Home Improvement Show 05-24-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Good morning and welcome and happy Memorial Day weekend. It
is the Home improvement Show of the Midlands on one
O three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC. Always
wonderful to have you join us on Saturday mornings for
the program, and don't forget when we wrap up here,
we'll be back with another hour with the Health and
Wellness Show at nine o'clock. But this one's all about

(00:39):
fixing up or get it fixed, your home, your business,
making it beautiful. We'll be talking about that in just
a moment here, mister Electric Jeremy Holliday. They were out
of the house the other day. Give me a quote
on some outdoor lighting fixtures we want to do as
we pretty up to place Trey Powell from Mosquito Joe,
who they're out of our house all the time spraying
for those mosquitoes in the backyard. We're a mosquito free

(00:59):
and now they're doing our whole whole home as well
with their home pest defense. They do it all now
and we'll be talking about that with Trey coming up.
And first up though, the guy whose company just finished
up due toifying our poolhouse. It's Russ Marcesy, the finishing
touch team. Good morning, so good morning Gary. Good be here.
Nice to see it, Yes, sir, good to be here.

(01:20):
By the way, there's the check for that job.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I appreciate that. Yeah, it's worth every pinny. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Gary, Thank you. Yeah it came out nice.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, beautiful it did. It came out really funny. Backstory
by the way, somehow it got written down as it
was a shed. Oh and when you guys came out
to paint, they looked and I said, this is the
biggest show we've ever saw.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, I'd say so, I'll take one of those sheds
in my.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Backyard right right. And hey, Lisa's back with Lisa Jurgensen
from via laon. Good to see you. See you well,
you take time out of your moral day weekend to
come down here to the radio range.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Absolutely good to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Now. We we've had John before with Russ and y'all
have that relationship ship between each other. You know, you
you use stuff for Russ and Russ does stuff for you.
And you are and I should mention vallon you are
the folks who haven't heard you with this before. You're
in the interior design business, which you know I think
is fascinating. I have no eye for such things. Okay,
no clue at all. Sure, but now I've been married

(02:19):
thirty five years. One of the reasons why is I
know when to defer to my better act. That's right, right, smart,
He's got a pretty good eye for such things. Actly.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Sure, I'm makes her happy blind.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
When it comes to that, but I'm always fascinated by it. Lisa,
I mean, how did you get into this, just this
line of work.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'll tell you what. I grew up in Atlanta and
I actually taught school. You did mention Andy Springs Middle
School for six years?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yea god bless Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, I claim to fame as I taught Usher Raymond.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah that guy right, Yeah, I got kids, Yeah, they
were kids at the time.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah he was.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
He was fun. Little did I know he would turned
in to be a famous.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Should have got some autographs, you know they can signed something.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, he's probably he could probably use a good interior
designer on things.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So yeah, they're too bad. I get to decorate one
of his many homes. But we moved here in nineteen
ninety eight, and I actually do y'all remember the well
Irmo the Irmo News little letter, oh somebody. When I
finished doing our house moving in, she came by and

(03:39):
just to see and she wanted to do a little
article on me, and and so from there it started,
uh where she just did this little print up of
my house of how I decorated. And then I started
working for Irmo Interiors, which was and that's where we met.
And I just started working there. And then I did

(04:01):
a parade of homes and and then I.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Was do they have do they still do the homes by.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
The way, Well not really.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I didn't think so, Okay, it was a lot of work.
Somebody asked me the other day too.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I couldn't. I didn't remember if if they're doing it
any longer.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
So some cities, but here they might just do like
one home in just one room, like a designer take
one room and it's a lot. It's a lot.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
It was a lot.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
But I was blessed to get states best for three years.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, get my daughter and her friends to call in.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
You all kind of fell into this.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
I mean, yeah, I was always interested in designing, and
just that I I think you do have to have.
It's a talent, you have to have that just like
anything else, a musician has to have that talent. But
and my friends are like, Oh, don't come to my house,
you're gonna pick out anything.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, well, kind of like with Russ. We've talked about
this before. You know, you're cursed now, Russ, because you
can't walk in ny anywhere without studying them all.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
The time, all the time. And I get the same thing, Lisa.
You know, they're like, don't look too close at the
paint job, you know, or things like that all the time.
But yeah, you know, you just develop an eye for
it is what you do, and especially when it comes
to designing and colors, and you know, it's just it's
it's not that it's not very easy to do right,
to make it look at the end all put together

(05:30):
like it like it grew there and it was supposed
to be there, and all the different colors and things
and things that you wouldn't even imagine would would go
with something else, and it it and it works. It
looks fantastic, and it's uh, it's very interesting, and it's
just a great it's a great partnership that her and
I have with us because hey, look we're in there
doing all the painting for them. We're we're Lisa's you know,

