Home Improvement Show 06-21-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning and welcome. It is that time again, my
Friend's the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands and we
appreciate joining us this morning and every Saturday morning here
on one oh three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC.
And as usual, we have fantastic information to pass along
today for your home, whether you want to fix it,
get it fixed up, or just want to make it livable.

(00:36):
And we'll talk to Jeremy Holliday from Mister Electric. He'll
be joining us here just a short while. We'll also
chat with Russ Marksey the Finishing Touch team, and right
now let's talk about making your outdoor space livable because
this time of the year it can be kind of
tough unless you know this guy. It's Trey Powell from Mosquita.
Joe Trey, Good morning, my friend.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hey, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh so here we are are. Uh, we're officially now
into summer. It's calendar finally says we're in summer, although
we've we've been in summer for a while round here.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Calendar is a little behind, but officially you are.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Correct, officially it is summertime. Well, uh, I know you
guys track this on a regular basis. On a daily
basis that that mosquito pressure. And I got to think,
because we haven't we we've kind of like reverted to
a pattern that we used to have around here, and
that's like seems like every afternoon we got a thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, we've had a lot of rain this year, and
that is not helping the mosquito situation. That is is
obviously making it worse. I mean, all the things that
we have around our yard hold water, and as soon
as they start holding water, they became become a instant
target for mosquitos to start laying eggs and start producing

(01:53):
more mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm gonna guess on a scale of one to ten,
we're about a twelve now.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, we've been in the extreme phase for for over
a month month and a half. You know, when when
the temperatures are up and we're getting lots of rain,
it's the mosquitoes are are multiplying as fast as they
possibly can.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
They are loving this kind of weather, aren't they. Okay,
so you got a problem with mosquitos. Apparently you are
using the sky services. Y'all r out of the house. Oh,
just as past week, I think it was Wednesday, and
by the way this time around, we got we got
the double dose. Man, we only got the mosquito treatment.
We've got the full treatment because y'all are doing you

(02:38):
take care of all the past now around the house.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, we we treated your house not only for mosquitoes,
fleas and ticks so you can enjoy the yard, but
we also treated your the foundation of your house for
all those crawling insects like cockroaches and ants and silver
fish and all of those things to keep them out
of your house. Mosquito Joe is now a full service

(03:02):
test control company.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And we also treated you for roads and that was
a completely all natural product that will keep mice and
rats out of your house. Thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's lasting you want right there? I think, well anyway, uh,
and we we have so much enjoyed being able to
be outside, and especially this time of the year with
the uh, the the that that pressure and in those
hot afternoons, you know, we head out to the pool
and we're not having to worry about getting getting bid
by mosquitoes. Now, let's talk about that treatment here for

(03:38):
a second. This is a recurring service. What every three weeks,
guy's come out. Why why is it every three weeks stray.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, you're dealing with an outside environment that is subject
to a lot of UV, which is you know a
lot of people think that rain, you know, will wash
that the product off, and that is not true. In fact,
half of what we do is a granular treatment, treating
for mosquito larva before those mosquitoes are even born. And

(04:08):
you know, our philosphy is that they're never born. They
can't bite you, and they also can't continue to multiply.
So we're we're cutting off that breeding cycle by treating
any and all standing water, either getting rid of it
or treating it with larva. Side says that mosquitoes cannot
breed in that. And then we're spraying the yard, all
the foliage around the yard where those mosquitoes will seek

(04:31):
shelter from the sun and where they go to get
a meal. The only thing mosquitoes eat is the nectar
off of green foliage, so we're treating all of that
and once that product completely dries, it cannot be washed off.
It breaks down in place. But the thing that breaks
the products.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Down is UV.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And we have a lot of UV. I think the
UV index yesterday was ten, which is the highest it gets,
and that you know that can can take a beating on.
A product is built to break down. And so the
only way that it really works where you can go
outside anytime you want, day or night, is by reapplying
you know, that product every three weeks and finding more

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standing water and treating that with a larvacide.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So we do it.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
We don't have any contracts. A customer can start and
stop whenever they want, but you know, the way to
get this to work is just we start treating you
and then when you're done using the yard. At that
point they can call and stop service that they if
they'd like. Otherwise, we stop when the weather turns in
November December.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
String I was going to say, people might be surprised
by how long mosquito season lasts around here.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, the Midlands is famously hot, and you know, when
we have temperatures that are consistently above fifty degrees, that
is that is primetime for mosquitoes, and that lasts all
the way into November and sometimes into December. But when
we start getting temperatures consistently below fifty degrees, that will
pretty much put us stop to their breeding and expanding

(06:03):
their population, and so we stop for a few months,
and then we go right back at it about mid February,
getting out there with the larvacide and making sure that
those mosquitoes are not coming back.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I happen to know this because you and I
have known each other for a long time. We've talked
about this before. You've been treating my house for years now.
But for folks who aren't aware, in those off months,
in those winter months, when that timperature gets below fifty,
obviously at some point in time, all of the mosquitoes
flying around will die off, right, I mean, and then
a'll live very long to begin with, correct, I mean,

