Home Improvement Show 12-20-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning and welcome. It's the Home Improvement Show of
the Midlands on one three point five FM and five
sixty am WVOC. Happy to have you with us on
this Saturday morning. My name is Gary David. Coming up.
We'll be talking at Trey Powell from Mosquito Joe. We'll
let chat about well it's not Mosquito Sees anymore, but
you might be surprised at how soon they could be
reinfiltrating your backyard and all the other things that tray

(00:33):
and the folks at Mosquita Joe stay busy with this
time of the year to help you out. Russ Barcasey,
the owner of the Finishing Touch Team. We'll talk about
trends and painting and such and you know interior fashion
that have come and gone over there nearly twenty three
years in business, and what the trends are right now
and what he expects for the future when it comes
to those colors and such in your home. Right now though,

(00:53):
we get it away with Jeremy Halliday, mister Electric and
good morning to you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good morning Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't guess you have to really well I know
maybe you do. You don't really talk trends and electricity.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I mean there are there are things that come out
all the time that you know, make enhance a homeowners
experience and such, and certainly from a from a code issue.
I know we've talked about this before. Every what couple
of years, the codebook is updated, and you know, yeah,
it gets into our discussions and we'll we'll talk about
this morning on the on the on the safety checks
that you all do in electric But yeah, but what
I mean we we've seen you've been doing this for

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a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh yeah, fourth generation wow.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, wow, the Haliday family, uh boy, but it's certainly
over that amount. We've seen a lot of improvements and enhancements,
uh for the homeowner. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
My grandfather used to tell me, you know where I'd
wire this house in one day and it's like, yeah,
you had one outlet and one light fixture in each room.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right and the bare bullbaging from the ceiling in the
kitchen right. Yeah, But it was since you've been doing it,
I mean, you've you've seen a lot of fun new
stuff come out that oh yes, I mean really just yeah,
it makes life of the homeowner or the business owner
that much simpler, and I don't know what's Are you
seeing anything new on the horizon coming down one of
these days?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, anything that the customer would be interested in.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean there's all kind of home enhancements as far
as you know, smart lighting, smart switches.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's really been the big revolution. Yeah, that's really the
big thing.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
And then you know all kinds of lighting you can
put on the exterior of or how some of the
stuff we're starting to look at, you know, for permanent Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Lighting things like that.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh really, Yeah, there's all kinds of things out there
as far as lighting goes. That is always surprising when
you see it. But you know, the EV chargers something.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, yeah, what are those things? Aren't cheap? Are they?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
I have no idea, man, I guess there's a range
there depending on what you get and how fast you
want your car to charge. You know, they got different
levels for different types of chargers.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So different strokes for different folks, right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
So, uh the USB outlets, you know, those were pretty
cool when they came out in the USB USB c uh.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh man, there's so much stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You got the r G B w uh type lights
like color a million different colors. You know, different shades
of every color you can think of.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Which I'm a big fan of. My wife detests. She
normally wins out on that argument. Right every now and then,
I'll just I want to make this red today about that? Right? Yeah? Sure?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Christmas time red and green? Yeah right, I mean what
go wrong with that?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Right?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
We get we have customers we do under cabinet lighting,
you know, and we can do the r GBW type
under cabinet lights and they can change all the colors,
and some customers are into it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
They just love it, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sure. So and again most all all these sorts of things,
I mean that they're very you know, they're very affordable,
right oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Sure, sure, absolutely, Uh, and they're they're getting to be
easier to install.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
You know, some stuff plug and play. You know, you
might be able.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
To uh figure it out on your own if you're
a do it yourself er. Uh, you just want to
make sure you're doing it the correct way, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
So, yeah, because as we all know, electricity can be
dangerous if not the correct way.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
If you you know, a hazardous situation doesn't always uh
spark or uh trip a breaker until the day it does.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Right, and then it may be too lately.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, So you know, and if you do have a
tripping breaker, you don't want to just constantly reset it
because that's when you kind of look at that as
your house is asking you for help.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right, you're just sputting a band aid over a gaping
chest wound. Right.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, yeah, you know, if you if you if you
plugged in a you plugged in a space heater or
something and it tripped a breaker and you you know,
you isolated it to that and remove that, then a
lot of times it's okay. Uh, but we always do
some try and figure out why that breaker tripped before
we reset it.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Things. You know, so you have tripping breakers, don't just
reset them.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I gotta tell you I've been guilty that I
know better now.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Uh, I don't.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I don't know if if well, it's gonna have an
impact on everything at some point in time, but you know,
do you do you foresee a role for artificial intelligence
in what we do in our homes when it comes
to electric I mean.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh we're getting out, yeah, oh yeah, we're going we're
going away to you today.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But we've got the smart things, you know. I mean
that that was now, and that was this wasn't aheard
of a decade ago. You know, the things we've got
in our homes right now, nobody would have fund that
we could walk in and say a name and say
turn on this or turn on that, and gosh, smart refrigerators.
Last thing I want is a refrigerator with a screen
on the front of it. And now some of them

