January 4, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Creative Construction, Wisconsin home improvement show on
Fox Sports nine twenty in your iHeartRadio app coming live
from the Donovan and Jordans and Heating and Cooling studios.
So he's my coast bingo, Emmas, I call him mcgiver. Unbelievable,
the bingo. I'm telling you. I spent thirty minutes this
(00:21):
morning trying to get my gas door to pop open.
I brought Spencer out there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Spencer goes, I know how to do this on the
wrong side of the car.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's what that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
A arrow's on a gas gage.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Twenty five seconds it took Bingo to open up my
frozen door to put gas in, and he just looked
at me and walked away. He's like mcgiver, And our
guest said, is like the fives man. He just put
on his fist and popped it open. Man. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I appreciate that your gas. Now I can get gas.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You're going to walk home.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Spencer is going to take me home, our producer because
I know I'm like my wife is she gets to
half it warm again in Julie, she gets to half full.
She's like I gotta get gash. I wait a little bit.
I procrastinated a little bit. Hey, I'm I'm excited, you know,
before we get into our show. The last time we
had these guys on TJ hadn'man and his wife Erica
(01:18):
were expecting, and now three months year old Parker is,
uh is with us? How good? You look like you're
well rested?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh yeah, by sleep?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah no really, no, you know, the wife's been doing
a great job with everything. Uh, you know, taking a
lot off off my plate, I guess, but yeah, she's uh,
we're doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, house Parker, he's three months. Is he's doing starting
to get there?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He? Uh, he was.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He was a pre MEI he came about six weeks early, okay,
came out of three pounds. Oh my yeah, now though
healthy boy, twelve pounds.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
How long did he did he have to stay at hospital?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're in there for three weeks?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Was tough.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It was real tough.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But man. Yeah, and then now you bring them home
and you're like, all right, hold on here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And I was telling you that that I had the
benefit My wife worked on the O B floor at
Monts tign I, so this was right in her Wheelhouse perfect.
And I didn't do so well where you're at right now.
I struggled, man, I struggled at that early And and
then one day I came home and Katie like started
smiling at me and trying to get to me. And
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I was like, all right, I'm starting to get it now.
Now I understand why people would throw themselves into a
you know, front of a bus to save for sure. Yeah,
and it's yeah. Now we've got these grandkids, and and
thank god for my wife because she's so good at
those early the early months. So well, congratulations, Yeah, young Parker,
is he can you throw a ball yet?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Or?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Man? He throws his pacifiers right hand or left hand?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All right? Get hey, get him practicing with both hands.
On top of that, get him practiced with both hands.
In today's show, we're going to be talking it is.
It is right on Awareness month, by the way, and
so Mike Silvester and TJ. Heineman Home Services, uh, Lifetime
Home Services name of the company, Mike, how event, it's
(03:09):
good to see you again.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I've been really well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We can move that, you can move the microphone. Yeah,
we're we're we don't have six microphones in here. Like
the new the new station that you watch I walked past.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I wonder it's all fancy stuff. We're in the closet here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We're in the closet. We yeah, sorry about that. We're
not coming out of the closet anytime soon. Just so
just so you know. And I've got trust man all
all about that, my family, So no worries. We're staying
in the closet. What a way to start with the
Home improvement show.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I haven't talking since last year, No, I know, I
for today.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Year.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Do you guys behave yourself on New York?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well it's here's my interesting story from New Year's Eve.
Debbie's standing and she's standing there. It's about midnight. Chelsey
used to stand on one foot like a stork, you
know one like this is what are you doing? So
let's up your left legs you start the year off
and your right foot. But I'm she had well done man,
when you ask her, Yeah, she really did that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's awesome. I wish I would have known that a
week ago, because I would have pulled the same thing.
That's awesome. You guys had a good Christmas and good
New Year's Yeah, everybody's good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh, yeah, we're doing good.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Good. Well, I'm happy to hear that, Mike. How about you?
How was How were the holidays?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Everything was great. My brother came home from Denver and
surprised us had no idea he was coming older, younger,
youngest brother. He's been out in Denver for a couple
of years and only my mom knew he was coming back.
I walked in the house on Christmas. My mom's kitchen
door is closed, and everybody's kind of staring, and I'm like, hey, guys,
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Merry Christmas. And I look around and I'm like, well,
what's going on? Why is the door closed? And boom
auty co Christmas?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I love that. How does he like Denver?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He loves Denver?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He does. My my nephew is in from Denver as well,
and he said, you know, it's uh when when they're there.
Their son is a freshman in high school, and he said,
when he graduates from high school and he's a big
time gymnast and he travels all over the country and
he'll go someplace to to be a gymnast in college.
And my nephew said, we're moving back, We're coming back
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Denver's and he's been there four years and he said
it just has changed a little bit. And I, you know,
he said, I never take take for granted that I
get to, you know, look out my my my window
and see the mountains. But boy, the city of Denver's changing,
and it's it might be time to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That's he's got a beautiful house. They just bought it.
Last year we went out to visit, and last July
we went out to visit for his birthday. And Denver
is a high rate on area. I think it's like
in Wisconsin, maybe one out of ten homes have raid
on according to DHS, But I think out in that Denver,
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Colorado Rocky Mountain areas, it's like one out of two.
So I'd get up early in the morning and take
a walk around the neighborhood and I'd look for raid
on systems. And I'm on vacation. You're unding pictures back
to TJ, like, hey, this doesn't look up to code
to you, does it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh? Man, Yeah, you're yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You take that to meter with you and play around
like that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can make a lot of money if on vacation,
if you just I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Out there knocking on doors, you know, what it's the best.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You gotta get a life, brother. I'm just telling you
you got you got to shut it down every once
in a while for sure. How is that business? Lifetime
Home Services. We're gonna talk a lot about radar, but
there's a lot of things you guys are now offering
that we want to certainly at least have a conversation about.
Talk to me a little bit about how business is
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and excited about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We're very excited about twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty four
was a really big year for us. Previously we were
own as Lifetime rad On Solutions, and we went through
a name change last year to change over to Lifetime
Home Services to show show and you know, show our
expanded list of services. Uh So, not only do we
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do residential and commercial raid on mitigation and testing, but
now we also offer an h VAC service, so we
can do furnaces and acs and boilers. We have an
air quality division that handles duck cleaning and uh this
thing called aero seal which is a duck sealant, which
is which is really cool home generators, you know. So
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we have an electrical division that does you know, ev chargers,
you know, circuit breaker panels.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Are you guys on staff, the electricians and and everybody's
on staff with the company.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, those guys are all in house with us.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, because I do a lot of
work with with some competitors, and Kernel Electric and Dinovan
Jurings and you know we're coming live from the Donovan
Jergs and Heating Cooling Studios.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Two great companies. If I can't yeah, if I might.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Say, yeah, I really enjoy working with with those guys.
And one of the issues.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They against here early in terms of heat up.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah. Yeah, in his closet, it's well and the closet
warms up quick because it's so small in here.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The sauna you could grow bananas, yes you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, but we were outside trying to fix my car,
and I you know, I put the park on and
you're good old Bingo mcguiver.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Over here, you put a shirt on when yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He walked out and you've reached in his pocket. He
got a knife, a box cutter, and boom opened it
right up. So anyway, he's ridiculous. And I knew that
he'd be able to open it up when you when
you guys started it. One of the things that the
conversations that I have with both of those companies is
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in twenty twenty five trying to find guys that have
come to work there, and was it difficult for you
guys to fill those departments.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I could speak on this. So I'm the field manager
for the residential rate on side, and I will say
the hiring process like mid twenty twenty four was, you know,
we were getting some guys that just maybe didn't have
the work ethic that we were looking for. And that's
kind of the big thing. We already like, you know,
guys that show passion in their work and actually want
to do the work, and you know, they like seeing
a finished product. I will say, now the crew of
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guys I have, I have five guys under me. They're
all great. They did their job seriously, they got passion,
and they're great with customers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, they figured out this is a career and that's
just a yeah, yeah, I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, And they're younger guys, so I'm hoping they you know,
keep their career with us and they stay with us
a long time and we just keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, I had. I had a young man the
year that I stopped coaching basketball. We wanted to stay
championship at Greendham Art Luther. In the summer or spring,
which school is just about to let out, I was
in the wait room where I was lifting, and there
was a young man that played and he was a
good student, and I said, hey, Brody, where are you
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going to college? He said, yeah, I'm not I should
not go to college. He said, no, I already know
what I want to do. And I said, what do
you want to do. He said, I want to become
an electrician. And I said, what have you done with it?
He said, well nothing yet. You know, once my buddies
all go away to college, I'm going to start looking
and start my career. And I said, you know, I
do a lot with current electric and I could get
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you an interview and a ride share tomorrow. And he goes,
are you kidding? And I go no, He goes, set
it up. Set it up. That was a Tuesday. On Friday,
they made him an offer and he was the youngest
guy ever that they would pay for to continue through
the education. And he's been there now for I guess
four years, got his own truck, and they keep saying
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to me, hey, man, you find more guys like him.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So it's not about what you know, it is about
who you know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
One hundred percent, one hundred percent. I well, ninety nine percent.
How's that? If he can't spell electrician, we probably wouldn't
bring him in. But the kid was a really smart student.
