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Removing the Danger from Cleaning Your Gutters with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Ato six thirteen ten, Do wiba and ask the experts.
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  Speaker 1: Brought you by Larsen Home Services. The website, it's just
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  Speaker 2: How do you spell that?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the vowels change up on the name Larsen, but
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  Speaker 1: it's l A R S O N home Services dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's Larsenomeservices dot com. Telphone number six O eight five
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  Speaker 1: three five forty three forty three. That's five three five
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  Speaker 1: forty three forty three. And joining us this morning from
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  Speaker 1: larsenome Services is Andrew Larson. Andrew, how you doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm always doing fantastic. I do know that,
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  Speaker 2: and I like that. I don't even know what else
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  Speaker 2: to say. It's a great day, it's fall. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Badgers one, the Packers one. You know, I loved it
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  Speaker 2: when you said Larson with an oh yo, you got
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  Speaker 2: you got very Wisconsin Aska on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no mistaken, there's no mistaking.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. I was just up. I was
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  Speaker 2: up in Canada to fishing a couple of weeks ago. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the lady is like, hey, where are you from?
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  Speaker 2: I said Wisconsin. She's like, oh, little Canada. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: like you guys. You sound just like us. We do.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny too, because you know, we all kind of
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  Speaker 1: have this. In the further north, it gets a little thicker.
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  Speaker 1: I know, my wife is from Spooner, you're from the
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  Speaker 1: Baldwin area originally, and you start getting up that way,
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  Speaker 1: it gets a little bit more and a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a very comfortable accent as well. And you know, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: we started this conversation off you mentioned of course you're
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  Speaker 1: always always happy and always in a good mood. And
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  Speaker 1: I think part of it has to do with what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about, which is really solving problems
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  Speaker 1: and significant problems, which are gutters. And people don't always
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  Speaker 1: realize this about all the different jobs that gutters do
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  Speaker 1: for your home. But also people don't always think about
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  Speaker 1: the safety concerns about about you know, climbing on ladders
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  Speaker 1: and those things. These are real dangers and you are
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  Speaker 1: able to each and every day at Larstom Services remove
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  Speaker 1: that danger, remove that issue of gut problems, because you
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  Speaker 1: guys do a lot of fantastic gutter specifically gutter shutter
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  Speaker 1: as well with Larslom Services. Let's talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about gutters this morning, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: We do. We do a lot of them. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: gutters are one of my favorite things. I never thought
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  Speaker 2: growing up that I would be like the gutter guy, right.
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  Speaker 2: I think I told you the story about my daughters
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  Speaker 2: and her friends being like, oh, we want to be
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  Speaker 2: on your commercials. You can call us the gutter girl.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that. But it was innocent, right,
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  Speaker 2: But you know, and I don't like to scare people
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  Speaker 2: about ladder safety ladder accidents, but you know, about three
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  Speaker 2: years ago, I was in a pretty bad snowboarding accident.
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  Speaker 2: I busted my leg up, real bad acl MCL broken
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  Speaker 2: tibia all in one full swoop. I mean, this tree
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  Speaker 2: jumped out of nowhere and when I hit it, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't move. So yeah, but I'm at the doctor and
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  Speaker 2: we're talking and he asked me what I do and
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  Speaker 2: I tell him who I am, and he goes, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, I listened to your radio show every week.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, people listen. That's cool. And we
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  Speaker 2: started talking about it and he goes, you know what you
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  Speaker 2: should do? He goes, you should have me on the show. Well.
