December 20, 2025 • 40 mins
In this hour of "At Home with Gary Sullivan," Gary chats with Chris McCoy from Haven Lighting about the latest trends in outdoor lighting. They discuss how smart lighting can make your home stand out, especially during the holiday season. Chris shares how his company's technology allows for easy color changes and scheduling, making it a game-changer for homeowners. Gary shares his own experience with Haven Lighting and how it's made his home look amazing. Gary also talks about important safety tips for the holidays, including proper storage of firewood and fireplace maintenance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, best time of the day, said, good afternoon, welcome
to our four and you're at home with Gary Salvin Chili.
But the sun's out and it's going to get up
to about the upper forties, so that's good news. And
taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, and we're going to go back and
chat with Rick. Now, Rick, I will say this is
(00:22):
you know, I'm going to ask you some questions. I
kind of just got a whole step to step thing
I've pulled up, and I just kind of want to
go through with you. You say there's about a hundred
feet of water in the well.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Eighty yeah, well the well pump says at eighty feet yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, so the information I pulled up is how much
bleach to use and never used more than three gallons
of bleach. Most homes will use about one to two
gallons of bleachka. But it also says in your case,
it says half a gallon quote two quarts of bleach
(01:01):
per one hundred feet of water in the well. Ah okay,
all right, so that's that's about how much water you
would do. And then the step by step is really
of course turned off the power. So you switch off
the breaker. I'm assuming you know where that is. Do
you know where the well cap is?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right, open up the cap. Make sure you don't
drop anything in the well. That's always a problem. And
then you mix that that chlorine, that two quarts of
chlorine with about two and a half gallons of water.
You pour the chlorine into the wall. They're into the well.
(01:46):
I'm sorry, just poured in slowly. But you haven't got
all that much, so just you know, pour that in.
You'll you'll turn the power back on, which will circulate
the chlorine and attach a garden to the outdoor faucet.
All right, So basically, you're putting a chlorine in a well.
(02:06):
You're attaching the garden faucet, you're turning that on, which
is the chlorinated water, and you're running that water back
into the well. And you do that for about a
half hour and this coats the well casing and with
the chlorinade water. Right then you'll run the chlorinade water
through the house one fixture of the time, so you'll
(02:29):
turn on just the cold water and you'll run that
till you smell the chlorine. And that includes the sinks,
the showers, the toilets, outdoor spickets, the whole thing, and
once that chlorine odor so don't get the odorless. Once
that chlorine odor is present, you can then at that point,
(02:52):
you know, leave the system. You know, you can shut
it off and leave that system unused for about a cup,
then about a day, twenty four hours all right, Okay,
if you can leave it a little longer, fine, but
at least twenty four hours. Then you'll go ahead and
running outdoor hose away from you know, the septic system streams.
(03:16):
You're basically running until the chlorine smell is gone, and
that may take hours, but that's how you basically flush
out a well. So first you're pouring a chlorine in,
You're you're starting to circulate it with the outdoor faucete,
and you're putting it back into the well, and then
(03:38):
you're running it through all the sinks, toilets and everything
inside your house.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, I got it, very good. One question, one more
quick question. A test kit. This water, this well is
only five years old, right that does anything sets off
of a farm? There's a farm nearby, because you're a
(04:04):
test kit that you recommended to test that water for anything.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't have I don't have a name. I actually
even I met this company at the National Hardware Show.
I think it was called One Time. You'll have to
google that. But what they do is they have different
ones where you can test water, especially if it's a
lot of farm country. You know. It gets into water
systems and stuff and it'll test the different bacterias. I
(04:34):
think you can find that online fairly easily. I just
I just don't have a name for you right now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, it's something like one Time you're.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Saying, I think that's what it was. I don't know.
I can look when I get home and see what
it is. But I still have the test kit. I
don't have a well, but I got test it's sitting
up there that the guy gave me. But I can
I can pass that along it but it'll be tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh that's okay, all right, I can check it out.
Had show in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Uh huh do you yeah? Yep? All right, okay, may
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All right, thanks so much, Gary, if.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You're quite welcome. Thank you appreciate it, all right, and
again you can join us. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Also at the bottom of
the Hour. Chris McCoy is going to be joining us,
and I'm going to talk about outdoor lights. I don't
know about you. The more you kind of get around
in different neighborhoods, you see a lot of outdoor lighting.
Some beautiful displays, uh some you know, maybe do it
(05:40):
yourself for but it adds lighting. And Chris has got
a company called Haven Lighting. We're going to discuss him
the pros and cons outdoor lighting and some of the
really cool, neat stuff that's out there now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Walt, welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
No welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I've got one comment and one question, both short. The
comment is on electric lawn equipment. I would never buy
an electric car, to be honest with you, but lawn
equipment I love. I don't have to put one hundred
and fifty feet of extension cord out. The woman that
(06:27):
called about the battery, I have Ego, a lot of
Ego equipment. I've got a couple of different brands. But
the battery discharges itself on its own to thirty percent.
And the way I found this out was kind of funny.
I walked into my garage one day and the battery
(06:50):
was just on the workbench and it was flashing and
doing stuff, and I imediately took it outside in case
it was going to catch on fire. Right, So then
I read the manual. It's not complicated, but the equipment
(07:13):
comes with the manual for the operating the equipment and
the manual for operating the charger and the battery. And
I read there, yeah, and if it left, if you
leave it alone, I can't remember the period of time,
but it will discharge itself, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So so basically I was reading some general information on
that when I was putting my list together and to
talk about and it was talking about keeping the battery charged.
And this is not the manual of the manufacturer. And
I always say, every manufacturer is different, you know, qualifications,
et cetera. And she didn't have the manual, and what
(07:57):
I was reading was so was general. And it told
me to keep it charged forty to sixty percent, not
fully charged. And I don't know if you could let
it go down to thirty percent or not, but they
said not full forty to sixty percent. But one of
the things I learned too, just to add to what
you're saying, Walt, is if you let it go where
(08:21):
there's no charge, it won't charge. You have to use
another battery to almost like jump start it. And I've
had to do that. I had it was, you know,
a couple hundred dollars edger, and I had the battery
and it was dead as a doornail. And I started
(08:47):
reading it and said, you know, you got to get
another battery and run a copper wire to the charging ports,
just to put a little trickle in there and then
it'll charge. But if you plug it in, it's not
going to charge, and it would not charge. And my
buddy had the same type of model, and we put
a little trickle charge in there and it worked. Then
it charged, but that mindset forty to sixty percent.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So oh wow, I was going to ask you how
in the world you jump started a battery, and that question, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's what I said. When I read it, I said, what.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, But it's the manufacturer, you know, from the owner's
manual that says the Ego batteries will discharge themselves. And
the way I found it out, it was kind of funny.
I walked into my garage one day and the battery
was blinking and doing something, and I immediately took it
(09:50):
outside because I thought it wasn't connected to a charger.
It wasn't hooked up to the equipment. I always I
always disconnected from the equipment.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But it was screaming at You're saying you better do
something about that. And I'm sure what it was was
go ahead and you know, get that thing on the charger.
