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Fall Home Checklist with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  WIBA Madison in the morning and ask the experts. Driving around the area yesterday
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  noticed some leaves changing color, which means and I looked at the calendar two
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  and so it's something about autumn or fall. I don't know all the details,
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  but somebody who does know all about this time of year, and more
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  importantly, not only just how great everything looks and how excited everybody is for
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  the cooler temperatures. How to take care of your big investment. No one
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  is your home. Our good friend Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services joins us
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  this morning. Andrew, are you doing today? What's happening? You know,
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  it's that weird. It was weird. It is the wrong end of
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  the season for us to be getting rained. This was supposed to be coming
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  earlier in the year. But yeah, exactly. And as we talked with
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  Andrew this morning, a couple of things keep in mind, of course,
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  the website Larson Home Services dot com. That's l A R S O N
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  Home Services dot Com. Telephone number six O eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. That's five three five four three four three for Larson Home Services.
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  And Andrew. One of the great things about chatting with you each week.
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  Is you've been doing doing this type of work for a very very very
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  very very long time. And you're a very young man, but you've been
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  doing that, I think as if I remember correct, I mean, you've
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  been working for doing these type of jobs. So this is like there's been
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  your career for for for doc, yeah, a couple of decades. So
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  I've been involved in gutters gutters college who started in college college job installing uh,
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  installing gutters, and and I really really enjoyed it. And that's kind
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  of when I learned that I loved the construction industry and the home improvement industry.
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  And I've done many jobs, you know, siding, roofing, the
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  gutters. Then I finally went into sales and management and started my own company.
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  So I've been around in one shape. I mean, I mean,
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  honestly, I was building a house with my dad when I was fifteen.
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  So I've been around this stuff pretty much my whole life. And one thing
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  I know is this time of year now, granted it's not even it's not
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  octor yet, right, that's pretty bad. When I look at it's like
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  it's all kind of blending together right now. Still September, but we know
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  it comes fast and and knock on wood. Hopefully we have an absolutely beautiful
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  mild fall where we can enjoy the leaves turning color, and most recent years
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  we have it's we've had some really nice temperatures all the way up until December
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  into December, and hopefully we do again. But there are some things that
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  you do need to do before it gets cold. Yes, oh, I
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  was good. I was going to ask you about that stuff. And we
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  talked then about kind of that home home maintenance stuff and getting things prepared for
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  the cold, whether it's a you know, a mild spring or a mild
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  winter and extreme winter and who knows what's going to happen Exces said Spram and
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  fall this fall, as we move through it, there's a lot of things
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  that regardless of what Mother nature is bringing, you know, being prepared and
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  taking some some simple steps can really go along way, can't they They can?
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  So, you know, starting with you know, if you want to
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  look at the whole performance of the inside of your home, sealing any air
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  leaks. I know there's a lot of people that will go go around,
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  depending on the conditioning of your windows, go around with here with weather stripping,
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  putting the plastic over the windows. I mean I used to do that
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  in my house. It actually it actually works, can actually help a lot.
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  Getting your furnace inspected, you know, building a house, I got
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  to be real good, good buddies with the HVAC guys. And you know,
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  you know when do people all for their furnace or air conditioner when it's
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  not working right, when it's not working, when it's really cold out,
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  Oh my gosh, it's really cold. Oh no, the furnace isn't working.
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  Are oh wow, it's really hot and the air conditioning is not working.
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  And there's that you get charged more for that. But if you called
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  her in an off time and have them quote inspected, it's just a general
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  inspection charge in any maintenance fees that might might happen. But I would always
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  recommend getting that inspected and maintained before it actually happens on the outside of the
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  house. Two things that we do every single day, they're at the top
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  of the fall maintenance checklist are check your gutters. Make sure they are clean.
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  Because I'm telling you I don't. I can't tell you how many times
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  we talk to people in the spring. They didn't clean their gutters out before
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  winter, so they go into winter with with gutters that are full of junk.
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  The water gets in there, it freezes. Now they've got a tray
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  of clogged gutters. And then in the spring when everything thaws and we have
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  that first rain, the ground still frozen. Path of least resistance is someone's
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  basement foundation, and now we've got water in the basement, all because we
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  didn't do some some fall maintenance. So you know, if you know you're
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  gonna have to clean your gutters and you just don't want to do it anymore,
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  give us a call, get a free estimate. We'll come out and
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  expect the gutters. Lets you know exactly what it would cost to have not
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  only new gutters, but piece of minds that you never have to worry about
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  it again. Gutter shutter is. It's pretty amazing to Andrew, and I
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  know you've shared some. We talked about it on the show, and then
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  you did share on your Facebook page for large storm services. You shared not
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  only a picture of yourself hanging hanging from we have no want it. Oh
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  they are there's a challenge. I saw. I saw three of your guys
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  as well on something. Yes, people are people challenging you to a chin
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  up contest. Well so so the one video we hung three guys, one
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  guy in the middle of the young bluck we call him. That's Shane aka
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  the Content Kid. He does videography for US Photography, Drone Pilotry. It's
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  any of the cool videos you see on social media, he makes them.
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  And then we took two of our great production installers, put the tool belts
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  on. Wait everybody in it came in at like six hundred and ten pounds
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  and we hung them from the gutter. The amount of hate that we've gotten
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  because of that people watch soon there's going to be a like a MythBusters video
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  because everybody says that that's they're hanging, They're they're laying on their back.
