April 27, 2025 • 29 mins
Dean talks about pest control and is joined by founder of ECOLA Pest Control, Sue Fries.
Sue Fries talks about her mission with ECOLA and some of the treatments the company provides without any toxic chemicals to provide a safety environment to each person. Dean and Sue talk about termites and how much damage they cause in homes. Plus, Dean and Sue talk about orange oils and how it’s not recommended for human health and environment.
Sue Fries talks about her mission with ECOLA and some of the treatments the company provides without any toxic chemicals to provide a safety environment to each person. Dean and Sue talk about termites and how much damage they cause in homes. Plus, Dean and Sue talk about orange oils and how it’s not recommended for human health and environment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I
am Dean Sharp. As you know the House Whisper. I
design custom homes and on the weekends I spend a
little time talking with you to guide you to better
understand that place where you live. We want to take
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that ordinary house and turn it into an extraordinary home
for you, and we do it bit by bit, piece
by piece, covering every aspect of what it means to
own a home, to work on a home, to improve
a home, to remodel a home, redesign a home, build
a home, you name it, if it has anything to
do with houses and homes, that's what we're all about
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here and today on the show, as one step toward that.
The beautiful spring weekend that it has been truly a
spring weekend here in southern California, a little bit of sun,
a little bit of rain, puffy clouds in the sky,
beautiful outside. It is time, yes, it is, to talk
about pest control because everything is waking up, including the pests.
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And I have a very very.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Special in studio guest with me today to do exactly that.
The owner and founder and operator of E Cola Pest Control,
Sue Freeze is in studio with me. Good morning through
Oh there are not their live studio audience. Good morning, Sue,
good morning. So glad that you're with us today.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm happy to be here. It's so wonderful to be
right here right now.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, that is great, and we're going to have a
good time talking about your area of expertise, and we're
going to probe in and just get all the info
from you so that everybody can better understand how to
deal with the pests. Pests and pests by the way,
you know pests are. That's not a classification of any
animal officially. It is just one of those words like weeds.
(01:57):
You know, a weed. There is no such thing the
plant kingdom as a weed. A weed is simply a
word that we've come up with. It is a it's
a plant in the wrong place, right, that's a weed
up on the hillside there. We call them grasses, wild
land grasses. In your yard, we call them weeds. Right.
The world needs insects and rodents and all of these
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things to move along. But when they get too close
to our home or in our home, suddenly pests. Yes,
and you're all about pest control.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am, and it's not people people say, can you
get rid of so and so?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm like, no, that's not what I do.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
No, we have other people for that. We have other
people for that job, right right, all right, So we're
going to have a great time this morning talking to Sue.
Of course, we're also going to be talking to you.
The phone lines are open right now. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,
the numeral two Ask Dean eight three three two, Ask Dean.
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It's just that simple. Phone lines are open now. Producer
Richie is standing by. You can give us a call.
Tell him what is going on with you. He'll tell
you everything you need to know. Pop you into the
queue and you can listen to the show while you wait.
Pest control calls, toilet repair calls, Big proofy, architectural design
concept calls, anything at all. When it comes to our calls,
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you set the agenda, all right. Let me introduce our
awesome team. Elmer, you already heard from him, is on
the board. Good morning Elmer.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Good morning Dan, and good morning everyone. How you doing, Bud,
I'm good, I'm actually really happy. You guys made a
pest control joke because I was like, I wonder how
long it's going to take, and that's immediate, so that's funny.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh you were just counting it off.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, I'm hoping for more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
All right, we will try. We'll try our best. Like
I said, Producer Richie standing by, not anywhere near a
microphone right now, but he'll just wave. There you go.
Producer Richie standing by, screening calls. Ready to take your call.
I Lean Gonzales at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Good morning sunshine. How's it going.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm doing well. What's our tea choice this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Actually, believe it or not, it's lane old boring water
what but I will have some green tea coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Uh. You know what Sue Freeze brought me this morning
and made for me that I'm sitting here sipping on.
Is uh what's its official name? Suit?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Is it just Doze? Is the company Doze.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Taste like the mushroom stuff? Mushroom stuff? Is it good?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It is?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
He was so brave. I wasn't sure if you would
like it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, I am a bold foodie. I'll just you know,
we go to a new restaurant. I look for the
weirdest thing on the menu. I'm like, how how many
people order this? They're like, well, that's kind of I'm like,
that's mine and you give that to me.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And he likes it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So Hyleen is drinking water today? Yeah? You know, I
want some mushroom stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I actually have a sample with me in my bag
that a friend gave me like weeks ago. Maybe I'll
make it and then Elmer and I can try it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There you go, just to add, you're on it all right,
sitting well, actually standing next to me. You shocked me,
my better half, clearly, my design partner, my best friend
in all the world. Tina is here, welcome home. How
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are you doing.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm doing well this morning. And we have a special
guest in here. I know I've already said that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I did. Thanks Now, now everybody
knows you showed up late. All right, all right, babe, wonderful, wonderful.
All right, y'all, listen, we got phone calls coming in
on the board right now. We've got a bunch of
stuff to talk about. Sue when we come back, why
don't we start with your story? Because I think it's
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so relevant. You guys are truly my favorite pest control
company in southern California. But there's a very specific reason why.
