Gary Sullivan 12/14/2024 Hour 4

Gary wraps up Saturday taking your calls. We also hear from our friends at One Stop Pest Control.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, best time of the day. I got to city.
Good afternoon. Welcome now number four and you're at home
with Gary Salvan No working our way through the weekend.
By the way, if you'd like to join us, do so.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Happy to talk to you about your home project and
be it maintenance, be it repair, be it a big

(00:20):
project for next year. We haven't talked too much about that,
but we will over the next month. All right, let's
get to Joe Joe. Welcome, Hi Gary, how are you, yes, sir? Fine, Thanks,
longtime listener.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I have been listening to you since I was a
little kid. I'm about four years.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Old now, I was a little kid too, Right.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So I'm sitting outside of a big box store right now.
My wife wants a whole home water filtration system and
I'm going into it blind. So I'm looking for your
advice and the dos and don'ts, the you know what
would be best for me?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, so probably a little bit more research is best.
So here's the deal. You can certainly get them at
a big box store. I think you need to decide
exactly what that means. A whole house, Uh, water filtration system.
So are we do we want something because we have
hard water and we got minerals in it, like calcium

(01:21):
or magnesium? Is it a chlorine issue?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Is I do have?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I do have hard water?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Gary, Okay, now I have actually.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We have who supplies my water at Louis of Water Company.
They have probably the best water in America. They've been
voted that a lot of times.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
But I do have hard water.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So my wife is a you know, holistic practitioner, and
she just wants to purified water as the most you can't.
But what I'm looking at is a different I don't
know the difference between the cartridge systems, the reverse osmosis
and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, yeah, and that's where That's exactly where I was
getting at. So, you know, we talked about the hard water.
Then there's issues people want chlorine and that kind of
stuff out of water. There's sediment like rust, is it
an iron, saltfur magnesium? Problem? Is it bacteria? Viruses? So
there's that's why I said we got to identify exactly
what a whole house water filtration system is because and

(02:24):
I'll just kind of go through this, there's sediment filters
all right, and a sediment filter that'll get rid of dirt,
sand and the rust I was talking about. There's carbon
filters which you talked about that reduces chlorine, pesticides, herbicides.
Maybe if there's an odor in the water or the

(02:46):
taste isn't real good, that'd be a carbon filter. One
the reverse osmosis, that's that sounds to me kind of
what you're looking for. That removes contaminants which includes have
he met fluorides, nitrates. It doesn't soften the water, but
it removes those types of heavy minerals. Okay, then there's

(03:12):
then there's just a water softeners and that removes the
hard water minerals, and then we get into iron and
all that. But I think the two you're looking at
would be the water softener which removes hard water materials,
and the reverse osmosis which does the heavy metal metals,
or the carbon filter. So really i'll give you an example.

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A lot of people you kind of start with a
water softener that removes hard water, all right, and then
you can choose between the carbon filters, which even some
of your refrigerators on water now has carbon filters on
them that removes the chlorine of pesticides, herbicides, and improves

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the taste, the reverse osmosis. That's you know, I don't
know if you need that unless you have these things
really tested. But that's all the heavy metals, the you know,
the iron, the lead, the fluorides and nitrates. That's what
that's doing. And that's usually not a whole house. That's
usually at the a certain faucet in your house or

(04:24):
you know, something along those lines. I don't know if
that helps, but that that's what we've got A kind
of narrow it kind.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Of does you know. I'm just about to go into
this store and and there's so many different ones and
I just didn't know which would be yeah, yeah, well
for me because so here's my wife is. The most
she's concerned about is microplastics if you've heard about that.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, water, Yeah, and I didn't even mention those. And
I don't know which one of those really removed that
or if they can be removed. I'd have to do
research on that.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, I see. That's where I'm just at and I'm
not so sure, and I've tried to do my research,
but that's it's a it's a Christmas present for my
wife and I want to get the best thing I
can for Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, well, in the big box stores, you're certainly going
to run into the waters whole house water softeners. I
don't think that's going to help you with the microplastics
that we talk about. I would say, and I'm guessing here,
I have nothing to back this up. I would say
reverse osmosis would probably be what you'd be looking at,