And you want to tell when I see him at
Current electric he's always got to smile on his face
and he's like, look, I'm I'm about to buy my
first house. And my buddies are just getting through their
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last year in college and they got a bunch of
money they got to pay back there, and he's like, coach,
this house is just my first Like, here's what I'm
going to do with it. Eventually, by the time I'm
like thirty, I want I wanted something on a lake
so I can go fishing. And I thought, by the
time you're thirty, and that's what his goal. You know,
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he's going to buy and flip it and buy and
flip it. And then and I thought, man, you know
what good for him? And we talk a lot with
with Bingo, a creative construction of Scots and when they
find these young people like you had said TJ about
guys that are going to take it serious. Guys and
great gals, they're going to take it serious, show up
on times.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're always look, we're always hiring, I mean Ryan, but
we're looking. We're not looking for people that people because
that was gets some competitors. Workers come off and they
got these bad habits and stuff. I like, we like
training people from the bottom up and then because then
they don't know the short cuts and the stuff that
they get, get get you know, get out companies into trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They don't know what.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So you agree with that, Yeah, Yeah, the bad habits thing,
I've I've had it before with some training. I mean
I'm I'm thirty one myself, you know, and I've had
some guys come in that are they're older and they've had,
you know, previous experience and things, or they maybe they
haven't done it in a long time, and I just
immediately see some habits and it's kind of harder to tell,
you know, an older gentleman that's been doing it for
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a while too, that you know this is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Why why did you look right at me when you
said that no choice? You pick you pick on the
old guy or great, you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Are doing been talking about because I belong to the
same organizations that you know Mike does two about. You know,
it's faster and those guys do that. You know, I
go to these jabs once and a guy, I've been
doing it this way for thirty years. Doesn't mean you're
doing it right right, especially just whole licking stones and
all those stuckles and all those things that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
People do wrong. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You just look at it and your brand new homes
and well, we always do it this way. This is
why I'm so busy because in seven years later, I'm
repairing it right.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, you can't. Hey, I gotta text guys, and I'm
going to start We'll talk some rate on again because
it's right on Awareness month. But there's so much more
going on over at Lifetime Home Services that we're going
to talk about later in the show. But I got
a text. Somebody had heard the promo that we had
on and they're thinking about buying a home that has
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a rate on mitigation system in place. How do they
know if it's working properly.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The only way to know if your rate on system
is working properly or if you don't have a system.
If you have a rate on problem at all, the
only way to know is to do a test. Right
on is color. We can't see right on, we can't
smell right on, we can't taste right on. The only
way to know is to do a test. There's a
couple of different ways to do a test, and I'd
be happy to talk about those different ways.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Excellent and they can call you. I would think that's
not something that is going to get checked if they
do a home inspection correct.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So that's the scary part.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Here in Wisconsin. Radon is part of a contingency in
a home offer. So there's different types of contingencies like
a home inspector contingency, or an appraisal contingency, or a
rate on contingency, and depending on the market, some of
those contingencies might get waived supply and demand right, So
in a really competitive market, which we've been in the
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last couple of years, we've seen people willing to waive
home inspection contingencies and appraisal contingencies and they're putting themselves
at risk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Isn't this crazy that people would actually waive a rate
on test. You know it's the number one killer right now. Yeah,
you know this is this is the you know they
can that's the number one killer for this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
A lot of people like, do you guys, do you
guys have a carbon monoxide detector in your house?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, I take the battery because it makes noise roun
in my life.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah I don't. So I don't because when when we
try to take the battery, it's I'm not even gonna
tell you my fire fire story.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But everybody's got one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Everybody's got one. Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
How many people die of carbon monoxide poisoning every year
about four hundred. How many people die of raid on
every year twenty one thousand? Huge difference, huge difference.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, so my buddy who's thinking about this, Look what
I would do is I would I would call you
guys and probably have you just come out before he.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you know what to cost that raid on test?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think it's pretty cheap, right, I think it's free.
I think it's free as well, So you know what,
and if you're happy with it by the boys lunch maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And people are like, well I don't want to do
a raid on test. You can't say, well, does it
cost me money because it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I look at raid on testing. I came from healthcare.
I worked for a big healthcare company for over a decade,
and I would always press my clients, do your prostate exam,
do your mammogram. These are preventive services that don't cost
you anything, right, And why do we do preventive services
because we want to find problems early? Why do we
want to find problems early? Typically they're easier treated and
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they cost us less money in the long run.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Remember I said, my wife worked on the ob floor,
so she's a registered nurse. It's a blessing and a
curse to have a wife. That's all right. You sneeze
and she's like, here, drink this, take this, look at this,
put this in. Put this on your wife.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That did that, right? I see she makes me one
of those immune things. That vitamin seems so yeah, I
drink this. I thought it was just my wife.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That the the it tastes kind of like orange juice. Right,
that's my wife's side here, And I'm like, I just sneezed,
like come on, what do you no? No, because this
is going around. We have the grandkids here and you
better not go here, and you should do this and
put this here and take this and this kind a
handful of I'm like, I don't even know what I'm
taken here. She's like, we've been married forty years. If
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I wanted to get rid of you earlier, I could
have done this thirty five years ago. Just take these,
drink this, go, you know, put this here, rub this
on your chest. You'll be fine. So yeah, that and
when you said, look, we can't smell it, you can't
see it. And the fact that you guys will come
out and do a free test, what is the have
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you ever gotten to the bottom of people? Like Bingo
just said, When people say I don't want to have
it done, like, the answer would be because you don't
trust that we're going to tell you the truth. We're
going to try to sell you stuff I would think
is what people are thinking, correct, Mike.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, that's part of it. Sometimes it's maybe ignorance too
that they don't understand how you know, Raydon is you
know a killer that it kills twenty one thousand people.
You know, they've done health studies where so we have
an action level here in the United States of four
Pico Curius per leader and if you're at or above that,
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you wanted to take action. So if you're at four
Pico curis per leader, that's the health risk.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I do, yeah, I definitely do it is it is
the US e p A has established the action level
for deciding when you need Can you tell him reading that, Yeah,
you can. That's why.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
By the way, Nary did call it. Wanted me to
to m see their awards thing. Remember we talked about that,
but they're doing it different. One is just going to
do something live and just kind of introduce people, and
one they're going to record those seventy two pages of narration.
And you can tell as I tried to read that
not a great narrator.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Bingo. Let's let's put Bingo on the spot. Bingo. Do
you know where they got the name Pico Curis from?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, I do not. I do not. I do not
even claim to know all that. So it's like make
fun of the water doctrines. It comes in and you know,
he take the ones up. He says numbers that I
don't can't fathom. Right, you go, well, you gotta make
sure waters now this and it Okay, I don't know.
I hold up the glass, which there's not big chunks,
and I guess we'll right.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
People curious comes from.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And a doctor.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You know, I don't go to doctor because if they
find something wrong, didn't worry about it. I don't worry
about nothing. If you don't find.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Nothing wrong, I've got the answer. Do you know where
I found the answer for that? On your old website?
On your old website, Lifetime right on mathematical expression for
one trillion Curry is named term named in honor of
Madame Currey. There you go. You wrote that, didn't you.
If you did, now look at someone that actually read it.
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That's awesome, right.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I didn't actually write that. I was doing some research.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'm not supposed to lie. We do faith in the
zone in the studio. Don't be lying, I mean, Mike, Yeah,
Well I saw when TJ started looking at you and
shaking his head like you're such a liar that you
had to come clean. We are talking to the boys
from Lifetime Home Services. You can go to Lifetime home
Services dot com to look at at their website and
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all of some of the new things that they're offering.
They started expanding in twenty twenty four and they're full
blown now and we'll talk about some of that on
the other side of the break. My co host, as
always the owner of Creative Construction Wisconsin, he's Bingo Emmons.
He's just mcgiver to me because he can fix just
about anything. If is there stuff around your house that
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Devland's fixed.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That you haven't fixed, Oh yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh good, Hey, dev He fixes stuff very quickly for me.
Just so you know. This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin
home improvement show on Fox Sports ninet twenty and your
iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to the Creative Construction Wisconsin home
improvement Show on Fox Sports ninety twenty and your iHeartRadio app.
Coming live from the Donovan and Jorgenson Heating and Cooling Studios,
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largest employee owned HVAC company in the state of Wisconsin.
Any problems you have with your furnace go to Donovan
Jorgenson dot com or we can say this time home services. Right,
We're okay with that. You had asked me when you
first walked in. Mike, Hey, listen, we do electrical I
know that currentl Electric sponsors the show. We know that,
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Donovan George said, can we bring it up? I said absolutely,
as Bingo had he is.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We remember we had Bruce from best Electric. He was
and he knows because he used to give you ten.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
He used to teem me up all the time he
was a basketball referee. But I let him go with that,
and I probably deserved most of the teas he gave me.
But but Bingo has taught me this, if you if
you do things correctly, there's enough business for everybody. And
you know the fact that you guys are now doing
some machvac h work with furnaces and central air and
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boilers and stuff like that, I think it's important that
we bring that up and we'll talk more about that.
But we had during the break my friend Brian, who
is the guy who's thinking about buying this house, and
we had asked you a question about, look, if if
I'm going to buy this house, should I get this
thing done now? And we came up with a pretty
good idea for him.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah. So my advice to somebody looking to buy a
house would be to talk to a professional, So a
real estate agent that knows what they're doing, that has experience,
and they'll be able to tell you whether they think
a rate on contingency is appropriate or not for your
home offer. You know, there's certain things. Maybe the house
has been on the market for thirty days, they might
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feel safe for putting a rate on contingency in that offer.
