Home Improvement Show 10-25-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning and well come in. It's the Home improvement
Show of the Midlands, back at it again here on
a Saturday morning on one of three point five FM
and five sixty AMWVOC. It's good to have you with
us this morning. We appreciate it for this twenty fifth
morning of October. Time is flying on by. We've got
a busy hour here finishing Touch Teams owner Russ Marcaesy

(00:26):
is going to drop by and pay us a visit.
We're going to talk about exterior painting principally today in
the segment with Russ and well, if you want to
get exterior painting done this time of the year, well,
the question is is to get too cold to do that?
Spoiler alert, Yeah it can, but how much longer you

(00:47):
got to get that taken care of? We'll talk about
that the cabinet re finishing specials. Trey Powell from Mosquita
Joe's going to pay us a visit as well, he
joins us later on in the hour. We might think
with temperatures like this, Mosquito season's over. We'll ask him
when we can expect that to actually be the case.
First up on the dock, and though it's Jeremy how
Today he is mister Electric and he joined us on
the Home Improvement show of the middles.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good morning, sir, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
You came in all bundled up this more than man.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah no, yeah, trying to kick that chill. It's getting
a little chilly here. Yeah, okay, season's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
First part of next week. We're talking about high temperatures
in the low sixties. I think Monday. I think this
last thing I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That that's cold for a southern boy.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, ain't it though, right, that's that's the high temperature.
Is this this time? Well, you know, I tell you what,
let's let's let's do this this morning, Jeremy, because uh, okay,
I know it's not It doesn't get arctic cold around here. Well,
we've had our moments. Remember, oh gosh, it was not
last Christmas, but I think the Christmas before that where

(01:47):
we had that big freeze. I want to say it
was like the night before. It wasn't Christmas Eve, it
was like the night before Christmas Eve when it got
so ridiculously cold. I remember talking to James Carr well
our Freedom Plumbing after that about all the water line
breaks and such. Oh yeah, does extreme cold like that
have an effect on what you do when it comes

(02:07):
to dealing with electrical stuff around homes and businesses.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
It doesn't normally get cold enough to really affect what
we do, it can it can cause problems in the
system sometimes, you know, with loose connections things like that.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So you know, if you have.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Cords outside or you know, might might damage those stenching cords,
things like that.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
So so really cold weather can have I mean the
cord itself, not just oh yeah until we're plugging in,
but the actual cordage cord itself.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I have friends and you know up north where they
can't even pull wire in new construction once it gets
to a certain temperature. Oh really Yeah, it doesn't get
that cold here though, but you could have some issues,
not as many as they have up there.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Doesn't really affect what we do as far as going.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
To work and doing what we need to do, but
it can cause loose connections, disrupt your system a little bit.
It gets too cold, uh, and there's already something occurring there.
Maybe maintenance hasn't been kept up on the equipment.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And that that that's probably the telltale sign that that's
been the case. I guess right right, Yeah, Uh, are
there any and again we're we're always away from having
to worry about that kind of cold weather. I get it,
But I mean, are there any uh tips or tricks
that you have. I mean, when if we do see
extreme cold this winter that some things you may want
to you know, be paying attention to.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Or yeah, just bring in anything that's outside. Everything inside
is normally.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Pretty good, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh you know, maybe uh once the year is over,
you know, maybe have some call us out and do
a safety check on the house.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
We'll check for least connections and things like that. We
can do that.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know with the holiday season, I know everybody is
going to be putting out their blow ups and their
own string lights and uh, you know extension chords all
over the place, and they're you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Know, statistically bad.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Extension cords caused roughly five thousand home fires.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
A year, really or not.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
So you want to use the right extension cord. You
want to make sure it's adequate for what you're using
it for. So outdoor chords outside.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right, yeah, I mean you don't take that little, you
know extension cord that thin one with you know, three
prongs on the end of it, and and just two
prongs go into the wall that you don't want to
run those outside ever.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
No, No, if you're if your graveyard lights are flickering,
it's not ghost. It's probably bad connection or you know,
so you hear sizzling in the cord, you know, Okay,
right there, Yeah, don't call your ex call electrician type thing,
you know.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Uh, And you guys, that's one of the things. I mean,
you do the the home inspections, and y'all have done
one for us. It includes a lot of stuff. Man,
you guys are looking at everything, but are you looking
at how many extension cords I got running over here?
Because I mean we just we just live on extension cords, right,
I mean we do. And you've said up before then
that the fewer you can have, the better.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
They're for temporary use, right, So when we go to
a house, we see a lot of times we see
them for garage door openers, believe it or not really
where uh they don't have an outlet and the ceiling
there for a garage for whatever reason, the house was older,
and uh, they just have an extension cord permanent, permanently
being used there as a circuit, and that's not a

(05:40):
good idea. So we always quote that we can put
an outlet up there for you. But uh, yeah, So
extension cords are something made for temporary use, which they're
good for, but they shouldn't be used for house wiring.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
See. I don't think many people know that though, Jeremy, Yeah,
I never did heard you say that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
No, you assume if it's sold in the store and
it runs powered through it, it's good, right, What I.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Mean, what are the issues there? I mean, what why?
Why shouldn't they Obviously it's a safety issue, I know,
But why is it a safety issue?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, it's exposed, for one thing, so it's exposed to damage,
where as you're wiring for your home is normally in
the walls, right, it's protected and con do it something
like that. Sometimes the wiring inside is an adequate size
for what you're using it for, so temporary usage that
can get away with a lot smaller gauge wire. For
an extension cord connection, the connection point on it is

