Home Improvement Show 09-27-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good morning and welcome in, my friends. It's time for
the Home Improvement Show the Midlands on three point five
FM at five sixty AMWVOC. And of course, good morning
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anywhere across this country, across this planet. Yeah, talk about

(00:39):
convenience um coming up. It may be late September, but
well the Mosquitoes think it's still June or July. There
are still plenty of them out there. And the guy
with the fix is Trey Powell from Mosquito Joe. He'll
be joining us. We'll talk about electricity safety with Jeremy Halliday,
mister Electric when he joins us a little bit later

(00:59):
on this morning. First up, though, the guy whose company
just finished up due toifying our poolhouse. It's Russ Marchesy,
the Finishing Touch team. Your morning, So good morning, Gary,
good be here. Nice to see it, Yes, sir, good
to be here. By the way, there's the check for
that that job. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's worth every
penny of it.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Gary, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, it came out nice.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, it was beautiful, it did. It came out really funny.
Backstory by the way, somehow it got written down as
it was a shed. Oh and when your guys came
out to paint, they look and I said, this is
the biggest show we've ever saw.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I'd say so, I'll take one of those sheds
in my backyard right right.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And hey, Lisa's back with Lisa Jurgensen from via laon.
Good to see you again, see you well, you take
time out of your morral Day weekend to come down
here to the radio range.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Absolutely good to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now. We we've had John before with Russ and y'all
have that relationship between each other. You know, you you
do stuff for Russ and Russ does stuff for you.
And you are and I should been viall on you
were the folks who haven't heard you with us before.
You're in the interior design business, which you know I
think is fascinating. I have no eye for such things. Okay,
no clue at all. Sure, but now I've been married

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thirty five years. One of the reasons why is I
know when to defer to my better That's right, right, smart,
but he's got a pretty good eye for such things.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Actually, sure it makes her happy blind.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
When it comes to that, but I'm always fascinated by it, Lisa.
I mean, how did you get into this, this this
line of work.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
I grew up in Atlanta and I actually taught school
Andy Springs Middle School for six years.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, God bless Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, I claim to fame as I taught Usher Raymond.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah that guy, right, I got kids, Yeah, they were
kids at the time.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
He was fun. Little did I know he turned in
to be a famous should have got some autographs, you
know they can sign something.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, he's probably he could probably use a good interior
designer on thinks.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
So yeah, they're too bad.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
I didn't get to decorate one of his many homes.
But we moved here in nineteen ninety eight, and I
actually do y'all remember the well Irmo the Irmo News
little letter.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh somebody.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
When I finished doing our house.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Moving in, she came by and just to see and
she wanted to do a little article on me, and
and so from there it started, uh where she just
did this little print up of my house of how
I decorated. And then I started working for Irmo Interiors,
which was and that's where we met. And I just

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started working there and then I did a parade of
homes and and then I was.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Do they still do the Preado homes.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
By the way, Well not really, I didn't think so. Okay,
it was a lot of work.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Somebody asked me the other day too. I didn't. I couldn't.
I didn't remember if if they're doing it any longer.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
So some cities, but here they might just do like
one home in just one room, like a designer take
one room, and.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
It's a lot. It's a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It was a lot.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
But I was blessed to get State's Best for three years.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, get my daughter and her friends to call in.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
But you all kind of fell into this.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
I mean yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Was always interested in designing and just that, I I
think you do have to have It's a talent. You
have to have that, just like anything else. A musician
has to have that talent. But and my friends were like, Oh,
don't come to my house. You're gonna pick out Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, kind of like with Russ we've talked about this before.
You know, you're cursed now, Russ, because you can't walk
in anywhere with out studying them.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
All the time, all the time. And I get the
same thing Lisa. You know, they're like, don't look too
close at the paint job, you know, or things like
that all the time. But yeah, you know, you just
develop an eye for it is what you do, and
especially when it comes to designing and colors, and you know,
it's just it's it's not that it's not very easy
to do right to make it look at the end

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all put together like it like it grew there and
it was supposed to be there, and all the different
colors and things and things that you wouldn't even imagine
would would go with something else, and it and it works.
It looks fantastic, and it's it's very interesting and it's
just a great it's a great partnership that her and
I have with us, because hey, look we're in there
doing all the painting for them. We're we're Lisa's you know,