Whether you have a rate on contingency in the offer
or you just want to get it done after we'll
do a test completely free. But some real estate agents
might advise you at this time in a competitive market
to waive that rate on contingency simply because the cost
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of a raid on system is going to be between
one thousand and two thousand dollars, and that might be
a risk that a homeowner is willing to take to
get their dream home. Personally, there's some contingencies I wouldn't wave,
like a home inspection contingency, because now we're talking tens
of thousands of dollars that we're at risk. I will say,
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you know, if you're talking to a real estate agent
and you're going to have a home inspection contingency, my
my best advice is choose a WAHI home inspector. That's
the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors. They got the greatest
group of home inspectors out there in the state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Any believe in education because you do two hours on
the second Tuesday every month, they do education for two hours.
And guess what who's up this month?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I would think probably Michael raid He's got his no,
he's guys. He's gonna bring his notebook and go through
a bunch of notes with people. And that's we make you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
We make our rounds during raid On Awareness month.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh, you gotta get the.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
News out there. And now is a great time to
do a raid On test.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Because like people, if people are glowing in your house,
you probably want to get that checked out.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, other than New Year's z because there could be
some other reasons that we're glowing during the New Year's
Eve party that you have. Hey, the advantages and disadvantages
of having a rate on migration system? Is there some
disadvantages of it?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
TJ. I'll let you speak to that.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Disadvantages of having the system. I mean not particularly you know,
you know you could you put your system in. You know,
you're looking for the results of lower rate on levels.
You know, say we get those down, that's great. Issues
following I mean, if you have some cracks in your
foundation stuff like that, you know that can cause a
system to maybe not work properly, could be an issue there.
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Basically we come in afterwards after testing if your levels
don't come down, and we look for any issues and
we basically fix those issues and retest. So not really
any cons more so pros. I mean it also dehumidifies
the subslab. It's not a guarantee, but it can dry
out your subslab. It can reduce the humidity in your basement.
So if that's something you're looking to do too, it
might sider right on mitigation system for that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Our commercial our commercial form in Chad, he's put two
rate on mitigation systems in his previous two houses and
never had to run a d humidifier again.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Really yep.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, my mom who lives in Wausa and has a
high water table, she was emptying her dehumidifier every day
or every twice a day. Sometimes we tested her house
and came back at like a five. She installed rate
on mitigation and now she only empties her every other day.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Did deal?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
No? But I did send TJ out. You did because
I love her.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You didn't get hold on. You didn't give your mom
a deal that would have been you could have given
her fifteen percent discount for Christmas or something.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
TJ Best installed in the company put her system in.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Soh there, there you go, There you go, and pride
coming before the fall. Pal, I'm just telling you. I
read that somewhere. Hey, if if somebody it has a
question regarding radon in water or right on in water tests,
is there such a thing for that.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, we do offer radon tests for water, though in
Wisconsin pretty uncommon. You have to have ten thousand pico
quiries in order to have even one in the air,
So a lot of times what will happen is, you know,
people will run their shower or hot water, and in
states where they do actually have rainon in water, that's
when it gets agitated and actually gets into the air
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as of vapor, and that's when it actually can be
breathed in as radon gas. So it's far in between
here in Wisconsin. I've done maybe ten tests in the
nine years I've been with the company, and they've all
come down low.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So okay, yeah, hey, and Mike, maybe I'll ask you this.
The idea of expanding what you guys do, was it
because when you guys were out doing radon testing in homes.
They would ask you, hey, do you guys do electrical?
Do you do h fact, do you guys do any
handyman stuff? Outside of that the air quality and and
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and rate on stuff? Is that why you guys made
that that that move to kind of expand into those
those areas.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Absolutely, that's a big reason why. Due to the level
of service, and you know, we try to deliver perfect
service in every home and because customers were always happy
with the work that we did, they would commonly ask us, hey,
do you do this? Or do you do that? Or
if you guys don't, who would you recommend?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Man. It's funny because with what Creative Construction Wisconsin, what
they're known for is plaster stuckover right, and that's what
they're I mean, they've been around six six generations, right. However,
they they they also do a lot of other things
that they don't go out and do a bunch of
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advertising for. But they have such quality people that work
for them that when you know something outside of that
and they get asked, hey, do you guys, do you
know any carpenters that could do this for us? Yeah,
we've got somebody on staff. Zach is just like bingo
Zach could do would be the guy that is, you
know Minnie mcgiver that can fix anything and look at something.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That appens because everyone's well, oh I didn't do a
concrete step. No we don't. Every once in a while
we do them. But it was like people, you know,
because we do we do wind to repair right it?
Heel I want you to Can you do a bunch
of windows in my house?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We're not those people. Where the people that you want
to restore a window and make look at how I
did when I was built in nineteen ten. That's what
we do.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well. What's funny is Calman Restoration is a company I
do a McGivern agency does some business with and one
of the messaging things that we came up with is
do you want to repair it or do you want
to restore it? Because that's there's a huge difference between
repair and restore, and what Kelman does is restore it
to what it was and not repair it and hope it.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And they have a really good stuck on plaster guy
in that company.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Do they really yeah, oh man, maybe I'll get it.
Why do they do something with you?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah? What do you think? Yeah, that's what we do well,
especially at all those stones and stuff. And as I do,
they call us up and he's Okay, we got a
car drive through just bar or just hollows or.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Something and they want it restored.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, and they want to restore it. And we do
old historical perma stolen sightings, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Hey, Mike, tell me about the HVAC services that you
guys offer.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And anything around HVAC. So if it's you know, service
or maintenance, like a tune up for you know, we
have a lifetime comfort Plan. It's a one hundred and
ninety eight dollars a year that includes a furnace tune
up and AC tune up. It also gives you ten
percent off service ten percent off like aero seal for example,
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and it gives you five percent off new installation as well.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Aero seal is explain aero seal.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Aero seal is. Aero seal is a way that we
solve leaky ducks. So typically when I run into somebody
who's interested in aero seal, they're having one of three problems,
or they're having maybe two or three, or they're having
all three problems, or they want to solve these three problems.
So the first one is comfort. A lot of times,
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you know, maybe a second floor bedroom that's really far
away from the furnace, or a big long ranch that
room on the other side isn't getting heated and cooled properly,
so there might be a big temperature differential. Sealing those
ducks helps get that air to that envelope. We had
a guy down in I think it was Kenosha, and
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he had a AC unit, but he was also running
a window unit up in his bedroom and his comment
was that when he walks upstairs, it feels like he
gets punched in the face with a wall of heat.
Oh my, can't forget that description. So we did aero seal.
He called us the next day and said, didn't need
the window unit. There is a one degree temperature differential
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from the first floor to the second floor now, and
I'm getting rid of that window air unit.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
So that's the first thing is comfort. The second thing
is air quality. So when we have leaky our ducks
run through some kind of grimy places. They go through basements,
they go through walls, they go sometimes through attics. Sometimes
they even go underneath the house. Right TJ. So when
those when that duckwork has cracks and gaps in it,
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which all duckwork does because it's metal on metal connection,
you're getting dust and debris and moisture and odors and
all that stuff's coming into your ducks in your wall cavities,
in your basement, and then it's you know, blowing into
the rooms that you live in. By sealing those ducks,
you know, we clean the ducks before we seal them,
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we seal them up. That's preventing it from happening again.
So it helps with indoor air quality and comfort. And
then the third thing is energy efficiency. So somebody who
seals their ducks could expect to save ten to thirty
percent on the high end, every single month on their
energy bill.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Sylvestre knowing to spend a H fact stuff six months ago,
you didn't even know how to spell H fact foul,
And now all of a sudden you got all this information.
I love that. Hey quickly if I can built.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
That question is do you add like ducks and stuff
the people that are like this, because I just say,
someone had a lake ost or something like this where
it's just really cold in the basement and there's like
no ducks in there. You guys do stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, we can do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm trusting my wife is here in this.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So yeah, oh wis and you know what she's saying,
You're not going to do it because you haven't fixed
the Was it the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, I just no. One time I came home, she
was like, I'm going remodeled the bathroom. Yeah, we'll get
to it. And one day I came home and was
my bathroom was missing. She just got it out. She had,
you know, Diane's interiors did it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Speaking of that, I gotta say thank you for something Bingo.
My my wife, Terry, had breakfast with Current who was
our friend that you guys went over and redid her
kitchen and all that. And my wife said, half of
the breakfast was, oh, you know Bingo did this, and
Bingo's guys did this, and I you know their company
did this, and and I said, yeah, I know. And
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it was after a bad experience that she had with
another company, and you guys went over and and she
has kept just so you know, because she she.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Started started with cocking with a bathtub, right, just completely
redoing a bunch of stuff in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Bath and she said thank you for that. Hey, another
text Mike before we get to a break. If a
home doesn't have a basement, are we at risk of
having radar in the home? Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah, I can answer that.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Let me a hold on, let me go over to teach.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah, yes, you still are at risk of that, we'd be.
It's basically like a slab on great Home. We're able
to mitigate either through that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Slab and a Greendale their dirt homes dir Yeah, still dirt.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh yeah, we actually did one over in that area.
We sealed it, we encapsulated it like a crawl space,
and then mitigated that as well because they were having
high levels and moisture issues. But yeah, totally possible to
slab on great Home. We either dig on the outside
of the home, uh you know, below your slab and
then go through the outside foundation wall into the frost wall.
We mitigate that way, or we go interior through the house.
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Maybe you have a closet on the outside wall. We
go through the floor up through your attic. Fans in
the attic pipe goes through.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
The roof, and then when you guys get all done,
there's a white pipe with a thing with a bubble.
What are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah? So the monometer, So what you're looking for is
an uneven level. Uh so typically, I mean some of
the ranges, it's it's never given what it's going to
be at. It depends on your soil, the type of fan,
the system. But you want those levels to be uneven.
