Home Improvement Show 11-08-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good morning and welcome in. It's the Home Improvement Show
of the Midlands for the eighth day of November. Morning
till you. Good to have you join us early on
this Saturday morning. My name is Gary David. If we
haven't met before, nice to meet your acquaintance. Mister Electric.
We're gonna do you, mister Electric. Jeremy Halliday, Oh you've
heard mister Electric. He's going to be on. We're just

(00:37):
what now, less than three weeks away from Thanksgiving Day? Yeah, crazy,
I know. We'll talk a bit about maybe some safety tips.
If you're going to be lining up that kitchen countertop
with all sorts of things that are plugged in, what
kind of mistakes might we be making that we can
stay away from. We'll talk about it. Russ Markaesy Finishing
Touch team gonna join us this morning as well here

(00:58):
on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands. First up,
Trey Powell. Mosquito Joe leads us off. Good morning to you,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hey, good morning, he how are you.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm good. Thanksgiving less than three weeks away, which means
that well, a big chunk of your business you all
will kind of go into dormancy mode. Briefly, we'll talk
about that, but you're also ramping up another part of
your business you do about this time every year. And
then it's been a few minutes to talk about the
Christmas lights with the Wonderly Company. You guys do a

(01:30):
fantastic job with it. I said this before. If you
drive around town and suddenly you see a business or
a home, you do a lot of businesses, I know,
and you're like, now, wow, that is Christmas lights done right.
Pretty good chance that your guys had their fingerprints all
over a tray.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it's a pretty good chance. We do a lot
of the businesses, we do a lot of residents. It's probably, yeah,
maybe thirty percent business and seventy percent residential homes. And yeah,
it is the season. It's uh, everybody loves Christmas lights
and for a good reason. Nobody likes to put them
up and take them down mm hmm with ladders and

(02:13):
you know, getting on the roof and all of that
sort of thing. It's uh, you know, it's really out
of the scope of what most people want to do,
you know, with their spare time exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And then when you do do it, you know you
want to put a mess on your hands. You got
you know, you got you know, extension cords running over
or all over the place. We'll talk to Jeremy by
the way about those coming up here in a few minutes.
But you got, you got that big mess, and how
do you deal with that? And then the lights you
probably bought, you know, if you got them at a
big box store. Trust me, these ain't the same lights
that you guys are putting up. And you can you

(02:44):
can tell a in a skinny minute the difference between them.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, it's it's I mean, you can't duplicate a professional
job with uh, with the di y type of products
that you would buy from a big box store. It's
just not the same, not the same product, and it's
not going to be the same look when it gets finished.
I mean, we do not put up other people's lights.
We bring the lights. We use commercial grade you know products.

(03:12):
I mean every light bulb screws in individually. You know,
it's all low energy led. You know, we could cover
the entire house or business and if you left it
on twenty four hours a day, it's not going to
run up the electric bill right like it would have
back in the way back in the day when people
use incandescent you know stuff, but you know, you know

(03:35):
it's we design it, we bring it, install it, we
maintain it, and then sometime in January we take it
all the way and we stored in our own climate
control facility until next year. And so you know, the
customer really doesn't have to do anything but enjoy. They
come home one day and the house just looks incredible.

(03:56):
They enjoy it the entire season, and then one day
in January it's all gone.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
The little elves from Mosquito Joe came by and removed him.
Uh now, this is this is a this is the least.
You don't again. You don't own these lights. You're leasing
the lights. And I guess what's the deal If you
want to do it again the following year, you guys
will store that and you can have the same setup
or you can change it. I guess huh yep.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, that's the nice thing about it. I mean, first
of all, you know, there are all it's temporary lighting,
and you know that sort of thing doesn't that those
products do not. It's not like insulated outdoor cabling and
that sort of thing that is designed to be permanently installed,
and so after about three years we end up replacing

(04:43):
all of it anyway, So it's not really something that
somebody really wants to own because it's just it's just
not it's not something that's going to last, you know,
for years and years and years. I mean, it's very
easy to tell when people have put stuff up too
many times and that the UV just destroys it and
you have, you know a lot of stuff that's not

(05:04):
working anymore, not looking very good anymore, and the stuff
just needs to be replaced. But you know, the nice
thing about it is, yea, from year to year we
have people that will do you know, all white one year,
and then the next year they're like, hey, I want
to spice it up a little bit. Let's do like
a candy cane red and white. Look, you know, the
next year they might do red and green. Next year

