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The Roof Inspection with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Even Wiba Madison in the morning and ask the experts. Joined this morning by
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  our good friend Andrew Larson. Andrew comes to us from Larson Holmes Services.
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  The website you want to guess the website is, it's it's an easy one
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  to remember. It's Larsen Holmeservices dot com. The only thing that might trip
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  you up, it's O S O N. And again there's a couple of
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  different spellings for Larson, but it's l A R S O N. Home
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  Services dot com. DELF number six eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  That's five three five four three four three. Andrew, how you doing
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  this morning, a friend? Well, I dropped my mike and broke it,
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  so I'm calling you today from an old fashioned cell phone. Oh my
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  goodness. You know, I don't know how it founds, but I'm here
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  and uh yeah, good thing. These mikes aren't that expensive ent these days.
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  That's that is a bonus, yea is. Yeah, it's that's a
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  bummer man. And some are some are built better than others. But yeah,
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  as you mentioned, they're they're they're a nice nice deal to get pretty
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  cool stuff too, as far as as using them and speaking of really cool
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  things and some cool technology that's out there, an affordable technology that as a
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  matter of fact only affordable. It can save you doctor energy save. We're
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  going to talk about that in just a moment, but first I want to
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  talk to you just a little bit about roofs and specifically again, this is
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  like going to be a whole theme this week about durability, affordability, and
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  of course making sure that the most i would say arguably the most important part
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  of your one of your most important parts of your homes, which is what
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  protects it is your roof. And one of the cool things you guys do
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  at Largest Home Services Andrew is you do roof inspections just to make sure that
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  there's not a problem, because we've learned that if there's a problem with your
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  roof, by the time you realize there's a problem with the roof, it's
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  caused significant damage. Often, hasn't it, Yes, it has. And
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  you know, typically people only think about their roof like when there's a problem
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  or maybe we're googling on the internet. You know, how long should a
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  roof last? And you know, a lot of shingles that were made,
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  say thirty twenty five thirty even twenty years ago. You know, they say
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  a thirty years shingle or lifetime shingle, and that very well may be,
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  but that doesn't necessarily mean that all the components of the roof we're made to
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  last that long. So something that we offer our free roof inspections. And
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  you know, it's kind of funny. Sometimes we go out for for a
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  gutter shutter estimate or you know, even a roof estimate last you know,
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  almore, when's the last time your roof was inspected? And nobody ever has
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  the roof inspected. It's just not something that we think about. You know.
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  We might have our HVAC system service annually. I mean that's good things
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  do because otherwise it usually might stop working when we most need it. But
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  but I like how you put that. Arguably, one of the most important
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  things, if not the most important thing on your home is your roof.
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  If your roof leaks, it leads to a whole plethora of problems and expensive
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  damage. So if your roof is in that age, i mean even fifteen
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  years old, again, the shingles might look but we we get up there,
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  we inspect flashing. How are chimney flashing done. How is the chimney
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  flash? Is there a chimney cricket? How is the ventilation system working?
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  Pipe boots. We have a lot of plumbing penetrations and different penetrations that go
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  through the roof. You see pipe sticking up. Those always have some sort
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  of flashing or boot around them. Sometimes some are better than others, Some
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  are made to last longer than others. And typically if one is going bad,
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  the rest of them are about too, simply because they were all put
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  up there at the same time. And what really makes things like that go
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  bad is v raised from the sun. So they're wist always on the same
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  side of the roof for the most part, and usually one on one starts
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  going, so does the rest. So having a roof inspection done, especially
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  when it's free, you know, sometimes we find stuff sometimes every good sooth.
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  I think there's peace of mind in either thing. When that get we
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  say hey, this is the inspection, this is what everything looks great,
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  there's peace of mind in that. Or we come back and say, hey,
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  there's a few things that need to be restored on your roof to get
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  you more years out of you have without having that issue. When we get
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  a heavy rain and having a leak. There's peace of mind in that too.
