Home Improvement Show 02-28-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning and welcome in. It's that time again, my friends. Yes,
the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. Thanks for joining
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(00:30):
about as soon as the show ends, so you can
always grab that whenever you want. And we got some
great information to impart to you here on this Well,
gu this is the last day of February in it. Yeah,
how about that Trey pout from Mosquita Joe. They have
already been at my house a spring for Mosquitos. Yep.
They start early, getting ahead of the game. Much of
this is the larbi side, you know. If they can't hatch,

(00:52):
they can't bite you. Right. We'll talk to Trey about
all that coming up and everything else they do with
their Total Home Pest Defense program. Russ Marquaye see from
the finishing touch. You know, winter time is not a
time when a lot of painting, especially outdoor painting, is
done that the elements just don't allow it to. But boys,
bring time rolls around, you start thinking about fixing things
up if you're thinking about trying to do it yourself.

(01:14):
But we'll talk about, you know, the pitfalls that you
may encounter and why you want to call Russ and
the folks at the Finishing Touch team. We get the
program underway. First up though, with it Jeremy Holiday. He is,
mister Electric, How are your brother doing good? Doing good?
Good to see you again, see you. I should mention
this before I forget because y'all are and I don't
know if it's been installed yet or not, but one

(01:36):
of our set of our dear friends, a neighbor of ours,
y'all are putting in one of those what do you
call inlet ports right for the for the portable generator. Yeah, yeah,
they've mark. Yeah, he's he has got a massive aquarium, okay,
and he also breeds fish. And he's got in another

(01:58):
room probably a half dozen or more smaller aquariums where
where he breeds fish. And yeah, every time there's uh,
you know, like when several weeks back we had the
winter weather roll through, especially that that first one with
the the it turned out thankfully, one as bad as
ice storm as as some people are thinking at the time.
But still, yeah, he freaks out about those stuff fish.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I bet they need to be kept a certain temperature.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I imagine we've got to keep that filter going and
everything else. So yeah, so yeah, he's, uh, he's he's
had a generator and he actually went and bought another
one before that that that potential ice event a month
or two back, and you know, we started talking about that,
and you know about how these things from our discussions
are are very convenient and a very good way to

(02:45):
explain how this works, Jeremy.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So it's it's really the way to go if you're
not losing power a lot, you know, and and you
if you have gas heat and gas of and so
the inlet is a you know, normally it's a thirty
amp or a fifty amp circuit or a wire that
runs to your panel and goes to a inlet, which

(03:08):
is essentially called an inlet because it doesn't put power out,
so it's not called an outlet, but it looks like
an outlet, Okay, And you plug your generator, put a
chord from your generator that has an outlet on it
thirty amp or fifty amp outlet and put it to
the inlet and feed power through that wire that goes

(03:31):
back to your panel, and you can turn on any
breaker in that panel as long as it's adequate for
the generator. You know, generator is adequate for that circuit.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So when these are installed, I mean, is it preset
as to what circuits will work or are you just
go in there and shut everything off and just turn
on the ones you want to use.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
There's several different types, so you can get one that
has a subpanel where you can designate eight what circuits
are going to be on that generator that kind of
size the generator towards that. But what's most common is
to just put an interlock kit on your existing panel,
which makes it where you cannot turn the main breaker

(04:15):
on with the generator going uh feeding it through the
panel so uh it eliminates the back feed onto the
power lines. So so it keeps the alignement safe.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
So that's that's all have to do. That that is
it has to happen.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
That has to happen if you're going to put in
an inlet for a portable generator.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And but but that thing you said, the provincial between
the main on if you don't have the main on. Well, okay,
I get it, because that means going to pull from
the electricity that you don't have right now. Yeah, So you.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
So think of that main breaker as a switch. So
if that main breaker is on, then that circuit is
closed and you're going to have power going back to
the power lines because it can go both ways. Coming
from the power line feeds the house.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
So well the generators supplying into the circuit will be
going right back out again. Yeah, right back at main on.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, onto the power lines, and that can hurt somebody
if they're up there working on them.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
So I think it's all So what's what's the what's
the process? I mean, what do you what steps do
you have to go through? Once you've got one installed
and now you're going to need it and you you
go crak up a generator outside, you need to go
in and again turn off the mains first and then
just turn on the breakers. You want that thing to
be feeding. Yeah, so the main off, that's right. So
with the interlock kit, what it does is your wire

(05:32):
that comes from the inlet will go to a main
breaker in the panel that will feed the panel, and
it has a separate main. It's a separate main so
to speak.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, so it transitions with that interlock kit to where
it has to be in a certain position, and the
only way it can get in that position in the
on position is to turn the maine off because the
interlock kit won't allow you to turn that brain onto
your panel. So so it's not complicated, No, No, it's

