Home Improvement Show 04-26-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Good morning and welcome in time now for the Home
Improvement Show the Midlands on one O three point five
FM and five sixty am WVOC. Coming up, we'll be
chatting with Trey Powell from Mesquito, Joe Russ, Markazy, owner
of Finishing Touch Team, is going to be here, and
Heath from beaver Rupegan Gutters will be joining us as
well on this weekend's edition. Appreciate you tuning in here

(00:37):
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Improvement Show of the Midlands you can catch up. They're
all right there, all right. Jeremy Holliday, mister Electric who
joins us in studio, Jeremy Moran, do you my friend?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good morning Gary. I gotta tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
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
wrong and some wire pops off or whatever, and I
gotta take it all. This happened to me just the
other day. I take it all back down again. And anyway,

(01:25):
there's this this stuff. Listen. I know enough to know
when to stop.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
And that's what we're here for again. Yeah, exactly. You
can always call us exactly what I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Going to Yea. I was before we came on the
air here during the break we were talking and you know,
we moved to a new house, and I know there's
a lot of outdoor lighting, but I don't heck, I
don't know if it's just not working, or if I'm
not sure if I'm doing something wrong or whatever. So
you know, we've talked about this before. This is Listen.
Electricity doesn't have to be boring, right, No, absolutely no.

(01:57):
You guys do a lot of that sort of thing,
the outdoor light, the uh and all that th those enhancements.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
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.
But we can do landscape lighting. We do. We actually
use a product that is brass it comes in different
finishes and lifetime warranty on the fixtures their self. So

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we use a quality, real quality product LED. Uh. You
know LED.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Everything's LED these days.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, it would be strange if it wasn't. 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 1 (02:41):
The systems we install would be a low voltage. Well
what's what's the difference there between those two? I mean,
what what's the advantage.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, the advantages of the low voltage is, obviously you're
saving energy.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
H makes sense.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, yep, it's a lot safer as far as being
out in the yard in the ground running from light
to light, UH tends to last longer. The LED uh
low voltage definitely lasts longer than the halogen. Halogens can
be problematic.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
LED's. I mean, those things are supposed to last like
almost forever, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean yeah, yeah, they last a long time. 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 a lot longer, so a lot less maintenance,
you know, 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

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to trench super deep for the wiring because it's low
voltage wiring, so it's really you're really able to put
them anywhere you want.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean, it would look bad, but I mean you
could basically, lady who was just on the front on
the grass, you could.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I wouldn't recommend that. We normally, you know, get it
covered up an inch deep or two inches you know
underneath everything doesn't need to be uh you know, eighteen
inches like medium wearing.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh okay, that's a big difference right there. 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 2 (04:13):
That's right. 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 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

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and or repair what you have.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
You know, a typical I always ask this question on
this show, and I know there's no typical anything, but
you know, more than likely when you guys go out
and do one of these jobs like this, I mean,
what kind of timeframe are we are we talking about
from somebody that hasn't nothing and you want to you know,
go the whole night. You want to get it. You

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got to get the maybe maybe the controller or whatever,
or cook to the app or however it's done. Is
this a one day kind of job typically?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Or 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, r how big the
project is. There's some houses it might take two or
three days, depending on.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Some people get pretty extravagant.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah you can. And you know, if it's all 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 (05:39):
But it's more than just lights. When we come to
home enhancements. Yeah, this is a wide variety of things.
I'm not sure that we quite understand, you know, what
all is possible in our homes these days.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, so man, you're talking smart switches, you know, where
you can program your lights to come on at a
certain time, turn them off from different locations.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
And we're not talking about smart plugging now, we'll talk
about the actual switch.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
This wall, the switch in the wall for your lights.
That's right. You can get smart receptacles also, you know,
we put in a play Okay, with Christmas coming up,
there's actually one that we like to install, which is
a plug in play, but just so people know it's
out there. You can buy. It's a really cool module.
You can plug into your wall and then you can

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control it on an app on your phone right where
you don't have to unplug that Christmas tree. You can
just turn it off with your phone, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah. Now I have done that with just a regular
smart switch and Alexa before, and that's that's cool.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, that's a cool little feature. So there's little things
like that. We can put a three way switch anywhere
you want to. If you have a situation where you
wish you could turn a light off at a point
that you don't have a switch there with with smart
switches where you don't even have to do any wiring.
You know, we can put like a remote switch with

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

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like that.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Lighting.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Obviously they've got lighting now that's r G b W
where it'll do a million plus colors.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I love those. My wife is like, no, we're going
with white. I'm like, oh, that's boring.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well it's fun on the holidays. Well that's what
I told her.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
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 she's very traditionalist when it comes to that
sort of thing. So that's wrong with that, But she's
not there.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I turn on right, Yeah, we'll put them in. She
won't ever know.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
There you go perfect, perfect, you.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Can keep them on white.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
But you know, we do.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
So under cabinet lights. That's another one. That's another great
to your home, you know, accent lighting, tokeke lighting, stair lighting.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh okay, to stairsteps, yeah, that sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know I'm familiar with because like
in the house we have now there's space over the
cabinets that I want to run some LEDs up there
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
But I didn't think about that in the cabinet lighting.
But that's a that's a that's an ideas. Time has come,
hasn't it. Oh yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
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 lovel to j Also, yeah, we
fabricate lights on the scene, so really yeah, we build
uh strip lighting at your location and install it so

