Home Improvement Show 07-05-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, good morning, and welcome in the Home Improvement Show
of the Middlands. Now it is July fourth weekend and
we hope yours is going superb. My name is Gary David.
We welcome you in this morning and we've got a
bunch of folks lined up to pass along some terrific
information here on the Home Improvement Show of the Middlands,
including Trey Powell over Mosquito Joe. Now, if you've got

(00:36):
outdoor plans this weekend and you haven't had a visit
from Mosquito Joe yet, well you may run some problems.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Not me.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
They come out into my yard every three weeks in spray.
I don't have to worry about it at all. But
how about you. We'll tell you how to avoid those
issues next time around with that Trey. He'll be joining us.
Jeremy Halliday, mister Electric is on tap to a drop
by and pace a visit the next half hour on
the program as well. Getting things started though this morning
with a Russ Markaesy. He is the owner of Finishing

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Touch here in the Midlands and he joinses to get
things cranked up on the Home Improvement Show.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Rus Good morning, my friend, good morning, Gary could be here.
Happy Fourth of July week before there's fly weekend. Absolutely,
it's one of my favorite holidays. I love I love
the Fourth Yeah, I love. Now do you do fireworks
yourself or I do? I'm a firework fanatic and you're
like almost a professional. I do. He s don't get
paid to it, exactly. I should get paid for it,
I really should.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
But uh yeah no.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I get a whole theme to it and have a
good grand finale, and I enjoy doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I really.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's the cleanup that isn't fun afterwards. Well no, yeah,
nobody talks about that part. But those fireworks make a mess.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Clean up after your fireworks, ladies and gentlemen, thank you
very much. Yeah, I don't know these days, I mean
they're I don't know how much you're dropping on fireworks.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
But oh listen, it can be. Yeah, you can. You know,
everybody knows. You can go to one of those fireworks
stands and you can. You can drop a thousand bucks
pretty quickly on those fireworks, you know, if you really
want to. But it's better to get a bunch of
people to chip in, don't you think you know? And
and do it like efforts. Yeah, sure, you know, that's
that's what we used to do back in the neighborhood days.
That was fun.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man, yeah, I know you'll be safe. Everybody.
You'll be safe too. Oh yeah, it's not folks like
you who know what you're doing. It's you know, people
like me who don't.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Right, right, Yeah, you know, no Roman candle wars right
like that.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now, now we go back to my teenage exactly. We
won't even discuss that, not at all.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
But you got to be careful because some of those
fireworks can hit your can hit the housecary and cause
some damage to your you know, your siding on your house,
and then you need to get repainted. Right, that can't happen.
I've seen it.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well more than once. Let's I can help with that.
Let's talk about it. That does happen? Help with that,
or maybe you just do a do a refresh. That's right,
we could do a refresh too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
We are doing a slew of exterior painting right now.
It's it's the hot time of the year to be
doing this in the season. Yeah, you know, and it's
I get that question all the time where it's like, well,
can you do it when it's one hundred degrees out here.
And you know, the short answer is, yes you can,
but you got to do it in a methodical way, right.
You can't uh, and I think I've talked about this

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on the show before. You can't paint directly in the sunlight.
So we get a plan of attack. Gary's what we
do and we just follow the sun. Well, we we
actually follow the shade more so, right, but we're keeping
the track on the sun and just going all the
way around the house.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's how we do it. Is that because it just
drives too fast in the direct sun?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Or it does?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, it does a lot of funky things if you
if you paint directly in the sunlight, it doesn't it here, right,
you get what we call in the industry lap marks
right on your siding lap marks are flashing. It's called
uh whereas I'm sure everybody's seen it before. You you're
you look down the side of a house or a
building or something and you see all these like start

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and stop, real funky looking areas.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, that's what that is.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's uh, it's flashing or lapping, is what it is.
And you get a lot more of that. You know,
if you're painting a surface that is that is hot
or in the sun, you're almost guaranteed to get that.
So you you really gotta you gotta go about it
in a methodical way and go around the house. Sometimes
that means that you may not be able to get
one section of the house in that particular day, and you

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need to come back the following day, uh, to tackle that,
maybe in the morning time when when it's still cooler
and the sun hasn't hit it yet.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, So all these things that us said di I wires,
don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
It's important.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's really really important, it is, you know, and we
just we've been we've been doing so many houses. The
hardyboard siding, Okay, tons and tons of those, because.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
That is so frozen. I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, does that look like it's hardy board. Just so
hardy board. It's a it's a cement board. Actually, it's
what it is. It's it's a simutatious sighting board, is
what it is.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
So you remember the old masonite siding they used to
all on these homes, right, at least one of those
just a little bit of water gets in there and
it swells up like glorified cardboard basically as what ends
up happening. A matter of fact, I think they had
a lawsuit years and years ago on that stuff. But
hardyboard was the solution. That was the new thing that
came out to replace that does not swell when it

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gets wet. It's it's a fantastic product, but you have
to put the right paint products on there to get
your your longevity out of it. Okay, So so many
times what we're seeing is the biggest, biggest telltale here
is when the paint is fading. Okay, when it's really
starts to fade, and if you can run your hand