You can see if anywhere from a point five to
a four point five on the water level, which just
a water column. It's just judging air pressure inside the system.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Any follow upon that.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
No, I'm just saying I know, but I'm just say
you lake, Well, I'm just saying. I'm just saying when
you go there and you look at it, you see
to sing on a wall, Yeah right, put the little
blue liquid in a little two in there and you're.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Like, huh what what? What? Who put that?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Was like, well, let's sen you get right on it.
But does is it working? You can't tell?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, that's it's the YouTube monometer. Some people just call
it a YouTube some people call it a monometer. The
simple way is that's what you look at to tell
if your fans working properly.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
When I see it, oh, it looks like yeah, rad
I'm done here, but I don't I don't know what
it means.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, yeah, do you guys, when once you put in
one of the systems, do you come back and check
it every year or six months or what? What is
the deal on that?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
So basically, at the end of an install, the technician,
depending on what tests you want or we're given, uh,
we would give you the charcoal or digital test. You
wait twenty four hours after the system has been installed
to start testing making sure that system is running of
course first, and then after that we just it's it's
a suggestion, it's a recommendation that you test every other year.
You can have us come back to do it. That
(35:52):
would be preferable obviously, or there's other ways to get
testing devices however you want to do it. You can
also order your own.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You don't to come back and look at it again, do.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
So on returns. If the customer is our customer and
the system's been in in the first six months, will
go out and test if they you know, wanted like
kind of a recap see if everything's working correctly. After that,
there is a servicing fee to go out. Otherwise, like
I said, you can you can buy your own constant monitors.
I always recommend that to the customer. That way you
can in live in person tell what your short term
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levels and your long term levels are. It just constantly
reads it inside of your house, so you don't have
to go every other month or every other year, whatever
you're doing, purchase a test or have somebody come tested
for you.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You can do it right a hole. For one of
your customers, when Brian was doing some efstobroom past the
whole like this, I had had an app on his phone. Yeah,
could tell what it was.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah. Air Things, so you have a there's air Things
is a great brand. We use that for our residential
testing devices and our commercial testing devices. They make a
lot of in home residential type testing that you can keep.
It's those in home monitors I was talking about. But
the air Things wave you can directly connect it to
your phone. It doesn't only do rad on, it does
all the other things in your home. So to bear
my pressure all the other stuff that you would want
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to test.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Is it Heinemann or Henneman Henneman Hennemen?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I keep thinking there's a coach up at UW Green Bay.
Last name is Heineman and I keep saying that TJ. Henneman,
he is Him and Mike Sylvester are our special guests.
They are from Lifetime Home Services. Go to Lifetime home
Services dot com for more information. They have expanded what
they what they offer. It is January is right on
(37:27):
Awareness months. So the majority of what we're talking about
is making sure that people understand the importance of getting
your home tested. And it's a free test, so just
have it. Have these guys come out and walk you
through what that looks like and if there are other
things in the home from h Fact, Handyman, odd Jobs, electrical,
(37:48):
there's a lot of things that they do offer now
at Lifetime Home Services. Will continue our conversation with Mike
and TJ on the other side of the break. This
is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvemage show only on
Fox Sports ninet twenty and Your iHeart Radio App. Welcome
back to the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home Improvement Show on
Fox Sports nine twenty and Your iHeart Radio app. Coming
(38:11):
live from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios.
I'm Mike McGivern alongside Bingo Emmon's owner of Creative Construction
Wisconsin and our two guests, second time we've had them in.
I can tell you TJ looks a little more tired
today than he did a few months ago. But young
Parker is nice and healthy and Erica, Man, I can
(38:32):
tell you this, Erica, if you're listening to TJ, says
nothing but great things about how you're handling this home
with a little young Parker in the home. So I
appreciate that for sure. Mike Silvester, Lifetime Home Services, Mike,
we didn't we haven't talked about electrical and that's something
that in twenty twenty five is going to be a
big part of what you guys do. We talk a
(38:55):
little bit about what you guys offer in the electrical space.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, the big, big part of our electrical division is
the raid on fan hookups. So those those need electricity
and we got to get elect electrical power to that.
So we do that. But you know, we also do
you know, lighting around houses. We've done home generators EV
hookups for you know, Teslas and other elect EV cars. TJ.
(39:23):
What else do we do for electrical.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, our main electrician, his name is Dan uh, great guy.
He does a lot of hot tub hookups, so if
you're not looking at that kind of thing, uh, definitely
give us a call. He works with a couple of
uh swimming pool companies that give us a call on that.
But if you're just an individual looking for it, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah. Yeah, the electrician know what you're doing. You can't
be elect your customer.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Yeah, and especially with the rise in like ev cars,
like Mike was saying too, like we're having a lot.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Of people chargers and stuff because we're always especially putting
old home because you got you got tear holes in
the people's broad Yes.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, we definitely know the days when Dan has to
go and do those.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Percent What would what home generators do you guys.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Use, Jenn, I know we do the generak ones. I
know there's one or two other ones. I'm they're slipping
me right now, but definitely generaic.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
During the last summer, my son and daughter in law
and two grandkids live in the subdivision walk shut and
the storms came through and everybody's lights were out, and
I was driving and the street lights it was just
pitch black, and there was one home that had a
home generator. Lights were on. The good garage door is open,
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big screen TV watching a ball game of like fifteen
neighbors over, and I thought, all right, it's good for them,
but the wife's got to be like, yeah, I'm glad
we've got lights, but we're not doing it. We're not
doing a garage party to that, right. But but it
was I should have stopped and taken a picture because
it was so like it was complete pitch black and
(40:59):
that one home had all the lights on into the
garage door and the baseball game on, and there was
all these guys with Brewer caps and I think he
had a little like a little barn of Kegan there.
I kind of slowed down and took a little look.
I wasn't going in, but those boys were having fun,
and I thought, man, thank god somebody in the subdivision
had that. Right. Yeah, very important for sure. The hating
(41:24):
man for odd jobs and this is on your website.
I love the first one TV mount install because everybody,
guys like me are always trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
How those are also good customers because especially at home
owner does it and he missed the first time. Yeah, yeah,
we're there to repair it. Sometimes you want to like, hey,
can you repair real quick? Because that's like the renters
you know, they don't want the landlord to know that
they had to rip the wall.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Do do you guys, by the way, do you guys
working you work in condos? Right with with all of it,
did you guys do a lot of rate on testing
and condos?
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Yeah, definitely, Just this week I had we had a
couple we'll come through. We have Obviously there's associations involved
with that stuff. Same thing with the homeowners association. There's
certain paperwork that needs to be filled out and things
that need to be agreed upon as to where the
system can and can't go. But yeah, typically, I mean,
if you're in a condo side by side you your
foundation might be shared drain tile, you might have a
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separate foundation basement, meaning you could need one or potentially
that building could need two systems. So it's a little different.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Is that h would we have to go through? Hi?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And do you know with condos is you know, it
depends on what park. Some part is community owned and
some part as you own. So some part the homeowner
just like, hey, you're stuck paying for it. And then
I go I do a lot of stuff where it
like wait, we gotta run us past the board and
you take months before you get it fixed, but they
do fix it eventually, right.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
And it's those ones that we need the paperwork filled
out for like, oh, this home can't have anything exit
on the outside of the building. It has to go
through the garage and for rate on systems that's not
always possible, so we have to, you know, fill out
paperwork or meet the association on site to explain to
them why it can't go in those locations.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do they normally do it as a group or individual
condo owners? Have you come in individual?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I would love to get in on the board with
those and you know, make it a whole condo wide thing.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
But it's typically say anyway I can meet with your
board because it just saves a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Yeah, and we've we've tried that in the past, and
I think some of us, some of them have. It's
just you know, it depends I guess who is heading
it at the time.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
So, well, you Fairfield is where I'm living out in Milwaukee,
and yeah, they have board meetings and you want to
come into one, trust me, come on, get a cup
of coffee and then come in because sometimes those get
a little bit long. And sure, yeah, there's the first
one I went to like two days after we moved in.
They had like a Pewaukee police guy there, and I go,
(43:42):
what kind of place is this? Like, I'm the young
person here. What do you want people doing here? Awesome? Hey, guys,
thank you so much. Lifetime Home Services dot Com, Lifetime
Home Services dot Com and and guys, we've had a
number of people in, you know, throughout the years doing
this show, and and Mike Silvester and TJ.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Hanneman to the real good guys.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
This year by far the best show that now, you know,
they've set the bar kind of high. I don't know
who's coming in next week, but we'll figure that. We'll
figure that out. BINGO, have a great week.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Samuels was coming next week.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
And I Sam will let me know on Monday.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
That's the NBA shows next weekend, so probably the NBA.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I would think it would be. Yeah, Oh, it'll be fun.
They're not going to do as well as these guys did,
not at all, and there's no chance. And Even's got
a cuter son than Parker, that's for sure. Guys, we
got to get out. Thank you so much again. Go
to Lifetime Home Services. It is a rate on Awareness
Month and take advantage of this this free service that
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they offer free test and they will come out and
these guys aren't trying to sell you anything. They're just
going to tell you if if this home that you're
in with your kids and grandkids coming over all the time,
is safe, and take advantage of that by going to
Lifetime Home Services dot com. This is the Creative Construction
Wisconsin Home Improvem show on Fox Sports ninet twenty in
(45:02):
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Welcome to the Creative Construction, Wisconsin home improvement show on
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from the Donovan and Jordans and Heating and Cooling studios.