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you know, which is you know, those are filters also,
but i'd guess I don't know for sure. Those things
are so dog one small. It would be that of
the carbon filters, but I don't think it's the water softener.
And that's probably what you're going to be drawn into

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at the big box store.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, that's what I was looking at, yes, with carrying
you know, salt into my basement.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, and I don't think so. I mean I would
what I would do, I know you don't want to
do this, but what I would do, Joe, really is
to give yourself another hour to really get into is
there a home filtration system to eliminate microplastics? Okay, because

(06:37):
I don't know what they can be removed with. I
know that's you know, I mean, it's it's found everywhere.
Now it's in the soil, it's in the air, and
they're so small. I I don't know if there's much
we can do. I I haven't done the research on that.
I know about all the other stuff that I chatted

(06:58):
off to you, but a water so basically going to
address hard water.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Period and I do have hard water, so that is
an issue.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, so that's gonna help.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
There are some say Ao Smith, you know that company.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
They have a.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Product that has the water softener reverse osmosis, and it
does not use the cartridge system. It's like metal plates
that you would take out and clean.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, okay, But with that system.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
You have to do a bypass of course, because you know,
whenever you maintain your system, you have to bypass that
to be able to you know, to maintain it that
way you know your water flow. But my gosh, those
things are upwards of a thousand dollars and I just
wasn't sure if it was a gimmick or or it's
something that you knew about.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well there, I don't think there are a gimmick. I
think it all has to do with again, I keep
going back to that day. A lot of times people
just say, and you know, a whole house of it,
you know, And we just went through like eight different
connorms and and unfortunately all the ones everything I told you.
What it removes is what I know. The micro plastics,

(08:14):
I don't know where they fall in the different filtration
systems that are available. There's not one dedicated to just
micro plastics, but probably one of those of work, but
I can't tell you which one it is.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Sure I understand, Gary, And like I said, you know,
we we have probably one of the best, you know,
water systems in America. They've narrated very good. However, it's
just it's not enough, you know, and we do have
hard water. Yeah, and my life just wants something to
eat her mind.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah. Well, the water softener, I mean being in where
you're in Louisville, so you're in you know, you're in
Bourbon country. You got all that limestone, so you're definitely
gonna have hard water. You don't, I don't. You don't
even have to take a test on that. I can
tell you you're gonna have hard water, and so water
softwering help. But you mentioned the micro plastics, and again

(09:15):
that's softener. The whole target on that is the hard
water minerals, then they're not designed to filter out, you know,
like microplastics. I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, right, I understand.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, maybe you get maybe you get one, Maybe you
get the water softener. You'll feel the difference, she'll feel better,
and you're gonna take out that hardness of the water.
So it's it's a plus. You're going in the right direction.
And then if there's still a concern on the microplastics,

(09:50):
you can do a little bit more research and decide
whether it's a carbon filter going to take care of that,
is it a sediment filter that's going to take care
of that, Is it a reverse osmosis because those are
all different and less expensive and more point of use,
like under a kitchen sink, something along those lines. But

(10:12):
the water softener. Living in Louisville, I'm sure you need
a water softener.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, most definitely. It's you know, we use
our our due diligence of colo around here.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure. So I don't know.
I hope that helps a little. I don't think I
gave you the full answer, but I hope it helps
a little.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, Gary, I really appreciate you, and I hope to
listen to you for many more years to come.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Here.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Very good, Thanks, Joe, take care. I hope to do
it for a few more years. It's appreciated. All right,
let's take a little break, Everett Mark, you're on the hook.
We'll take a break and come back and get those
questions answered. You're at home with Gary Sullivan right here.
I'm fifty five, see detalk station. All right, back at
it we go. Boy. I've been just doing a quick,