(05:24):
they might go all out and do multicolor. And so
they can they can change that from year to year
and do exactly what they whatever they want. Well, the
next year that maybe they're taking a trip at Christmas
and they don't want to do it at all. So
that's it's a great option, you know for people to
be a little bit more flexible than never locking into
any long term contract or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
So I want to mention this today, and I were
not even Thanksgiving it, but you guys, you book a
lot of these up pretty early, so you got you
got any spots left for this season?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
We do, we are, We are right now booking up say,
right around Thanksgiving, and so anybody who booked right now
would probably be coming up. They with their install date
would be right after Thanksgiving, which is perfect timing.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Really yeah, really, okay, Well, before we pivot away from
from this topic again, if folks have some interests, got
some questions, or want to get signed up right now,
how do they go about doing that?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Right?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, so they can call you know, eight six six
light ninety nine, eight sixty six light ninety nine and
that will you know, connect them right into our our office,
our location. They could also call the Mosquito Joe number
eight five to five Aska Joe and and that would
get them there as well.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, so eight five or five Aska Joe or eight
six six light ninety nine correct, And that's the traditional
right way to spell light is it?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is it L I G HD or Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
That could be enough enough digits otherwise.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, right, okay, it all right. So as you're ramping
that up, you will be soon ramping down a big
chunk of what you do, at least for a little bit,
and that is a mosquito control. This is we're getting
that time of year here. Boy, have you seen the
forecast for Monday? The high mondays like fifty degrees. We
got what a sub freezing coming Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
If you're looking at extended forecasts, you know we do
have you know, one day excuse me, that that may
dip into into the high twenties.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, for a couple of hours Tuesday morning.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Really when the due point hits in the morning. But
it'll quickly be out of that. But there's a string
of about three days in the thirties. We have not
yet had that that six seven day in a row
into the thirties every night. That would really eliminate mosquitos
pretty well, you know. You know, that's that's kind of

(07:59):
what we're looking for. And so we're getting that. It's
coming up. The mosquito pressure is definitely going down, you know,
but keep in mind that we do treat for other
things as well. We have a lot of you know,
customers have spider problems around their house, especially ones that
live on or near the water, and uh, you know,
we keep them on a maintenance program and come out

(08:20):
and treat them at least once in in December and
once in January, and you know until we get rolling
back with our regular schedule, you know, in late February
early March.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And so.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know, you spiders are way more resilient than mosquitoes,
and they tend to hide, and they are much more
resilient against cold and things like that, and so are
a lot of other bugs, you know, gnats, and you know,
there's a lot of things that that kind of thrive colder,

(08:53):
are warm. So you know, the if customers are having
issues with that, we continue that. You know, this is
the timing year that you definitely want a home pest
defense keeping those crawling insects out of your house because
as it gets cold, they look for warmth. You know,
they want to be inside your house for the same
reason you do. It's climate controlled, there's an unlimited source

(09:15):
of water and food, and you know, once they find
their way in, they're going to want to set up
shop and not leave. And so you know, it's a
it's a perfect time of the year to sign up
for a home pest defense where we will treat the
outside of the foundation to make sure that no crawling
insects are getting inside the house. And so that is
a bi monthly or a quarterly service that we do

(09:37):
year round, but it is a very important time of
the year to make sure that you're having that protection
laid down.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah. Interesting to know too, Trey, that I mean, of
course that's sort of problem. Is a problem year round,
but at this time of the year as the mesquita
pressure drops. Yeah, that insect pressure does increase with the
colder weather. You're exactly right. So it's so funny. We've
tend to think that it was just in summertime when
it's hot that we have bug problems, But no, it's
it's I would venture to say, it's probably worse in

(10:06):
the cold weather. It is the hot weather, isn't it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
As far as them trying to get into the house,
I mean, it's you know, it's uh, they're trying to
escape the cold. I mean we're talking now about cockroaches,
ants and that sort of thing, and a lot of
times they will pop up right when you start seeing
colder weather, you know, suddenly start seeing you know, more
bugs inside, and so the idea is to put a

(10:31):
barrier around the outside of the foundation to keep them
out and so so you don't ever have to worry
about them.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, you guys supply all that for us. Uh, And
I'll mention it again the fly control thing, which I
had no idea you did until a couple of months ago.
We were talking here on the program and I kind
of brought up so, yeah, we didn't take care of
that too. Wow does that work?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Glad to hear that.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Unbelievable man.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, we are a full service best control company. Any so,
anything that you are, any pests that you are having,
you know, inside or outside of the house, we can
you know, we have a treatment for that. And we're
also doing termites now.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I was getting ready to ask you about that.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, termite base stations on existing homes and we're
doing uh, you know, free treatment during construction for new construction.
So you know, it's really you know, we really want
to just be the one stop shop for all your
pest control needs. You know, life without pests is a

(11:34):
lot better.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I ain't that a truth?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
So again, there's there's no really hard date where you say, okay,
we're done with a mesquite. It's more dependent upon the
weather outside. But but typically rule of thumb is about
the time we get to Thanksgiving, uh, you know, right
around that area where where you're you're pretty much done
with the the treatment for mosquite. Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, it's generally in the Midlands, we we will take
a break for mosquito control from Thanksgiving till about President's Day.
And so unless there if that's the specific pests that
they're after, that is that is when we're we're not
coming out to service. However, you know, we've had years
where we had an Indian summer and people calling back

