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Larson Keeney Home Services with Andrew Larson · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: 807-1310-WIBA and Ask the Experts brought to you by Larson
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  Speaker 1: Keeney Home Services Online. Larsonkeeneyhomeservices.com. That's Larson, L-A-R-S-O-N, Keeney, K-E-E-N-E-Y, homeservices.com.
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  Speaker 1: Dial phone number 608-535-4343. That's 535-4343. And join us this
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  Speaker 1: morning from Larson Keeney Home Services. They won the only
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Larson of Larson Keeney Home Services. Andrew, how you
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  Speaker 1: doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: Just as good as always, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Just doing absolutely fantastic. Where did I see you recently? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching YouTube and I saw you and your
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  Speaker 1: buddy doing the, why am I drawing a blank on?
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  Speaker 2: Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I drawing a blank on you and Josh?
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  Speaker 2: It's okay. He's not quite as cool as me.
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  Speaker 1: We do have to get him on the show one
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  Speaker 1: of these days because I saw the YouTube. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are standing, I think he's like in the road and
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  Speaker 1: And that stuff, you guys are talking about some fun
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  Speaker 1: stuff and doing fun stuff. Maybe you have to have
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  Speaker 1: him join us one of these mornings.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to check in. Hey, I'm looking out the
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  Speaker 1: window here. I know the leaves here in Madison are
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  Speaker 1: currently green, but we do talk to Kevin Hamm of
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  Speaker 1: Hamm's Arbor Care. And last week, he started noticing north
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  Speaker 1: of town, starting to see some fall colors. And correct
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, Andrew, fall is inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it? It happens every year, and the worst part
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  Speaker 2: about fall is what comes after it, but we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to go that far today. That's not what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about. You know what I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: talk about fall for? I mean, look, football's on. The
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  Speaker 2: Packers play this weekend. The Badgers played last weekend, didn't
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  Speaker 2: go the way we wanted, and we don't need to
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  Speaker 2: get into it, but I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things happening. We just happened to play Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: They're really, really good. But I was back up in
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  Speaker 2: my hometown area of Baldwinwoodville, if anybody knows where that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's northwestern Wisconsin, close to Hudson, only 30-ish miles from St. Paul.
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  Speaker 2: And I had my annual fantasy football draft. So it's
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  Speaker 2: my annual, I call it my annual class reunion. So
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  Speaker 2: I get to go back and hang out with a
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  Speaker 2: dozen of my buddies from high school. And it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: But on the way home, look, I drove up there
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  Speaker 2: from here and drove back in the same day. So
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot of driving. So on the way back,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, I just cannot drive on the
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  Speaker 2: interstate for three hours again. I can't do it. There's
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  Speaker 2: some times where I'd rather take four hours and just
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  Speaker 2: take the scenic back roads. So I did. And I
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  Speaker 2: noticed a lot of trees turning color, leaves blowing across
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  Speaker 2: the road. And I'm like, man, it is that time.
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  Speaker 2: It is that time. We're going to start seeing the
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  Speaker 2: leaves turn color and, and this isn't a urgency you
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  Speaker 2: better call, but let's be honest. If you're thinking about it,
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  Speaker 2: it is getting to be that time. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic year for, for installing gutter shutter and helping a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people get to the point where they don't
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  Speaker 2: have to worry about it anymore. And we're busy right
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  Speaker 2: now and we'll get busier as the fall comes. So look,
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  Speaker 2: This is a put it up and don't worry about
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  Speaker 2: your gutters anymore type of thing. And you're probably not
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  Speaker 2: thinking about it right now, but heaven forbid the Packers
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  Speaker 2: or the Badgers or, you know, God help you if
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  Speaker 2: you're a Bears fan and you're listening. It is what
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  Speaker 2: it is. I get it. We're close. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: got some buddies who are Bears fan and I don't
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  Speaker 2: tease them too bad. Always hard to tease them last year.
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  Speaker 2: But look, if you're watching the game and it's raining
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  Speaker 2: and you're overflowing, the last thing you want to have
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  Speaker 2: to do is worry about that stuff. Worry about getting
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  Speaker 2: out and cleaning out your gutters. Worry about your foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Stop having to worry about that stuff. We put this
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  Speaker 2: product up. We guarantee your gutters are never going to
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  Speaker 2: overflow for water volume or clogging. They're never going to leak.
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  Speaker 2: Ice or snow is never going to damage them or
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  Speaker 2: pull them off your house. Any of those things happen.