(06:40):
something that you know you always want to Uh, it's
got to be plugged in, so eventually that's going to
wear out, whereas most everything else is hardwired within the home.
H that's permanent. So there's a lot of different reasons.
The main ones though, is exposed to damage and underrated
wiring and then not not you know, even the elements

(07:03):
or chemicals being used around the house might eat up
the cord dry rode, it starts falling apart.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
And then if you just read the cord itself, it'll
tell you not use not for permanent.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Does it really say that?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, I should say it on there somewhere, not for
house wiring, not for really.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, it's like the tag on a pillow. I've never
read one. Yeah, but it should say.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
That right there said like we in the warning section
or something like that.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
You know, got that little silver tag on those things,
and we never pay attention to that. Right now, we're
talking about the thin you know. Cheap extension cords are
malt boxes for example, or they is dangerous what is
it now, molbox? I always call a maltbox. One of
those that's got maybe four or five different places you

(07:53):
can plug in. Is an on off switch. It's got
a bigger chord like a splitter. Yes, a bigger chord
going into the wall, usually three pronged connection as opposed
to two prong are those an he's safer or that
does that fall in the same category.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
They're safe for what they're intended to be used for.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right. For example, so behind my TV, I got a TV,
I got a you know, a soundbar, I've got a router,
I've got you know, three or four different things plugged
into one of those MOLT boxes as icmon on what
the proper term is and into the wall three prong connection.
I mean, is that an issue?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
It could be.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
You got to use it for what it's intended to
be used for, right. So that's the same thing with
extension cords. They're great for what they're intended to be
used for. So you don't want to be plugging high
energy use devices in there, you know, like uh, space
heaters or well, yeah, you know, it's intended for splitting
up a circuit to where you need a few outlets

(08:48):
for most most of the time, like electronics for computers, TVs.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So that's what it's made for. They're good for that.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, you mentioned space heaters specifically, and I do think
that's probably one of the things that most of us know.
You shouldn't be putting an extension gourd on what are
some other things along the lines like that that you
should never be probably.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Don't want to plug your vacuum cleaner into it, you, okay,
which is why they come with a long course, high
high usage, right.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
So, uh, and you should be able to read always read.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Your directions on those things you're hooking up to too,
electrical and electricals, you know, it can be dangerous if
it's not used properly. So they should have a sheet
in there telling you know the apacity of that device,
which you can run through it.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
And then if you look.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
At the U name plates on the things you're plugging in,
there should be an apacity that thing's rated at.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
And then you just do simple math and you should find.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Out if you're going to overload that splitter, what it's
rated for and what you can put into it.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
So, but I guess we assume that if we overload,
is just going to shut down. That's could be the
end of the story. But maybe not that's best case scenario.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, but there are what you hope for, yeah, you know,
and sometimes people maybe maybe we don't understand why it's
shutting down, and we shut it, we turn it on,
turn it back on and we're like, oh, it's fixed,
it's working again, right, Yeah, So that's I think that's
a lot of times what happens is we'll see that
with breaker boxes where they've had too much plugged into

(10:20):
that circuit and that thermal unit's cutting that breaker off,
and they'll go in there just out of uh, you know,
not not knowing why it's doing it, and then when
it starts working again, thinking that, you know, it's good again,
and yeah, so that can tear up the panel though,
so then you have a panel change, whereas.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
It can affect the entire panel.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh yeah, they can't reflect the whole panel where you
have to replace that whole box out. And really all
you needed was a dedicated circuit, an extra circuit run
through the house to kind of split up you know,
your your energy, your your power that you're using.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So, you know, I find Jeremy that when it comes
to this topic to electricity, that even the handiest person
who knows a lot about a lot of things, when
it comes to maintaining or fixing things in the house
or whatever, this is one that either if they don't
want to take tackle or maybe they think they know

(11:18):
how it works, but they really don't. I mean it
seemed I guess on face value as mu's pretty simple,
you know, but there's there's a lot the lot of
mistakes you can make. I guess.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of different things you can
do wrong in electrical that it'll work, but it could
be it could make it extremely dangerous. One of the
most common So just you know, the wrong size wire
for what you're wiring up, bad connections, you know where

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uh they're just not connected properly, but they're still connected,
so they're going to work until they get to where
they don't work. So uh, we see all kinds of stuff,
the wrong types of boxes used, the wire not secured properly,
the wrong type of conduit.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
You see plumbing pipe you.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Know for for uh, electrical wiring. I've seen garden hoses
being used. Is really a raceway for electrical. They see
all kinds of stuff that.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
There was there was a right way to do that.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh yeah, there.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know you want to you know, you don't want
to fabricate stuff out in the field and they normally
an electrical they have something designed for that application, and
you want to use the right parts, uh for for the.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
For the application you're going to.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Use it in on the extreme end of this year.
I mean, you mentioned the electrical cords of the cost
of some five thousand fires a year across the country
fault to lic Are there other main culprits that lead
to that kind of tragic you know end? Well?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
You know, yeah, there's a We've been to houses where
they've taken out a fifteen ant breaker and put in
a thirty ant breaker because that stopped it from tripping
because they're overloading the circuit. Whoever handyman, whoever did it,
who knows it wasn't an electrician though. That's why you
want an electrician at your house, right, so you know.