(12:18):
into summer and saying, man, I've got mosquitos again, and
so we're you know, it's uh, yeah, the weather warms
up and you get some consistent days in the in
the sixties and seventies, and which is very easy to
do around here. Oh sure, it's it's not uncommon for
you to start seeing mosquitos again.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
No, no, not at all, not at all. So now
the service itself for the mosquito treatment, let's talk on
that for a moment here this is a this is
a recurring service. But there's there's no you're not you're
not bound anything as the customer, right.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, we never have contract with anything, even with our
termite protection. Uh, there's no contracts ever with Mosquito Joe.
We want to earn your business the right way every
single time. And so and we have a done right guarantee.
If the customers then please or they're still seeing activity,
we come back and do it again for free.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now let me ask you this tray. There are products
on the market that anybody could go out and pick
up to try to treat a mosquito problem in our backyard. Well,
what's the difference in what you do versus what you know,
any homeowner could do on their own.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, I mean, first of all, we do.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
It for you. That helps, yeah, you know, And so
time is you know, just like the.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Christmas light we were talking about earlier, you know, having
it done for you, you know it's being done right,
you know it's being done you know, professionally.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Secondly, just like with the Christmas lights, the products that
we use are really not readily available at local box
stores and so they're not commercial products. And and so
you're trying to use a lesser product to resolve the
same situation. And you know, and you have to get

(14:09):
out there and do it. And and the biggest thing
with with any pest control really is that you have
to be very, very consistent, and you know, it's just
not top of mind for most people, you know, on
a daily weekly basis that oh have I taken care
of the pest control. It's not necessarily like cutting your
grass where it's very obvious when if it's gone too far,

(14:33):
you know, and if they're just treating every time they're
getting bit, they're really not solving the problem. They're just
putting a bunch of band aids, you know, out there.
And so, you know, can somebody do it themselves? Sure,
you know, it's it's going to be a little bit
more difficult not having the same level of products or
the same equipment, you know. And we've we've had a

(14:54):
customer before that said hey, I want to do it myself,
let me and so we started showing them what to
do and he's like, never mind.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Just do it.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, yeah, it seems like the other the other problem
tray is that let's say you're doing it yourself, but again,
you're you're not thinking about it until all of a
sudden you've got a big problem. Is oh, I got
to do that. They're they're back, but in that meantime,
not only are they back, but they've been busy in
the meantime, and now you've got you know, another generation
and a lot more of them that are on the

(15:24):
way because you weren't taking care of it on a
you know, every like you guys do three week basis.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, it's you know, US News and World Report called
us the most eco friendly pest control company in the country,
and that is because of our focus on integrated pest management.
You know, if if you're only treating when you're seeing bugs,
you're all you're doing is is kind of a spray

(15:51):
and pray, you know, type of method. And it's if
you're integrating the right techniques ahead of time, you're you're
doing preventative maintenance right so that you don't have a problem.
Which is that's the result I think that everyone wants
is just life without pests. And so in order to
accomplish that, you've got to eliminate them before they're born.

(16:14):
You've got to catch them before they get inside, and
so that you don't have a problem, and you know
that's you know, that's that's the way the way it
should be done, so that you're you know, they live
in their space and you live in yours.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's right, you do you, I'll do me. Just don't
do your around me. Uh uh Trey, always going to
talk a lot of info right there again for the
lights uh An eight sixty six late ninety.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Ninety Yeah, just eight five to five ask Jo.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, that gets everything right there. One call doesn't all
all right? Trey always going to talk to you, my friend.
We'll talk soon you too.

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(18:56):
owner of Mister Electric here in the Midlands area of
outcare Lot. Good morning to you, sir, Good morning Gary Man.
Time's flying by here.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Brother.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
We are now less than three weeks.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Away from Thanksgiving, and that something else crazy just goes
by so fast.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Tell what else is crazy about it? If you see
all these deals now on you know, I mean all
d came out and said you can feed ten for
forty bucks. Walmart matched it. Then the legal came out
and said thirty eight. I swear I saw something the
other day Target. I think it was so they can
do it even less than that.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Wow, I mean not just the turkey, but but all
the fixes too, they clan.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Yeah, that seems it seems like rations.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Anyway, we are.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I can promise you at our household, it's going to
cost a lot more than that. It always does the
same here. But let's talk about that Thanksgiving feast, because
you know, you get to that if your house is
anything like mine is. You know, you got the kitchen
countertops full of crock pots and everything else, and you
get all kind of stuff's got to be plugged in,
and you got but a certain amount of outlets and

(20:03):
then you're you're doing that dance, right. And I think
we talked about this a couple of weeks ago about
using you know, extension cords for this and for that,
and be careful you're not overload some er or you know,
Heaven forbid causing an issue that could start a fire.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I mean that's right.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, can something like that actually start a fire? I
mean overlooking it?

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Possibility overloading your circuits is always uh a possibility for
uh a fire.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
You know, how does that happen? I mean it as
a spark or is it? I mean what what?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
What?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Physically? What happens when you overload a circuit that could
lead to actual fire.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
So you have an overcurrent protection device, which is your
breaker that's in your panel, and that is a safeguard there,
so if you overload, it should trip.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
So if you're overloading your circuit.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
You don't want to go in there and just turn
it back on and keep overloading it because that's normally
how you would start soon. It's been guilty of that before, Yeah,
because we think if we just turn it on, it's
and it works, then it's good. But there's like you said,
we talked about this before, there's a thermal unit in
that breaker that's going to shut that breaker down so that.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
You don't overload that wire and melt it down.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
And so if you're putting you know a lot of
items on one circuit, high energy use items like crock
pots or I don't know, I'm not a big cooker,
but besides the grill, but oh yeah, you know if
you do, if you're plugging in a bunch of items
in the kitchen and you trip that breaker, you need
to diversify, move move one of those things to a

(21:32):
different outlet somewhere in the kitchen, and try and and
try and figure out.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Said unless you got on your socker box every single
outed label, it's gonna be kind of tricky to figure out. Okay,
wait a minute, is to most kitchens, I mean, let's
talk about homes that have been built in the last
twenty years or so. Do most kitchens have a variety
of outlets that are on different circuits or should you
assume that they're all in the safe circuit?