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selecting all the colors. We're working on a customer right now, Pam,
where it's working out perfect, where she's actually wanting some
renovation things done that Lisa's handling for her. Coordinating all
that will be coming in. We'll be doing all of
our kitchen cabinetry, possibly removing some popcorn ceilings, I think
for in her house.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Debating what to do, like what's the best option.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
For exactly you know, Yeah, and it just works out great.
Lisa works with the customers with their budget, with their
you know, their wish list, what they really want to
get done, and we kind of put it all together
and you know, it just works out really nice.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's very it's a very nice system.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, Lisa, suddenly you're sounding almost as much of a
contractor as you are an interior designer.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Well, I have to have a big team, and the
first thing that people do want is paint, and so
Russ is always you know, it's the.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Biggest bang for your buck, right yeah, gosh yeah, you know,
you can really transform something with just a little bit
of color and it's not knocking walls down necessarily.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
So yeah, just refreshing this house that we're talking about
that she heard us on the radio, but it's a
nineteen sixties the.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Paneling cabinets, and she lets that look.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
So we're not going to come in and make her
you know, let's gout let's gout this kitchen. So we're
maintaining the footprint. Russ is gonna just repaint. We're gonna
get some new flooring. She's got the old hinges.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah on the cabinets, that's right, they're gonna.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
They're gonna stay on there, but we're gonna we're gonna
redo them.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm guessing some folks are maybe hesitant to enless the
the the help of an inferior designer because they feel like,
number one, are you gonna come in and immediately judge them? Right?
A lot of times, yeah, sure, you're gonna come in.
You're gonna say, oh no, you have to do this,
and you have to do that. But as this example here,
you know, the customers always running.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
You have absolutely you have to.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
You'll give your advice and and you have to make
them happy living there. And so exactly, just with rust
painting and the cabinets are gonna look amazing. And she's
got an older bathroom with the lovely pink flooring, but
she doesn't really want to gut it.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
So we're just gonna we're gonna, yeah, fun, Yeah, we're.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Gonna give it a facelift, is what we're going to
do you know? And yeah, and it is they you know.
And I've heard Lisa tell customers this before, you know,
and she you know, that's the one great thing about Lisa,
and I've worked with her plenty of times with this.
She's not pushy whatsoever. She's not pushing her influence and
styles on these customers, right. Each each person has their

(08:21):
own you know, likes and dislikes and style to it, right, sure,
and that's what.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Lisa Cater's to okay.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I have seen other designers in the past throughout
the last twenty something years where they have done that
and pushed their influence on it. And at the end
of the day, the customer is just not happy. They're
just not because it's not it's not them, right, they
don't they don't feel comfortable in it. And I've even
heard her say, you know, this is your house. You
have to live here, Okay, we don't, you do, so

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you have to be happy with it, of course, right.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
And so.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, it's just h and it's a it's a bit
of a process working through it all. But as long
as the customers happy at the end, like you said, Gary,
that's that's all that matters. You know and this one.
I'm excited about this one because it is an older
style home. But as soon as her and I walked in,
both of us were looking at each other like, man,
we love this house, like it was the nicest house.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, talk back in the neighborhood. We never even really
knew their houses back there. So yeah, just a really
cool cool.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Probably one thing with interior is you give them guidance,
even if they're not going to do a whole lot,
but just give them guidance, guidance on what flows and
the colors that flow, and you know a lot. Well
like you you were going to do with your poolhouse
that do it yourself where you just you're going to
do it a certain point and then he would I

(09:39):
could get and then I mean, you know, you just
I do. I do talk them out of some things
like that. Go trust me, it's gonna you know, but
it's for.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Their better interest always, you know, things like that exactly. Yeah, yeah,
it just makes more tying.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
To make it right.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Do you all remember that football he was actually a
basketball coach. John Wootin has a quote, if you don't
have time to do it right, when will you have
time to do it again.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's a great quote.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
You know.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I use that for everybody.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Go like, you're gonna find you run into problems if
you try to do not seeing you can't do it
yourselfers can't do it, but sure record that they just
want to hurry and get it done and then they're
gonna come back and have to redo it.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, until you hadn't heard.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
The rest of the story though, that that was the
idea of our poolhouse was we were going to do
the bottom half and then have Russia's folks come into
the top half because I'm just too old to get
on the ladder that high up. And then you know
we're sitting out there, you know you came out to
take a look at it and thought, yeah, this is stupid, Gary,
because I'm want to you know, maybe not right away,
but at some point we're gonna look at and say, okay, yeah,

(10:51):
that's the part we painted, and that's the part the
pros did. Okay, Yeah, it wouldn't have been a good idea. Yeah,
I don't rush you into something you already made me
think about this. I don't know, Lisa. Sometimes do you
feel like interior designs try to do too much. You know,
you're hiring me, so you know, here's the let's do this, this, this, this,
and this.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, one thing that I'll do is we'll come in
and make a plan and you don't have to do
everything right away. So if she's just focusing our clients
on a kitchen one room, well, eventually down the line
they might want to move on into the dining room
or the you know, existing rooms.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
But you've got a plan that you can you know,
we can just develop.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
But you know, it's the one room now and a
year later we'll move on to that room.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
But we had that plan.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
And maybe sometimes people have the maybe the misconception of
the designer is going to try to do too much
in the the vein of you know, too much stuff.
It's just you know, I don't need all that. And
I was just oh yeah, yeah, going back, told you
that you're the ones got to live there.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Right, there's the homeowner, right, And I do renderings for
them so they actually really see how it's going to
look and we make changes like that's just not me
and you know, so so we really talk through the
design of how the room is actually going to look.
And so I don't force anything. I don't force expensive.

(12:18):
I've got so many furniture suppliers and all kinds of
people that you don't.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
You stay within their budget.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
We've got so many people.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You have a lot of options with that. Yeah, you
really do, just over the years.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Sure, just curiosity. It's going to vary from job to job,
I know. But I mean from your standley, you go
into a place brand new, never seen it before. What's
the typical what's your what's your process and your method
for going from okay to this is what we have

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to do or this is my suggestions? How long does
that take?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean, yeah, good question.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean you have to kind of ponder when you
go in there.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'll take good pictures and it does take some time
time to think through things. What the first thing that
comes to my mind is how am I going to make.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
This space better for their life?

