Home Improvement Show 06-07-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good morning, my friends, and welcome into the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands on one O three point five
FM and five sixty AMWVOC got a full slate this
morning for you. On this Saturday, June the seventh, we'll
be talking to Russ Marchesy from the Finishing Touch team.
He'll be joining us in a bit. Jeremy Holliday, Mister
electric how does weather, heat and other things affect your

(00:46):
electricity at your place?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Trey Powell Mosquito Joe.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
The pressure is high, but he's got to fix for
you when it comes to skeeters in your backyard. First up,
getting the show roll this morning, Marcus Greenwell Lifetime Cabinets
and Countertops.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Good morning to you, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Out of here and knowing.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The pressure you had today to perform as the lead
off the leadoff hitter here on, you needed to bring
in a heavy hitter to take care of.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
That's all right, pressure off of not being I bestie,
Angela cash Angela, good how are you guys?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'm got I should have mentioned this beforehand. Take that
microphone and pulled it right over there, right up in
your grill, right there there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, my groove right there.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
There you have it. And I just mentioned before I
came on there. Suddenly I'm seeing your I'm seeing your
billboards all over town. Oh I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, thank you. I'm trying to trying to get out there,
getting some listings and trying to get my face out there.
I'd love to hear that people see my billboards.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh yeah, now you're you do residential, but your specialty is.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Commercial commercial, that's correct.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, yes, So now how do you guys work together?
I because well, I guess that's a stupid question. I mean,
you do countertops, you do, not just residential stuff, but
you work in commercial space.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
We do, we do, and she she throws farms jobs
to me all the time or refers.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
People to us.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's a great referral partner.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Also in the B and I group together as well,
so that's we get to have lunch together every week
as well.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, which, by the way, if you're in a small
business around here, you're not in a B and I group.
But it's a terrific thing.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh yeah, a lot a lot of leads generated and such,
so I know a lot of small business owners listen
in the station on a regular basis.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
And I really got me going when I came out
of the gate. I got so many connections through B
and I and that's really how I took off.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, let's talk about what because this is an interesting time,
needless to say. Yeah, and it has been though for
a number of years. I know back you know, during
the whole COVID thing, nobody's going into offices and such.
Has the commercial market Angela's it recovered from that?

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah, it definitely has. I mean as far as like
your retail office spaces, you know, businesses are coming back.
They're no longer not a lot of offices are no
longer working from home. They want you to come back
in the business. But a lot of the demand is
for warehouse flex space. That's where that's where a lot

(03:20):
of it is, you know, with e trade commerce businesses
come in things like that such, that's where the that's
where a lot of the bulk of our business comes from.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's interesting because you know, on the on our second
show of the morning, on the Health and Wellness Show,
we even talked to the the guys over preservation specialists
and that's about investments and retirements and such, and that's
a big They bring that up a lot where they
talk about investing in real estate, not in you know,
maybe the traditional things, but yeah, yeah, the warehouses.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
And yep, and all of that.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, yeah, because he can have a show run
there that's exactly right, and also be.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Able to ship out stuff out of the bay.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yep. We got, of course the big Amazon long warehouse
here in town. I think they're building another one of Florence.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think, wow.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
But you drive down the interstate, you sell these big,
huge I mean, these are huge places.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, and I want my billboard right in front of
those huge places.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Listen up, billboard people, angel the casts product placement.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
See there's somebody calling right now. Yeah, yes, I want
to buy a warehouse. They want to talk to you, Angela.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
There you have it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
How much? I'm just out of curiosity since you say
you do both. I suspect that selling commercial real estate
requires a whole lot more patients than selling residential real estate.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, commercial is far different than residential. I mean there's
so many different things that you got to look into.
You know, you got zonings, you got permitting permits, environmental issues,
there's so much more that goes into commercial than residential,
and it does. It takes it takes a lot of time,

(04:57):
you know, where if you have a residential property, they
may sit on the market thirty five forty five days,
but if you have commercial property, they may sit six
months to a year. And that's that's where people, you know,
they don't realize that and you don't get a quick
turnaround time as far as getting paid and such like that.
So yeah, it's it's it's a.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Lot, but I love it. I love it.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
And and commercial realators there's not many female commercial realators.
There's only there's only about four percent commercial female agent
here in the Midlands area. So I have I have,
you know, I love that. I love I love going
out and seeing people what they say, you know, oh
my gosh, you do commercial real estate. And I'm like, heck, yeah,
I do.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Fascinating you know. And while you were saying that, I don't.
I'm not asking you for an answer on this, okay,
but do me a solid here, will Yeah, because I'm
just so curious. Yeah, there's a property in the town
of Lexington on Highway three seventy eight across from Sachs
gootha church.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And it used to be a gas gas station.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah, yes, I know exactly what you're talking.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
And that's sat there empty for I've been spend fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Right, Yeah, I do not know what is going there.
It is like some big old secret of what's going there.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it's probably to dig up those tanks. It
probably cost a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah, that's where the environmental is.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Okay, So these are sorts of things are run into, right,
exactly right. Yeah, I'm thinking to myself, Okay, it's not
somebody wants too much money for this property, because if
that was the case, they lost money twelve years ago
by now, so like it then.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yah. But these are the sorts.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Of those are the things that you run into. Yeah,
that's exactly right. I mean, you know, they had gas
tanks there, so they that's where the environmental comes in
and they have to take out they have to test
the soil and make sure, you know, that's safe for
a new business to come in there. And then you
also have the ingresses and negresses of getting in and
out of the building or the parking lots. So that's

