Home Improvement Show 03-15-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good morning and welcome. It's the Home Improvement Show with
the Midlands here on one O three point five FM
and five sixty am WVOC. It is wonderful to have
you along with us on this Saturday morning. Good morning
to you. My name is Gary David and uh, well
we've got a lot happened today. Saint Patrick's Day celebration
in five points. If you go, do be careful whether

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she cooperate today. Good thing is today, not tomorrow, because
tomorrow it doesn't look so good for us around here,
but it is it is. Of course St Patrick's Day
is not actually till Monday, but they're celebrating in five
points today. Hey, we've got a busy hour coming up here.
And again we appreciate you joining us every Saturday morning
for the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. And if

(01:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
I guess they're all up there.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
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scan the dial. It's it's it's it's really cool, it
really is. Right on the show today. Coming up, Jeremy
Halliday from Mister Electric is going to be joining us
and he'll drop by and see us a little bit
later on in the half hour next half hour. Russ Marcasey,
the owner of Finishing Touch Team. Folks do just outstanding
work when it comes to painting and uh, and I

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know personally firsthand because they've done work.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
At our house for us.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
We'll be sitting down talking to him, and for the
second straight visit, Lisa Jurgensen is going to be accompanying him.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I understand.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Lisa an interior designer. They work together a lot, have
for many, many years. And we'll talk about the advantages
of having her expertise and vice versa when she has clients,
having Russ and Finishing Touch Teams expertise, weighing in and
helping out with the project, so we'll talk about that.
We get things underweight this morning though with summer from
Beaver roofing and gutters. We want to talk about roofing today,

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but we want to kind of maybe go a little
bit of different angle to start things with your summer
and that is, you know, the insurance aspect of all
of that, and that that that whole angle, and let's
talk about you know, how all this works if you've
had some roof damage. I mean, we you know, we
we hope it doesn't happen to you, but yeah, when
it does, Like I always say, because I talk about

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y'all all the time during the week and you know,
and just as an assigne here and we're not gonna
name names, okay, but there are roofing companies out there
that don't do roof for pairs, biggest flat don't do them.
Then there are I think I mentioned this to you
a while back. I got an email from a listener.
Oh gosh, this was Thanksgiving a year ago. Yeah, where

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we had had a storm and it ripped his satellite
dish off the roof, which caused him. It wasn't a
lot of damage, but just just a little bit. Unfortunately,
he didn't call you guys first, He called another local
roofing company and they told him that it would be
three months before they could get to him.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
What's that which is it's crazy. You know, when they
put those satellite dishes on the roof, they're actually they're
taking screws, so they're going through deckings. So when that
comes off or it's ripped off, that's exposing the inside
of your home to water and put you know, elements
that can you know, harm the home, and if it

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keeps getting water, getting water, it could cause rot and
more damage. Then you know what, we'll just go in there,
make that little repair done right, so you know, that
small you know damage could could potentially be devastating.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
So but but he called you guys then right away
told me that in the email you guys got out
to them within like twenty four hours. You had it
fixed quickly, and you know, you knew anything that ever happened.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
So that's exactly what we like to hear. And that's
you know, we like to handle business that way. You know,
we we wouldn't want our own to be like that.
So we do try to treat all of our customers
as you know, family and friends. So, and that's exactly
what you are after you deal with us. So we
you know, we like to provide give those types of
services to the to the community.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So let's talk about the insurance angle here, because that
could be a little confusing for folks, you know, homeotors
policies these days. I mean, when's the last time anybody
really their right.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Exactly? There are all kinds of words and line items
and everything else that you know, u's lay people don't
aren't very sure about. So you know, I'll tell you
a lot of times, people don't even realize that, hey,
I have damage until we get a hard rain. And

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like you said, we haven't had any you know, recent
wind or hail or anything along those lines that may
cause those types of damages to our roof. However, we
notice that we have those damages when we get these
hard rains and things of that nature. So or you know,
you're seeing them in the on the ground and that
sort of thing. But you know, we get a hard

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rain and you're like, oh my gosh, I've got to
stain in my on my feeling. So that's when you're like,
oh my goodness, maybe I should call somebody so they
call us out. Whenever we come out for any type
of inspection, that sort of thing we're going to get
up on that. We're gonna take a look at your shingles.
We're gonna look for those type of weather patterns, hail,

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hail hits, hail impacts on your shingles. We're gonna look
for the wind folds in the shingles and that sort
of thing. And you know, I'll tell you one or
two here and there. Insurance is not going to say, oh,
you need a brand new roof. You know, it has
to be a significant amount of impact from the weather

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for insurance to say yes, we'll go ahead and cover this.
We'll get you guys a new roof. So that's what
we're doing. When we're going up on your roof, we're evaluating,
we're taking a look. We're looking to see if yeah,
you probably do have a claim here or it's not
that significant. You know, we can do a small repair
and get you taken care of. So, you know, that's

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the main thing that people tend to ask, well, what
do I do? How do I go about it? That
sort of thing. So the main thing is, let us
come out, let us take a look first, because you
don't want to call the insurance company and do all
of that type of thing before you know if you
have significant damage or there are you know, a claims
for them to come out to take a look at.

