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Steel Roof with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eight oh seven thirteen ten Wiba Madison in the Morning and Ask the Experts,
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  joined this morning by Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services the website Larsen Home Services
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  dot com. I bet you knew that it's l A R. S.
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  O and Home Services dot com. Tel one number six so eight five three
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  five forty three forty three. That's five three five forty three forty three.
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  We're gonna be talking. I know it's graduation season, folks start thinking of
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  our getting close to the graduations season. Start talking shingles. We're talking about
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  different kind of shingles, actual physical shingles that you hang on your roof.
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  Well, they're going to do that. We're talking about that with Andrew this
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  morning. Andrew, how you doing this week? Doing great? It's beautiful,
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  absolutely beautiful. My grass is green. Yeah, it's been a while
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  since I've seen that. Isn't that amazing? Lots of roofs up. Is
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  it almost like when you start to see dandy lyons coming up? Is that
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  when you start thinking the phones. I know, obviously with Larsen Home Services,
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  you guys are going year round and a lot of stuff going on in
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  ourself services. But it seems like as soon as we start getting into as
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  you mentioned, the lawn greeting up and other things, people really start to
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  turn focus to things like roofs, don't they They do. I mean,
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  it's look, we we work year round, whether it's our insulation or doing
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  gutters, gutter shutter, we install it year round because it does nothing with
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  the roofs. So you know, unless it's super super cold, we're getting
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  a snowstorm, we're out there working. Same with roofing. Honestly, especially
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  this year. I mean we were seeing fifty sixties and I think, did
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  we not hit like seventy degrees in February? We did. We even had
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  a tornado in Fabry, very odd. Yright it's just a strange stranger.
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  Yeah, we're working year round, and you know, one thing I wanted
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  to talk about today is we had somebody email in and ask a question about
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  different types of shingles, and they were specifically asking about steel shingles, and
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  so I thought today'd be kind of a good day to dive into some different
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  types of products that are out there for roofing, different types of materials that
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  are used for roofing, and pros and cons of all of them, and
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  not necessarily just ones that we particularly sell, because there, I mean mostly
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  ninety nine percent of roofs that we drive by have some sort of asphalt shingle
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  on their home, with asphalt shingles with granular rocks on them. Right,
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  That's what I've always had on my roof, shown I know that's what you
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  have on your roof. Phenomenal products and the technology that goes into creating these
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  products has come light years. I can remember when I was a kid,
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  we put a big addition on our house and we got a new roof on
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  our house. And I will not name the manufacturer, but they had tried
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  something else with the felt matting of the shingle, and my parents' shingles lasted
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  eight years, and in eight years all the granule rocks fell off of them.
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  They all curled up, they were shot, they were rotten. But
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  my dad was like, worry, they've got a twenty five year warranty on
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  him. He called in and they sure did. They had a twenty five
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  year warranty and it was pro rated and they said, yes, sir,
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  they're still under warranty. We're going to send you a check for two hundred
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  and twenty dollars. Oh, Greg was not happy. What a kick in
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  the shorts, right, Yes, it was funny because actually by that time
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  I had I had already started my career in roofing and gutters and I was
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  actually a salesman at the time in the Twin Cities for an amazing company called
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  Lindis Construction. And I sold my parents a roof. And you won't believe
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  this. I even took my commission out of it. Oh, you are
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  a great son, you are. I know, I'm telling you. I
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  figured I was good for Christmas and birthdays that but they failed. Nowadays they're
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  made much better, much much much better. And you know one of the
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  reasons that fourteen years ago now I decided to pair and partner with GAF is
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  because of the warranties and the backings that they put on their shingles. I
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  mean, once we put some really hard work in. I mean for two
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  years, we put a lot of hard work in putting roofs up, and
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  we actually had representatives from gaf inspect every single roof that we did, making
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  sure that they were done to the standards that they set forth. In order
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  for us to become a master Elite roofer. Once we got that Master Elite
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  status, we're then able to put a Golden Pledge warranty on our roofs.
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  So when we put an asphalt roof on somebody's home, it has a fifty
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  year non pro rated warranty. The non pro rated part is the biggest part
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  of it. That means if you pay twenty thousand dollars today for a new
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  roof and in twenty years those shingles fail, but now the cost to replace
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  that roof is forty thousand dollars and the way things are going they will be
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  it's covered one hundred percent. So that's what I loved about that, and
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  that's what I paired with him. And we've actually had a couple warranty claims
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  in the past fourteen years and it was literally like send us a picture,
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  yep, replace it, and they we got paid to replace that roof.
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  That's the type of partner that I like, and that's why we paired with
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  GAF. Now there's lots of different types of shingles out there nowadays, Sean.