(05:50):
selecting all the colors. We're working on a customer right now, Pam,
where it's working out perfect, where she's actually wanting some
renovation things done that Lisa is handling for her, coordinating
all that will be coming in. We'll be doing all
of our kitchen cabinetry, possibly removing some popcorn ceilings, I
think for in her house.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Debating what to do, like what's the best option.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
For exactly you know, Yeah, and it just works out great.
Lisa works with the customers with their budget, with their
you know, their wish list, what they really want to
get done, and we kind of put it all together
and you know, it just works out really nice.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's a very it's a very nice system we Lisa.
Suddenly you're sounding almost as much of a contractor as
you are an interior designer.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, I have to have a big team, and the
first thing that people do want is paint, and so
Russ is always you know, that's the.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Biggest bang for your buck, right, Yeah, you know, you
can really transform something with just a little bit of
color and it's not knocking walls down necessarily, right, So yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Just refreshing this house that we're talking about. That she
hurt us on the radio, but it's a nice tea sixties.
The paneling cabinets and she lets that look. So we're
not gonna come in and make her. You know, let's gout.
Let's got this kitchen. So we're maintaining the footprint. Russ
is gonna just repaint. We're gonna get some new flooring.

(07:15):
She's got the old hinges.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, I'm the cabinets, that's right, they're gonna.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
They're gonna stay on there, but we're gonna we're gonna
redo them.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
I'm guessing some folks are maybe hesitant to enless the
the the help of an interior designer because they feel like,
number one, you're gonna come in and immediately judge them.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
A lot of times, yeah, sure, you're gonna come in.
You're gonna say, oh no, you have to do this,
and you have to do that. But as this example here,
you know, the customers always running.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
You have absolutely you have to you'll give your advice
and and you have to make them happy living there.
And so exactly just with rust painting and the cabinets
are gonna look amazing and she's got an older bathroom
with the lovely pink flooring, but she doesn't really want
to gut it. So we're just gonna we're gonna make

(08:07):
it fun.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, we're gonna give it a facelift, is what we're
gonna do, you know. And yeah, and it is they
you know. And I've heard Lisa tell customers this before,
you know, and she you know, that's the one great
thing about Lisa, and I've worked with her plenty of
times with this. She's not pushy whatsoever. She's not pushing
her influence and styles on these customers.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Each each person has their own you know, likes and
dislikes and style to it, right sure, and that's what
Lisa Cater's to Okay. And I have seen other designers
in the past throughout the last twenty something years where
they have done that and pushed their influence on it.
And at the end of the day, the customer is
just not happy. They're just not because it's not it's
not them, right, They don't they don't feel comfortable in it.

(08:48):
And I've even heard her say, you know, this is
your house. You have to live here. Okay, we don't
you do, so you have to be happy with it,
of course, right.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
And so.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, it's just uh and it's a it's a bit
of a process working through it all. But as long
as the customers happy at the end, like you said, Gary,
that's that's all that matters, you know. And uh, this one.
I'm excited about this one because it is an older
style home. But as soon as her and I walked in,
both of us were looking at each other like, man,
we love this house, like it was the nicest house.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, talk back in the neighborhood. We never even really
knew their houses back there, So yeah, just a really
cool cool Probably.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
One thing with interior is you give them guidance, even
if they're not going to do a whole lot, but
just give them guidance, guidance on what flows and the
colors that flow, and you know a lot, well like
you you were going to do with your poolhouse that
do it yourself where you just you're going to do
it a certain point and then he would I could

(09:46):
get and then I mean, you know, you just I do.
I do talk them out of some things like that.
Go trust me, it's gonna you know, but.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's for their better interest always you know, and things
like that. Exactly. Yeah, it just makes more.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Ten to make it right. Do you all remember that
football he was actually a basketball coach. John Wooten has
a quote, if you don't have time to do it right,
when will you have time to do it again?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's right, that's a great quote.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
You know, I use that for everybody. Go like, you're
gonna find you run into problems if you've tried to
do not seeing you can't do it Yourselfers can't do it,
but sure Repford that they just want to hurry and
get it done and then they're gonna come back and
have to redo it.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, until you heard the rest.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Of the story though, that that was the idea of
our poolhouse was We're going to do the bottom half
and then have Russ's folks come into the top half
because I'm just too old to get on a ladder
that high up. And then you know we're sitting out there,
you know, you came out take a look at it
and thought, you know, this is stupid, Gary, because I'm gone,
you know, maybe not right away, but at some point
we're gonna look at it and say, okay, yeah, that's

(10:58):
the part we paid it and that's the heart the
pros did.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, yeah, it wouldn't have.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Been a good idea. Yeah yeah, I don't rush you,
ma Ino something you already made me think about this,
and I don't know, Lisa. Sometimes do you feel like
interior designers try to do too much? You know, you're
hiring me, so you know, here's the let's do this, this, this,
this and this.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, one thing that I'll do is we'll come in
and make a plan and you don't have to do
everything right away. So if she's just focusing our clients
on a kitchen one room, well, eventually down the line
they might want to move on into the dining room
or the you know, existing rooms. But you've got a
plan that you can you know, we can just develop.

(11:38):
But you know, it's the one room now and a
year later we'll move on to that room. But we
had that plan.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
And maybe sometimes people have the maybe the misconception of
the designer is going to try to do too much
in the vein of you know, too much stuff. It's
just you know, I don't need all that, you know.
I was just oh yeah again going back, told you're
the ones got to live there.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
This is the homeowner, right, and I do renderings for
them so they actually really see how it's going to
look and we make changes like that's just not me
and you know so, so we really talked through the
design of how the room is actually going to look.
And so I don't force anything. I don't force expensive.