(06:37):
that's as pretty short lifespan for a skeeter, isn't it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Male mosquitoes usually last maybe seven to ten days. The
females will last four to six weeks. And all they're
doing the entire time they're alive is laying eggs. I
mean they as soon as they are born from a
larva to an adult mosquito, they find a mate, and
then they only have to mate once and then their

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body will continue to reproduce eggs. Again.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, well this is new information for me. I did
not know that.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, they don't have to find a mate over and over.
They really they take what that male gives them and
they reproduce eggs over and over again. And you know
the only thing they need to lay those eggs is
a blood meal, and that is why the females are
looking for you or your dog, your cat, birds, fox, squirrel,

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anything that is a blood bearing you know organism. They
are going to bite that to get a blood meal,
which gives them the protein to lay those eggs so
they can immediately start producing more.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
And yeah, they'll they'll lay thousands of eggs in their lifetime.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
So so, so hen's the question. All right, So when
they do die off of those cold winter months, well,
colds are well enough term, you know cold for us.
So how do they come back the next season? How
does that work?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah? So what happens is when the temperatures drop below
fifty degrees consistently, the eggs stop hatching. I mean a
female mosquito can lay up to three hundred eggs at
a time, and so you know, when the conditions are
not ideal like they are right now right now, those
eggs start hatching immediately, you know, unless they are not

(08:27):
you know, laid in standing water there. If they're not moist,
they'll they'll kind of incubate until it rains and they
get into a puddle and then they'll hatch, you know,
but when the temperatures are below fifty degrees consistently, they
kind of just go into incubation and they can sit
in that incubated period for years, years, until the conditions

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are right. And you know, that's why you have things
that are called like floodwater mosquitos that you only see
once every four or five years, and that's because those
eggs will laid, but until you get flooding waters, it
will raise that water table where those eggs actually get
wet enough to hatch. They just sit in incubation, and
so that's a different species of mosquitos than what we

(09:10):
normally have. But normally are you know, those eggs will
just incubate, you know, for a few months until the
conditions are above fifty degrees consistently, and then they start hatching.
And you know, it takes them longer to go through
that larval stage when it's cooler outside, but in the summertime, man,
they go through the larval stage and as little as

(09:30):
four days, well suddenly you've got hundreds of more mosquitos,
you know, coming out of whatever the standing water is,
a bucket or a wheelbarrow, or gutter or a ditch
or any kind of drain or anything like that that
holds water. You can bet they're going to find it
and start laying eggs.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
So you're telling me that if you again, just theoretically
speaking here, of course hypothetical, I should say, so if
you had a backyard that was totally devoid of mosquitoes,
and you happen to have one female sk either fly
in there and and take root, and she's already she's already,
she already had her boyfriend, so she could within four days,

(10:11):
you could go from uh no mosquitos to a couple
of hundred.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Absolutely, wow, yep. At this time of year, yes, you know,
in the wintertime. No, in the early spring and late fall,
not as quickly, but when conditions are right, they can
breed and expand very, very exponentially.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Really, is there anywhere aside from like maybe these you know,
Siberia or the top of you know, really tall mountains
or always snow covered, is there anywhere on Earth where
there aren't mosquitos?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I am I am not familiar with that, but
I you know, I think that you're pointing out the
places where they're less likely.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
To be that.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, people are always surprised to find out that
Alaska is one of the worst places in the country
for mosquitoes. Season is pretty short because they're cold, you know,
too cold for most of the year. But when they
warm up, their mosquitoes come out like droves. I mean,
the pressure is extremely intense. If you're not sprayed down

(11:14):
with some kind of you know, deep or something like that,
you can get eaten alive really fast.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
And then there are those places in the world where
this is a serious, serious health issue.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, mosquito born illnesses is you know, mosquitoes are the
number one, you know animal in the world as far
as deaths. I mean, a very very distant second would
be humans killing other humans. But these things that people
are terrified of, like alligators and crocodiles and sharks. You know,

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the number of deaths per year around the world is
extremely low in comparison to the number of people that
are are killed by by mistuso born illness. Unfortunately, we
don't have a high widespread issue of that here in
this country, but it does happen from time to time,

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and you know, our municipalities keep the mosquito population low
enough that we don't really have to worry about that
so much, but it still doesn't make it so you
can go out on your back deck and enjoy, you know,
a nice evening without spraying yourself down.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, and talk about that, Trey. We're talking to
Trey Pale from Mosquita Joe. Yeah, the municipalities come around
every now and then they'll they'll they'll be out spraying.
I don't know if they've been out yet this year
or not. I guess maybe they have. I haven't heard.
But how is that different from what you guys do.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, they're very much in the interest of public health.
I mean they are there to make sure the mosquito
population doesn't get so high that there is a threat
of dingate fever or Zeka virus or you know, chickagon,
you know any of these, you know, potentially deadly diseases
that come from mosquitos. That those sorts of things happen

(13:03):
when the mosquito population gets out of control, and so
they spend a lot of time larva siding, you know,
huge fat flatlands and swamp areas and things like that,
just to keep the mosquito population down. If they were
not doing that, we would be just like the rest
of the world, in constant fear of you know, mosquitoes.

