September 8, 2025 • 42 mins
Monday 09/08/25 Hour 1. With Todd Sufferling and Rick Beach, from S7 Solar.
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Speaker 8 (03:42):
Hey, you don't get to you guys that I've known.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Actually, I've known Todd longer than I've known you. Is
that even possible?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I met Todd when I fired in July of ninety seven,
when I first moved here, and then about a year later,
probably sitting next Todd suffering Rick Beach in the house.
Speaker 9 (03:59):
Yeah, I just moved back from Atlanta back to my
home area here, and you're coming to sell cars, I believe.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Joel, Well, Joel suckered me into moving down here and said, no,
you could work.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
At us until you find a radio gig. Well that's
kind of way you did, isn't It is exactly what
I did. It all kind of worked out.
Speaker 10 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I worked at Harvardisson for about two months and then
wound up here. Well we met at palm ottelmol though.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well that was when I went to weekends at Kicks
Country and sold cars at Palm for a year okay,
one year to the day, and then I came back
here full time again. And then when I got hired there,
I sat my butt right next to you. Yes, you
working the trucks in.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Yeah, the trucks that are out of the trailer.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So, Todd, you've been doing S seven solar now for
a few years and things are looking really good.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Yeah, we started in twenty nineteen. Things are going really
really well. We're busier than we've ever been, installing more solar.
Our mission is to bring the power of the sun
to southwest Florida, and we feel like we're doing that.
We've added Rick as our sales manager, so we've got
a little bit more reach. Previously, we would sell and
contract and put a bunch of jobs on the street
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and would have to put them in and while that
was going on, we couldn't follow up on new customers
as effectively as we'd like to and give them the
attention they deserve. So we've added Rick to move that
forward and it's working out real well. We've doubled our
business in the last ninety days and got a lot
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So tell us about s Sevin what you guys do,
and tell it kind of explain to the listeners because
there's a lot of confusion about the tax incentives and
what's and whatnot and how that impacts.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Well, absolutely, So many years ago they started out some
federal tax incentives to help people put solar on the roof.
It wasn't so much to push a green agenda or
anything like that, was to level the playing field for
an individual versus a corporation, because a corporation, if you
own a business, you can write things off, you can
depreciate them and move forward that way. For a private
individual if there's no tax savings like you can if
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you're a business. So to kind of level the playing field,
they gave a thirty percent credit to you to apply
towards any solar stallations admit certain parameters. Well they did that,
and that kind of made it where you could purchase
your own power for your own home and compete with
the monopoly power company and kind of even the playing
field out a little bit. The new big beautiful bill
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has had that sunset where the thirty percent is going
to become eighteen percent, then I think six percent, and
then go away entirely. So people, that's over, that's over
period of the next few years. So there's an incentive
if you ever wanted solar to do it now. So
if not now, when so that's kind of what's happening.
People want to take advantage of that tax savings. No
one likes to pay any more taxes than they have to.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
We also, if you're thinking about doing it now, now
would be a great time take advantage of the maximum
of absolutems.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Yeah, it still makes financial sense moving forward, even at
the lower amounts. It just makes it a lot easier
pay it off quicker. So instead of paying it off
in seven to eight years, you might have to pay
it off in nine to ten, where it becomes a
payback where you're basically getting your power at no additional
charge to you. You can lock in your power costs
now with today's prices and with today's prices with the incentive,
and then once you have that on your roof, your
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power bill will never go up. So that's why we
like doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What's the Obviously to me, it would seem that the
advantage is to get the solar with the battery backup,
but you don't have to.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Do that right, correct, So the financial incentive is to
lock your power in today's prices and have your own
power plant on your own roof. The battery allows you
to work when the power system goes down due to
some safety reasons and fire safety and electrical safety of linemen.
If you don't have batteries, solar will not work when
the power goes out. But if you have a battery,
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it's like having a backup generator provided and powered and
refueled by the sun. So I've quite a few people
have had existing solar systems where adding bowers excuse me,
battery systems to it, and instead of putting in a generac,
a big heavy duty generator and a big five hundred
gallon propane tank and worry about refilling it maintaining it,
you have a battery on your house that does the
same thing for you, but on an ongoing continual basis.
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So in the event of a storm or normal power outage,
or God forbids some kind of worldwide event or war
that impacts power, you will always have power for your
home and'll refuel itself the next day. The idea of
being say a hurricane comes through and we lose our power,
what we often do the batteries will pick up the
power immediately the next day. It's generally very sunny for
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quite a period of time after a storm rolls through
because it sucks all the wind with it. It recharges
your battery and powers your home during the day, and
then when the sun goes down, you're using the battery again,
and that's kind of a rinse and repeat system. People
who been very very happy with that, much happier than
the generator system. About twenty percent of generators did not
work in the past storms of some studies I've read,
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because they just did either didn't kick on properly, hadn't
been maintained properly, it ran out of fuel. That type
of stuff where the batteries are more solid state answer
where you don't have that issue.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What type of What are the best What are the
best brands out there right now?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Well, everybody's sort of Tesla. We're Tesla certified, we use
we are Generac certified. Generac actually makes batteries. We use
some really, yes they do. We use RIGA.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
They better get in on both actually, as they do
cover all the bases in.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Phase is a popular system. Solar Edge is a popular system.
We have some systems using Renon and pipes batteries, and
we have some less expensive options as well, but it's
become much more affordable. I'd say that batteries are going
for about sixty percent of what they went for three
or four years ago. As far as your battery backup power,
it's become more affordable as it become more of a
mass market item. So everybody's being competitive, and people are
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being competitive in advance of the tax rebates so that
they know that the payback will be there for people
moving forward. So it's become a much more affordable option.
We do have financing available, even though the greatest percentage
of our customers are paying cash.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
What what about roof conditions.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
Well, you want to have a relatively new roof and
after all the storms come through. A lot of people
do so the solar panels. The newer the roof, the
better that you can go on. But we do inspect
the roofs to make sure they're in good condition before
you install any solar to it. It's not a huge
deal if you have to take them off to replace
the roof in the event of a storm or a problem.
I've seen more roof damage than solar panel damage. We
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did a lot of solar panel removal replacement for roof repairs,
and that was if the damage was to the roof
was caused by hurricane. The insurance companies generally have covered
that for the customer, so that has not been a
financial impact of the customer of the roof was damaged.
So but the new codes, I'd say since twenty sixteen
or so have been excellent and the panels are staying
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on the roofs. They're not ripping off because.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Of the storms.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
The most are rated to one hundred and fifty one
hundred and sixty miles now or whatever your zone is,
but almost all of the materials are designed for South Florida,
which is one hundred and eighty miles our plus wins now.
The only issue you might have you hit by a tornado.
You got hit by a tornado. There's nothing man makes it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Holds up to that. You hit by a Cap five tornado.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
Yeah, but the hurricanes done extremely well. I've had quite
a few customers where their neighbors hurt. They've watched their
neighbors systems go through the hurricanes for four or five
hurricanes we've had the last few years. No, they've stayed
on the roof and not had any problem. They're like,
they're comfortable with it now. I've had customers that have
built out buildings and hurricanes came through and they're like,
I'm comfortable on my roof now because it's held up.
You know, it's been tested in real world conditions, just
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not some engineer with a slide rule saying it's going
to work.
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Yeah, so yeah, definitely. All right, We got to take
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Everyone else follows.
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There's other big investment firms, guys that have had national
radio shows, not as.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Long as we have that. You know, hout. They're brilliant
and they spend a lot of money marketing. We really
don't do that kind of more word of mouth, and we've.
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Still managed to grow that we have, but they love
love jumping on our bandwagon. For years now, years thirty
three decades, we've been making fun of ridiculous ideas when
it comes to financial planning. Sixty forty portfolios, all this
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Right right here we go.
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News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF,
Charlotte County speaks. Just about nine twenty seven, we lost
Rick Davies, keyboardist, singer, songwriter for Super Tramp. Roger Hodgin.