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So step one, give us a call, will come out,
we'll evaluate.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You talked a bit of a moment ago about maybe
you have damage that maybe you've had it for months
and didn't know it until we got a hard rain
and sudden you notice that spot on the ceiling and
you got an issue.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Okay, let's talk about an.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Insurance standpoint from turns from the standpoint of Okay, you
don't need a whole new roof, but you do need
some repair work done.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Is that covered?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
It is covered? However, sometimes you have a deductible. Most
times we all have a deductible sure on our policies.
So a lot of times the adjuster will come out
and say, hey, we see you have damage. This is
what we'll cover, you know, and they'll cover say six

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hundred dollars of you know, a repair damage, whatever have you,
and they have a say they have a deductible of
one thousand dollars. Yeah, so with that being said, they're
not going to cover that repair. But you know with
your larger repairs, say it's a thirty five hundred dollars
repair and you have a deductible of a thousand, you know, yes,

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they'll cover twenty five hundred dollars. You cover that deductible.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
And we've always heard that with insurance companies it's not
even so much about the size of the payout but
the frequency of the payout, and that they will cancel
people's policies just because they have too many claims.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
They're claim happy, they think absolutely.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
So that's why we always like to say, hey, let
us come out first and let us take a look,
right because like you said, there is not everybody is
like this, but there are some who are claim happy
and and they're just nope, nope, nope. You know, they're
just they're shutting them down left and right. So that

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we just like to come out take a look. We're
gonna we're on your side. You know, we're not out
there to get every like you said, we do our pairs.
We don't have to get a full roof every single time.
We're not out there to do that. We're out here,
we're honest, we're gonna let you know, yeah, you got
some damage, there's a there's a good cause for you
to call them out, have an adjuster come out. And

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you know, with that being said, we're happy to come
out and kind of be your advocate because, like you said,
they don't always want to you know, cover these repair,
cover a roof replacement. But that's you know, that's why
we like to be out there with the adjuster. We're
going to bat for you. Hey, take a look at this,

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take a look at this. This is what I'm seeing
because they they know the homeowner isn't going to get
on top of that roof with them or you know,
look at these photos or know even what they're looking
for exactly right, exactly, So you know, we're we're there
to help help you, advocate for you, and you know,
just to be a be a good buffer between homeowner

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and adjuster. And we're here to help. So you know,
whenever we say, hey, yup, give them a call, we
always like to be there to help advocate for you
when that adjuster comes.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, yeah, and I guess what it's all said and
done is up to the adjuster, right, but you can
put a little pressure on there and show the evidence.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
I guess exactly exactly, and that's that is exactly what
we will do. Like you said, we're going about. We're
going about for you. We take all kinds of photos.
We go inside the attics and show, hey, this is
where damage was, this is where the leak is, all
sorts of things like that. You know, there are different
things that they're looking for in reports and things along those.

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They're looking for impacts. They're looking for. When I say impacts,
how many times say hail hit in a certain area
of your roof. They're counting those those hits. They're counting
the times that shingles have folded back and in that
area as well. So we are we we know what
they're looking for. And you know, if we think it's

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just cause we're there for you to help you.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So hypothetical scenario here, summer, we have a hailstorm, you
don't notice the media impacts of the damage. Maybe maybe
let's just say it's three months later, suddenly you see
that staying on the roof yep, And you guys go out,
you take a look, and you determine that, yeah, wow,

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you had some damage. And I guess you can kind
of get a feel for maybe how long ago that one? Well,
obviously it was a hail story, and you know we
haven't had one in three months. It's you know, you
got this damage at least three months ago. But exactly
so now you get the insurance company and is there
a scenario where they say, well, yeah, but that was
three months ago, you should have taken care of it.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Generally, No, okay.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Good because use a homewner until you see the evidence.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
How you're gonna know right exactly exactly because you don't.
I mean, you don't really know until you see it.
And so we get a super hard rain obviously when
the hail, when it's hailing it, we are generally having
bad weather. But water doesn't, you know, it just water
travels in the wildest ways. So, yes, we're there for you.

