Home Improvement Show 07-19-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome in. It's now time for the Home Improven Show
of the Midlands one O three point five FM and
five point sixty AMWVOC. It is so good to have
you with us this morning. We appreciate you waking up
and tuning in on another scorching hot weekend here in
the Midlands. My name is Gary David and coming up
we'll be talking to Russ Marcasey, the owner of the
Finishing Touch team here in Columbia. They've been at it

(00:36):
for twenty three years, not only painting but refinishing and
resurfacing cabinets. We'll talk about that Trey Powell from Mosquito. Joe.
This hot, this humid, this wet, Mosquito populations are off
the chain. But he's got the fix for you and
we'll discuss it with him. We get things out of
the way this morning though with mister Electric. It is

(00:57):
Jeremy Halliday. Jeremy, how are you, my friend?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm doing fantastic, Gary, Good to see.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
You, always good to see you. Have you in here
on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. It's hot, man,
it is hot. It's getting hot out there. I think
I asked you this. A couple of weeks ago. I mean,
this is this weather when it's this hot, I mean
we've had you know, days with heating X values one
hundred and five hundred and six hundred and seven and
such and maybe hotter in some spots. I mean, does
that does that will wear and tear on your electrical system?

(01:24):
I know about your your you know your your air conditioning.
Oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
AC guys are busy, busy, so uh yeah, the electrical.
A lot of times we'll get calls about AC units
where the AC company said, you know it's electrical, it's
not a c oh.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, oh yeah. So of course you don't know as
the homeowner, business owner, all you know, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Not working, that's right. Yeah, So uh.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
What what what sort of issues when you get a
call like that from an AC company.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Normally bad connections, you know, normally there's bad connections, old connections,
you know. Uh, it's always a connection issue with electrical
It seems like where you plug it in, they were
by something, components failed because of a connection issue or
uh you know, lost contact. So when the temperature changes,

(02:15):
it can cause things to become especially if they're not maintained,
you know, and nobody's paying attention to them. And it's
been twenty years, ten years. Uh, you know, it's it's
the heat can push it over the edge, or when
it gets cold, the same thing push it over the edge.
So if you have flickering lights or anything like that,

(02:38):
you know, probably a bad connection somewhere somewhere.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And then we've got the storms, and we've had some
pretty violent storms pop up too.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes, when we're in surge protection season.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was going to ask you because even if it's
just the lights flickering on and off, that's all it
takes sometimes right down.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's all it takes. Now now we're talking.
You know, surge protection is more of a voltage spike
that comes in for whatever reason, and uh that surge
protector will absorb that and depending you know, there's all
different types of surge protection.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, let's be specific, because yeah, when I hear search protector,
I think of that little molt box. Yeah, I plug
a TV and a stereo into or something that it's
got it all offscreen, like a serch strip, Yeah, a
sorch strip. Yeah. So we're talking about even up to
home whole home search protection.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh yeah, So there's different there's even different grades of those.
So you know, with that being said, we can come
out and create a package for whatever, uh, whatever budget
you have, we can we can come out there and
build a package for you for surge protection. But we
have you know, whole home search protection goes on the

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main panel. There's different sizes of those.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
We have exterior surges for like pool pumps, search protectors
for pool pumps and AC units and different things outside.
And then you have we have surge outlets, receptacles we
can put in your home for you know, TVs and
garage door openers. There's all kinds of areas that you

(04:18):
need surge protection, and you need them in multiple locations,
you know.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
So well here's a stupid question then. So I'm thinking
to myself, Okay, well, if I if I had a
whole home search protector, right, do I need the other
you know, search protectors inside the home that you just
mentioned or does that take care of everything?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, it takes care of It protects you from surges
that come in through the service wire. Okay, so your
home creates small surges all the time, and if it's
backtracks to a circuit before it gets to the panel
and there's something you know, in line with that, then
it's getting a little tap, a little surge on it.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, we we just think of thunderstorms. Yeah, that's such,
but there's there's a a lot more that That's not
the only thing that can No.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, yeah, you know you start up a vacuum cleaner,
you're creating a little surge on that circuit.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Huh. Okay. I think you told me one time before
there's certain appliances that when you're not using them, you
should actually unplug.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Them, y'uring thunderstorms. Yeah, if you could unplug thunderstorm electronic equipment, yeah,
it's good. And if you're like, that's the fail safe
right there, right, Yeah, you're not going to have a
problem if it's not plugged in.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I want to say you till you mentioned one time
there were like certain appliances, air fryers or whatever that
you might have in a kitchen that that you say,
if you're not using it, don't you know, unplug it.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, if you're not using it, unplugging anything, uh that
doesn't need to be plugged in is better to be unplugged?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Is that simply to protect that appliance or does it
could cause other issues.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's just a safer way to maintain your home and
your electrical system having it. If you're not using it,
unplug it, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
So uh.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Not saying that if you don't unplug it you're gonna
have an issue, is saying that it's the safest bet
keep everything unplugged and heade your bets.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Uh yeah, so uh.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's a good idea anything that you're not using to
have an unplugged.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, as I think about it, I mean, electricity
is okay, anything else in your home or your business
for that matter, Okay, your roof, you're plumbing, you know, fixtures,
you're your long all these things you can you can see,
you know, you can somewhat understand what's going on. But

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electricity is a whole nother ballgame here. We can't see it,
We don't really understand it. And most of us, even
if you consider yourself a you know, pretty astute di wire, Yeah,
and I'm not. But there are certain things I know
I can do. But when it comes to electricity, there's
a couple of things I'll do and that's about it, right.