Hodgson is Hobson. He's still around, right, Yeah, I think so,
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the guitar player in the other voice. Other voice. Yeah,
Rick eighty one passed away to eighty one, had a
long time illness, but just several weeks ago was doing
sit in with another band up north by himself. You
got Darrel's house or something. Yeah, anyway, great band, had
all their albums. Got to see them when my senior
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year during the Breakfast in America tour, Never Sound Super Tramp.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I wasn't much into them back then.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I did as I got older though, Yeah, great band
that was hair metal. Dude, I was both. This was
really all over the place musically when I was growing up. Yeah,
how about you, Todd?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I think I was singing Amazing Grace at the Community
Bible Chapel.
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There you go, News Radio fifteen eighty. We're here with
S seven solar Todd sufferling Rick Beach and kind of
take us through the process. Somebody calls up says they
want to get their house solarized. Tell us take us
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through it.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Well, usually they'll call the office or email or contact
us in some way. Then I I reach out, and
really the first question I ask is, you know, what
do you want to end up with? Because some people
they have their own preconceived notions of hey, I'm going
to put ten panels, or my neighbor got thirty panels
and that's what I need. But everybody is every job,
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and every house is custom, whether it's a ground mount
or a metal roof, or a tile.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Roof or a shingle roof or whatever.
Speaker 12 (16:24):
So basically I asked them what they want to end
up with and and their history of their utility bills.
That way we can size the system appropriately. Now, things
change sometime, you know, that we're putting a pool in,
we're buying a tesla, you know, So we look at
those future needs also in order to size the system properly.
Then we go into pricing, which usually can give right
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there on the spot. There's no high pressure. It's much
more of an educational type meeting, not a high pressure
door knocker technique, cause you get these guys coming all
over the place, door knock and all over Charlotte and
Sarasota County, and they're really more selling a financial product
and alone than really the quality of installation and.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Reducing your bills. They promised the world and not so
much delivering.
Speaker 12 (17:11):
However, so once we make a deal and get pricing
and everything or financing terms worked out, everything moves fairly quickly.
From that, we do a quick engineering survey. Sometimes on
more complex jobs, we'll have our install manager come out
and kind of look things over. Todd and I have
seen most everything, so we can handle most of those
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jobs without bringing in our for our install guys. And
we submitted to engineering, and heck, we're getting jobs in
within yeah, thirty to forty five days.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:47):
Now, Sarasota County does take a little longer. In permitting,
So it might be a little closer to sixty days
in Sarasota County, but Charlotte County, Pantagorda, Northport usually within
four to six weeks where you're up and running.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So that's awesome, and that even with batteries.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Yeah, it really it doesn't really matter when engineering get
submitted to a county. These the plan reviewers now they've
seen one hundreds of them now or ten fifteen years ago,
they hadn't seen any, so that would take them forever
to approve plans because they didn't really have a clue.
But now they've seen enough of our jobs really to
kind of just rubber stamp them and say, hey, yeah,
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these guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We'll we'll get it approved for you.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
We use an outside engineering firm for several reasons to
make sure we're doing it correctly, and they use a
seal or a stamp to make sure it meets all
the parameters needed. So that works for the permitting process
as well. So we have some checks and balances to
make sure we're doing the best thing we can for
the customer. One thing I didn't understand when I got
into the car the solar business was that a lot
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of these organizations are kind of separate silos where at
certified state electrical contractor, so not electrical of a solar contractor.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
My apologies.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
So we take it from start to finish. We sell it,
we design it, we have it engineered, we have it permitted,
we install it, and we service it. We take it
from step A to step Z and we live. You
get to live with us for the rest of the
life of your system, which would be thirty plus years.
So we are a full line solar contractor and that's
served us well because a lot of the big guys
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were more a sales organization that would then turn it
over to installation sub contractors that they don't even know. Yeah,
and so when the people would come knock on your door,
that's why you get that uneasy feeling. And that's where
most of our business comes from. The market gets stirred
up a little bit, someone asks some questions and they'll say, hey,
ask Todd, you know, ask Rick. We know these guys
from the Charlotte de Soda Building Industry Association, from the
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Chamber of Commerce, from any number of organizations we're involved with,
and for our time and longevity in the community. I'm
actually from Florida. I'm from Sarasota, so this is my hometown.
This is my home area, and this is where I've
lived and this is where my families lived. So we
know so many people. So most of our business is
word of mouth or referral, and that's served us well
because you know, they tell two friends and they tell
two friends. That's worked out well. So our reputation and
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the quality of our work is what we really have
to stand on to move forward. But the process itself,
we take it from A to Z. We have one
point of accountability and then you have me backing that
point of accountability up. So you know what you're going
to get. You get it, you don't get it, you're
not happy. We certainly have a way to fix it. Thankfully,
we haven't add those issues. But like any construction project,
you hit some stumbles and some stuff you don't see
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or for sea. But we've been at it long enough
that we can kind of anticipate and foresee that's what's
going to happen, and we know how to fix it
and work with accounting the permitting to make sure that happens.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Make good curious what kind of maintenance are we talking
about on these very minimal?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
I mean they're electronic, they're electrical components and electronic components,
so there's not a service interval on it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You have to get up in wind decks the panels
or in.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Florida, in fact, we have a company that does clean
solar panels. But in Florida, the amount of rain we
have tends to keep them very very clean. It's not
like we're in a dusty city fire environ you have
out west where the stuff and the grime builds up
on it. So it's a cost, like you might lose
two or three percent to some dust or dirt of
your performance, but how much does caught to have them cleaned?
And the sudden rainstorms and the heavy rain we have
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here tends to keep them very very clean. Some minimal
to no maintenance. They come with long warranties the inverters,
et cetera. From ten to fifteen years. The panels have
a twenty five year to thirty year performance warranty depends
on the manufacturer, so you're covered up by that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Who's the best when it comes to the solar panels.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Well, these days probably AREC is big, Hyundai is a
big name that's out there. Some large corporations LG in
the past, Panasonic in there that have produced the panels,
and we use all of them. So we're not tied
to a certain manufacturer we have to push a certain thing.
We're going to find what's best bang for your buck
on your roof, and.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That can effect costs.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Too, absolutely, yea. But we use Tier A solar panels
across the board. We don't use any We don't buy
any stuff from TIMU that time.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, you deserve what you get if you buy it
on team.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
And what's been exciting really in the last probably year
is most of our customers are are getting batteries or
at least interested in them out of the gate, where five, six,
ten years.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Ago it was so cost prohibitive.
Speaker 13 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Yeah, well it was a bit of a cost shock.
You know, you'd say, well, I'm really interested in doing that,
and then you show the price. You can see the
look on their face like, oh my god, I just
understand one interesting thing about the whole cost of the
solar system, and everything's relative. You know, average system will
sell thirty thousand dollars without batteries, forty to fifty thousand
dollars with you get the thirty percent tax credit makes
it more affordable. It seems like a lot of money
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you can, but your payback is seven to nine years
on all those from the from what you would pay
for your power is that I jumped in my truck
and my truck's seventy eight thousand dollars truck. You know,
I bought my kids a car to go to college
with thirty five thousand dollars car, So don't bat any
at that.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And you're not going to get thirty years out of
that car, that's for sure.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
For the price of the car that I'm going to
put send my kid to college in is going to
come theirs after they they're done. Uh, I've got power
for the rest of my life on my house, as
long as I want to own it. So it's a
it's a very good value comparatively, And.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Like you say, the prices keep coming down on it.
They do.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
And then, uh, you know the way that the door
knockers use, they're trying and replace. They say it's free,
they replace.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Your Yeah, I just had one last week.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
It's sketchy, you know. And we've had a couple of
them shot in the area. I mean it's like, what,
Yeah that was a guy. Yeah I got shot months ago.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I mean, that's a tough sales pace, the clipboard block.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I don't know if he was actually revenue. Get out
of here. That's ship.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Shouldn't salt pellets at the guys, but they got to
be they've got it. Just very annoying. But I just
I can sense the frustration in people's voices when they
get a hold, when they when they've spoken to someone
like that and they felt the high pressure sales and
then you know, they get ahold of us and it's
almost and they're like, thank you Todd for talking to
us and having it makes sense to us. It doesn't
always make sense for everybody, but in the greatest majority
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of the case is solar does make sense and it
works out really well for people. So and we're gonna
shoot you straight. If it's good for you, great, If
it's not, that's fine too. And if we not, now
we'll do it.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Later for you.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And what's great about the battery backup is of course
the seamless transition.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Yeah, it's almost having like having a ups for your home. Yeah,
I have some folks live out in Arcadia and they
had by far the most power outages of any of
my customers. And most of the time they don't even
know the power went out, you know, it just seamlessly
flips over and takes over their house. That may be
a little dim or a flicker, but most of the
time they don't even know it. And I can look
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back on time and see when they had the power outages,
you know, they had, you know, like one hundred and
seventy and three years of five minutes or greater so, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That's another good thing. You can You can check this
stuff out on your phone right absolutely.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
You can see.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
You can have internet monitoring, you can see it all
works without the internet.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Don't have to have that.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
I have a lot of people that are very concerned
about their privacy, so it can be set up to
just operate completely autonously without any contact to the internet.
