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Romy pretty well sits in the driver's seat.

Gary D. our broadcast engineer is in charge of all the complicated stuff.

We certainly appreciate his diligence and accuracy on that.

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and we get you on air and answer your question just absolutely as quick as we can.

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So you check with us first. We've been building and remodeling here in Arizona since the early 1970s.

And we will give you our expertise, our experience, our tricks of the trade, our tips all for free.

And we will protect you from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous service providers.

So that's why we're here the next hour to talk to you, the Arizona homeowner.

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As a part of this year's broadcast, I wanted to take the first couple minutes of every 10 o'clock hour

and acknowledge what we as a country are celebrating is the 250th anniversary,

the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

And just kind of maybe bring a point to you, the Arizona Lister, that maybe you weren't aware of.

And I'm going to start introducing you to some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

I want you to quit thinking of these men as marble statues in the rotunda of the Capitol building.

These were real men. I want to introduce you this morning to a man by name of Roger Sherman.

And this was not a fortunate son. You know, many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence

came from a nice affluent part of society, but not Roger Sherman.

Roger Sherman's dad was a farmer, a small farmer.

We talked in the eight o'clock hour this morning that most farmers have a second job.

Hit this Roger Sherman's dad's second job with shoe collar.

So Roger's dad, a small farmer, and shoe collar.

Roger Sherman grows up and becomes the only man in the world to sign the four most important documents forming the United States of America.

He signed the articles of association.

He signed the Declaration of Independence.

He signed the articles of Confederation.

And he signed the Constitution, the only man to do so.

All right. So he's the son of a farmer, Cobbler. He was a voracious reader.

His father dies and he loads up all his Cobbler tools and walks 150 miles to meet his brother and open up a store and learn how to survey.

So now he's a Cobbler, a farmer, a hiker of some degree, and a surveyor.

In this new location, he helps a particular friend through a legal case.

And the lawyer he opposed in the argument encouraged him and said, you're pretty good at this.

You ought to take the bar. So he took the bar and passed the exam.

So the son of a farmer, shoe collar, who becomes a surveyor, a retail store owner,

Cobbler himself, a surveyor, and now a lawyer.

Over the years, Sherman worked as a town selectman, adjusted to the piece, county judge, and a state senator.

He held some form of public life his entire life.

He married, had seven children. His wife dies, leaves him with seven children.

He remarries and has another eighth child.

The thing about Roger Sherman is he was a patriot, but he was not for war.

He was known as the Great Compromiser.

John Adams said this about Roger Sherman.

He's as honest as an angel and as firm in the cause for American independence as Mount Atlas.

Thomas Jefferson had this to say about Roger Sherman.

Roger Sherman never said a foolish thing in his whole life.

Can you think of one politician that we currently have in office that we could say that about right now?

Okay, so Roger Sherman, this is how important his role was.

He was on the committee of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

So he was with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Robert Livingston.

So he's one of the five that drafted it, but you know what he should be remembered for?

Forever by every single American is the Great Compromiser.

Because after signing the Declaration of Independence, the country almost fell apart into it just another disassociated conglomeration of individual states.

And he was not a federalist. He was not for strong federal government.

He liked state rights. He liked as much government going down to the local level as possible.

And in the convention for the Constitution, we had what was called the Virginia plan.

And the Virginia plan said the bigger the state, the more population the state, the more votes it got.

Then we had the New Jersey plan. They didn't like that. A little bit of state like New Jersey said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Every state has exactly the same weight in the vote.

As even as little states have the same weight as you big states.

Well, it was Roger Sherman that drafted the Great Compromise that decided there would be two houses, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, where one would be taken by the population in size of the state, and then one that would equalize the representation of every state.

So Roger Sherman should technically be considered, at the very least, the co-father of the Constitution.

And he is the only man to sign all four documents involved in the formation of this country, the United States of America, which rose to your marrow, just happens to believe is the greatest country ever in the history of the world.

He took side hustle way too much. I mean, he blew it away.