(13:18):
And all that does is just allow more power to
go through the wire that's undersized, and then that wire
gets hot and it starts melting down. So okay, yeah,
all kinds of different things that you know, an electrician knows.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
We're trained to install properly.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Our guys, we're always having meetings every week talking about
these different things and what we want to do when
we see them, how we want to approach them, and
then doing things the right way. We have a done
right guarantee, so and.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think you mentioned this in the past year. I
mean that on a regular basis, code these codes get updated.
What was hunky dory five years ago may not be
so much a good thing today. Sure, Yeah, I guess
that just comes from more research being done or more experience.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's more, you know, things like voltage and wire size
don't change, you know. You know, certain things are what's
the right word for it, you know, setting stone, They're
not going to change. Yeah, but then things where you know,
you have new devices come out that make your home
more safe. And so if you were to build a

(14:26):
new home, there's a lot more items that are required
in your home to make that electrical system safe, to
have it pass inspection and become habitable. So if you
live in a forty year old home, it's not that
the fundamentals of electricity has changed and that the code
has changed on that. Yeah, it's that we have GFI protection,

(14:51):
ART fault protection, surge protection. Maybe your circuitry isn't adequate
for your home because it and your home was built,
they didn't have as many things that we need that
we plug today, you know, and you need more circuits,
dedicated circuits for different appliances, that are a lot heavier. Now,
those sorts of things are the type of things that

(15:15):
change in the code book, not necessarily, like I said, obviously,
the fundamentals of electricity remain the same.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Electricity still electricity, yeah, still still, just how much we
need now that's changed, it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
And then the safety devices that are out now that
can help prevent home fires because they're constantly trying to
figure out how to prevent home fires, and so smoke
alarms and you know now they have the dual sensing
smoke alarms, the ten year battery life so you don't
have to replace them the batteries you know every year

(15:50):
at least every year, if not twice a year.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Which I think always goes off of the absolute wrong time.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, two o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right. So bottom line is this, unless your home
is a fairly new build, there probably could be improvements
that could be made. And that starts with the absolutely
free safety check you guys do over at mister Electric.
Absolutely So, how to folks get a hold of you
to get on the schedule and get that ta care,
my friend?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
So they can reach us at mister Electric dot com
forward slash Columbia, or they can call us at eight.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Zero three eight six eight four to two, four to three.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
He is mister Electric, Jeremy Holliday.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Good to see about it, get to see.

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He welcome back to the Home Improvement Show of the
Midlands on one of the three point five FM and
five sixty AM WVC and welcome in Russ Markazy, Good

(18:13):
to be here Gary the Finishing Touch Team. Good morning
do you buddy?

Speaker 6 (18:15):
Hey, good morning, doing great, this morning, doing great, terrific.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Gotta love the brisk mornings. It's beautiful outside.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
Oh man, it is so nice out there.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is my favorite time of the year. Right, I
love it. I do.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
It's uh, it is nice. It's all that you get
the holidays are coming up.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's a good feeling.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Oh yeah, fair right.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, the fair came and gone on her. I've kind
of missed the whole thing this year. It did.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
It came quick, in a blink.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Of an eye. Yeah, that was fast. Well, these you know,
we are, our tensions terms were gosh, I mean we're
right on the corner of Thanksgiving now we are. Yeah,
Christmas won't be far behind. And uh so our attention
sometimes this year turns when it comes to you know,
home improving things to maybe other things aside from that.
But still a lot of people this time of the

(18:59):
year is a good time to get things done.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
It is a good time. Gary. It's especially you know,
before it gets a little too cold here, right, So
we're kind of in that little pocket time right now
where the weather's perfect for exterior painting e xterior absolutely,
you know, fences, docks, decking, exterior of homes, right anything
exterior wise is a glory ton to paint right now

(19:23):
before it gets a little too cold. You know, you
got to remember when that temperature it's not even so
much during the day so much because it tends to
warm up usually in South Carolina, here. Even in the
winter time, it'll get up into the you know, the
high fifties, low fifties or so, which is okay for painting. However,
at nighttime, when it drops below forty degrees forty five degrees,

(19:44):
that's when you need to start paying attention.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, we've had some mornings where we've been getting close
to that.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
We have, we sure have. And you know, they make
products gary that will with stain colder weather, all right,
there's a couple of products out there that'll go below
thirty five ease at nighttime, sustain that sort of thing,
and they're good products and all, but it does it
does limit you to what you can and cannot use

(20:09):
at that point when you when you have to paint
your exsteria obviously, right, so we always recommend that you
try to get it in before really before December is
the best time.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
So it is a question of the actual paint bonding
and hearing to the surface is at the problem.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
Here, yeah, yeah, and curing time, right, So at nighttime
when it cools off so much like that, it doesn't
give the paint proper time to actually cure out and
you know it here and cure out to the substrate
right to the surface. So sometimes you can get some
issues we've seen in the past before when things have
been rushed where the paint will get almost like a

