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The Ultimate Roofing Solution with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight O six thirteen ten Double you, I B A
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  Speaker 1: and ask the experts. Brought to you by Larsen Home
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  Speaker 1: Services Online Larsen Home Services dot com. That's l A
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  Speaker 1: R S O N Home Services dot com. Great website
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about Larsen Home Services. You can also
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  Speaker 1: start a chat and a conversation right on the website
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  Speaker 1: as well. Their telephone number six eight five three five
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  Speaker 1: forty three forty three. That's five three five forty three
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  Speaker 1: forty three, and their man with the Plan, mister Andrew Larson,
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  Speaker 1: joins us this morning. Andrew, how you doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: I would not go so far as to say I
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  Speaker 3: have a plan. I'm pretty good at winging things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got you've got a great team around you
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  Speaker 1: to uh to do that. Yes, and that's uh. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk this week about about roofing, but specifically
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  Speaker 1: roofing systems. And this was something that as a homeowner
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  Speaker 1: I had learned that there is a difference between just
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  Speaker 1: having putting a new roof on and actually having a
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  Speaker 1: roof system. And the other thing that I know about you, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: is you are not one to sit still. You're not
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  Speaker 1: one just to simply be satisfied. You're always looking for
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  Speaker 1: for improvements, better options, and and better things for folks,
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  Speaker 1: and when it comes to roofing, that is definitely. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've got you've got some other areas that you're
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  Speaker 1: passionate about, but it seems to me that that roofing
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  Speaker 1: seems to be the most near and dear to your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about some of the options
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  Speaker 1: with largstome services and specifically when we talk about about
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  Speaker 1: roofing roofing systems and something new on that on that front,
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  Speaker 1: isn't there Andrew.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know there is, and it's it's not something
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  Speaker 3: like mind blowing and some sort of new product.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Being in this business for as many years as I have,
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to residential roofing, asphalt roofing.
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  Speaker 2: Is where it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's where it is where we live, or all over
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  Speaker 3: the United States for that matter. I have been to
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  Speaker 3: other countries and not a lot of asphalt roofs are
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  Speaker 3: put on anywhere else in the world. They really look
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  Speaker 3: to products that last a lot longer, and I would
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  Speaker 3: say just doing asphalt, I almost just call them replacement roofs.
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  Speaker 3: We're always trying to do something better or do it
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  Speaker 3: the best way that we possibly can, because you know, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I hate it when we put a roof on and
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years later it gets hit with hail
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  Speaker 3: or something like that, it has to be replaced. We
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  Speaker 3: tear them off, we throw them in a landfill, redo it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of a lot of contractors out there
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  Speaker 3: that love that. It's like guaranteed repeat business. So what
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  Speaker 3: we've done is we've really tried to make this something proprietary.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to our roofing system and the Ultimate
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  Speaker 3: Roofing Solution by Larson and Larson Kini Home Services.
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  Speaker 2: Is something that.
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  Speaker 3: Over the past fifteen to twenty years, we've looked at
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  Speaker 3: the way things are done. We've looked at the way
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  Speaker 3: roofing manufacturers require, require re sorry require their roofs to
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  Speaker 3: be done. We've also looked at the way the codes
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  Speaker 3: are written. And we've heard this time and time again,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, we had our roof done and it's
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  Speaker 3: leaking and it was all done to code. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: we can talk about codes. I mean codes to me,
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, when it comes to stuff like roofing,
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  Speaker 3: are almost bare minimum. It's like bare minimum way it
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  Speaker 3: should be done. Hopefully it works out. I'm take it.
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  Speaker 3: Where we live, for instance, we have we have temperatures
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  Speaker 3: that get up to one hundred degrees, temperatures that get
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  Speaker 3: down to thirty below, and if.
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  Speaker 2: Your roof is over a six pitch.
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  Speaker 3: Technically, by code you don't even have to have an
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  Speaker 3: ice and water.
