Home Improvement Show 07-08-23

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning and welcome in, myfriends. It's the home Improven Show of
the Midlands. So happy to haveyou here on this Saturday morning on one
of three point five FM and fivesixty AM w VOC. My name is
Gary David. It is wonderful tohave you on board. We got a
lot of great fosts dropping by withthe course of the next hour, including
Summer from Beaver Rufigin Gutters. She'llbe by a little bit later on this
half hour. Trey Powell from MosquitoJoe. Is a mosquito population high right

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now, you better believe it is. How they can help you out?
And oh I need to ask themtoo about well, something that's popped up
here first time in a couple ofdecades in this country. That are those
are cases of homegrown malaria. Howmosquitoes contribute to that. Paul Prince on
herdord Or Floors will be by aswell, talking about products made in America.

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All right, so busy hour here, but we get things started with
Courtney and Renee Avan from Diamond ConcreteSolutions. Good to see you both,
Good morning, Good morning. How'sit gone. Where are you being Courtney?
How to see you in a whilewell, we had a nice little
vacation there, and then last weekI think that the teams, some of
the teammates were in here talking aboutall the cool things they can do.
That was awesome. I think theyreally enjoyed that, and um, we're
definitely going to have them back todo that. I think it's great for

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our customers to hear directly from thembecause they're going to be the ones that
come do those jobs for them.Absolutely. Though Courtney was here last week
too. Yeah, you've probably heardof the story that I called coney.
Oh okay, yeah, right,so that just once you do that twice,
it happens. It happens. Weget mail, we laugh, We
get mail at the house from missusRenee Aven and mister Courtney Aven and she

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gets mixed stuff like that often imagineyou do. So how some are going,
I mean this is who Things aregood. It's been busy. The
heat is here. I feel likewe were so lucky May and even early
June we're so mild. Um,So we're definitely trying to keep the team
cool and hydrated out there and inthe shade or inside when we can,
which is great. We've got alot of great indoor work this summer,

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um, and so we're really blessedwith that. But you know, they
do love I guess they like towork in the heat. They love to
do those pool pool decks and patiosand all those different types of applications.
I think they've had a lot ofreally fun projects this week are this year
so correct. And we talk alot about the work you guys do for
for homeowers of Again, it maybe repairing the concrete that's they're already um

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and in many cases it's not onlyrepairing but improving, improving yep, the
look of that concrete. But youguys do a lot of a lot of
projects for businesses and and organizations thatbenefit people who you know, families and
and kids and parents and absolutely.What are some of the things you've been

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been up to recently. Well,we just finished in almost five thousand square
feed pool hroa pool, so thatbenefits a lot of people. They lived
there and that was a fun project. Um. It's pretty close to the
to the to Lake Murray and thatwas a lot of fun. So it
became a huge flake floor and Ithink the people enjoy it pretty much there.

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So yeah, we removed some triphazards, did a little bit of
leveling work there and then also dida beautiful flake floor so that they can
enjoy that space, um, youknow, for for a lot longer with
cooler feet and non slip and thenalso just a beautiful coating so that when
they're out there it feels like theyare you know, maybe not at the
HOA Pool, maybe they're they're onvacation, right It feels a little bit

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nicer out there, so you know, maybe it maybe a good time out
of the bat signal for hoas becauseas you mentioned, uh, you know,
leveling, concrete, trip hazards andthese are all liabilities for yeah,
huge, So it's functional improvement,but it's also cosmetic and um really elevates
your space, makes it makes itfeel a lot more luxury out there.
But it performs well, you knowalso in terms of just longevity and um

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cracking and you know, things likethat. So but it's great time for
Hoa's right now too, because ifyou've been at the pool obviously it's hard
to close things right now. Ithink this is the top of the season.
People are enjoying it. We justhad the fourth and so you know,
if people are going to be lookingto make improvements. This is a
good time for us to come outand take a look because the end of
the season is you know, ina month or two really, and so

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we can go ahead and get thingsscheduled out where we're pretty booked up for
a lot of pools right now startingwhen the season is over. So it's
a great time to start looking forimprovements if you are in that space and
enjoying it and seeing, hey,you know, I need to do something.
It all look down. But thekids will be back in school in
about a month and a half orso. Yeah, yeah, sure,
you know, then that population levelat the at the HIA pool starts to

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drop a bit there exactly, soand you know, the we have a
couple of church projects, so um, a lot of you know, people
are enjoying that with gymnasium upgrades andbathroom renovations, bathroom floors and things like
that. Summer is a great timewhere maybe your your foot traffics down a
little bit, or you've camp isover that sort of thing. People are

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taking vacations and now it's a greattime to you know, look at larger
spaces that are family share and enjoyedspaces, but that might be more of
a group setting. So those havebeen some really fun projects for us.
And then just you know, regularwaterfront projects have been also great, where
we're doing basements that are maybe overlookingthe Salut or Broad River, maybe even

