November 1, 2025 • 38 mins
11-1-25 Remodeling Show
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wu SAIDs your modeling show. Good morning, Welcome to the program.
Each week. I am here. I'm Paul kron Force, your
host for this two hour show. Our number one is Abby. Oh,
and my guest is Abby Bender, the owner. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm doing well? Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You survived Halloween yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I did. I'm not a huge Halloween person. Not my
favorite holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I will say so, like what part like the dressing
up and going to parties for adults, or the tricker
treating or all of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It, just all of it. I never really have gotten
into Halloween. I'm a huge Christmas person, but I'm not
not a Halloween person.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thanksgiving is up there just because it's good food. Oh,
for sure, get a day off, watch football, enjoy Thanksgiving.
Halloween now in the rearview mirror, I must say, Abby,
trick or treating for most communities was last weekend. I
thought that was odd. I thought tonight and some are
doing it tonight, I think, But maybe it's because Halloween
was yesterday. So whatever, I'm with you. It's like I
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can take it or leave it. I do enjoy the
fall season, and some temperature is above seasonal averages. Even
this past week, Abby.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I just turned my heat on like a week ago.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Isn't it great?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's been a nice late summer and so far early fall.
Today is the first day of November. It is also
Daylight Savings tonight fall back.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I hate it. I wish we just always had.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
There's no reason for it, agreed.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The regular No, it's Daylight SA Savings is ending.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's ending.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, just get rid of we always had this time, correct.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Just don't observe it, right, Like Indiana, I think is
one state that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Arizona.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, Arizona's another one, correct, So it's very odd. I
just think you're right. It was ten years ago. I
believe for the farmers and the kids that it was
so dark in the morning getting on the bus. Therefore,
it's not going to be so dark like when we
wake up tomorrow. It should be light around six that's true,
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which I will I will like that part. On the
other hand, it's going to get dark really early.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's like dark by four thirty. So if you're looking
at getting an estimate from us for a roofing or siding,
we have to come out earlier. Otherwise we can't get
up on your roof and see anything. So in order
to do an inspection properly, the earlier the better for us,
or we're gonna have to come out on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's a good way to start the program. What about estimates?
What's the first step? First off? Abby home abby home
dot com for more information, Abby you guys do. I
will say everything on the exterior, including I'm looking forward
to the discussion of metal roofing in neighborhoods. It looks
like asphalt shingles, but.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's metal it is. It's not standing seam, so it's
not the metal that's shiny that you see the streaks,
like the vertical streaks going through. It's not that at all.
We do. It's a full looking shake or slate looking roof.
So even in those hoa areas like Mechwan and Ozaki County,
you know, anywhere where they need to have that HOA
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requires a cedar shake roof. This usually gets approved because
it looks like a cedar shake.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why wouldn't you approve it. It's a lot better than
having those wood cedar shake shingles. I mean those curl
they weather. They look great the first couple of years, right,
I know, what you're talking about, because I drive through
mech One all the time. Those homes are beautiful, but
after a while, wood is wood.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's just like cedar siding exactly. We have pretty much
a good, better best system for roofing. So our good
system is your standard asphalt shingle that we can get
you the h disease. We call them our GAF product,
and that's going to be more of your basic shingle
that's gonna have. We still can get you that Golden
Pledge warranty on that, but upgrading to our better system
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would then get you our UH disease, which is a
Class four rated shingle against hail damage. But then our
best system, which is what I would only put on
at this point on my home or recommend, would be
a metal roof because you're not going to have to
worry about hail damage. And I really truly feel that
insurance companies are going to stop covering hail eventually for asphalt,
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and they're going to probably make it the way flood
insurance is now, where it's a rider on your policy
you have to inquire about it or add it. I
think hail damage is going to be one of those
things where if you go with our product for metal,
you actually have a hail damage warranty against from the manufacturer,
so you don't have to worry about insurance covering it
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or not covering it and paying a deductible. You don't
have to worry about any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh, because a warranty is applied by the factory. What company?
What do you carry for this type of roofing? Metal roofing?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we have a couple of different options. We carry
one called EDCO and one called Unified Steel. So those
those are the brands fifty year warranty. It's a lifetime warranty,
but it actually amounts to a fifty year warranty.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We shall mention you're still doing asphalt shingles. We are.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's just more of our good and better system, not
our best system.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it's like anything, right when you buy a car,
which do you want all the options? What do you
want a Toyota or do you want a Mercedes?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I would just hate for somebody to spend the money
on an asphalt shingle and then in a couple of
years insurance come back and say, yeah, we're no longer
covering that, and you're going to have to pay this
extra money for a writer policy in order to get
hill damage covered, or they're just not going to cover asphalt.
I really truly feel it's the wave of the future.
Mark my words. We'll be sitting here ten years from now,
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or you might be retired and off somewhere. Who knows
on one of your cruises.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I wonder ten years from now, hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I think in ten years from now that that'll
be the wave of the future. That they will not
cover asphalt anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They will not cover. But you also think it's going
to increase in popularity, that consumers will say, I want
that metal roof.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, And the big buzzword in our industry is resilience.
Resilient products, fortified products, they call it. And so the
more fortified you can make your roof, the better off
you're going to be as far as from an insurance standpoint,
and metal is going to give you that game changing
for a f resilient product. It's going to be fire rated,
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so you won't have to worry about it a fire
burning it down, and you don't have to worry about
that hail that literally the hail gets pulverized when it
hits that metal.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, so ice meets metal metal winds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And the question that we get all the time is
my house going to be louder? We actually had a
guy running his little fingers on Facebook about how oh,
why would you go with the metal roof? It's so loud?
Why would I want that? I took down my awning
because of that. This is nothing like that. And if
you don't believe me, google it is asphalt shingles series
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metal stone coated metal louder than.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Asphalt shaving during hail or all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Probably during rain. Okay, but it's not louder.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So what and I know what he's getting at. Because
it's metal, you're thinking going to hit the little like
the pelic gun kind of sound. First off, how often
does it hail?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, he's talking about just a rainstorm, you know, like
if you think about like a metal awning, the old
school metal awning, you know from a porch on ing,
you can hear it, you can hear it. But this
is not like that because it has a coating on it,
and it's not it's not going to have that loud
noise like you think like a standing seam mite. It's
not going to do that. And if you don't, like
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I said, if you don't believe me, google it and
ask ask Google if a if a stone coated metal
is louder than an asphalt shingle, and you'll see that
it's not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This metal roofing is a part of a fantastic month
of November at abby home. Abby Binder, my guest here
in wisn You've got twenty percent off everything this month.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Everything, twenty percent off everything. Just go to abbyhome dot com.
That's abby home dot com for roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters,
soft facia, glass block, bathroom remodeling. So if you look
in at doing a shower conversion, or you want to
put a tub back in, we can do either or
aging in place where you want to take a tub
out and just put a shower in. We can put
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the grab bars in, we can put a seat in.
We can make it very very friendly for you to
be safe and not have to worry about slipping and
falling in the shower.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, the bathroom remodel, we'll spend maybe after the first break,
we'll dive into that a little bit deeper. That's the
one interior remodeling part of the home. You do everything
else on the exterior, Abby, including smaller things gutters you
mentioned we do.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We do five and six inch gutters, gutter protection. We
do pretty much like I said, everything on the outside
of your home. And if you're looking at getting an
estimate for the best thing to do is go to
our website. Just go to abby home dot com or
you can call us. It's four one four, four three
six Abby so four one four four three six two
two two nine, and you can fill out a contact
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form right on the website. You can book right online
with whatever works for your schedule, so we don't even
have to You don't have to worry about us calling
you back or calling us. We can take care of
everything right online.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Abby's Company has now been in business for fifteen years.
You celebrated that in September, but I would say you're
still celebrating it offering twenty percent off of everything in November.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We are. Yeah, the Obtoberfest special went over so well
we decided to extend it, but not call it Obtoberfest
because it's it's not October anymore, so it's just the
twenty percent off. And then we also for the month
of November are partnering with the Hunger Task Force and
doing a food drive, So if anyone's looking at donating,
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they can stop at our showroom and drop off any
non perishable items. There's a QR code that we can
I think it's on our Facebook page as well, that
you can actually donate to the Hunger Task Force, but
stop in drop anything off if you're getting an estimate
from us. And while we're out there, if you want
to give the guys, our sales guys some non perishables,
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they can take it back as well.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
'tis the season right as we approach Thanksgiving. I love
this time of the year, but think of those that
need it right, especially right government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't think we realize sometimes how lucky that we are,
and you think about the first world problems like you know,
I a car wash or things that just you know,
drive us crazy, and we get angry about stupid stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And computers slow exactly, stuff like it is a first
world problem. Now, do we need some of those things
to operate in business? Yes, we take a lot of
stuff for granted.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, and you don't realize, like you said, with this
government shutdown, Depending on what goes on. I mean there's
a lot of people that do rely on that. What
do they call it? The snap?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Is that what it's called stamp?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Is?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What is colin Wisconsin? I think yes, each state has
its own like the food stamp.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And you're right, it's scary for a lot of people.
