October 20, 2025 • 45 mins
Monday 10/20/25 Hour 1. With Todd Sufferling and Rick Beach, from S7 Solar.
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Speaker 1 (03:24):
And there we all are.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Like to welcome the boys from S seven, Todd and Rick.
Speaker 9 (03:30):
How you doing great, Good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's going on. How you doing? We're just busy. It's fine.
It's really careful.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Be careful what you wish and pray for, because it
could and will come true.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
So suler's doing good right now, well, and it should be.
Really people need to start taking advantage of the subsidies
while they're still around.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
Yeah, and the end of the year the thirty percent
Federal income text credit disappears. So we're making plans for
strategury for twenty twenty six. But right now, with the
thirty percent residential money, it's a big chunk of change
can really help and make things more affordable. We're doing
it seems like we're doing lots of folks that have
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existing solar electric systems that either we installed or someone
else installed, because there's we've talked in the past about
the door owners, the door knockers.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And you know those guys.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
They show up, install your stuff and then you never
hear from again. But luckily we're around so we can
come and take carry you do service work. But really
we're getting a tons of calls from to add storage,
add battery storage to existing solar electric systems. So that's
kind of been probably what seventy percent of our stuff recently.
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Yeah, there's been a big shift. It used to be
you would sell solar and the battery was an add on,
So now even the new system calls are battery plus solar.
It's almost like they're making their Wanting to buy a
backup generator for the home is the main impetus, especially
all the hurricanes and the craziness that goes on in
the world. People want to be self sufficient, and instead
of investing the money in a backup generator and digging
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up your yard and stocking pro paane and having mechanics
come check it out twice a year and being upset
when it doesn't work, they just put a battery in
system then that has more capacity than the generator and
you recharge it with the solar panels. So the shift
has gone from solar and maybe we'll add a battery
to battery plus solar because quite often in the past,
the solar was the more expensive component or less expensive component,
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and the battery was more It's flipped now where the
solar can sometimes be the more expensive and the battery
is the less expensive component. It's those economic laws that work.
Once you reach a certain point and a certain support
of saturation, the cost comes down to the consumer, and
that's actually going to help offset the thirty percent tax
credit because the stuff is less expensive than it's ever
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been even before the tax credit. So if you can
take advantage of it and the timing works, please go ahead.
But even after the fact, it's going to be a
better way to go, and you can make a great
financial case for it, in addition to the fact that
there is no price you can pay that you won't
pay to take care of your family when things are bad.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And I would say from I don't know, Ted, what
do you think.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Probably in the last twenty four to thirty six months,
the price of battery storage has probably dropped by fifty
to sixty percent, say at.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Least forty And we've actually got become a much more
cognizant of it and able to adapt it to different
systems that people may have. Because every situation is unique.
We're almost like a custom builder for solar systems for people.
We're not a cookie cutter operation. We don't come through
a neighborhood and sell forty solar systems that are all
the same. Basically, everyone is unique and different, and we've
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found how to extremeline that and make it more efficient
with good quality components that in the long term cost
a lot less money. So that's helped a lot as well.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's been a lot of fun solving those problems too.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
For folks that you know, you have a lot of
elderly foll with, you know, of the one of them
might be on a seepat machine or oxygen generator, and
it just gives peace of mind to that that family
or that old older customer to know that if they
do lose power in a hurricane or just in irregular
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power outage, that they're going to have good, reliable energy
in their house, which a lot of times as a
matter of life and death.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And for some of these folks.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yeah, and you know, you lose power and there's there's
a lag time with the generator, you got to go
out and start it, unless even if it's an auto
generating one, there's still going to be a few seconds.
But with the solar, it's a seamless transition. You almost
don't even know that you've flipped over to the batteries.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Pretty instantaneous. And after a hurricane Ian i think it
was Florida Solar Energy Center put out a report a
few months later at like thirty one percent of the
permanently installed generators, the ones that cost twenty twenty five
grand and they bury their propane tank. But thirty one
percent failed. Either they didn't start and run at all,
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or they ran for a while, or for whatever reason,
they just didn't work. They are mechanical components and they
need maintenance and proper upkeep, where batteries and solar panels
they just kind of work.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They just almost quite that easy.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
But if they're going to have a problem, it's usually
early on. Like almost any electrical component, there's no moving parts.
It uses a lot of solid state components. It's a
mature technology now, it's not experimental. It's come a long
ways from the days of the twelve old systems that
the off grid survivalists would use out there. It's become
a very, very very solid system, and it really does
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make you feel good when your power stays on. Other
people don't liking it to a ups you would put
on your computer, but you're putting on your entire home
and it just works that smooth and that easily. You
don't have to refuel it from an outside source, have
a big truck come in track how much power pain
you have left over time and you don't have to
worry about that. And also the the components that produce
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carbon monoxide. One of my biggest fears when I run
a generator in my home is that I'm going to
poison my family to death while we're trying to stay cool.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You take a long.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Nap, yeah, because it's odorless, it's colorless. And every once
in a while you hear a story, especially during the winter,
when people are using some type of heater or a
generator and they poison their entire family. I mean, how
would you live with yourself?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, you wouldn't you be dead?
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Well, well, hopefully if that happened. You know, I don't
want to be around if I did that to my kids.
So during a year before I put my batteries in,
we had carbon monoxide detector went off in the middle
of the night in my garage and never really figured
out why there was. I took another one in there
and it didn't read it. So the actual carbon monoxide
detector may have gone bad. But you know, before I
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put the batteries in, I'm out there snaking cables out
into my driveway and putting it as far as I
can between my trucks and hurricanes still going on, and
I'm trying to crank up generator and make sure all
that I'm not going to catch my house on fire?
Are poison anyway to death? Now with the batteries, I
don't have that worry.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And who needs the hassle.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
You don't need the hassle and the cost, and we
get when you do something for a living, you focus
in on how much things are. Now it's twenty thousand dollars,
it's thirty thousand dollars, And then you back up and go, now,
what did I just pay for my car? I just
paid seventy thousand dollars for the car. I drive it
back and forth to work every day. And for half
the price of that, I can put in a system
that provides all the power for the rest of my
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life as long as I want to live in the car,
and a backup battery system where I'm in charge of
my own power. So financially seems like a lot of money. Oh,
that's a lot, But realistically, in the whole scheme of things,
it's not. So for less than the price of a
nice car, you can provide power for your family and
your home for as long as you choose to live there,
and then you provide that extra value to the home
when you do go to sell it, and national Associate
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Home Builders has said it adds about a four percent
to your value your home having solar and I'm sure
having battery systems that back up and work will do
even more.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
We got to take our first break and we'll be
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Speaker 11 (11:06):
More propaganda coming up with Ken Lovejoy and Charlotte County Speaks,
News Radio fifteen eighty WC. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Even the Atlantic, the Atlantic, that liberal publication.
Speaker 12 (11:21):
Even they couldn't spin Jasmine Crockett. You know Jasmine Crockett again,
she is like a character out of Idiocracy.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
The mouth on this individual.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
Again, it's it's all a show, quite frankly, the way
that she acts everything. Well, they did a piece on
Jasmine Crockett and they reported on Jasmine Crockett actually has
a picture of herself a headshot as the home screen
on her phone. Yeah, they started doing a little research
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into her and guess what, she threw a hissy fit
and told him to shut the entire interview down. I
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
It's about that time. It's about that witchy woman time. Halloween.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
You got a gig on Halloween with the man there.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
As a matter of fact, Yeah, we were invited to
play at the the S seven Halloween Bass in Todd's
driveway and he thinks he's oh that's he wants a
cheap band.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I live off of River Road in the Stony Brooks
subdivision and they have lots and lots and lots of
children come through for Halloween. So we're gonna have Rick's
band play. They're a little monster bash going for us
there as we give away candy water bottles to the
parents in neon glow arm bands to keep the children safe.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What is that nice?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Is that it's usually on the thirty first.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
You know, I'm just saying what days that fall on Friday?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's a Friday.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
That's awesome. Yeah, it should be a good time.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Yeah, we were at Tiki Bar last night over there
at the four Points in the afternoon for the sunset show.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, fun.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
It's weather's been great, so come see JJ and the
bad habits.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So back to S seven Solar.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Yes, sir, sell me, sell ya. Well, you don't really
have to sell it. It's so apparent that it's a
good deal. It kind of sells itself. Actually, we take
great care of people. That's what we try to do.