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for under cabinet lighting.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Very cool, very cool. 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 5 (09:04):
Well?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, you know, like it's saying the three way switches,
the you know, all the stuff we've talked about you
can do trying a blank now, Gary, trust me.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I draw a blank, probably four or five times already
in the last hour.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
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 in set.
Lighting in the walls, a different different pathway lighting. If
you you know, you can put track in the floors,

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you can put track on the walls U and have
your you know, different different types of lighting can be
put in.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
It sounds like if if you can can dream it up,
but you guys can find a way to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Basically, yea, most of the time there's there's a way.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, so very cool. And you know, this is not
really related to this discussion, but I know it's one
we've had in the past. Something else you guys do,
and that is when it comes to things like smoke detectors,
you know, two detectors and such. And I didn't realize that. Again,
we were this new home and we'd had this discussion before,

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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 water
maybe two or whatever. But I think we've talked about
this before. Yeah, that's really not enough. And this is
something you guys do as well.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yes, and we do smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire alarms,
all of that. 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 going to go over, but
you can read the statistics about home fires and people
that get harmed, most of the time they don't have
smoke detectors, or they have smoke detectors that they've disengaged,

(11:02):
you know. Uh, and and and so they're very important.
And I imagine being that you just got into your home,
those are all probably new.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yes, yeah, we've all been put up. It's not a
new home, but they all look to be very new.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And they're they're everywhere, yeah, everywhere, Like wow, in every
bedroom outside the vicinity of every bedroom is.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
That And this is not a new building moved into it,
but a new build homes these days? Is that?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is that a code now or that standard? Yes? Okay, yeah,
so that's something that has to happen. And for the
reason for that is just to forget, we're not talking
about one or two. We're talking about yeah, a lot
of them. I mean you're talking on a on an
average home, you're probably looking at six to eight in there.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and certainly older homes. You're probably
thinking saying, what, I don't have that many. Yeah, they
used to.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think the code was back in the seventies was
just one yeah, and maybe one on each floor.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
It was like, wow, we got a lot. But now
they're everywhere. Yeah, they really are. So again, something else
that mister electric is going to help you with that.
And of course the safety check sho do with every visit.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's right, we do safety check on every call new customers.
We can go over your system and just let you
know of anything that can they can make that system
safe for any items that need to be addressed.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
You know, absolutely absolutely all right, Well, I got to
get you out and look at these other outdoor lighting
at my place. I can figure this thing out, man, Yeah,
give us a call. Funs up again. Electricity doesn't have
to be boring, No, not with mister elect Jeremy. Always
good to see you, my friend. So how's the best
what's the best place for ups? To reach you and

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and get you out there to their place.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
So you can reach us by phone eight zero three
eight six eight four to two four three, or you
can reach us at our website mister Electric dot com
forward slash Columbia, Okay.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And then number eighto three eight two eight eight six
eight eight six eight zero three is information eight six
eight four two four to three.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And we always have a live person answering good so
you know you always get a hold of somebody.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
All right, Jeremy, have a good weekend, buddy, Yes, sir.

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(14:54):
Joe Trey, Good morning, how are your brother?

Speaker 5 (14:56):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
I'm terrific MANA just happy. It's the weekend. Baby, I
don't recall getting bit by a mosquito uh in my
backyard in the last old five or six years since
y'all been treating. Man, it's really it's it's amazing how
that uh, how that that barrier spray works fantastic.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
So I love love to hear that, and that's that
is our goal. It's you know, it's kind of like
putting uh describe it as like putting a flea collar
around your yard and uh, you know, your neighbors will
have mosquitos, but you will not. Any mosquitos that come
into your yard will be eliminated by the uh, the
products that we put down and uh just keeps it

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so you can you can go out inside anytime, day
or night without having to you know, spray yourself down.

Speaker 8 (15:43):
M M.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Now, before we get into uh, the the the nitty
gritty here, I want to bring this up too, because
you you mentioned this to us a couple of weeks ago. Uh,
and Mosquito Joe has been at this for a while,
but y'all really ramping things up now. And I know,
well you'all been treating our house for mosquitoes for years now.
You're turning our house for all the other pests.

Speaker 9 (16:03):
Two.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
So what's going on here?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, so we we've just become evolved into a full
service pest control company. We don't do termites at least
not yet, but you know, when somebody is looking to
to eliminate and keep pests out of their house and
out of their yard, we want to be a one stop,
go to solution for all pests, whether that's you know,

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keeping ants and roaches out of your house, you know,
and spiders and things like that, or even rodents. We
do rodent control or rodent exclusion and keeping rats and
mice and things. There's nothing worse than coming home from
vacation and you find in little mouse droppings in your
bed or around down the hallway or in the kitchen

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and it's like, oh boy, we've got an invader. And
you know, it's that can be very unsettling. And so
if you don't want bugs in your house, you don't
want mice and rats in your house, and you don't
want mosquitos in your yard, we can take care of
all of that, and we can bundle services for one
low monthly fee and have you taken care of really

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year round.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's that's three separate treatments we're talking about. I'm guessing
you talk about mosquitoes, yes, and.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Three separate treatments and three separate products that we use.
Any product that any any of these services we can
do completely eco friendly or all natural. If somebody does
not want any testicides on their property, we don't use
any rodenticides or anything like that that can have some

