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Have you been thinking about updating yourbathroom or in need of some new windows,
or looking for just some advice onthe next do it yourself project.
Well, let's talk about it livefrom the Donavan and Jorgensen Hitting and Cooling
Studios. This is the Creative Constructionof Wisconsin Home Improvement Show. Let's turn
it over to Mike McGivern and BingoEmmons. Only on the Big nine twenty
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then your iHeartRadio App. Welcome tothe Creative Construction of Wisconsin home Improvement show.
I'm the Big nine twenty and youriHeart Radio app. Coming live from
the Donovan to Jorgensen Heating and CoolingStudios. I got to give those guys
a call to day last night.I don't know what was going on.
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Every time the air conditioner that itwould cycle and stop, there would be
a bang, bang bang. SoI got to give Scott Fisher and my
friend's over at Donovan George seeing youCooling to call because they kept me up
half the night. Hey, Bingo, how are you. I'm doing great
night's sleep? Yeah, not muchI can do. I don't know where
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you're gonna go with that. I'mgetting a little nervous. I don't want
to hear about it. So no, it was not good and they'll be
out. I don't want to hearabout it either, to be honest with
you. Bingo Emmage, welcome back. How was Miami? It was good?
It was good my sister. Actually, you know, it's that Educate
Tomorrow our deal that my sister starteda long time ago to the twenty first
year and now we raised over threehundred thousand dollars at this thing. Wow,
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it is as well. It's youknow, when foster kids turn eighteen,
they get there out of system andthat's it. Well, once she
first started her first year, shedid it. She got eight kids to
go to college out of foster,you know, you know, free college,
you know, for them, andshe's, uh, you know,
twenty one years later, seventy fivehundred kids are going to college in her
foster program. So she's getting it'sgoing to be a big deal on there.
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It's getting to be a huge deal. Yeah. We had her in
studio in the other station a longtime ago. She was really impressive.
What a servant leadership art she has. Ye giving back, that's that's awesome,
a lot of fun. Hey,I'm excited about today's show. We
got a couple of guys. Thisis why I was excited. Actually,
you know, let my dad knowabout this, because my dad's all about
free stuff all the time. Well, these guys do this is This guy's
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gonna do a free read on testing. So my dad got up early just
to listen to this man. Well, I hope Al is good. I
haven't talked to Ellen a while.How's he feeling. He's doing good,
He's done all right. Yeah.We used to meet a lot over at
his house and just hang out andtalk, and I need to do that
again. Al. I hope allthis while I miss I miss hanging out
with you. Got a couple oflocal guys, one from Old Creek,
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one from tosyas man were he wastelling some Tom Swiddle stories that we can't
stay on the air, which iswhich is awesome. Mike Sylvester, how
you doing. Oh, I'm doinggreat, happy to be here. Yeah,
man, Tosa Eastpoy. How longyou been doing the raid on stuff?
So I've been with Lifetime Home Servicesformerly known as Lifetime raid On Solutions
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for just about a year now.A good company from what I and we
get to talking and bingo thinks alot of the work that you guys do
enjoying yourself. It's a good companyto be at. Yeah, it's a
great company to be at. Itruly enjoy going to work every day.
I worked for a large corporation beforethis for over a decade, a big
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fortune fifty company, and now Iworked, you know, when I started
with Lifetime Home Services, I thinkwe had you know, maybe seven to
ten employees a year ago, andnow we're close to thirty employees. So
we're rapidly growing and it's a reallyexciting thing to be a part of.
And you were the sales manager.Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct,
man, Good for you. Didyou if I want to talk to
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you as a senior at Tosa Eastand said, look, number of years
from now, you're going to knoweverything there is to know about rad on
and and and and helping people inin in that space. What would you
have said to me? Who areyou and what are you talking about?
Hey? There you go. That'syou know what. I'm glad because if
if you were thinking about doing thiswhen you're a senior in high school,
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this is where I'm going to.This is a niche I'm going to have
and and you know, we're goingto be helping people with their their their
health and and you know, makingtheir homes. Just helping people. I
mean, this is they're preventing peoplefrom getting cancer. So I mean that's
that's a big deal. Yeah,huge, huge deal. And that's that's
a big reason why we rolled outfree testing. Rad On is a relatively
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unknown subject. A lot of peoplemaybe maybe they've heard of radon, but
they don't know how harm how harmfulit can be, or the the nasty
effects that it can have. Sowe rolled out this free testing initiative to
really raise awareness and try to buildhealthier communities. Boy, I love that.
Hey, let's move over to Tejaif we can't Tej you're the field
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manager at Lifetime Home Services. Let'stalk a little bit. How long have
you been with the company, Justjust under ten years and I've been doing
rad on installs. I recently tookover managing about me three years ago for
the rad On division and uh yeah, about maybe five thousand installs under me,
so, oh my goodness, allwith all southeast Wisconsin pretty much.
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Yeah. Man, even higher upthan that, we go when when if
if you're and I hate for tothrow this at you. But if you're
in an elevator right the old elevatorpitch, if you're sitting there having coffee
and somebody sees your hat and says, hey, talk to me about why
it's important that that we get ourhouse tested right on? What do you
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tell them? Well, there's Imean a couple of things too. So
the radon system itself, I mean, it will mitigate whatever your levels are
if you've tested, getting one inis very important obviously. For again,
like I said on reduction, yourchances of getting cancer you know, during
it are if you if you're alsoa smoker, I should say, about
six to seven times a normal rateof getting on cancer. So if you're
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living in a home that has highrate on levels and you're also a smoker,
you know, it's definitely something youwant to take care of. I
mean, just in general though,I think rate on it is about twenty
two thousand deaths per year due torate on poisoning and cancer and and and
you can you can not be oneof those, right, I mean,
and do a test what is theacceptable level of So in Wisconsin and some
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other states, e p A standardssay testing of four pico quiries or above
would be the recommended action level though. Ye man, yeah, I went
to I want to it is allit is a very very small measurement of
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a gas basically, so right oncomes from soil. It basically is under
your home, it's outside of yourhome. It's a it's a pressurized thing,
so naturally it just wants to getup into your home and then by
stack effect and you know, spreadthroughout your house. Usually your levels are
higher in the basement, so that'swhy our mitigation systems start there. And
you know, we talked about whatthe guys sitting Our producer went to Franklin,
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so you know you all creep boys. Yeah, you've got to really
dumb this thing down. Saber boys. Boy. Yeah, I can't believe
you guys are just sitting next toeach other like like that. Hey,
is it older homes, newer homes, condos? Do you do all of
the above everything? New construction homes, Uh, yeah, pre existing homes
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anything really? Yeah, large commercialbuildings as well. We do have a
commercial division that's lifetime rate on solutions. They're killing it right now too.
Hey, Hey, Mike, ifwe can move the microphone over as a
sales manager for Lifetime Home Services.And as we talk to these guys,
if you have interest in going totheir website, it's Lifetime Home Services dot
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com. It's one word, LifetimeHome Services dot com. And they there's
a lot on this website. Youknow as to the reasons you need to
have people out, Mike, whenwhen you're out as the sales manager for
this company, you know, peopleget a little bit nervous about having sales
guys like us. Right, I'ma sales guy you know for something else,
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but you know, in their homebecause they just want to make sure
that that you know, we're beingstraight with them. And if it's a
free thing that you're going to do, you guys are you guys aren't doing
this whole bait and switch thing right, And I got to be upfront with
you because we've got to make surethat people that are listening to the show
understand the reason you guys offer thisthis free testing. Yeah, absolutely,
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it truly is a free test.There's no bells and whistles, there's no
tricks, there's no underhanded anything goingon. Again, it's about getting information
to people. When when myself oranother sales representative is out in a home
and we're doing a raid on test, and you know, we go and
pick up that test. We reallytry to be educational to the customer and
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present them with the facts and youknow, hey, this is what could
happen, and just give them theinformation to make an informed decision. Really
important, And what is the processIf somebody calls two six two five fifty
seven oh one, right, ninefive fifty seven oh one, what you
get walk me through the process.If if somebody like me that that lives
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in a condo or somebody who livesin a home says, listen, I
heard about this, this free testingthat you guys offer at Lifetime Home Services.
What's the process to get that done? Yeah, it's a fairly simple
process. You give us a call. You can even give me a call
on my cell phone. My numberdirectly is two six two six eight three
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eight one eight zero. Again that'stwo six two six eight three eighty one
eighty. Reach out to me orthe office. Anyone in the office is
gonna be happy to help and reallyinformational as well. But the process is
fairly simple. You call me,Hey I've never tested before, or hey
I haven't tested in ten twenty years. The EPA does recommend doing a test
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every two years because soil conditions canchange. New construction in an area can
disrupt soil, so we want totest you know, frequently, but you
give us a call, we setup that test. Setting up the test
in your house takes you know,maybe five to ten minutes. That's it.
That's it, and then we're outof there. We're gonna come back,
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you know, at forty eight hourslater or maybe you know, seventy
two hours, four days, fivedays later, depending on what's convenient for
your schedule, and we're going topick up that test, and we're actually
with our digital monitors, we're ableto get those results instantaneously, so we
send them to our iPad. Weget a nice report. I show you
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the report, we talk over it. Hey, everything's good, You're you're
really low, you know, youhave peace of mind, have a great
day. Or the other circumstance couldbe that your rate on levels come back,
you know, higher, and youfeel unsafe about that and you don't
want to you don't want to takethat risk on. So then we're going
to talk about mitigation options and youknow, hey, where can we put
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a system. How can we builda system for you? What kind of
system are you looking for? Youknow, what's what's your overall outcome?
What what goals are you hoping toattain? We just have that basic conversation
there when when somebody gets nervous aboutboy, what kind of system? What
do they I'm on your website andlooking at at some of the systems,
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and these things are not these biggiant it it doesn't look like it.
