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Home Town (2017) - Season 10 Episode 15 -
Ben vs Bats
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00:00Good morning.
00:02Just another day of making our favorite small town better.
00:05Erin, we got to go, babe.
00:06Go fix some old sad houses.
00:08Ben, let's go.
00:09Growing up, I didn't see what was so special about Laurel.
00:12So every day we make sure our girls see it.
00:15Good morning, Katie.
00:15Hey.
00:16Can you believe we fixed up over 100 houses in Laurel?
00:18There's so much opportunity.
00:20So many unloved houses.
00:22I don't know what is going to go wrong in here today.
00:25I'm sure something.
00:27Girl, the bat just flew through here.
00:29That's not good.
00:31Oh, what?
00:32We're about to see the house for the first time.
00:34This is the best part.
00:35Oh, my God.
00:37Holy cow.
00:38Are you serious right now?
00:40Ben, did you make this?
00:41Yeah, I made this.
00:43The real truth of living and working in your hometown is that you're going to see these people everywhere forever.
00:48It's your superpower, Erin.
00:50Color is her superpower.
00:51It is.
00:52It is perfect.
00:53Every day is different when you're renovating houses in Laurel, Mississippi.
01:05You're excited?
01:06Just a little bit.
01:08What you think they're going to do?
01:10I'm just excited to get the porch to hold the makeover.
01:12Maybe re-screen it?
01:14That's something, huh?
01:15Kay and Tecardo actually grew up in Laurel and have been friends since elementary school.
01:19And they have been sweethearts since high school.
01:22Ready?
01:22Oh, yeah.
01:23Well, I hope you got an appetite.
01:25Oh, yeah.
01:26We've been trying to get married about 13 years.
01:29We're still working on it.
01:30We're trying to get there.
01:32I originally grew up in the house next door, this house.
01:36My dad bought sort of like an investment, and he was going to fix it up.
01:40He passed away.
01:41I moved in about two years before he passed.
01:44I didn't know a lot of things.
01:46Need to fix it.
01:47Kay owns the house, but Tecardo spends a ton of time here, and he's been helping Kay with
01:51the house whenever he can.
01:52They want a real proper home before they have a wedding, and it's taken time to save the
01:58money to do that.
01:59Every time we get close, something come up.
02:02They've helped a lot of family members over the years.
02:05All through high school, my mom was ill.
02:08She passed right before senior year.
02:11I knew I had to take care of my brother and my sister.
02:13Make sure that I was going to school.
02:14Make sure that I was eating.
02:15And right after I asked my mom, then her dad, then my dad, then it was like...
02:21My aunt.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Then...
02:23One after another.
02:24Whenever a family member got sick or passed away, it was Kay and Tecardo who would step up
02:28and take care of things.
02:29Now, they feel like they're in a really good place to finally take care of this house.
02:33We have a $75,000 budget.
02:35We're hoping that this really turns this into a home.
02:42Oh, look at them roosters.
02:43It's late.
02:45They're going to lose a crop.
02:46Everybody loves Tecardo.
02:48Tecardo worked at Lot Furniture for years, which was right by our stores.
02:51We saw each other all the time.
02:53All the time.
02:54I worked at Lot for 13 years.
02:56Met a lot of good people.
02:58It was one of the...
02:58It was the oldest store in Laurel.
03:00They cool, man.
03:01You're going to like them, though.
03:02You've known them for a long time?
03:03Long enough, yeah.
03:04Okay.
03:05Tecardo is Tony Stallworth's nephew.
03:08We're for sure putting Tony on this house.
03:11Hey.
03:12Yeah, you're right there.
03:13Oh, okay.
03:14Good morning.
03:16How y'all doing?
03:17We're good, stranger.
03:18Haven't seen you lately.
03:20How are you?
03:21How are you?
03:21Y'all doing good?
03:22Yes.
03:22We're good.
03:23How are you?
03:24Good to see you.
03:25Me too.
03:26This is a big day.
03:27Yeah.
03:27It is a big day.
03:29So this is your house?
03:30I've been here since 2012.
03:31Such a charming little house.
03:34There's a lot about it that's so classic.
03:35It's just getting a little wonky in spite of this.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Yeah.
03:39So this house is two bedrooms, two baths.
03:42Yeah.
03:421,500 square feet.
03:44No air conditioning.
03:45None.
03:46None.
03:46How?
03:47Just cool thoughts.
03:48Trying that right now.
03:49Tell me the things that you love about this house.
03:51You've had a lot of time.
03:52I love the porch.
03:54Yeah.
03:54Yeah.
03:54It's a good porch.
03:55And y'all spend a lot of time there, right?
03:57Oh, yeah.
03:57Right.
03:57We're pretty much off the same day on Sunday.
04:00That's the only day we have off.
04:01Okay.
04:01And so we kind of meet up on the porch.
