Home Improvement Show 02-14-26

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good morning, my friends, and we welcome you into the
Home Improvement Show of the Midlands and we thank you
for joining us here on one O three point five
FM and five sixty AMWVOC. I'm Gary David, and they
coming up. We're talking to some great folks who do
great things for homeowners and business owners too all around
the Midlands. Russ Markaesy, he owns the Finishing Touch team.

(00:47):
He's going to be joining us later on in this
half hour. Jeremy Halliday, the owner of Mister Electric, is
going to be on tap. He's here at next half
hour on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. But
I got the email and the text message just a
couple of days ago. You know, these folks coming back
out to my house. Coming up this coming week is
Trey Powell now from Mosquito. Joe gets hiss kicked off
this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good morning, Tray, good morning. How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am well, my friend, I'm well that wait a minute,
it's only February. You're spraying from Mosquitas in February.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
What, Yeah, it was seventy degrees earlier this week, Yeah,
sixty degrees and it is you know, it is about time.
I know we just had a cold snap that came through.
But sure, you know, I try and tell people that
no amount of freezing rain, snow, ice is going to

(01:37):
affect the mosquito population at all. You know, those those
eggs that are lying dormant are very, very resilient. And
you know the proof of that is the worst mosquitoes
are in Alaska and we'll never in one hundred years
have what they get in one season really as far
as snow and ice and rain and freezing temperatures, and

(02:00):
those mosquito eggs do just fine. And when those temperatures
start getting up like they did this past week, it
is time to get started and get out there and
do some pest prevention. We don't have lots of live
mosquitoes flying around right now, but we have eggs that
are beginning to hatch, and we need to get some
larvacide and you know, tipping and dump over water and

(02:21):
stuff like that and get started.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's what surprises so many folks training Like you say,
it's you know, it's only February, and you know, as
the temperatures warm, we get into springtime weather, which you
can't he get here quick enough. By the way, people
who have, Like I got no mosquitoes in my yard,
and then all of a sudden, bam, there they are,
right as you said.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Wait now, yeah, test prevention. I don't care what pest
we're talking about. Pest prevention is the best solution. Uh,
just like you don't want to wait until you've got
a pantry full of ants or roaches right to start
doing some preventative maintenance to keep that from ever happening,

(03:06):
because once that happens, now you're fighting an uphill battle.
Now you've got to have a victim. You probably got
to throw away a whole bunch of food, clean out
the pantry, clean every you know, and find where they're
coming in. I mean, it's now you're the problem that's happened.
You don't want to wait until you're getting eaten alive
in April, you know, your first time out in the yard.

(03:28):
You want to do some prevention steps right now, which
is what we we do. I mean, same thing with
mice and rats. We can keep those out of your
house with a simple pest prevention. We come out every
couple of months, we spray a little barrier around that
that that mice and rats will not cross, and so
you're not. You know, people, if you live in the South,

(03:52):
it's not a matter of if it's a matter of wind.
At some point you're going to have a problem where
mice or rats are going to find their way in
your house. At some point, you're going to have a
termite problem. At some point you're gonna have ants and
roaches in the house, and at some point you're gonna
have mosquitos in the yard. And all of that is
preventable with some simple steps of test prevention, being consistent

(04:14):
and doing things correctly year round to keep that from happening.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And well, the name of your company is Mosquito Joe.
You guys do all that we do.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
We do.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
We're a full service test control company. We do supermites,
we do road and control, we do home pest defense
keeping the ants and roaches and spiders and things off
and out of your house. And then of course we
do mosquito flee and tike control in the yard, so
we can take care of the inside the outside. Any

(04:45):
test not your problem is ours.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
There you go. And the great news is is you
you bundle all this together and now you're talking some
real savings here.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, that's really the best way you know to do
it is to have one company doing all of these services.
And uh, yeah, you can bundle. You can save money.
You can also you know, we'll come out to do
one visit and we'll do multiple services at the same
same time, you know, so that that helps with with
time as well.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now again we're going back to mosquitoes here for a
second tree. We're talking to Trey Powell of a Mosquita
Joe here at the Midlands. When yeah, you go from
from zero to sixty like that, bam, you know. I
guess what would takes so many people by surprise is
how quickly once these things hatch they start binding. Doesn't
take long, does it? No?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
When they actually I mean the eggs hatch into larva,
and larva will spend anywhere from a few days to
a month in the larval stage, depending how good the
conditions are, I mean, when the ideal conditions are, they
will go from larva to pupa and a few days

(06:02):
the conditions are not quite as good, it might take
them a few weeks or even a month to go
through that larval stage. But then they become a pupa
and at that point, basically they're breaking through the surface
of of the water and they're born as an adult
mosquito and that process happens very quickly. And then the
first day that they're alive. Yeah, that's their sole purpose

(06:23):
in life is to find a mate and then to
find something to bite, because it's only the females that bite,
and they're biting because they need a blood meal in
order to lay their eggs, and so they only have
to breed once in their lifetime. As soon as they're born,
they find a mate and then for a blood meal,
so they can lay those eggs over and over again.
And every time they have to lay eggs, they are