(06:05):
a simple process. You just got to know, you know,
know the codes and what you can do h and
figure out what you want to run and find the
generator that is going to be adequate for that or
just go with a fifty amp fifty amp inlet.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's pretty good for you know, the basics that you
need what you are with your your consideration refrigerator.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, you want to keep your freezers going right, keep
your food good. You know, some lights going, maybe a
space heater if you have a big electric central heat,
you may just get a space heater for that situation.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
To keep a room somewhat is going. Is gonna take
a lot to try to run.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, you know, you might have some trouble trying
to run a big system, you know, a three ton
system off of a fifty amp circuit with along with
other things.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So right, yeah, well and around here again and we well,
we have our moments, you know, when some folks were
without powerful long periods of time. And uh, you got it. Also,
like it's more frequent. It does seem to be anny
more frequent, isn't it. Oh heck on last weekend. It
was the last week last Sunday, I think, when it
was so windy around here. Yeah, and our power flickered

(07:20):
off and on I bet a dozen times easy that day,
just for just a middle second, just enough to the
TV to shut off. All here we go again. Yeah, yeah,
you go try to find that program I was watching.
But yeah, over and over and o way that And
you're right, it does seem to be getting worse, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yes, So you know, we do generators, we do inlets,
we do search protection. All those things help with the
types of storms and and what you know, uh, and
storm season's coming, so yeah, we're into the season. Yeah,
storms and and so you know, you want to give
us a call, you know eight zero three four seven

(07:58):
zero two zero zero three where you can find us
online at mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, but that's.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Good to hear that we're putting in, putting in it in.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
These were great ideas, I mean, and and you guys,
I mean, as you mentioned, you guys, do you still
have a Generac brand, don't you? And installed that. We're
a Generat dealer dealer and you install those. But that's
a that's a that's a big chunk of change.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's something you know, and it can vary. Uh,
But there's deals, there's always deals going on. We have
coupons online. You can find if you go to the
uh you know what the coupons section, the specials. Uh
find coupons online.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
So those are on your website.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Those are on our webskaya Columbia Electric dot com slash. Yeah,
mister Electric dot com Fort slash Columbia, that's right.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, So, but but it's it's the way I guess
what's what's good about this is it's it's one stop
shopping because you guys are only selling them that you're
installing them. Were doing the whole the whole nine yards, right,
that's right. Yeah, but you know, for a lot of
peop people, you know me included is like that would
be really neat to have. But it's a it's a
it's a big investment. And do we you know, how

(09:11):
often will we actually? So, folks, you don't offer you know,
a standalone generator, right and uh and this is where
we get to the back of the discussion of these enloports.
It just makes it convenience, so you're not.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
And that's that's that's the decision that you you kind
of have to make. You know, we can help you
with that as far as how often do you lose power?
What all are you trying to run?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You know, we have some customers who have a whole
family and they want their kids to feel like the
house isn't even without power, and so they go for
the whole whole home generator. And then we have some
people who you know, it's it's just them and their
wife and they're like, we don't need a lot and
we hardly ever lose power. So uh, I'd like to
have an inlet just so we're you know, a little
peace of mind there.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
We can have some lights.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
And you know, maybe cook a little food and refrigerators
will stay good, you know, it would.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
It comes with the whole home generators. I mean there's
one size and that's it. It does everything. Or are
there like intermediate sizes that will do half of stuff
or whatever they're talking about the apartment in the stalls.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, there's all different sizes really, I mean, yeah, you
can get it. You know, ten K stand by generator
ten thousand WAT up to.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, if you're in.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
A stay in air col there's a difference between air
cold and liquid cooled, and sometimes the size is the
size of that unit and requirements are different than air
cool But air cold you can get up to. I
think it's twenty six kW right now, So twenty six thousand.
What my own house. I have a seventeen kW on
my house because it's all I really need.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
You can, is there anything you can't run off of that?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
And right no, my whole house, my whole home will
run off of the whole I just told her about.
I've got a pretty small house, I guess.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, But going back to you, as I mentioned this
past Sunday when the wind was so bad in my
powers off and off but just for a split second.
But I you've mentioned this before. I think it does.
That's all it takes sometimes to create an issue with
a you know, expensive piece of electronics in your home

(11:09):
of your business, right, Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, So the if you haven't you know, the constant
flickering or you know, you know, when the power goes
out and comes back on, goes out, I mean, everything
shuts down. You can hear the home shut down and
then here it come back on. You can almost feel
it sometimes depending on how much stuff you have going.
And that is not good for anything with electronics if

(11:33):
it's doing that continuously.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
So I've ran.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
In to my my utility room and shut down my
panel when the when it's just constantly because I know
it's going to tear something up. It's going to tear
up an electronic eventually. So uh, that's the best thing
to do. If it's going on and off, on and off,
on and off, and it's just not going If it's
goes off and stays off, then you've got your generator going,

(11:59):
that's good. But if it's going on and off, on
and off, it's best just to shut that thing down
and see if they get it, you know, corrected, in
the next ten minutes and maybe try it out again.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hm.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
So is already safeguard against I guess as we go
back to the discussion, of the I've forgotten what you protection.
You're talking about surch protection.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, so there's a gray area there, right, So surge
protection is good for spikes. So if you have a
voltage spike come into your home, it's gonna protect you. Now,
if you have a brown out where uh the lights
are just getting dim and coming back on and going
off and getting dim and you know it's a it's

(12:41):
a cycle there, repetitive cycle of under voltage. The surge
protector is going to be hard to protect you from that,
but it'll protect you from spikes, which is normally due
to a storm knocking the power out and they have
to work on it and it comes back on all
of a sudden, it's gonna a spike or uh, you know,