It it is that big of adeal. First, what it looks like
on the home and what it doesin the home is pretty incredible. Talk
about the systems. And when Icome back over to you TG after this
question with Mike, I want toknow how this this industry has changed since
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you got involved ten years ago.Has I can tell you how industry has
changed. I mean a new hometoday is being built with it or been
built with the accessibility to have it? Is this automatic now? I mean
yeah, I go to you gothomes all the time. Now you see
this big white pipe of this littlemore usually on the outside or running through
the garage or something. It's verycommon. It's more so common to see
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it. It's yeah, I neveruntil I started doing some research. I've
seen those, but I didn't knowwhat those were. I didn't know and
the system itself once somebody once yougo back out Mike and say listen,
this is probably something you should consider. How long before you guys install it?
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I would say our typical lead timeis about a week or two.
Okay, We're able to get outthere pretty quick, sometimes even faster than
that. You know, we doa lot of business in real estate and
real estate transactions. Closings right noware happening, you know, quicker than
ever, so we always make sureto prioritize those and get those done so
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there's a smooth closing and a smoothtransaction for both parties. You know what.
That's always It's always amazed me too, is a lot of people wait
to like sell a house with findingoutf they have Radon or not. I
mean, you could you can findout ahead of time, because that's what
usually happens, is someone buys aholisting, so you better check the cemails
rad On. That's that's the firsttime they checked it. That's a lot
of times the first that's often that'sthe first time that anybody's heard about raid
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On. I mean I meet alot of older couples who, you know,
they're going to sell their home afterthirty years, and they're finding out
about raid on because it's coming upas a contingency in the home offer.
It is, like you know,Bingo was saying, it's becoming a normal
fixture, a normal utility on alot of homes, especially in new construction.
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Some states. Wisconsin is in oneof them. But some states have
mandatory new construction laws where you haveto put in a system. Other states
as well, if you're going tosell your home have mandatory testing requirements,
that's coming, right. You wouldalmost you would almost concede into the future
if some of the states are havingit, and it makes sense, right,
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Yeah, you would think that thatwould probably come come this way.
You know, my wife and Isold their house a year and a half
ago and we never tested and we'rethere thirty years and the people that came
in, a younger couple. Itwas never brought up. And so when
you said that, I'm thinking,man, it was something that we never
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even considered or talked about prior toselling the house or after selling the house.
It was never brought up. AndI think, I mean, yeah,
eighty eighth, and I guess itdoesn't matter the neighborhood, right,
we're an eighty eighth in twenten Wellyou're ural stomping grounds, I'm sure,
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But that in that neighborhood of Huahwatosaand Milwaukee, do you do a lot
of work there? Yeah? Absolutely, Actually, the Department of Health and
Human Services, because I live inWahwatosa, I know this one off the
top of my head. They dida study from around nineteen ninety five nineteen
ninety six to about twenty fifteen,and they found in Wahwatosa fifty point four
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percent of homes tested at or abovefour pico quies per leader for raid on,
which is our action level here inthe United States to mitigate. So
if you're living in Wahwatosa, yeah, it's it's about a coin flip.
The Department of Health and Human Serviceshas a really great website actually that I'd
like to direct people to. It'sDHS dot Wisconsin dot of slash radon,
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and on that website you can finda ton of helpful information. One of
the really cool features on that websiteis an interactive map, and you see
it right in the middle there.It says, view our interactive map.
You can search by zip code,so you can plug in your own zip
code. You know, I lookedup Sussex recently five three zero eight nine.
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It gives you the number of testsrecorded back to the state, which
I think was around five hundred,the number of homes that tested above the
action level for radon, which isabout seventy one percent in that area.
And then it tells you your averagerate on level as well as the maximum
rate on level found in that area. So some really helpful information out there.
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And you know, something I wantto bring up too, is this
radon has been around a long time, but interviews like, well you didn't
talk about it years ago because they'veactually found radon by accident. There was
a guy that was working at somenew lab or something like this, right,
and you know they have to testimonycome in and testimony go out,
and a guy was coming back withmore radiation stuff on him than he was
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when he left work. Mike goahead, Yeah, that's that's an interesting
topic you bring up because there isthis common misconception out there that you know,
raidon is this new phenomenon, andit's really been around for a long
time. I was a history majorin college. I went to uw Oshkosh,
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so I get into this stuff.They've known about raidon and the harmful
effects of it all the way backto the fifteen hundreds, so that's when
they saw European miners developing lung cancer. Around eighteen seventy nine, they started
doing autopsies and they were finding thatthis lung cancer was was they had a
link between the lung cancer and theminers. Because things, you know,
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don't always move as fast as wewant. It took really until like the
nineteen fifties where we started having thesestudies done where we found a true link
and they know that Raydon was thecause of this lung cancer. And it
really wasn't until the nineteen eighties whenwe started doing like residential case studies here
in the United States. The storythat Bingo's referring to is a really famous
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story. I think it's the oneyou're talking about. His name was Stanley
Watras, and in nineteen eighty four, he was working at the Limerick Nuclear
Power Plant in Pottstown, Pennsylvania,And when they would leave the nuclear power
plant, they would go through aradiation detector to make sure that they're not
bringing home anything unsafe with them.Well, one day Stanley decided to go
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through the radiation detector on his wayinto work instead, and it went off.
It went off big time, andthey couldn't They couldn't story. Yeah,
they couldn't figure out what was goingon. And they went to his
house and tested for Raidon, andhis home came back at two thousand and
seven hundred Pico curries, which yeahyou might want, Yeah, which is
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nineteen hundred and sixty or nineteen hundredand ninety six more than allowed. Hey,
so best, you must be atreat to be around at LEFT.
You know, I see you havea wedding new answer. You're not at
Left's Friday nights anymore, but youmust man that whole history thing at Unwashkosh
got you prepared for those nights watchinga ball game and talking about raid On.
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That man that's unbelievable though, whenhe's walking into work and then they
go to his house. I justfind that credible really quickly. If we
can't TJ. We had heard fromBingo on how this thing has changed in
your world right the last ten yearsfrom from when I've got to believe that
people have they've heard of raid onright, and and you're you're talking to
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more people that understand, you know, how the the what they need to
do and at least what they're therethe risk is in your world house has
changed. Well, I would saywhen I first started doing this, people
were definitely you know, they wouldcompare it to like the lead based paint
and all that other stuff, andlike, oh, how do I believe
this? You know, how canI really think this is even true?
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And all, I mean, allI could really do, especially starting out,
was kind of point them, hey, there was studies done. People
you know, people do unfortunately passaway from this and you know, just
kind of do your research is allI could say. But I have noticed
and to kind of go back towhat you said as well about the younger
couples knowing about it, it isreally taking over with that. I mean,
I have we have customers calling nowand I'll go out there to in
solve a system or even do aquote for them, and they'll already like
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know all this stuff. They'll say, hey, what kind of fan are
you guys using? You know,like how long is this going to affect
me? It's it's it's really thoseare the people that hung out at Lefts
with the boy next year, causeI know all about that. Yeah.
Mike Sylvester, he is the salesmanager. And TJ. Hennemann mm hmm
he is the field manager Lifetime HomeServices. Lifetime Home Services, and Mike
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put a cell phone number out there. If you have any questions or you
want to set up to have themcome out and do this free testing into
your home. You can give Mike'scell phone a call at two six y
two six eight three eighty one eightysix two six two six eight three eighty
one eighty or go to their websiteand I'm on their website. It's a
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great website. It I can tellyou this. The questions that you have
may be answered on this website.And their office number is there and you
can give them a call there.It's Lifetime Home Services dot com. This
is the creative construction of Wisconsin HomeImprovement show on the Big nine twenty in
your iheard radio app So Loves aGirl Crazy. Well done with that.
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We're playing all summer music, Ithink today Andrew, well done, It's
going to be about eighty today.Welcome back to the Creative Construction, Wisconsin
home improvement show on the Big ninetwenty in your iHeartRadio app Live from the
Donovan and Jorgansen Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike with Given alongside Bingo Emmons.
He's the owner of Creative Construction ofWisconsin. We've got two young guys
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in studio and I'll tell you what. These are impressive young men. If
you want to talk to these guyslifetime, you can go Lifetime Home Services
dot com. TJ. Heneman heis the field manager. Mike Silvester,
he's the salesman man. I hada question for Mike. He Well,
we hold on, we've got breakingnews, don't we. Well, I
mean it's it's Facebook. I guessit's we can talk about. Congratulations,
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TJ. You and Erica are gonnahave your Is it your first? It
is our first? And thank you, thank you so much. Uh yeah,
we are doing November. It's veryvery exciting. It's been you know,
a little nervous, but excited.You be all right, Hey you
better start working some overtime. Yeah, trust me, better start figuring this.
Well. Congratulations, thank you,thank Yeah, it'll be uh,
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it'll be great. And I askedMike, is Alista listening and he's like,
I don't think. So they gota T ball game going on.
How many kids do you have.I got two kids, Tommy and THEO.
Hey, guys, if you're listening, I love you. Uh.
Tommy is four and THEO is six, and yeah, they got a t
ball game this morning at nine o'clockand they're gonna do great well. And
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they people say we're not keeping score. They keep score. They they know.
I've got a grandson who turns fiveand going to his birthday party today
in fact, little Leah Michael McGivern, little Irish boy, and he turns
five and he's in this little soccerthing and they're not keeping score, but
he's like, hey, we wonfour to three and I scored two goals.
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So those kids are keeping store.Well. Listen, hopefully your driving
should be a great day for alittle bit of T ball. Hey.