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on your siding and you have a little bit of
a residue left on your hand, that means it is
time to paint your house.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, that's what that means.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
So what we do is we'll come in and we
you know, thoroughly clean the house first and get all
that residue off because another thing is if you paint
over that gary, your paint's not going to adhere to
that because you have you got all this like uh,
fibrous dust material that's on your on your siding right there. Okay,
paint's not going to adhere to it, so you have
to make sure you get all that off first before

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you paint.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, I was going to ask, I know, into your painting,
you go through a process correct uh to to prep
that that surface, the sanding and fixing, the in the
uh blimishes and the sheet rocking side which creates dust. Right,
you know. So, but but outside exterior is I guess
somewhat of a bit of a different process. I guess

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a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it's it's a bit of a different process. So
when it comes to hardyboard like that, we're not generally
we're not sanding that hardy board down all right, because
there's nothing to sand.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's it's cement, is what it is.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay, if there's little pieces left over from the last
paint job, little you know, pieces of dried up paint,
we'll remove all of that, of course. But mainly in
that case, it's getting it clean and getting all that
powdery residue off of theirs is the main thing. And
then the calking and filling, Okay, that's the main part.
You have to cock all of your gaps, make sure

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that everything is sealed correctly, right, Not the not the
vertical piece that where the lap siding actually comes down to.
You don't want to cock that because that's how the
siding actually breathes. Okay, but where the two boards meet,
that that horizontal joint right there, Yes, you know that
should be cocked. Technically, Hardy Manufacturer says that it doesn't

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need to be filled or cocked, but aesthetically it looks
a lot better cocked. It looks almost unfinished if you
don't do that, all right, But I get customers that
don't want that done sometimes, and that's fine, it's no
big deal. It's not affecting anything. But you want to
prep everything correctly, cock everything real nice and tight. If
there's anything down to bear wood, you got to spot

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prime that with a good oil based exterior primer first,
and then you can start to put your finished coats on.
And we always always recommend, no matter what, you have
to put two coats of finished onto a surface to
really to get the uh, the longevity and the good
paint job out of it.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right. So that's hard, But what about other surfaces? Yeah,
do you can you paint vinyl siding?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
You know you can? You actually can? Uh, you just
said you have to use one hundred percent of crylic on.
It is what you have to use.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
We just did one actually, uh and forced acres for
a friend of mine and came out beautiful, absolutely beautiful,
you know. And look, it's all about managing expectations too,
okay in this game here, So it's you can absolutely
paint it. We've we've done several several homes where we
painted vinyl siding. But you just have to you have

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to understand that eventually it is going to start to
pop and peel in areas, especially if it's in direct sunlight.
Those areas are going to foil a little bit quicker
than an area that's in the shade. Possibly, right, How
long that is just really depends on all the all
the elements around you. Do you have a lot of
foliage around you in direct sunlight, there's so many variances

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that can affect that. But you know, you can absolutely
get a good five to ten years out of a
paint job on vinyl siding, you know. So what I
recommend is if somebody doesn't like the color of their siding,
let's say all right, and they don't want to go
through the expense of tearing all of that off and
replacing it. Right, Like we talk about the cabinets all

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the time, how it's a fraction of the price. Well,
it's the same way with painting it, all right. Painting
the siding is generally about fifty to I'm going to
say sixty percent cheaper than replacing all of your siding
on the house. Right, And it gives you another, like
I said, five to ten years with the color that
you want. And then in the meantime, what I tell

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folks is you know, save up and in that five
to ten years, then you know when it starts to
starts to show signs of coming off, then you replace it.
What about brick, We paint brick all the time, all
the time. We have the process there for prepping brick. Yeah, yeah,
good question. So we s same kind of deal. So

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we have to powerwash it, we have to get itavy
all the residue off of it first, any mildew, you know, debris,
stuff like that, and then there's a couple of different
ways you can go about it. Okay, they've come out
with a phenomenal product now it's called locks On XP.
All right, it's a fantastic product. You don't have to
prime the brick. You can actually go over the brick

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with two coats of this locks on XP and it's
the Bee's knees Man. It's it's great stuff. I actually
put it on our office building. We had some brick
on there and I painted it and that's been probably
about eight years ago, Gary, and it's there's no signs
of it failing coming off anything. It's just really really
good stuff. The second way to do it is to

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use what is called a block filler. It's a cement
you know, a cement primer basically essentially is what that is. Okay,
and you have to prime it with a block filler,
but then you have to go over that with two
coats of an exterior paint.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
So now you're talking about a three step three coat
system versus a two step two coat system, which is uh,
you know, it's better on the pocketbook, obviously, it's it's
one less coat, one less process. So we try to
push for that as much as possible.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, we talked about how during this time of the year,
your your process has to be you know, chase the shade. Yes,
what about is it on the opposite is is it
in the winter is it too cold?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, exterior, Oh absolutely, yeah, anything really below fifty degrees,
you don't want to you don't want to mess with
any painting.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Outside area, don't don't even we don't.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, we don't even entertain doing any painting outside when
it's below fifty. Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's just an inherent adherence thing or it is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, And you know, if God forbid, anything foils with
the product itself, they all have manufacture regulations on it
where they have certain temperature thresholds that you cannot paint below. Right,
So we want to always make sure that we're staying
within those warranty guidelines of whatever the product manufacturer regulates.