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  We've got synthetic material shingles that are made out of plastic nice and then
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  the other big pushes steel, and there's all kinds of different steel products.
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  There's steel looking shingles, there's slate looking steel, there's steel shingles that have
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  granules on them to look more like asphalt. And I guess really the thought
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  behind it is that steel is going to last a lot longer, and I
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  would agree with that, But not everything is the same. So when you
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  look at a standing seam where you've got the ribs that stand up and down,
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  it's more like a type of steel you'd see like on a pole barn.
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  There's not a lot that can go wrong with that roof. And when
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  I say not, like, I don't know if anything can go like that.
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  It's really interesting. I would've since I look at roofs. Yes,
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  if you were to take a drive through bear a Boot, I'd love to
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  look up the company that did this. But if you drive through bear a
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  Boot, almost every single house on the main strip, the old houses,
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  the old beautiful Victorians, they all have steel roofs on them. And those
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  steel roofs are original to those homes, and those homes are all one hundred
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  years old, So this stuff can last. A lot of some of them
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  have been recoated or repainted but most of those roofs are original, so that
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  stuff can last a long long time and it doesn't require any sort of waterproof
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  membrane. They are water tight, which is one of the biggest problems I
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  have with a lot of the steel shingles. They look beautiful, they last
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  a long time, but they are not water tight. They do not seal
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  down to the roof. They require a lot of them require a thick rubber
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  underlayment to stop leakage. I've dealt with them. We've dealt with some leaks.
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  I'm sure most of them are great. Biggest problem with steel roofs for
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  me nowadays is the way insurance companies are going show. They are really tightening
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  up. Some of the biggest insurance companies in the world. You look at
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  your state farm, your am FAM. Some of those big ones are reporting
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  billion dollar losses for the second year in a row, and a lot of
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  that has to do with storm restoration, hail, tornadoes, and wind.
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  Now what they're starting to do on steel roofs is say, hey, that's
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  cosmetic. That is not and you people have got to look at their insurance
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  policies. We just dealt with one the other day where it had not they
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  depreciate your roof. When your roof is on your home, they depreciate it.
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  So I think the typical life of a roof. Don't quote me on
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  this. There's probably people going that's not true. But what I see is
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  about twenty years. So they're going to depreciate your roof. If they go
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  up there and they say, okay, your roof is ten years old,
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  we're going to appreciate it ten years. The actual cash value or the actual
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  replacement value of your roof is twenty thousand, we're going to give you ten
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  thousand. Typically, not a problem, because a lot of policies have what's
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  called recoverable depreciation, meaning if they depreciate the roof to ten thousand dollars,
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  they give you a check for ten thousand dollars. Then once you get the
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  work done they will give you they will give you the other ten thousand dollars.
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  Perfect, no problem. A lot of policies are becoming that they do
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  not cover that recoverable depreciation. We just ran into this the other day with
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  somebody who had a roof, they'd appreciated it, and lo and behold,
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  they did not have recoverable depreciation. Interesting so they were kind of stuck with
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  it, can I And I've got to ask you to and you mentioned driving
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  through Barboo and I've noticed that as well. Some of those roofs. By
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  the way, the house is falling down, but the roofs, the roof
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  is still there. It's just it's true interest something. And you mentioned kind
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  of how that stuff can get beat up. So with that and one of
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  the other things I hear oftentimes at about from folks with is we talk about
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  some of the different types of roofing materials with Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services
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  is the noise is I hear people one of the one of the things people
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  often often comment about is if they've got a like a standing seam roof,
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  things like that. They say it's loud if it rains or anything like that.
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  You hear every little thing that hits your roof, you can this is
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  very very true. I see I have some standing seals, some standing seat
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  steel roofing on my house, some standing seam and for me on a residential
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  home, for the most part, I think standing This is just my opinion.
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  It looks great with accent. So I've got some accent dormers that have
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  got some steel on it. I think it looks phenomenal, and then I
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  think it's you need the right application. Sometimes I don't. It can look
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  out of place on certain homes. But sometimes nowadays they're designing I can give
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  you a very modern look as well with a great roof. So again there's
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  applications and times and places for everything. When it comes to a synthetic shingle,
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  I know I've talked about Fwave on here before, and what really attracted
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  me to f wave was that it's completely synthetic. It's made out of plastic.
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  Now, admittedly, the warranty that goes along with the product like this
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  actually is not as good as a warranty that goes along with a GAF shingle.