(07:05):
It'll be a pretty good idea for most of us.
To not go delve too deep into that. Yeah, leave
it to the experts called mister electric. There you go.
By the way, it's this word that you mentioned it
throughout your phone number right here.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, so you can reach us at eight zera three
eight six eight four two four three, or you can
reach us online mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia
mister Electric.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay. So, uh, typically we consider, you know, thinking about
the electrician when something ain't working right, something's happened, something
ain't working. But uh, you guys do a lot more
than just you know, being on call for an emergency situation.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Absolutely, do you want to service upgrade? You have flickering lights,
you want to panel change, surge protection, yeah, uh, power
inlets for portable generators, being storm season or as simple
as changing out a bad switch. You know, you want

(08:03):
to call us, you know we can. We can take
care of anything residential electrical where the experts at it,
so we can take care of it.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Landscaping stuff too, I mean landscape not sod but you
know landscape lighting and.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
All that landscape lighting. Yeah, anything residential electrical, there's all
types of you know, home enhancements we can do for you.
Do smart switching. Can I mean you normally wouldn't call
electricity change the light bulbs, but I mean we'll change
the light bulbs if you want.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Us to do. You mentioned panel upgrades or switching out panels.
Is there kind of a rule of thumb and I
know you guys when you come out, you always do
that that free inspection, yea, to check things out. But
you know if your if your home is ten years
old or less, I mean it would there be the

(08:58):
reasons why maybe your panel would need to be updated
or what are the reasons why it should be the
age of your hole?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Right, So panels typically can last you forty to fifty years.
The things that normally get them, like we talked before
here earlier with bad connections. So sometimes we'll go into
panels and find that the connections are too tight. So

(09:28):
that's one thing we do. We torque all our connections
when we do a panel change to factory specifications, so
because believe it or not, things can be overtightened. Also,
we'll pull wires out and they'll be paper thin, you
know where they've been underneath the screw. We're just not
tight enough. Contamination. I'm seeing a lot of panels where

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they're painted. The bus and interior of the panels painted
and was done during the painting process of the house,
so mismatch bakers breakers that don't belong in panels. Typically,
if your panel is only ten years old, you should
be in pretty good shape with that panel. But it's

(10:09):
a good idea to have have us out and just
do it a safety check on your home and we can,
I can almost guarantee you ninety nine percent of the time,
we can make that electrical system safer somehow and present
to you a way to make that system just to
even if it's just a little safer.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do you have situations especially with older homes. You mentioned
your panels, Your home was built the last forty fifty
years or whatever. Your panel basically for old it's purposesunless
something's gone wrong, should be okay, should last you that long.
But ye, we've got we've got a lot of homes
right here, a lot older than that. Do you find
situations Jeremy with sometimes you just go into and the
home is so old that you're like, okay, you know,

(10:56):
we've got some serious work to do here.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, we'll do rewires. Uh, if you got
an old home with a two wire system or nobb
and two, it's time to rewire that that home. If
it's a good home, you love it, you plan on
staying there, we'll rewire it for you.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
So, well, what are the issues we would you just
describe whatever that means.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
So a two wires system, you just don't have a ground.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh okay, so there's no ground, get that one.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, So a lot of times you'll see, uh, the
receptacles only have two prongs and not three. And that's correct.
You shouldn't put a three prong receptacle on a two
wire system unless certain requirements are met. So uh, and
if you have a two wire system, you should consult
with an electrician before doing anything to that system. And

(11:44):
then nob and two selfis that's that's old, old, old.
We don't even I don't see that very often anymore.
But uh, in nob and two dates even further back.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
So it occurs to me that you know, with at
the time, I guess we didn't know. But now that
we've come so far, with so many advancements and especial
when it comes to safety, that you know, one hundred
years ago, electricity had to be a very dangerous thing man,
all kinds of issues with people, right.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right, Well, especially if you try and take that system
and run all the things play. Yeah, so right, yeah,
they're just not equipped and even some of the load centers,
panel boards, switch boxes, fuse box, breaker box, whatever you
want to call it is not even designed to run
appliances that we have today.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
So that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, so it.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Should be changed out and updated and just made safe
and so well we're all about.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Safety just out of curiosity. You talk about going into
an older home and maybe it's time for it's the
home you love and want to stay in, time for
a total rewire. What is that involved? Man? How big
of a project is that?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, it's something that we handle fairly easy. Uh, our
guys have done it. It's uh, but what it involves
is taking all the old wire out and fishing new
wires in and trying to do the least amount of
damage to the to the you know, the walls. And
because everything's intact at that point, right, it's not like
a new construction where you're you're just have open walls

