Home Improvement Show 03-14-26

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands, and
good morning to you. Good to have you along on
this fourteenth day of March. I'm Gary David, and we
got some fantastic folks going to join us in this
hour of the program. Jeremy Holliday, he owns mister Electric.
He is mister Electric around these parts. He'll be joining
us on the show this morning. They're out springing, have

(00:39):
been since last month. Matter of fact, they've already hit
my house twice. Trey Powell and the good folks over
at Mosquito Joe Trey here to try to make your
backyard fun again this spring and this summer, and they
do a great job of doing that. He'll tell us
how coming up on this edition of the Home Improvement
Show with the Midlands. It is again good to have
you with us. Let's get things rolling that with our
friend Rus mare Casey, the Finishing Touch team. Speaking of

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folks who have done work at my house or they
have done some outstanding work. Russ morning, my friend, morning, Gary,
how w are you meant to be here? Man? Doing
great this morning? It's horrific. I you know, I was
talking with somebody the other day about about you guys,
and you know I mentioned it all the time. The
thing about painting is your your two year old can

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take a paint brush and slap paint up on a
on a wall, right, Okay, I mean any anybody can.
Everybody can do it right, right, Yeah, but you if
you've never used a pro and let me qualify that
a pro is just not somebody who you are actually
paying to do this. I mean, how many times you

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run across this. Somebody's maybe remodeling your home or you know,
you're having a home built, and they bring in somebody
to paint, and you pay them to paint, But are
they really professional painters? Exactly? Do you do you want
the same person that's uh, you know, putting up a
sheet rock, you know, doing that painting.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
You know that's a that's a great point, Gary, and
you're right. The consensus is with most people that everybody
can paint to a certain extent, right, And there is
a difference. There's a huge difference. And by the way, Gary,
I'd say a good twenty to thirty percent of our
residential painting sometimes usually during certain parts of the year,

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usually is folks that were trying to do it themselves.
That maybe thought that they could do it themselves, or
bit off a little bit more than they could chew,
or didn't understand the way certain products work right, of
what primers to use, what preparation to do, and they
get overwhelmed and they end up with this mess in

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their house, right, and then they end up having to
call somebody. Okay, And we get calls like that all
the time, so often we get them, so we see
it a lot. We do see it quite a bit.
There just is there's so much theory behind what products
that you really need to use. And and by the way,
you know, I hate to kind of throw these guys

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under the bus a little bit, but you know, the
loads go ahead, do it.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Low's in home depot.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
You really don't want to get a whole lot of
advice in that area, okay. Oh man, There's just been
so many just bad advice given, you know, throughout there,
because I mean, look, now you got you know, younger guys,
younger people working there. They're not they're not in this profession.
They have never actually applied you know, paint products and

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no preparation and know all.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
The problems and paint put that thing and shake it.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
They are they are you know, and they might have
hurt a little tip from the last guy, but that's
that's about the extent of it. So uh, it is important.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
So let's let's let's do a solid though. For folks
who think they can go ahead and do this on
their own. Some of the questions that you hear, did
you hear a lot of me like, uh, and we've
talked about this, I think just in the last on
the last time you were with us. So whatchine should
you use? I mean, you know, we used to think
there's well, there's flat and there's you know, semigloss.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
But there's a lot more now, right, there is there
is and this is a really common misconception as well.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Gary.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Okay, every residential job I go on to I try
to if we're going to be painting walls and things
like that, I try to give the customer at least
as much education as they can to make their decision
on what they're looking for.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right because it's.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Their preference, they have to live there, they have to
be happy with it, so it's my job to give
them as much information about these products as possible so
they can make that decision. Okay, Leading up to what
you're saying the wall sheens. Okay, flat paint has gotten
such a horrible misconception of being just cheap wipes right

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off with a paper towel, that sort of thing. And
to a certain extent that is true, right, but you
have certain qualities of flat paint, all right. What most
people are referring to that is that cheap builder grade
flat that cheap, cheap paint that they just spray two
crappy coats within a house. And that's the conception of

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flat paint. There are so many awesome products out there,
especially shir Williams. They have fantastic flat products that they're
not as wipeable or washable as maybe an eggshell, but
really really close to it. The issue, Gary, is that
most marks on your walls, other than a light handprint

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here and there, scuffs, things like this, They don't wipe
off anyway. I don't care if you have a full
gloss on the wall. A big scuff is not going
to wipe off. You have to touch it up with
that paint to make it go away. This leads into
what we've talked about in the past, an industry term flashing. Okay, yes,

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when you touch up eggshell in the middle of a wall,
it flashes and it sticks out like a sore thumb,
whereas flat will touch up and it'll blend in a
whole lot better. And I just I feel like you
get a little bit more longevity out of your paint
job by using flat sometimes stuff mentioned before. I have
three kids, and uh, I've always put a high quality
flat in my house. Now I like the aesthetic value