(12:25):
I've got so many furniture suppliers and all kinds of
people that you don't you say, within their budget. We've
got so many people.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
You have a lot of options with that. Yeah, you
really do, just over the years.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Sure, just curiosity. It's going to vary from job to job,
I know, but I mean from your standley, you go
into a place brand new, never seen it before, what's
the typical what's your what's your process and your method
for going from okay to this is what we have

(12:57):
to do or this is somebody suggestions? How long does
that take?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
I mean, yeah, good question, honey.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
You have to kind of ponder when you go in there.
I'll take good pictures and it does take some time
to think through things. What the first thing that comes
to my mind is how am I going to make
this space better for their life? And how they can
you know, can we should we move walls should we.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, And a lot of it revolves around budget, right,
you know, people have their budget, okay, and that's what
she'll do. She'll come right in there, and you know,
you got to know where your budget's at, right because
you can want all these different things done throughout the house,
but your budget may just be for one room or
you know, or maybe two rooms or whatever the case is.

(13:41):
But you know, and that's where she's great because she'll
work within that budget and get the most out of
it that makes sense for that space, you know. And
she's told me that before personally, you know, we want
to do all these different things in our house, and
she's you know, let's just start with this one room
here and let's get this, you know, comp and then
we can move on to the other ones. And it

(14:02):
makes you feel better too. It kind of takes a
weight off of you a bit when you kind of
look at it that way, so you don't have to
be so overwhelmed possibly and you can you can take
one bite out out of it at a time, is
basically what it is.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, I'm going to ask you a question some lead
This is leading to something else, and we'll talk about
with us about here in a moment. Kitchens those are
massive jobs.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
They can be they are.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh they can't be. Oh yeah, they can be when
somebody really wants I mean, if you want to, if
you wanted to gut and redo a kitchen fifty sixty thousand.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
We talked about that. It was about depending on what
you want to do just totally with new cabinets and
flooring and backsplash, you can get ninety thousand.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh easily, yeah, easily, depending on your selections a lot.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
And that's where it comes in with their budget and
we'll we'll say with this budget, this is what you
can you can do exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I mean how often have you all work together
on what RUSS specializes in, and that is the refinishing
and refreshing of these kitchen.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Cabin cabinets and all, oh you know, tons and tons
of them we worked on. Yeah, And that's a great point, Gary,
like talking about budget. Right, they may go into it,
like let's say it's a kitchen. They may go into
it and they have the idea of possibly ripping the
cabinets out or doing new cabinet tree or something like that, Right,
but maybe the budget doesn't quite fit all that, or
if they didn't do that, they could.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Get something else done.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's where we can come in with kitchen cabinets, for example,
we both work with the same cabinet guys. They can
add crown molding to your cabinets. They can reface the cabinets. Obviously,
we'll go through them and take all the doors off,
prep everything, paint them up beautiful, just like they're brand new,
and it's a fraction of the cost.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well you think about it.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I mean, the shells are the shells exactly right? The
boxing sure, right.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
The doors you want to change the design you know,
or whatever the doors or what make the cabinets right.
So yeah, you talk about if you're gonna dump that
much money into basically buying new doors for your cabinets,
it's insane, right, it can be right.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
And we if the cabinets are in good shape and
you don't need you know, they're not falling apart, we
try to salvage that football.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
We do. Yeah, absolutely, we do.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean then, yeah, and sometimes it may just be
a hinge swap okay, like you've got the old school
hinges on there. So we'll have one of our cabinet
guys come in, they'll they'll swap out the hinges maybe
to hidden hinge something like that. Between even something simple
like that Gary doing a hinge swap and repainting them.
It's just such a difference new hardware exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, and lighting, So keep the keep the cabinets get
new lighting, hardware, backsplash, new backsplash. Yeah, but the cabinets
are what's really the most.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, and it's it's the focal piece of a ca
is it not really? I mean it can be right,
you know, the kitchen cabinets and how they look. But yeah,
there's just so many options out there that can really
save money in painting cabinetry that it's just the sky's
the limit on it. You can do whatever you want
to do. We can salvage exactly what you have and
make it look completely different, or you can you know,

(17:19):
like I said, the sky's the limit. You can do
whatever you want adding to it. You know, I've even
seen people add panels to the ends of them. You
know how many times have we seen that? And just
different things. Yeah, adding shelves, pull out shelves for certain
areas of the cabinets that you know, things like that
all sorts of.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Stuff, lots of options, lots of options. Gary, All right,
that's true.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
So that's where if I come in. I've got so
many resources, Like I said that they might not have
thought about exactly. You have so many ideas to back
off of them.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, our time has expired, friends, dog one. That was quick.
That was fast. Yeah, Lisa, Lisa Juggenson, be alone on.
Folks want to sit down with you and get some ideas.
What's the what's the proper way to reach you.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I've got my website at v alan Interiors dot com.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's VI E E L A N.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
That's correct. Okay, I got my phone number on there.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
It's all right there, it's all there, Lisa. Good to
see you again.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Thank you, Gary, good to see you. Happy Memorial weekend
and to you.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Too, Russ finishing Touch team dot com.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
That's it for you. Est must just call you right,
that's it. Eight zero three four six seven six seven
five nine.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
All right.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
They all enjoy the rest of your thy great weekend.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Gary, Yes, you too, so much. Show you that poolhouse.