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are even popping up pop up ads encouraging you to
buy this. Yeah, no, thank you.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
You gotta be care for what you say in their
own house now, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Can we go there? But I don't. I guess there's
at some point in time you got to think that,
you know, the next phase and it's already here. Artificial
intelligence is gonna play a role in some way, shape
or form and what you do, and and.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Oh yeah, it already is. You know some of the
things we do. There's help.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
You know, there's help on our software system now, so
when the guys are out in the field, they're using
their their software, uh AI can help with questions things
like that, you know what's going on. So there's a
lot of different things where AI is coming in. I'm
not real familiar on all of it. But I do
have my theories, and you know, I can get pretty

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deep with the AI.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Theory in general electricity.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well with it all, you know, so, uh, but I
won't go there.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
It is.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
It is interesting seeing what's coming out and and just
imagine the possibilities that you know, you can't.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Good and bad.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
It might not even be able to fathom, you know,
right exactly from what people are.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
From what I hear, I sure, Ida, But you.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Know, no matter what the enhancement, no matter what the
technical advancements and all of that, still electricity is electricity.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's right. That is not change.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, as far as I know that's AI is not
going to replace electricity. It's still going to be wiring.
It's still going to be circuit breakers, it's still going
to be I mean, gosh, Jeremy, I mean, I've never
stopped to think about this, but how many different points
could there be in your homes wiring that could cause
you an issue? I mean there's lots and lots and

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lots of.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Guess oh yeah, there's connections on every switch, every receptacle,
every fixture, and then you know junction boxes and your panels.
There's connections everywhere, and that's normally where you're going to
have an issue, is you know, the point where it's
connected to something in that connection bad or electronics. Now
we got electronics and everything. So without surge protection, you're

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really leaving yourself open to having some problems with things
because everything has electronics in it now. So if you
get a surge through your home, that's big enough. I mean,
it can wipe out some stuff right away.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So right, we think us consumers, we normally think, okay, yeah, great,
I'll put a I'll put a you know, a molt
box on that thing. You know, that's a surge protector
and all. But that's not the only thing you can do, right,
you can do a lot more than that, right.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Oh yeah, that's a good start, and we want you
to keep those items if you you know, we want
to put in a whole home searge protector and that's
now required on new homes.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's according to the twenty twenty code. Yeah, well you would.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Need to have if you built a new home, you'd
need to have search protection on that main panel to
protect the appliances and things in that house. And so
we offer that we offer different grades. We always try
to get you to go with the highest grade has
a lifetime product warranty and it's fairly reasonable installed if

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the situation is you know, standard so and we have
coupons and all kinds of things online. You can look
up at mister Electric dot com forward slash Columbia.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
So you put in your surge strips.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's like a backup, a secondary type of surge protection
that we always say you need to have on each
item because your home creates surges.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
So okay, so the surge could come from not from
outside your home but self generated.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Right, yeah, So any motor kicking on can create a
small surge, and I don't normally deteriorate the life expectancy
of your appliances. So if you have something fail in
five years and you think it should have lasted ten,
if it has electronics in it and you have no
surge protection, that could be part.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Of the reason.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, So all along we've been thinking they just don't
make things as good as they used to it, but
maybe that's not really the issue here.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah right, yeah, they make them all with circuit boards
in them now, all right, prone to fail?

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right exactly? You mentioned with the whole home surge protection
that typically is it's it's pretty straightforward install typically. Does
that mean that maybe older, older homes there may be
some modifications that need to be made or.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, if you don't have space in your panel, you know,
there's a you know, if the panel is in a
location that you that isn't conducive to putting that big
surge protector on there. Our surge protection has two LED
lights on it. If there's not room inside the panel, uh,
you know for that surge protector to fit to try
and hide those lights.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
And then.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
You know, there's different situations the panels you know, obsolete, outdated, Uh,
can't really do anything with it because it's hazardous. You know,
we won't add circuits to it, things like that. So
there's there's different things that can present itself there. We'd
we'd we do free quotes, so if you called us

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out and we found that situation, we'd let you know
about it and give you a price up front how
to fix it and how to get that surge protection installed.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
So regardless of the situation, there's a way to get it. Yeah,
maybe a little more if certain obstacles are in the
way I guess that's right. Yeah, your your safety checks
that you guys do, and you do this every time
you go out to to a home or of business.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, we every every home, every service call we go
on for residential, not businesses, we'll do a safety check
on that home. Now, if we've just done one, well,
then you know, if you call us back in a
month to put in some lighting or something, yeah, we
probably won't be doing a safety check at that point, right,
unless you want us to do we can do it.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
We can revisit it. We'll revisit the one we did,
you know.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
But yes, every call we go on residential, we want
to perform a home safety check on your house.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
And that's complementary.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
There you go, And I suspect that again, a lot
of people think of electrician. You're only going to call
electrician when you've got a problem something working, you know, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But I mean, you guys have missed electric Do you
do spend a lot of time doing things other than
just fixing problems?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, we install all kinds of stuff. We do
home enhancements. But you know, whatever you need electrical to
your property, Uh, we can do it. So, uh we
install ev chargers.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
We uh you guys do generators generators.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, so you install generators.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
We can sell install the generators or just yes sir.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yes sir.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
We we also do uh generator inlets, so you know,
if you don't lose power a lot, but you just
like to have that peace of mind and security there
that if you did lose power for a few days,
you could have some lights and TV and uh maybe
refrigerators kept on. We can do a generator inlet and
you'd go by you one of those portable generators and