(13:24):
We're in places around the country where you you know,
you see these TV shows like Naked and Afraid and
the people have thousands of mosquito bites all over them.
That's the kind of situation when in some of these
countries that are just overrun by mosquitos and they don't
have the money to do widespread mosquito control, you know.
So you know, we can thank our municipalities for keeping

(13:47):
the mosquitoes in check, but it still doesn't make it
low enough that we can just go outside anytime we want,
you know. They we still have a ton of mosquitoes.
And that's where mosquito Joe comes into. Let's make out
side fun again.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Absolutely and it works tremendously well. I can't tell you
how how I mean, I unless I leave my property,
I don't have to deal with them. I mean, it's
really cool. It's it's what everybody should be.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
We just hired a receptionist this year to hanswer the
phone and she says, you know, I was a I
was a doubter for years. I used to always laugh
at people who use the mosquito company. She's like, that
doesn't work. And somebody, her aunt, who had always had it,
who she used to always make fun of, bought it
for her for a gift, you know, just a few treatments,

(14:38):
and she was shocked. She's like, this really does work.
I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we can.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
We guarantee it. If we can't resolve your problem, we'll
do it again for free, and if we still can't
resolve it, we'll just give your money back. I mean,
we are confident. Uh, we know the mosquitos in this area.
We know exactly how to target them and treat them,
and there is very very few instances, if ever, of
a situation that we can't get under control.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well, final question for you tree. For folks who've never
tried your service before, they're probably thinking, okay, well, great,
you can come out, you can treat my yard. Cool,
But if you're not treating my neighbor's yards, what good
does it do.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, So that barrier treatment that we put around that
property is going to eliminate any any live mosquitos on
the property, but it sticks to whatever we spray it
on and breaks down in place, which means it's like
putting a flea collar around that yard. If the mosquito
comes from another yard into yours, they're going to be
eliminated too. And so it lasts for about three weeks,

(15:46):
and then we reapply it every three weeks, just like clockwork,
just keeping you mosquito free throughout the season.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
There you go, all right, So you mentioned no contract
required as for either of your whether it's the home,
the full home, pest, control the road, and control the biscuity.
Control doesn't matter, never a contract, right, That is correct. Okay,
So folks like your current receptionists who weren't believers in
this but are thinking, oh, I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, anybody who's never used this before, we'll let them
try this service for only thirty nine dollars, which is
a deep discount. That's we're not making money on that,
but we just want you to experience it and try it,
and then you know, after that we you know, the
feed just depends on the size of the property. You know,
we'll do up to a half an acre for thirty
nine bucks for the first time, so you can try it.

(16:35):
We want to earn your business the right way, and
they can just call us at eight five to five
Aska Joe, eight five to five Aska Joe and we
will quote them right over the phone and get them
on the on the schedule.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, Trey, always going to talk to you, my friend.
Enjoy the rest of your hot weekend.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Thank you too.

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the Midlands on one oh three point five FM and
five sixty am WVOC and we welcome into the studio
Jeremy how today mister Electric. Good to see you buddy.
How are you man? Good? Great?

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Good, good to see you man.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hey do you have like a like a you know,
a season where things get really busy in your world,
and mister electric Ors is pretty.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Much just you know, we stay pretty steady, you know. Sure,
oh yeah, pretty much a steady flow of calls, you know,
because because you do we have a little slow down period,
but not really a real you know pick up time
that I've noticed.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Certain certain things though, I mean, it doesn't matter what
time of the year. Somebody's got an electrical problem. They
got electrical problem. Yeah. But you know, for example, you
people started getting out and saying, all right, it's time
to start thinking about you know, doing some stuff in
the yard, you know, and fixing things up beautiful. Now
you guys do a lot of that too, not.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yard work, but yeah, we do some landscape lighting for
you escape light, you know, dark areas in your home.
If you need lighting in your home somewhere where you've
got a dark area, we can add lighting.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
If you're cleaning up and you know, doing some spring
cleaning and you notice you know, cracked outlets or dingy
looking devices, or we can replace those items for you
get it looking top notch.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
New devices make a big difference, you know, if they're
twenty thirty years old. A lot of times new devices
go a long way more than you would think.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
You're talking devices. You're talking about.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Switches, receptacles, you know, those those type of items.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean, let's say I've got a you know, a
receptacle for example. It's twenty years old now, but it works. Yeah,
how could it be upgraded? I mean what would what
would replacing it due for me? What would it make
How would that make it better for me?