04:03To save money everywhere we can, we keep what's good.
04:06Okay.
04:06But there are some issues.
04:08We got foundation issues.
04:10Yes.
04:10It needs a roof.
04:11We got bats.
04:13Your gable vent needs some love.
04:15The bats have really done their thing.
04:19It's a pain to get rid of the bats.
04:21Most people don't even know where to begin to get rid of them.
04:25We have a little experience with this.
04:27Yes.
04:28First of all, let's just imagine if you no longer had bats.
04:31Okay.
04:31And we can dress this thing up a little bit.
04:34I love it.
04:35Yes?
04:35Yes.
04:36You still recognize it and it's still home?
04:38Yes.
04:38Okay.
04:39But better.
04:39Good.
04:40Trying to, like, give the house a little of a Creole cottage vibe.
04:44I think of little houses in New Orleans that are this color is what really put me down the path.
04:48Replace this gable vent and the screen door here.
04:51I love the door.
04:52Maybe some color with landscaping.
04:53Okay.
04:54Some flowers.
04:55Yeah, for sure.
04:56I love plants.
04:57So I'm a plant mom.
04:59And dig up the old sidewalk, pour a new sidewalk.
05:02Okay.
05:03Making this front porch into your Sunday fun day living room.
05:07Yes.
05:08But keeping all of this good vinyl siding, it saves you a ton of money.
05:12The best part.
05:14Yeah.
05:14That really is a big focus for us because we want to make your money stretch as far as possible.
05:18It's going to be gorgeous.
05:1975 grand is your budget.
05:22So on the exterior, 35 grand.
05:24That's going to cover your roof, the paint updates, the new walkway, foundation repair.
05:30And air conditioning.
05:31New air conditioning.
05:32Yes.
05:32Okay.
05:33You like it?
05:33That sounds good.
05:34You want to talk about the inside?
05:35Let's go.
05:36Okay.
05:37Get in out of this heat.
05:38Yeah.
05:42All right.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Like, you've gone into a lot of trouble to make this into a real room with real furniture.
05:48That's the vibe I was going for.
05:49It's not just a porch.
05:50Mm-hmm.
05:51Right.
05:51So we will honor that.
05:53Appreciate it.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Let's go on in.
05:55All right.
05:55All right.
05:55Talk about the living room and the mystery room.
05:58Mystery room.
05:59Mystery room.
06:00All right.
06:01Oh, man.
06:03Whoa.
06:04Yeah.
06:05I bet you wish you had a ceiling fan in here to move air.
06:08I wish you had a ceiling.
06:10I don't know.
06:11I don't know how you feel about paneling, but paint would make it feel totally different.
06:15I'm okay with it.
06:16I'm good with it.
06:17And once your roof is fixed, you wouldn't have a leak ever again, so then you could just
06:21do new sheetrock on the ceiling?
06:22Okay.
06:23Well, let's talk about the mystery room, okay?
06:25Yes.
06:25All right?
06:25What is...
06:26The mystery in the middle.
06:27The mystery room.
06:28It's more of a catch-all.
06:29It's a dining room.
06:31I'm sorry.
06:32It's so hot that I have to put on my hat to get wet hair off my face.
06:37All right.
06:38What was going on here?
06:39I set up a little date night little scene.
06:41Oh.
06:41Yeah.
06:42And I actually had a dining room table in here.
06:44Dang.
06:45That's so Ben Napier of you.
06:47Is he a romantic...
06:48Are you a mushy-gushy romantic?
06:50He's mushy-gushy.
06:51When you find a good romantic man who makes gestures like covering the back wall in greenery
06:58and special fairy lights to make you feel special on a date night, you keep that, man.
07:04I'm getting the feeling that you don't have a dining room because maybe you don't need
07:08one.
07:09It's kind of like pity-pity.
07:10Yeah.
07:11Yes.
07:11Where are you eating food?
07:14Well, we have a little nook in the kitchen.
07:16Yeah.
07:16Well, it could be a dining room again.
07:19We have to give it an identity in here.
07:21I really don't know what to do with that middle room, and neither do they.
07:24So for these two rooms, paint the panel and sheetrock ceiling, we want to allot 10 grand.
07:29Okay.
07:30But you have to eat food somewhere.
07:31Yeah.
07:31Let's see the spot.
07:32I've heard about the spot.
07:34This is your favorite spot to sit.
07:35It is.
07:36Okay.
07:37And you want it to keep being your spot?
07:38I love this spot.
07:39I have friends that show up daily.
07:43Those critters.
07:44And you, like, recognize them as the same squirrel and bird.
07:47They come every day.
07:48We got Oscar.
07:49Yeah.
07:49We got Heath.
07:52Oscar and Heath showed up one day, and they never left.
07:55Oscar is a squirrel.
07:57He comes to the window, and Heath is the bird.