(06:55):
always a thing. I mean, it's just there's a.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Lot on three seventy eight pair.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, getting one.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now I don't know what what what? What's your your outlook? Again,
as you mentioned, people are coming back to the office
as far as that's concerned. But retail and such, I mean,
what are the trends that you've seen, you know, in
the last to say, twelve months, and what do you anticipate.
Are we looking at more properties going on the market?

(07:25):
Is it was were the prices depressed there for a
while or they have they bounced back?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
They they've definitely bounced back. We're growing again. South Carolina
is growing, So there's there's nothing but going up.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Angela.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Folks in business and the commercial love prospects and Cliss
residents for that matter.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
How do they get a hold of you?

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, you can find me. Well, hopefully you see my
billboards out there, but you can go to my website.
It's Angela Cashproperties dot Com. All of social media. You
just google my name and you'll find me.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Angela Cash, Angela Cash Banker and Marcus we know how
to find you.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's right, uh, right over there by Fernandina Road Greens
liquor store on the corner there on one corner. I'm
on the kick saying that every week Northern Seool Costco
go get you some costco.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Uh, what's it called the chicken? You know the five
dollar chicken. Get some of that. Come see the hot dogs?
What's your hot dog? Or some gas? Come on oversea?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Today my brother will be there and I'm going to
be out in Chafing today.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay, So.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
One fifty three Chapin Road out past the hot dog
land and also between cash is Chicken and Higher Ground,
which I did the granite in both of those places.
There you go, speaking of commercial checking.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right there, all right, our time is up.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
One fifty three Chapin Road.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
All right, Angela, good to see you. Nice to beat
you sometime, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Have good weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Thank you sir, y'all too.

Speaker 8 (08:52):
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(09:15):
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Speaker 2 (09:24):
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Speaker 8 (09:27):
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Speaker 2 (09:31):
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Speaker 8 (09:34):
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Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's great to have you joining us this morning here
on the Home Improvement Show the Midlands. Thanks so much
for that. We appreciate it. I'm Gary David and this
is The Home Improvement Show the Midlands on one O
three point five F M and five sixty a m
W VOC. Now it's Russ Markaesy, the owner of the
Finishing Touch team here in the Midlands.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Good morning, my friend, Good morning Gary, good to be here.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know, we just we should we should probably share
this because we just learned this a couple of weeks
ago that we thought for a moment, and we're gonna
both be vacationing out of the country at the same
spot at the same time.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
What are the chances of that?

Speaker 9 (10:23):
Gary?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Right?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, crazy, both of us heading down to uh coast
of Maharas in July. Then, but then we discovered finally
that actually you are leaving the day that we are
getting that the exact right, the exact day day is
what it is. So maybe to each other at the airport,
maybe you.

Speaker 10 (10:41):
Know, we'll past each other as we're you know, taxing
to the to the place there.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
How weird would that be? Hey there's rush, Oh man,
what are you doing here?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
That's yeah, that's that's It would have been even stranger,
do we not?

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Have?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
We not known that? And we bumped into Can you
imagine that?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Gary?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Small world now? Just seeing you there, like, I know you,
that guy looks like Russ. I won't be three Tuesday,
you been brother. I'm doing great, Gary, doing great?

Speaker 9 (11:08):
Man?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, busy as ever here.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, it's it's not well for all intents and purposes,
this summertime.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
It is.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's summertime, and we're we're just you know, we're gearing
up for all this summertime work here we do, uh, summertime,
it's this is exterior season, is what it is.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, we do a ton of exterio.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Is that because that's when people start thinking about exterior
so or are there other when it's colder outside, it's
hard to do to get through the desired result it is.

Speaker 10 (11:37):
I mean, don't get me wrong, seventies low eighties is
ideal for exterior painting purposes. But uh, you know what
do we get a little short window in South Carolina
here of about what two weeks of that maybe three
weeks maybe sometimes, you know, and and pollen is mixed
in with that right at the end obviously. But winter
times are they get pretty cold? Okay, uh, cold enough

(11:59):
where you really don't want to You're limited on how
long you can paint outside for during the winter times.
And we get a lot of rain to in the wintertime.
So not to say that we don't do exteriors in
the winter, but a heck of a lot more in
the summer.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Are there issues with applying paints based on what the
temperature is outside now?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Of course? Absolutely? Yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:20):
So I was talking to a gentleman yesterday about this
and we're going to be doing his his exterior of
his home. And he has hardy board siding on his home.
I've heard you mentioned that before. Hardy board siding. Yes,
it's a simutatious siding board is what it is. It's
it's made out of cement basically. Okay, yes, correct, correct,

(12:44):
great product, Absolutely fantastic. Quick little tidbit. I did a
small little shed in my backyard years ago, and I
did hardyboard siding on it. Well, you know, I have
a painting company, so my shed's the last one to
get painted obviously, right. Yeah, And that shed sat there

(13:04):
for about four and a half years.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Gary.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
They are busy.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Can't get to your rush today, sorry, buddy oh Man.

