Home Improvement Show 09-30-23

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning and welcome. It's theHome Improvement to Show of the Midlands.
So good to have you with usthis morning on one of three point five
FM and five sixty a m WBUS. Really appreciate you getting up with
us on the weekends. I'm GaryDavid coming up. We've got a full
hour with you, and then ofcourse following that, the Health and Wellness
Show Summer from Beaver Roofing and Gutterswill be here, and I suspect we'll

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probably talk about roofs or gutters ormaybe both summer joints us it is still
mosquito season, even though it iswhat the last day of September right tomorrow's
October one, right, I thinkit is at least yes, it is
okay, but it's still mosquito season. Why that is? Trey Powell will
be ai and more than likely wemay talk a little bit about the holiday

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lights too, because here we gointo that season, don't way. So
that coming up on this morning's editionof The Home Improvement Show of the Midlands.
Right now, though, it's courtneyerIn from Diamond Concrete Solutions who joins
us. Good morning, Courtney,how are you? Good morning Gary?
I'm well, how are you.I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
Good to see you you too.You must be working reneed to death.
I mean, I've got to gethim back in here. We've got some

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folks we really want to have cometalk to you guys. But I'm here
by myself again today. Things arebusy. We are back in the full
swing of pool season, getting readyfor next year. You know, we
kind of had to slow down therein the hot, hot, hot part
of summer with pools. But weare back to the pools. It's a
great time now that that sort ofLabor Day holiday has past us for people

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to get back on the schedule forthat. The weather's good for it right
now, and that gets you readyto you know, win arize if you're
going to do that, and thenbe ready to go first thing in the
spring. So, so, whatis it? What is the issue with
it? And we had an exceptionallyhot summer, of course we sure did.
This Is that that that creates issuesI guess into that kind of work.
Yeah, you know, it's notjust a danger for you know,

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heat index and heat exhaustion and thingslike that which we had to be really
careful of. Sure, but it'snot good for materials once the temperature is
over ninety degrees and the surface ofyour concrete is over ninety degrees. Also,
materials just don't perform well. Wesee, you know, application failures
and things like that, and sowe really just say to our customers,

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look, we we would love todo this for you right now, but
you're not going to be happy becauseyou know, we're probably going to be
coming back to fix something. We'drather do it right the first time.
So let's wait for things to cooloff a little bit and then we know
that those materials are going to performwell. Is there a certain threshold you
get to and you're like, okay, yeah, ninety degrees is really the
max in terms of floor floor surfacetemperature. If we you know, even

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if the temperature outside in the airis over ninety degrees but the floor temperature
is not, Let's say maybe inthe morning because the sun hasn't been on
it all day, we can workfor an hour or two until things,
you know, heat up. Butthen, you know, how do you
do a project like that, Youknow, for just a couple of hours
every morning, you'll be working onit, on it forever. So we

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typically you see that you know,floor temperature, the concrete itself is going
to warm with that sun and thatoutdoor temperature, and so as soon as
that floor temperature is over ninety degreesthen we really cannot apply. Now,
is this something an issue that's uniquejust to pool decks or does that apply
to any outdoor concrete. You know, it really depends if it's covered,
so you know, partially covered porches, or if there's an area that we're

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able to tent, we can maybecontinue to work, you know, on
certain areas outdoor, you know,but pool decks are hard. It's hard
to cover the pool right with atent, So that's typically something that we
find is much more difficult to do. During the hot part of the summer,
we tend to wait and hold offon pool applications until things cool off.
We can do a number of thingslike garage work. We can do

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garage floors, we can do patiosthat are partially covered or you know,
like I said tenth those you know, if it's not in full sun all
day and something that cannot be covered, then we try to do what we
can. But we you know,typically try to do as much indoor work
as we can because it also savesour guys a lot of a lot of
pain, right, They appreciate theindoor work we give them during the hot
part of the year. Yeah.So, and as you say, if

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you try to go out there fora couple of hours every morning and work,
well, now, the amount oftime I guess that somebody's without the
use of their pool and that's notthe time you want to be able to
use, really stretches it. Andthen also, I mean, once you
have mixed materials, you kind ofhave to work until that material is used
up, and then it's going toset up, and there's timing for that,

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and sometimes it takes time to dry, and so we might not be
able to get something finished in thefew hours that we have in the morning.
And then of course you have thoseunexpected thunderstorms that are you know,
come out of nowhere to break theheat. And then if that happens in
the middle of an application and it'suncovered, that's really not good either.
So we just tend to say,look in August and first week of September

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is not the best time for usto do to applications like this. Once
things cool off, we mid September, we really got with the pools again.
And that's post labor day. Peoplehave kind of finished most of their
parties and they're back to work andthey're off a vacation, and so then
you know, it's not so muchof an interruption to their pool time,
right exactly. So the process whenit comes to and this, the process,

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I guess is no different with apool deck or a patio or a
sidewalk or a garage or a driveway. I mean, it's it's all the
same process, right or there areother things that again when it comes to
pool decks you got to take intoaccount. You know, we do a
number of different coatings, overlays,protective sealants, and services. They all