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of a flat versus a sheene, uh, because it also
hides a lot of the imperfections. Okay, as where when
you put a sheen on the wall or a ceiling
for that matter, it shows every imperfection, uh, as well
as the the the actual skin of the sheet rock,
the outer layer of that sheet rock, we call it
the skin. You could see all the little imperfections and

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and furring in that in that layer of sheet rock.
So anytime you put a sheen on it, it just
amplifies all that you know, where a flat will hide
it all.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
What do you most com what do people want most
these days? When you go do it, they get that
because yeah, flat, you got your you got a satin
after that, Yeah, and then you've.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Got an egg shell moves up to an egg shell. Okay,
from an eggshell.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And this progression is flatter to cl glossy. I guess right,
that is correct.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes, So flat is the most that matt they'll they'll
call it sometimes matte finish or a flat finish. That's
a completely dead finish. There's no uh, there's no sheen
to it whatsoever. And then it goes to a satin,
and then it goes to an egg shell, and then
it goes to a semi gloss, and then a gloss
and then a full high gloss.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Now there are some hybrids out there, different ones that
are kind of between a satin and an eggshell. They'll
call it low sheen or you know, there's different names
in correct, you know, But I'd say the most popular
are flats. I'd say flat satin and eggshells are the
most popular. For walls, we rarely see semi gloss.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
And what you do is that usually trim trim.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Is generally a semi gloss. But I'll tell you these days,
we're seeing a lot of satin sheenes on trim. The
cabinetry that we do. Yeah, boy, I'd say ninety percent
of it is in a satin sheen. Usually it's just
you know, it's just the trends of the time and whatnot.
It used to be semi class, used to be a
high gloss said.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Does anybody do that anymore?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Not a whole lot. Now we don't see it very
often whatsoever. Mainly if for we're just trying to touch
something up or match something existing and it has to
match the rest of whatever the house is, you know,
we'll follow suit with something like that.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
But not usually do you get to a point though,
when when when the paint's been on a wall for
X number of years? Sure, if you had to go
in and and do a you know, a quick repair
job somewhere, they just this is not going to work.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Of course, all the time, actually all the time. It's
very very common. I mean, even if you used a
flat let's say, and it's two three years down the line,
but maybe you kept that original can of paint out
in the shed and it went through a couple of
cold winters or something. Okay, that coupled with the fact
of the sun is actually changing the color even inside

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your house. It definitely does fade it and have different
factors to it. It probably wouldn't touch up if you
used a flat or eggshell or any other for that matter,
and you had to do a touch up, and let's
say you had to go to the paint store and
buy another gallon of paint, same color, but a new
gallon not gonna touch up. And it's just not okay.

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You have to have that exact same gallon. You have
to keep it, label it, and keep it in a
you know, a controlled environment, is what you need to do.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Do you always need to use a primer?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
No, you do not, No, you do not. That is
another gigantic misconception. Okay. The only time that we ever
use primer is when something is a substrate surface, Okay,
is raw like raw sheet rock, braw wood, or if
there's a stain of some sort, Okay, if there's a
water stain, if there's mildew, if there's you know whatever,

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a big dark mark on the wall of some sort, Yes,
it's you know, normal to prime that. But if you're
just changing colors, okay, there is absolutely no reason to
apply a full coat of primer over your walls just
because you're changing colors.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
What if you're going from a darker color to a lighter.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Color, right, so it's just more coats. Okay, that's all
it is. So it's just a matter of transparency. So
it's a matter of does this finished paint cover over
this color if you can still see through it, an
additional coat is needed a primer wouldn't wouldn't you know,
speed that up or advance that or do any any
anything beneficial whatsoever. You're either putting a coat of primer

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on or you're putting another coat of finished paint on. Personally,
I would rather have the finished paint because you're building
the depth of that color. Okay, And yes, you can
tint your primer to the color that you want to
end up with it eventually, but we always use the
finished paint and if it takes a third coat of
paint because of that, that's what we have to do.
And so we'll advise that sort of thing, you know,

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when when we're estimating job scary, if we see a
darker color and they want to go to like a
lighter color, let's say an alabaster off white, we automatically
know when when usually when colors are going to take
a third coat of paint, and we explain that to
the customer and be you know, completely transparent.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
About we're in a kind of a weird time of
the year here. You're coming off you know, the the
winter months, right, and you're talking about exterior painting now, right.
And we've talked about this before, the the issues that
the weather causes when you try to paint outside. Me
it's not the time of year you want to do it.
But now we're moving into that other time.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Of year, the good old pollen season it comes.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Again, right, sir. You guys you painted our pool house
a year or so ago and we're when I first
talked to you about it was about this time of year,
that's right, and you said, let's not do it yet. Yep, yep,
because of because again because of because of the pollen.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, the pollen is uh is horrible when it comes
to painting. It is not something that you want to
do or rush. I have a lot of customers like
right now for example, that are on the books right
now for exter year painting. And depending on when that
pollen starts falling in, sometimes we have to postpone it.
Carry It's not something that we will ever rush or