Speaker 10 (13:10):
But I'll tell you when I went to go paint it,
it was just as good as the day I put
it on. That's what was so crazy about it. Yeah,
it's just a really it's a good product. I mean,
as long as you have the proper flashing behind it
and all so moisture water can't get and you're you're
pretty much good to go. But you know, I had
a homeowner asked me about exactly what you just alluded
to with temperatures in the sun, and how do you

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go about doing that for exterior painting? And there is
a method to the madness with it. Right when it
gets super hot out like that, what we end up
doing is we kind of we chase the shade around
the house depending on where that sun is and that
part of the day, okay, and we schedule, we purposely

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plan it that way so that we can move around
that house to where we're always working and painting the
siding or whatever surface is in the shade. Now, the
sun could be on one area for a good many
hours and now all of a sudden it is in
the shade. That can be deceiving because that surface is
still extremely hot from the three or four hours that

(14:16):
it was just in the side.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I noticed this when your guys were out doing our poolhouse. Yeah,
a month or so back. Sure, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 10 (14:22):
Yeah, it's it's uh, you got to do it that
way because if you're painting onto a hot surface like that,
the paint isn't having enough time to adhere and dry
and you're you're almost forced drying that product onto your
onto the siding. You're baking it on there, You're baking
it on and all sorts of funky things can happen

(14:42):
when you do this. The main and most visual uh
uh I guess type of thing that could happen with
that is called flashing in the industry, we call it flashing.
So how many times have you just been driving down
maybe maybe you had noticed that you look down the
ste out of a house and you see all these
like weird marks going down the house like uh, start

(15:05):
and stop looking type you know, flashy looking markstat doesn't
look you know, clean and uniform when you look down
the side of the house. Okay, those are flash marks,
is what those are.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I've noticed out on every wall I've ever painted in
my life.

Speaker 10 (15:21):
Oh man, you know, and I notice everything right in
this business, we notice everything.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
And I'll tell you you know, more homes than not.

Speaker 10 (15:29):
You see that with you really do, and it's it's
for there's a lot of different reasons for that, obviously,
but the main one is, uh, painting when when the
surface is too.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Hot like that and incorrect for us.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
When you talk about new home builds and these companies
that are doing these, they're using people who maybe they're
the guys that paint for them, but maybe they're not exactly.
I mean, you've been doing this for twenty three years,
this business, correct, You've been doing it for long ago.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, But I'm just guessing that sometimes with contractors, you know,
they're using people who well, you know, don't really have
the expertise that professional painters like you guys are finishing
Dutch have they do.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
They tend to use a lot of guys that do
multiple things. Okay, yeah, so you know, maybe they're hanging
all the sheet rock and doing all the studs as well,
and they have a little painting crew on the side
and they let them paint the house as well. But
more so, to be totally honest, with these new construction homes,
they're doing everything so on the cheap, Gary, Okay, that's

(16:36):
what it really comes down to. And it's become such
a competitive business that the pricing drives everything.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (16:45):
So we have literally seen where pricing has just dropped
over the years when it comes to painting like that
versus going up with common inflation and the way the
economy is, so these guys are only getting so much
per square foot to do these homes, so they have
to cut corners in every and any way that they can.
And a lot of that is in the type of
products that they use, how many coats they're putting on

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the house. My sister, she lives over in Lexington in
a big neighborhood, three four hundred homes and they're all hardyboard. Well,
they use all these deep colors on these hardyboard homes, right,
and at first they look pretty decent. Boy, I'll tell
you what, Gary, you drive through now, two three years
later after they've been built, every one of them are

(17:28):
fading immensely. They all need to be repainted.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (17:33):
The beauty with hardyboard is it's not going to affect
the actual siding, the substrate, right, but your pain is
going to fade is what happens. And it's esthetically it
doesn't look good. So it's super important to use good
quality paints that will hold up. Especially if it's a
deeper color. You have to use a good quality paint
for that color to hold up. In the South Carolina elements,

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you just do sure. When they fail aid quickly like that,
it's a telltale sign that a cheaper product was used
on that. I've even seen it, Gary, where unfortunately, interior
paint has been used on exterior hoaks.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, okay, it's not built for that.