We are a local solar company. Solar salespeople are right
up there with car salesman, attorneys and politicians on some
people's list, mostly because of the door knocking that gets
done where these.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Groups find out they know even less than car dealers.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Well there're a lot of them are former car guys
and they have sales groups. I didn't realize when I
got into the business that you didn't have to be
a contractor. Like we are a li solar contractor. So
we started. We sell it, we design it, we permit it.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You're remember the CDBA, I remember.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
The CDBIA, the FHBA, the Chamber of Commerce for Northbord,
Charlotte County, you name it, we do it. And we
are a local, local, local, and that really paid dividends
for people after the hurricanes because no one was here
to take care of them. Because all of these people
were from out of town, where we are local, so
we tried to become the local source. We built our
business one customer at a time, and they told two friends,
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and they told two friends, and they told two friends.
And that still is the case. Most of our business
is referral, either from one of the great organizations you
mentioned or from people who've had experiences with us, so
that's very important to us. Had a gentleman the other night.
We're in the middle of an install and before the
power is put on permanent, we had a temporary system
in place. At eight thirty at night, it was turning
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on and off every thirty seconds, so he called us.
I was over at his house within about twenty minutes fixed.
The problem was relatively minor. It was just a software
glitch that we corrected, and thirty minutes later he's back
ready to get, you know, get a good night's sleep.
And since then we've completed the system and it's up
and running with no glitches. But he was said, I
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was really surprised you answered the phone, I said, and
then I was doubly shocked that you came over. I
was like, in my mind, only that's what you do
when you're a local guy and you have to live
with the people that you do business with.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
And that was like eight thirty nine o'clock Friday night,
isn't that if I remember?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hey Coller, you're on the air. Hello, Hi, you're on
the air.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Is that Rick Beach that's sitting there?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It is? It is Rick Beach as sitting here. Rick.
Speaker 14 (16:40):
This is Ken.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Give me a call today. I got your stuff ready
and I want to get a quote on doing my house.
Oh okay, who's this again? Ken to Maystrom? Oh?
Speaker 13 (16:50):
Oh me? No o.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Guys doing good?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Yeah, you could be a little more engaging on the phone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know there, Ken, know who the hell you are? What?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Have you been to his store?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
I've seen ron Ron Bates did a fantastic job painting
the outside, but I haven't been inside the new store yet.
It is uh sorry, thanks?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
What type of He doesn't take drums, he doesn't take compliments?
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Well, can't beat it.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Well, Kenny's a real conversationalist. Ken, if you're still listening,
I'll hit you up.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right after the show.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
So does he want to do his home or does
you want to do We talked about the business.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
We talked about the store when he first moved in,
but it's a little it'd be easier if it was
all on one meter, but he's got four different six
air conditioners, so he's only been in a few months.
Who doesn't really have a track marker, But I think
that might be on the horizon for a Strums, which
is just a beautiful, beautiful store. Yeah, they really did
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a bang up job over there.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
So the majority of our business is residential. We do
do commercial and light commercial, and the tax ramifications for
building owners is outstanding and that's not going away, so
you can you know, part of the reason the commercial side,
part of the reason the homeowners were getting the thirty
percent tax credit wasn't just because they wanted to push
solar and clean energy, is that as a business, you
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can depreciate any asset you purchase, and certain assets you
can depreciate very rapidly. Solar you can depreciate up to
one hundred percent the first year, so that's quite a
savings off of your tax rates. Your average tax rate
is twenty eight twenty nine percent. You're picking up your
thirty percent right away. And on the commercial side, you
can get it where it costs about half because of
the tax ramifications of it. We're on the residential side,
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we didn't have that ability. So that's what that thirty
percent really was designed to do. Originally was kind of
even the playing field where a consumer can have the
same advantages as a large company, but those the companies,
especially even like rental companies, people have small and large
apartment buildings is another revenue stream. So we've done some
situations where people will meter the entire apartment complex, say
a sixteen unit apartment complex, put it solar on it,
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get the tax credit, take the depreciation, and now they're
getting one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars a month
from each individual unit as revenue to the company, which
really helps evaluation if they ever go to sell it
or finance it. It's really interesting. It's very intricate, but
we're becoming much better at it, and it just makes
a lot of sense for a lot of people, and
the accountants love it.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Yeah, and when you can use one hundred percent commercial
tax credit in year one along with the once again,
like Todd said, the tax credit for commercial is not
going away for a couple more years, but it takes
the return on investment for a commercial building, whether it
be a barber shop or a liquor store.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Down to less than four years. It really I don't.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Understand why every small business doesn't have solar on their property,
especially if they own the building. Well, that's an impediment
to many business owners they're leasing their physical property. But
if you're a business owner and own your property, it
just makes so much sense at least a look at it,
because it's just a phenomenal value.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All right.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Absolutely, I'm a little off my game. So we're talking
about selling the solar, the resilience and the fact that
you stand on your own two feet having your own
power is probably the biggest single reason I think people
are doing solar power. Everybody wants to be nice to
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the environment, everybody wants to save money. But I want
to be in control of my own power future. I
don't want it in the hands of some monopoly. I
don't want it in the hands of some government. I
don't want in the hands or whims of anyone. I
want to have power for my house, power of my family.
Lock it in, own it and it's mine and I'm
not depending on anybody else help me out. And then
in addition to that, once you have your own solar power,
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you can provide your own water if you have a well,
so you can truly be self sufficient, you know, moving
forward with the solar it does save money, It is
good for the environment, but mostly.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's good for you.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Solar well pump, you can your power from your roof
in the house.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
The same way it's power now, just we're powering your
panels from in an awkward situation when the power's out,
it's it's not good if you don't have water. And
we've done recently, we've been doing a bunch of bigger
projects out in Arcadia where those folks are on wells
and we're doing battery storage and solar panels just for
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those situations. Hey, I need to get my cow's water
if we're out of power, and it kind of sucks
to go out there with your little old cranky, cranky pump.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
You know, kind of cranks a big portion of our business.
Or people who've built their forever home, you know, they
they've been looking to do. They built a piece of property.
They've got some property either on the water or in
the country. They've got a couple of acres and they
want to make their forever home, so they're locking everything in.
They're getting their own power, their own water, their own
space where they want to be for the remainder of
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their adult lives. And that really makes a lot of
sense when you're doing that. Other than that, you know,
you'd be into place seven to ten years for it
to make sense to keep solar on your home when
it pays off, not counting what you pick up when
you sell it that you get that back, so it's
actually little bit less than that. You know, five years,
you can make a pretty good case if you're going
to be in the house seven to ten years, make
a great case if this is your forever home. I
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don't know why you wouldn't have solar. You know, I'm
in a home in an hoa.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Ours to deal with.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
They they're fine because the way the state law is written,
they can't really say no. They can ask and request things.
But if you really push it, you can put solar
wherever you want to interest Rick, I do not recommend this,
because everybody wants to be a good neighbor. Most people
end up putting on the sides or the rear of
the home where it's just not as prevalent. You don't
see it as much. But if the best facing spot
for you is the front of your house, they really
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can't say no legally the way the laws are written,
you know. And I'm not an attorney. I don't even
play one on TV who wants to. But in my experience,
most of the HOA associate they kind of know that,
so they're not hard to deal with. It's good not
been an issue. It's almost like a rubber I wouldn't
call it rubber stamp, but they would request and most
people are they want to put it on the side
of the rear of their house anyway, So not a
problem at all. Rick had a guy in Cape Coral
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I think it was, that wanted to put a ground
mountain in his front yard.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Oh yeah, in his front yard.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
I'm at my previous solar company that I was at
for a while.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We did a he was just a we're still working
with the guy. We just did a project for.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Him down in uh Abby Maria. But uh yeah, he
went panels on his house. We put like ten. Uh
he caused me back, I need seven more. Every facet
of his really beautiful home with a all cut up
architectural roof threezi's here, twosies there.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It looked terrible.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
It really did.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But he didn't care.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
And he calls me and goes, I want to put
seven in my front yard of a really nice neighborhood
in Cape Coral.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm like, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
We filed, he insisted, We filed, they rejected. He took
him to court, he won, and bam, bam bam. The
Florida the Florida Solar Solar Rights law just triggered.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What do you do like a carport or something that?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
No, No, we just put like seven panels on a
rack and got it engineered and permitted right in his
front yard.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, I'm not sure we would have participated in that.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yeah, that's I can I could see like a carport.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Yeah, we do, because.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We're doing a lot of car sports.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
We do carports. We do outbuildings. People put the metal
garages in huge, very very popular, put them on there,
very very solid pull bars, solid choice pole barns. Were
Have you ever seen the smart flower that opens up
looks like a daisy of the solar flower. The Solar
Flower called it. I think it's a smart flower. I've
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missed the smart smart Flower. It's there's no financial payback
on the smart flower over time. Like it's pricey.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
It's pricey and decorative, but it's cool.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
It's super cool. It's actually in certain situations makes perfect sense.
I think it has seven or ten solar panels on it.
