Home Improvement Show 11-09-24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning, Welcome, it's the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands,
one of three point five FM and five sixty AMWBSCA.
It's wonderful to have you along on this Saturday morning.
My name is Gary David. Coming up. We'll can be
talking this summer from Beaver Roofing and Getters here on
the Home Improvement Show. Russ Marcasey Finishing Touch Team just
wrapped up a project at our house. We'll be talking

(00:30):
about that and Courtney Avin from Diamond Concrete Solutions also
will be joining us in this segment of the Home
Improvement Show of the Midlands for November the ninth. Thanks
so much for joining me. All right, we get things
started with mister electric Jeremy Holliday. Good morning, Sarah. How
are you good to see you Gary?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Doing great?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We want to talk about well keeping safe today. That's
what you know really when we talk about electricity, A
lot of what we talk about is keeping say right,
that's right. A lot of things can go wrong, especially
if you try to go it on your own. But
but today keeping safe as far as smoke detectors are concerned, Yes,

(01:13):
all right, you're an electrician. You know the issues that
can come up and I don't I don't know what
the stats are on this, Jeremy. But you know, when
there's a when there's a fire and something happens and
something catches wore, I'm guessing that a fair amount of
time there's some sort of an electrical issue that's caused that.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, it could be any kind of issue.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know, somebody can be smoking in bed or whatever.
But but but certainly electricity, you can can can be
achieve contributor.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
To Yes, electricity.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You want, you want the you want a good installation.
You want your electrical to be functioning properly. You want
all the safety devices in place. But on top of that,
smoke detectors are going to protect you from fires that
are caused uh by other things in the home.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know, and we're just talking about play old regular
you know, stick it up on the wall, put a
cold battery in a smoke detector, right, well? Or do
we need something more or are there better things available?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yes, when it comes to picking out the right smoke
detector for your needs, it's better to go with one
that's you know, been approved by testing laboratory. You recognize
that's right, you listed you want to you know, you
have things like ten year batteries.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Now in smoke detective smoke alarms.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
What's more, it's more irritating waking up on a Saturday
morning because there's this.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Deep yeah right under chained the battery.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Get your ladder out and get up there and deal
with something that you may not be familiar with.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
That I get it put back up properly? Is it
going to fall?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
While I live in a house one time you live
in a home that the one in the room over.
We had a huge room over, and it was they
placed it up high. But the only you get to
it was to have to place a ladder on the
steps to get right. Genius. But anyway, they couldn't have
to deal with that problem anymore. But so it got
ten year batteries and I did not know that. Yes,

(03:08):
now is they can you buy those fir us what
you may already have or is that a special smoke
detector that comes with a ten year battery?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well you can buy them, you can, Yes, you can
go to the local hardware store and purchase a ten
year battery smoke alarm. Absolutely the ones we do list now, yeah,
we carry them on our vans. You know, mister Electric
can come out and give you turnkey service.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
We have smoke detectors, well.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Smoke alarms, that's the true terminology form smoke alarms. And uh,
they're multi criteria, so they use different technology to detect
smoke or fires.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
And those are the more they're.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
They're the they're the recommended type of smoke alarm to
give you a better response rate, so it's going to
give you less nuisance alarms. But they also have a
ten year battery.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So oh, you know, I feel dumb because I thought
I smoked alarm as a smoke alarm, but apparently that's
not necessarily truth.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, they've advanced, like everything else, you know, so quick
to change the technology they have. The way they detect
smoke or fire. There's a photoelectric and ionization technology and
what that does is it's detecting if it's an open
flame or a smoldering fire.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Really yep.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
And they have you know, little microchips in them now
that can can can check double check.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Itself and make sure, hey, is this really something that
I need to be alarming.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
About and is there one particular type or one that
has particular functions or even a brand for that matter
that you and your experience have found is the best
to have if.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
The one we like, you know, it's a matter of opinion.
But the one that we install actually was on consumer
reports for being a very good uh smoke the smoke alarm,
and it's made by a company called you know U
s I U S I.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'm not here for us, I but thank you to
say that, just like I did.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, Now, what's what's the cost of one of these things?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, when we get to cost, I don't have
them in the top of my head.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Uh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean, is it that that much more expensive than
say the one you just go pick up at Walmart
or something.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
They're a little more spendye for the for the alarm itself.
You know, there's it's it. It's a variety of different
prices for different smoke alarms.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
Of Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
As far as what we purchase them for, I don't.
I don't have that information. But what we're not talking
about hundreds hundred of dollars? No, is there when it
comes to we're these alarms are located in the home.
I mean, is there a science to that or is
it just wherever the build or put it when they
build a house.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
There is a science to it there there.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You know, the way smoke flows through your home, the
way the way smoke rises in certain uh circumstances. You know,
if you if you put a smoke detector or a
smoke alarm, if you want to say smoke detective, that.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Smoke alarm, smoke detector. Anyway, what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Next to a vent, you know that's moving air, you
may have problems. So there's a distance you should be
away from those areas air intakes returns. Uh, you should
selling fans, exhaust fans, bathrooms. You need to be a
certain distance away from different areas just based on the
environment that they're going to be exposed to to not