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plug it in and back.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Feed your So this this Enlanton is kind of wired
to the major appliances in the house, I guess.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, wires straight to your panel box and then we'll
put an interlock kit on that panel box so that
you can only have the you can only have the
generator on when the main is shut off, all right,
And so that'll protect our linemen who are out there,
you know, trying to get our power back on.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
We want to keep them safe absolutely.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
So that's cool because it so so no longer you
have to like, you know, get up the big orange
long extinction cable and running from outside your home through
a window or something or a door you know, into
and plug the refrigerator into it or what have you.
Always I've ever owned a generator, and thankfully really have it.
Other than during Hugo all those years ago. I never
had the power out for that terribly long but still,

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so this would would allow you without having to go
through all of that, just crank up a generator outside.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, it's a good thing to have, really very convenient.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, like you say, when Hugo, once that happens, they're
hard to come by.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah, we remember those days and fortunately we didn't
really need a miss of course. Still, but not long
ago we had Helen come through here. That's right, a
little over a year ago, and I know some folks
lost power for extended periods of time.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think of that big wind storm.
Is that when we had that big wind storm?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah that was September of twenty four.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Wow, Yeah, that was Helen came through and that was
a doozy.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah. We got lucky this past summer. Yeah with that, thankfully,
and hopefully we will next summer as well. So the
bottom line is here, I mean, there's a lot you
guys have to offer folks at mister Electric again not
just fixing a problem, but enhancing a home inside outside.
And maybe the most important thing again, as you said
you do, is those those complimentary safety checks.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yes, sir, I mean there's.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
You know, even the most talented di wire homeowner. I'm
going the guests that electricity is probably the one thing
that we really have no clue about.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, and it's one of the dangerous systems in your home,
you know that and gas. So those are two things
that you know aren't as forgiving as other items in
your home.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
So it's always good to have.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
A qualified person come in that knows what they're doing,
does it all the time, does it for a living,
and can do it the right way the first time,
and gets you taken care of and you know it'll
keep you safe.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
So rain or shine, weekday, weekend, holiday, regular working day,
you guys are always available at mister Electric.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, they can reach us at eight zero three eight
six eight four two four three, or they can go
online and reach us at mister Electric dot com forward
slash Columbia.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
All right, Jeremy Holliday, mister Electric, good to see you.

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are back on the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands
and we are back with Trey Powell from Mosquito Joe.
Good morning to you, Trey. How are your brother?

Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'm doing terrific. How about you?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm doing well, man doing well. The uh mosquito season
is done for twenty twenty five doesn't mean what it is. Well, Heck,
we've still.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
Got some hitting nummer that where the temperatures pop up
and we're you know, between fifty and eighty degrees for
a week, you might start seeing more activity. But yeah,
for the most part, our mosquito pressure has gone down dramatically,
and thank goodness, we're just not seeing them right now.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Right So it would have to be for probably a
good solid week of temps in the seventies or higher,
not just a scattered day here or there.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Yeah, what you need is you need temperatures that are
consistently above fifty degrees. And so when you're above fifty
degrees consistently for a week, then the mosquito eggs can
start hatching. And so if the conditions are right and
they're in standing water, then those those eggs can start

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haltching and then you'll start seeing mosquitoes. Again. You're not
going to see them like you see them in July,
but it's it is not completely out of the ordinary
to see a mosquito or two during this time of year.
They also have mosquitoes that, you know, figure out how
to overwinter. They they're living underneath a house where it's uh,
you know, warm enough during the even you know during

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the night that it's not they're not freezing to death.
And during the daytime they're you know, they're out and
about and doing their thing. And so you know, the
volume of mosquitos is not very high, right, but but
they you can't still see mosquitos that are around if
they if they are in tree holes or under houses

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or in houses and things, and they find places to
shelter from the cold.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
And they they are they're they're okay.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
But they don't live that long. They only live four
to six weeks, so you know, it's eventually they're you know,
they're going to need to be replaced by a new mosquito.
In those eggs right now, for the most part, they're
all in hibernation until conditions are consistently above fifty degrees, uh,
is when they'll start hatching.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
And I guess for those those those that do survive
for a little while in the in the winter months, uh,
it's not exactly a target rich environment for them because
we're not outside as often. But but that begs the question.
I'm going to guess that mosquitoes more often are biting
like birds and animals than they are humans.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Yeah, the number one prey is are birds as a
matter of fact, because they you know, tend to be
in the trees and bushes and shrubs and things, and
you know, they we are not you know, super high
on the list of you know, of what they but
anything that that is a blood bearing you know, organism

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would be a target for a mosquito. I mean, mosquitoes
will bite. You know, snakes, they will bite really dogs, cats,
you know, earls, rabbits, birds, humans. You know, we do
produce a lot of CO two. We we have big
lungs and we breathe hard, and that CO two is
what is what they They sense that from a long