It's not just like, oh, you know, throw the dart
at the board and it's like, oh, okay, it'll be
a coola. No, it's the way that you approach this
whole subject, and that has to do with a very
personal story. We'll talk about that when we return. It
sound good, It sounds great, all right, y'all, thanks for
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joining us on the program today. It is a privilege
and a pleasure as always to spend this time with
you on the weekends. Let's talk about your home. Let's
talk about pests.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Doge doze?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do se doze? Okay, I thought I thought you were
saying doge, And I'm like, you know, is Elon Musk
going to come in here and take my coffee away?
Is that it? This is doge doge? Drink no more coffee,
just much room for you. No, it's really good.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Good, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
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dot Design. All right, I want to dive in. We're
doing pest control today, talking all things pest control with
my special in studio expert guest, the owner, founder operator
of Ecola Pest Control. My favorite pest control company in
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southern California should be yours two. Clearly, Sue Freeze is
with us this morning. So Sue, right before the break,
I had mentioned that you guys are my favorite pest
control company and they're very civic. Reasons why because of
the way you approach things, not overdoing anything, being super
hyper conscientious about things, but so effective, so powerful, so effective.
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But this all leads back to a very personal thing
to you, a story that you've got to tell. So
I was just I was hoping you could just tell
us why why past control and why you've taken this approach.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well, I started a long, long, long time ago.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'd been in the business forty six years and I
started with my husband and we ran a company together
and I was there for twenty years. And in those
twenty years, I was answering. I started with answering the phones.
I didn't know anything about bugs other than what I
had experienced personally. And when I'd sit and i'd listen
and ask questions when the phone calls would come in,
of mostly others, what would happen was they would ask
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me the questions and I would answer the questions.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And then I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Right after we got married, I got pregnant and I
had my son, Tyson, and two years when he was
two years old, he had a very strong, scary asthma attack.
And when he had the asthma attack, it scared me
so much. And then I went on this journey of
learning how to prevent or minimize the triggers that come
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from asthma. And when I did that, one of the
things that came up were pesticides and cleaning material underneath
your sinc And I had to do everything I could
as a mom to protect my son. And then I
found out that there are a lot of deaths that
are not talked about regarding asthma, and so I went
on a journey to find out how I could help others,
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and in doing that, I discovered a company that was
doing things a more green way.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And this was a long long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I actually not the founder, but I purchased the company
in two thousand and that was after running the other
company for twenty years that was doing it traditionally. And
when I bought this company in two thousand, they do
things a lot greener and they had multiple offices, and
I thought, you know what, this is the way to go.
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If we can take care of the problem and with
less hassle and be as effective, with less chemicals and
less side situations that could cause more harm to people,
then why not why not do it a better way?
And so that's how I started in the green area.
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I tell people that Ecola has been green when it
was only a color, and now other companies HiT's true,
and now yes, and now other companies have found that
it's financially good and so they've decided to jump on.
But I did it not for that. I did it
because I wanted to protect people's health. And we have
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done that, and we've been doing it, and I've owned
this company now twenty five years. It's been around since
nineteen eighty three. So we're sustainable and we do a
phenomenal job. And we have multiple alternative treatments, non chemical
methods to take care of the problems. And we do
traditional too. If someone decides that's what they want to
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get the control and then start out fresh, we can
do that too.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But your methods are as effective, if not more effective,
without so many of the harmful side effects or just
the general hassles, because there are a lot of you
like your son's asthma, There are a lot of environmental triggers,
like you said, and part of it is living in
a chemical world that we live in, right.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And cancer people that are you know, fighting cancer, and
hopefully everybody survives that and thrives, but you know, it
does establish a weakness in our immune systems and you
don't want to add more to that during that time,
and so we just we take into consideration each person's
individual situation. We take that and we say, here's what
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we think would be best for you. Then sit down
and we'll explain what we find because I'll go into
that more as we do an inspection.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
The inspections are.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Free, and then we will tell you what we found.
And then what we feel are your choices. And we
love having choices. I love having choices, and then I
can get the knowledge I need to make an intelligent
decision for my family. And you know my family, my pets,
you know everybody that's involved in that household.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
That's what we are here to do.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And we take extreme care because we want you to
feel comfortable and we want to give you peace of mind.
Why because this is not something you talk about around
the dinner table. It is something we talk about around
the dinner table, but it's not something normally that people
would talk about. And by doing that, we are doing
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something that we do and we're experts at it. And
then you can take care of your family and do
what you do well. And that's what we suggest people do.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Fantastic, fantastic. Well, So right after the news, why don't
we do this, We'll do a little news. We'll come
back and let's see we've got we're going to talk
about termites, We're going to talk about some other bugs.
We're going to talk about rodents today, why don't we
come back and just let's let's deal with termites. Let's
let's start with termites when we come back, just because
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there are some very interesting alternative approaches, even from tenting.
There are some fantastic approaches. So you're not going to
want in us out on that discussion. We'll talk termites
with Sue Freeze, the owner of Ecola Pest Control, right.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
After you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand
from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you on this
lovely spring morning. I hope it's lovely where you are.
I know we've got folks listening all across the country
and not everybody is enjoying a sprinkly, cloudy, sunny kind
of classic spring day. But wherever you are, I hope
the weather is treating you well, or at least you
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are far away from it that you're having a good morning. Uh.
But we are here in partially sunny southern California today
and I am sitting in studio with my very special guest,
Sue Freeze from Ecola Pest Control, and we're talking pest control.
We are going to be going to the phones in
just a bit. By the way again the number to
reach me, and there's room on the callboard for you
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eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
The numeral two. Ask Dean eight three to three to
ask Dean. Producer Richie will tell you everything you need
to know. Pop you into the queue. You can call
about anything. We're talking pest control. But when it comes
to calls, you set the agenda. It's all about you,
all right, Sue. Let's get into the thick of it.