(11:06):
you know, run through of different things to take care
of microplastics. There are dual systems out there and just
you know that do whole house. And when I say
dual systems, they're nanofan nanofiltration systems. They filter contaminants, including microplastics,

(11:27):
while softening water. They're not cheap. I don't know if
a big box store has those. I'm sure Culligin or
somebody like that can hook you up with that. But
those dual systems offer a combination that soften water and
filter out impurities like microplastics. There's also filters that target
microplastics that require regular cleaning if you're using them, and

(11:52):
offer you better water quality after I'm reading this is
also test your water for microplastics and other contempt is
to determine the best system for your needs. We're kind
of right back to that. And I really think, first
of all, I can't go wrong getting a water software
if you're living in Louisville or Cincinnati or the Milford area.

(12:12):
I mean, you got hard water, so you're not gonna pay,
You're not gonna buy something you don't need. But when
you start getting into microplastics, it's a whole different filtering
system because remember the water softener doesn't really filter, so
and that's a whole nother story. But for the microplastics,

(12:34):
I'd get the water softener and then start doing more
research on microplastics. All right, EVERT welcome.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Hey, good afternoon, Gary, love the show.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Matter full disclosure. When I stumbled upon you a number
of years ago, I thought perhaps I listened to an infomercial.
But after listening and trying a number of your products
that you recommended, not just necessarily sponsored, right, I've been
everything has worked great so well.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I appreciate that my background is in hardware store, so
you know, people I think want to know how to
you know, how to fix the problem. They also want
to know what to use, and they also like to
know where to get it. So maybe it does sound
like an infomercial at times, but that's what people always
asked it to hardware stores. So what do I use?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, listen today, my question concerns indoor humidity. My son
just recently purchased a portable whole house humidifier and he's
fell in love with it, and it sounds like it's
done a great job. It reduced or increases humidity by
ten percent from twenty one to thirty one in twenty

(13:48):
four hours.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Great.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
So now he's thinking in terms of the whole house humidifier.
And my experience with him is my house is seventeen
years old when we moved in, and it had adducted
humidifier and it used a foam type pad, if you will,
to transfer the moisture into the airstream. It didn't work

(14:11):
very well and eventually it stopped working and I just
gave up on it. Well. I installed another one last year.
A Desert Spring is the brand, and it uses a
disc or a series of discs, if you will, that
transfers the moisture to the air and you don't have
to replace them. You just clean them periodically, like annually,

(14:34):
and I'll be I've been less than impressed with it.
It's just really not raised the humidity levels significantly. So
my question is, I don't know anyone, and I see
the reviews are separately powered humidifier for a whole home system.
Have you got any suggestions or experience or.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Recommend Yeah, yeah, well, you know for dumidifiers. I don't
recommend whole house systems. Humidifiers. Yeah. I have one in
my house. I built this house twenty five years ago.
It's either a honeywell or an april air. I can't
tell you which one it is because I can't remember.

(15:19):
It does a great job. It's got a humidistat, so
just like a thermostat, it calls when it needs it
needs the water, doesn't need the water. When I was
leaving the house today, I looked at it and it
was at thirty five percent, which is absolutely perfect for
this time a year, in this temperature. I think I

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had it set at thirty seven. It was thirty five
percent umidy inside the house. Every year I changed the pad.
It's a ten inch by ten inch pad. It's got
a screen cover on it, a metal frame, and it's
got a media in the middle of it which holds
catches the water and holds the the moisture. It's tapped

(16:04):
into a copper line. It's got a celenoid valve that
calls for the water over the pad, and that's how
it maintains its moisture. Every year you change the pad
and I've been super pleased with that. And last year,
the celenoid valve went bad after twenty five years, and