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  Speaker 2: We will fix it. We will clean it or we
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  Speaker 2: will replace them for free. I don't care what company
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  Speaker 2: you call, what product it is. There is absolutely nobody
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  Speaker 2: else that will give you that sort of peace of mind.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way we've always done it. We have a
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  Speaker 2: model that we service to a fault. And what servicing
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  Speaker 2: to a fault means that sometimes we service stuff for
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  Speaker 2: free that wasn't our fault. But sometimes we understand that
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  Speaker 2: stuff happens. Mr. Homeowner runs over the downspout extension, happens
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Is that our fault?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Do we fix it? Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Every single time, just because we care. And once you
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  Speaker 2: get gutter shutter or a roof, ultimate roofing solution or
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  Speaker 2: an ultrathetic solution from us, you're part of our family
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  Speaker 2: and we take care of you. So if it's something
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  Speaker 2: you're considering or are considering now after listening to me,
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  Speaker 2: just give us a call and get a free estimate.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew, as you mentioned that phone number, I did want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you a little bit more about gutter shutter
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  Speaker 1: as well. A telephone number, great day to get that
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  Speaker 1: free estimate and have the team from Larson Keeney Home
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  Speaker 1: Services come out 608-535-4343. That's 535-4343 for Larson Keeney Home Services.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to interrupt you, Andrew, but I did want to
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  Speaker 1: ask about, and I think this is important as people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe they've had different types of of gutter
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  Speaker 1: protection in the past or other caps or screens or
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  Speaker 1: these types of things, gutter shutters is uniquely different, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: It's very different. So, I mean, look, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: start off by, here's what we know. In order to
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  Speaker 2: give you those guarantees that I just said, no clogging, leaking, overflowing,
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  Speaker 2: ice damage, you name it, fix it, clean it, replace
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  Speaker 2: it for free. This is a whole system, right? It's
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  Speaker 2: not a cover. It's not a screen. It's not a,
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  Speaker 2: you name it. We've seen it. We've taken it out.
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  Speaker 2: People always... Try, typically try something cheaper. I can do
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  Speaker 2: that myself. I can put this foam brush in my gutter.
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  Speaker 2: I can put this sponge in my gutter, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cause they sell stuff like that and they work great
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  Speaker 2: for germinating seeds and growing stuff in your gutters. Been there,
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  Speaker 2: done that, seen it all. Look, there are some screen
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  Speaker 2: systems that can work, no doubt, but eventually the screen
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  Speaker 2: clogs and then the screen has to be cleaned, which
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  Speaker 2: kind of defeats the entire purpose of of having maintenance-free gutters.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to start by taking off your existing gutters.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got issues where water's going in spots where
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  Speaker 2: you don't like it, look, it's a perfect opportunity. We
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  Speaker 2: can redesign. We're not going to just replace the gutters,
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  Speaker 2: put the downspouts exactly where they were. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: check the grade in your yard. We're going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the water will flow away from your house
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  Speaker 2: when it comes off the gutters. We see it way
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  Speaker 2: too many times where the gutters are... Oh. their basement
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  Speaker 2: because the water's coming up downspout goes back to the
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  Speaker 2: same spot so this is an entire system everything is
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  Speaker 2: covered by us it is a one and done you
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  Speaker 2: get it and you don't worry about it ever again
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  Speaker 2: with the six inch uh our larger six inch gutters
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  Speaker 2: um we have nothing has i could look i could
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  Speaker 2: ramble on and on and on and on forever but
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line is it is a big strong maintenance-free
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  Speaker 2: gutter that you never have to touch again.
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  Speaker 1: And you use that term maintenance-free, and I want people
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  Speaker 1: to understand what that means. You're not just talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these are going to hold up and they're,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to worry about leaves getting
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  Speaker 1: in them. Not only that part of them, they literally
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  Speaker 1: require no work on your part. It's not like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: think about like we talked a little bit about like
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  Speaker 1: screen systems and other things. folks that haven't maybe installed
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  Speaker 1: those in the past, climbing up on their ladder, rather
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  Speaker 1: than cleaning the gutter, they're cleaning off the screen or
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  Speaker 1: the filter, anything like that. Literally, maintenance-free means maintenance-free, like
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  Speaker 1: this is no longer a thing you need to even
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  Speaker 1: think about because it's covered and it does all the
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  Speaker 1: work for you.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. But I would actually say this. To say that
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  Speaker 2: it's never going to require maintenance, some of it does. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: depending on the type of trees, but it's not maintenance
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  Speaker 2: for you. It's maintenance for us. You pick up the phone,
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  Speaker 2: we call, we come take care of it. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to get up there. Look, look, we even have
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  Speaker 2: ladder accidents and we're professionals. So the average homeowner shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be on a ladder. It's just, you know, anything more
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  Speaker 2: than like changing a light bulb. It's just not safe.