It folds up like a flower. If the winds exceed
a certain amount, they all fold up on themselves and
close up and then it turns and tracks the sun.
But it's it's pricey. Yeah, it bounds twenty five to
thirty years, so that's not the seven to nine year
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part of the record.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
That's what's the maintenance on that. On the tracker and
make sure.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
People stuff that are either an organization that wants to
show that they're green or how green we are, or
an individual who says that just fits there and I
don't want the solar panels everywhere. So it's nice to
have that ability. And a lot of our customers do.
They can they can stroke a check for whatever they like. Yeah,
so nice, and it's it's it's up to them what
they want to do, and we'll try to make it
like that. Go for six figures of course, where it
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might be twenty thousand dollars worth of solar panels. But
but it's it is high tech and it's really.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Cool because you had like a four thousand pound concrete base.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Yeah and yeah really yeah, but it fits well on
top of the bunker. Yeah, it fits right.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
It looks like radar it kind of kind yeah, it
really does.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
But it's interesting how that works.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
And that's you know, a lot of innovations are coming
along with the panels because again you see cities like
a Punta Gorda Lashly Park they got a solar panels on.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, there was an FP and L project probably
ten years ago or so.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, you know, stuff like that works. Great way
to do it if you don't want to put it on.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Your house, Absolutely a million million ways to do it.
And the ground mounts very very happy how our ground
mounts are turning out. If you have some property, you
can go out in a pasture or a field, provide
some shade structure underneath it. Most of the people we
have it, they have goats in the area and they
keep the grass cut down underneath it. So it's kind
of interesting.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
And it a lot of times when you get into
these bigger projects and if you want to have a
ground mounted system. If say you're on ten acres out
in Arcadie or off King's Highway or seventeen or Punta
Gorda or wherever, there's not a lot of guys that'll
do that. You can call ten solar companies and you'll
get ten no's. And if you call the eleventh one
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and it's S seven Solar, we're gonna say, yeah, we
can do that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We've done it. Here's pictures, here's our jobs that we've done.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
And it's it's fun because working with Todd has in
my fifteen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Years of experience, Todd's experience, now.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
We're coming to we've come together and really we'll take
on any project. If it's workable and it makes sense,
we'll put it together for you and figure out a
way to make it work.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So it's really a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Yeah, and we're generally able to do it affordably big
you know, there have enough time, energy and money, you
can do just about anything. But you have to be smart,
you know. So we're trying to do it the right
way from not taking advantage of anybody, be very very
fair in our pricing, very competitive on our pricing, and
go that way the Have you seen the big solar
farms that FPL is putting up, well the same they're huge.
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Well that shows you that even the power companies or
Antiko and any number of them have solar farms here
in Florida because the sun's up all the time. They
wouldn't do it if it didn't make financial sense for them.
And then they're allowing the consumer and from some of
these power companies to participate and basically least the solar
panels that are on the solar farm, which is great,
but I guess I want to have control of my
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own power. That goes back to my I'm in control
of what I do, how I do it, and how
I do it moving forward, and that if it's a
switch somebody else can shut off or fail at I
don't want that part of my power structure.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I always think it's better on the house than destroying
a bunch of land.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Yeah, absolutely for your solar farm. And what's interesting about
the panels on the home, they've become more attractive. They
almost all have a dark black look to them and
they fade into the background after a while. If you've
ever painted a room a different color and the first
few times you walk in, you go, oh my god,
look at that blue or that John Deere green you
put on the wall, and then after about a month,
three weeks, two weeks, you don't even notice it when
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you walk in. Now maybe you your house guests do
when they walk in when you don't. So in the
I've had customers that was in a neighborhood with an
HOA and they were concerned saying, I'm not even sure
we can have solar panels in this neighborhood. I don't
think I've seen any in the neighborhood. Well, then I'm
driving down the street is I'm leaving, and I count
three within two blocks. So they do fade into the
background after a while that they're done correctly. You just
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don't see them. So esoterically they work fine, and I
actually get a smile on my face with I see
solar panels.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
I have twenty eight panels on my house, of which
like twenty three of them are right on the front
of my house.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's just the way my house set up.
Speaker 10 (29:21):
I had to do it that way, and I'll still
get the solar guys door knocking me.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that's how unobtrusive they are.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
They don't even notice.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That they're you know, they're staring them right in the
face there.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
But one thing I did want to bring up is
this past week, since that cold friend had what a
week ago, we're down in the sixties at night.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
A couple of advantages to those cooler temperatures is solar
is much more efficient in a little bit cooler temperatures,
although they're really high efficient at our temperatures normally in
the summer. But my pool was starting to get cold.
Luckily I have seven or eight I think seven, so
pool heating panels also just turn on that heater cover
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the pool at night.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
My pools back up to eighty seven degrees yesterday.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
And so if you like that warm, toasty pool, we'll
help you out with that too, because.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
We can keep it warm and at really no charge.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
There's no cost of operation of solar pool heating, which
is another avenue that we do at S seven Solar.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Yeah, the best bang for your buck is the direct
solar pool heating because it's just it's very efficient. You're
already paying to cycle water through your pool pump anyway,
and that's the pump that moves the water up onto
the roof. It's a great deal that's not affected by
any kind of tax incentive or anything like that either.
So we've ramped that up. We've got a good crew
guys that handle that and do a really nice job.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But it's not nearly the cost of solar electric panels.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It's you can pop that on one of your smaller
credit cards, a good Father's Day gift and purchase quite literally.
A lot of people do when they know the grand
kids are coming down this season and they say, hey,
they want to have a nice warm pool for their
kids to get into and their grandkids and it's worth
every penny to see the smile on their face when
they jump in that nice toasty water, and then you
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get to take advantage of it too.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
But if they're coming down for Christmas break on December fifteenth,
don't call us on the tenth.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You got it. We need a little notice. We have
people call us, hey, I need this in three days,
and yeah, you know.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
Sometimes we can accommodate a rush job, but it's before
you have some notice.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What are you buying a VCI? Yeah, takes a little
bit more than that.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
We got to take another break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 14 (31:31):
No doubts about it. You have become a great show man.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Ken Love Joyce coming right back with more. Charlotte County
Speaks News Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So I had my little costume.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
I was physically ready. I was preparing myself. I did
not try on the costume prior to Halloween. Do you
remember this? This is an obscure one, but on the
side of the box.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I remember this.
Speaker 14 (31:53):
On my Superman costume, it actually said do not attempt
to fly. They printed that as a warning because kids
were putting it on and going off of roofs. You know,
I love the idea of the kid who's stupid enough
to think he actually is Superman, but smart enough to
check that box before he goes off the roof. So anyway,
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but my hopes were up. I was thinking that this
is probably the same exact costume that Superman wears himself.
And you put these things on, it's not exactly the
super fit that you are hoping for. It looks more
like Superman's pajamas, is what it looks like. It's all
kind of loose and flowing, and the neckline kind of
comes down about their flimsy little ribbon string in the bag.
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Plus my mother makes me wear my winter coat over
the costume. Anyway, I don't recall Superman wearing a jacket,
not like I had cheap corduroy phony fur. Oh I'm Superman,
but it's a little chilli out and I've got this cheap,
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little ten year old kid's jacket.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
To watch.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Tie News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM
WCCF nine forty eight here at Charlotte County speaks a
little golden near ring twilight zone.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And before that, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
I guess in every Seinfeld episode there is a there
is a Superman doll.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Somewhere in the set. It moves around every episode. I've
heard that it is. It's on the bookshelf or in
the kitchen or that's cute.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
So when you watch Seinfeld gives you like a where's
WALDO find the Superman dow that's nice.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
I did not know that useless knowledge there.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
It is Rick.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Rick is an expert.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Rick is an expert useless novel. Well that's a good show. Great,
I still watch it in Netflix.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Hilarious show. So are you guys going to be eating
some chicken? And waffles Today it's National Chicken and Waffles Day.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I've never had the combo. I haven't either.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
I had, Yeah, yeah, LeRoy's has it like I always
get the meat low.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
Do you like chicken? And I like chicken?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So do you? Is it you put syrup on?
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I guess yeah, they got syrup here on the plate
and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Really, it's quite good.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Actually, first time I ever had it at all places.
I'm a Southern boy. You think I'd have had it before?
Was it Walt Disney World?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
One morning?
Speaker 9 (34:40):
You know, you get there and we'd been driving all
day and had my kids, and the little stand we
found that was open served chicken and waffles, so we
gave it a shot.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It was good. Was it at Disney level?
Speaker 9 (34:49):
At like in Disney World? In Disney a little shit
like almost like.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
A four hundred dollars chicken and waffles?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Yeah, it was great. It was the best, better, absolutely,
But you drive all that distance, you know, it was
probably probably one of the better meals I've had it Disney.