(16:25):
I knew it right away because the house was cold,
it wasn't comfortable, and I looked at my humidity gauge
and it was twenty four twenty five percent. I think
one time I got down to twenty one putting or
new celenoid valve in near culture water and everything was

(16:46):
operating again. So I'm not real familiar. It's not like
I could sit down and do a consumer report, but
I can tell you what I got and how it's worked,
and it's been good.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, No, it is it powered the airflow? Is it
district coming from your your furnace or or is this
unit got a separate fan.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's most powered by the fan. In fact, I always
talk in the winter time, excuse me to you know,
put the fan on auto in the summertime, but in
the winter time, I'd run it on on just to
have that air moving and going across that pad.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
And I've tried that as well, to try to see
if I could increase the humility level.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Right, all right, so I've been played with mine. So
you know. Another thing is if you have a regular
HVAC repair that maybe does annual check up on it
or anything like that, you know, bounce it off them
and see what they got and what they offer and
how it works.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
All right, real quickly, I got I ran into an
HVAC guy at a spot house yesterday and I was
thinking that you're always talking about air quality, and he
and I were chatting and something. I forget how it
came up, but he was talking about these phoned houses.
He said he's seen more and more calls for indoor

(18:13):
air quality than he is true heating and air conditioning,
especially on the humidity control. He says that in a
thousand square foot house that you take a shower and
hang that towel on the towel bar, it'll raise the
humidity ten percent in that house. Yeah, yeah, he didn't say,
we're he this source of data for that, But well,

(18:36):
it's the while if that's true.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, it's the old story. You can't have your cake
and eat it too. Be honest with you. We all
want tighter houses, we all want more energy efficiency. We all,
you know, we want that part of it. And the
negative part is the tighter we make our homes, the
harder it is to control the humunity in them. And yeah,

(19:00):
that's kind of what we're up again. So when I'm
talking about indoor air quality and improving it, we never
talked about indoor air quality, and you know, for you know,
thirty years ago we started chatting about it. But you know,
you know, back when I was a kid, our homes
were all drafty. They weren't very energy efficient. Oh, the

(19:21):
homes being built didn't have insulation in the walls. You
had static electricity because it was so dry outside. And
then once we make a more energy efficient and we
start sealing our cocoon, you know, showers, houseplants, cooking aquariums
in our home, those all add water vapor and water

(19:44):
vapors also moving through the foundation walls of our home.
As trapped they can't get out our homes aren't drafty,
so we have to kind of control it. And that's
where we get into umidifiers and umidifiers and air exchanging
units because it's important.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Well again, I really enjoy the show, and you provide
a in valuable service to a lot of people. So
thank you much up, good work and happy holidays and
hopefully have a safe and healthy happy twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
There you go, sir, Merry Christmas to you. All right,
let's take a break. We'll come back in. We're going
to talk about another thing that's in your house right now. Yeah, huh,
it's not good pest. Uh huh. That's next. We'll continue.
You're at home with Gary Salvan right here in fifty
five care see detalk station. All right, back at it

(20:38):
we go, twelve thirty four on your Saturday at home
with Gary Salvan. I said, we're going to talk to
someone that knows what's in your house and it's not
good right now. It's Bill Richter. He is the owner
of one Stop Pest Control. You hear me talk about
one Stop Pest Control for mosquitoes. Today we're going to
get in what kind of pest are going on in
our home? Uh, Bill, walk again that home with Gary Salvan.