So we wanted to take the month and just be
grateful and show our gratitude and do what we can
as a company to try to provide for the community.
And that's kind of our goal and what we're doing
for November as a team.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I love that. So for November, the Hunger task Force
Food drive is going on. We can stop by your showroom.
I would advice just do that. Stop buy with a
non perishable food item. What is that we all here?
What's non perishable? A box of mac and cheese.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Anything that doesn't go bad, like furs and vegetables wouldn't work.
But cereal peanut butter is big. They always want peanut butter,
I know. Yeah, cans can goods, macaroni and cheese, I know,
those are kind of the big things. You can also
go to their website, the Hunger task Force website, and
it tells you, like what they're short on and it
also tells you what they kind of are looking for
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as well.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Hey, you're doing a good thing, and you can stop
by Abby's showroom, which is located in Waukesha. How do
we find you in Waukesha on What are your hours, Abbey?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We're open Monday through Friday from eight to four and
we are just south of the Waukesha County Airport. So
we're at four zero seven Pilot Court, Sweet four hundred
off of Highway J, which is Pewaukee Road. So if
you are driving down on Highway J from the airport
past the I'm sorry, from the freeway past the airport,
and as soon as you see that quick trip, that's
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where we're off.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Of, you know, and you're in waukeshall make sure you
have your GPS handy because it's you can get in Waukesha,
but you can't get out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's like Hotel California.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah right, you can't check in anytime, but you can't
check out.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's so the way they laid it out. What the hell.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I am not from Waukesha, so I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's just and I know people living there. It's not that, Yeah,
because you live there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'm a Saint Francis girl. You know, we're from Milwaukee.
On a grid. Everything's very easy.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Everything is laid out in Milwaukee, easy to find. Then again,
nowadays with GPS, you go to Google Maps, or ways
is another one. Whatever you have, you punch it in.
It takes you right there. I love that. Actually getting
on the freeway knowing where the traffic is, where the
red lines are. It's super accurate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh I am talking about traffic. I am so dreading
this stadium interchange project for the next eight years. Eight
and they haven't even they haven't even finished the Zoo
interchange from North Avenue.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Till I would.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They haven't even finished that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I can attest it as I drive it every day.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Is that the way you go? You don't forty three?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I do not go forty three unless I've got business
in that part of town, or i want to go downtown
or go to Bay Shore. I go to Bay Shore,
go by my family in Fox Point and see people.
Then I'll take forty three, so like once a week
otherwise Zoo intertrain straight north forty one, forty five and
then the lane closure starts.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh my god. Why want you finish, finish one leg
and then go to the stadium, and so that's going
to be a night man.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do people know about this ninety four East West Corridor.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
From seventieth Street till nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Is going to be all basically ripped up for seven
to eight years?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Good god, I just don't understand how it's going to
take that long. And no, apparently now there's infrastructure issues,
so they have to redo a bunch of stuff because
that was built in the fifties and they really haven't
touched it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'm not arguing whether it should be done. I think
it probably should be just widened, abby brought up. I mean,
look at the Zoo Innan, I'm sorry. The Marquette Interchange
very nice to navigate, right easy, I would think.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, when I was in my early twenties is when
they were doing that, and I lived downtown, so I
remember that clearly because I always had to figure out
different ways to get back on because I was back then,
I was running a bunch of estimates all day long. Yeah,
and it was just you know, I worked for my
stepdad at the time, or working for my Yeah, I've
just worked for my steps at the time. Because I
wasn't even I didn't even start abby windows yet.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And it wait, you actually lived downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I lived downtown. I lived off of Astor and State Downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Post college.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, right after college. When I got down with college,
I moved back home and lived with my parents for
my first week back home. I had been at Rippon
for you know, five years and home in the summer,
but the last two summers I had stayed up there
because I worked while I live while I was going
to school.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I would think you enjoyed it a bad yeah, but it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Was really small. I was ready to come back home,
definitely ready to come back to Milwaukee. So I get
back to Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, I meant the downtown in downtown, if I loved it,
I woul well.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I didn't get to party that much in college because
I played sports, so we had practice all the time,
and everybody was going out to the bars and stuff,
and we really didn't have time to do a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Is there no alcohol policy, Not that it's.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We had like a forty eight hours before the game rule,
no drinking forty hours before the game. The guys didn't
follow that, I can tell you that much, but the
girls we followed it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But well, you know athletes. I mean, I'm sure they don't.
They don't do blood draws in like they do it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, it's just more of an honor policy. But yeah,
So I get back home and I am twenty two,
and I go out and I get home. I don't
know what it was midnight or one in the morning,
and my mom is on the couch and she's like,
where were you. I'm like, Mom, I'm twenty two, and
I was out, Like why do you care?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'm not fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I couldn't go to sleep until you were home. Like
that's it. I need to get out. So I lasted
that next week. I was like, all right, I need
to find an apartment.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So this is it was this pre cell phone.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No, it was like flip phones the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I was not spoiled, okay, Like I came from a
very humble beginnings. So I didn't even have a cell
phone until I was twenty twenty one, until I moved
out of the dorms. And like till I was a
senior at Rippon, you're required to live in the dorms
for all four years.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't even know when kids get him. Now I'm
guessing way, well ten nine, right, and they'll say, well,
it's so we can, you know, make sure little Johnny
gets picked up right after baseball and we know where
he is. Right. That's fine, I guess. But somehow I
survived without one.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Like I said, I was twenty one. But yeah, so
then I I ended up looking for an apartment. I
couldn't get into the apartment until July first, you know,
and I had so that I had to last six
weeks living back at home and that was a long
six weeks. So it was I was so happy when
I got to go live downtown.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Loved you, and she cared about your well being.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know, when you're twenty two, you don't you know,
you don't realize that. And so then I got down
downtown and all bets were off. I sewed my oats
for a few years down there.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Wow. If I were like twenty two right now, I
would not mind living downtown.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I totally live downtown again. But now now I'm like, nope,
I cannot deal with all that. Too much sensory overload
for me now. But back then, yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yep, once you get over I don't know what's that age.
Forty yeah, forty ish. I'm fifty nine and I'm still
out there playing in bands and doing my thing abby,
but I don't play till two am anymore. I can
tell you that I struggled last week Sunday Night Football.
Way to go Packers, by the way beating Aaron Rodgers
and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I know, I have to fight to stay awake after
the half.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's what I was going to say. I was dozing
off that halftime.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I always am too, and.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I record every game just in case I doze off.
Sometimes I'll wake up and it's the fourth court. It's like,
oh wow, they're winning in this game. Though, when they
came out after halftime, it was almost like a different team.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, they're definitely a second half team.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I feel like my favorite time that they play is
a three three twenty five game because I have the
morning to get going to brunch or whatever I want
to do, get any chores done, have my morning, have
my day. Then I can watch the whole game and
you know, kind of eat something bad for dinner, like
a taco dip or something, you know, and the excuse
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is always for the game, and then you know, you
have your Sunday night to kind of get ready for
the week. And when they play so late, then it
kind of messes with my schedule because I have to
stay awake, and then when they play early, I can't
really get a lot done.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You're in, Well, tomorrow's a noon game. Yeah, it's Carolina.
They're back in Lambeufield. Packers going into tomorrow, best NFC
team record wise.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The tie is going to come back to get us.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They'll watch. I think, well, they have to overcome the tie.
What you have to do is just get that one
game better up on. You got to beat the lines again. Yeah,
both Bears games and the Vikings at least once, I
would imagine. But you know what, they control their own destiny.
Ibban that Packers are in first place. All right, let's
talk about remodeling. We started out with just a great
promotion twenty percent off everything at abbey Home Abby's website.
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Just that abbyhome dot com, Abby home abbyhome dot Com
in Waukesha, the showroom in November, also the Hunger Task Force.
I love this food drive. Please donate while you're there.
What will I find in your showroom? Everything? On display.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We have most things. We actually are building out even more.
