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Ep. # 75 The Heart of Home Improvement: Flooring That Changes Everything
Ready to elevate your home's atmosphere? In this episode, we dive deep into the world of flooring with Matthew Bader from G Fried Flooring and Design. Discover how the choices you make for your floors can transform not only the aesthetics of your home but also the overall vibe and emotional comfort for you and your family. Matthew shares his decades of experience in the flooring industry, highlighting the latest trends—from engineered hardwood that provides durability to stylish area rugs that add flair and comfort.
We explore the evolution of preferences in flooring and how more families are stepping away from wall-to-wall carpets in favor of trendy designs that reflect their personal style. With insightful anecdotes and practical tips, we discuss the marriage of design and functionality, particularly for homes with children and pets.
The conversation brings out how G Fried stands out in the crowded flooring market by prioritizing unparalleled customer service and education. If you're contemplating a home renovation, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won’t want to miss. Join us and learn how to not just transform your floors, but your entire living experience! Don’t forget to reach out for a consultation or order samples to see what would look best in your home—your gorgeous new floors await!
G Fried Flooring and Design
Matthew Bader
495 Route 17 Paramus, NJ, United States, New Jersey 07652
(201) 967-1250
Matthew@gfriedcarpet.net
gfriedcarpet.net
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Doug Drohan.
Speaker 2:Welcome to another episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast brought to you by the Bergen Neighbors Media Group. I am your host, doug Drohan, and today we have a departure from our usual guests that I've had. If you've gone through the 75 episodes or more, we've had a lot of similar businesses, but today we get more into the home improvement space and I'm really thrilled to be joined with Matthew Bader from G Fried Flooring and Design from Paramus, new Jersey. Matthew, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3:Hey Doug, Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were talking before we went on air, so to speak is that you help clients design and transform their floors. And I took that a step further and I said well, if you're transforming their floors, you're transforming their homes. And then, if you want to even take that a step further, if you're transforming their homes in a lot of ways, you're transforming the way they feel about their life. You walk into a home that has new floors or a new kitchen. You just feel better about a lot of things in your life. It may seem a little simplistic, but it's true. It's why we watch these shows on HGTV. So why don't you walk me through that? How do you do that? How do you help people design and transform their floors?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's a great point. We are primarily, if we're talking about this, you know we're in the customer service business that happens to sell flooring. You know we are a full service flooring and design showroom. So a lot of times I'll have clients that come in maybe it's the first time shopping for flooring. They just bought a home, you know they're in their mid-30s and they walk in they're completely flabbergasted. We have a 8,000 square foot showroom, probably 30,000 different samples to choose from, and they're kind of overwhelmed. So what our job is is to actually walk them through the process, ask all these different questions about what's their home life like? Okay, they have young children. Do they have carpet on the? Do they need carpet on their stairs?
Speaker 3:Many times clients, you know, come to me because you know one of their. I had a client come to me. Her daughter was 12 years old during COVID. She slipped and fell down the stairs and broke her arm. So three days later with her daughter and the cast was coming to me. We need carpet because my daughter broke her arm.
Speaker 3:So you know there is functionality, but then there's also style and design and a lot of times they don't know which route they want to go to. So we help, we're trained to help guide them and show them different flooring options for what would fit in their home. Also for functionality and, you know, durability for long-term. You know, obviously this will add value, this will add comfort to their home and, like you had said, you know when a home is finished. When you know when there's, let's say, carpet like you finish a carpet in a bedroom and you finish it wall to wall there's a sense of you know, a good feeling. It's like you know when you see a room done or when you see something completely finished with carping or adding an area rug. It gives you this uplifting feeling. So yes, to your point, we are helping transform their homes and their lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I don't. I love the feel of, you know, plush carpeting, multiple carpeting, but it seems like more people have gotten away from that and you can correct me, obviously, if I'm wrong. And like the hardwood, uh, certainly in in a lot of the different rooms and I guess, like I know, if you have children or pets, it's nice to have carpeting, but I'm worried about my, my dog, making a mess on my carpet rather than my wood floor, which is easier to clean up, or my son dropping uh food on my carpet versus you know, and my dog. We have an area rug and my dog seems to find a way. He we have a dog door. He can go in and out as much as he wants, but when he has to puke he feels like he's got a puke on our rug. It's like, couldn't you have done it outside?