I got a text during the breakupbuddy of mine. He said, if
I would ask you this, helives in a home that he doesn't have
a basement. Is it still somethingthat he should consider having you guys come
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out for the free testing that youoffer. Yes, we can mitigate any
home like that, whether it becompletely an exterior system and we core through
the foundation wall below slab, orwe can go even interior. If you
have a closet that you might notuse, or it's a storage kind of
closet, we can go up andactually route it through your home and out
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through your attic and roof as well. So, hey, another question,
and I'm gonna stay with you ifwe can't teach you forgot. I had
a question that came in. Okay, text came in some important questions.
They want to know what happened toStanley, the guy that started Hey,
Mike's said, no, hold on, not sure for the first guy with
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that two thousand whatever he measurements ofOh, that guy, I think he's
gone by now. Right He eitherway right on may not have got him
with something got him because he'd beabout one hundred and twelve at this point.
I've only seen pictures of him.He was in probably his fifties in
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the eighties. So you know,God bless you Stanley if you're still arouse.
But and he looked like he wasseventy at that point from all the
break, you know what he mighthave that's when he quit that job and
started that ruler business. Yeah,but Stanley been gone a little bit.
But I think his grandkids might becalling in, But we don't take calls
this show. So I just hada customer that was worried about Stanley.
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They were both like, well,I don't know what happened to Stanley.
That's I've never seen you guys soquick moving the microphone back and forth,
and neither one of you had anyinterest in answering what happened to Stanley.
I can tell you that. Hey. Another question that I have is is
it more likely if your neighbor,right, your next door neighbor has an
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issue with rad on, that thatyour house may have it as well.
That's an excellent question. Not necessarily, raid On really can be a house
to house thing. I have areally good friend in Wawatosa, and his
neighbor to his south and his neighborto his north both had a raid on
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mitigation system installed, and he thoughthe for sure was going to have a
problem and that he was going toneed a mitigation system. We came out
and did a test for him.His test came back under one point five
pico quries, which again that's belowa four. It's also below that two
to four range where the EPA orthe American Lung Association says you should strongly
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consider mitigation. So even under that, you know, So to answer your
question, your rate on, yourrate, your neighbor can have a raid
on problem, but you might befine in your area. You should still
do a test and if it comesback low in about two years, you
should do another test. So Ijust wonder, so what do you do
if the wind? If the windcomes from your neighbor's house, you just
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close the windows real quick, Justclose him, man close him, or
invite Stanley over to to see ifyou see if he can figure it out.
Whoever texts you that question, thatthings staying with us the rest of
the show. Maybe maybe, maybeStanley took the route that our founder,
Scott Campbell took and he started hisown rate on company. So so Scott,
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who started Lifetime rate on twenty sixyears ago, had a family member
who was diagnosed with lung cancer andwas a clean person, not a smoker,
healthy eater, exercise, and theyattributed the lung cancer to raidon.
So Scott did a test in hisown home new construction home in Delafield,
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and his raid on levels came backpretty high. So he started installing a
mitigation system on his own home.And his neighbors are outside and they're wondering,
you know, hey, Scott,what are you doing cutting a hole
through your brand new roof? Andhe explained to them what raidon is and
his family situation that happened, andall of a sudden, his neighbors wanted
to test their own homes and seeif mitigation was an option for them as
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well or needed. And that's whereScott saw the idea for a company,
and he grew it with his wifejen and it is it's become what it
is today. Hey, Jennifer's stillinvolved with the company. Absolutely. Yeah.
I did a little reach and readtheir bios and stuff and and uh
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interesting that that you know, forfor me, uh when it says right
in their bio, hey, listen. One of the big things they do
is an annual missions trip to Kuaatemleathrough their church. And right away I
thought, well, I maybe nexttime we could have them in and we
could talk to them about that,because when when you're doing a company like
this, and again, Lifetime HomeServices guys you understand, and and we
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talk about that servant leadership heart alot of my high school sports show that
I do after this. But whenyou when what what you guys are doing,
I mean, that has to bepart of the equation. You know,
you're you're going out and you're doingthis free testing because you want to
keep people healthy. You guys arealso you're a big fan of Jonathan over
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correct you you guys are part ofof of of Healthier to Green right,
Yeah, uh, shout out toJonathan. Great guy runs a great organization
called Step Beyond Green to Healthy.Uh, being Go and Creative Construction are
a part of that group as well. And what we what that group does
is you know, look at healthierways for homes. Do you know we've
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had him in through Bingo. I'vegot a chance to meet Jonathan and we've
had him in a couple of timesa different radio station I was at,
and then here and probably had himin three well even had you know he
always talks about that story and that'senvy. Yeah, That's where I was
going with this, is that Isay, please tell the story and how
it started. I find it veryfascinated. And then Bingo and he was
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like, look, if you wantto have her come in, and we
had her in and she yeah,I'll tell you what. She was so
impressive and she said, look,he changed my life, Like he changed
my life. And so that thatwhole part of being able to take care
of people. And on the website, you know, you guys talk about
why risk it like this is afree service, a free test that you
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guys offer anybody to just be ableto know what what they're dealing with.
Do you do you have people thatgo above four and say, hey,
listen, we're right now where we'reokay, Well, i'll have you back
in six months and we'll make thatdecision if we're gonna have you guys put
this in. Yeah, we dohave some people that test above a four
and may elect not to do anythingright. That's totally up to them.
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It's it's their life and it's theirhome and they can choose what to do.
Can you can we ask costs alittle bit, give me an idea,
just a ballpark if you have togo out, and let's just use
a home in Wawatosa averge sise.Does it matter size of home? I
mean, does that the bigger thehome, the higher the price. Yeah.
(31:40):
TJ would probably be the best tospeak on this, but the size
of home definitely matters. Anything,say, you know, above eighteen hundred
square feet or testing maybe with raidon levels in the teams, you're gonna
want to look at either bigger pipingfor the system three inch or four inch,
or you're gonna look for probably astronger fan in that situation as well.
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So so give me an average cost. Yeah, that's right. Average
cost. I would say anywhere betweenone thousand and two thousand dollars. We
start at nine to ninety five.If all the conditions are perfect, we
can get it in for nine ninetyfive. Now there's there's variables that come
in. You know, if maybeyou have a pedestal pump and we need
to replace that with a submersible,Maybe you need electrical work done, Maybe
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you're looking for a stronger fan orbigger pipe, because your goal isn't just
to get below a four. Yourgoal is to get to outside air quality
with Raydon, which is on averagepoint three point four. Hey, do
do you guys do commercial as wellor just residential? Yeah, we have
a very large commercial division. Chadruns that. Chad is one of the
(32:51):
smartest guys I know, and maybehe knows what happened to Stanley. You
know, hey, Chad, ifyou're you're listening, give us a call
if you know what happened to Stanley. I don't mean he might not Yeah,
he might, he might not behe's in Germantown. I got a
couple of kids, and you mightbe fishing today. How's that? Well,
yeah, but he might be listening. Who knows. But you guys
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do commercial correct yep. And thefree testing is for residential I mentioned earlier.
I worked in healthcare for ten plusyears and I kind of look at
doing this raidon test similar to alot of the preventive services that we do
in the healthcare industry. So youknow, we get a mammogrammar we get
(33:36):
a prostate exam. Well, whydo we do those things? Well,
if there is a problem, wewant to catch it early. Why do
we want to catch it early?It's great point, it's easier treated,
we have better outcomes, and it'sless expensive. And for a thousand dollars
in today's world, a thousand bucksto be able to keep your your your
house, keep the people in yourhouse. If you have grandkids like Bingo
(33:59):
and I. You know, Ijust think, especially you're offering a free
test and you can come out atleast you know what you're dealing with.
At at that point, Hey,you would talk to before we get to
a break and Bingo gets called alot with the real estate part. Right,
I'm selling the house. We wantto make sure that that we're okay
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here or in buying this house?Is it more people selling or more people
buying? Do you think? Orfifty to fifty? That give you guys
a call? I would say it'sabout both. In Wisconsin, there's no
requirement to test your home or tohave a test or in the transaction.
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There is a contingency in a homeoffer. Now in the in a market
like we've been going through currently,a lot of people are willing to waive
those contingencies. Amazing, especially araid on contingency, because we're talking about
one thousand to a two thousand dollarsrisk that the that the buyers take right.
I hate it anyway, those continuto say, because I just keep
getting involved in those things, becauseyou know, now I'm a lot in
(35:05):
a legal battle that happens when theyfind out too late right. That's when
you get a lot of those callsfor for sure, and I always you
know, I, you know,I understand the market and it is what
it is. If you're not goingto do a home inspection during the transaction,
it's always a good idea to doa home inspection after you're done.
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And there's a great group of homeinspectors out there, Wisconsin Association of Home
Inspectors also known as WAHIE. IfI was going to have a home inspection
on my home, it would haveto be one of those members of that
group. There you go. Heis Mike Silvester. He is a sales
manager at Lifetime Home Services and theyare offering this free test. They'll come
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out and you called. You cancall his cell number. It's two six
two six eight three eighty one eightysix six two six eight three eighty one
point eighty and they'll come out toyour home. It's a ten minute deal
and they'll do this test. They'llcome back a couple of days later,
show you all the information that theyhave gathered from coming into your home.
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And if you do need some workdone, then I think TJ gets involved
in and we want to keep TJbusy and working because him and Erica are
expecting litt November. Man, youget hey, start catching up on sleep
now, young man. Yeh,that's what I've heard. Yeah, trust
me, you know. So Bester'ssmiling over there because he knows. He
(36:34):
knows, but it certainly is ablessing. We'll continue our conversation. You
can go to there with their website. It's one word Lifetime Home Services and
look at all the information that theyput on that website about rate on testing.
