Home Improvement Show 06-20-26

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, my friends, and welcome in the Home Improvement
Show of the Midlands for Saturday, June twentieth. Good morning,
it is Father's Day weekend. Good to have you along.
My name is Gary David. Coming up in the hour
here on one of three point five FM and five
sixty AMWVOC. We're talking to Russ Marcasey. He owns the
Finishing Touch team and we're going to talk about well

(00:32):
the bane of all homeowners. Well maybe not you, maybe
you've had it taken care of. We didn't have it
all but popcorn ceilings. They specialize in removing them. We'll
talk all about that. Jeremy Holiday, mister Electric joins us
this morning. But first up, mister Outside Fun again, Trey Powell,
Good morning, my friend.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hey, good morning, how are you.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm good man. That's a fun's a that's a fun
person to be man. Mister making outside fun again. Good
for you man.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
How do you do it of the game?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah right, let's talk this morning about how you make
that happen. And I you know I have mentioned, oh
several weeks ago we had a an outdoor event at
the house and me I'm not worried about mosquitoes because
you know, we got you guys in our backyard every
three weeks, not just laying down the barrier spray, but

(01:22):
doing something else too, right tray.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, when we're I mean, you know, half of the
job for controlling mosquitos is finding where they're breeding, cutting
them off and breaking that breeding cycle, trying to eliminate
the mosquito larvae before they're born into adult mosquitoes and
start biting. I mean, if they're not born, they can't bite,
and so lowering the population by finding where they're breeding

(01:47):
and treating it is really fifty percent of the game
and the key to success in mosquito controlled.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
So we have since I first started talking about it
several weeks away, we've had two outdo our fence, and
both of them went all without a hitch, at least
as far as you know. People weren't bugged by mosquitos outside.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well I guess what.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And by the way, when they came inside, they weren't
introduced to any bugs either, because you guys stay care
of the inside and the outside for us. So tell
us about your total home pest of fence while we're
at it.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, you know, it's uh, it really came as a
result of customers, you know, requesting and requesting, hey, can
you do this also? And and so you know, we
are a full service pest control company. We can you know,
treat the house making sure that we're not getting you know,
not getting spiders or roaches or ants inside the house.

(02:39):
And we also treat the yard obviously for mosquitos, fleas
and ticks, so we can cover you inside and out.
We can we can even do termite protection if somebody
needs that, or rodent control, so any sort of pests.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Life is better without pests. Uh, you know, both inside
your house and outside. You know, you know, protect your
your house, else, your yard and your family, uh from
those unwanted tests.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I gotta mention this trade because this is how much
you guys are a stickler for a schedule. It's every
three weeks should come out. I mean every three weeks,
like clockwork. I don't think I've eventtioned to see you
in the past. Every time you come to our house,
the next day you come to the house across the

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street from.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Us, everybody, I think it one time, you know, why
why not just do this both at the same time.
But that's that's how much of a stickler, you guys
are for saying on an exact schedule that, yeah, you'll
hit one house one day in a house cross street
the next day to make sure that nothing's falling through
the cracks.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I guess right, Yeah that you know that another house
could be on a different technician so it and some
one a different route. You know, eventually, Uh, you guys
could be you know, put onto the same route. But uh,
you know, we try to be as efficient as possible.
We have thousands and thousands the customers. We're probably in
your neighborhood you know, uh, every single week for sure,

(04:05):
and maybe maybe a couple of times a week. It
really just depends on the neighborhood and and how many
customers that we have to to get serviced in that
In that.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Way, Well, why why is that three week schedule though? Important? Well,
what's what's the meaning? Why is it three weeks training?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, is the is the number one, you know killer
of all things outside And uh, we have a lot
of UV, especially in the summertime, and so you know
when we put down uh you know, larva side, obviously
in three weeks you're going to have several rainfalls and
lots of UV, and that barrier spray is going to

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get broken down, you know, in place by that UV
and which is which is good? That's what you want
to happen. You don't want that stuff to end up
on the ground and leaching down into the water. It
really breaks down in place, and in three weeks it's
kind of done its thing. If you if you don't
retreat every three weeks, you're really going to start to
see breakthrough and you're not going to get the results

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that you want. And you know, if you're paying for this,
you you really want to be able to go outside anytime,
day or night without the threat of having to spray
yourself down or worried about getting bit, you know, by
the mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
One of my wife and I's new favorite things to
do is to sit out back on about six seven
o'clock every night for at least a few minutes, just
kind of escape the world, get back to nature. And yeah,
you know, you and I had this conversation we first
bought this house about a year and a half ago,
because we we came over here one night before we
actually closed on the home, and uh, and you know,