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spider cracking type look to it. Right, that's when you
really know it just didn't cure out correctly, and then
it becomes a mess and you have to rebond prime
and do things over from start. So we don't want
to do that, So keep an eye on that. Weather
is super important at this point.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
And then you have the other side of the coin.
You get to the heat of summer, the dog days
of summer, and you can have the same issue. But
I guess we do the same reason of the bonding issue.
Is that still the problem.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah, it's the heat, you know, the amount of humidity
and heat out there and direct sunlight. I've mentioned on
the show before when we paint in the summertime, we
generally will chase well, we'll chase the shade around the
house is generally what we'll do, right, because you don't
want to paint directly in that sunlight. It creates all
sorts of issues when you start doing that. So yeah,
the the that's why I say right now, the weather

(21:31):
is just really nice to paint outside. We've been doing
a lot of a lot of decking and docks here lately,
people trying to get those in at the last minute
before the holidays and the colder weather. So it's a
good time to do it.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
So probably there's been another not quite a month and
a half or so, roughly.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
We'll still give her table to do most of these interior, yeah,
give or take.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Sometimes, like you know, we get a good week, week
and a half of weather in the middle of wintertime
or so, and we really just play it by ear.
We we'll still put people on the books and all,
but we just play it by ear and take a
look at the weather and a plan accordingly. We're not
we're never going to rush anything, Gary, right, just because
we want to get a job.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Done, right.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
That's the last thing in the world that we will
ever do or that you want to do. And anyone
that tells you different it is just not being honest.
So you really want to make sure that the weather
is proper before you start painting anything outside, otherwise you're
gonna have to redo it, you know, And what's what's the.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Point of that? And obviously you're upfront and explain all
this the onset so little exactly what to.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
Exp of course? Yeah, yeah, being transparent is the way
to go.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh. You mentioned that there are some products you could
use maybe a bit of a better result than others
when it gets to the point where it gets almost
too cold. How many I don't know, man, how many
different products are there to use on a on a
job And how do you determine what's the right one?

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Oh? Boy, Gary, there's uh, I mean, the sky's the limit, right,
So we used we exclusively used Shore Williams paint.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's what we use.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Right, And a lot of people ask me that I
get that question all the time, at least a few
times a week, really, And we use Showing Williams for
a couple of reasons.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Right.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Number one, they have fantastic products. They do now every
line of paint, every manufacturer has a lower line of
paint all the way up to a really high quality,
you know, brand of paint. Right, we'd like Showhin Williams
because number one, they're everywhere. Everybody knows that they're on
just about every corner. So if you need to get

(23:31):
more paint or touch up paint is very easy to do.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
That.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
The biggest reason why I like to use them, Gary
is because of their their service. Right there's they're paint
reps that that we have that represent us. It's almost
like a partnership is really what it is, right, It's
a it's a backing, it's a warranty, and those guys
have a lot of integrity when things you know, it
doesn't happen often, but things do go wrong sometimes with products.

(23:58):
They foil once in a while. It's maybe once every
couple few years, as happens, not very often, but when
it has. In the last twenty three years of being
in business here Gary, they have stepped up and gone
above and beyond even paying for the labor for to
be redone.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow. So I prefer to.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Partner with a company like that that stands behind us
and has our back absolutely, you know so. And their
products are fantastic. The reps can give fantastic advice on
systems of how to go about doing what I give
an example where at Saludashul's Park right now painting some
playground equipment over at Leo's Landing. It's a really awesome

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foundation over there in project that we're doing over there
for them and we're painting a plastic corrugated tunnel right
now in the children's area, a really deep blue.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
So in order to go about something like that, what
I did first was I got with my paint rep
and had him put together a good system a plan
of attack to paint that because it is it's a
plastic surface substrate. Okay, so you want to really go
about that the right way. So he gave us, you know,
a nice list of steps and ways to go about it,
and we follow that to the t Okay. And when

(25:12):
we do that, Sheryl Williams backs us up, knowing that
we're doing step by step by step exactly how we're
supposed to and how they recommended. Come, you know, jobs
coming up beautiful. It's just looks really really nice. It's
a deep, deep blue collar looks great.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. So there was about I don't know four or
five six very well known paint brands out there for
the address consumer that you that you know of. So,
but are there really that big of a differences in
the quality of the paint between I'm we're gonna names
here obviously, but right yeah, there really is.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
There are here? There really is there? Really is you
get what you pay for. The one thing we have
never done in all of our time and painting here
is skimp on the products. Right, you get what you
pay for. And anytime that you skimp on materials paint,
it's just not gonna last as long, it's not gonna

(26:06):
look as good. So we do we. You know, Shirl
Williams has tons of great proth. They're always coming out
with new products as well.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
All right.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
We when we paint our cabinetry, we used you know,
modified oils all the time. There's so many different avenues,
so you know, maybe a customer is allergic to oil
based paint, they can't smell that petroleum product in their house,
or whatever the case is. So Shirl Williams offers a
lot of other solutions that we can use to still
get the job done and accommodate just about anything really,

(26:36):
any sort of allergies.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
So how do you guys that the Finishing Touch team
go about there are so many choices among that one brand, sure,
so many different choices for a job. How do you
go about determining And I'm just I'm guessing here. I
don't know, but I'm guessing for any particular job there
are probably options you could use this or that or that.