Speaker 4 (20:28):
I guess we'll prevent it from from having, you know,
a surprise failure. Everything that gets old, you know it's
starting to wear out.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, I know that firsthand.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
It's still it's still working. That's good. But proactive I
like to be proactive in certain things. In your electrical
system is something that is mechanical and after a certain
amount of time, Uh, it's something that you should be
thinking about, whether it's working or not, taking a look
at it and getting some of these items replaced to
prevent any kind of surprise failure.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's kind of one of those things. And maybe it's
because we don't see them. We don't see the wiring,
we don't see all that stuff. It's hidden from us,
you know, it's out of sight, out of mind. We
only know something's wrong with something don't work right, So yeah,
I guess by and large most people don't really think
about that as much as other things like you know,
I don't know your roof for your pain job or

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

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Absolutely, it makes it a lot more cost effective if
you if you're proactive and you maintain your system rather
than calling emergency services being without power, uh, hotel rooms, whatever.
The cost of everything is whenever you know, it's a
surprise failure.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
One of the biggest things you see when you go
into homes that that that that need to be upgraded.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
What are the man services, you know, service electrical services
that are you know, got panels that don't have a
main breaker, uh, just old obsolete systems that are just
barely hanging.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
On by a thread, you know.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Uh, so a lot of old services.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Around.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
When you say services, so the the panel box in
your home where the breakers are, uh, the the meter
socket outside, you know, a riser. Some people have their
house is fed overhead. Risers are dilapidated. Uh, you know,
that's your service where the point of where it comes

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into the home, and then the distribution center where where
it puts it out to all the things you use
in your house.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
So yeah, I guess, and most of us probably get
it wrong. I would think some of those things you're
just you know, wires coming to the home or whatever,
we would think that would be the responsibility.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Utility up to the point of attachment. Okay, So where
you have a pipe that goes up or a pipe
that goes down into the ground, the point of attachment
for the pipe that goes up overhead up to that
point is your responsibility.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
So basically, when it touches your house, it becomes yours.
That's right, Okay? Yeah, Typically, how old does a home
have to be before you you're saying, you know, obviously
if a home was built the forties of the fifties,
that would be maybe pretty obvious that if the electricity
has never been upgraded or what have you, it probably

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needs to be. But I mean, how far back do
you go? I mean fifteen years, twenty years, twenty five.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
I mean, let's you see a service, you know, depending
on the twenty five to thirty years is a good
rule of thumb time to start looking at that service
and see how you know, at least get it looked at.
Call us out doing inspection on the home. We can
go over all kinds of new items out there that'll
make that home electrical system safer, such as afciebreaker, surge protection,

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ground fault protection. If you need a new service, if
we find heat damage or or it's just an obsolete
type panel. In order to prevent it from having an
emergency failure where you're in a bad situation, we can
let you know what it's going to cost, schedule a

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time to do it, and then you'd be prepared for
it and be good for another thirty years.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know, how long was someone did that take? I
mean it's actually the downtime for the customer, homeowner, business owners,
what have you.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Depends on the service. Some services are pretty straightforward, can
take you know, two days. Panel changes that they maybe
sometimes a little longer if they need to be moved.
So there's all kinds of factors that go into play.
When you're building a service just due to code updates.
Where the service is located, if it's still acceptable service

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

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Just out of curiosity, you mentioned code updates, so they
come down fast and furious. I'm sure. I mean different
cod updates have you've seen in your time? Electricity business man,
I've been doing this for thirty years. You've seen a few.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
I seen a few. Yeah, it's hard to say. It's
updated every three years, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
things are changing for your system. It just means, you know,
there's new things that came out, you know, So every
three years though, the code is updated, but it doesn'tcessarily
change everything in the codebook. It's just stuff that's added

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

Speaker 1 (26:06):
What are the biggest changes you've seen over your thirty
years in the business when it comes to you know,
updates and such. I mean, is it a tough to
nail down? Just wanted?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, it's nail down because I mean when I started,
you didn't have the ground switches. Now you have the
ground switches. You know, didn't have any Afciyes, gfcies were
only required in a couple places, you know, bathrooms and
kitchens you know, and outside, but now they're they're all over,

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you know.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So so this just gets me to wonder, for example,
if you're selling a home or buying a home and
the homeless spectrum comes in, you don't have a g
GFCI in you know, near a sink or a bathroom
or a kitchen what have you. Yeah, you'll probably get
flagged on that one, right, yes, but a lot of
times what about the other code updates that have come

(26:57):
down over the years, Say for a home that was
built forty years ago, a lot of updates come down.
I mean those things ever get flagged, you.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Know, Yeah, we've seen it depends, I know.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
I know.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Home inspectors can sometimes have a different you know we
you know, price for a different type of inspection, you know,
a real thorough focused.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I know when I had my house inspected, I had
four different options and one you know, the cheapest was
like you know, around five hundred, and the most expensive
was twenty five hundred. So I imagine the home inspection
based on what you're trying to get out of it.
A basic home inspection that they're probably not gonna flag
a bunch of items. They're looking for immediate problems, you know,

(27:44):
like a rotted but these are yeah, these are peeing
or something. You know, they're kind of jacks of all trades.
I mean, they're not electricians necessarily, probably not that also,
so they may.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Not even know what to look for when it comes
to something as detailed as that, I guess, yeah, that's right.
But they're good.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
They're getting good, I know, I know. Some of the
biggest things hit on is JIFF. You know, ground fault
circuit interrupters. Ground fault protection, which keeps you from getting electrocuted,
protects you there's any kind of leaking current and you
come into contact with it that GFI said trip instantly
before you ever make contact with it, it's going to
detect that leaking current and shut down. So ground fault