(06:45):
looking for a blood meal and they can lay eggs
every few days.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Wow. So what you're doing right now and when you
come out to my house next week, this is you know,
like the really you know, super proactive preventative stage, getting
them getting before they can become a nuisance, before they
can hatch. Right.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, it's going out scouring that yard, finding the places
where mosquitoes breed and either getting rid of it or
treating it with a larva side. Most of the things
we have, you know, they can't be you know, if
they're drains and things like that. They can't be removed,
but we can put some larvacide in there, and any
eggs that are overwintering when they hatch, we want to

(07:28):
get them at that larval stage so they're never born.
If they're never born, they can't bite. I mean, that's
the best way to most eco friendly, best way to
eliminate mosquitos is eliminate them at the larval stage so
they're never born. It significantly reduces the population of mosquitoes
that are on that property. And you know, the barrier

(07:50):
spray comes in to eliminate the adults. But it's really
half the battle is finding where they're breeding and getting
them before they're born.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Now, are your folks able to actually I mean can
you do you physically see them in this water or
is it just a question of wherever they're standing water?
Are you going to get rid of it?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Anywhere they're standing water, we're going to treat it. I mean,
we're using an organic product that is will eliminate those
Larva doesn't eliminate eggs.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
There's nothing legal or safe that will eliminate an egg.
An egg has to hatch and once that egg hatches,
but very difficult with the naked eye to see, you know,
mosquito eggs and mosquito mosquito larva are a little bit easier.
But I can assure you that anything that holds water,
whether it's a kid's toy, a trash can, a bucket,

(08:40):
you know, the bottom of flower pots, it doesn't have
to hold a lot of water. A bottle cap of
water can breed one hundred mosquitoes. So you don't need
a lot of water. But anything and everything that will
hold water. And we have lots of those things around
our house and around our yards. We got to find
those and treat them.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
So as you just mentioned this, the larva size you're
using affects the affects these mosquitoes. When the larva stage,
nothing can deal with the egg stage, right, That is correct.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So, and no amount of heat, no amount of drought,
no amount of cold, freezing, snow, ice, sub zero temperatures.
I mean when I'm talking temperatures that are fifty degrees
below what we got when we all freaked out and
closed down the streets for two three days, ye, I

(09:35):
mean we're talking significantly colder than that. Nothing affects. You know,
some of the coldest places on the planet have the
worst mosquito problems, like Alaska.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
How long can these eggs last?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, you know, in the midsummer, when the conditions are right,
they lay the egg, and the egg is it hatches
almost immediately because the conditions are right. It's just when
the condition are not right, it's the temperature isn't right,
maybe there's not enough water. Some mosquitoes will lay eggs
where they know water will be, you know, if they

(10:09):
can't find standing water, they'll lay eggs, you know where
where in like an empty flower pot that they know
will collect water when it rains. And so the conditions
are not right, when it rains, that little flower pot
fills up with water that will activate those eggs to hatch.
So the conditions have.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
To be right.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
But if the conditions are not right, they will incubate.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
For up to five years. Wow.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, there's a specific species of mosquito that is a
floodwater mosquito. And these those mosquitoes lay all of their
eggs like up on the banks of you know, very
high on the banks of creeks and and things like that,
and they'll they'll they'll emerge and they'll be all like

(11:04):
crazy biting everything, and then you don't see them for years,
and then when we have a flood, the mosquito population
just spikes and they're all floodwater mosquitoes. Of all those
eggs that have been sitting, you know, and the and
the tides finally came up, or the waters came up,
and they picked those eggs up, moved them downstream, wet them,
and now those eggs are all hatching.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Unbelievable. Wow. And I asked the question, but how long
they can survive because as you said, in the egg stage,
there's nothing you can do about it. Uh, the larva
starct you're using, Uh, well, we'll kill off the was
you know, the larva stage. So that larva side that
you're putting out right now, how long is that effective?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Tray for a few weeks, but you come back every
a little bit longer than that, but it's you know,
we come back every three weeks and reapply it.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
And rEFInd it.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Because the other thing is that was water sources will
change things, will you know, some things will dry out,
some things will push through. I mean especially things like
that would have moving water. You know, it may take
that larvacide and move it downstream. If you're talking about
like a like a drain in the yard, you know,

(12:21):
it may only be in there till the next heavy rain,
and it'll move that stuff downstream. So you have to
keep you know, reapplying that stuff every three weeks to
make sure that you've got it covered.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Talk to us about not that folks are ready to
do it quite yet, but folks who say, for example,
owned pools that have closed them up for the winter,
maybe they put a cover over them. What kind of
what happens in those type of situations? Can that lead
to big problems?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
They become big problems when the when the temperatures really
start to warm up, particularly if they are are green,
if they kind of cover them up and let them go,
if those pools turn green, then that becomes a very
highly attractive place for mosquitoes to to breed. In fact,

(13:12):
you know it have run into situations where there's somebody
in a neighborhood and they have somebody in that neighborhood
that didn't open their pool and they left it and
it's just like a big green or black swamp. Yeah,
half full, and just they just never opened the pool
one season and suddenly all the neighbors around them have