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What pest shall we start with? Let's start with termites.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, Well, Deane, I'm going to start this by
saying that there is more damage done by termites than
any natural disaster. Just think about that for a second.
There's two different termites that we really deal with here
in southern California and central California, and those would be
the drive woods and the subterraneans. The subterraneans are in
the ground, just like the word sub they're in the ground,
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but they use their fecal matter to make tubes, and
they can make they can make it all the way
to the attic. If you ever around your house or
inside the attic and you see tubes going up. Those
are subterraneans that do that, and subs actually do more damage.
They're smaller and they do more damage, and they do
it quicker than the dry woods. So dry woods are
red headed. I always remember that because I'm a redhead.
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But they're red headed, and that might help you too
to if you have to diagnose or identify, and you
will see them when they have wings, and the wings
is when they're swarming and they have two weeks to swarm,
and they have two jobs to do while they're swarming,
are you ready. One is they're looking for a new
home because they've overpopulated their current colony. The other thing
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they're doing is they're trying to find a new mate,
and so they only have two weeks to do this
because if they don't, their wings fall off and they've
just got to love the one they fall next to
when their wings fall off. But it's true. So that's
what we deal with. Now, how do we take care
of those? We do an inspection. You call us up,
We do an inspection. We come out, we find out
what you have. We identify first. Then after we do that,
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we will say where they are and figure out what
would be best based on what you tell us, what
your concerns are.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
We'll handle all of.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Those with you, and then we'll tell you what our
options or your options are based on what we found
and where we found. So let's say you have them
in your attic. That's very common, and in the attic
we can use heat. It's clean hot air, it's non chemical,
and it's about six to an eight hour process, meaning
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you can leave and go to work in the morning,
and you can come back in the afternoon and the
evening and you can get back in your house and
go as you can go and enjoy life with fumigation,
which we also offer, and we will tell you if
you need a fumigation, then we will tell you that.
And the reason and this happens is people wait too long.
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They just wait too long. Termites drywood. Termites can be
inside a stud of wood for five years without you
knowing they're there.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I know, crazy hunt.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It is weird, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay? So so, but there there is a there is
a place for.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Fumigation, absolutely, and I mean there's.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Kind but it's kind of the nuclear option is.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It's when you wait too long It's kind of like
your car.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
If you don't get your your oil changed and do
these things your engine, you're gonna have a lot You're
going to have more of a cost involved than if
you take care of it when it's small. So I
always tell people, take care of it when it's small,
have an inspection, they're free, and find out what you have.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
If you have, and then you have peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But the heat process, yes, let's talk about it. So
how does that stop them it?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
What we do is we put probes into the wood
on the area in which we find an infestation, and
we heat up that room. The ambient temperature has to
be to one thirty, no one eighty, and the wood
has to be up to one thirty and according to
all the testing that was done, it needs to be
held for twenty two minutes. And then we get a
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kill that kills the eggs and the adults. We hold
it for an hour just because and then we will
take the probes out and we'll cool it down and
it's done. It will kill the eggs and the adults.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's amazing thing it is. And not a lot of
people realize that the heat method is an option out there.
And that you don't just have to immediately jump to
tenting the house, and it's a much quicker process. Well,
like you said, I mean, you've got to bring it
all up to temp and then hold it and then
take it down. But still one day. We're not talking
about moving out, getting getting a motel room somewhere for
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three nights and then all of that. We're also not
talking about bagging up all of our food and everything
like that. Now, there's a few little things. I mean,
anything that would I guess melt at one hundred and
thirty degrees or something is probably good to take out
of the house, right.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If I tell I just tell someone, if you put
it on your dash and it's a hot day, if
it would melt, then you definitely want to take it
out of your house.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Right. But it's just a one day. I mean, somebody
could go. You guys could get started, they could go
to work, and by the time they're home, the house
is back and the termites are gone.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, it's a wonderful program, that's correct. We also do
the electric gun. The electric gun is using electricity and
it reaches ninety thousand bolts of electricity, and electricity is
attracted to water, and termites are made up of eighty
five to ninety five water. So what happens is if
you if you go to our website termite Lady dot com,
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if you go to the website, there is videos of it.
So it's hard for me to explain, but you go
there and you can see it. It's it's little electrical
currents kind of like little lightning bolts, and they are
kind of like spiders that are that are along the wood.
And it has to be not painted wood, it has
to be rabwood. I'm looking at his studio right now
and he's got some raw, beautiful wood back here anyway,
So we would scan that wood and then it would
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it would find the path of least resistance, which would
be the the colony. Not the colony, but the tunnel
where the termites are going in and out. Those of
you that have had an ant farm, it's kind of
like that. And so with that, what happens is the
electrical current hits the termite and it doesn't pop them.
People say, you know, it's going to just blow them up.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What it does is it affects their protozoa, which is
their digestive system, and it makes it to where they
can't digest their food and they actually eat themselves to death.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And that's how that works.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Okay. But but hey, but it's not but it's not fumigation.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
No, it's not fumigation. It's using mother nature.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Okay. So we're going to hear some news when we
come back. So I've got two difficult questions. Uh, oh, well,
they're not going to be difficult for you. One, you
can remind me what these are. One we need to
talk about the order of events. Oh okay, So because
people people are always wondering about the order of events.
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All right, I've got termite damage, I'm doing other things.
