April 27, 2025 • 33 mins
Dean and Sue advise a caller about the electromagnetic device to help remove rodents + bugs from their outdoor area. Dean and Sue discuss how to fumigate for pests without harming plant life. They discuss wood framing and repair due to pest damage in the attic and the type of options with ECOLA products. How to treat wood boring beetles. Lastly, ECOLA’s service warranty is broken down and how to treat mosquitoes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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All right, we are having a very special Spring Sunday
Morning show talking about pest control because springtime is the
time when everybody starts thinking about it. It rains a
little soon and I were talking during the break, rains
a little, sun shines a little, rains a little, and
then the next thing you know is the days start
to warm, the bugs arrive. They just all show up,
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which by the way, is exactly as nature intended. So again,
just to repeat, we're not anti insect around here. It
is just the fact that insects need to stay where
they stay, and humans live where they live, and we
can live in harmony with them as long as you know,
we're not crossing over the boundaries in between houses. Right.
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I'm not an advocate for kids, you know, burning ants
with magnifying glasses and stomping through you know, ant hills,
and nor am I, you know, in favor of ants
taking up residents inside my house. So it's all good,
and I'm here with Sue Freeze. We're talking all things
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termites and past control. I had one more question before
we go to the phones for you. I just realized
that I had not asked you about this. You guys, also,
I'm sure this isn't the most common service that you do,
but it's important for our folks who are planning a
major remodel or room edition or maybe a brand new
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house build that you guys also can treat framing before
the house gets built or as the house is getting built,
to give like a twenty year kind of shield barrier
to the home like on day one.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, it's a wonderful thing to do, and we can
do it either in lumber state or once it's up
on frame. And we also add to that a green dye,
and the green dye just make sure that we have touched,
we've covered every single bit of that piece of wood.
And for the buyer it helps because then they know
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they've got their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, So you add a colorant to it so that
we can tell everything's been treated everywhere exactly, so if
it's green, we're clean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just that was good. Like you can have that.
Write that down, wrint that tagline down. All right, let's
go to the phones. Let's see here. Let's talk to Jason. Hey, Jason,
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey Dean, good morning. We love the show.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh thank you, bro. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I got a question for Sue. My house in
the front of it has a big, huge field. My
backyard butts up to another big field that has you know,
horses and goats, which is really nice. But you can
imagine all the things that we get in our backyard.
So I have a bunch of barbecues. I love the barbecue,
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and I get the black widows, I get the loss,
the ants, and I use that great pest control stuff
that get from home depot. But listening to your show
this morning, Going Green and we've got pets and things
like that, what do you suggest how do we tackle this?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, the easy answer is to call us and we'll
take care of it.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
For you a little.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right? Yeah, that was that wasn't just a that
was really easy.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You don't have to go buy all of the products
and all this education.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Just you handle what you do well and put your
you know, energy on that and then have us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Do what we do well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That was a shameless plug it, But I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I mean, you look right into it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
One of the things. One of the things Jase, that
you know and I feel you, I feel you all right,
but but you know you're living out in the middle
of it. And uh, and I hope I hope that.
I hope that everybody kind of embraces the fact that,
you know what, if you're going to live in a
place that has got lots of open space and nature
around you, guess what you get? You get nature, all
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right if you want to, if you want to embrace nature,
you get nature. And so yeah, I mean you may
actually I think Sue's right, Jason. I think you may
have a situation where when you want to deal with
specific things in specific areas, then you kind of zero
in on the like if you want to keep the
black widows out of the outdoor kitchen cabinets or something
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like that.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You know, but there's I guess are My question is
is there one service that will take care of all
that or you got to come back a couple of
different times.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well that division it would be one person and we
could do it all in one service, and we could
do it per month, depending on I would think it'd
probably be a monthly service for what you've got going
on there. And we do like for spiders, we knock
down the webs, and when you've got rodents, we look
at water, we look at food, we look at where
they're harboring. We look at all those things to help
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you too, because it is a joint effort. It really
is a joint effort. And so if we can help
you minimize what you're bringing to the table, you know.
I mean, if you have a pool and they're getting
to the pool and drinking the pool water, then that's
one thing. But if you're leaving things out and feeding them.
I did that on mine. I had an arena in
my backyard and a stall in my backyard, and I
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was feeding my dog dry dog food, and I was
feeding the rats, and so I decided to stop doing that.
I still had the pool and they could get water,
but I didn't I didn't give them a food source.
So food, water, and shelter, that's what they're needing. If
you can minimize that, that helps.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But then call it love it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No, yeah, no, we keep everything pretty nice and tidy.
And the puppies, you know, there our kids, so they
sleep with us every night. They're they're indoors. So yeah,
it's just a little frustrating with you know, knocking down
the cobwebs and then spraying and and you're wasp and
then potato bugs and things like that. So we'll definitely
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be given e coli a call.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's ecola like eco la eco la not e coli
like like some dangerouslai or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Coola.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I say the trucks on the road, I say, the
trucks on the road with your with your red hair,
love it. I love how you are true.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Thanks so much for your call. But it's so so
appreciate the question, and we got to run to a
break here, but yeah, you raise a really good point,
and uh, and I just want to underscore it because
I'm a guy who loves I'm a nature boy, and
I'm just saying it. You know, I appreciate the spirit
that you're approaching this with. You've got to have a
certain level of tolerance for certain things if you're going
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to live out in nature, because nature, you're going to
be living out in it, right on the edge of
the wildness, and it's going to be around and there's
just we cannot The thing that frustrates me around here
sometimes is that you know, people will will buy a
home out on the edge of open space and a beautiful,
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you know, upscale suburban area with hillside and field all
around them and then start complaining about how do we
kill all these coyotes and all of these things that
are coming into our and like they were there first. Man,
you just paid all this money to live in this place,
and now you want to sterilize it from the very
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reason that you wanted to live there. And so I
appreciate you, Jason, and how you're just wanting to, you know,
find find the right balance, And that's true, and nobody
wants black widows hanging out, you know, around every corner
when you got kids running around. But it's probably honestly,
I couldn't think of a better company to do it,
but it probably is in that situation, a monthly service
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just to kind of keep it at bay, and very directed,
so it's not too much. It's not the nuclear option,
but it's very directed, and it just kind of keeps
these specific problems in the specific areas at bay. And
there really isn't in that kind of situation just a
you know, a silver bullet, Matt, you know, one thing
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that's gonna take it all down. And so I appreciate
the the honesty of your answer. So even though it
was a shameless plug, but I appreciate the honesty of
it because I think it also happens to be true.