(06:47):
confuse them. Right, So, uh, they need to be certain heights.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're always up high. Yeah, there's a reason for that.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I guess that's right.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
So if if you have a real high vaulted ceiling,
you may wonder why they put a smoke detector, you know,
so far up there you can't get to it.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
But there's a reason for that.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
And it's normally because that smoke is going to rise
to the ceiling before it starts filling up the house,
and so it'll be running across the top of the ceiling.
You know, they always tell you to get down on
the floor and crawl out of a fire, so you
can hopefully stay out of the smoke, because that's the
clearest areas, closer to the floor.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
So the ceiling is the most.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Contaminated area with smoke, and so that's why they put
them in the highest in the highest points of the home,
because that's where the smoke's going to go.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Is there a rule as to how many you need
to have in a home? I guess based on the
square footage of the home. Is there a good rule
of thumb for that?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, it's a you know, every third you a.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Two story house, you're gonna be one up and down.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, one on every level.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
A smoke detector in every bedroom, a smoke detector outside
the vicinity of every bedroom. So a certain footage radius, yes,
and then you know common areas.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
If I remember.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Correctly, the radius is thirty foot. So if you have
a smoke detector down there and the area is greater
than thirty foot, now you need to outside that radius.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
You need to add another one.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, let's say I don't know. Let's say a two
thousand square foot home, they're all laid out differently, of course,
maybe a different number of rooms and such. But I mean,
how many smoke detectors are we alarms are we talking
about and your average two thousand square foot home.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, I'd say about six or seven?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Really that many?

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, And I'm gonna guess that most people don't have
that many. No, No, I know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
That's the code, like we talked about before on the show,
is updated every three years and they find you know,
you know, they take data and they find out, you know,
you want one in multiple in multiple locations because you
also want them to be interconnected. And what that does
is if a fire happens on one side of the
house and you're on the other side of the house,

(09:01):
all those smoke detectors are going to go off. Rather
than the smoke detector getting to where the one rather
than the smoke getting to the one smoke alarm that
you have in the home, half of the house could.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Be a blaze at that point, you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, And how is how does that work that they're interconnected?
Is that through an app or something or the wire.
How does that work?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
The best system is a hard wired system and there's
a communication wire that runs in between them, all of them,
and they're and and they communicate with each other. So
when one goes off, they're all going to go off.
Give you a better response time?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, yeah, so more than likely. Unless your home was
just built in the last year or two three, maybe,
then chances are probably pretty good that at least a code.
You don't have enough of these in your home right now?

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow? Who knew?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, you know, that's why we do the safety check.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's one of the reasons talk about that.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yes, so we go when we come out to your house,
we'll do a safety check on the electrical system and
give you an idea how you can make your system
safer because of the all all the new safety devices
that we have coming.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Out that make your.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Electrical system a lot safer for you. And uh, you know,
that's one of the most dangerous systems in your house.
I put that next to gas. You know, is electricity
flowing through your walls everywhere throughout your home and you
want to make sure it's maintained properly. And that you
have all the safety devices in place that can help
protect you.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm just gonna bet that every time you do one
of these things, it's a real eye opener for the
home or business owner.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
It enlightens them a great deal, really does.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow. While we're on the topic of CO two detectors,
also something yes, so you ought to have yes, best
placement for those, and we have it in our bedroom
because it's like, okay, we would seem that that would
be you know, if you're asleep, that's when you really
of course it's odorless, right seeh too is odorless?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
So right, silent killer.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, I guess maybe multiple CO two detectors in a home.
Two would be the best idea.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, you definitely want one on every level.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Okay, if you have a garage it's attached to your home,
and you don't have any gas on your home, you
still want to have COEO detectors on every level, one
on every level at least.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Minimum, and then one where that door accesses the house
on the.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Garage on the garage. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, so that's just for a few leave.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Left left your car running and the garage door shut.
You got you know, carbon monoxide entering into the home,
right exactly. So, Uh, and then if you have gas
on the home, you definitely want to have your carbon
monoxide sure detectors. The ones the brand we install, uh,
like I said, they have we have a three in

(11:59):
one that a TECHT smoke, fire and carbon well that
we can do it all in one Unity's and.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Multi criteria type are the best ones, man.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
And the ones we install have a ten year battery
and so and then when we.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Talk about the cost of them, you know, it's a
fair price for everybody, and especially when you consider the
statistics that you find.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
The alternative not having them.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, if you go to the National Fire Protection Association website,
you can get a lot of information on there. I
think it is if I remember correctly, three of five
fire desks happen in homes with either no smoke alarms
or no working smoke alarms.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Right, yeah, year about that all the time. Unfortunately. Yeah, Jeremy,
how today he is mister electric around these parts. Get
ahold of them. Whether it's a safety check or you
have an electrical need, they can certainly take care of you.
How do folks reach Jeremy?

Speaker 3 (12:58):
You can reach us at eight zero three eight six
eight four to two four three, or go to our
website mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

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All right, good to see you, aboudy, good to see you.