Speaker 5 (21:58):
So if you have a newer home, you should have
two small appliant circuits for the kitchen countertops minimum, so
you should have two different circuits.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
And that's pretty much cold these days.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
I guess that's pretty much code.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
So that's a twenty amp circuit as opposed to your
general use circuits which are throughout the house normally close
to the floor. Those are normally fifteen amp circuits. Unless
you're in a custom home that.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
You had built, you know, then you could have.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
More small appliant circuits on the countertops or higher wire
throughout the house, a higher gauge wire. So, but standard
two small appliant circuits on the kitchen countertops.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
And there's no way really to figure it out other
than going there and shut it off and see if
the appliance goes off right to see if for a
different circuit or same circuit. I mean, there's no Yeah,
so easy way other than that to do it, I
guess you can.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
You can buy you a simple plug tester you know,
from home depot, wherever, Walmart, and you could plug that
thing in.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Normally, your panel box.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Should be labeled. It should label GFI circuit is the
most common way it's labeled. And you'll be able to
turn that off and then go into the kitchen and
test the outlets and find out how many of them
turned off with your tester that you just plug in
and the lights light up on it and tell you.
And that's a real simple way of identifying what outlets

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are on that circuit. Now, sometimes most of the time
once one counter will have one circuit and the other
counter will have another. So that's typical rule though, uh
you know, we always try and and A be it,
so skip skip the receptacle. So we have a B
A B A B, so you have a diversification on

(23:41):
that countertop of circuit A and circuit B, but a lot.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Of okay, okay, I got you, so yeah, yeah, uh,
And I just assumed that your your your major appliance
is that your refrigerators, you're Ovender stoves, those are all
on separate breakers aside from yes circuits rather from right right.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Every once in a while, your bridge might be on
that circuit. Okay, but yeah, everything else should be on
its own circuit. Dishwasher disposal oven. If you have a
microwave that's above the oven, most likely it's on its
own circuit.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
So so the problem comes in when you grab an
extension cord, you plug a couple of things into that,
and then you might plug that extension cord into another
extension cord and plug a couple of things into that. Yeah,
and then you go to that that outlet, that's that's
that uh, that switch on the wall. Uh, that's what

(24:38):
I'm on the wall. And now you now, yeah, you've
you've really gone way far and above.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
You don't want to be doing that.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
You don't want to be putting chords on chords on
chords and and plugging in a bunch of high energy
use devices.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
But now, if you're just extending a chord because you
got something too far away and you want to take
one extension cord, plug something into it, and then just
plug that chord into another one without adding anything additional
to it, you're okay, right.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Well, there's a lot of partners that come into place.
I'd say, use one extension cord at a time, get
the appropriate length. Make sure it's the appropriate size where
it's sufficient for whatever you're plugging into it. And that's
something that you know, there's all kinds of different factors
that come into choosing your extension cord.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
So well, maybe we should talk about that here a
little bit, because I got no clue. Yeah, well, so be.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Using it outside. You run an outdoor rated extension cord.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Right on the label, right, run in the box you running,
it'll say right on the box or the label, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
It's for outdoor rating. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
And then if it's big, fat and orange, you're good.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Yeah you want a big one. Yeah, you want a
thick one. You want one that's gonna uh handle whatever
you'll plug into it. So they have really tiny, you know,
small extension cords that are normally made for a point
of use, one lamp or something like that. You don't
want to be running heavy stuff on a cord that small,
you know. So, uh but if you read on the

(26:10):
on the on the cord packaging, it should have some
type of description on there that lets you know what
that what that cable's recommended for use. Okay, uh so
if it just has a lamp on there, that's probably
a really small gauge extension cord, and it's made for

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real light usage and not heavy type usage.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
So well, I guess not a bad rule of thumb
as well. Obviously they want to run a big orange
outdoor extension cord in your house, although you could, but
it's unsightly. But when you're buying extension cords for use
inside the house, I guess it wouldn't hurt just to
get the buy the ones that will handle the most, right.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's why would be my plan, because
you definitely don't want to use it for permanent usage,
so it should be a.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Temporary I said this before, and I'm like, dude, really yeah.
I mean if you like, for your your lamp example,
you know, I mean, your lamp's got to sit over
here to somewhere near and outlet's so you put an
attention cord, but you you really shouldn't leave it plugged
in long term.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
You say, no, what happened? Why not?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
What happens extension cordal degrade? It's exposed to Dan, you're
killing me with it.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Uh, it's it's uh, you know, there's a there's a
lot of different reasons that you could probably just look up.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
And I've seen houses that are uh, you know, pretty
much wired and extension cords almost you know, sure people
have been using them, and they have all kinds of problems.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
You know, the cord ends go bad on them.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Uh, and they're they're higher potential for some type of fire,
you know, loose connections, bad insulation.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
The rating of the wires not the right the right gauge.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
So and it's not made for the environment. It's in
all kinds of different reasons. And and and there's a
reason we put our wires in the wall right, so
they're protected right sure, so you know it's more than
just not being a nice or.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
They're also protected from damage and things like that.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
And you can we're talking about you know, your Thanksgiving
meal and you know, your kitchen stuff and how you're
going to deal with all this. But oh, in my neighborhood,
people have already got Christmas stuff up. I've seen an
example of that or two. And so maybe for a
moment or two we should talk about Yeah, when you
start to okay, so you get the big inflatable in
your front yard, will beg inflatable. Santa Great great, I