(13:05):
somebody hits something.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, so lightning nearby comes through the system. Not a
direct hit obviously, but if lightning. You know a lot
of times I'll go to homes and they'll have a
tree in their backyard, you know, in the distance, and
they'll say, yeah, lightning hit that tree, and all of
a sudden, we lost our entertainment system, our freezer in

(13:28):
the garage, and you know this and that and and uh,
it'll be because that lightning strike traveled through the ground
and came back up through the ground.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yea, not even through an electrical wires.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well through the electrical wiring into the ground, yeah, yeah,
and dissipated through their system and then knocked out all
those items. So that's why you want that whole home
main panel surge protector. And we do a really nice one.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
We have several different ones. You can get a lower
grade one, but we do really really the main one
that we install has a lifetime product warranty and it
has some pretty big uh metal outside baristas in it
which catch which open up and catch that electricity.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
And absorb it. So the bigger those are, the heavier the.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Search protector is, and the bigger it is, uh and
and the one we install, you know, our main one,
it's a very good one.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's a beast. It's a beast.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
But again, the little flickering on and off, on and off,
on and off. Even a search protector is not gonna
protect your in electronics. It'll help, but it won't. Yeah,
there's no guarantee when it comes. Yeah, it's better for
it to be off for a long time. You come
back on. Yeah, I guess for just one. You know,
a couple of spikes is good.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
But yeah, it's that lower voltage that also damages our
electronics and and it's and that search protector is not
gonna it's like a brown out.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Now, yeah, lower voltage, Okay, which do we Yeah, I've
seen I very seldom see that though, but I have
seen that in the the lacious kind of dim h
then come back to full power again. It seems to
like we see that less than we see just the
power going.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, no, you do, because that's indicative of uh, they've
either lost a phase, which you have to you know,
single phase. You have two phases coming into your house,
and then the neutral conductor. That's if you lose your
neutral or it's cut almost in half, then you can
start getting really high voltages on one leg and lower
voltages on the other leg. And so those are situations

(15:37):
where it's like a brown out, where your lights will
get dim get super bright.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Something on that circuit is a continuous failure that the
search protector isn't going to be a because it's for spikes.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, it's spiked either that if somebody built a data
center in your backyard. That's a whole nother rude discussion.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
I'm interested to see these new substations. They're going to
be building their own.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Boy, yeah right, let them build them, let them deal
with it, all right. So interesting stuff, Jeremy Howiday. It's
mister Electric. Whether you're looking for the whole home search protector,
the whole home generator, the inlet port to hook up
to the generator you have right now, I mean, you
guys can handle all of it for folks. How to
folks again? Give us your phone number, your website once again, sir.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
So, mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia is our
website and then eight zero three four seven zero two
zero zero three would be a good phone number for us.
You can find us online just Google us and yeah, we're.

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Speaker 1 (18:14):
Now we're now back on the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands on one oh three point five FM and
five sixty AMWVOC around the world on the iHeartRadio app
We're in some spots around the world. They have a
much bigger problem than we have. Well, I don't know
if I could say that they have well, let's put
it this way, a much more deadly problem than we
have around here. It's not a deadly thing, but it
sure is a nuisance. And we're talking about mosquito season,

(18:37):
which you know, okay, it hasn't really ramped up yet,
but that's not stopping this guy at his folks, I'm
already dropping by my house to get ahead of the game.
Is Trey Powell from Mosquito Joe joining us here on
the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Good morning, Ray, good morning, how are you. I'm well?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I am well. Yeah, you guys, Gosh came out about
maybe a week and a half ago.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Our place.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
We were probably on our very first week of our
three week cycle. We're still in the process of getting
our We've got about two thirds of our our customers
started and we've got another third to get started this
coming week. But it's hard to believe it is. Mosquito
season is here and uh and our our crews are

(19:19):
out in full force every day.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Now. Again, this is not to say that if you're
going to step out back now, you're going to get
inundated mosquitoes. But this is a question of really being prepared, right,
I mean getting it, getting ahead of the game.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Yeah, that's a that's a great point. No, the mosquito
pressure is still actually extremely low, but we are having
you know, we had a week in the seventies, which
basically is what will ignite those or activate those dormant
mosquito eggs, and so those eggs are hatching into larva
and fortunately at this time of year they won't They

(19:57):
will stay in that larval position for probably two to
four weeks, and that's a perfect opportunity for us to
find those spots and hit them with a larva side
so that they are never born.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
I mean, if you if you.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Really want to control the mosquito population, you know, stop
them from being born there if they can't if they're
not born, they can never bite.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
And it's so it's an ouncer.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Prevention, and that's what we're out there, tipping and tossing
anything that's holding water.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
We've had a lot of rain, you.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Know, over the last month, and and everything we have
in our in our backyard holds water, and so we're tipping, tossing,
and then treating with larvacide anything that we can't get
rid of, uh to you know, to eliminate those mosquito
larva so that we don't have mosquitos in those yards.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
So and I happen to know the answer to this
question because you've enlightened us before, but maybe you know,
some folks don't. So if those eggs that were not there,
and this has been well established on the show. You've
told us many times, those a layers can lay dormant
for a long, long, long time time.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yeah, that mosquito eggs can actually lay dormant for up
to five years, and that generally doesn't happen around here
except for certain species of mosquito. But yeah, if they
are laid in the late fall, they just go into
incubation and they never hatch, and they don't hatch until
the following spring, where like in the middle of the