So he's my coast bingo, Emmas, I call him mcgiver. Unbelievable,
the bingo. I'm telling you. I spent thirty minutes this
(00:21):
morning trying to get my gas door to pop open.
I brought Spencer out there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Spencer goes, I know how to do this on the
wrong side of the car.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's what that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
A arrow's on a gas gage.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Twenty five seconds it took Bingo to open up my
frozen door to put gas in, and he just looked
at me and walked away. He's like mcgiver, And our
guest said, is like the fives man. He just put
on his fist and popped it open. Man. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I appreciate that your gas. Now I can get gas.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You're going to walk home.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Spencer is going to take me home, our producer because
I know I'm like my wife is she gets to
half it warm again in Julie, she gets to half full.
She's like I gotta get gash. I wait a little bit.
I procrastinated a little bit. Hey, I'm I'm excited, you know,
before we get into our show. The last time we
had these guys on TJ hadn'man and his wife Erica
(01:18):
were expecting, and now three months year old Parker is,
uh is with us? How good? You look like you're
well rested?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh yeah, by sleep?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah no really, no, you know, the wife's been doing
a great job with everything. Uh, you know, taking a
lot off off my plate, I guess, but yeah, she's uh,
we're doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, house Parker, he's three months. Is he's doing starting
to get there?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He? Uh, he was.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He was a pre MEI he came about six weeks early, okay,
came out of three pounds. Oh my yeah, now though
healthy boy, twelve pounds.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
How long did he did he have to stay at hospital?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're in there for three weeks?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Was tough.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It was real tough.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But man. Yeah, and then now you bring them home
and you're like, all right, hold on here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And I was telling you that that I had the
benefit My wife worked on the O B floor at
Monts tign I, so this was right in her Wheelhouse perfect.
And I didn't do so well where you're at right now.
I struggled, man, I struggled at that early And and
then one day I came home and Katie like started
smiling at me and trying to get to me. And
(02:23):
I was like, all right, I'm starting to get it now.
Now I understand why people would throw themselves into a
you know, front of a bus to save for sure. Yeah,
and it's yeah. Now we've got these grandkids, and and
thank god for my wife because she's so good at
those early the early months. So well, congratulations, Yeah, young Parker,
is he can you throw a ball yet?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Or?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Man? He throws his pacifiers right hand or left hand?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All right? Get hey, get him practicing with both hands.
On top of that, get him practiced with both hands.
In today's show, we're going to be talking it is.
It is right on Awareness month, by the way, and
so Mike Silvester and TJ. Heineman Home Services, uh, Lifetime
Home Services name of the company, Mike, how event, it's
(03:09):
good to see you again.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I've been really well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We can move that, you can move the microphone. Yeah,
we're we're we don't have six microphones in here. Like
the new the new station that you watch I walked past.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I wonder it's all fancy stuff. We're in the closet here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We're in the closet. We yeah, sorry about that. We're
not coming out of the closet anytime soon. Just so
just so you know. And I've got trust man all
all about that, my family, So no worries. We're staying
in the closet. What a way to start with the
Home improvement show.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I haven't talking since last year, No, I know, I
for today.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Year.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Do you guys behave yourself on New York?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well it's here's my interesting story from New Year's Eve.
Debbie's standing and she's standing there. It's about midnight. Chelsey
used to stand on one foot like a stork, you
know one like this is what are you doing? So
let's up your left legs you start the year off
and your right foot. But I'm she had well done man,
when you ask her, Yeah, she really did that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's awesome. I wish I would have known that a
week ago, because I would have pulled the same thing.
That's awesome. You guys had a good Christmas and good
New Year's Yeah, everybody's good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh, yeah, we're doing good.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Good. Well, I'm happy to hear that, Mike. How about you?
How was How were the holidays?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Everything was great. My brother came home from Denver and
surprised us had no idea he was coming older, younger,
youngest brother. He's been out in Denver for a couple
of years and only my mom knew he was coming back.
I walked in the house on Christmas. My mom's kitchen
door is closed, and everybody's kind of staring, and I'm like, hey, guys,
(04:48):
Merry Christmas. And I look around and I'm like, well,
what's going on? Why is the door closed? And boom
auty co Christmas?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I love that. How does he like Denver?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He loves Denver?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He does. My my nephew is in from Denver as well,
and he said, you know, it's uh when when they're there.
Their son is a freshman in high school, and he said,
when he graduates from high school and he's a big
time gymnast and he travels all over the country and
he'll go someplace to to be a gymnast in college.
And my nephew said, we're moving back, We're coming back
(05:23):
Denver's and he's been there four years and he said
it just has changed a little bit. And I, you know,
he said, I never take take for granted that I
get to, you know, look out my my my window
and see the mountains. But boy, the city of Denver's changing,
and it's it might be time to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That's he's got a beautiful house. They just bought it.
Last year we went out to visit, and last July
we went out to visit for his birthday. And Denver
is a high rate on area. I think it's like
in Wisconsin, maybe one out of ten homes have raid
on according to DHS, But I think out in that Denver,
(06:01):
Colorado Rocky Mountain areas, it's like one out of two.
So I'd get up early in the morning and take
a walk around the neighborhood and I'd look for raid
on systems. And I'm on vacation. You're unding pictures back
to TJ, like, hey, this doesn't look up to code
to you, does it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh? Man, Yeah, you're yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You take that to meter with you and play around
like that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can make a lot of money if on vacation,
if you just I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Out there knocking on doors, you know, what it's the best.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You gotta get a life, brother. I'm just telling you
you got you got to shut it down every once
in a while for sure. How is that business? Lifetime
Home Services. We're gonna talk a lot about radar, but
there's a lot of things you guys are now offering
that we want to certainly at least have a conversation about.
Talk to me a little bit about how business is
(06:48):
and excited about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We're very excited about twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty four
was a really big year for us. Previously we were
own as Lifetime rad On Solutions, and we went through
a name change last year to change over to Lifetime
Home Services to show show and you know, show our
expanded list of services. Uh So, not only do we
(07:13):
do residential and commercial raid on mitigation and testing, but
now we also offer an h VAC service, so we
can do furnaces and acs and boilers. We have an
air quality division that handles duck cleaning and uh this
thing called aero seal which is a duck sealant, which
is which is really cool home generators, you know. So
(07:38):
we have an electrical division that does you know, ev chargers,
you know, circuit breaker panels.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Are you guys on staff, the electricians and and everybody's
on staff with the company.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, those guys are all in house with us.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, because I do a lot of
work with with some competitors, and Kernel Electric and Dinovan
Jurings and you know we're coming live from the Donovan
Jergs and Heating Cooling Studios.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Two great companies. If I can't yeah, if I might.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Say, yeah, I really enjoy working with with those guys.
And one of the issues.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They against here early in terms of heat up.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah. Yeah, in his closet, it's well and the closet
warms up quick because it's so small in here.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The sauna you could grow bananas, yes you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, but we were outside trying to fix my car,
and I you know, I put the park on and
you're good old Bingo mcguiver.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Over here, you put a shirt on when yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He walked out and you've reached in his pocket. He
got a knife, a box cutter, and boom opened it
right up. So anyway, he's ridiculous. And I knew that
he'd be able to open it up when you when
you guys started it. One of the things that the
conversations that I have with both of those companies is
(08:55):
in twenty twenty five trying to find guys that have
come to work there, and was it difficult for you
guys to fill those departments.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I could speak on this. So I'm the field manager
for the residential rate on side, and I will say
the hiring process like mid twenty twenty four was, you know,
we were getting some guys that just maybe didn't have
the work ethic that we were looking for. And that's
kind of the big thing. We already like, you know,
guys that show passion in their work and actually want
to do the work, and you know, they like seeing
a finished product. I will say, now the crew of
(09:27):
guys I have, I have five guys under me. They're
all great. They did their job seriously, they got passion,
and they're great with customers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, they figured out this is a career and that's
just a yeah, yeah, I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, And they're younger guys, so I'm hoping they you know,
keep their career with us and they stay with us
a long time and we just keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, I had. I had a young man the
year that I stopped coaching basketball. We wanted to stay
championship at Greendham Art Luther. In the summer or spring,
which school is just about to let out, I was
in the wait room where I was lifting, and there
was a young man that played and he was a
good student, and I said, hey, Brody, where are you
(10:08):
going to college? He said, yeah, I'm not I should
not go to college. He said, no, I already know
what I want to do. And I said, what do
you want to do. He said, I want to become
an electrician. And I said, what have you done with it?
He said, well nothing yet. You know, once my buddies
all go away to college, I'm going to start looking
and start my career. And I said, you know, I
do a lot with current electric and I could get
(10:28):
you an interview and a ride share tomorrow. And he goes,
are you kidding? And I go no, He goes, set
it up. Set it up. That was a Tuesday. On Friday,
they made him an offer and he was the youngest
guy ever that they would pay for to continue through
the education. And he's been there now for I guess
four years, got his own truck, and they keep saying
(10:51):
to me, hey, man, you find more guys like him.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So it's not about what you know, it is about
who you know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
One hundred percent, one hundred percent. I well, ninety nine percent.
How's that? If he can't spell electrician, we probably wouldn't
bring him in. But the kid was a really smart student.