08:00It's a cardinal.
08:01Okay.
08:02So you can tell there's something happening for sure in the subfloor when the towel does that.
08:06The subfloor and Joyce probably have some issues.
08:11Has this leaked?
08:12Is that what's happened?
08:13There's a leak somewhere under the kitchen sink.
08:16It's leaking into the floor, so it has, like, a sinky, rocky feeling.
08:20I don't think that's good.
08:22The kitchen will be the most expensive part.
08:25It would really be all about making sure we repair whatever has happened here.
08:30So I think we could keep the layout basically the same as far as plumbing, but change everything else.
08:39So if you pulled out everything that's in this room right now, you build new custom cabinetry where your sink
08:45is now.
08:46The sink would still be make room for a really economical, small dishwasher.
08:52I've never had this washer.
08:53It's important to save money by not moving plumbing.
08:56That would help a lot.
08:57And then laminate countertops would also save a lot of money.
09:01This has gotten shabby, but you could do a new laminate countertop that feels like something new and different.
09:06And you'd have new cabinetry on this wall all the way across with your range and your hood bent in
09:12the middle.
09:12You'd have tons of counter space.
09:14And the flooring, right now the tile is cracked.
09:17We know there are problems, but have to do big repairs under there.
09:20Then I think it would save money and give it a fresh new look if we did rollout vinyl.
09:26There are some cool patterns out there.
09:28We could just make the kitchen work better for you, be more comfortable.
09:33I just want to get this color out.
09:34I know you love those like rich, moody, deep teal navies and lots of natural wood.
09:40No more of that.
09:41No more of these.
09:42For everything that we're planning on doing with the house is about making it work.
09:47It'll still be a good, durable, solid kitchen, but we can do it for $30,000.
09:52I'm cool with that.
09:53Yeah.
09:53Sounds good to me.
09:54Yeah.
09:54That's $75,000.
09:56That gives you a new roof, fixes the foundation, new walkway, HVAC, no vats, a good kitchen.
10:03Is that going to get us to the altar?
10:05That's who's doing it.
10:05Is that going to get us?
10:07What is it going to take?
10:09We already have a ring, right?
10:11Got a ring.
10:11Okay, we got a ring.
10:12That's covered.
10:13I ain't going to put that in the budget.
10:15That's not in the budget.
10:18We really shine with a house like this.
10:21I just love to prove the point that you can have a small budget, a very modest house, and
10:26you can make it beautiful.
10:27You really can.
10:36All right, watch the sinkhole.
10:39We'll deal with that later.
10:40Okay, I want to get started on the screen porch, taking all the screens out, and then just ceiling
10:45tiles in here, right?
10:46Right.
10:46Only ceiling tiles.
10:48Kay has moved out and is staying in a rental in Hattiesburg so we can finally fix this house
10:52for good.
10:53It's actually a pretty small demo.
10:55Made large by the heat.
10:58Bat feces is going to be big today.
11:01Mm-hmm.
11:02Everything can go.
11:03Like, even the floors and the joists and the subfloors, we know for sure they're rotten.
11:07Yeah.
11:07There's severe rot in the kitchen.
11:10Everything is wet.
11:11Under that towel, the towel moves.
11:13One, two, three, two, three.
11:26Better not have been a mere dead gum, and I didn't need that luck.
11:33I love a screen porch.
11:35I do, too.
11:35That old screen is tough.
11:38Like, I bet it was put there in 1970-something.
11:48All these ceiling tiles have got to come down.
11:50I'm really worried about these tiles hitting me on the head, so I got my hard hat on.
11:54Right there with you.
11:55I do have this for you.
11:57What is this, painter's plastic?
11:58Protection, because, listen.
12:03What is that?
12:05It's the bats.
12:06That's the bats?
12:07They are right up there.
12:09When we start pulling this down, guano is going to be raining upon us.
12:14Mm.
12:17We just really don't want the back water to fall on our heads.
12:22I didn't feel anything taking down the ceiling tile.
12:24I went to a different place.
12:27You dissociated?
12:28I dissociated with my body so that I would not feel what was happening to me in there.
12:32They are stirred up.
12:33We got them riled up now.
12:35They're going to come down here if we're not careful.
12:36I need them gone.
12:37I need them gone immediately.
12:40The snail.
12:41I cannot handle.
12:42Are you Batman?
12:43No, I'm Batman.
12:45Does that make me Robin?
12:46Yes.
12:48We got to get these bats out of here, man.
12:49I'll follow the Batman.
12:50You shined the light in the sky.
12:52I don't know how else you would.
12:53Do-do-do-do-do-do.
12:55Huh?
12:56That's the Batman music.
12:57Was it?
12:58Yeah.
13:01But you could hear the bats.
13:03I'm going to go take a shower.
13:04Yes.
13:05Please do that.