(05:36):
the backyard gate was open and went into the backyard
and and sat there for I don't know, maybe a
minute and a half. Then we had to flee because.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Then started getting bit they were unbearable.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I called you the next day and I said, brother,
we don't close for like another week, but let me
go ahead and get on the schedule here because you
were treating the home we were in. We've been treating
our homes for you years now. Right, let's can can
can we get here? Here's the day we're closed. Can
you guys come out there that day? And and you said, yeah,
I tell you what, We'll come out there a day
or two earlier.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You know, nobody's gonna care. And you know, I got
to tell you.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
While we were busy moving and such, we we did
spend some time in our backyard that first week or so,
and I was I was truly amazed at how bad
the problem was here in this backyard and really, but
just one treatment, we just really had no issues. I mean,

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I did not expect it to work that well that fast.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, sometime sometimes you can, you can get them under
control very very quickly. It really depends on how many
breeding sites you have and the fact that we are
finding the breeding sites. You know, sometimes it's very difficult
to figure out where they are breeding. They're up underneath
decks or you know, it's usually someplace that's really out
of sight, you know, you know, ditches and and uh

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French drains, you know, gutters, things things that you don't
think of all the time, you know, but a lot
of you know, a lot of things we have hold
water and it doesn't take very much to breed, and
you know, I'm glad that we were able to get
it under control.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
For you that quickly.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Usually it takes two or three treatments before you really
get to where you want to be, but you'll see
immediate difference even after one, you know, one treatment. So
but you know, the surprising thing is is how many
people you know kind of live like that, and they
really feel like they're a prisoner inside and outside is
not fun and they don't spend any time outside because
of the bugs are so bad. And you know, you

(07:37):
really don't have to to do that. I mean a
lot of times people think, you know, what does that
really work? Can you treat for flying insects? What about
my neighbors?

Speaker 7 (07:44):
Mosquitoes?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And you know, all those things don't don't really matter.
I mean, once you have a professional service that's coming
and treating that yard consistently and properly, uh, we can
make that problem go away for you and uh and
keep it that way.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
What about for folks who have a penchel I do
out the backyard, I mean, talk to us about how
what effect that could or could not have on them.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, one of the biggest threats we have in this
region is heartworms for dogs. It's you know, they The
statistic is that an outside dog who's outside all the time,
twenty four hours a day, if they are untreated in
the course of four or five years, the chances of

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them getting heartworms is one hundred percent. It's that I mean,
I don't use that type of a term very often,
but that's that is. The statistic is within five years
there will be one hundred percent chance they will get
heartworms if they are not treated. And so it's very
important that you take your veterinarian's advice and take the

(08:47):
pill or whatever they're giving you to prevent heartworms. You
don't want your dogs to be bit by mosquito mosquitos
because the heartworms is very very prevalent. Fortunately, if humans
cannot catch that, but it's very very bad with with dogs.
So you definitely want to protect your your your dogs

(09:09):
from getting mosquito bites.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
So that's a that's the main con Well, yeah, they
because I think I guess in the in the rank
of things, human beings are probably somewhat down the list
just because you have other things like birds, for example,
they're outside all the time. I mean, I guess they're
top of the top of the heat. For mosquitoes, that's
a big target, right.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, mosquitoes kind of live where they live in the
bushes and shrubs and and and so forth, and so yeah,
they are the number one prey for mosquitoes or birds.
But you know, they'll bite anything that's blood bearing, that's breathing.
I mean, if it's breathing and has blood, they can
detect it by the co twos that you're breathing out
and they will come right to it. Whether it's a dog, cat, fox, rabbit,

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you know, human, whatever it is, they will they will
bite it for a blood meal.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
So up to now, how is the how do you
categorize the season we've had so far this year?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Train?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
It has been a roller coaster this year. We started
out with very warm, unseasonably warm and unseasonably wet February
and early March and really kind of took off faster
than most years. And then we had kind of a
cold spell during April, but not so much cold, but

(10:23):
more dryness. We you know, we had thirty nine days
in a row with no rain, which was unheard of
us for April and the beginning of May, and that
kind of slowed things down a little bit. It wasn't
cold enough. It felt cold because we were wearing jackets
in the morning.

Speaker 7 (10:38):
Because it was mid fifties.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
But as long as it's above fifty degrees, the eggs
are hatching and and they're they're doing fine, but they
do have to have standing water. So if you don't
have as much standing water, it's going to wait until
it actually rains, you know, to wet those eggs to
get those eggs to hatch. And so, you know, it
was a little slower hatching season in April and the
beginning of May. But with all the rain that we've had,

(11:01):
you know, recently and so forth, it's definitely got things
back going and back up to where they normally are
in the middle of South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Now, I suppose this is on your radar, and we've
we've we've talked about I think in the past that
we keep hearing about a the Eldino effect, and then
this year they're talking about a super Eldinho and the
US an article last week that called it the uh
the godzilla Eldino.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Gods. Yeah, so you know how.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
The plus side is they tell us that we'll dampen
hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin. But the other flip
side of this is that they're talking about being hotter
and wetter, and you know, we're hot and wet enough
around here and human enough, you know, all summer long. Anyway,
if this pattern develops later on this year, is they
keep telling us it would I mean hotter, wetter than