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you know, ancillary effects on pets and things like that.
We do not use anything like that. Nothing that we
use is going to harm kids or pets or anything.
And so you can enjoy your yard with any of
our services. But we can use a combination of a
synthetic and an all natural, or we can go all
completely all natural. It was, you know, in twenty twenty

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three US News and Will Report named Mosquito Jill the
most eco friendly pest control company in the country, which
we were very, very proud to get that designation.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Now, certainly things like rodents, other you know, household insects
and such that that's a year round problem. You know,
it gets too hot, they want to get inside, it
gets too cold, they want to get inside. But people
are surprised by how long the mosquito season lasts and
how early it starts around here.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, generally speaking, you know, we really want to get
started towards the end of February beginning of March, and
because that is when those eggs really start hatching. And
when the eggs start hatching, you know, they spend a
week to a month depending on the conditions in a
larval stage. And if we can get out there and
treat them while they're in the larval stage, you know,

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then you know, I mean, if they're never born, they
can't bite, and so it's very you know, preventative type
pest control. But you know, again, our goal is for
you to not ever, you know, see a mosquito. We
don't have contracts, so folks can start and stop whenever
they want. But you know, most people don't want to
wait until they're getting eaten alive in their backyard for

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somebody to come out and start treating. And so we
we will. You know, we treat you know, annually for
the things that we need to and for mosquitoes, we
based it's all based on the weather, and so we
get started when it's time to get started, and uh
and we'll stop, you know, usually around Thanksgiving when the mosquitoes,
you know, the weather will kind of take care of

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the mosquito issue anyway, but by having it as a
as a year round protection, if if somebody needed a
service in December, we're around, if they needed a service
in January or something where we can be there, and so,
you know, we just we want to keep them pest
free inside and out year round.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now. Uh, well, we have a very pleasant weekend this weekend, temperatuized.
It was hot last week. I was. I was in
the pool in the backyard last Saturday, believe it or not,
that was a brand new really well.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Was that a very refreshing pool?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Or is your pool heated?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well it's not heated. No, no, it was, you know,
but for me, anytime I get it, it's always chilly
to start.

Speaker 10 (20:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's as long as you can last a minute or two,
you're okay. And uh but so you know, this is
a this is a big indicator though of what the
you know, the really bad season, once things get real
good and warm round here is going to be. Is
is what the spring like temperatures are. So so, how
have we shaped up so far this spring? What do
you what are you predicting here when it comes to
mosquito stray.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Well, we had an early hatching. We were getting calls
in the beginning of February because we had like a
week when it was in the seventies and we had people,
you know, reporting mosquito bites and and we've had lots
of rain so far this this spring, and so you know,
the the mosquitoes are very active. The eggs are hatching.

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We are we are long past the time when you
know the eggs start hatching. Uh you know, based on
the weather, when you're consistently above fifty degrees, eggs are
hatching and there's starting to go through that larval stage.
As it gets warmer and warmer, the difference will be
is that they'll go through that larval stage very very quickly,
in as short as four or five days, and you'll

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have hundreds of more of new mosquitos, you know, coming
from an egg egg laying. So you know, it's it's
it's probably medium right now.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
It's say it's probably about a.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Seven, maybe a six or seven. And and but as
these warmer days come that that you know, we'll be
creeping into eight nines. And you know in May, well
I'm sure we'll be, you know, at a ten. And
you know, it's the conditions are so good here in
the Midlands with all of the heat and humidity that
we have and a lot of afternoon thunderstorms and things

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like that, that we stay at a ten most of
the summer. Very very seldom do we have like a
drought or anything that would that would lower that pressure
in the summertime. And so it's a it's a great
idea to get started, get started early, and get your
family protected.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, so not just mosquitoes now, but all their insects
and even rodents as well with mosquito Joe. And as always,
is never a contract required, right Trey that hasn't changed,
That is not that is correct.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
I mean this is a reoccurring service. Any of these
services are reoccurring, and so you know, we will set
it up so we're automatically coming back. But you know,
no one's locked into a year long contract or anything
like that. I mean, obviously, the way to do it
is you need to do the proper treatment, do it right,
and do it consistently, and that's the only way to

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you know, achieve results where you're really not seeing mosquitos.
You're not seeing bugs or ants or anything inside the house,
and you're not seeing rodents, So how.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
To go that.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
We guarantee those services, either all naturally or using a synthetic.
Either way, it's guaranteed, all right.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Eight five five asked Joe. Best way to get a hold.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
All right, that's right, Ormosquitojoe dot com.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
That works too, Trade, Thank you so much. Have yourself
a good weekend, buddy, Thanks you too.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
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Speaker 1 (23:14):
Annoying, very annoying.

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Speaker 2 (23:29):
Hi there, I'm Jeremy Halliday, local owner of Mister Electric
of Colombia. I've been servicing the Midlands since twenty ten
and I'm happy to answer questions and give you free
estimates with upfront pricing. Schedule your free safety check with
mister Electric of Colombia and receive fifty dollars off any
work over three hundred dollars. Call eight oh three eight
six eight four two four three or visit my website

(23:51):
mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

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My friend and hopefully soon to be yours, because he's
a really nice guy. Russ Barkesy from Finishing Touch, The
Finishing Touch teem, Hey buddy, how are you?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Man?