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way away, and so if you're across the yard and
you're breathing, they can sense that and they will be
working their way to you because they know there's a
blood meal there.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, I bet they hated the pandemic and people walking
around with masks on. I kind of cut down the
coe too, expulsion of it. I guess that probably confused.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
I'm not a doctor, but I think that you still
have to breathe out everything you're breathing in.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah that's true. Yeah, that's true. I just think it
wouldn't be quite the fall of getting out from that.
But but we don't want to go there again anyway,
forget it if you even brought it right, Uh yeah,
But this is what surprises so many people right trade
because when we you guys, start going out and treating
your your client's homes, you know, right around the beginning
of middle February something like that. Even at my house.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Yeah, we start around February mid February, and we are
really trying to get a jump on things. We want
to get out there and really start larva siding, finding
all the standing water that's been sitting there for you know,
for months, and things don't evaporate because we don't have
the heat that we have in the summer. So there's
a lot of standing water has been sitting you know,

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very mucky. You know, buckets and wheelbarrows and kids toys
and you know, excessive leaf litter holds a lot of moisture,
and you know, getting that larva side in there so
that any mosquito eggs as soon as they hatch, those
larva will be eliminated long before they're actually born into
adult mosquitoes. And you know that's you know, our philosophy

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is that hey, if they're never born, they can never bite.
And so you know, they when those eggs hatch, they
become larvae and they'll spend some time in that larval stage.
And we want to be there, you know, with a
larva side, you know, treating anything and everything that's holding
water or hold water to make sure that you know,
we don't have a big hatch on a property.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
That's what takes people by surprise. Right, if you've gone
all winter long, you haven't had an issue at all.
It's springtime now things are starting to warm up, and
all of a sudden you may think, like overnight, where
did all these mosquitoes come from? They've been they've been
hanging out for a while waiting, right.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, they're they're they're in those puddles of water that
are underneath your deck and that have not having evaporated,
and you know, they're they're highly organic. And yeah, as
soon as those eggs hatch there, they're they're they're thriving
within you know, weeks.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
So I get I guess the point here, Trey is,
get ahead of it, right, get in front of the
a bottle on this thing. For for people who start early.
I'm just gonna guess here that that most folks, you're
not really thinking about mosquitoes until we get probably into May,
maybe June. If for no other reason, you're not spending

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a whole lot of time outs you get in the
summer months, you start thinking about it all of a sudden.
By then it's too late. You got a big problem
on your hands.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
So but I mean it's uh yeah. Pest prevention is
the best, the very best thing that you can do.
It's the best thing for you, it's the best for
the environment. It's best. It's the easiest way to is
to handle a problem is to prevent it. You know,
if you think about even you know, inside pest control,

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we do pest prevention to keep bugs out of the house.
You know, you don't want to wait. It should imagine
what the situation would be like if you open your
pantry and there's roaches and ants all over your pantry.
Now you've got a really big situation too to resolve
because they're already in they know where the food is.
And now you've got a situation where you've got lots

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of food to throw away. It's going to be way
more expensive and more difficult to get rid of that
problem if you wait till the problem happens. If you
you understand, hey, we live in the South, and bugs
are you know, is are are everywhere. It's not a
matter of if, it's a matter of when, and you
know it's going to happen. And so just doing some
simple test prevention on a either bi monthly or quarterly

(25:12):
basis can really just keep those problems from ever happening.
And so you know, that's that's really what we focus
on on our home test defense, keeping bugs out of
your house so that you never really have a problem
where you've got an infestation you know, coming in the
into the kitchen or into the bathrooms or anything like
that that's something in the yard.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, y'all have been actually doing that for a while,
but a lot of focus when is that this past
this year in twenty twenty five. And it's not just
the crawling bugs that you guys deal with as well.
There's a whole range of things that you are now
offering with your home pest defense, right.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah, we're really a full service pest control company. Obviously,
we take care of mosquitos, fleas, and ticks in your yard,
will do you know, spiders and things on the outside
of it house. We eliminate you know, roaches and ants
from coming inside the home. Uh. And then we also
do roadent control to keep mice and rats out of
the house and h and now we even do your

(26:13):
termite you know control to keep termites from eating the
foundation of your house.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
We were talking heading into the Christmas season, of course,
the Christmas lights that you guys do. They are beautiful
and incredibly well done. But I didn't know this. You
were mentioned it to me here recently that you guys
can actually do these lights to stay up, you know,
all year around, permanently.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, so there is a such a thing as permanent
holiday lighting. I can't tell you how many people are
so sad in January when the lights come down. You know,
they've they've brought such joy for for several months to
everybody driving by and seeing them at night. You know,
moms driving kids around to see lights. Everybody loves Christmas lights.

