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A Gift for Your Home with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Yet all right, we've got our figured now we're doing it old school away.
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  We've got our good friend Andrew Larson from Larsenol Services on with us.
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  Andrew, how you doing this morning? Technical difficulties that's my middle name.
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  As a matter of fact, that's part of why I like, part of
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  why I love talking with you is you get it right, and you get
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  you get it, you get it all worked out. And that's one of
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  the things too, with your home, for example, this time of year,
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  getting those things worked out, those technical difficulties at home, kind of
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  taking care of them. And I was asking, I don't know if you
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  caught that part was asking about the difference between cellulose and and fiberglass installation.
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  There is insulation, There is a difference. There isn't there, Andrew,
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  There's a big difference there. And no, I did not catch that.
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  It was the airwave silence on my end, but yes, there's a big
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  difference. I mean, obviously they're made of two different, completely different products.
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  Fiberglass is what it sounds like it is fibers of glass. Cellulose is
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  actually recycled newspapers, So I mean instead of newspapers and certain types of paper
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  and cardboard going into landfills. They take them, they run them through a
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  process, they shred them up, and they turn them into cellulose. And
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  one of the coolest things about it is they're actually especially the installation that we
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  sell truesoft cellulose, you can only get that from us. Some celluloses when
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  they're mixed up, they're actually sprinkled with a powder fire retardant. Our cellulos
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  is actually bathed in it, so it's actually soaked and or sprayed with a
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  fire retardant, So I mean you can't burn it. In fact, actually
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  cool story. We did some training proof by eight nine years ago at one
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  of my employees home and he had an electrical fire started in his attic,
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  and they said that if he didn't have that new when we had just put
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  we just air sieled insulated, and if he didn't have that true soft cellulose
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  in there, it probably would have burned his whole house down. But it
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  was contained to an area because it couldn't burn through through through the cellulose insulation,
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  which a lot of people don't know. Uh. Also, that same
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  fire retardant is a rodent deterrent. Well, we got some really cool videos,
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  honestly, of cellulose and all of the mouse tunnels and feces. They
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  love it. You wouldn't think so, right, it's usually itchy, but
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  they most rodents they love it. It's nice, it's warm, They dig
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  holes, they make mesks. Needless to say, when we remove insulation,
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  we probably accidentally suck a lot of rodents out of the attict. But yeah,
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  so they they get this, they get this this chemical on their body,
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  and they actually they clean themselves and they don't like it. They go
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  away forever. They take a forever nap. As I like to say.
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  With that, as we talk about these benefits to Andrew, one of the
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  really cool things is that the big one is energy efficiency, and there's a
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  reason why you use it at large SNOME services. Correct, The our value
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  on cellulose insulation is it's just better than fiberglass. We have to put less
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  of it in there to get the same amount of our value, which really
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  comes in huge as far as some costs. We just need to use less
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  of it. But when we get you to that R sixty in the summer,
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  when that attic turns into a radiant oven for the rooms above it,
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  we're actually doing some experimentation and just trying to catch some data. A lot
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  of people like it cool when they sleep, right, I know it's odd
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  to talk about this and when it's getting to be winter, but they like
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  it cool when they sleep. And what we found out was in most people's
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  homes, the average distance between their bed where they're laying and their head was
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  about five feet when they're on their bed. So now in the summer,
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  when it's really hot out and that addict stuff over one hundred degrees and you're
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  laying in bed and you're trying to cool your home down, and it doesn't
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  seem to work if you're insulate. If you're under insulated, now you've got
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  a radiant of five feet from your face and we're expecting that to cool the
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  home down. So it doesn't work right now in the winter, obviously,
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  yes, we want that insulation, but most importantly we need that air ceiling
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  to slow down that just to slow down the stack effects in your home.
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  That hot air gets feeded up, it goes through the attic. Now,
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  there's a lot of companies out there they will they will insulate. We like
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  to call them blow and go companies because as a consumer or a homeowner if
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  you google what you need to do, or we need to put more insulation
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  in really not knowing that's not going to help you in the winter, just
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  it doesn't. It doesn't do anything for draftiness, It doesn't do really much
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  of anything to keep the heat in your home at all. So a lot
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  of companies will come out charge you fifteen hundred two thousand dollars blow a bunch
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  more insulation in the attic, and the only thing it did was put a
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  couple bucks in their pocket. It's not going to fix your home. It's
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  not going to make less drafty, it's not going to slow down stack effect,
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  it's not going to do any of that. It will help you in
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  the summer. It will help in the summer, but we need to take
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  care of the air ceiling also. Lots of companies that will do that too.