(13:32):
a horrible mosquito problem. And that is that because you've
got like a swamp next door, and so when they're
clean and running, they are not attractive to mosquitos at all.
Mosquitoes will not lay eggs in a clean, crystal clear
pool because they know there's nothing in there for the
for the for their babies to eat. They really like

(13:57):
dirty water. They would pick a swamp or a sewer
over a clean pool all day, every day. And so
when the pools are kept clean, they are not breeding areas.
But when they turn start turning green, there's lots of
organic material in there, and that's a perfect breeding ground
for a bad mosquito problem.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
And I guess somebody's got a pool covered. You know
you're gonna get water. It's gonna maybe you don't even
really see. It's not that much, but it doesn't take
a whole lot of water to sit on top of it,
even a pool cover, any sort of tarp or anything
like that in the yard, I guess to even if.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's even if there's no water on top of it,
those mosquitoes can find their way under any tar pretty
fast and easy. They seem to to know where water is.
I mean they'll they'll they'll find water going down deep
into even on droughts, they will revert to sewer pipes
you know that may not have water, but I mean

(14:53):
they're fifty feet into that pipe where there's some standing
water and they'll go find it.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's pretty pretty smart little critters. Sounds like very resourceful
they are.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
They are. I mean they've adapted and survived over a million,
millions and millions of years.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I think I've asked you this question before, Trey, But
has anybody determined did they serve any vital purpose in
the biochain? I mean, if we could eliminate them permanently,
would would we have an issue here?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, I am not ah, you know, I don't
know that I'm qualified to answer that question, but I
can tell you that from what I hear from entomologists, no,
it really wouldn't be. You know, you got to be
very careful about that sort of thing. And but uh,
you know it's they You know, you could argue that

(15:44):
they serve as a pollinator, but the amount of pollinating
that they do in comparison to like a bee, is
I mean so far less than than half and half
and half of half of one percent. I mean, it's
just very very little. It's like they could do it
by accident almost.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It's not their job, so they're just here to take
the heck out of We'll eat them, frogs will eat them,
but both a bird and a frog would much rather
have a grasshopper or something that has a little more
meat to it.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You know, they're they're snacking on mosquitoes the appetizers.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Okay, well, but unfortunately the aside from being a nuisance,
so they do spread disease, and that's that's the big
concern when we get to out of control populations.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Certainly, yeah, that is correct, Thank goodness, we have good
mosquito control on the municipality level in this country and
we don't have huge outbreaks of you know, chicagonia, dent
gay fever and minlaria, all these horrible diseases that are
spread by mosquitoes. But other countries really suffer for that.

(16:55):
And well, every once in a while we have them hit,
you know, but not so many cases that people are
terrified of them.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
And right, yeah, you know, like.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Now they're nasty little buggers and some people are allergic
to them, and oh, really it really big whelps on them.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Wow. So mosquito control population and I say population and control.
It's really my experience with you guys over the years
has been it's elimination. I don't worry about going to
my backyard and getting mid by mosquitoes. I just don't
hadn't happened, and since I started using you guys years
and years ago. But not just that, but the total
home pest defense. We're using it at our house right now,
works fantastic. Folks can get it all and when it

(17:35):
comes to the to the mosquito part of it, if
you want to give it a shot, you got a great,
great deal as you always offered for people who want
to try it for the first time.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Right Yeah, first treatment is only thirty nine dollars. That's
well below costs. We're not making any money on that.
We just want people to give us chance to try
our service. You know, and you know there's never a
contract with Mosquito Joe on any of our services. All
the services are.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Repetitive.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's a it's a a ongoing service, but a person
can stop or start at any time if they move.
They're not stuck in a contract for another year or
something like that. Yeah, you know, it's uh. They start
and stop whenever they want, but obviously to get results,
they're learn real fast. And the best results, you know,

(18:22):
are from doing things consistently and doing them properly. Just
like when they do that, we guarantee that they're not
going to have past and if they do, we come
back and redo it for free.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
All right, All right, so folks can get a hold
of you, how mister Powell.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Eight five five asked Joe eight five five, asked Joe.
And that will direct ask them for their zip code,
and then that will direct them to either our Columbia
office or our office out in Lexington.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, but skin it, Joe Trey Pell, thanks as always,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thank you.