Otherwise just think, could be you know, dead as a
door nail like mine. Turned out mine didn't have blinking
lights unfortunately, so.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well it doesn't according to the manual, the manufacturer's manual,
it doesn't tell it'll run it down to zero, but
it automatically it will run it down the thirty percent.
And like you said, forty to seventy. You know, that's
(10:37):
reasonable for other batteries as well, but this says the
manufacturer has it run down the thirties. And I took
it outside because I thought it was going to catch
on fire. I didn't know what it was doing doing
by it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, yeah, well thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
And also in that user's manual, probably really going to
tell you maybe that's different. Maybe if it goes down
to thirty percent, it'll hold that for four to six months.
I don't know. That's why the importance of those owners
and manuals. I'm sure the information none of my research
was general information, which it usually is. And to be
(11:19):
real honest with you, I didn't know and that's why
I looked it up. I didn't know how people would
store those batteries. But just again, it's you know, forty
to seventy degrees a dry area indoor, so maybe a shed,
maybe a garage, and then you know about you have
(11:44):
to charge it periodically up to that forty to sixty percent.
And we were talking about the lighting. That's how you
would tell. That would be in the manual also, and
they also have a little trickle charger for them also
if you want to do that. But yeah, you know,
we're learning as consumers because they started originally pulling old notes,
(12:06):
old notes that I use, you're in and you're out,
quite honestly, and how to properly store a gas lawnmower.
And of course, as I was incorporating that and my
notes for my show today, I'm thinking, like, well, the heck,
what about all the electric or battery equipment. There's probably more, well,
I don't know if there's more battery equipment or not.
But there's a lot of battery equipment. How do we
(12:27):
do that? And that's when we kind of ran into that.
Our phone numbers eight hundred and eight two three A,
two five five. Feel free to grab that line. Chris
McCoy will join us at the bottom of the are
We're going to talk about outdoor lighting. And you know,
we've covered quite a few things today. One of the
things I just just do what. We need a break, Gary,
(12:50):
we need a break. Okay, We'll take a break and
I'll come back and I'll throw some tips out, safety
tips for Christmas. Got to do that. Twelve twenty it is,
and you're at home with Gary Sullivan here. I'm fifty
five KRC the talk station. All right, back at it
we go, twelve twenty three on your Saturday. Not too
bad today, good looking day for the time of year.
(13:13):
All right, just kind of go through this. I try
and go through it every year. Have you ever seen
the video clip of a Christmas tree that catches on fire?
Every year, somebody on the news or something on TV
will play one. And I saw it again this year,
(13:34):
and it astonishes me every time I see it. Once
that ignites it literally is consumed by fire in like
minutes minutes. So I was thinking, you know what we
had to do to just some holiday tips, and why
(13:55):
not in the news. We've certainly seen house fires in
the news always this time of year, always this time
of year, for whatever reason. The space heaters, Christmas decorations
will any reason, but they're prevalent this time of year.
(14:17):
So if you have a live tree, you gotta water,
and they drink a lot of water for the first
two or three weeks and I'm talking like a quart
of water a day. Make sure that tree stays watered,
make sure it's away from the fireplace. Make sure it's
not over a register. That will only help dry it
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out along the mantle garland no real garland, absolutely not,
because there's no way to water the real garland, and
if it's near a fireplace on the mantle, it's going
to dry out faster and there's a possibility of combustion.
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A lot of people do this, but do not. Do
not burn gift wrap or boxes in the fireplace. Is
a fireplace, is not an insiderator, and certainly don't burn
tree trimmings in the fireplace. That's terrible for the chimney
the creosote, and it's a very hot quick fire, which
(15:22):
is bad if you have a fireplace and you've been,
you know, using it, and all of a sudden the
smoke starts coming into the room. Crack a window. The
reason the smoke's coming in and not going up the
chimney is either you haven't warmed the chimney enough or
you have negative air pressure in your home. Cracking a
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window will alleviate that. If you're using a space heater,
don't use them in bathrooms. Make sure they have a
ground false circuit interrupter in the plug. Don't use extension
cords on a space heater. They're pulling pretty much the
(16:07):
whole circuit. And you may not have a don't use
extension cords. They'll tell you that in the directions, but
you got to read them. Don't use extension cords in
entry ways or under carpet. And I'm not talking about
the space heater. No extension cords air. And again, the
(16:32):
extension cord is not near flammable areas.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Have a fire extinguisher in the house, make sure people
know how to use it. There's some very simple ones
out there now. They look like a giant aerosol can.
It's not aerosol, and they're as powerful as the regular
ones that you pull the pin on. It's an ABC
fire extinguisher. Make sure you have one in your home.
(16:57):
Make sure everyone knows where it is, make sure everyone
knows how to use it. Make sure the smoke detectors
in your home are working for sure. If you burn candles,
there's all kinds of safe candles out there now, but
of course we still have plenty of candles that you like.
The wick. If you have a candle, you trim the
(17:18):
wick down to a quarter of an inch before igniting
the wick. If you have a real long wick, you're
going to produce a lot of smoke. That's why you
want to always trim that down in a bigger flame
than you need. Of course, you're going to put out
the candle before bed, and I think that's where a
lot of people, uh, you know, drop the ball. Quite honestly, Um,
(17:42):
be careful of setting hot things on countertops, even if
you have granted, be careful with that because you can
have some some expansion and it could cause some problems.
So I want to run those by you real quick, well.
Grant Joe, and then we'll get to Chris McCoy from
Haven Lighting. Joe, Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I just wanted to share a little tip that I
kind of uh figured out after a few years of
pulling in all of my uh my batteries and my
paints and all of my flus and stuff out of
my garage that I was a chiefest cap.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
When I built it, I.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Didn't uh, I didn't insulate it or I did any
temperature control.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So I was always bringing in all my paints and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Uh, So I started to uh started to insulate with
that was that three or four inch phone board uh
huh and uh uh I what I did is I
built uh.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Like a box in my garage, uh maybe four feet tall,
uh sixty wide, eighty long, and uh in that box,
I put all of my things that I need to
keep from freezing. And I used one of those like
thermostat outlets uh huh that you would use for like
(19:04):
an attic fan or whatever. Okay, And it takes on
one ceramic light bulb that you use like in a
reptile cage or something like that.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Right, and he keeps it above forty five all winter inside.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There super well, that's cheaper than an insulint the whole garage.
But yeah, you got to maintain that temperature. Thank you
much for the call. I appreciate. All Right, as talked about,
we're going to talk about outdoor lighting. As you drive
across different neighborhoods and things, you just seem to be
(19:39):
seeing more and more outdoor lighting. We see it in
commercial properties. Chris McCoy he is with Haven Lighting. He
is my guest. Next, as we continue, you're at home
with Gary Sullivan on fifty five K see detalk station.
All right, back to work we go. As promised, we'd
have Chris McCoy on. He is with Haven Lighting and
(20:00):
Chris welcome that home with Gary Salvn.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
How you doing, Hi, Gary, Thanks for having me. I'm
doing great well.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I'll tell you what this time of year, I mean,
you know, it's dark and nothing really perks up a
neighborhood like outdoor lighting. But I think most of us
always think about outdoor lighting as a summer thing. But
I'm telling you it's important in the winter time, even
from a safety standpoint. I'm sure you agree with that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yeah, it sure is, And this time of year it's
always you see more than you see it during the summer. Actually,
it's it's a lot of fun driving around.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The neighborhoods, right right. Well, I'll tell you one thing.