Better than the space ship burger things, remember those I
do not?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Or the what's the what's that? Ice cream?
Speaker 8 (35:13):
They call it?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And it comes in the cup at its room temperature.
And the dots. Oh, the dots.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
The dots, Yes, I have, I I had those that
what's the water park in Cape Coral Splash, sun Splash,
sun Splash, I have the they got they have, they
had the dots there.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
There's no uh, no processed chemicals in any of those.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I'm certain it's dry ice.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
That's that's why they're little dots. Really yeah, huh liquid
liquid nitrogen.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I don't know. Some things. They just don't eat one
of them. They're pretty tasty.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
So before I forget, I have to make a shout out.
We got two of our crews out there, run by
Jason and Vince. I think they're listening in and also
Richard Rock doing a great job, doing a great job
keeping keeping the stuff going. It's interesting we're here. We
have people cruise in the field because the first thing
we're going to do is get out and go visit
and and see the job sites and make sure everything's
progressing as we expect it to. We also haven't let
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anybody know how to get ahold of us, so it's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That would be yeah, probably beneficial for you.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
So I've been told I speak too quickly, too quickly,
I'm going to be sustinct, think as I stumble over
those words. So you got a pen and a piece
of paper. Our phone number is nine four one three
eight zero two one two zero. Again that's nine four
one three eight zero two one two zero, and we'll
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get right back with you. Our website is www for
the world Wide Web dot S sevensolar fl dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Which to do the WWS.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
It's just kind of fun. It auto loads, autoloads. They
know that the S seven, the letter S the number
seven s O L A r f L dot com
three eighty.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Twenty one twenty. There you go. There you go, s
like Sam seven solar So it's good. Actually, era see
it is zero.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
It is zero, and the pretty proud of our website.
We've got some of our jobs there it. Take take
a look at some of the pictures. It's a lot
of fun. We don't drive you crazy, we don't track you,
we don't send you emails and drive you crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Solarfl dot com. Yeah, check it out.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We enjoy it. Yeah. Any guys are good at it too.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I got to tell you.
It's an interesting business. It's a great it's the construction business,
which is full of all the things go with doing construction,
especially on people's homes, because people, when it's their home,
they're very, very very invested in that and they should be,
and we treat it just like it like it should be.
So we want to do things we would expect people
to do for us. When we're taking care of you,
We're going to do the best we can to be
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here for you now, both before, during and after the sale.
And it's very important to we can track your system
as it goes, make sure it's working correctly. If there's
an issue, we're gonna be Johnny on the spot there
to take care of you.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
And it takes what a week put up a system
on a house.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
It depends really depends from one one to twenty one days.
It really depend on the system. Some of the more
involved systems do take longer and that's the longest one.
We took twenty one days. Yeah, but we've done them
as quick as one day. Just really depends what you're
what you're looking to do, and how your system lays out.
But whatever that does take out the cost of you
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per WAD is pretty much the same.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It's not.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
It's not a big, huge, crazy difference from start to finish.
It's just the volume of the system, the volume of
the batteries you're going to do and how we maneuver
that under system. And you know, we do other things
for people. We help them reconfigure their electrical system sometimes
when when it makes sense for them to do that,
and that does take a little bit extra time. Everything
is engineered, everything is permitted, we're licensed, we're insured. We're
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a local company that are invested in the area and
we're invest the same time in you to make sure
you have a great system you're happy with.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
And one thing that's pretty cool is the building departments,
whether it be Puna, Gorda, Northport, Charlotte County, Sarasota County,
well maybe not Sarasota so much, but those other three.
I mean they are turning permits around in a few days. Yeah,
we used to wait two, three, four weeks to get
a permit. It's usually turned within four or five working days.
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So shout out to the county. They're really streamlined, at
least on our run.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I don't know how it is.
Speaker 9 (39:12):
And the other project we've streamlined what we do as well.
That's true because we know what they're looking for and
what's important to the county when they're doing the permit process,
so we're stopping problem before they start. That knowledge is
priceless in that effect. You know, when you first start
doing this, you you don't know what each individual jurisdiction
is looking for. Each one is a little bit different,
and all of our licensing is up to date, and
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we don't have to go through we don't have to
rebuild the entire system again just to get another permit going.
Speaker 10 (39:40):
So yeah, it's it's been nice to deal with the
counties and it has it's not that busy either now too,
so you can walk into the building department and talk
to a person within ten or fifteen minutes if there's
an issue. So kudos to the Charlotte County Building Department,
which ten years ago I would have never thought I'd
say that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So it was a lot different, a lot different in
the past.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Yeah, and we and it's nice. I've actually had in
out in DeSoto County and gave a quote to one
of the inspectors. They were positively impressed by the work
we did, and I took that as probably one of
the greatest compliments we ever got. Where of an inspector
asked you to give him a price. You're doing something.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Right, yeah, so definitely cool.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Makes it simple and simple for the homeowner as well.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
And once again S sevensolar fl dot com and the
phone number three eight zero two one two zero three
eight zero two one two zero.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Good job kat now scanning. Can you could make a
living with you?
Speaker 9 (40:36):
You might want to consider a job you got you
gotta face for the radio.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I do, I do, indeed. So who's it going to be?
Mariners or Blue Jays? I think? Uh?
Speaker 10 (40:49):
I think the Blue Jays are going to win tonight
and they are in Toronto. They are in Toronto, and
it's gonna I'm I have to fight with my company.
Who's into from Detroit visiting me. They're gonna want to
watch football. I'm gonna want to watch Game seven of
the ALC.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
They don't want to watch the Lions lose to the
box today.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I don't know both the teams. That game could go. Yeah, right,
it is gonna be a good game. Definitely gonna be
a good game.
Speaker 10 (41:15):
But I think the Dodgers are just going to clean
the floor with a man show haze.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It's amazing. Dodgers are too good.
Speaker 8 (41:22):
Yeah, they really are. They're they're the new franchise. Used
to be the Yankees. Now it's the Dodgers, back to back.
Shohatani playing like he.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Did, absolutely am He is the S seven solar of
the base.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
That's true. We had home runs every day.
Speaker 8 (41:43):
You can too call S seven zilar three eight zero,
twenty one twenty.
Speaker 10 (41:47):
So when we leave here today, what we're going to check.
We're doing a two battery install for us, a full
whole home backup, just batteries only.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Oh hello, and uh with over other projects.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
We're going out to finalize a ground mountain system and
in ARCADIAA.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, so we're just taking care of business with batteries. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
I think they're towering five different buildings.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, it's cool job, super cool. That's a fun project.
It is.
Speaker 9 (42:19):
We like things different, We like things at work.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yeah, that always helps helps you.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
Yes, we like to bring the power of the sun
to southwest Florida.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
What we do with no red eyes, No true.
Speaker 10 (42:33):
I live real close to this right here in Port Charlotte.
Pad's a little further up north in Venice off Forever Road.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
But uh yeah, I'm a I'm a Sarasota native. I'm
born and raised here, did live in pun of Order
for about twenty years, and I've made it back into
Sarasota County, which I think is kind of interesting because
I saw a study in the past that people end
up within just a few miles where they started in
the greatest percentage of lives. Really, that's absolutely happened to
me that after However, many years later, I've moved back
within a couple of miles where I was born and raised.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Very interesting.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
I was tried to get back Spokane and radio just
never played out.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, well it's cold there, isn't it is. I don't mind.
It's like a rainforest up there. Now that's on the
other side of the stage. You got all four seasons
where I'm at.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
Oh really yeah, probably not a whole lot different than
your Michigan place.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, probably, I would think.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
Well, I didn't really appreciate Florida until I moved away
for a number of years. For I served in the
US Marine Corps and lived in Atlanta for about nine years,
and I really did not appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (43:30):
Yeah, Atlanta will make you appreciate Florida. Yes, just the
traffic alone.
Speaker 9 (43:34):
Yeah, it was interesting. And the Marine Corps made me
appreciate how nice our beaches are and how nice our
weather is, because if they could take me someplace cold,
nasty and wet, they did and it makes you a better,
stronger person. But man, Florida is nice.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
Indeed, it is all right, boys once again. S seven
solarfl dot com area code nine four one three eight
zero two to one two zero.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Give them a call.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
Get your solar hurry up. If you're going to do
it on your house. You only got a couple of
months left.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
Yeah, you have to have it in.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Its in, you have to have it paid for, paid for.
We can work with you on installation. Yeah, all right,
we'll make it work. Okay, thank you sir, Thank you guys. Thanks.
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Speaker 1 (03:24):
And there we all are.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Like to welcome the boys from S seven, Todd and Rick.
Speaker 9 (03:30):
How you doing great, Good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's going on. How you doing? We're just busy. It's fine.
