WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.120 And welcome to Cindy Stampo tap his nails on WBZ 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:06.679 News righted ten thirty. And let's get something straight before 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:08.679 I introduce everybody. I gotta listen to that opening all 4 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.400 the time. I don't scream and yell people all day. 5 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:15.000 So accurate, okay, yes, but if everybody would just do 6 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:17.440 their job correctly in the field, I would not have 7 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:18.440 to be yelling and screaming. 8 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:19.600 I agree with you on that, Okay. 9 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:20.000 Sure. 10 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.480 If these guys just came to work prepared and way 11 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:26.440 to go, and don't take ten steps forward and twenty 12 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.160 steps backwards and three steps, I would never yell again. 13 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:31.399 And I would be wearing a hot watch on my 14 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:33.280 chest if I see be push it's getting one of 15 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.079 those feelings, right, But you were looking at it. What 16 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:36.679 is she doing? What is she doing? Grab some salt, 17 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.439 Grab some salts. It's all these guys were. Okay, So 18 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.799 in the studio, I have tonight Jesse Foster yet against 19 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.560 my fiance's daughter. She's training. So when Sammy's out of town, 20 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.399 because Sam's been doing a lot of work for us 21 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.039 in Florida and in Boston, flying back and forth. The 22 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:55.079 girl we have and we have Jesse, and who is 23 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.679 in the studio. 24 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.000 Let's start, So, Rick Leo, I'm the pro manager at 25 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:59.799 the walt In location. 26 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.200 You're the promm. Okay. First of all, we need to 27 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.799 say what you are? Flooring the Core my favorite place. Okay. 28 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.680 So you're the pro manager of Waltham right. 29 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:08.159 Correct. 30 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.560 Okay, I'm Tooley and I'm the store manager for the 31 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:14.439 Dorchester location for flooring the Core. 32 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.760 Okay, I'm Mike Pretzy. 33 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.680 I'm the installation manager for Waltham, Florida Court. 34 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:21.640 Okay, perfect. Do you want to bring up your chair? 35 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.599 You feel like a little person? 36 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:24.120 He goes. 37 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.159 Really yea lucky with the seat? 38 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:29.120 Why'd you get the lone man's seat? 39 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:30.200 I can help you figure it out. 40 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.799 No, No, does your chair go up? Jess? 41 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:33.840 It does? 42 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:35.280 You have to press the lever? 43 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.640 Okay he's pressing? Can you can you get Can you 44 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.599 give him your cheer? Can you transfer please? Because he 45 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:49.239 looks like he's hiding. You know, I like that. I 46 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.799 like Duncan munchkins. But I'm feeling like I got a 47 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.159 little guy next to me. That's not a little guy. Okay, 48 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.599 we're good now again, I'm feeling much more comfortable. Okay, 49 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.879 So before we go on. Everybody knows that I do 50 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.760 a lot of shopping at Florida Coor for sure. Okay, 51 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.959 we're running there all the time, we're having it delivered, 52 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:13.800 and there's you know, Florida Court. To me, is goes 53 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.000 back to the day, and I have to tell a 54 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.039 story because I haven't told him very in quite a 55 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:24.159 few years. I was driving through Avon heading to I 56 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.960 don't even know something a key or I was going 57 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.919 up that way for something correct and I see this thing, 58 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.919 Florida Court, and I'm like, oh god, you know, let 59 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.479 me just stop in here. It's gonna be another home 60 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:40.120 deep bowie type smaamic bah bah bah. I started walking 61 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:43.439 up and down those ausles. I'm like, there's my crystal 62 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.479 white that I'm paying twenty five dollars a foot four. 63 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.919 I'm gonna kill my guy. Tell same package and same everything. 64 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.560 Right now, I'm walking, I'm walking. I'm grabbing samples, okay, 65 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.319 about five samples of things that I was using pink 66 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:06.120 ridiculous amount of money with my boutique dealer. Right Oh no, 67 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.439 it's not the same thing. I go do, same package 68 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.800 and same tile. What are you talking about? So that 69 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.280 was my first going wow, because I went in there 70 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.800 thinking I'm going to see ceramic tiles, I'm going to 71 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:22.639 see cheap things. Not only was the place done stunning 72 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.919 and it was clean, and you could walk through the 73 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.680 aisles and you could stand back and you could see it. 74 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.120 You could step back, you could grab the pieces, you 75 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.000 could roll the samples around, you could roll one sample 76 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.599 to another sample and see if the two samples came 77 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.759 together and worked. And from that point that it was 78 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.439 love at first sight for me with Floridacre. Right. So 79 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:44.400 people were like, you buy a tile of Florida, Yes, 80 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.319 I do. And people like, but you build ten twelve 81 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:52.240 