You know, I have the lighting on my home and
you've got it. You've got unique lighting at Haven Lightning,
And you've saved me so much time because I have
a program on your lighting that makes my house green
(20:57):
and red, and I've incorporated some outdoor lighting on the
bushes and it looks outstanding. I wanted to tell you,
I've had more compliments on it than ever before whenever
I've decorated. So tell me how old that was.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh, it's it's great technology, and I think I think
as we you know, as we move forward, the we
start seeing more and more color and smart and smart
lighting in all the neighborhoods. And hopefully you didn't have
to even do anything. It just turned green red automatically
that like it was supposed to Thanksgiving, Yep, it did.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And we light up everything. I mean, there's the gutters,
the roof, the peaks of the house. And then I
did some regular Christmas lighting on a couple of bushes
with bulbs that kind of really even intensified it. The
first few years I didn't do that, and I've added
a couple, just a couple things. It took it took
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me every bit of fifteen minutes to put the additional
bulbs on, but it just made everything really pop. So
I'll let you explain to people how all that works,
because I'm thinking I've seen people, you know, there's so
many people now that are hanging Christmas lights. They're having
their homes professionally decked decorated, and I've talked to some
(22:18):
of the owners. They're like, it's like three thousand dollars
every year, and it's like, what's going on. I can
do my whole house.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. The technology is very, very easy
to use, and that's one of the things that you
get with Ayman is the app is super simple. There's
a picture of your house and every light that you
have a A is a little dot on the picture
and you can select one and change it whatever color
you want, and then save different scenes to schedule them
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all year around. And the idea like at my house
and hopefully your house is you don't really you don't
ever touch the app. It just automatically happens. For Memorial
day weekend, and it'll be red, white and blue and
and and for Christmas it'll be red and green, and
then and then the rest of the year, or however
you want, it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Can be white.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I know you like our color sunset more than
more even than the white.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So I do I do it Everyone's responsibility. In the summertime,
I don't use white. I use the sunset. And really,
if you think of a summer sunset, you know, late
in the day or in the evening, late in the evening,
it is kind of an oranges yellow. And I'll tell
you what. In the summer, I don't think i'd use
(23:32):
it in December, but I think I usually have it
from h you know, June through August. And I just
love that color.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah, it looks it looks great.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I think in the winter you want a little more colder,
colder white than than than that color. But the great
thing is the flexibility you have is you basically have
any color that you want any time of year, and
and hopefully it's scheduled and you don't have to touch it,
and remember to put out some sights and and and
if you do accent a couple of bushes along during
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Christmas time. I think I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think it does.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It does add just just a ton of flair for
the Christmas time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, and what's really neat is, you know, I certainly
with your with your lighting. I've accented some trees normally
and bushes which go red and green, but just the
forward bushes where there's a you know, adding some smaller
bulbs ere it did really really accent. But you know,
(24:36):
a lot of people, I guess, how how much does
this industry grown? When I was a kid, everybody had,
you know, a light post in their front yard, except
our house did not have one, but a lot of
people light posts were big. And now we've just incorporated,
and your business has got to be grown because I
(24:56):
even start thinking about the backyard.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, it's we're growing like crazy. This this last quarter
was was insane. So we've been working, working a lot,
but it's been a lot of fun. And you know,
the latest trend is really this roofline lighting, like you mentioned,
UH for people paying for for uh putting on Christmas lights.
And we offer three different We manufactured three different styles
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of roofline lighting to kind of give the people. There's
there's different there's different looks of it. And one of
the things one of the challenges that I think roofline
lighting has UH and I think one that we have
solved is UH when I see it. One of the
one of the challenges that the that I have with
most of the roofline lighting out there is it just
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doesn't feel like Christmas. It just doesn't. The balls are
a little bit different, they're they're facing down, the colors
mix and it just doesn't give you that Christmas kid
feeling that you have when you were a kid. And
and uh and and when we developed our we put
some samples up in our showroom and I walked in,
I'm like, yeah, that's you get that feeling and you
(26:06):
just know it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So these so my outdoor lighting and what a lot
of people's outdoor lighting is spotlights. When you're doing roof lighting,
I see the homes and I can pick them out
immediately because they're bulbs that go across and it's got
the chords on it. You got to take them all
(26:28):
down with yours. It's not spotlights, it's actually bulbs up
there then.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Right, Yes, it's it's a track system that you put
up and like I said, we have a couple of
different varieties depending on what you want. One is completely linear,
so if you want it to and then you can
make that do whatever you want to eat to make
it look like balls, you can make you can make
it completely linear and do some really cool stuff. Whether
there's some flag we have some flag effects that on
(26:54):
a moral day we can look ridiculously cool, but but
you can you can do whatever you want. Then all
the way from Winnear and then we have we have
a Christmas style like look to one version, and then
we have a more of a down like version that
are that are much more spread out, that look like
you know, some soffit down lights, but they're programmable so
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you can make them do all kinds of patterns and
red and green for Christmas and things like that. So
you know, we've kind of attacked all three varieties because
different people like different different styles.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Mm hm, So I'm sure somebody same boy, if we're
lighting up that much of the outside of the home,
what's this costing? But with LED, probably not that much.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Huh, it's not too bad. I mean, if you're definitely
if you're paying for somebody to put up Christmas lights,
this will definitely be very, very attractive to you, you know.
And and I started the business just because I was out.
I literally was outside putting up Christmas lights, and I
was like, I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So it's a lot of your business. Is it just
is it individual homes or is it commercial or I'm
sure it's both, but because I see a lot of
commercial properties.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It's definitely a mix of both. So we do We're
about thirty percent commercial seventy percent residential, and we do
some really cool commercial projects. You know, with our with
our technology, you can interface it with sports teams. So
the University of Kentucky has our lives all around their
football stadium so when they score, they can make the
lights dance automatically and do all kinds of stuff. It's
(28:32):
it's it's super cool technology, the way the way that
all that works.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, And when you talk about the cost, you're right.
I mean that's what prompted my call is I look
at these beautiful homes that are lit up, and then
I start talking about the costs and somebody coming up
and putting all this stuff up every year taking it down.
I'm thinking, like, I don't even I don't even flip
a switch. It just happens. Granted, I put a couple
(28:58):
of lights on some bush, is just an accent and
build on it. I was feeling guilty. It was so easy,
and uh, I'm thinking, like I got to get Chris
on here because I don't know how many people know
about the flexibility of uh of of color, you know,
(29:18):
I mean, it's more than just putting a light fixture
in the ground.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So yeah, I think one of the I think one
of the misperceptions is is that just because you have
color doesn't mean that you it doesn't mean that you
can't have white most of the year and make white
look really really nice. And people wouldn't you drive it by,
People wouldn't really know that they were colored lights. So
I think one of the misperceptions is you either have
one or the other. And with our with our technology,
(29:46):
that's that's not true. You can have it white most
of the year and then and then celebrate and make
your house look super cool for the kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Absolutely, Well, now I guess you're gonna get big ornaments
with a light in right, big ball, big big what's
on the planning board?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, I'll tell you this roofline, this roofline technology has
really really taken off.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And uh, you got pictures work on the website we do.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, if you go to shophaven dot com, there are
there are definitely all kinds of pictures of the roofline stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, okay, so that's the hot one right now. And
you lighting around decks in the summertime, is that? I
guess that's pretty big. I don't have a deck on
my house, but that's got to be pretty big too,
because I'm seeing party lights on screen porches and everything else.