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It's Russ Marcsey, the Finishing Touch Team. Good morning, So
good morning, Gary, good beere. Nice to see you, Yes, sir, good.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
To be here.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
By the way, there's the check for that job.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I appreciate that. Yeah, it's worth every pinny. I appreciate that. Gary,
thank you. Yeah it came out nice.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, beautiful it did. It came out really funny. Backstory
by the way, somehow it got written down, is it
was a shed. Oh and when you guys came out
to paint, they look and I said, this is the
biggest show we've ever saw.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, I'd say so, I'll take one of those sheds
in my backyard right right.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
And hey, Lisa's back with Lisa Jurgensen from via laon.
Good to see you again.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
See you.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, you take time out of you're a moral day
weekend to come down here to the radio range. Absolutely
gat to see it. Now. We've had John before with
Russ and y'all have that relationship between each other. You know,
you you do stuff for Russ and Russ does stuff
for you, and you are and I should mention viallon
you are the folks who haven't heard you with us before.
You're in the interior design business, which you know, I

(21:46):
think is fascinating. I have no eye for such things. Okay,
no clue at all. Sure, but now I've been married
thirty five years. One of the reasons why is I
know when to defer to my better A right, smart,
but he's got a pretty good eye for such things.
Act sure makes her happy blind when it comes to that,

(22:08):
but I'm always fascinated by it. Lisa, Uh, I mean,
how did you get into this, just this line of work.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (22:16):
I grew up in Atlanta and I actually taught school
Andy Springs Middle School for six years.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yea god bless Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
I claimed the fame as I taught Usher Raymond.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah that guy right, Yeah, I got kids, Yeah they
were kids at the time. Yeah he was.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
He was fun. Little did I know he turned in
to be a famous I.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Should have got some autographs, you know they can sign something.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Well, he's probably he could probably use a good interior
designer on thinking.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
So, yeah, they're too bad identity to decorate one of
his mini homes. But we moved here in nineteen ninety eight,
and I actually do y'all remember the well Irmo the
Irmo News little letter. Oh somebody when I finished doing
our house moving in, she came by and just to

(23:14):
see and she wanted to do a little article on me,
and and so from there it started, uh where she
just did this little print up of my house of
how I decorated it. And then I started working for
Irmo Interiors, which was and that's where we met.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
And I just started working there.

Speaker 8 (23:35):
And then I did a parade of homes and and
then I was.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Do they have do they still do the Preado homes
by the.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
Way, Well not really, I didn't think so, Okay, it
was a lot of work.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Somebody asked me the other day too. I didn't. I couldn't.
I didn't remember if if they're doing it any longer.

Speaker 8 (23:52):
So some cities, but here they might just do like
one home in just one room, like a designer take
one room.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
And it's a lot. It's lot.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
It was a lot.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
But I was blessed to get State's Best for three years.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Fantastic.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
Yeah, get my daughter and her friends to call in.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
You all kind of fell into this.

Speaker 8 (24:14):
I mean, yeah, I was always interested in designing and
just that I I think you do have to have
It's a talent.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
You have to have that, just like anything else. A
musician has to have that talent. But and my friends are.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Like, Oh, don't come to my house, you're gonna pick
out Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, kind of like with Russ. We've talked about this before.
You know, you're cursed now, Russ, because you can't walk
in anywhere without studying them all the time, right, all
the time.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
And I get the same thing, Lisa. You know, they're like,
don't look too close at the paint job, you know,
or things like that all the time. But yeah, you know,
you just develop an eye for it is what you do,
and especially when it comes to designing and colors, and
you know, it's just it's it's not that it's not
very easy to do right, to make it look at
the end all put together like it like it grew

(25:06):
there and it was supposed to be there, and all
the different colors and things and things that you wouldn't
even imagine would would go with something else, and it
it and it works. It looks fantastic and it's a
it's very interesting and it's just a great. It's a
great partnership that her and I have with us because hey,
look we're in there doing all the painting for them.
We're we're Lisa's you know, selecting all the colors. We're

(25:28):
working on a customer right now, Pam, where it's working
out perfect, where she's actually wanting some renovation things done
that Lisa's handling for her, coordinating all that will be
coming in. We'll be doing all of our kitchen cabinetry,
possibly removing some popcorn ceilings, I think for in her house.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Debating what to do, like what's the best option.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
For exactly you know, Yeah, and it just works out great.
Lisa works with the customers with their budget, with their
you know, their wish list, what they really want to
get done, and we kind of put it all together,
and uh, you know, it just works out really nice.
It's a very it's a very nice system.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Well, Lisa, suddenly you're sounding almost as much of a
contractor as you are an interior designer.

Speaker 8 (26:10):
Well, that I have to have a big team, and
the first thing that people do want is paint, and
so Russ is always you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
The biggest bang for your buck, right, Yeah, gosh, Yeah,
you know, you can really transform something with just a
little bit of color and it's not knocking walls down necessarily, right,
So yeah.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
Just refreshing this house that we're talking about that she
heard us on.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
The radio, but it's a nineteen sixties the paneling, cabinets
and she latch that look. So we're not going to
come in and make her.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
You know, let's got let's got this kitchen, so we're
maintaining the footprint. Russ is gonna just repaint. We're going
to get some new flooring. She's got the old hinges.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, I'm the cabinets, that's right, they're gonna.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
They're gonna stay on there, but we're gonna we're gonna
redo them.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
I'm guessing some folks are maybe hesitant to enless the
help of an interior designer because they feel like, number one,
you gonna come in and immediately judge them. Right. A
lot of times, yeah, sure, you're gonna come in. You're
gonna say, oh no, you have to do this, and
you have to do that. But this example here, you know,
the customers always run.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
You have absolutely you have to. You'll give your.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Advice and you have to make them happy. Living there
and so exactly just with rust painting, and the cabinets
are gonna look amazing. And she's got an older bathroom
with the lovely pink flooring, but she doesn't really want
to gut it. So we're just gonna we're gonna make
it fun.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, we're gonna give it a facelift, is what we're
gonna do, you know. And yeah, and it is they
you know. And I've heard least to tell customers this before,
you know. And she you know, that's the one great
thing about Lisa, and I've worked with her plenty of
times with us, She's not pushy whatsoever. She's not pushing
her influence and styles on these customers. Right, Each each
person has their own you know, likes and dislikes and