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Speaker 6 (15:01):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I want to talk about roofs today and uh in
particular a service that you offer at Beaver roof and
Gutters and they talk about this when I you know,
talk about y'all all the time here on the on
during the weekday show. And you know, you guys, sure
you do roof replacements, absolutely, but not all local roofing
companies do roof repairs. You do, and you are not

(15:26):
going to put somebody to the back of the line
just because they have a minor problem. The problems a problem,
exactly exactly. Let's talk about you know, doing doing our
best and not get to the point where there is
a problem and that comes from something else you do
on a regular basis, and those are free roof inspections absolutely.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
So we always say, you know, new year, new me
kind of thing, or you know that sort of thing. Well,
new Year, let's check out your roof. A lot of things,
like our cars, we're like, oh, okay, it's kind of
in our face. We need to get the oil change,
we need to do these maintenance things. But you know, roof,

(16:04):
your roof doesn't come with a pop up light or
something that just goes off.

Speaker 9 (16:08):
It's just you know, you.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Start seeing stains on your ceilings and things of that
nature before before you're like, oh my gosh, this is
a problem. So yeah, yeah, we do free roof inspections
and that is where you know, we just go up
there take a look, see what's going on with your roof,
because I mean some people may, but not a lot
do get up on the roof and just take a check,

(16:31):
see what's going on. We have harsh summers, we have
harsh winters, and with that, you know, expansion contraction of
the ceiling in our roofs, and you know, things can
get out of whack before we know it. So yeah,
we we love doing those free inspections and helping out

(16:53):
our customers and seeing what we have, you know, what
we can do.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, I mean all came out to my parents' home
not long ago when we of that house on the
market and did a roof inspection. It's not just a
couple of small things, but it's a couple of hundred
bucks to get fixed. But I mean that was it.
But that that that certainly could could could save you
down the road because those little things eventually to become
big things.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
Absolutely, And like you, like you mentioned, you know you're
going on going on the market, you know, for the
new buyer, just you know, having that peace of mind knowing, hey,
we we have a roof inspection. We just had this
taking a look at Yep, we did the repairs that
were needed, but everything else looks good. So that also
is like a good you know, hey, we do have
a report for our roof. That's right, because they can

(17:37):
be costly if you know you have to have that
replaced or you know, that's just in the back of
people's minds whenever they're making that purchase. So yeah, that's
exactly right, and that we make the small repairs and
you know, let it roll. We're not going to say, oh, yeah,
you need a replacement absolutely because it's not always the case.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right exactly, So when your folks get up there, what
specific things they're looking for, we're the big things.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
That get right. So you know, maybe you know, just
an every day ruth inspection. We're gonna get up there.
We're going to take a look at any penetrations in
the roof and those will generally be pipe boots or events,
and obviously those do come out of the shingle, so
there is going to be a hole made there, so

(18:26):
we're going to check around those to make sure that
the celan that was placed during the insallation is not
dried up. Shriveled up or you know, even displaced from
wind or things things like that, because like I mentioned before,
harsh winters, harsh summers, expansion and contraction of that celing,
it happens. And and even those can be just a

(18:48):
pest whenever they start, you know, if they start leaking,
they'll come through you. You would see in the bathrooms
or the kitchens just you know, water staining or around
that area. And nine times out of ten that's what
it's from, one of those boots or penetration. So that's
one main thing we're looking at.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Does that seem to be the thing the thing that
most often is is an issue? Do you see You
see that.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
A lot, don't you We do, We see it a lot.
And and thankfully it's a it's a it's an easy fix.
You know, it's not, oh my goodness, we need to
you know, take half of your roof off in this
and that. You know, generally it's a nice easy fix
if you catch it early. You know, it can be
more you know, extensive. If it's leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking, leaking,

(19:33):
leaking and you don't know it. That's another thing. If
it's leaking, leaking, leaking and it's not coming into the ceiling.
If it's just like say, you know, just going into
the attic or into the insulation and it's catching, that
could lead to bigger problems. So that's another reason it's
great to have these these routine roof inspections every year.

(19:55):
It doesn't matter if your home is new or old,
because it's just nice to know what going on. So that's,
you know, another thing we're looking at around those.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yep, the pipe boots and fittings. All right, what else
are your folks looking at? Carefully?

Speaker 6 (20:09):
We're going to be looking for nail pops and that's
exactly what it sounds like. You know, sometimes the nails
pop up in the shingles from the installation. That generally
happens once the roof is showing a little bit of
age or if the if the shingle kind of gets
worn down a bit, not a big issue. What we

(20:31):
do with that is we put, you know, a little
dab of ceiling over that to make sure that that
is sealed and water cannot penetrate through that. Through that area,
we're also going to be looking for if there's any
debris on the roof that holds moisture. If you have
a lot of leaves, pine straw, things like that that

(20:51):
accumulates on your roof and it doesn't you know, come
off very easily, that can hold water and that water
is just going to be sitting there and that can
make its way through those cracks and it can lead
to possible decking a lot and would need to be replaced.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Right, you've mentioned before. I know we always hear the
thirty year shingle, the thirty year shingle in an environment
like we live here in South Carolina's about you that
summertime heat. I believe you've told us before. Yeah, thirty
year shingles aren't really thirty year shingles.

