Brava Spanish Barrel Tile: The Luxury Roof River Oaks Homeowners Prefer with Laura Cole

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Are you considering investing in a new roof than this podcast is for you.

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Welcome to the Houston roofer podcast, where we take a deep dive into the

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roofing industry and provide you with the latest industry trends, informative

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interviews, answer all of your roofing questions and provide a buyer's

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guide for your next roofing project.

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So that you can be confident in the decision that you're

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making now, here's your host.

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So Laura, in this episode, I think it's gonna be really great

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to educate our audience about what it's like to get a roof.

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That's also luxury to match the aesthetic of a beautiful river Oaks mansion, having

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a beautiful garden and landscape, and also to dive into what some of the most

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popular trends are that you're seeing out.

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Yeah.

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So with river Oaks, we do a lot of business around there.

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Our office is very close, so we, we have.

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A big networking and following out there.

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So we're very familiar with the aesthetic and high quality of river Oaks.

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So, you know, they have anywhere from metal standing, sea to metal shingles,

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tiles, slate, Cedar shake, which looks like live edge wood though.

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It's all up there.

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And you know, there are a ton of homes out there.

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In that area that haven't gotten that update yet and are still, you

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know, sporting the original roof.

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So you can find it all out there.

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And I can't wait to talk a little bit more about it.

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So, Laura, have you seen that episode of fixer upper, where there was

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that beautiful Spanish barrel tile?

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Yes, I did actually.

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so tell me, tell me your thoughts on that, because I know that so

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many people have been so fascinated and they've been asking about that.

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Yes.

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So as a company sell a product called Brava and it's a synthetic.

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So it just means it's made of modified polymers that are bonded together

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to make a very solid structure and.

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We have that entire Cedar and slate form.

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And it's just this product that's out that is really wowing clients of the

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realistic qualities that it has, whether it's color texture, but you don't run into

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the same problems as an actual slate roof or an actual wood roof, or the clay tile.

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and when that show aired and that episode aired, they featured that

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synthetic Spanish barrel tile on there.

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And it got millions of followers.

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I mean, millions of people watched that show and it got everybody going.

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What is that?

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I, I didn't know.

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I had options.

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So it kind of sparked this new found interest in synthetics.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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And you know, we actually just recorded another episode about that with Joel.

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So we're gonna link that in the show notes here as well.

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So Laura, a Spanish barrel tile roof, right?

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When you look at one of these and you're driving down the beautiful streets

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of river Oaks, and you see the tall Palm trees and beautiful greenery,

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what is it about that that people notice from five blocks away even?

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And how does it stand out amongst everything else?

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That's on the same block or.

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Yeah.

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So that's really where it's at.

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When you're looking at luxury roofs, that's 99% of the time.

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What the homeowner's going for is a statement piece is intertwining

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their roof with their landscaping and the feel of their home.

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And you know, we're about to install a.

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Luxury Brava Spanish barrel tile on a home, in a gated community in Montgomery.

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And they are the most unique home on the lake.

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And she did it for that reason.

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She said she wanted a Tuscany, almost, uh, Spanish.

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Feel to her home and none of the homes out there look that way.

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They look like lake homes and they have a, you know, traditional colonial

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style, which is absolutely fine.

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And luckily Spanish barrel tile looks great on every home, but she said,

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you know, everybody in my home just has the regular clay tile roofs.

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And she did her research and she contacted me and personally, and

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said, I wanna put on this product.

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This is amazing.

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No one else in my neighborhood is going to have this.

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Nobody in this whole community is gonna have this.

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I'm gonna be the talk of the town.

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And there's no shame in that.

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There's a lot of investment in your home and it's really, it's

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a good feeling to know one.

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You call it home.

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It feels like home for you, but that's on the inside, you know?

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And then the outside, everybody else gets to enjoy that gets to enjoy the

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very expensive landscaping and the expensive exterior paint job and the

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expensive rot, iron gates and the expensive shutters and everything.

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And it just always seems like the roof is such an afterthought

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or, oh, we'll get to that.