But it is nice to be able to look at
your system, especially for the snowbirds. They'd like to see
what their house is doing when they're not here. I've
had a couple of people call me up, but Todd,
why is my house doing X. I'm like, well, it's
because the power is out at your home and it's
using the battery. So that's always a good conversation, you know,
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you have Yeah, it's working great, you know, it's all good.
So and I've had some people do that even through
the storms that they've lost power and their house has
been powered through the entire time. They didn't have to
worry about mold, mildew.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Also interesting the people that are only part time residents
don't need as big of a system because it produces
when you're not here, so you build up credits with
the power company that pay for the power when you
are here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Worst case scenarios say, there's I mean, you know, just
nothing but darkness. Uh, you know, commet hits. We get
the solar. How long will those batteries last well their design,
I mean for how how how long will those batteries
keep powering without needing a solar recharge?
Speaker 9 (26:02):
What we usually you're usually looking to get twenty four
plus hours on just the battery is how it works out.
But it almost even on on dingy overcast days like
we've been experiencing, you are receiving some power from the sun.
Maybe you're only making twenty five thirty percent of the power.
But even during a rainstorm that the sun is still
you're still getting some. So it pretty much indefinitely is
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how it works out on a realistic basis, unless again,
we have like the super volcano Caldera goes and we
have no sun.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But you know we got bigger probleses. Yes, yeah, your
batteries the last of our last.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
But in general, you know, as far as having a good, nice,
normal life, you're good. And I will I'll make I'll
admit something here. I hadn't put batteries in when I
originally did my system.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I did it.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
I put the panels in and I set it up
where it would be easy to add the batteries later.
And after a hurricane Milton, which I was afraid, sorry
that somebody named Milton came and kicked our butt, but
I was out there cranking out my generator and I
was embarrassed. Yeah, there are two full on the same
street that I put solar panels and batteries on, and
they've got their lawn decoration lights are on.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
They look like you're ready for the home show.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The past year, and.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Then my carbon monoxide alarm went off in the middle
of the night I think I'm gonna kill my family
keeping power. So I went ahead and invested in the
batteries a year ago, and I've been very happy. We've
had some small It's amazing how happy you become when
there's a short power outage in the neighborhood and your
lights stay on and you look at your neighbors everything's off.
You're like, yes, you know, you told you, I told you,
(27:31):
and it's But I did actually take as a as
a test, I took and ran my house for a
week without being hooked up to the grid. I just
turned the power off coming into the house. Didn't even
tell my wife and kids or anything about it, and
we operated normally. Nobody nobody noticed a difference. So that
was kind of nice. Cool that worked.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So how do people get ahead of s get ahold
of S seven Solar?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Uh, well, you can call me directly.
Speaker 12 (27:54):
I'm I live locally here in Charlotte County, so I
can get to Sarasota, Venice anywhere pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
We're not going to set up at a point before
you two weeks out. We're probably going to see you
tomorrow or the next day, and coming directly at nine
four one four five six zero three three eight, or
you can call Todd at.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Nine four one three eight oh twenty one twenty. We
also have an email address sales at S sevensolar fl
dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Which is also the website S sevensolar fl.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Dot Some guy in Pakistan os S seven solar so
you had to put the fl on it. I had
to put the fl on it. We're trying to get
some rupees together. We're negotiating, and that happened three days
after we got the DBA.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
That's kind of money.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Man.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
These guys are sharp.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So you got on your name, that's true.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
But but it's a it's a lesson learned as you
go for get the get the website first before you
register your name.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We're real happy, all right, We got to take another break.
We'll be right back on news radio fifteen eighty. Right
the station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
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Guys, we're not going to marriage. I mean that's just
it's it's that easy. Like we're not we're not prepared
for marriage.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Like women are. You are very prepared.
Speaker 14 (29:24):
Your whole life, every toy y'all played with was built
for marriage. Everything's preparing you. Like when you're a baby,
they give you a baby doll, so they give.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
You a baby.
Speaker 14 (29:34):
When you're a baby, you don't even know you're alive yet,
and they're just like, look, I'd probably start figuring this out.
This is where it's going.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And then they give you Barbie and Ken.
Speaker 14 (29:46):
They are in a relationship. They live in a house together,
and that's where you learn how to make drama.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
You get.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
Get pretty good at that. Then you actually would play house.
You would like you would like to fake vacuum with
your friends. That was like awesome times. Like now, like
when I see my wife vacuum, I'm like, man, she's
living her childhood dream.
Speaker 12 (30:07):
Like she.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
She has made it. You know, she's made it.
Speaker 15 (30:22):
It was early morning yesterday, I was up before the dawn,
and I really have enjoyed misday.
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But it must be moving on like a caman out
of castle, like a clean with out of drugs. I'm
a morning up and I'm moving on.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF
nine forty eight Here at Charlie County speaks. We've got
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L dot com S seven Solar fl dot Com until
we get the Pakistan again.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, you gotta get them bought off first. Hey, today
is September eighth. We're celebrating Star Trek Day. Trekies Live
long and prosper Can you do?
Speaker 14 (31:19):
Can you do?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The vulcan little? It was something we had to learn
in grade school. Now what you guys are doing right now?
National Boss Employee Exchange Day, Let's exchange some money?
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Yeah, ok?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And National Pediatric Hematology Oncology Nurses Day. A couple of nurses.
My daughter the nurse, she is nurse. What's that a
pregnant nurse.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
Yes, yeah, we're excited, Daddy Ricky finally, Yeah, it's gonna
be cool.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Todd, you were how old are your grandkids?
Speaker 9 (31:57):
I have grand kids from five down to eighteen months
three with another on the way, so I beat you both.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We're like relatively new grand So tell us about you
know a lot of people like you were saying they
already had the solar panels, but they didn't have the
backup batteries. You can help those customers out who want
to add batteries as well.
Speaker 12 (32:19):
One hundred percent. That's kind of been a pretty high
percentage of virus business.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
For our business right now is we're doing battery additions
to existing systems. We kind of crack the coat on
that where you're not stuck with your existing manufacturer, where
we can tie in less expensive batteries maybe than are
offered by the main manufacturer. So it's been a great
option for people, especially when you compare it to the
price of a full backup home generator. You do get
the thirty percent federal tax credit on the battery edition,
(32:45):
so that makes it extremely affordable compared to what it
was just a few years ago. So it's been a
very popular addition. People like that idea. I will tell
you from personal experience, it's a nice feeling to know
that if the power goes out, you're still going to
have power. Especially for some of our customers where you
might have some health issue, you're going to be able
to maintain all of your equipment you need. It's oxygen generator,
you can be able to refrigerate your your.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Drugs that you need.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That type of thing.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
All your food's not going to spoil and it's a
great feeling to have that, especially because we live in
Florida and we know how.
Speaker 16 (33:13):
That what that means.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What about charging an EV?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Absolutely, In fact, I have a Forward Lightning pickup truck
that I charge from the roof of my home. So
in the event of a power outage, I don't need
to find a gas station.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I don't need to wait. It doesn't draw too much
to where it takes away from the Like if you're
it powers out and you're running on your batteries, you
can still charge your car. With a car draining away.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
From your house and coming soon to a home New
Year near you. They say you can do it the
opposite direction. So that's kind of the holy good.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, I've heard that.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Yeah, so you can actually use your EV to charge
your home and provide backup power to your home. It's
a very inexpensive way to do that and to provide
some additional support to you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Another way to go.