Speaker 3:I'm like come on, man, it's Murphy's law that always happens.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's, that's why we have a cleaning division too. Um, because, look, you know, our pets are our kids. Do that part of our family. I have a a micro golden doodle and I've had many episodes where he's uh, you know, vomited on you know floor, you know my carpet. But yeah, you know, ultimately yes to your point.
Speaker 3:Earlier you were saying that a lot of our clients and you're seeing in the industry, people are not putting wall to wall carpet in in their main level.
Speaker 3:So what I'm seeing, the design trends that we're seeing, are obviously doing stair runners on the stairs, where they're showing wood on either side and then putting area rugs in the living room, dining room and maybe like a family room, but really not doing wall to wall on the main level, because they want to show the wood, it's cleaner and it's just a design element that's up to date and that feels current. Now, as far as, like you know, for basements and stuff like that, people are doing either the vinyl flooring, the lvp, where it looks like wood, but it's it's waterproof, so they're doing that in their basements, and then typically we are seeing a resurgence. We were seeing a lot of like area rugs being done in the bedrooms. But now people want the wall to wall again and I think you know it's. There's a big difference. So I think I'm seeing that turn again, where people saying, hey look, we love that wall to wall feeling. So we're seeing that design trend start to change.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's more luxurious and it definitely feels good on your feet when you get up in the morning and feel that, oh, a hundred percent, a hundred percent.
Speaker 3:I had a client yesterday saying the same thing. She's like I didn't realize, like she's like I have no carpet in my bedroom and like I'm like touching this carpet and I'm like thinking like how it would feel getting out. I'm like, yeah, that's, that's the, that's the sizzle right there. Everyone, you know, they want to feel that softness when they get out of the bed in the morning and they put their feet down. It's, it's, you know, it definitely changes perspective.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So when it comes to hardwood, there's certain trends now materialized. Right, there's engineered hardwood.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:So what's the difference between engineered hardwood and is it really made of wood, or is it, like you said, this vinyl that looks like wood? What's the difference?
Speaker 3:So I think that's, you know it's a great point. I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions that I have from our clients that come in. You know there is what we call the industry called solid hardwood and engineered wood. They're both real wood. People think, or have this inclination to think, that engineered wood is not real wood. Solid wood is a single species wood. So whether it's oak, red oak, white oak, maple, hickory, it's all the same species.
Speaker 3:What engineered wood is, it's. There's a, you know, decently thick veneer that is either red oak white oak is super popular right now um, and then the core is other types of wood, whether it's pine, spruce, you know fur and what they do is they actually engineer it in a way to increase the rigidity of that. So a lot of people now and I'm sure your listeners like the wider plank flooring. When they're looking at flooring, they like to see the wider planks. Well, in order to get that in wood, you have to engineer it in a way where you're layering the wood, cross paneling it from the manufacturer so that when you lay it down you're not going to get those seasonal gaps, you're not going to get buckling, you're not going to get cupping. So definitely a big misconception. Engineered wood is real wood. It's just constructed in a way, in a more rigid way, so that it can function in the end user's home and won't fail.
Speaker 3:Solid wood typically does not come larger than five inches wide. The reason for that is because it doesn't have the stability. It's again one piece of solid wood, same species. Engineered is different because it's actually layered. So if you went wider, if you cut the solid wood wider, you would have those failures the board would start to. You'd get increasing what they call cupping at the seams, in the joints. So yeah, big misconception, but they're both real wood. Obviously, the other product, which is called it's a vinyl product, right? So it's a synthetic product that looks like wood, but it's a synthetic product. It's not wood. It doesn't have any wood components in it. Completely different, obviously, that's primarily. I see clients using that in high moisture areas. So basements, bathrooms, sometimes kitchens.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, is that what?
Speaker 2:I might see in a gym like a gym floor, studio floor no.
Speaker 3:So in gyms, typically, you're going to use rubber flooring that's meant to withstand if someone dropped the weight, you know if you had some of that vinyl flooring. They dropped the weight. It would probably crack the floor, so in gym floorings they have special rubber flooring and such.