It's really careful.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Be careful what you wish and pray for, because it
could and will come true.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
So suler's doing good right now, well, and it should be.
Really people need to start taking advantage of the subsidies
while they're still around.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
Yeah, and the end of the year the thirty percent
Federal income text credit disappears. So we're making plans for
strategury for twenty twenty six. But right now, with the
thirty percent residential money, it's a big chunk of change
can really help and make things more affordable. We're doing
it seems like we're doing lots of folks that have
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existing solar electric systems that either we installed or someone
else installed, because there's we've talked in the past about
the door owners, the door knockers.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And you know those guys.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
They show up, install your stuff and then you never
hear from again. But luckily we're around so we can
come and take carry you do service work. But really
we're getting a tons of calls from to add storage,
add battery storage to existing solar electric systems. So that's
kind of been probably what seventy percent of our stuff recently.
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Yeah, there's been a big shift. It used to be
you would sell solar and the battery was an add on,
So now even the new system calls are battery plus solar.
It's almost like they're making their Wanting to buy a
backup generator for the home is the main impetus, especially
all the hurricanes and the craziness that goes on in
the world. People want to be self sufficient, and instead
of investing the money in a backup generator and digging
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up your yard and stocking pro paane and having mechanics
come check it out twice a year and being upset
when it doesn't work, they just put a battery in
system then that has more capacity than the generator and
you recharge it with the solar panels. So the shift
has gone from solar and maybe we'll add a battery
to battery plus solar because quite often in the past,
the solar was the more expensive component or less expensive component,
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and the battery was more It's flipped now where the
solar can sometimes be the more expensive and the battery
is the less expensive component. It's those economic laws that work.
Once you reach a certain point and a certain support
of saturation, the cost comes down to the consumer, and
that's actually going to help offset the thirty percent tax
credit because the stuff is less expensive than it's ever
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been even before the tax credit. So if you can
take advantage of it and the timing works, please go ahead.
But even after the fact, it's going to be a
better way to go, and you can make a great
financial case for it, in addition to the fact that
there is no price you can pay that you won't
pay to take care of your family when things are bad.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And I would say from I don't know, Ted, what
do you think.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Probably in the last twenty four to thirty six months,
the price of battery storage has probably dropped by fifty
to sixty percent, say at.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Least forty And we've actually got become a much more
cognizant of it and able to adapt it to different
systems that people may have. Because every situation is unique.
We're almost like a custom builder for solar systems for people.
We're not a cookie cutter operation. We don't come through
a neighborhood and sell forty solar systems that are all
the same. Basically, everyone is unique and different, and we've
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found how to extremeline that and make it more efficient
with good quality components that in the long term cost
a lot less money. So that's helped a lot as well.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's been a lot of fun solving those problems too.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
For folks that you know, you have a lot of
elderly foll with, you know, of the one of them
might be on a seepat machine or oxygen generator, and
it just gives peace of mind to that that family
or that old older customer to know that if they
do lose power in a hurricane or just in irregular
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power outage, that they're going to have good, reliable energy
in their house, which a lot of times as a
matter of life and death.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And for some of these folks.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yeah, and you know, you lose power and there's there's
a lag time with the generator, you got to go
out and start it, unless even if it's an auto
generating one, there's still going to be a few seconds.
But with the solar, it's a seamless transition. You almost
don't even know that you've flipped over to the batteries.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Pretty instantaneous. And after a hurricane Ian i think it
was Florida Solar Energy Center put out a report a
few months later at like thirty one percent of the
permanently installed generators, the ones that cost twenty twenty five
grand and they bury their propane tank. But thirty one
percent failed. Either they didn't start and run at all,
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or they ran for a while, or for whatever reason,
they just didn't work. They are mechanical components and they
need maintenance and proper upkeep, where batteries and solar panels
they just kind of work.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They just almost quite that easy.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
But if they're going to have a problem, it's usually
early on. Like almost any electrical component, there's no moving parts.
It uses a lot of solid state components. It's a
mature technology now, it's not experimental. It's come a long
ways from the days of the twelve old systems that
the off grid survivalists would use out there. It's become
a very, very very solid system, and it really does
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make you feel good when your power stays on. Other
people don't liking it to a ups you would put
on your computer, but you're putting on your entire home
and it just works that smooth and that easily. You
don't have to refuel it from an outside source, have
a big truck come in track how much power pain
you have left over time and you don't have to
worry about that. And also the the components that produce
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carbon monoxide. One of my biggest fears when I run
a generator in my home is that I'm going to
poison my family to death while we're trying to stay cool.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You take a long.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Nap, yeah, because it's odorless, it's colorless. And every once
in a while you hear a story, especially during the winter,
when people are using some type of heater or a
generator and they poison their entire family. I mean, how
would you live with yourself?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, you wouldn't you be dead?
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Well, well, hopefully if that happened. You know, I don't
want to be around if I did that to my kids.
So during a year before I put my batteries in,
we had carbon monoxide detector went off in the middle
of the night in my garage and never really figured
out why there was. I took another one in there
and it didn't read it. So the actual carbon monoxide
detector may have gone bad. But you know, before I
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put the batteries in, I'm out there snaking cables out
into my driveway and putting it as far as I
can between my trucks and hurricanes still going on, and
I'm trying to crank up generator and make sure all
that I'm not going to catch my house on fire?
Are poison anyway to death? Now with the batteries, I
don't have that worry.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And who needs the hassle.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
You don't need the hassle and the cost, and we
get when you do something for a living, you focus
in on how much things are. Now it's twenty thousand dollars,
it's thirty thousand dollars, And then you back up and go, now,
what did I just pay for my car? I just
paid seventy thousand dollars for the car. I drive it
back and forth to work every day. And for half
the price of that, I can put in a system
that provides all the power for the rest of my
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life as long as I want to live in the car,
and a backup battery system where I'm in charge of
my own power. So financially seems like a lot of money. Oh,
that's a lot, But realistically, in the whole scheme of things,
it's not. So for less than the price of a
nice car, you can provide power for your family and
your home for as long as you choose to live there,
and then you provide that extra value to the home
when you do go to sell it, and national Associate
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Home Builders has said it adds about a four percent
to your value your home having solar and I'm sure
having battery systems that back up and work will do
even more.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
We got to take our first break and we'll be
back with more on news Radio fifteen eighty. There you
fill my head with such from propaganda.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
More propaganda coming up with Ken Lovejoy and Charlotte County Speaks,
News Radio fifteen eighty WC. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Even the Atlantic, the Atlantic, that liberal publication.
Speaker 12 (11:21):
Even they couldn't spin Jasmine Crockett. You know Jasmine Crockett again,
she is like a character out of Idiocracy.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
The mouth on this individual.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
Again, it's it's all a show, quite frankly, the way
that she acts everything. Well, they did a piece on
Jasmine Crockett and they reported on Jasmine Crockett actually has
a picture of herself a headshot as the home screen
on her phone. Yeah, they started doing a little research
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into her and guess what, she threw a hissy fit
and told him to shut the entire interview down. I
don't this's Dallas. I mean, who votes for this? What's
wrong with you people there in Dallas? Watch Dog on
Wall Street dot.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Com Raven here.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
Hips sparks that from fame the tips echodvoices that she
less beard, Let's die.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It's about that time. It's about that witchy woman time. Halloween.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
You got a gig on Halloween with the man there.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
As a matter of fact, Yeah, we were invited to
play at the the S seven Halloween Bass in Todd's
driveway and he thinks he's oh that's he wants a
cheap band.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I live off of River Road in the Stony Brooks
subdivision and they have lots and lots and lots of
children come through for Halloween. So we're gonna have Rick's
band play. They're a little monster bash going for us
there as we give away candy water bottles to the
parents in neon glow arm bands to keep the children safe.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What is that nice?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Is that it's usually on the thirty first.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
You know, I'm just saying what days that fall on Friday?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's a Friday.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
That's awesome. Yeah, it should be a good time.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Yeah, we were at Tiki Bar last night over there
at the four Points in the afternoon for the sunset show.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, fun.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
It's weather's been great, so come see JJ and the
bad habits.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So back to S seven Solar.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Yes, sir, sell me, sell ya. Well, you don't really
have to sell it. It's so apparent that it's a
good deal. It kind of sells itself. Actually, we take
great care of people. That's what we try to do.