And your your your jobs can do a lot of
that from a safety standpoint, and also cosmetics.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Correct, yes, that's correct. A lot of times, a lot
of times our customers will use our products in their
backyard and you know, it's fun. The the uh, the
most common thing I hear when I ask why did
why did you do which you did in the backyard
is uh, And the answer is there to bring their
kids back home. Their kids are their kids are either
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moved out or of the of independent age, and they
want them to come back and hang out. And that's
that's that gives me chills.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, don't we all well, Chris, how do people get
started with you? I mean they can visit your website
and it's what again.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, Shothhaven dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Okay at h O P H A V E N
all right, and then they kind of get an idea
of what they want and do you come and visit
the home And because there's some there's some skill and
kind of getting the light shadows. I'm assuming not everybody
can just stick lights in the ground make it look beautiful.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, we do. Uh so, we are the actual manufacturers
of the product. We write all the software, We handle
all of the the the app and the servers and
the and the lighting technology and the lights themselves. Locally,
we're located in Cincinnati. Locally in Cincinnati we do the installs.
We'll do them on some major commercial projects around the country,
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like we did a couple of resorts at Disney.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
But around the country, we have trained installers all over
the country that are independent companies that that will do
exactly what we do in Cincinnati, and even we have
some in Cincinnati that also do what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm gonna take a picture of my lovely looking as
Simons send it to you.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Great looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Well, Chris, thanks for joining us. It really is. It's
it's one of the most versatile things I've edded to
my home. It really is. Uh and not only the
light changing, but just you know, being able to you know,
change the light for summer to winter and the layout
and you know, I don't know that the lights and
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the gutters that shoot up on the roof. It's beautiful.
And just wanted to, you know, tell everybody about it
because I still think there's a lot of people that
that don't understand what you can do. And every now
and then, like I said, I see people hanging lights,
and I see people putting their own lights in and
I'm going, it's a mistake. You can make it look good.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
And ladders are super dangerous, honestly. Yeah, oh I know,
you don't it yourself. Just just be extremely careful on
the ladder. It's it's very dangerous, all.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Right, Haven Lighting. Chris McCoy, thank you very much for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Appreciate it, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, take care, all right, So there you have it.
You know, I still I mean the ones that come
around and do all the lights for the Christmas, I
mean they look beautiful. I'm not here to knock it
at all, just saying there's other alternatives too, and man,
the bar has been raised. There's no question on decorations
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on the outside of homes, both for Christmas and Halloween.
So kind of wanted to share that with you and
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary
Selvin right here on fifty five kre seed DE talk station.
All right, back here we go, about nine minutes before
the one o'clock hour. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
I was giving some quick tips, safety tips for the holidays,
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and I don't know if this is a safety tip
or not, but it is a tip I wanted to
pass along, and that is I talked a little bit about,
you know, burning gift wrap and paper and boxes in
the fireplace, and I'll tell you I've seen that happen many,
many times. And you know, you if you have a fireplace,
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you probably have a fire on Christmas Eve or Christmas
Day and burning wood, and I wanted to pass along.
You know, the storage of wood is really important and
from drying out the wood to also keeping your home
safe from pest if you have you know, we all
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know termites like wood. Okay, and I don't know if
termites are active or not right now, probably not. It's
pretty cold out. But one thing you really don't want
to do, and I know a lot of folks do,
but you really don't want to do that, is to
take the firewood. It's convenient, don't get me wrong, wherever
you're storing it outside and you bring in and you
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start stacking it in the garage up against the wall.
I know when you say that, people can go, yeah,
why would you ever do that? But there's a lot
of people that do, and you shouldn't because you don't
know what's in that wood. Beetles termites could maybe become
active with some a heated garage or a garage that's
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insulated real well, So let's not do that. If you
got a covered patio or something, maybe you can put
it there as long as it's far enough away from
the house. But ideally you keep it as close to
your house as you can. But you don't want it
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inside your house. You don't want it next to run
against a wood sighting on a shed or anything like that.
You know, if you have to put them out in
the yard and put a blue tarp over the top
of your stacked wood. That's fine, but only let it
hang down a foot or so, and then maybe you
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have a quarter around it. You don't want to run
the blue tarp all the way down to the ground
because there's moisture in the ground and the moisture is
going to rise up and it's going to keep that
wood wet anyway, So you want the air to move
through it. But if you want to keep the snow
from piling up on the top of it blue tarps,
do that, but don't bring it in stack it inside
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the garage. Also, when you're in the process of cleaning
out the fireplace, this stuff happens every year or too.
That's why I'm bringing it up. It sounds so elementary.
But when you're cleaning out the ashes in the stove
or underneath the grate, then you got your little shovel
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and maybe you have a bucket, you know, to put
the ashes in. Um disposal of those ashes is really critical.
The safe disposal of those ashes is really critical. When
you scoop them and you put them in the bucket,
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you'll probably see an ember or two, but not much,
and you'll feel a little heat radiating it, but not
too much. But that doesn't mean they cannot catch something
on fire. So after you scoop that out and you
clean out the firebox and you get all that looking
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good again, take that and don't just sit it in
the laundry room or in the garage. Take it outside.
Take it outside. Do not pour those ashes into the
trash can. You're asking for trouble. And you will be
surprised at how long nose ashes stay hot. And I'm
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talking I wouldn't do anything for a couple of days,
or I'd wet it down and then you got kind
of a slurpy mess. But don't pour it on your gardens.
That can goof up your perennials. I have experienced that.
A lot of things we talk about are things I
have experienced over the years. But you know, if you
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want to damping them down, that's fine. Don't put them
in the trash can, don't put them in the garage.
Keep them away on the outside part of your house.
That's the best and safest place to do that. And
by the way, if you have a stove or glass
fireplace enclosure in your h you know, got the fire
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going and it's a you know everybody's gathered in the
family room. If you have doors, you know, you keep
them closed. If you just have a great and a
fire box, make sure that screen's pulled and just can
stop sparks or anything along those lines. Just again, just
another little safety tip. And if you've got some downtime
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with that fireplace and that glass is just a little cloudy,
little dirty and tinted like newspaper and ashes to clean
that works really really well. Uh, if it's for some
reason a little more stubborn, then I'm suspecting it is.
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You can go to the hardware store. They have glass
door and stove glass cleaner, so there'll be a kreisop
build up on there. Again, ashes and newspaper really does
do a pretty good job at cleaning up. But if
you ever have a heavy build up, that stuff is great.