(28:24):
protection and smoke detectors, smoke alarms and UH are two
of the biggest that we see on home inspection reports.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
And interesting you bring up the We've talked about this before.
You smoke alarm, smoke detectors and such. We moved a
bottle home back last August, and that was about the
time you and I started talking. And when we moved
to that house, I said, man, there are durned smoke
detectors all over this house. I have never lived in

(28:54):
a home that had that many. But that's changed, Ryeah.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's one of the updates in the code over They've
added them in more and more areas and got a
little more stringent with them based off, I guess, you know,
off of experiences with not having them. So when I
started thinking, it was one in the house on each
level and that was it, you know, kind of in
a central location.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'mb a Beth that unless a home has been built
in the last couple of years or sold in the
last couple of years, that probably the majority of the
homes don't have anywhere near as many as are now recommended. Right,
how many should you have? I mean, what's what's the
rule of thumb?

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Now? Okay, so one in every bedroom a smoke detector,
one on every level of the home, one outside the
vicinity of every bedroom, so you know, within a fifteen
foot of a bedroom door, there should be another outside
the bedroom there should be another detector depending on if
you have gas or if your garage is attached to

(29:56):
your home, where you access the house through the garage
would also mean you'd need carbon monoxide combination type multi
criteria type detector's alarms.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
So I don't think it was maybe overkilled this house
right now, because if you walk into the house the
door from the garage, there's one right there when you
walk in inside the home, and then there's probably about
a five foot wall, and then it turns and then
there's another one right there in the kitchen. It's like, Okay,
it seems a little duplicative, but whatever, it just doesn't hurt.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
No, it's not gonna hurt because if there's something going on,
you want them to go off. And I think that's
the whole the whole point having them in multiple areas
scattered throughout the house wherever a fire where to occur.
They're interconnected, so the first one that detects smoke is

(30:53):
going to alert all the rest. So no matter where
you're at in the house, it's going to give you
a better reliable, more reliable response to uh, get out
of that home.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, I didn't realize they were. They all kind of
talk to each other. Now.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, So, if you have a fire on the far
end of the house and you got a smoke detector
right above where that little fire started, that smoke detector
is going to go off and alert you all the
way across the house at another smoke detector. Whereas if
you had a smoke detector in the middle of your
house and that was it, that smoke would have to
creep all the way through the house to give to
that smoke that smoke alarm and uh, and by that

(31:31):
time you may not have as much time as you
would have had. You're not going to have as much
time as you would have had before to get out
of that home because you were alerted late, you see.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, So so if you're if you're still rocking the
one or two smoke detectors in your home, it's probably
time to upgrade that.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, call us out there. We'll we'll we'll run you
a whole new smoke detector, smoke alarm system, multi criteria alarms.
The alarms we use, they have a ten year battery.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Uh they use. Yeah, if you should annually going to
start and so's I got like thirty five of them
my house. Yeah, oh, yeah, so it's still the big house.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
You got that gate.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
It just seems like they put them everywhere. I don't know.
We got a minute or two left. Let's talk quickly
about something we started off mentioning that is a you know,
outdoor landscape lighting. I mean, you guys again do a
lot of that work. Yeah, and I think that maybe
we some of us think that man, that's gonna be
like really complicated, but it really isn't. I mean the
way you guys do it.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
No, No, it's a you know, landscape lighting is a
pretty simple project, especially if you do it, you know,
and you've done it. Uh yeah, So it's not a
it's not a it's a lot of digging and you know,
stuff that a lot of people don't want to do.
But yeah, you know, so that's why they call us.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Well, yeah, but the way you guys do it, I mean,
if you're thinking of I want to destroy my front yard,
right landscape lighting, but no.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
No, no, we can you know, we get we don't
even really need a trench. We can cut grooves in
your yard deep enough for because it's going to be
low vault lighting.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
So that that means so that that that wire doesn't
have to be buried just deeply.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
No, it doesn't have to be down according to the
code for a regular voltage.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
What's the what's the difference? Why is that?

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Well the twenty you know, twelve vaults, isn't you know?
It's like a battery laying in your yard. It's not
going to shock you.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh you know.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
And then uh, when you get to one hundred and
twenty vaults, now you're now you're in trouble. If you
get hit with one hundred and twenty vaults, you.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Know it's okay, can cause harm or fires, right, Jeremy holiday,
mister Electric. Whether folks need to need some helping fixing
something or checking something out or outdoor landscape, a landscape lighting?
How do folks get a hold of you guys? Who
gets you out there on the job.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Absolutely? They can call us at eight zero three eight
six eight four to two, four to three, or they
can go online to mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
All right, jeremy, good to see about it.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Good to see you, gay.