(26:58):
Of course, Yeah, it come just simply a question based
on the customer's desired budget for the job.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Or that plays a part into it as well. Absolutely,
we of course, you have certain standards of paint that
you have to use, right, You can't get around anything.
So if I have let's say I have some crown
molding in a house, right that has been painted with
an oil based trim paint. Okay, well, my option has
become a little bit more limited. I can't just go
with anything, right because it has an oil based paint

(27:27):
over it. So oil go over anything, but not anything
over oil. That's for the most part. Yeah, there's some
you know, nuances to that, but for the most part.
You never want to put a latex over an oil,
but you can put an oil over a latex. Okay.
A lot of these older homes have oil based pain
on them, but they don't want to go back with
oil because maybe they have an allergy to it or

(27:47):
the smell or just maintenance in the future. Right, So
there's options to remedy that, and what we need to
do at that point is primate with a bonding primer first.
Once we do that and put a universal bonding primer.
We can put anything over the top of that. At
that point we can go back over it with latex
convert it back over. So of course it comes down

(28:08):
to a budget. Of course, you know, you can go
with the top of the line paint. And it's one
thing that we do talk about and offer all the
time during our estimates and we talk about it. What
type of materials are you looking at putting on here
all the way down to the sheens? Do you want
to flat, eggshell satin? And we give all the pros
and cons for each of those to you know, give

(28:29):
the customer the most information to make the best decision
that they to get what they want.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
So we're talking, we're talking about exterior painting and again
how the weather can affect that and the turn of
the seasons as such. Interior that's not a problem. I
mean you can go that time of the year. What
are the difference is what's the difference between an exterior
paint and interior paint?

Speaker 6 (28:51):
I mean, yeah, it's it's all about the base that
they use, right, It's all about the raw materials and
the base that they use. They all come in either
like a translucent base they call it, which is if
you pop the top of the can, it's clear, you
can see right through it just about, and they add
their color into it all the way to what's called

(29:12):
an extra white base, which when you pop the top
it's already white looking basically right, and they shoot their
color into that. Those tend to cover a whole lot
better than the translucent bases.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Right.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
When you go with deep base colors, like real deep,
deep vibrant colors, they have to be mixed into a
into a clear, you know, tintable base like that translucent base.
So but yeah, it just comes down to the tensile
strength and elasticity between the two.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
So this is the difference really because exterior is going
to be subject to so many more you know, the
elements of cour opposed to interior painting. Absolutely, Okay, yeah,
how in a climate like this is South Carolina. Sure,
let's say you take us here versus say, I don't know,
a very dry, humid, arid you know, Arizona or whatever. Right,

(30:05):
did extraior paints last longer in one versus the other?
Or you know, how old could you ex how much
how much hues could you expect to get out of
my entire exter about home painted. Yeah, you know, assuming
other things don't happen, how long should that really last?

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Time?

Speaker 6 (30:19):
I mean, let's face it, right, you know it says
on these cans of paint these days lifetime warranties, right
or twenty five year warranties. Let's be honest. You know
that that's just not the case.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
You should get ten to twelve years out of your
paint job. That's really that's the brass tacks, honest to
god truth. You should get ten to twelve years out
of your paint job. Shouldn't get six or seven, you know,
that's that's you know, way too short. But you know,
pushing fifteen sixteen years, you know you're going to be
looking like you needed paint a few years before that.
It's just nature of the beast. The preparation is where

(30:56):
it's at. Yeah, if you prep the house correctly and
you do your due diligence and you go through everything,
it's spot prime. With the proper products, sanding, scraping, fix
everything followed and coupled with really good products, you're gonna
get a long pain job out of that.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, let's just spend a couple of minutes for time
expires on us here, Russ, and talk about something else
that you do over there. That is uh, you got
folks that are lining up to get this done. And
it is saving tens and tens and tens of thousands
of dollars. And that is kitchen cabin wark.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
That is right, Gar, Yeah, we are. We are doing
steadily two to three sets of kitchen cabinets, I say
a week really at this point, yeah, yes, sir, Uh,
you know it's a no brainer. It just you save
so much money. You get such a big bang for
your buck. It's a transformation in your kitchen for a
fraction on the dollar of a place in your cabinets

(31:49):
or you know, gutting or doing major, major construction like that.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Right.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
We just got done with a lady out in Lexington.
Came out beautiful. I'm gonna put the pictures on the
website right here, hopefully this week sometime. But what she
had was just I'm gonna call it a standard cookie cutter,
you know, kitchen cabinet tree. Nope, nothing fancy, you know,
nice looking, but nothing fancy. But she wanted to beef
them up and modernize them and make them look a

(32:15):
little bit better. So we partnered up with matter of fact,
Lisa Jurgensen, the interior designer right and one of the
cabinet guys that we use, and came up with a
plan of what he actually did was he he added
trim to her cabinets so that the paneling went to
the ceiling with the crown mold. Okay, because they stopped

(32:36):
short about a foot and a half before the ceiling,
so he raised that all the way up to the
ceiling and gave it a really custom, you know, nice
look to it, added crown molding, and then he refaced
the doors, which is basically it's just replacing the doors,
is what you're doing. I do get that question a lot.
What is refacing. Refacing doesn't mean that you're taking that