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have a different process. Prep isalways going to be similar. You're always
going to want to clean grind orcommercially hot pressure wash to open up the
pores of the concrete, tape offall the areas that you want to protect.
That prep work is really important.But then depending on what you are
going with, the look you're goingwith, or the product or the color
maybe even that you choose, thatis a totally different process from grind,

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stain and seal to decorative overlays topolishing. We're doing a lot of polishing
now, but then flake flooring isalso different. And then for pools,
we typically are seeing that the populartrendy thing right now is what's called,
and I'm using air quotes here knockdown and that's something that's really popular right
now and we're seeing really good resultswith that. We're doing a lot of

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that. We recommend it to ourcustomers. You can do a lot of
great different colors with that. Andultimately, what that is is you spray
onto the surface, you know thematerial you're using, and then you knock
it down with a trowel edge.And what that does is it gives you
a textured surface that has a coupleof benefits. The first really is slip
resistant, so you do have wedon't really recommend you know, I guess

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like a grip no slip for likea you know, some people want something
really super duty and we don't recommendfor pools. That's more for manufacturing facilities.
Why is that, Well, ifyou have something that is a non
slip you know, really really roughtexture, if if somebody goes down on
it, they're going to have areally big bruise or a bad raspberry.

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Yeah, so the knockdown the textureis a little bit less abrasive, but
it is great for slip resistance,and so when it gets wet, it's
not as slippery and it's great foryou know, if you've got children or
people that you know, you wantto you know, keep safe around the
pool. But that that texture iswhat helps to keep the slip resistance going
on. It's also comfortable to walkon, so that other method would probably

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not be shoes on feel very verygood. Yeah, and I think too
that the texture also helps with heat. So it's almost like cool decking.
Because of the texture, your footis not so flat on the surface that
you're just getting burned on a flatsurface. You have a little bit of
cooling there with that texture. Andthat's what people call us and say,

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hey, I want cool decking,And what they're really asking for is knocked
down. Cool deck is definitely atrademarked product out there, but we tend
to like some of the products thatthat are done with knocked down a little
bit better than that. They're they'relonger lasting, they're versatile, you can
do a lot of different colors,decorative techniques you can stain so that the

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surface, you know, can becustomized to really fit any style. So
how long does your your there's nothing'stypical. I know, everything's different,
but you know, a typical pooldeck resurfacing when when the weather's cooperative.
Yeah, sure, I mean howlong we talk? Are we talking about
days? Weeks? Well, knockdownis great because it's really quick. Typically

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a normal sized pool I guess,uh, pool deck, you know,
thousand square feet something like that,maybe less, maybe more. We can
do that in a day and ahalf, two days, Okay, So
that is really the great thing aboutthe knockdown. It's fast. It's really
fast. It's not going to takeas long as something like even flaking or
a decorative overlay that's you know,got a groutline or a texture to it.

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And that's because there is really nooverlay here. It's well, I
guess the traditional sense of what you'redoing. I guess it's it's different from
that. Yeah, I mean,it's really considered an overlay, but it
is. The application process is fast. The prep is what takes the longest.
And of course you know that's whatsort of what differentiates what we do
from a DIY project is the abilityto really prep the surface well with the

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equipment that we have and the techniquesthat we have that we know are really
good, so that those overlays aregoing to stay. But the application process
for knockdown is just really fast.I was going to ask you, Yeah,
what what happens if the proper prepwork is not done? It just
doesn't take Well, yeah, youget a peeling up, or you have
issues where you know, maybe theedges are not as beautiful as they could

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be. But but really the primaryprimary complaint we get is, hey,
I did this myself and it's peelingup. And that's typically because the surface
wasn't prepared properly and so the materialisn't going to really grab and adhere to
that concrete surface. Got it backinto pool decks. Uh yeah. So
one of the things that we loveabout knockdown is it does you know,

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offer that slip resistance and it's comfortable, it keeps things cool, it is
versatile, you know, first style. But it's funny. We get a
lot of calls from folks and theysay, you know, whether we did
it or not, We get,you know, answer questions for people all
day long. They say, mybull deck is, you know, slippery
when wet. What do I do? And the first thing we say to
them is, yeah, right,that's a little hard. The first thing

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we say to them is when's thelast time you clean the pool deck?
Boy, you'd be surprised the answer. So just a good cleaning of it,
a good maintenance program. So theknockdown is great because you don't have
to do too much to it,But something that's really important for your pool
decking is to keep it clean.And all you need to use is something
like dawn or you know, avinegar based a solvent solution. You know

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we recommend against our products don't dovery well with citrus based cleaners, and
definitely no bleach. But something assimple as dawn just just you know,
squeezing or swift ring that area withwhatever you have and then spraying it off,
keeping leaf debris and plant debris offwith those oils. You know,
when you come in and out ofthe pool, or you're spraying sunscreen,

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those things are going to make yourpool deck slippery, and if you don't
clean it fairly regularly, you're goingto see issues. I know we don't
all have the cabana boy rate.But some folks say, oh, I
haven't cleaned it. I just itrains, you know, Like why I
could tell you all the years thatwe had a pool and our prior holm,
I don't know that really seriously cleanthat concrete tho I can think of.