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Speaker 4 (34:38):
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(35:01):
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Speaker 1 (35:03):
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(35:46):
one O three point five FM and five sixty AMWVOC.
It's wonderful to have you spend us some time with
us on this Saturday morning. My name is Gary David
and thanks for hanging out with us. We appreciate it.
Don't forget the Health and Walla show follows us in
just a short while. But we wrap up the program
this morning with the team from Finishing Touch. It's a

(36:07):
owner Russ Markaesy. Good morning to you, Russ, Good morning Gary,
and right now grabbing for her cell phone to silence,
at which I just remember I didn't do that either
for mine. Hang on a minute, Hang on, I make
I made this mistake about five times a week during
the week, so don't worry about it. Lisa is back
Lisa Jorgensen, the interior extra Yeah, are extraordinary. Good to

(36:29):
see again, Lisa.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Hey, Gary, nice to see you.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right, so uh we y'all. You were with us
a couple of weeks ago, and we talked about because
you know again finishing touch team. You guys are painters.
That's right. You paint, that's what we do. You and
do you paint? Wow? We painted all Gary, And I
posed the question. I said, okay, uh well, Lisa, you
as an interior designer, you do more than just advise

(36:54):
people on paint colors, right, Oh gosh, you were on
the whole gamut of things. So I found very interesting that. Yeah,
the two of you, you guys work together a lot.
Huh we do. We sure do, Lisa, Yeah, we do
quite quite a bit of projects. How many years it's
been many years alone.

Speaker 6 (37:10):
And we figured it out last week. It was hermo
Interiors and the Friars. Yeah, shop and Center.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
That's right, that's where we That's right, ago like a
lifetime nineteen ninety don't say it, I know nine long.
You're right, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yes, So so over the years, you guys have probably
experienced a little bit of everything working together.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Huh, i'd say, so, huh, yes, yeah, yeah, we do
quite a bit. Yeah, yeah we do. Uh, we've done
I remember in those days, we were doing a lot
of faux finishing back in those days.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
But I know what foe means. But explain this in
the vernacular of a painter. What's a faux face?

Speaker 7 (37:57):
So it's it's a it's a fake, it's a fake.
Look right, So foe means fake obviously, right. I believe
it's a French word. If I'm not mistaken, that's what
it is.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
And so what we would do is like marbleized columns,
we would do wood graining, we would do pull off
type textures all over walls, all sorts of stuff like that.
But that was you know, again, that was a that
was a lifetime ago, and it's not as common anymore
to do to do that sort of stuff. You still see,
do you? I mean, so, Lisa, do you see glazing

(38:28):
on cabinets a whole lot?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Do you see that?

Speaker 7 (38:31):
Because we haven't done it in probably a couple few
years at least, and before that it was maybe once
a year we would do, right, you know.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
And and Gary, that's when you you have a base
color on your cabinetry, right, and you put some a
stained color or something all in the little cracks and
crevices and give it some detail. Right, Okay, yeah, I'm
sure everybody's seen that before. We used to do a
whole lot of that and it you know, styles and
fads come and go, and that was that was.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Kind of one of them. Yeah, okay, I've seen it.
I didn't know what it was called. Yes, that's what
it's called. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
It's a round still bit yeah, not as much, not
as much.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Pull that microphone a little bit closer to you there,
that's fine. There you go and eat it beautiful. It'll
cost you four I'm telling you, I've hit my nose
on it a few times. So what's would have been
some of the I'm sure you've you've had some experiences, Lisa,
working with these these guys over here.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
I have.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
So I told Russa said, oh, I need to tell
the story because my parents were moving my parents here
from Atlanta and they're eighty five and eighty seven, and
it just so happened that the house next door to
me became available, literally right next door.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
Yeah, so that that really is was a blessing from
God that I could bring them up and move them
next door. We've we're remodeling, totally gutting bathrooms, kitchens and so.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Better interior design exactly, no kidding, I.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Know, I can't wait. It's it's gone. We're ready. It's
about one more month. But so of course Russ painted.
His team came in and painted everything. So while they
were painting, I found a mom kitten in the backyard
and five babies.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
And wait, did you feed them?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yours now?

Speaker 6 (40:36):
And I'm such an animal lover, I'm like, oh, so
the master bedroom just happened to have corpet still in
it that we're obviously pulling up. But it was a
perfect robber room for the mom and her babies. And
this is still while everybody is painting, and so we've
got chaos going on throughout the house and I'm coming

(40:58):
back and forth feeding the baby's next door and you know,
take care of the mom and the cats. But their
team was wonderful as far as that's what I was.
They were so accommodating that they you know, I had
the door closed, I had a gate up. I mean,
they just left it alone. They they didn't bother the room.
You know, I could trust their team not to you know,

(41:21):
I was worried to let them out or something like that.
So and they still have to come back and paint
that room because sure, and my dad would die to
know if he knew, he's probably gonna.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, that's a secret on that one. But how does
that work though, rus? I mean, because again, if you're
going to do an entire home exactly that that can
take some time. So it does, you know?

