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Speaker 1: good afternoon, Welcome now our number four and you're at

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Speaker 1: home with Gary Salvent taking you through another weekend. If

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Speaker 1: about what you're working on around your home. Our phone

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Speaker 1: And this is the time of year. Mice love to

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Speaker 1: think about this, mice reproduce a four hundred percent better

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Speaker 1: in warmer climates than outdoors in cold climates, and this

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Speaker 1: see a mouse, you probably got a lot more. And

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Speaker 1: that's what we're going to talk to. Bill Richter. He's

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. In the meantime, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and grebe al, I'm we got a spot for

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Speaker 1: you in Bob welcome.

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Speaker 2: Hey, can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: I can?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, let's say I always appreciate your show. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: your opinion. I have a question on an old Civil warhouse. Okay,

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Speaker 2: purchased a house four years ago. It's built like an

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Speaker 2: eighteen forty Robert E. Lee, and the gang walked right

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Speaker 2: It's a two story brick house with a typical a

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Speaker 2: roof and two windows won in either end. Now, the

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Speaker 2: roof was replaced twenty five years ago with a metal roof,

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Speaker 2: and it's fine. But the gentleman that owned the house

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Speaker 2: couldn't open one of the attic windows. She took a

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Speaker 2: hammer to and just broke it out. It was in

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Speaker 2: the summer, it was hot, so in the winter the

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Speaker 2: bats moved in through the whole house. That game m

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Speaker 2: a problem trying to sell it. Anyway. When I bought

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Speaker 2: the house, I put a screen in that window right away,

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Speaker 2: of course, and I do have a fan in the

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Speaker 2: that window with a screen, so we no longer have

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Speaker 2: a bad problem. But in the winter what I did

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Speaker 2: an inch thick, and I jam it in that hole,

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Speaker 2: and then for the winter I leave it in there.

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Speaker 2: Now my question is, Gary, do you think I should

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Speaker 2: leave that insulation and all the time not worry about it?

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Speaker 2: If the add it goes up to one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty degrees runs about forty degrees in the winter, by

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Speaker 2: the way, and we do have the hot air system

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Speaker 2: up there, right.

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Speaker 1: So tell me again. You got a fan in the window,

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Speaker 1: and then you said the insulation. Where exactly is the insulation?

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Speaker 1: Is it behind the fan, in between the fan and

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Speaker 1: the screen or where is it?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's really no insulation in the attic roof. It's

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Speaker 2: just a metal roof and the studs. The what I

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Speaker 2: to keep the bat sound, and that has not been

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Speaker 2: And in the in the winter, of course, I don't

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Speaker 2: created this piece of insulation material that we just jam

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Speaker 1: Of the winter and should. I don't think that insulation

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Speaker 1: got a window on the other side of that attic also.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, and that's closed. To feel it, a window

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Speaker 1: Can you open it? Or no?

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Speaker 1: To get the heat out, to get the heat out

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Speaker 2: Okay. I should also point out that my air conditioning

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Speaker 1: Okay, so is it getting air. It's getting the benefit

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Speaker 2: And it's both heat for the for the winter and

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Speaker 2: it's air conditioning for the summer for the upstairs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the house has two systems, one in the basement, one

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But it can't cool that attic though, right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely not yea. So although I did put a

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Speaker 2: summer it does blow cold air. I guess I should

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Speaker 1: So if it's if that changes a little bit. Though,

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Speaker 1: So I just figured it wasn't even air conditioned. So

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Speaker 1: if it is air conditioned, you you obviously wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: replaced by ninety degree air. There'd be no benefit. At first,

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Speaker 1: it's always going to be the hottest room in the

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Speaker 1: you're pumping cold air into it and you have cold

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Speaker 2: Well, I did contemplate insulating you know, the rafters against

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Speaker 2: course it acts like a radiator eating the hall attic

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Speaker 1: A lot of the right it is, especially in those

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Speaker 1: house encapsulation. It's a trend that started about twenty years

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Speaker 1: They're actually taking those out and they're foaming the sidewalls

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Speaker 1: air be pumped in there, and you know, we don't

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Speaker 2: So yeah, what do you think about the old concept

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Speaker 1: Down the ridge or you mean across the ridge at

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Speaker 2: Now all the way across the ridge where the roof

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Speaker 2: comes together. In the seventies and eighties, they were putting

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm all for them. They've They've changed the construction

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Speaker 1: part of the whole ventilation system in an attic is

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Speaker 1: that is the softa venting that is bringing the air in.