We just put in a big order for even more doors,
more windows, so we're we're going to at building out
and having even more options to see. So that's in
the next couple of months here while we as we
head into winter and it gets a little slower, I'll
have the guys working on on all that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
After the break. Let's talk about winter. Abby. Your advice
that you don't stop remodeling.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, absolutely not. It's just the demand goes down with
the holidays. You know, people are they're in Thanksgiving, deer hunting,
Christmas mode, and it's not usually there. I mean, i'd
love it still to be the highest priority, but you know,
I get it. It's just a cyclical business. And the
first time I remember when I was twenty two in
first year sold, it was literally like Thanksgiving hit and
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it was like we fell off a cliff and I
was like, oh my god, we're going out of business
and all this stuff. And now it's just kind of
like it is what it is. You just get used
to it. You know. It's like you make hay when
the sun shines, and you kind of have a farmer mentality.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, and I get Christmas. You know, you don't want
your house torn up. If you've got the tree and
the decorations and people coming over. Maybe it's almost like
after New Year, you get back into that new groove.
It's a new year twenty twenty six. I'm looking for.
I think the economy. I think things are lining up
good for a really good twenty twenty six. If rates
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drop that helps everything, including remodeling because of he locks
and lines of credit.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, I've definitely seen the credit declines go down in
the last month or two since August. We've seen that
be a better thing for us. So banks I think
are opening up lending a little bit more. They're proving
a little bit lower again. So I mean, when you
get back to twenty twenty two, that was that was amazing.
Everybody got approved for any amount that they wanted and
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it didn't matter really your credit score. But then they
got really tight for a while, so I think things
will start to loosen up a little bit. It's been
kind of a flat flat year, up and down. In
the first quarter was up, second quarter was down, third
and fourth quarter have been kind of flat. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
What are your thoughts on affordability. Abby, everybody knows, Okay,
I can't really afford to remodel right now, I would
say in some projects you can't afford not to remodel.
It's your home, it's an investment. There are things you
can do, lines of credit. What do most of your
customers do well?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Because of inflation and the the you know, who knows
what's going on with tariffs, and it's just a lot
of volatility. The best thing to do is actually get
it done sooner than later. But we can do some
sort of financing for you, depending on what credit score is.
We can do no no plans, which would be no interest,
no payments for up to twenty four months, so you'd
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get two years to be able to not have to
worry about any payments or interest to crew, and that
way you can get the project done without having to
worry about any price increases, because price increases happen no
matter what it's It does not trade like lumber or
you know, fluctuate like oil on the market. Once it
goes up, it just continuously ticks up. So the sooner
you can do it, the better. And all of our
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products are warranted for a lifetime, so you're not doing
anything like well the law. If I wait it out
a little bit longer, it'll last longer. Our products don't
work like that. They're not like a water heater or
something that is going to go bad in a few years.
So yeah, so water heaters automatic. Yeah, our products aren't
like that. Our products are one and done. So whatever
you pick, whatever color, you know, you better like the
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color you choose from us, because that's it's going to
last a lifetime. So that's how I do it. We
also do have really long term, very low monthly payment
options that we can even take it out to twenty
years if we need to. But there's no pre payment penalty,
so you can treat it like a helock almost where
it's like a second mortgage. But we can also do
stuff that's super low payment.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So you do you are absolutely yeah, I mean customers
check into that inquire if you want to reach out
directly to Abby Home. They're in Waksha. We mentioned the
showroom open Monday through Friday, eight to four four to one,
four four three six Abby that's four three six two
two two nine. Also, Abby, you refer to Facebook, I
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do like you on Facebook. So once you like the page.
You'll get pictures in the feed of the bathroom remodels,
the conversions, the glass shower doors. I love. I mean
just I know some people are like, well, it's not
a full bathroom model. No, but it's the biggest area
of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's the biggest differentiator too. It's the one thing you'll
notice right away.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Day in and day out. Are you sick your shower
curtain that nineties fiberglass insert here's your chance to bring
it up to speed. And maybe it's not the master
bath either, right, it could be the lower level bathroom.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We can do any any bath shower that you'd like,
we can get it's.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On conversion shower to tub vice, versa tub two shower,
all of the above. The website has a lot of pictures.
You get to choose the hardware, the grab bar, all
of that good stuff. Most people want a handheld I
bet a handheld shower.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I really like the Mowen Magne tax one because it
actually like the the amount of like gallons permitt it
permitted that I've noticed the like the water flow is
way better than a lot of like the shir Yeah,
it just and the nice thing is is it has
the handheld or it has like the big one on
the top, so you can do either one. But I
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just I'm a big fan of it. I have it
in my own.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Shower headstone seem to have enough.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
They don't want power and but the mowen does.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I want the ones that they use on the elephants
at the Coneys. That's what I want there.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's like a pressure washer. It's like a fire hose.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's what I want. I want to fire hose, but
on the lowest so it doesn't take my skin off.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
But they sell those at State Fair. You know, you
could just put that on your Uh those shower head
do they really they have like the Yeah, that's I
actually bought it at State.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Is it next to the sham wow guy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Somewhere around there? But it's pretty cool. I like it.
The uh it's like the fireman's hose.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
What do they call it?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The thing I'm blanking.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The like the shower head part you mean, yeah, of
a host?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh the nozzle, the nozzle.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah. The Seinfeld episode was Kramer boughtom on the black market.
The guy opening like a drug dealer or like a
gun dealer, and he opens up and it's a commando
and it showed Cramer using it. At the end it
blew his his whole body went. You know, he fell
over in the shower. That's what you want. You went
the commando from sign fare you go. You want that
water pressure. We'll talk about bathroom remodeling and more coming
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up and metal roofing. I'm telling you you've got to
see the shingles. You'll think they're asshole, but there's a difference.
They look different, they're sturdier, there's more of a dimensional
look to them. They last longer. This is a better quality.
But you still offer the asphalt, so we'll touch on that.
In fact, you're a GAF Master Elite certified contractor. We
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are absolutely so you get that going for you, which
is nice. Insiding doors, everything on the outside of your house.
Here's my sign of abby, and I should have asked
you this. Getting ready for winter. Here's my sign that
I'm wrapping up the outdoors, getting the final law and
cut in. Perennials are being cut down. Okay, of course
I'm not during Christmas decorations yet, we're not close to that.
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It's when I put the garden hose inside for the year.
Then it's over. Yeah, like outside, you know. And I
did that last week and I think I jumped the gun.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I did mine last weekend too. Is I just don't
need it for anything anymore?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So why not that was my thing? Do I really
need it? You know? Maybe clean the law moars off,
maybe I don't know. Whatever. Everybody's different. But you don't
want that hose bib freezing. A lot of them are
the frost free but you just don't want that piping breaking, right,
and then you got a mess.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I have the flexilla hoses.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh yeah, oh those great?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I like them.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They coil up like a little snake in the ground.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
No, not that one.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh that's not the one you try to like.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're the big knee on yellow ones.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh so when you turn the water off and drain it,
do they get smaller?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Okay, then it's not what I'm thinking about. You know
what I'm thinking, right?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
They kind of look like a snake when they're laying
on your grass. Yeah, you don't want that because it
freaks your wife out, like mine, she sees a snake
in her yard. We are moving snakes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Don't bother me now, A mouse, it's over.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh I don't mind a mouse at all, but.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Snakes don't bug me, so just don't have nice. I
could pick a snake up. If any of it to
a mouse, I'll really shriek. Yes, oh god, I just can't.
It just gives me the shivers thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Really a mouse, just it's considered. It's a small rodent
like a gopher, a chipmunk, a squirrel. Would a squirrel
bother you if you found one in your house running
around like it gets in the garage, which, by the way,
close your garage doors this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Red squirrels actually can create a lot of damage, yes,
garages in your house. They chew through wires. I mean
they can create a lot of damage. Mice create a
lot of damage too, but red squirrels are no unable.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I totally agree. Red squirrels are bad for the house.
You don't want them. Sometimes you can hear them in
your attic call call Advanced Wildlife. They're in mech one.
They're very good at that stuff. Or any kind of
road and control. Batster is a good one. Right, all right,
we'll come back and talk remodeling with Abby Binder, my
guest on wy sends your modeling show. I'm Paul Krown
Force at the two hour show seven to nine am
every Saturday. We'll be right back up. Any of our
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listeners are in one of those food comas from all
the sugar candy they add from trick or treating in race,
and most of it was last week, but I think
some communities had it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What's your like go to?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I try to stay away from candy because I'm trying to,
you know, stay healthy, so I don't eat it, but
I do sneak some in. I steal them from my
grandson because what would you steal the anything? Recess peanut
butter cuppy, So the small ones, the big one, I
don't care. I don't like the little M and M
bite things. I like classic, good old peanut butter cup age.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Fan of chocolate and peanut butter together as well. Pokenon,
I'm Almond Joys.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
There was everything laid out. I'd probably steal the Almond
joy first.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And then again if you line them up like sneakers,
baby Ruth, all of them million, what's the one thousand
dollars bar? What's it called? Out of? No, they're all
the pay day yeah pay day hunter grand I mean,
and they're all a bite size. Not many people are good,
butterfingers are good. I mean I could eat all of them,
especially with a cup of coffee. They're just not good.