Speaker 12 (33:51):
But that goes back to what I mentioned right at
the beginning of this hour when you said, hey.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
How's the process.
Speaker 12 (33:56):
You know, if you have an EV or a Forward
Lightning or a Tesla Model three, we're going to incorporate
those those loads into our calculations to make sure.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
You do have enough power to power your car and
your house and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And yeah, so I've got to say I've got a
I bought the solar panels. I don't have the backup batteries,
but I got like a five eight year old solar
panels on my roof. I can go ahead and add
Tesla or what's the other.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
One in and phase among others.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, yeah, and squidn adamant, no problem.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Yeah, we do that quite often.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
And that's kind of been, like Tod mentioned, probably close
to half our stuff in the last recent past is folks. Well, well,
there's so many of the door knockers out there that
they sold people just regular grid tide systems because they
don't really have the expertise to add panels. They're just
kind of cut and run type of customer or type
(34:55):
of companies. And there's big companies like ad T that
they're just gone now, so we're getting I was just
at a lady's house last week.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
We installed from ad T.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
Thinking they were a big nationwide company, they're going to
be around to take care of us. I called them
to add batteries and the you know, the phone's disconnected,
they're out of business. So not only did we uh
talk to her about adding storage battery storage, we also
picked up her monitoring and we can help her moving forward.
She knows she can call us for service or if
there's any issues. So so if you are one of
(35:26):
those orphansolar customers, who are you bought from somebody out
of town that's either non responsive or or out of business,
by all means, call us. We'll be happy to help
you out or answer any questions for you.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Nine four six zero three three eight or S sevensolarfl
dot com cool all right, what else you got? I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Also, a lot of people don't know we We are
a full fledged licensed solar contractor in the state of Florida,
which also means we could take care of pool solar.
So that's where you have the water on the roof,
where your pool pump puts the power up through a
panels on your roof and heats your pool for a
year round comfort and your enjoyment. And that's a big
part of our business. We don't everybody thinks solar. They
(36:12):
think of the solar PV panels producing electricity, but also
as part of the license, we're licensed to put on
this pool solar to either repair it, replace it, or
give you a new system. That is by far the
least expensive way to heat your pool. You spend the
money five six thousand dollars on a pool solar system
and you have hot water through your pool. You're using
the same electricity would use for your pool pump anyway.
So it's I call it the buy once, cry once solution.
(36:34):
It's not something you have to keep doing and buy
penny for penny and dollar for dollars. It's the least
expensive way to have a nice warm pool to use
for yourself and especially your grandchildren. And we were talking
about grand children a little bit ago. You'll do anything
for your grandkids, me included. So having them come over
and use your pool, it's worth the extra investment so
they can do it in the month of November, have
a nice pool, nice warm pool to swim in.
Speaker 12 (36:55):
Yeah, it gets expensive heating your pool with a heat pump. Yeah,
and by adding pool solar and knock that pricing down
seventy eighty percent and really not even turn on that
heater for any help till Januar in February when to
get that really first deep cold snap.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
So yeah, thanks for bringing that up.
Speaker 12 (37:11):
I did and wasn't even thinking about talking about pool
Solo this morning, but but yeah, it's a great it's
a great product. It's gonna last seventeen to twenty years.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And that's changed a lot too the pool solars.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
Yeah, it's a lot more efficient that almost all of
the materials. We're doing all the technology, and it's longer lasting.
Do you remember back in the day when they told
your PC would do this, that and the other thing,
and now it's doing it finally where it's almost like magic.
It's the same way with the solar. It's mature to
the point it's a mature product. The same with the
pool solar. Another thing we're doing for people have the
systems like the Eco flows where they've got a portable
(37:46):
battery system they can take with them. We're putting a
lot of systems in where we're putting panels on people's
roofs instead of having them stuck out in the garage,
so in the event of a true emergency, they can
use it almost like a portable generator. So it's almost
like a hybrid and that's something we've just got through
the permitting process for the first couple of times for people,
and that's working out real well where you're not making
that long term investment, you're buying small, smaller components. You
can go, come as you go. I think you'll see
(38:08):
it a lot of ads for like Patriots Soul or
things like that where we're assisting people with those type
of systems.
Speaker 12 (38:13):
And what's been fun since I've been with Todd and
is that I can take a project where I used
to have to say no, well, we're not going to
do this, isn't cookie cutter, We're not dealing with this.
Now with Todd, I come up, Hey, this guy wants
this crazy thing that well let's figure it out, let's
make it happen. And we're doing it. And so we're
(38:34):
not saying no to anybody. If you have some crazy
idea and you want to put some panels on your
quantset hot and run this to there, and you know
that's you.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Know, I've seen riding my bike out in the Estates,
I see the there's a house that's got them, like
behind the house in the yard, yep, like on a
on a deck and stuff out there. Yes, you can
do that too. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
We're in the middle of a project like that right now.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
We're putting what sixt year seventy panels out in Arcadia,
double ground mount system, battery back up two different homes
on a split system.
Speaker 8 (39:06):
Pretty complex.
Speaker 12 (39:07):
We spent what three hours with our designers are installed
guy out there the other day just making sure how
it's going to all come together, and we should be
starting that project here next week.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think. Wow.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
So the tough stuff is fun. So if you have
if you have a tough job, some other solar guy
told you no, give us a call because we will
probably say yes.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Or if some other company told you yes and it
doesn't do it it's supposed to do, give us a holler.
It's a Most of our business is word of mouth
and referral, and we help with the people with a problem,
whether it's post hurricane or a system that doesn't work right.
They they remember you and they'll tell their friends about it,
and that gives us more business. So even we don't
make a lot of money or any money, when we
help you the first time, we know it's going to
lead to some good things down the road.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
So it's surfling Rick Beach s sevensolar fl dot com.
Give Rick a call nine four one four five six
zero three three eight. He'll get you done in just
a day or two. Come out and see you.
Speaker 12 (39:59):
I am to the phone too. Most of the time
when you call us, you're gonna have a real person
pick up the call, which is cool.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
We'll answer the phone and we'll call you back.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yes, and they're not going to treat you like that.
Phillies Karen Broad do you see her?
Speaker 9 (40:14):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
I saw?
Speaker 12 (40:16):
Says the Phillies lady has been found and they transposed
Elizabeth warrens.
Speaker 8 (40:24):
Similar.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Here's the dad. The dad was actually talking about it.
Speaker 16 (40:27):
As it cracked off the bat. It was starting to
head our way a little bit. It fell and kind
of bubbled between the two armrests, and I picked it up,
and I just walked away and held the ball up
high and put it in Lincoln's glove. And then she
showed up. As she reached from my arm she just
yelled in my ear, that's my ball, like super loud.
I jumped out of my skin and she's like, those
are from our seats. I said, there was nobody in
(40:49):
that seat. I pretty much just wanted her to go
away and the dad and show him how to de
escalate a situation.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
So that's where I went.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I wasn't very.
Speaker 13 (40:57):
Happy that we had to give it to her, but
we can't win.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
She was gonna get it anyways.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
You feel Karen.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Because her name is it's not spelled the same.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
And it worked out, Uh worked out for the kid
because it was on the Jumbo tron, So the Phillies
took him down, gave him an autograph baseball the guy
who hit the home run, gave him that bat autographed,
gave him a bunch of swag and stuff like that.
So for Lincoln on his birthday, it worked well. Lincoln
and I hope, uh, whoever the Karen was, they find
(41:43):
out who she is and she's been suffers horrendous pushback.
Yes really, yeah, yeah, you know somebody knew her. Oh
for sure, somebody knew her.
Speaker 9 (41:56):
So sure she leaves an impression wherever she gets.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
It would appear it doesn't seem like this is the
first time that that's happened with her. Yeah she uh well, yes,
seventh Solar dot Com we got a fake news radio update.
We'll be back after that with Dan Perkins.
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Thanks guy, thank you.
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welcome to the studios. It's s seven seller.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Hey, you don't get to you guys that I've known.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Actually, I've known Todd longer than I've known you. Is
that even possible?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I met Todd when I fired in July of ninety seven,
when I first moved here, and then about a year later,
probably sitting next Todd suffering Rick Beach in the house.