Speaker 8 (24:13):
Hey Gary? How you doing good? To be here?

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'm doing good, man. You want to talk about you
during the week on Columbia's Morning News. I almost hesitate
sometimes to call it painting. It's painting, but it's I mean,
it's it's a lot more than just coming in. And
as I always say, if you hired somebody to come
in and slap a code of paint up on another
code of paint in your house, well you just got ripped.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
Off pretty much pretty much. It's there's just such a
big difference between professional painting and you know, amateur painting,
I guess is what you refer to it, as you know,
And again it's just the We've heard it a million times, Gary, Right,
everybody can paint, Okay, I can't tell you how many

(24:56):
times we I'll go do an estimate, for example, and
a customer will tell me, well, I enjoy painting or
I can I can do. I can paint myself right,
but I can't get these high areas. So I just
want you guys to maybe focus on this foyer area
and I'm going to do this area rightneer of the

(25:16):
time Gary. By the time we're done with it, they
normally have us go right ahead and do what they
were going to do anyway, because they see the difference,
you know, And there just is, and it's all in
the preparation work and in the products that you use.
You can't skimp on on products whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
But I tell you you you buy a gallon of
bad paint, you have a bad experience.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
You'll know it. You'll absolutely know it. It's uh, you know,
we call it like a cheap builder grade type type
flat paint.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Right.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
Everybody knows about it. It's the stuff where you you
go to wipe a handprint off and it takes the
paint off with it, right type paint.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
So we don't use anything like that ever. We use
all mainly Share Williams products. Yeah, that's what we use.
Don't get me wrong. Each you know, Benjamin More, whether
it's Bear, Sherwin Williams, each of them have good, very
good products, and they all have not so good products
right their own levels. They do, they do. One of

(26:11):
the reasons that we do go with sher Williams, I
should touch on this is the fact that they they
have such a great guarantee with their product. They have
individual sales reps that that service our our account, our company. Okay,
and anything whatsoever, any any sort of warranty issue or
anything that happens with the paint, they stand behind it

(26:32):
one hundred percent. That's a huge deal when you're talking
about you know, uh an exterior or you know, we
do a lot of tilt up precast, tilt up buildings,
concrete okay, okay, and these paint systems have they have
to work and they have to last. So it's it
is a good it's a good feeling to have those
guys you know, on your side, on your team and

(26:54):
have your back when when it comes to these these things.
It doesn't have it very often, but.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
What sort of things can go wrong with paint? Right?

Speaker 8 (27:02):
So, uh, it really just depends. So for example, uh,
if you're painting concrete.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
If you.

Speaker 8 (27:11):
If the block hasn't cured out enough and there's there's
effluorescence within the concrete itself, it'll come through the paint
and you'll have uh, you know, you know, chalkiness, and
and it'll it'll foul, is what will happen. So, you know,
there's there's not a whole lot of things that that
necessarily happens.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (27:31):
Usually it's user user error when that does happen. But uh,
there have been times where paint hasn't cured out correctly right,
so it might stay a little tacky, or in the
industry we call it flashing, where when you look down
the side of it, you see like all the spots everywhere, correct,

(27:52):
you know, things like that.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
You know, that's more of a function of the pain
itself or the process. It can be the paint or
the paint.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
It can be both, it really can. The flashing is
generally a user a user issue. What's going on there?
What causes that improper priming. So when you have a
drywall spot on your wall, let's say, okay, and you
need to touch it up. What we do is we
do a two step process. Okay, a lot of people

(28:20):
will go ahead and throw their wall paint right over
the top of that drywall patch. You can't do that.
You're going to have a flash mark there. Okay. You
have to prime it with an actual drywall primer first,
and then what we like to do is we like
to spot prime it again with the actual finish paint
and then paint the wall. Okay, when you do it
that way, you don't see the flash marks whatsoever. It's

(28:41):
it hides it pretty pretty darn well, is what it does.
And you know, and speaking on that, between flats and eggshells,
I get this all the time. Okay. Eggshells are very
difficult to touch up because of the thechene that you
have with it. Okay, So every time you're putting a
coat of paint on there, Gary, you're building up that sheen,
all right, So when you do look down the side

(29:03):
of it, you see a flash mark there.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
So you know, sometimes it's just a preference thing and
people want to see that sheen. They like to have
that little bit of a sheine there. But a flat
goes a long ways because if you go with a
very good quality flat, it touches up great. So a
year down the road. You could walk around literally with
a paper towel, napkin, okay, and the top of a
can and dab it and touch it up, and it's

(29:28):
going to blend in a whole heck of a lot
better than an eggshell would. So you get a lot
longer out of your paint job that way.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
So are there I know your process having witness at firsthand.
I mean, you guys are going to come in whatever's
up on that wall, you're standing it down, correct, You're
fixing any imperfections in the sheet rock. Absolutely, But you know,
for just a tip for those of us who say, yeah,
I want to do it myself, are there certain you
got like I said, you got flat, you got egg shell, you've.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Got satin satin, you have satases, semi glosses.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
So what are the rules for okay? If and how
do you know what this paint is you're getting ready
to put this other paint on top? What works and
what doesn't? Yeah, so generally it doesn't matter when it
comes to the sheen. Okay, you can go over a
flat with an eggshell, an eggshell with a flat, None
of that really matters so much. What does matter is