(21:23):
summer they lay an egg and that egg will hatch
almost immediately, within a few days, it becomes a larvae
and then within a few more days if it comes
an adult mosquito, and that happens very very quickly.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
But when the ideal.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
When the conditions are not ideal, those eggs just go
into incubation. And so there's a lot of eggs still
in incubation, but there's a lot of eggs that are
starting to hatch, and so we want to be out
there and ahead of the game and larva siding so
that those mosquitoes are never born because as soon as
they're born, the day that they're born, they're breeding, biting
and laying more eggs and start to expand their populations.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
So they come out ready to play. Huh oh. Yeah,
So the question is this, then, so if those eggs
are out there, why don't we just destroy the eggs?
But you can't. That's that doesn't that's not how it works, right, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Unfortunately, mosquito eggs and one of the reasons they can
lie dormant for up to five years is they're extremely resilient,
and that is not uncommon of most insect eggs. Is
that there's really nothing legal or safe that's going to
destroy the eggs until those eggs hatch. When those eggs

(22:37):
hatch into larvae, it's very simple and easy to eliminate
those eggs with products that are natural, organic and you know,
very safe for the environment and everyone.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
And so that's what we do.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
So this is why you waited till this time of
the year, because you got them in that in between
stage now, right, eggs.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
We do not want the problem to develop. We want
to eliminate it before it becomes a problem.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Very nice. Now, at what point in time will you
start laying down that barrier spray or is that already happening.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
We do.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
We are doing that in addition to larvaciding, but it's
really nothing like what we're doing. You know, a month
or two from now, once you get all the leaves
and stuff on the on the trees and the foliage
it really starts to bloom. Then you have something to spray.
Right now, there's not a whole lot to spray, you know,
other than underneath decks and eves and you know other

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things that produce natural shade.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
You know, it's you don't.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Have a lot of heavy foliage unless it's stuff that
just doesn't it doesn't go dormant.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
And that's where they like to hang out and then
that sort of stuff.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Right So, yeah, in.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
The summertime, you're going to find mosquitoes are going to
be most heavily, you know, congregated into heavy foliage ground cover,
you know, woods, woodline, bushes, shrubs, anything that will protect
them from the shade, and anything that has green foliage
that they can get a meal off of. That's the

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only thing that a mosquito actually eats is nectar off
of green foliage.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
So when you when we get around to that point
that that's the it's it's a two stage process. Get
them before they can they can be born, which you're
in the process of doing right now. And then okay,
the ones that or if somebody just signs up with
the service and they've they missed all the pregame here
right they they missed the nip it in the bud part,
but now they got a problem and they want to

(24:42):
taken care of. Then this is that that that barrier
spray and well so so Trey, I've got the service,
but my next door neighbor doesn't. What's keeping my next
door neighbors skeeters from invading my backyard?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that we
do that larvast treatment. It's probably fifty percent of what
we do, and we do that every single time. We
come out every three weeks because things change. Rainfall happens,
and things get moved, and there's new breeding sources all
the time, So we're always doing that as far as

(25:17):
your neighbor goes.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
You know, most mosquit you know.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
The type of mosquitos that we have, for the most part,
they don't travel very far, and so probably two hundred
feet in their whole lifetime is the maximum that they'll
ever go. And so most mosquitoes are pretty local, so
they don't travel very far, so they're not you don't
have the same mosquito invading the same neighborhoods. They've You've got,

(25:43):
you know, a different family on every single property, and
so to eliminate on one one property. It takes a
long time for mosquitos to travel from one property to another,
and most of the time that they will not, you know,
do that. So you know that if your houses are
very close together, I mean, that's where that barrier spray

(26:04):
comes into effect. As we sprayed all the bushes and
shrubs in your yard. If a mosquito comes across the
fence or into your yard from another yard, they're going
to find those bushes and shrubs for a meal or
for some shade.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
And once they do, they're going to be eliminated.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's kind of like putting a flea collar around your yard.
Is you know, other yards around yours will still have mosquitoes,
but yours will not.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Now for a home that's never had your service, Okay,
not a problem right now. I don't need this, It's
all good. But how quickly I mean, once the conditions
turn ripe for these things to hatch and come out
as you mentioned, I mean they're born biten. Basically, how

(26:53):
quickly can you go from you know, zero to sixty
miles an hour here if you have not had had
that trade before the season really kicks in.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
Yeah, it's going to depend on the number of mosquito
eggs that are lying dormant on the property and starting
to hatch.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
But you know, at a you know, when a.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Female mosquito only females bite the day she is born,
she goes from larva to pupa into an adult mosquito,
and that day she's born, she's looking for a mate.
And when she finds a mate, she only has to
mate one time, and then she will use what she
gets from that mate, and she will produce eggs over
and over again. For her entire life. And she she'll