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Speaker 1: So it's a convection system. The cooler air, even though

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Speaker 1: it's outside it might be ninety two degrees, is still

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Speaker 1: to go out. You got to replace the air that

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Speaker 1: And they have you know, I mean when they first

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Speaker 1: an efficient method. You're going to either totally encapsulate that

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Speaker 2: Well, the good part about the air conditioning it's only

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Speaker 2: a small six or eight inch vent and I can

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Speaker 2: go up to close it during the summer. In the

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Speaker 2: winter it blows hot air in there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, Well, if you're not going to use the

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Speaker 1: insulation is really not going to help you that much.

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Speaker 1: But I would look at maybe turning that fan to

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to bring it down to

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Speaker 1: the perfect outdoor temperature, but you should be able to

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Speaker 2: Well you do agree Gary that I did the right

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Speaker 2: thing by putting the screening in there to keep the

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Speaker 2: bats out right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For sure, absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I thank you so much for your time. We've spoken before,

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Speaker 2: and i'll call again.

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Speaker 1: Very good, Thank you much. We'll continue with your calls.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey Dad, thank you for taking So we are

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Speaker 3: getting ready to replace a thirty four year old wooden

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Speaker 1: And that might help you. One of the things that

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Speaker 1: Right right, not tie it in. And what I would

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Speaker 1: you know, it'll be cheaper to have it standing alone

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Speaker 1: We nobody likes mice in their homes, and winter time

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Speaker 1: then how to get rid of him. We have Bill Richter.

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Speaker 1: He is with one Stop Pest Control and he's kind

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Gary, Thanks for having us so great, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So is this the busiest time for mice?

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Speaker 4: It is definitely a busy time for mice, especially with

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Speaker 5: Had back and forth. Yeah, pushing them in, pushing them out.

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Speaker 4: They're looking for food, shelter, water, you know that type

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I've always kind of talked and focused on mice,

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Speaker 5: That happen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can definitely too. They multiply really fast. One

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Speaker 1: behind the wall, and it's like they'll leave eventually. So right,

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00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: how do we know if we have the problem. Obviously

440
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: if we see a mice. But you don't always see them,

441
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: do you.

442
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 4: You don't always see them. A lot of times you'll

443
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,679
Speaker 4: find that you'll hear scratching our movement sounds like in

444
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 4: your walls or ceiling atic area.

445
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 5: Uh huh.

446
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 4: The biggest hotel sign that you're gonna find is you're

447
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 4: gonna find droppings, uh. In that's in the kitchen area,

448
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 4: the basement area up even in your garage if you

449
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 4: store like bird seed or things of those natures. Every

450
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 4: thing of that nature too, food packaging, dog food, candy bars,

451
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 4: and the other thing is a lot of times you'll see,

452
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 4: like your dogs are cats fixating on a wall because

453
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 4: they're hearing like a small scratch or something going on,

454
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 4: or a squeak, and that'll give you an idea that

455
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 4: something's going on back behind there.

456
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: It's about a year ago. We had some work being

457
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: done in the house, a ceramic floor. It was in

458
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: August and we had the you know, the garage store

459
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: opened for the tow guys. In the garage, everything was open,

460
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they left, and you know,

461
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: two weeks later, I started seeing my peanut butter cheese crackers.

462
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: The plastic was getting unwrapped, and I said to my wife,

463
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: is that we got a mouse in here somewhere? And

464
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: she goes, how do you know that? Look at the

465
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: list they opened the cheese crackers and they've had a

466
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: couple of nibbles on them. And sure enough I started

467
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: finding the mouse droppings, and and sure enough I found

468
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: more than one mouse at that point, I think we

469
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: ended up getting about four or five. And that's been

470
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: a year and a half. I haven't seen any since.

471
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: But finding the droppings, that's that's where do you look?

472
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: Would you look in pantries or.

473
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 4: Well, so typically you'll you'll find droppings in areas where

474
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 4: they're feeding. But generally mice every about footer show they

475
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 4: drop a dropping every foot show that they tripped. Okay,

476
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 4: So if you you'll find them along the baseboard, you'll

477
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 4: find them under the sink, cabinets, drawers, you name it.

478
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 4: They'll be just about anywhere that a mouse is climbing.

479
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: Okay. See, I have found droppings twenty years ago down

480
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: in the basement around one area. They were getting in

481
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: somewhere down there. So look for droppings. That's one tighten

482
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: up the house. So I'm sure that's another little tip.