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the Congreree River. Some of thoseprojects have been really fun Lake Murray projects
where we're doing pool decks and patiosand turning you know, old ugly concrete
into a beautiful stain, the chestnutstain that you know, really elevates the
look and feel of the home sothat you're attempted to enjoy your outdoor space
more. This this whole process.Uh, And again for folks who may

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be joining joining us today and hearingyou for the first time, let's quickly
explain what it is you when youtalk about, you know, improving concrete
and decorative concrete. Exactly how doesthis work? And how long has this
been around, by the way,because well, it's it's been around for
a long time. Yeah. Ithink epoxy really kind of became popular in
the sixties and seventies and it's beenaround since then, but it sort of

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went through trends and so it wasmore of a West Coast trend until recently.
I think when you know there's alot more concrete jungle in the East
Coast now than we realize, andbeing able to recycle what you have is
really important. It's cost effective,there's a lot of great options out there,
and we've found that it's really somethingthat's getting more of a foothold,
even for slab homes where maybe ahomeowner has bought a mid century modern home

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that's on slab and they had uglyfloor coverings that they wanted to take up
and sort of renovate the home andmodernize the home sum but use what they
already have. We've had a lotof homeowners recently with those styles of homes,
maybe new construction or mid Citrey Modern, where they've removed floor coverings or
want to do new floor coverings andthey want to use what they have.
Maybe it's even more cost effective touse the concrete and stain it and seal

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it than it is to bring materialsand to put back down on top of
it, right, because it doesn'tlook like concrete when you're done with it,
it's beautiful, and even a floorcovering or rug is going to make
it super functional. Easy to keepclean, um sometimes more functional than carp
carpet, more long lasting than LVPand LVT. Those are great products.
And sometimes we do refer our customers, you know, that have indoor work

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they want to do to trade partnersthat we work with regularly for that sort
of thing. But then we're ableto finish that concrete space for them if
there's concrete that they want to leaveexposed and make beautiful. Sure okay,
so so um renee yes, Sarah, here we go. Tell us about
how this works. Now, whatcan the what can the homeown or business
owner expect, Well, really dependson what kind of floor they want.

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Um it. We do a lotof cement overlays. Um. It's pretty
much the addition of stamp concrete.So whoever um missed the stamp concrete pot,
we do similar stuff. We addsome cement layers on top of it
and instead of stamping, will tapeand hand trowl it. So that's pretty

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much an addition to stamped concrete,which is which helps the customer, um
if they miss that point when theypoured the concrete bright new and stamped it.
So that's part of what we do. We do. Flake force two
where a lot of flakes are involved. UM, so they're definitely Yeah,

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an overlayer of coating is going tobe different than other types of treatment that
you can do. But an overlayerof coating, UM, you know,
is a cement layer on top ofthe concrete that you've already got, right,
And so what we do is weopen up the pores by grinding the
top layer or maybe hot pressure washing, depending on where it's located and what
kind of equipment we can get toit. But opening the pores of the

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concrete and then putting additional layers downon top of that that may have color
or texture UM, such as flakesor stain um, but also cement types
of layers like microtopping and epoxy andall those different perma fleas, which is
a waterproofing material. Different types ofus go down on top of that concrete
to use the existing concrete, butthen beautifying and protecting it. And then

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eventually you almost do that like toptop layer of almost like a manicure,
right, you do a glossy ora matte top coat to finish it,
and then there's any number of designsduring that you know, middle part of
the process that you can put downas well, whether it's a tile look,
of stone look, of a hardwoodlook, and there's any number of
patterns you can do with stenciling,and I guess the Venetian plaster that's sort

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of popular now as well. Youcan even do that up the walls.
So there's any number of overlay andcoding options out there that we love to
do. The decorative highly decorative,but also functional if it's just going to
be something for non slip or foryou know, a single layer to help
your garage space be more functional.So ultimately, you know, explaining to
customers what that is and then tryingnot to give them too many options because

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they're limitless options to colors and allsorts of things, you know, And
so we really do help try tolearn what our customers are really looking for
and then guide them in the rightdirection. And we've sort of seen it
all at this point where we havetried some things that you know, work
better in certain places, whether it'swaterfront there's going to be moisture, or
if they've got existing stamp concrete andwe need to um resurface that for them.

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We know what to do and whatnot to do. Now so the
options really are limitless, and wetry to listen to what our customers want
and then steer them in the rightdirection based on the products that we know
and like to work. Well,one thing for us to talk about on
the radio, but it's something elseto actually see what can be done.
So what's what's the best way forfolks to get a good look at exactly

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what you can accomplish when it comesto the concrete. Yeah, well,
our website is obviously the best placeto start Diamond Concrete Solutions dot com,
and you can give us a calleight O three seven five nine eight two
eight nine and come buy our officewhen we're there. We have a beautiful
showroom with lots of different flooring optionson the floors there, as well as
samples, large samples and even smallsamples. And then once we come to

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an estimate, we can bring somesamples to you or have you in and
show you some product, product portfoliospictures of what to do. But yeah,
the best way is to make anappointment, comes to us at our
showroom or check out our website.We do have project portfolios on our social
media, but everything is also onour website. It's easy to find there.
Diamond Concrete Solutions dot com YEP isthat site and again if you want,

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you can go. We'll buy yourplace and take a look at Absolutely
we have a lot of customers.Come choose directly there. I bet they
do all right, terrific well improvingfixing, making it sexy. Yeah,
that the old concrete can be newagain and look like something you've no idea
could absolutely accordion Reneven goodnes See toboth of you, have a great weekend.