(30:21):
if you're going over an oil based paint with a latex. Okay,
that's where you're going to have issues. You can never
put a latex over an oil. You just can't.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
Now, you can put an oil base over a latex,
but you can't put a latex over an oil. It'll
peel right off. How many times have you seen where
you know, a door frame or a piece of base
board just peels right off with your nail, super easy,
just flakes right off right right. Yeah, generally that's that's
because they put a latex over an oil, is what happens,

(30:53):
and they didn't bond primeate first. So take Shandon for example,
older homes. There lot of oil based paint on the
trim in those homes, okay, but they don't want to
go back with an oil because it smells, its stinks
and we touch things up. You got that smell in
your house for a couple of days, right, So nobody
likes that, so they want to convert to a latex

(31:14):
trim paint. Let's say, So what we have to do
is obviously do all of our preparation work thoroughly, sanding
everything down. We go a step further. We take wood
fillers and bondos and pill any little nicks and gaps
in your trim, okay, just to make it look better,
just to go the extra mile, Okay, we calk any gaps,
and then we would bond prime the trim with a

(31:36):
universal bonding primer so that we can put a latex
paint over the top of it and it'll all adhere
and bond to it correctly.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Right.

Speaker 8 (31:44):
So it's an extra step, you know, because you have
to prime everything, but it's well worth it in the
long run to not have to continue to use oil
based paint, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, I was going to ask you, what if most
people use these days? Apparently it's not oil base.

Speaker 8 (31:56):
It's not. It's really now. Oil base is really kind
of going away. Matter of fact, I think it's legal
in several states right now. I know New York is
they don't even sell oil based paint up there any longer.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah. Yeah, uh.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
Kind of a funny story. My my uncle was doing
a project up in New Upstate, New York, where he lives,
and he couldn't get a oil base paint, and uh,
we were going up there for a for a trip
to see some family, and I brought a gallon. I
smuggled a gallon in for him. Don't don't tell anybody. So, yeah,

(32:29):
it's not easy.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Is that a hell?

Speaker 8 (32:31):
Is that a health thing? Yeah, it's something to do
with the E p A. I mean, it's it's it's
all about the VOCs, right, they're there. That's the that's
the the chemical that you're smelling that gives you a headache. Okay,
that's what it is. And so now everything's going green.
We use a lot of green different paints. We use
zero VOC paints constantly, almost almost exclusively really when we're working.

(32:54):
So when we're painting a room, you don't even know
we're painting in that room. You can't even smell it.
I was going to ask you about that. I notice that. Yeah,
it's a it's a big plus, especially when we're working
working in doctors offices, hospitals things like that. Sure, you know,
you got to be conscious that kind of stuff. So
but but yeah, they have a whole line of zero
BOC paints that we use all the time, and and

(33:16):
they work well, they work great, they really do.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
There was something I was going to ask you, kind
of a you know, just a tip for for folks listening. Yeah,
and dog go if you just I just lost it.

Speaker 8 (33:31):
Well, there's so much to it, Yeah, to come back,
you know, there's so much to it. But but I mean,
these are the differences, right, This is where our expertise
come into play. We know, you know, painting in and out,
everything about it, you know, all the different.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
You've been doing this now for well you've been doing
it for a long time. Oh, you've been in business
with Finishing Touch Team for almost what twenty three years?

Speaker 8 (33:51):
Twenty three years, Gary, right here, twenty three years right
here in Columbia. Yeah. I'm a second generation painter. Actually
my father was a painter. His father was a plaster
drywall finisher is what he was. So it's kind of
kind of in our blood per se, you know. But oh,
I was going to work with my dad when I
was seven eight years old, you know, standing and picking. Absolutely,

(34:15):
he would reward me. He'd take me to Toys r
Usta to get something.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
At the end of the day.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
That was my that was my very payment.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Very nice. You didn't have to pay taxes on that,
did no, No, No, Uncle Sam. Now, something that we
have touched on from time to time. But another part
of your business is is cabinet work.

Speaker 8 (34:34):
Correct, Absolutely a good part of it. Actually, Gary, we
it's one of our specialties, is what we do. We
probably finish two to three sets of cabinets in our
in our shop per week. I'd say, so.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
You'd actually you take the doors and all off and
we do those you bring back to the shop we do. Yeah,
everything else is done on site, Yeah, right.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Yeah, everything. All your doors are numbered, so they go
back in the exact same spots that we took them
off in. Okay, because if you don't do that and
you just mix them up randomly, even though it's the
same sized door, it's not and it's not going to
fit right, it's gonna be hinge bound. Something's going to happen.
So we number all the doors before we take them off,
and then we bring them to our shop and do
the preparation and painting there.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
So so that begs the question, why not just do
the doors on site too, like with the rest of
the cabinets.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
What's the difference, Well, because it's not a controlled environment, right,
So when we bring them to our shop, we're preparing
for doing all of our preparation work and our painting
and a spray booth okay, with ventilation systems and you know,
a draft system okay, so it sucks all the any
dust that's in the air, you know, just any contaminants