(21:01):
How you doing.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
I'm doing great. Thanks Gary for having me today. We
really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're quite welcome. Tell us a little bit about One
Stop Pest Control.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, One Stop Pest Control is a full service pest
control company. We do everything from ants, bed bugs, roaches,
to termites, the rodents, mice, and rats, do.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
The whole gamut, huh, every bit of it.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
The only thing we don't do is wildlife, which we
leave that to the wildlife guys. Raccoons and squirrels. They
like to climb. I'm on the side of the house
and up on the roof, and we don't like to
do those.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, I'll tell you that's a whole different business. You're
so true. I guess one of the biggest things you know,
you know, the mouse ran up the clock. That's what
they sing during the holiday season. I guess mice are
a problem in our homes right now, whether you know
it or not. Now do we tell if we have mice?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, there's quite a few different ways to know the
signs of a rodent infestation in your home. Typically, you're
going to usually find droppings. Droppings, are there fecal material
that they're dropping as they're walking along and crawling around
your baseboards and in your kitchen and stuff like that.
So a mouse usually about every foot or show as
they as they're running, drops drops the dropping. So you'll

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see that most of the time.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
It looks like a little black seed, right.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
A little black seed. Yep. Kind I kind of like
to refer to it as like a little black piece
of rice. Is what would give you the more of
a visual on that. And then you got the nawmarks
that are usually like where they're chewing in the food packaging.
You also see in furniture insulation, uh, the corners of

(22:40):
carpet at areas, they'll they'll chew a hole right through
there to get behind the wall. Those types of things.
And uh, you also find like tracks and runways if
you look up in like your attic area, Uh, you'll
see that running through the attic and and things of
that nature as well.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Safe to say there's more than one, isn't Then that's
safe to say, Bill.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
I would say generally when we do a rodent infection
in rodent trapping, we usually catch more than one mouse.
Occasionally you may find one, but usually if there's one.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
There's more, right, right, And they're just trying to stay
warm too, and us homeowners were providing them a pretty
nice place. I mean they're looking for shelter. I guess
they are.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
They don't have to pay rent. They actually can live
there rent free. They got food, they got water, they
got shelter, and they're warm. So it's a perfect spot
for a rodent for mice and rats to be up
inside your house, inside the attic area as well.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Bill, I don't know about your customers. I'm sure you
can answer this, but I guess if somebody sees a mouse,
maybe a package of peanut butter crackers, and all of
a sudden the plastic coverings torn off them, I mean,
they'll get to those crackers, there's no question about it.
And I guess the first inclination is head off to

(23:57):
the hardware store and get a mouse trap, But a
lot of people don't like to do that, and a
lot of people also they trap a mouse or two
and they find out they've got a little bit more
than one or two or maybe even three mice, and
that's when they get around. I guess I'm guessing just
human nature. I'm guessing I guess at that point they

(24:19):
call one stop pest control. Do you see that to
be true?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
We do, And you know, there's a lot of people
that don't like to They like to try to trap
the mice, but then they don't want to get rid
of the mice. And if you are trying to do
that personally by yourself, you need to definitely wear gloves
and a mask when you're picking that stuff up to
remove those from your house because mice and rats can
carry diseases and things like that, so you want to

(24:44):
be very we're of protective equipment when you're doing that.
But typically when they do find one or two, they're
calling us to figure out, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
What's going on? Yeah? And what do you usually find out?
What is going on? If they have, you know, multiple
rodents inside the house, you know, how are they getting in?
I guess they got to be coming from the outside,
and you know what.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
That's our first approach when we look at a house.
We do a very comprehensive inspection around the exterior the
house because what you're looking for for a mouse to
get into the house is the size of a pencil.
A mouse, a juvenile mouse can make it make his
way into the house through any type of a hole.
And typically we're looking for like corner caps on vinyl siding,

(25:32):
because they'll call right up the side of the vinyl
girl into the insulation board and get into the house
and follow the wires. You're also looking for ac lines.
We also replace a lot of garage door sweeps because
they'll chew the corners and get up underneath the corners
of the garage. And we also don foundation wraps where
like a vinyl siding house has a like an answer