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normal in this part part of the state. Uh, I
mean how bad.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, the lack of the threat of hurricanes is certainly
a positive thing. However, you know the the well and
some people will see this as a as an advantage.
But we're probably going to have an Indian summer. We're
probably gonna it's probably going to be warm, you know,
well into November and December, maybe even into January. And

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if it's wet and warm. I mean, the mosquito population
is just not going to go anywhere. So I mean,
if you're getting treated, you might enjoy a longer summer
and more time outside and and so forth when it's
a little bit cooler, but not you know, not not
so cold that it doesn't it keeps you from going outside.
So you know, there's pros and cons to it. But uh,
you know, I you know, the lack of hurricanes I

(12:49):
think is a is a great thing. But we're probably
in for a wetter, you know, warmer fall and a
longer mosquito season for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, I don't think we've talked about it a while.
But you're a big right or you used to be
a beekeeper. You still still be keeping.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I was for many years. I've actually given away and
donated the bees that I had at you know, one point,
to local gardens and things like that. So I'm currently
not I don't I'm not keeping bees this this time
right now.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
But uh we did.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
We did it for years and mainly just to train
our team. I mean, you know, being a beekeeper, I'm
very concerned about the environment and the you know, the
population of bees, and and it's definitely possible to treat
a yard even with a beehive in it, with a
synthetic product, if you're treating for mosquitos, where you can

(13:38):
target mosquitoes and not harm pollinators. And so I had
it for years just to train our guys and to
get them around bees and let them, you know, understand
and learn a little bit more. You know about the
bees and their act you know their habits and how
they're different from mosquitos, and how you can target mosquitoes
and not harmed pollinators. But we do have many beekeepers
who are customers of ours. You know, some are synthetic,

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some are all natural. Some even use just a you know,
a larvaciding method just to reduce the mosquito population in
their yard. But there's lots of different solutions, and you know,
you can definitely, you know, target pests without harming beneficial
insects like bees and butterflies.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, because a lot of folks have questions about that.
Did you happen to see a couple of weeks ago
this article that Google had applied for a permit to
release sixty plus million mosquitos in California and Florida. Did
you see that?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I you know, I saw that yesterday and I just
kind of cringe every time I see stuff like that.
And I don't know why, you know, stay in your lane.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Since when is Google.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now a biologist? You know, Dangerous things happen when you
try and.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
Play god right right, last time that.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
They did something similar to this in Florida, we had
a huge outbreak zecovirus, which was a you know, and
that that sort of thing can backfire and the consequences
can be an outbreak of mosquito born illness and vector diseases.
Whether it's they're talking about doing the same sort of
thing with ticks, and it's like, this is not really

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proven itself. You're testing things on the population, and that's
really not a good thing.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Do you know what they're what the what the goal is?

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I mean, it's a dbug kind of thing, they say,
I mean, what are they trying to accomplish here?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, they're trying to put into into the population of mosquitoes,
sterile mosquitoes that will breed with breed with other mosquitos.
And they think they're breeding, but they're not.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Actually they're not actually impregnating the female, you know, for
lack of a better term, because they're really sterile, and
so that's that's kind of what the goal is. But
I don't know. In most cases, as I've seen where
they've tried stuff like this around the world and in
the US, there's been some constant unexpected consequences where it

(16:07):
kind of backfired and they and they're not doing it anymore.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And you know, you.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Want to experiment on things, do it somewhere else, don't.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Just don't do it in South Carolina, thank you?

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Right exactly?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Okay, all right, trades folks who have never used your
services before. I think it's well documented now that you've
got a great opening offer for people to kind of
see what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Right, Yeah, they can try any of our services, either
home past defense or our mosquito control for the first treatment.
If you've never had that service before, we can. We'll
do it for you for only thirty nine dollars for
the first time, and there's no contract whatsoever. It's they're
all reoccurring services. Each service has a different reoccurring you

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know rate. The mosquito services every three weeks. The Home
Past defense is either bi monthly or quarterly. Of course,
termites is just an annual inspection that we do, but
we can, you know, we can bundle those services, put
everything on a low, one low monthly payment and you
can just live without pests and we'll we'll take care

(17:15):
of all of it. So it's only thirty nine dollars
for a first treatment, the second, third treatments and so
forth will be based on the size of the property
and so forth. We can give you that quote right
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and give you an accurate quote.

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Speaker 2 (17:34):
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back to the Home Improvement Show the Midlands and thanks
for joining us this morning on one O three point
five FM and five sixty AMWVOC. We're joined now by
Russ Marcaesy. He is the owner of the Finishing Touch
Team here in Columbia. And well, I say, in Columbia,
but you guys cover the Midlands, you paint all over
the state.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Russ, Good morning to you, buddy.

Speaker 8 (20:14):
Good morning Gary. Yes, yes we sure do. We have guns.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
We'll travel We we do go all over the state.
We you know, we do projects in Charleston, Gary, Flower, Ence, Augusta,
We go to North Carolina at times, so yeah, yeah,
all over.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
You are well known across the region and for good
reason too. Was this top You all been doing this
for about twenty five years? Right quarter century?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Right?

Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Or there is twenty five years with summers wow.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Wow, has been a long time, locally owned, locally operated.
And again you have done jobs as small as our
master bathroom and as big as like performance halls, right.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Correct, Yeah, yeah, Gary, we uh, we always had a
little saying that we'll do anything from painting somebody's out
house to the.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
Talk mall or hospital.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
We do hospital at jobs, we do schools, We do
all sorts of larger projects, but we also do a
lot of smaller projects too, Gary.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
And right now, and we've been talking about this for
a while because you got actually not one, but two
specials that are running for the at least at least
the rest of this month, right or is it? When
when's the deadline on this?

Speaker 4 (21:32):
Right to the end of August, to the end of August, Gary,
we're running it, yeah, right, there are, but yeah, we're
for any interior painting. We're we're we're doing uh any
any two full rooms, you get your third room for free. Okay, nice,
And of course we're running that ten percent off. Uh
you know if you mentioned that you called from the from.

Speaker 8 (21:52):
This radio ad and.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Uh when it comes to our exteriors, Gary, what we're
doing is we offer a one year free complimentary power
washing after we've painted your entire exterior, and then this
way we're able to also inspect your house one year
later clean it up again. It's a it's a real
good way to uh to get some long jevy out

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of your paintings.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
So ten percent off the job on exteriors, and then
the free pressure wash a year later, and the inspection
and cleaning it up and making sure everything's honkey dory
right beautiful.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
That's correct.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
And then we have the interior room stucle going on
right now as well, Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
And that's to the end of August. You say, okay,
all right, good. I tell you what I feel for
you guys. These exterior jobs. I mean, we give this
El Nino thing going on. If we get that super
Aino thing is gonna be as ridiculously hot as it
was this past weekend. Man, ooh, it was brutal, brutal Man,
how does that mek to be hydrated?

Speaker 8 (22:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Right, But does the heat itself have any effect on
the job that you're doing on exterior painting or is
it more of just the sunlight and the drying times
and all that.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
So it's not so much the heat itself, the you know,
the temperature and the humidity. Of course it can. It
can with certain types of products, but exterior paint that
we're that we're referring.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
To, not so much.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
It's more about the direct sunlight that you have to
be careful of.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
When when you're doing exterior painting like that.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
So, you know, and I think I've mentioned before on
your show in the past area what we always do
in the summer, or really, I mean really anytime we're
doing an exterior to be totally honest with you, but
more so in the summer, you have to taste the
state around the house.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Uh, you really do. It's super important.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
You don't want to go painting cornice or somebody thoughts
that are siding directly in the sunlight, because what ends
up happening area is that sun you know, bakes that
paint on and it doesn't dry correctly, and by the
time you've made a move, you know, moving forward for

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creates what's called a flat mark. We call it a
flat in the industry, and it's when you look down
the side of it you see all these real inconsistencies
in the paint of the wall. You know, most people
have seen them. Maybe you haven't notice them, but next time,
next time you're walking around, check that out.

Speaker 8 (24:14):
You'll you'll start to notice it.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
And that's what that's from a lot of times, it's
from letting that paint dry too quickly before you move
on to the next area.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
So that's why we have to we have to chase
the shade so that we have.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
The longest wet time on that paint to move to
the next section.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Interesting, Interesting, all right, So again ten percent off through
the end of August and the uh free pressure wash
a year afterwards.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Direct.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, let's Russ.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Hey, you know, we haven't talked about this in a
little while, and matter of fact, I don't think we
even brought it up. You've been with us for a
long time here on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands,
and I don't think we even broach this subject until
maybe a couple months ago. Uh, and that is well,
the bane of homeowners everywhere was older homes.

Speaker 10 (25:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yes, the dreaded popcorn ceilings.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Oh yeah, the dreaded popcorn Sectionary up. Everybody hates the
popcorn these days. You know, we remove a slew of it.
But the unfortunately, you have to do it the right way.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
Gary.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Unfortunately, we you know, we've seen so many times where
it's been moved incorrectly and then it looks all gummed up,
and and sometimes that looks worse than even the popcorn,
did you know, So you really got to go about
it the right way.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Gary, What are what.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Are the mistakes that you find that di wires make
when they try to remove this stuff? I mean, what
are the what are the major issues you run into?
And how do you guys get around all that? How
do you do it?