We are a local solar company. Solar salespeople are right
up there with car salesman, attorneys and politicians on some
people's list, mostly because of the door knocking that gets
done where these.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Groups find out they know even less than car dealers.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Well there're a lot of them are former car guys
and they have sales groups. I didn't realize when I
got into the business that you didn't have to be
a contractor. Like we are a li solar contractor. So
we started. We sell it, we design it, we permit it.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You're remember the CDBA, I remember.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
The CDBIA, the FHBA, the Chamber of Commerce for Northbord,
Charlotte County, you name it, we do it. And we
are a local, local, local, and that really paid dividends
for people after the hurricanes because no one was here
to take care of them. Because all of these people
were from out of town, where we are local, so
we tried to become the local source. We built our
business one customer at a time, and they told two friends,
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and they told two friends, and they told two friends.
And that still is the case. Most of our business
is referral, either from one of the great organizations you
mentioned or from people who've had experiences with us, so
that's very important to us. Had a gentleman the other night.
We're in the middle of an install and before the
power is put on permanent, we had a temporary system
in place. At eight thirty at night, it was turning
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on and off every thirty seconds, so he called us.
I was over at his house within about twenty minutes fixed.
The problem was relatively minor. It was just a software
glitch that we corrected, and thirty minutes later he's back
ready to get, you know, get a good night's sleep.
And since then we've completed the system and it's up
and running with no glitches. But he was said, I
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was really surprised you answered the phone, I said, and
then I was doubly shocked that you came over. I
was like, in my mind, only that's what you do
when you're a local guy and you have to live
with the people that you do business with.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
And that was like eight thirty nine o'clock Friday night,
isn't that if I remember?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hey Coller, you're on the air. Hello, Hi, you're on
the air.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Is that Rick Beach that's sitting there?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It is? It is Rick Beach as sitting here. Rick.
Speaker 14 (16:40):
This is Ken.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Give me a call today. I got your stuff ready
and I want to get a quote on doing my house.
Oh okay, who's this again? Ken to Maystrom? Oh?
Speaker 13 (16:50):
Oh me? No o.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Guys doing good?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Yeah, you could be a little more engaging on the phone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know there, Ken, know who the hell you are? What?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Have you been to his store?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
I've seen ron Ron Bates did a fantastic job painting
the outside, but I haven't been inside the new store yet.
It is uh sorry, thanks?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
What type of He doesn't take drums, he doesn't take compliments?
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Well, can't beat it.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Well, Kenny's a real conversationalist. Ken, if you're still listening,
I'll hit you up.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right after the show.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
So does he want to do his home or does
you want to do We talked about the business.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
We talked about the store when he first moved in,
but it's a little it'd be easier if it was
all on one meter, but he's got four different six
air conditioners, so he's only been in a few months.
Who doesn't really have a track marker, But I think
that might be on the horizon for a Strums, which
is just a beautiful, beautiful store. Yeah, they really did
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a bang up job over there.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
So the majority of our business is residential. We do
do commercial and light commercial, and the tax ramifications for
building owners is outstanding and that's not going away, so
you can you know, part of the reason the commercial side,
part of the reason the homeowners were getting the thirty
percent tax credit wasn't just because they wanted to push
solar and clean energy, is that as a business, you
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can depreciate any asset you purchase, and certain assets you
can depreciate very rapidly. Solar you can depreciate up to
one hundred percent the first year, so that's quite a
savings off of your tax rates. Your average tax rate
is twenty eight twenty nine percent. You're picking up your
thirty percent right away. And on the commercial side, you
can get it where it costs about half because of
the tax ramifications of it. We're on the residential side,
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we didn't have that ability. So that's what that thirty
percent really was designed to do. Originally was kind of
even the playing field where a consumer can have the
same advantages as a large company, but those the companies,
especially even like rental companies, people have small and large
apartment buildings is another revenue stream. So we've done some
situations where people will meter the entire apartment complex, say
a sixteen unit apartment complex, put it solar on it,
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get the tax credit, take the depreciation, and now they're
getting one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars a month
from each individual unit as revenue to the company, which
really helps evaluation if they ever go to sell it
or finance it. It's really interesting. It's very intricate, but
we're becoming much better at it, and it just makes
a lot of sense for a lot of people, and
the accountants love it.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Yeah, and when you can use one hundred percent commercial
tax credit in year one along with the once again,
like Todd said, the tax credit for commercial is not
going away for a couple more years, but it takes
the return on investment for a commercial building, whether it
be a barber shop or a liquor store.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Down to less than four years. It really I don't.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Understand why every small business doesn't have solar on their property,
especially if they own the building. Well, that's an impediment
to many business owners they're leasing their physical property. But
if you're a business owner and own your property, it
just makes so much sense at least a look at it,
because it's just a phenomenal value.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All right.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Absolutely, I'm a little off my game. So we're talking
about selling the solar, the resilience and the fact that
you stand on your own two feet having your own
power is probably the biggest single reason I think people
are doing solar power. Everybody wants to be nice to
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the environment, everybody wants to save money. But I want
to be in control of my own power future. I
don't want it in the hands of some monopoly. I
don't want it in the hands of some government. I
don't want in the hands or whims of anyone. I
want to have power for my house, power of my family.
Lock it in, own it and it's mine and I'm
not depending on anybody else help me out. And then
in addition to that, once you have your own solar power,
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you can provide your own water if you have a well,
so you can truly be self sufficient, you know, moving
forward with the solar it does save money, It is
good for the environment, but mostly.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's good for you.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Solar well pump, you can your power from your roof
in the house.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
The same way it's power now, just we're powering your
panels from in an awkward situation when the power's out,
it's it's not good if you don't have water. And
we've done recently, we've been doing a bunch of bigger
projects out in Arcadia where those folks are on wells
and we're doing battery storage and solar panels just for
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those situations. Hey, I need to get my cow's water
if we're out of power, and it kind of sucks
to go out there with your little old cranky, cranky pump.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
You know, kind of cranks a big portion of our business.
Or people who've built their forever home, you know, they
they've been looking to do. They built a piece of property.
They've got some property either on the water or in
the country. They've got a couple of acres and they
want to make their forever home, so they're locking everything in.
They're getting their own power, their own water, their own
space where they want to be for the remainder of
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their adult lives. And that really makes a lot of
sense when you're doing that. Other than that, you know,
you'd be into place seven to ten years for it
to make sense to keep solar on your home when
it pays off, not counting what you pick up when
you sell it that you get that back, so it's
actually little bit less than that. You know, five years,
you can make a pretty good case if you're going
to be in the house seven to ten years, make
a great case if this is your forever home. I
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don't know why you wouldn't have solar. You know, I'm
in a home in an hoa.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Ours to deal with.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
They they're fine because the way the state law is written,
they can't really say no. They can ask and request things.
But if you really push it, you can put solar
wherever you want to interest Rick, I do not recommend this,
because everybody wants to be a good neighbor. Most people
end up putting on the sides or the rear of
the home where it's just not as prevalent. You don't
see it as much. But if the best facing spot
for you is the front of your house, they really
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can't say no legally the way the laws are written,
you know. And I'm not an attorney. I don't even
play one on TV who wants to. But in my experience,
most of the HOA associate they kind of know that,
so they're not hard to deal with. It's good not
been an issue. It's almost like a rubber I wouldn't
call it rubber stamp, but they would request and most
people are they want to put it on the side
of the rear of their house anyway, So not a
problem at all. Rick had a guy in Cape Coral
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I think it was, that wanted to put a ground
mountain in his front yard.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Oh yeah, in his front yard.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
I'm at my previous solar company that I was at
for a while.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We did a he was just a we're still working
with the guy. We just did a project for.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Him down in uh Abby Maria. But uh yeah, he
went panels on his house. We put like ten. Uh
he caused me back, I need seven more. Every facet
of his really beautiful home with a all cut up
architectural roof threezi's here, twosies there.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It looked terrible.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
It really did.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But he didn't care.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
And he calls me and goes, I want to put
seven in my front yard of a really nice neighborhood
in Cape Coral.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm like, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
We filed, he insisted, We filed, they rejected. He took
him to court, he won, and bam, bam bam. The
Florida the Florida Solar Solar Rights law just triggered.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What do you do like a carport or something that?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
No, No, we just put like seven panels on a
rack and got it engineered and permitted right in his
front yard.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, I'm not sure we would have participated in that.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yeah, that's I can I could see like a carport.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Yeah, we do, because.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We're doing a lot of car sports.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
We do carports. We do outbuildings. People put the metal
garages in huge, very very popular, put them on there,
very very solid pull bars, solid choice pole barns. Were
Have you ever seen the smart flower that opens up
looks like a daisy of the solar flower. The Solar
Flower called it. I think it's a smart flower. I've
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missed the smart smart Flower. It's there's no financial payback
on the smart flower over time. Like it's pricey.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
It's pricey and decorative, but it's cool.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
It's super cool. It's actually in certain situations makes perfect sense.
I think it has seven or ten solar panels on it.