Speaker 7 (41:46):
I mean, uh, sometimes we're in folks home for two weeks, right, Lisa.
Sometimes it's all the we up to two weeks long.
So uh, it's not like everybody can just pack up
and leave for two weeks while we come in there
and do the painting. Right, So we were constantly accommodating
two folks. You take like something simple, like nobody really

(42:08):
thinks about this, right, Well, your bedroom, let's say your
master bedroom, we have to take all that apart and
do all the painting in there. Maybe there's extensive painting,
maybe we have to remove popcorn ceilings, maybe there's sheet
rock work that needs to be done. So what we'll
do is we'll come in there and we'll cover everything
with plastic and make sure that there's no dust or anything.
But we realize that you have to sleep in that

(42:29):
room that night, so we'll remove all of the plastic
a lot. Most of the time, we'll put the bed
back for you. We'll put it back together for you.
We do things like this all the time. Now, that's
not not one hundred percent of the time, right. People
have different accommodations sometimes, or they have a different room
or whatever the case is. But whatever is needed is
what we'll do for you. We just, you know, we

(42:50):
realize you got to live in this house. Another thing
that I thought was kind of funny that I was
thinking about, Lisa, was when folks are doing their kitchens right, well,
when they're factoring in costs of doing their kitchens, one
thing that they don't ever figure into the cost is
having to eat out take takeout. Yeah, yeah, they don't ever,
they don't ever. I can't tell you how many times

(43:12):
customers will look at me and be like, well, I
guess we're eating out tonight, and they just didn't think
about it, you know, And that could be a week
or two weeks of eating out.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Sometimes we went through this and we moved new house life.
Of course, we were having a lot of stuff done
in that, not the kitchen itself, but the big, huge
we were opening up this big a dinarroom and eating
and all that. And it took a couple of weeks.
And so you don't want to, you know, be leaving
we we had just moved in. We didn't want to
put plates out in the rights in the cabinets as

(43:41):
you can get sought us exactly exactly. So yeah, and
we eat out maybe once or twice a week tops,
one of those being on the weekend. Yeah, and the
Lord knows it's not cheap, right, And and that was
a oh gosh, we got to eat out. Yep. Yeah,
I hadn't put that in the budget.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Yeah, I mean that, you knows, be another thousand and
fifteen hundred dollars that in that budget, that that folks
aren't really thinking about. It's just some one of those
little funny caveats that nobody ever really thinks about.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
But on another note, you don't put that in your estimation?

Speaker 7 (44:12):
No, No, maybe I should, Maybe I should start doing
that actually yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
A lot of times if you're doing a couple of rooms,
that y'all get in and get it knocked out.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
We do.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
We're not messing around. So I can't say many times
you've heard all this. You know, this guy's been in
here for a week and a half. Well what's he painting?

Speaker 4 (44:30):
No?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Two rooms? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (44:33):
No?

Speaker 7 (44:33):
We got to get in and get out. We realize that. Look,
we don't want to be in your hair just as
much as you don't want us in your hair. Right,
so we know, but we've got to do the right
procedures and the right preparations. Still, along with that, we
don't want to. We'll never cut corners for that reason,
but but we do so if it requires putting an
extra you know, person on it, or two people possibly

(44:56):
to expedite that, that's what we'll have to do.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
We work with.

Speaker 7 (45:00):
Deadlines all the time. Well, you know we have to
be done in three days. I mean how many times
you would do that, Lisa?

Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (45:04):
Four days, five days, two days, whatever it is. And uh,
we have to accommodate for that. So that means either
manning up that job or or less.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
You know.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Now, another thing too, is they'll see such the beauty
of what they've painted, and they'll want to add a
room or at all the time, and so but they'll
they'll they won't be well, we'll come back in a month.
They'll go ahead and it's all for me and take
care of it. And which the clients love because you
got them excited. Do you want to like, you know, hey, we.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Can we can become the Murphy Brown painter if you'd
like us to, you know, anytime, we'll stay there and
just keep painting if you want.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
Well, that that's what's my clients love. They're like, oh,
can you just stay and finish?

Speaker 7 (45:50):
And you do always yeah, yeah, well there's no sense
in that and then and then there's tear down and
clean up. So if we're already there or we have
all of our tools out, you know, there's no sense
in not doing it that in that moment, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Okay, now now Russ Lisa Russ mentioned a word a
few minutes ago. It got men a thing and bring
this up popcorn ceiling? Oh yeah, okay?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Is is that.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
One of the trends that will never come back?

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Hopefully? Not?