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And no, the insurance should not give you any pushbacks
if it warrants, you know, if there were enough impacts
and things of that nature. It can't just be one
two hail hits and oh yeah you need a brand
new room. Say yeah, that is when they would give

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us some pushback. No, it's not warranted. We'll do our
repair in this area. Things of that nature, and it
may not even be from the hill why it's leaking.
So there are a multitude of different scenarios and whatnot
that could happen, but time wise, no, it's you know,
three months, six months. They shouldn't give you any pushback on.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
That, no, sir, okay, good to know, and I listen.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I'll talk about insurance companies like they're had to rob you,
and many of them do very you know, good work
and they're upstanding, absolutely, but as a homeowner, you know,
it gets frustrating because you're paying those premiums every year
and you expect not to get any hashole right, but
the noise work that way.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Of course, you're.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Exactly right, and you know, just navigating an insurance claim
or anything along those lines can be really confusing. If
you've never done it before, You're like, I don't know
what to do. I'm not sure, you know. So that
we do this often. We do it with a multitude
of different insurance carriers too, so we are very familiar

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with the process and how each carrier kind of handles
different scenarios and documentation and and things of that nature.
So you know, we're very familiar with the process, even
though it can be so unfamiliar to homeowners. So that's
why we were here along the whole way.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
And I know, I'm sure it varies from from ensured
to ensure a summer, But do you find when you
work with these insurance companies that they pretty much they
have kind of an algorithm. I mean, Okay, we have
to have this much damage or this much of the
roof with an issue before we'll we'll say, yeah, we'll
we'll accept a claim for a roof replacement or is
that does that? Does that vary from situation to situation? Uh?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Not necessarily, You're you're right, you know, they are looking
for a certain amount of you know, impacts damage in
a in a I guess like a square okay area
ten by ten square area of your roof, you know,
and it's if they see, you know, more significant on
the front than on the back. You know, it really

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just depends on the amount, you know, that's what it is.
And that square area on the front, on the back,
on the side, they're looking, they're evaluating the whole thing.
So but they're generally all the same.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well, so again the point being you'll be there to
advocate for the homeowner with the adjuster shows up so
you don't have to feel like you're on your own
with this thing. And because again you don't have the
right questions to ask or if the answers you're getting
or are really straight answer or does so that's that's
that's a peace of mind for you, right there, Beaver
Roofing in Gutters. And that the phone number again, eight

(15:46):
oh three nine nine one roof eight oh three nine
nine to one Roof. That's eight oh three nine nine
to one seven six sixty three. And of course folks
can always check out online summer at beaver Roofing dot com.
And by the way, before you call, there's i know,
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(16:07):
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We think you will like what you hear and what
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Terrific summer. You have yourself, great weekend. We'll talk soon.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Take care you too.

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(19:10):
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(19:32):
Jeremy Holliday mister Electric who joins us in studio. Jeremy morning,
do you my friend? Good morning Gary. I gotta tell
you I've been I've been challenging. I've been channeling my
inner mister Electric last week week or so, and have you.
You have to be careful with you, diy Electricity. I
mean I know enough to be able to hang a
light fixture. Yeah, okay, I always wind up doing something

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wrong and some wire pops off or whatever, and I
got to take it all. This happened to me just
the other day, take it all back down again. And anyway,
there's there's this stuff. Listen. I know enough to know
when to stop.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
Yeah, and that's what we're here for again. Yeah, exactly,
you can always call us exactly what I'm going to know.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was before we came on the air here during
the break we were talking and you know, we moved
into a new house, and I know there's a lot
of outdoor lighting, but I don't heck, I don't know
if it's just not working, or if I'm not sure
if I'm doing something wrong or whatever. So you know,
we've talked about this before.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
This is listen. Electricity doesn't have to be boring, right, No, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
No, you guys do a lot of that sort of thing,
the outdoor lighting and the UH and all that th
those enhancements.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yeah, home enhancements, fun things, fun projects that you get
to enjoy after we're finished. You know, it's not all
all the hidden stuff that you don't really get to see.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
But we can do landscape lighting.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
We do.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
We actually use a product that is uh brass comes
in different finishes and like time warranty on the fixtures
their self, so we use a quality, real quality product
led Uh.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
You know, l ED.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Everything's l ed these days.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
Yeah, it would be strange if it wasn't. Yeah, but
sometimes we run into it where it is still some
type of halogen or something like that, and it's on
a medium voltage system.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
The systems we install would be a low voltage.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well, what's what's the difference there between those two, I mean,
what what's the advantage?

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Well, the advantages of the low voltage is obviously you're
saving energy.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Uh, it makes sense.