He was the great, he was known as the Compromiser. And there was a delegate, Mr. Pierce from Georgia, that said he was the most clumsy, disassociated, communicator that used a lot of vulgarity in his speeches, but you could never challenge the soundness of his mind.

No, Roger Sherman, he was not born a fortunate son. He did not have a silver spoon. He was just an ordinary farmer, Cobbler, that actually took place in forming America.

1.8, 7.67, 4.348, that's 1.8 Rosie for you, 10 o'clock hour, third hour of a weekly radio broadcast is the open home hour, open to you.

Whatever you want to talk about your home, Castler cabin, 1.8, 7.67, 4.348, that's 1.8 Rosie for you or text, 6.2620 during the broadcast, and you can also send an email if you need to attach a media file to info at Rosie on the House.com.

Welcome aboard, introducing our newest trusted Rosie Certified Partner to the award-winning Rosie on the House Certified Partner Network.

Join us with this end studio now, we have Robert Mulvin of All Pro Shade Concepts, new certified partner, welcome to the team.

Thank you, I'm happy to be here.

Tell us about your story, this is actually interesting, it's the first time I remember where the last two companies that joined the network were both Native Arizonans.

Yes, born and raised here in Phoenix, Arizona, we've grown pretty rapidly over the last five years after COVID, but everything we put in place helped propel us there, the culture, the systems, processes, and the people.

Shade obviously, something in that industry of providing shade, but tell us about your products.

So we do retractable shades and awnings, we started with fixed window sunscreens, and then we slowly got into roller shades in 08, motorized in 2012, retractable awnings in 2015, and it kind of went from there.

Now we are one of the biggest companies in the country that shades and awnings.

And there's a lot of different options that you just went through.

There's open roll, there's cassette, track, cable, there's a lot of ways to...

Yes, correct.

And you guys have a nice showroom.

Yes, the showroom is really big, we are able to put all our products in one big massive space where we're not all crammed, we have room to expand, room for trucks, room for personnel.

You can come play with the shades, see all the different options, see the opacity, see the different styles, because when you're spending 10 to $15,000 on a product, you're going to want to touch and feel it.

You don't want a presentation at your house, and then just look at a picture, right?

So we have a showroom, centrally located right off the freeway, I-17 in Bell, and people can come, talk to our people, learn more about the product.

On those vertical awnings that go out, you know, when you're talking about 10 to $15,000, the square foot that that covers and gives you outdoor livable space,

it's trying the most affordable way to get additional outdoor living space.

And then you can retract it, we have a lot of snow birds, so they don't want something that's out there permanently.

They want to be able to have the sun when they want it, so with the touch of a button, they put the shades out.

You know, they leave for the winter or summer, and they can put it back, or whatever have you.

It's nice to have, and then when the wind comes up, it has a motion sensor, it'll retract all by itself.

Behind your showroom, you've got your distribution warehouse, where you're putting together all the product, and you got organized by style of screen, and by customer, and the guys show up.

28, 28 installers, so there's 15 trucks.

We have so many good installers that stay for so long, and that's what we look for in our culture, is just if they fit our culture, and they're happy, they leave the house cleaner than when they show up, and they're just the best in the field.

It's all in-house, there's no subs, so we don't contract with Chuck and a truck, and chances are the person that installed your shade, if you need a service in two, three, five, ten years, is going to be the same person that came back.

And the showroom hours?

Eight to four, every day, Monday through Friday, appointments great, but you can just walk in.

As you're heading north on I-17 exit bell, just stay on the front edge road, it's just north of bell right on the front.

Right next to Diamond McPummy, you can't miss it.

Robert Molvin.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Welcome to the next.

Yeah, I've always wanted to be a part of this, and I'm glad that we finally connected. It's really cool. I love what you guys are doing.

You can find us at allproshade.com.

You better be awake by now.

We're moving through the third hour, Rosie, on the house.

Wake up, sunshine.

We're talking about soundness of mine a little bit.

The last segment, talking about Roger Sherman, sign of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the Constitution.

I want, and a lot of times when I'm out, and people meet me for the first time, or they, they, they, they, someone at the Ace Hardware store sees me, and they want my help picking out whatever is trying to pick out.