(27:03):
They just make everything just look so amazing at night.
And you know, in January it all comes down. It's
all a temporary product. If you try and leave it up,
it's just going to be destroyed, you know in six
or eight months is you know, half of it isn't
going to work. It's a temporary product. But you know,
they we do offer a permanent holiday solution where there

(27:24):
are holiday lights that are installed permanently and that way
you can't really see them during the day, not like
Christmas lights, but at night you can cut them on
with your cell phone and they look very similar to
Christmas lights. And the nice thing about it is because
it's a permanent install and you can control it with

(27:44):
your phone. You literally have sixteen million different options on
your phone of different designs and things you can do,
so you can make them, you know, simply, you can
make it green at Saint Patrick's Day, you can make
it pink for Valentine's Day, red white and blue for
the fourth of July and Memorial Day and Labor Day,
and you know, just all the seasons and all the holidays,

(28:05):
you can light that house up and make it look great,
you know, and it's you have just endless options. If
you want them to twinkle, they'll twinkle. If you want
them to stay still, they will. If you want to run,
I mean, if there's just unlimited options that you can do.
It's a one time install. It's going to last for
about ten years, and you can use it every single

(28:28):
day of the year or just on holidays and just
kind of bring joy to yourself and your whole neighborhood
year round.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Interesting, now, I know the Christmas lights that you guys
put up to it, that's a that's kind of that's
a least you're kind of renting them, right, just just
for that one season and you can put them up
again next year if you want to. Are these lights
does the homeowner actually purchase them or is that still
kind of.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Some sort of a lease program.

Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah, this is this is a purchase where we do
a one time install and it is a permanent part
of the part of the home. So you know, if
they sold the home, that would be part of it
and they would just transfer the app to whoever the
homeowner was, you know, and so they can enjoy it
as well.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Right, you know, looking back over twenty twenty five, all
in all, the mosquito season about usual tray.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah, we had our ups and down so you know,
we had rain and we had you know, dry spells.
I mean, I wouldn't say there was anything you know,
out of the ordinary with the mosquito season. It's just
a typical summer in the South. You know. We we
have a you know, probably a little bit bigger problem
here in the Midlands than you have in other parts

(29:43):
of South Carolina. But you know, it is you're in
the South, and it's it's just part of what we
deal with. Why is that, well, we do we have
just ideal temperatures, I mean, the Midlands is known for
being quote famously and it's we have very high humidity,
which is lots of moisture in the air. I think

(30:05):
we sit in kind of a depression. We don't have
the the ocean breeze and we don't have the elevation
of the mountains and the foothills to cool things down,
and so we are normally, you know, a few degrees
warmer than it is even you go ten minutes outside
of town and you know, we're a little bit warmer.

(30:27):
And so those warm temperatures, high humidity, it's almost a
little bit tropical here at some parts of the year,
and that mosquitoes just thrive in that environment.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
So getting ahead of the curve for twenty twenty six,
and we'll let me ask you this as we get
into the first few months of the year here, what
indications are, what weather patterns indicate that we may have
an elevated mosquito season heading our way.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
What should we believe for tray, you know, generally speaking,
heavy rains you know, wintertime and when we don't have
snow that sticks around and makes everything wet and soop
and wet for a while, but heavy rains they just
things don't evaporate, they don't dry out the same, and
so you know, it's the type of mosquitos.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
We have are container breeders. And so the biggest thing
is watching out for your yard or your property and
making sure that you don't have stuff that holds water.
And we all have stuff that holds water. Every flower
pot out there holds some water. Even if you turn
it over. There's a lip around the outside that holds water.
The little pan that that flower pot sits in that

(31:37):
holds water. And you only need a capful. You can
breed one hundred mosquitos out of a bottle cap so
you don't need much. But everything that we own holds water,
particularly things that are plastic. I mean, if you have
gutters that don't completely drain, and you can read a
lot of mosquitos in gutters or if they're blocked up,

(31:58):
that's you know, that makes it even a worse situation.
But just you know, if we have a lot of
rain like we did, you know, you know last year,
going into the springtime, which we we generally do, it's
you know, it's mosquito season is going to come fast and.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Furious, all right, So get ahead of it now, mosquito Joe,
you're tell us quickly about about how you go about
doing this. You mentioned the larva siding and the you know,
the nip it in the bud part to make sure
these eggs don't hatch with you know, a viable living
mosquito you know, coming out to bite you. But but

(32:34):
but that's part of the equation the service itself. How
does that work.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well, when we come out to a yard, we'll spend
probably fifty percent of our time scouring the property for
standing water and anything that would hold standing water. It
could be irrigation ditches, it could be you know, even
drainage systems underground French drains and things like that, right
anywhere that water and hold, so you know you've got

(33:02):
down spouts, anything and everything around the yard we're going
to be looking for and either tipping and tossing water
or we're going to be treating it with a larva side.
So any mosquitos that have already laid eggs, when those
eggs hatch, the larva will be eliminated and they will
not become actual mosquitoes. And that that is a big,

(33:23):
big part of what we do because that dramatically decreases
the population of mosquitos around that yard, and then we
just you know, we spray the yard. All the foliage
or the product we use will stick and it'll be
there for about three weeks. So any mosquitoes that are
on that property are going to be eliminated, but the
ones that come over from a neighbor's house are going

(33:45):
to be eliminated too when they hit that barrier. I
like to say, it's kind of like having a flea
collar around your yard. You know, the yards around you
will have mosquitos, but if they try and come into
your yard, they're going to be eliminated.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Okay, all right, Trey, folks want to go ahead and
get some information now, maybe they're not ready to do
something quite yet, but but maybe get signed up for
you know, when you start making the rounds again here
real soon. What do they need to do?