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  Speaker 2: On your roof, which is insane to me. No ice
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  Speaker 2: and water in the valley, no ice and water at
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  Speaker 2: the eaves.
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  Speaker 3: There are actually builders out there that will specifically build
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  Speaker 3: their homes to those specifications just so they can put
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  Speaker 3: the cheapest roof possible on and have it be too
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote code.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's not acceptable for us because.
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  Speaker 3: Even though our GAF Golden Pledge roof warranties come with
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  Speaker 3: a fifty year non pro rated warranty on it, the
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  Speaker 3: worst warranty that you have to use, or the worst
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  Speaker 3: warranty you can get, is one that you have to
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  Speaker 3: use because we know that if you have to use
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  Speaker 3: that warranty, your roof leaked. So we've put together a
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  Speaker 3: roofing system and we have named it the Ultimate Roofing Solution,
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  Speaker 3: and it is done and honestly usually I share every
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  Speaker 3: everything on here. I don't really want to share.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly how it's done, you know, for obvious reasons. It
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  Speaker 2: is proprietary.
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  Speaker 3: But what I can tell you is this, we use
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  Speaker 3: the best products that we can use, done in the
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  Speaker 3: best way, and we use certain products. Remember I always
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  Speaker 3: talk about it doesn't matter what shingles you use, it
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  Speaker 3: can be the best shingles in the world. But if
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  Speaker 3: the critical details aren't done properly, the roof of leak.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we have homeowners to say, well, no, I
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  Speaker 3: talked to another roofer and he said, you can just
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  Speaker 3: go over these shingles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, you can go over those.
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  Speaker 3: Shingles, but then you can't actually do the critical details.
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  Speaker 3: You can't replace pipe boots properly. You can't do your
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  Speaker 3: step flashings, your roof to wall flashings, your chimney fly
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  Speaker 3: you can't do all that stuff properly when you go
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  Speaker 3: over shingles. So, no matter what, a roof should always
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  Speaker 3: be torn down to the decking, so everything can be
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  Speaker 3: inspected and done properly from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Out.
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  Speaker 3: With our ultimate roofing solution, we're going to use probably
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  Speaker 3: more ice and water than any other roofer would ever
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  Speaker 3: imagine to use. But that's because we've been doing this
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  Speaker 3: long enough where we know where leak points are and
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  Speaker 3: we know where problems can arise, so we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do It's it's like, quote unquote, our roofing valleys are
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  Speaker 3: like a roofing valley on on crack.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the right term to use
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  Speaker 2: right here, but like let's say, yeah, yeah, crack bad.
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  Speaker 2: Crack is bad, but it's it's on steroids. Is it overkilled? Possibly?
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  Speaker 3: But if you think about it, a valley is where
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  Speaker 3: two roofs converge or two roofing planes converge, and then
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  Speaker 3: all of that water comes down that area. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: like a gutter for your roof and water will sit there,
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  Speaker 3: tree debris will sit there, the leaves, the sticks, the ice,
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  Speaker 3: the snow, everything builds up there, and when that happens,
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  Speaker 3: it can leak. I mean, I would say probably seventy
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  Speaker 3: five percent of the roofs that we replace have some
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  Speaker 3: sort of underlayment or not underlayment, but decking damage in
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  Speaker 3: the valleys because they've leaked and nobody even knew they leaked.
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  Speaker 3: Over time they leaked, they wet they're dry now, the
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  Speaker 3: wood is rotten. Eventually it will start leaking through. One
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  Speaker 3: of my first home that I bought down here in
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  Speaker 3: the Madison area. We tore that roof off and I
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  Speaker 3: had holes in my valley, and I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Then I get in the attic and all the insulations wet,
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  Speaker 3: but I had no idea that was eventually going.
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  Speaker 2: To start causing a really bad problem.
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  Speaker 3: So with our ultimate rooving solution, valleys are done the
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  Speaker 3: best way they can possibly be done. Now, that adds
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  Speaker 3: cost to the job, but for us it adds peace
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  Speaker 3: of mind. We're going to use more ice and water
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  Speaker 3: at the eaves and on the rakes than anybody else will,
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  Speaker 3: and the best underlayd it's possible.