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So sure, that's the main reason. But but yeah, and
you know, you got to be careful. It can be
a little tricky in the wintertime, Gary, because it may
be you know, thirty five forty degrees in the morning,
but it warms up to fifty six, you know, fifty
five maybe right, Yeah, but then as we know, in
the evening, it cools back down. So you have just
these little window pockets of time to be able to

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really do painting out there. If if it's if it's
consistently cold, like that you have to be careful.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
But what about it seems like maybe it's just my imagination,
but it seems like this summer, more so than a
lot of summers we've had in memory, we're getting a
lot more thunderstorm activity. We have used to be that
way right here all the time, I mean decades ago,
and it seemed like we've had a long time without
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
But yeah, yeah, like the pop ups, you know, and
pop up and then you can amos guarantee on one
in the afternoon, but it would come and go just
as quick, you.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Know, right right, Yeah, But how do you deal with
that on an exterior job?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, so we're constantly, all all of our guys, we
have weather apps on our phone and we are constantly
monitoring the weather. I swear we could become weathermen ourselves.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Because we we just we're all kind of right. We
are we are, you know.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's it's I was joking around with somebody the other day.
It's it's the It's the last thing I do before
I go to bed, and the first thing I do
when I wake up is check the weather on my phone.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Just let's in your business. You've got to you have
to you really do.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
You gotta you gotta make sure and uh yeah, if
if if a storm is going to be popping up,
you know, within an hour or so, we're packing stuff up.
We're not gonna we're really not even gonna take a
chance of waiting till the very end, till we feel
a couple drops of rain or we start to see
the darkness.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Really come in.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
We're we're normally long gone before that.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
But what about the paints you may have already applied.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, so that's that's just the thing. It has to
be enough time. It has to be within at least
our rule of thumb is two hours two hours before
any rain starts to fall. It has to be, in
other words, it has to be to the touch cured. Okay,
so when you touch that surface, it's it needs to
be completely dry to the touch right now. It doesn't

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mean that it may be fully fully fully cured. And
that's okay if some water gets on at that point,
because to the touch, it's it's cured out. But yeah,
if anything is tacky or done within that time period,
it's not generally a good a good situation.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
If that were to happen, do you got to come
in and remove that repaint.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
No, normally, we'll just repaint that surface if something if
we get caught and something pops up, and I mean
things happen, right, it just storms pop up all the
time and you can't even foresee all of it all
the time. But uh, but yeah, if it affects it
like that, we'll just go and repaint that surface again
or whatever area that was that we had done during
that time, you know, and recod it. And it's ninety

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nine percent of the time, no problem.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Now, you mentioned in talking about painting vinyl sighting how
much you can save over replacing that big time, But
it doesn't even come close how much you can save
when it comes to cabinets. That's right, Uh, that's right.
I would shoot you the mathe the other day because
we've talked about this before. And let's say the low end.
If you wanted to replace cabins in a kitchen. Sure,

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let's say low end to say thirty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, you know, I would say gary on a low end.
I mean, you can don't get me wrong. There's places
that sell pretty cheap stuff right like you can get
you can get what you pay for. Kind of deal,
you know. But yeah, I mean twenty to thirty thousand
dollars is where it's at for you know, entry level type. Right,
Oh absolutely, I mean you can get up to sixty
seventy eighty thousand dollars a cabinetry, you know, easily, just

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depending on what you wanted, right. But yeah, if you're
looking for.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
The amount of money our parents used to actually buy
a whole house.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Good lord, you know I'm telling you in that crazy
that's something to think about, right there. Same thing with vehicles, right,
same thing.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
But let's say thirty thousand dollars. Yeah, and if I
did my math correctly the other day I was thinking
about this, you could basically save maybe upwards of say
eighty to ninety percent.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Well by doing what you do. Sure, I mean, I
think we've talked about this before. On an average set
of kitchen cabinets, all right, with the discountant, all you're
anywhere is from about twenty five hundred dollars to I'm
going to say four thousand dollars on a high end,
four thousand dollars would be you have a pretty decent
sized kitchen with a lot of cabinets. Okay, ad is

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a tremendous savings right there, just night and day. Okay,
adds a lot of bang for your buck right there,
and uh, you just get a total transformation.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Actually, they would have to look like they looked before, right,
I mean you can actually change the look of them.
You can.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
You can. We you know, you can add crown molding
to the top, you can add paneling to it. You
can change out your doors if you don't like the
style of your doors. You can change out your hinges,
you can.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
You can.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
You can even change out the way that your drawers are.
You can have sliding drawers that come out. The sky's
the limit, right, You can do as much as you
possibly want it just you know, it just depends on
each customer. But yeah, it's it's it's the way to go.
It really is. Uh, especially these older homes Gary that
have the older style, uh you know kitchen cabinets, you know,
even the newer ones these days, they don't build them

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like that anymore. Okay, they just don't know. They used
real birch, real real wood to build these things. So
I like to keep the boxing, the actual framework of
the of the cabinets as long as the the you know,
the uh, the footprint of it is still working for
you in your kitchen, right, because that's that can be
an issue as well. But as long as the footprint's right,
you can re reface those doors, put new doors on