(28:05):
style to it, right, sure, And that's what Lisa Cater's to, okay.
And and I have seen other designers in the past
throughout the last twenty something years where they have done
that and pushed their influence on it. And at the
end of the day, the customer is just not happy.
They're just not because it's not it's not them, right,
They don't they don't feel comfortable in it. And I've
even heard her say, you know, this is your house.

(28:26):
You have to live here. Okay, we don't, you do,
so you have to be happy with it, of course, right.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
And so.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, it's just h and it's a it's a bit
of a process working through it all. But as long
as the customers happy at the end, like you said, Gary,
that's that's all that matters, you know. And this one,
I'm excited about this one because it is an older
style home. But as soon as her and I walked in,
both of us were looking at each other were like, man,
we love this house, like it was the nicest house. Yeah. Yeah,

(28:55):
tuck back in the neighborhood. We never even really knew
their houses back there.

Speaker 8 (28:58):
So yeah, just a really cool cool One thing with
interior is you give them guidance, even if they're not
going to do a whole lot, but just give them guidance,
guidance on what flows and the colors that flow, and
you know a lot. Well like you you were going
to do with your poolhouse, that do it yourself where
you just you're going to do it a certain point.

(29:19):
And then he would then, I mean, you know, you
just I do I do talk them out of some
things like that.

Speaker 7 (29:28):
Go trust me, it's gonna you know, but.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
It's for their better interest always, you know, things like
that exactly.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, it just makes more tying to make it right.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
Uh do you all remember that football He was actually
a basketball coach. John Wooden has a quote, if you
don't have time to do it right, when will you
have time to do it again?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
That's right, that's a great quote.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
You know.

Speaker 7 (29:54):
I use that for everybody.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Go like, you're gonna find you run into problems if
you try to do not seeing you can't do it
Yourselfers can't do it, but sure record that they just
want to hurry and get it done and then they're.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
Gonna come back and have to redo it.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, until you hadn't heard.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
The rest of the story though that that was the
idea of our poolhouse was We're gonna do the bottom
half and then have Russa's folks come into the top
half because I'm just too old to get on the
ladder that high up. And then you know we're sitting
out there. You know, you came out take a look
at it and thought, you know, this is stupid, Gary,
because I'm gonna you know, maybe not right away. But
at some point we're going to look at it and say, okay, yeah,

(30:33):
that's the part we painted, and that's the part the
pros did. Okay, yeah, it wouldn't have been a good idea. Yeah,
I don't know, Rush, you madeo something you already made
me think about this, and I don't know, Lisa. Sometimes
do you feel like interior's signs try to do too much?
You know, you're hiring me, so you know, here's the
let's do this, this, this, this and this.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Well, one thing that I'll do is we'll come in
and make a plan and you don't have to do
everything right away. So if she's just focusing, or a
client's on a kitchen one room, well, eventually down the
line they might want to move on into the dining
room or the you know, existing rooms.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
But you've got a.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Plan that you can, you know, we can just develop.
But you know, it's the one room now and a
year later we'll move on to that room. But we
had that plan.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
And maybe sometimes people have maybe the misconception the designer
is going to try to do too much in the
vein of you know, too much stuff. It's just, you know,
I don't need all that, you know, I was just
oh yeah, aah, going back, told you that you're the
ones got to live there.

Speaker 8 (31:38):
Right there is the homeowner, right and I do renderings
for them so they actually really see how it's going
to look and we make changes like that's just not
me and you know so, so we really talked through
the design of how the room is actually going to look.
And so I don't force anything. I don't force expensive.

(32:00):
I've got so many furniture suppliers and all kinds of
people that you don't you stay within their budget.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
We've got so many people.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
You have a lot of options with that. Yeah, you
really do. Just over the years.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Sure, just curiosity. It's going to vary from job to job,
I know. But I mean from your standley, you go
into a place brand new, never seen it before, what,
what's the typical what's your what's your process and your
method for going from okay to this is what we

(32:32):
got to do or this is my suggestions? How long
does that take? I mean, yeah, a good question, honey.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
You have to kind of ponder when you go in there.

Speaker 8 (32:38):
I'll take good pictures and it does take some time
to think through things. What the first thing that comes
to my mind is how am I going to make.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
This space better for their life?

Speaker 8 (32:50):
And how they can you know, can we should we
move walls? Should we well?

Speaker 3 (32:56):
And a lot of it revolves around budget, right, you know,
when people have have their budget okay, and that's what
she'll do. She'll come right in there, and you know,
you got to know where your budget's at, right because
you can want all these different things done throughout the house,
but your budget may just be for one room or
you know, or maybe two rooms or whatever the case is.