(27:36):
live for four to six weeks and she can lay
eggs up to three hundred eggs every three days.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Wow, So she can.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Produce thousands of mosquitos new mosquitos in her lifetime. And
that's really what she's doing. She every time she produces eggs,
she needs to find a blood meal of someone or
something to bite, whether it's a human or a cat,
or a dog, or a squirrel or a fox or
a rabbit or something. She'll bite a bird and then

(28:06):
she'll so that she can have that protein meal so
she can lay those eggs so that she can produce
more eggs. And she just does produces eggs over and
over again for entire life.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
And now you're get in bed. Uh all right, So
so again same scenario. They've never had your service before.
It's now, I don't know, say July August. You know,
serious mosquita pressure around here, and they're inundated. How quickly
can they get a handle on this? When they give

(28:37):
you a call.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
We can make a difference in the property pretty quickly.
You know, as far as you're going to see an
immediate difference as soon as.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
You as soon as we get out there. Excuse me,
I'm gonna sneeze.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's okay, it's already that time of year, isn't it that?

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Now you're gonna see they're gonna see an immediate differs,
but they're not good. It's not going to eliminate.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Them all right away.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
In fact, when somebody gets started after you know, April first,
we usually do an accelerated program where will come out
and we will larve aside really heavy, and we will
spray really heavy, and then we'll come back about seven
or ten days later and we'll do it all again.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Just to make sure that we really.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Get on top of the problem. And then we'll start
treating every three weeks, and so we do have a
little shortcut to try and get somebody to Otherwise it'll
take about three treatments before you really break that breeding
cycle and get them to where they're really not seeing
any mosquitos at all. But you know, when you go
from getting you know, twenty or thirty bytes from being

(29:47):
outside to getting one or.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Two, that's a huge difference.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
But what our goal.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Is is to get you to where you're not getting
any at all.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
So this is what you guys spend really, I mean,
the better chunk of you doing. I mean that's because
you're i know, you come to our house into November
and then you you know, take really two months off
and you're back at it again.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, but there are many times when we could easily
get into December, you know, because the weather hasn't really
turned yet.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
But really depends on the weather. You know, you needn.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
Temperatures that are consistently above fifty degrees. We have temperatures
consistently above fifty degrees. Eggs are hatching, mosquitoes are are
are becoming active, and they're laying their eggs, and those
eggs can can start developing quickly into mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Right. But all year round, you guys are providing another
line of defense for home and business owners as well.
I mean, you guys, it really is one stop shopping
now with Mosquito Joe.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yeah, we are a full service test control company, so
we can keep you know, bugs not only out of
your yard, mosquitoes, fleas and ticks, but we also help
with the how itself, you know, and keeping spiders and
ants and roaches and you know, centipedes and all those
things out of the house. Uh, you know, just general

(31:11):
test control. We also do rodent control, keeping mice.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
And rats out of the house.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
And then we.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Also do fire ants, which is a separate program that
we have that will eliminate fire ants from your yard.
And that's just really a one time treatment.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
And that's coming up pretty quickly. You want to do
that in the month of March. It really ideal time
to get out there and and do uh, you know,
your fire jobs.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Boy man. When they start coming, they come like in droves.
This is amazing how quickly they can pop up a
big old mount in your front yard before you know it.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Oh they can, yes, they can.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
And they can recab it on your ankles too if
you step in one.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh yes, oh yeah, so that's a that's a year round.
And again you back in the old days. And I
currently if I'm wrong here, Tray, but it seems to
me like I remember, I mean, decades ago, and you
called it, guy, are a company about bugs. Yet they
were coming inside, go all through your house and spraying
and such. But that's not the way it works.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
Anymore, right, Yeah, it's really it doesn't have to be
that it's completely unnecessary. Unless you have an infestation, you've
got bugs in the house, then someone is going to
have to go in there. We're gonna have to go
in there and evict them. But once they are you've
gotten them out of the house, then all you have

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to do is treat the outside of the house properly
and do it can very consistently, either bi monthly or quarterly,
and you will not have that problem again as long
as you're maintaining it. If you stop, you know, it's
just not a matter of if, it's a matter of
when you're going.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
They're going to find their way back into your house.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
And so this is the South, and so a little
preventative maintenance goes a long way to making sure that
you really never have that kind of an issue.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
I think we get surprised a lot tree because we think, well,
you know, it's it's summertime, we get the big bug issue.
But as any time, I guess you get the weather's extreme, right,
they're looking for that shelter and that food like every well,
like a human being wide, I suppose, yeah, all.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
The reasons that you love the inside of your house
are the reasons that that makes a great a great
place for them as well, and once they find it, man,
they really set up shop because you know, it's climate controlled,
there's plenty of water, there's plenty of food, you know,
every all the reasons.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
That you like to be inside.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
They they would love to be inside your house as well,
and so you just have to take preventive steps to
keep them out.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Permanently.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
And they're living rent free, by the way.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Termite, you guys are termite turned to termites now too, right.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
That is correct.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
We do termite bait stations as well as new construction
for you.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Know, with bor care treatments for termites.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
So we can handle any kind of test control needs
and we can bundle those services all into one low
monthly payment and make sure that we have your home,
your yard, your kids, your pets, and everybody protected from
those unwanted pests.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
All right, So how long and how long has somebody
got to commit for this though, Trey? I mean, like.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Pest control companies, we do not have any contracts on
any of our services. You know, pest control is is
you know obviously a repetitive, ongoing process, and so our
services are scheduled automatically but a person can start and
stop whenever they want. If they are moving, you know,

(34:39):
they're moving in the middle of the year. They're not
tied into a contract that they have to try and
push over onto the next home buyer.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Right.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
You know, we do not do any kind of contracts
with any of our services.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
You know, it's just not the way that we do business.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
You just transferred to your next time like we did
you guys.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
It's real simple, and we'll follow you not the house.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
There you go. All right, So folks want to get
signed up, tray. What's the best way to do it?
My friend?