Speaker 6 (21:27):
They're not. No, they're getting about half of that life expectancy.
If you're getting about fifteen years out of your roos,
that's a great that's that's good. That's really really good because,
like we mentioned, the harsh the harshness of our of
the environment that we live in, hot cold, expansion, contraction,
The asphalt granules are coming off, you know, drying up

(21:52):
the ceiling. So yeah, yep, they are not thirty years.
There last thing about fifteen if if we're lucky, Yeah,
if you.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Say granules in your gutter, that's that's a sign there's
an issue. Or if you don't have gutters, then called
beaver roof and gutters too. By the way, absolutely problem
all you're at it. So now, okay, you get up
there and you I guess it depends on the roof
of the situation summer. At what point do you go, well,

(22:19):
you maybe you really do need a roof replaced. Here.
That's case by case base.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
It is kind of case by case. Like I said,
new old inspections. Whenever we get up there, and like
I mentioned, if the granules are just completely gone there's
nothing left on the roof, If there there are missing shingles, tabs,
you know that sort of thing, we're gonna say, Okay,
you know what it's we need to get our new roof.

(22:48):
So then at that point, like we can kind of think,
all right, number one, what is the age of this roof?
Number two? Is there storm damage? So that's another thing
that our guys are going to be looking at whenever
they go up there. If there's storm damage, tail, when
anything along those lines, you know, we can kind of say, hey,

(23:08):
maybe we can you know, look into getting insurance to
pay for this, or if it's too old, hey it's
time for a new roof, and you just you know,
do that retail. But there are a couple of things
that we look at to say, hey, let's go to
the insurance. You're out, Hey it's time to do retail.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, now you mentioned maybe a storm damage. Maybe it's
as old, but it could be both. Right, it could
be old roof is still have storm damage and still
insurance exactly.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
That is exactly right. And even that combination, you know
what they're doing, so it has if you just have
one oh, here's one piece of hell that's hit. Oh,
there's just two shingles that have been folded up from
the from wind damage. That's not Insurance is not going
to warrant that. And we're not going to say, oh, yes,
let's call your insurance. We're not going to have you

(23:58):
call them if we know that it's not going to
be you know, an actual a good case for you,
because you know we're going to help you through that
whole process. We're going to stand beside you. We're respected,
and that's how we want to stay. We don't want
to just be calling and trying to get claims any
and everywhere.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
All right, Beaver Roof Again Gutters winners in the state
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we'll probably talk about some gutters next time. The number
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To give you guys a call. What's the what's the
way to reach a summer at Beaver Roof Again Gutters.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
You call us at eight oh three nine nine one
roof and that's eight oh three nine nine one seven
six six three.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, and what is that website.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Beaverroofing dot com.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Terrific? All right, summer you at AJ and the folks
have yourself a great weekend. Always wonderful to talk to you,
and we shall chat again.

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Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hey, we welcome you back to the Home Improvement Show
of the Midlands here on one O three point five
FM at five sixty am WVOC and as always, it's
wonderful to have you with us. My name is Gary David.
Now join by our newest contributor to the program, back
for the second time. Hey, it's Russ Marchesi, the Finishing
Touch team Rose. Good morning, my friend.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Good to be here, Gary, good to be here.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Now I had to tell you we would we We
had discussed this a couple of weeks ago. We just
moved into a new home and the master back. My
wife is as I've established, she enjoys painting. She really
does right. Uh you know me, I can take her
to leave it.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
It's an acquired taste.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, but I'm you know, litten put I'd rather paint
than hang a ceiling fan.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
So but anyway, we got to talk at a couple
of weeks ago and the master bathroom on her new house.
She wanted to she wanted it done, but she wanted.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
It done right.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
And it's kind of a weird setup. There's a lot
of angles, a lot of uh, you know, a lot
of trim word it is and this and that it was.
It was good. So so we talked, I tell you what,
let's have your guys do this now. So y'all came
out and uh, and we went through the whole process
and you know, got got an estimate and got everything,
you know, which very cool. I mean, the way you

(28:06):
do things. And we've we've talked about this before. I
appreciate that. You guys.

Speaker 7 (28:10):
You know, your focus is on customers. We strive itary
we really do. We strive on it. It's it's it's
one of our number one mottos.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
It really is. Gary, It's uh, there's nothing worse.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
I can't tell you how many times, Gary, I've shown
up to a customer's home for an estimate and they'll
tell me you're the fourth person that I called and
the only one that has shown up amazing. It just
is and I could never wrap my head around that.
You know, for for twenty two years, I've never once,
uh you know, just completely blatantly miss an appointment. You know,

(28:41):
things come up and you have to you have to
reschedule sometimes, right just life haskets in touch. But you
have to do what you say you're gonna do. And
that's that's super important for us. That's that's absolutely number one.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
That really is absolutely And as on aside here because
you get your hands Darty, you own the company, but
you get your hand We had a talking about an
article I saw last week on the morning show here.
I think it was Home Depot I believe it was
somehow anyway where they now have a rule. This was
this is every company should do this. They now have

(29:14):
a rule that they're executive members have to go at
least once a quarter and spend a day in a
store on the front lines.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
I agree. I think that's great.