Speaker 10 (18:13):
No, no, it is not. It will not last a
season sometimes when that happens. But uh, but that's okay
because that's where we come in and we can we
can absolutely help you with that.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Let me ask you about this because this is something
that Dan and I embarked upon a few times in
different homes that we've lived in, and it never seemed
to come out quite right. And that was painting a
deck or a patio. Oh sure, it was staying. It's
typically staining. It is not not painting. I guess you
could paint. But are there are there secrets to to

(18:45):
getting a good you know, job done when it comes
to refinishing a surface like that?

Speaker 10 (18:51):
There is, of course, you know, deck decking for example.
All right, we do a lot of decks for folks
and there there so, yes, it's stain. It's not paint.
It's stain. And the difference between a stain and a paint, Gary,
when it comes to a deck is that you're stain.
You want it to penetrate into the wood itself. Okay,

(19:12):
that's the uh you know, hence the staining portion of it. Okay,
paint will just sit on the top of that wood surface.
It doesn't actually penetrate into the wood itself.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (19:23):
So the wear and tear that you see with a
stained deck versus a painting deck is stain will just wear.
It won't start, it won't peel on you as badly, right,
It'll just whear in the commonly walked areas as where
paint will pop and peel all over the place, and
then you.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Have a mess on your hands. After that.

Speaker 10 (19:42):
We run into it all the time where uh, you know,
we use solid stain a lot. Okay, solid stain. So
the way that it goes is you have you have
transparent stains where you can see straight through it very easily.
It's more of a protection thing than right, yeah, exactly.
You have clear seilers. And then you have transparent stains

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that you can see through. You can add a little
bit of color to it. It's just tinting it just
a little bit, right, but you can see straight through it.
Then you have semi transparent stains, right, a little bit
more opaqueness to it. Then you have semi solids they've
come out with now okay, where now it's a little
bit more opaque it's going towards fully solid opaque, and

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of course then you have a solid stain which appears
like paint right when you look at it, but it's
technically a stain, and it is penetrating. It's penetrating into
the into the surface a bit and giving it protection
like that, and we.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Come across it a lot.

Speaker 10 (20:41):
So you know, you get decks where they've used a
semi transparent over the years and aging and weather and
mildew of kind of taken its course on it, and
you can only get so much of that out when
you're powerwashing, right, So what ends up happening area is
if you go back over it with another semi transparent stain,

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it's not going to look as consistent, right, because the
lighter areas are going to take differently than the darker areas,
and you get a little bit of blotchiness going.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
On there, so you kind of have to go some
more of pegum, guess you do.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's that's you can go one way but not the other.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
That is exactly correct, Yeah, okay, And it's just nature
of the beast, right. Unless you strip the deck, which
is extremely labor intensified, you don't want to go that
route necessarily. Uh some cases, it is cheaper just to
replace the decking boards at that point. Right, Oh wow,
really yeah, it's just so labor intensified to remove all
that stuff off of it to get back to your
original surface.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (21:36):
Not to mention, if you're doing that and sanding it off,
you're burning all of the graining of the wood. You're
burning it, right, So when you apply that next coat
of stain, it's not going to penetrate the same way.
It's going to sit on top a little bit really
more so, yes, sir?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Interesting, Yeah, of the So you got the the transparent
of my transparent, semi solid and solid, and then you
have solid. Well what do you what do you find it?
Most most folks want to go with, you know, I uh,
most popular. So here's here's the way I go.

Speaker 10 (22:04):
If it's a brand new deck and they want to
they want to see some of the graining of the wood,
we'll go with a semi transparents stain type is what
we like to do. If it has some age on
it and we've got that blotchiness going on, I prefer
to use a solid stain at that point because you're
going to have a nice, even uniform.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Look.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
But what most importantly, Gary, I give all this information
to the to the homeowner, all the pros and cons
of each of these processes, right, And I give them
all the information and let them make the choice of
what they would like to see and how they'd like
the job to come out with all the information of
the pros and cons. Right, That's all I can do
is just give you the you know call. Right, That's

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it at that point. So, but the solids are definitely
the way to go if a deck has a bunch
of age to it and you're trying to cover that up.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, aren't you running a special on exterior painting?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Right?

Speaker 10 (22:57):
We are, right now, Gary, We're running fifteen percent off
all exteriors. And on top of that, what we're what
we're also offering is a free one year powerwashing after
the job has been complete. So from one year after
we're done, we'll come back and we'll wash your whole
house for free. That's a special we're running, right.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (23:15):
Yeah, we get a chance to inspect the house as well,
right that from that year period right there, to make
sure that everything is holding up properly and there's no
other issues.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Going on, I can't let's get out of here this
morning without once again talking about the cabinet especially, got going.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
On, Oh heck, yeah, yeah, so we are. We're doing
fifteen percent off on all cabinetry. It's it's a great savings.
It's it's a great savings already to paint your cabinets
versus replacing them regardless. Right, we've discussed that in the
past before. It's a fraction of the cost. But we're
also offering fifteen percent off all the painting staining that

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we're doing on cabinets and works out to be a
pretty good savings for folks.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
I bet it does. Yeah, we've been getting a lot
of traction from it.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
So your typical your average sized kitchen, saying a.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Two thousand square foot home.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Sure, and if you're just doing the basic just refinishing,
you're not doing the other because you can do other stuff.
Oh sure, the sky's a limits. But if it's just
a hey, I just want to refinished, you know, refresh. Yeah,
what are you talking before the discount? Yeah, yeah, so
before the discount. Generally we're seeing kitchens, just afric kitchens
being anywheres from about twenty five hundred dollars a set

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to I'm going to say four thousand dollars a set, okay, okay,
versus thirty forty fifty thousand dollars, so you're about ten percent.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
That's about right.