Speaker 5 (13:08):
And how they can you know, can we should we
move walls? Should we well?

Speaker 3 (13:14):
And a lot of it revolves around budget, right, you know,
and people have their budget okay, and that's what she'll do.
She'll come right in there, and you know, you got
to know where your budget's at, right, because you can
want all these different things done throughout the house. But
your budget may just be for one room or you know,
or maybe two rooms or whatever the case is. But

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you know, and that's where she's great because she'll work
within that budget and get the most out of it
that makes sense for that space, you know. And she's
told me that before personally, you know, we want to
do all these different things in our house, and she's
you know, let's just start with this one room here
and let's get this, you know, completed, and then we
can move on to the other ones. And it makes

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you feel better too. It kind of takes a weight
off of you a bit when you kind of look
at it that way, so you don't have to be
so overwhelmed possibly and you can you can take one
bite out out of it at a time, is basically
what it is.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, I'm going to ask you a question some lead
This is leading to something else and we'll talk about
with Russ about here in a moment. Kitchens those are
massive jobs.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
They can be they are Oh they can't. Oh yeah,
they can be.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
When somebody really wants I mean, if you want to,
if you wanted to gut and redo a kitchen fifty
sixty thousand.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
We talked about that.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
It was about depending on what you want to do
just totally with new cabinets and flooring and backsplash, you
can get ninety thousand oh.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Easily, Yeah, easily, depending on your selections a lot.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
And that's where it comes in with their budget and
we'll we'll say with this budget, this is what you
can what you can do exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean how often have you all work together on
what Russ specializes in, and that is the refinishing and
refreshing of these kitchen.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Cabinet cabinets and all, oh, you know, tons and tons
of when we worked on. Yeah, And that's a great point, Gary,
like talking about budget. Right, they may go into it,
like let's say it's a kitchen. They may go into
it and they have the idea of possibly ripping the
cabinets out or doing new cabinet tree or something like that. Right,
but maybe the budget doesn't quite fit all that, or
if they didn't do that, they could get something else done.

Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's where we can come in with kitchen cabinets. For example,
we both work with the same cabinet guys. They can
add Crown molding to your cabinets. They can reface the cabinets. Obviously,
we'll go through them and take all the doors off,
prep everything, paint them up beautiful just like they're brand new,
and it's a fraction of the cost. Well you think
about it, I mean, the shelves or the shells exactly right,

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the boxing sure right, the doors unless you want to
change the design you know, or whatever put the doors
or what make the cabinets right. So you talk about
if you're gonna dump that much money into basically buying
new doors for your cabinets, it's insane.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Right, it can be right.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
And if the cabinets are in good shape and you
don't need you know, they're not falling apart.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
We try to salvage that football we do.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, absolutely we do.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean then and yeah, and sometimes it may just
be a hinge swap. Okay, like you've got the old
school hinges on there. So we'll have one of our
cabinet guys come in. They'll swap out the hinges maybe
to hidden hinge something like that. Between even something simple
like that Gary doing a hinge swap and repainting them,
it's just such a difference new hardware exactly.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, and lighting, so keep the cabinets, get new lighting, hardware, backsplash,
new backsplash. Yeah, but the cabinets are what's really the most.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, and it's it's the focal piece of a kitchen,
is it not really? I mean it can be right,
you know, the kitchen cabinets and how they look. But yeah,
there's just so many options out there that can really
save money in painting cabinetry that it's just the sky's
the limit on it. You can do whatever you want
to do. We can salvage exactly what you have and
make it look completely different, or you can you know,

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like I said, the sky's the limit. You can do
whatever you want adding to it. You know, I've even
seen people add panels to the ends of them. You
know how many times have we seen that? And just
different things. Yeah, adding shelves, pull out shelves for certain
areas of the cabinets that you know, things like that, all.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Sorts of stuff, lots of options, lots of options.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Gary, all right, that's true.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
So that's where if I come in.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
I've got so many resources, like I said, that they
might not have thought about exactly, just so many ideas
to bounce off of them.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, our time has expired, friends, dog Onne, that was quick,
that was fast, Yeah, Lisa, Lisa Jurgensen Vallon folks want
to sit down with you and get some ideas. What's
the what's the proper to reach you.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
I've got my website at v alan Interiors dot com.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's VI E E L A N.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
That's correct. Okay, I got my phone number on there.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's all right there, it's all there, Lisa. Good to
see you again.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Thank you, Gary, good to see you. Happy Memorial weekend
and to you too.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Russ finishing Touch team dot com. That's it for you,
est Mus just call you right, that's it. Eight zero
three four six seven six seven five nine all right.
They all enjoy the rest of you.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Have a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Gary, Yes, you took so much that poolhouse.