It folds up like a flower. If the winds exceed
a certain amount, they all fold up on themselves and
close up and then it turns and tracks the sun.
But it's it's pricey. Yeah, it bounds twenty five to
thirty years, so that's not the seven to nine year
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part of the record.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
That's what's the maintenance on that. On the tracker and
make sure.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
People stuff that are either an organization that wants to
show that they're green or how green we are, or
an individual who says that just fits there and I
don't want the solar panels everywhere. So it's nice to
have that ability. And a lot of our customers do.
They can they can stroke a check for whatever they like. Yeah,
so nice, and it's it's it's up to them what
they want to do, and we'll try to make it
like that. Go for six figures of course, where it
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might be twenty thousand dollars worth of solar panels. But
but it's it is high tech and it's really.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Cool because you had like a four thousand pound concrete base.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Yeah and yeah really yeah, but it fits well on
top of the bunker. Yeah, it fits right.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
It looks like radar it kind of kind yeah, it
really does.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
But it's interesting how that works.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
And that's you know, a lot of innovations are coming
along with the panels because again you see cities like
a Punta Gorda Lashly Park they got a solar panels on.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, there was an FP and L project probably
ten years ago or so.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, you know, stuff like that works. Great way
to do it if you don't want to put it on.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Your house, Absolutely a million million ways to do it.
And the ground mounts very very happy how our ground
mounts are turning out. If you have some property, you
can go out in a pasture or a field, provide
some shade structure underneath it. Most of the people we
have it, they have goats in the area and they
keep the grass cut down underneath it. So it's kind
of interesting.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
And it a lot of times when you get into
these bigger projects and if you want to have a
ground mounted system. If say you're on ten acres out
in Arcadie or off King's Highway or seventeen or Punta
Gorda or wherever, there's not a lot of guys that'll
do that. You can call ten solar companies and you'll
get ten no's. And if you call the eleventh one
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and it's S seven Solar, we're gonna say, yeah, we
can do that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We've done it. Here's pictures, here's our jobs that we've done.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
And it's it's fun because working with Todd has in
my fifteen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Years of experience, Todd's experience, now.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
We're coming to we've come together and really we'll take
on any project. If it's workable and it makes sense,
we'll put it together for you and figure out a
way to make it work.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So it's really a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Yeah, and we're generally able to do it affordably big
you know, there have enough time, energy and money, you
can do just about anything. But you have to be smart,
you know. So we're trying to do it the right
way from not taking advantage of anybody, be very very
fair in our pricing, very competitive on our pricing, and
go that way the Have you seen the big solar
farms that FPL is putting up, well the same they're huge.
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Well that shows you that even the power companies or
Antiko and any number of them have solar farms here
in Florida because the sun's up all the time. They
wouldn't do it if it didn't make financial sense for them.
And then they're allowing the consumer and from some of
these power companies to participate and basically least the solar
panels that are on the solar farm, which is great,
but I guess I want to have control of my
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own power. That goes back to my I'm in control
of what I do, how I do it, and how
I do it moving forward, and that if it's a
switch somebody else can shut off or fail at I
don't want that part of my power structure.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I always think it's better on the house than destroying
a bunch of land.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Yeah, absolutely for your solar farm. And what's interesting about
the panels on the home, they've become more attractive. They
almost all have a dark black look to them and
they fade into the background after a while. If you've
ever painted a room a different color and the first
few times you walk in, you go, oh my god,
look at that blue or that John Deere green you
put on the wall, and then after about a month,
three weeks, two weeks, you don't even notice it when
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you walk in. Now maybe you your house guests do
when they walk in when you don't. So in the
I've had customers that was in a neighborhood with an
HOA and they were concerned saying, I'm not even sure
we can have solar panels in this neighborhood. I don't
think I've seen any in the neighborhood. Well, then I'm
driving down the street is I'm leaving, and I count
three within two blocks. So they do fade into the
background after a while that they're done correctly. You just
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don't see them. So esoterically they work fine, and I
actually get a smile on my face with I see
solar panels.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
I have twenty eight panels on my house, of which
like twenty three of them are right on the front
of my house.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's just the way my house set up.
Speaker 10 (29:21):
I had to do it that way, and I'll still
get the solar guys door knocking me.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that's how unobtrusive they are.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
They don't even notice.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That they're you know, they're staring them right in the
face there.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
But one thing I did want to bring up is
this past week, since that cold friend had what a
week ago, we're down in the sixties at night.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
A couple of advantages to those cooler temperatures is solar
is much more efficient in a little bit cooler temperatures,
although they're really high efficient at our temperatures normally in
the summer. But my pool was starting to get cold.
Luckily I have seven or eight I think seven, so
pool heating panels also just turn on that heater cover
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the pool at night.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
My pools back up to eighty seven degrees yesterday.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
And so if you like that warm, toasty pool, we'll
help you out with that too, because.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
We can keep it warm and at really no charge.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
There's no cost of operation of solar pool heating, which
is another avenue that we do at S seven Solar.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Yeah, the best bang for your buck is the direct
solar pool heating because it's just it's very efficient. You're
already paying to cycle water through your pool pump anyway,
and that's the pump that moves the water up onto
the roof. It's a great deal that's not affected by
any kind of tax incentive or anything like that either.
So we've ramped that up. We've got a good crew
guys that handle that and do a really nice job.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But it's not nearly the cost of solar electric panels.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It's you can pop that on one of your smaller
credit cards, a good Father's Day gift and purchase quite literally.
A lot of people do when they know the grand
kids are coming down this season and they say, hey,
they want to have a nice warm pool for their
kids to get into and their grandkids and it's worth
every penny to see the smile on their face when
they jump in that nice toasty water, and then you
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get to take advantage of it too.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
But if they're coming down for Christmas break on December fifteenth,
don't call us on the tenth.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You got it. We need a little notice. We have
people call us, hey, I need this in three days,
and yeah, you know.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
Sometimes we can accommodate a rush job, but it's before
you have some notice.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What are you buying a VCI? Yeah, takes a little
bit more than that.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
We got to take another break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 14 (31:31):
No doubts about it. You have become a great show man.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Ken Love Joyce coming right back with more. Charlotte County
Speaks News Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So I had my little costume.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
I was physically ready. I was preparing myself. I did
not try on the costume prior to Halloween. Do you
remember this? This is an obscure one, but on the
side of the box.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I remember this.
Speaker 14 (31:53):
On my Superman costume, it actually said do not attempt
to fly. They printed that as a warning because kids
were putting it on and going off of roofs. You know,
I love the idea of the kid who's stupid enough
to think he actually is Superman, but smart enough to
check that box before he goes off the roof. So anyway,
(32:15):
but my hopes were up. I was thinking that this
is probably the same exact costume that Superman wears himself.
And you put these things on, it's not exactly the
super fit that you are hoping for. It looks more
like Superman's pajamas, is what it looks like. It's all
kind of loose and flowing, and the neckline kind of
comes down about their flimsy little ribbon string in the bag.
(32:40):
Plus my mother makes me wear my winter coat over
the costume. Anyway, I don't recall Superman wearing a jacket,
not like I had cheap corduroy phony fur. Oh I'm Superman,
but it's a little chilli out and I've got this cheap,
(33:01):
little ten year old kid's jacket.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
To watch.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Tie News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM
WCCF nine forty eight here at Charlotte County speaks a
little golden near ring twilight zone.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And before that, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
I guess in every Seinfeld episode there is a there
is a Superman doll.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Somewhere in the set. It moves around every episode. I've
heard that it is. It's on the bookshelf or in
the kitchen or that's cute.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
So when you watch Seinfeld gives you like a where's
WALDO find the Superman dow that's nice.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
I did not know that useless knowledge there.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
It is Rick.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Rick is an expert.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Rick is an expert useless novel. Well that's a good show. Great,
I still watch it in Netflix.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Hilarious show. So are you guys going to be eating
some chicken? And waffles Today it's National Chicken and Waffles Day.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I've never had the combo. I haven't either.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
I had, Yeah, yeah, LeRoy's has it like I always
get the meat low.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
Do you like chicken? And I like chicken?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So do you? Is it you put syrup on?
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I guess yeah, they got syrup here on the plate
and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Really, it's quite good.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Actually, first time I ever had it at all places.
I'm a Southern boy. You think I'd have had it before?
Was it Walt Disney World?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
One morning?
Speaker 9 (34:40):
You know, you get there and we'd been driving all
day and had my kids, and the little stand we
found that was open served chicken and waffles, so we
gave it a shot.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It was good. Was it at Disney level?
Speaker 9 (34:49):
At like in Disney World? In Disney a little shit
like almost like.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
A four hundred dollars chicken and waffles?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Yeah, it was great. It was the best, better, absolutely,
But you drive all that distance, you know, it was
probably probably one of the better meals I've had it Disney.