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Our best way is eight five to five Aska Joe,
eight five to five Aska Joe. Or they can go
to Mosquitojoe dot com.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
All right, he is Mosquito Joe. Trey Powell joining us
here on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. Try
Thank you, my friend. Always great to talk to you
and have yourself a terrific weekend.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
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Speaker 1 (37:30):
Welcome back to the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.
Already our final segment this morning here on one O
three point five FM and five sixty am WVOC and
now joined to wrap things up by Russ Barkesy, the
owner of the Finishing Touch Team. How are your best?

Speaker 7 (37:46):
Rod? Good? Good Gary? How are you? Good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I'm ready for springtime, you.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
And me both. It's uh, get a little chili out there,
a little back and forth, up and down.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah we can't quite figure it out. Yeah I can't wait,
but not quite. Yeah we'll get there, that's right. Uh,
this is a I guess.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
We're coming out of a time of year when probably
outdoor painting is probably a bit minimized, probably not a
lot of them.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
Yeah, it's been tough, especially this past winter, Gary, I
mean it's been uh, the temperatures has just been so
darn low. Yeah, r at nighttime. And as we've talked on
previous segments before about you know how cool it can
be outside paint and whatnot. Uh, it's it's those nightly
tempts that will really get you on that. So we've
been doing a you know, trying to gear more towards

(38:34):
interior painting over the winter. Of course of the winter
here a lot of popcorn removal as well of texture ceiling.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
We talked about that a month or two back. Yeah,
for the first time, you guys, that's right, A pretty
good bit of that we do.

Speaker 7 (38:47):
We do a good bit of it. You know, there's
a there's a right way and a wrong way to
remove textured popcorn ceilings, Okay, and uh, I think everybody
has seen the wrong way at least once or twice
in their life walking through somewhere as they've seen that before,
and it sticks out pretty you know, pretty vividly when
when it's not been done the correct way. And so

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there's a process to it. There's a multi multi step
process to it to do it the right way to
where I mean, look, when once you remove it, the
goal is obviously we don't want to know that there
was ever texture popcorn on that ceiling, right, right, and uh,
you have to you have to go about it the
right way. You have to do the right steps and removal.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
But sometimes if one of those textured ceilings have been
already painted over it before after the popcorn, after the popcorn, right,
it makes it a lot more difficult to remove that popcorn.
How you have to go about it a little bit
of a different way.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I mean, it's not like removing wallpaper.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
You know, No, it's not. I mean it's if you.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Get up there and just start scraping away. Yeah, you
know what, Okay, I'm gonna get some vinegar or whatever
we're we're gonna spray in on the spray bottom. Must
start scraping.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
Yeah. Well, you know, like with with wallpaper gear, you've
got to perforate the wallpaper. Yes, got to holes in it, right,
so that your your material that you're putting on there,
whether it be water or wallpaper remover or even uh
by methods of steam, even Okay, it's got to get
behind there somehow to to release the agents back there,

(40:24):
the adhesive back there, so it'll come off a little easier.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Right.

Speaker 7 (40:28):
Popcorn is a little different animal, especially if it's been
painted over. Water won't penetrate it any longer because it's
got that latex seal over the popcorn. So we've got
to use a different means of in methods to get
that off. And generally what we'll use as a it's
called we use a fest tool, is what it's called,
is the brand Fest tool. Yeah, it's just essentially a

(40:50):
giant sander on a pole connected to a Hepa filter vacuum,
is what it is.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Okay, because you will make a mess.

Speaker 7 (40:56):
Oh you'll make a mess, you will, and uh, you know,
this fest tool is absolutely amazing though you have minimal,
minimal dust coming off of the ceiling when you use
this tool. We like it as well because you know,
we can put sixty grit eighty grit sandpaper on that
and it'll eat right through any sort of texture popcorn,
even if it's been painted once or twice, even right

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removes it, you know, pretty easily. It just takes a
little bit longer to do it that way. But we
run into that quite a bit as well.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Is it a truth or an old wives tale that
popcorn ceilings became popular because you could very easily hide imperfections. Yeah, yeah,
so they didn't have to be as exact and get
it as cheap underneath there. So okay, yeah, but that
that that that now gives you the problem that once

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you get it off of there, whatever reasons they were
covering up are still there.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
You've got to fix it now. That is correct. Uh,
Typically when sheet rock eyes are installing the sheet rock
ceiling and the walls and all, uh, they put but
one bed coat of drywall compound on the joints and
all in the nail holes. Right, they'll sand that down,
and then to get it smooth and right, you got
to put at least two to three more coats of