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Yeah, it's really it's really importantfor maintaining your surface and then keeping
that uh slippery when wet issue down. Yeah, and I go again,
I guess just keeping it properly cleanis going to make it last longer anyway,
Absolutely slippering, absolutely, and againit matters what you clean it with.
Try to stay away from the citrusbased things and the bleaches. I
mean that's you don't want that goingin the pool anyway. Really, But

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you know, something as simple asdawn soap or you know, vinegar based
cleaner will absolutely help reduce slippery whenwet issues. You were telling me before
you hit the you've got somebody nowworking with you as a specialist in this
technique. Yeah. He does knockdown all day every day. We've been
working with him for a couple ofyears now. He's such a fun person

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to work with. Hopefully we canget him to come and talk to us
on the show sometimes. Yeah,we'd love to invite him to come in,
but he is just absolutely killing itwith the pools right now. Now
that things have cooled off, andso we've got a couple of really cool
colored ones, there's a couple ofyou know, folks that want to go
with more of a tear of pain. And you can do just a flat

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white. You can make it blueor green if you want to. So
it's really really cool stuff to eachits own, right, Yeah, right,
So the issues over the summer pushingback the pool work until now on
the flip side, is there weknow those are too hot? Is there
a too cold? Yeah, butnot in South Carolina often. I mean,

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I know, it looks like we'regoing to maybe have a similar winter
to what we had last year.And last year I fe feel like was
a little cooler than normal. Thespring certainly was. Yes, yes,
I think you know, ground temperature, we can you know, things warm
up during the day typically for usin the winter, and so that you
know, gives us a longer windowthan it does in the really hot part

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of the summer. But as longas we keep our materials at the right
temperature, we just make sure thatmaterials are ordered fresh. We don't order
materials until a little bit closer toyour install date and make sure that those
come fresh and then they're stored andambient temperature is to make sure they perform
well. And there's no there's norule that says this particular method you're referring

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to now with pool decks and knockdownmethod. You could do that anywhere with
any concrete or you can do itanywhere. It's really popular on sidewalks and
driveways and you know, I'm sure, well apartment complex is. It's really
popular. It's it's a really greatuniform looks. It's easy to you know,
have that texture and whatever color youmight choose, but it just performs

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really well. It's pretty cost effectiveand so we're just really enjoying doing a
lot of that right now, especiallyat this time of year. Now.
You also, and you mentioned thisa little while ago. You got that,
you got the decorative overlays, yougot the flake floor. Yeah.
Yeah, but if all you wantto do is just have that concrete to

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look better as concrete, absolutely youcan do that too. Yeah. Just
a good wash and seal is whatwe recommend. It's one step beyond doing
a power power wash or a softwash. If you do a semi permanent
or a permanent sealer after you dothe power wash, it just really elongates
the life of that power wash.Permanent sealers tend to be double the price

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of a semi permanent sealer, butthat semi permanent sealer will last you,
you know, two to four years. Maybe we do recommend that the more
often you do it. If youdo it, you know, every year
or every two years, that's reallygoing to give you the best results.
But you don't really have to dothat. We did our driveway garage sorry
sidewalk area four years ago and weare about to do it again. So

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it lasted us a good long time. That was with a semi and that
was with a semi permanent sealer,right right, Yes, okay, so
they'll variety options here. Yeah,we we recommend every two years doing it
again. But we you know,we maintained it well. We you know,
kept it clean ourselves. I thinkwe just did a big yard project
where they brought in a bunch ofmulch and dumped the mulch you know,
on the driveway to keep it outof the road and now it's time to

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do it again for sure. Butthat is four years later, so that's
pretty good performance, I would say. So all right, so I would
I would direct people to your websitebecause you can learn a lot there and
you can see a lot there.Absolutely great photos. We're hoping to have
some good videos up soon, socheck that out Diamond Concrete Solutions dot com.
And yeah, we're always updating newportfolio pictures. So and if you

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want to see it actually in person, you can come to our office.
We have oh gosh, I wantto say, sixteen or more versions of
the flooring that we do. Wejust did some knockdown out front so people
can see that it's outside and soit's really a great opportunity to see what
that looks like. And yeah,so we are at three fifty three sweet
A River Chase Way in Lexington andyou can give us a call if you

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want to come by and see it. We're at eight o three seven five
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All right, We've talked to Courtneyfrom Diamy Concrete Solutions. Still to come.
Tray Powell be joining us in ashort while from Mosquito Joe. But
right now it's not summer. It'sHeath from Beaver Ruffian Gutters. Heath.
Get morning and buddy, how areyou going? Good? Are you?