All right, more of your calls when we return your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm so so thrilled to invite you into this ongoing
conversation that Sue Freeze of Ecola pest control and I
are having even during the break, we're just talking, talking
all things pest control.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And now we're back and uh it is time to
go back to the phones because it's top of the hour.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Let's see, let's just grab a caller here. Let's talk
to Holly. Hey, Holly, welcome home.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
A Hi Dean, Hi.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
This is a question for Sue. Sue, we uh, forty
years ago built this, built a home we're in and
planted great ivy deciduous vines on three of our four walls,
actually two and a half of our four walls. Since then,
we have had our house had to be fumigated in
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forty years three times, and the third time being three
months ago. Now we do have deciduous vines, and I
know that they have come back. And previously because we
fumigated three months ago, that was about the time when
the vines are supposed to fall off. Where are we now? Yeah,
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they probably they were off. We got the house fumigated
all of a sudden. After the fumigation, about two weeks later,
we get brand new green when we're not supposed to green.
Baby leaves and vines come back like imforce and they're beautiful.
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And now they died again, and now it's spring and
they're supposed to keep green again. The roots are very
very deep. I'm just hoping that I didn't totally kill
them this time. I'm hoping that they will come back.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What do you think, Well, I'm hoping they come back
to it. Sounds like you really love those plants.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Yes, well, if I have, if we have to pull
everything off the house, that's going to.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Be a mess, right.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And that's the hard thing about fumigation is normally we
let people know that that if there's anything that is
against the walls, like Bogabilla's or anything, especially in Santa Barbara.
We have this issue is because the tent has to go.
I'm surprised. Were these plants inside the tent with the fumigation.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Well, well, yes, the vines are planted right up against
the hut. They were planted, And of course.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I shocked at all.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, that's what I'm shocked of because normally we let
people know we have no guarantee on whether that'll'll survive
or not.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I get that, and I would have been because everything
came back beautifully the last two times, you know, I
this time they just got very confused. So because after
the guests, after they they were killed off, they did
come back in force, but in the wrong season, but
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in the wrong season. So now now they're back to
dine again because I think they think it's time to
I'm just hoping they'll come You give them a year
or so and I'm hoping that they'll come back.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, Holly weed, you know, we're going to hope that
same thing for you. I think I think I mean,
neither Sue nor I are plant experts, but it sounds
to me, you know, as a fellow gardener and a
lover of plants and somebody who is familiar with how
they are affected by fumigation, it sounds to me like
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they are tenacious and they want to live, and what
do you think? So my guess is like, just keep
fostering them. Maybe it's going to take a couple of
seasons for them to realize okay, all right, everything's normal
again and they get back on track it. But but
the fact that they didn't die to begin with, or
that they that they pushed back, I think that's a
good sign. I think I think you just be patient
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with them and give them a chance to reorient. What
do you think soon. Yep, yeah, okay, all right, Holly,
thank you so much for that question. I hope that
gives you some comfort just to hang in there with
those vines. They love you, you love them, and and you're
gonna You're gonna make it. I have a feeling you're
gonna make it. They just need to kind of get
back on their regular cycle. All right, y'all. When we
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return more of your questions for for Sue Freeze, my
very very special guest in studio from E Cola, past control,
and or any other thing regarding your home, we will
do it.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. That's me
here to help you take your home to the next level.
Be it a condo, a cottage, or a castle, it
matters not. I am here to help turn ordinary houses
into extraordinary homes. And one of the ways we keep
an extraordinary home from becoming an ordinary house and going
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the other way is doing effective pest control. Effective efficient
but not dangerous pest control. I want your pest control
to be conscientious. I want it to be sensitive to nature.
I want it to be sensitive to human nature and
human physiology as well. And if we can find that balance,
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then we're in the best possible of situations, which is
why I'm so excited that I'm sitting here in studio
with my very special guest, Sue Freeze, from my very
favorite pest control company in southern California, Ecola Ecola or
Eco La. You've seen their trucks around. You should see
their trucks around, and you see face and her red
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hair on the side of the truck because she is
the termite lady, and among other things, so many things.
So anyway, we're taking calls and I want to go
back to the phones and find out what else is
going on out there with y'all. Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff,
welcome home.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Hi there.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
This is kind of perfect timing because I've been researching
for several weeks different pest control companies. I've got about
five estimates so far. But the main area that I
have of concern right now is would repair. I've had
a couple companies tell me I don't need to do anything,
but I have an area in our attic. It's a
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stand up area, and there's a crawl space that goes
through and you can stand up again. And in that area,
looking at the very top perimeter of that framed open
room is our two two by fours that are sandwiched together.
The bottom two by four has some very deep cavities
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in that two by four. I want to say it's
at least most of the two by four itself, and
as I've kind of poked my finger in there, it
kind of goes almost all the way to where it
connects to the stud It's about a total of twenty
four feet. But what I am wondering is, you know,
I'm really concerned about.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The condition of that.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Would you know we're going to be looking for a
clearance on that to go with the humigation. So is
that something that Ecola provides or do you have resources
of professionals that can replace that without you know, having
any other concern as far as to struck my structure
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of my house or anything else. I'm just looking for
making sure that this is done right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, totally understandable. So here's the thing. Now, different pest
control companies I know handle it in different ways. I
always recommend and I know there are a lot of
pest control companies that do little wood repair here and there.