Well, I may have the miss impression that I'm an expert on everything.

I'm not, but I have a legion of trustworthy friends in this industry that I lean on heavily.

So right now, I'd like to lean on you, the Arizona homeowners, to set me straight, and, and, and help me figure this out.

When it comes to soundness of mine, Romeo, why do we still have daylight savings time?

Well, we don't.

Why?

Arizona, except Navajo County.

Yeah.

Doesn't have daylight savings.

And now, that's for the rest of the world, I don't know.

What is, like, why can't we?

In the end, it doesn't, I think either.

I want some homeowner to call in, one triple eight, seven, six, seven, forty three, right?

You say, forty three, forty eight.

You say, follow the money.

Who's making money off keeping daylight savings time?

Why can't we just dump this system and get rid of it?

Man, trying to run a business that's across the country.

It, it is a major pain in the neck.

So one of you homeowners that can tell me why should we maintain daylight savings?

Please give me a call and straighten me out.

If I could be a king, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be gone.

Tech with business is hard to connect with your grandchildren on the East Coast.

When it's three hours difference.

And then you spring forward tomorrow, right?

That tomorrow is the day.

Oh, man.

Thank you Arizona for dumping that system.

Oh, I just lost my microphone.

What?

This is why they don't put me in the driver's seat.

There.

Okay.

We're back together.

Hey, we were going to do a thing where we celebrate heroes of Rosie on the House.

And we have a big hero this year, this, this week.

We had Judy reach out to us during the week from Miranda.

She's in a brand new home.

And she has a tankless water heater with a groomed-foss circulator on it.

And there are areas in her house that she has to wait three and four and five minutes for hot water.

And the plumber that installed the system has been out and said, well, you're just going to have to live with it.

And, and the point of the groomed-foss circulating system is you don't have to wait.

Yeah.

So definitely something not plumbed correctly there operating.

So I called one of our Rosie certified plumbers Joe from Thunderbird Plumbing.

And, and Joe said, well, Rosie, before I put a circulating pump in a house, here's what I do.

I kind of look at where the water heater is.

I try and use my X-ray vision to see how the house is plumbed.

And I decide what fixture do I think is the farthest away from the hot water heater.

And then I go turn the hot water on and I time it.

How long does it take hot water to get to that fixture?

Then I work my back way back to the water heater.

And I test every single fixture to see if hot water has already made it there.

So then in fact, I have found the one farthest away.

And the groomed-foss circulating jumper gets put on that fixture.

So Judy and Miranda, your plumber hasn't put the jumper for the circulator on the right plumbing fixture.

Or, as Joe says, Rosie, they're meant you may need to put two jumpers on.

And depending on how the house was plumbed, if they've got a leg over here that's not circulating well through the main channel, it's going to take two.

So Judy, the fact that you want instant hot water through a tankless water heater throughout your house is achievable.

The fact you're not getting it is you have an inexperienced plumber trying to provide it to you.

So I reach out to Joe at Thunderbird Plumbing who's been Rosie certified for about 20 years.

He gives me the tricks of the trade to share with you.

And to this day, there's a woman at our church.

I see her every Sunday, but three times a year she tells me how much she loves Joe at Thunderbird Plumbing.

So Joe, thanks for being the Rose Young House hero of the week.

Thunderbird Plumbing serving in Northwest Valley primarily.

But I know he serves Arcadia and Central Phoenix as well.

And the jumper is a connection between the hot water and the cold water underneath the sink.

Of that fixture. So when the hot water in the line that's already left the water heater tank cools off.

What that green fost does when it kicks on is it pushes all that cold water in the hot water line back into the cold water supply.

And then when it feels the heat, the temperature gauge on it shuts that jumper off.

So now your line is refilled with hot water.

And with the timer on it, you set it to the time you want your hot shower in the morning or in the evening.

But make sure you do have a timer on because if it stays on all the time, it'll keep pumping hot water from the tank into your water lines that you're not using.

It'll cool off and it'll refill it and it'll cool off and refill it.

So you're you're waste a lot of energy without the timer.