They offer this free test and theywill let you know where your house
or the commercial side is not free, but they'll come out to your commercial
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business as well. This is theCreative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement show. I'm
the Big nine twenty in your iHeartRadio app Motivations. Hell, call my
congressman. He said, I'd liketo help you, young, but you're
too young. Sometimes the water butI'm a gona dude, but there ain't
(37:19):
no cure for the summertime. Dude, your baby, do that? Gong
god, no, you can't controlyourself any longer. Come your mother,
baby do that? Gon gon No, you can't control yourself any longer.
(37:46):
Baby do that? Gone god,No, you can't control yourself any number
field rhythm, bingos dancing. Hewas in Miami last week. I don't
think you went to see Miami SoundMachine, but a great bumper music.
Andrew, well done. Welcome backto the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improven
Show. I'm the Big nine twentyin your iHeartRadio app coming live from the
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Donovan and Jorganson. He didn't evencall you. They're getting their trucks all
geared up with this. Oh mygoodness, largest employee owned HVAC company in
the state of Wisconsin. And ifthey're listening, I'm calling you today.
Got to find out what was knockingwith my air conditioner last night. No
doubt he is Bingo Emmons. He'sthe owner of Creative Construction Wisconsin. I
Mike McGivern, thanks for tuning in. We're talking to a couple of guys
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from Lifetime Home Services and we're talkingabout raidon and what solutions and the idea
of why risk. What's the costof a raid on test? It's nothing
at this point. Zero. You'llhave to go play frisbee golf with one
of these guys, but you don'tdo that anymore. No, I definitely
do it. Yeah, yeah,I definitely still do that. Yeah,
(38:51):
well you better get a lot innow because you're putting away. I play
real golf, Yeah yeah, Itry. I played a little better on
Thursday. Yeah I should stop aswell. Hey, guys, when when
we talk about this, and andwe talked about it only takes ten or
fifteen minutes in the home for thetesting. But I want to go over
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to you if I can a jwhen we talk about installation, what's the
time commitment if if somebody wants tohave you know, one of your your
you guys come out and and andhelp them in this space. Right,
So, technicians given about four hoursfor the install it's for our window.
Uh usually with an arrival time ofeight to nine or eleven to one is
our windows. And typically the techniciansdone about two and a half hours,
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and certain certain circumstances could take thefull four But you know, it's real
nice. It's not a whole daything. You know, if you've got
stuff to do in the afternoon orthe morning, you can still get that
done and we can still get yoursystem up and running for hey, so
explain to me real quick what whatthat looks like. And it entails is
the system in the home, Yes, so how big is it? So
there's there's two types of systems.Really, there's an interior system and an
(40:00):
exterior system. So an exterior systemis typically for the technician a little bit
quicker. We're usually going out ofyour sumb crock and starting in the basement,
exiting through your rim joist and upthe side of your home. Our
garage style systems are our interior systems. Same idea on the basement starts at
your slab or your sumb crock,goes through your shared wall into your garage,
up through your attic, and outthrough your roof. That is a
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more esthetically pleasing system. So ifyou don't have a sump pump, you
can still have a mitigation system.You can still have a mitigation system,
but it's a little different. Weutilize the drain tile on the home to
help us move that air and buildthat negative pressure under the slab, whereas
if you don't have drain tile,we're kind of just doing that from one
or maybe multiple locations in your floor, and we're doing that through it.
What about the old fashion and switchinghis old homes with the crawl space and
(40:44):
just dirt. That's a little trickyactually, So typically we do steal crawl
spaces. What we'd like to dothose in stages. So you know,
when we go into a customer's homeif we notice they have a crawl space.
First, usually what we'll do aftertesting is we'll install the system.
If the level still come back high, we can come in and seal the
crawl space and then actually add atap to that as well to mitigate that.
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Now, sealing your crawl space too, just at a non raate on
perspective, is this a really goodidea? It helps, you know,
reduce moisture and sometimes smell in yourbasement as well. But yeah, we
we mitigate anything we seal. Weseal all crawl spaces, any open holes
outside foundation, under the slab aswell. Hey, I tg im a
stick with you on this. Ifsomebody has cracks in their basement floor and
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they just want to yeah, theyfell, they patch the crack and they
use the Raydon proof ceiling that's outthere. Does that take care of it?
So? No, Typically the onlyreal way to take care of it
is a mitigation system. So whatyou actually do by sealing the cracks up
is you can actually have the radonconcentrate to a higher level and then where
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it does come out of your floorwall or wherever just emanates right through the
concrete itself, it'll come out actuallyat a higher level. And the the
fan part of it. You know, I'm complaining right now that my air
conditioner last time made all kinds ofnoise that I've not heard before. Is
there a lot of noise that comesfrom the system. Typically not most of
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the time. No. If youdo have any noise or any situation like
that, our service team and warranties, we really go out. We try
same day or next day to comesolve that issue for you. Should because
you should never hear these fans.Ye. Well, and a lot of
times when I look at I saysystems, I don't know much about it,
but just like a little bubble,Yeah that is a little bubblic You
supposed to monitors down in the basement. Yeah, so it'd be a monometer.
It's just basically a pressure gauge.It allows us and the homeowners to
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know how the fan is working andif it is working properly. Is there
a warranty involved with this? Soour fans come with a five year manufacturers
warranty. During that time we comeswap out the fan, there would be
a trip charge involved depending on timeit was installed. Otherwise, we do
have a lifetime craftsmanship on our systemin general. Man, well done on
that. Look, guys, we'vetalked to the hour and during the break
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we talked about it, and look, we've had some fun in the studio
today with these guys. But whenwe start talking about having your your home
I tested for raid On, theyget serious pretty quickly. And you know
the fact that they offer free testing. And what. Look I I challenged
Mike Sylvester. I said, look, this isn't a bait and switch program,
(43:15):
and he got serious and gave methat look like, man, it's
not. That's not what we're doinghere. What we're doing is just giving
people the information the number one causedeath. It's not a not a subject.
I did not think about it rightright, Well, what was the
guy's name that we're talking about,Stanley? Stanley found out he found out
(43:36):
the rough way. I don't bethere. You need a new marketing slogan,
don't be Stanley. Lung cancer isthe main concern. Rayd On does
also appear to have adverse effects beyondlung cancer, such as things like leukemia
or stomach and liver cancer. Youknow a lot of people everybody's cup fill
(44:00):
up differently, so some people aremore sensitive to others. And you know
TJ mentioned smokers are at a higherrisk when it comes to rate on and
developing lung cancer as well. Oneof the you know, one of the
sad things about lung cancer is wedon't have we don't have great outcomes when
somebody gets diagnosed with lung cancer.Things like prostate cancer or breast cancer,
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those have a ninety nine ninety onereally high recovery rate. Lung cancer,
your your recovery, your outcome islike twenty one percent that you're going to
survive that diagnosis. Mike, acouple of things. One in the first
segment, you gave a really goodwebsite, and I would I'm going to
give you that website again. Ithink it's really good information. It's DHS
(44:46):
dot Wi sc SO, DHS dotWisconsin dot gov, backslash rate on and
I just think that if people canremember that or write it down, what
a great tool to be able tofind out in your neighborhood, in your
area, in you know, Wawatosaor Sussex or Pewaukee, you can you
(45:08):
can find out where that is.Question. Once somebody has the system in
place, do you guys come outand retest then? And is zero cost
to that? Hi? TJ Hi? So uh yeah, we can always
come out and retest for that customer. Typically, you know, we set
them up with a with a charcoaltest on their own directly after. Okay,
(45:30):
and that's kind of like a justcomes with the system install We give
them directions. There's also a howto video on our YouTube page and that
you can actually go and see andit shows you how to set it up
in good places too located. Youdon't know me at all, dude,
I'm calling you guys. I'm justtelling you I do a home improvement show
because I know Bengos sure, andI know how to talk and Zach,
you know Zach his son, he'sgot My wife has his phone number on
(45:52):
speed out because whenever I try todo any of this stuff. Hey,
is there a certain type of licensingor certificate that you guys half to half?
Yeah, so we go through theNRPP is one of them, and
that you go through certification classes.It's typically about a twenty four to forty
eight hour classes. You do itfor testing and for mitigation, and then
you do become certified after passing thetest as well, and then you have
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to research every two years. Hey, do we know if if you and
Erica are having a boy or girl? Yeah? We have. Mike is
a really good name. Look atyou got Mike. Mychael name is Mike.
Actually too, so there it is. But no, we actually just
did the test for that. We'llknow by Friday. So are you guys
doing any kind of probably not anyreveal. No, well you want to
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come back in studio, we cando it. Oh, sure, if
you'll have me my son when theyfound out to be my uh my daughter
had boys and then my son who'sgot the McGivern name. I said,
you know, you got to keepcarry on that name. And he called
in and they did a reveal partywhile I was on the air. Call
him John Yeah, no, no, we called it Mike. You did
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not call him man, Eric,I need you back. Eric your my
new co host on this show.Hey, guys, thank you TJ.
It's really good to meet you.Mike man, It's really good to meet
you guys, and what great information. They offer this free testing and you
can give Mike Sell a call,or you can go online and get their
phone number Mike cell numbers two six, two six eight three eighty one eighty
(47:23):
or go to Lifetime Home Services dotcom to set up an appointment to have
them come out. It takes fifteenminutes to test your home for raid On
guys. Thank you so much,Bengo. It's good to see you.
I didn't like the John line,but that's all right. I'll take it.
Yeah, you know what, youdon't think he'd be in here talking
to Radon or high school sports.We should invite him with them. I'll
(47:44):
ask him, Yeah, you askhim. This is the Creative Construction in
Wisconsin home improvement show on the Bignine twenty and your I Hurt Radio a
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Have you been thinking about updating yourbathroom or in need of some new windows,
or looking for just some advice onthe next do it yourself project.