13:10Today the bats have to go.
13:12But they're federally protected in Mississippi.
13:15And they keep the mosquito population beat back a little bit.
13:19So when you have a bat infestation, you can't just exterminate them.
13:23You have to relocate them.
13:25And you have to call professionals who know how to do it correctly.
13:29Nathan, we've been demoing in here.
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:31If you can imagine it, the kitchen is actually better than it was.
13:35Nothing's rotten.
13:36It's just dirt.
13:37Oh, my goodness.
13:38You've heard of sunken dens.
13:40Well, this is a sunken kitchen.
13:42Yes.
13:42Yeah.
13:43You want to go to the Batcave?
13:44In this scenario, you're Batman, I'm Robin.
13:48Okay.
13:48Well, I like being Batman.
13:49Yeah.
13:50Take him to the Batcave, Robin.
13:58To get into the attic, you have to go through a scuttle hole that my shoulders touch on.
14:04No.
14:04I can't.
14:08The roof line is there.
14:10So I had to, like...
14:13I'm too tall.
14:14What is that?
14:15I don't like it.
14:17Luckily, I do yoga.
14:19Yoga!
14:22What now, Batman?
14:24Oh, gosh.
14:26If you want to just angle it more towards the front.
14:28Oh, the Bat just flew through him.
14:29That's why I gave you that cap.
14:31Look right here on the side.
14:32So they'll come out the screen.
14:33They'll go through here where it's open at.
14:35Uh-huh.
14:36And they'll go in and then go out.
14:37But we'll go up there on the outside.
14:39We'll put up a one-way valve.
14:41A one-way door is what it is.
14:42Uh-huh.
14:43It'll allow them to come out, but they can't get back in.
14:45But it looks like they're coming in the front also.
14:47We got some over there, too.
14:50Shoot.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Is that them in that screen?
14:53Yeah, that's all them in that screen.
14:55Ugh.
14:56That over there is where they're coming in the most.
14:59And what we'll have to do is do the valve on all three of these areas
15:02so we can get all the bats out.
15:04So now that we have indeed located the bats,
15:06we know everywhere they're at,
15:07he is going to put a valve at every entrance.
15:10And that's the little trapdoor thing that the bats can fly through,
15:13but then they can't fly back.
15:15No more bats.
15:15No more smell.
15:16Then they'll seal off all the gables, all the openings.
15:18You see all that down there?
15:20Yes.
15:20That's all their guano.
15:22That's the stuff you don't want to stir up.
15:23Nope.
15:24He said that he will come by early in the morning next week
15:27to clean up the guano.
15:36Who's the oldest?
15:37He is.
15:38How many of y'all are there?
15:40Four.
15:40I'm the baby.
15:41You're the baby?
15:43Dad gum.
15:44I didn't know that we had baby brother in there.
15:46Anytime you can connect a family member to something you're building,
15:51it's always going to make it that much better.
15:54What was Takardo like growing up?
15:56It was rough.
15:58Very competitive sports, football, basketball, wrestling.
16:02Is it still competitive?
16:03It is.
16:04It is.
16:04Thanksgiving is the day we meet up and we get in the grass.
16:08You still wrestle?
16:09It is day.
16:10I want to build a new day bed for their front porch.
16:13I want that to stay the go-to spot.
16:15So that house is a little bit craftsman.
16:18So I want to build this like a couch that has these wide arms on it
16:24so they can use those for like setting a glass of tea down or something.
16:27A rail across the front.
16:29You know, the mattress would be up here.
16:31That acts as the sofa and then we'll put pillows and stuff on the back
16:33and make it more comfortable.
16:34It's going to be the size of a standard twin size bed.
16:37Maybe add a little notch on the bottom just to give it a little bit of creative detail.
16:43And then up here on the top, I want to just add a little bit of a decorative piece.
16:48Just something to dress it up a little bit.
16:51What he had to fight me for.
16:52Yeah, that'd be your spot, man.
16:55So I learned that Corey and Ticardo are really into wrestling.
16:59Not wrestling.
17:00Wrestling.
17:01Now you might be asking yourself, what's the difference between wrestling and wrestling?
17:06Wrestling is a sport.
17:08Wrestling is just some people having it out in the yard,
17:12but you're just trying to best each other.
17:15If you're building a daybed for a front porch that looks out onto a wrestling yard,
17:21it's bleachers.
17:22It's no longer a place to sit and read and take a nap.
17:25It's a place to sit and eat popcorn and cheer.
17:28Who's the thing going to win?
17:31All right, let's make some slats.
17:46Tony, Tony, Tony.
17:47What's going on, bitch?
17:48Missed you for demo.
17:49Y'all said y'all had bats.
17:51Not here.
17:52You don't do bats?
17:53No, I don't do bats, man.
17:55No.
17:55Tony's afraid of bats.
17:57Is that why he hasn't been here?