Speaker 8 (25:46):
Sure? Yeah, no, that's a great question.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
So what I what I tend to see quite a
bit is not around the edges where the ceiling meets
the meets the walls. There will always be a little
bit of texture left on those edges right there. Because
a lot of times homeowners are nervous to get too
close to the wall to damage the wall. We see

(26:10):
that quite a bit. And then, honestly, the biggest thing,
Gary is the drywall work that is needed once the
popcorn is removed.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
Okay, because let's face it.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
They're putting the popcorn up there to save money because
they're lacking on their amount of coats that they're putting
on with drywall. Lut Okay, that's how they get away
with it because they put the popcorn on there and
it hides all of that Gary. So once you remove
all of that, you still have to put a coat
of drywall compound on all of the joints where the

(26:42):
sheet rock meets. A lot of times even the screw
holes need to be gone over once or twice with
drywall compound as well. So that's generally what I see mostly,
you know, if the homeowners try to tackle it and
had a hard time with it, that's generally what I see. Okay.
What we do, Gary is once we remove the popcorn,

(27:02):
and we remove it a couple different ways. As I
said in the past, We'll do it the old school
way with water and scraping as needed. But we also
have a machine called a sex tool. It's a big
handheld standard that's hooked to a Hepa vacuum and it
eats away that popcorn and it's very very little dust
and debris falling. We still cover I mentally, still cover

(27:24):
everything very very tightly and thoroughly, but we still use
the standard and eats it right off. Once we do that, Gary,
we prime everything. The whole ceiling needs to be primed first.
Once you do that, you can see all your imperfections. Okay,
I think that's one of the big mistakes that a
lot of homeowners make is they go straight to either

(27:47):
repairing or they go straight to the finished paint of
the ceiling, where you still have to do a lot
of prep work and you really have to prime that
ceiling first to see where all your imperfections are.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Have you ever come across a situation where once you
remove that popcorn rusted, the ugly truth revealed that, Wow,
this is a major issue here and we're going to
have to rethink this thing.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, So you know, we'll get we'll get little surprises
at times where maybe somebody in the past is trying
to cover something up, or an old patch that didn't
come out very well. We come across things like that
sometimes there's molds underneath the popcorn where there's been a gap,
just a void space there, and there's been a lot
of moisture, so we'll see mold. There's really there's really

(28:38):
not too much gary. There's really nothing can't be fixed. Okay,
it's even down to h where if let's say popcorn
has been painted over, uh, you know, three, four or
five times, let's say, that's where it becomes very difficult
to remove. The more paint that you've put over popcorn,
the harder it is to remove. So I've come a

(29:00):
cross cases like that before where even the standard won't
grind it down. And in those cases there's still effects.
And what you need to do is you basically you
laminate quarter inch or three acn sheat rock right over
that popcorn and create a new sheet rock ceiling.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
That makes sense.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
We've had to do this in the path.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
That almost seems like an easy way to do it
if you ask me.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
You know, sometimes sometimes that is the better way to
go about it, especially if you have crown molding, let's
site around your room, the perimeter of your room, Well,
you can pop that crown mold off, put up new
sheet rock, put your crown mold right back on, and
then you don't have to corner tape your all your
corners in that room because the crown mold is going

(29:45):
to hide it, right, So that's a lot less work
that you have to do with that. Of course you
got to you know, remove your crown and put it
back up.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
But it still it's a lot lesson.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
But you're still you're still you wind up doing what
you'd have had to do the other way. And lets
go back in between the the layers of sheet rock
and you know mud all that and everything else.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
What you're doing anyway back? All right, you do that anything.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Back, yes, sir, that's exactly right. Sometimes the outcomes a
little bit better that way.

Speaker 11 (30:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Of course it's a little bit more expensive, Gary, because
you have.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
More materials involved.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
You have sheet rock now involved, right, yeah, and you've
got to install it and use ripper screws and screw
it up into the ceiling. A little bit more labor
and a little bit more materials. But sometimes that is
the better way to go. It just depends, you know,
from situation to situation, right, And that's something that I
evaluate when I go out there, Gary to estimate jobs

(30:36):
and look at these type of ceilings, I can tell
very quickly, almost immediately, which route that that ceiling has
got to go.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
So let's as an example here Russ and we're speaking
with Russ Marquesy, the owner of the Finishing Touch team
here in the Midlands. Oh on, let's take a say
a sixteen by twenty great room. You know, nothing fancy,
no pitch ceilings, just a you know, a level ceiling
eight foots whatever, assuming that you know, you don't run

(31:09):
into any issues. How long are we taking? You know how,
what's the average amount of time it would take. Because
it's a multi step process. It sounds like from start
to finish to get this done.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
Yeah, you're right here, you no, it is.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
And the other thing is you have dry times in
between because of the drywall compound, it all has to dry.
So even even once you get done skim coating and
money everything Gary, sometimes you have to walk away because
you have to let everything dry and come back the
next day. But basically, if you took a sixteen by
twenty foot you know, typical great room, dining room, living room,

(31:45):
whatever you want to call it. And let's say we
started on a Monday, for you Okay, started removing all
the popcorn on a Monday, we would be finished by
end of day Wednesday, possibly a half of day on Thursday.
That's what you're really looking at time wise on that.
So it's not it's not awful, but uh, but it
does take multiple steps, you know.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
There's it depends.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
It's generally anywhere from four to six steps is what
it takes. It just depends on how you know, how
easily that popcorn comes off of off of the ceiling.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Now, one of the things that that I wanted to
mention also, Gary, that is super important when you're doing this,
and a lot of people don't think about this, but
once you remove the popcorn and you've primed and you've
done all your your repair work, what we do is
we run calking around the whole perimeter of that ceiling
where it meets the wall, and we calked that corner