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You you know, it's gotta be cool. You spray it on,
you let it set maybe five ten seconds, and with
a cloth you'll just wipe that kreas right off. So
I wanted to give those little safety tips, and I
hope everybody has a safe week that's for sure. Danny boy,
that's gonna wrap up, not another weekend. But another day
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of the weekend. Of course, of course, the good Lord
willing Danny and I'll be back tomorrow for more at
Home with Gary Sullivan
Well, best time of the day, said, good afternoon, welcome
to our four and you're at home with Gary Salvin Chili.
But the sun's out and it's going to get up
to about the upper forties, so that's good news. And
taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, and we're going to go back and
chat with Rick. Now, Rick, I will say this is
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you know, I'm going to ask you some questions. I
kind of just got a whole step to step thing
I've pulled up, and I just kind of want to
go through with you. You say there's about a hundred
feet of water in the well.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Eighty yeah, well the well pump says at eighty feet yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, so the information I pulled up is how much
bleach to use and never used more than three gallons
of bleach. Most homes will use about one to two
gallons of bleachka. But it also says in your case,
it says half a gallon quote two quarts of bleach
(01:01):
per one hundred feet of water in the well. Ah okay,
all right, so that's that's about how much water you
would do. And then the step by step is really
of course turned off the power. So you switch off
the breaker. I'm assuming you know where that is. Do
you know where the well cap is?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right, open up the cap. Make sure you don't
drop anything in the well. That's always a problem. And
then you mix that that chlorine, that two quarts of
chlorine with about two and a half gallons of water.
You pour the chlorine into the wall. They're into the well.
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I'm sorry, just poured in slowly. But you haven't got
all that much, so just you know, pour that in.
You'll you'll turn the power back on, which will circulate
the chlorine and attach a garden to the outdoor faucet.
All right, So basically, you're putting a chlorine in a well.
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You're attaching the garden faucet, you're turning that on, which
is the chlorinated water, and you're running that water back
into the well. And you do that for about a
half hour and this coats the well casing and with
the chlorinade water. Right then you'll run the chlorinade water
through the house one fixture of the time, so you'll
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turn on just the cold water and you'll run that
till you smell the chlorine. And that includes the sinks,
the showers, the toilets, outdoor spickets, the whole thing, and
once that chlorine odor so don't get the odorless. Once
that chlorine odor is present, you can then at that point,
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you know, leave the system. You know, you can shut
it off and leave that system unused for about a cup,
then about a day, twenty four hours all right, Okay,
if you can leave it a little longer, fine, but
at least twenty four hours. Then you'll go ahead and
running outdoor hose away from you know, the septic system streams.
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You're basically running until the chlorine smell is gone, and
that may take hours, but that's how you basically flush
out a well. So first you're pouring a chlorine in,
You're you're starting to circulate it with the outdoor faucete,
and you're putting it back into the well, and then
(03:38):
you're running it through all the sinks, toilets and everything
inside your house.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, I got it, very good. One question, one more
quick question. A test kit. This water, this well is
only five years old, right that does anything sets off
of a farm? There's a farm nearby, because you're a
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test kit that you recommended to test that water for anything.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't have I don't have a name. I actually
even I met this company at the National Hardware Show.
I think it was called One Time. You'll have to
google that. But what they do is they have different
ones where you can test water, especially if it's a
lot of farm country. You know. It gets into water
systems and stuff and it'll test the different bacterias. I
(04:34):
think you can find that online fairly easily. I just
I just don't have a name for you right now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, it's something like one Time you're.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Saying, I think that's what it was. I don't know.
I can look when I get home and see what
it is. But I still have the test kit. I
don't have a well, but I got test it's sitting
up there that the guy gave me. But I can
I can pass that along it but it'll be tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh that's okay, all right, I can check it out.
Had show in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Uh huh do you yeah? Yep? All right, okay, may
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All right, thanks so much, Gary, if.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You're quite welcome. Thank you appreciate it, all right, and
again you can join us. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Also at the bottom of
the Hour. Chris McCoy is going to be joining us,
and I'm going to talk about outdoor lights. I don't
know about you. The more you kind of get around
in different neighborhoods, you see a lot of outdoor lighting.
Some beautiful displays, uh some you know, maybe do it
(05:40):
yourself for but it adds lighting. And Chris has got
a company called Haven Lighting. We're going to discuss him
the pros and cons outdoor lighting and some of the
really cool, neat stuff that's out there now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Walt, welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
No welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I've got one comment and one question, both short. The
comment is on electric lawn equipment. I would never buy
an electric car, to be honest with you, but lawn
equipment I love. I don't have to put one hundred
and fifty feet of extension cord out. The woman that
(06:27):
called about the battery, I have Ego, a lot of
Ego equipment. I've got a couple of different brands. But
the battery discharges itself on its own to thirty percent.
And the way I found this out was kind of funny.
I walked into my garage one day and the battery
(06:50):
was just on the workbench and it was flashing and
doing stuff, and I imediately took it outside in case
it was going to catch on fire. Right, So then
I read the manual. It's not complicated, but the equipment
(07:13):
comes with the manual for the operating the equipment and
the manual for operating the charger and the battery. And
I read there, yeah, and if it left, if you
leave it alone, I can't remember the period of time,
but it will discharge itself, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So so basically I was reading some general information on
that when I was putting my list together and to
talk about and it was talking about keeping the battery charged.
And this is not the manual of the manufacturer. And
I always say, every manufacturer is different, you know, qualifications,
et cetera. And she didn't have the manual, and what
(07:57):
I was reading was so was general. And it told
me to keep it charged forty to sixty percent, not
fully charged. And I don't know if you could let
it go down to thirty percent or not, but they
said not full forty to sixty percent. But one of
the things I learned too, just to add to what
you're saying, Walt, is if you let it go where
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there's no charge, it won't charge. You have to use
another battery to almost like jump start it. And I've
had to do that. I had it was, you know,
a couple hundred dollars edger, and I had the battery
and it was dead as a doornail. And I started
(08:47):
reading it and said, you know, you got to get
another battery and run a copper wire to the charging ports,
just to put a little trickle in there and then
it'll charge. But if you plug it in, it's not
going to charge, and it would not charge. And my
buddy had the same type of model, and we put
a little trickle charge in there and it worked. Then
it charged, but that mindset forty to sixty percent.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So oh wow, I was going to ask you how
in the world you jump started a battery, and that question, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's what I said. When I read it, I said, what.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, But it's the manufacturer, you know, from the owner's
manual that says the Ego batteries will discharge themselves. And
the way I found it out, it was kind of funny.
I walked into my garage one day and the battery
was blinking and doing something, and I immediately took it
(09:50):
outside because I thought it wasn't connected to a charger.
It wasn't hooked up to the equipment. I always I
always disconnected from the equipment.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But it was screaming at You're saying you better do
something about that. And I'm sure what it was was
go ahead and you know, get that thing on the charger.
Otherwise just think, could be you know, dead as a
door nail like mine. Turned out mine didn't have blinking
lights unfortunately, so.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well it doesn't according to the manual, the manufacturer's manual,
it doesn't tell it'll run it down to zero, but
it automatically it will run it down the thirty percent.