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morning on one of three point fiveFM and five sixty AM w VOC.

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Let's catch up with the hardest workingman and show business and gutter business.
It's a Heath from Beaver roof AganGutters, who joins us from on the
road this morning heading out to aproject site. Heath, good morning,
buddy, good morning. I wouldman, We're just we're just fine,
just fine, my friend. Thisis a this is a good weekend to
talk to you about about gutters andsuch because you're the gutter guy over beaver

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roof agan gutters and uh, herewe go, which we're in our typical
summertime pattern. Here only is exceptionallyhot, but it's exceptionally humid, and
that means those afternoon thunderstorms and unlikeHeath, you know, a good spring
shower where you may get a lotof rain, but it's not all at
one time. These downpours in thesethunderstorms can cause a lot of problems for

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folks who don't have gutters, ofthose who have old fashioned gutters. Right,
Oh, that's definitely right. Theuh I've been on four five five
this morning alreadywhere just heavy wash out. You know, I get my landscaping
and now my mult is washed away. Why you know, I need to

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really direct this slow of water.And I mean when I say washed away,
they washed away. We get somewe had some heavy rain in the
afternoon. Yeah, and a yeah, that's that's all the cosmetic stuff,
right, that's that's that's that's apain. You know you've multus washing away
and such. But there are alot more insidious effects of those heavy downpours

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if you don't have gunners. Ohabsolutely, the uh water getting underneath your
house, water getting into your caralspace. If you haven't had a basement
um, you know that rain comesso fast and so hard off your roof.
If you don't have a way todirect it. It's the ground.
It may not have anywhere to go. It doesn't have anywhere to go.
It's gonna go to the lowest point. If that app is being graded back

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towards your house, that's where it'sgone, right, So now it Beaverofing
and Gutters, You guys do agutter. That's a six inch gutter.
A right to put that in perspectiveinto context. If you're listening this morning,
you've got gutters unless you've had theminstalled by Beaverofic and gutters more than
likely yours or five inches. Thatdoesn't sound like a big difference, But

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it actually turns out to be abig difference, doesn't it. Well,
it turns out to be a hugedifference for a number of reason. One,
the combination of the six inch gutter, the three by four downs about
and proper installation can move a substantialamount of water more than five inches.
The second, and to me themost important is that with a six inch

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gutter, I can go significantly fartherbetween down spouts, which makes it easier
to control your water, which makesit easier to push it to areas where
it needs to go, as opposedto saying, well, you know,
I've been twenty five feet i gottastick a dounce about here. It's not
gonna work. That could be inthe middle of your wall, the middle
of your yard, could be inan area where then you have to pipe

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the water away. It just givesyou a lot more flexibility. And a
third reason, I mean, let'sbe honest, every place we go around
here has trees. The capacity forif you get the bree in your gutter,
you have to clean those five inchgutters a lot more because you know

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you're limiting the capacity is a gutterevery time a leaf falls into it,
every time shingle grade goes into it, every time the devil pine straw goes
into it. It's just it justcauses a lot of problems. There's there's
no point in that. The costis not that much different. It's negligible.
On a two hundred feet it mightbe one hundred and fifty dollars to

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get a six inch over a fiveinch, So you know, we only
offer the five inch basically for umrepairs. You know, if you're having
a five inch gutter and you wantto to add to that and we need
to tie it in, or ifyou have a damage sex and you just
want to replace for budgetary reason.But other than that, I'm gonna always

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say put the sixth inch up.And you talk about the things that getting
trapped in those gutters, and wethink, as you know, those homeowners,
Okay, so they get filled up, and that means that that water
is gonna you know, not runthrough there the way it ought to and
all that. But but that alsoadds weight to those gutters, which creates
a whole other problem. Correct substantialamount of weight. Um. I've been

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on to this week where the gutterjust pulled the pacher boarder right away from
the house. Um. And youknow there's cases where the wood behind maybe
riding. In this case, itwas just full. Um. I don't
know if I have pickure is thatI showed us for some time. You
know that the big people will runa gutter and I've got two contractors sized

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bags full of the breathing came outof them. Yeah, that's one hundred
twenty five hundred thirty five pounds total. You start adding that to the cruise
to the nail, something's got toget right and eventually will Usually in your
house, eventually it will come down, especially when you start adding water to
that. Yeah. Plus if they'refull, that water may not necessarily always

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run over the top, they wouldrun backwards. To run backwards. Then
you get water and us in yourhome. Then there's that, Then there's
that. So let me ask youthis, Heath, when you when you
guys show up on a job siteand somebody's inquiring about gutters, you're out
there to give them a quote.Let's say they've got existing gutters right now,