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I'm well, man, I amwell. Now you are the gutter guy,
Ed bea Rufy and games. You'rethe head Haunch over there when it
comes to all things gutters, andwe always get together and talk about gutters.
But we want to spend a littletime this morning talk about the other
part of the business. And Iwill, by the way, in case

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you don't don't don't know, thisis all under the Anthony John Construction umbrella,
which does a whole bunch of stuff. You'll have all sorts of work
in our places over the years andremodeling and fixing things up at all and
gray stuff. But I guess itwas what about a year or so ago,
I guess kind of kind of splitup and and and put this under

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the umbrella Beaver roof Agan Gutters tobe very specific about that part of the
business with which you're a part of. So gutters is you're the main thing
you do. But you're around enoughroofs and on enough roofs and at a
bit about roof and two right,Well, I wouldn't say I'm on enough
roofs, but I'm around enough ofthem to know at least that, yeah,
right, but right up underneath them, you know, with those and

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they do go hand in hand.I mean they really do, because I
guess you know, I mean oneof the one of the big problems you
see and and a lot of guttersis well, stuff it's come off the
roof. Whether or not I'll talkabout the rain, but actually the stuff
on the roof that gripped all andgive grid. Yeah, yeah, you
get that organic material coming off theroof. It comes down, sits into

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your gutter. You know, it'stwofold problem. Fills up your gutter.
It allows when you see trees andother things growing in it. But every
time, every time that debris comesoff your roof, every time the shingle
grit comes up your roof, yourroof is getting just a little bit less
effective every time. Now again,you're not the roof expert, but you
know something about them that that griton that shingle, I mean that that

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serves a purpose. It does.It does. Can't tell you what it
is, to be honest with you, but I know it does on purpose,
right, it does. And youknow that's one of the main things
you look for when it's time toreplace your roof, is you know how
brittle your shingles are, and youknow how much grit you have left.

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You know, the less grit youhave, which means the less oil you
have left in your shingle, whichis less protection. It allows them to
break in a heavy rainstorm when yousee the or heavy windstorm, when you
see the shingles break, and typicallythat's a a brittle, loose shingle,
and you know there's obviously here weget some winds that it doesn't matter if
you're shingles brittle or not. Itmay come off sure, but you know,

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we get up to clean gutters.That's one of the things we tell
the homeowner. If we find smallpieces of the actual shingle in there,
you know it's it's getting onto timeto maybe look at replacing your roof.
I know Summers told us before becausewe always hear this, you know,
shingles with a thirty year warranty.A thirty year get a thirty years shingles.
But it depends on where you live, I guess, and around here

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it doesn't sound like it's really possiblefor a for a shingle to typically last
thirty years, not in this heat. Huh. Well, I think you're
gonna get thirty years out of them. But are they as effective? You
know, are you going to thesame level of protection because you know,
you and I talk about gutters alot and protecting the foundation of your home.

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Yes, but you know, theroof is protecting your entire home.
It's protecting your largest investment. Youknow, it keeps out water, heats
on everything. And you know,one of the hardest things for a homeowner
to run into is you know,we get calls at two in the morning
or you know, seven o'clock inthe morning after rainstorming. I water pouring

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in through my roof, through myceiling, and that's a that's it can
be a scary thing from owners whodon't know where it's coming from. You
don't know how bad your roof is. Sure, and we're one of the
few companies that will actually go outin not only inspect your roof, but
if a repair is warranted, we'lldo that for you as well. That

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continues to surprise and I've done thisfor a long time. But but yeah,
I mean there there are local roofingcompanies right here in the Midlands who
don't do roof repairs. I meanto me, that's kind of like a
dentist who will be happy to pulla tooth but doesn't want to fill it.
Yeah, and that's say that's aroofing thing nationwide. Yeah, you

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know, I sold before I moveddown here, I did sell roofs,
and a lot of the companies therewouldn't do repairs. They will only quote
a full roof, you know,even with on the gutter side of it.
Sometimes somebody'll ask us for a repairand you can repair it, But
are you throwing good money after batwith our guys. You know, they'll

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they'll be upfront with you. Youknow, I'll go ahead and try to
fix it for you. May notbe able to warrantee it if it's too
far down. We don't like todo anything we can't warrantee. Or yeah,
we can go ahead and fix itand you're gonna get another, you
know, maybe five years out ofit, maybe ten years out of it.
That's that's worth the money for therepair. But sometimes, you know,

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a thousand dollars repair to a tenthousand dollars roof that's only gonna last
three or four months. I mean, you'd be better out putting that money
towards your new roof. And ourguys are very good and very upfront to
tell you here's your options. Youknow, we need to decide what's in
your best interest. I suppose head, you know, at least to me,
and I don't want to cast twowide of a net here. I

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know all of them don't do it, But to me, the impression would
be that if I called a roofingcompany because I had them you know what
I thought to be maybe a minorproblem, and they say, well,
we don't do repairs, will comeout and look at that. They're going
to basically they're going to try tosell me a new roof and I don't
need it. Correct And that isnot only I wouldn't say a cop out,

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maybe because trying to single out wherethe actual leak is coming from can
be a long process, whereas ifI can go out measure the roof,
give you a price for a newroof, and you do a roof.
The money is better and the worksless. Sure, Yeah, whereas you
know, we would prefer you notthrow not throw your money away on something

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you don't need to. It couldbe something as simple as a pipe boot.
It could be something as simple asa missing shingle and nail pop.
I mean, there's all sorts ofitems flashing around your chimney. All those
things can be solved, you know, a lot less expensive than ripping your
roof off, having shingles and nailsin your yard for months and years to
come. No matter how well youclean up, you don't nail always pops

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up. Whereas if we can getup there pop your old roof boot on
or put a new perma boot on, those things can get you a lot
of time out of your roof andyou can then prepare yourself financially to put
a new roof on, which maybe coming down the line right right,
isn't it true that again, asidefrom you know, a storm dropping a