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Right? I mean everybody hates popcorns? Was that what was
originally done? It was easier to hide it's cheap imperfections
and such. Right, it's cheaper. Yeah, she's cheaper, it is,
And it's a mess. It's been through that before. We
remove it constantly, we do, right, it is it is.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
You know, in certain circumstances you can actually sheathe over it.
You can put sheet rock right over the top of it.
I hadn't thought in a lot of cases you can
do that, especially if you have crown mold up top.
You can pop that crown mold off, put your sheet
rock up and you don't have to finish your corners
because your crown moldscope you know, goes back and hides
that corner.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Right.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
Yeah, So we have a lot of absolutely my house,
it might be more.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
At least we've done that several times for several.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
Of your closes.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
Quite a bit a big mess, right, quite a bad Yeah,
But we've got that new festival right.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
So it's at Sanders. It's a it's a I love
this thing. It's a big sand around a pole. But
it's hooked up to a vacuum, is what it is.
I have seen that. Yeah, it is awesome.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
So as you're eating away that popcorn, hardly anything, any
debris or dust is falling to the ground.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Whatsoever. It is just awesome. We love it. Have you
ever been into a situation occurs to me because this
happened with my my father in law years ago when
he moved into a condo I'm not gonna say which one,
and it turned out we want to do some remodeling
work on it. It turned out dose asbestos. Oh yeah, sure, what.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
So we we Sherwin Williams actually sells kits uh for
for testing of lead and asbestos. Uh and we we
keep those things stocked on our vans and trucks.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (47:56):
So we are constantly checking for lead, checking for asbestos
because you do. You have to be super careful about that. Uh.
And it's everywhere. It's in areas you wouldn't even imagine
where it's at. So you know, and when when that happens,
especially when it comes to asbestos, it has.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
To be abated. We can't, we can't remove it. There
are companies that do that correct specially yes, they're yeah,
abatement companies that will come in and actually remove.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
All that for you.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, back to the popcorn see things though for
a second. Okay, as you say, you hope that's a
trend that never comes back. Are there other trends that
you think will never come back when it comes to
interior design.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
I'm not a fan of really deep deep wood cabinets. Sure, no,
just that that may or I mean it's still probably around,
but I'm just not like the deep red not red,
but the red wood like that deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm just I'm not. It's just kind of lighter, brighter,

(48:55):
especially it's been a lot of lighter and leads me
to like, when I go into my clients, the first
thing they ask is should I gut this or should
I repaint my cabinets? And what you have to look
at is the the if the cabinets are still in

(49:17):
really good shape and we can change hinges out all
the time, Like if you have those exposed hinges that
date it, change those out. But if they're still in
pretty good shape and you're not changing the floor, you know,
the footprint of the kitchen, and they just want to facelift,
then that is the route to go. And I can't

(49:37):
stress the finish that Russ and his team does on
I mean it is just night and day.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Okay, your average kitchen, Lisa, whatever averages if you wanted
to start all over again and rip the ball out
and replace them. What's the ballpark number on that these days?
Not for the not for the best, most expensive, not
for the cheapest, but I mean for good quality cabinets.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
I mean it's going to run like at least thirty
up to depending on what you want, thirty to eighty
ninety thousand.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Wow, oh yeah, it will. That's crazy. And that's increased
by a house.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
For that, it is like hardware backsplash, you know, just
the building. Because we had a client on the lake
that we did and it was an older house and
she was going to leave some cabinets and then I
talked her into gutting them just because they it wouldn't
look right. It was just it was water damage. And

(50:35):
so Russ took all the cabinets back. I think she
had a contractor that actually built the cabinets for her,
and then he came in and took them back to
the shop. And but I mean, that is going to
cost you a lot more than just refacing and just painting.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
Night because a lot of times, least of the structure
there is better than even some of the new ones
that you right by.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Right, it's actual real wood.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
There's a lot of better fits to it, right, And
like you said, if you're not changing that footprint, painting
them is a fraction of the cost of replacing those.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Absolutely, even if you're talking about spending thirty thousand dollars
to replace them on all those sides and it you know,
the cost.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
It depends on a lot of things that you choose.
But a lot of people have the low cabinets where
they've got everybody would put the nick knacks on top,
and they want those closed in. So you know, I'll
get my carboner to come and close those in and
then Russ will come and paint them. And it looks
it really looks like a.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Discuy is the limit when it comes to these cabinets. Okay,
you know, Lisa, how many times you can replace the
You can replace the you can reface them right through
all the doors which we could repaint all those. They
can add a piece of crum mold up top, they
can add paneling to the ends, they can beef those
things up. If they're not all the way to the ceiling,
they can add trim to make it, you know, go

(51:52):
to all the way up to the ceiling with a
piece of crown to trim it out up top to
make it look custom. And these are all things that
you can do that are a lot a fraction of
the cost of replacing them.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
So if it's minimal to a lot of people have
the high bars that usually it was all instead of
a countertop, that's right, and you we can come in
and knock those down but still keep the original cabinets,
but just kind of knock the countertop down and take
that bar out.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
All kinds of options here there are. The sky's the limit,
it really is.

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Yeah, And we work with a client's budget for sure.
That's for them.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
You don't want to see my budget right now, give
me both we are we're out of time. Look at that,
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I answered my phone all the time. Gary, got to
answer your phone eight oh three four six seven six

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seven five nights and Lisa. Uh. Folks want to get
a hold of you directly to start the process working
with an interior designer who knows her stuff.

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Speaker 1 (53:12):
V elon the Alon. It's good to see you both again.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
Gary too, Gary, thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Appreciate it too. Take care.

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