(32:58):
actual door and doing something to it and leaving it up.
You're removing that door and installing a new door essentially,
is what that means. Right. So that's what this guy did.
He refaced him and we painted everything for him and
it just came out so beautiful. It was a complete transformation, night,
night and day. It came out great.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
So you can go all the way from just we'll
come in and repaint the cabinets for you, like maybe
a different color you want the stain as opposed to
write it or what have you. It's all the way
up to you know, really customizing it, making a totally
different cabinet set of cabinet. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Oh yeah, this guy's a limit man. I mean it's uh.
You can add paneling to the side, beef them up,
you name it. You can add. We can have the
cabinet guys add slide out drawers in certain areas, if
you want to modify certain cabinet openings, if you want,
you know, remove things, put add a new pantry or

(33:51):
broom closet next to something. I mean, you know, you
can do whatever you want. Just because of the relationship
that we have with with these guys, working for so
many years with these folks.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know this is coordinated by you guys. It is yeah,
touch team.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Yeah, it's it's a one stop shop, is what it is.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know, So you got only the cabinetry guys coming
in or gals, but you also in this case, you
use Lisa as an interior designer to come up with
a plan and.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Exactly, yeah, it works out great. It's a great team.
We've had some great results and again it's just such
a savings versus going the other route.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, in case, if you ever looked at the other route,
it's kind of expensive.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
It's expensive. It is really really expensive.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
It is quite expensive. Russ always going to catch up
with my friend. Whether you're looking to do the interior,
the exterior, small, large. I like to say, all the
time you did our master bathroom. You've done some small
jobs for us, and you've also done entire school buildings
and more. That's right. You run the gamut on that
or those cabinet refinishing specials. The other folks to get

(34:49):
a hold of the Finishing Touch Team must have the
folks reach you to get an estimate.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
Yeah, you can always email me at Russ at Finishing
Touch Team or give me a call at eight zero
three four six seven six seven five.

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All right, good to see you, buddy, Thanks Garry far.

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(36:39):
and it's a beautiful Saturday morning to doctor Trey Powett
Mosquito Joe and talk about those things you don't want
in your backyard, those mosquitos and other things too around
your home. You guys got to you gotta cure for
all of it, now, don't you, Trey?

Speaker 4 (36:54):
You got it. We are a full service test control
company doing everything from termite, home pest defense for crawling insects,
mosquito control, fire ants, any of your pest needs. We
can bundle the services even doing road and control, keeping
mice and rats out of the house. So we can

(37:14):
be a one stop shop for somebody who wants to
bundle services and doesn't want pests on their property or
in their house. We can be the one place to.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Go and you' all have to take care of all
that for us at our house, and thank you so much.
I mean, I almost feel weird talking about this with you, Trey,
because you know all these things we talk about that
so many people are plagued by. I don't worry about
these in my place. I don't even know if that's
like anymore, but I know for a lot of folks,
if you haven't taken advantage of these services, we're here
to tell you why you ought to and what a

(37:45):
difference they can make. And by the way, we were
talking before we came on the ed during the break
there about I had no idea you had something for
this too that you know, the fly population at the
home we live in now, for whatever reason, was ridiculous.
We couldn't go out in the morning and sit outside
by the pool with a cup of coffee without having
a couple of flies come up and say hi. And

(38:07):
I I mentioned that to you about two months ago.
I guess, so, oh, we can take care of that.
I said, Okay, I want to see this. Wow. Uh
we had Uh. We had the family in town earlier
this week and we set out one evening on the
back deck having pizza. We knew we didn't have to
worry about mosquitos. Uh, not because we're not at the
mosquito season, but because you guys treat our yard. But

(38:29):
I thought, Okay, this is the test here and not
the first fly showed up. Man, that works fabulous. Wow
what you get whatever magic you're doing with that, keep
doing it, brother.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, they are they are not controlled. Flies are totally
different behavior than uh than mosquitos. But they certainly there
is an answer if you have a fly problem.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
We we have to put out fly traps and collect them.
And there there is some you know, some other spray
that we can do and spot treatments in areas that
they're going to be drawn to, and it's a it's
a bait treatment that's going to draw them in and
uh and take care of them. And so I'm really
glad that you mentioned that. I mean, that's a you know,

(39:15):
one of the things that we pride ourselves in is communication,
and we are we heavily communicate with the customers to
make sure that they're there. They know when we're coming,
they know that we've been there, they know what we've
done when we were there. And if you are having
any issues whatsoever, you can communicate with that technician while

(39:36):
they're on their property without even being there. You can
text them, you can text the office. But we want
to you know, we want to communicate. So if you
have issues or or some other pests that's that's bugging you,
that we can you know that we can provide a
solution for you on that. And so, uh, communication, communication, communication,
that's the key.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
That's right, that's right. So let's talk about these issues
that I don't have that so many other do have.
And we'll start with mosquito control and elimination. Now, why
do we had one morning this past week when I
was on the air here that I noticed there was
a couple of spots around town that dipped into the
upper thirties. They last Thursday morning, I think it was

(40:17):
this past Thursday, a couple of mornings ago, and I thought, okay,
are we done with mosquitos yet? I mean, we get
a morning at the upper thirties. I happen to know better,
but a lot of people will, we'll be confused that
Wait a minute, this weather, it's fantastic. Why do I
still have mosquitoes in my backyard?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Yeah? Because that's that if you're hitting the thirties, you're
not hitting it long enough. You know, there's two temperature
marks that are important when it comes to mosquitos, and
that is one is fifty degrees, and that is when
the temperatures start dropping below fifty degrees consistently, and that