Should I paint? Should I do this? Where does it
fall in the order of events as that if termite
treatment is needed? Okay? And number two, I want to
find out what you think about tree bark And I
also want to find out what you think like ultraset
and orange oil treatments. Okay. I want to hear your
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opinion about those things because they're super hot and popular
out there right now, and I just want to get
an honest opinion and whether you think they're effective and
whether you should use them, whether you guys use them
and why or why not? That makes sense? Okay, all right,
we will do all of this and more.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I am sitting here in studio with my very special guest,
Sue Freeze from E Cola Pest Control, my favorite pest
control company in all the wide world, and we're we've
now begun to talk about specific pasts specifically right now.
And yeah, we're going to cover the road and other
things too, but we're talking termites because you know, you
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think pest control that most people just immediately think, oh yeah, termites,
And I got a tent my house, and we've just
learned in the last segment that that's not necessarily the case,
especially if you don't wait too long. There are alternate methods,
everything from electricity to heat treatments. I wanted to ask you, Sue,
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because you're so serious about the efficaciousness of treatments. It's
very popular these days. It feels like every time I
turn around, I hear somebody saying orange oil, orange joil
or in joil. And you have a very what I
find a very interesting opinion about orange oil.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do, and I'm just going to be very frank,
that's me. I'm kind of straightforward. I have a gallon
of orange oil that I've had for I don't know
how many years. And if I felt it was the
best product and method to use, then I wouldn't have
that gallon be ordering it and I don't. Part of
that is is because when I did some studies on it,
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the VOCs are very high, which means breathing it in.
I had a gallon that I had in my front
office for the call center and.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
By the way, just volatile organic compounds, the off gasing,
the off gassing and breathing that is bad. Yeah, it's
not good, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Right, And you think because it's orange peel dilimiting that
you'd think, oh, because when you break up an orange,
and like in the air if I if I walking
down the airplane and someone opens an orange, you know,
I just smell that smell and it's like, ah, smells
so good. But that's very minute amount of it and
it doesn't hurt you then. But when you have a
whole bottle of it or you're putting it on your
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wood and it's in your house, not such a good thing.
The other thing is the method of putting it in
to kill the termites. It's a contact kill, meaning you
have to find the termite and we're talking about a
stead of wood. You have to find where that termite
is and then you drill a hole and put the
product into the hole, hoping you get contact with the
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termite that's in there.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That's not so easy to do.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And how many holes are you going to have to
drill in order to get the colony of that?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A lot of holes. I don't know about you, but
I don't want a lot of holes in my house.
So that's another thing I.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Kind of call. I kind of called to have the
termites dealt with because they're making holes in my house.
I don't want any more holes in my house.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's a good point. I never thought about saying that,
but yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
And by the way, so again when you're talking about
the orange oil, and I think this is the thing
that gets people excited about it because they think, oh, oranges,
oranges got to be No oranges are okay, But just
as a reminder to everybody, this is a toxic thing.
I mean, orange oil is not just the you know,
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smelling or tasting the rind of an orange when it
has been converted into a pest control chemical, it's it kills,
okay it And and so the idea of orange I know,
it just kind of I'd even go so far as
to say it's kind of green washing it, green washing
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the product because it just sounds so natural. It sounds
like it sounds like you're gonna show up at my
house with a truck full of oranges and you're gonna
make you'll serve a little juice, and you'll also treat
my termites. But the fact is that orange oil at
that level of concentration, that one particular chemical is intense.
It off gases intensely for us. But at the same time,
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if I'm hearing you correctly, you've actually got to make
direct contact with the bottles. It's not an indirect method,
which are far more less invasive.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And one other thing is it is an oil, and
it can be an accelerant. So with all the fires
and everything, why would somebody want to put that on
their house?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, so you're not a big fan of orange oil,
and that says, you know what, here's the thing I mean,
every pest control company is entitled to have their opinion
on things. But here, you guys, are you are solely
or so so significantly focused on human health and well
being in the home and the environment as a whole.
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And for you for you to not be in love
with orange oil says a lot. I think it just
says a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I wish it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I wish it it was different, but it's not. So Yes,
you're right, I just don't think it's it's the best method.
I mean, you know, I tell my employees, you know,
and my inspectors and everybody always said, you know, I
want you to inspect every home and treat every home
as if it was your mother. And I have to
tell you that if my mom had termites, orangejoyl would
be the last thing I would want to use on
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her house.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Okay, well, what about the order of how this gets done?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh this is so good, because you know, a lot
of times people call me about this and I talk
about when you're remodeling or you're building, you know, what
is the proper order in which to do this? Because
here's the thing. Let's say you want to paint your house.
Would you want to paint your house and then have
us come out and we drill holes. We have to
drill holes, and what would be the best thing to
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do is to get us before them. So I would
say the order is this is what you do for us,
is that if you have an open wall, if you
have anything where you're remodeling or doing anything, I tell people,
have us come in and because then we can see
inside your walls. Because we don't have microscopic vision, we
can't see inside your walls. So let us come in
and treat the inside of that when it's open. If
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you're going to do a new roof, the best time
to treat with boricare your wood framing and all of
that would be when you have your roof open.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
It's open.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
People call me and say, oh I just put a
new roof on, can you come and do my root
my termine inspection. I'm like, boy, I wish I would
have known before you put your roof on, because we
would have loved to have done the treatment beforehand. So
anything you're doing, if you have anything open, anything raw,
that's when you want us to come out, not after
you're all finished and beautiful exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
So I hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, and when in doubt, just call the termite lady
and you guys can describe the specific situation and you'll
slot yourself in where it's most advantageous.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Absolutely, we want to do things in the proper order.