(42:11):
drywall compound on those joints and nail holes to make
the ceiling smooth and slick. Okay, with popcorn, they skip
those two steps right there, and all they do is
bedcoat it and then they apply the popcorn to it. Okay.
The labor and the cost is in those finishers, those
drywall finishers who are actually putting the two and three
third coat on to make that ceiling smooth. Yeah, that's

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where the money's at. So by applying that popcorn, they
skip out those two steps, and you know, it's two
thirds cheaper than making it a slick ceiling. So hen's
why they do that cheaper and it's cheaper.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
So once we do remove, like to your point, Gary,
that's what we have to do. But before we even
do that, we prime the whole ceiling first. Okay, a
lot of folks don't do that, but you're really it's
a good good it's a good step to do because
once you prime it now you can really see all
the imperfections on the ceiling. They pop out a whole
lot more to you and you can you can get

(43:09):
a lot more thorough that way, you know, with your
with your repairs. So we'll apply two to three coats
of drywall compound after the fact of that.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
What is I don't know, it's always hard to be
Let's just say an average sized great room, Yeah, I
don't know. Let's let's say a let's say a twenty
by twenty area sure ceiling area. How long does it
take to do this? You know, we start to finish
product here right right.

Speaker 7 (43:38):
So let's say it's just a like you said, twenty
foot by twenty foot great room, no high ceilings or anything,
just a typical situation. You'd be surprised it's it's not
as long as you would think. Okay, because they're not
full days. Right the first day, I would say, you know,
you're you're probably close to a full day to have
it removed, all right, you know, because you have to

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cover everything real thoroughly. We cover all the way down
with plastic, the walls, every piece of furnch is wrapped
up like a present. Oh yes, sir, Yeah, you have to.
You got to do your due diligence with that stuff.
And then uh you know, so that that takes about
a day. Then we'd come back the following day apply
our primers. All in all, for a room like that,

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you're probably looking about three three and a half days
gary total, but just not not full days. Those last
couple about half days okay. Yeah, And before we came
on the air, you you guys just did an entire church.
We're getting ready to we're getting ready to. Yeah, we
sure are. It's a it's an entire church facility. Uh
in Gilbert and uh yeah, we're getting they have old

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the old old school popcorn ceilings throughout. They've got there's
a couple, yea, there's a couple of vaulted ceilings in there.
This's gonna be a pretty big, pretty big undertake it is.
Oh yeah, yeah, now something like that. You know, we're
gonna be in there probably two weeks, you know, for
something like that. But this is a pretty large facility,
you know, to remove, and you know they uh, they

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just it was in their budget this year. Finally, they've
been wanting to do it for for several years and
they finally pulled the trigger on it. So I'm looking
forward to making that the church look beautiful.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
I'm trying to think. I I not that I'm looking
at a lot of newly constructed homes these days, but
I mean, the is popcorn ceiling is still a thing.
I mean, nobody likes him. It doesn't seem like get
rid of it. But yeah, they still building new homes
with popcorns.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
Are man, they are. It's it's not as it's not
as common as it was right ten years ago or so.
Even it has slowed up because because most people don't
like it, they don't like the look of it. It's
it's gotten a stigma you know about it, that it's
a cheaper finish or this or that. I mean, you know, look,

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you know we'll still see from time to time, but
usually it's in the older homes that we're removing, you know,
an older facility or older buildings. We do a lot
of even in the commercial industry, we remove popcorn ceilings,
you know, physicians offices. We just did a dentist office
not too long ago where they had textured ceilings up there.

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You know what they used to do now, Gary, even
before that, they used they just used straight drywall compounds, okay,
and he would mix it with a little bit of mud.
Sometimes they would actually put a little bit of paint
in it as well, just to give it a little
bit of color. And then you would roll that mud okay,
with a regular paint nine inch roller nap, roll that

(46:32):
mud on the ceiling, and you'd have a guy behind
you with either a chicken track or a pounce brush
stippling the ceiling. You know, remember that in the seventies
and the stalag tight looking right right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
I forgot about that.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
So that was a that was the solution before the
popcorn texture.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
I've seen some pretty cool textures because you know, people
would do the little swirl thing on a a which
looks pretty good.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
We used to do all of this gary, you know,
years and years ago, as a matter of fact, the
Parade of Homes. Okay, in Blythewood, I'm dating myself a
little bit here, but a long time ago we won
the award for the ceiling texture because we would do
medallions around the lights. Okay, big sunbursts and medallions around
all the lights and fans to create something real drastic.

(47:20):
And then even in the corners, all four corners, we
would do little shell patterns in the corners to accent
the center.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Very cool.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
Yeah, a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Now we just want it nice and nice and slew.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
Everything's you know, modern, and yeah, sure is.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'm guessing it's funny because like in your business, like
in the fashion business and everything else, I mean, the trends,
things go away and they come back. But I'm guessing
popcorn ceilings ain't coming back.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
I you know what, I hope not. I hope not.
You know, I hope you the last one, the last one.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Want to be the guy to do the last one.