It's just all sugar. So it's just come on.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
No one said they were good.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Nobody said that they're not good for you. But they're
very delicious to taste, and they good like Bailey's. If
you like Bailey's, I was cream o good combination. So yeah,
last week's trick or treating in the neighborhood with my grandson,
a lot of adults serving drinks. Just strangers. That'll bring
a community together, right, that is nice.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, it's it's crazy. I was seeing all the pictures
of how many people that don't even live near baby.
You went down to Bayview, like Waukesha County resident's going
down to Bayview.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's wrong, isn't it to load your kids up in
a minivan and drop off in a strange community.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't think they did. I think they all were
walking around Bayview. It was like becoming a full like
it was almost like a farmer's market down there.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh my goodness, fireball is another one served with hot
apple cider mixed together, very folly and a lot of
fires in the driveways like in the fire pit things,
you know with the adults in round.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
My god, I saw that fireball blaze an Apple commercial
during the Packer game about one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why do they play them over and over all?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The commercials are you'll probably say that about me well
as all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, that's what advertising is, and that's why it's effective,
Abby seeing it and or hearing it on the radio. Abby,
we have to talk a little bit about metal roofing.
We started out talking about twenty percent off promotion throughout
the entire month of November. Today's the first day. You've
got a whole month twenty percent send off everything at
Abby Home and also Abby's combined. I guess partner it
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would be the right word with hunger task for.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Us we have. So if you're looking at wanting to
do your part in the community, you can join us
and you can always stop down at our showroom and
drop off some non perishaballs. We have a couple bins
at our showroom. Or if you're getting an estimate from us,
you can always give our guys that are out whatever
you want to donate and they'll bring it back to
the showroom for you.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Metal roofing, it looks like asphalt shingles. Do not think
it's that slate look like you saw when they first debuted.
Many commercial barns will have those. You'll see it all
over the place, right, these look like shingles. You install them.
Do you treat it like other installs a complete tear off?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Not necessarily, you don't always have to. Usually we recommend
it just so we can take a look and see
what's under the hood kind of thing. See what's underneath
those existing shingles. Make sure you don't have anything rotted.
But you don't have to, so you could always go
over the top on that. And the biggest thing is
with the metal is you can go year round. You
can install metal year round. The weather does not affect it,
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where asphalt you can't really install in the winter. And
if you do, I'd be a little nervous because they're
not going to lay flat. They're gonna take a while
to it here, and so you might be waiting six
to eight months after install for it to actually look
the way it's supposed to. So that's why we recommend
waiting until it warms up if you're looking at asphalt
or right now it's perfect. I mean, it still been
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really warm out this year, so we've been able to
get more roofs in before we shut the asphalt division down.
But metal we can go year round, so that doesn't
affect the same thing with our siding. Our insulated siding,
we go year round. We don't have to worry about
it cracking or doing anything to make it break in
the middle of winter. Like cheaper vinyl siding a lot
of times can crack in the middle of winter, and
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so you can't install it unless it's warm enough or
We don't have to worry about that with any of
our products. So that's one of the benefits to going
with a higher quality product is that it can handle
the temperature. We can handle it during that temperature, and
we don't have to worry about compromising the system.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Earlier, I described it as looking like asphalt shingles, but
it lays different, almost looks thicker, more dimensional.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
More dimensionally, 're sturdy. It's going to have more of
the cedar shake, the actual real wood cedar shake look,
or or real slate if you have like the slate
on a European style home, that's exactly what it's going
to look like. It. Also, we do have like the
Spanish tiles barrel roofs, which are more for the the
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West coast California. They do they do make a barrel tile.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, see homes from time to time with that kind
of a stecco exterior and then exactly like you described it,
the Arizona type of rough so.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They do make a metal one that does emulate that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That's kind of a cool look. It just depends. Sometimes
there are hoa's homeowners associations that are kind of prickly
about that stuff, right, and sometimes you live in the
neighborhood that they don't have an HOA, or you just
live out in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. You can
do what you want, and it really comes down to
curb appeal. Color choices, Abby, what do I have?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I believe there's six different colors. There's some blends as well,
so you can go with the you know, their standard
black brown, there's a red.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
You showed me a color that looked I would say
between black and gray, like little speckles of gray, right
with a black bass which you go with almost any color.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And those are the main colors just because that in
the brown brownish red kind of look that you wanted
to match basically your bricks. So those are the main
colors that we use, and those are the ones that
are usually in stock for us to get as well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, we'll touch on bathrooms when we come back out,
just a little bit on the siding that you install,
the doors, the windows. You work all throughout winter with
common sense. When it's forty below, your crews will not
be out there. Your showroom open Monday through Friday in
Waukesha eight to four Monday through Friday. Check out abbyhome
dot com for more information. Wysends your modeling show Crown
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Forced with Abby Binder. Abby Bender, My guest, it's wy
Cent your modeling show. I hope you're having a good
Saturday morning waking up to our Saturday morning programming. I'm
Paul Krown Force. We will quickly address the shower remodeling.
You added this. That's the way you changed to Abby Home.
You do everything outside the house, well, now you moved
inside Abbey.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We did probably about almost two years ago that we
started doing it now and we've done a lot of them.
We actually the one differentiator when somebody says, well, why
should I buy it from you and not someone else?
I also had another one of those Facebook trolls say,
why would you buy a bath from a excuriory modeling company?
They don't know what they're doing. It's a whole new division. Thanks,
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and we specialize in it.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So and you've got your own carpenters on staff, right.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
We do. And they specialize justin bathrooms, so they don't
do anything else. They don't do anything on the ext year.
They are bathroom remodel. It just like roofing exactly. And
we actually pull a permit for plumbing where most other
companies don't, So what separates us. We're going to do it,
and we're gonna make sure it's inspected by your city inspector,
your municipality, so that you have the peace of mind
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that we did it correctly and not just taking our
word for it. And you pull the permit, Abby, We
pull everything. You don't have to do anything. So if
you need a building permit, we'll pull that. We're state licensed,
we work at the licensed plumber. We'll pull the plumbing permit.
We'll arrange for the inspector to be out there. We
do everything and we're done in as little as one day.
If we have to move plumbing, or we have to
move walls or take down walls, it probably will take
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two days, but we're in and out in less than
two days.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Go to abby home dot com. Take a look at them.
It's really cool. They look great. Tell me the glass
with all of the hardware attached. It's again the wet
area of the bathroom. It's not the vanity, it's not
the toilet. You're not doing flooring, you're just doing that.
Old tub comes out, new shower goes in.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, and the biggest craze right now is to not
have any type of different tile sizes, to have one
big slab. That's kind of what everything everybody's moving to.
And that's what we offer is one big slab. So
if you want the look of tile, we can do that,
and we can have it look like subway tile with
the black route lines. We can do that. We can
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atch a bunch of different things in, But if you
just want like one big marble piece of marble looking marble,
that's that's what we can do as well.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It does look very good like marble. Yeah, not real marble.
People understand this. This is why you can do. It's
very budget friendly. Let's be honest. It is You're going
to save thousands. Is this for every home? Maybe not?
Is it for you? Please explore? Take a look. Get
rid of the shower curtain. The door can be sliding
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or it can hinge open, right, it can.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
And it's not like what you'd think it is. It's
not like some hospital looking shower or the fiberglass showers.
It doesn't look like the fiberglass showers that like in
a cheap bathroom model. It doesn't look like that at all.
So I just want to make that clear, like we
actually have it look like Correra marble, or look like
the taj Mahal granite it, you know, or the courts
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whatever I should say. It looks like whatever different styles
there are out there, like the fantasy brown, Like we
have all the different ones, kind of like the courts
and the marble, the popular, the popular colors and designs.
We have all of that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And you can pick of course the hardware, whether it's
the shower head abby, all of the stuff, the door,
the glass door handles, all of that. So you've got
some fun choices to make and then in a day
you're taking in a new shower.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Absolutely, and like I said, I'm a big fan of
the moon fixtures. I think to me they're just a
level above everything else.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Also this month and a month of November, Today's November
First twenty percent off everything at Abby Home Abby Benders
here in wisn
Wu SAIDs your modeling show. Good morning, Welcome to the program.