17:59That's why he's not been here.
17:59This is his family, and I've been wondering, where is Tony?
18:04Well, he's also been busy on other projects, but...
18:05I know he's been busy.
18:06He stays busy.
18:07I mean, it was literally the floor was caving in in here.
18:10Put me to work.
18:12Let's get it.
18:14We are putting in the new flooring system for the kitchen.
18:25It's miserable hot.
18:27I don't know how Kay and Takarda were doing this.
18:30Have you ever been here?
18:31Yes.
18:32Have you ever...
18:32You come and hang out?
18:33Yes, but it was, like, in the cooler months, so...
18:35Check level.
18:36Check level.
18:37Shouldn't be.
18:39It's good to me.
18:40It's good.
18:44What's going on?
18:46The man that we have been waiting for.
18:49What's up, cool guy?
18:50What's up?
18:51It's hot.
18:51It is.
18:52I've never been more glad to see an HVAC man in my life.
18:57This house has never had air conditioning that we're seeing with the HVAC, the HVAC, is
19:02that we don't have any.
19:03So they can start from a blank canvas, do it exactly however they want to.
19:09No more bats and no more blana, and it won't be long now.
19:13We'll be working in the cool.
19:14It'll have heat and cool now.
19:24Mr. Gregg, we got you a floor.
19:27It's easier to install cabinets when you have a floor.
19:31Oh, gosh, let me tell you something.
19:33That breeze you feel right now, you don't feel that inside this house.
19:36No, you don't, and the air still isn't connected to anything.
19:40Is this the sink?
19:41This is the sink.
19:42That's it.
19:43That's it.
19:43Nope, you gotta save a space for the dishwasher.
19:46You're going to have to move.
19:46There's going to be an 18-inch dishwasher.
19:48It's more dishwasher than they had before.
19:51I'm just trying to be efficient.
19:52This house is about making it livable first, beautiful second.
19:57We're trying to make their budget just stretch as absolutely far as possible.
20:01This saves the most money to keep the plumbing where it was.
20:04I know we usually try to put it with a window or in an island or something,
20:07but in this case, that window is their favorite spot to sit and watch Oscar and Heath,
20:12the bird and squirrel that live outside.
20:23It's going up on the walls in the front two rooms,
20:25but I have got to finalize color for the kitchen cabinet,
20:28so I'm bringing Mallory with me because she's got a great eye for design.
20:31This is the thing.
20:32We want to be as affordable as possible,
20:34but also give her as much design as we possibly can
20:37so we can be bold in the kitchen.
20:39So the cabinets are going to be a bold color.
20:41Yes.
20:41Typically, if I want a bold color, I'm going Valspar.
20:44This is a big opportunity.
20:45Yeah.
20:45I think she just wanted the house to feel bright and clean and a little more modern.
21:07So they have to dig up the old sidewalk.
21:11Then hopefully just get it really leveled up is our biggest problem.
21:14They've got to level up everything.
21:24Laramie and I are installing the laminate countertops.
21:33People have a lot of bad things to say about laminate
21:36only because we have since moved on to creating more expensive
21:40and luxurious countertop surfaces,
21:42but there's nothing wrong with laminate.
21:44When it's right for your budget, it's right for your kitchen,
21:46especially if it looks pretty.
21:48Dang.
21:51No, that looks good.
21:52Yeah.
21:52This is way, way better than the laminate countertops our mammals had in the 80s and 90s.
21:58Kay loves the look of stone that's this color,
22:02and she also loves butcher block.
22:04Both of those were a little out of budget,
22:05but I think I'm going to do a wood V-groove backsplash
22:09so she gets the natural wood she wanted in here.
22:12It looks so good, y'all.
22:14Can you talk to me about this room?
22:17Sure.
22:17Whatever this room is going to be called.
22:19Oh, come around.
22:20Oh, my gosh.
22:21I don't know what we call this room.
22:22It's the dining room,
22:23but Kay and Tecardo said they don't really need a proper dining room.
22:27They've used it as a lounge for date nights,
22:29a place that feels cool to hang out.
22:31We got cold air.
22:32Shut that door.
22:34It feels so good.
22:35This is the first time I've felt cold air in this house.
22:38First time anybody's felt cold air in this house.
22:40So much.
22:40Finally know exactly what I'm doing.
22:42I need a table for this room,
22:44but not like a dining table,
22:47a banquette table.
22:49So we're going dining room.
22:51But smaller than that.
22:52They never use this door.
22:54Into the hallway.
22:55So there will still be room to pass through.
22:57If they were to some reason start using this door.
23:00They could.
23:01The only thing they suggested
23:02was that they would use this room possibly for like date nights
23:05to make it feel like they're somewhere special.
23:09It's a lounge.
23:10Here's what I need.
23:11Here's what I'm thinking.
23:12You ready?
