Home Improvement Show 06-24-23

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning and welcome. It's timefor the Home Improvement Show the Midlands on
one h three point five FM andfive sixty am w voc OD. It's
wonderful to have you with us thisSaturday morning. My name is Gary David.
I'll be here for the next hourand the way hour of that too
to help the water to show.So hang out on us for a while
this morning. But we got alot of great information to pass along to
you this morning on the Home ImprovementShow. Trade Power from Mosquito Joe.

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All this rain we've had, lookfor the mosquito population to explode in the
coming days and weeks. He's gota solution for that for you. Paul
Prince from Door to Door Floors,we'll talk about what flooring you should choose
if you've got an allergy. Itmay not be so cut and dried.
We'll talk about flooring analogies. AndRenee Event from Diamond Concrete Solutions will be

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by with a couple of his guysto talk about the process for sprucing up
that concrete around the place. Firstup, though, Hey, it's Heath
from Beaver Roofing and Gutters. Goodmorning, Heath, how are you Boddy,
good morning, doing great. Howare you? I'm well speaking of
all this rain we've had, huhwow, and a lot of it.
Yeah, he's the he's the guy. He is the man, the project

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manager for the gutter installations at theBeaver Roofing and Gutters. And I was
mentioning this on the air of thispast week, Heath. I make it
a point every time now we geta day lusion. I think it was
Wednesday night at our house. Atleast it just rained cats and dogs.
And I look out from the sunroom. Check out those six inch seamless

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gutters y'all put up on there.Not a single splash over, no overflow.
It's a beautiful thing. Brother.Yeah, I can imagine the from
the five inch to the sixth inchfive inch you used to have to the
sixth inch now, it's a bigdifference. That's a It's an impressive product
when it's put up correctly, itreally is. So you we should spend

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some time this morning and talk about, well, ay, a couple things.
Number one, maybe you've got fiveinch, the standard old fashioned size
gutter on your home. That andmaybe it didn't do the job for you.
This past week during some of thosedownpours, or maybe you don't have
well one or two things, nogutters at all, or you have proper
gutters. Let's talk about the downsideof not having gutters than the effects that

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could have on your home and onyour wallet. Well, this week is
going to be a good indication forpeople because the amount of rain coming off
the roof is just unbelievable. Iknow, we looked out and we've been
in our house for seven years andmy front yard was flooded. I've never

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had that. Yeah, So peoplego outside now look around the foundation.
They're going to see they're gonna seewater lines all the way around, probably
deeper than they're used to. Thatwater will eventually work its way back underneath
your house. Then you know thatsits under there. It's a lot harder
for it to evaporate. Of course, it's South Carolina. In the summer,

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it's going to get hot and you'regoing to start to notice that that
odor you know, of water underneathwater around your house crack foundations. One
of the big things that I've noticedhere recently is the access door to your
crawl space. I've had a numberof those that have just rotted out and

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what happens is the water falls offthe roof, hits the ground, splashes
back on that door. Eventually,if you have a wooden door, it's
going to go away, it's goingto rot completely out Right. The benefit
of a gutter is not only catchthat water and keep it from going to
the ground all the way around yourhouse, but you can take it to
four or five six however many downspoutsyou need points where the water is coming

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out. It makes it much easierto control. You can direct that water
where you want to go when it'scoming off, and you know four or
five points as opposed to the entireperimeter of your home. And that's a
function of the bigger gutter size.Right, you don't take as many downspouts,
I think you've told us before either, correct, you can get a
much longer run with one downspout,so it alleviates you know, maybe one

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or two downspouts, which doesn't seemlike a lot, but when you're trying
to control your gutters, when you'retrying to control your water, you know,
two less spots to have to figureout where to move the water from
is pretty good. Absolutely, Anddepending on what your home is made of
I mean, if it's brick,maybe not that big of an issue.
But if you've got vinyl siding,masonites, whatever, that that water unimpeded

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off of your roof can cause damageto the exterior home too, can it.
Well, even in the brick it'sit's much worse. And people think
because if you walk around your houseand you look in that water splashback up,
not only do you have you know, dirt and sand and grime that
splashes on, but you'll start toget mold in your mortar lines and unrestricted

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it'll actually eat the mortar out frombetween the bricks. Really. Wow.
Yeah, so there's where on thatmortar just like you know, water run
it over anything, Eventually it's gonnastart to wear. So you get a
a lot of places where you knowthe mortar has worked its way out from
from years of water splashing on it. Or if you notice, if you
have a brick foundation whos you're walkingaround you see a little green plant life

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growing on there. You know that'sbeing fed from the organic material and the
water coming off your roofs splashing backon your brick, that's what feeds that.
So you know, brick itself isnot the only UH is not a
fail safe against water intrusion. Andagain we're talking about this is the cumulive
effect over time. Correct, ifyou just move into your home a couple

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of days ago as the heavy downpour, you're not worried about your foundation right
now, but correct, well,over years, I mean, and it
couldn't take years, it just itbuilds up. Well, I think I
think I've told you the story before. You know, I went to a
house one day and they had avalley with a lot of water coming off
in one spot and it had createda whole big enough to come to my