That's a lesson I learned a long time ago. We
all need to know that in all forms of life.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, proper order, absolutely, absolutely, construction especially all right, when
we come back, you know what, it's time to take
some calls. We're going to take some calls. We may
have some pest control questions. We may have otherwise, but
as we do, top of the hour, we're going to
the phones. The number to reach me eight three to three.
Two ask Dean eight three to three, the number two
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Ask Dean. This is Dean Sharp, the House Whisper on KFI.
This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Tune into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty
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here and today on the show, as one step toward that.
The beautiful spring weekend that it has been truly a
spring weekend here in southern California, a little bit of sun,
a little bit of rain, puffy clouds in the sky,
beautiful outside. It is time, yes, it is, to talk
about pest control because everything is waking up, including the pests.
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And I have a very very.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Special in studio guest with me today to do exactly that.
The owner and founder and operator of E Cola Pest Control,
Sue Freeze is in studio with me. Good morning through
Oh there are not their live studio audience. Good morning, Sue,
good morning. So glad that you're with us today.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm happy to be here. It's so wonderful to be
right here right now.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, that is great, and we're going to have a
good time talking about your area of expertise, and we're
going to probe in and just get all the info
from you so that everybody can better understand how to
deal with the pests. Pests and pests by the way,
you know pests are. That's not a classification of any
animal officially. It is just one of those words like weeds.
(01:57):
You know, a weed. There is no such thing the
plant kingdom as a weed. A weed is simply a
word that we've come up with. It is a it's
a plant in the wrong place, right, that's a weed
up on the hillside there. We call them grasses, wild
land grasses. In your yard, we call them weeds. Right.
The world needs insects and rodents and all of these
(02:18):
things to move along. But when they get too close
to our home or in our home, suddenly pests. Yes,
and you're all about pest control.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am, and it's not people people say, can you
get rid of so and so?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm like, no, that's not what I do.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
No, we have other people for that. We have other
people for that job, right right, all right, So we're
going to have a great time this morning talking to Sue.
Of course, we're also going to be talking to you.
The phone lines are open right now. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,
the numeral two Ask Dean eight three three two, Ask Dean.
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It's just that simple. Phone lines are open now. Producer
Richie is standing by. You can give us a call.
Tell him what is going on with you. He'll tell
you everything you need to know. Pop you into the
queue and you can listen to the show while you wait.
Pest control calls, toilet repair calls, Big proofy, architectural design
concept calls, anything at all. When it comes to our calls,
(03:20):
you set the agenda, all right. Let me introduce our
awesome team. Elmer, you already heard from him, is on
the board. Good morning Elmer.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Good morning Dan, and good morning everyone. How you doing, Bud,
I'm good, I'm actually really happy. You guys made a
pest control joke because I was like, I wonder how
long it's going to take, and that's immediate, so that's funny.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh you were just counting it off.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, I'm hoping for more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
All right, we will try. We'll try our best. Like
I said, Producer Richie standing by, not anywhere near a
microphone right now, but he'll just wave. There you go.
Producer Richie standing by, screening calls. Ready to take your call.
I Lean Gonzales at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Good morning sunshine. How's it going.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm doing well. What's our tea choice this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Actually, believe it or not, it's lane old boring water
what but I will have some green tea coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Uh. You know what Sue Freeze brought me this morning
and made for me that I'm sitting here sipping on.
Is uh what's its official name? Suit?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Is it just Doze? Is the company Doze.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Taste like the mushroom stuff? Mushroom stuff? Is it good?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It is?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
He was so brave. I wasn't sure if you would
like it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, I am a bold foodie. I'll just you know,
we go to a new restaurant. I look for the
weirdest thing on the menu. I'm like, how how many
people order this? They're like, well, that's kind of I'm like,
that's mine and you give that to me.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And he likes it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So Hyleen is drinking water today? Yeah? You know, I
want some mushroom stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I actually have a sample with me in my bag
that a friend gave me like weeks ago. Maybe I'll
make it and then Elmer and I can try it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There you go, just to add, you're on it all right,
sitting well, actually standing next to me. You shocked me,
my better half, clearly, my design partner, my best friend
in all the world. Tina is here, welcome home. How
(05:34):
are you doing.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm doing well this morning. And we have a special
guest in here. I know I've already said that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I did. Thanks Now, now everybody
knows you showed up late. All right, all right, babe, wonderful, wonderful.
All right, y'all, listen, we got phone calls coming in
on the board right now. We've got a bunch of
stuff to talk about. Sue when we come back, why
don't we start with your story? Because I think it's
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so relevant. You guys are truly my favorite pest control
company in southern California. But there's a very specific reason why.
It's not just like, oh, you know, throw the dart
at the board and it's like, oh, okay, it'll be
a coola. No, it's the way that you approach this
whole subject, and that has to do with a very
personal story. We'll talk about that when we return. It
sound good, It sounds great, all right, y'all, thanks for
(06:23):
joining us on the program today. It is a privilege
and a pleasure as always to spend this time with
you on the weekends. Let's talk about your home. Let's
talk about pests.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Doge doze?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do se doze? Okay, I thought I thought you were
saying doge, And I'm like, you know, is Elon Musk
going to come in here and take my coffee away?