(35:43):
that are that are just floating around. Gets rid of
all that, and it makes a big, big difference in
the finish of the cabinet. So when you run your
hand across it, it should be smooth as glass, right,
smooth as a baby. Yeah, correct. So if you if
you do them on site, let's say all the doors,
or I've seen a lot of people try to do
them in their garage, which is a big mistake because

(36:03):
there's just so much dust in a garage.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Right.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
You can tell the difference. You you put your hand
across it, and there's all sorts of little bumps and
you know, little objects that's stuck into the paint as
it was carrying. So that's that's.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Obviously you can't take all the cabinets and take them
back to the shot, but I guess if you.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
Could you would, right. Yeah, For an existing repaint like that,
all the boxing has to be done obviously on site,
but it's still we try to control it as much
as possible. After we sand we tack cloth everything down
to get rid of any sort of dust on the
on the cabinet whatsoever, before we do any sort of
painting whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
And I guess when you walk into a kitchen, it's
what you see are the cabinet doors.

Speaker 8 (36:43):
It makes it, it is that's what you know.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
People.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
You know, you've heard the expression people eat with their
eyes right, so they it's a it's a big focal
point in a kitchen. Okay, anytime I walk into a kitchen,
it's the first thing I look at our countertops and
uh andabnittry. That makes a big difference, you know. It's
it's such a cool thing too, because you get so
much bang for your buck painting your cabinets versus just

(37:08):
replacing them very costly, very costly. Painting them is a
fraction of the cost. Now's a really, really good time
to get your kitchen cabinets done, or bathroom vanity even,
or maybe an island in your kitchen. Okay, we do
built ins all the time, you know, bookshelves on either

(37:30):
side of a fireplace, do all sorts of cabinetry. Basically,
if we pick up your we'd like to schedule it
on a Monday, okay, So we like to remove all
the doors on a Monday, and typically typically speaking, we're
reinstalling your doors the following Monday. That gives it enough
time for the doors to cure, the paint to cure,
so that we can transport the doors again back to

(37:51):
your house and install them without any blemishes or you know,
problems whatsoever with the paint. Yeah, you know, you can
set up an appointment on the website Finishing Touch team
dot com. You can always go there, or you can
always give me a call at eight oh three four
sixty seven six seven five nine, and we'd be glad
to glad to fix you up.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
And by the way, if if you don't get a
hold of us and the folks right away, don't don't.
Don't worry about how many days is it going to
be until they call me back?

Speaker 8 (38:21):
Oh no, oh no. We have a big focus for
you guys. Absolutely, you have to have service, right I have.
I have beat that down for the last twenty three years.
We we don't take any any more than forty eight
hours to get an estimate out. Generally speaking, it's the
same day. We always answer our phones. We we always

(38:41):
call people back. You have to you just have to.
I can't tell you how many times I show up
on estimates and I'm the only guy out of three
people that showed up. That's crazy for the estimate. I
just can't can't wrap my head around that. You know
that fact, but it is what it is. You know
that that's not us. We strive on Servis.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
It's finishing toouchteam dot com, the website that's you get
all the information you need to ride there, contact in
twel and everything else. Russ Marqesy Finishing Touch Team. Always
good to see you about. Thanks Contrair Weekends.

Speaker 8 (39:12):
Name here, Thank you.

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Speaker 1 (40:14):
Welcome back to the Home Improvement Show on one O
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totally Cool iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's Heath from beaver Ruf
again Gutters. Who's joining us this morning on the Home
Improvement Show?

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Good morning, Heath, Good morning. How are we doing today?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Doing well?

Speaker 8 (40:34):
Brother?

Speaker 1 (40:34):
I hope you are too, man, and I appreciate we
had you at the house just just recently doing a
little gutter adjustment for us on that house where you know,
we bought last summer. It turns out some of them
just were.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
They get they get they kind of pull away after
a while.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
From the from the from the the roof and don't
get pitched right and all that. I mean, what what
happens there? Man?

Speaker 10 (40:54):
Well, you know you got a couple different things, you know,
worst case scenario to get too much weight on them
and the gutter and the face should fall off, which
happens more than you would think.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Really.

Speaker 10 (41:06):
Other than that, you know, you get debris in there
if they're not cleaned out properly or on a timely basis.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
You get that additional weight, and then.

Speaker 10 (41:14):
You get a heavy rain with all that water in there,
and they'll they'll pull away from the phase board just
a little bit and.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Mess with the pitch.

Speaker 10 (41:21):
Once the pitch gets messed with and the water can't
flow as quickly, it tends to pool in spots, right,
and you know that would be the third reason. There's
just too much weight in one spot, it'll pull away
typically at the end if your downspout gets clogged up,
you know, the debris will wash down the gutter and
as as it builds up at the end, it'll plug

(41:41):
that down spout hole. And you know, you just get
a lot of weight at the end where there's less
support as well for the gutter, so it'll it'll pull
you know, it's a it's a cumulative effect long term,
but it happens quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, and again, uh, the point is is that you
guys work on gutters that you don't even put up.
I mean, y'all can do this sort of thing all
you do it all the time, right.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Oh yeah, we work on lots of gutters we didn't
put up.

Speaker 10 (42:10):
Thankfully, we don't have to work on many that we.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Do exactly exactly, And of course that's my next step
is to get those. I really enjoy that the six
inch seamless gutters you put up on our old house. Man,
those things do the trick.