483
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 4: That's probably one of your biggest things is trying to

484
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 4: figure out where they're getting because they can squeeze through

485
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: the opening the size of a dime. So your common

486
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,959
Speaker 4: entry points are going to be like your utility lines,

487
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 4: gaps in the siding or foundation, around where your facerboard is,

488
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 4: garage door seals. They like to chew those out. Dryer vents.

489
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 4: They like to get intrough the dryer events as well.

490
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 4: I've actually seen a mouse climb the side of a

491
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 4: brick building and go up twenty feet and go up

492
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 4: into the facierboard, up into the attic so mice are

493
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 4: really good climbers. You really got to be looking for

494
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 4: areas to seal them out. I guess one of the

495
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 4: big things is if you can fit a pencil through it,

496
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 4: a mouse can get through it.

497
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: Really well, that's interesting you bring that up because I

498
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: was telling everybody earlier today about three weeks ago, I

499
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: was pulling in my driveway and I noticed the brick

500
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: underneath my dryer vent was wet, and I went over

501
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: there to inspect it because that looked wrong, and it was.

502
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: There was lint all collected in that little shoot because

503
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,479
Speaker 1: there's a screen there and it was packed. So I

504
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: cleaned that out. And then when I was cleaning it out,

505
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: I noticed around where the four inch pipe goes through

506
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: the brick wall, there's a gap. I could probably get,

507
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: you know, my fingers in.

508
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 5: There and go right through there.

509
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. I put it on my list. I haven't done

510
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,239
Speaker 1: it yet, but I put it on my list. And

511
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: isn't there some expendable foam that's mouseproof.

512
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,479
Speaker 4: There's some stuff out there that is the phone that

513
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 4: we don't typically use that in our in the professional realm,

514
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: but as a homeowner, you can definitely do that. I

515
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: believe it's like a pest block phone has like metal

516
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 4: shavings in it that that tries to keep them from chewing.

517
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 4: But what we typically do is we use like a

518
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 4: road and proof dryer event at the metal dry event,

519
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 4: not the plastic ones you buy at home depot or lows.

520
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 4: And we were those dryer events and the only way

521
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 4: that it opens is when the dryer is on and

522
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 4: it pushes it open, and then when it turns off

523
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 4: it closes. But then we seal up of that around

524
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 4: the dryer event to make sure that the mice can

525
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 4: get in behind the back of the dryer vent.

526
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I was going to seal that, but

527
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: I do have that plastic one that have louvers and

528
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: it doesn't have like a damper in there. And you're

529
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: saying the ones with the damper are going to better

530
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: serve you.

531
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 4: That would be a better material for you to use,

532
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 4: because if you've ever seen some of the plastic ones,

533
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: a lot of times the dryer one gets caught up

534
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 4: in there and they the loovers stay open, yep. And

535
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 4: then also sometimes the sun beats down they become very

536
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 4: brittle and those lovers just fall off and break.

537
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure this is in the best of shape.

538
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: It's a western setting, so I'm sure it's not so

539
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: it do a lot of people when they call One

540
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: Stop Pest Control, do they call because they hear things

541
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: in the wall. I'm just curious. I mean, I think

542
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people when they hear a little scratch

543
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: or something, they kind of ignore it, you know, they

544
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, to see no evil, hear no evil. There's

545
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: nothing wall, you kind of hope. So anyway, right, yeah, exactly,

546
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: we're all human, exactly.

547
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 4: The big thing that most people usually when they call

548
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: our office, they're usually hearing scratching where they found droppings

549
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 4: or they've had something schewed into that they've noticed that

550
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 4: they definitely have a mouse issue or smell maybe something

551
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 4: died in a wall. Yeah, that type of thing. So yeah,

552
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 4: so that's generally where our phone calls come from.

553
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: So when people call One Stop Pest Control, Okay, you

554
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: come out, do you listen for the mice? Do you

555
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: look for droppings? I guess you do both? And then

556
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,719
Speaker 1: how do you how do you service that customer? How

557
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: do you get rid of those mice?

558
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 4: Well, our professional framework starts like this, the initial phone

559
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 4: call you give us a call will come out, Well,

560
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 4: we're going to do it action. We're going to find

561
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 4: all those entry points and nesting areas. We're gonna look.

562
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 5: For exclusion area exclusion.

563
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 4: Areas that need to be taken care of, seal the

564
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: home up properly. We're also going to come up with

565
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: a safe, effective treatment that's designed specifically for the house

566
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 4: that we're looking at, and then we're gonna put you

567
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 4: on some type of a monitoring program to make sure

568
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 4: the problem stays gone. So the way I always look

569
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 4: at it is anyone can catch a mouse, professionals stop

570
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 4: them from coming back.