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am WVOC. Okay, so the calendar says it's late September,

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almost October, but the Mosquitoes they work on a different
calendar than we do. I think. All right, it is
that Trey Pale from mosquit Joe joining us now on
the Home Improvement Show the Midlands. Good morning, sir, Good
morning to you.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yeah, it's the it's the most wonderful time of the year.
It's a football season and it is cool enough to
be outside and really enjoying your yard. A lot of
people are getting out this time of year and enjoying
this weather that's not so brutal, at least not every day.
We are having some days that are still feels like

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it's July.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh yeah, and something else is enjoying your yard too.
That's as we talked about those.

Speaker 7 (21:04):
Yeah, that's a you know, common misconception this time of
year is that, oh, it's fall, and you know, maybe
the mosquitoes are done. But you know, until you get
temperatures dropping below fifty degrees consistently, those eggs are still
hatching and they're still biting and making and laying eggs
at a very rapid pace. To them, it might as

(21:27):
well be July. It's really no different until those temperatures
really start getting down below fifty degrees, and then then
the eggs will stop hatching and you'll start slowly seeing
a difference in the volume of mosquitos. But right now
it might as well be middle of summer. It's high
time for mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
So what do we do about it?

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Brother, Well, the number one thing is to find where
they're breeding. You know, you can't if you know, people say, well,
I don't have standing water in my yard, Well they're
probably thinking of a creek or a pond or something
like that, which are generally not big sources of mosquitos.

(22:08):
You got to remember, the mosquitos that we have, they
don't fly very far, they don't fly very high, and
they usually don't travel more than about two hundred feet
in their whole lifetime.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's like cumulative. I mean not at one time, but
their whole lifetime, their whole lifetime.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Yeah, they just do not go very far as long
as they have standing water to lay eggs in, they
have other mosquitoes to breed with, and then they have
some blood bearing organism, whether it's a dog, a cat,
a human, bird, fox, squirrel, rabbit, whatever, if they have
something to bite to get that protein so they can

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keep laying eggs over and over again. They are happy
as a lark and they will not fly more than
ten feet. But you got to be looking for it.
If you don't have standing water, you wouldn't have mosquitoes.
So if you have mosquitos, I can get and teu
there're standing water very close by. You're having problems on

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your deck. The water is probably collecting beneath the deck,
maybe in an old flower pot or a bucket, or
some debris that was left or a hole that the
dog is dug underneath there, and they're very close by
and finding that water and getting rid of it or
treating it with some sort of a larva side that's
going to eliminate the mosquito. Larvae before they're born. I

(23:29):
mean that is a big, big step into in resolving
your problem.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
So they always lay their eggs in water, is that right?
And never anything else? Always got to be water.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Well, there are certain species of mosquitoes that will lay
their eggs where they know that water will be. If
we are experiencing a drought or something like that, you know,
you might find them laying eggs in a bird bath
that's dried up. You know, they are smart enough to
lay their eggs where moisture will be. But sometimes you'll

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it's you know, if you have heavy leaf lit or
somebody's been dumping leaves over top of their fence and
grass and stuff like that, that that'll pretty much never
dries out. If you dig to the bottom of that pile,
it's always wet and holding moisture. And that's enough moisture
for mosquitoes to breed and hatch eggs and and keep flourishing.

(24:24):
And so anything like that could be a source of
standing water that you're never even thinking about.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And again you say standing water. So if you have
a pool in your backyard, you got the filter going,
you know, certain number of hours a day or whatever,
you're not worried about. If you've got a creek that's running,
you're not worried about it, it's just the water that is
not moving.

Speaker 7 (24:41):
Yeah, they can't stand on water that's moving. So a
moving creek and now a creek that is stopped, you know,
and has all sorts of pools in it, they definitely
will lay eggs in that. But if there's any fish
or wildlife in there, the fish will eat them when
they're laying those eggs, and they'll certainly eat the larva
when they're in the water. So generally speaking, the mosquitoes

(25:04):
don't lay their eggs. They're not going to lay them
in a clean swimming pool. A swimming pool that's green,
they would absolutely that could become a cesspool for mosquito breeding.
But a clean swimming pool, they're not going to lay
their eggs in there because there's nothing in there for
the larva to eat. When they're in the larva stageless.
The mosquito larva have to eat in order to advance

(25:24):
to the next stage of their life cycle, and a
swimming pool is not going to do it. With the
filters and remaining clean. If it gets stagnant and green
at one hundred percent becomes a mosquito breeding pit, but
most swimming pools definitely not.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
What about these retaining ponds are they a problem?

Speaker 7 (25:44):
Those are a big problem, most of them. I mean,
the rule by code is they should be dry twenty
four hours after a rainfall. You should be able to
mow it twenty four hours after rainfall. And I have
yet to find many. I would say ninety percent of

(26:05):
them are not functioning as they supposed to. They're always
holding six or eight inches of water over a big
span of period, and then they start when that happens,
and they start growing all sorts of non native species
like cattails and long grasses and weeds and things that
just make it go from bad to worse. As far

(26:26):
as standing water, it's very heavily organic, it's very shaded,
and it is exactly what mosquitoes love to lay their
eggs and breed in. And those things can breed a
mosquito haven to cause problems for anybody within a couple
hundred yards of one of those detention ponds. It's not
functioning properly.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, I think I said retaining retention ponds. Did the
local municipalities monitor those things or should they or are
their fines involved if they're not well, they.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
Should, I mean they should, I mean they I mean
cot and force and should force the developer to make
sure that thing works before they ever turn it over
to communities or whomever. If that thing is not being
able to be mode after twenty four hours after a rain,
it's not functioning properly and it should be fixed. And