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that anyone should. It really affects the paint, So the
paint will adhere completely different. If there's pollen on the surface,
it won't. It won't as he it won't adhere as well.
Is a clean surface, okay, prep surface, so you can't
power wash it first, and you can sure and everything
always gets power washed first before we paint an exterior.
We never do anything outside generally without a good power washing,

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right but you know, you know as well as I do.
You can wash that surface within an hour. It's completely
coated already, you know, So depending on how heavy the
pollen is at times. Now, don't get me wrong. We
we have painted outside when there is pollen in the air,
but it just depends on the degree of it. Right
when it's really sparse like right now, for example, is

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just kind of starting. I've seen a couple pieces of
dust on the on the vehicles, right yeah, not horrible,
horrible time to do it, but in another week or
two not good. So you just got you just really
have to keep your eye on it is what you
need to do, you know. But we're also running you know,
a good offer on xter your paint right now, Gary,
we're offering fifteen percent off right now. Okay, Oh yes, sir,

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if you mentioned this radio ad when you call for
an estimate, we will give you fifteen percent off. Coupled
with that offer, we are also offering a free complimentary
powerwashing one year from the date we finished your full
exterior paint job to completely wash your house again. While
we're doing that, we inspect all the work that we

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completed a year ago. We make sure that everything's kosher,
and we washed the house completely for you. It's all
complimentary with a full paint job, exterior paint job.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Excellent, yeah, excellent. But you got to mention this at
the time you call for the estimate, correct, right, yes.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes, if you've heard this on the radio and you
mentioned this as you call for the estimate, we will, uh,
we will apply to the fifteen percent discount for you.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know it mentions this in a while, But you
guys have always done a ten percent for first responders.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
As for nurses, that's across the board always Garry. Yeah, yeah,
we we appreciate all of our all of our nurses,
doctors and vets and prior military.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Absolutely. Yeah. So is this cumulative now, I mean if
you're a if you're a nurse, for example, you get
ten percent off and fifteen percent off. If you mentioned
the ad, how does that work?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's a total of fifteen percent.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, good try though, Gary, good try. I'm decided. Let
me just put it out there. Yeah, it's like any confusion, right, Yeah,
those of you who on the you know the first
line of Yeah, everything we depend on so heavily around here.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, we can't pay to have it done for you,
but we can at least try to give you a
really good deal.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
There you go. Hey, so that's that's that's all right now,
So fifteen percent off. Mention it when you call for
the cert And by the way, and you call it
the estimate, you call that number. This is the guy
you get. That's right?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Always ross and what is that number? Eight oh three
four six seven six seven five nine?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Okay, good? Any other So we talked about the finishes.
We talked about the need to prime or not to prime.
We talked about oh well, okay, hey, we get the
answer here. We talked about going light over dark and
it might take three coats, but typically yeah, is it
always two coats? Always? Yes?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
So I do I never ever quote something for a
coat of paint, Gary, just one coat, even if we're
going over the exact same color. Okay, if the customer
is totally happy with that color, but they just want
everything freshened up. We always do a minimum of two
coats of paint. You have to for the build, for
the uh, the depth of the of the color. To
achieve that actual color, there might be marks on the wall.

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It just makes for a difference of a mediocre paint
job to a really nice paint job.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay. So you know, we do.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Get that question a lot, you know, especially if somebody's
trying to save a little bit of money, they say, well,
what if we do only do one coat. It's just
not something that we generally do because we know what
it's going to look like, and hey, look our name
on all this right this. Our reputation is extremely important
to us, and we know what looks good and what doesn't.
So we want to make sure that we're doing the
right thing. Always, but always two coats.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
You mentioned are those times when you go three when
you go on light cut over doors. That's right, yep.
Have you ever done how to do more than three?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
We have? Yeah, unfortunately we have. So it just depends
when you get some really deep colors. Unfortunately, you just
you have to you have to put on the amount
of coats that it takes to cover whatever the color's
Four coats is really the Yeah, four is really the limit.
And even with the fourth one, it's not generally a
full full coat. It's normally like a little what we

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call a greasing coat. Right, maybe a cut in here
and there's a little light and we have to you know,
cut it in one more time or something like that.
We have a few few tricks of the trade that
we can go through to achieve that. Sometimes, you know,
a lot of times Gary, uh, it's the cut that
doesn't necessarily cover as well, but the role will cover. Okay,

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it's just a matter of how much pain is being
applied onto the wall. So if we see this, we'll
go through and we'll cut the room in a couple times. Right,
let's say it needs a third cot. We'll cut it
in twice, roll it twice, and do our last cut
in we're done. So what we'll do things like that
all the time.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Go so the fifteen percent off at the time of
the estimate mention. This this radio program that you heard
on WVOC, and this is exterior pain for exterior jobs.
This for xterior painting yes, Ken, Yeah, Russ. Always good
to see you again. That phone. I'm going to get
that estimate, that discount eight three four six seven six
seven five nine. All right, see you about it, Thanks Kerry.

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back on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on
one O three point five FM and five sixty AM
WVO sy Good morning again and good to have you
with us this morning. My name is Gary David, now
joined by Jeremy Halliday. Otherwise don't run these parts as
mister electric at Jereby. How are you, buddy?