(32:41):
where it meets that all the way around. That creates
a really nice sharp bed for you. It gets rid
of all the concaveness that was their prior and and
it just makes it look like it grew there, like
it like a very well finished ceiling. Once you do
that we've we've we've been doing it that way for years,
and we really notice that that's kind of the icing
on the cake when it comes to.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Doing these ceilings here.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
It's just a very important step. So you know, like
I said, it's anywhere from from Florida sixth steps.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
To remove that popcorn.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
So if you get a call from somebody who says, well,
you know, I did this myself and it's it really
looks hideous, I'm sure you've got those calls before.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Right, let's go, let's let's mess to you.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, And in a case where somebody has already done
it themselves, it has already removed the popcorn, but they're
left with a disaster underneath all that. Well, that's one
least thing you gotta deal with, right, I mean, you're
just going in and finishing up the process, I guess, right.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, We of course, we prefer to do it from
from start to finish. Of course, it's easier actually if
we do it that way, because we're doing the proper
steps to begin with. But we we intervene all the time,
like you said, and we get those calls and and yes,
it's very doable. Rights we can still come in and
a lot of times the popcorn at that point.

Speaker 8 (34:02):
Normally what I.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
See is the popcorn is mostly off. Sometimes there's a
couple of sections still where maybe someone's given up a
little bit because they just had enough with it, and
it's you know, they've they've had a.

Speaker 8 (34:12):
Time with her or you know, and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
So we'll come in like that and we'll remove the
rest of it.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
We will.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
If the ceiling still needs to be primed, we'll prime it.
We'll basically pick up wherever they left off in steps
and continue doing it.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Is how we do it, all right.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
So if you aren't aware, yeah, the finishing Touch team.
You guys do this all the time. And if you've
been dreaming about the day without all that popcorn, make it,
make it a reality today it is.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Hey, maybe you want day?

Speaker 8 (34:43):
It'll come back?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, No, what do you think?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I hope not.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Brother, you don't think so? I yeah, I don't think so?
Who but who knows? And what goes around comes around?
You know, they were coming.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
Back, both making a big push back O kill you
never know.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
I'm not going down that road again. It's too many
nightmares are ruined. Wallmavorite ball Beaver not doing it again.
All right, so popcorn ceilings and again the two give
us a quick refresh on the two specials you're running
through the end of August.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Russ, so on exterior painting, Gary with a full exterior
paint shop. We're doing a complimentary power washing and inspection
one year later is what we're doing. And we're offering
ten percent off full exterior paint jobs until the end
of August.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Great, all right, So how do folks get that very
detailed quote that you always do, my friend, Yes.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Sir, you can always give me a call at eight
zero three four sixty seven six seven five nine, or
you can email us at RUSS at Finishingcutsteam dot com.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, Russ Marcaesy the Finishing Touch team on the
home approved michhewe the millons.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Thank you ros, thank you Gary.

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(37:35):
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Speaker 3 (37:40):
So much for joining us this morning. We appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
To our final segment now and we welcome in Jeremy Halliday,
the owner of mister Electric.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Good morning, mister Electric.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
How are you, brother, Good morning, good morning. Everything's good man.
How about yourself, Kerry, No, I.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Got no complaints.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Heading up the road later on today played little top
off up in Charlotte's our that's our Father's day. We
can get together with the with the rest of the family.
My sister lives up in that area, so we're gonna
be heading that way today. Looks like so, yeah, I
got no complaints, man, Colin, Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well our topic today and and well timed here is
getting ready for storm season. And we've had our first
name storm of the year, and Arthur didn't keep that
name for real long. But boy, parts of the country
really saw a lot of rain and high winds from
this thing. And you know, parts of the state saw
some of the remnants of that we we've seen, so

(38:33):
this is, uh, this is a real good time to
broach this subject with you, Jeremy. Getting ready for storm season.
So where do we start.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
Well, we can start by you know, just looking at
the electrical system, inspecting that before storm season happens, because
a lot of times you may have weak areas, uh
that the storm compromises you know, uh, so you can
check just by visual look or have us out to

(39:05):
take a look. And why it matters. You know, wind,
rain and age and corrosion can weaken it. So you're
especially exterior service equipment, Loose connections or damage equipment can
become a serious problem during a storm if it's already compromised.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well, let's start with what you first mentioned is that
we as homeowners or business owners, can I do a
I guess a visual inspection?

Speaker 3 (39:34):
What what what are we looking for here, Jeremy.