Speaker 7 (21:30):
Yeah, yep, it's a lot uh safer as far as
being out in the yard, in the ground running from
light to light, uh tends to last longer.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
The l ED Uh low voltage definitely lasts longer than
the halogen. Halogens can be problematic.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
So l l eds.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I mean those things are supposed to last like almost forever,
aren't they.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
I mean yeah, yeah, they last a long time.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
I mean you're talking thousands of hours, thousands and eighty thousand,
fifty thousand hour bulbs, you know, so wow if you uh, yeah,
they last.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
A lot longer, so a lot less maintenance, you know.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Right, Yeah, there's a lot of you don't you know,
there's a lot of different you can place them anywhere. Uh,
you don't you know, you don't have to trench super
deep for the wiring because it's low voltage wiring.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
So it's ok.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Really you're really able to put them anywhere you want.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I mean it would look bad, but I mean you
could basically lay this Soon's just on the front on
the grass.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
You could. I wouldn't recommend that.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
We normally, you know, get it covered up an inch
deep or two inches you know underneath everything doesn't need
to be you know, eighteen inches like medium wearing.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh okay, that's a big difference right there.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, so this sounds like you probably come out and
lay these things and lay the saw back over to
whatever and you never know you were there.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah, very cool and some pretty cool fixtures they have.
I mean, we have a whole catalog. We bring a
bring a book with us an iPad. We call that
our book, but it's it's an iPad and it has
a catalog on it and you can see all the
different fixtures, pick them out in the style you like.
We can go over all that with you the placement and.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Or repair what you have.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, a typical I know I always ask this
question on this show, and I know there's no typical anything.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
But you know, more than likely when you guys.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Go out and do one of these jobs like this,
I mean, what kind of timeframe are we are we
talking about from somebody that has nothing and you want
to you know, go the whole night. You want to
get it. You got to get the maybe I guess,
maybe the controller or whatever, or cook to the app
or however it's done. Mean, is this a one day
kind of job typically or.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
It can be, and a lot of times it probably is. Yeah,
depending on the guys, you got, how many fixtures you
got to install, how big the project is. There's some
houses it might take two or three days, depending on.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Some people get pretty extravagant.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah, you can.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
And you know, if it's all yeah, you know, earth fixtures,
I guess I could say not implanted into the walls
or ran up on posts and stuff like that. You know,
it should typical installs should be probably about a day.
It should be able to get in and out of there.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
But it's more than just lights. When we come to
home enhancements. Yeah, this is a wide variety of things,
and I'm not sure that we quite understand, you know,
what all is possible in our homes these days.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:30):
So ah man, you're talking smart switches, you know, where
you can program your lights to come on at a
certain time, turn them off from different locations.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
And we're not talking about smart plug now, we're talking
about the actual switch the wall.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
The switch in the wall for your lights. That's right.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
You can get smart receptacles also. You know, we put
in a play okay, with Christmas coming up, there's actually
one that we like to install, which is a plug
in play, but just so people know it's out there.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
You can buy. It's a really cool module.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
You can plug into your wall and then you can
control it on an app on your phone where you
don't have to unplug that Christmas tree. You can just
turn it off with your phone, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now I have done that with just a regular smart
switch and Alexa before, and that's that's cool.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah, that's a cool little feature. So there's little things
like that. We can put a three way switch anywhere
you want to if you have a situation where you
wish you could turn a light.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Off at a point that you don't have a.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
Switch there with with smart switches where you don't even
have to do any wiring, you know, we can put
like a remote switch with a ten year battery and
put a master switch if you will, where the where
the switch location is for that fixture, and then you

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have two locations where you can turn it on and
off without a lot of sheet rock damage or crawling
through the attic and things like that.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
So there's there's a lot of little things like that.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Lighting.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Obviously they've got lighting now that's r G b W
where it'll do a million plus colors.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
I love those. My wife is like, no, we're going
with white. I'm like, oh, that's boring.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, well it's fun on the holidays.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well that's what I told her.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
How cool would it be to have you know, red
and green lights on Christmas or you know, orange for
Halloween coming up here in a couple of days or whatever.
And she's very traditionalists when it comes to that sort
of thing, So.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's wrong with that.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
When she's not there, I turn on right. Yeah, we'll
put them in. She you won't ever know there you go, perfect, perfect,
you can keep them on white, but you know we
do so light under cabinet lights.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
That's another one that's another great to your home, you know,
accent lighting.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Tokay, lighting, stair lighting.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh okay, to stairsteps that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know I'm.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Familiar with because like in the house we have now
there's space over the cabinets and I want to run
somebody theesel bear or whatever. But I didn't think about
that in the cabinet lighting. Well that's a that's a
that's an ideas. Time has come, hasn't it. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
They make so much great products out there that you
can that aren't that hard to install anymore. Really, you know,
puck lights you can put in your cabinets level and
those would be all low voltage. Also, yeah, we fabricate
lights on the scene, so really yeah, we build uh
strip lighting at your location and install it.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
So for under cabinet lighting. Very cool, very cool.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Are there any things that maybe we as homeowners and
consumers haven't really thought of that is that you can
do these days?

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well?