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means for a week straight, what will happen is all
those eggs that are on the property will go into
hibernation and those are not gonna probably hatch, most likely
until the next year. And so when that starts happening,
mosquitoes only live from ten days to four weeks. So
you're gonna see when you consistently have the temperatures dropping

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below fifty degrees, you're gonna see this. Mosquitoes will slow down.
They're not gonna be as active as they are, So
the pressure goes down and they're not gonna be as
active as they are, you know in the summer. And
so but we're still getting days that they're in the
eighties and so, you know, really it's not long enough
to put them in incubation necessarily. Some maybe be be incubating,

(41:46):
others may be hatching. But the pressure is certainly slowing
down at this time of year. But the mosquitoes are
not gone. The second temperature is in the thirties. Now again,
you can't have one night or one morning where it
dips into the you know, thirty eight or thirty nine
for an hour or two. That's really not going to

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do anything. It's where you're hitting the thirties every single
night for a week. When that happens, that is going
to start to eliminate most of the adult mosquitos that
are still around. And that's why like December and January,
you really don't see a lot of mosquitos because the

(42:28):
eggs have incubated and most of the adults have either
died off through time or they cold has has gotten
them because of consistent temperatures where it's hitting the thirties,
you know, for a week. And so that's where we
have a couple of months where we're really not seeing

(42:49):
a lot of mosquitoes. But generally mid February, you know,
the temperatures start rising, you know, above fifty degrees consistently,
and then the eggs start hatching and then suddenly you're
starting to see mosquitos. And so for I mean, you
do have some mosquitoes that figure out how to overwinter.
They get inside or they get you know, into a
into a crawl space or something like that, and they've

(43:09):
got what they need to continue, you know, to breed
and keep going. But for the most part, our pressure
goes down, starts going down in October, and then you know,
by December, you know, we usually are not having a
lot of mosquito activity at all.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
But I mean, but they don't once they're they're born.
They don't live very long though, do they anyway, right.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
Yeah, they're born as adults, and they're usually breeding within
the first twenty four hours, and then they are biting,
you know, every time that they reproduce eggs, they lay
those eggs and the you know, and they'll do that
over and over again. They're just constantly biting to get
a blood meal and then laying eggs, and then biting

(43:54):
to get another blood meal so they can lay more eggs.
And they're just doing that. They actually only breed once.
Adult mosquito only breathed once, and then that female mosquito
is the only one that fights, and she can reuse
what she got on that first breeding to continually reproduce eggs,
oh really, over and over again in her body for

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four to six weeks until she's lived her life.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Okay, so about six weeks top. So typically, you know,
once we get into those you know, for US colder months,
you know, it's all in air quotes, it's all relative speaking.
But for US colder months, then then the mosquitoes that
were there, you know, back in the fall are gone.
For all intention purposes, they're gone. Yep. So but when
the next season rolls around, it's that new crop, right
that's been kind of sitting in the eggs waiting for

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things to get warm enough conditions to be ripe.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Okay, how long can they last? I mean, I mean,
if we had a really.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Eggs can actually last up to five years. Five years Okay,
you know that's never happening probably in South Carolina unless
it's a very unique situation. But you know, people, you know,
think that colder climates don't have mosquitoes, But some of
the worst mosquitos on the planet are in Alaska. Michigan
has a bad problem. New York has a bad problem.

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Connecticut has a bad problem. I mean, there's Canada has mosquitoes.
I mean it's we are in the southeast, and people
think that the Southeast is just really really bad for bugs.
But they're actually everywhere. Their season is a lot shorter
because of those temperatures that we mentioned earlier, but those
eggs will incubate and there's no amount of heat drought,

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no amount of cold snow or anything freezing that is
going to impact those eggs whatsoever. Those eggs are extremely
resilient and they will last up to five years in
incubation until the conditions are right, and all you need
is a little standing water. You know, they might wash
into a puddle after heavy rain, and the temperatures are right,

(45:54):
and those eggs incubate, and I mean the eggs come
out of incubation and they hatch into adult mosquitoes.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
They don't have to That egg doesn't have to be
in water. It just has to be in water in
order to incubate and hatch.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
It has to be heavy moisture. And it doesn't take
as much as people think. I mean, a bottle capful
of water can can hatch one hundred mosquito eggs, so
it doesn't take very much. Heavy leaf litter then never
really drives out. Is actually an ideal breeding ground for
not just mosquitoes, but but for all sorts of bugs.
I mean, if you ever pulled back a leaf pile

(46:29):
that sat there for a year or two, man, you're
gonna have cockroaches and ants and just everything's going to
be in there because it's the humidity and the moisture
and that it's just an ideal, you know, situation.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
So when it comes to dealing with this issue, Trey,
this is not this is not just a one thing
you do. There's a couple things you have to do
to to really you know, get somebody's backyard in the
shape of my backyard is. And when it comes to
not having to deal with this.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we use integrated test management,
preventative tactics. We don't want to, you know, wait until
you're getting eaten alive. We're gonna go after the larva.
I mean, we're the most eco friendly company pest control
company in the country according to US News and World Report,
because some part of what we do is always eco