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  Speaker 2: So also with an.
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  Speaker 3: Ultimate roofing solution, we're not going to use a throwaway shingle.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to use a Class four impact rated shingle.
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  Speaker 3: So when these storms come through, you're most likely not
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  Speaker 3: going to have anything to worry about. There's nothing that
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  Speaker 3: made me feel better than when the hailstorms came through
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  Speaker 3: your area where you lived earlier this year. I can't
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  Speaker 3: tell you how many roof inspections that we went back
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  Speaker 3: to for our past customers, and they had no damage,
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  Speaker 3: and every single roof around them was getting replaced. And
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  Speaker 3: this is what I can tell you, and I've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this before when it comes to insurance nowadays, it's honestly,
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  Speaker 3: it's a coin flip. It is a coin flip on
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  Speaker 3: whether or not they're going to approve your whole roof,
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  Speaker 3: half your roof, part of your roof. Maybe you don't
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  Speaker 3: have recoverable depreciation anymore, which you didn't know about. So
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  Speaker 3: let's say you're twenty thousand dollars roof they deemed to
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  Speaker 3: be half half done. Okay, well, now they're going to
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  Speaker 3: give you ten Well, now take out your which is
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  Speaker 3: anywhere nowadays from one thousand to three thousand dollars sometimes more.
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  Speaker 3: Now maybe you're left with seven or eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: to replace your twenty thousand dollars roof. And if you
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  Speaker 3: don't spend that extra ten to twelve thousand dollars out
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  Speaker 3: of pocket to replace it, your insurance company will drop you.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're not gonna be able to get another one.
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  Speaker 3: So the whole the days of just getting hail damage
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  Speaker 3: and getting a.
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  Speaker 2: Roof, those are done.
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  Speaker 3: So what we're trying to do is do the best
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  Speaker 3: roof that we can with the best shingles we can,
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  Speaker 3: so that when stuff like this happens, there's no issue
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  Speaker 3: and we can just come hopefully come now.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: It's we've spent a lot of time, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: window or windshield time, going back and inspecting these roofs,
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  Speaker 3: but there's just nothing better than when our reps go, yep,
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  Speaker 3: another roof inspection.
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  Speaker 2: No damage, all good, and then yeah, that's what we want.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things too, is we talk about you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know, insurance companies, and obviously they're they're not in
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't build those beautiful buildings for free.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason why is they are very guarded and
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  Speaker 1: very cautious with what they're going to pay, and we
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  Speaker 1: can save our personal feelings. Sometimes industry, we probably do
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  Speaker 1: a whole show on it. But one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I've noticed around town is for folks that have
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  Speaker 1: had to do insurance claims that didn't have those warranties,
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  Speaker 1: their insurance company is just saying, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 1: paying this and then we're done. You're dropped, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's for a lot of folks. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: as they look for new insurance and they see that
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  Speaker 1: your last insurance was dropped because they had to pay
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  Speaker 1: for a new roof. Well, I guess what your premiums
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  Speaker 1: are going to look like. They're going to be quite hefty.
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  Speaker 1: So we talk about some of the great things in
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind. You talk about, you know, that ultimate
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  Speaker 1: roofing solution. You talk about the work that you guys
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  Speaker 1: do at Larstom Services. You talk about the service you
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  Speaker 1: provide at Larsom Services. What a great day to give
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  Speaker 1: them a call at lars Stoom Services to talk with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and the team have to come out take a
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  Speaker 1: look at your roof. Whether you're concerned about possible damage
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  Speaker 1: or you're concerned about the future. It's a great day
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  Speaker 1: to have your roof inspector. They're telephe number six soh
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  Speaker 1: Home Services dot com. Andrew, it's always great catching up
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  Speaker 1: my friend. You enjoyed this great day and we'll talk
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