(25:54):
Show gap where it meets the foundation. We'll put down
some foundation wrap all the way around the exterior color
matching of course, that make it look good, but we
want to we'll try to make sure that we can
keep them guys from getting into the house.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
You know, Bill, I'm always preaching about that door sweep
on the bottom of the garage door. That's got to
be one of the more vulnerable places. And also always
talk about usually in the falls, taking that walk around
the house and looking for any penetration, whether it's a
cable line, an electric line, you know, a hose bib.
I mean, those are all huge entry points for a mouse.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yes, and Gary. One of the other things that people
always often overlook is weep poles in the outside foundation
of a house that allows mice to get into the
inside as well.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
We can't win, can we not at all? Not at all.
If they went in, they went in. I think I
was telling you it was this past I guess, let's
see what it was, probably early early fall, maybe late summer.
We replaced the ceramic tile floor. Had it replaced, those
days are over for me. And of course the garage

(27:04):
door was open as the workers were in and out,
and it was two weeks after the job was done
we started noticing we had a mouse issue. And my
son when he first bought a house, he had a
lot of stuff in the garage and they weren't closing
the garage door, and he had kids, and I mean,

(27:25):
that's just an invite into the house. And we certainly
had a few mice in our house. We got rid
of them, and you got to keep those doors closed
and maintenance up. And how do you get rid of
the mice? Do you trap them to or you know,
I mean with mouse traps or is there a secret
to what you do if you can tell.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Us, well, there's really not a whole secret to everything
that we do. It's kind of basic stuff, but one
of the main things we use a little bit of
different advanced technologies as far as like we use tamper
resistant base stations around the exterior that actually usually keeps
the pressure from the mice coming into the house from

(28:07):
getting into the house to a point. Then we also
just tailor tailor a plan for you guys as far
as like where where the activity is coming from will
come in and we'll set normal like Victor snaptraps, blue boards.
All depends on whether people have young children or pets
or anything like that. We want to make sure we

(28:28):
don't want that out there where you know, the mice
or not the mice, but the the the kids are
going to get into it and snap a finger, or
the cat's going to go over and look on the
look on the bait station or anything like that. So
that's usually what we'll do. We'll we'll kind of put
together a program that works for each individual house because
not every house is the same. Every every house has

(28:49):
different issues, different things that are going on, and that's what.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
We're looking for.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Right. You mentioned other things that One Stop Pest Control
takes care of One of me said, bed bugs. Where
are we in this whole bed bug thing? It was
in the news all the time, probably ten years ago.
It seems like it's gotten a little bit more quiet.
I'm sure they're not extinct.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
No, they're not extinct, And I think, to be honest
with you, you're correct about ten years ago it was really busy.
You heard about it all the time. I think it's
kind of old news. But it's definitely not changed a bit.
As far as the amount of the amount of jobs
that we do for bed bug treatments. I mean, it's
typically usually one to two a day of those that
we typically do in our company, and I'm sure you

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know larger companies other things out there are doing more
than that. But you know, it keeps us pretty busy.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now, one Stop Pest Control you're a family business. I
know you guarantee your work. You're very transparent on your
cost and in a lot of cases, you know the
same day pest control treatm you're available. They simply call you.
How do they get a hold of you? How do

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you get the process started?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
They can either look us up on the web at
one Stop Pestcontrol dot com or they can reach out
of our phone numbers five one, three, eight eight eight
nine five seven six, and you can always look us
up on Facebook under one Stop Pest Control.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
All right, Bill, if you can hang tight for a minute,
we're gonna take a little break when come back. I
hate to talk about cockroaches, but I think that's probably
the dinosaur of all pests. So we got to talk
about those briefly. And uh, Bill Richter, he's my guess.
He's the owner of one Stop Pest Control and you
can check him out again. Their website is one stoppestcontrol
dot com. And we'll continue at home with Gary Salivan

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right here in fifty five K see de talk station.
All right, back at it we go twelve forty eight.
I was gonna say five no, twelve forty eight. Uh, yeah,
I am positive. Bill Richter, he is my guest with
one Pest Control. I was telling you a family owned business,
Bill and Angie. They are of Corset. You can tell