(33:16):
But you know, and that's where she's great because she'll
work within that budget and get the most out of
it that makes sense for that space, you know. And
she's told me that before personally. You know, we want
to do all these different things in our house, and
she's you know, let's just start with this one room here,
and let's get this, you know, completed, and then we
can move on to the other ones. And it makes

(33:37):
you feel better too. It kind of takes a weight
off of you a bit when you kind of look
at it that way, so you don't have to be
so overwhelmed possibly and you can you can take one
bite at it out of it at a time is
basically what it is.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know. Yeah, I'm going to ask you a questionally
some lead this is lead to something else, and we'll
talk about with us about here in a moment. Kitchens
those are massive jobs.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
They can be they are.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Oh they can't. Oh yeah, they can.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Be when somebody really wants I mean, if you want to,
if you wanted to gut and redo a kitchen fifty
sixty thousand, we.

Speaker 7 (34:15):
Talked about that.

Speaker 8 (34:15):
It was about depending on what you want to do
just totally with new cabinets and flooring and backsplash, you
can get ninety thousand.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Oh easily, Yeah, easily, depending on your selections a lot.

Speaker 8 (34:29):
And that's where it comes in with their budget and
we'll we'll say with this budget, this is what you
can which you can do exactly.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah. I mean how often have you all work together
on what RUSS specializes in, and that is the refinishing
and refreshing of these kitchen.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Cab cabinets and all, oh you know, and tons and
tons of when we worked on. Yeah, and that's a
great point, Gary, like talking about budget, right, they may
go into it like let's say it's a kitchen. They
may go into it and they have the idea of
possibly ripping the cabbinets out or doing new cabinet tree
or something like that. Right, but maybe the budget doesn't
quite fit all that, or if they didn't do that,

(35:06):
they could get something else done right, Right, That's where
we can come in with kitchen cabinets, for example, we
both work with the same cabinet guys. They can add
crown molding to your cabinets. They can reface the cabinets. Obviously,
we'll go through them and take all the doors off,
prep everything, paint them up beautiful just like they're brand new,
and it's a fraction of the cost.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Well you think about it.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
I mean the shelves or the shelves exactly right, the
boxing sure, right, the doors unless you want to change
the design you know, or whatever.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the doors or what make the cabinets. Right. So yeah,
you talk about if you're going to dump that much
money into basically buying new doors for your cabinets, it's insane, right,
it can be, right.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
And if the cabinets are in good shape and you
don't need you know, they're not falling apart.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
We try to salvage that football.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
We do yeah, absolute, we do. I mean yeah, and
sometimes it may just be a hinge swap. Okay, like
you've got the old school hinges on there, so we'll
have one of our cabinet guys come in. They'll they'll
swap out the hinges maybe to hidden hinge something like that.
Between even something simple like that Gary doing a hinge
swap and repainting them. It's just such a difference new

(36:20):
hardware exactly.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
Yeah, and lighting, So keep the cabinets, get new lighting, hardware, backsplash,
new backsplash. Yeah, but the cabinets are what's really the
most Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
And it's it's the vocal piece of a kitchen, is
it not really? I mean it can be right, you know,
the kitchen cabinets and how they look. But yeah, there's
just so many options out there that can really save
money in painting cabinetry that it's just the sky's the
limit on it. You can do whatever you want to do.
We can salvage exactly what you have and make it
look completely different, or you can you know, like I said,

(36:55):
the sky's the limit. You can do whatever you want
adding to it. You know, I've even seen people add
panels to the end of them. You know how many
times have we seen that? And just different things. Yeah,
adding shelves, pull out shelves for certain areas of the
cabins that you know, things like that, all sorts of stuff,
lots of options, lots of options. Gary, all right, that's true.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
So that's where if I come in. I've got so
many resources, like I said that they might not have
thought about exactly, just so many ideas to.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Bounce off of them.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, our time has expired, friends, dog one. That was quick.
That was fast, Lisa, Lisa Jurgenson. V Alan folks want
to sit down with you and get some ideas. What's
the what's the proper way to reach you.

Speaker 8 (37:43):
I've got my website at v alan Interiors dot com.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
It's v I E E l A N.

Speaker 7 (37:49):
That's correct. I got my phone number on there.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's all right there, it's all there, Lisa. Good to
see you again.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
Thank you, Gary, Good to see you. Happy Memorial weekend
and to.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
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Speaker 6 (40:27):
Good morning, Gary. I gotta tell you I've.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Been I've been challenging. I've been channeling my inner mister
electric last week week or so, and have you. Well,
you have to be careful with your diy electricity. I mean,
I know enough to be able to hang a light fixture. Yeah, Okay,
I always wind up doing something wrong and some wire
pops off or whatever, and I gotta take it all.
This happened to me just the other day, take it
all back down again. And anyway, there's this stuff, Listen.