Speaker 9 (03:59):
Yeah, I just moved back from Atlanta back to my
home area here, and you're coming to sell cars, I believe.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Joel, Well, Joel suckered me into moving down here and said, no,
you could work.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
At us until you find a radio gig. Well that's
kind of way you did, isn't It is exactly what
I did. It all kind of worked out.
Speaker 10 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I worked at Harvardisson for about two months and then
wound up here. Well we met at palm ottelmol though.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well that was when I went to weekends at Kicks
Country and sold cars at Palm for a year okay,
one year to the day, and then I came back
here full time again. And then when I got hired there,
I sat my butt right next to you. Yes, you
working the trucks in.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Yeah, the trucks that are out of the trailer.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So, Todd, you've been doing S seven solar now for
a few years and things are looking really good.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Yeah, we started in twenty nineteen. Things are going really
really well. We're busier than we've ever been, installing more solar.
Our mission is to bring the power of the sun
to southwest Florida, and we feel like we're doing that.
We've added Rick as our sales manager, so we've got
a little bit more reach. Previously, we would sell and
contract and put a bunch of jobs on the street
(05:06):
and would have to put them in and while that
was going on, we couldn't follow up on new customers
as effectively as we'd like to and give them the
attention they deserve. So we've added Rick to move that
forward and it's working out real well. We've doubled our
business in the last ninety days and got a lot
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So tell us about s Sevin what you guys do,
and tell it kind of explain to the listeners because
there's a lot of confusion about the tax incentives and
what's and whatnot and how that impacts.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Well, absolutely, So many years ago they started out some
federal tax incentives to help people put solar on the roof.
It wasn't so much to push a green agenda or
anything like that, was to level the playing field for
an individual versus a corporation, because a corporation, if you
own a business, you can write things off, you can
depreciate them and move forward that way. For a private
individual if there's no tax savings like you can if
(05:53):
you're a business. So to kind of level the playing field,
they gave a thirty percent credit to you to apply
towards any solar stallations admit certain parameters. Well they did that,
and that kind of made it where you could purchase
your own power for your own home and compete with
the monopoly power company and kind of even the playing
field out a little bit. The new big beautiful bill
(06:14):
has had that sunset where the thirty percent is going
to become eighteen percent, then I think six percent, and
then go away entirely. So people, that's over, that's over
period of the next few years. So there's an incentive
if you ever wanted solar to do it now. So
if not now, when so that's kind of what's happening.
People want to take advantage of that tax savings. No
one likes to pay any more taxes than they have to.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
We also, if you're thinking about doing it now, now
would be a great time take advantage of the maximum
of absolutems.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Yeah, it still makes financial sense moving forward, even at
the lower amounts. It just makes it a lot easier
pay it off quicker. So instead of paying it off
in seven to eight years, you might have to pay
it off in nine to ten, where it becomes a
payback where you're basically getting your power at no additional
charge to you. You can lock in your power costs
now with today's prices and with today's prices with the incentive,
and then once you have that on your roof, your
(07:02):
power bill will never go up. So that's why we
like doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What's the Obviously to me, it would seem that the
advantage is to get the solar with the battery backup,
but you don't have to.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Do that right, correct, So the financial incentive is to
lock your power in today's prices and have your own
power plant on your own roof. The battery allows you
to work when the power system goes down due to
some safety reasons and fire safety and electrical safety of linemen.
If you don't have batteries, solar will not work when
the power goes out. But if you have a battery,
(07:34):
it's like having a backup generator provided and powered and
refueled by the sun. So I've quite a few people
have had existing solar systems where adding bowers excuse me,
battery systems to it, and instead of putting in a generac,
a big heavy duty generator and a big five hundred
gallon propane tank and worry about refilling it maintaining it,
you have a battery on your house that does the
same thing for you, but on an ongoing continual basis.
(07:58):
So in the event of a storm or normal power outage,
or God forbids some kind of worldwide event or war
that impacts power, you will always have power for your
home and'll refuel itself the next day. The idea of
being say a hurricane comes through and we lose our power,
what we often do the batteries will pick up the
power immediately the next day. It's generally very sunny for
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quite a period of time after a storm rolls through
because it sucks all the wind with it. It recharges
your battery and powers your home during the day, and
then when the sun goes down, you're using the battery again,
and that's kind of a rinse and repeat system. People
who been very very happy with that, much happier than
the generator system. About twenty percent of generators did not
work in the past storms of some studies I've read,
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because they just did either didn't kick on properly, hadn't
been maintained properly, it ran out of fuel. That type
of stuff where the batteries are more solid state answer
where you don't have that issue.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What type of What are the best What are the
best brands out there right now?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Well, everybody's sort of Tesla. We're Tesla certified, we use
we are Generac certified. Generac actually makes batteries. We use
some really, yes they do. We use RIGA.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
They better get in on both actually, as they do
cover all the bases in.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Phase is a popular system. Solar Edge is a popular system.
We have some systems using Renon and pipes batteries, and
we have some less expensive options as well, but it's
become much more affordable. I'd say that batteries are going
for about sixty percent of what they went for three
or four years ago. As far as your battery backup power,
it's become more affordable as it become more of a
mass market item. So everybody's being competitive, and people are
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being competitive in advance of the tax rebates so that
they know that the payback will be there for people
moving forward. So it's become a much more affordable option.
We do have financing available, even though the greatest percentage
of our customers are paying cash.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
What what about roof conditions.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
Well, you want to have a relatively new roof and
after all the storms come through. A lot of people
do so the solar panels. The newer the roof, the
better that you can go on. But we do inspect
the roofs to make sure they're in good condition before
you install any solar to it. It's not a huge
deal if you have to take them off to replace
the roof in the event of a storm or a problem.
I've seen more roof damage than solar panel damage. We
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did a lot of solar panel removal replacement for roof repairs,
and that was if the damage was to the roof
was caused by hurricane. The insurance companies generally have covered
that for the customer, so that has not been a
financial impact of the customer of the roof was damaged.
So but the new codes, I'd say since twenty sixteen
or so have been excellent and the panels are staying
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on the roofs. They're not ripping off because.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Of the storms.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
The most are rated to one hundred and fifty one
hundred and sixty miles now or whatever your zone is,
but almost all of the materials are designed for South Florida,
which is one hundred and eighty miles our plus wins now.
The only issue you might have you hit by a tornado.
You got hit by a tornado. There's nothing man makes it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Holds up to that. You hit by a Cap five tornado.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
Yeah, but the hurricanes done extremely well. I've had quite
a few customers where their neighbors hurt. They've watched their
neighbors systems go through the hurricanes for four or five
hurricanes we've had the last few years. No, they've stayed
on the roof and not had any problem. They're like,
they're comfortable with it now. I've had customers that have
built out buildings and hurricanes came through and they're like,
I'm comfortable on my roof now because it's held up.
You know, it's been tested in real world conditions, just
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not some engineer with a slide rule saying it's going
to work.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, so yeah, definitely. All right, We got to take
a break and we'll be right back with more on
news radio fifteen eighties for that.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
How do I know you guys aren't going to chop
it up later and make me look like an idiot.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We'll be right back after this breakdown. We're news Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF, not the new We lead.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
At Markowski Investments.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Everyone else follows.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
There's other big investment firms, guys that have had national
radio shows, not as.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Long as we have that. You know, hout. They're brilliant
and they spend a lot of money marketing. We really
don't do that kind of more word of mouth, and we've.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Still managed to grow that we have, but they love
love jumping on our bandwagon. For years now, years thirty
three decades, we've been making fun of ridiculous ideas when
it comes to financial planning. Sixty forty portfolios, all this
other nonsense. We just deal with the terrain, the demographics.
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People are living longer, healthier lives, longer retirements if you
want to even do that. And again everyone's jumping on board,
but for many it's too late. You should have had
way more invested in stocks over the past thirty years.
Watchdog on Wallstreet dot com.
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Keep and.
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As I'm getting track.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Right right here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF,
Charlotte County speaks. Just about nine twenty seven, we lost
Rick Davies, keyboardist, singer, songwriter for Super Tramp. Roger Hodgin.