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And when, in reality, You work your eyes from the ground all the way

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up to the roof and you kind of lose people when you get to the roof.

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If it's got a 30 year old kind of algae covered shingle on there, that just,

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it almost looks like such a sore thumb.

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You go, oh, that's great.

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That's great.

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Oh, you lost me there.

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So when going through river Oaks and seeing that diversity in the

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roofs, it's almost kind of, it almost sticks out a little bit more if your.

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Isn't one of those luxury roofs, which in all honesty, I think asphalt

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roofs are beautiful in themselves.

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They have their own look, your home can actually accommodate that.

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And depending on the color, that can be the statement piece as well.

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But with grander decoration decor, I guess you'd say the landscaping as well.

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It fits so well together.

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So that Spanish barrel tile is such a statement piece and it really.

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Is a show stopper, I think.

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And especially with the bold colors that you can put on it.

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And that's really what a lot of people go for.

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So they'll get either neutral tones on their home and get

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a red roof or vice versa.

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You know, they'll have a very bold home and get a brown clay tile, you know, just.

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Something to contrast and then also make your eye jump to and go, wow.

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That looks incredible.

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And geometrically, it's really fascinating to stare out to the eye.

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Same with the Cedar shake.

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Same with the slate.

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You wanna stare at it and examine it and go, what is going on up there?

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It's a lot.

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And I like it.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think you said something really interesting, right?

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It's that people are looking at it, not just from the inside, they're looking

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at it, especially when they're outdoors.

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And when you think about Houston and river Oaks and just the weather, right?

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I mean, Houston is a city where year round, the weather's pretty mild.

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So people do spend a lot of time in their backyard.

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They may have a pool.

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They may have a whole area for entertaining and having parties outdoors.

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And I think that that's the other beauty of it is if someone is in your big,

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beautiful, massive backyard in river Oaks, they're going to see that roof

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and they're going to be admiring it.

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And it literally will just be one of those things where their eyes are

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drawn to the roof and they're drawn all the way around to the entire house

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because of how, you know, interesting and dynamic the shape is, the color

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is and, and how it just stands out.

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And it almost reminds me a lot of like that Hollywood glamor and,

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you know, Beverly Hill style.

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What are your thoughts?

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Yeah.

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So with river Oaks, there's so much traffic on the streets, not just cars.

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So everybody walks their dogs.

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I mean, everybody, it's just such a great neighborhood.

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There's a lot of, you know, tree shade.

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So whenever it is hot, it's pretty bearable.

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And also families are going on, walks together.

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It.

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It's such a great feel and everybody wants to be outside and this nice community.

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I mean, it's and river Oaks is huge and it just doesn't matter what street you go on.

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There's there's that great vibe there of community and sharing in each

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other's, you know, love for their properties because everybody does,

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they, they take the time they take the effort, they do their research.

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They hire only the best to.

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Really invest in what they work so hard for every day.

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And that's what the homeowner wants to invest in.

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And I am always so prideful and proud, I guess you would say every time we get

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to install one of these luxuries roofs, because I know the listeners listening.

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No.

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How much effort it takes to really set your sites on something, especially with

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a dollar sign on it, especially something that's a little harder to attain.

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It's, it's a very high end product.

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It's not cheap, but setting those goals, saving up for it, working towards it,

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and then being able to achieve that and seeing that finished product, when

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we get to look at the clients after everything's done and they're just

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like, yeah, it was completely worth it.

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And more it's icing on the cake.

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Oh, absolutely.

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I think that it's something that's gonna bring so much joy

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for years and years to come.

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All right.

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So we talked about the Spanish barrel tile roofs for river Oaks in terms of it

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being one of the most luxurious roofs, that river Oaks, homeowners really

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fur, and also Laura, I'd love for you to share what other type of roofs are

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popular in the river Oaks community.

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So along with that.

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So the brand that we use and love the research that was done on

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this, the team that we work with at Brava, it's a very well ran company.

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Very amazing product that we love to stand behind.

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I can't wait.

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Until we're ready to change the roof on our personal home, because it will be a

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bra roof, the products that they produce.