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and you're just drilling holes.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
And pulling rope.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But uh, we're trying to fish wires in be very careful,
but you have to replace all the wires in the
walls and ceiling under the house.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
You have to add receptacles in some areas where they
just weren't required before.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Uh what is it? What is the requirement? Now? You
need receptacle every.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Uh well every six foot from an opening, and then
every twelve foot between receptacles. Uh you know, so you
know normally you need four or five in every room.
H kitchen is you know, the kitchen has chained inswered
a lot from from you know, sixty years ago. You

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need you know, it's a little different. On the countertops.
It's every two foot from every opening, every four foot
in between receptacles, every you know foot of counter space.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
And I'm guessing you would suggest that if if you're
an older home and you don't have that many outlets
in the kitchen, don't use an extension cord in the
kitchen for anything.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh no, you don't want to use an extension cord
only for only for temporary usage and uh period period?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah really yeah right?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah? What are we making for for temporary usage? Not
any kind of permanent usage.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm gonna gonna just guess, right, now that we're all
breaking that little rule right now.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh, we see it all the time.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
I've seen extension cords ran through the attic and poked
out the ceiling for garage door openers. You know, I
mean there's some things. But but and you know, we
get we have the old saying it works, don't it.
But even if it works, doesn't I mean it's safe.
And if something were to happen, you've put yourself in

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it in a situation where you might have some leverage
put against you when it comes.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
To to let Yeah. Really, yeah, you're not making.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
It easy on yourself, put it that way. So really
you want to have you want to have things done
the correct way. And then you know, I was talking
to an insurance guy yesterday and he was explaining to
me how you can save on your premium if you
if you can show that you've had certain things done
to your home and even with electrical So if you've

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upgraded your panel, say from a panel that does have
any arc fault protection, or you've installed surge protection on
your home, you should make your insurance company aware of
that and see if they won't give you some kind
of premium discount for having those items done.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
You know, so good advice. Yeah right, all right, So
it's it's not just the lights won't come on. Call
mister Electric. I mean anything that has to do with electric,
whether it's safety or enhancements or anything. You guys, you
guys handle it all absolutely.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yep. Give us a call eight zero three eight six
eight four to two, four to three.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
And again it's mister Electric dot com slash Columbia. That's right,
all right, good Jeremy. Always good to see you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Thank you, Gary.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
We'll see you see it man.

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(18:08):
for her cell phone to silence at which I just
remember I didn't do that either for mine. Hang on
a minute, hang on, I make I make this mistake
about five times a week during the week, so I
don't worry about Lisa is back. Lisa Jorgensen, the interior extra, Yeah,
are extraordinary. Good to see again, Lisa.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Hey, Gary, nice to see you.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
All right. So, uh well, you were with us a
couple of weeks ago, and we talked about because you
know again finishing touch team. You guys are painters. That's right,
You paint, that's what we do. You and do you paint? Wow?
We painted all Gary, And I posed the question. I said, okay,
uh well, Lisa, you as an interior designer, you do

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more than just advise people on paint colors, right, Oh gosh,
You're on the whole gamut of things. So I found
it very interesting that. Yeah, the two of you, you
guys were together a lot. Huh we do?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
We sure do, Lisa. Yeah, we do quite quite a
bit of projects. How many years it's been many years alone.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
And we figured it out last week. It was RMO
Interiors and the Friars Yeah, shopping center.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
That's right, that's where we that's right round ago was
like a life.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Nineteen don't say it, I know nine long.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're right, you're absolutely right. Wow. Yes. So so over
the years, you guys have probably experienced a little bit
of everything working together.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
Huh, I'd say so, huh, yes, yeah, yeah, we do
quite a bit. Yeah, yeah we do. Uh, we've done
I remember in those days, we were doing a lot
of faux finishing back in those days.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
But I know what foa means. But explain this in
the vernacular of a painter. What's a faux face? So
it's it's a it's a fake. It's a fake, look right,
So fau means fake obviously, right, U. If it's a
French word, if I'm not mistaken, that's what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
And so what we would do is like marbleized columns,
we would do wood graining, we would do pull off
type textures all over walls, all sorts of stuff like that.
But uh, that was you know again, that was a
that was a lifetime ago, and it's not as common
anymore to do to do that sort of stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
You still see, do you?