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what are what are the biggest issuesthat you normally see? And well,
let me let me start with thisone. Okay, if you've got
gutters on your home, at whatpoint in time for the an old five
inch gutter do you do you startto really see issues kind of pop up?
I mean, is there a isthere a lifespan to gutter? Is
these what should we expect as ahomeowner? I always say that's twenty year

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mark or a gutter is just prettygood. Um, you know, honestly,
I have homeowners that have clean outtheir gutters religiously every three months,
reseal their own corners. I mean, they might have gutters they are thirty
five years old, but on anaverage, if you get twenty years out

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of a gutter system, you've donepretty well. You know, most people
don't have access to a morty footladder. If you have a tall house
or want to climb up on theirroof and clean out their gutters. You
know, a properly maintaining gutter couldlast, but a normally maintained gutters about
twenty year. Okay. I alwaystell people you look at your joints.

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You look at your corner, ifyou look at your outlets where the water
comes out into the downspout, andyou look at the joints of the elbows
at the top of the downspout.When you start getting some discoloration around them,
the darker gets the closer you're gettingto the end of life of your
gutter. Okay, that's a scientificabout that. That's just me looking at
one hundreds of thousands of beeta gutterand that's what seems to be the cake

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and right right now when you guyscome out, and it is really fascinating
how it's done. Uh, you'reobviously if you've come out first, you
give me the quote you today madethe measurements and all that, But it's
trying to put those gutters up.You're not showing up at the homeowner or
the home of the business with alreadypre cut gutters. Now you guys are
doing it right there on site.So that that gives us some advantages,

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doesn't it. It does, Andyou know you gotta the two biggest advantages
we have. Our crew has many, many years of experience. There's nothing
you're gonna find out. There's nothingthey're gonna see out your house they haven't
seen before. And your biggest demandagesthat once I show up the first time,

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you don't ever have to see meagain. Those guys do their work.
There's never an issue. You don'thave to call me back out to
check behind them. I'm not therewith a screw gun in the hand,
which is one of the rules ofone of the rules that beaver rooping and
goater that if I have a toolin my hand, you're closed to buire
us. But the guys are phenomenal, so they're gonna get there. They're

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gonna measure every run exactly. Youknow, I draw a map of the
house before I go, and Igive them. You know, this is
approximately a forty foot run. Youknow, I measured off with forty They're
gonna get up there and they're gonnarun the go to forty feet seven and
three quarter engines. So it's gonnabe exact, and it's gonna look good.
It's not gonna hang over too faron one side or the other.

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So in most cases it can addto the aesthetics of your home, whereas
a lot of people believe they takeaway Yeah, no, properly in steal
gutter. You should never notice.And in these days and you've got gutters
and all sorts of colors and such. And during the pandemic, I mean,
the supply chain crisis put a crimpin a little bit of that.
But you guys are still offering multiplecolors and maybe even a couple different styles.

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Oh yeah, we're we have Ithink we have eleven, maybe fifteen
colors at this point, have differentstyles. You can do half round,
you can do. Of course,we do offer a five inch six inch.
We had were one of the fewpeople in the Midlands that offer a
seven inch K style gutter, whichis a seamless gutter in seven inch um.

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It's just there's multiple, multiple waysyou can accentuate your home. People
either match their facial color or youknow, the newer trend is to contract
the color facia. So I doa lot of white facia with black gutters
and black downs about okay, lightcan facia with a dark brown gutter.

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You know, there's there's just multipleways we can we can thank them so
that people feel that they're helping theirhouse. Not a necessity, but a
decorative accent right. And let memention this too quickly because I realized these
days, with interest rates being whatthey are, not a lot of folks
are looking to buy homes necessarily andpay over a seven percent interest rate.

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But for those who are house shopping, um, yeah, I guess you
would probably suggest if if you're lookingat a house and it does not have
gutters on it, that might bea point of concession you could make with
a homeowner saying that needs to betaken care of. Yeah. I had
this discussion with a homeowner yesterday ata route leek Um. No gutters on
the upper run. Water has beenfalling down on two court troops. That

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water splashes back against your side.If you have any flashing issues, any
ceiling issues, that water then runsinside. In her case, they ran
into a storage room with a drywallceiling that now has a hole in it
from the water. I said,you know, the biggest thing you do

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if you're looking for a house,the least expensive investment you can make for
preventive maintenance of the gutter. Youknow you might spend anywhere from a thousand
and twenty five hundred dollars on thatgutter. What if you have to do
a foundation instead of that, youknow, the whole lot cheaper put that
gutter on the start with. Yeah, that that gets into the tens of

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thousands of dollars to get that workdone. And nobody wants to have to
do that, right, so manyones that work, No, sir,
He's always a pleasure to talk toyou, my friend. I know you're
busy and you got another stop,another stop or two to make for this
day's all done. How can folksreach it to get that quote for a
for gutters or gout to repairs forthat matter. You can give us a