I've never been, to be really honest with you as
a carpenter, as an old framing carpenter and a builder.
I've never been super impressed with or super confident in
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pest control company actually doing would repair work because they
are not licensed to do would repair where they're not
general contractors, they're pest controllers. So I'm probably speaking ahead
of Sue here, jumping ahead, but I'll give you my recommendation.
My recommendation is if there is severely term I damaged wood,
just the same way I treat dry rot things like that.
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I mean, if you're able to push your thumb through
and collapse a piece of wood, then I think your
best bet is to have that piece removed, uh, and
let the builders actually remove of the wood. And then
if we're exposing something that needs to get treated in fumigation,
let's get it handled and then and then replaced or
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maybe replace and then just get it all fumigated at once.
But Sue, do you guys venture into wood repair or
do you just give advice along there and then handle
the fumigation.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
We are termite inspectors and we do anything that has
to do with termite killing the termites, getting the termites
gone so that your house is in good order, and
if the wood it has lost its integrity, then that
will be reported on a report from there. Though we
don't do repairs. We're not a repair company. So there
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are past control companies that are focused only on s
grows and those types of things.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
That's not the.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Market that I'm in.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm for anybody that has a home concerned about health
and the welfare of their home. You know, your home
is your most expensive investment, right, and we want to
take care of it. So I would recommend, as Dean
did that you get the proper people to do that
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Chef?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
All right, buddy, all right, thanks for the question. Really
good question. I just love, uh, you know, everybody's question.
Do we have time you you know, I think, Sue,
we can squeeze another one in here. Uh, let's talk
to Galen. Galen, welcome home.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Hello, Dean, you are the guru.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
My god, Oh thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Serious. I love your show and and I've already submitted
a request, Sue for your term control company to come
into very much yes.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Really hoping because Sue made a shameless plug a couple
of uh.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I was.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
It was very aproposos to say the least.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I was just Jackie was Jackie.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Yes, your your screener felt that my call may be
helpful to other homeowners and that it is unique and
it's a story. But bottom line is a few years
ago we were getting estimates for the termites and you know,
to have the house tinted, et cetera. Well, during that time,
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we are also ironically having a worker restaining all of
the pilings in the backyard that hold up the teeky huts,
the thatch roofs, and so, needless to say, as he
was working, we discovered termites in the pilings, and so
I got the spot treatment from the home depote and
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proceeded to treat them well. During that exact same time,
I started to notice little holes throughout the outdoors and
eventually inside the house in the bedroom on the first floor.
These little holes and all of my driftwood for instances,
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were first noticed these little holes and then into the
motifs and the peaky hut. It was they were different
because there was no residual that I could see of
the you know, the poo poos, and so anyhow, the
most important part is they the insects, got all of
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my driftwood and now into the bedroom, all these little
holes in the furniture except for my I believe it's
the mahogany chest in the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
This sounds like a boring beetle, a wood boring beetle exactly.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Oh, that's what I yes. And it was just it
was just seemingly so coincidental that it should happen at
the same time I was getting these estiments and also
when the worker, uh you know, was doing the pilings,
and so I was informed that it would be a
totally different type of fix. And I do know that
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in going to home depot, they don't sell the product
that you need. And I guess it's just a more
or less a spot of treatment. I believe.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, Well, let's find it. Let's let's galen, let
let me Uh, I'm gonna throw it to Sue. She's
chomping at the bit here. I want to just find out.
So is it a different treatment than termites?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Is it? So?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How do you deal with wood boring beetles?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, fumigation normally is what we suggest. Is to do
it with fumigation.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that's that's just that there it is. I mean,
that's that nothing else is going to reach them.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Not really.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You could do a local treat, but I think that
it would be best to do a fumigation on that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So Galen, this would be a situation I think where
you want to bypass the big box store di y stuff.
Especially if it's a extend as you're describing, you really
really need to just knock it out, knock it out
and get it done. Wood Boring beetles are a thing.
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I mean, they'll wipe out entire forests at times, whole
swaths of forests. In fact, little nature boy side note here,
one of the things that you know, in discussing wildfires
and controlling wildfires is something that the National Forestry Services
had to deal with over the years. You know, for
the longest period of time, we just assumed that, you know,
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shut down every naturally occurring wildfire that happens in a
national forest. Okay, just stop it, because if we can
control it, don't let the forest burn. Don't let them burn,
don't let them burn. And that seemed like it worked
for a while, but then guess what we found out yep,
we found out that entire swaths of forests were dying anyway,
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what from wood boring beetles. Wood boring beetles who are
normally their populations control old bye you got it, wildfires
that shut them down and reduce populations. So they are
an issue. They're an issue that's even you know, more
intense at times than termites. And so it just made
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it sounds like what Sue is nodding here that the
nuclear option I fumigation. You just you can't fiddle with
them unless unless there's just been the tiniest little, uh,
you know, infestation that you could potentially isolate and spot treat. Otherwise,
don't mess with them. Whole forests go because of wood
boring beetles. Galen, thank you so much for that question,
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and thank you so much for your endorsement and that
and for loving the show and listening to the show.
You hang in there with us, and we'll make sure
that we live up to your expectations best we can.
All right, when we return, I want to talk to you,
Sue Freeze about mosquitoes. Okay, Skeeters, Ye, Skeeters going to
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be something that even if you don't feel like you've
got rodents or termites or anything like that. We're going
to get outside here in the spring and the summer
and all over southern California. Mosquitoes and not just the
old big mosquitos that we used to get around here.
Now we've got the eighties Egypti, which are these little
ankle biters. Oh they're so annoying. And how do we
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keep mosquitoes away from the house and out of the yard.