Well, let's talk about it livefrom the Donavan and Jorgensen Hitting and Cooling
Studios. This is the Creative Constructionof Wisconsin Home Improvement Show. Let's turn
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(00:34):
then your iHeartRadio App. Welcome tothe Creative Construction of Wisconsin home Improvement show.
I'm the Big nine twenty and youriHeart Radio app. Coming live from
the Donovan to Jorgensen Heating and CoolingStudios. I got to give those guys
a call to day last night.I don't know what was going on.
(00:56):
Every time the air conditioner that itwould cycle and stop, there would be
a bang, bang bang. SoI got to give Scott Fisher and my
friend's over at Donovan George seeing youCooling to call because they kept me up
half the night. Hey, Bingo, how are you. I'm doing great
night's sleep? Yeah, not muchI can do. I don't know where
(01:17):
you're gonna go with that. I'mgetting a little nervous. I don't want
to hear about it. So no, it was not good and they'll be
out. I don't want to hearabout it either, to be honest with
you. Bingo Emmage, welcome back. How was Miami? It was good?
It was good my sister. Actually, you know, it's that Educate
Tomorrow our deal that my sister starteda long time ago to the twenty first
year and now we raised over threehundred thousand dollars at this thing. Wow,
(01:40):
it is as well. It's youknow, when foster kids turn eighteen,
they get there out of system andthat's it. Well, once she
first started her first year, shedid it. She got eight kids to
go to college out of foster,you know, you know, free college,
you know, for them, andshe's, uh, you know,
twenty one years later, seventy fivehundred kids are going to college in her
foster program. So she's getting it'sgoing to be a big deal on there.
(02:02):
It's getting to be a huge deal. Yeah. We had her in
studio in the other station a longtime ago. She was really impressive.
What a servant leadership art she has. Ye giving back, that's that's awesome,
a lot of fun. Hey,I'm excited about today's show. We
got a couple of guys. Thisis why I was excited. Actually,
you know, let my dad knowabout this, because my dad's all about
free stuff all the time. Well, these guys do this is This guy's
(02:25):
gonna do a free read on testing. So my dad got up early just
to listen to this man. Well, I hope Al is good. I
haven't talked to Ellen a while.How's he feeling. He's doing good,
He's done all right. Yeah.We used to meet a lot over at
his house and just hang out andtalk, and I need to do that
again. Al. I hope allthis while I miss I miss hanging out
with you. Got a couple oflocal guys, one from Old Creek,
(02:46):
one from tosyas man were he wastelling some Tom Swiddle stories that we can't
stay on the air, which iswhich is awesome. Mike Sylvester, how
you doing. Oh, I'm doinggreat, happy to be here. Yeah,
man, Tosa Eastpoy. How longyou been doing the raid on stuff?
So I've been with Lifetime Home Servicesformerly known as Lifetime raid On Solutions
(03:09):
for just about a year now.A good company from what I and we
get to talking and bingo thinks alot of the work that you guys do
enjoying yourself. It's a good companyto be at. Yeah, it's a
great company to be at. Itruly enjoy going to work every day.
I worked for a large corporation beforethis for over a decade, a big
(03:34):
fortune fifty company, and now Iworked, you know, when I started
with Lifetime Home Services, I thinkwe had you know, maybe seven to
ten employees a year ago, andnow we're close to thirty employees. So
we're rapidly growing and it's a reallyexciting thing to be a part of.
And you were the sales manager.Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct,
man, Good for you. Didyou if I want to talk to
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you as a senior at Tosa Eastand said, look, number of years
from now, you're going to knoweverything there is to know about rad on
and and and and helping people inin in that space. What would you
have said to me? Who areyou and what are you talking about?
Hey? There you go. That'syou know what. I'm glad because if
if you were thinking about doing thiswhen you're a senior in high school,
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this is where I'm going to.This is a niche I'm going to have
and and you know, we're goingto be helping people with their their their
health and and you know, makingtheir homes. Just helping people. I
mean, this is they're preventing peoplefrom getting cancer. So I mean that's
that's a big deal. Yeah,huge, huge deal. And that's that's
a big reason why we rolled outfree testing. Rad On is a relatively
(04:41):
unknown subject. A lot of peoplemaybe maybe they've heard of radon, but
they don't know how harm how harmfulit can be, or the the nasty
effects that it can have. Sowe rolled out this free testing initiative to
really raise awareness and try to buildhealthier communities. Boy, I love that.
Hey, let's move over to Tejaif we can't Tej you're the field
(05:02):
manager at Lifetime Home Services. Let'stalk a little bit. How long have
you been with the company, Justjust under ten years and I've been doing
rad on installs. I recently tookover managing about me three years ago for
the rad On division and uh yeah, about maybe five thousand installs under me,
so, oh my goodness, allwith all southeast Wisconsin pretty much.
(05:25):
Yeah. Man, even higher upthan that, we go when when if
if you're and I hate for tothrow this at you. But if you're
in an elevator right the old elevatorpitch, if you're sitting there having coffee
and somebody sees your hat and says, hey, talk to me about why
it's important that that we get ourhouse tested right on? What do you
(05:46):
tell them? Well, there's Imean a couple of things too. So
the radon system itself, I mean, it will mitigate whatever your levels are
if you've tested, getting one inis very important obviously. For again,
like I said on reduction, yourchances of getting cancer you know, during
it are if you if you're alsoa smoker, I should say, about
six to seven times a normal rateof getting on cancer. So if you're
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living in a home that has highrate on levels and you're also a smoker,
you know, it's definitely something youwant to take care of. I
mean, just in general though,I think rate on it is about twenty
two thousand deaths per year due torate on poisoning and cancer and and and
you can you can not be oneof those, right, I mean,
and do a test what is theacceptable level of So in Wisconsin and some
(06:34):
other states, e p A standardssay testing of four pico quiries or above
would be the recommended action level though. Ye man, yeah, I went
to I want to it is allit is a very very small measurement of
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a gas basically, so right oncomes from soil. It basically is under
your home, it's outside of yourhome. It's a it's a pressurized thing,
so naturally it just wants to getup into your home and then by
stack effect and you know, spreadthroughout your house. Usually your levels are
higher in the basement, so that'swhy our mitigation systems start there. And
you know, we talked about whatthe guys sitting Our producer went to Franklin,
(07:20):
so you know you all creep boys. Yeah, you've got to really
dumb this thing down. Saber boys. Boy. Yeah, I can't believe
you guys are just sitting next toeach other like like that. Hey,
is it older homes, newer homes, condos? Do you do all of
the above everything? New construction homes, Uh, yeah, pre existing homes
(07:42):
anything really? Yeah, large commercialbuildings as well. We do have a
commercial division that's lifetime rate on solutions. They're killing it right now too.
Hey, Hey, Mike, ifwe can move the microphone over as a
sales manager for Lifetime Home Services.And as we talk to these guys,
if you have interest in going totheir website, it's Lifetime Home Services dot
(08:03):
com. It's one word, LifetimeHome Services dot com. And they there's
a lot on this website. Youknow as to the reasons you need to
have people out, Mike, whenwhen you're out as the sales manager for
this company, you know, peopleget a little bit nervous about having sales
guys like us. Right, I'ma sales guy you know for something else,
(08:26):
but you know, in their homebecause they just want to make sure
that that you know, we're beingstraight with them. And if it's a
free thing that you're going to do, you guys are you guys aren't doing
this whole bait and switch thing right, And I got to be upfront with
you because we've got to make surethat people that are listening to the show
understand the reason you guys offer thisthis free testing. Yeah, absolutely,
(08:52):
it truly is a free test.There's no bells and whistles, there's no
tricks, there's no underhanded anything goingon. Again, it's about getting information
to people. When when myself oranother sales representative is out in a home
and we're doing a raid on test, and you know, we go and
pick up that test. We reallytry to be educational to the customer and
(09:15):
present them with the facts and youknow, hey, this is what could
happen, and just give them theinformation to make an informed decision. Really
important, And what is the processIf somebody calls two six two five fifty
seven oh one, right, ninefive fifty seven oh one, what you
get walk me through the process.If if somebody like me that that lives
(09:37):
in a condo or somebody who livesin a home says, listen, I
heard about this, this free testingthat you guys offer at Lifetime Home Services.
What's the process to get that done? Yeah, it's a fairly simple
process. You give us a call. You can even give me a call
on my cell phone. My numberdirectly is two six two six eight three
(10:00):
eight one eight zero. Again that'stwo six two six eight three eighty one
eighty. Reach out to me orthe office. Anyone in the office is
gonna be happy to help and reallyinformational as well. But the process is
fairly simple. You call me,Hey I've never tested before, or hey
I haven't tested in ten twenty years. The EPA does recommend doing a test
(10:24):
every two years because soil conditions canchange. New construction in an area can
disrupt soil, so we want totest you know, frequently, but you
give us a call, we setup that test. Setting up the test
in your house takes you know,maybe five to ten minutes. That's it.
That's it, and then we're outof there. We're gonna come back,
(10:46):
you know, at forty eight hourslater or maybe you know, seventy
two hours, four days, fivedays later, depending on what's convenient for
your schedule, and we're going topick up that test, and we're actually
with our digital monitors, we're ableto get those results instantaneously, so we
send them to our iPad. Weget a nice report. I show you
(11:07):
the report, we talk over it. Hey, everything's good, You're you're
really low, you know, youhave peace of mind, have a great
day. Or the other circumstance couldbe that your rate on levels come back,
you know, higher, and youfeel unsafe about that and you don't
want to you don't want to takethat risk on. So then we're going
to talk about mitigation options and youknow, hey, where can we put
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a system. How can we builda system for you? What kind of
system are you looking for? Youknow, what's what's your overall outcome?