Better than the space ship burger things, remember those I
do not?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Or the what's the what's that? Ice cream?
Speaker 8 (35:13):
They call it?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And it comes in the cup at its room temperature.
And the dots. Oh, the dots.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
The dots, Yes, I have, I I had those that
what's the water park in Cape Coral Splash, sun Splash,
sun Splash, I have the they got they have, they
had the dots there.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
There's no uh, no processed chemicals in any of those.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I'm certain it's dry ice.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
That's that's why they're little dots. Really yeah, huh liquid
liquid nitrogen.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I don't know. Some things. They just don't eat one
of them. They're pretty tasty.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
So before I forget, I have to make a shout out.
We got two of our crews out there, run by
Jason and Vince. I think they're listening in and also
Richard Rock doing a great job, doing a great job
keeping keeping the stuff going. It's interesting we're here. We
have people cruise in the field because the first thing
we're going to do is get out and go visit
and and see the job sites and make sure everything's
progressing as we expect it to. We also haven't let
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anybody know how to get ahold of us, so it's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That would be yeah, probably beneficial for you.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
So I've been told I speak too quickly, too quickly,
I'm going to be sustinct, think as I stumble over
those words. So you got a pen and a piece
of paper. Our phone number is nine four one three
eight zero two one two zero. Again that's nine four
one three eight zero two one two zero, and we'll
(36:31):
get right back with you. Our website is www for
the world Wide Web dot S sevensolar fl dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Which to do the WWS.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
It's just kind of fun. It auto loads, autoloads. They
know that the S seven, the letter S the number
seven s O L A r f L dot com
three eighty.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Twenty one twenty. There you go. There you go, s
like Sam seven solar So it's good. Actually, era see
it is zero.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
It is zero, and the pretty proud of our website.
We've got some of our jobs there it. Take take
a look at some of the pictures. It's a lot
of fun. We don't drive you crazy, we don't track you,
we don't send you emails and drive you crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Solarfl dot com. Yeah, check it out.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We enjoy it. Yeah. Any guys are good at it too.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I got to tell you.
It's an interesting business. It's a great it's the construction business,
which is full of all the things go with doing construction,
especially on people's homes, because people, when it's their home,
they're very, very very invested in that and they should be,
and we treat it just like it like it should be.
So we want to do things we would expect people
to do for us. When we're taking care of you,
We're going to do the best we can to be
(37:39):
here for you now, both before, during and after the sale.
And it's very important to we can track your system
as it goes, make sure it's working correctly. If there's
an issue, we're gonna be Johnny on the spot there
to take care of you.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
And it takes what a week put up a system
on a house.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
It depends really depends from one one to twenty one days.
It really depend on the system. Some of the more
involved systems do take longer and that's the longest one.
We took twenty one days. Yeah, but we've done them
as quick as one day. Just really depends what you're
what you're looking to do, and how your system lays out.
But whatever that does take out the cost of you
(38:15):
per WAD is pretty much the same.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It's not.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
It's not a big, huge, crazy difference from start to finish.
It's just the volume of the system, the volume of
the batteries you're going to do and how we maneuver
that under system. And you know, we do other things
for people. We help them reconfigure their electrical system sometimes
when when it makes sense for them to do that,
and that does take a little bit extra time. Everything
is engineered, everything is permitted, we're licensed, we're insured. We're
(38:40):
a local company that are invested in the area and
we're invest the same time in you to make sure
you have a great system you're happy with.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
And one thing that's pretty cool is the building departments,
whether it be Puna, Gorda, Northport, Charlotte County, Sarasota County,
well maybe not Sarasota so much, but those other three.
I mean they are turning permits around in a few days. Yeah,
we used to wait two, three, four weeks to get
a permit. It's usually turned within four or five working days.
(39:07):
So shout out to the county. They're really streamlined, at
least on our run.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I don't know how it is.
Speaker 9 (39:12):
And the other project we've streamlined what we do as well.
That's true because we know what they're looking for and
what's important to the county when they're doing the permit process,
so we're stopping problem before they start. That knowledge is
priceless in that effect. You know, when you first start
doing this, you you don't know what each individual jurisdiction
is looking for. Each one is a little bit different,
and all of our licensing is up to date, and
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we don't have to go through we don't have to
rebuild the entire system again just to get another permit going.
Speaker 10 (39:40):
So yeah, it's it's been nice to deal with the
counties and it has it's not that busy either now too,
so you can walk into the building department and talk
to a person within ten or fifteen minutes if there's
an issue. So kudos to the Charlotte County Building Department,
which ten years ago I would have never thought I'd
say that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So it was a lot different, a lot different in
the past.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Yeah, and we and it's nice. I've actually had in
out in DeSoto County and gave a quote to one
of the inspectors. They were positively impressed by the work
we did, and I took that as probably one of
the greatest compliments we ever got. Where of an inspector
asked you to give him a price. You're doing something.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Right, yeah, so definitely cool.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Makes it simple and simple for the homeowner as well.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
And once again S sevensolar fl dot com and the
phone number three eight zero two one two zero three
eight zero two one two zero.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Good job kat now scanning. Can you could make a
living with you?
Speaker 9 (40:36):
You might want to consider a job you got you
gotta face for the radio.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I do, I do, indeed. So who's it going to be?
Mariners or Blue Jays? I think? Uh?
Speaker 10 (40:49):
I think the Blue Jays are going to win tonight
and they are in Toronto. They are in Toronto, and
it's gonna I'm I have to fight with my company.
Who's into from Detroit visiting me. They're gonna want to
watch football. I'm gonna want to watch Game seven of
the ALC.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
They don't want to watch the Lions lose to the
box today.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I don't know both the teams. That game could go. Yeah, right,
it is gonna be a good game. Definitely gonna be
a good game.
Speaker 10 (41:15):
But I think the Dodgers are just going to clean
the floor with a man show haze.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It's amazing. Dodgers are too good.
Speaker 8 (41:22):
Yeah, they really are. They're they're the new franchise. Used
to be the Yankees. Now it's the Dodgers, back to back.
Shohatani playing like he.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Did, absolutely am He is the S seven solar of
the base.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
That's true. We had home runs every day.
Speaker 8 (41:43):
You can too call S seven zilar three eight zero,
twenty one twenty.
Speaker 10 (41:47):
So when we leave here today, what we're going to check.
We're doing a two battery install for us, a full
whole home backup, just batteries only.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Oh hello, and uh with over other projects.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
We're going out to finalize a ground mountain system and
in ARCADIAA.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, so we're just taking care of business with batteries. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
I think they're towering five different buildings.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, it's cool job, super cool. That's a fun project.
It is.
Speaker 9 (42:19):
We like things different, We like things at work.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yeah, that always helps helps you.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
Yes, we like to bring the power of the sun
to southwest Florida.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
What we do with no red eyes, No true.
Speaker 10 (42:33):
I live real close to this right here in Port Charlotte.
Pad's a little further up north in Venice off Forever Road.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
But uh yeah, I'm a I'm a Sarasota native. I'm
born and raised here, did live in pun of Order
for about twenty years, and I've made it back into
Sarasota County, which I think is kind of interesting because
I saw a study in the past that people end
up within just a few miles where they started in
the greatest percentage of lives. Really, that's absolutely happened to
me that after However, many years later, I've moved back
within a couple of miles where I was born and raised.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Very interesting.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
I was tried to get back Spokane and radio just
never played out.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, well it's cold there, isn't it is. I don't mind.
It's like a rainforest up there. Now that's on the
other side of the stage. You got all four seasons
where I'm at.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
Oh really yeah, probably not a whole lot different than
your Michigan place.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, probably, I would think.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
Well, I didn't really appreciate Florida until I moved away
for a number of years. For I served in the
US Marine Corps and lived in Atlanta for about nine years,
and I really did not appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (43:30):
Yeah, Atlanta will make you appreciate Florida. Yes, just the
traffic alone.
Speaker 9 (43:34):
Yeah, it was interesting. And the Marine Corps made me
appreciate how nice our beaches are and how nice our
weather is, because if they could take me someplace cold,
nasty and wet, they did and it makes you a better,
stronger person. But man, Florida is nice.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
Indeed, it is all right, boys once again. S seven
solarfl dot com area code nine four one three eight
zero two to one two zero.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Give them a call.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
Get your solar hurry up. If you're going to do
it on your house. You only got a couple of
months left.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
Yeah, you have to have it in.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Its in, you have to have it paid for, paid for.
We can work with you on installation. Yeah, all right,
we'll make it work. Okay, thank you sir, Thank you guys. Thanks.
Fake news radio update on the way. We'll be back
on the other side of that with Dan.
Speaker 15 (44:19):
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