And like you said, forty to seventy. You know, that's
(10:37):
reasonable for other batteries as well, but this says the
manufacturer has it run down the thirties. And I took
it outside because I thought it was going to catch
on fire. I didn't know what it was doing doing
by it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, yeah, well thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
And also in that user's manual, probably really going to
tell you maybe that's different. Maybe if it goes down
to thirty percent, it'll hold that for four to six months.
I don't know. That's why the importance of those owners
and manuals. I'm sure the information none of my research
was general information, which it usually is. And to be
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real honest with you, I didn't know and that's why
I looked it up. I didn't know how people would
store those batteries. But just again, it's you know, forty
to seventy degrees a dry area indoor, so maybe a shed,
maybe a garage, and then you know about you have
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to charge it periodically up to that forty to sixty percent.
And we were talking about the lighting. That's how you
would tell. That would be in the manual also, and
they also have a little trickle charger for them also
if you want to do that. But yeah, you know,
we're learning as consumers because they started originally pulling old notes,
(12:06):
old notes that I use, you're in and you're out,
quite honestly, and how to properly store a gas lawnmower.
And of course, as I was incorporating that and my
notes for my show today, I'm thinking, like, well, the heck,
what about all the electric or battery equipment. There's probably more, well,
I don't know if there's more battery equipment or not.
But there's a lot of battery equipment. How do we
(12:27):
do that? And that's when we kind of ran into that.
Our phone numbers eight hundred and eight two three A,
two five five. Feel free to grab that line. Chris
McCoy will join us at the bottom of the are
We're going to talk about outdoor lighting. And you know,
we've covered quite a few things today. One of the
things I just just do what. We need a break, Gary,
(12:50):
we need a break. Okay, We'll take a break and
I'll come back and I'll throw some tips out, safety
tips for Christmas. Got to do that. Twelve twenty it is,
and you're at home with Gary Sullivan here. I'm fifty
five KRC the talk station. All right, back at it
we go, twelve twenty three on your Saturday. Not too
bad today, good looking day for the time of year.
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All right, just kind of go through this. I try
and go through it every year. Have you ever seen
the video clip of a Christmas tree that catches on fire?
Every year, somebody on the news or something on TV
will play one. And I saw it again this year,
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and it astonishes me every time I see it. Once
that ignites it literally is consumed by fire in like
minutes minutes. So I was thinking, you know what we
had to do to just some holiday tips, and why
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not in the news. We've certainly seen house fires in
the news always this time of year, always this time
of year, for whatever reason. The space heaters, Christmas decorations
will any reason, but they're prevalent this time of year.
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So if you have a live tree, you gotta water,
and they drink a lot of water for the first
two or three weeks and I'm talking like a quart
of water a day. Make sure that tree stays watered,
make sure it's away from the fireplace. Make sure it's
not over a register. That will only help dry it
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out along the mantle garland no real garland, absolutely not,
because there's no way to water the real garland, and
if it's near a fireplace on the mantle, it's going
to dry out faster and there's a possibility of combustion.
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A lot of people do this, but do not. Do
not burn gift wrap or boxes in the fireplace. Is
a fireplace, is not an insiderator, and certainly don't burn
tree trimmings in the fireplace. That's terrible for the chimney
the creosote, and it's a very hot quick fire, which
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is bad if you have a fireplace and you've been,
you know, using it, and all of a sudden the
smoke starts coming into the room. Crack a window. The
reason the smoke's coming in and not going up the
chimney is either you haven't warmed the chimney enough or
you have negative air pressure in your home. Cracking a
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window will alleviate that. If you're using a space heater,
don't use them in bathrooms. Make sure they have a
ground false circuit interrupter in the plug. Don't use extension
cords on a space heater. They're pulling pretty much the
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whole circuit. And you may not have a don't use
extension cords. They'll tell you that in the directions, but
you got to read them. Don't use extension cords in
entry ways or under carpet. And I'm not talking about
the space heater. No extension cords air. And again, the
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extension cord is not near flammable areas.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Have a fire extinguisher in the house, make sure people
know how to use it. There's some very simple ones
out there now. They look like a giant aerosol can.
It's not aerosol, and they're as powerful as the regular
ones that you pull the pin on. It's an ABC
fire extinguisher. Make sure you have one in your home.
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Make sure everyone knows where it is, make sure everyone
knows how to use it. Make sure the smoke detectors
in your home are working for sure. If you burn candles,
there's all kinds of safe candles out there now, but
of course we still have plenty of candles that you like.
The wick. If you have a candle, you trim the
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wick down to a quarter of an inch before igniting
the wick. If you have a real long wick, you're
going to produce a lot of smoke. That's why you
want to always trim that down in a bigger flame
than you need. Of course, you're going to put out
the candle before bed, and I think that's where a
lot of people, uh, you know, drop the ball. Quite honestly, Um,
(17:42):
be careful of setting hot things on countertops, even if
you have granted, be careful with that because you can
have some some expansion and it could cause some problems.
So I want to run those by you real quick, well.
Grant Joe, and then we'll get to Chris McCoy from
Haven Lighting. Joe, Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I just wanted to share a little tip that I
kind of uh figured out after a few years of
pulling in all of my uh my batteries and my
paints and all of my flus and stuff out of
my garage that I was a chiefest cap.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
When I built it, I.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Didn't uh, I didn't insulate it or I did any
temperature control.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So I was always bringing in all my paints and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Uh, So I started to uh started to insulate with
that was that three or four inch phone board uh
huh and uh uh I what I did is I
built uh.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Like a box in my garage, uh maybe four feet tall,
uh sixty wide, eighty long, and uh in that box,
I put all of my things that I need to
keep from freezing. And I used one of those like
thermostat outlets uh huh that you would use for like
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an attic fan or whatever. Okay, And it takes on
one ceramic light bulb that you use like in a
reptile cage or something like that.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Right, and he keeps it above forty five all winter inside.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There super well, that's cheaper than an insulint the whole garage.
But yeah, you got to maintain that temperature. Thank you
much for the call. I appreciate. All Right, as talked about,
we're going to talk about outdoor lighting. As you drive
across different neighborhoods and things, you just seem to be
(19:39):
seeing more and more outdoor lighting. We see it in
commercial properties. Chris McCoy he is with Haven Lighting. He
is my guest. Next, as we continue, you're at home
with Gary Sullivan on fifty five K see detalk station.
All right, back to work we go. As promised, we'd
have Chris McCoy on. He is with Haven Lighting and
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Chris welcome that home with Gary Salvn.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
How you doing, Hi, Gary, Thanks for having me. I'm
doing great well.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I'll tell you what this time of year, I mean,
you know, it's dark and nothing really perks up a
neighborhood like outdoor lighting. But I think most of us
always think about outdoor lighting as a summer thing. But
I'm telling you it's important in the winter time, even
from a safety standpoint. I'm sure you agree with that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yeah, it sure is, And this time of year it's
always you see more than you see it during the summer. Actually,
it's it's a lot of fun driving around.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The neighborhoods, right right. Well, I'll tell you one thing.