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talking to them, very passionate about bringing top quality and
fairness to homes businesses. They do commercial work and also
residential work and all types of pest control. And Bill,
I guess it is the dinosaur of pests, cockroaches? Is
that still probably your number one problem in a lot
of homes?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
It definitely is. We deal with a lot of roach
infestations sometimes in multifamily units and things like that. But
we have definitely not seen the decrease in that. Yeah,
it's definitely still still the dinosaur, but it's still it's
still around.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, it's a survivor, so I guess. You know, when
you get multiple locations like condos, apartments and stuff, that's
that's extremely challenging, right, they just go from one place
the next. Almost got to take a look at the
whole envelope they do.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
And basically you have to check like under the saints,
because they'll follow like the electric lines, water lines in
between the apartments and condos and things like that. So
it does make it a little a little bit a
little bit more difficult. And uh, you know, generally, if
you're doing an inspection on all the units, you will
find that you will most likely find the one that
has the issue most of the time.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Pretty quarly, it sounds to me. Are water lines and
electric lines sound like our highways for pest they are?
How about some of that are? Yeah, some of the
phone installation that goes in walls. Does that help or hurt.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
The phone insulation? Not so good per se? I mean
kind of like you know, they've been spraying like the
headerboards and under the sill plate above the sill plating
areas and the basements nowadays, right, So what what that
does is that actually keeps you from being able to
see like termites because termites will typically build a shelter
tube up the foundation wall and come out over the

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sill plate into the header board and into your joy
But if your spring foam has is covering that area,
you won't be able to see it until they actually
chew through it and you can actually then you will
see the terminie damage inside the phone.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, I guess that's true even with people that finish basements.
It's hard to you guys can't see where the problems are, right,
You cannot.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And the only time you can find find the problem
is usually once it's too far along and are coming.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Through the drywall. Yeah, yeah, I was meaning, do pest
move behind walls with that foam or can you know
what I'm saying? I mean, when does it does it work?
Is it does it keep them more out in the open.
I guess that's a good way of saying it.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Well, there's always cracks and crevices no matter where they go,
so it doesn't necessarily keep them from going and you
know other places, but they will or make them come
out in the open. But you definitely will be able.
You'll see them most of the time, usually at night
and that type of stuff as far as cockrunches go.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
But for that matter, well, how do you get rid
of cockroaches? I remember there's from a standpoint of a homeowner.
You know, we all like to fix everything, Bill, even
if we don't know what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
We do, but we do.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
You know, you guys really in the pest control business,
you have safer products, you have better products. I mean,
we don't want somebody doesn't know what they're doing handling
stuff that's you know, they shouldn't be handling. And I
think that's one of the keys to reaching out to
a pest control company. A folks know what you're doing.

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You know the the lifestyle of cockroaches, bed bugs, mice.
You know where to look and how to eliminate the problem.
There's a lot of truth in that statement. You agree,
yes there is.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
And one of the big ways to kind of prevent
from having cockroach infestations is usually sealing entry points using
cack or something like that to seal cracks and crevices
around the windows and doors and the kid area, countertop areas,
the pipes, the drain areas, even electrical sockets. The biggest
thing is a store and food properly making sure that

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you know, have leftover food or water water issues like
leaks or something like that, because then they're attracted to
that water area because they're getting water source. And just
the biggest thing that they really like is they actually
like the uh, cluttered houses and things like that, Refrigerators
that have you know that the humidity and moisture back

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behind there. A lot of times you'll pull refrigerator out
and you'll have a couple of hundred roaches come flying out,
and that that would be considered a very heavy infestation.
And then at that point we actually use a vacuum
uh and we vacuum up all the roaches that are
running around live. We have a Hepa vacuum that's designed
specifically for picking up bugs, so that helps still eliminate