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  You know, when I talk about roofing, I always talk about we
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  got to tear it down to a clear deck. We need a clean surface
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  to work from so we can do the important things properly. We can do
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  the leak barriers properly, we can do the underlayment flashings, all of that
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  properly. Well, when we do insulation. It's hard to make people visualize
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  this, but because a lot of people have never been in their attic.
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  But it can be a very dirty, tough environment. And if you imagine,
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  you've got most people have ten to twelve months inces of inches of insulation
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  in their attic. Most people are under insulated. But if you can imagine
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  crawling around in that and then trying to dig through that and find all of
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  the penetrations from plumbing, find all of the penetrations from electrical, find all
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  of the top plates, and a top plate is where an interior wall of
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  your home meets the ceiling. Those are all leak areas. So try to
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  imagine shoveling that all out of the way then moving through it to air steel
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  areas. Well, we can't. It's it's doable, but it's not doable
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  to do a good job air steiling if we don't remove so one thing that
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  we have to do, and it's and we're unwavering on it, is that
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  we have to remove your insulation in order to do a good job. It
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  is impossible to do a good air steel job and your attic, which is
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  the most important part of the entire process. With insulation in there. It
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  needs to be removed. Because here's the deal, Sean. If we have
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  a whole bunch of leaks and a whole bunch of holes up in your attic,
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  and we go up there and we don't remove the insulation, and we
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  do the best job we can, we give it an A plus effort.
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  We move everything out of the way, but we we missed ten percent of
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  it, or ten percent of it doesn't get air fealed properly just because there's
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  so much insulation in the way. Now, what we've done is we've taken
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  this. If we take all of those leak holes and we say it's one
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  big hole and it's the size of a window. Remember I said we did
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  some tests, right, it was like having two windows open all year.
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  Now we take it and we close it down so it's smaller. But what
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  that does with stack effect is it is it creates a lot more a lot
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  more. Now all of the air is trying to go through one area,
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  and it can create moisture problems in that area. It can create mold problems
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  in that area. Bottom line is we need a clean, beautiful surface so
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  we can go around with a fine toothed comb air steal all the penetrations,
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  make sure all the penetrations are air stealed properly, and then cover with a
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  nice new set of insulation. So there are cheaper ways to do it.
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  There's cheaper ways to get away with getting it done, but it's not going
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  to be done right. It's almost impossible. The reason I know this,
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  Sean, is because for a long time we would say, you know what,
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  we'll give it our best effort an air celiure addict without removing the insulation,
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  and half the time we've got to go back and we've got to do
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  some more air ceiling because there's stuff we missed. Because just it's almost impossible.
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  It's almost like, you know, everybody's been in that ballpit as a
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  kid. You know, you jump into the pit. Okay, let's try
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  moving those balls out of the way so we can get at the floor of
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  the ball pit. And then as soon as we move, the balls fall
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  back down while we're trying to do work down that floor. Like that's the
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  visualization that I would try to give people. It's almost impossible. Yes,
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  it's cheaper, but are we actually accomplishing anything. It's the same as some
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  companies that will throw shingles over your old shingles. We got new shingles on
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  our roof, but that we actually fix the problem. Are we actually protecting
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  our home. So they kind of go hand in hand. You need a
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  clean surface in order to start to start right, finish right, and make
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  sure it's all done right. And that's why we've got some great deals going
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  on right now. We're actually giving a large discount just down the removal part
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  of the job because we want to make sure that people get it done properly.
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  Is we only want to do it one way, and that's the right
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  way. It's important time a year to be thinking about that and having that
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  work done. And I know, I love looking on your Facebook and social
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  media seeing those addicts the before, during, and after and just what an
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  amazing even just looking at how much better they look after large Holm service has
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  been out there, and then you think about that phenomenal performance. Like Jimmy
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  Hendricks once said, castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually, although
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  I don't think it was him that said it originally, but he sang about
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  it and it's memorable. And you should remember to call Arsenal Home Services this
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  morning. Give Andrew and the team McCall six so eight five three five forty
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  three forty three. That's five three five four three four three The website Larsenholmes
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  Services dot com. Andrew, it's always great chatting with you, my friend.
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  You enjoyed this beautiful day, all right? Next week We'll see u.
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  Kevin ham hams Arbercare on next next year on thirteen ten WIB