thirty eight, Yeah, okay, and they have tile that's the 82 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.680 same place that you're paying eighteen nineteen dollars a foot 83 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.520 because you're not using your brains. Go to Florida Core 84 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.159 them a visit because they're buying cheaper because they're buying 85 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.639 a mask wall quantity, and the little boutique is only 86 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.199 buying so much at a time. They don't have as 87 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.719 much buying power. So to me, and the other thing 88 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.279 that was so impressive. Every store that I've been in 89 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:21.120 floor at Florid Decor. Everybody's happy there. Now some people 90 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.959 move on, they open up new locations, but the majority 91 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.839 and some people just move on because it's time. They 92 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.720 were young and they want to try something else. You're 93 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.360 not going to stop that. But if you go in 94 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.879 there and you're and you're purchasing stock, and you're doing 95 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.600 things the right way, you spend your time there, and 96 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:38.879 they move you to another store, open up another store. 97 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:41.720 I don't know if the funny part is, with all 98 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.759 the business I do with Florid Decorp. I've never reached 99 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.160 out to the president to say or write an email 100 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.480 and say, this is one heck of a company. You 101 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.279 haven't no. And I've been meaning to do it for 102 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.800 a year after year after year because I've rather I guess, 103 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.439 I guess I'd rather I already see how everybody works, 104 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.800 so that says something about the head of leaders of 105 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.399 that company that's number one and number two. I'd rather 106 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.240 give these guys on the floor of the credit Truthfully. 107 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.639 They're the ones because yeah, yeah, help you out. 108 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:11.240 And you don't get this in there? Excuse me? Do 109 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.839 you know where twenty four by forty eighths? I don't know. 110 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.439 Do you know where the fifty forty eighty four I 111 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.639 don't know. I go in some of the big box stores. 112 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.360 They gotta be running down every I don't know. Instead, 113 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.439 they find it with you. Come on, I'll walk with you. 114 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.160 We'll find it all. My twenty four by forty eight's 115 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:32.639 over here. But every once in a while there might 116 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.560 be a couple over here. So let's just check the aisle. Now. 117 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.720 You guys got the big slabs right there. You've got 118 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:38.560 so much going on. 119 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.360 But I've never ever and that's ever, Cindy Stumbo treatment. 120 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.879 Listen, it's not because I send people and. 121 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.319 Sent me there from my house and I can repeat 122 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:48.920 everything you just. 123 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:53.040 Said on my social media. I've sent more people to 124 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:57.480 floor in the cores. That's insane. It's just insane. And 125 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.000 I've never got to complaint back, never got to come 126 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.560 went back because people take their time to help. I know. 127 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:05.920 My nephew Mikey comes into your store. 128 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:07.560 Right, he's on speed dial with me. 129 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.600 He's on speed down here, right, So you know, but 130 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.600 there was a time where we was just avon. That 131 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.639 was it. Right now, Mike goes to wal dam. I 132 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.360 trust Mike those what's doing. I don't have to run 133 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.120 there and then I run there just to see what's up, 134 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.920 what's new? What we can use that's new? But it's 135 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.160 you guys are one great group of people. And know 136 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.720 I have to say this. I've walked into straight you know, 137 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.000 new locations. No one knows who I am. People are kind, 138 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.600 people are kind. I've never ever met anybody like. Ugh, 139 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:39.319 I don't want to be here, So we're to take 140 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.360 it out on you today. I personally haven't, So talk 141 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:44.959 to me now, you guys, talk to me. Tell me 142 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.079 what's going on with Fi de. 143 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.360 Cour Well, the newest thing, as I was showing you, 144 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.319 kitchen cabinets is our newest line that we're carrying quick ship. 145 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:53.920 I can get product to you in four or five 146 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.079 business days, Semi custom inside of two. 147 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.680 Weeks, Semi customer in two weeks. 148 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.800 Box box ready to go. 149 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.040 Really, you guys decide to now venture into cabinetry. 150 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.040 Yes, we've had the we've had countertops. Now we're going 151 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.319 to have the cabinets now for the full kitchen. They 152 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.879 can do vanities out of the same. It's new but 153 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.399 actually doing pretty good now. The pricing is very competitive 154 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:17.120 for anyone out there. 155 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.560 You have to help there to do all the design 156 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:20.199 for them. Huh. 157 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.720 We have a special team kitchen and bath specialist that'll 158 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.040 work with the pro or a homeowner just to design it, 159 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:27.480 lay it out and we can get a price for 160 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:28.439 you in a couple of days. 161 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:35.680 Really, jeeps, I just sent my girl, my son's girlfriend 162 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:39.480 to national number, okay, right to work in the kitchen department. 