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  We're spending a couple of thousand dollars can save tens of thousand dollars of
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  a leak in the house once it comes to the insulation and you start seeing
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  that spot on the ceiling. So a free roof inspection is a good thing
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  again we might find, but again peace of mind either way, knowing.
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  And sometimes we get up there to do a roof inspection thinking, hey,
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  maybe we just need some repairs, and we find that we've got major granular
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  loss, we've got matt cracking, and it's really time to have the roof
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  replaced. So it's kind of just a it's a proactive way to look at
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  things that are waiting until missing shingles, waiting until we have a leak that's
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  coming inside the house. It's great to hit know too. You mentioned that
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  the free inspection and having your roof looked at and one of the great things
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  that you guys offer at large storm service. As you mentioned, there may
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  be a situation where the whole roof does need to be replaced, but there
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  also may be one where there's a small damaged area and as we all know,
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  things like maintenance and refreshing and kind of dealing with small problems before they
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  become big problems. Not only do they save you money, but it can
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  prolong the life of your roof. And what's funny, Andrew is I had
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  we had that win the other week, and our television antenna and I,
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  yes, I do still watch over the air television at home. Our TV
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  antenna guy, yeah, got kind of knocked out of wax. So I
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  was getting kind of those those they call it tiling, where like the screen
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  would occasionally kind of flicker, and I couldn't watch the news. And so
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  I get on the back of my house and I put up the ladder and
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  I climb up the ladder and I was going to take a picture while I
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  was up there, because it's been a few years since you guys did our
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  roof, and I'm like, this thing looks as great as the day that
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  you guys put the roof on. Not just the roof itself, but when
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  you were talking about about the different events and the different pieces up there,
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  I thought, this stuff it looks literally and again it's spent. It's I
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  think four or five years now, it still looks absolutely amazing in brand,
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  spank and new. And that's the other great thing about about working with you
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  guys at Lars Home Services is the quality of the work is not only is
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  it, you know, providing shelter for your shelter, but it's also going
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  to look great as well. And there's so many cool options as well with
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  Larslome Services. So today is a day six eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. That's six eight five three five four three four three. Call
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  Andrew and the team at Largstome Services have them get you that free roof inspection.
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  Again, the best thing you're going to hear is there's nothing wrong.
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  Everything looks great. If there is a problem, there's a variety of options
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  for addressing it and addressing it properly. The other great thing too this time
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  of year, Andrew, in no time you and I are going to be
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  talking winter weather and we're going to be talking about cold temperatures and wear and
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  tear on your furnace. And one of the cool things about Largstome Services is
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  Doctor Energy Saver or something you've been offering for the past few years, that
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  home energy audit and the great opportunity to make sure that your house is performing
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  well when it comes to insulation. And one of the areas, and pardon
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  me, I'm going on and on about this, one of the really interesting
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  areas that I've learned a lot from you about over the years is we typically
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  think attic insulation, which is obviously important, wall insulation, which is important.
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  But the thing we don't always think about is when it comes insulation is
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  if you've got a crawl space or a basement, insulation there as well.
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  Most of the time, as homeowners, we never think about that stuff.
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  With doctor Energy say that is all part of that energy audit, and of
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  course is all part of making sure that the house is sealed up. It
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  is and so the home works as an entire system. So there are a
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  lot of homes that have While almost almost all homes have an attic or some
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  attic, a lot of homes have a crawl space, especially older homes,
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  where a lot of older homes had porches that were turned into living space because
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  hey, the puddings were there, it was cost effective to put some walls
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  up, insulate and throw some insulation under the floor. And now we've got
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  more living space and we're seeing it nowadays. Two sometimes they're just building a
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  home with a crawl space and no basement enough to get mechanicals down there and
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  such. Back in the day when they would turn or put an addition on
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  with crawl space or turn some sort of porch into a living space, they
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  thought it was best practice because that area could get moisture in it. You
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  wanted to vent it and then throw some insulation up on the up on the
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  ceiling or what would be just the bottom of the floor in that crawl space.