571
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: Ah, it's kind of like critter controlling an attic, you know,

572
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: not necessarily mice, but like raccoons and stuff. I always

573
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: go like, you know, everybody's focused on getting rid of them,

574
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: and I get that, but clean up and making sure

575
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: they don't come back. That's the key.

576
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 5: That's the key. That's the key.

577
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: So if you were to take me a walk around

578
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: my home or anybody's home, take the customer or walk

579
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: around a home, and you're going to trouble sheet shoot

580
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: the areas you talked about, you know, the dryer vents,

581
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: ofulnerable place, maybe the fashie aboards, the weather seal, or

582
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: the seal on the bottom of a garage door. That

583
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: would be a place. I guess. Wherever there's a penetration

584
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: on the home wires, faucets, anything along those lines, those

585
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: those are the places to seal up.

586
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 4: They are a lot of times you also see, like

587
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 4: in a brick home, you'll find that some of the

588
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 4: gaps where the weekholes are, they're very, very wide, and

589
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 4: I'm asking to get right through there. We seal those

590
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 4: up but still allow it for it to do its

591
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: job and allow of the moisture and stuff to get

592
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 4: out through there. So we don't seal it up like

593
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 4: take calk and seal it, because if you do that,

594
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 4: you're going to cause all kinds of other issues. You

595
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 4: still need to be able to breathe.

596
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a few minutes on take a break.

597
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: I want to talk about other critters that are in

598
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: our house. This time of year. We're usually focused on

599
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: when we can see them. We may have them now

600
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: and we don't even know it. If you got about ten,

601
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: we'll take a little break here and come back and chat.

602
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: Bill Richters. My guess he is with Ace. I keep

603
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: wanting to call you a one stop control. I have

604
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: a place in Cleveland that does that. They do wildlife control.

605
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: It's one stop pest Control right here in the Greater

606
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: Cincinnati area. We'll take that break and you're at home

607
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: with Gary Sullivan right here in fifty five. Care see

608
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: de talk station. All right back ahead we go h

609
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: twelve fifty one. It is fifty two. Now it's moving

610
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: right along. Mister Donovan'll be in talking about your cars

611
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: here in about ten minutes, so stay tuned for that.

612
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: Bill Richters, My guess he is with one Stop Pest

613
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: Control talking about mice and how prolific they are this

614
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: time of year. But one other thing I was thinking

615
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: when you said you could come on board. With all

616
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: the holiday travel that's been going on for the past month,

617
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: it seems like forever. Are bed bugs still a big

618
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: thing in the greater Cincinnati area. I know one time

619
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: I think we just about led the nation.

620
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, bedbugs are still very popular in the Cincinnati area.

621
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 4: The one thing we don't see is we don't see

622
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 4: a whole lot of it on the news anymore because

623
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 4: I guess it's just not a very big story any anymore,

624
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 4: because it's so prevalent around the area.

625
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 5: But we deal with you know, anywhere.

626
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,720
Speaker 4: From five to six phone calls a day in regards

627
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 4: to dealing with bed bugs easy. So it's something that's

628
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 4: not going to go away, all right.

629
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: That's too bad. Every time I might talk about him,

630
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: I start scratching.

631
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 5: I have the tendency to make people do that.

632
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: It's somebody of years ago and he told me. He goes, oh,

633
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: that's a such and such disorder, and I go, yeah,

634
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: it's a disorder, all right. So how does how does

635
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: one stop pest control deal with bed bugs?

636
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 4: Well, the first thing is we have to make sure

637
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 4: that we have to identify the insect that we first

638
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 4: you know that for sure it's a bed bug, and

639
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 4: then from that point we do an inspection and then

640
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 4: we do a full treatment of the property, cracks, crevices, baseboards,

641
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: anywhere that bed bugs are going to be. It's a

642
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 4: very intense program because you have to treat everything, and

643
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 4: we like to always call the area like around the

644
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 4: bed like a five foot zone. You want to make

645
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 4: sure that everything within that five foot zone is completely

646
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 4: treated because those are the areas.

647
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: Where bed buggies are going to go back and forth

648
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 5: to h.

649
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 4: After they're after they feed, they always will go back

650
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 4: to the place where they've been resting, so and then they'll.

651
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 5: Go back and forth.

652
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: So if you've got to dresser next to your bed,

653
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: you've got to get everything out of the dresser and

654
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: the rails and everything.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you got to pull all the drawers out,

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00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 4: get inside of there, get underneath of it. Because they

657
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 4: like to hide. They like to be in areas where

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00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 4: they're not being disturbed. So you're gonna find them up

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00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 4: like you usually won't find them a whole lot on

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00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 4: the mattress unless it's a real bad infestation that you're

661
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 4: going to find them under the box spring, which is

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00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 4: where most people aren't going to be pulling that spring

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00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 4: off the bed. So those are the areas you're going

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Speaker 4: to find them at.