Sue has an answer, So you hang tight.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We are talking pest control today on the program, and
I've been taking calls for the last two or three segments.
I want to take one more because there's somebody on
the line who has a special relationship with Sue trying
to sneak in here. Nick, Hey, Nick, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Hey Dean boy, I gotta tell you one thing, you know,
I'm a term might inspector myself, and I'm a much
better term might inspector listening to your show than if
I never had listened to begin with. You really really
take the inaccessible and make it accessible.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh well, thank you very much, my friend. I you
know what, I of all the compliments, I mean, I
love I love it when anybody feels good about the show.
But I especially love when people in the trades, you know,
colleagues in the trades say, you know what, Yeah, we
listen to the show Dean and and it just it
just means the world to me. So just to full disclosure,
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I'm told that you actually, you know, work with Sue.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I actually manage your Santa Borba Ventura office.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, you had a special message that you wanted to
communicate to Sue or so I just you just to
go for it, go for it.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Well, you know most of the companies out there, they can't.
It's it's not it's not a superior method. It's what
they call low liability. You sign waivers, you sign disclaimers.
They're not responsible for plants roof death. The thing is,
they offer a three year warranty, but nobody ever comes
(27:24):
back to check. And so I wanted Sue to enlighten
the people on basically what kind of warranty she offers
and what what is involved in her service or to
her contracts.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I got you, I got, Well, Sue, what So what
is the difference with your warranty, Nick, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Our warranties, it's our company.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It's another shameless plug. It's another shameless plug.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It has been with me a very long time, and
he's an excellent inspector. He cares so much for his
customers and to me and our company. So, Nick, why
don't you explain the warranty program and why is it
so important for a customer and a person who gets
a fumigation or any type of term might work to
have a service warranty that protects them longer than just
as long as the tent is up.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, you know the problem with you. Termites are what
we call cryptobiotics. They're really good at hiding. So you
may have termites and you could walk past the area
twenty times in a row and not even know that
you're walking past it. So with the service, we offer
a two year warranty. And so what occurs during that
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two year warranty is if you should see any evidence
whatsoever on your own, just call us up. We send
a technician out. He treats it. It's ten minute process.
There's not to be swept under the rug. We're not
hiding anything. It's all part of the warranty. But whether
or not you see anything, we know this is not
your scope of expertise. So we have our inspector out
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at the end of the at the end of the year,
and he basically will do a full inspection. The difference
between him and I is he's got all the goodies
to treat right there and there on the spot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Gotcha all right? So what you're drawing out is again
for anybody who's thinking about using any pest control service.
It's not just the fumigation and just the blanket warranty
after the fact. But and again everybody, this is why
I love E Colon, love what they do, because here
they are there, they're offering up the same warranty after
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the fact. But you guys are going to come out again,
follow up, follow up, after the fact. It's not one
and done and you're gone, but you actually want to
make sure that everything is handled. So is it a year?
Is it a year after the tending?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We do a service warranty, and we do we keep
going year after year. We have many many customers that
have been with us for thirty years and they just
have us for peace of mind. We do an inspection
once a year and if someone sees evidence or something,
they call us and we come and do a local
treatment to the area which they've founded, and we keep
it at bay. We control the problem minimally so we
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don't have to do another fumigation if that's what we
started and had to do because we waited too long.
So that's what we do as we have a service quarrantine.
It's about fifteen percent of the original job, so think
about that. It's very cost effective and it gives you
the peace of mind to know that you're you know,
you're taking care of it.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Is literally that that concept of an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure exactly. Just just keep it,
keep it under control, keep it monitored. And that's why
I love you guys, because you're so conscientious about the
follow up along the way. All right, here's the thing. Now,
we're going to talk about mosquitoes and if there's any
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way at all to get control of the mosquitoes. But Nick,
thanks for the call, buddy. I appreciate you so much,
and I appreciate what you do, and I appreciate the
fact that you are finding the show valuable as well.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Very much.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, buddy, you have a great Sunday. Keep listening
when well, you know what, wait a couple of minutes,
we're gonna tease this.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I got mosquitos in the yard. We've got at
least two species of mosquitos out here now that affect
everybody in southern California. Most recently, the ads a Gypti
mosquito has shown up in southern California. These are these
little invisible noseums. In Florida they call them noseums. We
call them ankle biers. Out here. They're daytime mosquitos, and
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not even the idea that we're used to, which is
like around dawn and dusk and at the end of
a warm day or at nighttime I'm getting eaten a lot.
And these are like right in the middle of the day.
So mosquitos have a very specific habitat to cycle. They
are looking for water. They're looking for still water, water
that's not moving. They're looking for anything the water that
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gets collected after a rain and in a spare tire
that's laying around, I mean, any little area of water.
Female mosquitos are looking for places to lay their eggs
and then they hatch, and it just goes on and
on and on and on and contrary to many popular beliefs,
let me tell you right now, all of those UV
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bug zappers that you put out there mosquitos have no
use for them whatsoever. You know you're gonna zap all
sorts of moths and other flying things anything that you
see online that's like UV light tracks and fries skeeters
around your house. Nope, not gonna happen. That's not there.
That's not their game. But soon knows their game, and
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there is a very effective, very very effective yard treatment
or setup that is safe save for the family, save
for everybody else, and and controls mosquito populations amazingly. Well,
is there not?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yes, see what I'm gonna tell it now?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
No, oh no, we're just we just we just we
just the hook. I set the hook.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Awesome. Yes, I definitely have an answer.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So, if mosquitos are a thing for you and you
don't want them to be a they eat me alive.