Maybe this is just me, but when you hear cave Creek, you know, you're always taking that loop between cave Creek Road where it comes back around to Scottsdale Road.

Cave Creek rodeo grounds are actually farther west.

You got to take care of free highway out to 30 second street and then go up.

And it's really funny because you're like, if you've never been there before, you're thinking, this cannot be right.

I mean, I'm driving in neighborhood.

And then all sudden it sneaks up on you.

And it still doesn't look all that obvious when you first pull in, but then you get in.

It's like, wow, nice, nice facility.

So good times.

I had a collar, I told her I'd call her back.

So I've tried three times and I keep getting a busy signal. All circuits are busy.

You know, that happened to you this week too.

You did.

Yeah. So I'll ask her question for you.

Okay, follow away.

She's in a 30 year old home and she's just septic tank.

And the septic tank has two dry wells.

One is 27 feet, one is 12.

Last time she had it pumped.

It filled back up in no time.

So she had them, she had two companies come out and look at it.

And one told her she did a whole, she needs a whole new system.

And then the other one told her she just needs one more dry well.

And she want to know your opinion.

Poo.

I would need to know a lot more.

Okay.

The occupancy level of the house, she says she's the house is 30 years old.

Where she been in the house for 30 years is the occupancy gone down.

What is the, what is the percolation rate of the soil at her property?

But they'll, but again, the only thing she needs to know is contact one of the two rosy certified septic providers found on our website rosy on the house.

And you want either one of those are going to give her the right answer.

Yeah, but people like to talk to you first.

And then also to know the right questions now.

So you just gave her some of the questions that they're going to be looking for to give a good diagnosis.

And we have cave Creek septic.

And we also have a American septic.

Okay.

Cave Creek's a new.

Just made it through the screening process.

We're able to meet them recently.

It seemed like really sharp, a very sharp team.

So cave Creek septic and a American or two.

I would have her just contact those people.

The rosy trusted experts.

I'll shoot it to her.

They'll have the date off the top of my head.

But in March, we have one of our topics is septic.

So we'll, we'll actually have them in studio.

So we'll.

That'd be a good question for them.

That'll be a nice, a nice way to start that hour.

It's amazing how many people still are on septic.

Yeah.

Well, and especially as the.

A lot of systems expansion grows.

You know, if it's not in one of these master plan communities.

If you're outside of municipality, you're.

You don't have an option.

This is true.

The infrastructure is not there.

So you have to go to a septic system.

All right.

We're here to protect inform and educate and entertain you.

The Arizona home owners.

I want to talk a little bit about.

Our newsletter, which goes out every week.

And we notify you in the newsletter.

What we're going to cover on the broadcast.

This coming Saturday.

And we always include kind of a do it yourself tip.

And the do it yourself tip kind of is a challenge you.

Are you ready to buy a home?

There's no question.

It's gotten pretty tough for the first time home buyer.

But we are do we have done quite a bit of research.

As to all the different programs that are available out there.

To help assist get getting you in to that first home purchase.

And I couldn't encourage you enough.

There's no question.

That I'm I'm bullish on real estate.

Really bullish on Arizona real estate.

Arizona is not going to quit growing.

People are still going to be flocking here to Arizona for decades to come.

Your investment in Arizona real estate in your home.

I have a high degree of confidence.

It's going to be a very safe place to invest your money.

Find a way to get into that first home.

And one of the ways.

Julie Murphy from Farm Bureau this morning was talking about the fact that she got her first checking account at 12 years old.

Now anybody that can balance a checkbook at 12 or 13 years old by the time they're 18, 19, 20 or in their early 20s.

They're going to be ready to buy a house.

Balancing a checkbook is like one of the very first tricky steps you have in growing up in life.

And once you get it down pat and you can find it and balance it and reconcile it every single month.

You're on the very first rung of financial responsibility and building a budget for yourself.

And what we like to do is we like to get you into that first house and not consume more than 30 or 40% of your gross income in paying for that house.

We don't want you to become a slave to your house.

I actually froze up in a panic attack talking to one of our mortgage specialists.

Harold Perkins, a galaxy lending.