You know, I have the lighting on my home and
you've got it. You've got unique lighting at Haven Lightning,
And you've saved me so much time because I have
a program on your lighting that makes my house green
(20:57):
and red, and I've incorporated some outdoor lighting on the
bushes and it looks outstanding. I wanted to tell you,
I've had more compliments on it than ever before whenever
I've decorated. So tell me how old that was.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh, it's it's great technology, and I think I think
as we you know, as we move forward, the we
start seeing more and more color and smart and smart
lighting in all the neighborhoods. And hopefully you didn't have
to even do anything. It just turned green red automatically
that like it was supposed to Thanksgiving, Yep, it did.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And we light up everything. I mean, there's the gutters,
the roof, the peaks of the house. And then I
did some regular Christmas lighting on a couple of bushes
with bulbs that kind of really even intensified it. The
first few years I didn't do that, and I've added
a couple, just a couple things. It took it took
(21:56):
me every bit of fifteen minutes to put the additional
bulbs on, but it just made everything really pop. So
I'll let you explain to people how all that works,
because I'm thinking I've seen people, you know, there's so
many people now that are hanging Christmas lights. They're having
their homes professionally decked decorated, and I've talked to some
(22:18):
of the owners. They're like, it's like three thousand dollars
every year, and it's like, what's going on. I can
do my whole house.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. The technology is very, very easy
to use, and that's one of the things that you
get with Ayman is the app is super simple. There's
a picture of your house and every light that you
have a A is a little dot on the picture
and you can select one and change it whatever color
you want, and then save different scenes to schedule them
(22:49):
all year around. And the idea like at my house
and hopefully your house is you don't really you don't
ever touch the app. It just automatically happens. For Memorial
day weekend, and it'll be red, white and blue and
and and for Christmas it'll be red and green, and
then and then the rest of the year, or however
you want, it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Can be white.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I know you like our color sunset more than
more even than the white.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So I do I do it Everyone's responsibility. In the summertime,
I don't use white. I use the sunset. And really,
if you think of a summer sunset, you know, late
in the day or in the evening, late in the evening,
it is kind of an oranges yellow. And I'll tell
you what. In the summer, I don't think i'd use
(23:32):
it in December, but I think I usually have it
from h you know, June through August. And I just
love that color.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah, it looks it looks great.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I think in the winter you want a little more colder,
colder white than than than that color. But the great
thing is the flexibility you have is you basically have
any color that you want any time of year, and
and hopefully it's scheduled and you don't have to touch it,
and remember to put out some sights and and and
if you do accent a couple of bushes along during
(24:05):
Christmas time. I think I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think it does.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It does add just just a ton of flair for
the Christmas time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, and what's really neat is, you know, I certainly
with your with your lighting. I've accented some trees normally
and bushes which go red and green, but just the
forward bushes where there's a you know, adding some smaller
bulbs ere it did really really accent. But you know,
(24:36):
a lot of people, I guess, how how much does
this industry grown? When I was a kid, everybody had,
you know, a light post in their front yard, except
our house did not have one, but a lot of
people light posts were big. And now we've just incorporated,
and your business has got to be grown because I
(24:56):
even start thinking about the backyard.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, it's we're growing like crazy. This this last quarter
was was insane. So we've been working, working a lot,
but it's been a lot of fun. And you know,
the latest trend is really this roofline lighting, like you mentioned,
UH for people paying for for uh putting on Christmas lights.
And we offer three different We manufactured three different styles
(25:23):
of roofline lighting to kind of give the people. There's
there's different there's different looks of it. And one of
the things one of the challenges that I think roofline
lighting has UH and I think one that we have
solved is UH when I see it. One of the
one of the challenges that the that I have with
most of the roofline lighting out there is it just
(25:44):
doesn't feel like Christmas. It just doesn't. The balls are
a little bit different, they're they're facing down, the colors
mix and it just doesn't give you that Christmas kid
feeling that you have when you were a kid. And
and uh and and when we developed our we put
some samples up in our showroom and I walked in,
I'm like, yeah, that's you get that feeling and you
(26:06):
just know it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So these so my outdoor lighting and what a lot
of people's outdoor lighting is spotlights. When you're doing roof lighting,
I see the homes and I can pick them out
immediately because they're bulbs that go across and it's got
the chords on it. You got to take them all
(26:28):
down with yours. It's not spotlights, it's actually bulbs up
there then.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Right, Yes, it's it's a track system that you put
up and like I said, we have a couple of
different varieties depending on what you want. One is completely linear,
so if you want it to and then you can
make that do whatever you want to eat to make
it look like balls, you can make you can make
it completely linear and do some really cool stuff. Whether
there's some flag we have some flag effects that on
(26:54):
a moral day we can look ridiculously cool, but but
you can you can do whatever you want. Then all
the way from Winnear and then we have we have
a Christmas style like look to one version, and then
we have a more of a down like version that
are that are much more spread out, that look like
you know, some soffit down lights, but they're programmable so
(27:16):
you can make them do all kinds of patterns and
red and green for Christmas and things like that. So
you know, we've kind of attacked all three varieties because
different people like different different styles.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Mm hm, So I'm sure somebody same boy, if we're
lighting up that much of the outside of the home,
what's this costing? But with LED, probably not that much.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Huh, it's not too bad. I mean, if you're definitely
if you're paying for somebody to put up Christmas lights,
this will definitely be very, very attractive to you, you know.
And and I started the business just because I was out.
I literally was outside putting up Christmas lights, and I
was like, I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So it's a lot of your business. Is it just
is it individual homes or is it commercial or I'm
sure it's both, but because I see a lot of
commercial properties.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It's definitely a mix of both. So we do We're
about thirty percent commercial seventy percent residential, and we do
some really cool commercial projects. You know, with our with
our technology, you can interface it with sports teams. So
the University of Kentucky has our lives all around their
football stadium so when they score, they can make the
lights dance automatically and do all kinds of stuff. It's
(28:32):
it's it's super cool technology, the way the way that
all that works.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, And when you talk about the cost, you're right.
I mean that's what prompted my call is I look
at these beautiful homes that are lit up, and then
I start talking about the costs and somebody coming up
and putting all this stuff up every year taking it down.
I'm thinking, like, I don't even I don't even flip
a switch. It just happens. Granted, I put a couple
(28:58):
of lights on some bush, is just an accent and
build on it. I was feeling guilty. It was so easy,
and uh, I'm thinking, like I got to get Chris
on here because I don't know how many people know
about the flexibility of uh of of color, you know,
(29:18):
I mean, it's more than just putting a light fixture
in the ground.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So yeah, I think one of the I think one
of the misperceptions is is that just because you have
color doesn't mean that you it doesn't mean that you
can't have white most of the year and make white
look really really nice. And people wouldn't you drive it by,
People wouldn't really know that they were colored lights. So
I think one of the misperceptions is you either have
one or the other. And with our with our technology,
(29:46):
that's that's not true. You can have it white most
of the year and then and then celebrate and make
your house look super cool for the kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Absolutely, Well, now I guess you're gonna get big ornaments
with a light in right, big ball, big big what's
on the planning board?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, I'll tell you this roofline, this roofline technology has
really really taken off.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And uh, you got pictures work on the website we do.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, if you go to shophaven dot com, there are
there are definitely all kinds of pictures of the roofline stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, okay, so that's the hot one right now. And
you lighting around decks in the summertime, is that? I
guess that's pretty big. I don't have a deck on
my house, but that's got to be pretty big too,
because I'm seeing party lights on screen porches and everything else.