Is that it? This is doge doge? Drink no more coffee,
just much room for you. No, it's really good.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Good, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
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dot Design. All right, I want to dive in. We're
doing pest control today, talking all things pest control with
my special in studio expert guest, the owner, founder operator
of Ecola Pest Control. My favorite pest control company in
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southern California should be yours two. Clearly, Sue Freeze is
with us this morning. So Sue, right before the break,
I had mentioned that you guys are my favorite pest
control company and they're very civic. Reasons why because of
the way you approach things, not overdoing anything, being super
hyper conscientious about things, but so effective, so powerful, so effective.
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But this all leads back to a very personal thing
to you, a story that you've got to tell. So
I was just I was hoping you could just tell
us why why past control and why you've taken this approach.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well, I started a long, long, long time ago.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'd been in the business forty six years and I
started with my husband and we ran a company together
and I was there for twenty years. And in those
twenty years, I was answering. I started with answering the phones.
I didn't know anything about bugs other than what I
had experienced personally. And when I'd sit and i'd listen
and ask questions when the phone calls would come in,
of mostly others, what would happen was they would ask
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me the questions and I would answer the questions.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And then I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Right after we got married, I got pregnant and I
had my son, Tyson, and two years when he was
two years old, he had a very strong, scary asthma attack.
And when he had the asthma attack, it scared me
so much. And then I went on this journey of
learning how to prevent or minimize the triggers that come
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from asthma. And when I did that, one of the
things that came up were pesticides and cleaning material underneath
your sinc And I had to do everything I could
as a mom to protect my son. And then I
found out that there are a lot of deaths that
are not talked about regarding asthma, and so I went
on a journey to find out how I could help others,
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and in doing that, I discovered a company that was
doing things a more green way.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And this was a long long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I actually not the founder, but I purchased the company
in two thousand and that was after running the other
company for twenty years that was doing it traditionally. And
when I bought this company in two thousand, they do
things a lot greener and they had multiple offices, and
I thought, you know what, this is the way to go.
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If we can take care of the problem and with
less hassle and be as effective, with less chemicals and
less side situations that could cause more harm to people,
then why not why not do it a better way?
And so that's how I started in the green area.
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I tell people that Ecola has been green when it
was only a color, and now other companies HiT's true,
and now yes, and now other companies have found that
it's financially good and so they've decided to jump on.
But I did it not for that. I did it
because I wanted to protect people's health. And we have
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done that, and we've been doing it, and I've owned
this company now twenty five years. It's been around since
nineteen eighty three. So we're sustainable and we do a
phenomenal job. And we have multiple alternative treatments, non chemical
methods to take care of the problems. And we do
traditional too. If someone decides that's what they want to
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get the control and then start out fresh, we can
do that too.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But your methods are as effective, if not more effective,
without so many of the harmful side effects or just
the general hassles, because there are a lot of you
like your son's asthma, There are a lot of environmental triggers,
like you said, and part of it is living in
a chemical world that we live in, right.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And cancer people that are you know, fighting cancer, and
hopefully everybody survives that and thrives, but you know, it
does establish a weakness in our immune systems and you
don't want to add more to that during that time,
and so we just we take into consideration each person's
individual situation. We take that and we say, here's what
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we think would be best for you. Then sit down
and we'll explain what we find because I'll go into
that more as we do an inspection.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
The inspections are.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Free, and then we will tell you what we found.
And then what we feel are your choices. And we
love having choices. I love having choices, and then I
can get the knowledge I need to make an intelligent
decision for my family. And you know my family, my pets,
you know everybody that's involved in that household.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
That's what we are here to do.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And we take extreme care because we want you to
feel comfortable and we want to give you peace of mind.
Why because this is not something you talk about around
the dinner table. It is something we talk about around
the dinner table, but it's not something normally that people
would talk about. And by doing that, we are doing
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something that we do and we're experts at it. And
then you can take care of your family and do
what you do well. And that's what we suggest people do.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Fantastic, fantastic. Well, So right after the news, why don't
we do this, We'll do a little news. We'll come
back and let's see we've got we're going to talk
about termites, We're going to talk about some other bugs.
We're going to talk about rodents today, why don't we
come back and just let's let's deal with termites. Let's
let's start with termites when we come back, just because
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there are some very interesting alternative approaches, even from tenting.
There are some fantastic approaches. So you're not going to
want in us out on that discussion. We'll talk termites
with Sue Freeze, the owner of Ecola Pest Control, right.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
After you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand
from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you on this
lovely spring morning. I hope it's lovely where you are.
I know we've got folks listening all across the country
and not everybody is enjoying a sprinkly, cloudy, sunny kind
of classic spring day. But wherever you are, I hope
the weather is treating you well, or at least you
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are far away from it that you're having a good morning. Uh.
But we are here in partially sunny southern California today
and I am sitting in studio with my very special guest,
Sue Freeze from Ecola Pest Control, and we're talking pest control.
We are going to be going to the phones in
just a bit. By the way again the number to
reach me, and there's room on the callboard for you
(14:17):
eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three.
The numeral two. Ask Dean eight three to three to
ask Dean. Producer Richie will tell you everything you need
to know. Pop you into the queue. You can call
about anything. We're talking pest control. But when it comes
to calls, you set the agenda. It's all about you,
all right, Sue. Let's get into the thick of it.
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What pest shall we start with? Let's start with termites.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, Well, Deane, I'm going to start this by
saying that there is more damage done by termites than
any natural disaster. Just think about that for a second.
There's two different termites that we really deal with here
in southern California and central California, and those would be
the drive woods and the subterraneans. The subterraneans are in
the ground, just like the word sub they're in the ground,
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but they use their fecal matter to make tubes, and
they can make they can make it all the way
to the attic. If you ever around your house or
inside the attic and you see tubes going up. Those
are subterraneans that do that, and subs actually do more damage.