Each week. I am here. I'm Paul kron Force, your
host for this two hour show. Our number one is Abby. Oh,
and my guest is Abby Bender, the owner. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm doing well? Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You survived Halloween yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I did. I'm not a huge Halloween person. Not my
favorite holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I will say so, like what part like the dressing
up and going to parties for adults, or the tricker
treating or all of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It, just all of it. I never really have gotten
into Halloween. I'm a huge Christmas person, but I'm not
not a Halloween person.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thanksgiving is up there just because it's good food. Oh,
for sure, get a day off, watch football, enjoy Thanksgiving.
Halloween now in the rearview mirror, I must say, Abby,
trick or treating for most communities was last weekend. I
thought that was odd. I thought tonight and some are
doing it tonight, I think, But maybe it's because Halloween
was yesterday. So whatever, I'm with you. It's like I
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can take it or leave it. I do enjoy the
fall season, and some temperature is above seasonal averages. Even
this past week, Abby.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I just turned my heat on like a week ago.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Isn't it great?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's been a nice late summer and so far early fall.
Today is the first day of November. It is also
Daylight Savings tonight fall back.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I hate it. I wish we just always had.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
There's no reason for it, agreed.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The regular No, it's Daylight SA Savings is ending.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's ending.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, just get rid of we always had this time, correct.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Just don't observe it, right, Like Indiana, I think is
one state that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Arizona.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, Arizona's another one, correct, So it's very odd. I
just think you're right. It was ten years ago. I
believe for the farmers and the kids that it was
so dark in the morning getting on the bus. Therefore,
it's not going to be so dark like when we
wake up tomorrow. It should be light around six that's true,
(02:00):
which I will I will like that part. On the
other hand, it's going to get dark really early.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's like dark by four thirty. So if you're looking
at getting an estimate from us for a roofing or siding,
we have to come out earlier. Otherwise we can't get
up on your roof and see anything. So in order
to do an inspection properly, the earlier the better for us,
or we're gonna have to come out on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's a good way to start the program. What about estimates?
What's the first step? First off? Abby home abby home
dot com for more information, Abby you guys do. I
will say everything on the exterior, including I'm looking forward
to the discussion of metal roofing in neighborhoods. It looks
like asphalt shingles, but.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's metal it is. It's not standing seam, so it's
not the metal that's shiny that you see the streaks,
like the vertical streaks going through. It's not that at all.
We do. It's a full looking shake or slate looking roof.
So even in those hoa areas like Mechwan and Ozaki County,
you know, anywhere where they need to have that HOA
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requires a cedar shake roof. This usually gets approved because
it looks like a cedar shake.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why wouldn't you approve it. It's a lot better than
having those wood cedar shake shingles. I mean those curl
they weather. They look great the first couple of years, right,
I know, what you're talking about, because I drive through
mech One all the time. Those homes are beautiful, but
after a while, wood is wood.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's just like cedar siding exactly. We have pretty much
a good, better best system for roofing. So our good
system is your standard asphalt shingle that we can get
you the h disease. We call them our GAF product,
and that's going to be more of your basic shingle
that's gonna have. We still can get you that Golden
Pledge warranty on that, but upgrading to our better system
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would then get you our UH disease, which is a
Class four rated shingle against hail damage. But then our
best system, which is what I would only put on
at this point on my home or recommend, would be
a metal roof because you're not going to have to
worry about hail damage. And I really truly feel that
insurance companies are going to stop covering hail eventually for asphalt,
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and they're going to probably make it the way flood
insurance is now, where it's a rider on your policy
you have to inquire about it or add it. I
think hail damage is going to be one of those
things where if you go with our product for metal,
you actually have a hail damage warranty against from the manufacturer,
so you don't have to worry about insurance covering it
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or not covering it and paying a deductible. You don't
have to worry about any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh, because a warranty is applied by the factory. What company?
What do you carry for this type of roofing? Metal roofing?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we have a couple of different options. We carry
one called EDCO and one called Unified Steel. So those
those are the brands fifty year warranty. It's a lifetime warranty,
but it actually amounts to a fifty year warranty.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We shall mention you're still doing asphalt shingles. We are.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's just more of our good and better system, not
our best system.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it's like anything, right when you buy a car,
which do you want all the options? What do you
want a Toyota or do you want a Mercedes?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I would just hate for somebody to spend the money
on an asphalt shingle and then in a couple of
years insurance come back and say, yeah, we're no longer
covering that, and you're going to have to pay this
extra money for a writer policy in order to get
hill damage covered, or they're just not going to cover asphalt.
I really truly feel it's the wave of the future.
Mark my words. We'll be sitting here ten years from now,
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or you might be retired and off somewhere. Who knows
on one of your cruises.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I wonder ten years from now, hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I think in ten years from now that that'll
be the wave of the future. That they will not
cover asphalt anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They will not cover. But you also think it's going
to increase in popularity, that consumers will say, I want
that metal roof.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, And the big buzzword in our industry is resilience.
Resilient products, fortified products, they call it. And so the
more fortified you can make your roof, the better off
you're going to be as far as from an insurance standpoint,
and metal is going to give you that game changing
for a f resilient product. It's going to be fire rated,
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so you won't have to worry about it a fire
burning it down, and you don't have to worry about
that hail that literally the hail gets pulverized when it
hits that metal.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, so ice meets metal metal winds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And the question that we get all the time is
my house going to be louder? We actually had a
guy running his little fingers on Facebook about how oh,
why would you go with the metal roof? It's so loud?
Why would I want that? I took down my awning
because of that. This is nothing like that. And if
you don't believe me, google it is asphalt shingles series
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metal stone coated metal louder than.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Asphalt shaving during hail or all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Probably during rain. Okay, but it's not louder.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So what and I know what he's getting at. Because
it's metal, you're thinking going to hit the little like
the pelic gun kind of sound. First off, how often
does it hail?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, he's talking about just a rainstorm, you know, like
if you think about like a metal awning, the old
school metal awning, you know from a porch on ing,
you can hear it, you can hear it. But this
is not like that because it has a coating on it,
and it's not it's not going to have that loud
noise like you think like a standing seam mite. It's
not going to do that. And if you don't, like
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I said, if you don't believe me, google it and
ask ask Google if a if a stone coated metal
is louder than an asphalt shingle, and you'll see that
it's not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This metal roofing is a part of a fantastic month
of November at abby home. Abby Binder, my guest here
in wisn You've got twenty percent off everything this month.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Everything, twenty percent off everything. Just go to abbyhome dot com.
That's abby home dot com for roofing, siding, windows, doors, gutters,
soft facia, glass block, bathroom remodeling. So if you look
in at doing a shower conversion, or you want to
put a tub back in, we can do either or
aging in place where you want to take a tub
out and just put a shower in. We can put
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the grab bars in, we can put a seat in.
We can make it very very friendly for you to
be safe and not have to worry about slipping and
falling in the shower.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, the bathroom remodel, we'll spend maybe after the first break,
we'll dive into that a little bit deeper. That's the
one interior remodeling part of the home. You do everything
else on the exterior, Abby, including smaller things gutters you
mentioned we do.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We do five and six inch gutters, gutter protection. We
do pretty much like I said, everything on the outside
of your home. And if you're looking at getting an
estimate for the best thing to do is go to
our website. Just go to abby home dot com or
you can call us. It's four one four, four three
six Abby so four one four four three six two
two two nine, and you can fill out a contact
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form right on the website. You can book right online
with whatever works for your schedule, so we don't even
have to You don't have to worry about us calling
you back or calling us. We can take care of
everything right online.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Abby's Company has now been in business for fifteen years.
You celebrated that in September, but I would say you're
still celebrating it offering twenty percent off of everything in November.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We are. Yeah, the Obtoberfest special went over so well
we decided to extend it, but not call it Obtoberfest
because it's it's not October anymore, so it's just the
twenty percent off. And then we also for the month
of November are partnering with the Hunger Task Force and
doing a food drive, So if anyone's looking at donating,
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they can stop at our showroom and drop off any
non perishable items. There's a QR code that we can
I think it's on our Facebook page as well, that
you can actually donate to the Hunger Task Force, but
stop in drop anything off if you're getting an estimate
from us. And while we're out there, if you want
to give the guys, our sales guys some non perishables,
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they can take it back as well.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
'tis the season right as we approach Thanksgiving. I love
this time of the year, but think of those that
need it right, especially right government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't think we realize sometimes how lucky that we are,
and you think about the first world problems like you know,
I a car wash or things that just you know,
drive us crazy, and we get angry about stupid stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And computers slow exactly, stuff like it is a first
world problem. Now, do we need some of those things
to operate in business? Yes, we take a lot of
stuff for granted.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, and you don't realize, like you said, with this
government shutdown, Depending on what goes on. I mean there's
a lot of people that do rely on that. What
do they call it? The snap?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Is that what it's called stamp?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Is?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What is colin Wisconsin? I think yes, each state has
its own like the food stamp.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And you're right, it's scary for a lot of people.