He said, Rosie, you're not going to believe this, but one of the things young couples are doing is they're combining young couples together.

We call it squatting up, squatting up.

So two couples get together and decide to buy a house together.

I don't think I'd be a good candidate for that now.

And it shouldn't be that way.

There was a statistic since 2000.

Price and wages have increased on average 27% where the home cost has gone up 97%.

And that I don't that don't believe that even accounts for inflation.

So not only is there a 60% gap there and wages versus median income, you know, what inflation has done to the value of the dollar, why does that gap I would.

And Arizona still has room that gap could increase because we're still less than other states in the union.

So, I mean, it's one of the reasons I encourage people think about that first home as a very, very sound investment level.

It's a great place to set roots.

It's a great place to call home.

We'll help you with that ownership all the way through.

But you got to have some found sound foundational financial education habits practices and disciplines.

If you're planning on staying put in the area is one more argument for considering a purchase as opposed to paying rent and or a lease.

I can tell you at my age facing retirement here not not too distant future.

A big part of our retirement income has come from other people paying me their rent.

So I'm very grateful for them, but I did their program helped me the landlord much more than it helped them the tenant.

You have to understand the true cost of home ownership as well.

Once you buy into the home, you just know you're going to have to put a slush fund away for regularly maintaining the home.

There's a lot of other information in our DIY segment of the week.

Are you ready to buy that first home? I would encourage any of you that are considering or know someone considering buying that first home.

Get your news that are printed out and distributed freely and generously to get the information out.

All right, let's go to John at one trip late seven six seven four three four eight that's one trip late Rosie for you. Good morning.

Hey, good morning.

How can we help?

Thanks for taking my call.

Yes, sir.

I've, I've, I've got a rental call at rental house in East Mesa right around the two or two and water loop area.

So it's about 15, 18 years old.

And the tenants that's living there has complained for the last nine months or so about a sewer smell coming from the master bathroom thing.

How long have you owned the home?

Last 10 years.

Okay, no one ever complained before then.

No, and I've gone physically there and I smell it myself now too. So it's not kind of an imagination thing.

Okay.

And so we smoked event.

We poured countless gallons of bleach down the thing. We even got those those foam cleansers that you can.

Yeah.

And when you said you poured bleach, was it down like the overflow in the sink too?

Yes, yes.

As a matter of fact, because I thought it might be mold or something growing up in that little, that chasm behind the, the little hole there.

So I tried to disinfect that as well.

Okay.

If you plug that thing up, the smell comes up from other vents.

So I can come up from another shower.

It can come up from the laundry room.

Okay.

If we plug up the master bedroom bathroom.

Okay.

Well, you've tried a lot.

If I were a bird flying over the houses, does this house have a flat roof or a pitch roof?

Okay.

And the ridge line of the pitch.

Does it run north and south or east and west?

It runs east and west.

Okay. Runs east and west.

Is the odor coming from the north side of the house?

I know it's coming from the south side of the house.

Okay.

So what we want to do is the, we want to take that vent pipe above that bathroom and extend it about another two feet.

And you can do that very inexpensively by running to A's hardware, picking up a piece of four inch ABS pipe, four feet long,

and just put it right over the vent that's coming out of that bathroom right now and see if that doesn't solve the problem.

I'm betting that it has about an 80% chance of solving the problem.

If it doesn't, then we're going to mechanically evacuate the air in your plumbing vent system with a small circulating pump

that creates a negative pressure and it'll get rid of the problem forever.

I would have told you to smoke test the system to make sure that the integrity of the system is sound, you've already done that.

So right now, let's just extend the vents on the roof immediately above that bathroom and see if it doesn't take care of it.

If it doesn't, and that's a, that's a, that's a $10 solution.

If it works, you're going to want to then get a pipe the right size and put a coupler on the existing vent and extend it, make it look a little bit better.

But right now, just go buy a four inch piece of ABS and throw it over there about four feet long and see if it solves the problem.

If not, call me back. We can actually mechanically do that with a fan that we mount on the plumbing system itself that evacuates the air, creates negative pressure, and you'll never have this smell again.