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Speaker 1: Wow, how do so how do you treat? You treat

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00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: them with a liquid Is that what you do? I've

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00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: heard other people treat them with heat, but I'm not

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: hearing much about that anymore. Or do you treat it

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Speaker 1: with heat?

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Speaker 5: No, we don't.

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00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 4: We don't treat with heat. We do a liquid treatment.

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00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 4: That way, we don't miss anything. And you know, we're

673
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 4: going through every crack and crevice and putting liquid material there.

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00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 4: It does take about two to three treatments on average

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Speaker 4: to eliminate a.

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Speaker 5: Bed bug infestation.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the heat program, I don't know if that's going

678
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 4: by the wayside or whatnot, but I haven't heard much

679
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 4: about it.

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00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't either, And I started hearing some things

681
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: like artwork or pictures. It can do damage to those, and.

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00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 4: It can melt TVs, it can melt your blinds, your

683
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: name it. There's a whole lot of other things to

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00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 4: go along with that. Plus it's an expensive program to

685
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 4: get involved in, so we we typically stick with what

686
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 4: we know works.

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Speaker 1: So that's why we do the liquid ONCETP pest control.

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00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: You do all kinds of bugs and pests, seasonal ants

689
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. And do you have a

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00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: service where somebody can quarterly service where you inspect homes

691
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Speaker 1: and actually, you know, maybe do some preventive not maintenance

692
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: but sprays to prevent pest from becoming a pest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we do a quarterly program or whatever suits your needs.

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00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 4: If you if you feel like you need pest control

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00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 4: more often, bi monthly or monthly service, we offer that

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00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 4: as well. But we do a quarterly pest control service

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00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 4: where we come out do the exterior of the house

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00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 4: interior upon request if you need it on the inside,

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00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 4: but ninety percent of your insects are going to come

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00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 4: from the outside, so we concentrate on those areas up

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 4: under the siding, around door frames, cracks, crevices, around the foundation,

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00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 4: and also into the mult a little bit because those

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00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 4: are areas where you're going to find that insects are

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00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 4: going to be nesting and harboring. Sure, so we do

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00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 4: we do actually offer that and that's one of our

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00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 4: biggest plans right there that we deal with is a

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00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 4: quarterly pest control service.

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Speaker 1: Very good. And how about your website at one Stop

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00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: Pest Control or maybe that's the website.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, the the the website is www dot one

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00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 4: stoppestcontrol dot com with the number one not to a

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00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 4: one stoppest control dot com. And uh, we can you know,

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00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 4: check on our website see what we have to offer.

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00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 4: We also offer mosquito programs as well, uh term my

716
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 4: treatments as well, so we do everything that's pest related

717
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 4: up to rats and mice, uh, squirrels and raccoons. We'll

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: lead that to the wildlife.

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Speaker 1: Guys, there you go. So what's the toughest one to

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Speaker 1: get rid of?

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Speaker 5: The toughest one to get rid of it is typically

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Speaker 5: going to be your bed bugs and roaches.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had my money on both of them, one

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Speaker 1: or the other.

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00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 4: You pick your poison. It's uh uh no pun intended there,

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00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 4: but so basically it just really depends you know where

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00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 4: the You know where the cockroaches are.

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00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: Going to be.

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00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 4: Sometimes the bed bugs are a little bit more hidden,

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Speaker 4: So I would say those would be probably maybe one

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Speaker 4: of your more complicated in text to deal with.

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Speaker 1: For sure. Is there a fun number of people can call?

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Speaker 1: They might be listening scratching, just like.

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Speaker 4: Me, absolutely taking reaches at five one, three, eight, eight, eight, nine,

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Speaker 4: five seven six.

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Speaker 1: Bill, thanks for giving up some time on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate.

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Speaker 4: It, my pleasure.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: Huh you bet? Bye bye. All right, So that's gonna

741
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Speaker 1: wrap up Saturday, and of course, uh we're on nine

742
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Speaker 1: to noon on Sunday, so I hope tomorrow you can

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Speaker 1: join us happy to talk about those future big projects

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Speaker 1: you have around your home. Danny boy, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Kind of an okay day today, kind of busy, tough, questions,

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Speaker 1: but I enjoy that. Good Lord willing, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for more At Home with Gary Sullivan