So we wanted to take the month and just be
grateful and show our gratitude and do what we can
as a company to try to provide for the community.
And that's kind of our goal and what we're doing
for November as a team.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I love that. So for November, the Hunger task Force
Food drive is going on. We can stop by your showroom.
I would advice just do that. Stop buy with a
non perishable food item. What is that we all here?
What's non perishable? A box of mac and cheese.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Anything that doesn't go bad, like furs and vegetables wouldn't work.
But cereal peanut butter is big. They always want peanut butter,
I know. Yeah, cans can goods, macaroni and cheese, I know,
those are kind of the big things. You can also
go to their website, the Hunger task Force website, and
it tells you, like what they're short on and it
also tells you what they kind of are looking for
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as well.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Hey, you're doing a good thing, and you can stop
by Abby's showroom, which is located in Waukesha. How do
we find you in Waukesha on What are your hours, Abbey?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We're open Monday through Friday from eight to four and
we are just south of the Waukesha County Airport. So
we're at four zero seven Pilot Court, Sweet four hundred
off of Highway J, which is Pewaukee Road. So if
you are driving down on Highway J from the airport
past the I'm sorry, from the freeway past the airport,
and as soon as you see that quick trip, that's
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where we're off.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Of, you know, and you're in waukeshall make sure you
have your GPS handy because it's you can get in Waukesha,
but you can't get out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's like Hotel California.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah right, you can't check in anytime, but you can't
check out.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's so the way they laid it out. What the hell.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I am not from Waukesha, so I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's just and I know people living there. It's not that, Yeah,
because you live there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'm a Saint Francis girl. You know, we're from Milwaukee.
On a grid. Everything's very easy.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Everything is laid out in Milwaukee, easy to find. Then again,
nowadays with GPS, you go to Google Maps, or ways
is another one. Whatever you have, you punch it in.
It takes you right there. I love that. Actually getting
on the freeway knowing where the traffic is, where the
red lines are. It's super accurate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh I am talking about traffic. I am so dreading
this stadium interchange project for the next eight years. Eight
and they haven't even they haven't even finished the Zoo
interchange from North Avenue.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Till I would.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They haven't even finished that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I can attest it as I drive it every day.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Is that the way you go? You don't forty three?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I do not go forty three unless I've got business
in that part of town, or i want to go downtown
or go to Bay Shore. I go to Bay Shore,
go by my family in Fox Point and see people.
Then I'll take forty three, so like once a week
otherwise Zoo intertrain straight north forty one, forty five and
then the lane closure starts.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh my god. Why want you finish, finish one leg
and then go to the stadium, and so that's going
to be a night man.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do people know about this ninety four East West Corridor.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
From seventieth Street till nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Is going to be all basically ripped up for seven
to eight years?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Good god, I just don't understand how it's going to
take that long. And no, apparently now there's infrastructure issues,
so they have to redo a bunch of stuff because
that was built in the fifties and they really haven't
touched it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'm not arguing whether it should be done. I think
it probably should be just widened, abby brought up. I mean,
look at the Zoo Innan, I'm sorry. The Marquette Interchange
very nice to navigate, right easy, I would think.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, when I was in my early twenties is when
they were doing that, and I lived downtown, so I
remember that clearly because I always had to figure out
different ways to get back on because I was back then,
I was running a bunch of estimates all day long. Yeah,
and it was just you know, I worked for my
stepdad at the time, or working for my Yeah, I've
just worked for my steps at the time. Because I
wasn't even I didn't even start abby windows yet.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And it wait, you actually lived downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I lived downtown. I lived off of Astor and State Downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Post college.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, right after college. When I got down with college,
I moved back home and lived with my parents for
my first week back home. I had been at Rippon
for you know, five years and home in the summer,
but the last two summers I had stayed up there
because I worked while I live while I was going
to school.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I would think you enjoyed it a bad yeah, but it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Was really small. I was ready to come back home,
definitely ready to come back to Milwaukee. So I get
back to Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, I meant the downtown in downtown, if I loved it,
I woul well.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I didn't get to party that much in college because
I played sports, so we had practice all the time,
and everybody was going out to the bars and stuff,
and we really didn't have time to do a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Is there no alcohol policy, Not that it's.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We had like a forty eight hours before the game rule,
no drinking forty hours before the game. The guys didn't
follow that, I can tell you that much, but the
girls we followed it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But well, you know athletes. I mean, I'm sure they don't.
They don't do blood draws in like they do it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, it's just more of an honor policy. But yeah,
So I get back home and I am twenty two,
and I go out and I get home. I don't
know what it was midnight or one in the morning,
and my mom is on the couch and she's like,
where were you. I'm like, Mom, I'm twenty two, and
I was out, Like why do you care?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'm not fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I couldn't go to sleep until you were home. Like
that's it. I need to get out. So I lasted
that next week. I was like, all right, I need
to find an apartment.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So this is it was this pre cell phone.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No, it was like flip phones the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I was not spoiled, okay, Like I came from a
very humble beginnings. So I didn't even have a cell
phone until I was twenty twenty one, until I moved
out of the dorms. And like till I was a
senior at Rippon, you're required to live in the dorms
for all four years.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't even know when kids get him. Now I'm
guessing way, well ten nine, right, and they'll say, well,
it's so we can, you know, make sure little Johnny
gets picked up right after baseball and we know where
he is. Right. That's fine, I guess. But somehow I
survived without one.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Like I said, I was twenty one. But yeah, so
then I I ended up looking for an apartment. I
couldn't get into the apartment until July first, you know,
and I had so that I had to last six
weeks living back at home and that was a long
six weeks. So it was I was so happy when
I got to go live downtown.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Loved you, and she cared about your well being.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know, when you're twenty two, you don't you know,
you don't realize that. And so then I got down
downtown and all bets were off. I sewed my oats
for a few years down there.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Wow. If I were like twenty two right now, I
would not mind living downtown.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I totally live downtown again. But now now I'm like, nope,
I cannot deal with all that. Too much sensory overload
for me now. But back then, yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yep, once you get over I don't know what's that age.
Forty yeah, forty ish. I'm fifty nine and I'm still
out there playing in bands and doing my thing abby,
but I don't play till two am anymore. I can
tell you that I struggled last week Sunday Night Football.
Way to go Packers, by the way beating Aaron Rodgers
and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I know, I have to fight to stay awake after
the half.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's what I was going to say. I was dozing
off that halftime.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I always am too, and.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I record every game just in case I doze off.
Sometimes I'll wake up and it's the fourth court. It's like,
oh wow, they're winning in this game. Though, when they
came out after halftime, it was almost like a different team.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, they're definitely a second half team.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I feel like my favorite time that they play is
a three three twenty five game because I have the
morning to get going to brunch or whatever I want
to do, get any chores done, have my morning, have
my day. Then I can watch the whole game and
you know, kind of eat something bad for dinner, like
a taco dip or something, you know, and the excuse
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is always for the game, and then you know, you
have your Sunday night to kind of get ready for
the week. And when they play so late, then it
kind of messes with my schedule because I have to
stay awake, and then when they play early, I can't
really get a lot done.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You're in, Well, tomorrow's a noon game. Yeah, it's Carolina.
They're back in Lambeufield. Packers going into tomorrow, best NFC
team record wise.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The tie is going to come back to get us.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They'll watch. I think, well, they have to overcome the tie.
What you have to do is just get that one
game better up on. You got to beat the lines again. Yeah,
both Bears games and the Vikings at least once, I
would imagine. But you know what, they control their own destiny.
Ibban that Packers are in first place. All right, let's
talk about remodeling. We started out with just a great
promotion twenty percent off everything at abbey Home Abby's website.
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Just that abbyhome dot com, Abby home abbyhome dot Com
in Waukesha, the showroom in November, also the Hunger Task Force.
I love this food drive. Please donate while you're there.
What will I find in your showroom? Everything? On display.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We have most things. We actually are building out even more.