Speaker 7 (29:26):
I mean, in that fact, I think that's great, absolutely absolutely.
And you know, between myself and my partner Winston Winston
Hawkins is my partner in the company, and between the
two of us, we're roaming around constantly Gary, checking out jobs,
talking to customers.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
We just have to.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
It's a it's a quality control type type thing for us.
We have eight foremans that work for us as well
that do the same thing, so between you know, almost
ten of us, basically, Gary, you know, we're monitoring things
and making sure that you know, now not only quality
is correct, but just simple logistics.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, you get one chance, right, that's it.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
You get one chance.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
You have to you have to make a good impression.
And I and I really do feel that that's why
we've been so successful for twenty two years is just
you know, the service and the quality it's got to
be there.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
It has to be due to business the right way.
So you know, we came out by Actually was I
was here at the at the station at the time,
and you dropped by. My wife was here and she
was blown away by the whole process. And then you
and I talked later in the day and you said, okay,
we're coming out and was this past Thursday? Yep? And
Friday correct? You said it'll be a two day job.

(30:39):
And I thought to myself, Wow, it's like a you know,
it's a master bathroom but it's not that big. And
then I realized what we had talked about. Absolutely yeah,
because this is not it has to be yeah, finishing
touch team. If somebody, if you hire a painter to
come do a refresh for you, and all they're doing

(31:00):
is coming in and slapping a coat of paint up
on what's already there. You just got taken.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
It's a rush job. Then it just is you know,
you have to have time for you have to have
curing times. Right, So when we come in, part of
our pain job, Gary, isn't just you know, fixing a
little nail hole here and there, slapping.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Some pain on.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
Okay, we take care of all the imperfections. We sand
your walls down.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I mean you guys took it right down to the
shoe rock.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
We cover everything, you know, immensely, like a like a
tense we call it in the industry, cover it like
a tent as you saw it. And we do all
our patchwork. But that's got to dry. It's got a cure, okay.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
You know.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
And a lot of folks what they do is they
go out there and they use force dried materials and
they try to cut corners and get it done in
one day. Okay, sure, we just don't do that. Okay,
you've got to let it dry. We'll come back the
next day. We send all those pats, all that patchwork
down that we repaired, Okay, we use correct specific primers

(32:01):
for those areas. Then we go a step further as
you've seen, and we spot prime once again with the
actual finish paint.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
Then we put the two coats on like we do, right,
and that really makes for a job well done.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
It just does.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
And it's just, uh, you've got to go you got
to go above and beyond, and that is just that
is our standard paint chop. Yeah, we're going to do
that every single time. It's just how it goes.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
So often, folks that that we have on the show
here we talk about this because it's almost as what
you do when you get to that, when you finally
get to that that that second code of that first
it's like Goda paint. That's like the icing on top
of the cake. It is all the hard work is
everything that comes before that, the preparation to make that
surface ready to as you mentioned, get rid of the

(32:52):
imperfections because let's face it, I mean you well, you
saw the wall in our house, and you know when
we bought that house, whoever came in there and he
did it. I mean, they did just what we were
talking about. They went in and slapped a coat of
paint over all the imperfections, and it showed there.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Were a lot. Yeah, you could see them all over
the place.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's crazy.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
Just where maybe they removed a towel bar in your bathroom,
all right, and you know, just did a quick patch
job on it. You can see those those those issues
on there. So that's what we corrected for you. And yeah,
it's you have to do it, you know. I can't
tell you how many times as well. We always put
it a minimum of two coats of paint on everything. Gary, Okay,

(33:29):
even if we're going over existing walls with the same color.
I have customers ask me all the time, well it's
the same color, can we just put one coat on?
It makes all the difference in the world to put
that second coat on. It really really does. For clean ability,
for to be able to wipe the walls down, to
make it last, for the longevity, you really have to

(33:50):
put that second coat on it.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's been very, very important. It absolutely is excellent.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well, I can tell you we were thrilled with it
and my wife fantastic.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
It's just it came out right.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
It really did. It really did. So you do home,
you a lot of you, a lot of a lot
of you do a big job, I mean commercial big stuff.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Absolutely the same way though, right, same exact way. Absolutely. Yeah, painting,
you know, whether it's commercial or is it residential painting, Gary,
We're always going to have the same system, the same quality,
using the same products. We don't skimp on products, by
the way. Okay, you hear that. You know it's it's

(34:32):
you hear this a lot like in the past, where
you know you'll have painters watering paint down using cheap paints.
In all honesty, paint is really the cheapest part of it.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (34:44):
We have to use the best quality paints no matter
what it makes. It makes all the difference, uh, for
the outcome of the job, for it to look right.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Okay. And we do a lot of commercial painting as well.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
We use the same products. Uh, super high quality products
from Sherwin Williams is what we use. Matter of fact,
we just got done doing the Performing Arts Center on
Platt Springs road.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
It came out an absolutely beautiful, beautiful, beautiful building.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
So yeah, we do anything from you know, high schools,
performing arts center to a customer's bathroom or kitchen.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Right yeah, and we got about a minute and a half,
about two three minutes here. I want to ask you
about this again because you brought this up a couple
of weeks ago. When it comes to kitchen cabinets or
cabinets and bathrooms or or wherever you guys, this is
something you specialize in. Is rather than redoing all your cabinetry,
you guys can come to the rescue, tell us what

(35:41):
you do.