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knee, which is quite a longway up there. So I've seen them
three four you know, dig outthree four foot holes just from just from
water continually falling off the roof.So let's talk about the fix for this,
the cure, and that's obviously agutter. And again defined for us,

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would you all call proper guttering,Well, proper guttering is based on
the house. You know, Itell people all the time, any place
water falls off of your roof,you should have a gutter. That doesn't
necessarily mean you have to if thewater falls off and you have a steep
hill right on that side of thehouse. Water is probably gonna run away

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and you're gonna be fine. Butin reality, anywhere water comes off the
house, you should catch it ina gutter directed to a place where it
can run away from your foundation.Most houses are designed in a way that
we can put up gutters, placethe downspouts, and just let the water
run away. In a few occasions, you are going to have to add

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some black pipe, some kind ofa lengthening system in order to move the
water away. But for the mostpart, we can design it so that
where we put the down spouts,the water will come off to a place
where it will naturally flow away fromyour house. Yeah, again, you
have the worst case scenario where youmay have to dig in a drain or

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two in order to get the waterto flow away under the ground. But
you know that's one out of thirtyone out of forty. Most people's houses
are designed. I can put themon the corners. There's some suales cut
between the houses where water supposed togo. We have the water come off
there draining a shale, It goesaway and at least significantly improve your water

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situation. Not talk all the time, about you know, you're looking at
this as an investment and the returnon your investment. Again, worst case
scenario, Heath, you don't havethe proper guttering. You've got that rain
trenching outside the base of your homeseeping down to your foundation. And we
all know and hey, listen,this is not a knock on the foundation

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repair companies in this state. Weneed them absolutely and they do good work.
But it ain't cheap. Manum theyear horror stories about tens of dollars
to get a foundation repaired. Yeah, you have two. You have to
return on your investment when you putup a gutter. Initially, you can
save you can save your foundation.You can help your foundation. You can

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lengthen the life of your foundation.And not just your foundation. Um,
you know, your your access door, if you're the base of your home,
whatever it is, especially with themason the Masonite just can't handle being
yeah, hammered by water. Soso that's the lengthening of your investment.
And then as far as resale goes, you know, having gutters on your

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house is not going to be animprovement that will you know, increase the
value of your home per se.But people moving from out of the area
where gutters are required, are goingto notice if they're not there. And
they are required in all but reallya handful of states in the country,

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right, I believe it's three.It might be four now, but yes,
they are, they are required andeverywhere. You know, we have
an influx of people like me fromthe north, and they're required all everywhere.
Up there, they always notice thatthere's not a gutter on. I
guess that was a little surprising foryou when you came down here from up

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from they were required. What's what? Why? Why? You know?
You know we have, um,it's a lot colder, and you know
it's a little different on the installationbecause you've got to be ready to handle
the weight of ice. But butyes, we'd you know, coming down
and saying, you know, Idon't even know the number, but it's

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a it's a large, large numberof houses that still do not have gutters.
Sure, yeah, I would,I would venture to say. And
I you know, I put abouta thousand miles a weekend looking at mostly
gutters, and seventy percent of thehouses I see do not have them,
or they have them in properly orjust in one spot. And for homes

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that do have gutters heath and yougo out to take a look at them,
they've been up there for you know, a number of years. Do
you find that a lot of thosehomes, while the installation might have been
correct to begin with it, overthe over the years, time has taken
its toll. They no longer dowhat they're supposed to do. Yeah,
if if not properly maintained, andby that I mean either cleaned out,

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d or covered having somebody inspect them. You know, cock is a wonderful
thing, but it only holds upso long, especially in the brutal heat
here. Um, you know,you need to reseal your corners, You
need to reseal your end caps.You need to make sure they're cleaned out,
because if if pine straw stays inthere for a long period of time,

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gets packed in, the weight ofthat will actually pull the gutter down,
change the pitch and not allow thewater to flow properly, or,
in worst case scenarios, let thegutter completely become ripped off the house,
which happens more often than you wouldthink. It'll pull the facial board,
it'll pull the gutter down and justhangs there so yeah, it's a if

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they if they're properly maintained a gutterthe last twenty to thirty years. Well
used to answer the question for mebecause I've done this before myself. I've
gotten up there in clean Pinestroy outof the old gutters and thought, okay,
that'll take care of my problem.It'll drain now, and it still
didn't drain because you make it changedto change the pitch of the gutter system
itself. Me. Yeah, Imean you're talking about a quarter inch maybe
a little bit less for every tenfeet is well, you should pitch should

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not be noticeable, but it shouldbe there. So just a little bit
of weight that ben, I mean, it's still you know, it's it's
metal attached with metal. There isa bend factor there at a certain weight
point, and just a little tiltsto the front can change your entire system.
And you guys do are going toclean out service too for folks who