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five sixty am WVOC and we welcome into the studio
Jeremy how today, mister elector, Good to see you buddy.
How are you man?

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Good? Gary good, Good to see you man.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Doing some stuff in the yard, you know and fixing
things up beautiful. I now you guys do a lot
of that too, not yardwork.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
But yeah, we'll do some landscape lighting for you. Escape lighting,
you know, dark areas in your home. If you need
lighting in your home somewhere where you've got a dark area,
we can add lighting. If you're cleaning up and you know,
doing some spring cleaning and you notice, you know, cracked
outlets or dingy looking devices, or we can replace those

(21:05):
items for you get it looking top notch. A New
devices make a big difference, you know, if they're twenty
thirty years old. A lot of times new devices go
a long way more than you would think.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
You're talking devices, you're talking.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
About switches, receptacles, you know, those those type of items.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean, let's say I've got a you know, a
receptacle for example, It's twenty years old now, but it works. Yeah,
how could it be upgraded? I mean what would what
would replacing it do for me? What would it make
how that? How would that make it better for me?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
I guess we'll prevent it from from having, you know,
a surprise failure. Everything that gets old, you know it's starting.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
To wear out. Well I know that firsthand.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
It's still it's still working. That's good. But proactive I
like to be proactive in certain things in your electrical
system is something that is mechanical, and after a certain
amount of time, it's something that you should be thinking
about whether it's working or not, taking a look at
it and getting some of these items replaced to prevent

(22:10):
any kind of surprise failure.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
That's kind of one of those things. And maybe it's
because we don't see them. We don't see the wiring,
We don't see all that stuff. It's hidden from us.
You know, it's out of sight, out of mind. We
only know something's wrong with something don't work right. So yeah,
I guess by and large, most people don't really think
about that as much as other things like yo, I
don't know your roof for your paining job or your

(22:35):
flooring or whatever you see all the time. It's again
out of sight, out of mind, So yeah, we forget that.
There's really you know, upgrades and updates and preventive medicine
the public needs to have when it comes to you
or your wiring.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Absolutely, it makes it a lot more cost effective if
you if you're proactive and you maintain your system rather
than calling emergency services. Is uh being without power, uh
hotel rooms whatever, the cost of everything is whenever? Uh,
you know, it's a surprise failure.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
One of the biggest things you see when you go
into homes that that that that need to be upgraded.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
What are the man services, you know, electrical services that
are you know, got panels that don't have a main breaker. Uh,
just old obsolete systems that are just barely hanging on
by a thread, you know. Uh, so a lot of
old services uh around when you say services, so the

(23:39):
the panel box in your home where the breakers are, uh,
the the meter socket outside. You know, the risers. Some
people have their houses fed overhead risers are dilapidated. Uh
you know. Uh, that's your service where the point of
where it comes into the home and then the distribution

(24:01):
center where it puts it out to all the things
you use in your house.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
So yeah, I guess and most of us probably get
it wrong. I would think some of those things you
just described, you know, wires coming to the home or whatever,
we would think that would be the responsibility.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Utility up to the point of attachment. Okay, So where
you have a pipe that goes up or a pipe
that goes down into the ground, the point of attachment
for the pipe that goes up overhead up to that
point is your responsibility.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
So basically, when touches your house, it becomes yours. That's right, Okay.
You know, typically how old does a home have to be?
Before you you were saying, you know, obviously if a
home was built the forties of the fifties, that would
be maybe pretty obvious that if the electricity has never

(24:57):
been upgraded or what have you, it probably needs to be.
But I mean, how far back do you go? I
mean fifteen years, twenty years, twenty five. I mean, let's
say you see a service.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
You know, depending on the twenty five to thirty years
is a good rule of thumb. It's time to start
looking at that service and see how you know, at
least get it looked at. Call us out doing inspection
on the home. We can we can go over all
kinds of new items out there that'll make that home
electrical system safer, such as afciebreaker surge protection, ground fault protection.

(25:34):
If you need a new service, if we find heat
damage or or it's just an obsolete type panel, in
order to prevent it from having an emergency failure where
you're in a bad situation, we can let you know
what it's going to cost, schedule a time to do it,
and then you'd be prepared for it and be good

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for another thirty years.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know how long that's what that take. I mean,
it's actually the downtime for the customer homeowner, business owners,
what have you.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
Depends on the service. Some services are pretty straightforward, can
take you know, two days. Panel changes that they maybe
sometimes a little longer if they need to be moved.
So there's all kinds of factors that go into play
when you're building a service just due to code updates.
Where the service is located, if it's still acceptable service

(26:29):
wire disconnect outside for the service, you may not have that.
So there's all kinds of different factors that come into
play when you're building a service.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Just out of curiosity. You mentioned code updates, so they
come down fast and furious. I'm sure. I mean different
cod updates have you've seen in your time?