We just put in a big order for even more doors,
more windows, so we're we're going to at building out
and having even more options to see. So that's in
the next couple of months here while we as we
head into winter and it gets a little slower, I'll
have the guys working on on all that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
After the break. Let's talk about winter. Abby. Your advice
that you don't stop remodeling.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, absolutely not. It's just the demand goes down with
the holidays. You know, people are they're in Thanksgiving, deer hunting,
Christmas mode, and it's not usually there. I mean, i'd
love it still to be the highest priority, but you know,
I get it. It's just a cyclical business. And the
first time I remember when I was twenty two in
first year sold, it was literally like Thanksgiving hit and
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it was like we fell off a cliff and I
was like, oh my god, we're going out of business
and all this stuff. And now it's just kind of
like it is what it is. You just get used
to it. You know. It's like you make hay when
the sun shines, and you kind of have a farmer mentality.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, and I get Christmas. You know, you don't want
your house torn up. If you've got the tree and
the decorations and people coming over. Maybe it's almost like
after New Year, you get back into that new groove.
It's a new year twenty twenty six. I'm looking for.
I think the economy. I think things are lining up
good for a really good twenty twenty six. If rates
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drop that helps everything, including remodeling because of he locks
and lines of credit.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, I've definitely seen the credit declines go down in
the last month or two since August. We've seen that
be a better thing for us. So banks I think
are opening up lending a little bit more. They're proving
a little bit lower again. So I mean, when you
get back to twenty twenty two, that was that was amazing.
Everybody got approved for any amount that they wanted and
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it didn't matter really your credit score. But then they
got really tight for a while, so I think things
will start to loosen up a little bit. It's been
kind of a flat flat year, up and down. In
the first quarter was up, second quarter was down, third
and fourth quarter have been kind of flat. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
What are your thoughts on affordability. Abby, everybody knows, Okay,
I can't really afford to remodel right now, I would
say in some projects you can't afford not to remodel.
It's your home, it's an investment. There are things you
can do, lines of credit. What do most of your
customers do well?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Because of inflation and the the you know, who knows
what's going on with tariffs, and it's just a lot
of volatility. The best thing to do is actually get
it done sooner than later. But we can do some
sort of financing for you, depending on what credit score is.
We can do no no plans, which would be no interest,
no payments for up to twenty four months, so you'd
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get two years to be able to not have to
worry about any payments or interest to crew, and that
way you can get the project done without having to
worry about any price increases, because price increases happen no
matter what it's It does not trade like lumber or
you know, fluctuate like oil on the market. Once it
goes up, it just continuously ticks up. So the sooner
you can do it, the better. And all of our
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products are warranted for a lifetime, so you're not doing
anything like well the law. If I wait it out
a little bit longer, it'll last longer. Our products don't
work like that. They're not like a water heater or
something that is going to go bad in a few years.
So yeah, so water heaters automatic. Yeah, our products aren't
like that. Our products are one and done. So whatever
you pick, whatever color, you know, you better like the
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color you choose from us, because that's it's going to
last a lifetime. So that's how I do it. We
also do have really long term, very low monthly payment
options that we can even take it out to twenty
years if we need to. But there's no pre payment penalty,
so you can treat it like a helock almost where
it's like a second mortgage. But we can also do
stuff that's super low payment.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So you do you are absolutely yeah, I mean customers
check into that inquire if you want to reach out
directly to Abby Home. They're in Waksha. We mentioned the
showroom open Monday through Friday, eight to four four to one,
four four three six Abby that's four three six two
two two nine. Also, Abby, you refer to Facebook, I
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do like you on Facebook. So once you like the page.
You'll get pictures in the feed of the bathroom remodels,
the conversions, the glass shower doors. I love. I mean
just I know some people are like, well, it's not
a full bathroom model. No, but it's the biggest area
of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's the biggest differentiator too. It's the one thing you'll
notice right away.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Day in and day out. Are you sick your shower
curtain that nineties fiberglass insert here's your chance to bring
it up to speed. And maybe it's not the master
bath either, right, it could be the lower level bathroom.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We can do any any bath shower that you'd like,
we can get it's.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
On conversion shower to tub vice, versa tub two shower,
all of the above. The website has a lot of pictures.
You get to choose the hardware, the grab bar, all
of that good stuff. Most people want a handheld I
bet a handheld shower.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I really like the Mowen Magne tax one because it
actually like the the amount of like gallons permitt it
permitted that I've noticed the like the water flow is
way better than a lot of like the shir Yeah,
it just and the nice thing is is it has
the handheld or it has like the big one on
the top, so you can do either one. But I
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just I'm a big fan of it. I have it
in my own.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Shower headstone seem to have enough.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
They don't want power and but the mowen does.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I want the ones that they use on the elephants
at the Coneys. That's what I want there.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's like a pressure washer. It's like a fire hose.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's what I want. I want to fire hose, but
on the lowest so it doesn't take my skin off.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
But they sell those at State Fair. You know, you
could just put that on your Uh those shower head
do they really they have like the Yeah, that's I
actually bought it at State.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Is it next to the sham wow guy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Somewhere around there? But it's pretty cool. I like it.
The uh it's like the fireman's hose.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
What do they call it?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The thing I'm blanking.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The like the shower head part you mean, yeah, of
a host?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh the nozzle, the nozzle.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah. The Seinfeld episode was Kramer boughtom on the black market.
The guy opening like a drug dealer or like a
gun dealer, and he opens up and it's a commando
and it showed Cramer using it. At the end it
blew his his whole body went. You know, he fell
over in the shower. That's what you want. You went
the commando from sign fare you go. You want that
water pressure. We'll talk about bathroom remodeling and more coming
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up and metal roofing. I'm telling you you've got to
see the shingles. You'll think they're asshole, but there's a difference.
They look different, they're sturdier, there's more of a dimensional
look to them. They last longer. This is a better quality.
But you still offer the asphalt, so we'll touch on that.
In fact, you're a GAF Master Elite certified contractor. We
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are absolutely so you get that going for you, which
is nice. Insiding doors, everything on the outside of your house.
Here's my sign of abby, and I should have asked
you this. Getting ready for winter. Here's my sign that
I'm wrapping up the outdoors, getting the final law and
cut in. Perennials are being cut down. Okay, of course
I'm not during Christmas decorations yet, we're not close to that.
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It's when I put the garden hose inside for the year.
Then it's over. Yeah, like outside, you know. And I
did that last week and I think I jumped the gun.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I did mine last weekend too. Is I just don't
need it for anything anymore?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So why not that was my thing? Do I really
need it? You know? Maybe clean the law moars off,
maybe I don't know. Whatever. Everybody's different. But you don't
want that hose bib freezing. A lot of them are
the frost free but you just don't want that piping breaking, right,
and then you got a mess.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I have the flexilla hoses.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh yeah, oh those great?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I like them.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They coil up like a little snake in the ground.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
No, not that one.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh that's not the one you try to like.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're the big knee on yellow ones.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh so when you turn the water off and drain it,
do they get smaller?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Okay, then it's not what I'm thinking about. You know
what I'm thinking, right?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
They kind of look like a snake when they're laying
on your grass. Yeah, you don't want that because it
freaks your wife out, like mine, she sees a snake
in her yard. We are moving snakes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Don't bother me now, A mouse, it's over.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh I don't mind a mouse at all, but.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Snakes don't bug me, so just don't have nice. I
could pick a snake up. If any of it to
a mouse, I'll really shriek. Yes, oh god, I just can't.
It just gives me the shivers thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Really a mouse, just it's considered. It's a small rodent
like a gopher, a chipmunk, a squirrel. Would a squirrel
bother you if you found one in your house running
around like it gets in the garage, which, by the way,
close your garage doors this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Red squirrels actually can create a lot of damage, yes,
garages in your house. They chew through wires. I mean
they can create a lot of damage. Mice create a
lot of damage too, but red squirrels are no unable.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I totally agree. Red squirrels are bad for the house.
You don't want them. Sometimes you can hear them in
your attic call call Advanced Wildlife. They're in mech one.
They're very good at that stuff. Or any kind of
road and control. Batster is a good one. Right, all right,
we'll come back and talk remodeling with Abby Binder, my
guest on wy sends your modeling show. I'm Paul Krown
Force at the two hour show seven to nine am
every Saturday. We'll be right back up. Any of our
(28:31):
listeners are in one of those food comas from all
the sugar candy they add from trick or treating in race,
and most of it was last week, but I think
some communities had it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What's your like go to?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I try to stay away from candy because I'm trying to,
you know, stay healthy, so I don't eat it, but
I do sneak some in. I steal them from my
grandson because what would you steal the anything? Recess peanut
butter cuppy, So the small ones, the big one, I
don't care. I don't like the little M and M
bite things. I like classic, good old peanut butter cup age.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Fan of chocolate and peanut butter together as well. Pokenon,
I'm Almond Joys.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
There was everything laid out. I'd probably steal the Almond
joy first.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And then again if you line them up like sneakers,
baby Ruth, all of them million, what's the one thousand
dollars bar? What's it called? Out of? No, they're all
the pay day yeah pay day hunter grand I mean,
and they're all a bite size. Not many people are good,
butterfingers are good. I mean I could eat all of them,
especially with a cup of coffee. They're just not good.