Speaker 6 (20:22):
I mean, so, Lisa, do you see glazing on cabinets
a whole lot? Do you see that? Because we haven't
done it in probably a couple few years at least,
and before that it was maybe once a year we
would do, you know, uh and and Gary, that's when
you you have a base color on your cabinetry and
you put some a stained color or something all in

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the little cracks and crevices and give it some detail. Right, Okay, Yeah,
I'm sure everybody's seen that before.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
We used to do a whole lot of that.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
And you know, styles and fads come and go, and
that was that was kind of one of them.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, I've seen it. I didn't know what it was called.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Yes, that's what it's called. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean it's.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
A round still little bit yeah, not as much, not
as much.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Pull that microphone a little bit closer to you there, that's fine.
There you go and eat it beautiful. I'm telling you,
I've hit my nose on it a few times. So
what's would have been some of the I'm sure you've
you've had some experiences, Lisa, working with these these guys
over here.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
I have, So I told Russa said, oh, I need
to tell the story because my parents were moving my
parents here from Atlanta and they're eighty five and eighty seven,
and it just so happened that the house next door
to me became available, literally right next door.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, so that that really is was a blessing from
God that I could bring them up and move them
next door. So we've we're remodeling, totally gutting bathrooms, kitchens,
and so better.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
An interior design exactly, no kidding, I know, I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
It's it's gone. We're ready. It's about one more month.
But so of course Russ painted. His team came in
and painted everything. So while they were painting, I found
a mom kitten in the backyard and five babies.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
And wait, did you feed them?

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
They yours.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Now I'm such an animal lover. I'm like, oh, so
the master bedroom just happened to have carpet still in
it that we're obviously pulling up, but it was a
perfect robber room for the mom and her babies. And
this is still while everybody is painting, and so we've

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got chaos going on throughout the house and I'm coming
back and forth feeding the babies next door, and you know,
take care of the mom and the cats. But their
team was wonderful as far as that's what I was.
They were so accommodating that they you know, I had
the door closed, I had a gate up. I mean,
they just left it alone. They they didn't bother the room.

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You know, I could trust their team not to you know,
I was worried to let them out or something like that.
So and they still have to come back and paint
that room because sure, and my dad would die to know.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
If he knew, he's probably gonna Yeah, that's a secret
on that one. But how does that work though? Us?
I mean because again, if you're going to do an
entire home exactly that that can take some time.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
So it does you know, I mean, uh, sometimes we're
in folks home for two weeks, right, Lisa. Sometimes it's
all the way up to two weeks long. So uh,
it's not like everybody can just pack up and leave
for two weeks while we come in there and do
the painting. Right, So we were constantly accommodating to folks.

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You take like something simple like nobody really thinks about this, right, Well,
your bedroom, let's say your master bedroom. We have to
take all that apart and do all the painting in there.
Maybe there's extensive painting. Maybe we have to remove popcorn ceilings.
Maybe there's sheet rock work that needs to be done.
So what we'll do is we'll come in there and
we'll cover everything with plastic and make sure that there's
no dust or anything. But we realize that you have

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to sleep in that room that night, so we'll remove
all of the plastic.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
A lot.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
Most of the time, we'll put the bed back for you.
We'll put it back together for you. We do things
like this all the time. Now that's not not one
hundred percent of the time, right, People have different accommodations sometimes,
or they have a different room or whatever the case is.
But whatever is needed is what we'll do for you.
We just, you know, we realize you got to live
in this house. Another thing that I thought was kind

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of funny that I was thinking about, Lisa, was when
folks are doing their kitchens right, well, when they're factoring
in costs of doing their kitchens, one thing that they
don't figure into the cost is having to.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Eat out take takeout. Yeah, yeah, they don't. Ever, they don't.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Ever.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
I can't tell you how many times customers will look
at me and be like, well, I guess we're eating
out tonight and they just didn't think about it, you know,
and that could be a week or two weeks of
eating out sometimes.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
We went through this and we moved that new house life.
Of course, we were having a lot of stuff done
in that, not the kitchen itself, but the big huge
we are opening up this big as a dining room
and eating and all that, And it took a couple
of weeks. And so you don't want to, you know,
be leaving we we had just moved in. We didn't
want to put plates out in the rights and the

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

Speaker 6 (25:54):
Yeah, I mean that, you know, it could easily be
another thousand and fifteen hundred dollars that in that budget
that that focused aren't really thinking about. It's just some
one of those little funny caveats that nobody ever really
thinks about, you know.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
But on another note, you don't put that in your estimates.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, No, maybe I should, Maybe I should start doing that.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Actually yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
But a lot of times if you're doing a couple
of rooms, that y'all get in and get it knocked out.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
We do.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
We're not messing around. So I can't say how many
times you've heard all this. You know, this guy's been
in here for a week and a half.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, what's he painting?

Speaker 3 (26:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Two rooms? Are you kidding me? No?

Speaker 6 (26:29):
We got to get in and get out. We realize that. Look,
we don't want to be in your hair just as
much as you don't want us in your hair. Right,
so we you know, but we've got to do the
right procedures and the right preparations. Still, along with that,
we don't want to We'll never cut corners for that reason,
but but we do so if it requires putting an
extra you know, person on it, or two people possibly

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to expedite that, that's what we'll have to do. We
work with deadlines all the time. Well, you know we
have to be done in three days. I mean how
many times you would do that, Lisa?