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  Speaker 2: And when you start putting ladders up around the house,
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  Speaker 2: you're setting them on rocks, you're setting them on uneven ground,
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  Speaker 2: like bad things happen. I think I'd mentioned a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago, busted my leg up having surgery. Surgeon found
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  Speaker 2: out who I was and he was like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: should be on your show because I make a living
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  Speaker 2: off of people cleaning their gutters. Ladder accidents in the fall,
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  Speaker 2: he goes, man, it's bad. Nobody should ever be on
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  Speaker 2: a ladder unless they're a professional. And even at that,
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  Speaker 2: we see those accidents too. So I can't stress enough
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  Speaker 2: the amount of people that I've heard that have had
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  Speaker 2: debilitating injuries, deaths, like it's bad. And I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to scare you, but it's just, it's just facts that
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  Speaker 2: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things, Andrew, a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I still remember you telling this story and, and, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's, it's worth reiterating because that had never
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  Speaker 1: dawned on me before. I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we think about injuries of, you know, I've got like
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  Speaker 1: a two story house or things like that. You pointed
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  Speaker 1: out a lot of times, and it may have been
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  Speaker 1: part of that conversation you had with your surgeon is, People,
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  Speaker 1: because if they've got like a single story house or
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're just, I'll just do the lower level, they
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  Speaker 1: assume that they're safe. That fall from 10, 15 feet,
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  Speaker 1: it can be quite traumatic is a lot of these injuries.
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  Speaker 1: It's not you. I think a lot of us think
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  Speaker 1: of like second story falls. A lot of times it's
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  Speaker 1: the person that's that first floor just thinking, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is something I can handle myself and not realizing that
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  Speaker 1: is that is super dangerous as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's very dangerous. And the other thing is, is that
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  Speaker 2: if you're doing first story, a lot of times people
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  Speaker 2: are less careful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, if you're on second story. a, we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to hear about your injury because you're probably not going
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  Speaker 2: to make it if you fall off the roof there.
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  Speaker 2: But on first story, people are typically less careful and
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  Speaker 2: they just get up on the roof and they bend
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  Speaker 2: down and they just start cleaning them out. And unless
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  Speaker 2: you're like a parkour champion and you can just tuck
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  Speaker 2: and roll when you hit the ground, which I know
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  Speaker 2: I can. I tuck and roll like a cinder block.
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  Speaker 2: It's very ungraceful. You're going to get injured. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have had customers that unfortunately have called us after
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  Speaker 2: the fact where they've gotten severely injured in the prime
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  Speaker 2: of their retirement, getting ready to go golf every day
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  Speaker 2: and do the great things in life. And they screwed
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  Speaker 2: up their ankles, the bottoms of their feet, their back.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not worth it. And again, I'm not here
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  Speaker 2: to scare people. That's not what I'm trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's more for me, it's protecting your home, making sure
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  Speaker 2: you have a gutter system that the water comes, it
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  Speaker 2: goes in and water goes out on the bottom and
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to touch it. But the byproduct of
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  Speaker 2: that is that the homeowner does not have to get
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  Speaker 2: up on the ladder and clean out those gutters. The
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  Speaker 2: homeowner can stay safe, stay on the ground. Look, there's
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  Speaker 2: plenty of other things you could be doing. Yes, there are.
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  Speaker 2: Mow the grass yourself. But getting up on the ladder
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  Speaker 2: and cleaning out the gutters is just not something that Basically,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who you are. I don't care how
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  Speaker 2: young you are. It's just not something that you want
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  Speaker 2: to do. So, I mean, now is the time. Give
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  Speaker 2: us a call. Get an estimate. Look, it's a free estimate.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you buy today, tomorrow, never buy, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: At least you know what it would cost you to
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  Speaker 2: have it done.
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  Speaker 1: All you got to do this morning, pick up the phone,
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  Speaker 1: give them a call, 608-535-4343 for Larson Keeney Home Services. Again,
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  Speaker 1: their number, 608-535-4343. Online, LarsonKeeneyHomeServices.com. Of course, if you go
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  Speaker 1: and still go to LarsonHomeServices.com, that'll still get you to
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  Speaker 1: that same website as well. The important thing to do, though,
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  Speaker 1: this morning, give them a call, 608-535-4343. Andrew, it's always
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  Speaker 1: fantastic chatting with you. Thanks for all the great work
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  Speaker 1: you do, and we'll talk real soon, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Larson, Larson Home Services. Kevin Hamm comes your way
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  Speaker 1: next year on 1310 WIBA.