Speaker 7 (39:38):
So as a homeowner, you can just you know, if
you have an overhead service, you can look at your
uh the part that goes up the side of your
house or through the roof sometimes where your wires come
from the power pole. If that thing is leaning you know,
then that's a sign that it's compromised and it's weakened. Uh,

(39:59):
and it should be resupported. Maybe it needs to be replaced,
but it definitely needs to be paid attention to.

Speaker 8 (40:07):
The weather.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Some of this terminology the weatherhead is it's like a
cup that sits on top of the pole that goes
through the roof or up the side of the house.
If that thing's damaged, sometimes you'll notice critters are nesting
in there. That's a bad sign that needs to be
taken care of. Loose con do it rust. You know,

(40:28):
rust is a big sign visually that your equipment's getting
really old and maybe compromising. It just needs a little
storm to make it go out. And you know, in
those situations, it's always harder to get somebody out, and
it's normally probably going to be a little more expensive
to get somebody out in an emergency situation depending on

(40:49):
how many how many people are affected missing outdoor covers,
you know, tree limbs, just something as simple as tree
limbs growing near your service. Uh, you might want to
get we don't do the tree service now, but you
might calling tree service out that trim up the limbs
so it doesn't you know, fall on your equipment and
knock you out of without power, you know. Uh, any

(41:12):
kind of warm outlets. We talked about this before. Flickering lights, buzzing, uh,
warm outlets, burning, smell breakers that trip repeatedly. Uh. These
are all signs that could worsen further uh when a
storm comes. So you want to get them addressed. Uh,

(41:34):
and we take we do all that.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, So we've talked about this before. I think I
let people get people get confused. You were you were
talking about that that uh okay, In this came from
my house, the Dominion energy box outside the home, and
then what goes from that up maybe up into the top.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Of the house, the attic of the room or whatever.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I think a lot of us get confused by where's
the dividing line between what the utility is responsible for
and what we're responsible for?

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Where is that?

Speaker 7 (42:08):
So you are responsible for the weatherhead, which is the
little it's like a cup that sits on top of
that pipe all the way down and into the home.
So where the point of attachment is from the transformer,
the line that comes from that transformer, where it attaches
to your house. That's everything beyond that is your responsibility.

(42:30):
So if it's underground, it's the same thing. It attaches
to the meter can that meter can all the way
back is your responsibility. And overhead it's the riser from
the weatherhead down the riser and everything back into the
home is your responsibility.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
So could we assume that if it's going into the
meter head, it's the utilities that it was coming out
of yours.

Speaker 7 (42:59):
Yeah, so there's an it's kind of tough to explain there.
So there's a service laterals that come from the transformer outside.
So if it's overhead, it's normally coming from a power
pole and there's a transformer up there, and there's a
line that comes across. Well, that line back is the
power companies. Everything after that is the homeowners. If that

(43:21):
if that's better, it makes better sense. So where it
attaches to the house, that's pretty much the end of
their responsibility as far as replacement the maintenance repair. Obviously
they'll make new connections. When you get your side of
the house electrical system repaired, they'll come out and reconnect it,

(43:43):
but they don't take care that riser, that weatherhead, that
meter can back into the home. All that is your
responsibility if the power company doesn't take care of that
for you.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
And I guess if you if you lose service, well,
the one thing, make sure everybody else around your has too.
That way you know it's the utility boardline doesn't necessarily
mean that something could have happen just for your for
your particular house, I guess, but chances are pretty good
then you know it's a utility thing. But if yeah,
the lights cross the street are on your's heart, don't
don't don't call the utility because that's gonna probably mean it's, uh,

(44:19):
something's happened to your home and you have to call
you know, somebody like you guys are mister electric.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
I guess.

Speaker 7 (44:25):
Yeah, So the rule of thumb is call the power
company and called us.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
You know.

Speaker 7 (44:30):
So it's so easy to check online now that I
think they even have apps where I know Dominion has
an app where you can see where power outages are.
If you go on the app and look for power outages, uh,
you can see if you're in a power outage area
a lot of times if it's been reported, uh, and
you always want to report it. So you always want

(44:51):
to call the power company and let them know you
don't have power.

Speaker 8 (44:55):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (44:55):
But then at the same time, you can give us
a call and uh, and you can check your app
see if you're in a power outage area, you know.
And and then like we discussed before, if you have
lights getting really bright in one room and then dim
in another room and and they're flickering real bad, and
you're you know, it's it's uh a pulsatan kind of

(45:17):
like coming on and off, you definitely want to call us,
and you want to call the power company, and you
want to turn as long as you're not standing in
any puddles or water, you want to turn that main
breaker off. And so so that dirty power as we
call it, isn't coming into the house and damaging all
your appliances and circuit boards and equipment throughout the home.

(45:38):
So you can you shut that main breaker off. Essentially
you've stopped that dirty power from coming into your home.
And then you want to get an electrician out there,
and you want to get the power make the power
company aware because we don't know whose side it's on.
It could be at your service equipment, like we just
discussed that's your responsibility, or it could be at that transform.