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Four days, five days, two days.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Whatever it is. And uh, we have to accommodate for that.
So that means either manning up that job or or less.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
You know.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Now, another thing too is they'll see such the beauty
of what they've painted, and they'll want to add a
room or at all the time. And so but they'll
they'll they won't be well, we'll come back in a month,
they'll go ahead and all for me and take care
of it. And which the clients love because you got
them excited.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Do you want to like, you know, hey, we can.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
We can become the Murphy Brown painter if you'd like
us to, you know, any time, we'll stay there and
just keep painting if you want.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well, that that's what's my clients love. They're like, oh,
can he just stay and finish? And you do always.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah, well there's no sense in that. And then
and then there's tear down and clean up. So if
we're already there or we have all of our tools out,
you know, uh, there's no sense in not doing it
that in that moment, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now you know russa Russ mentioned a word a few
minutes ago and it got menything it bring this up
popcorn ceiling? Oh yeah, okay, is that one of the
trends that will never come back hopefully not right, I
mean everybody hates popcorns. Was that what was originally done?
It was easier to hide. It's cheap imperfections and such. Right,

(28:22):
it's cheaper. Yeah, it's cheaper, it is.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
And it's a mess.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
It's been through that before. We remove it constantly, we do, right.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
It is it is. You know, in certain circumstances you
can actually sheathe over it. You can put sheet rock
right over the top of it. I hadn't thought in
a lot of cases you can do that, especially if
you have crown mold up top. You can pop that
crown mold off, put your sheet rock up, and you
don't have to finish your corners because your crown mold
scope you know, goes back and hides that corner.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right. Yeah, So we have a lot of.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Absolutely house it might be more cost effectively.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
At least we've done that several times for several of
your colors. Quite a bit. What a big mess, right,
quite a bit.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, But we've got that new festival right. So it's
at Sanders. It's a it's a I love this thing.
It's a big sander on a pole, but it's hooked
up to a vacuum is what it is.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I have seen that. Yeah, it is awesome.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
So as you're eating away that popcorn, hardly anything any
debris or dust is falling to the ground whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
It is just awesome. We love it. Have you ever
been into a situation occurs to me because this happened
with my my father in law years ago when he
moved into a condo I'm not gonna say which one,
and it turned out we want to do some remodeling
work on it turned out dose asbestos. Oh yeah, sure, what.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
So we we Sherlin Williams actually sells kits uh for
for testing of lead and asbestos.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Uh. And we we keep those things stocked on our
vans and trucks. Uh.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
So we are constantly checking for lead, checking for asbestos
because you do. You have to be super careful about that.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Uh. And it's everywhere. It's in areas you would even imagine.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Where it's at, so you know, and when when that happens,
especially when it comes to asbestos, it has to be abated.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
We can't we can't remove it. There are companies that
do that correct specially.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yes, they're yeah, abatement companies that will come in and
actually remove all that for you.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, absolutely back to the popcorn ceilings. Though for a second, Okay,
as you say, you hope that's a trend that never
comes back. Are there other trends that you think will
never come back? When it comes to interior design, I'm
not a.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Fan of really deep, deep wood cabinets.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Sure, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
I just that that may or I mean, it's still
probably around, but I'm just not like the deep red
not red, but the red wood lines like that deep.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm not.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
It's just kind of lighter, brighter, especially for a lot
of light, and that leads me to, like my when
I go into my clients, the first thing that ask
it should I gut this or should I repaint my cabinets?
And what you have to look at is the the

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

(31:34):
Russ and his team does on I mean it is
just night and day.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, your average kitchen, Lisa, whatever averages. If you wanted
to start all over again and rip the ball out
and replace them, what's the ballpark number on that these days?
Not for the not for the best, most expensive, not
for the cheapest, but I mean for good quality cabinets.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
I mean it's going to run like at least thirty
up to depending on what you want, thirty to eighty
ninety thousand.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Wow, oh yeah, it will. That's crazy. And that's including
by a house for that.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
It is like hardware backsplash, you know, just the building.
Because we had a client on the lake that we
did and it was an older house and she was
going to leave some cabinets and then I talked her
into gutting them just because they it wouldn't look right.
It was just it was water damage. And so Russ

