Home Improvement Show of the Midlands · WVOC (WVOC-AM)

Home Improvement Show 02-14-26

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Interior designer Lisa Jorgensen shares her claim to fame: she taught Usher Raymond when he was an eighth grader in middle school.

Gary David starts with the question most homeowners would ask. If it is only February and a cold snap just came through, why is Mosquito Joe already back on the schedule? Trey Powell keeps the answer grounded. Warm Midlands weather earlier in the week matters, and winter weather does not wipe out the mosquito problem for good. It is a practical opener, the kind of service talk that works because it sounds like someone asking before the appointment gets booked. Later, the hour relaxes into design stories, old local connections, and people who clearly go back a while. Irmo comes up again and again. A guest remembers moving in during 1998, decorating her own house, and getting noticed through the Irmo News. That led to Irmo Interiors, a shared meeting point for people in the room, and a run through parade homes. The parade comes across as real work, not just a pretty walkthrough. The guest says some cities still do versions of it, though locally it may be smaller now, maybe one home or one room. There is some easy teasing along the way. A stray Usher memory turns into jokes about missed autographs and whether he might need interior design help. The design advice stays modest: some people simply have the eye for it, the way a musician has music. Freedom Plumbing closes the hour, with James Carwell tying the business to local plumbing work, customer service, and respect for service members and first responders.

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Practical homeowner advice and Midlands design talk, plus an early mosquito check.

Gary David opens with practical homeowner advice before the hour settles into a Midlands design story. Trey Powell's Mosquito Joe segment is the cleanest part, with a plain warning that a warm spell can bring mosquito trouble early and that dormant eggs do not care much about a…

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February mosquitoes and straight talk from Midlands home-improvement pros.

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