And you want to tell when I see him at
Current electric he's always got to smile on his face
and he's like, look, I'm I'm about to buy my
first house. And my buddies are just getting through their
(11:19):
last year in college and they got a bunch of
money they got to pay back there, and he's like, coach,
this house is just my first Like, here's what I'm
going to do with it. Eventually, by the time I'm
like thirty, I want I wanted something on a lake
so I can go fishing. And I thought, by the
time you're thirty, and that's what his goal. You know,
(11:39):
he's going to buy and flip it and buy and
flip it. And then and I thought, man, you know
what good for him? And we talk a lot with
with Bingo, a creative construction of Scots and when they
find these young people like you had said TJ about
guys that are going to take it serious. Guys and
great gals, they're going to take it serious, show up
on times.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're always look, we're always hiring, I mean Ryan, but
we're looking. We're not looking for people that people because
that was gets some competitors. Workers come off and they
got these bad habits and stuff. I like, we like
training people from the bottom up and then because then
they don't know the short cuts and the stuff that
they get, get get you know, get out companies into trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
They don't know what.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So you agree with that, Yeah, Yeah, the bad habits thing,
I've I've had it before with some training. I mean
I'm I'm thirty one myself, you know, and I've had
some guys come in that are they're older and they've had,
you know, previous experience and things, or they maybe they
haven't done it in a long time, and I just
immediately see some habits and it's kind of harder to tell,
you know, an older gentleman that's been doing it for
(12:38):
a while too, that you know this is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Why why did you look right at me when you
said that no choice? You pick you pick on the
old guy or great, you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Are doing been talking about because I belong to the
same organizations that you know Mike does two about. You know,
it's faster and those guys do that. You know, I
go to these jabs once and a guy, I've been
doing it this way for thirty years. Doesn't mean you're
doing it right right, especially just whole licking stones and
all those stuckles and all those things that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
People do wrong. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You just look at it and your brand new homes
and well, we always do it this way. This is
why I'm so busy because in seven years later, I'm
repairing it right.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, you can't. Hey, I gotta text guys, and I'm
going to start We'll talk some rate on again because
it's right on Awareness month. But there's so much more
going on over at Lifetime Home Services that we're going
to talk about later in the show. But I got
a text. Somebody had heard the promo that we had
on and they're thinking about buying a home that has
(13:38):
a rate on mitigation system in place. How do they
know if it's working properly.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The only way to know if your rate on system
is working properly or if you don't have a system.
If you have a rate on problem at all, the
only way to know is to do a test. Right
on is color. We can't see right on, we can't
smell right on, we can't taste right on. The only
way to know is to do a test. There's a
couple of different ways to do a test, and I'd
be happy to talk about those different ways.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Excellent and they can call you. I would think that's
not something that is going to get checked if they
do a home inspection correct.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So that's the scary part.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Here in Wisconsin. Radon is part of a contingency in
a home offer. So there's different types of contingencies like
a home inspector contingency, or an appraisal contingency, or a
rate on contingency, and depending on the market, some of
those contingencies might get waived supply and demand right, So
in a really competitive market, which we've been in the
(14:42):
last couple of years, we've seen people willing to waive
home inspection contingencies and appraisal contingencies and they're putting themselves
at risk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Isn't this crazy that people would actually waive a rate
on test. You know it's the number one killer right now. Yeah,
you know this is this is the you know they
can that's the number one killer for this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
A lot of people like, do you guys, do you
guys have a carbon monoxide detector in your house?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, I take the battery because it makes noise roun
in my life.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah I don't. So I don't because when when we
try to take the battery, it's I'm not even gonna
tell you my fire fire story.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But everybody's got one.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Everybody's got one. Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
How many people die of carbon monoxide poisoning every year
about four hundred. How many people die of raid on
every year twenty one thousand? Huge difference, huge difference.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, so my buddy who's thinking about this, Look what
I would do is I would I would call you
guys and probably have you just come out before he.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you know what to cost that raid on test?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think it's pretty cheap, right, I think it's free.
I think it's free as well, So you know what,
and if you're happy with it by the boys lunch maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And people are like, well I don't want to do
a raid on test. You can't say, well, does it
cost me money because it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I look at raid on testing. I came from healthcare.
I worked for a big healthcare company for over a decade,
and I would always press my clients, do your prostate exam,
do your mammogram. These are preventive services that don't cost
you anything, right, And why do we do preventive services
because we want to find problems early? Why do we
want to find problems early? Typically they're easier treated and
(16:23):
they cost us less money in the long run.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Remember I said, my wife worked on the ob floor,
so she's a registered nurse. It's a blessing and a
curse to have a wife. That's all right. You sneeze
and she's like, here, drink this, take this, look at this,
put this in. Put this on your wife.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That did that, right? I see she makes me one
of those immune things. That vitamin seems so yeah, I
drink this. I thought it was just my wife.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That the the it tastes kind of like orange juice. Right,
that's my wife's side here, And I'm like, I just sneezed,
like come on, what do you no? No, because this
is going around. We have the grandkids here and you
better not go here, and you should do this and
put this here and take this and this kind a
handful of I'm like, I don't even know what I'm
taken here. She's like, we've been married forty years. If
(17:10):
I wanted to get rid of you earlier, I could
have done this thirty five years ago. Just take these,
drink this, go, you know, put this here, rub this
on your chest. You'll be fine. So yeah, that and
when you said, look, we can't smell it, you can't
see it. And the fact that you guys will come
out and do a free test, what is the have
(17:32):
you ever gotten to the bottom of people? Like Bingo
just said, When people say I don't want to have
it done, like, the answer would be because you don't
trust that we're going to tell you the truth. We're
going to try to sell you stuff I would think
is what people are thinking, correct, Mike.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, that's part of it. Sometimes it's maybe ignorance too
that they don't understand how you know, Raydon is you
know a killer that it kills twenty one thousand people.
You know, they've done health studies where so we have
an action level here in the United States of four
Pico Curius per leader and if you're at or above that,
(18:07):
you wanted to take action. So if you're at four
Pico curis per leader, that's the health risk.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I do, yeah, I definitely do it is it is
the US e p A has established the action level
for deciding when you need Can you tell him reading that, Yeah,
you can. That's why.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
By the way, Nary did call it. Wanted me to
to m see their awards thing. Remember we talked about that,
but they're doing it different. One is just going to
do something live and just kind of introduce people, and
one they're going to record those seventy two pages of narration.
And you can tell as I tried to read that
not a great narrator.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Bingo. Let's let's put Bingo on the spot. Bingo. Do
you know where they got the name Pico Curis from?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, I do not. I do not. I do not
even claim to know all that. So it's like make
fun of the water doctrines. It comes in and you know,
he take the ones up. He says numbers that I
don't can't fathom. Right, you go, well, you gotta make
sure waters now this and it Okay, I don't know.
I hold up the glass, which there's not big chunks,
and I guess we'll right.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
People curious comes from.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And a doctor.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You know, I don't go to doctor because if they
find something wrong, didn't worry about it. I don't worry
about nothing. If you don't find.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Nothing wrong, I've got the answer. Do you know where
I found the answer for that? On your old website?
On your old website, Lifetime right on mathematical expression for
one trillion Curry is named term named in honor of
Madame Currey. There you go. You wrote that, didn't you.
If you did, now look at someone that actually read it.
(19:36):
That's awesome, right.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I didn't actually write that. I was doing some research.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'm not supposed to lie. We do faith in the
zone in the studio. Don't be lying, I mean, Mike, Yeah,
Well I saw when TJ started looking at you and
shaking his head like you're such a liar that you
had to come clean. We are talking to the boys
from Lifetime Home Services. You can go to Lifetime home
Services dot com to look at at their website and
(20:01):
all of some of the new things that they're offering.
They started expanding in twenty twenty four and they're full
blown now and we'll talk about some of that on
the other side of the break. My co host, as
always the owner of Creative Construction Wisconsin, he's Bingo Emmons.
He's just mcgiver to me because he can fix just
about anything. If is there stuff around your house that
(20:23):
Devland's fixed.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That you haven't fixed, Oh yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh good, Hey, dev He fixes stuff very quickly for me.
Just so you know. This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin
home improvement show on Fox Sports ninet twenty and your
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Coming live from the Donovan and Jorgenson Heating and Cooling Studios,
(20:49):
largest employee owned HVAC company in the state of Wisconsin.
Any problems you have with your furnace go to Donovan
Jorgenson dot com or we can say this time home services. Right,
We're okay with that. You had asked me when you
first walked in. Mike, Hey, listen, we do electrical I
know that currentl Electric sponsors the show. We know that,
(21:10):
Donovan George said, can we bring it up? I said absolutely,
as Bingo had he is.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We remember we had Bruce from best Electric. He was
and he knows because he used to give you ten.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
He used to teem me up all the time he
was a basketball referee. But I let him go with that,
and I probably deserved most of the teas he gave me.
But but Bingo has taught me this, if you if
you do things correctly, there's enough business for everybody. And
you know the fact that you guys are now doing
some machvac h work with furnaces and central air and
(21:43):
boilers and stuff like that, I think it's important that
we bring that up and we'll talk more about that.
But we had during the break my friend Brian, who
is the guy who's thinking about buying this house, and
we had asked you a question about, look, if if
I'm going to buy this house, should I get this
thing done now? And we came up with a pretty
good idea for him.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah. So my advice to somebody looking to buy a
house would be to talk to a professional, So a
real estate agent that knows what they're doing, that has experience,
and they'll be able to tell you whether they think
a rate on contingency is appropriate or not for your
home offer. You know, there's certain things. Maybe the house
has been on the market for thirty days, they might
(22:25):
feel safe for putting a rate on contingency in that offer.