They're smaller and they do more damage, and they do
it quicker than the dry woods. So dry woods are
red headed. I always remember that because I'm a redhead.
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But they're red headed, and that might help you too
to if you have to diagnose or identify, and you
will see them when they have wings, and the wings
is when they're swarming and they have two weeks to swarm,
and they have two jobs to do while they're swarming,
are you ready. One is they're looking for a new
home because they've overpopulated their current colony. The other thing
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they're doing is they're trying to find a new mate,
and so they only have two weeks to do this
because if they don't, their wings fall off and they've
just got to love the one they fall next to
when their wings fall off. But it's true. So that's
what we deal with. Now, how do we take care
of those? We do an inspection. You call us up,
We do an inspection. We come out, we find out
what you have. We identify first. Then after we do that,
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we will say where they are and figure out what
would be best based on what you tell us, what
your concerns are.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
We'll handle all of.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Those with you, and then we'll tell you what our
options or your options are based on what we found
and where we found. So let's say you have them
in your attic. That's very common, and in the attic
we can use heat. It's clean hot air, it's non chemical,
and it's about six to an eight hour process, meaning
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you can leave and go to work in the morning,
and you can come back in the afternoon and the
evening and you can get back in your house and
go as you can go and enjoy life with fumigation,
which we also offer, and we will tell you if
you need a fumigation, then we will tell you that.
And the reason and this happens is people wait too long.
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They just wait too long. Termites drywood. Termites can be
inside a stud of wood for five years without you
knowing they're there.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I know, crazy hunt.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It is weird, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay? So so, but there there is a there is
a place for.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Fumigation, absolutely, and I mean there's.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Kind but it's kind of the nuclear option is.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It's when you wait too long It's kind of like
your car.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
If you don't get your your oil changed and do
these things your engine, you're gonna have a lot You're
going to have more of a cost involved than if
you take care of it when it's small. So I
always tell people, take care of it when it's small,
have an inspection, they're free, and find out what you have.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
If you have, and then you have peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But the heat process, yes, let's talk about it. So
how does that stop them it?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
What we do is we put probes into the wood
on the area in which we find an infestation, and
we heat up that room. The ambient temperature has to
be to one thirty, no one eighty, and the wood
has to be up to one thirty and according to
all the testing that was done, it needs to be
held for twenty two minutes. And then we get a
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kill that kills the eggs and the adults. We hold
it for an hour just because and then we will
take the probes out and we'll cool it down and
it's done. It will kill the eggs and the adults.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's amazing thing it is. And not a lot of
people realize that the heat method is an option out there.
And that you don't just have to immediately jump to
tenting the house, and it's a much quicker process. Well,
like you said, I mean, you've got to bring it
all up to temp and then hold it and then
take it down. But still one day. We're not talking
about moving out, getting getting a motel room somewhere for
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three nights and then all of that. We're also not
talking about bagging up all of our food and everything
like that. Now, there's a few little things. I mean,
anything that would I guess melt at one hundred and
thirty degrees or something is probably good to take out
of the house, right.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If I tell I just tell someone, if you put
it on your dash and it's a hot day, if
it would melt, then you definitely want to take it
out of your house.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Right. But it's just a one day. I mean, somebody
could go. You guys could get started, they could go
to work, and by the time they're home, the house
is back and the termites are gone.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, it's a wonderful program, that's correct. We also do
the electric gun. The electric gun is using electricity and
it reaches ninety thousand bolts of electricity, and electricity is
attracted to water, and termites are made up of eighty
five to ninety five water. So what happens is if
you if you go to our website termite Lady dot com,
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if you go to the website, there is videos of it.
So it's hard for me to explain, but you go
there and you can see it. It's it's little electrical
currents kind of like little lightning bolts, and they are
kind of like spiders that are that are along the wood.
And it has to be not painted wood, it has
to be rabwood. I'm looking at his studio right now
and he's got some raw, beautiful wood back here anyway,
So we would scan that wood and then it would
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it would find the path of least resistance, which would
be the the colony. Not the colony, but the tunnel
where the termites are going in and out. Those of
you that have had an ant farm, it's kind of
like that. And so with that, what happens is the
electrical current hits the termite and it doesn't pop them.
People say, you know, it's going to just blow them up.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What it does is it affects their protozoa, which is
their digestive system, and it makes it to where they
can't digest their food and they actually eat themselves to death.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And that's how that works.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Okay. But but hey, but it's not but it's not fumigation.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
No, it's not fumigation. It's using mother nature.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Okay. So we're going to hear some news when we
come back. So I've got two difficult questions. Uh, oh, well,
they're not going to be difficult for you. One, you
can remind me what these are. One we need to
talk about the order of events. Oh okay, So because
people people are always wondering about the order of events.
(20:55):
All right, I've got termite damage, I'm doing other things.
Should I paint? Should I do this? Where does it
fall in the order of events as that if termite
treatment is needed? Okay? And number two, I want to
find out what you think about tree bark And I
also want to find out what you think like ultraset
and orange oil treatments. Okay. I want to hear your
(21:19):
opinion about those things because they're super hot and popular
out there right now, and I just want to get
an honest opinion and whether you think they're effective and
whether you should use them, whether you guys use them
and why or why not? That makes sense? Okay, all right,
we will do all of this and more.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2 (21:43):
I am sitting here in studio with my very special guest,
Sue Freeze from E Cola Pest Control, my favorite pest
control company in all the wide world, and we're we've
now begun to talk about specific pasts specifically right now.