(40:55):
I know enough to know when to stop.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah, and that's what we're here for again. Yeah, exactly weird.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
You can always call us exactly what I'm going to.
You know, I was before we came on the air
here during the break we were talking and you know,
we moved to a new house, and I know there's
a lot of outdoor lighting, but I don't heck, I
don't know if it's just not working, or if I'm
not sure if I'm doing something wrong or whatever. So
you know we've talked about this before. This is listen.
Electricity doesn't have to be boring, right, No, absolutely no.

(41:25):
You guys do a lot of that sort of thing,
the outdoor lighting and the and all that th those enhancements. Yeah,
home enhancements.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Fun things, fun projects that you get to enjoy after
we're finished. You know, it's not all all the hidden
stuff that you don't really get to see.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
But we can do landscape lighting. We do.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
We actually use a product that is brass, comes in
different finishes and lifetime warranty on the fixtures their self,
so we use.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
A quality, real quality product. LED uh. You know LED.
Everything's LED these days.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Yeah, yea, yeah, it would be strange if it wasn't. Yeah,
but sometimes we run into it where it is still
some type of halogen or something like that, and it's
on a medium voltage system. The systems we install would
be a low voltage. Well, what's what's the difference there
between those two? I mean, what's the advantage Well, the
advantages of the low voltages obviously you're saving energy makes sense.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, yep, it's a lot safer.

Speaker 6 (42:23):
As far as being out in the yard, in the ground,
running from light to light tends to last longer. The
LED uh low voltage definitely lasts longer than the halogen.
Halogens can be problematic.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
LED's I mean those things are supposed to last like
almost forever. Aren't they. I mean, yeah, yeah, they last
a long time.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
I mean you're talking thousands of hours, thousands and eighty thousand,
fifty thousand hour bulbs, you know, so if you uh, yeah,
they last a lot longer, so a lot less maintenance,
you know. Right, Yeah, there's a lot of you don't.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
You know, there's a lot.

Speaker 6 (43:02):
Of different You can place them anywhere, you don't. You know,
you don't have to trench super deep for the wiring
because it's low voltage wiring, so it's ok. Really you're
really able to put them anywhere you want.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I mean it would look bad, but I mean you
could basically lay this things just on the front on
the grass. You could. I wouldn't recommend that.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
We normally, you know, get it covered up an inch
deep or two inches you know underneath everything doesn't need
to be you know, eighteen inches like medium wearing.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Oh okay, that's a big difference right there. Yeah, so
it sounds like you probably come out and lay these
things and lay the saw back over to whatever and
you never know you were there. That's right. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
Very cool and some pretty cool fixtures they have. I
mean we have a whole catalog. We bring a bring
a book with us, an iPad. We call that our book,
but it's an iPad and it has a catalog on
it and you can see all the different fixtures, pick
them out, you know, the.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Style you like.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
We can go over all that with you the placement
and uh or repair what you have.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
You know, a typical I know I always ask this
question on the show, and I know there's no typical anything,
but you know, more than likely when you guys go
out and do one of these jobs like this, I mean,
what kind of timeframe are we are we talking about
from somebody that has nothing and you want to you know,
go the whole night. You want to get it. You

(44:26):
got to get the maybe I guess maybe the controller
or whatever, or cook to the app or however it's done.
Is this a one day kind of job typically? Or
it can be and a lot of times it probably is.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
Yeah, depending on the guys, you got, how many fixtures
you got to install, right, how big the project is.
There's some houses, it might take two or three days, depending.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
On some people get pretty extravagant. Yeah you can.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
And you know if it's all yeah, you know earth fixtures,
I guess I could say not implanted into the walls
or ran up on posts, stuff like that. You know,
it should typical installs should be probably about a day.
It should be able to get in and out of there.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
But it's more than just lights. When we come to
home enhancements. Yeah, this is a wide variety of things
and I'm not sure that we quite understand, you know,
what all is possible in our homes these days.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
Yeah, so man, you're talking smart switches, you know, where
you can program your lights to come on at a
certain time, turn them off from different locations.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
And we're not talking about smart plug now, we're talking
about the actual switch.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
This is the wall, the switch in the wall for
your lights.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
You can get smart receptacles also, you know, we put
in a play okay, with Christmas coming up, there's actually
one that we like to install, which is a plug
in play. But just so people know it's out there,
you can buy it's a really cool module. You can
plug into your wall and then you can control it
on an app on your phone right where you don't
have to unplug that Christmas tree. You can just turn

(45:59):
it off with your phone, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, now I have done that with just a regular
smart switch and Alexa before and that's that's cool.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
Yeah, that's a cool little feature. So there's little things
like that. We can put a three way switch anywhere
you want to if you have a situation where you
wish you could turn a light off at a point
that you don't have a switch there with with smart
switches where you don't even have to do any wiring,
you know, we can put like a remote switch with

(46:26):
a ten year battery and put a master switch if
you will, where the where the switch location is for
that fixture, and then you have two locations where you
can turn it on and off without a lot of
sheet rock damage or crawling through the attic and things
like that. So there's there's a lot of little things

(46:47):
like that.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Lighting.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
Obviously they've got lighting now that's rgb W where it'll
do a million plus colors.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
I love those. My wife is like, no, we're going
with white. I'm like, oh, it's boring.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
Yeah, well it's fun on the holidays.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Well that's what I told her. How cool would it
be to have you know, red and green lights on
Christmas or you know orange for Halloween coming up here
in a couple of days or whatever. And she's very traditionalist.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
When it comes to that sort of thing, So that's
wrong with that.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
When she's not there, I turn on right.