(27:18):
so the problem is is they get out of there
before anyone realizes it's not working, and then when people
complain about it, they'll build a big stockade fence around it.
Which it's been there. It's out of sight, out of mind.
If you can't look at it, you can't complain about it.
And they're not complaining about the site of it. Well
sometimes they are, but it's creating a mosquito problem, which

(27:42):
is really really bad. I mean, over time, it can
create a severe problem where over the course of years,
those mosquitoes will It can be an original source, but
they will eventually spread out way beyond two hundred yards
as they take over the whole neighborhood. If the thing
is not you know done, but I mean that's very expensive.
If you're trying to to larve aside an entire acre pond,

(28:05):
and you have to do that, you know, once a
month or every two months or so. That's a that
is a huge endeavor and very expensive.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
So you get those retention ponds, but you got and
you see a few of these around here. I know,
places like Myrtle Beach are all over the place where
businesses or malls or walmarts or whatever, they have these
ponds somewhere on the property. I guess they're a source
of additional water for the fire department I needed. They're
not retention.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Ponds, you know I'm talking about Yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
So, yeah, that's a pond that doesn't isn't designed to
dry up. And you know, obviously that can be you know,
a beautiful a beautiful spot and you know, you could
decorate around it, add fish to it, which are natural
mosquito predators, and you know, create something that looks nice
for the community to enjoy. And if it's deep enough

(28:59):
and the water is not is regulated properly, it could
serve as a as a to detain water for twenty
four hours and then and rise and go back down.
You know, most of them are not done that way
because there's a lot more expensive but it is building code.
Anybody who is displacing water, they have to capture that

(29:21):
water and hold it back for at least twenty four
hours before they release it down the stream. That you know,
we learned the importance of that in twenty fifteen during
the thousand Year flood. Of those things either worked or
they didn't or failed or you know, all kind of mean.
We had twenty two dams that failed around Columbia, much

(29:42):
less these detention ponds.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And I'm trying to remember back because usually I think
back to that, I just think about, you know, the
destruction and the flooding, and the houses and homes and
businesses ruined and all. But what I can't remember now
tight in the aftermath of that, what did that do
to our misty population? Do you recall?

Speaker 7 (29:59):
Oh? It severe? The very fortunate thing is that months
later we were at a temperature situation that kind of
knocked it back. But the eggs that they laid obviously
eventually hash. We even had a species of mosquito that came,
a floodwater mosquito, which is much larger than a typical mosquito,

(30:24):
and man, they really hurt when they bite you. And
those things won't pop up for maybe every three years,
every five years, if they only come up when they
that particular species of mosquito doesn't lay their eggs in water,
they lay them on ground where they will only be
activated when when you have floodwaters, when the waters rise,

(30:47):
it activates all those mosquitos. And when we had the
thousand year flood, it was it was bad. And we
had school systems that were calling us because their detention
ponds became I mean the kids couldn't play out side
at the playground because they were just getting eaten up.
I mean really bad, much worse than anything that we've

(31:08):
normally ever seen. Yeah, and a lot of them that
I went out to I saw identified they were floodwater mosquitos,
not eighties agypdi or other you know, more prevalent species
that we have around here.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right, So to start with, you got to identify the
source of thought. And it just takes I mean an
empty bottle, bottle cap turned upside down, right side up,
whichever you want to call it, in your backyard. How
many how how many eggs can go into one of those?

Speaker 7 (31:38):
Well, they lay eggs up up to three hundred. You
can read what I've heard from entomologists is you can
get about one hundred mosquitoes out of a bottle cap. Wow,
so it really doesn't take a lot of water. People think, oh, well,
it's got to be a creek or a pond or
something like that. No, a puddle will do. Kid's toy

(31:59):
will do. The lip around the outside of your trash
can that reinforces the top of the trash can when
you turn the trash can over so it doesn't fill
up with water and breed mosquitos. That lip on the
outside will breed tons of mosquitoes because you just you know,
you flip it one way and holds water. Flip it
the other way. It'll still hold water. Not going to

(32:20):
hold as much, but it still holds water. The bottoms
of flower pots are notorious. Those little trays underneath flower
pots are notorious for breeding tons of mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
If I were to go out into my backyard and
see something that was retaining water like that, and if
I just dumped it over and you know, threw that
water out in the yard itself, would those eggs die
off or would they would they hang out for a while.

Speaker 7 (32:44):
Most likely those eggs are going they're going to hibernate.
I mean any.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Act I think we did. We lose you there, train
I think we hang on, We'll think we've lost a signal.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
There.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Let's give it a second and see if we can
reconnect with Trayo a tot of Trey pal mosquita Joe
about the process of Oh there you are, okay? You
could you couldn't hear me. We lost you there for
about thirty seconds straight. You couldn't hear me.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
I don't thing, but oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
That's okay. So we're talking about dumping. You know, if
I went out in my backyard and dump some some
water out, would and they were number one? Would I
be able to see the eggs? Would I with the
with the naked eye?