Speaker 10 (24:41):
Yeah, and in a lot of cases even a little
bit less than that gary a lot of times, but uh, yeah,
it's uh, it's the way to go. We are probably
doing how two to three sets of kitchen cabinets a week. Yeah,
we we do a salw of it. And uh, it's
just people. It's catching on people. People get it, you know.
If they want to get a a bang for their
buck and give their kitchen a really good facelift without

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spending boohoo dollars, this is a great way to do it.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Take it out of homemaker. We lineup right exactly, So, yeah, about.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Ten percent tops ten percent the cost of them, and
then take fifteen percent off.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Of that off.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Wow yep, absolutely Okay. And what's your turnaround time? Because
y'all are busy with that. I mean, if somebody lost
to call today and you know, I know you'll you
get to get them an estimate quickly. But but what
is a turnaround time this time of the year on
getting something by that finished up.

Speaker 10 (25:36):
Yeah, So as far as terms of getting to it,
we can get to those a lot quicker because we're
taking the doors and bringing them to our shop, so
we've got some time there. But from the time we
pick them up to when we come back and reinstall them,
it's one week's time.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
One week, okay, that's what it is.

Speaker 10 (25:51):
One week's time and we'll take them off. We like
to let them cure over the weekend. That's why we
give it one week for sure. But all that pang
cure in our shop. In our dry room, we have
a state of our dry room in there, all controlled,
climate controlled, and then that following Monday we generally reinstall that.
That following Monday is what we like to do.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
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a dry room. Hello, it was for Asian beef man.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
What did that? Spray booths? Dry rooms? We've got it all.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
We sure do, all right, my friend. I know you
guys always pride yourselves on getting back quickly to people.
And we're not talking about days but hours of course.
So somebody wants to give you a call get a
ant ort or always free no matter what the.

Speaker 10 (26:34):
Job right, always always, yeah, that's right to get a
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seven five nine all right, And that website is Finishing
Touch Team dot com.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Goodness, see it, my friend, Thanks Garry, take care.

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we wrap up this morning's edition of The Home Improven

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Show of the Midlands on WVOC with Jeremy Halliday from
mister Electric.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Good morning, sir, Good morning Gary, I seeing it.

Speaker 7 (27:36):
Good to see you as always, my friend, doing fantastic
beautiful Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
We are okay, So it's it's hurricane season now, that's right,
and we've had a you know, we've had some rain,
and we've got rain off and on the forecast.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Certainly.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I'm just curious from an electrical standpoint, because you hear
this time of year all the you know, okay, here's
what to do to prepare for hurricane season. All right, Well,
we know about you know, roofs and that sort of
thing and all that. But are there any special precautions
if we hear, you know, there's a hurricane of coming.
We had Hallen last year, of course, but aside from that,

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we've been pretty lucky here. You know, we maybe do,
let's hope not. But are there any precautions if you know,
we know there's bad weather like that potentially coming. When
it comes to electricity, we hear about it so much
with everything else. But what about your electrical part of
your home or business?

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Sure, on the electrical side, you want to make sure
your extension cords are picked up, you don't have them
running through the yards. If you know your gfis, if
you have outlets not working, your GFIS may need to
be reset. But as far as preparing for it. Maybe

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unplug electronics that are valuable. Maybe make sure you know
this would be to be proactive, would be to make
sure that you don't have big trees overhanging if you
have an overhead service, because a lot of times those
get ripped down from the storm, tree branches fall on them,
things like that. So keeping your trees trimmed up, which

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that isn't a service we provide, but you know, just precautions.
Trying to give you a little things to think about
that you may not think about. Make sure those trees
are trimmed up, and if you have any bad trees
that they're cut down sure, especially if you have an
overhead service, because one one fall on that line and
we go out after a bad storm and have to

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reattach a bunch of services back to the houses, and
you'd be without power at that point.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And I think we talked about this last year after
Helene came through, because so often if you if you
lose power, you're your first the first thing you're going
to do is is called your utility, but maybe not,
maybe that's not really the cause of it necessarily. I mean,
maybe that you're going to have to call an electrician
that's right to come out and do. So how do

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you know what's what's where's the dividing line between Okay,
that's the utilities responsibility to do or I'm going to
have to call an electrician to come out.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
So it's really hard to know.