(32:32):
took all the cabinets back. I think she had a
contractor that actually built the cabinets for her, and then
he came in and took them back to the shop.
And but I mean, that is going to cost you
a lot more than just refacing and just painting.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Because a lot of times, least of the structure there
is better than even some of the new ones that
you bind. Right, it's actual real wood. There's a lot
of benefits to it, right, And like she said, if
you're not changing that footprint, painting them is a fraction
of the cost of replacing those absolutely.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Even if you're talking about spending thirty thousand dollars to
replace them on all those sides, and it you know.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
The cost. It depends on a lot of things that
you choose. But a lot of people have the low
cabinets where they've got everybody would put the nick knacks
on top, and they want those closed in. So you know,
I'll get my carboner to come and close those in
and then Russ will come and paint them, and it
looks it.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Really looks like a priscull is the limit when it
comes to these cabinets.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
Okay, you know, Lisa, how many times you can replace
the you can replace the you can reface them.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Right through all the doors which we could repaint all those.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
They can add a piece of crum ald up top,
they can add paneling to the ends, they can beef
those things up if they're not all the way to
the ceiling, they can add trim to make it, you know,
go to all the way up to the ceiling with
a piece of crown to trim it out up top
to make it look custom. And these are all things
that you can do that are a lot a fraction
of the cost of replacing them.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
So if it's minimal too. A lot of people have
the high bars that usually it was all instead of
the countertop. Hi, that's right, and you we can come
in and knock those down but still keep the original cabinets,
but just kind of knock the countertop down and take
that bar out.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
All kinds of options here there are. There is. The
sky's the limit, it really is.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yeah, And we work with a client's budget for sure.
That's for them.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
You don't want to see my budget right now, give
me both we are we're out of time. Look at that,
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They get you right, absolutely, Yeah. We I answered my
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Nights and Lisa uh, folks want to get a hold
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the Midlands on one O three point five FM and
five sixty am wvoc dre Good morning.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Sir, Good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Hot and here it and stormy and wet and mosquitoes
are loving life.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
Huh yeah, Welcome to the midlands of South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Does it just me or does this summer seem like
it's been hotter and longer than usual?

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, you know, I feel like it's always like this,
but but yeah, it has been hot and it's been
very wet lots. I mean, we've had weeks where we've
gotten rain almost every single day. Those afternoon thunderstorms pop up,
you know, after all that heat, and don't seem to
cool things down a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
No. I think we had one day a couple of
weeks ago where it seemed like we had something moved
through at least in my neck of the woods, and wow,
temperatures dropped like into the low eighties afterwards. But that
was an anomaly.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, it's funny that you would say the low eighties
is somehow more pleasant.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Right, exactly? Huh, it's all all taken in context, I guess. Hum, Well,
without even asking, I'm pretty sure you'll well, I'll go
ahead and ask. Anyway. I think I know what the
answer is is the mosquito pressure is off the off
the charts more than likely. Huh.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, it's prime time. It's really because of the the
We had a lot of heat early and we had
a lot of rain early that you know, they they
spiked a little sooner, but that was in April, and
they really haven't let up at all. I mean, we
have just had perfect conditions with lots of rain and
lots of heat and lots of humidity, and so they

(38:24):
are absolutely thriving, laying eggs, multiplying, doing their thing.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
You have, You've laid out some numbers before for us.
When it comes to how quickly they can multiply, it,
it is just mind numbing. It didn't take a whole lot, man,
It didn't take a whole lot of them to make
a whole lot of them, I guess, is what I'm
trying to say here.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, a typical female mosquito can lay up to three
hundred eggs, you know, every few days. It's uh, you know,
they they only breed one time right after they they're
born as an adult, and they immediately look for a mate.
And once they breed one time, then they you know,
they will continue to reproduce eggs. You know, they'll they'll

(39:09):
lay eggs and then they will immediately they're you know,
they've got what they need and they will continue to
reproduce eggs and so every time they need to lay eggs,
they need to bite and get a blood meal from somewhere.
And whether that's a dog, a cat, or bird or you. Uh,
they are looking for those blood meals constantly, and you know,

(39:30):
so you know they are they are after you if
they detect that that you're a blood bearing organism. And uh,
you know, they're biting so they can lay the eggs
so they can produce more. They think that over and
over again in their in their short little lifetime.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
They're selling some kind of freaking nature here, man. I mean,
are we aware of anything else that is born as
an adult and only has to breed one or mate
one time? But can you continue to lay eggs time
and time and time and time again afterwards? That's just
really weird, man.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
It is unusual, and it's you know, I don't know.
I'm not a you know, an animal scientist or an entomologist,
but it does seem rare. I'm sure that there are
other things that do the same thing, but I'm not
aware of anything.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
I may have asked this question before, Trey, I don't know,
but you know, you always have to wonder, Okay, why
did God make mosquitoes? Do they serve any function, any
positive purpose in life?

Speaker 3 (40:32):
They you know, I'm sure they provide a food source
in a small way. But you know a lot of
people think that with like birds, But a mosquito is very,
very small, so it is not really providing much of
a meal for a bird. Maybe a better meal for
a lizard or a frog, but you know, they're still

(40:54):
going to have to eat bunches and bunches of them.
They would much rather have like a cricket or something
with a little more substance to it so that they're
not you know, having to snack off the buffet for
half an hour just to get a meal.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah. I think around here we would tend to think,
and I don't think rightfully so that we're like the
mosquito capital of the world, are we?