163 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.160 They're public company out too. They brought out national number, 164 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.639 which was my number. Yet I never thought to call 165 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:45.000 you guys. 166 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.279 What's the newest thing though, so less than two months. 167 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:50.879 It's new yep, and the traffic's coming in for that absolutely, 168 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:52.639 or it's the traffic coming for tile. 169 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.639 And then they realize, well, that's part of what we 170 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.319 do is Hey, a new introduction, a new product line. 171 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:00.240 Tell people about it. People are excited about it because yeah, 172 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.839 they have to supply it. But I turn around time 173 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.480 is probably the best thing off contract. 174 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.720 Great things. I see that you guys are doing full 175 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:08.360 slab pieces. 176 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.519 Now, the slab pieces. Yeah, so we have by twenty 177 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.199 five different skws available right now. 178 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.079 Yeah, and you got some really cool colors. I was 179 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.160 pulling them out last two weeks ago. There was pulling 180 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.680 them out going Okay, they gotta make them taller for 181 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:20.120 my house. 182 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.279 We know, so I have three skws that are ten 183 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.279 and a half feet tall. Now, oh you do, I 184 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.360 do very popular. That was that two year job sites 185 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.480 in the past two months. You have some book match ones. 186 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:32.519 I don't have just yet. I was at Woodland Road 187 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.399 and then Cabot Road by the way, so you were 188 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:35.039 I was. 189 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.840 So you see what I built, and you see every 190 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.240 one of my chepers and my floors, right, but you're 191 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.279 still seeing. I love those white footing. 192 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.480 I know you do. You But the last two palace 193 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:46.679 coming into the country. 194 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:48.879 I know I did. So what am I going to 195 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.200 do next? Now we are like going hold on, this 196 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.240 is the second white hold I thought we gotta go 197 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.200 to break. I'm Sinney Stumbling. You listen to Toughest Nails on WBZ. 198 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.759 We'll be right back, and welcome back to Toughest Nails 199 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.799 on w BZ. We're all grooving in the studio tonight 200 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.639 and welcome back to Top of Nails. I'm Cindy Stumple 201 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:05.440 and we're here with. 202 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.919 Jesse Foster and Rick Leo and Tuley. 203 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.519 Mike Pretzy and you're all from ware floor in the course. Okay, perfect, 204 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.200 So you can buy finally some of my job sites. 205 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:16.559 Very impressive. 206 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:17.919 I do do good job. 207 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.720 And the Harry Wooden Walk okay, beautiful. That was gorgeous. 208 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:22.240 It really was. 209 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.960 So you were on whittled In on the marble house 210 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.000 lots two and three. Oh they're both so yeah, so 211 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.360 it was finished and then the other one you see. 212 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.679 That his cabin was almost done at that point January. 213 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:39.559 Those are some very expensive. Yeah, but the slabs, you 214 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:44.120 do have slabs that can. So we have seventy units 215 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:49.039 that will be building in Newton right townhouses, really beautiful ones. 216 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:52.840 They're gonna look like what you saw on cabin, but 217 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.879 a smaller version. They're going to run away from nineteen 218 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.279 hundred to thirty eight hundred square feet. It's going to 219 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:03.120 kind of have that modern but glamor. But the soft 220 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:04.919 woods in there if you noticed. 221 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.559 Yeah, that was a semi Morden but really a cozy 222 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:10.440 feeling to that that. It really was a great. 223 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:12.200 So the only thing I do is I use a 224 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:13.240 lot of glass. 225 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:13.720 Yep. 226 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.200 Then once you walk in, it does not feel like 227 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.559 a I don't like modern cold modern. 228 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:21.360 It was clean, but I said you had it a 229 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.960 ring around the deck and you had at the main 230 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.440 staircase downstairs to you. 231 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.360 Yeah, but you can see where we spend our money 232 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.879 right on the olt. You saw that outstand stone, it 233 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.480 was like this. It's just like the stonehouse. The stone 234 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.960 just didn't stop right. But you could be supplying me 235 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.200 with all of that. It's just communicating more and going 236 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.720 and say, okay, what do we have the exterior stone 237 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:42.240 that works? 238 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:42.639 Right? 239 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.320 The only thing we probably couldn't get just yet is 240 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.600 like the fire pit was being built that size, I 241 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:49.279 don't have the thickness. 