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  That's fake. It's not possible. I got news for you. It is
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  possible. It did happen, and but it means it's been constant and me
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  doing the pull ups. Only two pull ups, I'm like, that was
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  like the tenth take, so like's it was like pull ups. I mean,
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  it's not like I'm a gymnast or anything. But anyway, Yes,
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  lots of hate, but what I've learned from Shane aka the Content Kid,
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  is that hate on social media is actually a good thing. Yeah, it
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  gets people commenting where it actually hurt my feelings. I'm like, really people
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  think that we would lie not lying. But anyway, it's okay to have
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  haters. It is, it is okay to have and it's it's it's let's
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  be honest, it's often based. It's purely based in jealousy. I mean,
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  and that's and that's really what it is. Is people see that and
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  they're going, that's that. That's just two and they're saying two pull ups
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  or three guys that come on? And now I mean seriously, yeah too.
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  I mean we don't have all day. I mean they wanted me to
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  just sit and keep doing them and get kind of boring. Yeah. Anyway,
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  So it's a really strong maintenance freetbutter. As we show it again,
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  we are going to be doing it on a video to show that it is
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  not on the bat. It's not laying down, they're not laying on their
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  back. It is for real. Because to be completely honest with you,
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  if anybody thinks or anybody who has put up regular open gutters or regular gutters,
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  know that if you were to hang from them, we would rip them
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  right off the house. Oh yeah, absolutely would rip them off the house.
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  So I can understand why people wouldn't believe it. And you know,
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  another big maintenance maintenance thing you should get out of the way is getting your
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  roof inspected. And you know, with our new roof Restore division, this
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  is something that we're doing every single day and just getting up there and checking
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  the little things because a lot of people have roofs put on that aren't that
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  old and the shingles are okay, but the little things, the details weren't
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  done properly and maybe already have leaks, or we can get up there doing
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  it inspection and do some restore work to avoid leaks. So goods and roof
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  Checker at the top of the list. There's something that we do every single
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  day and there's still plenty of time to get it done before the snowflies.
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  What's what's amazing about those? And again it's two things that can be done
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  and not only obviously is it is it better for your home, but you
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  look at the costs of if these things are not done. You talk about,
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  you know, the roof restore and the ability you have at Large Stome
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  Services to really if there's if there's a prim area, address it without having
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  to do a new roof. Just addressing those prim areas, those little kind
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  of things that can be done right now can save you not only a ton
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  of work, but damage and other things. You mentioned water infiltrating into the
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  basement. That does a whole bunch of really bad things to your house,
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  to your founding. You just don't want water. Water is so bad for
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  everything that you build. So that's a great thing about working with Andrew and
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  the team at Larson Home Services that we think about we're in the fall now,
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  it's official. Today is today to give McCall at large Snome services,
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  whether you're looking for gutters, never having to clean that gutter again, which
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  is absolutely phenomenal, roof restore real quick too. Andrew, we have to
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  mention you were talking earlier too about about insulation and of course the proper thing
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  that you guys do at Larstome Services through Doctor Energy Saver, it's more than
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  just an insulation, it's really your whole home, taking that whole area into
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  account and saying this is how we actually keep the warm air in and the
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  coal they're out. That's it. That's one hundred percent, you know,
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  And if you don't know, have us come out and take take a look.
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  I mean, we can inspect your attic. We can show you where
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  the leaks are. I mean, honestly, sometimes we get up to people's
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  hosses and they just don't know. They've never been in the attic before,
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  and we get up there and they're like, well, you know what,
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  you're in an R sixty and everything's air cealed, so there's nothing we can
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  really do. Whoever did your house, they did it properly. But for
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  the for the most part, I mean, anything older than twenty or thirty
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  years old typically, and some new homes too, aren't done correctly. They're
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  under insulated, there's no air ceiling, there's no air ceiling in the rim
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  joices. So you know, we we like to say that we can make
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  your home more comfortable, but at the end of the day, the best
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  stories are when we hear that we actually give people living space back. We
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  give people spaces in the summer that we're too hot, We give people spaces
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  back in the winter that we're too cold. And that's a good feeling because
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  we know that sixty to eighty percent. In the winter, sixty to eighty
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  percent of all the energy or heat in your home is lost straight through the
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  ceiling. When we come in and we air seal up all those penetrations and
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  we put a you know, eighteen nineteen inches of what I think is beautiful
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  cellulose insulation on top of it. It's gonna it's gonna help keep keep all
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  of that air from leaving the house. And then in the summer when it's
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  really really hot and that ceiling turns into a radiant oven when you're trying to
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  cool your home. Now we've got that giant layer of of insulation in your
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  attic that that stops that heat transfer. So it's it's good for all seasons.
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  So I mean, honestly, anything that would be really important to get
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  done before the winter, except for having your furnace checked, we take care
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  of it. So now it would be a great time to call because we
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  can still get all this stuff done before before the snow fives time for a
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  full house inspection. It's a great opportunity to give him a call at Larstome
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  Services six eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three,
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  five four three four to three again, get that, get that assessment.
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  Have them take a look at your house. Make sure everything's functioning properly.
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  As we get into winter, it's going to get brutal no matter what you
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  know. Wisconsin winners are just a hard hard time. Great opportunity again today's
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  pick up phone, give McCall. Larstome Services have some guys. The guys
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  come on out, take a look at your home, see how it performs.
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  Doctor energy savor, check out those gutters as well as, of course
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  Larson experience when it comes to roofing telefhll number six O eight five three five
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  forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four three. Of
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  course, Andrew Larson comes to us from Larstorm Services, the people's choice winner
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  from Madison dot com as well. We cannot forget that. That's a that's
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  a great honor, Andrew. It's always great chatting with you, my friend.
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  You enjoy this fantastic day. We'll do it all again real soon.
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  Chat next week that website Larson HomeServices dot com, l A R. S
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  O N HomeServices dot com. Kevin Ham comes your way next year on thirteen
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