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Roof Inspection Time with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Aight O seven thirteen ten wib A Madison in the Morning. Fantastic intro music
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  for the one and only our good friend Andrew Larson. Larsen Home Services.
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  The website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A R S O N Home
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  Services dot com. Great website to learn more about Andrew, the team and
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  of course all the great stuff they can do for you at Larsen Home Services,
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  whether it's gutter shutter doctor, Energy Saver, and of course the Larsen
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  roofing experience. Again, learn more online Larsenholmes Services dot com. Tell number
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  six so eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five
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  four three four three. I think it's officially spring, isn't it, Andrew?
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  As far as like the people at SO, what does that mean for
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  us? Big picture stuff? Andy? Andrew I called you Andy, by
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  the way, you told us a couple of weeks ago that they use Yeah,
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  I'm sorry, Andrew. I like Andrew sounds it's a very fitting fitting
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  name. What does that be for for us homeowners and folks that have their
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  casas? What what does spring mean to them? And what should we be
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  thinking about when it comes to taking care of our house. You know what's
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  funny is are you getting a revert? I'm not. I don't think you
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  won't be anymore either. Cool, So, uh, you know it's funny
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  is I heard you chuckle when that song played and I was like, oh
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  my gosh, is my webcam on? Can he see me dancing? Because
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  I was totally dancing. You know, it's funny as you say, all
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  right, it's spring, and you know what I thought, I said,
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  I thought today. You know, I don't want to just talk about gutters
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  and roofing and insulation, even though it's like my favorite three things in the
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  world. Uh, you know, it's spring. What are some important home
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  maintenance tips for spring? What are the things we should check after winter?
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  Even though we didn't really have much of a winter, we've had some some
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  very odd weather. I see northern Wisconsin just been getting hammered with snow and
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  we got a bunch of much needed rain earlier this week. So that's all
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  good. And you know, Sean, I can't make this up. So
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  I actually I know what I think is really important, but I wanted to
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  get some information from another expert, and I went on HGTV dot com with
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  fifteen home maintenance tips for spring, and the first one that comes up is
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  inspect your shingles. Oh yes, I didn't make that up. That was
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  on their website, but it is very important because after winter with ice and
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  snow and ice damming cold wind, it is important to check the shingles.
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  And that's something that we we offer that you know, that's part of our
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  roof restore or roof repair program. Because I've mentioned this many times that we
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  run into a lot of roofs that just they're not that old, you know,
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  ten twelve years old, and they just weren't done properly. The details
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  weren't done, so they get leaks when they shouldn't. But the shingles aren't
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  bad. So you know, we have a restore program and we don't just
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  like to say repair because you know, a repair would be like, hey,
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  i've got a pipe boot leaking, you know, where event comes through
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  the roof. We'll just throw some you know, blackjack on there, throw
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  some cock on there. That's a repair that's not going to last that long.
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  We want to restore, so we want to check the entire roof,
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  do a free sixteen point inspection and let you know about all it. Lets
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  you know about the fiberglass matting. Lets you know about granular loss. How
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  are your valleys looking? How is all the flash how are all the fat
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  flashings looking? How is your ventilation? What does your attic look like?
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  How's your chimney doing? We want to check all of that stuff, all
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  the major leak points, all the important things that go wrong before the shingles
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  are actually ready to be torn off and thrown in a landfill. So that
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  was number one. Inspect your roof. Number two was actually again I can't
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  make this up. Your gutters. It's really like played into what I wanted
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  to talk about. But check the gutters. Make sure that after the weight
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  of ice and snow in the winter, they haven't sagged, They're not misformed,
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  they're still sloping properly. The ice didn't fall and create any any holes
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  in the gutters. We see that all the time. We'll see it where
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  the snow and ice slid off the roof and actually will rip the gutters off
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  the roof or hit the front of it and make it. We call it
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  a bird beak. It bird beaks out. So now every time it rains
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  heavy, that's where the gutters overflow. So that's the importance of our gutter
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  shutter system and why we replace the entire thing, because if we're just to
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  put a cover over the top of your existing gutters, it doesn't mean that
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  your existing gutters necessarily work properly. So we want to put the whole system
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  up. We know it's going to work right. We also guarantee We also
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  guarantee it won't be damaged from the weight of ice or snow just because it
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  is that thick, that big, and that strong. Next next on their
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  list was examine your chimney, which I believe kind of goes along with the
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  roofing because it is part of the roofing system. But that's something that we
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  check. We checked chimneys. Chimneys are a major leak point. Typically aren't
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  flashtright chip typically don't have crickets behind them. Cricket is just a it's almost
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  like a little mini roof that goes behind a chimney that channels water away from
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  the back of it. So you imagine all the water that can pile up,
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  or snow and ice that can pile up behind the back of a chimney.
