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F Wave: Roofing Shingle Review: not afraid of Hail or Foot traffic | Roofing Insights - YouTube
Channel: Dmitry Lipinskiy
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one that's how noisy 170 miles an hour
words fast that looks so pretty so if I
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break it is it gonna reseal it would you
look at that play if you're the
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homeowner and you're sick and tired of
replacing your roof every single year
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because you live in a kale market maybe
you have replaced the roof four times in
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the last six years this video is for you
today when lovely Texas we've been
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inviting by our friends from F Wave
shingle manufacturer it's not asphalt
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shingles it's a completely different
product I want to show it to you I want
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to show you how they make it I want to
show you how it's different from
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everything else on the market how it's
different from asphalt shingles that you
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see it on 80% of the roofs installed
today let's go we live in the world
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where a hail becomes real a big issue
it hails now in the states where it
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never held before Atlanta Cocoa Beach
Florida got hell this year Denver we see
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bigger reports of hail almost every year
we have new record set cars getting
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smashed the roofs getting smashed it
becomes real problem
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insurance companies losing billions in
coverage it's good for storm restoration
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contractors but I believe that we should
be investing in looking for better
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solution better products to solve this
massive problem in today's video we are
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reviewing product that claims to solve
that problem and says yes to hell we're
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talking about F waive shingles we spent
entire day with the production team
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we've seen people behind the brand they
only been in business since 2015 it's a
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fairly new company on the market I'm
gonna be givin you my personal ten
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points if you're the homeowner why you
should be considering to go with the F
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wave if you live in an area where it
gets held a lot or if you're the
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contractor and you're looking for new
products to offer to your customers
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Scott McDonald's the most American name
of everything
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thank you so much man for my pleasure
and we're thrilled to have you here with
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us in Burleson Texas here are my 10
reasons why you should consider F Wave
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the reason number one it's not asphalt
shingles but it's also not a robber
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it's tpo roofers we'll understand it
it's thermoplastic it's pretty much
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plastic there's seven primary
ingredients in our product they're all
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readily available they're not you know
what I'd call commodity products but
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they're resins and polymers that are you
know available in the market we
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formulate those in a way that's a bit
proprietary but everything about our
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product is green and sustainable because
it's plastic and plastic already been
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used TP or products been used in the
roofing industry for a long time its
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performs completely different than most
products on the market number two if you
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look at the product especially from the
road if it's already installed you will
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see granules but it doesn't have
granules I mean the whole thing about F
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wave when I have spent almost two days
with them it's very well engineered
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product and there's a whole bunch of
engineering they pretty much look at
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everything from engineers standpoint
when I asked them how did they do it did
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they paint it it's pretty much it looks
like a granules but it's very very
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high-tech process these are individual
particles that that are on the shingle
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so we had to figure out how to get get a
blender look like like a granule a swell
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granulated rough and it's an incredible
amount of challenge to make something
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that's that's a plastic base
look like a real rock product which you
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get in return especially if your roofer
because you don't have granules you
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don't sleep
it's walkable as a matter of fact they
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encourage you to work on the roofs I've
never seen any other product on the
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market on the roofing market that
manufacturer would say go walk on our
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roofs it's not gonna damage it like
they're not afraid of food traffic
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because of it you're about to see
employees getting paid for walking on
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the roof literal just walking on the
roof for asphalt traffic is prohibited
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you want to be on the roof as less as
possible because you're gonna wash away
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and you know you can brush off those
granules and granules needs to protect
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the mat and asphalt in case of F Wave
it's completely different story you can
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walk on it you can jump on it you can do
anything you want in it walk all you
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want
you'll be fine your roof will be fine
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number three it's very flexible it's not
easy to break but it's very flexible and
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it's very easy to cut I was impressed by
it it's not crisping now so the other
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thing is kind of unique about this
Dmitri is you just Jack that up pretty
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good we're going our tour and come back
you give it enough time in the Sun that
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thing's gonna heat up and sit reseal see
I'm blown away how easy it is to break
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when you caught it but how flexible it
is I finally see the break but I flipped
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it like six times yeah
like if I would do to ask Fulton with
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brain it would have broken once this is
fresh out of the bundle right if I hand
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this to the roofer to install that's
what happens immediately so it looks
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meant to be handled real-world on the
roof meant to be walked on number four
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it has amazing wind rating their glue
that they have behind it it's completely
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different glue from glue used in asphalt
shingles so it's proprietary technology