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So they do have this, the Bravo Spanish barrel tile, which

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is what they're known for.

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It is a synthetic, it's a one piece construction.

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So when you put it on the roof, there's no cracking chipping, like

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you're used to with clay tile, you can't walk on a clay tile.

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And then you get tree limbs that fall hail storms, any type of

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impact, and there's that crack.

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And then it ends up being a ripple effect.

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And it's just, it's such low maintenance because it's that one

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piece construction and then there's an interlocking system on it.

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And I'm not sure if we'll provide some information.

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I'm sure we will about maybe the installation process works or how the

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samples are put together, but it's really.

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And I think it's as he's patented and going further on that, they took that

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into what's another luxury item that people just have a hard time, one getting

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in general and two issues with cracking wear and tear algae build up all that.

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And they recreated a synthetic slate, which is.

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The look of a slate stone and with live edges on 'em.

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So it has that layered kind of almost scalloped look, they have rounded square

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edges, beautiful, beautiful product, but it's very, very, very heavy.

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All of these are, if you get the actual product, the clay or the

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slate, or even the Cedar shape, that's the wood that I'm getting into, but

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they're very, very, very, very heavy.

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So to touch on.

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And with all three products, if you currently have a shingled roof and

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you're like, I wanna do the upgrade.

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I, I don't want my asphalt roof anymore.

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My composition Shing.

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I want slate.

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Let's say you don't have to reinforce the rafting in your home because the weight

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of the slate, Cedar and tile is equivalent and in the same range as an asphalt

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shingle, and a lot of people go well, is it, you know, gonna fly off my roof?

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Well, it's not a feather, but it weighs the same amount as an asphalt shingle.

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Even has tripled the enforcement, no matter what style you put in,

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but I think that's just such a green light for the homeowner when

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they're looking at these options.

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Oh, I want slate.

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I'm not sure about synthetic.

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There's a big problem that you get to avoid instantly right off the cuff.

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You don't have to pay for extra framework and raffing

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and reinforcement in your home.

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And it's just a more seamless process we can tear off and put right back.

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There's no wait time, you know, for all of that, to let you know

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the slate, whenever you install.

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You actually put it on the Ridge or the top part of the home across every slope.

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And you'll start to notice this now all the, all the listeners will notice this.

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Now, whenever you're driving, you see that you'll see stacks of slate or

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tile or Cedar shake just sitting there.

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And they do that to help bring in the, the new rafting and let it settle

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before they actually install because they have to make sure everything.

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Correctly enforced.

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And there's just a lot that goes onto it and we get to skip all that

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because you don't need to do it.

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So the other, you know, two installs the Cedar shake and the slate.

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I'm such a big fan.

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We did just finish a really cool gazebo in this, this gentleman's backyard.

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It just.

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Brought his backyard to life.

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He spends a ton of time out there doing landscaping.

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He has it professionally done.

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He knows every single plant that's back there.

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There's gotta be no joke, 50 plus different types of plants out there.

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And it is such a great centerpiece and welcoming piece and it ties

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everything together and it just makes everything make sense.

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And it's one of the cooler things about these products is

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what it can do for the home.

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Even if it's as small as a gaze.

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I absolutely love the placebo idea because when you think about it summertime,

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and think about the beauty of that.

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And when your children are playing outside, maybe you have a new puppy.

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Maybe you wanna capture those special moments.

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You know, if your puppy playing, you know, in your placebo.

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And I think.

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, those are the things that really matter when it comes to being a homeowner,

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having a family is you wanna make memories in your home and you wanna make,

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you know, memories that your children are gonna remember when they grow up.

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And I think when you have a roof, that's beautiful.

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and they are in the backyard and they're playing basketball or

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they're playing in the swimming pool.

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Their eye is naturally gonna be drawn upward.

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Right.

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Cuz they're gonna look at the sky if it looks cloudy or if the sky's

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really beautiful and as they're raising their, their level to look

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up, they're gonna remember what that house looked like when they grow up.

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They're gonna remember.