Speaker 3 (41:22):
It is certainly one of the you know it. You know,
we have a special climate here in the Midlands, a
little hotter. You know, we are on a truck on
a climate map, we actually show up as yellow and
you don't really get that until you get down to Florida,
very South Georgia where you have that tropical environment and

(41:44):
where it's you know, we get you know, higher temperatures,
much higher humidity, and you know obviously you know, lots
of rainfall, and it's it's almost a little bit tropical,
especially in the summertime. And so so yeah, that's uh,
that's we were the kind of lucked out. I guess

(42:04):
as that goes that you could say.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Or not, is it worse.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
We definitely have a mosquito issue here that it's probably
higher than most places.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Now I would just surmise here, Trey, that it's probably
worse along the coastline, especially the low country, and not
as bad as the upstate. Would that be accurate? It
could be.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
I mean, they thrive pretty well, you know everywhere. I mean,
you know some of the places would surprise you. I mean,
you know, upstate New York has a bad mosquito problem.
You know, it's not the season is not as long,
but you know, Alaska probably has the worst mosquitos on
the planet, and you know it's not a very long season,

(42:44):
but it's very very intense, and so they're all over
the country. You know, the places that would not have
as many would be extremely dry desert type, you know,
places that are going to not have the prevalence of mosquito, which.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Is which is which is interesting that you say because
for example, and I know there's something you guys used
to be involved and you always used to do ah
a program where proceeds were going to buy these mosquito
nets like for for for countries in Africa. I don't
know if that's still going on, correct, But you think
that's a dry arid climate, uh, but I guess it's

(43:23):
just enough moisture there for the mosquito is to be
a problem even in a place like that.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Huh Yeah, parts of it are, but there's also a
lot of jungle that's true too, yea and very wet
you know climate, and that's you know, it's you know,
not every single place in the United States has a
mosquito problem, not every single place in Africa has a
mosquito problem, and it's it's very widespread and on both continents.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
So I guess if you want to move like that
to Arizona or Nevada or somewhere, it's probably not a
big a big deal.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Huh uh, not not nearly as so, you know, New
Mexico and places like that that are way more dry
and way more desert like are not going to have
the type of issues that you have in a more tropical,
you know, place where you get lots of rainfall and
you have lots of foliage that creates lots of shade,

(44:12):
and you know, water sources don't dry up and that
sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
So I guess in other words, unless you're like the
North powl or South Pole or in a desert environment,
you're going to have to deal with them.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Yeah, most likely that is. Yeah, that's pretty accurate.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
And we have so many different types even within the state,
don't we.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
There's thirty six hundred species of mosquitoes around the world.
You know, we don't have all of those species here
in the United States, and we don't have all the
ones that we have in the United States. We don't
have necessarily here in the Midlands. And you go to
the coast and you get salt marsh mosquitoes who are
excellent flyers. You you know, here we do not have those.
We don't have salt marshes, and so we don't have

(44:54):
that species of mosquito. Mosquitoes that we have here are
the eighties mosquit the QX mosquitoes. The qlex are more
nighttime biers. The eighties can be daytime biers. The QX
mosquitoes carry different strands of disease than what the eighties
mosquitoes you know, will carry. And so you know, there's

(45:18):
lots of different species and they all behave a little
bit differently, and so you know, when you're going to
treat for them, if you want to target them, you've
got to understand the behaviors of what what mosquitoes that
you're that you're after.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, so, yeah, I guess a mosquitogel location in the
low Country would have to go out at this a
little differently than than than here in the Midlands, huh,
because of the way those throat marsh mosquitoes can could
move a lot farther than the ones here. Don't go
very far, right, I think in the lifetime, don't. They
don't go that far at all, do they?

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Yeah? I mean, unless you have an extremely small property,
the chances of mosquitoes coming, you know, from a neighbor's
property over to yours is less likely if they if
they have everything they need, which is other misqitos to
breed with, they have standing water, you know, to lay
their eggs in, and they have something, you know, some

(46:06):
blood bearing organism to bite and they just other than that,
the only thing they need is green foliage. They want
to hide from the sun, and they the only thing
they eat is the nectar off of green foliage. And
so as long as you have those factors, they're not
going very far at all. I mean, they might not
fly more than ten or twenty feet in their whole life.

(46:27):
So these these mosquitoes we have are not very good flyers.
They're very slow. You'll notice that you're not getting bit
by mosquitos while you're moving. If you're walking, you're not
getting bit it's when you stop that suddenly they find you.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
You talked about a few minutes ago. The different diseases
they care. They don't originate these disease or they pick
them up somewhere else and deliver them to you. Correct.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yeah, they're the vector in the process of you know
where sometimes it's going from from a bird to mosquito
to human. Sometimes there's equine like encephalitis, and there's some
strands that where there might be a bird and a
horse involved in the transmission of certain certain diseases. But

(47:12):
they are the they are the vector. They are the
ones that are are taking it from one and and
transmitting it to another very important in that chain of disease.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
But having had having said that, so, but there are
some breeds. Maybe it's not the breeds, but it's the
location where it seems to be more dangerous. In other
places like Africa for example, as we mentioned, very.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Dangerous, and it is because they don't have widespread mosquito
control that's been done for one hundred years, you know
by municipalities. I mean, we have a lot more money
than they have in Africa, and so we you know,
our city and local governments have pretty large scale mosquito