And your your your jobs can do a lot of
that from a safety standpoint, and also cosmetics.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Correct, yes, that's correct. A lot of times, a lot
of times our customers will use our products in their
backyard and you know, it's fun. The the uh, the
most common thing I hear when I ask why did
why did you do which you did in the backyard
is uh, And the answer is there to bring their
kids back home. Their kids are their kids are either
(31:07):
moved out or of the of independent age, and they
want them to come back and hang out. And that's
that's that gives me chills.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, don't we all well, Chris, how do people get
started with you? I mean they can visit your website
and it's what again.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, Shothhaven dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Okay at h O P H A V E N
all right, and then they kind of get an idea
of what they want and do you come and visit
the home And because there's some there's some skill and
kind of getting the light shadows. I'm assuming not everybody
can just stick lights in the ground make it look beautiful.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, we do. Uh so, we are the actual manufacturers
of the product. We write all the software, We handle
all of the the the app and the servers and
the and the lighting technology and the lights themselves. Locally,
we're located in Cincinnati. Locally in Cincinnati we do the installs.
We'll do them on some major commercial projects around the country,
(32:07):
like we did a couple of resorts at Disney.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
But around the country, we have trained installers all over
the country that are independent companies that that will do
exactly what we do in Cincinnati, and even we have
some in Cincinnati that also do what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm gonna take a picture of my lovely looking as
Simons send it to you.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Great looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Well, Chris, thanks for joining us. It really is. It's
it's one of the most versatile things I've edded to
my home. It really is. Uh and not only the
light changing, but just you know, being able to you know,
change the light for summer to winter and the layout
and you know, I don't know that the lights and
(32:50):
the gutters that shoot up on the roof. It's beautiful.
And just wanted to, you know, tell everybody about it
because I still think there's a lot of people that
that don't understand what you can do. And every now
and then, like I said, I see people hanging lights,
and I see people putting their own lights in and
I'm going, it's a mistake. You can make it look good.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
And ladders are super dangerous, honestly. Yeah, oh I know,
you don't it yourself. Just just be extremely careful on
the ladder. It's it's very dangerous, all.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Right, Haven Lighting. Chris McCoy, thank you very much for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Appreciate it, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, take care, all right, So there you have it.
You know, I still I mean the ones that come
around and do all the lights for the Christmas, I
mean they look beautiful. I'm not here to knock it
at all, just saying there's other alternatives too, and man,
the bar has been raised. There's no question on decorations
(33:48):
on the outside of homes, both for Christmas and Halloween.
So kind of wanted to share that with you and
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary
Selvin right here on fifty five kre seed DE talk station.
All right, back here we go, about nine minutes before
the one o'clock hour. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
I was giving some quick tips, safety tips for the holidays,
(34:09):
and I don't know if this is a safety tip
or not, but it is a tip I wanted to
pass along, and that is I talked a little bit about,
you know, burning gift wrap and paper and boxes in
the fireplace, and I'll tell you I've seen that happen many,
many times. And you know, you if you have a fireplace,
(34:30):
you probably have a fire on Christmas Eve or Christmas
Day and burning wood, and I wanted to pass along.
You know, the storage of wood is really important and
from drying out the wood to also keeping your home
safe from pest if you have you know, we all
(34:55):
know termites like wood. Okay, and I don't know if
termites are active or not right now, probably not. It's
pretty cold out. But one thing you really don't want
to do, and I know a lot of folks do,
but you really don't want to do that, is to
take the firewood. It's convenient, don't get me wrong, wherever
you're storing it outside and you bring in and you
(35:19):
start stacking it in the garage up against the wall.
I know when you say that, people can go, yeah,
why would you ever do that? But there's a lot
of people that do, and you shouldn't because you don't
know what's in that wood. Beetles termites could maybe become
active with some a heated garage or a garage that's
(35:40):
insulated real well, So let's not do that. If you
got a covered patio or something, maybe you can put
it there as long as it's far enough away from
the house. But ideally you keep it as close to
your house as you can. But you don't want it
(36:00):
inside your house. You don't want it next to run
against a wood sighting on a shed or anything like that.
You know, if you have to put them out in
the yard and put a blue tarp over the top
of your stacked wood. That's fine, but only let it
hang down a foot or so, and then maybe you
(36:20):
have a quarter around it. You don't want to run
the blue tarp all the way down to the ground
because there's moisture in the ground and the moisture is
going to rise up and it's going to keep that
wood wet anyway, So you want the air to move
through it. But if you want to keep the snow
from piling up on the top of it blue tarps,
do that, but don't bring it in stack it inside
(36:42):
the garage. Also, when you're in the process of cleaning
out the fireplace, this stuff happens every year or too.
That's why I'm bringing it up. It sounds so elementary.
But when you're cleaning out the ashes in the stove
or underneath the grate, then you got your little shovel
(37:04):
and maybe you have a bucket, you know, to put
the ashes in. Um disposal of those ashes is really critical.
The safe disposal of those ashes is really critical. When
you scoop them and you put them in the bucket,
(37:25):
you'll probably see an ember or two, but not much,
and you'll feel a little heat radiating it, but not
too much. But that doesn't mean they cannot catch something
on fire. So after you scoop that out and you
clean out the firebox and you get all that looking
(37:45):
good again, take that and don't just sit it in
the laundry room or in the garage. Take it outside.
Take it outside. Do not pour those ashes into the
trash can. You're asking for trouble. And you will be
surprised at how long nose ashes stay hot. And I'm
(38:11):
talking I wouldn't do anything for a couple of days,
or I'd wet it down and then you got kind
of a slurpy mess. But don't pour it on your gardens.
That can goof up your perennials. I have experienced that.
A lot of things we talk about are things I
have experienced over the years. But you know, if you
(38:33):
want to damping them down, that's fine. Don't put them
in the trash can, don't put them in the garage.
Keep them away on the outside part of your house.
That's the best and safest place to do that. And
by the way, if you have a stove or glass
fireplace enclosure in your h you know, got the fire
(38:53):
going and it's a you know everybody's gathered in the
family room. If you have doors, you know, you keep
them closed. If you just have a great and a
fire box, make sure that screen's pulled and just can
stop sparks or anything along those lines. Just again, just
another little safety tip. And if you've got some downtime
(39:16):
with that fireplace and that glass is just a little cloudy,
little dirty and tinted like newspaper and ashes to clean
that works really really well. Uh, if it's for some
reason a little more stubborn, then I'm suspecting it is.
(39:36):
You can go to the hardware store. They have glass
door and stove glass cleaner, so there'll be a kreisop
build up on there. Again, ashes and newspaper really does
do a pretty good job at cleaning up. But if
you ever have a heavy build up, that stuff is great.
(39:57):
You you know, it's gotta be cool. You spray it on,
you let it set maybe five ten seconds, and with
a cloth you'll just wipe that kreas right off. So
I wanted to give those little safety tips, and I
hope everybody has a safe week that's for sure. Danny boy,
that's gonna wrap up, not another weekend. But another day
(40:17):
of the weekend. Of course, of course, the good Lord
willing Danny and I'll be back tomorrow for more at
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