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Good morning, Gary, doing good, good, terrific. See ya, Good
to see you too. We were talking during the break there.
We got a little little stuff. We need you all
to come out and give us a quote on with
outdoor lighting. You guys do a lot of outdoor lighting stuff,
don't you.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
We do a lot of landscape lighting, and we use
a very good product. So something you're looking for, h
our light fixtures are all brass, so you can get
them in different colors, but they're they're brass, so lasts
a lot longer than something that they just pick up, youah,
off the shelf.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Well, in the house we're in now, I don't know.
I guess at some point in time they had some
sort of we got it in the back, but in
the front, I don't know what happened there. Yeah, so
you know what, I got a couple of lights that
you know, we use like a Christmas time, you know.
But you know with those comes that extension core that's
hideous and yeah yeah, uh, but I mean it's not

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that big of a deal really anymore. I mean because
you you bury that that that low voltage wire and
you have to dig real deep in the ground.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
I mean, yeah, if you have you have low voltage
lighting out there, then yeah you can you can just
put it, you know, a few inches under the ground,
keep it out of the way. Make sure you have
good connectors on it. A lot of times that's what's
going bad on some of these, uh, either bulbs or connectors,
depending on the type of light fixture that's installed.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Yeah, sounds like you have a pretty good uh system
there though.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
You have them front and back so.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
That yeah, yeah, and somebody works, but the front whatever.
I don't know what happened here, but but but what
have you and what do I know about these things?

Speaker 6 (21:13):
So hopefully, hopefully if you have good fixtures, you just
might need some bulbs and some uh maybe.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
All the front fixtures are gone.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh are they? Okay?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't I don't happen to them either.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
But we can take care of that for you.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
But my point is, I mean, the possibilities are pretty
much endless, aren't they.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
I mean, oh yes, they've had so many different types,
and uh, we have a catalog we'll bring in.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Uh so you can choose, you know what you'd like
to install it.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
Man, you can put them in trees. They got them,
I mean they have them, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
In the tree.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Oh yeah, brackets that mount to anything and uh, spotlight
illuminate anything you want to any kind of way. R
G B W lighting, so, you know, with all the
different colors about that.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
But my wife hates it. So I'm going to get
overruled on that because however, for me, I'm I'm like, hey,
you know it's uh did Saint Patrick's day, let's turn
it green. You know, it's Christmas, let's make it red. Whatever.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, that would be me, That is me, Yeah, that
ain't her. Yeah, it's nice. Some people like it, some
people don't. But sometimes simple as best, you know, just simple, Uh,
just bring some lighting into the yard, make it look nice.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
And and uh or.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
For security purposes if you want to light up the window,
underneath the windows or whatever, you.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Know, you do that.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
So and not only that, but inside or outside of
the home. You guys do a lot of installation of
smart stuff.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
Yes, we can do all kind of smart devices, so
smart switches, smart receptacles.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
And they're very user friendly.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
I know in the beginning people were.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
A little shy of them after they experienced some of
the you know, the beginning stages of the smart devices.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
But now they're they're very user friendly.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
You could put you could put like I said, you
could put switches, outlets, uh, you know, flood lights. Uh,
video doorbells that are smart, connect to your phone.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
There's there's a world of stuff out there you can
do and we can do it for you.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Terrific. And again it's guys a limit, right Yeah. Yeah,
you can make the whole home smart if you want to.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yes, you can make the whole home smart if you
need to or you want to.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Uh, there's ways of doing that.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
One of the things you guys do. I mean, I think,
if I'm not mistaken, pretty much every time you go out,
you you gotta do an inspection on the current system
and the home or of the business.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, we call it a safety check.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
So what that goes, You know, we're checking for safety items,
smoke detectors gfis where they're required and needed.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, smoke defectors, I got was the sec A thing?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Ground fault protection FIS Gfciyes, ARC fault protection what.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Those are?

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Those are safety devices that detect any kind of loose
connection arcing in the system that can cause fires and
it'll shut shut that breaker down.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
And and the old style breakers they don't have that protection.
They have the you know, overload and then short circuit
uh protection, which is good, but the art fault, adds
the arc fault protection and then you can get dual
function where they have the arc fault, ground fault, over
current and short circuit. So uh, and that's what we

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try to do. Any house we go into, we want
to leave that system safer them when we got there,
and that's what we're trying to that's why we want
to do that safety check.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Would that require basically replacing every breaker in your box
in the circuit.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Panel most of them?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Yes, yeah, and so you know, then we get into
the way you want to invest your money. If you
have a thirty year old panel, maybe you want to
just go ahead and do the panel change and upgrade
the breakers or do the whole service, you know, where
you change the outside meter can and the mast. And
if you're having you know, you're having any kind of
issues in your home with flickering lights or a dark