Speaker 2:Okay, Now do you well, do you sell gym flooring, if somebody wanted to turn their basement into a home gym.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely so. We have plenty of different options. So you know, I have many clients that have homes, that have home gyms.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Hey, listen, you know I want the vinyl in my basement, you know, because that's functional for my kids and my family if they drop something. But then we have a gym. I've got a Peloton bike, I've got a weight system, I've got dumbbells.
Speaker 2:You know. So we put the rubber flooring in there so that that protects the weights, you know, should anything drop or fall. Nice. So going back to hardwood, engineered hardwood, so that's, that's your choice, like, I guess, if it's natural wood, that's you know only five inches that you're going to see that in the original build. But if you want to renovate your kitchen or renovate a room, you go down to the sub flooring and then put in the engineered hardwood. Can you put engineered hardwood over a slab, a cement slab?
Speaker 3:Yes, you can, certain ones. Yes, you can put over a slab. You know there are different requirements or specifications, but yes, you can. Now, in my home, to your point, I just recently did a renovation where I gutted my entire main floor, got everything basically down to the subfloor. They were actually just like cross, uh planks, diagonal gaps. I had to put an additional subfloor on and then I could install. You know, because everything's got to be really level and flat, uh, when you install that.
Speaker 3:So that's what I have to do, but yeah, it's, it's beautiful and I went with eight inch wide planks nice and, uh, I'm glad, yeah, I'm glad did.
Speaker 2:So when you go in your gallery, you have obviously this showroom. You could see what, all the different types of choices of what, and you see them in nice. We'll call them swatches, but big enough to to really get a sense of what it looks like in your home.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, and we can. If somebody goes on to our website and they see stuff on there and they like it, they could actually call us. We actually, you know, because, listen, everyone is very busy. Um, you know, sometimes they don't have time to come in here. We have designers that come in and we don't have time. So they'll go on our website or they'll go on a manufacturer's website and they'll say, hey, listen, can you order me these samples? So we'll actually order them swatches, send them right to their home, they look at them in their home and they make the decision then and there, saving them a lot of time. You know, traffic on route 17 sometimes is crazy. They got to pick up the kids.
Speaker 3:So we try to make our clients lives, our designers lives, a lot easier by doing that extra level of service for them. Um, I even offer remote. So during COVID and even a little bit after, you know, I was doing basically FaceTime design consultations where they could sit in the comfort of their own home and I would literally walk them around the store with my phone showing them different samples and you know, hey, you like this. Okay, I like that one. Making a note, we'll send you a sample, um, and it just makes the process, you know, easier, it saves them time. So, like I said in the beginning, just makes the process, you know, easier, it saves them time. So, like I said in the beginning, you know I'm trying to. My focus is to put uh, I concentrate on my clients' lives because, you know, look, I'm a consumer, I'm a shopper too, and it's like I try to think like, okay, well, how can I make my life easier?
Speaker 3:You know, in the in the world where I need things right. We all live in the Amazon world where we order something and sometimes we get it in two hours. It's delivered on our doorstep. So it's like I have to have the same mentality when I'm thinking, okay, we're all busy, how can I make my clients' lives easier? And I'm trying to every day do something to promote that and give our clients new avenues to shop for flooring, because it's a feel and touch. You know it's a feel and touch our industry. They want to feel and touch the product. How do I get the product into their hands fast and seamlessly? And we're trying to, you know, do everything we can to do that.
Speaker 2:That's great. So if I had dramatic music right now, I'd say let's go back.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To G Fried and the history and you know where. When did the company, what were its origins Like? How far back does the company go in terms of how long has it been in business? Where did you first start? Do you know what's the story with, with g freed?
Speaker 3:yeah, so g freed started um. They first opened in 1978 I believe it was may 1978 and I'm I'm too young to know this. But the, the median, the divider on route 17 that we're on the south side, in between midland and ridgewood ave, the divider that was in the middle was a grass knoll. It was just a piece of grass. There was no divider there. Um, like I said, I'm too young to realize that.
Speaker 3:But um, yeah it started back then with Sam Levine, was partners with Stewie Leventhal and those were the original or not the original, but those were the main owners back then.