What what goals are you hoping toattain? We just have that basic conversation
there when when somebody gets nervous aboutboy, what kind of system? What
do they I'm on your website andlooking at at some of the systems,
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and these things are not these biggiant it it doesn't look like it.
It it is that big of adeal. First, what it looks like
on the home and what it doesin the home is pretty incredible. Talk
about the systems. And when Icome back over to you TG after this
question with Mike, I want toknow how this this industry has changed since
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you got involved ten years ago.Has I can tell you how industry has
changed. I mean a new hometoday is being built with it or been
built with the accessibility to have it? Is this automatic now? I mean
yeah, I go to you gothomes all the time. Now you see
this big white pipe of this littlemore usually on the outside or running through
the garage or something. It's verycommon. It's more so common to see
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it. It's yeah, I neveruntil I started doing some research. I've
seen those, but I didn't knowwhat those were. I didn't know and
the system itself once somebody once yougo back out Mike and say listen,
this is probably something you should consider. How long before you guys install it?
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I would say our typical lead timeis about a week or two.
Okay, We're able to get outthere pretty quick, sometimes even faster than
that. You know, we doa lot of business in real estate and
real estate transactions. Closings right noware happening, you know, quicker than
ever, so we always make sureto prioritize those and get those done so
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there's a smooth closing and a smoothtransaction for both parties. You know what.
That's always It's always amazed me too, is a lot of people wait
to like sell a house with findingoutf they have Radon or not. I
mean, you could you can findout ahead of time, because that's what
usually happens, is someone buys aholisting, so you better check the cemails
rad On. That's that's the firsttime they checked it. That's a lot
of times the first that's often that'sthe first time that anybody's heard about raid
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On. I mean I meet alot of older couples who, you know,
they're going to sell their home afterthirty years, and they're finding out
about raid on because it's coming upas a contingency in the home offer.
It is, like you know,Bingo was saying, it's becoming a normal
fixture, a normal utility on alot of homes, especially in new construction.
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Some states. Wisconsin is in oneof them. But some states have
mandatory new construction laws where you haveto put in a system. Other states
as well, if you're going tosell your home have mandatory testing requirements,
that's coming, right. You wouldalmost you would almost concede into the future
if some of the states are havingit, and it makes sense, right,
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Yeah, you would think that thatwould probably come come this way.
You know, my wife and Isold their house a year and a half
ago and we never tested and we'rethere thirty years and the people that came
in, a younger couple. Itwas never brought up. And so when
you said that, I'm thinking,man, it was something that we never
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even considered or talked about prior toselling the house or after selling the house.
It was never brought up. AndI think, I mean, yeah,
eighty eighth, and I guess itdoesn't matter the neighborhood, right,
we're an eighty eighth in twenten Wellyou're ural stomping grounds, I'm sure,
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But that in that neighborhood of Huahwatosaand Milwaukee, do you do a lot
of work there? Yeah? Absolutely, Actually, the Department of Health and
Human Services, because I live inWahwatosa, I know this one off the
top of my head. They dida study from around nineteen ninety five nineteen
ninety six to about twenty fifteen,and they found in Wahwatosa fifty point four
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percent of homes tested at or abovefour pico quies per leader for raid on,
which is our action level here inthe United States to mitigate. So
if you're living in Wahwatosa, yeah, it's it's about a coin flip.
The Department of Health and Human Serviceshas a really great website actually that I'd
like to direct people to. It'sDHS dot Wisconsin dot of slash radon,
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and on that website you can finda ton of helpful information. One of
the really cool features on that websiteis an interactive map, and you see
it right in the middle there.It says, view our interactive map.
You can search by zip code,so you can plug in your own zip
code. You know, I lookedup Sussex recently five three zero eight nine.
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It gives you the number of testsrecorded back to the state, which
I think was around five hundred,the number of homes that tested above the
action level for radon, which isabout seventy one percent in that area.
And then it tells you your averagerate on level as well as the maximum
rate on level found in that area. So some really helpful information out there.
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And you know, something I wantto bring up too, is this
radon has been around a long time, but interviews like, well you didn't
talk about it years ago because they'veactually found radon by accident. There was
a guy that was working at somenew lab or something like this, right,
and you know they have to testimonycome in and testimony go out,
and a guy was coming back withmore radiation stuff on him than he was
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when he left work. Mike goahead, Yeah, that's that's an interesting
topic you bring up because there isthis common misconception out there that you know,
raidon is this new phenomenon, andit's really been around for a long
time. I was a history majorin college. I went to uw Oshkosh,
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so I get into this stuff.They've known about raidon and the harmful
effects of it all the way backto the fifteen hundreds, so that's when
they saw European miners developing lung cancer. Around eighteen seventy nine, they started
doing autopsies and they were finding thatthis lung cancer was was they had a
link between the lung cancer and theminers. Because things, you know,
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don't always move as fast as wewant. It took really until like the
nineteen fifties where we started having thesestudies done where we found a true link
and they know that Raydon was thecause of this lung cancer. And it
really wasn't until the nineteen eighties whenwe started doing like residential case studies here
in the United States. The storythat Bingo's referring to is a really famous
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story. I think it's the oneyou're talking about. His name was Stanley
Watras, and in nineteen eighty four, he was working at the Limerick Nuclear
Power Plant in Pottstown, Pennsylvania,And when they would leave the nuclear power
plant, they would go through aradiation detector to make sure that they're not
bringing home anything unsafe with them.Well, one day Stanley decided to go
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through the radiation detector on his wayinto work instead, and it went off.
It went off big time, andthey couldn't They couldn't story. Yeah,
they couldn't figure out what was goingon. And they went to his
house and tested for Raidon, andhis home came back at two thousand and
seven hundred Pico curries, which yeahyou might want, Yeah, which is
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nineteen hundred and sixty or nineteen hundredand ninety six more than allowed. Hey,
so best, you must be atreat to be around at LEFT.
You know, I see you havea wedding new answer. You're not at
Left's Friday nights anymore, but youmust man that whole history thing at Unwashkosh
got you prepared for those nights watchinga ball game and talking about raid On.
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That man that's unbelievable though, whenhe's walking into work and then they
go to his house. I justfind that credible really quickly. If we
can't TJ. We had heard fromBingo on how this thing has changed in
your world right the last ten yearsfrom from when I've got to believe that
people have they've heard of raid onright, and and you're you're talking to
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more people that understand, you know, how the the what they need to
do and at least what they're therethe risk is in your world house has
changed. Well, I would saywhen I first started doing this, people
were definitely you know, they wouldcompare it to like the lead based paint
and all that other stuff, andlike, oh, how do I believe
this? You know, how canI really think this is even true?
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And all, I mean, allI could really do, especially starting out,
was kind of point them, hey, there was studies done. People
you know, people do unfortunately passaway from this and you know, just
kind of do your research is allI could say. But I have noticed
and to kind of go back towhat you said as well about the younger
couples knowing about it, it isreally taking over with that. I mean,
I have we have customers calling nowand I'll go out there to in
solve a system or even do aquote for them, and they'll already like
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know all this stuff. They'll say, hey, what kind of fan are
you guys using? You know,like how long is this going to affect
me? It's it's it's really thoseare the people that hung out at Lefts
with the boy next year, causeI know all about that. Yeah.
Mike Sylvester, he is the salesmanager. And TJ. Hennemann mm hmm
he is the field manager Lifetime HomeServices. Lifetime Home Services, and Mike
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put a cell phone number out there. If you have any questions or you
want to set up to have themcome out and do this free testing into
your home. You can give Mike'scell phone a call at two six y
two six eight three eighty one eightysix two six two six eight three eighty
one eighty or go to their websiteand I'm on their website. It's a
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great website. It I can tellyou this. The questions that you have
may be answered on this website.And their office number is there and you
can give them a call there.It's Lifetime Home Services dot com. This
is the creative construction of Wisconsin HomeImprovement show on the Big nine twenty in
your iheard radio app So Loves aGirl Crazy. Well done with that.
(22:22):
We're playing all summer music, Ithink today Andrew, well done, It's
going to be about eighty today.Welcome back to the Creative Construction, Wisconsin
home improvement show on the Big ninetwenty in your iHeartRadio app Live from the
Donovan and Jorgansen Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike with Given alongside Bingo Emmons.
He's the owner of Creative Construction ofWisconsin. We've got two young guys
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in studio and I'll tell you what. These are impressive young men. If
you want to talk to these guyslifetime, you can go Lifetime Home Services
dot com. TJ. Heneman heis the field manager. Mike Silvester,
he's the salesman man. I hada question for Mike. He Well,
we hold on, we've got breakingnews, don't we. Well, I
mean it's it's Facebook. I guessit's we can talk about. Congratulations,
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TJ. You and Erica are gonnahave your Is it your first? It
is our first? And thank you, thank you so much. Uh yeah,
we are doing November. It's veryvery exciting. It's been you know,
a little nervous, but excited.You be all right, Hey you
better start working some overtime. Yeah, trust me, better start figuring this.
Well. Congratulations, thank you,thank Yeah, it'll be uh,
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it'll be great. And I askedMike, is Alista listening and he's like,
I don't think. So they gota T ball game going on.
How many kids do you have.I got two kids, Tommy and THEO.
Hey, guys, if you're listening, I love you. Uh.
Tommy is four and THEO is six, and yeah, they got a t
ball game this morning at nine o'clockand they're gonna do great well. And
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they people say we're not keeping score. They keep score. They they know.
I've got a grandson who turns fiveand going to his birthday party today
in fact, little Leah Michael McGivern, little Irish boy, and he turns
five and he's in this little soccerthing and they're not keeping score, but
he's like, hey, we wonfour to three and I scored two goals.
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So those kids are keeping store.Well. Listen, hopefully your driving
should be a great day for alittle bit of T ball. Hey.