Speaker 7 (27:43):
Yeah, you know, like I'm saying, the three way switches,
the uh you know, all the stuff we've talked about,
you can do. Trying to blank now, Gary, trust me.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
I draw a blank probably four or five times already
the last hour.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
You know, anything you can think, I would say anything
you could think of. It's worth calling and asking, getting in,
getting us to come out and look at it, because
there's a lot of stuff we can do.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
In set.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
Lighting in the walls, a different different pathway lighting. If
you you know, you can put.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Track in the.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
Floors, you can put track on the walls and have
your you know, different different types of lighting can be
put in for it.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sounds like if you can can dream it up, but
you guys can find a way to make it happen.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Basically, Yeah, most of the time, there's there's a way.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, so very cool. Uh. And you know this is
not really.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Related to this discussion, but I know it's one we've
had in the past. Something else you guys do, and
and that is when it comes to things like smoke detectors,
you know, two detectors and such.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
And I didn't realize that.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Again, we pure this new home, and I'm we'd had
this discussion before, so I wasn't shocked to discover how
many smoke detectors are in this house I'm in right now.
I think a lot of us always thought, oh, you
need onater maybe two or whatever. But I think we've
talked about this before. Yeah, that's really not enough. And
this is something you guys do as well.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Yes, and we do smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire alarms.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
All of that.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
And yeah, they're very They're an essential part of your
home because they if you ever read the statistics which
I'm not gonna go over, but you can read the
statistics about home fires and people to get harmed. Most
of the time they don't have smoke detectors, or they
have smoke detectors that they've disengaged, you know, And and

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

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yes, certainly we've all been put up. It's not a
new home, but they all look to be very new.
And they're they're everywhere.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yeah, everywhere, like wow, in every bedroom outside the vicinity
of every bed.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Dream is that and.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
This is not a new build we moved into it,
but a new build homes these days?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Is that a code now or that standard? Yes?

Speaker 7 (30:07):
Okay, yeah, so that's something that has to happen. And
for the reason for that is just to forget we're.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Not talking about one or two. We're talking about Yeah,
a lot of them.

Speaker 7 (30:15):
I mean, you're talking on a on an average home,
you're probably looking at six to eight in there.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and certainly older homes you're probably
thinking saying, what, I don't have that many.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah. It used to.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
I think the code was back in the seventies was
just one yeah, and maybe one on each floor. It
was like, wow, we got a lot. But now they're everywhere.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, there really are. And that's again something else that
mister electric is going to help you with that. And
then of course the safety checks you do with every visit.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
That's right. With these safety check on every call.

Speaker 7 (30:48):
New customers, we can go over your system and just
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Speaker 1 (30:58):
You know, absolutely absolutely all right, Well I gotta get
you and look at these other outdoor lighting at my place.
I gotta figure this thing out, man, Yeah, give us
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Speaker 1 (34:13):
And welcome back to the Home Improven Show of the
Midlands on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AMWVC. It's wonderful to have you spending some time
with us on this Saturday morning. My name is Gary
David and thanks for hanging out with us. We appreciate it.
Don't forget the Health and Wonna Show follows us in
just a short while. But we wrap up the program
this morning with the team from Finishing Touch. It's owner

(34:37):
Russ Markaesy. Good morning to you, Russ, Good morning Gary,
and right now grabbing for her cell phone to silence,
at which I just remember I didn't do that either
for mine. Hang on a minute, Hang on, I make
this mistake about five times a week during the week,
so don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Lisa is back.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Lisa Jurgensen the interior extra Yeah, are extraordinary.

Speaker 11 (34:58):
Good to see again, Lisa, Gary, Nice to see you
all right.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
So uh we y'all.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
You were with us a couple of weeks ago, and
we talked about because you know again, finishing touch team.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
You guys are painters, that's right. You paint, that's what
we do. You and do you paint? Wow?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
We painted all Gary, And I posed the question. I said, okay, uh, well, Lisa,
you as an interior designer, you do more than just
advise people on paint colors, right, Oh gosh, you were
on the whole gamut of things. So I found it
very interesting that, Yeah, the two of you, you guys
work together a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Huh we do.

Speaker 12 (35:34):
We sure do, Lisa. Yeah, we do quite a bit
of projects. How many years it's been many years alone.

Speaker 11 (35:40):
And we figured it out last week.

Speaker 13 (35:42):
It was hermo interiors and the Friars Yeah, shopping center.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's right, that's where we that's right. We ago was
like a life.

Speaker 11 (35:51):
Nineteen don't say it, I know nine long.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
You're right, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
So so over the years, you guys have probably experienced
a little bit of everything working together.

Speaker 12 (36:06):
Huh, I'd say, so, huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we we
do quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, we do. Uh, we've
done I remember in those days, we were doing a
lot of faux finishing back in those days.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I know what faux means. But explain this in
the vernacular of a painter. What's a faux face?