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limb on your roof and busting ahole foot or whatever. They usually if
there is some sort of a roofleak, it's going to come around some
of that flashing or some of thatstuff around the pipe boots. Isn't that
the usual suspects, Yeah, that'stypically. You know, you do have
valleys. Sometimes A lot of whatwe see is, you know, people

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have a roof leak. Think they'reroofs leaking, but you know, going
back to what I know, goingback to the gutter, if your gutter's
full and the water can't go overthe front, it may go back.
You know, you could have damageda lot of what we see too is
you know, damaged end shingles.You know, maybe a limb didn't fall
on your roof and maybe it caughtthe edge of your shingle and busted it
up. It made your shingle tooshort for the water to properly flow over

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the end of the roof, andit just you know, water cohesion just
then allows it to run back underthe shingle and back into your souce it.
But ninety percent of the time,I would say it's going to come
from your chimney, your boot,your vents, and certainly if if it's
around a vent, to me,it seems like that's a pretty easy fix
because that's just like a piece ofwhat is that is that rubberly goes around

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those that that fitting. It's acollar. It's a collar. You know.
They make a perma boot, whichyou know are my guys are very
they're very fond of. It seemsto work really well. It actually snaps
over the existing and that's a longterm solution. Do we put those on?
We put on new roofs instead ofjust doing the basic cheap small collar,

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will actually put the full perma booton as part of our standard roofing
package, so that only not onlygives you a better look on the install,
but it gives you more protection fora longer period of time. I
want to be careful not to becauseagain you're especially or there's gutters, but
you've got roof experience in the background. But I know you guys, well
you mentioned inspections. If if youthink there's a roof damage, maybe there's

(28:40):
no damage to the roof at all, but it's got a few years on
it. I mean, I knowyou do gutter inspections. You guys do
roof inspections too, right, wedo, you know we do. We
can do a free inspection, justtell you what we think you need or
sometimes you need to have a roofinspection done for your insurance company. That's
a more detailed process with a writeup that does come with a cost.
But if you're like, if youcall in, you say, you know,

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my roofs twenty years old, Ijust need to know, you know,
am I coming up on dating anew roof? Do I have issues
right now that be corrected? Willcome out and do that free of Chargeay?
Are there's some things that let's sayyou roof's got some age on it
and you're not quite ready to takethat leap to replacing it yet, But
are there things that can be doneas a homeowner or with your service and

(29:22):
deep roofing and gutters to kind ofgive it some more some more added life.
I guess you know. I don'tknow if you can extend the life
of the roof when you get toa certain point, but definitely, especially
in some of your more heavily woodedareas, keeping your roof clean of debris,
keeping limbs from touching your roof.You know a lot of people have

(29:45):
those huge trees that overhang the roof. Yeah, well, if that limb
is constantly blown in the wind,scraping that roof. That's just your shingle
grip coming off every time. Sokeeping limbs and other things from touching your
roof, keeping debris off your roof, especially out of your valley eason,
and keeping your gutters clean. Yetaround here said I have this is your
mile. I gotta get up thereevery couple of weeks, it seems like,

(30:07):
and trying to blow off as Ican. That pine straw. I've
had that many pine trees in myyard, but apparently it's just one of
just a perfect spot. They'll dropthat pine straws, you say, in
those valleys, that stuff just sitsthere. What's what's what's the problem with
that? When that happens, what'sit doing? Well? Not only are
you allowing you know, you're notkeeping the correct direction flows the water because
it's hitting a barrier and pushing morewater to the other singles. It's allow

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when it's told moisture. It's notallowing the roof to dry off. Okay,
you get a rainstorm, you seethe roof, it's dark, you
know it's gotten wet. It's dark, and a couple hours later sun comes
out, the roof is back toyou know, being dry and regular.
Well there, you know that moisturethat got under that pine straw doesn't dry
It doesn't dry out as quickly.Not only that, it can build up.

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You know, your valley comes downto a corner. If it builds
up in that corner, that wateris going to eventually ride out your facial
board flow back underneath. So keepingyour roof, cleaning debris, allowing the
water to flow over the shingles inthe manner that is designed to do without
putting excess water on either side.You know, all those things can extend

(31:17):
the life of your roof. Gotyou now on the gutter front? I
suspect this is kind of a busytime of the year for you guys.
Yeah, typically, you know,economic factors way into that. You know
a lot of people don't find thegutter to be a necessity. We're seeing
more and more necessity as opposed towant currently, So it's not as busy
as it has been in year's past, but it's still a fairly busy season.

(31:41):
We'll get we'll get a two weekreprieve this current weekend next week because
school back to school. Yeah,sure, people people tend not to want
to worry about construction people during thattime. Then with the storm season coming
in, will we'll ramp up allthe way to the end of the year.

(32:02):
It's a it's a good time toget it done right now. And
again it's I guess, I meanyou can really look at gutters. Heath
is an investment, right, Imean, hey, what the average home
around here? I mean, whatare we talking twelve fifteen hundred bucks maybe
for a currently now I'm seeing abouta seventeen hundred dollars average. You know,

(32:25):
it all depends on how it's setup. You can have a very
small home that needs gutters all theway around, and it'd be more expensive
than a large home with a lotof peaks that the water only comes off
on four sides. Right, Butyou know you're looking at about seventeen hundred
dollars, which is, you know, significantly cheaper than a foundation repair point
right, or even multiple uh additionsto your landscaping for what's been washed away.