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I've tried many times lifting it up it's
not easy job the tester shingles up to
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170 miles an hour which is absolutely
amazing it's still really well and the
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wind rating is amazing 110 miles an hour
is really easy for Shane companies to
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pass that's why we test it at higher
speeds in what anyone for asphalt it's
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easier to pass fairly easy yes number
five it looks cool so a lot of
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manufacturers do struggle these days
because their shingles get lighter and
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lighter especially asphalt they used to
be in you know 240 250 now there are 200
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so that dimension it's almost I would
use the word cheated so F wave is a 210
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I believe so it's about the same weight
but they're much thicker shingles as a
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matter of fact you get six bundles per
square not three because how thick they
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are so I think they look amazing from
the road they look just like any other
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asphalt shingles but they're not asphalt
but they look better than asphalt if you
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ask my opinion number six it's very easy
to repair if you drop something on it if
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it's dented even hail damage once some
comes out and it starts heating up
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because it's molded product it's always
want to get back to original shape this
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is my favorite part of entire
presentation here if this is not
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impressive I don't know what is
I really got at that time to meet you I
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it is would you look at it he says he
can fix it that's impressive
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would you look at it number seven what
am I forgetting
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of course Haylee resistance this is the
only product that pass both steel ball
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Cale test and also the regular one this
is the fun part of the job
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crystal clear ice balls just so we have
the most solid impact possible
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that's it I'm changing what I'm doing I
want your job I want to be doing this
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well you have no idea let's get it off
and see how fun it really is the problem
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with the Hale test and help warranty
it's the shingles only have class four
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as a top achievement my personal thing
it should have like class eight you know
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at the top and if we would have Class
eight products like F wave would be all
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the way at the top of the food chain
because class four puts metal asphalt
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shingles who are the Essbase technology
in them I mean they all get the same
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ranking but they don't perform the same
you can use kettle bell to test F wave
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shingles and what the speed is going to
be like 77 surprise surprise no oh you
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see the dent we can actually see it
almost almost like a breakage what we'll
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see what our product is you'll see a
slight net and this deck has actually
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been shot probably over like 50 times
okay okay you see us like that we put
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this out in the Sun and that will
disappear so when we were testing them
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at facility I was blown away how the
tests were performed how Ingle was
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reacting to it I mean I've done for
three years those tests here in my
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office and we've done it so many times
and I've never seen a product perform
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and how F wave performs to hail what an
amazing product I understand that a lot
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of you guys gonna have a dilemma of pick
it up and offer you two clients or keep
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doing asshole shingles because a lot of
you think that it's good for your
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business to keep replacing the roofs
every year and if you do something like
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this is gonna put you out of business
because you know for the next five years
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of
five storms it's not gonna have a damage
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my message to you is this don't worry
about it do what's right for the
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customer do what's right for environment
for insurance company and I guarantee
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you you will be more successful by doing
that yes it does cause double maybe
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triple in your market but it's the right
thing to do
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let's go number eight it's very light
and it's very nicely packaged I was
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pleased about you know in a factory like
you look at the bundle it looks just
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like regular bundle and one thing about
dealing with the shingles which is 80
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percent of the market right now granules
always fall off sometimes you open the
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bundle and literally just you know
spills out you you install the job it's
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very slippery your gutters are full
there's always a lot of cleanup you
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clean your truck you're cleaning your
floors it's just part of the business
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when they deal with a product like f
Wave it's super super clean it's more
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like it's not a metal like metal clean
to but it's almost like better than the
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metal I mean it's just just so light
it's not heavy
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the package is nice I mean just love it
the reason number nine it's very very
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consistent so I've seen a lot of
products on the market where you know
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you can go back after install and you
see bad batch but one bundle and it's
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just collar discoloration or whatever
one thing about their factory we were
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not permitting to film everywhere but
few areas they let us film it literally
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feels like a Tesla Factory
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the area that actually packages their
shingles at the end the way they
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explained it to us they have a robot
that kind of jungle so it's almost like
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playing cards we have software that
models how it goes on the roof to
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prevent patterning this robots a big
part of it it allows us to shuffle the
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deck make sure that you don't have
patterns coming out of it they want to
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make sure that each bundle gets the same
amount of shingle switches you'll be
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surprised but not all asphalt shingle
manufacturers have it sometimes like
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owens-corning and a lot of others they
they don't have the same amount they say