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to make it more modern, paint everything up, and you
have a totally different looking kitchen by the end of it,
totally different.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
We're talking thousands, not tens of thousands. That's correct, that's correct.
I know this is a very popular thing. A lot
of people are taking advantage of that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, we're doing at least two to three sets a
week at our shop, Gary.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
We do quite a bit of cabinet tree.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's yeah, definitely definitely catching on and we we love
doing it. I enjoy doing it. And it's a it's
about a one week turnaround from the time we pick
them up to the time we reinstall them. It's about
one week.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, and you're doing everything taking them off, putting them
back on. That's for everything the hold nine yards. Yeah,
it's the finishing touch team. You guys are both closing
onto what twenty three.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Years of business here this summer is twenty three years?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, first twenty three was it? Really? It was? Yeah?
Sure the anniversary. I appreciate your birthday, whichever it is. Yeah,
Russ folks want to get a hold. You get an
estimate on anything. When it comes to refreshing and spruce enough,
how can they reach it?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
My friend aight oh three four six seven six seven five.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Nine Russ Barkesy finishing touch team. Good Thanks Betty, appreciate it.
Take care. It's the home approvement show of the Midlands
on one oh three point five FM and five sixty
am WVOC.

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back on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands on
one of the three point five FM and five sixty
AMWVOC and we welcome in Trey Powell from Mosquite to Joe.
Hopefully you're enjoying your Independence Day weekend, and thanks for
taking how some time to join us this morning. Ray
Born to you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm just gonna be here.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I'm going to make a wild guess that if you're
going to spend time out in your backyard at all
this weekend, you ain't worried much about mosquitoes.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, I'm not worried about them, but I am sure
that there are a lot of people are going to
be battling some mosquitoes. We are absolutely in the in
the height of the season for mosquitoes. So if you
are are not treating and you have and you don't
see mosquitos, if you don't have a problem, now you're

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not going to have a problem.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Okay, if you would have problems, would be it right now?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, I read something last week we're talking about this
on the on the air of this past week that
climatologically speaking, this year here in the Midlands, our weather
in in our heat in May was more like it
usually is in June. In June, it was more like
it usually is this month. Yeah, yeah, it is accessively

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hot and wet.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It got real hot, real quick, and we have had
a lot of rain this year and so that has
mosquitoes love that, and our mosquito season spiked a little early.
We kind of hit the the extreme level on the mosquito.
You know, the mosquito pressure reached extreme as early as April,

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which is a little a little early. I mean we're
always I mean, you know, I mean we're treating for
mosquitos in February, March, but it's usually you know, May, June,
July when they really start getting bad. And they they
were really getting bad in April, and and like you said,
we kind of reached that peak earlier in the season,
which is more problematic because they're just laying more and

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more eggs and they the volume of mosquitoes that we're
seeing is much higher.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Is that going to mean that the season is going
to last longer?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
The link of the season will be based on the
weather in the fall. I mean, you know, we are
in famous hot Columbia, and so you know, our season
always goes you know till about November and sometimes into December.
You know, you need a you need temperatures consistently below

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fifty degrees just to stop the mosquito eggs from hatching.
But that doesn't mean that. I mean, the mosquitoes that
are alive and well are biting and laying more eggs,
it's just the eggs are not hatching. When those eggs
stop hatching, the pressure goes down, so it goes down
from a ten of extreme down to really bad at
a nine or eight or seven. That you know, the

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more the more weeks that you have where it's consistently
below fifty degrees, the lower the pressure gets. But the
adult mosquitos won't go away completely until you get temperatures
in the low thirties for like a week. You get
a week where it hits the thirties every single night,

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that kind of eliminates the adult mosquitoes. To when like
December and January, when you're really not seeing any mosquitoes
at all. That's because of the weather. But you know,
millions and millions of mosquito eggs are just waiting for
the conditions to be right. When it's above fifty degrees consistently,
those eggs start hatching and you start seeing mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
We're a long way away from those days, right.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
We are.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Look, I got to mention this too. We did something
a week or two back. We've I've already got done
before One Friday night, we were out of the backyard
till like eleven o'clock, just my wife and I just
kind of hanging out by the pool, and it occurred
to me that again, not a single mosquito bite thanks
to you guys. Is there a time of day when

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they seem to be worse? Is it at night or
is that just a myth?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
No, it's definitely not a myth. I will say that
it really depends on the species of mosquito. The majority
of mosquitoes, there are some mosquitoes that only fly when
the sun's going down, and so dawn and dusk you
will see a very high volume of mosquitoes because those

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mosquitoes just can't tolerate the sun, and so they're always
hiding in the bushes and they really only come out
and bite at dawn and dusk and after dark. The
type of mosquitoes that we have are actually daytime biers,
those eighties species. They are daytime biers. They don't really