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back into our final segment, theHome Improvement Show of the Midlands for this
final day of the month of September. Good morning, tell you and happy
to have you along. My nameis Gary David As we're now joined by
Trey pal from Mosquito. Joe Trey, Good morning, my friend, Good
morning to you. Always a pleasureto have you with us. Final day
of September. October begins tomorrow,so we're done with the Skeeters, right,

(35:37):
Yeah, that'd be nice, butwe live in the wrong state to
be done with them in September.You need to be way way north.
Oh, but we got overnight lowsin the upper fifties coming, man,
I mean, are we not thereyet? Yeah, you need to get
We need to get down into thefifties every single night for a week before
we start slowing down. They reallyneed temperatures below fifty uh where it really

(36:01):
starts interrupting their breeding cycle and thatsort of thing. You know, when
the when the temperatures drop below fiftydegrees, the eggs stop hatching. And
then once the eggs stop hatching,it takes, you know, a month
or so for the adult mosquitoes tokind of die off. So when you

(36:21):
start seeing temperatures under fifty degrees,then you will, you know, you'll
see the number of mosquitoes will startto decline, you know, week by
week. And then you know,when the temperatures drop down into the thirties
every night for a week, thatwill pretty much eliminate the mosquitoes until until
you start seeing temperatures consistently back upin the sixties, you know, fifties

(36:43):
and sixties again where the eggs willstart hatching. And unfortunately, the epidemiology
of the mosquitoes, so those eggscan sit there for a long time.
Otherwise, I guess if they ifthey died off in a cold weather too,
then we wouldn't have buck is right, Yeah, that would you know,
that's the that's their survive mechanism.And that's pretty well with almost all
insects. The eggs themselves are prettypretty impenetrable. There's no product on the

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market that kills eggs. I mean, you could crush them and kill them,
but no amount of heat or coldtemperatures are going to affect a incubating
egg, you know, at all. And so you know proof of that
is that the one of the worstplaces on the planet or is Alaska,

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and uh, you know, theyhave more snow than we'll ever have,
and they have more snow in aday than we probably ever have. Yeah,
it's interesting. Cold temperatures don't don'tThey don't kill those eggs. Wow?
Too bad. Well, let's let'slet's talk this morning, tray,
and we want to talk about theway you guys at mosquito Joe go about
doing this. But let's talk aboutsome of the ways that you know,

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the homeowners who decide to I cando, I can take care of this,
I can, I can I canhandle mosquitoes in my property. One
of the big mistakes they make,well, the biggest mistake is probably just
not being consistent. You know,it's uh if you wait until you start
getting bit. You know, ifyou do something and then you start wait,

(38:12):
you wait until you start getting bitagain. You know, you you've
kind of started back at a squarezero. You know, at least every
two to three weeks, you haveto be out in the yard dumping,
tipping, tossing, you know,putting larva side and any sort of anything
that you can't that holds water thatyou can't get the water out, whether

(38:34):
that be gutters or drains, youknow, French drains, you know,
buckets, toys, you know,pretty much anything that will hold water will
breed mosquitoes. And so you eitherhave to get rid of it or you
have to treat it with a larvaside, which will keep the mosquitoes from
being born. And so, youknow, it's it's not a difficult thing

(38:59):
to do, but it's it is. It's definitely you have to be tedious
about it and very very disciplined toto do it very consistently. So that's
probably the not being consistent enough.The other thing is is not looking hard
enough. I mean people will lookout their window and say, yeah,
I don't see any standing water.Well, it's it's just never that obvious.

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It's going to be underneath the deck, in the bottom of a flower
pot that was abandoned two years ago. You know, it's going to be
a grass covered drain that you can'teven see. You know, that's that's
holding the water. It's usually verydirty water. You know, it's an
old barrel that you know, youcan't tell that it's holding water, but
it is. And if it canhold water, then water can get in.

(39:44):
So can mosquito. You know anold you know, uh wheelbarrow that's
tipped over, but it tipped oversideways and the wheel on the wheelbarrow is
holding water. I mean it literallytakes a bottle cap full of water and
they will breed, you know,hundreds and hundreds of mosquitoes. That's going
to be my question, is abottle cap water can hold hundreds and hundreds

(40:05):
of these legs. Uh, well, bottle cap will you can breed about
a hundred mosquitoes out of a bottlecap, But you know, something like
a wheelbarrow tire is significantly bigger thanthat, and you can breed thousands out
of that. Not to mention afive gallon bucket that's been sitting there full
of water, but it's usually goingto be dirty water, not clean water.
Dirty water is going to be farmore attractive to mosquitoes because the larva

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after they lay their eggs, whenthe eggs are born, those larva have
to eat in order to complete thatstage you know, of their metamorphosis to
a pupa where they actually become wherethey start becoming an adult mosquito. And
so they don't go through that processvery fast at all. If they're in
clean water, that they have nothingto eat and so or they never will

(40:54):
go through that process. So they'regoing to lay their eggs, and the
dirtier water, the better pipe isjust ideal for them. So the mama
musquito knows this, he's looking atthat, she's looking at that dirty water.
She's not going to clean surprisingly,Yes, they do. That's too
bad, all right, so thelittle brain knows more than what you think.