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area in your home that you want to install fixtures or.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
That's what we do, and we do. That's all we do.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I know we've talked about this before and it
bears bring it up again. Searche protectors. Now, yeah, my
idea of a search protector was a you know, one
of those little moulp boxes. That's a search protector that
you might plug your TV into before you plug into
the wall. Your definition of a search protector goes wait
beyond that.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Though, Yeah, you know it's the same thing, it's a
smaller version. So we install the whole home search protector.
The one we install has a lifetime product warranty, so
it's a very good one.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
So you just need one then, yeah, well zones.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Right, we have out the exterior zone the home, the interior,
and then the service. So we're going to put it
on the service. That's going to protect you from surges
that most of the time when they come in through
the service, it's a big heavy surge and can damage
products instantly. You know, appliances, electronics, everything. Yeah, at least

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a couple appliances or sprinkler system, garage doors, things like that. Uh,
And that's your main surge protector, but that's not your
only one. You still need to keep search protection on
electronics inside the home, and you need to protect your.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Your items outside the home.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Like pool pumps and condensing units and things like that,
so we put them outside on the service. And also
you want to keep serge strips on the inside. We
put in point of use surge protectors all the time.
For electronics, you're putting a TV on the wall, we
can put a surge outlet.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
In Okaya, those are going to ask you. So it
could be built. It's built into the outlet itself, yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah. So because your home creates surges.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
You know, if you if you put a vacuum in
and start it up, that's creating a little surge.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
And you know, you know, Jeremy, we think about when
Jeremy Howdy, mister Electric is with us on the Home
Improvement show this morning, we think about surges from you
got a thunderstorm, Yeah, lightning, we think of that as
a surge. But that's not the only thing I guess
that can can cause surge to come into the home.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Is that right, That's right? Yeah, there's other things that
cause it.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
You know, motor hard starts on motors, they start up,
create a surge through the system. When the power company,
you know, is working on a line and the and
the power goes out, when it comes back on, there's
going to be a surge. There's all kinds of ways
that your home is creating its own little surges. So
like I was saying, with the vacuum cleaner, you're starting
it up, there's a little surge goes through that system. Uh,

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and those aren't normally the kind that damage something instantly,
but over time it wears out that that electronic computer, TV, uh,
whatever it is that's on there.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do you can only handle so much?

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Do you find that appliances, whether it's you know, refrigerators, TVs, computers, whatever,
these days are more prone to be damaged by surges
or less prone. You'd think with technology that you know,
it would advance and these things will be more protected
just internally. But are they or are they or is it

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about the same as it's always been.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
I really don't know the answer to that question. That's
something I could look into. My thought is that the
more electronics you have, the more susceptible it is to assert.
So maybe refrigerator, you know, forty years ago just didn't
have as many electronics in it. So it's not that
it's yeah, you know, it's not that they're refrigerators. It's
more susceptible, not because it's uh a degraded product. It's

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just that there's a more smarter product. He's got smaller
charge more electronic parts in it.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
It talks to you.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah. Whatever, everything we like, right, is more convenient.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
You got a smart refrigerator, you got more problems? Yeah,
you want well, you want to you want to protect it.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
So if you're gonna don't just buy the one emotional
buy that's fun. If you're going to buy that smart refrigerator,
call mister Electric out to put you in a whole
home surge.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Protector to protect that refrigerator. Uh So make the whole investment.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Don't just buy the refrigerator because it's susceptible.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
What are we talking about ballpark here, Jeremy. We're talking about,
you know, putting in a whole home surge protection system
and what all does that involve?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
So we can come out and we can You know,
we have deals online all the time. We have I
think you know we have deals online all the time.
If you go to mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia,
uh and go to the specials page, there's there's coupons,
there's deals on there. I think there's a first time
customer deal. So we can come out and give you

(30:02):
a quote and give you a customized quote, accurate quote
on all the surge protection that you want in your home,
the main panel, entertainment areas, garage doors, spring.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
This is really going to vary based on what OL's
in your home. Yeah, right. If it could be just
a few things, could be a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
And or if your panel's forty years old and it's
a panel that we can't work on it's obsolete, you know,
it's an old Federal Pacific or something like that that
needs to be replaced, then then we're going to want
to give you a quote to replace that panel before
we put in that surge, or do it all at
the same time, because there's some things that we just

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can't add to, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
So okay, yeah, that makes yeah Federal Pacific. I have
remember that when I go home today, I'll look at
my panel. If it is Federal Pacific, I'll be afraid.

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Well, you know, and when we come out, we can
do a safety check on your house, Gary and see
what you got there.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I can leave you a whole you know what.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
We call a priority checklist to make your system as
safe as possible, bring it up to as close as
we can without rewiring the place to current code standards.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
And then it's up to you what you want to.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Do, and those codes get updated pretty regularly.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
I think you've told us, well, the codebook does the
code book, right, So the codebook spans a bunch of
different type of electrical other than just residential.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
So maybe something changes in residential maybe not, but every
three years the codebook's updated. So the only reason we
even mentioned that is because sometimes we could be confused
on my house was forty years old. Well, when it
was built, it passed codes, So what's wrong with it now?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
You know?