Speaker 7 (30:18):
So we always advise you to call the power company
first because that's a service that you pay for monthly
with your power bill and there's no extra charge.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
They care for you, right, and so if it's on.

Speaker 7 (30:31):
Their side, you don't get any uh, you don't.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Get a surprise bill.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Whereas if you call us out we we can figure
out if it's on the power company side or if
it's on your side. If it's on your side, we
can definitely take care of it. There would be some
fees involved though, and then but if it's on the
power company side, now you have to call them anyways,
right exactly? Yeah, yeah, so uh, or just call both

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of us one time, you know, is call us both
out there, which whichever you know, I can't really advise
to call who first because if anything goes on, you know,
we call call electrician and call uh power company.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Where is that dividing line though, between where it's it's
at our company's responsibility and as the homeowners.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
So that's point of attachment.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
So I don't know if people understand this, uh, but
that's if it's overhead, it's where the line coming overhead
attaches to the to the line going into the home. Okay,
So if you walk outside you have an overhead power
line coming from a transformer off of a service pole nearby,
and it comes to the house, maybe you have a

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weatherhead rise or a pipe going up the side of
the house going through the roof, or maybe not going
through the roof. Where that wire comes out of that pipe,
there's joints right there where the power company connects, and
that is from there back to the power pole is theirs,
and from there down into the home is yours.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
You're at least.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
But if as a homeown, you're not gonna have any
clue unless that that line coming from the power pole
to your house is down, well, then obviously it's you.
If it's not, you're not gonna know.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
You're not gonna yet, You're gonna have to.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I guess you're right. You call the utility first and
they'll come out there.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
They won't.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
You don't get charged for that you know, if it's
If it's not, they're responsibility.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
To let you know, right, that's called mister electric. That's right,
then call us mister electric. Absolute.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
How busy were you guys after Helena?

Speaker 7 (32:29):
I mean, oh man, uh, we're busy busy, you know,
the one we.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Just assume it's all when it's always the power company's responsibility.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
But I mean, no, no, they can only do so much.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
You know, they're not gonna they're not gonna work on
your home, right, They're just gonna get their line secured,
and if your service is down, they can't attach to it,
so you're gonna get that, oh put back up in
order to get your power back on. And that's when
you're called mister electric.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
What things did you see the most of after Holen
uh on your side of things.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, services ripped off the house, just completely ripped off
the house. Really wow. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
So and you know we spent I don't know, a
couple of weeks putting them back up.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
So uh, it's it's something.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
And most of the time it is caused by down trees,
down tree limbs, uh, you know, just falling on that
power line and pulling it off the house.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
So even though that the line was the utilities, but
being attached to the service box whatever on your home.
If it if it comes down and that force rips that,
but then that's up. That's on the homeowner then.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
Yeah, because the power company is not responsible for the trees.
You see, so if the tree falls, it fell.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
On their power line, but it was.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know, well wait a minute, So if a tree
falls and takes down the line, even though it's their line,
us a homeowner still responsible. So they're not going to
fix that line. Oh, they'll fix the line, fix it.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
Yeah, But I'm just saying, even though it's their line
that fell, it's the tree that caused it to fall.
So that's what they're going to do. They're gonna come
fix their line and put it back up. If your
service is there, okay, but that's the that's as far
as that's as far as.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
But if it does damage your service box or whatever,
then you're gonna have to call the lutriciou okay, gotcha?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (34:28):
Uh so yeah, and then with all of the rain,
that's why I was mentioning the extension cords, you know,
or if you find that receptacles outside aren't working or
maybe receptacles in the garage. You always want to look
for a ground fault circuit interrupter that has a reset
button on it and see if maybe you've uh maybe

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tripped it and it just needs to be reset. So
that's a quick little you know, troubleshooting for.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
You because we we we we we forget that we
think that the GFC is just for that one outlet,
but there can be multiplelets tied into that right.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yeah, act can carry you know up to ten well
that many huh receptacles?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Yeah, Mostly normally, you know, like in the kitchen, it'd
be all the kitchen receptacles if it were. Sometimes the
garage can run to outside, so garage and outdoor receptacles
are normally on the same ground fault and better scenarios,

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they would be separated.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
The garage would be separated from outside and.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
So, and those are the ones that are mostly affected
because you have extension cords plugged into the outdoor receptacles,
or if you have some water intrusion because the receptacles
outside aren't sealed up. You could get your power back
on and then give mister electric a call to come
out and just verify that you have the right type

(35:54):
of receptacles outside and that they're all sealed up so
that that water intrusion doesn't inc again.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, that's always good.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Many times it'll be in like a box with a
little cover that goes over the receptacle when it's not
being used. But yeah, if you're actually using that outlet,
that covers open, even if it's got a extragi your
core plugged into it, and that's gonna make it more
susceptible to.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
The water damage, I guess.