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Oh, our roof was a reddish color.

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And again, like they're gonna be able to have these memories that are so unique.

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And I think that you have to think about having a roof as

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part of like your lifestyle too.

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Like, does it fit into the lifestyle that you're creating for yourself, for your

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family, for your business, for everything?

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and I think that, you know, for river Oaks, I mean, when you talk about luxury

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market, the people that are investing, you know, a lot of money into their home, into

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what they're putting inside of their home.

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Obviously they want to care about what it looks like on the outside too.

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I would also say it's, it's very much like art, right.

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And a beautiful.

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Is just like art, right?

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You can appreciate different colors you can pick from and the styles.

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And, and maybe you can talk to our audience a little bit about if they

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want something really unique, right.

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They want something that no one else really has something like that

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in their area or on their block.

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That really is gonna stand out.

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How can they get a roof that is luxurious?

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and unique.

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How can they customize it?

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Laura?

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There's a lot of different styles.

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So you can do the tile.

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You can do the Cedar shake.

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You can do the slate.

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I mean, we haven't even really touched on metal shingles, metal shingles have their

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own version of live edge wood, Cedar shake or slate, or just shingles in general.

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And they have a.

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Layering effect.

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There's all sorts of colors.

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You can put on a metal roof, which is really fun to play with.

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We did one that had gold copper accents on everything, and the shingle

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itself was kind of like a brownish.

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With some gold hints in it.

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It was incredible.

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That was in a gated lake subdivision and everyone in that

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community, it was on a golf course.

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Everybody at the golf course was talking about it.

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Everybody in the community center was talking about it.

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And it was really a show stopper.

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So being able to choose from different actual textiles, your color patterns, a

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lot of them have like a marbled effect.

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You can contrast the colors.

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I think that's giving you a ton of different ways to really customize it.

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And like you said, it's art, you know, a roof when people.

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Start to talk about a roof.

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It's, it's not the most glamorous thing.

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People think, you know, just big construction.

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I need to have one.

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I already have one and it's always, you know, starts off kind of like

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an eh, feeling, but then you do this research and it's just so great.

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We've got a phone in our hands at all times.

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It gives us research to the entire world.

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We can look up all these different types of installs

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and all these different brands.

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You can, you know, compare, look at the reviews, check out the videos

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of installations, all the, all these things, all these different resources,

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and really come to a conclusion of what speaks to you and what makes you happy.

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That's what I love is when you really.

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Thought into anything and customize it to where you go.

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Yeah, that's me.

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I really love this.

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This makes me happy.

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Cuz when it comes down to it, it's your home.

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And when you drive home from your long day at work or get off the 10th zoom

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meeting you had for the day and walk outside, you get to look at this home

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that you've invested your time and you know, you're hard earned hours.

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It gets, you know, translated into this beautiful roof.

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And there's nothing more pleasing than that type of accomplishment that you

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know is gonna be a lifelong investment.

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These are lifelong installs.

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They're gonna outlive you.

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You can give it to your children, relatives, friends sell the home.

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It's great for resale value because it.

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Never gonna need to be replaced.

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These are lifelong installs.

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So I love the aspect of touching back on that you get the different

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textiles, the different colors, and at the end of the day, it's your choice.

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And you get to be really proud about what you put on that roof.

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Yeah.

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You know what you exactly tapped into what I was looking for.

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Is that whole customization piece of like mixing, you know,

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different colors together to really get that unique masterpiece.

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You know, it doesn't have to be all just one type, right.

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It can be okay, you wanna have the gold and you wanna have like another version.

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And, and I think that's the beauty of it in this home that

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you just mentioned as well.

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That's the beauty of it is that you can make it your own.

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You can customize it.

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You can really, you know, put your own spin on it.

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It doesn't have to look like every other roof on the block.

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You can have the roof where it's like, you know what?

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This matches my personality.

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And if your personality is a bit more eccentric, your style is

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a bit more bold, then why not?

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Your roof should also be a bit more bold.

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And, and if you know, your style is more sophisticated.

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You can have something that's sophisticated.