Speaker 3:And then as time got on, stewie had left and Sam was the main owner. He's still here now. He's still working hard. He's been in the business 50 years. I've been here 26 years now. I've kind of been here since I was, I believe, 16. So I started working in the warehouse here opening, inspecting carpets, cutting carpets, getting it ready for installation. Then I was working on the cleaning truck. So I, you know, did all the daily tasks that involved in, you know, cleaning going to clients' homes, cleaning in their homes.
Speaker 3:And then I started part-time in the office in like an admin role when I was in high school, part-time junior and senior. And you know, I went to college, I went to Bergen Community and then I just you know, for whatever reason you know, to take one step back from that. My father worked here, right, so it's like how did, how did I get even?
Speaker 3:here, my father's been here almost as long as Sam, but my father was an installer. He installs, been doing it for, I guess, close to 40 years now total, and that's you know kind of how I got my foot in the door. No-transcript. Um, you know, worked from an admin, a backend admin position, all the way up now to vice president. So it's been a journey, it's, it's been, it's been a long journey and and and a tough journey, but, um, you, know.
Speaker 2:I mean it says a lot that obviously you must love what you do because you've you've been in the business forever and you know and your dad has been in it and you know if he hated what he did and came home every day and complained and I don't think you'd find yourself working in the same, you know, for the same company, in the same field.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I think that says a lot about you know the culture of G Fried as well.
Speaker 3:Well, absolutely, and you know the culture of of G Fried as well. Well, absolutely, and you know, listen, there's there's good days and there's bad days, obviously, but you know, I think ultimately, you know, I get satisfaction in in helping people. You know it's. I had a client last night that I was working with and you know, when they're kind of on fire to change their homes it kind of you know, I, I it.
Speaker 3:It kind of lights a fire under me and makes me like, okay, let's do this, let's you know, and seeing the finished result and seeing you know them happy and love it and being functional, you know it kind of gives me a dopamine boost to to, you know, you know, to see that the client happy and, uh, you know all about it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, I mean, it goes back to what your signature says helping clients design and transform. Yeah, again, you say their floors, I say their lives, but uh, yeah, yeah, I say that because I had my floors redone.
Speaker 2:First we had, um, we have a split level and the main like floor was on a slab and it was vinyl and it was awful and you know that made a huge difference changing the floor. And then we did our kitchen five years ago and the same thing. It just made a huge difference. When you walk in there with the nine inch like French oak looking wood and it used to be. You never put wood in kitchens before, right, it was never, never. And you know, not too long ago everybody's kitchen had a ceramic tile you know, the port, the, the tuscan, look to the, to the kitchens, and I don't know when that changed, but it seemed to change pretty quickly because I felt like in the 90s everybody had, you know, tile floors, you know like porcelain or whatever it was, um, and then at some point it changed to wood. It's like how could you put wood in the kitchen? Aren't you worried about it getting wet, the wood warping and all that?
Speaker 3:yeah, but now it's definitely changed in my house, like I was telling you before, it's all and again. It goes back to the right product for the right application. You know using I have wood in my kitchen. It's a high moisture area, but when you use engineered wood, it's more resistant to absorbing that excess moisture in those areas. I mean, I wouldn't put wood you know engineered wooden in a um in a bathroom or something like that.
Speaker 3:But you know kitchen you can get by with. You spill a cup of water, you know you wipe it up, it's fine. But yeah, you know the years that you know, three, four, decades ago they didn't have that technology, that engineered floor technology. So they had solid wood. You wouldn't put solid in a kitchen with high moisture. It's going to absorb all that moisture and start to warp and buckle. So yeah, the industry has definitely changed. Fashion in the industry is. You know? When I first started here 20 some odd years ago, I couldn't tell you we have an 8,000 square foot showroom. Most of them were cut pile plush carpets no pattern.
Speaker 3:Now, if you looked at the store like if you did a time warp, it's, it's incredible. There really is almost no cup pile plushes anymore. Everything is style, design, pattern. That's what, that's what our clients, that's what our designers want nowadays. They want to see these. You know these big fashion statements. It's like artwork on the floor. I mean that's. Some of them are really that, that in uh, uh.