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  What we now know, what we know nowadays, is that's definitely not
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  the best practice because basically what we're doing is we're allowing that you know,
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  that area when it's negative twenty degrees outside, that crawl space area is going
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  to be twenty degrees or negative twenty degrees as well as your insulation. Trying
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  to keep it on that floor is it's almost impossible. It's always pulling away
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  from the floor. And if we what we know, one thing we know
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  about insulation is if it's not in contact with what we want it to be,
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  it's literally doing nothing. So when we come out and we take a
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  look at the home, we're gonna look at the crawl space. We're gonna
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  look at the attic. We're gonna look at can lights, We're gonna look
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  at all the all the penetrations in the home are in the attic to make
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  sure that everything gets sealed up properly so that we can stop stack effects,
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  we can stop the heat loss. You know, a lot of people don't
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  think about this stuff in the summer either, but man, with the summer
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  we have, we've we've met seventy people that can't keep their home cool.
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  When we go on the home and we do thermal hinging on the ceiling on
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  a ninety five degree day, and that ceiling is eighty five degrees and you're
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  trying to keep that room at seventy, You're you're basically fighting a losing battle,
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  and the air condition is never going to shut off. You're just never
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  gonna win. So that's when that insulation in the attic comes into play.
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  Most honesty in the summer, it is keeping that attic, which your attic
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  is probably gonna be one hundred thirty hundred forty degrees when it's ninety outside,
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  keep that attic from from from keep it from baking the room below it.
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  And in the winner, we want it reverse we want that air ceiling done
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  right and we want the insulation. So summers coming to an end. Looks
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  like we've got a few more really really hot day but it's gonna be getting
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  cooler. It kind of felt like fall in the air this morning. You
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  know, it was nice and cool out right now, what is it chuff
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  right now? Fifty six degrees yeah, so yeah, it's gonna be what
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  eighty five today? I don't know, it's gonna be hot. It's gonna
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  be hot today. It's gonna be in the nineties this weekend. To Andrews,
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  it's gonna be very, very warm. Now. It might be a
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  little bit too late for us to get that insulation done to help you with
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  the air conditioning this year, but again it is going to get cold.
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  If you're questioning how your air ceiling is done, if the can lights are
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  covered, Polly Insulation is, have us come out, have us take a
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  look. You know, we can measure what your our value is. We
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  can tell you pull your whole system is working as a whole and give you
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  option. Sometimes we don't do it all right away, sometimes we do it
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  in pieces, but we can give you an option to get everything done properly,
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  air ceiling, insulating, can light covers. You're at a catch at
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  A catch is a huge component of of slowing down stack effect. It's usually
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  never, it's never stealed, almost never, and for most people it's literally
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  just usually a piece of sheet rock laying on top of some wood and maybe
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  have some insulation on top. You lose a ton of heat through an atta
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  catch. We're going to insulate that property. We're gonna air steal that properly.
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  Make sure your home stay is comfortable and that you're heating and their conditioning
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  units can work as efficiently as possible. Today's the goal. Today is the
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  day to achieve that goal and and rowin the team at large. Stome Services
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  want to do that for you. It's a prime time. We talk about,
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  of course the hot weekend ahead and of course the cold days of winter
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  coming in no time. A lot of times folks have cool spots in their
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  house or areas that are just not comfortable. They always call the HVAC,
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  and of course what the HVAC do. They crank it up so you get
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  more and more heat and open up those vents, which costs you more and
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  more money. Prevent that call the folks at Larson Home Services, get doctor
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  Energy Saver on the case, get your house insulated properly and make sure that
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  you can cut down on those bills, and of course keep your house comfortable.
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  All I gotta do this morning is pick up phone, give him a
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  call. They'd love to chat with you. A six oz eight five three
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  five forty three forty three. That's five three, five forty three forty three
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  for Larsen Home Services. The website Larsen home Services dot com. Andrew,
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  it's always great chatting with you, my friend. You enjoy this beautiful day,
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  all right, We'll see you. We'll be talking trees next here on
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  thirteen ten. Wiba