Speaker 7 (33:28):
Would I know that they're very very small. You can
see them with the naked eye. But I think you
really have to know what you're looking for to identify
them as mosquito eggs. And they can be sticky, meaning
that they'll stick to the side of something. And dump
the water out. You might dip out the larva, which
will kill the larva, but you may not dump out

(33:50):
those those eggs may still be there and when it
collects more water or more water comes into that flower
pot it you know it, then it activates those eggs
which have already been laid. Okay, So they do come
back very quickly. I mean that's why they say when
you you have a bird bath, you should clean that
bird bath and scrub it out, you know, once every

(34:12):
couple of weeks, really to keep it clean so it's
not organic water. If the water's clean and clear, the
mosquitoes will not lay their eggs. If it starts getting dirty.
Understand that there might be mosquito eggs that are stuck
to the side, and just dumping it out is not
going to get rid of the eggs that will get
rid of it, I mean active larvae, but the eggs
that have not hatched may may not go out with

(34:34):
the water. And as soon as you put water in,
it's just going to activate those eggs.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Okay. So so and I think before we lost you
were saying that if you if you did dump them
out onto the you know, the dry ground, that they
would probably go on to a hibernation. I guess you. I
think you said, and survive for for how long until
the next rains come.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Now, they can survive for up to five years until
the conditions are right. Oh wow, if you dump the
eggs out, those eggs would have to If you dump
the eggs out, the eggs would probably hibernate on the
ground and they it would just take heavy rain to
kind of wash them into a low spot where they
would have enough water to actually hatch. But you would

(35:15):
get the larva.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Okay, So you view eliminated sources of moisture where they
could potentially breed in your backyard, and then you come
in with a spray and and that's that's design I
get for the active mosquitoes, right.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
Yeah, So that's it's a two step process. When the
mosquito joe comes out to your yard, We're going to
identify and find sources of standing water. We're going to
get rid of them. We're going to treat them so
that we eliminate any breeding activity that's going on the property,
which is going to immediately lower the volume of mosquitoes
and the and the the mosquito breeding right away and

(35:55):
prevent any future mosquitos when they start laying eggs as
that water stent treated with the larva, and so the
eggs hatch, the larva are not going to become adult mosquitoes.
And then and then yeah, we're gonna spray all the
foliage in the yard, which is a harborridge for all mosquitoes.
They like shade, so any green foliage, that's the only
thing that they eat is the nectar off a green foliage.

(36:16):
So they go to the mosquito comes into your yard,
they're going to go to the green foliage for a
meal and for shade from the sun. And that's where
they loaf during the day for the most part, until
they're ready for a blood meal and then they will
come out. So we're going to spray all those bushes
and shrubs, which will eliminate the adult mosquitoes that are
in the yard, and it will also eliminate It will

(36:38):
last for about three weeks. It sticks to what we
spray it on, so if any other mosquitoes come into
the yard, they'll be eliminated too. It's like kind of
like putting a flea collar around that yard. And so
that two step punch that we do every three weeks
like clockwork, will really get your mosquito population. I wouldn't
say zero, but ninety nine percent. I mean, it's going

(36:59):
to be such a signal indifference in the yard that
you can go outside any time, day or night and
not have to spray yourself down or worry about, you know,
getting mosquito bites.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I could personally attest to that. We haven't bought Mosquitos
bray since you guys started treating our our yards years
ago at another property we lived out at the time. Trey,
I always to hear that. Always a pleasure, my friend,
U thirty nine bucks. If you never tried Mosquito Joe before,
that still stands, right.

Speaker 7 (37:24):
It does. We'll do your first treatment if you've never
used it before, for below costs, and then we come
back every three weeks and keep treating. There's never a
contract with Mosquito Joe. We want to earn your business
the right way every time we treat your yard.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
All righty eight five five, ask you Joe at mosquitojo
dot com.

Speaker 7 (37:39):
Right, that is correct?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
All right, Trey Power, Mosquito Joe, Thanks buddy, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Thank you have a great weekend so far.

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Speaker 6 (39:25):
To see you? Gary doing great?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
We want to talk about well, keeping safe today. That's
what you don't really when we talk about electricity. A
lot of what we talk about is keeping safe, right,
that's right. A lot of things can go wrong, especially
if you try to go it on your own, but
today keeping safe as far as smoke detectors are concerned, Yes,

(39:48):
all right. You're an electrician. You know the issues that
can come up. And I don't know what the stats
are on this, Jeremy, but you know when there's a
when there's a fire and something happens, something catches wore,
I'm guessing that a fair amount of time there's some
sort of an electrical issue that's caused that.

Speaker 6 (40:08):
Well, it could be any kind of issue.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
You know, somebody can be smoking in bed or what's right.
But but but certainly electricity you can can can be
achieve contributor.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
To Yes, electricity. You want you want the you want
a good installation. You want your electrical to be functioning properly.
You want all the safety devices in place. But on
top of that smoke detectors that are going to protect
you from fires that are caused uh by other things
in the home.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know, and we're just talking about playing old regular
you know, sticking up on the wall, put a cold
batter than the smoke detector right well there? Or do
we need something more or are there better things available?