And that's the irony. I'm a nature boy and I
walk outside of mosquitos. Just if it's blood type, I
don't know what it is. But they just eat me alive,
and I have all people in our family is the
one who wants to be outside the most. So when
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we return after a little news, we are going to
find out what this treatment scenario is and just how
well it actually works. You are Home with Dean Sharp,
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All right, we are having a very special Spring Sunday
Morning show talking about pest control because springtime is the
time when everybody starts thinking about it. It rains a
little soon and I were talking during the break, rains
a little, sun shines a little, rains a little, and
then the next thing you know is the days start
to warm, the bugs arrive. They just all show up,
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which by the way, is exactly as nature intended. So again,
just to repeat, we're not anti insect around here. It
is just the fact that insects need to stay where
they stay, and humans live where they live, and we
can live in harmony with them as long as you know,
we're not crossing over the boundaries in between houses. Right.
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I'm not an advocate for kids, you know, burning ants
with magnifying glasses and stomping through you know, ant hills,
and nor am I, you know, in favor of ants
taking up residents inside my house. So it's all good,
and I'm here with Sue Freeze. We're talking all things
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termites and past control. I had one more question before
we go to the phones for you. I just realized
that I had not asked you about this. You guys, also,
I'm sure this isn't the most common service that you do,
but it's important for our folks who are planning a
major remodel or room edition or maybe a brand new
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house build that you guys also can treat framing before
the house gets built or as the house is getting built,
to give like a twenty year kind of shield barrier
to the home like on day one.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, it's a wonderful thing to do, and we can
do it either in lumber state or once it's up
on frame. And we also add to that a green dye,
and the green dye just make sure that we have touched,
we've covered every single bit of that piece of wood.
And for the buyer it helps because then they know
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they've got their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, So you add a colorant to it so that
we can tell everything's been treated everywhere exactly, so if
it's green, we're clean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just that was good. Like you can have that.
Write that down, wrint that tagline down. All right, let's
go to the phones. Let's see here. Let's talk to Jason. Hey, Jason,
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey Dean, good morning. We love the show.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh thank you, bro. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I got a question for Sue. My house in
the front of it has a big, huge field. My
backyard butts up to another big field that has you know,
horses and goats, which is really nice. But you can
imagine all the things that we get in our backyard.
So I have a bunch of barbecues. I love the barbecue,
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and I get the black widows, I get the loss,
the ants, and I use that great pest control stuff
that get from home depot. But listening to your show
this morning, Going Green and we've got pets and things
like that, what do you suggest how do we tackle this?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, the easy answer is to call us and we'll
take care of it.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
For you a little.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right? Yeah, that was that wasn't just a that
was really easy.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You don't have to go buy all of the products
and all this education.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Just you handle what you do well and put your
you know, energy on that and then have us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Do what we do well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That was a shameless plug it, But I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I mean, you look right into it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
One of the things. One of the things Jase, that
you know and I feel you, I feel you all right,
but but you know you're living out in the middle
of it. And uh, and I hope I hope that.
I hope that everybody kind of embraces the fact that,
you know what, if you're going to live in a
place that has got lots of open space and nature
around you, guess what you get? You get nature, all
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right if you want to, if you want to embrace nature,
you get nature. And so yeah, I mean you may
actually I think Sue's right, Jason. I think you may
have a situation where when you want to deal with
specific things in specific areas, then you kind of zero
in on the like if you want to keep the
black widows out of the outdoor kitchen cabinets or something
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like that.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You know, but there's I guess are My question is
is there one service that will take care of all
that or you got to come back a couple of
different times.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well that division it would be one person and we
could do it all in one service, and we could
do it per month, depending on I would think it'd
probably be a monthly service for what you've got going
on there. And we do like for spiders, we knock
down the webs, and when you've got rodents, we look
at water, we look at food, we look at where
they're harboring. We look at all those things to help
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you too, because it is a joint effort. It really
is a joint effort. And so if we can help
you minimize what you're bringing to the table, you know.
I mean, if you have a pool and they're getting
to the pool and drinking the pool water, then that's
one thing. But if you're leaving things out and feeding them.
I did that on mine. I had an arena in
my backyard and a stall in my backyard, and I
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was feeding my dog dry dog food, and I was
feeding the rats, and so I decided to stop doing that.
I still had the pool and they could get water,
but I didn't I didn't give them a food source.
So food, water, and shelter, that's what they're needing. If
you can minimize that, that helps.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But then call it love it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No, yeah, no, we keep everything pretty nice and tidy.
And the puppies, you know, there our kids, so they
sleep with us every night. They're they're indoors. So yeah,
it's just a little frustrating with you know, knocking down
the cobwebs and then spraying and and you're wasp and
then potato bugs and things like that. So we'll definitely
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be given e coli a call.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's ecola like eco la eco la not e coli
like like some dangerouslai or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Coola.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I say the trucks on the road, I say, the
trucks on the road with your with your red hair,
love it. I love how you are true.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Thanks so much for your call. But it's so so
appreciate the question, and we got to run to a
break here, but yeah, you raise a really good point,
and uh, and I just want to underscore it because
I'm a guy who loves I'm a nature boy, and
I'm just saying it. You know, I appreciate the spirit
that you're approaching this with. You've got to have a
certain level of tolerance for certain things if you're going
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to live out in nature, because nature, you're going to
be living out in it, right on the edge of
the wildness, and it's going to be around and there's
just we cannot The thing that frustrates me around here
sometimes is that you know, people will will buy a
home out on the edge of open space and a beautiful,
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you know, upscale suburban area with hillside and field all
around them and then start complaining about how do we
kill all these coyotes and all of these things that
are coming into our and like they were there first. Man,
you just paid all this money to live in this place,
and now you want to sterilize it from the very
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reason that you wanted to live there. And so I
appreciate you, Jason, and how you're just wanting to, you know,
find find the right balance, And that's true, and nobody
wants black widows hanging out, you know, around every corner
when you got kids running around. But it's probably honestly,
I couldn't think of a better company to do it,
but it probably is in that situation, a monthly service
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just to kind of keep it at bay, and very directed,
so it's not too much. It's not the nuclear option,
but it's very directed, and it just kind of keeps
these specific problems in the specific areas at bay. And
there really isn't in that kind of situation just a
you know, a silver bullet, Matt, you know, one thing
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that's gonna take it all down. And so I appreciate
the the honesty of your answer. So even though it
was a shameless plug, but I appreciate the honesty of
it because I think it also happens to be true.