Speaker 6 (31:46):
How's there a problem now? And it's just that over
forty years there's been a few changes to the residential
code because not because the residential code changes every three year,
but because the codebook does is updated every three years,
and every so often there's a change in there to
the residential application.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
We got things in our homes right now, we didn't
Eve dream of forty years ago, that's right, right crazy
And yeah, mister electric cut Jeremy had. It's more for
just well my powers out called the electrician. You guys
do a whole bunch of stuff, Yes we do, and
uh look, yeah, I look forward to getting you all
out there to take a look at the at the
at the mood lighting outdoors. Yeah. Absolutely, do youremy how
to FoST get a hold of my friend Well.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
They can reach us at eight four to two four three,
or they can find us online at mister Electric dot com,
forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
All right, goodnese buddy, get to.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
See you Gary.

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pat now joining us on the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands from Mosquito. Joe Trey, Good morning, my friend.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
Hey, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
I've seen it already. We had we had nasty weather
earlier this this past week, late this past week. We've
got the yellow stuff out there. The pollen is everywhere,
and you guys have already been not to my house,
not once, but twice and spray for those mosquitoes already.
So we're getting ready for that, aren't we.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Oh yeah, it is.

Speaker 7 (36:46):
The time has come. It's uh, it's mid March and
and we are, you know, we are in full swing
and it's uh, you know, the temperatures are heating up.
We're seeing some beautiful days. We've still got lots of rain.
Of course, we have the yellow snow, which hopefully will
be gone in.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
A few weeks.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
Everybody will be glad.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
When that's gone.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
But uh, spring is is uh is springing, and the
mosquito activity is is coming up up up.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
So well, yeah, well the temps are well, the TIMPs
of but we had some abnormally warm hot days here
as of Lake Yep. Uh does it take too many
of those to get these mosquitoes to start hatching? I mean,
if we are, we are we already seeing that.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
Oh yeah, I mean we're definitely getting reports. Uf people
are calling, they're seeing mosquitos, they're getting bit I mean
it's uh, you know, it's not like it will be
a month or so from now, But what that means
is those we've had a string of days where the
mosquito eggs have definitely begun to hatch, and the and

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the and the temperatures are warm enough that they are
going through that larval stage, you know, a little faster
than they were a month ago. So yeah, it's you're
going to start seeing active mosquitos right now. And you
know that just means when you're seeing active mosquitoes, not
only are they hatching, but they're laying more eggs. And

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that's where we get that exponential growth as we grow
into the summer where it just becomes miserable to go outside.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah. Right, So with this abnormally warm hot weather this
early in the year, is that a guarantee that this
summer is going to be worse than usual just based
on them getting a head start here?

Speaker 7 (38:32):
I mean, yeah, sure, I mean it's just when it
starts sooner, the numbers just grow faster.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
You know.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
It's you know, mosquitoes don't have a you know, they
don't have a long life. They don't do they don't
really do much other than you know, the day that
a mosquito is is born, it is looking for a mate.
If it's a male, it's only going to live for
about ten days. So it might I'm a couple of

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mates and be done. Female's gonna live maybe four to
six weeks, but she only needs to mate one time,
and then she will use that to recreate and lay
eggs every few days for four to six weeks, and
she can lay up to three hundred eggs every few days.
So it's a it's thousands and thousands of eggs that

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one female mosquito will leave behind four to six weeks later.
And you know, when as the temperatures start to rise,
those eggs will start hatching almost immediately and just and
that's that's what causes that exponential growth and and why
we have such a bad problem.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
You don't have to make a note of this tray.
You know, one day, when I get to have it,
I'm gonna ask God why he set it up that way.
With these mosquitoes, female can just make once but continue
to just generate more eggs. I mean, that's just not fair.
I mean, it's just not fair.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
It's the process of survival.

Speaker 7 (39:58):
I mean, it's you know, it's like their eggs are
so resilient that they can you know, there's really nothing
legal or safe that's going to eliminate mosquito eggs. The
mosquito eggs can can sit there and incubate until the
conditions are right for up to five years, and so
normally they hatch right away. But if they are laid

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in the late fall or when the temperatures are too cold,
or they're laid in a place where there's no moisture
for them to hatch. They'll just sit there and they'll
sit there for months or years until they wash down
into a puddle and the temperatures are right, and when
it's right, that egg knows and that egg will hatch.
But it can be a day or it can be

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five years or anything in between.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Not fair.

Speaker 7 (40:45):
You just need the right condition.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Not fair. I saw two articles this past week. One
was in a I can never remember, man, is it
the El Nino or the La Nina or whatever, But anyway,
there was talking about a super one of the two
this year and if it happens in the southeast, it's
going to be hotter and it's going to be wetter. Okay,
perfect recipe for these mosquitos to uh.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
Not a good recipe right there for us. I mean,
we have so much humidity right now as it is.
We don't need extra rain. We get lots of we
always get lots of rain. But additional rain and additional
heat is is a recipe for a really harsh mosquito season.
So now now I got to go do some research
and go look that up.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, I wish I can remember one. It was in
the other Archicas. So we just kind of tacked onto
that saying that they're predicting a longer mosquito season. And
I think we can already see that's going to happen
with as as as hot as it's been already.