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call eight oh three nine nine.One route took us up online Home Advisor
andie List. People routing and gutterscheck us out on Facebook. As Summer
will tell you, we always encouragepeople to check all our reviews. We
will do everything we can to makesure that you're satisfied before we leave your
job. All right, brothers,try try try to stay cool out there

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Beaver Gutters. The Home Improvement Showthe Midlands rolls on on this Saturday morning
on one of three point five FMand five sixty AM wv O. So
you good to have you as wenow welcome in Trey Powell. He is
Mosquito Joe here in the Midlands.Well, one of a couple of Momusquito

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Joe's here in the middles right,How are you, buddy? I'm doing
terrific. How about you? Iam well, I'm gonna guess y'all are
staying a little busy right about now. Oh yeah, after we had what
the eight inches of rain in oneweek, Uh, the mosquito population has
soared and uh, you know,see we have the normal amount of heat

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and humidity, so they are justthriving and thriving right now. Yeah,
we know it's the moisture. Isall that rainfall that causes those little things
to hatch? U does the warmer, the hot warmer huh, hotter it
gets have any impact on the numberof mosquites we see as well? Or
is it just really the moisture inthe humidity in the air well. I

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mean, the heat is definitely youknow, they definitely like the heat,
but the really high humidity keeps thingsreally wet and moist and really provides an
ideal, you know scenario for themto you know, breed and they're in
the larva, will you know,hatch from eggs much faster and they will
even go through that metamorphosis process fromlarva the pupa to adult much faster at

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this time of year when when theconditions are are ideal, which they definitely
are. And these kind of conditionstray. I mean from the moment that
a female lays that egg to themoment that that new mosquito is out pestering
you in your backyard. I mean, how how long does that take in

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conditions like that? Well, well, in conditions like this, it can
happen in a week. When theconditions are not ideal, when you have
lower temperatures, you don't have highhumidity, you know, it might take
you know, two weeks all theway as much as a month or so.
I mean, if the conditions areyou have consistently temperatures below fifty degrees,

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they might just incubate for months andmonths. I mean mosquito. Some
mosquitoes can incubate in the egg stage. These eggs will sit, doesn't matter
if they're dry or heat, icecold. There's nothing that's going to affect
that egg. And those eggs canlast for up to five years really until
the conditions are are right for themto hatch. And this is this is

(29:32):
how mosquitos kind of over winter.There's very few mosquitoes that will survive the
winter, but their eggs are completelyunaffected, which is one of the reasons
why you know, places like Alaskathat have tons and tons of snow still
have tons of mosquitoes because when thatsnow melts, everything is sopping wet and

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you just have a very wet environmentthat's ideal for mosquito breeding and then probably
comes as a prize a lot ofpeople that Alaska's got a mosquity issue too.
Yeah, a lot of people.It's uh, you know, the
rumor mill would say that, oh, we we have a really hard freeze
or we have really you know,bad winter, that's going to be a

(30:15):
better mosquito situation in the spring,and that's just patently false. There's really
no amount of drought or freeze thatis going to affect mosquito eggs, and
they will they will thrive in inall sorts of climates, you know,
from you know, New York toFlorida to Alaska, all over the country.

(30:37):
The places that do don't have mosquitoesreally are places that are super super
dry, you know, the desert, and you know, they have lots
of heat, but they don't havea lot of humidity, and so they
don't have a lot of standing water. Their standing water will dry up and
so they just don't skitos just don'tthrive in those super dry environments. But

(31:00):
we have high heat and high humiditylike we have here, you can bet
we always can count on a mosquitoproblem. And again, as you mentioned
right now, with these kind ofconditions, from that egg first being laid
to that mosquito biting, you canbe as quick as one week. Wow.
Yeah. And it's also where youcan see the mosquitos, you know,

(31:21):
multiply very very quickly, you know, almost exponential type you know growth,
where right now any eggs is beinglaid is hatching immediately, and within
a week you've got you know,hundreds of more adult mosquitos that are you
know, breeding and laying more eggs, and then those are hatching, and
you can go from from a fewmosquitos to thousands of mosquitos, you know,

(31:45):
in just a few short weeks.Wow. We talked a month or
two back about something and it hadn'tbeen an issue in this country, and
now suddenly, as if on Q, it is and it's a it's it's
a problem that in particular world countriesstruggle with, and that's malaria. And
now we got cases here in theStates, right yeah, that uh,

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you know, I hope we didn't. We didn't hex it that it really
wasn't an issue. A few monthsago we talked about it, and I
don't think we've had a verified caseof malaria that happened in the United States.
I mean, we do have peoplethat will come back from you know,
Africa or South America or somewhere,and you know, they taught malaria

(32:30):
there. In fact, we havea teacher here in Lexington that they caught
on I believe they were on amission trip and they came back with malaria
and really really struggled. Um,you know, really we're fighting for their
life and fortunately I think they haveturned the corner and looks like they're going
to be okay. But it isa nasty disease that takes the life of