All right, more of your calls when we return your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm so so thrilled to invite you into this ongoing
conversation that Sue Freeze of Ecola pest control and I
are having even during the break, we're just talking, talking
all things pest control.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And now we're back and uh it is time to
go back to the phones because it's top of the hour.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Let's see, let's just grab a caller here. Let's talk
to Holly. Hey, Holly, welcome home.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
A Hi Dean, Hi.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
This is a question for Sue. Sue, we uh, forty
years ago built this, built a home we're in and
planted great ivy deciduous vines on three of our four walls,
actually two and a half of our four walls. Since then,
we have had our house had to be fumigated in
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forty years three times, and the third time being three
months ago. Now we do have deciduous vines, and I
know that they have come back. And previously because we
fumigated three months ago, that was about the time when
the vines are supposed to fall off. Where are we now? Yeah,
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they probably they were off. We got the house fumigated
all of a sudden. After the fumigation, about two weeks later,
we get brand new green when we're not supposed to green.
Baby leaves and vines come back like imforce and they're beautiful.
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And now they died again, and now it's spring and
they're supposed to keep green again. The roots are very
very deep. I'm just hoping that I didn't totally kill
them this time. I'm hoping that they will come back.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What do you think, Well, I'm hoping they come back
to it. Sounds like you really love those plants.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Yes, well, if I have, if we have to pull
everything off the house, that's going to.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Be a mess, right.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And that's the hard thing about fumigation is normally we
let people know that that if there's anything that is
against the walls, like Bogabilla's or anything, especially in Santa Barbara.
We have this issue is because the tent has to go.
I'm surprised. Were these plants inside the tent with the fumigation.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Well, well, yes, the vines are planted right up against
the hut. They were planted, And of course.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I shocked at all.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, that's what I'm shocked of because normally we let
people know we have no guarantee on whether that'll'll survive
or not.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I get that, and I would have been because everything
came back beautifully the last two times, you know, I
this time they just got very confused. So because after
the guests, after they they were killed off, they did
come back in force, but in the wrong season, but
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in the wrong season. So now now they're back to
dine again because I think they think it's time to
I'm just hoping they'll come You give them a year
or so and I'm hoping that they'll come back.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, Holly weed, you know, we're going to hope that
same thing for you. I think I think I mean,
neither Sue nor I are plant experts, but it sounds
to me, you know, as a fellow gardener and a
lover of plants and somebody who is familiar with how
they are affected by fumigation, it sounds to me like
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they are tenacious and they want to live, and what
do you think? So my guess is like, just keep
fostering them. Maybe it's going to take a couple of
seasons for them to realize okay, all right, everything's normal
again and they get back on track it. But but
the fact that they didn't die to begin with, or
that they that they pushed back, I think that's a
good sign. I think I think you just be patient
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with them and give them a chance to reorient. What
do you think soon. Yep, yeah, okay, all right, Holly,
thank you so much for that question. I hope that
gives you some comfort just to hang in there with
those vines. They love you, you love them, and and you're
gonna You're gonna make it. I have a feeling you're
gonna make it. They just need to kind of get
back on their regular cycle. All right, y'all. When we
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return more of your questions for for Sue Freeze, my
very very special guest in studio from E Cola, past control,
and or any other thing regarding your home, we will
do it.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. That's me
here to help you take your home to the next level.
Be it a condo, a cottage, or a castle, it
matters not. I am here to help turn ordinary houses
into extraordinary homes. And one of the ways we keep
an extraordinary home from becoming an ordinary house and going
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the other way is doing effective pest control. Effective efficient
but not dangerous pest control. I want your pest control
to be conscientious. I want it to be sensitive to nature.
I want it to be sensitive to human nature and
human physiology as well. And if we can find that balance,
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then we're in the best possible of situations, which is
why I'm so excited that I'm sitting here in studio
with my very special guest, Sue Freeze, from my very
favorite pest control company in southern California, Ecola Ecola or
Eco La. You've seen their trucks around. You should see
their trucks around, and you see face and her red
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hair on the side of the truck because she is
the termite lady, and among other things, so many things.
So anyway, we're taking calls and I want to go
back to the phones and find out what else is
going on out there with y'all. Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff,
welcome home.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Hi there.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
This is kind of perfect timing because I've been researching
for several weeks different pest control companies. I've got about
five estimates so far. But the main area that I
have of concern right now is would repair. I've had
a couple companies tell me I don't need to do anything,
but I have an area in our attic. It's a
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stand up area, and there's a crawl space that goes
through and you can stand up again. And in that area,
looking at the very top perimeter of that framed open
room is our two two by fours that are sandwiched together.
The bottom two by four has some very deep cavities
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in that two by four. I want to say it's
at least most of the two by four itself, and
as I've kind of poked my finger in there, it
kind of goes almost all the way to where it
connects to the stud It's about a total of twenty
four feet. But what I am wondering is, you know,
I'm really concerned about.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The condition of that.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Would you know we're going to be looking for a
clearance on that to go with the humigation. So is
that something that Ecola provides or do you have resources
of professionals that can replace that without you know, having
any other concern as far as to struck my structure
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of my house or anything else. I'm just looking for
making sure that this is done right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, totally understandable. So here's the thing. Now, different pest
control companies I know handle it in different ways. I
always recommend and I know there are a lot of
pest control companies that do little wood repair here and there.
I've never been, to be really honest with you as
a carpenter, as an old framing carpenter and a builder.