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Electricity business man, I've been doing this for thirty years.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
You've seen a few.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
I seen a few. Yeah, it's hard to say. It's
updated every three years, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
things are changing for your system. It just means, you know,
there's new things that came out, you know, so every
three years though, the code is updated, but it doesn't
necessarily change everything in the codebook. It's just stuff that's

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added or things they've found issues where it need to
be corrected.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
What are the biggest changes you've seen over your thirty
years in the business when it comes to updates and
and such. I mean, is it a tough to nail down?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Just want Yeah, it's tough to nailed down because I
mean when I started, you didn't have the ground switches.
Now you have the ground switches. You know, didn't have
any a f C eyes gfcies were only required in
a couple places, you know, bathrooms and and kitchens you know,
and outside, but now they're they're all over, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
So so this just gets me to wonder, For example,
if you're selling a home or buying a home and
the home spectrum comes in, you don't have a g
g f C I and you know nearest sayne or
a bathroom or a kitchen what have you. Yeah, you'll
probably get flagged on that one, right, Yes, Oh a
lot of times. What about the other code updates that

(28:08):
have come down over the years, Say for a home
that was built forty years ago, there's been a lot
of updates come down. I mean those things ever get flagged.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
You know, Yeah, we've seen it depends, I know, I know,
home inspectors can sometimes have a different you know, we
you know, price for a different type of inspection, you know,
a real thorough focused Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
I know when I had my house inspected, I had
four different options and one, you know, the cheapest was like,
you know, around five hundred, and the most expensive was
twenty five hundred. So I imagine the home inspection based
on what you're trying.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
To get out of it.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
A basic home inspection that they're probably not gonna flag
a bunch of items. They're looking for immediate problems, you know,
like a rotted but these are yeah, these are peeing
or something. You know, they're kind of jacks of all trades.
I mean, they're not electricians necessarily, probably not that also,
so they may not even know what to look for
when it comes to something as detailed as that. I guess, yeah,

(29:11):
that's right. But they're good. They're getting good, I know.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
I know.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Some of the biggest things hit on is JIFF. You know,
ground fault circuit interrupters, ground fault protection which keeps you
from getting electrocuted, protects you there's any kind of leaking
current and you come into contact with it. Uh that GIF,
I said, trip instantly before you ever make contact with it,
it's going to detect that leaking current and shut down.
So ground fault protection and smoke detectors UH. Smoke alarms

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and UH are two of the biggest that we see
on home inspection reports.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And interesting you bring up the we've talked about this before,
you smoke alarm, smoke detectors and such. We moved a
bottle home back last August and that was about the
time you and I started talking. And when we moved
to that house, I said, Man, there are durned smoke
detectors all over this house. I have never lived in

(30:06):
a home that had that many. But that's changed, Righteah.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
That's one of the updates in the code. Over time,
they've added them in more and more areas and got
a little more stringent with them based off, I guess,
you know, off of experiences with not having them. So
when I started thinking, it was one in the house
on each level and that was it, you know, kind
of in a central location.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm but a Beth that unless a home has been
built in the last couple of years or sold in
the last couple of years, that probably the majority of
the homes don't have anywhere near as many as are
now recommended. Right, how many should you have. I mean,
what's what's the rule of thumb?

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Now? Okay, so one in every bedroom, a smoke detector,
one on every level of the home, one outside the
vicinity of every bedroom, so you know within a fifteen
foot of a bedroom door, there should be another outside
the bedroom there should be another detector depending on if
you have gas or if your garage is attached to

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your home, where you access the house through the garage
would also mean you'd need carbon monoxide combination type multi
criteria type detector's alarms.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
So I don't think it was maybe overkilled this house
right now, because if you walk into the house the
door from the garage, there's one right there when you
walk in inside the home, and then there's probably about
a five foot wall, and then it turns and then
there's another one right there in the kitchen. It's okay,
it seems a little duplicative, but whatever doesn't hurt.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
No, it's not gonna hurt, because if there's something going on,
you want them to go off. And I think that's
the whole the whole point having them in multiple areas
scattered throughout the house wherever a fire where to occur.
They're interconnected. So the first one that detects smoke is

(32:04):
going to alert all the rest. So no matter where
you're at in the house, it's going to give you
a better, reliable, more reliable response to, uh, get out
of that home.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Okay, I didn't realize they were They all kind of
talk to each other now.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Yeah, So if you have fire on the far end
of the house and you got a smoke detector right
above where that little fire started, that smoke detector is
going to go off and alert you all the way
across the house at another smoke detector. Whereas if you
had a smoke detector in the middle of your house
and that was it, that smoke would have to creep
all the way through the house to give to that
smoke to that smoke alarm and uh, and by that