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So start early. Don't wait you'regetting bed. So if we're going
to do it ourselves, how onlyshould we start in any given cycle here?
I mean the earlier the better.I mean, if you wait until
you're getting eaten alive and mid youknow, you know, late April or
mid May, then you're you're you'rereally going to be fighting an uphill battle

(41:35):
and it's going to take you weeksto get results. But you know you've
got if you're trying to do ityourself. I mean that you know,
forty or fifty percent of the jobis getting rid of standing water and treating
standing water says that they're so you'rebreaking that breeding cycle and they're never born
if they're if they're not born,they can't bite you. And so if
you can break the numbers of themby treating with the larvacide and dipping out

(41:59):
water consistently, then you know youcan spray all the foliage. Just remember
that, you know, leaves andfoliage, green leaves and foliage. That's
the only thing mosquitoes eat is theyeat the nectar off the green foliage,
and they like the shade from thesun, so anything they would give them
shade like the eve of your houseor underneath a deck, and anything with

(42:22):
green foliage, everything like that needsto be sprayed, and it needs to
be done consistently. You know,about every three weeks is the perfect interval.
And obviously all those things we justtalked about, these are the things
that you guys are Mosquito Joe aredoing on a three week interval. Wes
we miss anything there now? Imean, you know, mainly if it's

(42:45):
searching the yard to figure out wherethey're what the source is, and where
they're coming from and either getting ridof the source or treating the source.
And then we're spraying you know,every every nook and cranny where they could
possibly harbor, and so that kindof sets up a barrier around that property.
That product sticks to whatever we sprayedon, and of course we're using

(43:06):
commercial grade products are going to bea little better than what you're going to
be able to get it Lows andHome Depot. But some of the stuff
that Lows and Home Depot will work. You just have to put more of
it, you know, down andmore consistently, and it may not last
as long, but you know,when it's stuck to every leaf and bush
and shrub in your entire yard.If a mosquito comes over to your house
from your yard from another yard,that's where they're going to land. They're

(43:30):
very unlikely to fly over the fenceand fly all the way to your back
deck where you're sitting having a drink. You know, they migrate pretty slowly.
They're terrible flyers. So they flyfrom one bush and shrub to another,
down to the fence line, overto another bush, and you know
they're gonna land in numerous things thatwe have treated, and they ain't gonna
feel so good by the time theyget to you. So it works that

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quick, huh, Yeah, it'llwork within you know, thirty minutes to
an hour. If they've landed andface it, they get sprayed directly.
I mean they're they're instantly eliminated.But if they land on a residual product,
yeah, within thirty minutes to anhour, they are not not doing
so well. The chances of themcoming from another yard and all the way

(44:15):
you without hitting something in that barrieris pretty low. Okay, now it's
not one hundred percent, but it'swell, nothing is such a humongous difference
that people really really comment about it. Yeah, it's very cool too.
And you know when you talk aboutand you've been treating our home since we
moved into it, and we havenever had an issue with mosquitos at our

(44:36):
place. But you know, afterthe technician wraps up, I always get
a chext and he's very specific orshe's very specific as to what they've done.
You know, it's not just wedropped buying, you know, treats
your yard. It's specific. It'sto you know, went and to our
aside here, turn over water here, searched out for this there. So
you get a very detailed report,which is which is cool. I'm glad
you brought that up because you know, we really go out of our way

(44:59):
to try and communicate with a customer. We are leaving a product there that
you can't see it, you can'tsmell it, you can't taste it.
The only way you know is ifit's not working and you're getting bit and
so, you know, just togive you peace of mind, we do.
You know what I would want doneat my house for anybody who showed

(45:20):
up when I wasn't there. Imean eighty percent of the time, most
of our customers are not even homewhen we treat, and so we text
when we're on the way to theproperty, and then when we finished,
we text you and we say,hey, I treated on both sides of
the creek behind your house. Imade sure I got up underneath that deck.
I did find a bucket of waterbehind the shed. I emptied the
water out of your fire pit.Might be a good idea to drill a

(45:44):
hole in that if you get achance. But everything I have done,
by the way, I've finally donethat tray. You'll be proud of it.
Did you you know, as Iwas talking about your yard, I
know it was how A thought.This sounds awfully, awfully familiar, right,
I mean, that's I mean,But that's what we want to We
want to mention. It's a it'sa customized text message every single time that

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you want the customer to know thatwe are thorough, we're detail oriented,
and we want you to read thattext and know that we have been at
your property and we're taking care ofyou. And if you have any issues
you're you know, please text usor call us right back. Got an
email or a Facebook message? Iguess it was maybe a last time you
were on a couple of weeks ago, did ask a question something we haven't

(46:29):
discussed in a long time, andthat is this was from a beekeeper and
ask if it's safe for for beepopulations, and you kind of you know
this better anybody else, right,Yes, I am also a beekeeper and
we have been treating around our beehives within ten feet for years, and

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you know it's I would say,is it safe for bees? Well,
no, if you spray to bedirectly with it, you would eliminate the
bee. I mean it's a generaluse insecticide. But what you do have
to do is you have to bevery knowledgeable about the about the behaviors of
a bee and the behaviors of amosquito, and they're very, very different.