(47:17):
friendly or as eco friendly as we can be. Not
everything we do is eco friendly, but it's it's we're
always doing preventative maintenance and going after larva. With larva
side that's an all natural product that will eliminate them
before they are born, and if they're never born, they
can't bite you, right, And when you do that, you're
significantly reducing the population of adult mosquitos that you'll ever

(47:41):
have on that property. And we do that every time
we come out.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
It almost sounds tray like that's really the most important
part of it. I mean, if you didn't, you know,
spray to knock off the existing mosquito is ort to
keep your neighbors out of your yard. Okay, well over
a period of maybe six weeks, all the one as
existed would die in any way, But it's it's stopping
them from being born. Sounds like that's almost the most

(48:07):
important part of this, because I guess there's a lot
more lots more eggs out there, and there are actually
live mosquitos in your backyard, right.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
One hundred percent definitely way way higher on the eggs.
And because they can they can lay up to three
hundred eggs at a time.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
And so if they're laying eggs every few days, that's
you know, three hundred nine they're laying a thousand eggs
a week.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
That's just one mosque.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
That's just one adult female mosquito. And so yeah, it is.
It's at least fifty percent of what we do. It's
an extremely part, important part. And if you have somebody
who is offering to do mosquito control on the side,
they own another type of business and they're like, oh,
I can spray for mosquitos, and all they're doing is spraying.

(48:52):
They're really just doing half the job, and you're going
to see about half the results of what you could
see if they were actually larva spinning as much time
largest siding as they are you know, actually spraying the yard.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, those results, we're off pretty quick. You're over populated
once again. And I'm guessing that. I'm I mean, it's
it's into October now, and you know, for the most part,
people aren't really thinking about it. But I'm gonna guess
that if you started your treatments right now with you
guys that come you know, next maybe February, in March, April, May,

(49:25):
you gonna be way ahead of the curve and keeping
that population down in your backyard if you start now.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Yeah, I mean, that's uh, you know, that's what we do.
A lot of times. We have customers that come on
in the fall and and they want to sit outside
and enjoy a football game at night, unless it's a
Carolina enjoy some of this nice cooler weather where you
can have a hoodie on in South Carolina and be
outside and just really enjoy the It's it's the best
time of the year to be outside, and you certainly

(49:53):
don't want to be aggravated with mosquitoes biting and so forth.
And yeah, getting started now, and we're treating you know,
for the next you know, month and a half, and
then we'll stop automatically when the weather you know says
to and uh, and then we'll get started again, you know,
in February and uh, you know, laying down that larva
side and eliminating any adults that might have already been born.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
So, as you mentioned earlier, you're now you've done it
for a while, but you've you're really have ramped it
up now with the total home pest defense programs to
take care of the other things you don't want in
your house or your backyard. And uh, then you mentioned
you can bundle all that together, right, that's correct.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Yeah, we can come out and we can you know,
treat the yard for mosquitoes. We can treat the the
house for you know, roaches and ants, and we can uh,
you know, treat around the house to keep mice and
rats out. We can treat the yard for for you know,
fire ants at the same time and and and really
have your entire yard and house test free and uh

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and keep it that way, you know, so that you're
never bothered with running into a pantry full of ants
or something.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Yeah, and as we mentioned earlier, you can get rid
of flies too. That's great.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Yep, we can get rid of flies, spiders, any tests
that you have that is making things not so fun
and dealing with stuff, you just don't have to deal
with it if you have the right maintenance plan.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
So if you want to be a mosquita control only,
you can do that. If you want the pest control on,
you can do that, or you can mudd it all
together and save money. And I know when it comes
to mosquito control, for folks who are trying it for
the first time, you get that first treatments as a
kind of a test run here and it won't cost
you much at all.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
Right, Yeah, we do first treatment for only thirty nine dollars.
And if you've never tried it before, we want to
earn your business the right way, and sure you want
me to do thirty nine dollars is first time, and
then after that it's it's whatever we would normally charge
for the property, and we'll do up to a half
an acre for that amount, all.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Right, And no contracts, of course. I know you never
have never will, but I must warn you as a
caveat to that it is habit.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
For me, that is the truth. Once you get used
to living pest free, if you try and stop and
you go back to it, it's not so fun.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
No, Trey, always a pleasure to spend time with you,
my friend. And I guess maybe next time we'll have
to talk about You're already into the holiday lights season now,
aren't you. I mean, people are already signed up for
that because that's your off season. Thing you do is
put up those beautiful professional holiday lights. Maybe we have
talking we do.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
We own Wonderly Lights, and we do Christmas lights where
we will install, you know, professional Christmas lights on your
home or your office, and we'll put them up, maintain
them and take them down and take them away so
you don't have to do lift a finger. And that
is Wonderly lights, all right.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
So whether it's the skeeters, the pests, the lights. It's
well just one phone call spits folks in touch with
with you guys to get a.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Take care right, that's right? Eight sixty six or I'm
sorry eight five to five, asked Joe. Eighty to five
asked Joe. And that will fit you. In touch with
our local office.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
All right, Trey, gonna talk to you always, buddy. Have
a good woman you too, You have a great day.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
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I named my company Freedom Plumbing. What sets us apart

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