23:12We're going to have a bench here that's longer,
23:15a shorter bench here,
23:17the table here.
23:18We're going to put the light fixture over it.
23:20And then over here,
23:21I've ordered some bookcases that are prefab
23:24for right and left of the window.
23:26And then we'll have a settee
23:28in the middle in front of the window.
23:30What about over here?
23:30We can have a little space for a little storage or plants.
23:33She loves plants.
23:35Make this room like romantic and fun and playful.
23:38And also, if they're going to host, they can wrestle in the front yard,
23:42but you have more seating.
23:44Mm-hmm.
23:45So we're calling this a dining lounge?
23:47Sure.
23:48Sure.
23:48I like that.
23:55Guess who's coming today?
23:57Bobby Joe.
23:58Did you see this before?
24:00Oh, yeah.
24:01So this was real thin and all broke up.
24:04We're going to get it fixed.
24:05Oh, yeah.
24:06Well, when we get all this done,
24:07this is going to be a wrestling yard.
24:09Sure enough.
24:10It's their favorite thing to do.
24:11You ever do any wrestling?
24:12Oh, no.
24:13I didn't, but I enjoy it.
24:16Bobby Joe has a very specific Southern dialect
24:20that's a little bit hard for those outside of our area
24:23to understand, maybe.
24:25What would your wrestling nickname be if you was a wrestler?
24:28They used to call me the Junkyard Dog.
24:33I guess my wrestling name would just have to be Big Ben.
24:36Yeah.
24:40I would wear basically a one-piece swimsuit,
24:42but with the shorts, you know.
24:44One shoulder.
24:45Andre the Giant style.
24:47That's you.
24:50You know, people always compare me to Andre the Giant.
24:55Get a new walkway, and then when that's done,
24:57Hunter will come back and do the fresh landscaping.
24:59I just am ready to see some paint happen outside,
25:02and then we're going to be looking way better out here.
25:08What do you think?
25:08It looks great.
25:09Yeah.
25:10Yeah?
25:10Yeah.
25:11Yeah, that's great.
25:11This here is a Junkyard Dog, Aaron.
25:13Yeah, yeah.
25:14That's his wrestling name.
25:15That's what they used to call the Entitled Lill.
25:17Are you out of the game now?
25:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:20Well, it looks great, y'all.
25:21We got stuff happening in the kitchen.
25:3019 and three quarters.
25:32Are you measuring?
25:32Yes, sir.
25:33We are working on a backsplash.
25:35I feel confident that I can do this myself.
25:45That is perfect.
25:48I feel like it's something.
25:50It's time for me to learn how to do a V-groove backsplash.
25:55Aaron, are we going to paint these?
25:57No, this is the only, like, wood moment.
26:02We're going to give her natural wood backsplash.
26:04I think it'll look good if you do a light stain on all of it.
26:07A light stain.
26:14Yeah, they say that you are an expert at something when you have 10,000 hours of experience in it.
26:18But five minutes.
26:20It's so long.
26:20You're a quick learner.
26:21Real quick.
26:22Oh, thank you.
26:32Oh, my goodness.
26:34Locked furniture is closing after 109?
26:38Over 100 years.
26:39Yeah.
26:40Over 100 years.
26:41And this is, like, one of those...
26:43We're going to do this business downtown.
26:44Hey.
26:45Hey, y'all, welcome.
26:47Y'all been busy.
26:48We have.
26:49Oh, my word.
26:50Welcome to the estate sale.
26:51Yes.
26:52This is the end of an era.
26:53I know.
26:54It sure is.
26:55The Rowles are ready to retire.
26:56It makes sense.
26:57So they're having an estate sale.
26:59Y'all must have brought stuff in from, like, all the storage areas.
27:02Everywhere.
27:03Wow.
27:04There's so much good stuff.
27:06We're doing Kay and Ticardo's house.
27:08That is so exciting.
27:10Isn't that fun?
27:11There's still not a wedding night, though.
27:12Don't get excited.
27:13Well, it'll come.
27:14It'll come.
27:14They're going to get married sooner than later, I hope.
27:17And Ticardo would love if there were pieces from Lott.
27:19He would be so happy to have a piece of Lott, because he was here almost 15 years.
27:23These Bentwood chairs.
27:25Those are really great.
27:26Aren't those so cute?
27:27Forty.
27:27And there's five of them.
27:29In our great condition.
27:30I want all of those.
27:33I think it is sad any time one of those heritage businesses closes.
27:37Yeah.
27:38In town.
27:38We all feel it a little bit.
27:40But also exciting, just because something new, something fresh is going to come.
27:44That's a good label.
27:45Isn't that good?
27:46I love that dollhouse.
27:47Always have.
27:48I feel like the girls have plenty, though.
27:50Yeah, they do.
27:56What is that?
27:58It looks like a gumball machine.