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want to are interested in take advantageof that, don't you correct. We
do an annual or a biannual cleaning. Um. We have three or four
packages we offer. There's a standardcleaning where we just hand clean all the
visible debris inspect your system. Wehave a premium package where we'll actually wipe
down the gutters. Um, wehave an inspection where we'll go around tell

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you what's wrong. You know,sometimes it's just a couple more screws in
your in your systems back to working. You know, we're not in the
we're not in the habit of takingtaking money for things that aren't needed.
But we do like to make surethat that people are are having a working
system, and most of the timethey can be corrected the ribbon. All

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right. So you at that twentyyear mark, it's always the twenty year
marketing now yeah, yeah, it'stwenty at twenty thirty year mark seems to
be a bad one on about everything. And that's the truth, all right.
So, and there are things peoplecan do to see if there's problems
and know that they should call us. You know, if you have gutters
and you think they're working properly,you know, dark spots at your joints

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where the corners come in, darkspots on your downspouts. That usually means
you're getting to the end of theuseful life and that should be something you
should be budgeting for and certainly fairhaging, Yeah you didn't make a call.
Yeah, all right. Heather's alwaysvisible, all right, beaver Roof
again, gutters. What's the bestway to get a hold of y'all,
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Trey Pale now joins us from Musquito. Joe. Good morning, Trey,
Good morning, how are you.I'm good, Just trying to dry
out a little bit here, brother, you know, I mean, what
a week we've had with the rain. Quite a bit of rain this week,
are we not? Boy? Andthis is this is problematic for folks
who don't have your service, right, I would say you're going to see

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a math uptick in the volume ofmosquitoes in the next week, for sure.
Yeah. And while we may dryout a bit, and we are
this weekend, certainly some, butwe're gonna get back into the nineties here,
I think by tomorrow actually, soyeah, yeah, that combination is

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not a good one for keeping yourbackyard mosquito free. No, obviously,
mosquitos love standing water. And whenyou've had that much rain, you've got
water and standing in everything and everywhere, and pretty much everything in our yards
hold water, from trash cans tobucket to kids toys, dog toys,

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play sets, I mean just abouteverything will hold water and becomes a big
breeding ground from mosquitos. And anythingthat was dry before is now stop and
wet. Even a pile of leavesor or thick pine stroke and hold enough
moisture to you know, to activatemosquito eggs and successfully hatch them and breed

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them. So now we're talking aboutthat's where when we get conditions like this
with all this moisture, that's whenthey go lay these eggs? Are these
lay? Are these eggs already there? It's the moisture that they like so
they can hatch. Which which isit? Yeah, the eggs are already
laid. I mean, of coursethey're going to be you know, the
war mosquitoes we have, the moreeggs are going to be laid. But

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those let eggs lay kind of dormantuntil they are activated by water. Now
they're laid in water, which alot of times they are, but a
lot of times they're just laid somewherewhere the mosquito knows that water will collect
right at the base of a fenceline where it's always moist Uh. You
know, it might be a puddleyou know, sitting there now for a

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few days that will activate those eggsand and uh and you can have enough
you know, it's like I said, a heavy pile of leaves or clogged
up gutters are now all full andwill activate any dried up eggs they are
in there, and those eggs willbe hatched and borne into into mosquitos.
So you know, and I wassurprised to find this out a long time

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ago, and I've been talking foryears now about this um. But so
you know, if if you're notaware that shouldy be thinking, well,
okay, so maybe the eggs hatch, but it's going to take a while
for them to be a bother tome, why are we talking about high
mosquito pressure here the next couple daysor a week? Well, the US,
it's really because the conditions are reallyperfect. Now we've got high heat,

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high humidity, everything, lots andlots of moisture. Everything's wet,
and uh, you know that's justthe ideal time. When when that's the
case, they go through that,that life cycle is very very fast and
uh doesn't take long for them togo through the larval stage and keep a
stage and become adult mosquito. Whenas soon as they've become an adult mosquito,
they're breeding and biting, you know, the very first day. Wow,

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So when you say fast, Imean, what are we talking here?
A few days one that have alreadybeen hatched, are are you know,
are now going to be you know, being born this week and the
ones that we're being that we're driedup will probably be born by the end
of next week though, and youknow the day they're born, they're adult
mosquitoes. Wow. Okay. Andthe females, if there's a female that

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they'll be biting. That is correct. It's only the females that bite,
and they're biting so that they canlay more eggs. Um you know,
which is that protein meal is whatfrom the blood is what, you know
what what they need in order tolay those eggs. And so they're looking
for any any blood bearing organism thatthey can bite, whether it's a bird.