So there you go.

Welcome back to the last segment, Rosie, on the house.

Hey, today's the seventh of March, which means you have about eight days to sign up for the next Arizona stacation sponsored by Sanderson Ford, and we empty that little box every month so you get a fresh chance to win.

And this, we had a couple of just go out this week to Tucson, and they are going to go down and enjoy all the sights and sounds and food and Tucson.

And in their vehicle, they're going to have a basket, they have a basket.

Met basket has all kinds of goodies. It has a signed book by Roger Naylor, his latest.

It has a set of state park passes along with a little guidebook to let them know what's down there.

And $250 gift card for food and gas. And then they also have some really great local fair.

And one of the things they have is fairy tale brownies. And you had a fairy tale brownie.

You know that they are down, down, downgury down. But they are lovely. And they're from a local couple right here in town.

And they, there's a couple cool things about them. They're great gifts.

You can get them like for Easter, birthdays, business associates. And you can customize the cover. It can say thank you.

It could say happy Easter, happy birthday. You can even put your own logo on there. So that's pretty cool.

And they are, they come in all kinds of great flavors. They are made of Belgian dark chocolate, butter, cake, flour, and eggs.

No preservatives or anything. So they're just, they're just lovely. And the couple that is, that makes them have been together a very long time as a sweet story.

You can find it on their website. Also purely Sedona water. Have you ever tried that purely Sedona water? I usually see it in Sprouts.

It's really good. Did you know it's actually purely Sedona water? Like there's nothing else. And I always thought, oh, it's kind of maybe just a name.

But no, it's artesian spring water. And it, nothing added just the good water from Oak Creek Canyon of Sedona. So it's pretty special. And it comes plain or sparkling.

In other words, with or without bubbles. So sign up for that staycation. What's the best way to do that, Romney?

Well, from Rosie on the House.com, you can click on the staycation tab or just go to Arizona staycation.com and it redirects you to that tab as well.

Yeah. So put in for your chance. And then did you want to also maybe give away some state park passes today?

Oh, we do have that. A set of two who at the beginning of the hour, Rosie was talking about a man that signed all four major documents.

And the founding of the company, our country, the Declaration of Independence. Bill or rights? No.

Articles of Confederation was one of them. Yeah. Well, anyway, Rosie mentioned those four documents are who was that man?

Text that answer to 62620 and we'll pick a random right person answer at the end of the hour, the cobbler, the surveyor, the lawyer.

What was his name? Only man to sign all four documents, which were articles of association, the Declaration of Independence.

The articles of Confederation and the Constitution. This man should be a household name for what he contributed to the founding of this country.

Pretty inspiring story. Yeah, truly invented the side hustle, but all the jobs that he had. Yeah. That's right.

What I loved about him, there was a quote about him. He never said a foolish thing in his life. Who can say that? That's amazing.

When you like to live with, leave with that legacy. I'll take it. Okay. I'd never earn it, but I would take it for sure.

You know, some of the takeaways from his show last name is also the name of a tank. There's nothing to do with the tank itself.

But I would, I would hope that y'all would learn about our podcast because we talked about water treatment in the nine o'clock hour, which is a subject that is seriously, seriously mistreated by a lot of service providers.

And I'm trying to help you be safe from fraud and from unscrupulous service providers.

And if you could watch our podcast on how to know when to trust a plumber and how to trust a water treatment specialist and the truth test that you can give them when they're at your house.

That's all that kind of information is only available and it's show and tell. It's a video that you can actually watch. It's at Rosie on the house podcast on protecting yourself.

And that's what our job is keeping you protected from fraud because there is hardly a area in your life. You are not subject to some chance or risk of fraud.

And it changes all the time. It's daily. But you can do some best practices for yourself that will keep you safe no matter what. The schemes are going to change. The people are going to change. The criminals are going to change.

But if you just keep these sound-minded things close your hands.

Just this week I got a notice from the phone company from Medicare and from my bank and from my utility company. Beware of scams.

They're all using those four elements of your life to get into information that they shouldn't have.

You'll be careful out there and stay close. Stay close to Rosie on the house.