(32:42):
time you may not have as much time as you
would have had. You're not going to have as much
time as you would have had before to get out
of that home because you were alerted late. You see.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, So so if you're if you're still rocking the
one or two smoke detectors in your home, it's probably
time to up read that.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, call us out there, we'll we'll we'll run you
a whole new smoke detector, smoke alarm system, multi criteria alarms.
The alarms we use they have a ten year battery.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Uh they yeah, yeah, if you should annually going to
start and that so's I got like thirty five of
them my house.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Yeah oh yeah, so still the big house.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
You got that gate. It just seems like they put
them everywhere. I don't know, we got a minute or
two left. Let's talk quickly about something we started off
mentioning that is a you know, outdoor landscape lighting. I mean,
you guys again do a lot of that work. Yeah,
and I think that maybe we some of us think
that man, that's gonna be like really complicated, but it

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really isn't. I mean the way you guys do it.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
No, No, it's a you know, landscape lighting is pretty
simple project, especially if you do it, you know, and
you've done it.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Uh yeah, So.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
It's not a it's not a it's a lot of
digging and you know, stuff that a lot of people
don't want to do. But yeah, you know, so that's
why they call us.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well yeah, but the way you guys do it, I mean,
if you're thinking I want to destroy my front yard
right landscape lighting out?

Speaker 3 (34:11):
But no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
All right, Jeremy holiday, mister Electric. Whether folks need to
need some helping fixing something or checking something out or
outdoor landscape a landscape lighting? How do folks get a
hold of you guys and gets you out there on
the job. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
They can call us at eight zero three eight six
eight four to two four three, or they can go
online to mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
All right, Jeremy, good to see you about it, Good
to see you gay, there was a far.

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and I'm happy to answer questions and give you free
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AM WVOC. I'm Gary David, now joined by Trey Powell.
Mosquito Joe. Morning sir, Happy Momorrow Day with you. How
are you. I'm doing good, buddy. I hope you all
were listening. You know, back this past week on Columbia's
Morning News, when I was talking about, you know, here
it comes Memorial Day weekend. You know, get a hold
of mosquito Joe, don't let those mosquitoes ruin your outdoor plans.

(36:40):
Well here we are.

Speaker 8 (36:42):
Well, we have been inundated with calls all this week
for that exact reason, so we appreciate the support.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Well, I tell you what, it's this stuff just works, man.
I come to this from a lot of experience, from
years and years of experience with you all, and you know,
I don't even realize where are we right now in
mosquito season. I mean, what's what's the what is the
term mosquito pressure? Is that what y'all talk about? Mosquito pressure?

Speaker 8 (37:06):
Yeah, for for at least a month, we have been
at extreme, which would be a ten out of ten
on the mosquito chart. We've had a lot of rain,
We've had enough heat. You know, it's been a little
bit up and down as far as the weather, but
we've had plenty of heat and we've had plenty of rain,

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and so accu weather, if you go accu weather online,
they have a mosquito forecaster and you can type in
your your city and uh you know the for in Columbia,
South Carolina. We have been at extreme for a month
and so you know, obviously our phones are ringing off
the hook and uh yeah, customers are. If you're outside

(37:49):
and you're not spraying yourself down, you're you're probably getting BT.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, I have to ask you this and every time
we talk, because you know, because y'all treat our yard
and trust me, we're out there every day. My wife
has been working like she had to take up a
career in landscaping man between and we finished that. Next up,
of course, is the pool and so again we don't

(38:14):
get bitten by mosquitoes in our backyard thanks to you all.
So yeah, I have no idea what other people might
be going through right now.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
But the good news you quickly forget, you know how
it is, unless you were to stop and then you
would find out real quick. But you do kind of
get used to, you know, people like yourself who love
to enjoy the outside. They love to sit outside and
have a drink, or if they have the opportunity to

(38:40):
have a meal outside, they're instantly going to go outside
to do it. Man, it's great to not have to
have a can of bug spray by every door.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
M Yeah, we did that last time. Gosh it was
last Sunday night. I guess we had some some friends
over and we were three and a half hours sitting
on the back deck. No, not worry about no bites nobody.
That's great, no bites now. All right, So it's obviously
too late for this weekend, but hey, the next big
holiday weekend you know we're here for. You know, well

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we got Father's Day of course next month, but then
we got July fourth, July fourth weekend, so you got
you got time to how much let me ask you
this tray, Once you'all start the service, I mean, how
long does it take to for to really start to
take it, take effect and take hold and get rid
of these mosquitoes.

Speaker 8 (39:26):
Well, in the last few years, we we have implemented
a change that has you know, increased that effectiveness when
somebody just gets started, because you know it's you know,
unfortunately generally people don't call until they're getting eaten alive
unless they're an existing customer, and then you know, we
we get them started, you know, mid February or in March,

(39:48):
and so we're trying to eliminate that problem before it
ever happens. You know, it's just like general pest control.
You don't want to wait until you have a pantry
full of ants to start tre If you're doing an
ounce of prevention, you know you'll you'll never have that problem.
And so, you know, but you know, the for a

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first time customers, they come in and they're like, ah,
we've got this problem. We want to be outside. We've
got Memorial Day, Father's Day, fourth of July. We love
to be outside. We have the garden, we love to
you know, play with the kids, whatever the case might be.
And it's just, you know, spraying yourself down all the
time is just not the best answer. So we will

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do an accelerated program to get someone started, which means
we do the first treatment and then we will come
right back within about seven to ten days and do
a second treatment. And what that does is it helps
us to break that breeding cycle of the mosquito much faster.
And then after that it's every three weeks. You know,