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You know, watch your dogs andcats outside as a mosquito pressure is
heavy. You know. One ofthe most prevalent mosquito bill more in illnesses
is in pets or I'm sure it'sthat really in dogs, and that is
heartworms. Make sure that you aregiving your pet that heartworm medication regularly,
don't miss, don't skip. Thisis the time of year that uh that

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uh, you know, heartworms reallystart coming out in animals. Yeah,
So what can be done here.I mean, how does this process work.
Somebody who's never heather yar treated aboutyou guys, and you know sometime
next week week after the discovery,Man, this is bad. This is
bad. We got we gotta takecare of this. How quickly can this

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happen? Yeah, we will usuallybe on property within twenty four to forty
eight hours after somebody calls. Sothey call us at eight five to five,
ASKT Joe. We're gonna look uptheir property online, give measurement,
give me a an estimate or I'msorry, a quote on what it's going

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to cost to do their property,and then we will usually be out within
twenty four to forty eight hours.Uh, And they and there was that
is pretty instantaneous. I mean you'llsee a big difference right away. I
mean it's not gonna be one hundredpercent. It's gonna take you know,
a couple of treatments to break thatbreeding cycle, but you'll see a huge
relief right away as we eliminate allthose adult mosquitoes that are on the property.

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We start hitting all of the standingwater and dumping it out or treating
it with a larva side so thatno more adult mosquitoes will be born.
Any of them that are born willbe born sterile. You know, if
they can't breed, they can't bite, and if they're never born, they
don't bite. And so that's reallya big part of it is finding where
they're breeding. If you're trying totreat your own yard or trying to do

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this on your own I would lookas clue wherever you're getting bit by mosquitoes.
I would start right there, rightunderneath your feet, and find the
standing water. I can guarantee youthat they're standing water. People tell us
all the time, but we don'thave any standing water. Well, if
you didn't have standing water, youwould not have mosquitoes. So look for
anything that's moist, the bottom ofa flower pod. It doesn't take a

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lot of water. You can breedone hundred mosquitoes out of a bottle app
So it's never going to be somethingobvious like a swimming pool, unless the
swimming pool is green. But youhave to look. You have to lift
up things, look under things.It's usually in the shade. It's usually
going to be dirty water, likethe bottom of a flower pot above your

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head, that clogged up gutters.You know, holding water will breed thousands
and thousands of mosquitos right right nextto you, so it's it's usually very
close. The type of mosquitoes thatwe have, especially at this time of
year, they don't fly very well, they don't fly very far, and
they usually won't go more than acouple hundred feet in their whole lifetimes.
So if they have water to layeggs in, they have other mosquitoes to

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breed with. They're not flying aroundfrom yard to yard to yard. They
pretty tight. So we treat youryard and get you protected. With that
barrier. You can have mosquitoes andall the properties around you and it's like
having a fleat collar on your yard. We're going to keep you protected well.
Okay, So it sounds like ifyou wanted to sell tread and all

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you did was spray for mosquitoes,you're fighting a losing battle. You're never
going to get ahead of that game. It doesn't sound like you're not going
to probably get the results that youwant because you know, at least what
needs to be done is in thelarva side. You know you need to
find standing water and get rid ofit, find where they're breeding and treat

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it with a larva side or getrid of it. Constantly tipping and turning
things in your yard will really goa long way to helping you get ahead
of that problem. I's going toask you, Trey about, especially again
after all the rain we've had thispast week. Neighborhoods with say draininge retention
posse, draininge ponds whatever you callthose, the detention ponds that are in

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every new neighborhood now, you know, really do a great job of of,
you know, stopping floodwaters. Butunfortunately, you solve one problem and
you create another. A lot ofthem do not dry out. Those things
would be dry within twenty four hours. I mean after a heavy rainfall,
twenty four hours later, you shouldbe able to mow that entire detention pond.

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And that's just not the case.And ninety percent of them that I
see, you know, there it'sjust muck and six inches of just nasty
water and all kinds of non nativespecies. You can't ever mow it.
So you get very heavy vegetation andthat just becomes a mosquito pit for breeding

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thousands and thousands of mosquitos. Alot of those, you know, neighborhoods
that have those you know, dysfunctionaldetention ponds have bad mosquito problems, particularly
in a yard that's right up closeto it. Yeah, fairly close.
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's you know, they're
they're not going to go real farfrom that unless the mosquito population just really
gets really really high and then they'llslowly kind of migrate out from that.

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Now, if you live in aneighborhood that has one and it's not draining
properly, is that as how youshould call you your local municipality and let
them know about that though, sothey can attack the problem or what should
you do? Yeah? I youknow, the problem with those things is
that they're they're done by the developers, and when the developer finishes, they

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pass off the neighborhood to the eitherto the h O A. UM.
You know, you might have someluck with the municipalities, but you know,
the code says they should be drywithin twenty four hours. So um,
I'm not sure how far you'll get, you know, with it,
but it's definitely worth a phone callbecause you have something that is dysfunctional that
is creating a mosquito problem and reallya public health concern, you know,

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in that neighborhood and so you know, squeaky Wheel gets the oil. You
know, it's definitely something that Iwould be you know, calling on and
trying to get somebody uh to fixit and if nothing else, get to
get the the the big spray trucksout there, because you've talked about that
before. That's that's what those arefor, is when you've got such a
high population uh in a particular area, and and that will help reduce the