Speaker 7 (35:41):
We do so it is a fraction of the price
of replacing your cabinets, okay, stained cabinets, or if you
just want to change the color, okay, it is a
fraction of the price. You get a lot of bang
for your buck refinishing the cabinets. And we have it's
a it's a special niche of ours. We have a
state of the art spray booth in our warehouse right

(36:03):
here in Irmo, and we remove your cabinet doors. We
do all the preparation work on it. You mentioned about
the prep work. We go extensively on the prep work.
When it comes to cabinetry, we use all sorts of
different fillers, bondos to fill any little gaps and knicks. Again,
we use fantastic products on that and we we spray

(36:25):
to coats of course after priming, and they come out
absolutely beautiful every time. We really enjoy doing cabinetry. We
really do.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
It's a special niche of ours that we that we
we take pride in.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
We really do well. I think we all know. If
you want to replace kitchen cabinets, that's an arm and
both arms and mobile sure is it really realises it's
it's a great way to do it, and you can
you can disguise the limit when when it comes to
kitchen cabinets, right or vanities in your room.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
If you want to just accent something, or you have
a kitchen island perhaps that you want to just spruce
it up and change the color to add a little
color of pop to it, it's a great way to
do it.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
You've been doing this. I think you told me since
you were eight. You started eight years of years and
your dad started this guy, yes, sir, and it's been
family owned now for twenty two years. Let's face it
these days and times, nobody lasts that long. But not
doing the job right, absolutely, yeah, no, it's Uh.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
He would drag me along when I was eight years
old and uh, picking up wallpaper scraps and sanding down
all sorts of trim and whatnot. And now he's great
and yeah, but twenty two years, it's been a long
time him and I've been doing it. So he just
retired this past spring. He retired, Yeah, he sure did.
And he's enjoying himself down in Florida fishing. So good

(37:38):
for him, that's what he's doing now. It's good for him,
absolutely all right.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
So again, whether it's like in our situation, a bathroom
or it's a performing arts center, I mean, it's from
from march to small. I mean there's there's nothing that
you guys don't do very diversified with that as you
have to be right and again remember the process. Don't
be shocked like I was when you when you get
ahold of these folks, you find out that even a
small job is going to be a two day job.

(38:02):
It is because the thing is being done the right way.
That's right, And uh, I get it. This is the
first experience I've had like this. Wow, I didn't know
that this was the right way.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
Absolutely. You know a lot of people are like that, Gary.
They just don't you know, they don't know what they
don't know. And that's okay, but that's what we're here for.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
You know.

Speaker 7 (38:20):
We're here to educate and uh you know, and you know,
give give a great service.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
All right, Well and tell you what. How can folks
get a hold of you a Finishing Touch Team and
then get it get a free est bed as well.

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Yeah, you can always call me eight zero three four
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Speaker 1 (38:37):
All right, terrific Russ. Thanks again, beautiful job at the house.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
We'll have to figure out what our next project is. Man.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
Absolutely, you got it all. But I have a some
good weekend, thanks Garry.

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Speaker 1 (40:48):
Hey, welcome back to the Home Improvement Show the Midlands.
Already into our final segment. Here is the hours flying
on by, and we sure appreciate you joining us here
on one of three point five FM and five sixty
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the morning, at least for this show. And that his
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Speaker 12 (41:08):
Good morning Cary. How are you well?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Good to see Can you believe we're already here a
couple of weeks away from Thanksgiving Day?

Speaker 12 (41:14):
I mean this, it's the first half of the year
took forever, it felt like in the second half just
was a blink.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
It's flown on by. Sure has so this this time
of the year. As we I was gonna say, inch,
I think we're not Injing. We're like yarding or something
closer to the holidays here. What what keeps you guys
busy this time of the year.

Speaker 12 (41:34):
Well, you know, we had to pause some of our
outdoor and pool and residential projects in the real hot
part of the late summer. Yeah, and we had some interruptions.
You know, Hurricane Debbie and Hurricane Helene really had us.
I feel like we're still kind of digging out after
Hurricane Helene. So many people were without power in our
area and upstate and all over the you know, North
Carolina and South Carolina area for so long that you know,

(41:57):
we were not trying to fight for resources. We've got
generators and propane tanks and all sorts of stuff, but
we thought people people need those. We were we were
giving those out to customers to use while they needed those.
So we sort of paused some install because of that.
We're kind of catching back up on a lot of
the residential projects right now. Some beautiful pool overlays and

(42:18):
uh porches, staining decorative overlays that look like stone with
beautiful texture. Some hardwood overlays, beautiful gray hardwoods that's sort
of the popular color right now. And so we are
you know, finishing some of those things up and then
you know, we've we've had some great commercial projects as well.
This time of year, government and some other folks are

(42:41):
trying to you know, spend budget money. They're trying to
order things that they can spend, you know, have a
write off before the end of the year, that kind
of thing. Or it's a great time of the year
to book us. If you're a restaurant or some sort
of a service industry when you maybe are closed for
a little bit over the holidays. People are getting booked
up for that right now as well. So we're we're

(43:02):
almost completely booked out through the end of the year.
With residential projects, wow, we are starting to book you know,
some January for that. It's hard because with Thanksgiving and Christmas,
people don't want you in their space. So we got
to really time those and try to get those finished
up before the end of the year for folks so
that they're not you know, having a construction project in
the middle of the holidays.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
But as you said in the past, this is especially
for these like pool decks. Yeah, in the outdoor concrete
project rehabbing. This is a good time of the year
to do it. And it's fabulous because when it's hot.
It's too hot. You can't do it.