Speaker 6 (34:09):
My friend just eight five to five Aska Joe, eight
five to five Aska Joe. That's gonna you know, direct
you to either our Columbia office or the office out
in Lexington and that will you know, we can we
can sign you up. When one of the things that
a lot of customers are doing now is bundling services,
so we're taking care of inside and outside, taking care

(34:30):
of the yard and the house, doing home pest defense
and mosquito control, and it's one low monthly payment. They're
bundling that service and saving a little money and they're
just they're paying January, February March, and then when it's
time for us to service, we just come out and
do the service and they have the same low monthly
payment year round, which is really nice for them. They

(34:51):
can just deal with one company.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
So yeah, that's well we're doing it works fantastic. All right, Drey,
our time is up, thanks so much. As always, my friend,
we'll talk to you so.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Thanks you too far.

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Speaker 1 (35:57):
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(36:40):
back to the Home Improven Show the Midlands on one
O three point five FMN five sixty am WVOC and
we'll say welcome to this guy right here. It's my
friend Russ Markesy from the Finishing Touch team. Good morning,
my friend.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Good morning Gary. It's good to be here, Chris. Merry
Christmas to you. Man. Yeah, it's come, it's coming soon.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
We're days what I mean, you're ready, you got everything bought,
You're ready to go.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, I'm getting there. I'm getting there each day. I'm
getting a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Guy. Yeah, We're always getting there.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
It came by. It came so quick. I feel like
we say that every year, but this year was especially
just wow, just bam, hit you with it.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, here it is all of a sudden. I'm just curious.
I mean, you guys, you've been doing this for a
long time. Y'all have been in business. What more I
guess closing in on twenty four years now this summer, right.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, just about yeah, well this this summer will be
twenty three years actually twenty three, twenty three yep, i'd
make a year old. Yeah you should have that's right.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, my apologies. I'm sorry, glad you're not a woman.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Gonna hit me, no offense taken, no offense. But over
that course of time, I mean with what you guys do.
And in case you don't know the Finishing Touch team,
tell us what it is you do do Ross, We
are a full fledged painting company. We specialize in cabinetry,
We specialize and stain work. We are your you know,

(38:04):
run of the mill. We can do any sort of
finishes when it comes to painting. But like I said,
we do specialize in cabinetry. We do a lot of
specialty stained doors. Actually that I do feel like kind
of you know, separates us from a lot of different
other companies.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Right.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
We really really focus on the preparation work for our customers.
Everything is in the preparation work, the finish, the way
it comes out. You have to go through certain steps
due diligently for preparation for that for that professional looking outcome, Gary,
And that is that is what we strive in. That

(38:44):
our customer satisfaction, our service ability is very very high
on our priority list. That's what we do.

Speaker 7 (38:52):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
And apparently you do a good job. I mean you've
been at it now for a while, I help years,
right I hope. So yeah, I can attest to it,
by the way, beca, because you guys have done three
jobs for us and that's right, Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah,
well we even established a few weeks ago. You move,
you remove popcorn ceilings. We do, we sure do. We
do a lot of removal of popcorn. It's not a
it's it's not trendy like it used to be, right, right,

(39:16):
nobody really seems to want popcorn texture on their on
their ceilings anymore. And we do a lot of removal,
a lot of it. And there's a right way and
a wrong way to do that. Right.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
The removal of popcorn texture really, uh is a is
a very multi step preparation process, you know, it's it's
anywhere from five to seven steps to really do it right, really,
because look, when you go into a room and there
was a texture up there, the last thing you want
to see is being able to see little remnants of
where the texture was and someone to be able to

(39:50):
look and see that there was a popcorn texture on
the ceiling. You want it to be where you walk
in and you never knew it was there.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
So so that leads me to my question. This mo
over nearly twenty three years of doing this, you've seen
probably a number of trends come and go. Oh yeah,
popcorn out of favor now. Used to be what everybody did.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I mean, it was stiffle ceilings. You remember the stippled ceilings, Gary, Ok, golly,
remember the stippled ceilings with the Yeah, we would take
drywall compound and roll it onto the ceiling and then
take big circular stipple brushes or chicken track type pattern
would stamp it to give it a he had those
little stalag tights looking things from the ceiling.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh yeah, I'm going back a little further now, a
little further.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
But I've seen pictures I've heard tell.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Oh yeah, we would do little sunbursts. We would take
different sized brushes, right and do circular patterns around the
lights and make big sunbursts around them. We used to
do all sorts of stuff like that in the parad
of homes. We used to do them.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Years and years and years ago. So creative stuff, man, yeah, man, yeah, yeah,
totally out of favor now, out.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Of favor, yeh.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Slick ceilings, yes, I mean it seems like everybody wants
slick ceiling, that's right. What other trems can you think
of since you've been doing this, have come and gone?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
You know, sheens, Okay, sheens for example, I remember in
the early two thousands, people wanted everything glossy, real shiny, trim,
wet looking type trim. Right, Yeah, that was super popular.
It's not as popular anymore now. The sheen has really