Speaker 2:Who drives those changes? Does it come from the flooring industry or does it come from designers?
Speaker 3:I think it's from, I think it's a piece of both. Obviously right, the flooring industry is going to follow the design industry. You know chicken or the egg, you know, I think it's the industry overall. You know we follow, you know the paint color, you know how it's kind of the design industry as a whole to see.
Speaker 3:okay, what colors are going to be popular for this upcoming year. What design trends? Who's doing something different? Um, you know, and then they all, they all kind of cheat and copy off each other. You know, one kind of pushes the envelope, one manufacturer, and then it works, and then you see kind of everyone follow suit. Uh yeah, I would say the design industry as a whole. You have to have a good pulse on the market when you're a manufacturer or an importer in this business to really get ahead of the curve and be a trendsetter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then also the technology allows you to be able to adapt too, because engineered hardwood, as you said, before that technology existed. And then I think there was a trend for a while with the farmhouse. Look the modern farmhouse, look, you know the modern farmhouse would be doing the outside and obviously the inside. You want it to look like an old farmhouse where you need the nine inch or more wide.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what. Uh, that's what my wife called our house modern farmhouse, that's who I had a term.
Speaker 2:I interviewed a guy last week who has an exterior business and I've seen some you know examples in my neighborhood and on his website and I call it the modern ski lodge. Look where it's like mixed, mixed use mixed material.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you've got a kind of the, the, uh. The columns that are made of like this look like ski lodge wood I don't know what kind of wood it is and then maybe the arches and things like that.
Speaker 3:I have more of the format. So yeah, lodge wood, I don't know what kind of wood it is, and then maybe the arches and things like that, more the farmer.
Speaker 2:So yeah, like a chalet almost yeah, yeah, yeah, I call it the ski lodge because if you go skiing very cool you see a lot of that type of architecture yeah, so yeah I mean it so what is it?
Speaker 2:so you said you have a huge, huge uh showroom. So, yeah, walk me through if I was going to venture on route 17 south. It's 495 route 17 South in Params, new Jersey, fyi. So I walk in, I'm greeted by you or somebody from your team and, like you know, I should probably go in there with already a thought of obviously I know what room I want to do, or rooms, but should I have an idea of what I'm looking for? A carpet or hardwood?
Speaker 3:That's a great question, yeah, so yes, theoretically best case scenario to help maximize our time together, I would typically either get on, you know, if they email me, I would get on a call beforehand and just tell them to say, hey, listen, if you found anything online that you liked, I don't care where you see it, just take a screenshot, just show me so that I can kind of understand where your direction is. And that's okay. If they don't listen, many people just walk in. We have open doors, so many people just walk in. They're really not sure, and we kind of help ask the right questions, guide them, show them different products.
Speaker 3:My client last night she's like, listen, I don't like that. I said listen, don't feel bad, if you're telling me you don't like, I want to get you something that you love. So by you telling me you don't like this, I understand that I can kind of eliminate that whole category of style. So you know, we kind of work, you know, with them and we ask the right questions and we show different things. And you know it sometimes it takes, you know, if you have three rooms it may take a little bit of time, but we try to maximize our time together and, um, you know, just find the right product.
Speaker 3:Again, you have to also think of functionality too. You're asking, okay, is it um an empty nesters? Is it, you know, a new family? Do you have pets? Do you have young children? Um, you know, do you guys wear shoes in the house? So there's a lot of you know, kind of um qualifying questions or prerequisite questions. We'll ask to get an idea of what their needs might be, and that'll help us understand, you know, what they need and guide us, help us guide them to what products would be best for their home.
Speaker 2:Got it. So if I were to do a search for carpet I might see empire. You know I see these tv commercials right empire today yeah national. Four is direct. There was the other one, I think it was 1-800 carpets. So what's it? You know? How do you guys separate or distinguish yourselves from these? I guess they're. They're. They're mostly guess selling on discounts and price. That's their big thing. Well, how do you compete with that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's the biggest illusion is that these you know and I'm not going to knock any individual one, but you know any of these online shop at home, you know, flooring stores or the big box, uh, flooring centers is that? Well, it's got to be cheaper, right, it's got to be less money. But from my own experience, I've realized that some of the products that they sell number one when they get into your home and they pitch their high pressure sales pitch and they actually give you the price.