(46:01):
And we've seen as much as you know, during a
storm normally would be one of those two. It's either
a failing service that hasn't been paid attention to for
a long time, or it's a piece of equipment on
the power company side, the transformer where there's a bad
connection starting to happen and the weather has just you know, Uh,
the storm doesn't create the electrical problem, but it exposes it,

(46:23):
you know. So, uh, you want to contact both of
us to come, you know, so we can get you
taken care of.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Talking to Jeremy how today he is mister electric around
these parts. What are the most aside from just you've
lost power to your home. But let's say that this
is not a utility issue and something that's happened right
there your house. One of the most common issues, uh,
that are popping up when you have well, any sort
of electric issue or not even a storm. Maybe for example,

(46:51):
maybe maybe you just gotta you got to you got
something going south on you what what what sort of
things tip you off to that?

Speaker 7 (46:57):
Jeremy, Well, the biggest issue that we find is bad connections, man.
That's the that's one of the major culprits of a
failing system is the connections have gone bad, and that
can happen a bunch of different ways, you know. Uh,
we depend on the connections at the point where electricity flows.

(47:18):
And if those.

Speaker 10 (47:18):
Connections become you know, loose compromised in any way, then
arcing and sparking and heat happens. And when that happens,
it just it goes from from bad to worse real
quick and ruins the whole the whole thing. You have
to replace the whole panel. It's all damaged, you know.

Speaker 7 (47:38):
So it's very important to tackle those things as soon
as you notice them. You have flickering lights, you have
you hear buzzing, you have tripping breakers. You don't want
to just reset them if they're continuously tripping. And if
you hear buzzing, you want to find out because normally
buzzing is a is a sign that there's electricity jumping.
Because when when they're sparking ark that electricity jumping, the

(48:03):
noise it makes is a is a buzz you know.
So a lot of times a buzzing noise that's a
sign of a bad connection.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Yeah. I guess we've probably all been guilty of this.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
I know I have.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Every time, then when the power comes back on, you're like, okay,
we're good.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
Yeah, yeah, and that's you know, that's not necessarily true.
If you've had lightning striker, you've seen the fluctuating power.
You know, it's a good idea to have your system
checked out, especially if you had some things not working.
You know, you find out all of a sudden the
TV won't turn on, or you open the refrigerator and

(48:48):
it's out, or you have you know, Gefizer tripped things
like that, then then you know you probably want to
get it checked out, see if there's any damage, because
you know, sometimes you can have damage that you just
can't see or know about and you need somebody out it.
Just check things out. Another good thing to do is

(49:09):
always remember that you have you know, especially newer homes,
they have these arc fault breakers or ground fault breakers,
and then you have ground fault receptacles throughout your house.
And so you know, a storm sometimes can present conditions
where you are exposed to water and electricity don't mix.
So a ground fault is what protects you from electrocution

(49:32):
or leaking current. If it were to have something fail
and get in contact with water, you want to make
sure that all your ground fault breakers are working, and
your art fault breakers are working, and your devices, your receptacles,
so you know, monthly you should be going through and testing.
There's a test and a reset button on those things,
and you test and if it pops and it needs

(49:56):
to be reset, then that means that it's working, it's
functioning properly. And do that in your breaker box. You
open that door and there's purple buttons, yellow buttons, white buttons.
Those are all test buttons. You push them and that
break will trip if it's working properly, and then you
reset it and you know that you're protected. So you
don't want that false If you're never checking them, you
have a false sense of security because we don't know

(50:18):
if they're working properly. And so monthly you should be
going through and testing those things and I'm going to
make sure that they're protecting you and especially before a storm.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Right, Yeah, yeah, makes sense, And I bet none of
us ever do that, really, that'd be late, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (50:34):
I think a lot of people A lot of people
don't because we'll go to homes and when we're doing
the safety check on the homes electrical system we'll test
all those things, and a lot of times we find
you know, we pet you know, you got a couple
here that aren't that aren't tripping whenever we hit the
test button, So they're faulty.

Speaker 7 (50:51):
There's a problem here.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
And I think you may have mentioned this before. Maybe
I've heard this somewhere else, or maybe it's an old
wives tale.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
But when you do lose power service to your home,
regardless of the reason, that it's best to go, just
just shut the main breaker down, uh and wait for
the power to come back on before you you turn
that back on.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Is that is that accurate?

Speaker 7 (51:13):
Yeah, it's a good idea always to if you're in
a real bad storm, you know, it's it's a good
idea to have your power turned off. I mean, if
you have a generator, you know, at least let's say
this so at least items that you don't need that
you can disconnect. At least get those things disconnected, you know,

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from the from the power.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Is that that urge when it comes back on, it
could cause problems.

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You want to make sure you have search protection in place.
Make sure you have a layered surge protection system in place.
A searge protection at the panel. Make sure you have
serge strips with all your or surge device.

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Gary, all right, Jeremy, thank you, my friend, appreciate it.

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Have a good one, buddy, Yes, sir, thank you.

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