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love Christmas that's great.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
That's great as much as possible for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
But whir and all that up. Now, you got to
be careful there too.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Yeah, so there's some things you want to make sure.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
You want to make sure that's plugged into a ground
fault circuit interrupt or a GFI, because it's happening.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
That's the one that's got the little reset button off, got.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
The little reset button on it. Yeah, the test you'll
see them in your kitchen, you'll see them in your bathroom.
Newer homes, say maybe on the breaker box, on the
breaker themselves. Outside outlets, they should have the test reset
button unless they're unless it's on the breaker. But you
always want to make sure it's plugged into a ground
fault circuit interrupter. And you want to make sure your

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connections are not sitting in you know, on the ground,
in puddles of water, because then you're going to have
a tripping GFI if it's plugged into a GFI.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Would you suggest, okay, this is one of these examples
here now where you may have to, you know, run
one of these extension cords into another right to get
to your outlet. So you got that connection out there
in the yard somewhere. Would you suggest wrapping that connection
at part in maybe a plastic tape, electrical tape or
anything like that. Is that helpful or I.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Would I wouldn't suggest that.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I would.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
I would say just keep.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
It dry, okay, but that's not the way to keep
it dry. Then I might keep it it dry, man, Yeah,
just keep it dry. Figure out a way.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
There's things online that you can purchase that you can
put over them.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Okay, you know everything has to be ul listed, right,
So the last thing I want to do is tell
you to put a plastic bag on it and it
catch it on fire and melts down, causes some issues.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
So you just want to point this out, very very
pointed here at Jeremy how they did not say to
put a plastic bag around it. That was Gary's idea,
all right, So don't don't.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Don't do that.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
Not a bad idea, but I just don't know how,
you know, just keep it dry.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Now again, your company, mister electric I mean, this is
this is what you do. You do electric stuff, and
most of the time people think about you know, they're
calling an electrician when something goes wrong, you know, and
that's the only time they think about calling an electrician.
But you know, one of the things you guys do,
and a remarkable job you've been at our home is
you do the safety checks. That's right, So let's talk

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I got a few minutes left here in the seconment.
Let's talk about what all that involves and uh and
why you should have it done.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
So, uh, we'll come to your house and do a
complimentary homes safety check where we will check out your
system and make sure if there's any safety devices or concerns,
we can point them out to you. And the reason
you should have that done is because if you're if
you're homes any age I mean five years old to

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forty years old to one hundred years old, there's a
lot of safety devices that are out now that we
can put in place on your system and make it.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
More safe.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
So I always like to use the analogy if you
bought a car.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
I don't know when they started putting seat belts in,
but before they put seat belts.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
In, you know, and you have that car, that's your
favorite car. You love that car, You're going to drive
it everywhere.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
You're not getting a new car, and they started putting
seat belts on them on new cars. Well, you call,
you know, you take it to the shop and they say, hey,
you know, you could put seat belts in this thing
and make it a lot safer for you. It's kind
of the analogy I like to use because that's essentially
what doing. There's there's safety items in your home that

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could be in place that makes your electrical system a
lot safer. Afcis, for instance, our fault circuit interrupter breakers.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
Those make your system a lot safer.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
GFI protection, Like we're talking about make your system a
lot safer.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
But not only that.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
I mean we've gone to homes and there's open spices
in the attic where wires are connected.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
There's no box underneath the.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
House, you know, so.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Uh, faulty wiring is is a.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
Is one of the number one reasons for home fires.
Yeah well right, yeah, yeah, So we want to come
in do that safety check, to provide that service to you,
uh and let you know of anything that we could
do to make your home safer.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
And that's part of the service that we provide.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
And really, as a homeowner of these are things you're
not really going to know unless you actually want to
go under your house rupper, your ane can actually see
freight wires right Okay, there's a there's a there's a
dead giveaway right there. But from that, this is not
stuff you can see. It's behind walls. Yeah you know,
I mean you got it out.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Yeah, there's some you know, and ours is a visual inspection,
so uh, we're a thorough but we're not opening up
your walls.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
So I'm not going to do But there are other
ways you know about we you're looking at the end
points and such, the protect your panel, your break the box.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
You know, we'll check for g fire protection, we'll check
for arc fault protection. Well, uh, we'll look at uh
the grounding system on your home. Make sure you have
a ground still there.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
And these aren't necessarily things that while your house is
gonna explode or burn or burn down tomorrow if you
don't fix this, just things that this would make you
a lot safer, Making it a lot would really reduce
the risk.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Of And there's been some there's been quite a few
where we've been like, wow, I'm surprised this.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
You need to fix that, right, you need this needs
to be fixed right away.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's not just a safety enhancement to your home, it's
actually something that's wrong and should be corrected immediately.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Want to you know.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
So, yeah, there's there's all kinds of reasons to have
a safety check on your house, because on your electrical system,
because it is a dangerous system and if it's not maintained.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Properly or installed properly, it can even become more dangerous.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Great tips, my friend Jeremy Holliday, mister Electric got a
whole fleet of big old mister Electric vans running all
around town, all around the Midlands. So whether it's a
safety check or you've got an issue right now you
need fixed, this guy's a call. How do folks reach Jeremy.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
So they can reach me at eight zero three eight
six eight four to two four three, or.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
They can reach us at mister Electric dot com forward
Slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Thank you buddy, good to see you man.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
Thank you Gary far.