Speaker 7 (41:43):
And uh, I mean, I can tell you just from
our early signs of customer activity, somethings up. I mean,
this year, we're you know, we are, we're way ahead
of where we were last year as far as you know,
getting started and treatments and and things like that, and
so you know, if that's any indication you know to it,

(42:06):
I you know, it didn't seem like it was much
different than a lot of years.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
That we've had in the past.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
But but but something is certainly driving that. You know,
customers starting sooner, the calls are coming in sooner and
so forth, which is, you know, uh, good for business,
but you know, not necessarily good for for everybody's backyards.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Well, y'all in the business and making backyards funny again
by limiting these things, well we do. So, So let's
talk for a second to a listener who has never
tried something on this before. Let's let's let's talk about
how this works. I mean, what the process is what
what you can expect, how long it can take, and
give us if it's the whole nine four one one
here on this nine situation.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
Yeah, you want to control mosquitos. I mean, the nice thing,
the very fortunate thing is where we live and the
species of mosquito that we have, they're kind of easy
to target and they don't fly very far. So if
you have mosquitos in your backyard, don't think that they're
your neighbor's mosquitos. Also, they're probably very specific to yours.

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You know, the type of mosquitoes we have, they don't
travel more than a couple hundred feet in their whole lifetime,
so they're probably were born on your property and they'll
live their whole life on your property. All they need
is some standing water and something to bite and some
green foliage to eat. They that's the only thing they
eat is the nectar off of green foliage. So they

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have some green foliage to get shade from the sun
and eat.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
They they have other.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Mosquitoes to breed with, and they have, you know, some
standing water to lay eggs in, you know, and then
something to bite, which is a dog, a cat, a human,
a squirrel of fox, sony any blood bearing organism. Birds
are the number one prey actually of mosquitoes, and so
as long as they have those things, they're very happy
and they and they really flourish. And you think about

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our yards. Everything in our yard holds water, from the
gutters to the ditches, to the drains. You know, kids, toys, buckets, wheelbarrows.
I mean, most of them are container breeders make Usually
they're breeding in the bottom of flower pots and man
made objects that hold just a little bit of water
and that's all they need. They don't need a pool

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or a lake or a pond or a creek. You know,
literally a bottle cap can put produce three hundred mosquitoes.
And so, you know, it's we have a perfect environment here,
lots of heat, lots of moisture and rain, you know,
and even when it dries out and gets super hot
in the summer, we get lots of afternoon thunderstorms that

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fill back up all of those little, you know, things
that hold water, and so you know, it's a it's
really a perfect environment. And so it's a it's really
a two stage process to solve that. Number one is
finding all of those little things that hold water. And
that is it's not easy. That takes a skilled technician

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to search that yard top and bottom, and we're not perfect,
but we know what to look for and where to
go and finding those things. And we can either get
rid of them tipping it over and pouring the water
out onto the ground, or we can treat it. If
we can't get rid of it, we can treat it
with an organic product that will eliminate them at the
larval stage. When those eggs hatch, they become larvae, and

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usually for at least four days, so up to a month,
they are in the larval stage, meaning they're a little
wiggler like a little worm underneath the water.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Well.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
If we can eliminate them at the larval stage, we're
eliminating thousands and thousands of mosquitoes that are never born.
And if they're never born, they can't bite. I mean,
you talk about lowering the population of mosquitos on your property,
that is the number one thing that you got to
do is manage the standing water. And so many people

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tell me we don't have any standing water. Well, just
because you can't see it out your back window doesn't
mean it's not there. If you didn't have standing water,
you wouldn't have mosquitoes, period. It's somewhere. We got to
find it and treat it. So that's the number one
thing that we do. And then we spray the yard.
We're gonna spray all the foliage, because any live mosquitoes

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that are born adults are going to be harboraging in
eating and hiding from the sun in all the foliage
ground cover, anything green with leaves and things like that,
that's where they're.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Going to live.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
And so by spraying all the bushes and shrubs around
that yard, it's going to eliminate all the adults. And
now we're eliminating all the larvae. And that product that
we spray it sticks, so whatever, you know, any mosquito
that comes across the fence from the neighbor's yard is
going to hit that barrier and be eliminated as well.
And so it's like putting a flea collar around that yard.

(46:54):
We can eliminate them and control them in this yard,
but the neighbors all around will still have mosquitoes. They
try and come across, they're going to hit that barrier.
And so that that treatment is going to last for
about three weeks.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
And in three weeks.