28:01Is it plastic or glass?
28:04Lucite.
28:06It's one of those old terrariums.
28:09Dang.
28:10Do you know what I'm talking about?
28:10Yeah, it's vented up here.
28:11Kay loves plants in the house.
28:13I actually think she might really like this.
28:15Is this crazy?
28:16It's pretty crazy, but it's really fun and unexpected.
28:19Her taste is a little more modern.
28:21I'm getting this.
28:21Bye-bye.
28:51Aaron, man.
28:51me go up in the attic i've been smelling them bat guano smells like mothballish it's acrid
28:58it's disgusting dang it bats are back ah kay and carter are coming home in one week so we had
29:07to
29:07call nathan back so you saw the signal saw the bat signal yeah saw it in the sky i did
29:12take a look
29:12up there and it looks to me that they have come back and there are in the side of the
29:17screen up
29:18there in the gable vent hey batman returns yeah i've been smelling them well he just confirmed it
29:23right yes i did looks like what happened the screen on the back side we took your screen down
29:29we needed to paint it and fix it so we took it down but we told them to put it
29:32on the inside yeah
29:33once they've lived in this house for one time period they'll come back so those bats were able to get
29:38in
29:38to the actual attic again so it'll be uh good to keep that screen on so what happened is it's
29:46our fault
29:47how big of a gap can a bat get through usually about a pinky they put the screen over the
29:53gable
29:53vent but we had not yet scraped or painted so we had the guys move the screen to the inside
29:59of the gable which created a perfect habitat for the bat attack what we have to do is just screen
30:07the front side to where we can prevent them from going back into it because if they get into that
30:11gable and hang on that screen they'll just keep going back into the attic like are we gonna have bats
30:15forever as long as we're able to get that front closed up and prevent them from actually going
30:20back in to the actual gable itself then we'll be able to keep them out is this even possible in
30:24a
30:24week bats will come out within 24 to 48 hours after we put the valve up i'll be so glad
30:30when they're
30:30gone i hope that they're gone by then and i hope that the smell is mostly gone if it's not
30:35totally gone
30:36he's gonna redo the bat valve he's gonna come back and we're gonna do a hardware cloth screen he'll fit
30:44it
30:45inside our trim around the vent so that it doesn't stand out
31:07see mom and dad that's why i got this art degree yeah
31:32i am so excited for kay and ticardo to come home and see how fresh and cool their house is
31:39because
31:39it has air conditioning and it smells nice because the bats are gone i mean it's like a different house
31:44for those two reasons and you don't even take into account the way it looks
31:49the lounge dining room date night spot kay needed storage in there we gave that to her around the
31:55windows and then the benches and the banquette in the corner it feels like it's a cute little cafe
32:02it is a dining room but it's also a sitting room we've still got the little sitting spot in the
32:08window in
32:08kitchen so kay can observe heath and oscar assuming they come back this house was a study
32:15in how far you can stretch a budget we use laminate countertops we use roll out vinyl flooring in the
32:22kitchen when you can save money on those big things then you can find ways to creatively make the
32:29house feel transformed you know ben was really focused on making the day bed on the front porch
32:35something beautiful something that will last an heirloom because that's where they always spend
32:39all their time it is a work of art kay and ticardo's entire relationship has been a very
32:44tumultuous time for them with their families helping others instead of themselves the house was always
32:51the very dead last priority for them and so now maybe this changes their priorities maybe they'll get
32:58married time i don't know we'll see maybe one day this house will be the jones williams house
33:06what are you doing i love it i absolutely love it
33:17that's crazy
33:19oh my goodness it looks so good oh my god
33:26oh my goodness i never saw this coming
33:30you like it i love it
33:34oh my goodness it looks like you can see the whole house now yeah man it looked good though
33:39oh my goodness we put a roof on the house we re-screened the front porch we added air conditioning
33:47they'll block the bats bats are out of here baby new screen in the gable that should keep them out
33:53for
33:53good i'm excited about the sidewalk and the doors yes got fresh paint on the brick and the skirting and
34:02columns to save money where we could on the exterior man it looks so good i mean i like the
34:09landscape
34:09and everything man it's crazy look at the yard i know right the yard was kind of just disappearing
34:15it looked like there had been an earthquake here ticardo you can wrestle in the yard with your brothers
34:21your brother corey helped me in the wood shot with something and he said every holiday get
34:25together ends up turning it into a wrestling match i'm a little over wrestling
34:29we'll be able to say he said my knees are not made for that no more no he said i
34:33might give him
34:34one match i'm ready to see you let's go let's go for it oh my goodness
34:47this is gorgeous you like it i love it yes
34:55you had a day bed out here this one is made with love your brother corey helped me build this
35:02this is what i learned about corey this is how i learned so much about your wrestling so you think
35:08corey put the pillows on the bed no no he helped me build it that's cool though that's cool that
35:13is