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like the sun, but they'll come out for a good meal,
so they are they do. They are prevalent, more prevalent
during the day, and that's the species we have. So
we they're active, not just at dawn and dusk. They're
more active at that time. But it's not like suddenly
they just come out of the woodwork like other species.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
They really are like vampires, aren't they. They only they
like to come out at night. They don't like the sunlight,
and they bite you in they take your blood.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
That's right, they suck your blood.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Little vampires. Are there parts of the state where it's
actually worse than the Midlands or are we like the
worst place around the state.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Our climate is pretty ideal, you know, yeah at the
coast obviously that you know, we have some marshy type
areas at the coast that can be very problematic. When
you're right at the coast, you get a different species
of salt marsh mosquitoes that can travel long distances. We

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do not have those here in the Midlands because we
don't have salt marshes. But you know, it's it's this
is a pretty you know. I mean, if you were
to pick out some of the worst places on the
East Coast, Columbia is going to be high on the list,
probably higher than any other place in South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Really we can take that honor. Then I guess we
got it, So the question becomes what can we do.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
You can call mosquito Joe. There you go, no contracts,
and the first treatment is only thirty nine dollars. We'd
be glad to come out and help resolve your problem.
It is a reoccurring service. What we're going to put
out there is going to last for about three weeks
and then we're gonna come back and replace it, and
we're gonna do it over and over again. If you

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want to, you know, fight them on your own. The best,
you know, the best advice that I can give you
is that there is standing water somewhere. If you don't
have standing water, you don't have mosquitoes. And so it
may be in the gutters above your head. It may
be in a drain that's covered in get in grass.
It could be kids toys. The type of mosquitos we

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have their container breeders, meaning they are breeding in mostly
man made containers, those buckets, the bottom of the of
a flower pot, underneath a deck. It's going to be
somewhere that is hidden. They don't like the sun, so
it's not in a nice clean swimming pool out in
the middle of the yard. It's going to be in
some mucky, dirty water, something that's been forgotten about, an

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old wheelbarrow or a bucket or a trash can that's
left behind a shed somewhere or underneath a deck or
something like that. Find it and get rid of it
or treat it with a larvacide, and that is going
to go a long way towards helping resolve your issue.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm going to guess that for folks to say, well,
I can handle this on my own, that's that's the
one thing that they miss is getting rid of that water.
Number one. Number two, so I guess you can buy stuff,
but they probably just go out and spray the yard.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
And that's yeah, it's I mean, they go out and
spray or they you know.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
The other part of.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
It is the consistency about it. Even if you find
it the water they're breeding in and you get rid
of it, you know, within a week or two, there's
going to be a whole lot more sources because it's
rained twice or three times or five times. Every time
it rains, new sources are created. So you have to
be very consistent and battling that thing. And that's what

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you know, Mosquito Joe does is we do it very
consistently and very thoroughly. You know, every three weeks we're
visiting and we're finding new sources, we're treating those sources,
or we're getting rid of them, and that's just a
constant battle in addition to spraying the yard. And then
if you are spraying, you know you've got to do

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that very consistently and you know, on a on a
very regular basis, because when you miss, you know, they're
they're you're they're going to come back.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah. But now the the the way you guys go
about this is, uh is you've said this before. It's
you like a play like a flea callar around the yard,
which which by the way, that that same thing you
use for mosquitoes works on fleas and takes right well.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
The product, the active ingredient in the synthetic product that
we use is the same active ingredient that is in
flea and tick shampoo that you put directly on a
dog or life shampoo that you put directly on a
kid's head if they hit, they unfortunately come home with
life from something. But you know so that it is

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it is not going to harm kids or pets or
anything like that and so instead think of it. Instead
of putting it on the dog, we're spraying the entire yard.
And so we're doing a flea and tick shampoo on
the on the whole yard, which is going to eliminate
you know, any mosquitoes, fleas or ticks that are there.
But if they are coming over from you know, from outside,

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they're going to hit that barrier and they're going to
be eliminated and that and that's like a flea collar
around that yard that's going to last for about three weeks.
And three weeks, it's kind of done its thing. There's
enough UV right now. R UV factor is extremely high
and that's what breaks down all products that are used
for anything like this, and so you have to replace

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it or it's going to stop working.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Are there any other environmental type things that can can
make the situation worse aside from you know, the moisture
and the heat is there well, for example, and we've
talked about this before along quite some time ago, we
see more and more of these drainage fields and retaining
ponds around those have got to be like, you know,

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big time problem areas.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
If you're near one of those, yeah, I mean, keep
in mind that our mosquitoes don't fly more than a
couple of hundred feet in their whole lifetime, So it's
whatever the problem is, it's very close by. But yes,
anything that is holding water consistently. I mean, I've seen
situations where we there is a neighbor who never close

(31:58):
their pool down. Theirs been sitting there for two years,
it's half empty and it's completely green. Well, that big
of a source of standing water that's mucky and dirty
and very at green and algae. That's a perfect breeding ground.
And there's enough, I mean that can breed enough mosquitoes

(32:18):
to you know, eventually, you know, be affecting the entire
neighborhood or all of the surrounding houses and the maybe
the houses surrounding them. When I say the whole neighborhood,
that's probably overstep, but it can cause a problem. And
the same thing with a if you have a detention
pond that is supposed to be empty, you know, within