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You guys can reach out to Laura and you can, have a free consultation and you

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can talk to her about your lifestyle, how you live, what type of furniture you have,

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what type of look that you're looking for.

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And she can really consult with you and tell you what type of

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roof would be best for really the lifestyle that you live every day.

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And.

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You know, like a home that you wanna leave, you know, for your children

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home, that you wanna sell, whatever your goals are for that home.

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I think that, you know, having a custom installed roof that's, you know, in tune

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with everything else that's happening on the inside of your home will just

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bring so much joy and happiness.

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So thank you so much for sharing that Laura.

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. Is there anything else that really stands out to you when it comes to, you

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know, river Oaks homes in terms of like the style or any, trends that you've

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been seeing on, you know, any of the TV shows that, that you wanna maybe

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talk about that can be aligned with like, even putting that into like the

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thought process when they're picking.

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What type of roof that they want?

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Well, one thing I just really wanted to close with, that's very important

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for everyone listening, especially locally is that, you know, we have

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a showroom that all of the river Oaks clients are more than welcome.

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Five days a week to walk into, and this solely is made to, so let me backtrack.

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We.

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Always tie.

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We always wanna keep the consumer mentality.

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I say this almost in every podcast episode, but we really do.

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We always are learning and trying to tweak things and advance the way

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that we, you know, not sell roofs, but, you know, actually educate our

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clients and give them the things that they're actually looking for.

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And that they're not even aware.

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They can get.

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And so a showroom for a roofing company isn't really heard of, you

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can walk in, you know, to some retail spaces and they've got some samples,

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but this is a full on showroom.

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There are mockups that are about eight or nine feet by four feet of homes.

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So on these homes, Are gonna be these luxury installs, the Spanish

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barrel tile will be on there.

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The Cedar shake, the slate, the metal standing scene metal shingles, all

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of these, some of our coding systems.

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And because whenever you're trying to really help the owner visualize with

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wording and pictures of other people's homes and stuff, it is a little harder,

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you know, 3d renderings you can do of people's homes, where you can kind of

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get an idea of like a 3d model digitally.

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It's not very advanced.

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It gives you a better idea than a flat sample, but to fast forward,

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we wanna touch on all the senses.

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And I know as a consumer, that's a selling point for me is if I can see

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it, feel it, touch it, talk about it.

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And then I'm sold because it's already something that I was wanting.

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So you get to come in.

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To the showroom, walk around these already installed roofs with the system

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that you're looking for and look at it, feel it, we get to walk you through

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the process of all of the different layers that are gonna go into it.

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The different construction, what the quote details line.

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That's probably two pages long actually means visually.

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Joel and I.

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Are so happy to bring this to river Oaks and all of the villages

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surrounding our new showroom.

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And it is preferably by appointment.

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But just so we can keep everybody in line and give you enough time

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to look over the models, actual mockups of homes with these luxury.

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Installs.

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So you'll have a about nine foot by four foot mock up of an actual home

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that will have the Spanish barrel tile, the Cedar shake, the slate

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metal standing seam metal shingles.

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Some of our coatings, if anybody's interested in commercial work or have

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a flat roof in river Oaks, which they do, you can actually come in, see

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touch, feel, touch on all the sense.

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And really get a better idea of what you're investing in.

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And as we, you know, are going to talk about it's emotionally driven, I think

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because it is such a big investment, it does express who you are, you

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know, your personality, it's so crazy.

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You can put your personality on a roof.

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You know, it's just a really cool thing with these luxury items.

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And then you're going to spend a while doing your research

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and saving up and going through the big construction process.

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And we wanna make that, you know, a little more comforting to you and assure you that

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this is the right decision for you and give you everything on a silver platter

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and let you pick and really have the best idea of what's gonna be good for you.

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So we're very, very, very excited.

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It will be open to the public and river Oaks and all the villages,

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but yes, appointment only.

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Preferably give us a call 7 1 3 9 0 3 R O O F.

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So we'll look forward to seeing you.

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Laura, this has been great.

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Thank you so much.

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And we'll see you on the next one.

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