Speaker 7 (34:42):
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but you can call mister Electric with priority dispatching. One
of our electricians will be at your door ready to
safely restore your power fast. Because not having electricity is annoying.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
It's very annoying.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
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Speaker 5 (35:10):
Hi there, I'm Jeremy Halliday, local owner of Mister Electric
of Columbia. I've been servicing the Midlands since twenty ten
and I'm happy to answer questions and give you free
estimates with upfront pricing. Schedule your free safety check with
Mister Electric of Columbia and receive fifty dollars off any
work over three hundred dollars. Call eight oh three eight
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mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

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(36:20):
It's wonderful to have you spending some time with us
on this Saturday morning. My name is Gary David and
thanks for hanging out with us. We appreciate it. Don't
forget The Health and Walla show follows us in just
a short while. But we wrap up the program this
morning with the team from Finishing Touch. It's owner Russ Markaesy.
Good morning to you, Russ. Good morning Gary and right

(36:42):
now grabbing for her cell phone to silence, at which
I just remember I didn't do that either for mine.
Hang on a minute, hang on, I make I make
this mistake about five times a week during the week,
so don't worry about it. Hey, Lisa is back, Lisa
Jurgensen the interior extra. Yeah, are extraordinary. Good to see
you again, Lisa.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
Hey, Gary, nice to see you.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
All right, So uh we y'all you were with us
a couple of weeks ago, and we talked about because
you know, again finishing touch team. You guys are painters.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
You paint, that's what we do. You and do you paint?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Wow? We painted all Gary, And I posed the question.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I said, okay, uh, well, Lisa, you as an interior designer,
you do more than just advise people on paint colors, right,
Oh gosh, You're on the whole gamut of things. So
I found it very interesting that, Yeah, the two of you,
you guys were together a lot.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Huh we do. We sure do, Lisa, Yeah, we do
quite quite a bit of projects. How many years it's
been many years alone.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
And we figured it out last week. It was RMO
Interiors and the Friars Yeah, shopping center.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
That's right, that's where we that's right.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Ago was like a lifetime nineteen don't say it, I know,
nine long.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
You're right, you're absolutely right. Wow. Yes.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
So so over the years, you guys have probably experienced
a little bit of everything working together.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Huh, I'd say, so, huh, yes, yeah, yeah, we do
quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, we do. Uh, we've done
I remember in those days, we were doing a lot
of faux finishing back in those days.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
But I always foe means but explain this in the
vernacular of a painter, what's a faux face?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
So it's it's a it's a fake, it's a fake
look right, So faux means fake obviously, right. I believe
it's a French word. If I'm not mistaken, that's what
it is. Yeah, And so what we would do is
like marbleized columns, we would do wood graining, we would
do pull off type textures all over walls, all sorts
of stuff like that. But uh, that was you know, again,

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that was a that was a lifetime ago, and it's
not as common anymore to do to do that sort
of stuff. You still see, do you? I mean, so, Lisa,
do you see glazing on cabinets a whole lot? Do
you see that? Because we haven't done it in probably
a couple few years at least, and before that it
was maybe once a year we would do, you know, uh,

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And and Gary, that's when you you have a base
color on your cabinetry and you put some a stained
color or something all in the little cracks and crevices
and give it some detail. Right, Okay, Yeah, I'm sure
everybody's seen that before. We used to do a whole
lot of that, and you know, don styles and fads
come and go, and that was that was kind of

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one of them.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, okay, I've seen it. I didn't know what it
was called.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Yes, that's what it's called. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
It's a round still bit yea, not as much, not
as much.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Pull that microphone a little bit closer to you there,
that's fine. There you go beautiful. I know it.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
I'm telling you, I've hit my nose on it a
few times.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
So what's would have been some of the I'm sure
you've you've had some experiences, Lisa, working with these guys
over here.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
I have.

Speaker 8 (40:05):
So I told Russa said, oh, I need to tell
the story because my parents were moving my parents here
from Atlanta and they're eighty five and eighty seven, and
it just so happened that the house next door to
me became available, literally right next door.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
So that that really was a blessing from God that
I could bring them up and move them next door.
So we've we're remodeling, totally gutting bathrooms, kitchens, and so.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Better than an interior design exactly, no.