Speaker 12 (36:27):
So it's it's a it's a fake, it's a fake look, right,
So faux means fake obviously, right.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I believe it's a French word. If I'm not mistaken,
that's what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (36:37):
And so what we would do is like marbleized columns,
we would do wood graining, we would do pull off
type textures all over walls, all sorts of stuff like that.
But uh, that was you know, again, that was a
that was a lifetime ago, and it's not as common
anymore to do to do that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
You still see, do you?

Speaker 12 (36:56):
I mean, so, Lisa, do you see glazing on cabinets
a whole lot? Do you see that? Because we haven't
done it in probably a couple few years at least,
and before that it was maybe once a year we
would do, you know.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (37:09):
And and Gary, that's when you you have a base
color on your cabinetry and you put some a stained
color or something all in the little cracks and crevices
and give it some detail. Right, Okay, yeah, I'm sure
everybody's seen that before. We used to do a whole
lot of that and you know, done styles and fads
come and go, and that was that was kind of

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one of them.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, okay, I've seen it. I didn't know what it
was called. Yes, that's what it's called. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 11 (37:38):
It's a round still little bit yeah, not as much,
not as much.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Pull that microphone a little bit closer to you there,
that's fine. There you go beautiful.

Speaker 12 (37:47):
I'm telling you, I've hit my nose on it a
few times.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
So what's would have been some of the I'm sure
you've you've had some experience, Lisa, working with these these.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Guys over here.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
I have.

Speaker 13 (38:04):
So I told Russa said, oh, I need to tell
the story because my parents were moving my parents here
from Atlanta and they're eighty five and eighty seven, and
it just so happened that the house next door to
me became available, literally right next door. Wow, So that
that really was a blessing from God that I could

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bring them up and move them next door.

Speaker 11 (38:29):
So we've we're remodeling, totally gutting bathrooms, kitchens, and.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
So better than an interior design, exactly.

Speaker 11 (38:39):
No kidding, I know, I can't wait. It's it's gone.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
We're ready. It's about one more month. But so of
course Russ painted. They his team came in and painted everything.
So while they were painting, I found a mom kitten
in the backyard and five babies.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And wait, did you feed them?

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yours now?

Speaker 13 (39:06):
And I'm such an animal lover, I'm like, oh, so
the master bedroom just happened to have a carpet still
in it that we're obviously pulling up. But it was
a perfect robber room for the mom and her babies.
And this is still while everybody is painting, and so
we've got chaos going on throughout the house and I'm

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coming back and forth feeding the babies next door, and
you know, take care of.

Speaker 11 (39:34):
The mom and the cats. But their team was wonderful
as far as that's what I was.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
They were so.

Speaker 13 (39:38):
Accommodating that they you know, I had the door closed,
I had a gate up. I mean, they just left
it alone. They they didn't bother the room. You know,
I could trust their team not to you know, I
was worried to let them out or.

Speaker 11 (39:53):
Something like that.

Speaker 13 (39:54):
So and they still have to come back and paint
that room because sure, and my dad would die tonight
if you knew.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, that's a secret on that one. But how does
that work though? Us?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
I mean because again, if you're going to do an
entire home exactly that that can take some time.

Speaker 12 (40:15):
So it does you know, I mean sometimes we're in
folks home for two weeks, right, Lisa. Sometimes it's all
we have to two weeks long. So uh, it's not
like everybody can just pack up and leave for two
weeks while we come in there and do the painting. Right,
so we were constantly accommodating two folks. You take like

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something simple like nobody really thinks about this, right, Well,
your bedroom, let's say your master bedroom, we have to
take all that apart and do all the painting in there.
Maybe there's extensive painting, maybe we have to remove popcorn ceilings,
maybe there's sheet rock work that needs to be done.
So what we'll do is we'll come in there and
we'll cover everything with plastic and make sure that there's
no dust or anything. But we realize that you have

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to sleep in that room that night. So we'll remove
all of the plastic a lot. Most of the time,
we'll put the bed back for you. We'll put it
back together for you. We do things like this all
the time. Now, that's not not not one hundred percent
of the time, right. People have different accommodations sometimes, or
they have a different room, or whatever the case is.
But whatever is needed is what will what we'll do
for you. We just you know, we realize you got

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to live in this house. Another thing that I thought
was kind of funny that I was thinking about, Lisa,
was when folks are doing their kitchens right, well, when
they're factoring in costs of doing their kitchens, one thing
that they don't ever figure into the cost is having
to eat out take takeout. Yeah, yeah, they don't ever,
They don't ever. I can't tell you how many times

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customers will look at me and be like, well, I
guess we're eating out tonight, and they just didn't think
about it, you know, and that could be a week
or two weeks of eating out.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Sometimes. We went through this when we moved that new house. Life.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Sure, we were having a lot of stuff done in
that not the kitchen itself, but the the huge we
are opening up this bigmos a dining room and eating
and all that, and it took a couple of weeks,
and so you don't want to, you know, be leaving
we we had just moved in. We didn't want to
put plates out in the rights, in the in the gagets.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, as you get sawt up exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
So yeah, and we eat out maybe once or twice
a week tops, Yeah, one of those being on the weekend. Yeah,
and lord knows it's not cheap, right, And that was
a oh gosh, we got to eat out.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Yep. Yeah, I hadn't put that in the budget.

