diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/guava/NoGuavaRefaster.java b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/guava/NoGuavaRefaster.java
index 37db830d96..562f63ad8f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/guava/NoGuavaRefaster.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/guava/NoGuavaRefaster.java
@@ -41,36 +41,36 @@ Object after(Object object) {
         }
     }
 
+    // Note: Order of the below two recipes are important.
     @RecipeDescriptor(
-            name = "`Preconditions.checkNotNull` with message to `Objects.requireNonNull`",
+            name = "`Preconditions.checkNotNull` with `String` message to `Objects.requireNonNull`",
             description = "Migrate from Guava `Preconditions.checkNotNull` to Java 8 `java.util.Objects.requireNonNull`."
     )
     public static class PreconditionsCheckNotNullWithMessageToObjectsRequireNonNull {
         @BeforeTemplate
-        Object before(Object object, Object message) {
+        Object before(Object object, String message) {
             return com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(object, message);
         }
 
         @AfterTemplate
-        Object after(Object object, Object message) {
-            return java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(object, String.valueOf(message));
+        Object after(Object object, String message) {
+            return java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(object, message);
         }
     }
 
     @RecipeDescriptor(
-            name = "`String.valueof(String)` to `String`",
-            description = "Migrate from `String.valueof(String)` to `String`, mainly as a cleanup after other recipes."
+        name = "`Preconditions.checkNotNull` with `Object` message to `Objects.requireNonNull` with `String.valueOf`",
+        description = "Migrate from Guava `Preconditions.checkNotNull` to Java 8 `java.util.Objects.requireNonNull`."
     )
-    public static class StringValueOfString {
+    public static class PreconditionsCheckNotNullWithMessageToObjectsRequireNonNullMessageTypeObject {
         @BeforeTemplate
-        @SuppressWarnings("UnnecessaryCallToStringValueOf")
-        String before(String string) {
-            return String.valueOf(string);
+        Object before(Object object, Object message) {
+            return com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(object, message);
         }
 
         @AfterTemplate
-        String after(String string) {
-            return (string);
+        Object after(Object object, Object message) {
+            return java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(object, String.valueOf(message));
         }
     }
 }