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  Speaker 2: He is an orthopedic surgeon. Specializing in obviously broken bones,
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  Speaker 2: and he goes, he goes people cleaning their gutters. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: specifically in the fall time. He goes, I am so
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  Speaker 2: busy from ladder falls, from people cleaning their gutters, and
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  Speaker 2: hunters falling out of tree stands. But he said, the
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming majority of my surgeries in the fall and into
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  Speaker 2: the winter are from people cleaning out their gutters. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, for real, He just looks at me. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely broken ankles, broken wrists, broken, show you name it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, so many people take these ladders out. These
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  Speaker 2: ladders aren't safe. They haven't used him in years. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen people pull out wood ladders that were probably
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  Speaker 2: whittled by somebody sitting on the porch in the nineteen twenties,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, you're gonna get on that. But to them,
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever, it's a ladder. I'm going to clean
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  Speaker 2: the gut. So the safety. Listen, how good it is
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  Speaker 2: for your home to have a great gutter system that's
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  Speaker 2: maintenance free, that gets the water away, that protects your
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  Speaker 2: foundation is extremely important. But to have a system like
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  Speaker 2: gutter shutter that's never going to clog, it's never going
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  Speaker 2: to overflow. Bottom line is you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 2: about it. Now. It brings into a safety aspect. You're
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  Speaker 2: not getting up on that ladder because here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: You can think you can do it, but if you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting behind a desk most of the day, or let's
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  Speaker 2: just say you're not doing contractor or construction work, working
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  Speaker 2: on a ladder on a regular basis, there are very
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  Speaker 2: specific safety things that we teach over and over and over.
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  Speaker 2: How the ladder goes up, how far above the roofline
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  Speaker 2: the ladder goes at, what angle those ladder legs are
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  Speaker 2: down on the ground so the ladder doesn't fall backwards
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  Speaker 2: from the top or slip out from the bottom. This
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  Speaker 2: is what normally happens to people because they're not used
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  Speaker 2: to doing it. This is literally something we train on
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  Speaker 2: on a weekly basis is ladder safety, ladder safety, ladder safety.
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  Speaker 2: Going through every single ladder in our inventory, which I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you there's over three hundred ladders at Mushem Services,
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  Speaker 2: going through those ladders on a weekly basis to see
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  Speaker 2: if anything is cracked, broke, not working properly, because if
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  Speaker 2: it is, we take it out, it's out of service. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: so homeowners aren't doing that. And even though they might
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  Speaker 2: not use the ladder that much, over time, things happen,
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  Speaker 2: things where things corrode, maybe you've dropped it something, and
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  Speaker 2: now you're getting up there, you could be you could
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  Speaker 2: only be five feet off the ground with your feet.
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  Speaker 2: If it's first story, most likely your feet are probably
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  Speaker 2: only five or six feet off the ground. That's where
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  Speaker 2: we that's where people see the most falls, the most injuries,
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  Speaker 2: because when it's first story, we're less careful. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: that far up. But if you fall off a ladder
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  Speaker 2: from six feet and your feet get tangled in the ladder,
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  Speaker 2: or you hit the ground wrong, hit a rock, snap
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  Speaker 2: your ankle, like, bad things happen. We don't hear about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of injuries from people falling from second story
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  Speaker 2: because they don't get injured. Unfortunately, they usually die. Yeah right,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even want to say that, but that's
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  Speaker 2: usually what happens. If you're falling from fifteen feet and
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  Speaker 2: you fall onto concrete or you fall onto your rocks
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  Speaker 2: and your landscaping or something like, you usually don't make it.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, me being in this industry for yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years now. I know a handful of people
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  Speaker 2: that had family members die from them cleaning their gutters,
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  Speaker 2: So we talk about the safety aspect. It's extremely important
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  Speaker 2: to think about the safety aspect. So when you're only
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  Speaker 2: considering the cost, I mean, what's the cost of an injury,
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  Speaker 2: a surgery being out like it's there's no cost you
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  Speaker 2: can put on it. Now, you take the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it makes your home look beautiful. Gutter shutter is a
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  Speaker 2: full five and a half inch back on it, five
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  Speaker 2: and a half yep. So if your FACI is old,
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  Speaker 2: if your fac is dirty, if it's not looking the best,
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  Speaker 2: if it's wood and maybe it's chipping a little, our
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  Speaker 2: gutters are going to cover it. We're going to cover
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  Speaker 2: ninety percent of your facial So it's going to give