35:13amazing i love the wide armrest because they're like end tables you can sit a plate on it they're wide
35:18enough it's spanish cedar so it will last forever out here covered like this and you have screens the
35:25bugs will stay out sunday sunday sunday sunday sunday it's back beautiful yeah but the inside is even better
35:37oh my goodness this is crazy what do you think no way no is this my house yes
35:48oh this is crazy this is crazy feels good in here it's weird i mean this air conditioning is the
35:53best
35:54thing we did yeah i've never felt like this it's so cool it's not hot
36:01you have new ceilings fresh paint new ceiling fan uncover the fireplace and that's it you said this
36:10this is amazing like it ain't nothing you know you're just that's it oh there's way better no no it's
36:17the lounge date nights go see we're calling it the lounge room the lounge yeah because it's kind of a
36:23dining room oh this is amazing okay and you can invite family over for dinner but it's also like a
36:36sitting room but you really needed storage oh lots of storage over here because i could tell you were
36:42struggling to find the cabinets yeah so we did these bookcases beside the window oh i know those people
36:56and then the banquette is all storage you can lift that up and put things inside okay i love it
37:02this table josh and i built it in the shop this was aaron's idea she kind of designed i just
37:08want
37:08to be a really pretty little cafe table it is cute though it didn't take up the whole room so
37:13you could
37:13still use this door if you want to still not technically a dining room it's a lounge room i was
37:19going to say make the whole room look like bigger pictures from the fair that's sweet what's up with
37:24you and ferris wheels we love them but that's kind of when we first started dating the fair is in
37:29town
37:29this week so we should go yeah y'all should go yeah this is my favorite you like it i
37:35love it can
37:36you tell me no but i'll try okay we found the terrarium at the lot closing sale felt like it
37:42was
37:43kind of like your vibe your plant lady vibe i love it yeah and then we got these little chairs
37:49that i
37:50thought were so pretty yeah i recognize them yeah awesome for real with the windows being open like
37:56this nothing in front of them you can sit here now and watch for oscar and heath no you didn't
38:01wait a
38:01minute oscar and heath built their own houses while we were here isn't that amazing they built it um
38:08we scared them off i think because we haven't seen them and so i thought if we get them cute
38:12little
38:13houses maybe they'll come back they'll come back which one's oscar and which one's he show you when
38:17they come out okay oscar's the squirrel yes heath is the bird that's right okay but you still have
38:24your spot i'm excited
38:34wow yo no
38:41you see this this is crazy yeah a little better this is a little better what are you serious
38:50different especially way different this area was about to just sink and fall hold up no no no this
38:59isn't our kitchen no it's not no this is so your kitchen look how wide open they opened the whole
39:05kitchen cousin tony came over and we took everything out and then rebuilt we did have to take out the
39:12entire floor all the joists the subfloor everything because it had leaked from the sink for so long that
39:18it had spread everywhere cousin tony cousin tony and he and i did the v-group backsplash he taught me
39:24his ways you wanted teal kitchen cabinets you wanted some natural wood somewhere but it never looked like
39:31this in my head you've got laminate countertops sheet vinyl floors i feel like it achieves the look
39:38that you were kind of after this is amazing is that a dishwasher yes it is k that is your
39:47very
39:47old dishwasher and it's small but mighty this is crazy jacardo can just sit here and talk to oscar
39:53and he sure instead of having to wash dishes and here's your spot so when k is cooking you can
39:59still
39:59hang in the kitchen as nice as it feels inside let's go sit on that front porch yeah wow wow
40:10are you so glad to be home i am good y'all it ain't a sunday but it feels like
40:16fun it feels like it
40:18please keep using your front porch though i am even though you have air conditioning this is where we
40:23have sunday sunday at yeah you gave us 75 grand to work on this house which is a tight budget
40:29so we had
40:30to be with a lot to do it's real good i love it good i feel like this has been
40:37something that was
40:37just like the last priority on the back burner because everything and everyone else was your
40:43first priority i hope that this can be a happy fresh start something new one last thing we have 13
40:51dollars left over what's this about conveniently the cost of a marriage license that's right that's
41:02right jacardo don't go to the fair tonight and blow it on corn you blow it on the fair as
41:08well
41:08i don't think we got enough for corn dog with this
41:15it's been four years our friend michael mckinnon is an architect in town and he's asked us to come
41:22back and finish this building but we are coming back under very different circumstances what happened
41:29was probably the worst thing i could have you know fathomed we were seeing pictures of this building up in
41:35smoke i mean it was billowing out of this area that we had just finished you know part of me
41:42hopes it goes back to what it was do we feel super solid about this plan nope that's what makes
41:48it a
41:48good one michael's taste is totally not my taste but we can't just do english country houses every day
41:56i need to call this building complete y'all
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