I've never been super impressed with or super confident in
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pest control company actually doing would repair work because they
are not licensed to do would repair where they're not
general contractors, they're pest controllers. So I'm probably speaking ahead
of Sue here, jumping ahead, but I'll give you my recommendation.
My recommendation is if there is severely term I damaged wood,
just the same way I treat dry rot things like that.
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I mean, if you're able to push your thumb through
and collapse a piece of wood, then I think your
best bet is to have that piece removed, uh, and
let the builders actually remove of the wood. And then
if we're exposing something that needs to get treated in fumigation,
let's get it handled and then and then replaced or
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maybe replace and then just get it all fumigated at once.
But Sue, do you guys venture into wood repair or
do you just give advice along there and then handle
the fumigation.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
We are termite inspectors and we do anything that has
to do with termite killing the termites, getting the termites
gone so that your house is in good order, and
if the wood it has lost its integrity, then that
will be reported on a report from there. Though we
don't do repairs. We're not a repair company. So there
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are past control companies that are focused only on s
grows and those types of things.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
That's not the.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Market that I'm in.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm for anybody that has a home concerned about health
and the welfare of their home. You know, your home
is your most expensive investment, right, and we want to
take care of it. So I would recommend, as Dean
did that you get the proper people to do that
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Chef?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
All right, buddy, all right, thanks for the question. Really
good question. I just love, uh, you know, everybody's question.
Do we have time you you know, I think, Sue,
we can squeeze another one in here. Uh, let's talk
to Galen. Galen, welcome home.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Hello, Dean, you are the guru.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
My god, Oh thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Serious. I love your show and and I've already submitted
a request, Sue for your term control company to come
into very much yes.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Really hoping because Sue made a shameless plug a couple
of uh.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I was.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
It was very aproposos to say the least.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I was just Jackie was Jackie.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Yes, your your screener felt that my call may be
helpful to other homeowners and that it is unique and
it's a story. But bottom line is a few years
ago we were getting estimates for the termites and you know,
to have the house tinted, et cetera. Well, during that time,
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we are also ironically having a worker restaining all of
the pilings in the backyard that hold up the teeky huts,
the thatch roofs, and so, needless to say, as he
was working, we discovered termites in the pilings, and so
I got the spot treatment from the home depote and
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proceeded to treat them well. During that exact same time,
I started to notice little holes throughout the outdoors and
eventually inside the house in the bedroom on the first floor.
These little holes and all of my driftwood for instances,
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were first noticed these little holes and then into the
motifs and the peaky hut. It was they were different
because there was no residual that I could see of
the you know, the poo poos, and so anyhow, the
most important part is they the insects, got all of
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my driftwood and now into the bedroom, all these little
holes in the furniture except for my I believe it's
the mahogany chest in the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
This sounds like a boring beetle, a wood boring beetle exactly.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Oh, that's what I yes. And it was just it
was just seemingly so coincidental that it should happen at
the same time I was getting these estiments and also
when the worker, uh you know, was doing the pilings,
and so I was informed that it would be a
totally different type of fix. And I do know that
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in going to home depot, they don't sell the product
that you need. And I guess it's just a more
or less a spot of treatment. I believe.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, Well, let's find it. Let's let's galen, let
let me Uh, I'm gonna throw it to Sue. She's
chomping at the bit here. I want to just find out.
So is it a different treatment than termites?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Is it? So?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How do you deal with wood boring beetles?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, fumigation normally is what we suggest. Is to do
it with fumigation.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that's that's just that there it is. I mean,
that's that nothing else is going to reach them.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Not really.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You could do a local treat, but I think that
it would be best to do a fumigation on that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So Galen, this would be a situation I think where
you want to bypass the big box store di y stuff.
Especially if it's a extend as you're describing, you really
really need to just knock it out, knock it out
and get it done. Wood Boring beetles are a thing.
(23:09):
I mean, they'll wipe out entire forests at times, whole
swaths of forests. In fact, little nature boy side note here,
one of the things that you know, in discussing wildfires
and controlling wildfires is something that the National Forestry Services
had to deal with over the years. You know, for
the longest period of time, we just assumed that, you know,
(23:32):
shut down every naturally occurring wildfire that happens in a
national forest. Okay, just stop it, because if we can
control it, don't let the forest burn. Don't let them burn,
don't let them burn. And that seemed like it worked
for a while, but then guess what we found out yep,
we found out that entire swaths of forests were dying anyway,
(23:52):
what from wood boring beetles. Wood boring beetles who are
normally their populations control old bye you got it, wildfires
that shut them down and reduce populations. So they are
an issue. They're an issue that's even you know, more
intense at times than termites. And so it just made
(24:15):
it sounds like what Sue is nodding here that the
nuclear option I fumigation. You just you can't fiddle with
them unless unless there's just been the tiniest little, uh,
you know, infestation that you could potentially isolate and spot treat. Otherwise,
don't mess with them. Whole forests go because of wood
boring beetles. Galen, thank you so much for that question,
(24:37):
and thank you so much for your endorsement and that
and for loving the show and listening to the show.
You hang in there with us, and we'll make sure
that we live up to your expectations best we can.
All right, when we return, I want to talk to you,
Sue Freeze about mosquitoes. Okay, Skeeters, Ye, Skeeters going to
(25:00):
be something that even if you don't feel like you've
got rodents or termites or anything like that. We're going
to get outside here in the spring and the summer
and all over southern California. Mosquitoes and not just the
old big mosquitos that we used to get around here.
Now we've got the eighties Egypti, which are these little
ankle biters. Oh they're so annoying. And how do we
(25:25):
keep mosquitoes away from the house and out of the yard.
Sue has an answer, So you hang tight.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We are talking pest control today on the program, and
I've been taking calls for the last two or three segments.