Speaker 12 (43:35):
You can't do it right, No, it won't work. And
when it's that hot, you want to use your pool.
So you know, if we have you know, you shut
down for five days or so, and then maybe you
have a rain interruption because the rains always breaking that
heat in the hot part of the year. You know,
your project can have you shut down for longer than
you want. If you've got a pool, you want to
be enjoying. So this is a great time. We just

(43:56):
finished a beautiful pool project. They had a extension done
as well, which we helped with. We've got a masoner
that we work with on that now locally. He's fabulous.
So they did a big extension around their pool. And
then of course they've got like some you know, fifteen
year old ugly concrete and then they've got some brand
new concrete and it just looks terrible.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
It just doesn't.

Speaker 12 (44:18):
You try to put a reclining chair out there, and
it just looks like you're already in the middle of
a construction zone. It doesn't match. The floor is you know,
clean on one spot and dirty on another. And you
want to protect that new stuff and spruce up that
old stuff. So we gave them a beautiful stone overlay.
Everything is looks like a natural stone now and is
a beautiful color that matches the natural colors of the

(44:40):
house and the yard and the fence and other things
out there. So that's something we're really proud of. That
should be up on the website soon.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Very good. And how often do you see that. You
go to a home, let's say, and maybe the side
walks one shade of whatever and the driveways another shade
of whatever.

Speaker 12 (44:57):
Yeah, we've got a huge driver we're working on right now.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I want to say.

Speaker 12 (45:00):
It's between three and four thousand square four massive, and
it's got some really bad oil stains, and it's it's
not old, it's fairly new actually, and the homeowner is like,
oh my gosh, I've got to protect the life of this.
It's fairly new concrete. But the opportunity for things to
go south quickly over the winter or are there right,
you're gonna get some freezing potential cracking.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
I was gonna say, how does that effect you know
when it gets really and thankfully we don't get that
terribly cold that often around here, but you know, we
had was it is it last year or cherry before
when we had that? What was the Christmas?

Speaker 6 (45:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (45:33):
Freeze over Christmas?

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah, hard freeze.

Speaker 12 (45:35):
You know, we always have a little bit of freezing weather.
And all it takes is really once if you've got porous,
open concrete that hasn't been sealed, and you get water
on it, and that water is going down in those pores,
and as soon as it has the chance to freeze,
it's gonna expand that's how you get cracking. Now, I mean,
you're gonna get cracks in concrete regardless. Hopefully you have

(45:56):
good joints. The relief joints are going to make that
crack go where it's supposed to go, so that you
don't compromise the integrity of the concrete if it's been poured. Well,
you know, older concrete has fewer joints. We know newer
concrete needs more, so we usually give them more.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Exactly the concrete it may these days, it's cheaper meils.

Speaker 12 (46:13):
It is cheaper, it's softer, it's cheaper. Everybody's adding water,
they're cutting, they're already adding water to concrete. We know
that that's a problem, right, So yeah, whatever you can
do to to protect new concrete. And that's that's something
that we really specialize in. And uh so the you know,
the way to make it last longer and increase the
value of your home even I mean, that is such
a huge facelift. When you have this old, ugly, beautiful house,

(46:37):
let's say in Governor's Grant or somewhere in Heathwood or
one of these really nice neighborhoods where people's uh, you know,
their their curb appeals really important, and then you have
this ugly concrete. It really changes the look and feel
of your entire home. It's almost like getting landscaping done.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
So oh yeah, absolutely. How often do y'all show up,
whether it's a home of business or whatever, to discover
that the concrete is not sealed.

Speaker 12 (47:04):
I'm gonna guess that's well, no outdoor concrete is sealed. Typically,
indoor concrete will have some sort of a mild or
basic sealer to it. That's pretty standard with like slab homes.
For interior concrete, it's not gonna last you long. It's
gonna you know, wear and tear is going to result

(47:24):
in some need for further protection on indoor concrete. If
you've exposed it and are going to use it in
your home or your business. Outdoor concrete is never sealed
unless you have somebody like us come after the masonr
and seal it. Now, some people are doing like a stamping,
a manufactured stamping at the time of pouring. So you
do get some good life out of that kind of
a thing, but it's a very different look than what

(47:45):
we do. We do all handstamping. But yeah, that is
an alternative interet.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Okay, huh. Now, once it is sealed, and I know,
and we'll get into it, it's more. You do more,
just come out seal it. But once it is sealed,
how long can you expect that seal to last last?