242 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.200 Of the Yeah, so that's outdoor blue mist. That's those 243 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:53.840 are those granite stones that we use. 244 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.240 What everything else like patio pavers now, we do have 245 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.440 like three or four different skews now that you haven't seen. 246 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.000 If you noticed the front of have it we used 247 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:04.320 twenty four by forty eight. 248 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.120 Person out there, that's what I have now available. 249 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.919 Right, you have it available now if outside start to 250 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.039 come in this spring, and I'm going to tell you something. 251 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.600 I was terrified this winter. It was a terrible winter 252 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.440 and it all sustained. We didn't have one pop good, 253 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.440 nothing popped. But again we have great installers too. I 254 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.559 don't pay penists, right, and I don't you know, we 255 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.120 don't pay penants. You don't hire monkeys, right, These guys 256 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.679 are good. My Masons has been with me for twenty 257 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:36.519 five years. My towel guys twenties, twenty years, some thirty 258 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.399 seven years. My guys just starting to age out. There's 259 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:42.159 the difference. But you see, if you're there, you saw 260 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:45.639 how good might absolutely installers are. If we could have 261 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:48.600 all installs like that, people would be all right, come 262 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.639 on and you know, change my bathroom. 263 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.000 You know. 264 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.279 But it's getting a little tougher out there. I did 265 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.039 notice one time when I was in Florida Core you 266 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.879 had some type of teaching going on there, right, which 267 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.320 was what. 268 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:03.879 We do a quarterly. We just had a lot of 269 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:08.080 Creek training for their shower systems, different simmit of the 270 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:11.799 shooter system. Yeah, will be in next week actually demonstrating 271 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.039 their product as well. Next week. 272 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.399 You know what, I need to come there because there 273 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.519 is some type of shlooter that you're using in the 274 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.480 showers that I don't use. I'm very old fashioned. Copper pans, 275 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:25.159 door rock, waterproofing. And then you guys got a whole 276 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.759 system that I really should wrap my arms around. 277 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:30.799 The biggest advantage of that's gonna be warranty. I mean 278 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.799 they're gonna they're gonna warranty everything if you use their 279 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.399 products through and through the pre slopes, the walls. They 280 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:41.519 have all the waterproofing membranes. We can order custom sized pansy. 281 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.480 So I'm gonna buy pants, right. So just remember I've 282 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.720 been doing this for thirty seven years. I've never used robbery, 283 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.720 and they've only used copper pans. And you guys have 284 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:54.200 had no situations with with this whole shlooter thing going 285 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:55.840 on with their peans and everything. 286 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:57.919 Right, So it's not a it's not a rubber pant. 287 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.960 It's going to be like a composite material covered in 288 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.519 their waterproofing membrane. It's all structurally sound. You're just gonna, 289 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.799 you know, mortar this down to your wood frame and 290 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.000 then all the drainage can be set up. They've got 291 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.360 linear drains, square drains, all the different colors to match 292 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:13.240 all other trims. 293 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.120 I need to know when that meeting is cooked, some 294 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.399 me reach out to my office. Let me know, because 295 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:19.720 I got to go take that class. 296 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:21.279 That's definitely worth coming by next week. 297 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.240 Yeah, it would, it would be worth mine my time 298 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.840 in Bond's time to come. Sometimes it's hard to teach 299 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:28.879 an old dog, nu tricks. 300 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:31.320 No, not you, Cindy. 301 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:37.240 I hate Bild electric houses. Now I can't have guess. Okay, 302 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:38.679 what are. 303 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.080 Your trends that you guys are seeing this year? Anything different? 304 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.799 No way? I had a question. Oh you did, Yes, 305 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.639 I took away my crystal white. You remember crystal white 306 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:49.480 forty eight? 307 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:51.480 Yeah, you want to buy like a whole container. I 308 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:52.600 can ask the buyer about that. 309 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:54.519 I thought we couldn't get anymore. 310 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:56.519 I have to ask, have to go way up and 311 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.919 try to get it for you, but commit having committing 312 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.399 to a lodge, amunt. We can talk about that. 313 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:02.840 But why did you remove the forty eight? By forty 314 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.120 that crystal white was the best. 315 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.879 They just changed the color and three other developers like yourself, 316 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.879 I use it constantly. They just went to a different 317 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.120 color and off white and a little bit of an 318 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.360 off white. That's the color I have right now, and 319 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.799 a crystal white. No, it's more of a cream or 320 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:17.720 off white. 