Hodgson is Hobson. He's still around, right, Yeah, I think so,
(14:51):
the guitar player in the other voice. Other voice. Yeah,
Rick eighty one passed away to eighty one, had a
long time illness, but just several weeks ago was doing
sit in with another band up north by himself. You
got Darrel's house or something. Yeah, anyway, great band, had
all their albums. Got to see them when my senior
(15:13):
year during the Breakfast in America tour, Never Sound Super Tramp.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I wasn't much into them back then.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I did as I got older though, Yeah, great band
that was hair metal. Dude, I was both. This was
really all over the place musically when I was growing up. Yeah,
how about you, Todd?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I think I was singing Amazing Grace at the Community
Bible Chapel.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
There you go, News Radio fifteen eighty. We're here with
S seven solar Todd sufferling Rick Beach and kind of
take us through the process. Somebody calls up says they
want to get their house solarized. Tell us take us
(15:53):
through it.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Well, usually they'll call the office or email or contact
us in some way. Then I I reach out, and
really the first question I ask is, you know, what
do you want to end up with? Because some people
they have their own preconceived notions of hey, I'm going
to put ten panels, or my neighbor got thirty panels
and that's what I need. But everybody is every job,
(16:17):
and every house is custom, whether it's a ground mount
or a metal roof, or a tile.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Roof or a shingle roof or whatever.
Speaker 12 (16:24):
So basically I asked them what they want to end
up with and and their history of their utility bills.
That way we can size the system appropriately. Now, things
change sometime, you know, that we're putting a pool in,
we're buying a tesla, you know, So we look at
those future needs also in order to size the system properly.
Then we go into pricing, which usually can give right
(16:45):
there on the spot. There's no high pressure. It's much
more of an educational type meeting, not a high pressure
door knocker technique, cause you get these guys coming all
over the place, door knock and all over Charlotte and
Sarasota County, and they're really more selling a financial product
and alone than really the quality of installation and.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Reducing your bills. They promised the world and not so
much delivering.
Speaker 12 (17:11):
However, so once we make a deal and get pricing
and everything or financing terms worked out, everything moves fairly quickly.
From that, we do a quick engineering survey. Sometimes on
more complex jobs, we'll have our install manager come out
and kind of look things over. Todd and I have
seen most everything, so we can handle most of those
(17:34):
jobs without bringing in our for our install guys. And
we submitted to engineering, and heck, we're getting jobs in
within yeah, thirty to forty five days.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:47):
Now, Sarasota County does take a little longer. In permitting,
So it might be a little closer to sixty days
in Sarasota County, but Charlotte County, Pantagorda, Northport usually within
four to six weeks where you're up and running.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So that's awesome, and that even with batteries.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Yeah, it really it doesn't really matter when engineering get
submitted to a county. These the plan reviewers now they've
seen one hundreds of them now or ten fifteen years ago,
they hadn't seen any, so that would take them forever
to approve plans because they didn't really have a clue.
But now they've seen enough of our jobs really to
kind of just rubber stamp them and say, hey, yeah,
(18:24):
these guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We'll we'll get it approved for you.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
We use an outside engineering firm for several reasons to
make sure we're doing it correctly, and they use a
seal or a stamp to make sure it meets all
the parameters needed. So that works for the permitting process
as well. So we have some checks and balances to
make sure we're doing the best thing we can for
the customer. One thing I didn't understand when I got
into the car the solar business was that a lot
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of these organizations are kind of separate silos where at
certified state electrical contractor, so not electrical of a solar contractor.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
My apologies.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
So we take it from start to finish. We sell it,
we design it, we have it engineered, we have it permitted,
we install it, and we service it. We take it
from step A to step Z and we live. You
get to live with us for the rest of the
life of your system, which would be thirty plus years.
So we are a full line solar contractor and that's
served us well because a lot of the big guys
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were more a sales organization that would then turn it
over to installation sub contractors that they don't even know. Yeah,
and so when the people would come knock on your door,
that's why you get that uneasy feeling. And that's where
most of our business comes from. The market gets stirred
up a little bit, someone asks some questions and they'll say, hey,
ask Todd, you know, ask Rick. We know these guys
from the Charlotte de Soda Building Industry Association, from the
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Chamber of Commerce, from any number of organizations we're involved with,
and for our time and longevity in the community. I'm
actually from Florida. I'm from Sarasota, so this is my hometown.
This is my home area, and this is where I've
lived and this is where my families lived. So we
know so many people. So most of our business is
word of mouth or referral, and that's served us well
because you know, they tell two friends and they tell
two friends. That's worked out well. So our reputation and
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the quality of our work is what we really have
to stand on to move forward. But the process itself,
we take it from A to Z. We have one
point of accountability and then you have me backing that
point of accountability up. So you know what you're going
to get. You get it, you don't get it, you're
not happy. We certainly have a way to fix it. Thankfully,
we haven't add those issues. But like any construction project,
you hit some stumbles and some stuff you don't see
(20:26):
or for sea. But we've been at it long enough
that we can kind of anticipate and foresee that's what's
going to happen, and we know how to fix it
and work with accounting the permitting to make sure that happens.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Make good curious what kind of maintenance are we talking
about on these very minimal?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
I mean they're electronic, they're electrical components and electronic components,
so there's not a service interval on it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You have to get up in wind decks the panels
or in.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Florida, in fact, we have a company that does clean
solar panels. But in Florida, the amount of rain we
have tends to keep them very very clean. It's not
like we're in a dusty city fire environ you have
out west where the stuff and the grime builds up
on it. So it's a cost, like you might lose
two or three percent to some dust or dirt of
your performance, but how much does caught to have them cleaned?
And the sudden rainstorms and the heavy rain we have
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here tends to keep them very very clean. Some minimal
to no maintenance. They come with long warranties the inverters,
et cetera. From ten to fifteen years. The panels have
a twenty five year to thirty year performance warranty depends
on the manufacturer, so you're covered up by that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Who's the best when it comes to the solar panels.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Well, these days probably AREC is big, Hyundai is a
big name that's out there. Some large corporations LG in
the past, Panasonic in there that have produced the panels,
and we use all of them. So we're not tied
to a certain manufacturer we have to push a certain thing.
We're going to find what's best bang for your buck
on your roof, and.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That can effect costs.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Too, absolutely, yea. But we use Tier A solar panels
across the board. We don't use any We don't buy
any stuff from TIMU that time.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, you deserve what you get if you buy it
on team.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
And what's been exciting really in the last probably year
is most of our customers are are getting batteries or
at least interested in them out of the gate, where five, six,
ten years.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Ago it was so cost prohibitive.
Speaker 13 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Yeah, well it was a bit of a cost shock.
You know, you'd say, well, I'm really interested in doing that,
and then you show the price. You can see the
look on their face like, oh my god, I just
understand one interesting thing about the whole cost of the
solar system, and everything's relative. You know, average system will
sell thirty thousand dollars without batteries, forty to fifty thousand
dollars with you get the thirty percent tax credit makes
it more affordable. It seems like a lot of money
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you can, but your payback is seven to nine years
on all those from the from what you would pay
for your power is that I jumped in my truck
and my truck's seventy eight thousand dollars truck. You know,
I bought my kids a car to go to college
with thirty five thousand dollars car, So don't bat any
at that.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And you're not going to get thirty years out of
that car, that's for sure.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
For the price of the car that I'm going to
put send my kid to college in is going to
come theirs after they they're done. Uh, I've got power
for the rest of my life on my house, as
long as I want to own it. So it's a
it's a very good value comparatively, And.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Like you say, the prices keep coming down on it.