(40:52):
there's no contract that will you know, for the rest
of the summer, rest of the year, however long they
want to to go. And so that accelerated program has
really helped us to get control of the yard a
lot faster, you know, so they're not waiting for several
treatments before they're they're really getting to where they want

(41:13):
to be. Because you know, if you just if you're
starting this late, you know, and you just you know,
you're not coming out, you don't come out, you know,
twice early. You know, the first time you might see
a seventy five percent reduction, and then you'll see after
the second treatment maybe an eighty five percent reduction. And
then it's really after the third treatment, which is you know,

(41:35):
what going to be sixty days a couple of months
before you're at ninety five percent plus. You want to
be there very quickly, and we can get somebody there
very quickly by doing that accelerated program.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
And I should, for context purposes, I should point this
out too that the backyard that we now enjoy, we've
we've just moved into this house back it was late
last August towards the first part of September, and uh,
you know, as as home buyers. It was actually a
house that was right in the same neighborhood we were
living in already, so it was easy for us to

(42:09):
pop over there and yeah, you take a look, and
and we would go into the backyard. He couldn't get
in the house, of course, before we closed. We'd get
in the backyard and just sit out there by the
pool and thought, we're just gonna sit out here and
enjoy this. This is going to be our new pool, our
new house.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
That's right, started dreaming a little bit.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah. The problem was, you know, you couldn't do it
for more than about five minutes because of the must
get us. And we made it a point and I
called you and I said, hey, listen, here, here's our
closing date, here's what we're moving in. Can you guys
get over there like that day and spray this puppy down?
And you did, right. I think you came over and
sprayed the day or so before we closed on the house.

Speaker 8 (42:44):
So we were not going to tell anybody.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
That, Oh, I'm sorry, my bad, but but I mean, yeah, exactly.
But the thing was, we still have plenty of warm
weather left. I mean, mosquito season around here is you've
told us doesn't until about November many times.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
So, but there are still plenty warm in the fall,
and you know a lot of people in the fall
that it gets a little cooler and then they have
they really want to be outside. Yeah, and it's just yeah,
the mosquitoes are not gone until late November, early December,
and so we generally treat all the way till about Thanksgiving.

(43:23):
But again it's no contracts. People can stop and start
whenever they want. We have a lot of customers that
are grandparents and you know, the kids just got out
of school, so they're watching kids all summer and the
last thing they want to do is send the kids
home with mosquito bites and they're itching, scratching and crying
all night and that sort of thing. And so we
do treat a lot of grandparents really just for the summer,

(43:45):
because the kids are the only ones using the yard,
right and so that's that's an option for folks that
they if they want to have that relief just for
the summer, and they're not We're not having them to
sign a contract or something like that or commit to
something long term.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I guess what amazed me though, is really after that
first treatment, we didn't really have any issues after just one.
So that's how long in general it takes for for
for most. But at the point is.

Speaker 8 (44:10):
Is that went. What month did you move in?

Speaker 1 (44:12):
It was late August, right, wow?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Okayeah, right by the first September.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:19):
We probably did an accelerated program on you. I don't
know if you remember it or not, but anytime somebody's
starting within the last couple of years, we've started. Anytime
somebody is getting started in April, May, June or past,
we're always trying to, you know, doing that accelerated program
just just to try and get control. And I'll bet

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you that that's what we did at that time.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, probably so. So Riddle me this, mister Powell. What
is it when we as homeowners think, you know, I'll
just do it myself, and we go to a big
box store and we get some spray and we just
start spending a little bit of place and it doesn't
really have much of any effect at all. What a
what do we miss? What is it? What's the difference

(45:04):
between what you guys are doing and what you know,
anybody can say, I'll watch go out and buy some
ray and spray all my own. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (45:11):
So well, you know one of the keys is fifty
percent of what we do is controlling mosquito larvae. And
that is finding standing water and treating it or getting
rid of it. And that is not a one time job.
That is every three weeks we show up and we
are scouring that yard for drains, gutters, kids, toys, buckets, wheelbarrows,

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underneath decks, flower pots. I mean, you can get a
hundred mosquitoes out of a bottle cap. So you really
got to look close down spouts, those little corrugated plastic
things at the bottom of down spouts that are never empty.
They're always have water in every single one of those
little grooves. I mean there's a million places. These are
container breeders, meaning they breed in man made containers, and

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we have tons of them in every yard. Everything's holding
water and finding those things and treating them very consistently
with the right product. That's going to eliminate those larvae.
I mean that larval control, it decreases the amount of
mosquitos on the property immensely. I mean that is at

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least fifty percent of what we do. The second job
is spraying the yard and spraying all of the foliage
to make sure that you're eliminating any mosquitoes that are
active and there right now. And then that barrier sticks
to whatever we spray it on, and so it's going
to it's going to continually eliminate mosquitoes if you do

(46:47):
have neighbors mosquitoes that try and infiltrate, or there's you know,
some mosquitoes that are still being born on the property,
which you know, sometimes you can always miss things. It's
very the standing water that they breed in is not
obvious and it's difficult to find. And so if we've
missed something and there's still some that are being born,
we want them to hit that barrier and be eliminated