(32:52):
many, many people around the world. And we hadn't had a confirmed case
of malaria that was called by amosquito from a mosquito here in the United
States, I think since two thousandand three is early two thousands, I
think it was two thousand and three, so it's been you know, almost
twenty years. And now this yearwe have three confirmed cases, two in

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Florida and one in Texas. Sofar, hopefully the vector control municipalities in
those areas have have really gotten that, you know, mosquito population under control.
I guess it's kind of remarkable thatas mini mosquito as as are out
there, mosquitos as are out therein places like Florida and Texas, that

(33:34):
it would only be just a coupleof folks who have contracted this um and
thankfully that's been it. That hasn'tbeen more. You can't, as I
understand it, malaria, you can't. You can't give it to somebody only
a mosquito. Can you give itto you? Is that right? Do
you know much about it? Thatis exactly correct? Yep, it is.
It is a vector borne illness thatis not contagious from human to human,

(33:55):
but it is very uh you know, if you have the right type
of mosquitoes that that that comes fromthe anopolies uh, you know strand of
mosquitos, which is not the primarymosquito that we have here. You have
anopolies mosquitoes, but you know,if you have an outbreak of malaria,

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that is probably a significant population ofanopolies mosquitos. UM. You know,
it's just always good to make surethat you're protecting yourself if you're out and
about, uh, you know,wearing the right clothing, you know,
using some sort of a spray thatwould be a repellent to keep them away
from you. Because it's not aslikely in the United States, but as

(34:40):
we're seeing it, it definitely canhappen. And it's not like, Okay,
I see that snake over there,it's a black snake or it's a
copper head. You can tell thedifference between a poisonous and a non poisonous
snake. You know, the averageyou know, look at a mosquito on
your arm and say, oh,that's anopolies or that's a something else.
Yeah, I might be able totell, but most people are not going

(35:01):
to be able to, uh,monopolies. Mosquito is a very interesting Uh
they have a when they land,their tail is up in the air.
They look like they've got their headdown. You know. That's that's how
you would tell them. But youknow, we have eighties mosquitoes which would

(35:22):
carry Zekea virus and West Nile virusand and things like that. Each each
different species of mosquito kind of specializesin their own deadly disease. Um and
you know it's none of them aregood. They're all vector you know,
insects that that can carry disease andspread disease from birds to to humans.

(35:45):
Well, I guess it has beenseveral weeks now since we first heard about
this, so I guess that's goodnews. We haven't heard about anymore since
then. Yeah, that's really goodnews. I'm I'm glad that it's not
hitting the you know, hitting thenews on a on an even nightly basis.
So that's that's a really good sign. You know. One of the
things we can be proud of inthe United States is that we do have

(36:07):
very good vector control um, youknow, in the in our local government
that keeps those mosquito populations at amanageable level, which you know will which
is why we don't have widespread mosquitoborn illness. I mean, mosquitoes are

(36:28):
the deadliest thing on the planet.Um. But that's mostly in third world
countries and other parts of the worldwhere they don't have the money to do
widespread mosquito control um. And youknow, so it is a big benefit
to living in the United States isthat you don't know tons of people who
have had mosquito born illnesses. Wouldyou expect to see these municipalities out spring.

(36:54):
I haven't seen that yet or heardabout that yet, but would you
think if you were kind of gettingand again that's that's different from what you
do. We'll get that in asecond. But if you are, they're
out right now with the widespread well, they're they're always, they're always working
and monitoring the mosquito population. UM. You know, if you haven't,

(37:15):
if you have somebody who shows upat the you know, at the hospital
with West Nile virus, I canassure you that they would be out in
force anywhere that person was and couldhave possibly gotten bit uh to make sure
that they bring that mosquito population downso that we don't have tons of people
getting West Nile virus or or anyof these you know, deny fever or

(37:37):
chickago, any of those you know, UM, horrible diseases that they carry.
UM. You know. The otherthing is that a lot of times,
with a lot of these diseases,you you only have about twenty percent
one in five people that show anysymptoms at all, and so you could
you could get it and not andnot even know it. UM. And
so some of these diseases are thatway, they just don't affect you know,

(38:00):
you know everybody so well. Meantime, consider maybe an insurance policy at
your house. Call this guy trayUm again. If somebody has never used
your services before, I know you'vegot an outstanding way to introduce folks to
that. We do we uh well, we will do the first service um

(38:22):
below costs. We just we wantto earn your business the right way.
It's only thirty nine dollars for upto a half an acre and we'll come
out and treat the yard. Andyou know we're our our purpose is really
not to fight mosquito born illness.It's a you know, it is an
extra precaution. You know, thethe municipalities really are there in the interest

(38:43):
of public health. But just becauseyou know they have lower the mosquito population
doesn't mean that you can you know, play outside in your backyard all day
and not get bit by mosquitoes.You're not going to get bit by a
hundred mosquitos. I mean, ifthat's the case, you really that's a
public health concern and that's where themunicipalities come in. But if you want
to be able to go out inyour backyard and just enjoy the backyard without

(39:05):
getting three or four or five bites. Uh, you know in an evening.
You know, that's where mosquito Joecomes in and where our goal is
to just on that property, takethat that population down to zero or close
to zero. It's nothing is onehundred percent, but man, it really
makes the biggest difference in your backyard, so you don't have to worry.
You know, a lot of peoplefeel prisoner in their backyard. They can't

(39:28):
go outside because you know, they'rejust very you know, very susceptible to
mosquito bites. There's a lot ofpeople that have kind of allergic reactions where
they get big whelps and it's justit's just no fun to have, you
know, kids that are itching andscratching and crying and you know, and
things like that, and you know, if you really want to enjoy your
backyard, you really should consider tryingthis service. It is a reoccurring service.