And yeah, we're going to cover the road and other
things too, but we're talking termites because you know, you
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think pest control that most people just immediately think, oh yeah, termites,
And I got a tent my house, and we've just
learned in the last segment that that's not necessarily the case,
especially if you don't wait too long. There are alternate methods,
everything from electricity to heat treatments. I wanted to ask you, Sue,
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because you're so serious about the efficaciousness of treatments. It's
very popular these days. It feels like every time I
turn around, I hear somebody saying orange oil, orange joil
or in joil. And you have a very what I
find a very interesting opinion about orange oil.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do, and I'm just going to be very frank,
that's me. I'm kind of straightforward. I have a gallon
of orange oil that I've had for I don't know
how many years. And if I felt it was the
best product and method to use, then I wouldn't have
that gallon be ordering it and I don't. Part of
that is is because when I did some studies on it,
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the VOCs are very high, which means breathing it in.
I had a gallon that I had in my front
office for the call center and.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
By the way, just volatile organic compounds, the off gasing,
the off gassing and breathing that is bad. Yeah, it's
not good, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Right, And you think because it's orange peel dilimiting that
you'd think, oh, because when you break up an orange,
and like in the air if I if I walking
down the airplane and someone opens an orange, you know,
I just smell that smell and it's like, ah, smells
so good. But that's very minute amount of it and
it doesn't hurt you then. But when you have a
whole bottle of it or you're putting it on your
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wood and it's in your house, not such a good thing.
The other thing is the method of putting it in
to kill the termites. It's a contact kill, meaning you
have to find the termite and we're talking about a
stead of wood. You have to find where that termite
is and then you drill a hole and put the
product into the hole, hoping you get contact with the
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termite that's in there.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That's not so easy to do.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And how many holes are you going to have to
drill in order to get the colony of that?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A lot of holes. I don't know about you, but
I don't want a lot of holes in my house.
So that's another thing I.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Kind of call. I kind of called to have the
termites dealt with because they're making holes in my house.
I don't want any more holes in my house.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's a good point. I never thought about saying that,
but yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
And by the way, so again when you're talking about
the orange oil, and I think this is the thing
that gets people excited about it because they think, oh, oranges,
oranges got to be No oranges are okay, But just
as a reminder to everybody, this is a toxic thing.
I mean, orange oil is not just the you know,
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smelling or tasting the rind of an orange when it
has been converted into a pest control chemical, it's it kills,
okay it And and so the idea of orange I know,
it just kind of I'd even go so far as
to say it's kind of green washing it, green washing
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the product because it just sounds so natural. It sounds
like it sounds like you're gonna show up at my
house with a truck full of oranges and you're gonna
make you'll serve a little juice, and you'll also treat
my termites. But the fact is that orange oil at
that level of concentration, that one particular chemical is intense.
It off gases intensely for us. But at the same time,
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if I'm hearing you correctly, you've actually got to make
direct contact with the bottles. It's not an indirect method,
which are far more less invasive.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And one other thing is it is an oil, and
it can be an accelerant. So with all the fires
and everything, why would somebody want to put that on
their house?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, so you're not a big fan of orange oil,
and that says, you know what, here's the thing I mean,
every pest control company is entitled to have their opinion
on things. But here, you guys, are you are solely
or so so significantly focused on human health and well
being in the home and the environment as a whole.
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And for you for you to not be in love
with orange oil says a lot. I think it just
says a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I wish it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I wish it it was different, but it's not. So Yes,
you're right, I just don't think it's it's the best method.
I mean, you know, I tell my employees, you know,
and my inspectors and everybody always said, you know, I
want you to inspect every home and treat every home
as if it was your mother. And I have to
tell you that if my mom had termites, orangejoyl would
be the last thing I would want to use on
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her house.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Okay, well, what about the order of how this gets done?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh this is so good, because you know, a lot
of times people call me about this and I talk
about when you're remodeling or you're building, you know, what
is the proper order in which to do this? Because
here's the thing. Let's say you want to paint your house.
Would you want to paint your house and then have
us come out and we drill holes. We have to
drill holes, and what would be the best thing to
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do is to get us before them. So I would
say the order is this is what you do for us,
is that if you have an open wall, if you
have anything where you're remodeling or doing anything, I tell people,
have us come in and because then we can see
inside your walls. Because we don't have microscopic vision, we
can't see inside your walls. So let us come in
and treat the inside of that when it's open. If
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you're going to do a new roof, the best time
to treat with boricare your wood framing and all of
that would be when you have your roof open.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
It's open.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
People call me and say, oh I just put a
new roof on, can you come and do my root
my termine inspection. I'm like, boy, I wish I would
have known before you put your roof on, because we
would have loved to have done the treatment beforehand. So
anything you're doing, if you have anything open, anything raw,
that's when you want us to come out, not after
you're all finished and beautiful exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
So I hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, and when in doubt, just call the termite lady
and you guys can describe the specific situation and you'll
slot yourself in where it's most advantageous.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Absolutely, we want to do things in the proper order.
That's a lesson I learned a long time ago. We
all need to know that in all forms of life.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, proper order, absolutely, absolutely, construction especially all right, when
we come back, you know what, it's time to take
some calls. We're going to take some calls. We may
have some pest control questions. We may have otherwise, but
as we do, top of the hour, we're going to
the phones. The number to reach me eight three to three.
Two ask Dean eight three to three, the number two
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