It's just all sugar. So it's just come on.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
No one said they were good.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Nobody said that they're not good for you. But they're
very delicious to taste, and they good like Bailey's. If
you like Bailey's, I was cream o good combination. So yeah,
last week's trick or treating in the neighborhood with my grandson,
a lot of adults serving drinks. Just strangers. That'll bring
a community together, right, that is nice.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, it's it's crazy. I was seeing all the pictures
of how many people that don't even live near baby.
You went down to Bayview, like Waukesha County resident's going
down to Bayview.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's wrong, isn't it to load your kids up in
a minivan and drop off in a strange community.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't think they did. I think they all were
walking around Bayview. It was like becoming a full like
it was almost like a farmer's market down there.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh my goodness, fireball is another one served with hot
apple cider mixed together, very folly and a lot of
fires in the driveways like in the fire pit things,
you know with the adults in round.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
My god, I saw that fireball blaze an Apple commercial
during the Packer game about one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why do they play them over and over all?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The commercials are you'll probably say that about me well
as all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, that's what advertising is, and that's why it's effective,
Abby seeing it and or hearing it on the radio. Abby,
we have to talk a little bit about metal roofing.
We started out talking about twenty percent off promotion throughout
the entire month of November. Today's the first day. You've
got a whole month twenty percent send off everything at
Abby Home and also Abby's combined. I guess partner it
(31:05):
would be the right word with hunger task for.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Us we have. So if you're looking at wanting to
do your part in the community, you can join us
and you can always stop down at our showroom and
drop off some non perishaballs. We have a couple bins
at our showroom. Or if you're getting an estimate from us,
you can always give our guys that are out whatever
you want to donate and they'll bring it back to
the showroom for you.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Metal roofing, it looks like asphalt shingles. Do not think
it's that slate look like you saw when they first debuted.
Many commercial barns will have those. You'll see it all
over the place, right, these look like shingles. You install them.
Do you treat it like other installs a complete tear off?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Not necessarily, you don't always have to. Usually we recommend
it just so we can take a look and see
what's under the hood kind of thing. See what's underneath
those existing shingles. Make sure you don't have anything rotted.
But you don't have to, so you could always go
over the top on that. And the biggest thing is
with the metal is you can go year round. You
can install metal year round. The weather does not affect it,
(32:04):
where asphalt you can't really install in the winter. And
if you do, I'd be a little nervous because they're
not going to lay flat. They're gonna take a while
to it here, and so you might be waiting six
to eight months after install for it to actually look
the way it's supposed to. So that's why we recommend
waiting until it warms up if you're looking at asphalt
or right now it's perfect. I mean, it still been
(32:25):
really warm out this year, so we've been able to
get more roofs in before we shut the asphalt division down.
But metal we can go year round, so that doesn't
affect the same thing with our siding. Our insulated siding,
we go year round. We don't have to worry about
it cracking or doing anything to make it break in
the middle of winter. Like cheaper vinyl siding a lot
of times can crack in the middle of winter, and
(32:45):
so you can't install it unless it's warm enough or
We don't have to worry about that with any of
our products. So that's one of the benefits to going
with a higher quality product is that it can handle
the temperature. We can handle it during that temperature, and
we don't have to worry about compromising the system.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Earlier, I described it as looking like asphalt shingles, but
it lays different, almost looks thicker, more dimensional.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
More dimensionally, 're sturdy. It's going to have more of
the cedar shake, the actual real wood cedar shake look,
or or real slate if you have like the slate
on a European style home, that's exactly what it's going
to look like. It. Also, we do have like the
Spanish tiles barrel roofs, which are more for the the
(33:28):
West coast California. They do they do make a barrel tile.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, see homes from time to time with that kind
of a stecco exterior and then exactly like you described it,
the Arizona type of rough so.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They do make a metal one that does emulate that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That's kind of a cool look. It just depends. Sometimes
there are hoa's homeowners associations that are kind of prickly
about that stuff, right, and sometimes you live in the
neighborhood that they don't have an HOA, or you just
live out in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. You can
do what you want, and it really comes down to
curb appeal. Color choices, Abby, what do I have?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I believe there's six different colors. There's some blends as well,
so you can go with the you know, their standard
black brown, there's a red.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
You showed me a color that looked I would say
between black and gray, like little speckles of gray, right
with a black bass which you go with almost any color.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And those are the main colors just because that in
the brown brownish red kind of look that you wanted
to match basically your bricks. So those are the main
colors that we use, and those are the ones that
are usually in stock for us to get as well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, we'll touch on bathrooms when we come back out,
just a little bit on the siding that you install,
the doors, the windows. You work all throughout winter with
common sense. When it's forty below, your crews will not
be out there. Your showroom open Monday through Friday in
Waukesha eight to four Monday through Friday. Check out abbyhome
dot com for more information. Wysends your modeling show Crown
(35:00):
Forced with Abby Binder. Abby Bender, My guest, it's wy
Cent your modeling show. I hope you're having a good
Saturday morning waking up to our Saturday morning programming. I'm
Paul Krown Force. We will quickly address the shower remodeling.
You added this. That's the way you changed to Abby Home.
You do everything outside the house, well, now you moved
inside Abbey.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We did probably about almost two years ago that we
started doing it now and we've done a lot of them.
We actually the one differentiator when somebody says, well, why
should I buy it from you and not someone else?
I also had another one of those Facebook trolls say,
why would you buy a bath from a excuriory modeling company?
They don't know what they're doing. It's a whole new division. Thanks,
(35:40):
and we specialize in it.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So and you've got your own carpenters on staff, right.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
We do. And they specialize justin bathrooms, so they don't
do anything else. They don't do anything on the ext year.
They are bathroom remodel. It just like roofing exactly. And
we actually pull a permit for plumbing where most other
companies don't, So what separates us. We're going to do it,
and we're gonna make sure it's inspected by your city inspector,
your municipality, so that you have the peace of mind
(36:08):
that we did it correctly and not just taking our
word for it. And you pull the permit, Abby, We
pull everything. You don't have to do anything. So if
you need a building permit, we'll pull that. We're state licensed,
we work at the licensed plumber. We'll pull the plumbing permit.
We'll arrange for the inspector to be out there. We
do everything and we're done in as little as one day.
If we have to move plumbing, or we have to
move walls or take down walls, it probably will take
(36:29):
two days, but we're in and out in less than
two days.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Go to abby home dot com. Take a look at them.
It's really cool. They look great. Tell me the glass
with all of the hardware attached. It's again the wet
area of the bathroom. It's not the vanity, it's not
the toilet. You're not doing flooring, you're just doing that.
Old tub comes out, new shower goes in.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, and the biggest craze right now is to not
have any type of different tile sizes, to have one
big slab. That's kind of what everything everybody's moving to.
And that's what we offer is one big slab. So
if you want the look of tile, we can do that,
and we can have it look like subway tile with
the black route lines. We can do that. We can
(37:11):
atch a bunch of different things in, But if you
just want like one big marble piece of marble looking marble,
that's that's what we can do as well.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It does look very good like marble. Yeah, not real marble.
People understand this. This is why you can do. It's
very budget friendly. Let's be honest. It is You're going
to save thousands. Is this for every home? Maybe not?
Is it for you? Please explore? Take a look. Get
rid of the shower curtain. The door can be sliding
(37:39):
or it can hinge open, right, it can.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
And it's not like what you'd think it is. It's
not like some hospital looking shower or the fiberglass showers.
It doesn't look like the fiberglass showers that like in
a cheap bathroom model. It doesn't look like that at all.
So I just want to make that clear, like we
actually have it look like Correra marble, or look like
the taj Mahal granite it, you know, or the courts
(38:01):
whatever I should say. It looks like whatever different styles
there are out there, like the fantasy brown, Like we
have all the different ones, kind of like the courts
and the marble, the popular, the popular colors and designs.
We have all of that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And you can pick of course the hardware, whether it's
the shower head abby, all of the stuff, the door,
the glass door handles, all of that. So you've got
some fun choices to make and then in a day
you're taking in a new shower.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Absolutely, and like I said, I'm a big fan of
the moon fixtures. I think to me they're just a
level above everything else.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Also this month and a month of November, Today's November
First twenty percent off everything at Abby Home Abby Benders
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