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  Speaker 2: your home a brand new, beautiful, clean look, all while
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  Speaker 2: giving you a gutter system that takes the water from
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  Speaker 2: the roof down the down spout away from the house
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  Speaker 2: and you really never have to think about it ever again.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I love it when people get this
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  Speaker 2: put on, and I love it when my sales reps
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  Speaker 2: stop back at people's houses then have it, because it's
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  Speaker 2: always great things that they have to say about what
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  Speaker 2: they did.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me too, is you know, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about the benefits of gutter shutter and you know, not
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  Speaker 1: having to maintain you know, don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: cleaning gutters. You have to worry about clog, you have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about all that stuff. And those are and
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  Speaker 1: they look great as well. And those are obviously the
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  Speaker 1: very tans. And you mentioned it here and I remember
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  Speaker 1: it's probably about fifteen ten, fifteen years ago the first
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  Speaker 1: time you had mentioned it, and it really sunk in
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  Speaker 1: when you talked about injuries specifically where people are getting hurt,
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  Speaker 1: which is the first story stuff. And you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: got like a ranch home or a lot of us,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us guys go, oh, it's not that high,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the accidents happen. That's where the mistakes
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  Speaker 1: are happening. That's where the injuries are happening. So for
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  Speaker 1: folks that are are looking, you know, whether it's you
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  Speaker 1: or maybe your significant other, you're going get them off
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  Speaker 1: the ladder. What a great day to give them a
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  Speaker 1: call at Larsenalal Services, have them come out, take a
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  Speaker 1: look at your house, take a look at your gutters.
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  Speaker 1: Help you with a resolution, something you'll never have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about. Talk about the Packers, talk about the Badgers
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  Speaker 1: off to great starts this season. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: miss a Packer Sunday. You don't want to miss another
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  Speaker 1: Badger game. Up on the ladder. Get into a Larsenal Services.
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  Speaker 1: Give them a call right now. Six oh eight five
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  Speaker 1: Also follow them on Facebook, and Andrew, I know, just
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  Speaker 1: real quick about your Facebook your YouTube channel as well.
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  Speaker 1: You guys do put quite a lot of great content.
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  Speaker 1: And you're pretty frequent about about updating stuff as well, there,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a focus, yeah, right, we're always trying to update
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  Speaker 2: with job videos, job site photos. You know there's some
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  Speaker 2: there's some funny posts. Yes, the most recently one I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh man, but go check it out. But yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I also one last thing I want to finish on
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  Speaker 2: is that I talked last week about procrastinating and don't wait,
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  Speaker 2: don't wait, and you know, typically there's one time a
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  Speaker 2: year that we want we run free installation labor or
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent off installation labor, and that's during trade
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  Speaker 2: shows in the winter because obviously we're less busy. We're
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  Speaker 2: not less busy right now. But for people listening to
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  Speaker 2: the show, I'm going to extend that free installation labor.
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  Speaker 2: When you call in for an estimate, just say you
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  Speaker 2: heard it on the show, and they'll make sure to
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  Speaker 2: put that in the notes for the estimator when they come.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're listening to the show, you're thinking about it, listen.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't hurt to get a free estimate. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we want you to buy from us, and we
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  Speaker 2: hope that you do. Yeah, but you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: if we come out and give you an estimate and
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  Speaker 2: you buy that day, great, If you buy it in
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  Speaker 2: the week, great, If you don't buy at all, it
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  Speaker 2: is what it is. At least you know now you've
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  Speaker 2: seen it up close, you can feel it, touch it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know exactly what it would cost to put
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  Speaker 2: on your house.
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  Speaker 1: And that's such a cool thing. You mentioned that free
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  Speaker 1: installation labor, make sure you mention when you bring them
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  Speaker 1: out from Lars Storm Services. A great day. It's not
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  Speaker 1: going to cause anything to have them take a look
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  Speaker 1: at your house, show you a little bit more, educate
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  Speaker 1: you about gutter shutter and how they can help you
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  Speaker 1: at larget Home Services. That tel for number six so
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  Speaker 1: Facebook and social media. Yeah, they've got a very funny
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  Speaker 2: Paye people recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes they will, Yes, they will make sure you follow
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  Speaker 1: them online as well. Andrew, it's always great chatting. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great Dan and we'll talk real soon. It's aw
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