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between the three you're gonna get a
square which is I questioned them
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because I've seen a lot of jobs where
it's not the case and the roofers
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complain all the time you finish the job
and you short one or two bundles so one
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of the reasons is because you don't know
if you're gonna get 19 pieces or 22 per
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bundle a lot of rumors don't believe me
but call your supplier and you'll get
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answer that it's not the same quantity
in a bundle well with F Wave it's always
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the same but also it's juggle so because
it's a little bit different pattern you
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always have the same nice picture and
it's it's gonna be very very nice and
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that's raw but is the one who is doing
it so their manufacturing process is
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very very different from everything I've
seen when it comes to shingle
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manufactures so very impressed with that
number 10 I told you their Factory looks
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like Tesla but they don't have backlogs
like Tesla do so you don't have to wait
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two three years it's already in the
market they've been selling it you can
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get it pretty much I think right now
they sell in 16 states but I'm pretty
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sure they'll ship to others so if you're
in the market and you're looking for
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high durable product I mean we're gonna
be carrying it in Minnesota in Orlando
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one of my businesses if you're looking
for installer I would like you to
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connect with somebody but it's available
it's there it's on the market you can go
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and buy it and try it and see how it
performs now I've been busting steel and
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ice balls for a couple days testing the
product and I don't want you to bust my
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balls because I didn't give you any
concerns I do have couple concerns I
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would call them soft concerns I don't
think it's a big deal but as a reporter
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is an honest youtuber I have to tell you
how it is
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and a really brainstorm it I actually
asked CEO of the company is there
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anything any concerns any problems you
have I want to know because I want to
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report it how it is before you make a
decision at least hear me out and maybe
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it'll affect your decision maybe not who
knows let me know in comments below
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concern number one the product been on
the market only since 2015 so yes it has
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hail warranty it has faded warranty it
has you know lifetime or 50 year
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warranty for the product but the thing
is we don't know how it's gonna perform
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we truly don't yes it has been testing
in the labs and I truly believe that
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they will back up their launch if you
ask me I believe in the product but it's
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hard to say it will last you know even
25 years when the product will only been
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in the market for four we don't know
what we don't know we have to wait and
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see it so that's my concern number one
it's a little bit in you I've seen
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plastic products failed before something
to do with their technology I do see how
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F wave is very different they don't use
any recycled materials for example the
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reason is because plastic always gonna
go to your original shape so they don't
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want to shingles to be buckling or
anything like that so I think it will
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last but concern if you have that
concern I would understand it concern
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number two is actually hail warranty and
promises of hail warranty I do CF wave
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is a hail proof product now we've been
testing in and sexual something happened
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during the test so the board they've
been shooting balls it's not the first
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test that didn't been doing on the same
shingle so at one ball like actually so
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like little crack so I'm here to report
to you that I do believe that it's
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possible to crack F wave shingle I would
say but if it happens to F wave it'll
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break any other product in the market I
believe that F wave shingles at the top
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1% of all products on the market tiny
tiny crack didn't break or all the way I
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mean I've seen the deck behind the
shingles was completely destroyed but on
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a test area after all the shots I've
seen one little area we came back when
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it was hot and we still saw the crack I
believe it's possible to
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destroy or to crack the shingle if that
will ever happen I guarantee there's no
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other product at least on today's market
would withstand it so and it's not gonna
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happen to entire roof if you would buy
one I guarantee your house probably
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gonna be the only one in the
neighborhood who's not gonna be getting
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new roof now out of all the products
I've seen this is the best product for
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hail damage for hail warranty and I
don't doubt the warranty is good and
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it's a help roof shingle but I would say
that it's possible to break it so those
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are my soft concerns that I have with
the F wave again the positivity of the
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company and the technology and the team
I mean such amazing people such amazing
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product you can tell they're all
engineers and it's designed by engineers
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front back every detail so much
attention to those details from the
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reach to the starter to the packaging I
mean I'm super impressed and I'm not
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easy guy to impress I do have minor
concerns but there's no way they can
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outwait me out of decision to promote
the brand if you will I'm not getting
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paid for promoting them F Wave invited
us they wanted to show us the product so
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we're not getting paid to do this review
this is my honest feedback this is my
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honest review let me know guys what you
think in comments below would you
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install it on your house and if you're a
roofer would you be recommending
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something like this to homeowners as
well let me know I read all my comments
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I want to hear a feedback
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