I got a text during the breakupbuddy of mine. He said, if
I would ask you this, helives in a home that he doesn't have
a basement. Is it still somethingthat he should consider having you guys come
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out for the free testing that youoffer. Yes, we can mitigate any
home like that, whether it becompletely an exterior system and we core through
the foundation wall below slab, orwe can go even interior. If you
have a closet that you might notuse, or it's a storage kind of
closet, we can go up andactually route it through your home and out
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through your attic and roof as well. So, hey, another question,
and I'm gonna stay with you ifwe can't teach you forgot. I had
a question that came in. Okay, text came in some important questions.
They want to know what happened toStanley, the guy that started Hey,
Mike's said, no, hold on, not sure for the first guy with
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that two thousand whatever he measurements ofOh, that guy, I think he's
gone by now. Right He eitherway right on may not have got him
with something got him because he'd beabout one hundred and twelve at this point.
I've only seen pictures of him.He was in probably his fifties in
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the eighties. So you know,God bless you Stanley if you're still arouse.
But and he looked like he wasseventy at that point from all the
break, you know what he mighthave that's when he quit that job and
started that ruler business. Yeah,but Stanley been gone a little bit.
But I think his grandkids might becalling in, But we don't take calls
this show. So I just hada customer that was worried about Stanley.
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They were both like, well,I don't know what happened to Stanley.
That's I've never seen you guys soquick moving the microphone back and forth,
and neither one of you had anyinterest in answering what happened to Stanley.
I can tell you that. Hey. Another question that I have is is
it more likely if your neighbor,right, your next door neighbor has an
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issue with rad on, that thatyour house may have it as well.
That's an excellent question. Not necessarily, raid On really can be a house
to house thing. I have areally good friend in Wawatosa, and his
neighbor to his south and his neighborto his north both had a raid on
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mitigation system installed, and he thoughthe for sure was going to have a
problem and that he was going toneed a mitigation system. We came out
and did a test for him.His test came back under one point five
pico quries, which again that's belowa four. It's also below that two
to four range where the EPA orthe American Lung Association says you should strongly
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consider mitigation. So even under that, you know, So to answer your
question, your rate on, yourrate, your neighbor can have a raid
on problem, but you might befine in your area. You should still
do a test and if it comesback low in about two years, you
should do another test. So Ijust wonder, so what do you do
if the wind? If the windcomes from your neighbor's house, you just
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close the windows real quick, Justclose him, man close him, or
invite Stanley over to to see ifyou see if he can figure it out.
Whoever texts you that question, thatthings staying with us the rest of
the show. Maybe maybe, maybeStanley took the route that our founder,
Scott Campbell took and he started hisown rate on company. So so Scott,
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who started Lifetime rate on twenty sixyears ago, had a family member
who was diagnosed with lung cancer andwas a clean person, not a smoker,
healthy eater, exercise, and theyattributed the lung cancer to raidon.
So Scott did a test in hisown home new construction home in Delafield,
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and his raid on levels came backpretty high. So he started installing a
mitigation system on his own home.And his neighbors are outside and they're wondering,
you know, hey, Scott,what are you doing cutting a hole
through your brand new roof? Andhe explained to them what raidon is and
his family situation that happened, andall of a sudden, his neighbors wanted
to test their own homes and seeif mitigation was an option for them as
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well or needed. And that's whereScott saw the idea for a company,
and he grew it with his wifejen and it is it's become what it
is today. Hey, Jennifer's stillinvolved with the company. Absolutely. Yeah.
I did a little reach and readtheir bios and stuff and and uh
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interesting that that you know, forfor me, uh when it says right
in their bio, hey, listen. One of the big things they do
is an annual missions trip to Kuaatemleathrough their church. And right away I
thought, well, I maybe nexttime we could have them in and we
could talk to them about that,because when when you're doing a company like
this, and again, Lifetime HomeServices guys you understand, and and we
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talk about that servant leadership heart alot of my high school sports show that
I do after this. But whenyou when what what you guys are doing,
I mean, that has to bepart of the equation. You know,
you're you're going out and you're doingthis free testing because you want to
keep people healthy. You guys arealso you're a big fan of Jonathan over
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correct you you guys are part ofof of of Healthier to Green right,
Yeah, uh, shout out toJonathan. Great guy runs a great organization
called Step Beyond Green to Healthy.Uh, being Go and Creative Construction are
a part of that group as well. And what we what that group does
is you know, look at healthierways for homes. Do you know we've
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had him in through Bingo. I'vegot a chance to meet Jonathan and we've
had him in a couple of timesa different radio station I was at,
and then here and probably had himin three well even had you know he
always talks about that story and that'senvy. Yeah, That's where I was
going with this, is that Isay, please tell the story and how
it started. I find it veryfascinated. And then Bingo and he was
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like, look, if you wantto have her come in, and we
had her in and she yeah,I'll tell you what. She was so
impressive and she said, look,he changed my life, Like he changed
my life. And so that thatwhole part of being able to take care
of people. And on the website, you know, you guys talk about
why risk it like this is afree service, a free test that you
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guys offer anybody to just be ableto know what what they're dealing with.
Do you do you have people thatgo above four and say, hey,
listen, we're right now where we'reokay, Well, i'll have you back
in six months and we'll make thatdecision if we're gonna have you guys put
this in. Yeah, we dohave some people that test above a four
and may elect not to do anythingright. That's totally up to them.
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It's it's their life and it's theirhome and they can choose what to do.
Can you can we ask costs alittle bit, give me an idea,
just a ballpark if you have togo out, and let's just use
a home in Wawatosa averge sise.Does it matter size of home? I
mean, does that the bigger thehome, the higher the price. Yeah.
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TJ would probably be the best tospeak on this, but the size
of home definitely matters. Anything,say, you know, above eighteen hundred
square feet or testing maybe with raidon levels in the teams, you're gonna
want to look at either bigger pipingfor the system three inch or four inch,
or you're gonna look for probably astronger fan in that situation as well.
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So so give me an average cost. Yeah, that's right. Average
cost. I would say anywhere betweenone thousand and two thousand dollars. We
start at nine to ninety five.If all the conditions are perfect, we
can get it in for nine ninetyfive. Now there's there's variables that come
in. You know, if maybeyou have a pedestal pump and we need
to replace that with a submersible,Maybe you need electrical work done, Maybe
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you're looking for a stronger fan orbigger pipe, because your goal isn't just
to get below a four. Yourgoal is to get to outside air quality
with Raydon, which is on averagepoint three point four. Hey, do
do you guys do commercial as wellor just residential? Yeah, we have
a very large commercial division. Chadruns that. Chad is one of the
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smartest guys I know, and maybehe knows what happened to Stanley. You
know, hey, Chad, ifyou're you're listening, give us a call
if you know what happened to Stanley. I don't mean he might not Yeah,
he might, he might not behe's in Germantown. I got a
couple of kids, and you mightbe fishing today. How's that? Well,
yeah, but he might be listening. Who knows. But you guys
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do commercial correct yep. And thefree testing is for residential I mentioned earlier.
I worked in healthcare for ten plusyears and I kind of look at
doing this raidon test similar to alot of the preventive services that we do
in the healthcare industry. So youknow, we get a mammogrammar we get
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a prostate exam. Well, whydo we do those things? Well,
if there is a problem, wewant to catch it early. Why do
we want to catch it early?It's great point, it's easier treated,
we have better outcomes, and it'sless expensive. And for a thousand dollars
in today's world, a thousand bucksto be able to keep your your your
house, keep the people in yourhouse. If you have grandkids like Bingo
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and I. You know, Ijust think, especially you're offering a free
test and you can come out atleast you know what you're dealing with.
At at that point, Hey,you would talk to before we get to
a break and Bingo gets called alot with the real estate part. Right,
I'm selling the house. We wantto make sure that that we're okay
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here or in buying this house?Is it more people selling or more people
buying? Do you think? Orfifty to fifty? That give you guys
a call? I would say it'sabout both. In Wisconsin, there's no
requirement to test your home or tohave a test or in the transaction.
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There is a contingency in a homeoffer. Now in the in a market
like we've been going through currently,a lot of people are willing to waive
those contingencies. Amazing, especially araid on contingency, because we're talking about
one thousand to a two thousand dollarsrisk that the that the buyers take right.
I hate it anyway, those continuto say, because I just keep
getting involved in those things, becauseyou know, now I'm a lot in
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a legal battle that happens when theyfind out too late right. That's when
you get a lot of those callsfor for sure, and I always you
know, I, you know,I understand the market and it is what
it is. If you're not goingto do a home inspection during the transaction,
it's always a good idea to doa home inspection after you're done.
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And there's a great group of homeinspectors out there, Wisconsin Association of Home
Inspectors also known as WAHIE. IfI was going to have a home inspection
on my home, it would haveto be one of those members of that
group. There you go. Heis Mike Silvester. He is a sales
manager at Lifetime Home Services and theyare offering this free test. They'll come
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out and you called. You cancall his cell number. It's two six
two six eight three eighty one eightysix six two six eight three eighty one
point eighty and they'll come out toyour home. It's a ten minute deal
and they'll do this test. They'llcome back a couple of days later,
show you all the information that theyhave gathered from coming into your home.
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And if you do need some workdone, then I think TJ gets involved
in and we want to keep TJbusy and working because him and Erica are
expecting litt November. Man, youget hey, start catching up on sleep
now, young man. Yeh,that's what I've heard. Yeah, trust
me, you know. So Bester'ssmiling over there because he knows. He
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knows, but it certainly is ablessing. We'll continue our conversation. You
can go to there with their website. It's one word Lifetime Home Services and
look at all the information that theyput on that website about rate on testing.