Speaker 10 (42:22):
Wow, Yeah, they're they're pretty much the necessity here. If
you have gutters on the six inches, the way to go.
That five inch just it just doesn't move enough water.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
It adds down spouts because you can only go so.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
Far with a five inch, yeah, and you have to
put a down spout, whereas with a six inch you know,
you can get about ten twelve, fourteen more feet with
per every down spout, which is less. You know, I
think you and I talked on your old house. Especially
the less spots that come out, the easier it is
to control the water.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Right, and we're moving into that season now. You know,
it's the every or most noon chances of uh you know,
not just showers, but thunderstorms. And in those storms you
can get some heavy downpours and uh, that's well, it's
it's this is why those six inch cutters are so nice.
They can handle that.

Speaker 10 (43:12):
Yeah, I mean, I've been just this has been a
pretty busy week. I've been from Sumter to North Augusta.
And the one thing that's consistent is if you don't
have a gut around your house, you start to see
water lines forming from where the you know, where the
water comes off the roof and lands in the same spot.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Over time.

Speaker 10 (43:31):
Well, eventually that's going to make its way back to
your foundation unless you have a straight downhill shot off
off your house that will work its way back to
your house.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
And that that downhill show would have to start right
at the base of your home, right at the.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Base of your house.

Speaker 10 (43:45):
Yeah, but it's rare, and you know, crawl spaces, basements, whatever.
Here in South Carolina typically stay wet no matter what
due to humidity. Yes, you don't want to add water.
You don't want to add water too. I was at
one in Hermo on Tuesday, I believe, and the gentleman
actually had a small little stream running underneath this house.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Ohof and yeah, I mean foundations and water they don't
they don't mix well together.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
No, they don't.

Speaker 10 (44:16):
You know, one one repair of I think that one
was four hundred and twenty five dollars for a gutter
and a down spout to push the water away from
the foundation to the front of the house.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Stops that stream of water.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (44:31):
No, it's a it's a very economical way to get
a lot of water away from your.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
House versus having your foundation repaired, which you're talking tens
and tens and tens of thousand of dollars potentially for that.

Speaker 10 (44:43):
Yeah, I mean it's you know, you can spend you know,
two even three thousand dollars on gutters as opposed to
twenty five, twenty eight fifty thousand dollars on four jacks
and everything else.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Under your house.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Wow. Okay. And there are a lot of folks and
we talk about there some time to time heath most
states in the country. We're just one of a few.
Most states, it's it's state law that that homes, whether
they're being built or being sold, they have to have
proper guttering on the home to protect the homeowner from

(45:18):
that exact sort of thing. We don't have that rule
in the books here, so you know, I know, we've
talked before, the majority of homes in the state don't
have proper guttering, right, correct.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (45:30):
I was talking with a gentleman yesterday in North Augusta.
He moved here from one of the northern states, and
he was shocked by the It was a you know,
six eight hundred house neighborhood and he just couldn't believe
there was no.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Guttering on the houses.

Speaker 10 (45:46):
I mean none at all, right, And he has small
streams running on either side of his house and the
swales the builders cut in, but you know, they stay
wet all the time. And that was he moved in April.
I don't remember who he was, said April eleven. And
one of his first calls was, you know, he saw
our trucks in they that was one of those first
calls was to get gutters on this house.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Smart call right there. And we talk about gutters and
they don't have to be everywhere, but there are certain
places they have to be proper guttering. And I see,
I actually I've lived in a house before where it
had gutters on the back but not on the front
because I guess whoever built the house didn't think they
looked attractive or something. And well, so you're half covered
in that situation, but it's you're still asking for.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Trouble, right, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
And one of the main things I tell people that's
a very common is that they'll put gutters over a
back porch to protect the deck, on a side, to
protect the air conditioning. They don't want them on the front.
They think that they'll change the appearance of the house,
and they do. But I haven't had anybody ever call
me back. And you know as well as I do.
We've been talking for a long and I put up

(46:51):
a lot of gutter over the years, and I've not
had one person call me back and say they noticed
their gutters after they've.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Been out right. And I know you have the option
for you know, different colors and styles and everything else too, right.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
Yeah, we can put up you know, anything, and you
know they do contrasting colors, so you do black on
white facia, can color match, you know, you can color
match your facian do a different colored down spout. We
have oval down spouts, round down spouts, well, the traditional
case style gutter, which is what most everybody has, and

(47:26):
then we do offer obviously the half round gutter, which
is more of a decorative. It does move the water,
but it is very old technology so it you know,
it doesn't move it as well as the case style,
but it does move it some places to require the
half round gutters, we can do all of them. We
can do real copper, we can do copper color gutter,

(47:48):
we can do box gutter for well, we have we
have lots of options, you know, to to make it
as esthetically pleasing as possible.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Right now. So we talked about of what what you know,
excessive rainfall, the damage you can do to your homes foundation,
so the need for for proper guttering. But also we
get to this time of the year and those same
storms and that same kind of weather can have a
very detrimental detrimental impacts of course on on your roof,
and you guys got that covered too.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
We do. We do the roof repairs.