321 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:21.120 But it's not that same crystally, So I thought they 322 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:22.360 stopped making They did. 323 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.519 We'll see if they can make a production run just 324 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.039 for you. Have to ask that if you want to. 325 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:30.360 So I thought I had heard that maybe Singapore was 326 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.480 going to start to make what the manufacturer just decides 327 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.720 we're not going to make it anymore. 328 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:36.399 We just started bringing it in. We just we just 329 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.240 we changed skews to freshen things up every few years. 330 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:40.879 And you didn't notice that was a big stell. 331 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:42.399 It was a big sell for us. Not everyone else 332 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.840 was selling it to our success rate. So it's more 333 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:46.320 numbers across. 334 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:47.639 The Listen how much sure that I was buying in 335 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:52.200 Florida more than anyone I go around. I did fifteen 336 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.240 thousand scrip forouse in Florida. We went to every Florida 337 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:59.000 court in Florida, and we finally gone enough to go around. 338 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:02.840 We had the shots out of stock, and then Massachusetts 339 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:06.720 I bought its. Then I had to go to. 340 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:09.519 Have to chase down for you you know that. 341 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:14.399 But then I then they can company left a tell 342 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.120 company of cors like a bootique towel company and foot 343 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.600 law deal and then I bought. They had like four 344 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.200 case left and I had to chip the towels. That 345 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:22.919 was it and I. 346 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.159 Got to bring that skewback done. 347 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.559 No, I just call it because Sydney, why you work 348 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.600 with the buyer directly. 349 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.559 That way the thing is. It just had this crystal 350 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.840 and a shimmering shimmering. It was thick. I never had 351 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.440 any cracking with it. I never had problems with it, 352 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.240 and you took it away from me. I don't know 353 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:42.759 why you took it. 354 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.559 Yeah, yeah, so. 355 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.200 We can maybe trace it down. Then I buy a 356 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.240 container and I just stole it. 357 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:48.200 That's why we can work. 358 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.120 How much comes to the container. 359 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:51.159 I'm gonna find out for. 360 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:55.559 You, Okay, I'll use that. I like very Do you 361 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.840 notice everything I do is cleanly. I'm not adding forty 362 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.679 different colors together and walk in the bathroom habits seizure, right, 363 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:07.039 So everybody designs differently as far as you're concerned. What 364 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.960 makes your stores different from the usual big box spots 365 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.840 as you box spots box stores I call yeah. 366 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.360 So the unique thing about flooring the core is the 367 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:20.000 micro assortment that each store is responsible for. So the 368 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.759 department manager work alongside with the store manager and obviously 369 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.639 even items that are being sole and wop them, which 370 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.600 is probably thirty five minutes from douts Chest or even Avon. 371 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.720 We sometimes have different selection. We obviously we hear the 372 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:37.440 feedback from the contractor that we work with, as well 373 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.600 as the homeowner that comes in every day and obviously 374 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.200 give us feedback and we take that into account. So 375 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:46.000 that way we obviously bring in the product. Unfortunately, your 376 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.840 case is the white tie that we can't get anymore, 377 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.279 but it's done. Yeah, I mean, we'll try and get 378 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:52.759 it back. But for the most part, a lot of 379 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.480 them is just based on trends. We try to keep 380 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.120 ahead of the trend we sat with before we. 381 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:02.440 Become the So the other good thing that I like 382 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.240 about Florida Core I can see where the towel's made. 383 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:06.880 Absolutely Yep, you have. 384 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:11.319 Signs that says India, China. You list where the towel's 385 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.400 coming from. I think people like that. 386 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.720 Yeah, it's the transparency in this day and age that's 387 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:20.000 so important. We list what you know made the tile 388 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.079 and where you can get it from because a lot 389 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:25.200 of our products we buy it directly from the manufacturer. 390 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:26.799 Who do you think most of your products are coming from? 391 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:27.200 Right now? 392 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:31.359 Right now, fifty percent actually come domestically. But everything going 393 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.720 on right now, i'll buyers and merchants doing a fantastic 394 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.960 job trying to bring every product back domestically. So which 395 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.799 is why your tile might not necessarily might not be 396 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.279 from Singapore or Malaysia, but we'll find the vendor that 397 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.880 can actually manufacture it over here. 398 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:47.680 Really, that's really cool. 399 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.039 See that's me. What's that they're going to special order 400 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:51.559 stuff for you? 401 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.599