They do.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
And then, uh, you know the way that the door
knockers use, they're trying and replace. They say it's free,
they replace.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Your Yeah, I just had one last week.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
It's sketchy, you know. And we've had a couple of
them shot in the area. I mean it's like, what,
Yeah that was a guy. Yeah I got shot months ago.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I mean, that's a tough sales pace, the clipboard block.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I don't know if he was actually revenue. Get out
of here. That's ship.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Shouldn't salt pellets at the guys, but they got to
be they've got it. Just very annoying. But I just
I can sense the frustration in people's voices when they
get a hold, when they when they've spoken to someone
like that and they felt the high pressure sales and
then you know, they get ahold of us and it's
almost and they're like, thank you Todd for talking to
us and having it makes sense to us. It doesn't
always make sense for everybody, but in the greatest majority
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of the case is solar does make sense and it
works out really well for people. So and we're gonna
shoot you straight. If it's good for you, great, If
it's not, that's fine too. And if we not, now
we'll do it.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Later for you.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And what's great about the battery backup is of course
the seamless transition.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Yeah, it's almost having like having a ups for your home. Yeah,
I have some folks live out in Arcadia and they
had by far the most power outages of any of
my customers. And most of the time they don't even
know the power went out, you know, it just seamlessly
flips over and takes over their house. That may be
a little dim or a flicker, but most of the
time they don't even know it. And I can look
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back on time and see when they had the power outages,
you know, they had, you know, like one hundred and
seventy and three years of five minutes or greater so, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That's another good thing. You can You can check this
stuff out on your phone right absolutely.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
You can see.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
You can have internet monitoring, you can see it all
works without the internet.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Don't have to have that.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
I have a lot of people that are very concerned
about their privacy, so it can be set up to
just operate completely autonously without any contact to the internet.
But it is nice to be able to look at
your system, especially for the snowbirds. They'd like to see
what their house is doing when they're not here. I've
had a couple of people call me up, but Todd,
why is my house doing X. I'm like, well, it's
because the power is out at your home and it's
using the battery. So that's always a good conversation, you know,
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you have Yeah, it's working great, you know, it's all good.
So and I've had some people do that even through
the storms that they've lost power and their house has
been powered through the entire time. They didn't have to
worry about mold, mildew.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Also interesting the people that are only part time residents
don't need as big of a system because it produces
when you're not here, so you build up credits with
the power company that pay for the power when you
are here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Worst case scenarios say, there's I mean, you know, just
nothing but darkness. Uh, you know, commet hits. We get
the solar. How long will those batteries last well their design,
I mean for how how how long will those batteries
keep powering without needing a solar recharge?
Speaker 9 (26:02):
What we usually you're usually looking to get twenty four
plus hours on just the battery is how it works out.
But it almost even on on dingy overcast days like
we've been experiencing, you are receiving some power from the sun.
Maybe you're only making twenty five thirty percent of the power.
But even during a rainstorm that the sun is still
you're still getting some. So it pretty much indefinitely is
(26:22):
how it works out on a realistic basis, unless again,
we have like the super volcano Caldera goes and we
have no sun.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But you know we got bigger probleses. Yes, yeah, your
batteries the last of our last.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
But in general, you know, as far as having a good, nice,
normal life, you're good. And I will I'll make I'll
admit something here. I hadn't put batteries in when I
originally did my system.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I did it.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
I put the panels in and I set it up
where it would be easy to add the batteries later.
And after a hurricane Milton, which I was afraid, sorry
that somebody named Milton came and kicked our butt, but
I was out there cranking out my generator and I
was embarrassed. Yeah, there are two full on the same
street that I put solar panels and batteries on, and
they've got their lawn decoration lights are on.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
They look like you're ready for the home show.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The past year, and.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Then my carbon monoxide alarm went off in the middle
of the night I think I'm gonna kill my family
keeping power. So I went ahead and invested in the
batteries a year ago, and I've been very happy. We've
had some small It's amazing how happy you become when
there's a short power outage in the neighborhood and your
lights stay on and you look at your neighbors everything's off.
You're like, yes, you know, you told you, I told you,
(27:31):
and it's But I did actually take as a as
a test, I took and ran my house for a
week without being hooked up to the grid. I just
turned the power off coming into the house. Didn't even
tell my wife and kids or anything about it, and
we operated normally. Nobody nobody noticed a difference. So that
was kind of nice. Cool that worked.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So how do people get ahead of s get ahold
of S seven Solar?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Uh, well, you can call me directly.
Speaker 12 (27:54):
I'm I live locally here in Charlotte County, so I
can get to Sarasota, Venice anywhere pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (28:01):
We're not going to set up at a point before
you two weeks out. We're probably going to see you
tomorrow or the next day, and coming directly at nine
four one four five six zero three three eight, or
you can call Todd at.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Nine four one three eight oh twenty one twenty. We
also have an email address sales at S sevensolar fl
dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Which is also the website S sevensolar fl.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Dot Some guy in Pakistan os S seven solar so
you had to put the fl on it. I had
to put the fl on it. We're trying to get
some rupees together. We're negotiating, and that happened three days
after we got the DBA.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
That's kind of money.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Man.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
These guys are sharp.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So you got on your name, that's true.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
But but it's a it's a lesson learned as you
go for get the get the website first before you
register your name.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We're real happy, all right, We got to take another break.
We'll be right back on news radio fifteen eighty. Right
the station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
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it's it's that easy. Like we're not we're not prepared
for marriage.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Like women are. You are very prepared.
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Your whole life, every toy y'all played with was built
for marriage. Everything's preparing you. Like when you're a baby,
they give you a baby doll, so they give.
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You a baby.
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When you're a baby, you don't even know you're alive yet,
and they're just like, look, I'd probably start figuring this out.
This is where it's going.
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And then they give you Barbie and Ken.
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You would like you would like to fake vacuum with
your friends. That was like awesome times. Like now, like
when I see my wife vacuum, I'm like, man, she's
living her childhood dream.
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Like she.
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She has made it. You know, she's made it.
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and I really have enjoyed misday.
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Speaker 6 (31:09):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, you gotta get them bought off first. Hey, today
is September eighth. We're celebrating Star Trek Day. Trekies Live
long and prosper Can you do?
Speaker 14 (31:19):
Can you do?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The vulcan little? It was something we had to learn
in grade school. Now what you guys are doing right now?
National Boss Employee Exchange Day, Let's exchange some money?
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Speaker 1 (31:36):
And National Pediatric Hematology Oncology Nurses Day. A couple of nurses.
My daughter the nurse, she is nurse. What's that a
pregnant nurse.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
Yes, yeah, we're excited, Daddy Ricky finally, Yeah, it's gonna
be cool.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Todd, you were how old are your grandkids?
Speaker 9 (31:57):
I have grand kids from five down to eighteen months
three with another on the way, so I beat you both.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We're like relatively new grand So tell us about you
know a lot of people like you were saying they
already had the solar panels, but they didn't have the
backup batteries. You can help those customers out who want
to add batteries as well.
Speaker 12 (32:19):
One hundred percent. That's kind of been a pretty high
percentage of virus business.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
For our business right now is we're doing battery additions
to existing systems. We kind of crack the coat on
that where you're not stuck with your existing manufacturer, where
we can tie in less expensive batteries maybe than are
offered by the main manufacturer. So it's been a great
option for people, especially when you compare it to the
price of a full backup home generator. You do get
the thirty percent federal tax credit on the battery edition,
(32:45):
so that makes it extremely affordable compared to what it
was just a few years ago. So it's been a
very popular addition. People like that idea. I will tell
you from personal experience, it's a nice feeling to know
that if the power goes out, you're still going to
have power. Especially for some of our customers where you
might have some health issue, you're going to be able
to maintain all of your equipment you need. It's oxygen generator,
you can be able to refrigerate your your.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Drugs that you need.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That type of thing.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
All your food's not going to spoil and it's a
great feeling to have that, especially because we live in
Florida and we know how.
Speaker 16 (33:13):
That what that means.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What about charging an EV?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Absolutely, In fact, I have a Forward Lightning pickup truck
that I charge from the roof of my home. So
in the event of a power outage, I don't need
to find a gas station.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I don't need to wait. It doesn't draw too much
to where it takes away from the Like if you're
it powers out and you're running on your batteries, you
can still charge your car. With a car draining away.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
From your house and coming soon to a home New
Year near you. They say you can do it the
opposite direction. So that's kind of the holy good.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, I've heard that.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Yeah, so you can actually use your EV to charge
your home and provide backup power to your home. It's
a very inexpensive way to do that and to provide
some additional support to you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Another way to go.