Speaker 8 (40:40):
Kidding, I know, I can't wait. It's it's gone. We're ready.
It's about one more month. But so of course Russ painted.
His team came in and painted everything. So while they
were painting, I found a mom kitten in the backyard
and five babies.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
And wait, did you feed them? Yes?

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yours now?

Speaker 8 (41:06):
And I'm such an animal lover, I'm like, oh, so
the master bedroom just happened to have carpet still in
it that we're obviously pulling up. But it was a
perfect robber room for the mom and her babies. And
this is still while everybody is painting, and so we've
got chaos going on throughout the house and I'm coming

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back and forth feeding the babies next door and you know,
take care of the mom and the cats. But their
team was wonderful as far as that's what I was.
They were so accommodating that they you know, I had
the door closed, I had a gate up. I mean,
they just left it alone. They they didn't bother the room.
You know, I could trust their team not to you know,

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I was worried to let them out or something like that.
So and they still have to come back and paint
that room, because sure, and my dad would die to
know if you knew, He's probably.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, that's a secret on that one.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
But how does that work though us? I mean, because again,
if you're going to do an entire home exactly that
that can take some time.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
So it does you know, I mean, sometimes we're in
folks home for two weeks, right, Lisa. Sometimes it's all
we have to two weeks long. So uh, it's not
like everybody can just pack up and leave for two
weeks while we come in there and do the painting. Right,
so we were constantly accommodating two folks. You take like

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

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to sleep in that room that night, so we'll remove
all of the plastic. A lot. Most of the time,
we'll put the bed back for you. We'll put it
back together for you. We do things like this all
the time. Now, that's not not not one hundred percent
of the time, right. People have different accommodations sometimes or
they have a different room or whatever the case is.
But whatever is needed is what will what we'll do
for you. We just you know, we realize you got

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to live in this house. Another thing that I thought
was kind of funny that I was thinking about, Lisa,
was when folks are doing their kitchens right, well, when
they're factoring in costs of doing their kitchens, one thing
that they don't ever figure into the cost is having
to eat out take takeout. Yeah, yeah, they don't ever,
They don't ever. I can't tell you how many times

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customers will look at me and be like, well, I
guess we're eating out tonight, and they just didn't think
about it, you know, And that could be a week
or two weeks of eating out sometimes.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
We went through this when we moved that new house,
Like sure, we were having a lot of stuff done
in that not the kitchen itself, but the big, huge
we are opening up this big close of dining room
and eating and all that, And it took a couple
of weeks, and so you don't want to, you know,
be leaving. We had just moved in. We didn't want
to put.

Speaker 9 (44:08):
Plates out in the rights in the cabinets. Yeah, as
you get sawt us exactly exactly. So, Yeah, and we
eat out maybe once or twice a week tops, Yeah,
one of those being on the weekend. Yeah, and lord
knows it's not cheap, right, And that was a oh gosh,
we got to eat out.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah, I hadn't put that in the budget.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah, I mean that, you know, it could easily be
another thousand and fifteen hundred dollars that in that budget,
that that folcus aren't really thinking about. It's just some
one of those little funny caveats that nobody ever really
thinks about. You know.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
But on another note, you don't put that in your estimates.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
No, No, maybe I should, Maybe I should start doing
that actually yeah, yeah, But a lot.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
Of times if you're doing a couple of rooms, that
y'all get in and get it knocked out.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
We do. We're not messing around. So I can't say
many times you've heard all this. You know, this guy's
been in here for a week and a half. Well,
what's he painting, No two rooms, are you kidding me? No,
we got to get in and get out. We realize that. Look,
we don't want to be in your hair just as
much as you don't want us in your hair. Right,
so we you know, but we've got to do the
right procedures and the right preparations. Still along with that,

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we don't want to. We'll never cut corners for that reason,
but but we do so if it requires putting an
extra you know, person on it or two people possibly
to expedite that, that's what we'll have to do. We
work with deadlines all the time. Well, you know we
have to be done in three days. I mean how
many times do we do that? Lisa? Yeah, four days,
five days, two days, whatever it is. And we have

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to accommodate for that. So that means either manning up
that job or or less. You know.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
Another thing too is they'll see such the beauty of
what they've painted and they'll want to add a room
or at.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
All the time.

Speaker 8 (45:53):
And so but they'll they'll they won't be well we'll
come back in a month, they'll go ahead and for
me and take care of it. And which the clients love,
because you got them excited. Do you want to like,
you know, hey, we can.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
We can become the Murphy Brown painter if you'd like
us to, you know, any time, We'll stay there and
just keep painting if you want.

Speaker 8 (46:16):
Well, that that's what's my clients love. They're like, can
you just stay and finish? And you do always yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Yeah, oh there's no sense in that. And then and
then there's tear down and clean up. So if we're
already there, we're we have all of our tools out,
you know. Uh, there's no sense in not doing it
that in that moment, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Okay, now, now Russ, Lisa Russ mentioned a word a
few minutes ago, and it got me a thing and
bring this up. Popcorn ceiling? Oh yeah, okay?

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Is is that.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
One of the trends that will never come back?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Hopefully?