(47:10):
as well. And so it's a two tiered process. It
takes very consistent application with the right products, and you know,
it's somebody who's very disciplined. They can get larva side,
they can get BTI, which is a bacterial that will
eat mosquito larva. And if they're constantly finding places and
doing that, and they can be pretty effective. But if

(47:31):
they're not doing that, just spraying what the material, the
product that you get from the from the local box
store is not going to have a residual so it's
going to be really an instant knockdown and so it's
not going to have that continual you know use. So
you're going to have to apply that more often and
more consistently. And you need to know what you're spraying

(47:52):
it on because keep in mind that there are beneficial
insects and it's extremely important that to know what you're
doing so that you're eliminating mosquitoes, fleas, and tics and
you're not harming bees and butterflies and lightning bugs and
all of the other beneficial insects that do pollinating and
things like that. And it's easy to do that if

(48:14):
you know what you're doing. But you know, if you're
just spraying everything randomly, you're going to have some collateral damage.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Right. We've talked about that before in terms of the bees,
because you've had that question. Pop. I mean, you're a beat,
or at least you used to be a beekeeper. You're
still doing that.

Speaker 8 (48:32):
I was a beekeeper for about four or five years,
and you know, keeping up with them as they multiply
with challenging. Our office manager is a beekeeper and she
keeps bees and and we keep doing that just mainly
to train our guys because we have beekeepers that are
our customers, and everybody needs to know how to treat

(48:55):
yards where you're not having you know, you know, those
ancillary effects on beneficial insects, and so we're pretty high
on that where we were rated the most eco friendly
pest control company in the country last year by US
News and World Report. And so that is for for
both mosquito control and our general pest control which we

(49:16):
do also and a road and control.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Let's talk Yeah, let's talk about that for a minute,
because you know, with a lot of folks like me
have usually for years it's just been for you know,
the mosquitoes. But this is actually something you all have
been doing. But now you're putting a real focus on it.
And I appreciate the fat you all been out to
our house already with your total home pest and I
guess you can bundle all these together, can you, Right?

Speaker 8 (49:38):
Yeah, that's that's the key is we want to be
your one stop shop for pest control. So we're going
to do home pest defense to keep the cockroaches and
ants and silver fish and all of those pests that
want to get inside of your house and you know,
find your pantry and the nice you know, climate controlled
conditions that you like so much, Well they're for the
same reason. They like it as well. There's plenty of walk,

(50:00):
plenty of food, and it's climate controlled. And so if
when you know, if you live here in South Carolina,
we have tons of bugs and they are eventually going
to find their way in. And so we we do
home past defense. We do not put insecticides inside of
your house. Unnecessarily. We treat from the outside. If you

(50:20):
have an issue inside, we will come in and resolve it.
But we're going to go right back to that preventative
treatment on the outside and again do it right and
do it consistently so you never have a problem with
with any bugs inside of your house, whether it be
spiders or cockroaches or ants or any of those things.
And then the other one is road and control. Same situation.

(50:40):
If we have an instance where we have a mouse
has gotten into the house, will resolve that issue. But
what we're doing is putting a barrier around the outside
of the house that mice and rats will not cross.
It is an eco friendly, one hundred percent all natural
product that only works with mice and rats. It is

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not a it is not rodenticide, meaning it doesn't kill anything,
but it creates a barrier that those rodents will not cross.
And so you want to we want to apply that
every other month and just keep those last thing you
want is to come back from vacation and suddenly see
mouse poop all the way down your hallway and from

(51:22):
your bed and around the pantry, and you're like, oh.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
My gosh, party time while we were going huh.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
Yeah, yeah exactly, and now you've got an issue.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
And I'm just going to make this mold assumption here
that with the total home pest defense control, it's just
like the mosquito control there. There's never a contract required.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
Never a contract required. It is extremely important with all
the services that you're doing it consistently. You know, pest
prevention is the name of the game. And you can
be very eco friendly and do pest prevention and and
keep these pests out of your house and out of
your yard by by doing it correctly and doing consistently.

(52:03):
But it's never going to be a contract where you're
tied into something for a year or two or three
or to averted five year contracts, which is kind of
seems insane to me.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Yeah, Mosquito Joe, Now Mosquitos. As far as that treatments concerned,
for folks who've never tried it before, you still you
get in. You get in a discount in that first
treatment just to try it out, don't you.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Yeah, we'll do the first treatment for only thirty nine
dollars up to a half an acre. They can bundle services.
You know, we want to earn your business the right way,
and we guarantee all services. If you're not happy, we
will do it again for free. If you're still not happy,
we'll just give your money back. I mean, we're confident
in what we do and doing this a long time,

(52:45):
and so it's it is all guaranteed with no contracts.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
All right, folks, get set up. What do they need
to do? My friend?

Speaker 8 (52:54):
Eight five to five Aska Joe, eight five to five,
Aska Joe. They'll enter their zip code and we'll direct
you to either our Columbia office or our office over
around Lake Murray.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
All right, Tray, thanks man, enjoy the rest of your
my mortal day weekend, buddy, you too, Thank you, and
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