Speaker 12 (48:06):
So there's permanent and semi permanent sealers. Permanent's obviously more expensive.
Semi permanent does a great job though. I think we
did a semi permanent on our own driveway. It lasted
between three and four years before we needed to do
it again. So we see about every two to three
years on average, and you need to redo it. The

(48:27):
more times you redo it, the stronger it becomes, and
then you can stretch out those that timeframe.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
How do you know that what's the tailtail sign. You
look at your concrete and okay, it needs to be
sealed again. If you've already had a sealed once.

Speaker 12 (48:41):
It'll start to look dull. You'll start to see it
look dull. You'll also start to see some maybe staining
or some you know, weed growth in the joints, or
maybe you'll see some water that penetrates, you know, if
it rains. You can see the difference between dry and
wet concrete. If you can see the difference, it's not
sealed or the seiler is starting to wear off and

(49:04):
it's going to need to be replaced.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
But good process and no matter what you do, it
all starts with with grinding down the concrete surface to
begin with.

Speaker 12 (49:17):
Right, Yeah, so new concrete sometimes all you need is
a pressure wash before we do, you know, like a
harder soft press pressure wash to open those pores back up.
New concrete is already pour us, especially outdoor concrete. Right
if you've got sealed concrete, you know, indoor concrete, or
if you've got older concrete, we always recommend that you
grind it first.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
And what's what purpose does that, sirve?

Speaker 12 (49:39):
That really just takes the top layer of any discoloration off.
But it also opens the pores of the concrete so
that the material that is going to be put down
after the grinding will go into those pores and adhere
and really close and seal them. So if you don't
open them up enough, then you're not going to get
really good penetration of the proper and you're also not

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going to help get rid of some of the impurities
that you want to get rid of before you put
something down.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Okay, so you talk about grinding and ceiling, you talk
about staining.

Speaker 12 (50:11):
Yes, staining is a great cost effective overlay type of
a product. So you get a beautiful look like a polishing,
polishing with a dye application, which is ultimately a stain
or a grind. Stain and seal two completely different processes
but very similar looking outcome, very cost effective, especially if

(50:33):
you have larger spaces you're trying to treat. But what
they do is the staining often gives you some really
nice character to the floor.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Well, you're changing the actual color of the concrete.

Speaker 12 (50:43):
You're changing the color absolutely. So you've got a die
or a stain that soaks into those pores and then
when you seal it, it richens. That color almost saturates
that color. Even if you do more of a mat
finish or a gloss finish, that seiler really saturates the
stain color we've put down, and you'll have some gradient
to the floor. It's not all necessarily going to be

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one opaque color like an epoxy, which is full coverage,
but that stain will give you some gradient, some texture,
some character, so that if you have different colors surrounding it,
or area rugs, or if you have even if it's
just a functional color but you want it to look
nicer than raw concrete, you know, there's a really cost effective,
great way to make things more functional but beautiful as well.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
I always talk about this when I talk about you
all that you go into like industrial warehouse, Yes that
have this big heavy machine.

Speaker 12 (51:37):
Or yeah, twenty four to seven in some case absolutely yep.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
And boy that'll wear some concrete down.

Speaker 12 (51:44):
It sure will. And it needs to be protected. I mean,
obviously those facilities have pretty strong safety regulations. They're going
to be inspected or they're trying to keep you know,
accidents to a minimum, if not zero right, zero days
since the last accident, that sort of thing. And and
we can protect that concrete so that the functionality remains

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for a longer period of time, even if it means, hey,
you know over Christmas, we're going to shut down for
a week. We have a lot of large industrial spaces
that do that. They have periodic shutdowns where we come
in and other vendors for other things that they need
to maintain come in and do those things.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
The things you're doing in those environments, though, it's pretty
much the same thing you do as somebody's house sometimes.

Speaker 12 (52:25):
Yeah, definitely for polishing. Now, we're not going to put
safety lines in somebody's house.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
I get. The point is is your process absolutely can
withstand all that heavy machinery, yes, constantly on it. So
this is the same idea what you're doing in somebody's
house or they're with their driveway, their sidewalk.

Speaker 12 (52:44):
Right, Yeah, I mean that surface user wear and tear,
you know, that is there. You have to treat it right.
You can't, you know, mistreat it too terribly and clean
it with the wrong products, or you know, drop drop
weights on it. Let's say it's your man cave and
you drop a bunch of weights on it and crack it.
That's not gonna you know it's one hundred percent fool proof,
but in the long room, something like polishing for sure

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that densifies and strengthens the floor, whether it's residential or commercial.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
All right, Diamond Concrete Solutions, I always are supposed to
go to your website or your social pages to see
what it is we're discussing here, So head there and
then to call to get a free estimate.

Speaker 12 (53:21):
What folks, Yeah, give us a call eight o three
seven nine eight two eight nine. We'll get you set
up for a free estimate if you want that up
an appointment to come in and take a look at
some samples. We can do that too, Diamondconcrete Solutions dot
com as well. And yeah, we'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Corney EV and Diamond Concrete Solutions have yourself a good.

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