Speaker 7 (47:53):
Yeah, you know it is though, you're right, man, the
trends are. It's crazy how the trends come and go
h different Chines, even Gary right on trim your your
door frames and your doors. High gloss used to be,
you know, the thing, right, the wet look, you know,
real wet look. Now it's gone completely opposite. Now satin's

(48:14):
you knows, less sheen as possible, just the tiny bit
of sheen.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Is is a set is one step up from flat correct, right,
that is correct, okay, and then the one after that
would be semi gloss. Okay.

Speaker 7 (48:25):
Yeah, And we'll still do some some you know, semi
gloss finishes and whatnot, but a lot of it is satin.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
So I'm guessing Russ that like a lot of folks
in the Indus, you know, and just the sort of
thing you guys do home improvement on all you come
off of, you know, some slow months in the winter
when people just they're they're busy. You got Christmas, you
got New Year's you got then you get cold weather.
You're not thinking about that sort of thing. But what
is it about springtime that suddenly everybody says, oh yeah,

(48:54):
let's do it now.

Speaker 7 (48:57):
Oh man, it's got to be very frustrating for folks
in your business.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:00):
I got some theories about that though myself. You know,
I think a lot of it has to do with
tax time, I really do. I mean, this is the time, right,
everyone's getting their tax returns back?

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Uh what not? Everyone?

Speaker 7 (49:12):
Yeah, I know, right in that club. But you know,
between that and and just the warm the weather getting warmer, right, Uh,
it's kind of like, Uh, you ever visit a city
up north right in the winter time, what do they
tell you you got to come back in the summer.
You got to come back in the summer. You know,
everything revolves around the nicer weather. I think it just

(49:34):
kind of gets everybody out of their their dormant phase
and they start want to want to move and get
the blood flown and get projects done. You know. That
coupled with with maybe tax time is kind of my
theory minited.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
So I got to make a confession here. And as
we've talked about over the years, we've used you guys
on three or four different projects as far well, you know,
we got went a couple of weeks ago. My wife,
who is you know, the energizer Bunny she's a great
original and it's a very good, great guess. Yes, there
was one hall of the entrance way, and she said,
we need to get that painted, and she said, you

(50:07):
know what, I'm stuck inside his called I'm just gonna
do it myself, right, Okay, So she did.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Well.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Now, as it turns out, that wall has bead board
wallpaper on it, because she discovered after paying that one.
And it's not a very big wall, it's just good.
The entrance way, okay, to the house. You got the
sidelights on the door, and she was going with a
white and when that sun came through, it highlighted every

(50:39):
imperfection in that it had been painted a bit of
a darker color originally not real dark, but about tannish
kind of color. But when she put that white up
there not only the flashing you talk about, yeah, okay,
But and then she went back and looked at older
pictures of the home before we bought it. Sure, and
there was something on that wall, oh, that had been

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put up there and taken down and artfully, I would
assume they caused issues in the underlying surface. And then
she said, you know, if I had to call it
russ I to.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
Deal with this.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
So it's it's now covered by that that that b
board looking kind of wallping and looks right. Yeah yeah,
but that wasn't the original plan. But but these are
the these are the things you run into and when
you're not a professional. And why yeah, yeah it has.
We should have called Russ. It was a small thing
and we.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
Thought, yeah, look you wouldn't You would be amazed.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Gary.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
We get calls all the time, Uh, folks just asking
for a little bit of advice, right, yeah, I am
more than happy. We I love giving advice to folks,
but when it comes to things trying to help them
out to not make mistakes or or skip steps that
that are that are pertinent to make the project look great. Right,

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we do it all the time, you know. So it's
uh yeah, I mean you know, there's a way to
do everything. There's a way to do everything. And uh,
just as the popcorn remove, it's it's like a six
to almost six and a half step process, is what
it really is.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
I gotta tell you that that one I would never
want to take on right there.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
That's most people. And you know what, that's how we
get the businesses because of people like you. Right, Nobody
wants to do it. That's how that's where we come
in and we can we can do it pretty efficiently.
But uh but yeah, nobody wants to be up there
and and you know, your next getting wrenched because you're
looking up for so long, arms, your shoulders getting tired
from scraping. It's it's very labor intensified, it really is,

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especially when you get in these vaulted ceilings and higher up.
It gets tough. Oh, it really does.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Absolutely, And we only got about a minute left here
before out of time. But uh again, we would encourage
folks to check out the cabinet refinishing specials.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
Absolutely, we're We're still cranking out cabinets weekly, Gary, we
really are. We're getting ready to do a pretty large
set out in Lexington on the Lake. They're gonna come
out beautiful. They're just uh yeah, an older, outdated type
looking care. Their beautiful cabin is very good quality, but
at the colors outdated. It's got a little bit older,

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the older glazing on it that we used to see
about ten fifteen years ago, and they want to update it.
So we're going to be doing that here this coming week,
actually starting it so we're looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, making them look brand new and different.

Speaker 7 (53:16):
They can look brand new for a fraction of the
price or action of the places.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah all right. Always good to see you my friends.
Same here Gary, Finishing Touch Team, I know, Finishing Touch
Team dot com.

Speaker 7 (53:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
And now if you're looking for advice for an estimate
to get folks out there, folks, actually they call you right.

Speaker 7 (53:32):
You call me directly eight zero three four six seven
six seven five nine Russ have a good weekend, but
you too, Gary, Thanks so much.

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