Speaker 10 (48:22):
Of course, full roof replacements, work with your insurance company.
If you have hal if you have high wind as
we went through and are just now getting to the
tail end of the hurricane that came through, you know, hell,
even tree damage, we can we have the ability to
frame and repair your roof. So it's it's pretty much
one stop shop, or are your roofing and gutter needs?

Speaker 1 (48:43):
And you know, I think people are still often amazed
to find out that they'll call, you know, somebody, some
rooving company whose names not Beaver roofing and gutters and uh,
and to find out that these a lot of these
local roofers don't don't they don't do roof repairs. You
guys have always done them.

Speaker 10 (49:03):
Yeah, it's uh, you know it's a service that you know,
it's it's an expensive proposition to put a new roof on.
And if we can go there and help somebody out
and get a get a nice repair done, that'll extend
away for the roof for even five years.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
That give someone a chance to budget. You know, I
know I haven't need a new.

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Roof, but you know I can hold on for this
time and prepare for it properly, rather than Okay, I
have a leak coming in right now, I have to
come out of pocket ten to twenty thousand dollars for
a new roof. We can stop that leak and and
get them you know, time to know to prepare for
that expense in the future.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah, the house we purchased back in August, we had
to put a new roof on that one of your
your folks did an outstanding job. Man. I got neighbors
all the time saying, man, your roof looks beautiful, and
I was, I was just I was. This is the first,
that was my first and hopefully last ever experience with
having to replace a roof because like I SA, it's
it's not cheap. But I was. I was amazed at
how quickly your crew was in and out and and

(50:06):
got that job done. Man, these guys work, like wow, crazy,
how how good they are?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, we're We're very blessed. We have.

Speaker 10 (50:12):
We have good employees on on all facets, you know,
the gutter guys uh and the roofing crews both. You know,
we like to sit here and take credit and in
the office or the salesman. You know, we've won multiple
awards multiple years, yes, for both of those crews. But
you know, all I do is go out and tell

(50:32):
you how much it's gonna cost you. Those guys that actually.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Do the work they do, they do an outstanding job.
And I'm trying to remember the guy's name. Ye young
guy on the staff. He had come out originally and
taken a look at some stuff and and he's the
guy apparently who is he's like your insurance advocate. He
just I had an interesting conversation with him. Fun guy,
and he just he loves dealing with insurance companies. Uh
and this is the other thing you guys do. Yeah, yeah,

(50:57):
uh yeah.

Speaker 10 (50:58):
And he's he's very well versed in it now. He has, uh,
he's put in a lot of work because that's a
very that's a very tricky area because you know, you know,
as well as I do, the ultimate goalding insurance companies
to pay you as little as possible, and his job
is to make sure you get everything covered that you're
entitled to after paying all those years of premiums.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah. So that's another wonderful thing that y'all do, is
work with the customers as your advocate with the insurance company.

Speaker 10 (51:28):
Because that's because most people don't know it's a very
you know, it's there's a lot of there's a lot
of language. Even when the insurance company does a quote
and sends it to you, the regular person doesn't understand it.
It has you know, I mean I've seen them with
three hundred line items on them, and if you don't
know what you're looking at you think they've covered everything,

(51:51):
but you know they may not have covered things like
tarping your bushes, so you don't have you know, your
your landscaping destroyed. You know, if you have a steep house,
they may not cover the regulations of being harnessed while
you're up there. So that's what having somebody who's well
versed in this does. It It gets those it gets

(52:11):
those things covered that should be covered to allow your
roof to be redone properly and put back to its original,
pre lost state.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
And they're kind of counting on the fact that you're
not going to know what all is in.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
There, correct.

Speaker 10 (52:23):
Yeah, that's their their ultimate goal. You know, they, like
everybody else, have to look out for the bottom line
and make sure you know, we don't ask for things
that that you're not entitled to. But if you're entitled
to those and you need them for your roof, or
if they're you know a lot of people have what's
called code upgrades on their policy. Nobody knows what that means,
but State of South Carolina requires drip edge all the
way around your house. If you don't have drip edge,

(52:47):
the insurance company is going to try not to put
it on there, but by code when the roofs replace,
the drip edge needs to.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Be put on.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Oh good, good to know, all right. So whether it's
gutters or roofs, you know this this spring and summer
season has the impacts on both, and Beaver roof and
Gutters has the answers for both. Heath, always a pleasure
to talk to you, my friend. And how do folks
reach you over at Beaver Roofing and Gutters.

Speaker 10 (53:10):
So you can give us a call the eight O
three nine nine one roof. You can find us online
beverroof and Gutters dot com, Facebook Andree's List, Home Advisor,
or just look for one of the very very prominent
orange and black truck.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
I see them all the time.

Speaker 10 (53:31):
Order a little tiny van with the giant beaver on
the front.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
That's what all right? Uh, Heath, have yourself a great weekend, buddy,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Hi, This is Gary David. You've heard me talk for
years about Anthony John Construction and the wonderful jobs they
do for folks all across the Midlands. When it comes
to roofing and gutting, well it's the same people doing
the job, but the name has changed. That's right now,
it's Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters. Leave it to Beaver
for all your roofing and gutter needs the same great
service and the same great folks behind Anthony John Construction,

(54:01):
just with a new name. Eight oh three nine nine
one roof and Beaverroofing dot Com the gutter roofing work.
Leave it to Beaver. Beaver Roofing and Beaver Gutters.