Whether you have a rate on contingency in the offer
or you just want to get it done after we'll
do a test completely free. But some real estate agents
might advise you at this time in a competitive market
to waive that rate on contingency simply because the cost
(22:46):
of a raid on system is going to be between
one thousand and two thousand dollars, and that might be
a risk that a homeowner is willing to take to
get their dream home. Personally, there's some contingencies I wouldn't wave,
like a home inspection contingency, because now we're talking tens
of thousands of dollars that we're at risk. I will say,
(23:07):
you know, if you're talking to a real estate agent
and you're going to have a home inspection contingency, my
my best advice is choose a WAHI home inspector. That's
the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors. They got the greatest
group of home inspectors out there in the state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Any believe in education because you do two hours on
the second Tuesday every month, they do education for two hours.
And guess what who's up this month?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I would think probably Michael raid He's got his no,
he's guys. He's gonna bring his notebook and go through
a bunch of notes with people. And that's we make you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
We make our rounds during raid On Awareness month.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh, you gotta get the.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
News out there. And now is a great time to
do a raid On test.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Because like people, if people are glowing in your house,
you probably want to get that checked out.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, other than New Year's z because there could be
some other reasons that we're glowing during the New Year's
Eve party that you have. Hey, the advantages and disadvantages
of having a rate on migration system? Is there some
disadvantages of it?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
TJ. I'll let you speak to that.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Disadvantages of having the system. I mean not particularly you know,
you know you could you put your system in. You know,
you're looking for the results of lower rate on levels.
You know, say we get those down, that's great. Issues
following I mean, if you have some cracks in your
foundation stuff like that, you know that can cause a
system to maybe not work properly, could be an issue there.
(24:40):
Basically we come in afterwards after testing if your levels
don't come down, and we look for any issues and
we basically fix those issues and retest. So not really
any cons more so pros. I mean it also dehumidifies
the subslab. It's not a guarantee, but it can dry
out your subslab. It can reduce the humidity in your basement.
So if that's something you're looking to do too, it
might sider right on mitigation system for that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Our commercial our commercial form in Chad, he's put two
rate on mitigation systems in his previous two houses and
never had to run a d humidifier again.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Really yep.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, my mom who lives in Wausa and has a
high water table, she was emptying her dehumidifier every day
or every twice a day. Sometimes we tested her house
and came back at like a five. She installed rate
on mitigation and now she only empties her every other day.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Did deal?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
No? But I did send TJ out. You did because
I love her.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You didn't get hold on. You didn't give your mom
a deal that would have been you could have given
her fifteen percent discount for Christmas or something.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
TJ Best installed in the company put her system in.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Soh there, there you go, There you go, and pride
coming before the fall. Pal, I'm just telling you. I
read that somewhere. Hey, if if somebody it has a
question regarding radon in water or right on in water tests,
is there such a thing for that.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, we do offer radon tests for water, though in
Wisconsin pretty uncommon. You have to have ten thousand pico
quiries in order to have even one in the air,
So a lot of times what will happen is, you know,
people will run their shower or hot water, and in
states where they do actually have rainon in water, that's
when it gets agitated and actually gets into the air
(26:28):
as of vapor, and that's when it actually can be
breathed in as radon gas. So it's far in between
here in Wisconsin. I've done maybe ten tests in the
nine years I've been with the company, and they've all
come down low.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
So okay, yeah, hey, and Mike, maybe I'll ask you this.
The idea of expanding what you guys do, was it
because when you guys were out doing radon testing in homes.
They would ask you, hey, do you guys do electrical?
Do you do h fact, do you guys do any
handyman stuff? Outside of that the air quality and and
(27:01):
and rate on stuff? Is that why you guys made
that that that move to kind of expand into those
those areas.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Absolutely, that's a big reason why. Due to the level
of service, and you know, we try to deliver perfect
service in every home and because customers were always happy
with the work that we did, they would commonly ask us, hey,
do you do this? Or do you do that? Or
if you guys don't, who would you recommend?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Man. It's funny because with what Creative Construction Wisconsin, what
they're known for is plaster stuckover right, and that's what
they're I mean, they've been around six six generations, right. However,
they they they also do a lot of other things
that they don't go out and do a bunch of
(27:49):
advertising for. But they have such quality people that work
for them that when you know something outside of that
and they get asked, hey, do you guys, do you
know any carpenters that could do this for us? Yeah,
we've got somebody on staff. Zach is just like bingo
Zach could do would be the guy that is, you
know Minnie mcgiver that can fix anything and look at something.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That appens because everyone's well, oh I didn't do a
concrete step. No we don't. Every once in a while
we do them. But it was like people, you know,
because we do we do wind to repair right it?
Heel I want you to Can you do a bunch
of windows in my house?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We're not those people. Where the people that you want
to restore a window and make look at how I
did when I was built in nineteen ten. That's what
we do.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well. What's funny is Calman Restoration is a company I
do a McGivern agency does some business with and one
of the messaging things that we came up with is
do you want to repair it or do you want
to restore it? Because that's there's a huge difference between
repair and restore, and what Kelman does is restore it
to what it was and not repair it and hope it.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And they have a really good stuck on plaster guy
in that company.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Do they really yeah, oh man, maybe I'll get it.
Why do they do something with you?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah? What do you think? Yeah, that's what we do well,
especially at all those stones and stuff. And as I do,
they call us up and he's Okay, we got a
car drive through just bar or just hollows or.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Something and they want it restored.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, and they want to restore it. And we do
old historical perma stolen sightings, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Hey, Mike, tell me about the HVAC services that you
guys offer.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And anything around HVAC. So if it's you know, service
or maintenance, like a tune up for you know, we
have a lifetime comfort Plan. It's a one hundred and
ninety eight dollars a year that includes a furnace tune
up and AC tune up. It also gives you ten
percent off service ten percent off like aero seal for example,
(29:43):
and it gives you five percent off new installation as well.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Aero seal is explain aero seal.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Aero seal is. Aero seal is a way that we
solve leaky ducks. So typically when I run into somebody
who's interested in aero seal, they're having one of three problems,
or they're having maybe two or three, or they're having
all three problems, or they want to solve these three problems.
So the first one is comfort. A lot of times,
(30:10):
you know, maybe a second floor bedroom that's really far
away from the furnace, or a big long ranch that
room on the other side isn't getting heated and cooled properly,
so there might be a big temperature differential. Sealing those
ducks helps get that air to that envelope. We had
a guy down in I think it was Kenosha, and
(30:31):
he had a AC unit, but he was also running
a window unit up in his bedroom and his comment
was that when he walks upstairs, it feels like he
gets punched in the face with a wall of heat.
Oh my, can't forget that description. So we did aero seal.
He called us the next day and said, didn't need
the window unit. There is a one degree temperature differential
(30:54):
from the first floor to the second floor now, and
I'm getting rid of that window air unit.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
So that's the first thing is comfort. The second thing
is air quality. So when we have leaky our ducks
run through some kind of grimy places. They go through basements,
they go through walls, they go sometimes through attics. Sometimes
they even go underneath the house. Right TJ. So when
those when that duckwork has cracks and gaps in it,
(31:20):
which all duckwork does because it's metal on metal connection,
you're getting dust and debris and moisture and odors and
all that stuff's coming into your ducks in your wall cavities,
in your basement, and then it's you know, blowing into
the rooms that you live in. By sealing those ducks,
you know, we clean the ducks before we seal them,
(31:41):
we seal them up. That's preventing it from happening again.
So it helps with indoor air quality and comfort. And
then the third thing is energy efficiency. So somebody who
seals their ducks could expect to save ten to thirty
percent on the high end, every single month on their
energy bill.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Sylvestre knowing to spend a H fact stuff six months ago,
you didn't even know how to spell H fact foul,
And now all of a sudden you got all this information.
I love that. Hey quickly if I can built.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
That question is do you add like ducks and stuff
the people that are like this, because I just say,
someone had a lake ost or something like this where
it's just really cold in the basement and there's like
no ducks in there. You guys do stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, we can do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm trusting my wife is here in this.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So yeah, oh wis and you know what she's saying,
You're not going to do it because you haven't fixed
the Was it the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, I just no. One time I came home, she
was like, I'm going remodeled the bathroom. Yeah, we'll get
to it. And one day I came home and was
my bathroom was missing. She just got it out. She had,
you know, Diane's interiors did it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Speaking of that, I gotta say thank you for something Bingo.
My my wife, Terry, had breakfast with Current who was
our friend that you guys went over and redid her
kitchen and all that. And my wife said, half of
the breakfast was, oh, you know Bingo did this, and
Bingo's guys did this, and I you know their company
did this, and and I said, yeah, I know. And
(33:12):
it was after a bad experience that she had with
another company, and you guys went over and and she
has kept just so you know, because she she.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Started started with cocking with a bathtub, right, just completely
redoing a bunch of stuff in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Bath and she said thank you for that. Hey, another
text Mike before we get to a break. If a
home doesn't have a basement, are we at risk of
having radar in the home? Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah, I can answer that.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Let me a hold on, let me go over to teach.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah, yes, you still are at risk of that, we'd be.
It's basically like a slab on great Home. We're able
to mitigate either through that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Slab and a Greendale their dirt homes dir Yeah, still dirt.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh yeah, we actually did one over in that area.
We sealed it, we encapsulated it like a crawl space,
and then mitigated that as well because they were having
high levels and moisture issues. But yeah, totally possible to
slab on great Home. We either dig on the outside
of the home, uh you know, below your slab and
then go through the outside foundation wall into the frost wall.
We mitigate that way, or we go interior through the house.
(34:15):
Maybe you have a closet on the outside wall. We
go through the floor up through your attic. Fans in
the attic pipe goes through.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
The roof, and then when you guys get all done,
there's a white pipe with a thing with a bubble.