(39:52):
We come out every three weeks andretreat the yard. What we use,
we'll break down with UV after aboutthree weeks it's kind of done its
thing, So we come out everythree weeks kind of like a lawn service.
And just keep you protected throughout theseason. But there's no contract.
You know, somebody can start andstop whenever they want. They can get
one treatment for a party if theywant. I mean, that's not going

(40:15):
to be perfect. Um. Youknow what we tell people when they call
is that, you know, wereally need to break that that breeding cycle,
uh in order to get you towhere you're not getting any bites at
all. And that takes several services, especially if you're starting at this time
of year. Somebody pretty quickly.Go ahead and think of somebody like me
who has been using you guys forthe last four or five years and I
have yet to be bitten by amosquito in my backyard. So this stuff

(40:37):
works. Try How to folks reachyou at Mosquito Joe. Well, they
can always go to the Mosquito Joedot com um or just call us at
eight five five Aska Joe eight fivefive Aska Joe. They'll put in their
zip code and that will direct youto either the Columbia office or our office
out in Lexington and anywhere in theMidlands we can. We can get to

(40:59):
you usually within twenty four to fortyeight hours and get you that first treatment
and just show you how this works. All right, you want to continue,
We'll be around for the rest ofthe summer. There you Trey palmuskit
each other. Make it outside funagain. Tray, Thank you, buddy,
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one h three point five FM andfive sixty am w VOC. We're Paul
Prince from Door to Door Floors,the owner there now joins us on the
program and our final segment for thisSaturday morning. Paul, good morning,

(42:30):
my friend. Hey, good morning, Thank you. Gary. It's great
to be back with you and yourloyal listeners here on The Home Improvement Show
of the Midlands. A couple ofweeks ago we discussed flooring for allergies.
Today I am talking about door todoor floors, emphasis on carpet and flooring
that is made in the USA.Well, we should have had j'all last

(42:52):
weekend, man. Well, wejust celebrated Independence Day earlier this week,
so I thought this was still theperfect time to share. While we think
it is important to encourage our customersto choose made in the USA carpet and
flooring. Well, aside from thewell, I want to see the reasons
of robbeous, but maybe maybe they'renot all as obvious as people's way.

(43:13):
It's important. Why is it importantto you? Paul? Yeah, Well
so Gary as we often discuss hereon the show, Door to Door Floors
is committed to delivering the best valuein the products and services we offer.
That one reason alone is enough forus to recommend carpet and flooring that has
made in the USA. The UnitedStates has done a lot of dumb things

(43:36):
over the years, but I amso thankful to be living in what is
still the greatest country in the worldto grow a family and build a business.
The American people are truly a forcefor good, and our freedoms inspire
us to make the best of everythingwe produce. Amen. Now, so
the materials you use, whether it'scarpet, or hardwoods, or or the

(44:02):
LVP. Oh yeah, look atthat, right, everything you use made
in the USA. Everything, Gary, I wish. I wish we could
make that claim. Most of ourcarpet and flooring styles are made in the
USA, but to offer choices foreveryone's taste and budget, we sometimes must
provide styles that are sourced from othercountries here. When I was in college,

(44:25):
I gave a persuasive speech as afreshman on why we should not buy
things made in China. Then Igot married, had kids and quickly realized
that unless my wife was going tosew all of our kids clothes, and
unless they were only going to playwith wooden blocks, we had to buy
some things that were made in China. But thankfully, in the flooring industry,

(44:51):
there's good news. Flooring manufacturers areseeing that China is more than just
a competitor, so they've been steadilymoving product auction of all types of flooring
to the United States or to countrieswho are friendlier to us than China.
I make the extra effort to putAmerica first with carpet and flooring that we

(45:13):
buy and sell, but I reallyprefer to focus on what state your flooring
was made in instead of what country. I'm not just patriotic, I'm statriotic.
Yeah, but I'm sure someone elsehas done it before yet. Touting
made in South Carolina carpet and flooringis one of my favorite things to do.