Speaker 7 (36:17):
Right, yeah, yeah, And we can put special covers on
there that you can plug in and close them.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Oh really so yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
But then also where the where the cover sits against
the wall, that should be sealed so it comes with
a gasket if it's a flat surface, which you'd want
it to be a flat surface, just just that the
outlet is installed appropriately and the cover is tight enough
to compress that gasket to where it won't allow water

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to intrude. But anytime we come out and put in
covers or weather rated type devices, we will put silicone
around the top half of that just to ensure its
water is not coming through.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
How top of it.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
How frequently do you see it because you have to
the free home safety inspections when you have a lot
when you come out.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
I bet, yeah, a lot, because sometimes they're you know,
forgotten about the outdoor receptacle, or they're used, you know,
and used frequently. So either way, if they're not weather rated,
they're corroding pretty quickly because they're not designed to be outside,
whereas now they have receptacles that are designed to be

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used outside, so the components are less corrosive.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
I'm just spitballing here guessing homes built the last few
years probably are up to date on that. Yes, you
got to have that in order to pass an inspection.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
That's right. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Now, you know, probably in the last five years, I
would say maybe three, they've started using the weather rated receptacles,
and it wasn't a thing, you know, ten years ago,
fifteen years ago and beyond. So a lot of times
we'll go to homes and man, that receptacle outside will

(38:05):
be completely dilapidated and not in good shape.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well it's just curious, I mean, it only makes sense.
Do we just not have a technology available ten fifteen
years ago to do that, or the way you ever
thought about it?

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Getting above my pay grade, it seems like it's going
to be outside.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
It needs to be sealed. Yes, yes, that's what I know.
I mean, you know, it should be the weather rating
of it.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
You know, like I say, the plastic or the front
of that receptacles sunlight resistant. So it's not gonna if
you come across the house without a weather rated outlet
and it's in direct sunlight, the front of that thing
will it'll look like dust. It's you know, you can
just scrape the front of it off of it because

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that plastic has become so dried out and brittle and
it's just falling off of it.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Whereas a weather rated outlet.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
The plastic is sunlight resistant. You know, the metals are
made of metals that are less likely to corry due
to moisture or heating, you know, temperature fluctuations and things
like that.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Let's talk about heat for a saying glad you brought
that up, because I was reading an article or this
this this week, the Climate Prediction Center or whatever they
call it, is forecast there's a forty to fifty chance
that for June, July, and August we're going to be
above average temperatures here in South Carolina. What effect does

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does heat or does it have an effect on your
your electrical systems in your home?

Speaker 7 (39:33):
Sure, everything has an ambient temperature rating, so that's something
to look at. So if you're putting in smart switches,
you have to look at the ambient temperature rating where
So where can they be installed? If it's a ninety
degree ambient temperature rating, I would say don't put them
outside because we get above ninety you know.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
So are they going to just stop working or are
they going to create some kind of a hazard.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah. Both.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
They could create a hazard and they could stop working
or they could work. But you're supposed to install things
according to the manufacturer specification. So if it says nine print,
read the fine print. But what you're talking about, I
don't know what are they saying a degree or two above?

Speaker 2 (40:17):
I don't think they specify.

Speaker 7 (40:18):
Just heat definitely can cause issues with your electrical system though,
so uh, just a fluctuation of heat where you know,
the cold winters, all of a sudden it's getting summer,
the temperatures change, well, and.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
We do that a lot of a lot. We go
it seems winter to summer overnight.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
So right and then back right.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
Yeah, So, uh, your connections if you have, you know,
the metals expand and contract, so you want to make
sure you know your connections are staying tight inside your panel.
And that's one of the reasons we do the safety
check at Mister Electric is we want to go in
and confirm in the panel that the wiring is intact
and you know, tight, nothing's coming loose.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
We normally check your outdoor receptacles. We normally check GFCI protection.
We'll check smoke detectors. You know those should be changed
out if they're ten years or older. So we provide
all those things and can give you a price on
everything right there the same day and even get started.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
We worked this at our house a couple of weeks
ago with you guys.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, I was very a very thorough inspection out you
guys look at everything. Man, Yes, sir, it's it's very
thorough and it's a great idea. And since you brought
it up, smoke detectors, but we've had this conversation before.
I was surprised when the house we're in now we
moved into bad this past August, and I thought there

(41:40):
are sure a lot of smoke detectors in this house.
But turns out this is what is the norm these days, right,
not just one or two, but no, you know, I
mean a bunch.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yes, the more the better, I guess.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
You know, I know some people can think they're a nuisance,
but if they're taken care of properly, they shouldn't be
a nuisance, and if you have the right kind in
the right areas. So there's different technologies to detect smoke
and fire, and some technologies need to be in certain
areas where you can get a dual function type that

(42:13):
uses both technologies and checks itself that is a lot
more reliable and has less nuisance alarms.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
So that's the ones we install.