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Yes? Yes, when it comes to picking out the right
smoke detector for your needs, uh, it's better to go
with one that's uh, you know, been approved by UH
testing laboratory. You recognize things that's right, you listed you
want to you know, you have things like ten year
batteries now and smoke alarms.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
What's more, it's more irritating waking up on a Saturday
morning because there's this deep.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
Under chain the battery to get your ladder out and
get up there and deal with something that you may
not be familiar with and I get it put back
up properly? Is it going to fall?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
You know, I lived in a house one time. We
live in a home that the one in the room over.
We had a huge room over and it was they
placed it up high. But the only you get to
it was to have to place a ladder on the
steps to get right. Genius. But anyway, they couldn't have
to deal with that problem anymore. But so it got

(41:41):
ten year batteries and I did not know that. Yes,
now is that can you buy those first what you
may already have or is that a special smoke detector
that comes with a ten year battery?

Speaker 6 (41:51):
Well you can buy them, you can, Yes, you can
go to the local hardware store and purchase a ten
year battery smoke alarm absolutely.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
To do list now.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Yeah, we carry them on our vans. You know, mister
electric can come out and give you turnkey service. We
have smoke detectors, well, smoke alarms, that's the true terminology
form smoke alarms. And uh they're multi criteria, so they
use different technology to detect smoke or fires. And those

(42:21):
are the more they're they're the they're the recommended type
of smoke alarm to give you a better response rate.
So it's going to give you less nuisance alarms. But
they also have a ten year battery.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
So you know, I feel dumb because I thought I
smoke alarms of smoke alarm, but apparently that's not necessarily truth.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
No.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
They they've advanced, like everything else, you know, so quick
to change the technology they have the way they detect
smoke or fire. There's a photoelectric and ionization technology and
what that does is it's detecting if it's a in
flame or a smoldering fire. Really yep, And they have uh,

(43:04):
you know, little micro chips in them now that can
can can check double check itself and make sure, Hey,
is this really something that I need to be alarming about?

Speaker 1 (43:16):
And uh, is there one particular type or one that
has particular functions or even a brand for that matter,
that that you and your experience have found is the
best to have if.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
The one we like, you know, it's a matter of opinion.
But the one that we install actually uh was on
consumer reports for being a very good uh smoke smoke alarm.
And it's made by a company called you know U
s I U s I. You know, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Here for us I, but you to say that is
just what you like I did. Okay, Now, what's what's
the cost of one of these things? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (43:56):
You know, when we get to cost, I don't have
them in the top of my head. Uh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
I mean, is it that that much more expensive than
say the one you just go pick up at Walmart
or something.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
They're a little more spendye for the for the alarm itself.
You know, there's it's it. It's a variety of different
prices for different smoke alarms of Uh. As far as
what we purchase them for, I don't. I don't have
that information.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
But what we're not talking about one hundreds hundred of dollars? No,
is there when it comes to where these alarms are
located in the home? I mean, is there a science
to that or is it just wherever the build or
put it when they build the house.

Speaker 6 (44:43):
There is a science to it. They're they're you know,
the way smoke flows through your home, the waste, the
way smoke rises in certain uh circumstances. You know, if
you if you put a smoke detector or a smoke alarm,
if you want to say smoked detective, that smoke alarm.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Next smoke detector.

Speaker 6 (44:59):
Anyway you next to a vent, you know that's moving air,
you may have problems. So there's a distance you should
be away from those areas air intakes returns. You should
if ceiling fans, exhaust fans, bathrooms, you need to be
a certain distance away from different areas just based on

(45:20):
the environment that they're going to be exposed to to
not confuse them. So they need to be certain heights.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
They're always up high. Yeah, there's a reason for that.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
I guess that's right. So if if you have a
really high vaulted ceiling, you may wonder why they put
a smoke detector so far up there you can't get
to it. But there's a reason for that. And it's
normally because that smoke is going to rise to the
ceiling before it starts filling up the house, and so
it'll be running across the top of the ceiling. You know,

(45:54):
they always tell you to get down on the floor
and crawl out of a fire, so you can hopefully
stay out of the smoke, because that's the clearest areas
closer to the floor. So the ceiling is the most
contaminated area with smoke, and so that's why they put
them in the highest in the highest points of the home,
because that's where the smoke's going to go.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Is there a rule as to how many you need
to have at a home? I guess based on the
square footage of the home. Is there a good rule
of thumb for that?

Speaker 6 (46:24):
Yeah, it's a you know, every thirty you have a.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Two story house, you're gonna need one up and down.

Speaker 6 (46:28):
Yeah, one on every level. A smoke detector in every bedroom,
a smoke detector outside the vicinity of every bedroom. So
a certain footage radius, yes, and then you know common areas.
If I remember correctly, the radius is thirty foot. So
if you have a smoke detector down there and the
area is greater than thirty foot, now you need to

(46:48):
outside that radius. You need to add another one.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Well, let's say I don't know, let's say a two
thousand square foot home. They're all laid out differently, of course,
maybe a different number of rooms and such. But I mean,
how many smoke detectors are we alarms? Are we talking
about in your average two thousand square foot home?