Speaker 12 (42:28):
Yeah, I mean that, you know, it could easily be
another thousand and fifteen hundred dollars that in that budget.
That that folks just aren't really thinking about. It's just
some one of those little funny caveats that nobody ever
really thinks about.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
But on another note, you don't put that in your estimates.

Speaker 12 (42:42):
No, No, maybe I should, Maybe I should start doing
that actually yeah.

Speaker 13 (42:46):
Yeah, But a lot of times if you're doing a
couple of rooms that y'all get in and get it knocked.

Speaker 12 (42:52):
Out, we do we're not messing around. So I can't
say how many times you've heard all this. You know,
this guy's been in here for a week and a half.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Well what's he paying?

Speaker 3 (43:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Two rooms?

Speaker 12 (43:01):
Are you kidding me? No, we got to get in
and get out. We realize that. Look, we don't want
to be in your hair just as much as you
don't want us in your hair. Right, so we you know,
but we've got to do the right procedures and the
right preparations. Still along with that, we don't want to
We'll never cut corners for that reason, but but we
do so if it requires putting an extra you know,

(43:23):
person on it, or two people possibly to expedite that,
that's what we'll have to do. We work with deadlines
all the time. Well, you know, we have to be
done in three days. I mean how many times would
do that?

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Lisa?

Speaker 12 (43:34):
Yeah, four days, five days, two days, whatever it is.
And we have to accommodate for that. So that means
either manning up that job or or less.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
You know.

Speaker 13 (43:43):
Now, another thing too is they'll see such the beauty
of what they've painted and they'll want to add a
room or.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
At all the time.

Speaker 13 (43:52):
And so but they'll they'll they won't be well, we'll
come back in a month. They'll go ahead and I
don't work for me and take care of it, and
which the clients love because you got them excited.

Speaker 12 (44:04):
Do you want to like, you know, hey, we can
we can become the Murphy Brown painter if you'd like
us to, you know, any time, we'll stay there and
just keep painting.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
If you want.

Speaker 13 (44:16):
Well, that that's what's my clients love. They're like, can
he just stay and finish? And you do always?

Speaker 12 (44:22):
Yeah, yeah, oh, there's no sense in that. And then
and then there's tear down and clean up. So if
we're already there, we're we have all of our tools out,
you know. Uh, there's no sense in not doing it
that in that moment, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Okay, now now Russ Lisa Russ mentioned a word a
few minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
You got me the thing and bring this up. Popcorn ceilings?
Oh yeah, okay?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Is is that uh one of the trends that will
never come back?

Speaker 11 (44:48):
Hopefully?

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Not?

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Right?

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I mean everybody hates popcorns? Was that what was originally done?
It was easier to hide, it's cheap imperfections and such, right.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
It's cheaper, Yeah, it's cheaper.

Speaker 11 (44:58):
Yeah, it is, and it's a mess.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
It is. It's been through that before. We remove it constantly,
we do, right, it is. It is.

Speaker 12 (45:06):
You know, in certain circumstances you can actually sheathe over it.
You can put sheet rock right over the top of it.
In a lot of cases you can do that, especially
if you have crown mold up top. You can pop
that crown mold off, put your sheet rock up and
you don't have to finish your corners because your crown
moldscope you know, goes back and hides that corner.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Right.

Speaker 11 (45:24):
Yeah, so we have a lot absolutely y house. It
might be more cost effective.

Speaker 12 (45:30):
At least we've done that several times for several of
your colors. Quite a bit, A big mess, right, quite
a bit. Yeah, But we've got that new festival.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Right.

Speaker 12 (45:39):
So it's at Sanders. It's a it's a I love
this thing. It's a big sand around a pole, but
it's hooked up to a vacuum, is what it is.
It is awesome. So as you're eating away that popcorn,
hardly anything, any debris or dust is falling to the
ground whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
It is just awesome. We love it.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Have you ever been into a situation I occurs to
me because this happened with my father in law years
ago when he moved into a condo I'm not gonna
say which one, and it turned out well, we want
to do some remodeling work on it turned out those asbestos.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Oh yeah, sure, what.

Speaker 12 (46:15):
So we we Sherwin Williams actually sells kits for for
testing of lead and asbestos. Uh, and we we keep
those things stocked on our vans and trucks.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (46:26):
So we are constantly checking for lead, checking for asbestos
because you do.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
You have to be super careful about that. Uh. And
it's everywhere.