Speaker 3:It's really not that cheap when you come to think of it, because I've had many clients actually confirm this and come in and say you know what? I had Empire come in, or I had whoever many of these online places and you're saying you know what? It just didn't seem like the value was right.
Speaker 3:So, number one. The misconception is just they're not going to be offering you this superb value. That's number one. Number two, I think where we stand out is you call, let's say you call one of them. That's an 800 number. You call them. You have a problem, you have a question. You're going through a chain of prompts and trying to get a hold of somebody. You're ready to rip your hair out. You call the store here we're picking up within the first or second ring and we're answering whatever your question is, whatever your need is, addressing it right away.
Speaker 3:So, like I said at the beginning, we are in the customer service client service business that happens to sell flooring. My main focus is giving people excellent customer service, whatever within reason. I mean, I've done some crazy things to help people out, but you know, if they're ever in a jam, if something ever happens. And look, there's sometimes there's things that you know we're not perfect, we make mistakes too, but you know we do the right thing and we kind of go above and beyond to do the right thing. I had a client uh, wasn't my client, it was somebody else's but we had ordered, I guess, the wrong carpet or something happened where we went to their house. She says this is not my carpet. So we said, okay, listen. So sorry she's like, but I have a party coming up this weekend. I planned it all around us. So we said, okay, no problem, how about we find you a temporary fix? So we found her. We have in-stock remnants. So we found her an in-stock remnant.
Speaker 3:We installed it in her house. We brought back the other carpet, we went back, installed it in her house for a weekend.
Speaker 3:She actually had it for probably 10 days because we reordered the correct carpet. She had that in there and when the new carpet came in, she had her party, she had something covered for her party, and then when the new carpet, the correct carpet, came in, 10 days later we ripped that old one out, threw it out because it, you know, you know, obviously installed and then we installed the new one. So, you know, I think that's that's what kind of makes us different than you know, big corporate. You know, and everyone gets it.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know, when I first bought my house I guess 12 years ago now, you know, we didn't have the money right To to buy all these things. We were just basically getting into our house and doing the best we could. And you know, looking back on it, you know we were buying. We need to buy all new toilets. So obviously I think I went to one of the big boxers, home Depot or Lowe's I wasn't sure what it was, but you know they. They sell Kohler toilets there. It's like, oh okay, kohler, fast forward. 10 years later I went to the Kohler store here on 17 and Paramus and I'm talking to the salesperson and I'm realizing that Kohler makes a specific specifically for a Home Depot and it's meant for a price
Speaker 3:point, and the flooring industry does the same thing. For some of these big box stores, they'll make a specific product for them to hit a price point. So you have to understand is when you're using less material in that product, the quality is not gonna be there. So if you wanna save money, I understand that, but understand if you go that product, the quality is not going to be there. So you know, if you want to save money, I understand that, but understand if you, if you go that route, you're going to compromise on two things Number one is quality and number two is customer service.
Speaker 2:So that's great.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, matthew, I really appreciate you joining us today, and let's just go over again your address and how people reach you. It's 495, route 17 South. Go ahead and promise New Jersey.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you. It's my pleasure. Honestly, it was great Love to be a guest here. But yes, if you want to reach out to me 495 Route 17 South, in between Midland and Ridgewood Avenue, on the south side of 17. We're actually right across from. There's a Home Depot right across there.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I know it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the best way to check us out, to keep up with what we're doing, is on our Instagram page, which is Gfried F-R-I-E-D flooring, and that's our Instagram handle, gfried Flooring. Check us out at Instagram. We update, uh, three times a week, um, you'll see all of the cool stuff we're doing, so check us out there. Alternately, you can check out our website, which is gfreedcarpetnet. See all of our different products. We offer some of our you know previous jobs, um, and then if you want to reach out to me directly, you can contact. You can contact me via email. My email is matthew m-a-t-t-H-E-W at gfreedcarpet. net. Matthew at gfreedcarpetnet.
Speaker 2:Okay, great, all right, matthew, stay on for a few seconds and you and I will be right back.
Speaker 3:Thank, you Very good. Thank you, buddy.
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