Speaker 12 (33:51):
But that goes back to what I mentioned right at
the beginning of this hour when you said, hey.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
How's the process.
Speaker 12 (33:56):
You know, if you have an EV or a Forward
Lightning or a Tesla Model three, we're going to incorporate
those those loads into our calculations to make sure.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
You do have enough power to power your car and
your house and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And yeah, so I've got to say I've got a
I bought the solar panels. I don't have the backup batteries,
but I got like a five eight year old solar
panels on my roof. I can go ahead and add
Tesla or what's the other.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
One in and phase among others.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, yeah, and squidn adamant, no problem.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Yeah, we do that quite often.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
And that's kind of been, like Tod mentioned, probably close
to half our stuff in the last recent past is folks. Well, well,
there's so many of the door knockers out there that
they sold people just regular grid tide systems because they
don't really have the expertise to add panels. They're just
kind of cut and run type of customer or type
(34:55):
of companies. And there's big companies like ad T that
they're just gone now, so we're getting I was just
at a lady's house last week.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
We installed from ad T.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
Thinking they were a big nationwide company, they're going to
be around to take care of us. I called them
to add batteries and the you know, the phone's disconnected,
they're out of business. So not only did we uh
talk to her about adding storage battery storage, we also
picked up her monitoring and we can help her moving forward.
She knows she can call us for service or if
there's any issues. So so if you are one of
(35:26):
those orphansolar customers, who are you bought from somebody out
of town that's either non responsive or or out of business,
by all means, call us. We'll be happy to help
you out or answer any questions for you.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Nine four six zero three three eight or S sevensolarfl
dot com cool all right, what else you got? I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Also, a lot of people don't know we We are
a full fledged licensed solar contractor in the state of Florida,
which also means we could take care of pool solar.
So that's where you have the water on the roof,
where your pool pump puts the power up through a
panels on your roof and heats your pool for a
year round comfort and your enjoyment. And that's a big
part of our business. We don't everybody thinks solar. They
(36:12):
think of the solar PV panels producing electricity, but also
as part of the license, we're licensed to put on
this pool solar to either repair it, replace it, or
give you a new system. That is by far the
least expensive way to heat your pool. You spend the
money five six thousand dollars on a pool solar system
and you have hot water through your pool. You're using
the same electricity would use for your pool pump anyway.
So it's I call it the buy once, cry once solution.
(36:34):
It's not something you have to keep doing and buy
penny for penny and dollar for dollars. It's the least
expensive way to have a nice warm pool to use
for yourself and especially your grandchildren. And we were talking
about grand children a little bit ago. You'll do anything
for your grandkids, me included. So having them come over
and use your pool, it's worth the extra investment so
they can do it in the month of November, have
a nice pool, nice warm pool to swim in.
Speaker 12 (36:55):
Yeah, it gets expensive heating your pool with a heat pump. Yeah,
and by adding pool solar and knock that pricing down
seventy eighty percent and really not even turn on that
heater for any help till Januar in February when to
get that really first deep cold snap.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
So yeah, thanks for bringing that up.
Speaker 12 (37:11):
I did and wasn't even thinking about talking about pool
Solo this morning, but but yeah, it's a great it's
a great product. It's gonna last seventeen to twenty years.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And that's changed a lot too the pool solars.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
Yeah, it's a lot more efficient that almost all of
the materials. We're doing all the technology, and it's longer lasting.
Do you remember back in the day when they told
your PC would do this, that and the other thing,
and now it's doing it finally where it's almost like magic.
It's the same way with the solar. It's mature to
the point it's a mature product. The same with the
pool solar. Another thing we're doing for people have the
systems like the Eco flows where they've got a portable
(37:46):
battery system they can take with them. We're putting a
lot of systems in where we're putting panels on people's
roofs instead of having them stuck out in the garage,
so in the event of a true emergency, they can
use it almost like a portable generator. So it's almost
like a hybrid and that's something we've just got through
the permitting process for the first couple of times for people,
and that's working out real well where you're not making
that long term investment, you're buying small, smaller components. You
can go, come as you go. I think you'll see
(38:08):
it a lot of ads for like Patriots Soul or
things like that where we're assisting people with those type
of systems.
Speaker 12 (38:13):
And what's been fun since I've been with Todd and
is that I can take a project where I used
to have to say no, well, we're not going to
do this, isn't cookie cutter, We're not dealing with this.
Now with Todd, I come up, Hey, this guy wants
this crazy thing that well let's figure it out, let's
make it happen. And we're doing it. And so we're
(38:34):
not saying no to anybody. If you have some crazy
idea and you want to put some panels on your
quantset hot and run this to there, and you know
that's you.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Know, I've seen riding my bike out in the Estates,
I see the there's a house that's got them, like
behind the house in the yard, yep, like on a
on a deck and stuff out there. Yes, you can
do that too. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
We're in the middle of a project like that right now.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
We're putting what sixt year seventy panels out in Arcadia,
double ground mount system, battery back up two different homes
on a split system.
Speaker 8 (39:06):
Pretty complex.
Speaker 12 (39:07):
We spent what three hours with our designers are installed
guy out there the other day just making sure how
it's going to all come together, and we should be
starting that project here next week.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think. Wow.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
So the tough stuff is fun. So if you have
if you have a tough job, some other solar guy
told you no, give us a call because we will
probably say yes.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Or if some other company told you yes and it
doesn't do it it's supposed to do, give us a holler.
It's a Most of our business is word of mouth
and referral, and we help with the people with a problem,
whether it's post hurricane or a system that doesn't work right.
They they remember you and they'll tell their friends about it,
and that gives us more business. So even we don't
make a lot of money or any money, when we
help you the first time, we know it's going to
lead to some good things down the road.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
So it's surfling Rick Beach s sevensolar fl dot com.
Give Rick a call nine four one four five six
zero three three eight. He'll get you done in just
a day or two. Come out and see you.
Speaker 12 (39:59):
I am to the phone too. Most of the time
when you call us, you're gonna have a real person
pick up the call, which is cool.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
We'll answer the phone and we'll call you back.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yes, and they're not going to treat you like that.
Phillies Karen Broad do you see her?
Speaker 9 (40:14):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
I saw?
Speaker 12 (40:16):
Says the Phillies lady has been found and they transposed
Elizabeth warrens.
Speaker 8 (40:24):
Similar.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Here's the dad. The dad was actually talking about it.
Speaker 16 (40:27):
As it cracked off the bat. It was starting to
head our way a little bit. It fell and kind
of bubbled between the two armrests, and I picked it up,
and I just walked away and held the ball up
high and put it in Lincoln's glove. And then she
showed up. As she reached from my arm she just
yelled in my ear, that's my ball, like super loud.
I jumped out of my skin and she's like, those
are from our seats. I said, there was nobody in
(40:49):
that seat. I pretty much just wanted her to go
away and the dad and show him how to de
escalate a situation.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
So that's where I went.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I wasn't very.
Speaker 13 (40:57):
Happy that we had to give it to her, but
we can't win.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
She was gonna get it anyways.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
You feel Karen.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Because her name is it's not spelled the same.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
And it worked out, Uh worked out for the kid
because it was on the Jumbo tron, So the Phillies
took him down, gave him an autograph baseball the guy
who hit the home run, gave him that bat autographed,
gave him a bunch of swag and stuff like that.
So for Lincoln on his birthday, it worked well. Lincoln
and I hope, uh, whoever the Karen was, they find
(41:43):
out who she is and she's been suffers horrendous pushback.
Yes really, yeah, yeah, you know somebody knew her. Oh
for sure, somebody knew her.
Speaker 9 (41:56):
So sure she leaves an impression wherever she gets.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
It would appear it doesn't seem like this is the
first time that that's happened with her. Yeah she uh well, yes,
seventh Solar dot Com we got a fake news radio update.
We'll be back after that with Dan Perkins.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
Thanks guy, thank you.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
The show is over again.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Help but think, where does the time go? Well, how
time flies when you're having fun?
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Bye?
Speaker 8 (42:26):
Goodbye, good bye, goodbye goodbye.
Speaker 6 (42:28):
My friends were.
Speaker 8 (42:30):
Out, we out.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
We're in news Radio fifteen eighty am w CCF Punda
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