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population with the adult mosquitos. Butyou know the bottom line, if somebody
needs a larvae side that pond,and depending on the size of it,
that can get really expensive. Butthat's really if you really want to really
stop that problem, is is constantlarva siding of that pond so that nothing
that's you know nothing, either thosemosquito larva will never be born or they're

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going to be born sterile. It'sgoing to interrupt that that breeding cycle and
and really help to reduce that issuesubstantially. All right, folks, we
please get ready to get real badaround here. This mosquito pressure gonna be
high here for real, real quickly. If it's not already where you are,
so Trey for somebody who has neverused your service before. You got

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a special going right. Yeah,the first time treatment is only thirty nine
dollars. That'll do up to ahalf an acre. If it's a little
bigger than that, it might bea little more than that. But you
used to call our office. There'sit's free to talk to us and we
can measure the property online, talkto you about you know what the problem
areas might be. There's never anylonger term contracts, a recurring service.

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We come out every three weeks automatically. But you know it's there is no
contract. You can treat one timeand that's it, or you can treat
half the summer all summer. Youcan start and stop really whenever you want.
We want to earn your business theright way, obviously for the best
results. You want to consistently treatso that you can just go out anytime,
day or night and just and notget eaten alive or have to spray

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yourself down. Yeah, right,so eight five five Aska Joe eight five
five askt Joe or Musquito Joe dotcom. Right, that's it all right,
buddy Tray, thanks so much,man, have a good weekend.
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and Beaver Gutters. Paul Prince joinsus right now on the Home Improvement Show
of the Midlands, the owner ofDoor to Door Floors. Paul. Good

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morning, buddy, Good to seeyou again. Hey, good morning Gary.
Thanks for having me back on theHome Improvement Show of the Midlands.
It's an honor and pleasure. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago we discussed
the differences and advantages of a doorto door floors installation. Today we're gonna
talk about flooring for allergies. Ohyeah, yeah, right, certain sorts

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of flooring, but as prone tothat others I guess very much. Oh
hey, um, just before weget into it, I want to kind
of share a little bit of myqualifications to speak on the subject flooring for
allergies. Up in addition of myalmost thirty five years as a carpet and
flooring industry professional. Would you startwhen your four I did? Yeah,

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I wish I would say, youknow, and yeah, I'm also a
lifelong steroid dependent allergy shot receiving asthma, an allergy patient. Um, I
have spent so much on healthcare thatwhen my doctor or my pharmacist buys new
flooring from door to door floors,we both know I paid for it,

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right, Oh my goodness. Yeah, and a boy this part of the
country too, it seems to runpretty rampant, especially again certain times the
year for some people. But forsome you know, like I said,
it's it's it's a lifelong thing,man. Yeah. Well, there's a
debate that has been going on forever. And if you have allergies or someone

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in your family does, You've you'veheard people debate whether it's better to have
carpet or hard surface flooring in yourhome. And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
you the short answer to that isit depends, really, so I would
I was always of the opinion thatthere was no debate about that at all,
that hardwood flora would be better foranalogy sufferer. But yeah, well

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maybe not yeah, so I'm Multiplestudies in the US and in Europe have
been conducted over the last two decades, and they've come to that same conclusion
that it depends. Um. Almostthirty years ago, when I was a
carpet mill rep, all I soldwas carpet. Back then, my allergy
doctor recommended that I consider a careerchange. Um. She she believed that

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me driving around in a vehicle withcarpet samples was contributing to my breathing difficulties.
But years later she had door todoor floors, install commercial carpet in
the waiting room and office areas ofher asthma an allergy practice. Well,
you get a sales job on her. No. Uh, why why would

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she have done that? Though?Um? Yeah, the the uh,
the reason for her change of thoughton that is the research showed that carpet
acts as a dust filter. Um. It's yeah, it's really simply about
air movement. Uh. Walking througha carpeted room. Uh takes more air
movement uh to lift dust into thebreathing zone than walking through a room covered

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in hard surface flooring. Had perfectsense, though, Yeah, you think
about it, you never see dustbodies tumbling around on carpet. Um.
So, Gary, we can stopright there and assume that carpet is the
best option for allergy and asthma sufferers. But what about an asthmatic baby who

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crawls around on the carpet? Uh, you know, their noses in it?
Uh? This is this is onereason why the experts say it depends
it and it really depends on howwell and how often your floors are cleaned.
Well, be I'm lucky because mywife, I won't say she loves

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the clean floors, but she cleansthem on a regular basis. I'm usually
one did the vacuum and then shedoes it. She wouldn't trust me with
the you know, the mopping thing, right, Yeah, still trust me
with vacuuming. But that's about it. I understand that. Well, you
know, there's no doubt that um. Uh, good housekeeping is more important

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than the type of flooring you have. UM. If you're the type of
person like your wife, who hasthe time or desire or money to keep
an immaculate home, then hard surfaceflooring would be a more appropriate flooring choice
for you. But only in thiscase will hardwood lamb in it or luxury
vinyl flooring produce a cleaner environment.If if you can't remember the last time