(47:14):
A bee is going to hover overa flower, they're going to go
directly to the center pollinate, andthey're going to come back out of that
flower and fly away. They're notcrawling around on the green foliage around the
ground. And so that we donot spray open blooms, and you know,
and this is with a synthetic insecticide, and so it you know,

(47:38):
the bees and butterflies can come andgo from that property without being harmed by
that barrier. Mosquito won't do that. Mosquito is not going to be in
the flower. Mosquito is going tobe on the green foliage, hiding from
the sun, eating the nectar,and also being affected by what we've what
we've put there. You know,somebody's really concerned about it. We have

(47:59):
an all natural product that works fantastic, and anytime somebody's mentioning bees, we
just put them on an all naturalproduct. Because the all natural product we
have will kill a mosquito and itwill not kill a bee, and that
is very unusual. A lot ofall natural products will kill both. When
our product dries, it is nottoxic to bees, which is very interesting.

(48:22):
It's has to do with the makeupof the bee and the behavior of
the bee and uh being different thanthe mosquito. Ok So though, Yeah,
so's the rest assured. If ifyou're a beekeeper. This guy right
here, Trey Powell, there's abeekeeper too. We have dozens of beekeepers
that we treat and we've been doingit for years. Right, But it

(48:44):
does have an effect on things likefleas and ticks. Correct still does the
organic Yeah, it can have aneffect on it's a general insecticide. And
so you know the product that weuse mostly so you know, mosquitoes,
leaves and ticks, spiders, youknow, midge flies. We actually use
an all natural product when we're treatingfor nats, which have a completely different

(49:05):
makeup and seeing pretty well unaffected byan insecticide. But the all natural product
with the essential oils, they justcan't handle it, you know, And
that you ever had nat problem inyour house, Usually it's an essential oil
or it's a you know, likevinegar that will attract them and get rid
of them. Interesting. Interesting,So again, if you have never tried

(49:28):
the service before, and you youprobably listening and thinking, well, yeah,
but I mean it's it's almost October. Now, you knows October the
first, it's a little late toget started. I mean you're kind of
getting ahead of the eight ball ifyou start now. Correct, Well,
it is. I mean, itreally depends on how much you're using your
yard. I mean, if you'renot out in your yard, then there's
no sense in using a service.But for most people, now is the

(49:52):
best time to be outside. They'reeating outside, they're using their deck,
they're having drink outside. You know, playing in the yard because it's cooler
and it feels better outside, butthe mosquitoes are still there. So if
you like to watch football games outsideor or have outside activities in the fall,
it's definitely not too late. It'sa great time to start and get

(50:14):
going. We'll we'll treat until aboutThanksgiving, and then based on the weather,
we we might treat past that,but usually we're stopping right around Thanksgiving
is our last treatment. So andyet then you'll you'll have a head start
on next spring and and you canget started in March. Since you brought
up Thanksgiving, let's quickly just mentionthis that you're also segueing into the holiday

(50:37):
lights season, which is something youguys your parent company has gone with because
again you have you've got a bitof a down season, as you mentioned
after Thanksgiving, so you keep yourguys busy and you perform a fantastic service
to do a great job with theseholiday lights. But they're they're just terrific.
Yeah, we we love it.We really took it. Took it
on originally just to keep our guysbusy in the winter. We employ every

(50:59):
one year around out and having thirteenweeks off that makes that difficult, and
so the Christmas season kind of fillsthat gap and we can keep everybody employed
year round and uh, this isour third year uh doing it and it's
uh the customers are absolutely thrilled.We we love to do it. It's
a it's a great thing at agreat time of year and uh something that

(51:22):
people Nope, Nope, everybody lovesChristmas lights, but nobody likes to put
them up and take them down.So that's what we do. We professionally
designed, We put up you know, commercial grade lights and greenery, decorate
the house. You enjoy it thewhole season, and we come back and
take it down and we store itfor the rest of the year. So
I'm buying the lights, you're no, it's a lease program, so you

(51:45):
know, you're not tied into anykind of contract or multi year agreement.
You know, if you're concerned youmight want to sell your house in a
couple of years, you don't wantto, you know, invest in a
bunch of lights for something for ahouse you don't even own. So it's
a it's a two month commitment.You know, we'll put them up,
take them down, and we'll takethem back in store them. If you
want to do it again next year, great, If not, we'll repurpose

(52:05):
it and put it on you know, someone else's house or business. Sure,
and I guess for information details sameas with the killing the mosquitoes stuff
right? Eight five five Aska Joeeight five five, ask a Joe and
if you enter your zip code,that will direct you to either our office
in Lexington or the office over inColumbia. All right, Trey Powella mosquito

(52:27):
Joe. Thank you buddy, rightof time. We hope you have a
great weekend, my friend, thankyou too. Thanks buddy, and don't
go away. We'll be right backhealth and well on a show just minutes
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