Speaker 12 (46:34):
It's in areas you would even imagine where it's at.
So you know, and when when that happens, especially when
it comes to asbestos, it has to be abated.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
We can't, we can't remove it. There are companies that
do that, correct specially.

Speaker 12 (46:48):
Yes, they're yeah, abatement companies that will come in and
actually remove all that for you.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Back to the popcorn ceilings though for a second. Okay,
as you say, you hope that's a trend that never
comes back. Are there other trends that you think will
never come back? When it comes to interior design.

Speaker 13 (47:02):
I'm not a fan of really deep deep wood cabinets.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Sure, I don't know.

Speaker 13 (47:08):
I just that that may or I mean it's still
probably around, but I'm just not like the deep red
not red, but the red wood lines. Ye yeah, I'm
just I'm not. It's just kind of lighter, brighter, especially
for and that leads me to like my when I

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go into my clients, the first thing they ask is
should I gut this or should.

Speaker 11 (47:38):
I repaint my cabinets?

Speaker 13 (47:41):
And what you have to look at is the the
if the cabinets are still in really good shape and
we can change hinges out all the time, Like if
you have those exposed hinges that date it, change those out.
But if they're still in pretty good shape and you're
not changing the floor, you know, the footprint of the kitchen,

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and they just want a facelift, then.

Speaker 11 (48:03):
That is the route to go.

Speaker 13 (48:05):
And I can't stress the finish that Russ and his
team does on I mean it is just night and day.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Okay, your average kitchen, Lisa, whatever averages if you wanted
to start all over again and rip the ball out
and replace them, what's the.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Ballpark number on that these days?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Not for the not for the best, most expensive, not
for the cheapest, but I mean for good quality cabinets.

Speaker 13 (48:32):
I mean it's going to run like at least thirty
up to depending on what you want, thirty to eighty nine.

Speaker 11 (48:40):
Wow, oh yeah, it will.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
And that's increased by house.

Speaker 13 (48:44):
For that it is like hard backsplash, you know, just
the building. Because we had a client on the lake
that we did and it was an older house and
she was going to leave some cabinets and then I
talked her into gutting them just because they it wouldn't
look right. It was just it was water damage. And

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so Russ took all the cabinets back. I think she
had a contractor that actually built the cabinets for her,
and then he came in and took them back to
the shop. And but I mean, that is going to
cost you a lot more than just refacing and just.

Speaker 12 (49:20):
Painting, right, because a lot of times, list of the
structure there is better than even some of the new
ones that.

Speaker 13 (49:25):
You right by.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Right, it's actual real wood.

Speaker 12 (49:29):
There's a lot of benefits to it, right, And like
she said, if you're not changing that footprint, painting them
is a fraction of the cost of replacing those absolutely.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Even if you're talking about spending thirty thousand dollars later
replace them on the those sides and it you know,
the cost.

Speaker 11 (49:44):
It depends on a lot of things that you choose.

Speaker 13 (49:46):
But a lot of people have the low cabinets where
they've got everybody would put the nick knacks on top,
and they want those closed in. So you know, I'll
get my carbenter to come and close those in and
then Russ will come and paint them and it looks
really looks like a Skuy's.

Speaker 12 (50:01):
The limit when it comes to these cabinets. Okay, you know, Lisa,
how many times you can replace the You can replace
the you can reface them right through all the doors
which we could repaint all those. They can add a
piece of crown mold up top. They can add paneling
to the ends. They can beef those things up. If
they're not all the way to the ceiling, they can
add trim to make it, you know, go to all

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the way up to the ceiling with a piece of
crown to trim it out up top to make it
look custom. And these are all things that you can
do that are a lot a fraction of the cost
of replacing them.

Speaker 11 (50:32):
So if it's minimal too.

Speaker 13 (50:33):
A lot of people have the high bars that usually
it was all instead of the countertop. That's right, and
we can come in and knock those down but still
keep the original cabinets, but just kind of knock the
countertop down and take that bar out.

Speaker 12 (50:50):
All kind of options here there are. The sky's the limit,
it really is.

Speaker 11 (50:54):
And we work with a client's budget for sure. That's
for them.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
You don't want to see my budget right now? Give
me both. We are tom, We're out of time. Look
at that, just like that by quick.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Uh so Finishing Touch Team Finishing Touch Team dot com.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yes, uh you can call it RUSS. People call it.
They get you right, absolutely yeah. We I answered my
phone all the time. Gary, Uh.

Speaker 12 (51:19):
Got to answer your phone eight oh three four six
seven six seven five.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Nights and Lisa Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Folks want to get a hold of you directly to
start the process working with an interior designer who knows
her stuff.

Speaker 11 (51:31):
Thank you, Gary v Alan Interiors dot Com. V Alon
E l O n v I E E l A
n A n Interior The I E E.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
L A N v Alon. It's good to see you both, Gary,
thanks so much. Appreciate too, Take care.

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