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you vacuumed, carpet might be thebetter option for wow. Really, so
you know, there's other things youcan do get rid of curtains. Of
this, I mean, so let'ssay you do have carpet, but again
you don't vacuumate on a regular basis. It seems to me like that would
be or worse scenario or not well, only in the case of a baby
who's crawling around on it. Imean, if you're walking uh and uh,

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you know, toddler or older.Um, you're you're you're not kicking
that dust up into the breathing zone. And that's that's what the studies and
shone. Sorry. You know,there are a lot of less expensive changes
that you can make to impact yourindoor air quality than than than buying new

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flooring. Although door to door floorsis very happy when you decide to buy
a new carpet and flooring to makeyour home cleaner and healthier. I just
want to make sure that um,people don't fall for the adage that hard
surface floors are better for people withallergies. It really does depend interesting,
interesting and in a lot of upholsteryin a home, if you've got hardwood

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floors or a lot of other things. You know, maybe I think of
that kind of act like carpets,do you all kind of stuff? Well,
and that's a little different with anupholstered furniture. You're actually sitting on
it, so you're kind of inproximity to that dust. A little more
so in the case of a youknow, a leather or leather type material,
something that's more easily wipeable than afabric. Upholstery would be good for

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furniture, um, but but forflooring it's um, it's far enough away
from you that it's really more aboutwhat's getting kicked into the into the breathing
zone. Okay, or there anyother considerations when it comes to flooring friology
sufferers we need to talk about here, Yes, I think, um,
the uh. Not everybody has dustmite allergy or a pet dand or allergy.

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Some people mold or microbial growth asa bigger issue. And uh,
and you need to communicate that withyour door to door floors project manager.
Be specific about what your needs are. Um. They can recommend um or
we can recommend a microband treated carpetor flooring. We also may in carpet

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recommend wool um there's some indoor airquality benefits to going with wool carpet.
And then the next thing is discussedwith your project manager, UM your allergy
concerns over installation. Installation day canbe kind of dusty when we're pulling up
old carpet to put your new flooringin. Uh, there's a lot of

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dust in there and uh and underit. Even maybe the builder didn't their
carpet company didn't clean the subfloor beforethey installed it. So you may want
to consider spending that day with afriend until all that dust settles down.
And then you know, indoor airquality all of our flooring that we carry

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is UM low VOC but UM sometimesthat new carpet or new flooring smell like
you have with the new cars.Can ask about that, Yeah, what
is what is that? Is thatthe glue or no? I mean and
there you know it used to beyears ago from aldehyde and really, uh,
all that stuff is is a thingof the past, at least if

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the company that's making it is notmaking it in China and is following UM
federal guidelines, which which by theway, purchasing your recovery from doordoor floors,
You're not going to worry about that. We are heavy on made in
USA. In fact, we're gonnatalk about that next time you have me
on. It's very important. Um. But you know what people with allergies,

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those considerations that they need to make, Um, it's overwhelming. And
uh, you know door to doorfloors. Project managers are here to listen
and serve. There you go.And again another reason why come to somebody
like you guys, because if youwant to go to some big buckstore and
buy flooring, you're not gonna You'renot gonna get this sort of discussion going
on here. We're professionals, we'reserious about we're floor nerds. I've said

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about before. I mean, thisis what we do. It feeds our
families. And we got to getyour pocket projector I know. And again
because of the way you do businessand it's you know, coming right to
someone's home or business. Um,you get your project managers get a better
sense of you know what what thesefolks are dealing with. Absolutely, we

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are a lot of things. Wedon't have to ask, we just observe.
While we're in your home. Wesee the humidifier or dehumidifier or the
half air filter. Oh you gotallergies. I mean, it's everything is
just so much more efficient and customerfocused than roaming around in a store,
right right, exactly, all right. So now when you're ready and you

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want to check it out, andyou get your UM your project estimator tools
right there on your website, right, yes, correct, just go to
door to Door Floors dot com.You can run in about ten seconds run
yourself five quick estimates on whatever typeof flooring you want. And it's a
ballpark, but it's um it's prettyaccurate, surprisingly accurate, and of course
we don't charge to come out andgive you a quote. We'll bring a

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mobile show room to your home.And then, uh, you know,
I wanted to give my email addressout too, It's Paul at Door todoor
Floors dot com. If you've gota topic carpet or flooring related, preferably
that you want us to talk abouthere on your show, Um, I'd
love to hear from from your listenerson that, yeah, or email me

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at Gary David at w VOC dotcom and we will certainly certainly do that.
All right, great, So again, you can go go on the
website, hit up the project estimatoror again been a whole lot of more
information about your next flooring purchase rightthere. Or you can pick up the
phone and call eight four four fourone Floor and Jennifer or a Robin will

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connect you with one of our projectmanagers and schedule a convenient time to bring
the mobile show room out to yourhome. Okay, it's terrific. That's
probably something. Unless you've called Pauland Door Door Floors, you know I
had a mobile room come to yourhome. You can have at good to
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Midland's good to have you on onthis Saturday morning here on one of three
point five FM and five sixty AMw VUC already end of the final segment
and we welcome to the microphone.Well no Courtney today, but Renee event
from Diamond Concrete Solutions. Yeah,no Courtney today. Look who I bought
two guys, Shane and j J. Shane and JJ. All right,