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the problem rather quickly.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Wow, I'm sure you guys see it all, don't you.
We do.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
We do, and then one day I'll tell you that
I've seen it all, and next day I'll see something
even worse than what I've seen prior to that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, I don't think i'd be very good pest control.
I'm glad you're out there.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
It takes a certain person.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Let me tell you, do you have any I'm just
curious one stuff pest control. If you have any type
of annual program where you do home inspections and maybe
some exterior treatment on a quarterly basis or annually or
anything like.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
That, absolutely, we actually do. We do quarterly pest control
service for the most part. Generally, the first first treatment
we come in, we do the interior and exterior all
at the same time.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
And then after that we generally just do an exterior
treatment unless you have a problem on the inside, because
you don't need to have materials spray on the inside
of your house. And we already live with enough other
you know, things that are going on to put chemicals
all over your house unless we have to. And then
we maintain the exterior and that's where you know, usually
ninety five percent of your insects are going to come
into the house from the exterior.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Gotta get them at the straight You got to get
them at this source. Well, even though it's cold now,
it won't be long. We'll talk about termites and carpenter
ants and carpenter bees and all that stuff. So we
do How do people get a hold of one Stop
pest Control? I know you gave me the phone number,
Give it to me again. Maybe they want to check

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out that quarterly service. Or maybe it's roaches. Maybe it's bedbugs,
I hope not. Maybe it's mice. How do they get
a hold of you?

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Absolutely, you can reach our office at five to one
three eight eight eight nine five seven six.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Nine five seven six. So it's five one three eight
eight eight nine, five seven six. All right, Well that
was informative. Thanks a lot, Bill, I appreciated. The moral
of this story is the same thing I preach, and
I'm glad you preached it too. It really is about maintenance.

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They want in, you want to keep them out, tighten
up the home. I think that's our stand.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yep, very good and Gary, we really appreciate you having
us on today. And if anybody needs us, definitely give
us a call. We'd be happy to help.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
You very good. Hey, you have a great holiday. Merry
Christmas you as well. Merry Christmas you alrighty, my friend,
take care all right, there you go. It is about
maintenance when I preach taking that walk around the house,
when I preach looking for moisture in your home. That
water is the number one enemy of your home. You know,
every pest that invade your home, they're looking for water,

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and they're looking for food, and they're looking for a
place to spend the night. So that's your job, you know,
put out the no welcome sign. And it's interesting that
he pointed out about the garage door seals. I think
that's the number one I think in my house, that's
where our house is most vulnerable, or that I'm just

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fixated keeping it nice and tight, adjusting it, making sure
it's in good shape, making sure it's pliable, and different
things like just little tiny things like that makes such
a difference in keeping pests out of your homes. Even
the entry door to your home probably got a door suite,
Maybe got a threshold with a maybe it's an aluminum threshold

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with a vinyl seal on it. You heard what they'll
chew their way through pretty much everything. Once they get
inside your home, you know, they'll always trail along the baseboard,
they get behind the wall. What he say sounds like
pipes and wires. It really is kind of their highway
to getting around the home. As I said, we had

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issues after we did the floor of mice. It was
really interesting. It was easy to identify, and several packs
of peanut butter crackers with a cellophane wrapping on them,
and all of a sudden, one morning, it was probably
a couple of weeks after the whole floor was replaced,
there was a pack of peanut butter crackers that were

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open and a half chewed cracker. And I don't think
my wife wanted to believe that we had mice, but
I assure her we have mice. And we got to work,
and like I said, we had three. And then we
were since we were doing the floors and everything, you know,
I had empty all the food out of the pantry
and I found the mouse droppings. Then I had stacked

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it all in the office while they took up that floor,
and loan behold, there was another pack of crackers in
the office and there was a half eating cracker. And yep,
we got mice got three of them. Party was over
and we've been mouse freen now for several months. But
don't just close your eyes. It's a problem. You got

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to take care of it, Danny boy, And thank you
very much. Another busy show and I appreciate all the
listeners and Danny for getting you on the air, and
good Lord Willing. We'll be back tomorrow for more at
Home with Gary Sullivan.