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twenty four hours after it rains, that thing should be
dry and it should be able to mow it within
twenty four hours. Most of them that I see, they
have six inches to a foot of water under the
whole I mean at the whole bottom of it, it's
just a mucky It looks like a swamp. And then
it starts getting overgrown because you can't cut it. Yeah,
and then you get cat tails and all sorts of

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non native species coming in there, and it creates a swamp.
And I can guarantee you there's nothing that a mosquito
likes better than a swamp to breed. And that thing
can be producing millions and millions of mosquitoes that are
going to affect all of the surrounding houses and eventually
those those populations are going to continue to spread and

(33:24):
spread and spread where it's affecting, you know, a neighborhood,
and so things like that can can really help the
mosquitoes to produce more. You know, you create the right
environment for them, and they're going to come and they're
going to stay, and they're going to multiply.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, if you're going to become their best buddies.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Right yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah. And they don't live long, right, I mean, they're
life cycles pretty short. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Males are going to live for two to ten days,
females four to six weeks. They don't live very long.
But man, you think about a female mosquite can lay
up to three hundred eggs every few days. That is
a that's one mosquito producing thousands of new mosquitos you take.
I mean, if you had ten in a yard you

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take every few days, you start doing the math, it's
an exponential growth and then an exponential laying of eggs.
That just just the problem just never goes away.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well, worldly July fourth weekend, this weekend. I know you
guys get calls all the time from folks who may
have not used you before, but they're like, you know,
I got a big party coming up, you know, July
fourth weekend. Could you come out and apply a treatment?
How how effective can that be? Tray? If you've never
been out there before and you're coming out maybe maybe
you came out this past week to a home and sprayed,

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how quick I can get results from us?

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Sometimes it's going to depend on how severe their infestation is.
I can tell you on any situation, you're going to
see an immediate difference. Until we break the breeding cycle,
you're probably not going to be where you're not seeing
any But if you're just getting eaten alive, you know,

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and that's reduced down to one or two bites. That's
a significant difference. But you know, we're never selling one
hundred percent, but you'll see a significant difference right from
the beginning once we break that breeding cycle. Is where
we want to get you to where you're not getting
bit at all, and you can just go out in
your yard like you do in yours, anytime day or night,

(35:34):
and you're not, you know, having to grab the bug
spray and spray yourself down just to go out and
sit on the back.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Deck, something y'all have been doing for really a long time.
But now you're really putting an emphasis on that is
not just the spray for the mosquitoes, but you guys
are now taking care of all the pests, right, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah, we did now offer home pest defense keeping roaches
and ants and silver fish and spiders out of your house,
and we so we do home past defense as well,
so we keep them out of your yard and out
of your house, and really a full service test control company.
We we also do roadent control and that is keeping

(36:14):
the mice and rats out of the house. There's nothing
worse than coming home from vacation and seeing mouse poop
running down the hallway and you're like, oh my gosh,
we have had a visitor and uh, you know, we
can put an all natural barrier around the outside of
the house. We do that every other month and mice
and rats will not cross across that barrier. They'll go

(36:36):
to the neighbors.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, you can have them. Now are their discount deals
if you if you take advantage of both services stright?
How does that work?

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, we we have a we have bundled deals where
they can save some money. You know, most people would
rather deal with one company than dealing with one person
for this and another person for that, So they can
bundle services and take advantage of the mojos where they're
where we're treating their yard, we're treating the house, we're
treating you know, for rodents, and really just taking care

(37:07):
of all their pest control needs.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
All right, And again, as you always tell us, it
hasn't changed. There's never a contract required, right, that is correct.
Let me ask you this though, If somebody starts and
they get say three, four treatments, and then they stop
and say, we're good, and it's you know, nowhere near
like the end of November, but just get cold enough

(37:29):
to get rid of these things, how quickly, could you
get a reinfestation? I'll talking about mosquitoes at this point.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
It happens pretty quick. I mean we have it's usually
new customers that come on board and we're treating them
every three weeks and everything's great, and they haven't seen
a mosquito in months, and then the kids are going
back to school, so in their mind they're thinking, oh,
the summer's over. We haven't seen any mosquitos in months.
I think we're good. They don't realize how well that
barrier is working that we're doing, and so they're trying

(37:58):
to stop, and so we don't have a so they
can and you know, the next thing, you know, it's
football season and they want to sit outside and watch
football game. And suddenly in September they're.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Like, oh my gosh, what's just happened?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Holy cow? Like they're back, like, yeah, it's because it's
still eighty five degrees it's September, but the mosquitoes don't
go back to school. Uh, and they're not going to
be gone really until about on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yeah. So all right, So folks want to get to
talk to you about their services, whether it's for the
mosquitoes or the pest or bundle them both. How can
they reach you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Eight five to five Aska Joe, eight five to five
Aska Joe, and they'll put in their zip code and
that will direct them to either our office in Lexington
or the office over in Columbia.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
All right, sounds great, And first treatment you never tried
you before? Mosquito is still just thirty nine bucks.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Right, thirty nine dollars for the first treatment and no contracts,
all right.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Trey Powell, Mosquito Joe. Hey, I help you enjoy the
rest of you July for the week.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And my friend thanks you too. There was a farm.