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so so you you just you justtold me during a break you're you're not
You're just gonna sit back today.Yeah, it's all about them because that's
really important for us to um toshow our customer that we have a great
culture and that we always try tohype out our emplice and that's very important
to us, absolutely, and theyalways the face off the company and day

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um they are very often in frontof their customers. So they represent a
Diamond Concrete Solutions and we're very proudof them how they do it, and
I think the next couple of minutesshould be all about them. Okay,
well let's do that then. Nowagain, if you're for the first time
hearing about Diamond Concrete Solutions, y'allbet with a couple of months now.
I think everybody knows about you bynow. But you're in the business of

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taking concrete and all all sorts offorms and disrepair and everything else and not
only correcting it but making it evenbetter. That's right. We make it
kind of sexy. Sexy. Yeah, yeah, you make it sexy.
All right. So let's let's startover here with JJ from a Diamond Concrete
Solutions. JJ. Good morning,Good to have you as body. Good

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morning. Now your role in thecompany, what do you tell tell us
about what you do? Yeah?Sorry, so I'm the project manager as
well as the lead installer. Uh, I'm pretty much over every project.
So um, if you if youbook a project with us, you will
be for sure to um see methere, Okay, you go they goll
see you go face yes sir,okay, good and and Shane, good
morning, Good morning to you,sir. And and tell us about what

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you do with the Diamond Concrete solutions. Yes. So I'm also a lead
insteller as well, and I'm aproduct specialist and so really just you know,
figuring out what products are going tobe best for what situation, that
kind of thing. Well, whatwhat sad you bring that up? We'll
start with that right there, becausethere's a whole lot of things I've learned
from accordingon Renee that you guys cando a whole lot of things. How

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much of it depends and we usethe consumer quite awful. We know,
well we got a problem we liketo get taken care of, but we
don't really i mean don't really understandthe process. Right, So as you
say, yeah, you're kind ofthe guy that says, okay, well
here's you know, here are theoptions. Correct? How does that start?
How does that conversation start? Um? Really, it all depends on

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you know, what the customer wantsfirst of all, you know, what
are they trying to solve. Youknow, do they have cracks for their
concrete? Do they just want tochange the appearance? So you kind of
just start there and then just followalong with them. How often do you
sit down with the customer and theymaybe that all they do want is they
want the cracks fixed, But thenthey discover, wait a minute, we

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could do a whole lot more thanjust fix cracks all the time. I
bet so. So you're that's that'swhen you have to educate the customers to
the process and let's tell let's talkabout the process. JJ. I mean
you're the project manager, right,yes, sir? Okay um? How
does this work? So a lotof times, either Renewer myself go out

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to an estimate. I go outthere and see the concrete and I kind
of look at it as my canvas, see what I can do with it,
and try to tell the customer andeducate the customer options out there more
than you know, just tear outand report. Right. So then once
we kind of settle on what reallythey're looking for, that's whenever I call

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Shane and go, hey, Shane, this is a situation at this house.
What product is going to be thebest for the situation. Right,
And you mentioned something there about atear out of report. We've talked about
this a lot with Cordney and Reneeand that what you guys do, this
is not this is not a tearout and report situation. Correct. Because
then again, if you've ever hadthat done at your place, that is

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only costly, but it's a timeconsuming process. Right, It's a while
before you use that concrete again.And if it's a driveway for example,
I mean that can be problematics early. So we're not talking about tearing out
and reporing. I mean, itreally is amazing how you're taking what's there
and only fixing improving it. Andit starts with fixing what's there, right,

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correct, So my main goal isgoing there rectify any issues that could
be there. And cracks the mostcommon issues you see, or I would
say cracks on level concrete, anythinglike that. Majority cracks um people kind
of look at on level concre it'snecessary to get it fixed, and you
know it's a tripping hazard, sure, but the major thing that people see

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are cracks and they think that youknow, they look ugly and gnarly and
nothing you can do about it.But we offer a couple of solutions there.
You know, we could build thecracks out and make a little like
stone. We could fill the cracks, and there's many, many options when
it comes to cracks. Right.So, now, Shanny, you get
the call from JJ. He says, Okay, here's a situation. Now

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you come in right, Um,how do you know where to start if
you've not actually been on site?Of course you just give a lot of
good information. I know, butdo you need to actually go lay eyes
on something before you can determine whatkind of options you can look at?
I would say, depending on howbad it really is. Sometimes yes,
but most of the time, youknow, he can just really tell me

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what's going on. Should be ableto come up with some kind of a
solution without actually being on site,just you know, see pictures and really
go from here. Sure, sonow you get I mean, fixing cracks
is fixing cracks, right, Imean, there's one way to go about
that. I guess there are optionstoo. There's multiple um, different crack
flowers you can use for different situations. Uh, there's a lot of moisture.