(45:37):
We have neighbors right here in Columbiamaking premium and so nyline carpet fiber
at the Shaw Plant on Saint Andrew'sRoad. Yeah, and we've got neighbors
and acin making quality laminate flooring,and we even have neighbors handcrafting hardwood flooring
up near Spartanburg at a facility insideof Tai River Correctional Institution. Really well,

(46:04):
yeah, the state was you know, part of the state was built
on We always think of tourism,but textiles, I mean huge textile industries
in this state. Absolutely so,yeah, state triotic. Yeah I like
that. Well, well, okay, so that part of site. Are
there other reasons why it's important forfolks listening that are considering flooring to to
to think about, you know,flooring made in the USA. Yes,

(46:28):
there there are some very practical reasons, and I will share one that will
get to your heart here in alittle bit. But some basic benefits of
buying made in the USA floors areimproved customer service in the event of acclaim,
lower shipping costs which are a partof the material price, and our
country's higher quality and safety standards.We are not just buying, selling and

(46:53):
installing floors at door to door floors. Together with our customers, we're feeding
families, We're paying taxes and supportingthe good that Americans and South Carolinians do
in our communities and around the world. Gary, I will share a story
that will demonstrate why buying floors madein the USA in South Carolina is important

(47:16):
for all of us. I mentionedthat we offer a hardwood flooring made intern
upstate prison. Before I tell thestory, I want to clarify that prison
labor in the United States is aprivilege, unlike the weager forced labor going
on in China. Inmates in SouthCarolina interview and apply for these highly skilled

(47:40):
and highly sought after jobs, andthey are paid very well. When their
sentence is served, they are equippedto re enter society with the skills needed
for success. They pay taxes,assist with room and board, make restitution
payments, and donate to victims assistantcharities. And most of all, they

(48:04):
have the dignity of work and theability to support their families while paying their
debt to society. Now here's thestory I promised. A young man named
Chico received a twenty year federal drugtrafficking sentence and ended up at Tiger River
Correctional Institution up near Spartanburg due tofederal prison overcrowding. During his interview for

(48:30):
a job at their hardwood flooring manufacturingfacility, he stated that his wife had
just given birth to their son.He wanted a job making hardwood flooring in
prison to support his family and providea way for his son to go to
college, and hopes that he wouldnot end up like his dad. Well,

(48:51):
one of our mill representatives who usedto be in management at this facility
stop by a few years ago tocheck up on Chico. He was told
that Chico had gained his freedom,and then he was told even better news.
Chico's son graduated from the Citadel andwas working security detail for President Trump.

(49:15):
Wow, that's why Door to DoorFloors thinks it's important to buy maide
in the USA. Carpet and FlooringAmerica America America, I number one.
I had no idea that we hada prison of the Upstate where they were
making floring. That is fantastic.But let's I wanted to go back again,

(49:37):
yeah, again, to those reasonswhy when you're you're choosing, you
want you want to stick with youas you mentioned, Okay, let's say,
yeah, this is what you're whatyou're getting was manufactured in China,
and you've got a claim. Well, and then you have a claim maybe
with the people who sold you theflooring, but you also have a claim
against the people who manufacture the flooring. I have no idea if you had

(50:00):
a claim, a valid claim againstthe manufacturer of something you purchased, and
it was purchased or manufacturer, whetherin China, how you would possibly go
about trying to resolve that it Yeah, it uh. You questioned that for
a reason. It's it's impossible.No one's going to hop on a plane
and come over here and look atyour floor You've got a lot of bootleg,

(50:25):
brokered products that yeah they're cheap,but they're pretty much as is.
You'd have no idea who you're buyingthem from, correct, right, And
we saw this during the pandemic withthe supply chain crisis and how long it
was taking you to get things herefrom overseas. Stay sent us the virus

(50:46):
and then they hoarded right pp E. So yeah, yeah, they're not
our friends, but our neighbors areour friends, and that's who we need
to be buying flooring from. Rightnow. You again, over the years,
you've you've witnessed all of this,and you've seen these products. You've
seen the quality of the product madehere in the USA. You've seen the

(51:07):
quality or lack thereof, or productsmade in places like China, not just
China, other places as well.Um, so you you come from a
position of firsthand experience with all ofthis, and uh, I'm glad to
hear that. You guys, areyou know, making it a point as
you say, somebody, somebody maywant the product X and there's no option

(51:30):
it's not made here. Guys alwaysseeing more and more that done these days
right back, but we certainly putAmerica first in what we're doing as far
as what we buy and what wesell. Got about a minute left now
for folks who may for the firsttime to hear you talk about your company
Door door Floors, You guys goabout things, I wouldn't say a little
differently a lot differently than what thelistener may be used to. Yeah,

(51:53):
Gary, So we have mobile showrooms that we bring to your home or
business. We do commercial flooring aswell. We have project managers who who
manage your project from start to finish. Um, they'll bring a mobile show
room out to your home or business, laser measure, present the best flooring
options, and provide a no chargequote, all in about an hour.

(52:15):
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Choose it where you use it.There you go. That's that's fascinating,

(52:38):
man. I mean it's like youknow the old uh uh what was
the the hoover salesman who's come knockingon your front door, except for we
don't just show up. You haveto call an appointment. Yeah, you're
not out there knocking on doorsa checkout the floor we got. We respect
your time and ours right exactly allright, So again that phone number of
eight four four four, one floorand the website or todoor floors dot com

(53:01):
all right, whenever possible, andthat's most of the time. It's May
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