Speaker 6 (47:17):
Yeah, we'll put them in.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
She won't ever know. There you go, perfect, perfect, you
can keep them on white.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
But you know we do.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
So light under cabinet lights. That's another one. That's another
great to your home, you know, accent lighting, toky lighting,
stair lighting.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Oh okay, to stairsteps, Yeah, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know I'm familiar with because like in the
house we have now there's a space over the cabinets
and I want to run some LEDs up there or whatever.
But I didn't think about that in the cabinet lighting.
But that's a that's a that's an ideas. Time has come,
hasn't it. Oh yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:57):
They make so much great products out there that you
that aren't that hard to install anymore. Really, you know,
puck lights you can put in your cabinets level those
would be all loveltage. Also, yeah, we fabricate lights on
the scene. Yeah, we build strip lighting at your location
and install it. So for under cabinet lighting. Very cool,

(48:22):
very cool.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Are there any things that maybe we as homeowners and
consumers haven't really thought of that is that you can
do these days?

Speaker 6 (48:32):
Well, yeah, you know, like I'm saying, the three way switches,
the you know, all the stuff we've talked about, you
can do. Drawing a blank now, Gary, trust me.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
I draw a blank probably four or five times already
in the last hour.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
You know, anything you can think, I would say, anything
you could think of, it's worth calling and asking, getting in,
getting us to come out and look at it. Because
there's a lot of stuff we can do.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
In set. Lighting in the.

Speaker 6 (49:04):
Walls, a different different pathway lighting. If you you know,
you can put track in the floors, you can put
track on the walls and have your you know, different
different types of lighting can be put in for it.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Sounds like if if you can can dream it up,
but you guys can find a way to make it happen.

Speaker 6 (49:26):
Basically, Yeah, most of the time there's there's a way. Yeah,
so very cool.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Uh. And you know this is not really related to
this discussion, but I know it's one we've had in
the past. Something else you guys do and uh, and
that is when it comes to things like smoke detectors,
C two detectors and such, and I didn't realize that. Again,
we were this new home and we'd had this discussion before,
so I wasn't shocked to discover how many smoke detectors

(49:55):
are in this house I'm in right now. I think
a lot of us always thought you need water, maybe
two or whatever. But I think we've talked about this before. Yeah,
that's really not enough. And this is something you guys
do as well.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
Yes, and we do smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire alarms.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
All of that.

Speaker 6 (50:10):
And yeah, they're very They're an essential part of your
home because they if you ever read the statistics, which
I'm not gonna go over, but you can read the
statistics about home fires and people to get harmed most
of the time they don't have smoke detectors, or they
have smoke detectors that they've disengaged, you know, And and

(50:33):
so they're very important. And I imagine being that you
just got into your home, those are all probably new.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yes, certainly we've all been put up. It's not a
new home, but they all look to be very new.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
And they're they're everywhere, yeah, everywhere, Like wow, in every
bedroom outside the vicinity of every bedroom.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Is that and this is not a new building moved
into but a new build homes these days? Is that
is that a code now or that standard? Yes?

Speaker 6 (50:56):
Okay, yeah, so that's something that has to happen. And
for the reason for that is just toget.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
We're not talking about one or two. We're talking about yeah,
a lot of them.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
I mean you're talking on a on an average home,
you're probably looking at six to eight in there.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and certainly older homes you're probably
thinking saying, what, I don't have that many. Yeah, they
used to.

Speaker 6 (51:17):
I think the code was back in the seventies was
just one, yeah, and maybe one on each floor.

Speaker 10 (51:23):
It was like, wow, we got a lot. But now
they're everywhere. Yeah, they really are. And that's again something
else that mister Electric is going to help you with that.
And of course the safety check should with every visit.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
That's right, we do safety check on every call new customers.
We can go over your system and just let you
know of anything that can they can make that system safer,
any items that need to be addressed, you.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Know, absolutely absolutely all right, Well, I got to get
you out and look at these other outdoor lighting at
my place. I gonna figure this thing out, man, Yeah,
give us a call. Spuns up again. Electricity doesn't have
to be boring, No, not with mister life. Jeremy. Always
good to see you, my friend. So how's the best
what's the best place for clubs to reach you and

(52:08):
get you out there to their place?

Speaker 6 (52:10):
So you can reach us by phone eight zero three
eight six eight four to two four three, or you
can reach us at our website misterelectric dot com, forward
slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Okay, and then number eto three eight two eight.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
Eight six eight eight six eight zero three just information
eight six eight four to two four to three. And
we always have a live person answering, so you know
you always get a hold.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Of somebody, all right, Jeremy, have a good weekend, buddy, Yes, sir.

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