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We got products for that. Ifit's you know, standard hairline crack,
you know, we we can rectifythat in different ways. Um.
There there's endless ways to deal withcracks. Okay, but Wednesday decide,
well, okay, yeah, wewant to fix that, but we want
some of that, uh is whatis called the sexy stuff right right?

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We want that overlay? Right,explain either one of you explain what the
Shane, let's let's let's talk aboutthis. Yeah, this this overlay,
what is it? Yeah, soit's a modified Sementia's mixture. Um,
Sementia's. Yes, I've never heardthat word before, Sementias. I like
that. Okay, good. Soreally there's endless possibilities with it. You

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can make it look like stone,really whatever whatever you want to go for.
Um, it's just a two layerprocess and then you stain it and
seal it after that. So it'sthe JJ. It's the underlying base,
I guess is the cementious Cementia's Okay, I get it admitted here. That's

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I guess that's the same for allprojects, right that at first base that
goes on there. Correct, Soany overlay system, you gotta start with
the base. You know. It'skind of like when you build a house,
gotta start with the foundation. Sogo in there, lay that first
base coat of the sementious mixture,and then that could be let's say you
want to do um a wood lookor something like that. Well, if
you look at wood a lot oftimes, there is you know, the

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little bit of grout between that.So we go in and we die that
first, that first coat to getthe grout look, and then we go
in there tape it out using reallystrong fiber reinforced tape to actually tape out
the board's stone, tie, whateveryou're looking for. And then we do
a texture coat on top of thatwith the same simentious mixture where we can

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actually put the texture in to getit once again, the wood texture,
the stone texture, um, whateveryou're looking for. And then um,
once all that's dry, you pullthe tape. Now you kind of start
seeing a little clear picture of whatyour floor is gonna look like. You
stain it and then this really startscoming together. Wants to put the sealer
on it. That's just the icingon the top, so so so change

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it sounds like it's such as likethe five part process. You got to
go in and yeah and fix whatever'sthere first, right absolutely, you know,
get it good to go and thenit's one sementious layer, then another
depending on what the overlay is goingto be, and then the texturizing correct
and then the staining. Oh andthen the seal, the sealer. Don't

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forget the sealer, right, Okay. But now for somebody who says,
I'm you know, I'm fine withthe look of my concrete, i just
want to get it fixed. Iwant to get it cleaned up, and
I'm tired of like you know,during the springtime, the paullen gets down
in there and you can't get itout. I mean, you guys have
have solutions for just that too,don't you. Oh definitely. You know,
we could just put like a washingseal on it, which is um

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it's really quick process to go inthere, pressure wash the concrete and seal
it and it doesn't change the colorof the concrete or anything like that.
Mixed water, you know, justkind of beat on top stains won't quite
soak in, and it can preventit from cracking even even further and protect
it through the freeestall cycles as well. Okay. And is that the same

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process you use regardless of the jobif you're doing an overlay, what is
it you're doing in that underlying seamanto get it ready to ready to go
here. So depending on what itis. If the concrete is a relatively
good shape, we could just goin there and pressure wash it and begin
the process. If it you know, it needs some tlcs from work to
it, we do have to goin there and start grinding it. So

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once again, multiple approaches to allthese systems. And Shane again because again
the multiple approaches depending on what thecustomer wants. But I mean, your
your average job from from start tofinish. You know, JJ, you
go out there, you talk tothe customer, you make the decision.
Is what you want to do?You get with you, Shane, you
go, okay, here are optionsfrom from that point until the point in

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time when the product is finished.I mean, for an average job,
how much time are we talking typicallyabout three to five days. It really
just apends quick, yes, okay. It really just depends on you know,
how big is a job and howin depth is it. You know,
do they want to go with amore complicated design, complicated staining,
or is it just pretty simple.Some things we can get done in about

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two days really okay, but typicallythree to five days and once it's once
you're finished. Okay, here itis done. At what point can you
start using it again? So youcan start using about twenty four hours after
we leave, okay, if it'sonly on the driveway we are garage.
I mean we use a different topcoat for that now, would give you

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about forty eight hours and you canreturn to service. Okay, So maybe
on an average job. Top Soyou're talking about a week between the time
it's you've decide it's finished and it'sset and you can use it again,
right, Okay, if I'm goingto tear up a driveway and report the
concrete, are you talking on weeks? Weeks? Yeah? Got you not

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to mention them that cost him doingall that. Right, Well, guys,
it's great. Great to beat toboth of you this morning. Yeah
you two? Uh so, Courtney, you want to slide it back,
heminter, because you know you justcalled me Courtney, isn't it. That's
awesome? Oh? No, heyCourtney this morning, Renne. Yeah,

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thank you so much for having ushere. That's really cool. How to
folks reach you guys and Diamond ConcreteSolutions, Renney, Yeah, you can
call us eight or three, sevento five, nine eight two eight nine
or Diamond Concrete Solutions dot com.Ahi, guys, good to the audience.
Thank you, Renee. We'll seein a couple of weeks. I
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