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  It's not even close. I have inklings of why. I mean,
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  f Wave hasn't been around as long as GAF has. GAF has been around
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  since then eighteen hundreds. They're old company, they're well established, and they're
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  big. They have lots of money, So for them to back their products
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  up and cover warranty issues isn't a big deal for a smaller company, it
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  is a bigger deal. I don't really know what can go wrong with the
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  F Wave shingle. There's no fiberglass matting to go bad, there's no granule,
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  there's no granules to lose on it. And they give you a five
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  year hail warranty, meaning if it is damaged within five years from hail,
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  you don't even have to go through your insurance company. They replace it at
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  no charge, which is something I've never heard of before. It seals down
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  like a regular shingle, it installs like a regular shingle, it cuts like
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  a regular shingle. It's actually lighter than a regular shingle. So there's some
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  really great options out there when we talk about from asphalt shingles to steal to
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  synthetic like the F Wave. There's actually another brand called Da Vinci. They've
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  been around for a long time. I'm I've never worked with the Da Vinci
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  shingle, but I know it's made a lot in the same manner as the
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  F Wave, so I'm sure it's a great product as well. So from
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  plastic to asphalt to steel, that's kind of what we see. There's wood
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  shake shingles. I mean, one hundred years ago, that's what pretty much
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  went on every home you know, it's getting it's getting later into the two
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  thousands, maybe I should say one hundred and thirty years ago, every home
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  had cedar shaped roofs on it. But we know that wood when it gets
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  wet and dry, and wet and dry, it rots. So those weren't
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  the best applications. But people still do use them nowadays, but they're starting
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  to switch over to synthetic products that look the same because the's and and what's
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  amazing and having getting kind to know you over the years obviously has mentioned you
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  guys, did our roof a number of years ago, still looks brand new,
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  looks fantastic, It's just beautiful. The cool thing is keeping up on
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  all these different things. And I know when you know, decade or so
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  ago, when you and I first started talking f way, for example,
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  synthetic this hadn't been on the market yet, hadn't been all that common.
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  You researched, and I remember the first show he did when you had first
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  started talking about these synthetic shingles. He said, these things are absolutely amazing.
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  And that's one of the cool things too. As we talk with Andrew
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  each and every week and get this education, the great Opportunity Wiba at Larsen
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  HomeServices dot com. If you've got a question to ask Andrew. He's got
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  a ton of knowledge on this stuff and is always not only what's currently happening,
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  but also things coming up on the horizon as well, new developments,
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  new techniques, new products out there as well. Andrew keeps on top of
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  that stuff. If you ever have a question, you can always email Andrew
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  Wiva at Larsenhomeservices dot com and we'd love to answer it right on the show.
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  But one of the things I've really enjoyed is getting the education over the
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  years, and I think for a lot of homeowners that's a really cool thing
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  too. Is whether it's Doctor Energy Saver, whether it's GAF Master Elite,
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  and getting getting your roof done with that golden pledge, warranty, gutters gutters
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  shutter and having that stuff done is not only are you getting a fantastic product,
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  great installation, all that great stuff, you're also understanding why it's better.
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  It's not just trust us as better. We'll show you why it's better,
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  and we'll give a warranty to back that stuff up, which is an
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  amazing thing. When you work with Larsen Home Services and Andrew and the team.
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  All I got to do this morning pickup phone gam McCall six eight five
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  three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four three
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  for Larsen Home Services, the website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A
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  R. S O N Home Services dot Com. And Andrew v talk slate
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  in one of these weeks too, because I'm always curious about slate roofs as
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  well. I see them on TV and I think that's an interesting Yes,
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  slate roofs and slate roofs last a long time. Here's the problem with slate,
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  Sean. It takes an actual artist to install that stuff. Yeah,
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  I mean it is. It is an art. It is extremely difficult.
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  And we have an an F wave product called True Slate. And I will
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  bet money to someone if from a distance, I mean like from a street
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  distance, they can tell the difference between true Slate and F Wave are real
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  slate and true F Wave slate. It looks phenomenal, Sean. I don't
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  the WIBA at Larsen Home Services dot com. Uh email us so we can
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  answer more questions like this. But yes, the True slate product it is.
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  It is phenomenal, but real real slate is difficult. It requires extra
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  trust support because it's super heavy and cutting them and putting on. I'm telling
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  you it is artwork. There's not a lot of people that do it anymore.
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  It's pretty amazing. As you mentioned too, the synthetic, the f
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  wave and the true slate as well. If you love that look and you
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  want that look and on the right house, it is a bood a look.
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  And as Andrew mentioned, different types of roofing materials for different types of
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  applications. It's a really good day to pick up phone gamme call six so
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five forty three
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  forty three. Andrew, It's always great chatting with you, my friend.
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  You enjoyed this most beautiful of days. I will see and the website Larsenhomesservices
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  dot com. Kevin Ham comes your way next here on thirteen ten. Wiba