(47:59):
programs to keep the volume of mosquitoes in check. Yeah,
I mean even if you go back one hundred years,
you know, when they were building the Lake Murray Dam
and there's nothing developed around Lake Murray. There were people
that thought at the time that would never be developed
because mosquitoes are just too bad, you know, and if
you tried to live out there, you would be have

(48:19):
hundreds and hundreds of mosquito bites on you all the time.
And so there were places that people thought no one
would ever live because the mosquito population is so bad. Well,
once they the municipalities kind of started lowering the population
of mosquitos, then those places become more habitable and you're
not so high risk of developing some sort of a

(48:43):
mosquito born illness.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
How many people missed out on a gold mining investment
because there were too many mosquitoes around? Lke Murray back
of the day.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
U Yep, you got that exactly right. I mean, we
don't have many places in the US that have populations
of mosquitoes that are so out of control, which is
why we don't have a widespread mosquito born illness issue.
We have it, it pops, it thud, we head up
every now and then, but those municipalities keep our mosquitoes

(49:11):
at a level where disease is not prevalent, which is great,
but it doesn't mean that you can just have a
party out in your backyard without spraying yourself with off
or hiring a company to treat the property so that
the mosquitoes are not active on your property.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I think I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago
when we were chatting, but it was about a month
back maybe or so, that my wife and I were
out is you know, I get up at three o'clock
in the morning, so I'm very rarely up to eleven
o'clock a night, even on the weekends. But we were
on a Friday night and we sat out in the
backyard by the pool, and as you mentioned, it's nighttime

(49:51):
when these the ones we got around here tend to
bite the most. Thankfully for us, you guys come out
to our home every three weeks and laid down that
barrier spray. Realize sitting there, you know, this is something
I wouldn't be able to do if it weren't for
for what you guys do. I mean, really, it's it's
amazing how well it works. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Yeah, a lot most people have, you know, cann of
bug spray by the back door, and they know if
they're going to go sit out for any period of time,
they better they better apply some protection or they're going
to be fighting them off or they're going to run
you inside. And that's a that's an awful way to
have to live. But uh, you know, it's either going
to treat the yard or you're going to treat yourself.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Yeah. Now, by the way, it just hasn't aside here.
Do you have any kind of magic for flies? Because
we don't have a biscady of the man. The flies
sometimes are just a ridiculous way. I don't know what
the best way is to get rid of those things.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Well, we absolutely do. We have We have fly traps
that we can set up that will collect them. And
if you have a really bad problem, then we can
do a bait treatment around some some you know, specific
areas that will will will really cut your fly population
quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Well, put me on the list for that, brother.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
We will do that. All you need to do is
ask ask the right question.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
I should have known, dog gone it. I mean, you're
doing it all right now. I mean not just the mosquitos,
but the total pest control. With a mosquito joe. You
guys are handling really even roadent control, right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
I think you have the Mojo max, which means that
we're doing your general pest control. We're keeping the roaches
and ants and silver fish and spiders out of your house.
We do that for you either quarterly or bi monthly,
and then we are doing a roadent control treatment around
the base of the house to keep mice and rats out.
We do that every other month. We're doing mosquito control,

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which is the mosquito fleas and ticks in the yard.
We're doing that every three weeks. And now we'll be
adding fly a fly bait station to your.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Thank you sepertoire, thank you very much. We will be
it's hard to eat dinner outside man at night with
those flies are outd right. Uh yeah, okay that my
wife will be so pleased to hear that. Very nice.
All right. Well, uh, it's always been, nothing's ever changed.
We've been talking for years about this, you guys. I've
always done business the same way. You're not. You're not

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tying anybody down until a long term deal.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, no contracts ever with Mosquito Joe. You know, it
is a it is a repetitive service and you want
the right results, you're gonna you have to do it
properly and do it consistently, and uh, you know we
put you on the on the schedule and and and
just go after it. And you know, but there's no contract.
A person can stop at any time.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
And if you've for folks who've never tried you before,
you got a special for them too, correct.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, we'll do a first time treatment for only thirty
nine dollars. Give a chance to We want to earn
your business the right way. You know, and we want
to earn your business every time. So no, no contracts
and we'll do your first treatment for only thirty nine dollars.
And uh, just just to give us a chance to
show you.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
How how well this can work, well, I should issue
this caveatja all listening this morning. This is a habit
forming thing. Okay, it is addictive, trust me this point
you start, you don't want to stop? All right? Eight
five five, asked Joe meskiot Joe dot com. Right, that
is right, all right, brother Trey, thanks so much man
as always.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
You have a great weekend YouTube buddy.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
I'm James Carwell, local owner and operator of Freedom Plumbing
right here in the Midlands.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
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born because of my love for this country and the
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