and
set up an appointment. If you go to our website,
you can actually set up an appointment right online, so
you don't even have to call. You can just set
up a time that works on your schedule and we'll
call it confirm some details. But it just makes it
easier to kind of secure that slot.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Twenty percent off windows, bathroom remodeling, siding during Obtoberfest. Of course,
a play in words with Abby Bender. Very creative that
I like that I see what you're doing there, Abby,
Till the end of October. You've got some time. Today's
only the eighteenth Packers beat the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yes, no, of course, gotta go with pack.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I think they got it. They got they got to
get in that groove right that mid season. Let's start
kicking some butt.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Abby. Have a great weekend. Don't forget to get up
to the Navy Show. Abby will be there.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Today's ten to seven, Tomorrow ten to five, the last
two hours of free It's at State Fair Park.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Wow, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Have a good weekend, Abby, Thanks you as well.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Stay tuned for the Redefine Realty and Auction Show next
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