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Jeremy how today mister electric who joins us in studio,
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Speaker 4 (41:07):
Good morning Gary. I gotta tell you I've.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Been I've been challenging. I've been channeling my inner mister
Electric last week week or so and have you. You
have to be careful with you, diy Electricity. I mean
I know enough to be able to hang a light fixture. Yeah, okay,
I always wind up doing something wrong and some wire
pops off or whatever, and I got to take it all.
This happened to me just the other day. I take
it all back down again. And anyway, there's this this stuff. Listen.

(41:35):
I know enough to know when to stop.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
And that's what we're here for again. Yeah, exactly, you
can always call us.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Exactly what I'm going to know. I was before we
came on the air here during the break we were
talking and you know, we moved into a new house
and I know there's a lot of outdoor lighting, but
I don't heck, I don't know if it's just not working,
or if I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong
or whatever. So you know we've talked about before. This
is listen. Electricity doesn't have to be boring, right, No,

(42:04):
absolutely no, you guys do a lot of that sort
of thing, the outdoor lighting and the U and all
that th those enhancements.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yeah, home enhancements, fun things, fun projects that you get
to enjoy after we're finished. You know, it's not all
all the hidden stuff that you don't really get to see.
But we can do landscape lighting. We do. We actually
use a product that is brass, comes in different finishes
and lifetime warranty on the fixtures their self. So we

(42:32):
use a quality, real quality product. LED. H you know LED.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Everything's LED these days.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Yeah, it'd be strange if it wasn't. Yeah, but sometimes
we run into it where it is still some type
of halogen or something like that, and it's on a
medium voltage system. The systems we install would be a
low voltage well.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
What's what's the difference there between those two, I mean,
what's the advantage.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Well, the advantages of the low voltage is obviously you're
saving energy sense, Yeah, yep, it's a lot uh safer
as far as being out in the yard in the
ground running from light to light, UH tends to last longer.
The LED uh low voltage definitely lasts longer than the

(43:16):
halogen halogens can be problematic.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Sol LED's. I mean those things are supposed to last
like almost forever, aren't they.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
I mean, yeah, yeah, they last a long time. I
mean you're talking thousands of hours, thousands and eighty thousand,
fifty thousand hour bulbs, you know, so if you uh, yeah,
they last a lot longer, so a lot less maintenance,
you know, Right, Yeah, there's a lot of you don't
you know, there's a lot of different You can place
them anywhere, uh you don't you know, you don't have

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to trench super deep for the wiring because it's low
voltage wiring, So it's really you're really able to put
them anywhere you want.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I mean it would look bad, but I mean you
could basically lay this soon's just on the front on
the grass. You could.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
I wouldn't recommend that, we know, you know, get it
covered up an inch deep or two inches you know
underneath everything doesn't need to be you know, eighteen inches
like medium wearing.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Oh okay, that's a big difference right there. Yeah, so
this sounds like you probably come out and lay these
things and lay the saw back over to whatever, and
you never know you were there.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
That's right. Yeah, very cool and some pretty cool fixtures
they have. I mean, we have a whole catalog. Bring
bring a book with us, an iPad. We call that
our book, but it's an iPad and it has a
catalog on it and you can see all the different fixtures,
pick them out, you know, the style you like. We
can go over all that with you the placement and

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or repair what you have.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
You know, a typical and I always ask this question
on this show, and I know there's no typical anything,
but you know, more than likely when you guys go
out and do one of these jobs like this, I mean,
what kind of timeframe we are we talking about from
somebody that has nothing and you want to you know,
go the whole night. You want to get it. You

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got to get the Maybe, I guess maybe the controller
or whatever, or cook to the app or however it's done.
Is this a one day kind of job typically?

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Or it can be and a lot of times it
probably is. Yeah, depending on the guys you got, how
many fixtures you got in install? Right, how big the
project is. There's some houses it might take two or
three days, depending on.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Some people get pretty extravagant.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah, you can, and you know if it's all yeah,
you know earth fixtures, I guess I could say not
implanted into the walls or ran up on posts and
stuff like that. You know, it should typical installs should
be probably about a day.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
It should be.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Able to get in and out of there.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
But it's more than just lights. We come to home enhancements. Yeah,
this is a wide variety of things. I'm not sure
that we quite understand, you know, what all is possible
in our homes these days.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Yeah. So ah, man, you're talking smart switches, you know,
where you can program your lights to come on at
a certain time, turn them off from different locations.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
And we're not talking about smart plug now, we're talking
about the actual switch.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
The switch in the wall for your lights. That's right.
You can get smart receptacles also, you know, we put
in a p okay with Christmas coming up. There's actually
one that we like to install, which is a plug
in play, but just so people know it's out there,
you can buy. It's a really cool module. You can
plug into your wall and then you can control it

(46:34):
on an app on your phone right where you don't
have to unplug that Christmas tree. You can just turn
it off with your phone, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, now I have done that with just a regular
smart switch and Alexa before, and that's cool.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Yeah, that's a cool little feature. So there's little things
like that. We can put a three way switch anywhere
you want to if you have a situation where you
wish you could turn a light off at a point
that you don't have a switch there. With smart switches
where you don't even have to do any wiring, you know,
we can put like a remote switch with a ten

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year battery and put a master switch if you will,
where the where the switch location is for that fixture,
and then you have two locations where you can turn
it on and off without a lot of sheet rock
damage or crawling through the attic and things like that.
So there's there's a lot of little things like that lighting.