(41:35):
toned down. And I would say the majority of sheines
that we use, it's satin, which is the lowest sheen
that you can get, right.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Really okay, Yeah, so you're not going flat but.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Not flat right, no exactly. And I get this question
a lot. I'm glad you brought it up. So a
lot of the way that the sheines go gary is
you have your flats okay, which is a dead matte flat,
there's no sheen to it whatsoever. It's a flat. Then
it'll go up to a satin, which is just a
little bit of sheene. Then you go to a semi gloss,

(42:06):
then you go to a gloss, and then you go
to a high gloss. Those are the typical machines that
are offered most paint manufacturers.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
So these days you're not really getting past the sheine.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Level, not really, not really, Well, we'll do some semi glosses.
Still we do some of those, especially on some trim work.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Aside from the aesthetics of it, Yeah, are there any
pros or cons of of going one way or the other.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Well, in all honesty, the higher the sheene you go, actually,
the tougher the surface, the tougher the paint, the more
tensile strength is actually in that paint itself so hard
it is a pro. It is actually a pro. But Gary,
these days, the type of paints, the hybrids that they're
coming out with, they're all super durable, they really are.

(42:57):
This is before the hybrid days, is before they've changed
the paint one hundred times in twenty years. You know,
they really have. And they don't like to tell you
when they do it, by the way, either, just FYI
on that. They just like to surprise everybody on that one.
But you think marketing to gain people to want to
go buy that, you would think, you know, they.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Price it up, make a bunch of money.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
They change them next big thing, man, they change the formulas,
they do all sorts of stuff on them. But uh,
but not when it comes to when it comes to
the sheen. Yeah, the the you know, the higher the sheene.
Typically the more tensile strength that you have and the
harder the surface is going to be.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Uh so popcorn sailings out high glass they look on
trim out right. Yeah. Anything else?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Colors, man, right, grays, grays, lots of grays, repose gray,
you know, agreeable there you go, agreeable gray, right, all
these typical gray colors. Uh, Now, those stayed in for
a long time. But I am seeing those out the door.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
I am. I've been hearing that for a while now.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, man, I'm seeing those out the door. And that's
too bad because I like gray. I actually liked I
liked those colors personally.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Our our last house was the whole house was agreeable gray. Yeah,
we did. Though interestingly enough, over time we got we're
kind of tired of every room being the same collar sure,
no matter what the color was, and kind of sure
man started to you know, jazz upload. But I I
can recall we sold a home, oh gosh, seven eight

(44:29):
years ago, I guess three homes ago. Yeah, we've moved
a lot in the last decade, but not anymore. We're
done now. But yeah, I mean at that time, the
realtor came in and said, yeah, agreeable gray, agreeable gray. Yeah,
that's what we did though. Basically the whole house was
in it and it's old like that. Yeah, yeah, so

(44:52):
that but that one is that's it is. It's it's
it's out, man, it really is.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
It's uh. And now I'm starting to see off whites
a lot, a lot of off whites are coming back.
Alabaster is a very very popular color.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Yeah, it was on the tip of my tongue.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Yeah, Alabastia ever man it now that one was was
popular years ago too, and then it went away before
the grays, the tans, the khakis were super popular. Mannered gold,
kilm beige was one of the golly I think we
painted five hundred homes and kilm beige, right, that was

(45:32):
extremely popular. Then the grays came in that kind of
moved out. And now I'm starting to see whites off
whites quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Now. Back in the eighties early nineties, it was.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Bold, very bold, oh yeah, right, and non matching bold.
Oh no, oh, no, no way. We had a house
in one room was like this. It wasn't a red,
it was maybe more of a garnet kind of color.
Another room was this, you know, forest green, and but
that that was pinkish hue type colored, you know sort
of stuff. Did get talked into that one? I got you,

(46:05):
But but that was that was hot? Oh yeah, did
you see that coming back? I mean it seems to
me like I not really, you know, I see if
they use bold colors like that, they're they're generally in accents. Right, Okay,
we'll see you know, uh in island, a kitchen island,
they'll accent that in not not quite the eighties nineties
bold colors, right, but we'll see that in like a

(46:29):
farmhouse red or a real deep sage green. Uh, we'll
do accents like that kitchens a lot. But we are seeing, well,
we're seeing a lot is very plain neutral colors on
the walls, the surrounding walls and all. And folks are
using colors accessories to make the pop in the room,
is what we're seeing quite a bit of been seeing

(46:51):
that for about a you know, a little over a
year now.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Been seeing a lot of that makes sense, smart because
you know, yeah, if you get tired of that color,
it's easy to change out the access.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
That's right, That's right. But you know, it's like I
tell every customer, Gary you're the one that has to
live here, not me, right, so you have to be
happy with your color.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Do you work much with people that are flipping houses
or getting ready to sell their.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
House, Not so much the flipping aspect of it, but
selling all the time, all the time.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Your advice to those people, I'm guessing is what realtors
will usually tell them, just, yeah, you're not making this
choice for you, that's right, So don't go overboard on anything.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
That's exactly right. And I've had that conversation a thousand times.
Just like what you mentioned a little while ago, Gary,
your griller told you to go with a robot repose. Great, great, correct, Yeah, right,
so that's what I do. I'll i'll neutral is the
way to go, because nine times out of ten, the
new owner they're not gonna like the They're gonna want
to customize it themselves, right, So why you know, go