They offer this free test and theywill let you know where your house
or the commercial side is not free, but they'll come out to your commercial
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business as well. This is theCreative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement show. I'm
the Big nine twenty in your iHeartRadio app Motivations. Hell, call my
congressman. He said, I'd liketo help you, young, but you're
too young. Sometimes the water butI'm a gona dude, but there ain't
(37:19):
no cure for the summertime. Dude, your baby, do that? Gong
god, no, you can't controlyourself any longer. Come your mother,
baby do that? Gon gon No, you can't control yourself any longer.
(37:46):
Baby do that? Gone god,No, you can't control yourself any number
field rhythm, bingos dancing. Hewas in Miami last week. I don't
think you went to see Miami SoundMachine, but a great bumper music.
Andrew, well done. Welcome backto the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improven
Show. I'm the Big nine twentyin your iHeartRadio app coming live from the
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Donovan and Jorganson. He didn't evencall you. They're getting their trucks all
geared up with this. Oh mygoodness, largest employee owned HVAC company in
the state of Wisconsin. And ifthey're listening, I'm calling you today.
Got to find out what was knockingwith my air conditioner last night. No
doubt he is Bingo Emmons. He'sthe owner of Creative Construction Wisconsin. I
Mike McGivern, thanks for tuning in. We're talking to a couple of guys
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from Lifetime Home Services and we're talkingabout raidon and what solutions and the idea
of why risk. What's the costof a raid on test? It's nothing
at this point. Zero. You'llhave to go play frisbee golf with one
of these guys, but you don'tdo that anymore. No, I definitely
do it. Yeah, yeah,I definitely still do that. Yeah,
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well you better get a lot innow because you're putting away. I play
real golf, Yeah yeah, Itry. I played a little better on
Thursday. Yeah I should stop aswell. Hey, guys, when when
we talk about this, and andwe talked about it only takes ten or
fifteen minutes in the home for thetesting. But I want to go over
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to you if I can a jwhen we talk about installation, what's the
time commitment if if somebody wants tohave you know, one of your your
you guys come out and and andhelp them in this space. Right,
So, technicians given about four hoursfor the install it's for our window.
Uh usually with an arrival time ofeight to nine or eleven to one is
our windows. And typically the techniciansdone about two and a half hours,
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and certain certain circumstances could take thefull four But you know, it's real
nice. It's not a whole daything. You know, if you've got
stuff to do in the afternoon orthe morning, you can still get that
done and we can still get yoursystem up and running for hey, so
explain to me real quick what whatthat looks like. And it entails is
the system in the home, Yes, so how big is it? So
there's there's two types of systems.Really, there's an interior system and an
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exterior system. So an exterior systemis typically for the technician a little bit
quicker. We're usually going out ofyour sumb crock and starting in the basement,
exiting through your rim joist and upthe side of your home. Our
garage style systems are our interior systems. Same idea on the basement starts at
your slab or your sumb crock,goes through your shared wall into your garage,
up through your attic, and outthrough your roof. That is a
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more esthetically pleasing system. So ifyou don't have a sump pump, you
can still have a mitigation system.You can still have a mitigation system,
but it's a little different. Weutilize the drain tile on the home to
help us move that air and buildthat negative pressure under the slab, whereas
if you don't have drain tile,we're kind of just doing that from one
or maybe multiple locations in your floor, and we're doing that through it.
What about the old fashion and switchinghis old homes with the crawl space and
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just dirt. That's a little trickyactually, So typically we do steal crawl
spaces. What we'd like to dothose in stages. So you know,
when we go into a customer's homeif we notice they have a crawl space.
First, usually what we'll do aftertesting is we'll install the system.
If the level still come back high, we can come in and seal the
crawl space and then actually add atap to that as well to mitigate that.
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Now, sealing your crawl space too, just at a non raate on
perspective, is this a really goodidea? It helps, you know,
reduce moisture and sometimes smell in yourbasement as well. But yeah, we
we mitigate anything we seal. Weseal all crawl spaces, any open holes
outside foundation, under the slab aswell. Hey, I tg im a
stick with you on this. Ifsomebody has cracks in their basement floor and
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they just want to yeah, theyfell, they patch the crack and they
use the Raydon proof ceiling that's outthere. Does that take care of it?
So? No, Typically the onlyreal way to take care of it
is a mitigation system. So whatyou actually do by sealing the cracks up
is you can actually have the radonconcentrate to a higher level and then where
(41:45):
it does come out of your floorwall or wherever just emanates right through the
concrete itself, it'll come out actuallyat a higher level. And the the
fan part of it. You know, I'm complaining right now that my air
conditioner last time made all kinds ofnoise that I've not heard before. Is
there a lot of noise that comesfrom the system. Typically not most of
(42:06):
the time. No. If youdo have any noise or any situation like
that, our service team and warranties, we really go out. We try
same day or next day to comesolve that issue for you. Should because
you should never hear these fans.Ye. Well, and a lot of
times when I look at I saysystems, I don't know much about it,
but just like a little bubble,Yeah that is a little bubblic You
supposed to monitors down in the basement. Yeah, so it'd be a monometer.
It's just basically a pressure gauge.It allows us and the homeowners to
(42:29):
know how the fan is working andif it is working properly. Is there
a warranty involved with this? Soour fans come with a five year manufacturers
warranty. During that time we comeswap out the fan, there would be
a trip charge involved depending on timeit was installed. Otherwise, we do
have a lifetime craftsmanship on our systemin general. Man, well done on
that. Look, guys, we'vetalked to the hour and during the break
(42:52):
we talked about it, and look, we've had some fun in the studio
today with these guys. But whenwe start talking about having your your home
I tested for raid On, theyget serious pretty quickly. And you know
the fact that they offer free testing. And what. Look I I challenged
Mike Sylvester. I said, look, this isn't a bait and switch program,
(43:15):
and he got serious and gave methat look like, man, it's
not. That's not what we're doinghere. What we're doing is just giving
people the information the number one causedeath. It's not a not a subject.
I did not think about it rightright, Well, what was the
guy's name that we're talking about,Stanley? Stanley found out he found out
(43:36):
the rough way. I don't bethere. You need a new marketing slogan,
don't be Stanley. Lung cancer isthe main concern. Rayd On does
also appear to have adverse effects beyondlung cancer, such as things like leukemia
or stomach and liver cancer. Youknow a lot of people everybody's cup fill
(44:00):
up differently, so some people aremore sensitive to others. And you know
TJ mentioned smokers are at a higherrisk when it comes to rate on and
developing lung cancer as well. Oneof the you know, one of the
sad things about lung cancer is wedon't have we don't have great outcomes when
somebody gets diagnosed with lung cancer.Things like prostate cancer or breast cancer,
(44:23):
those have a ninety nine ninety onereally high recovery rate. Lung cancer,
your your recovery, your outcome islike twenty one percent that you're going to
survive that diagnosis. Mike, acouple of things. One in the first
segment, you gave a really goodwebsite, and I would I'm going to
give you that website again. Ithink it's really good information. It's DHS
(44:46):
dot Wi sc SO, DHS dotWisconsin dot gov, backslash rate on and
I just think that if people canremember that or write it down, what
a great tool to be able tofind out in your neighborhood, in your
area, in you know, Wawatosaor Sussex or Pewaukee, you can you
(45:08):
can find out where that is.Question. Once somebody has the system in
place, do you guys come outand retest then? And is zero cost
to that? Hi? TJ Hi? So uh yeah, we can always
come out and retest for that customer. Typically, you know, we set
them up with a with a charcoaltest on their own directly after. Okay,
(45:30):
and that's kind of like a justcomes with the system install We give
them directions. There's also a howto video on our YouTube page and that
you can actually go and see andit shows you how to set it up
in good places too located. Youdon't know me at all, dude,
I'm calling you guys. I'm justtelling you I do a home improvement show
because I know Bengos sure, andI know how to talk and Zach,
you know Zach his son, he'sgot My wife has his phone number on
(45:52):
speed out because whenever I try todo any of this stuff. Hey,
is there a certain type of licensingor certificate that you guys half to half?
Yeah, so we go through theNRPP is one of them, and
that you go through certification classes.It's typically about a twenty four to forty
eight hour classes. You do itfor testing and for mitigation, and then
you do become certified after passing thetest as well, and then you have
(46:14):
to research every two years. Hey, do we know if if you and
Erica are having a boy or girl? Yeah? We have. Mike is
a really good name. Look atyou got Mike. Mychael name is Mike.
Actually too, so there it is. But no, we actually just
did the test for that. We'llknow by Friday. So are you guys
doing any kind of probably not anyreveal. No, well you want to
(46:36):
come back in studio, we cando it. Oh, sure, if
you'll have me my son when theyfound out to be my uh my daughter
had boys and then my son who'sgot the McGivern name. I said,
you know, you got to keepcarry on that name. And he called
in and they did a reveal partywhile I was on the air. Call
him John Yeah, no, no, we called it Mike. You did
(46:59):
not call him man, Eric,I need you back. Eric your my
new co host on this show.Hey, guys, thank you TJ.
It's really good to meet you.Mike man, It's really good to meet
you guys, and what great information. They offer this free testing and you
can give Mike Sell a call,or you can go online and get their
phone number Mike cell numbers two six, two six eight three eighty one eighty
(47:23):
or go to Lifetime Home Services dotcom to set up an appointment to have
them come out. It takes fifteenminutes to test your home for raid On
guys. Thank you so much,Bengo. It's good to see you.
I didn't like the John line,but that's all right. I'll take it.
Yeah, you know what, youdon't think he'd be in here talking
to Radon or high school sports.We should invite him with them. I'll
(47:44):
ask him, Yeah, you askhim. This is the Creative Construction in
Wisconsin home improvement show on the Bignine twenty and your I Hurt Radio a
f I will have my defeat thebattle thing of Shato to myself to last
(48:10):
six to the fatal thing A bumpy
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