Speaker 7 (42:22):
We install the ones that have the you know, the
multi criteria tight to help to help, you know, cut
down on nuisance alarms.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Right. We also call it that for a reason, right, right, Yeah,
because because.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
You know, the last thing you want to do is
tear a smoke detector out of your ceiling and forget
about it, because they are a life safety device. And
if you read, I mean, anybody who wants to go
read the statistics on smoke detection and alarm systems for
fire and smoke.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Could go to the National Fire Protection Association's website and just.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
Read and it will enlighten you on how important those
things are. Yeah, so uh, don't tear them out. Don't
just throw the batteries away and take the batteries out
of them. Call mister Electric. We'll get out there and
take a look at what you got, tell you what
you need and.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
We can do that work the same day.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
So our time has expired, My friend, mister Electric, how
do folks get a hold of y'all? Get get you
out there?

Speaker 7 (43:20):
You can reach us by phone eight zero three eight
six eight four two four three, or you can reach
us online at mister Electric dot com. Forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Jeremy Hall, mister Electric. Good to see your Boddy.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Good to see you Gary. There was a farm.

Speaker 6 (43:38):
When your power goes out, there's not a lot to do,
but you can call mister Electric with priority dispatching. One
of our electricians will be at your door ready to
safely restore your power fast. Because not having electricity is.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Annoying, very annoying.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
So next time you need an electrician, call mister Electric
because life is with electricity. Services provided by locally owned
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Speaker 7 (44:06):
Hi there, I'm Jeremy Holliday, local owner of Mister Electric
of Columbia. 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 Columbia and receive fifty dollars off any.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Work over three hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
Call eight oh three eight six eight four two four
three or visit my website mister Electric dot com forward
slash Columbia.

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(45:14):
your brother?

Speaker 9 (45:15):
I'm doing great. How are you?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I'm terrific, man, just happy it's the weekend. Baby.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
I don't recall getting bit by a mosquito uh in
my backyard in the last old five or six years
since you all been treated. Man, it's really it's it's
amazing how that uh, how that that barrier spray works fantastic.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (45:34):
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 mosquitoes, but you will not. Any mosquitoes that come
into your yard will be eliminated by the uh, the
products that we put down and uh just keeps it

(45:56):
so you can you can go out inside anytime, day
or night without half to you know, spray yourself down.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Now, before we get into 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 Mosquita.
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 from mosquitoes for years. Now you're
training our house for all the other pests.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Two. So what's going on here?

Speaker 9 (46:25):
Yeah, So we we've just become evolved into a full
service pest control company. Uh. 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 for all pests, whether

(46:45):
that's you know, 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 bacertion and you find in the little mouse droppings
in your bed or around down the hallway or in

(47:05):
the kitchen and it's like, oh boy, we've got an invader.
And uh, you know it's uh 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 and have you taken

(47:26):
care of really year round.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
That's that's three separate treatments we're talking about. I'm guessing
you talk about mosquitoes, yes, and.

Speaker 9 (47:33):
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 are all natural. If if
somebody does not want any testicides on their property. We
don't use any rodenticides or anything like that that can
have some you know, ancillary effects on pets and and

(47:58):
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 three, US News and Will Report named
Mosquito Joe the most eco friendly pest control company in

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the country, which we were very very proud to get
that designation.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
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 9 (48:45):
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 condition, 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
past 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 mosquitos, we
based it's all based on the weather and so we
get started when it's time to get started and uh,
and will stop you know, usually around Thanksgiving when the mosquitos,
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,
and 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 (50:09):
Now, well, we have a very pleasant weekend this weekend.
Temperature wise, 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 9 (50:18):
Was that a very refreshing pool or was your pool heated?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Well it's not heated.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
No, no, it was, you know, but for me, anytime
I get it, it's always chilly to start. You know,
it's as long as you can last a minute or two,
you're okay.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
And uh, but.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
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 right here
is going to be 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 mosquitos stray, Well.

Speaker 9 (50:49):
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.
We are we are long past the time when you

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know the eggs start hatching. Uh you know, based on
the weather, when you're consistently above fifty degrees, eggs are
hatching and they're 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, you'll have
hundreds of more of new mosquitos, you know, coming from

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an egg egg laying. So you know, it's it's it's
probably medium right now, it's say it's probably about a seven,
maybe a six or seven. And 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

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all of the heat and humidity that we have and
a lot of afternoon thunderstorms and things 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.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
And so it's a it's a.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Great idea to get started, get started early, and get
your family protected.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
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.

Speaker 9 (52:27):
That is not that is correct. 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 that you know, no one's locked into
a year long contract or anything like that. I mean obviously.
The way to do it is is you need to
do the proper treatment, do it right, and do it consistently,

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and that's the only way to you know, achieve results
where you're really not seeing mosquitoes, you're not seeing bugs
or ants or anything inside the house, and you're not
seeing rodents.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
So how to go that.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
We guarantee those services, either all naturally or using a synthetic.
Either way it's guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
All right eight five to five asked Joe. Best way
to get a hold of all right?

Speaker 9 (53:10):
That's right, Ormosquitojoe dot com.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
That works too, trade. Thank you so much, have yourself
a good weekend, buddy.

Speaker 9 (53:16):
Thanks you too.

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