Speaker 6 (47:06):
You know, I'd say about six or seven?

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Really that many?

Speaker 6 (47:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, And I'm going to guess that most people don't
have that many.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
No, no, I know, I don't. Nope. That's the code,
like we talked about before on the show, is updated
every three years and they find you know, you know,
they take data and they find out, you know, you
want one in multiple in multiple locations because you also
want them to be interconnected. And what that does is

(47:32):
if a fire happens on one side of the house
and you're on the other side of the house, all
those smoke detectors are going to go off. Rather than
the smoke detector getting to where the one rather than
the smoke getting to the one smoke alarm that you
have in the home, half of the house could be
a blaze at that point. You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Yeah, And how is how does that work that they're interconnected?
Is that through an app or something or the wire?
How does that work?

Speaker 6 (47:58):
The best system is a hard way system, and there's
a communication wire that runs in between them, all of them,
and they're and and they communicate with each other. So
when one goes off, they're all going to go off.
Give you a better response time. Wow, Okay, yeah, so
more than likely unless your home was just built in
the last year or two three. Maybe, then chances are

(48:22):
probably pretty good that at least a code. You don't
have enough of these in your home right now? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Who knew?

Speaker 6 (48:32):
Well, you know, that's why we do the safety check.
That's one of the reason let's talk about that. Yes,
so we go, when we come out to your house,
we'll do a safety check on the electrical system and
give you an idea how you can make your system
safer because of the all all the new safety devices
that we have coming out that that make your electrical

(48:52):
system a lot safer for you. And uh, you know,
that's one of the most dangerous systems in your house.
I put that next to gas. You know, is electricity
flowing through your walls everywhere throughout your home and you
want to make sure it's maintained properly and that you
have all the safety devices in place that can help
protect you.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
I'm just gonna bet that every time you do one
of these things, it's a real eye opener for the
home or business owner.

Speaker 6 (49:17):
It enlightens them a great deal, really does wow.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Uh. While we're on the topic of co two detectors
also something. Yes, so you ought to have yes best
placement for those, and we have one in our bedroom
because it's like, okay, we would seem that that would
be you know, if you were asleep, that's when you
really of course it's odorless, right seeho too is odorless.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
So right silent killer.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah, I guess maybe multiple CO two detectors in a
home two would be the best idea.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
Yeah, you definitely want one on every level. Okay, if
you have a garage it's attached to your home, and
you don't have any gas on your home, you still
want to have co O detectors on every level. One
on every level at least minimum, and then one where
that door accesses the house from the garage on the garage.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
That makes sense.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, so that's just for a few leave left
left your car running and the garage door shut. You
got you know, carbon monoxide entering into the home exact
and so uh and then if you have gas on
the home, you definitely want to have your carbon monoxide detectors.
The ones the brand we install, uh, like I said,

(50:33):
they have we have a three in one that detects smoke, fire,
and carbon. Well we can do it all in one unit.
And yeah, so uh, multi criteria type are the best ones. Man,
and the ones we install have a ten year battery
and so uh and then when we talk about the
cost of them, you know, it's a fair price for everybody,

(50:58):
and especially when you consider the statistics that you find.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
The alternative not having them.

Speaker 6 (51:03):
Yeah, if you go to the National Fire Protection Association website,
you can get a lot of information on there. I
think it is if I remember correctly, three of five
fire deaths happening homes with either no smoke alarms or
no working smoke alarms.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Right, yeah, year about that all the time.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
Unfortunately, you should be testing your functioning breakers once a
month too, right, Well, I don't know who all does
that either, Well do you?

Speaker 1 (51:29):
How do you do that?

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Just well flipflamont mean there's a test button on them.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I'm not sure I even knew that.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
Yeah, you might not have any Gary, I need to
come to your house and check it out.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
This is something you guys do at mister elector.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
Yeah, we installed the We can put ground fault breakers
in so you don't have to have the receptacles with
the reset button on them. Sometimes they're convenient in certain
areas so you don't have to go all the way
back to the panel to reset it, or arc fault
breakers or dual function breakers, which had you know, an
added protection to your home, your electrical system, if you

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if your home's older than you know, twenty years.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
So just out of curiosity here, if if you went
into a situation and you know, the first thing, I know,
every time you guys show up, you're always doing a
safety check anyway, Yes, but for somebody who's home you've
never been to, or business for that matter, yes's one
of the things you most certainly do. So let's say
you're in a situation you look at a breaker box.
You know, we should probably upgrade this box. I mean,

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what kind of cost or we are we talking about
for your average home, the average number of breakers whatever
that is in actually upgrading all those and bring them
up to the proper safety standards for older homes. I mean,
what are we looking at here? Ballpark?

Speaker 6 (52:46):
Yeah, so on an average you're probably looking at you know, six.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Six seven. You know it's it's six or seven dollars.
That's a great deal, six seven hundred.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
Bucks, yes, you know, six or seven one thousand.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Mister Electric Jereby, how today, how to folks get ahold
of you guys? Whether it's just for a routine or
an emergency.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Well Gary. They can reach us at eight zero three
eight six eight four to two four three, or they
can find us online at Misterelectric dot com, Forward Slash Columbia.

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