Speaker 7 (47:08):
It really needs to be replaced. The UV that we
have in this area is going to break it down
and it needs to. If you don't replace it, then
you're going to start seeing breakthrough. And so we come
out every three weeks kind of like a lawn service,
and we rEFInd all the standing water and retreat it
and we respray the yard and that way these you know,

(47:29):
the customer can go out in their backyard any time,
day or night without spraying themselves down with you know,
mosquito repellent and uh and really just enjoy the yard.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm glad you explained it like that, because I think
the mistake that a lot of folks make thinking they
could do this on their own is you go to
a big box store and you can buy something to
just spray for mosquitos. I guess I don't I've ever
tried to do it. Yeah, so you can. But if
that's all you're doing, I mean you're fighting a losing
battle because.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
You're yeah, you're you're you eliminate them.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
There's the mosquitoes, and then thousands of them are being
worn't right behind it, and then stuff you get from
the big box store is really just an instant knockdown,
meaning if you hit them, it kills them, but it's
not going to kill the ones tomorrow, next day, for
three weeks. Yeah, there's no residual to that, you know stuff,
And so it does a good job if you hit
them with it, but it's there's really not a residual.

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So you've got to be very very consistent. And and
but if you're not treating the larval larvae and constantly
getting rid of water, you're really fighting an uphill battle.
You're not going to be probably satisfied with the results.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
So it's like you know, spraying a roach with you know,
some kind of bug spray. Hit the roach, kill them,
But that's going to be about it. I'm gonna get
the rest of them.

Speaker 7 (48:44):
They're right, you're not going to affect the colony.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay, gotcham So well, you know, since you mentioned I
mentioned roaches, folks may not realize that you guys are
in that business too.

Speaker 7 (48:57):
Yeah, we really are a full service test control company.
I mean we are Mosquito Joe, and we got our
start in the mosquito business. But you know, we have
home pest offense and you know, if you've got spider
webs around the ease of your house or on your porches.
We can eliminate the spiders and get rid of the
spider webs for you. We can keep roaches and ants
from getting into your house. The last thing you want
is to open up the door to your pantry and

(49:18):
see a trail of ants going in there. Yeah, and
next thing you know, you've got all of them in
your food and all of that. And so we can
we can treat the the inside, the outside and the
yard and eliminate you know, to keep your keep you
living pest free in your house.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
And in your yard.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
And then we also take care of termites, and we
can keep rodents like rats and mice out of your
house as well. So you know, we want you to
live in peace and make it inside out and outside
fun again for you.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
I guess mosquito, Joe and spider, termite, roach and all
is just a little too long to put on a
business card.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
So well, it is a bit.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
But we found customers tend to if they like the
way we do business and and they like you know,
how we how we treat them, they'd rather just deal
with one company. And so we can we can take
care of all of their their pest control needs and
you know, bundle those services, put on one low monthly
payment and then we just handle it if they ever

(50:20):
have an issue. You know, we all of our services
are fully guaranteed. So if you're you don't see results,
we will come back and do it again for free,
and if you're still not happy, we'll you give your
money back. I mean, it's we're going to make this
as simple and easy as possible for you. Never have
a contract, there's no long term agreements. You start and
stop whenever you want. Obviously this is a recurring service

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to make this work, but we're never going to We're
gonna earn your business the right way.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Every time I've been to mention this, when you started
talking about the bugs, it seems to me and maybe
this is not too early or whatever, but I walk
in the neighborhood, I'm seeing a lot more ant deills
pop up earlier like this year. Have you Is this
about the time we start to see them proliferator.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
Yeah, Marches, and I'm glad you brought that up. Is
fire ants is a big issue in yards, and we
we do a once and done treatment for that. It's
a once annual weekend. The time to do it is
right now, like March is the time to get out
there and uh and get those and get that, get

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that done, and then we do that once and then
we'll guarantee it for the whole rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Okay, okay, So so we're on on your regular rounds
to to uh eliminate those other pests aside from mosquitoes.
This is an additional service, or.

Speaker 8 (51:43):
It is.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
It's a completely different application. I mean, Michito treatment doesn't
do anything for fire ants. It's a yeah, we're going
to put a granular in the yard. Uh that is
going to you know, is going to eliminate them.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
The few that it doesn't eliminate is going to run.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Them off the proper into your neighborhood.

Speaker 7 (52:02):
We're gonna make your your yard not a very nice.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Place for them to live. All right. And again, as
you mentioned, never never a contract required, and uh you
can agree you have. I think we've talked about this before.
If you want to do all the services, you're gonna
want up getting a better price by bundling up than
saving right.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
Oh yeah, if we can come out and do multiple
services at the same time, you know then obviously saves
us money, saves you money, saves us time, all that beautiful.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
All right, the folks want to get started. And when
we go back to the mosquito treatment for a second,
if you've never used somebody's never used it before, you
got to still get that special deal going for.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
Yeah, we will let somebody who's never tried us before,
they can try us for only thirty nine dollars for
up to a half an acre. We'll come out and
treat your yard for mosquitos. And you know it's uh,
there's no contract or anything like that. We just want
to We want to give you a chance to try
it as well below costs, and then you know, we
won't start a recurring service to come back every three

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weeks and keep you mosquito free for the rest of
the summer.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
All right, Trey Pale, enjoy the rest of your same
patties day weekend, my friend. Thank you too, Hi buddy,
we'll talk soon. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (53:16):
All right.

Speaker 9 (53:19):
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