I want to take one more because there's somebody on
the line who has a special relationship with Sue trying
to sneak in here. Nick, Hey, Nick, welcome home.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Hey Dean boy, I gotta tell you one thing, you know,
I'm a term might inspector myself, and I'm a much
better term might inspector listening to your show than if
I never had listened to begin with. You really really
take the inaccessible and make it accessible.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh well, thank you very much, my friend. I you
know what, I of all the compliments, I mean, I
love I love it when anybody feels good about the show.
But I especially love when people in the trades, you know,
colleagues in the trades say, you know what, Yeah, we
listen to the show Dean and and it just it
just means the world to me. So just to full disclosure,
(26:45):
I'm told that you actually, you know, work with Sue.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I actually manage your Santa Borba Ventura office.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, you had a special message that you wanted to
communicate to Sue or so I just you just to
go for it, go for it.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Well, you know most of the companies out there, they can't.
It's it's not it's not a superior method. It's what
they call low liability. You sign waivers, you sign disclaimers.
They're not responsible for plants roof death. The thing is,
they offer a three year warranty, but nobody ever comes
(27:24):
back to check. And so I wanted Sue to enlighten
the people on basically what kind of warranty she offers
and what what is involved in her service or to
her contracts.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I got you, I got, Well, Sue, what So what
is the difference with your warranty, Nick, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Our warranties, it's our company.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It's another shameless plug. It's another shameless plug.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It has been with me a very long time, and
he's an excellent inspector. He cares so much for his
customers and to me and our company. So, Nick, why
don't you explain the warranty program and why is it
so important for a customer and a person who gets
a fumigation or any type of term might work to
have a service warranty that protects them longer than just
as long as the tent is up.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, you know the problem with you. Termites are what
we call cryptobiotics. They're really good at hiding. So you
may have termites and you could walk past the area
twenty times in a row and not even know that
you're walking past it. So with the service, we offer
a two year warranty. And so what occurs during that
(28:36):
two year warranty is if you should see any evidence
whatsoever on your own, just call us up. We send
a technician out. He treats it. It's ten minute process.
There's not to be swept under the rug. We're not
hiding anything. It's all part of the warranty. But whether
or not you see anything, we know this is not
your scope of expertise. So we have our inspector out
(28:59):
at the end of the at the end of the year,
and he basically will do a full inspection. The difference
between him and I is he's got all the goodies
to treat right there and there on the spot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Gotcha all right? So what you're drawing out is again
for anybody who's thinking about using any pest control service.
It's not just the fumigation and just the blanket warranty
after the fact. But and again everybody, this is why
I love E Colon, love what they do, because here
they are there, they're offering up the same warranty after
(29:31):
the fact. But you guys are going to come out again,
follow up, follow up, after the fact. It's not one
and done and you're gone, but you actually want to
make sure that everything is handled. So is it a year?
Is it a year after the tending?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We do a service warranty, and we do we keep
going year after year. We have many many customers that
have been with us for thirty years and they just
have us for peace of mind. We do an inspection
once a year and if someone sees evidence or something,
they call us and we come and do a local
treatment to the area which they've founded, and we keep
it at bay. We control the problem minimally so we
(30:09):
don't have to do another fumigation if that's what we
started and had to do because we waited too long.
So that's what we do as we have a service quarrantine.
It's about fifteen percent of the original job, so think
about that. It's very cost effective and it gives you
the peace of mind to know that you're you know,
you're taking care of it.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Is literally that that concept of an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure exactly. Just just keep it,
keep it under control, keep it monitored. And that's why
I love you guys, because you're so conscientious about the
follow up along the way. All right, here's the thing. Now,
we're going to talk about mosquitoes and if there's any
(30:45):
way at all to get control of the mosquitoes. But Nick,
thanks for the call, buddy. I appreciate you so much,
and I appreciate what you do, and I appreciate the
fact that you are finding the show valuable as well.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Very much.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, buddy, you have a great Sunday. Keep listening
when well, you know what, wait a couple of minutes,
we're gonna tease this.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I got mosquitos in the yard. We've got at
least two species of mosquitos out here now that affect
everybody in southern California. Most recently, the ads a Gypti
mosquito has shown up in southern California. These are these
little invisible noseums. In Florida they call them noseums. We
call them ankle biers. Out here. They're daytime mosquitos, and
(31:32):
not even the idea that we're used to, which is
like around dawn and dusk and at the end of
a warm day or at nighttime I'm getting eaten a lot.
And these are like right in the middle of the day.
So mosquitos have a very specific habitat to cycle. They
are looking for water. They're looking for still water, water
that's not moving. They're looking for anything the water that
(31:54):
gets collected after a rain and in a spare tire
that's laying around, I mean, any little area of water.
Female mosquitos are looking for places to lay their eggs
and then they hatch, and it just goes on and
on and on and on and contrary to many popular beliefs,
let me tell you right now, all of those UV
(32:16):
bug zappers that you put out there mosquitos have no
use for them whatsoever. You know you're gonna zap all
sorts of moths and other flying things anything that you
see online that's like UV light tracks and fries skeeters
around your house. Nope, not gonna happen. That's not there.
That's not their game. But soon knows their game, and
(32:38):
there is a very effective, very very effective yard treatment
or setup that is safe save for the family, save
for everybody else, and and controls mosquito populations amazingly. Well,
is there not?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yes, see what I'm gonna tell it now?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
No, oh no, we're just we just we just we
just the hook. I set the hook.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Awesome. Yes, I definitely have an answer.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So, if mosquitos are a thing for you and you
don't want them to be a they eat me alive.
And that's the irony. I'm a nature boy and I
walk outside of mosquitos. Just if it's blood type, I
don't know what it is. But they just eat me alive,
and I have all people in our family is the
one who wants to be outside the most. So when
(33:26):
we return after a little news, we are going to
find out what this treatment scenario is and just how
well it actually works. You are Home with Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper on KFI. This has been Home with
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