What are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah? So the monometer, So what you're looking for is
an uneven level. Uh so typically, I mean some of
the ranges, it's it's never given what it's going to
be at. It depends on your soil, the type of fan,
the system. But you want those levels to be uneven.
You can see if anywhere from a point five to
a four point five on the water level, which just
a water column. It's just judging air pressure inside the system.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Any follow upon that.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
No, I'm just saying I know, but I'm just say
you lake, Well, I'm just saying. I'm just saying when
you go there and you look at it, you see
to sing on a wall, Yeah right, put the little
blue liquid in a little two in there and you're.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Like, huh what what? What? Who put that?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Was like, well, let's sen you get right on it.
But does is it working? You can't tell?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, that's it's the YouTube monometer. Some people just call
it a YouTube some people call it a monometer. The
simple way is that's what you look at to tell
if your fans working properly.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
When I see it, oh, it looks like yeah, rad
I'm done here, but I don't I don't know what
it means.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, yeah, do you guys, when once you put in
one of the systems, do you come back and check
it every year or six months or what? What is
the deal on that?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
So basically, at the end of an install, the technician,
depending on what tests you want or we're given, uh,
we would give you the charcoal or digital test. You
wait twenty four hours after the system has been installed
to start testing making sure that system is running of
course first, and then after that we just it's it's
a suggestion, it's a recommendation that you test every other year.
You can have us come back to do it. That
(35:52):
would be preferable obviously, or there's other ways to get
testing devices however you want to do it. You can
also order your own.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You don't to come back and look at it again, do.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
So on returns. If the customer is our customer and
the system's been in in the first six months, will
go out and test if they you know, wanted like
kind of a recap see if everything's working correctly. After that,
there is a servicing fee to go out. Otherwise, like
I said, you can you can buy your own constant monitors.
I always recommend that to the customer. That way you
can in live in person tell what your short term
(36:23):
levels and your long term levels are. It just constantly
reads it inside of your house, so you don't have
to go every other month or every other year, whatever
you're doing, purchase a test or have somebody come tested
for you.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You can do it right a hole. For one of
your customers, when Brian was doing some efstobroom past the
whole like this, I had had an app on his phone. Yeah,
could tell what it was.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah. Air Things, so you have a there's air Things
is a great brand. We use that for our residential
testing devices and our commercial testing devices. They make a
lot of in home residential type testing that you can keep.
It's those in home monitors I was talking about. But
the air Things wave you can directly connect it to
your phone. It doesn't only do rad on, it does
all the other things in your home. So to bear
my pressure all the other stuff that you would want
(37:02):
to test.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Is it Heinemann or Henneman Henneman Hennemen?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I keep thinking there's a coach up at UW Green Bay.
Last name is Heineman and I keep saying that TJ. Henneman,
he is Him and Mike Sylvester are our special guests.
They are from Lifetime Home Services. Go to Lifetime home
Services dot com for more information. They have expanded what
they what they offer. It is January is right on
(37:27):
Awareness months. So the majority of what we're talking about
is making sure that people understand the importance of getting
your home tested. And it's a free test, so just
have it. Have these guys come out and walk you
through what that looks like and if there are other
things in the home from h Fact, Handyman, odd Jobs, electrical,
(37:48):
there's a lot of things that they do offer now
at Lifetime Home Services. Will continue our conversation with Mike
and TJ on the other side of the break. This
is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvemage show only on
Fox Sports ninet twenty and Your iHeart Radio App. Welcome
back to the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home Improvement Show on
Fox Sports nine twenty and Your iHeart Radio app. Coming
(38:11):
live from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios.
I'm Mike McGivern alongside Bingo Emmon's owner of Creative Construction
Wisconsin and our two guests, second time we've had them in.
I can tell you TJ looks a little more tired
today than he did a few months ago. But young
Parker is nice and healthy and Erica, Man, I can
(38:32):
tell you this, Erica, if you're listening to TJ, says
nothing but great things about how you're handling this home
with a little young Parker in the home. So I
appreciate that for sure. Mike Silvester, Lifetime Home Services, Mike,
we didn't we haven't talked about electrical and that's something
that in twenty twenty five is going to be a
big part of what you guys do. We talk a
(38:55):
little bit about what you guys offer in the electrical space.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, the big, big part of our electrical division is
the raid on fan hookups. So those those need electricity
and we got to get elect electrical power to that.
So we do that. But you know, we also do
you know, lighting around houses. We've done home generators EV
hookups for you know, Teslas and other elect EV cars. TJ.
(39:23):
What else do we do for electrical.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, our main electrician, his name is Dan uh, great guy.
He does a lot of hot tub hookups, so if
you're not looking at that kind of thing, uh, definitely
give us a call. He works with a couple of
uh swimming pool companies that give us a call on that.
But if you're just an individual looking for it, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah. Yeah, the electrician know what you're doing. You can't
be elect your customer.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Yeah, and especially with the rise in like ev cars,
like Mike was saying too, like we're having a lot.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Of people chargers and stuff because we're always especially putting
old home because you got you got tear holes in
the people's broad Yes.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, we definitely know the days when Dan has to
go and do those.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Percent What would what home generators do you guys.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Use, Jenn, I know we do the generak ones. I
know there's one or two other ones. I'm they're slipping
me right now, but definitely generaic.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
During the last summer, my son and daughter in law
and two grandkids live in the subdivision walk shut and
the storms came through and everybody's lights were out, and
I was driving and the street lights it was just
pitch black, and there was one home that had a
home generator. Lights were on. The good garage door is open,
(40:36):
big screen TV watching a ball game of like fifteen
neighbors over, and I thought, all right, it's good for them,
but the wife's got to be like, yeah, I'm glad
we've got lights, but we're not doing it. We're not
doing a garage party to that, right. But but it
was I should have stopped and taken a picture because
it was so like it was complete pitch black and
(40:59):
that one home had all the lights on into the
garage door and the baseball game on, and there was
all these guys with Brewer caps and I think he
had a little like a little barn of Kegan there.
I kind of slowed down and took a little look.
I wasn't going in, but those boys were having fun,
and I thought, man, thank god somebody in the subdivision
had that. Right. Yeah, very important for sure. The hating
(41:24):
man for odd jobs and this is on your website.
I love the first one TV mount install because everybody,
guys like me are always trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
How those are also good customers because especially at home
owner does it and he missed the first time. Yeah, yeah,
we're there to repair it. Sometimes you want to like, hey,
can you repair real quick? Because that's like the renters
you know, they don't want the landlord to know that
they had to rip the wall.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Do do you guys, by the way, do you guys
working you work in condos? Right with with all of it,
did you guys do a lot of rate on testing
and condos?
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Yeah, definitely, Just this week I had we had a
couple we'll come through. We have Obviously there's associations involved
with that stuff. Same thing with the homeowners association. There's
certain paperwork that needs to be filled out and things
that need to be agreed upon as to where the
system can and can't go. But yeah, typically, I mean,
if you're in a condo side by side you your
foundation might be shared drain tile, you might have a
(42:18):
separate foundation basement, meaning you could need one or potentially
that building could need two systems. So it's a little different.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Is that h would we have to go through? Hi?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And do you know with condos is you know, it
depends on what park. Some part is community owned and
some part as you own. So some part the homeowner
just like, hey, you're stuck paying for it. And then
I go I do a lot of stuff where it
like wait, we gotta run us past the board and
you take months before you get it fixed, but they
do fix it eventually, right.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
And it's those ones that we need the paperwork filled
out for like, oh, this home can't have anything exit
on the outside of the building. It has to go
through the garage and for rate on systems that's not
always possible, so we have to, you know, fill out
paperwork or meet the association on site to explain to
them why it can't go in those locations.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do they normally do it as a group or individual
condo owners? Have you come in individual?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I would love to get in on the board with
those and you know, make it a whole condo wide thing.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
But it's typically say anyway I can meet with your
board because it just saves a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Yeah, and we've we've tried that in the past, and
I think some of us, some of them have. It's
just you know, it depends I guess who is heading
it at the time.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
So, well, you Fairfield is where I'm living out in Milwaukee,
and yeah, they have board meetings and you want to
come into one, trust me, come on, get a cup
of coffee and then come in because sometimes those get
a little bit long. And sure, yeah, there's the first
one I went to like two days after we moved in.
They had like a Pewaukee police guy there, and I go,
(43:42):
what kind of place is this? Like, I'm the young
person here. What do you want people doing here? Awesome? Hey, guys,
thank you so much. Lifetime Home Services dot Com, Lifetime
Home Services dot Com and and guys, we've had a
number of people in, you know, throughout the years doing
this show, and and Mike Silvester and TJ.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Hanneman to the real good guys.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
This year by far the best show that now, you know,
they've set the bar kind of high. I don't know
who's coming in next week, but we'll figure that. We'll
figure that out. BINGO, have a great week.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Samuels was coming next week.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
And I Sam will let me know on Monday.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
That's the NBA shows next weekend, so probably the NBA.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I would think it would be. Yeah, Oh, it'll be fun.
They're not going to do as well as these guys did,
not at all, and there's no chance. And Even's got
a cuter son than Parker, that's for sure. Guys, we
got to get out. Thank you so much again. Go
to Lifetime Home Services. It is a rate on Awareness
Month and take advantage of this this free service that
(44:41):
they offer free test and they will come out and
these guys aren't trying to sell you anything. They're just
going to tell you if if this home that you're
in with your kids and grandkids coming over all the time,
is safe, and take advantage of that by going to
Lifetime Home Services dot com. This is the Creative Construction
Wisconsin Home Improvem show on Fox Sports ninet twenty in
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