(47:49):
through you know the expense of putting all these crazy
accent colors in there when they're just gonna change it.
People want to see a blank slate generally when they're
buying a house, so they can custom mise it themselves.
That's really where it's at. And not only that, yeah,
it's my wife.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
She likes to well, not like she used to, but
she'll watch those eight G TV shows Oh yeah. And
it's funny because I'll every now then I'll watch a
few are pretty good. But you know, people will be
on they get all made up to begin with, but
still they'll go, oh yeah, but I don't like the
paint color. I'm like, well, yeah, moron, that's what a
paint brush is for. Okay, you get changed the color.
But it's amazing how often people will really go into

(48:26):
a house oh yeah, and be turned off by it.
They love the house, but they hate the paint color
in there's one room and they walk out the door.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yep. I mean, how many times have you heard it?
Not buying a house because of a paint color. I mean,
you and I sit here and talk about it. We
think it's crazy, right because it's it's paint. Change the
paint color. You know, it's not too big of a deal.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
It's not like you're haven't you had a room on
the house.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Or no, no, no no. But you know, it depends
if there's tall ceilings in the house, it could be
quite a big project to tackle possibly, And yeah, and
I could see the attimidation with that in certain and
certain factors. But but no, you're right, you know it's paint. Okay.
People do eat with their eyes, Gary, they just do.

(49:06):
And uh, you know, the paint has got to look good,
it's got to look clean. But when it comes to
selling the house, you gotta go neutral, you just do.
You have to go with a neutral color, get a
blank slate and obviously try to you know, stage it
or get it as empty as you can too. Is
a really big key, But I do. We work with
a lot of people selling homes, a lot of them.

(49:29):
We probably at least a couple times a month where
we're working with with folks like that.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, so anything else that was hot now is not.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Oh lord, let me think here, Oh man, yeah, cabinets, right,
do you remember so glazed cabinets. I don't know if
you remember those. But again in the early two thousands, Uh,
we were glazing cabinets left and right. So we would
put a base coat of color on there and only

(50:00):
be like an off white. But then we would take
stain with glaze mix and put it onto the cabinet,
wipe it off and it would hang up in all
the little corners and crevices of the cabinet door almost
like an ant like an antique look exactly we did.
We did so much of that for years and years
and years. I don't see that at all anymore, very

(50:23):
very rarely do I see that faux finishing. That was
in the faux finished kind of era, okay of the
early two thousands where we were doing Venetian plasters and
uh you know, uh faux finished ragoff techniques on walls,
marbleizing columns, r wood graining. We did a slew.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
That rag that used to be the big thing, big thing, man,
have my wife doing that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Yeah, it was all the rage and my father and
I did a ton of it, a ton of it.
You don't see that any longer, Like, it's almost non
existent these days. So I very rarely get to call
when it comes to that.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah, and even that in of itself is an art.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
I guess it was. It was good and we you know,
I enjoyed doing it. Actually that was those are the
days when I was in the field working quite a bit,
and uh, and my father and I would actually him
and I were the ones that would do all the
faux finishing for the company. Okay, and we yeah, we
did miles of it. I'll tell you what's funny, Gary.

(51:25):
Sometimes I'll go and do an estimate for a customer
and go look at a paint job, and I go
into a house, uh that we did a faux finish
in like fifteen seventeen years ago, and it never ceases
to amaze me. I just, uh, it's crazy to see
that that that that many years later, you know, in
the same house, right, and now you're covering it up.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's like wearing parachute pants.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
That's right, Yeah, that's right exactly.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
You see that picture yourself in the parachute pants. Yeah,
I think what was I thinking anything that you see
on the horizon.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
You know, not really, it's it's kind of uh, it's
kind of blanding out in my opinion. It's I feel
like we're heading into the bland era here of just
very neutral colors again, just popping things with accessories with
color things like that. But uh, yeah, that's really that's

(52:19):
really kind of where we're at right now. I don't
you never know where it's gonna go. You never know,
And who makes those decisions. I like to talk to
those I was going to ask folks who makes these decisions.
I'd like to talk to them.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
But everything it seems to be going minimalistic.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
It is, that's that's kind of what it seems a
lot of people are just well, what color would you
like the walls off? White, alabaster, just very neutral, flat,
basic colors is what they're looking for.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yeah, Finishing Touch Team Russ. People want to get a
hold of they call a number and that rings your phone.
You're the owner. That is my number, and I know
this is something you pride yourself on that if you
can't take the call right then we all good back.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Always get back within that within that day, we're going
to get back to you.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
There you go. Yeah, what is that number?

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Eighth three four sixty seven six seven five nine.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
All right.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
And to learn more online, which everybody wants to do.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Yeah, you can always go to Finishingtouchteam dot com.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
All right, Russ, Good to see you. Rather have a
merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Same here, Gary.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
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Speaker 1 (53:21):
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