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Not? Right?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
I mean everybody hates popcorns? Was that what was originally done?
It was easier to hide its cheap imperfections and such.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Right, it's cheaper, yeah's cheaper.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
Yeah it is, and it's a mess.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
It's been through that before.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
We remove it constantly, we do, right, it is it
is you know, in certain circumstances you can actually sheathe
over it. You can put sheet rock right over the
top of it. In a lot of cases you can
do that, especially if you have crown mold up top.
You can pop that crown mold off, put your sheet
rock up and you don't have to finish your corners
because your crown molds, you know, goes back and hides

(47:24):
that corner. Right. Yeah, so we have a lot absolutely, Yes.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
It might be more cost effectively.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
At least we've done that several times for several of
your colors. Quite a bit a big mess, right, quite
a bit. Yeah, But we've got that new festival. Right.
So it's at Sanders. It's a it's a I love
this thing. It's a big sand around a pole, but
it's hooked up to a vacuum, is what it is.
It is awesome. So as you're eating away that popcorn,

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hardly anything, any debris or dust is falling to the
ground whatsoever. It is just awesome. We love it.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Have you ever been in a situation and occurs to
me because this happened with my father in law years
ago when he moved into a condo I'm not gonna
say which one, and it turned out well. We want
to do some remodeling work on it turned out those asbestos.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh yeah, sure, what so we we Sherlin Williams actually
sells kits for for testing of lead and asbestos. Uh
and we we keep those things stocked on our vans
and trucks. Uh. So we are constantly checking for lead,
checking for asbestos because you do. You have to be

(48:32):
super careful about that. Uh. And it's everywhere. It's in
areas you wouldn't even imagine where it's at, so you know,
and when when that happens, especially when it comes to asbestos,
it has to be abated. We can't, we can't remove it.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
There are companies that do that correct specially yes, they're.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah, abatement companies that will come in and actually remove
all that for you. Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Back to the popcorn ceilings though for a second. Okay,
as you say, you hope that's a trend that never
comes back. Are there other trends that you think will
never come back? When it comes to interior design.

Speaker 8 (49:03):
I'm not a fan of really deep deep wood cabinets.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Sure, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
I just that that may or I mean, it's still
probably around, but I'm just not like the deep red
not red, but the red wood lines. Yeah, I'm just
I'm not. It's just kind of lighter, brighter, especially for

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and that leads me to like my when I go
into my clients, the first thing they ask is should
I gut this or should I repaint my cabinets? And
what you have to look at is the the if
the cabinets are still in really good shape, and we
can change hinges out all the time, Like if you

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have those exposed hinges that date it, change those out.
But if they're still in pretty good shape and you're
not changing the floor, you know, the footprint of the kitchen,
and they just want a facelift, then that is the
route to go. And I can't stress the finish that
Russ and his team does on I mean it is

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just night and day.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Okay, your average kitchen, Lisa, whatever averages. If you wanted
to start all over again and rip the ball out
and replace them, what's the ballpark number on that these days?
Not for the not for the best, most expensive, not
for the cheapest, but I mean for good quality cabinets.

Speaker 8 (50:33):
I mean it's going to run like at least thirty
up to depending on what you want thirty to eighty nine.
Thou wow, oh yeah, it will.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
That's crazy. And that's ingused house for that.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
It is like hardware backsplash, you know, just the building.
Because we had a client on the lake that we
did and it was an older house and she was
going to leave some cabinets and then I talked or
into gutting them just because they it wouldn't look right.
It was just it was water damage. And so Russ

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

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Right, because a lot of times, Lisa, the structure there
is better than even some of the new ones that
you right by. Right, it's actual real wood. There's a
lot of benefits to it, right, And like she said,
if you're not changing that footprint, painting them is a
fraction of the cost of replacing those.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Absolutely, even if you're talking about spending thirty thousand dollars
to later replace them on the.

Speaker 8 (51:42):
Those sides and it you know, the cost, it depends
on a lot of things that you choose. But a
lot of people have the low cabinets where they've got
everybody would put the nick knacks on top, and they
want those closed in. So you know, I'll get my
carbenter to come and close those in and then Russ
will come and paint them. Look, it really looks like.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
A disguise is the limit when it comes to these cabinets. Okay,
you know, Lisa, how many times you can replace the
You can replace the you can reface them. Right, do
all the doors which we could repaint all those They
can add a piece of crown mold up top. They
can add paneling to the ends. They can beef those
things up. If they're not all the way to the ceiling,
they can add trim to make it, you know, go

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to all the way up to the ceiling with a
piece of crown to trim it out up top to
make it look custom. And these are all things that
you can do that are a lot a fraction of
the cost of replacing them.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
We are Tom, We're out of time. Look at that,
just like that by quick Yes, so finishing Touch Team,
Finishing Touch Team dot com.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yes, you can call it Russ. People call they get
you right. Absolutely yeah. I answered my phone all the time. Gary,
got to answer your phone eight oh three four six
seven six seven five nights.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
And Lisa, Uh. Folks want to get a hold of
you directly to start the process working with an interior
designer who knows her stuff.

Speaker 8 (53:00):
Thank you, Gary v Alawn Interiors dot Com, v alon
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Speaker 9 (53:11):
N v elon aluk's good to see you both again,
Gary too, Gary, thanks so much, appreciate too.

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