(47:29):
Obviously they've got lighting now that's r G b W
where it'll do a million plus colors.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I love those. My wife is like, no, we're going
with white. I'm like, oh, that's boring.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Yeah, well it's fun on the holidays.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Well that's what I told her. How cool would it
be to have you know, red and green lights on
Christmas or you know, orange for Halloween coming up here
in a couple of days or whatever. And she's very
traditionalist when it comes to that sort of thing, So
that's wrong with that. When she's not there, I turn
it on, right, Yeah, we'll put them in. She won't
ever know. There you go, perfect, perfect, You can keep
them on white. But you know we do.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
So light under cabinet lights, that's another one. That's another
great to your home, you know, accent lighting, toky lighting,
stair lighting.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Oh okay, stairsteps, yeah, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know I'm familiar with because like in the
house we have now there's space over the cabinets that
I want to run some LEDs up there or whatever.
But I didn't think about that in the cabinet lighting. Well,
that's a that's a that's an ideas. Time has come,
hasn't it. Oh? Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
They make so much great products out there that you
can that aren't that hard to install anymore. Really, you know,
puck lights you can put in your cabinets level and
those would be all loveltage. Also, yeah, we fabricate lights
on the scene. Really yeah, we build uh strip lighting
at your location and install it so for under cabinet lighting.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Very cool, very cool. Are there any things that maybe
we as homeowners and consumers haven't really thought of that
is that you can do these days? Well?

Speaker 4 (49:12):
Yeah, you know, like I'm saying, the three way switches,
the you know, all the stuff we've talked about, you
can do drawing a blank now, Gary.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Trust me, I draw a blank probably four or five
times already the last hour.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
You know, anything you can think, I would say, anything
you could think of, it's worth calling and asking, getting in,
getting us to come out and look at it. Because
there's a lot of stuff we can do in set
lighting in the walls, a different different pathway lighting. If
you you know, you can put track in the floors,

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you can put track on the walls and have your
you know, different different types of lighting can be put in.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
For it sounds like if if you can can dream
it up, but you guys can find a way to
make it happen.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Basically, yeah, most of the time, there's there's a way.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Yeah, so very cool. And you know, this is not
really related to this discussion, but I know it's one
we've had in the past. Something else you guys do,
and and that is when it comes to things like
smoke detectors, you know, two detectors and such. And I
didn't realize it. Again, we were this new home and

(50:29):
we'd had this discussion before, so I wasn't shocked to
discover how many smoke detectors are in this house I'm
in right now. I think a lot of us always thought, oh,
you need water, maybe two or whatever. But I think
we've talked about this before. Yeah, that's really not enough.
And this is something you guys do as well.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Yes, and we do smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire alarms,
all of that, And yeah, they're very They're an essential
part of your home because they if you ever read
the statistics which I'm not gonna go over, but you
can read the statistics about home fires and people to
get harmed. Most of the time they don't have smoke detectors,
or they have smoke detectors that they've uh disengaged, you know,

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uh and and and so they're very important. And I
imagine being that you just got into your home, those
are all probably new.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Yes, certainly that we've all been put up. It's not
a new home, but they all look to be very new.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
And they're they're everywhere, yeah, everywhere, Like wow, in every
bedroom outside the vicinity of every bedroom.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
And this is not a new building moved into but
a new build homes these days? Is that?

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Is that a code now or that standard? Yes? Okay, yeah,
so that's something that has to happen. And for the
reason for that is just to forget.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
We're not talking about one or two. We're talking about, yeah,
a lot of them.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
I mean you're talking on a on an average home,
you're probably looking at six to eight in there.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and certainly older homes. You're probably
thinking saying, what, I don't have that many?

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Yeah, they used to. I think the code was back
in the seventies was one, yeah, and maybe one on
each floor. It was like, wow, we got a lot.
But now they're everywhere.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yeah, they really are. And that's again something else that
mister Electric is going to help you with that. Yeah,
of course the safety checks you do with every visit.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
That's right. We do safety check on every call new customers.
We can go over your system and just let you
know of anything that can they can make that system safer,
any items that need to be addressed.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
You know, absolutely absolutely. All right, Well, I got to
get you out and look at these other outdoor lighting
at my place. I can figure this thing out, man, Yeah,
give us a call. Funs up again. Electricity doesn't have
to be boring, no, not with mister Electric do jeremy
always good to see you, my friend. Uh So, how's
the best what's the best place for UPS to reach

(52:47):
you and and get you out there to their place?

Speaker 4 (52:50):
So you can reach us by phone eight zero three
eight six eight four two four three, or you can
reach us at our website mister Electric dot com forward
slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Okay, and then numberrato three eight two eight.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Eight six eight eight zero three this information eight six
eight four to two four to three, And we always
have a live person answering, so you know, you always
get a hold.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Of somebody, all right, Jeremy, have a good weekend.

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Moddy, Yes, sir.

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