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  It's kind of like putting a wall up. That's the wall of that
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  chimney. We want a channel water away from it. So that's all something
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  that we would do with our free sixteen point inspection. The next maintenance issue
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  on the list was check the attic. Again, I am not making this
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  up. Anybody can google this, but it was check the roof, check
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  the gutters, check the chimney, check the attic. These are things that
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  we all handle. Why do you think, you know, why would you
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  want to check the attic. Well, when our house is all closed up
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  in the winter and we're cooking and we're cleaning, and we're bathing and we're
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  heating our home, that hot air rises. Whereas in the summer and in
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  the spring we have our windows open a lot more so we have a lot
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  more airflow. But in the winter everything's closed up and all that warm,
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  hot, moist air goes up into the attic. So we want to check
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  our attic to make sure that we've got proper ventilation, to make sure that
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  we're not creating mold issues, because that's something that we see very very regularly
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  when a roof got done or an attic got redone and they didn't make sure
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  there was proper ventilation. Now, all that warm moist air gets trapped up
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  there and it's just the perfect conditions to start seeing mold, which is not
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  good for anything. Mold eats wood, Mold makes people sick. It's bad.
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  So making sure those gutters are working properly, making sure we're checking our
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  roof. We didn't lose shingles in the winter, we didn't create leaks.
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  Just making sure that they're going to make it through another season, and then
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  checking the attic, making sure we've got got proper ventilation and we didn't create
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  a mold issue during the winter months. So these are some of the more
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  important things to get done right away, and these are all things that we
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  can take care of for anyone listening. One of the things that's really impressive
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  about working with your guys at our Stop Services. Of course, you guys
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  redid our roof a number of years ago. It still looks If anyone drives
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  by, you will know it looks like it just was done. It looks
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  it still looks absolutely amazing. One of the things that I love that you
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  guys do is we talk about some of these areas for the spring inspection,
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  whether the roof of the gutters, chimney. The attic is your gun,
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  and God bless them for doing it. Like it wasn't like like when they
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  went up in the attic. It wasn't just like I'm gonna poke my head
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  up there and just scan the flashlight and kind of do an assessment, like
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  went up in our attic and it's like, our roof is in our attic
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  space isn't particularly tall. Like crawling through there, like looking in like the
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  little court, like the little nooks and crannies between the woodwork and the and
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  looking at the inslation, I thought, what is good? There is?
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  There is not a corner cut there, Andrew there is? It is literally,
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  yeah, people all the time, you know, well, why do
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  you need to look at my attic? Look, we don't need to every
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  time, but we want to. Some attic accesses are not the greatest.
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  Some people don't have attic access. But what we like to tell people is
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  that we can tell a lot about how their roof is working by looking up
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  in their attic. We can see leaks that they haven't seen yet. We
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  can see rotten wood that people haven't seen yet. I mean, one of
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  the most important parts of your roof is your decking. What is the roof
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  decking like? Is it in good shape? Is it planks? And we
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  run into a lot of older homes that are you know that ninety hundred years
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  old. Well, they didn't have plywood back then. They didn't have osb
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  to put on roofs. They used wood planks like one by sixes or two
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  by sixes whatever they wanted to put up there. Because when those homes were
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  built, they used cedar shakes, so they didn't need a full surface,
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  and they had gaps in them. Well, here's here's the deal. A
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  lot of people get new roofs put on and then they tear that roof off
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  and go, oh darn it, you have planks. This roof's gonna cost
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  you an extra four thousand dollars. Now, I mean, what a kick
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  in the shorts. Right. We want to be upfront with all of that
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  stuff. So if we can see it from the underneath, we can say,
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  okay, there's planks up there, and they're spaced out more than an
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  eighth of an inch. We have to redeck this, and the reason being
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  because asphalt shingles, there's so many nails that go in there that with that
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  spacing there's just a certain percentage of nails that they're not going to hit anything.
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  Now we can't give a wind rating, you're gonna have easier blowoffs.
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  When the cedar shakes were put on, it was totally fine. They spaced
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  them how they needed them. So we want to look up in the attic
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  make sure the underdecking is good. Sometimes we can get up there and we
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  can see problems because we can see daylight. We can see daylight where we
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  shouldn't be able to see daylight where flashing should be. So it's very important
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  to look up in the attic. And there's a lot of roofers I'm sure
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  that don't. We just don't want to have any surprises. Also, a
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  roofing system works well when the insulation and air ceiling is done properly. So
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  if we've got proper insulation, air ceiling, and ventilation, that's all part
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  of the roofing system in my book, it is in our company's book.
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  We want to make sure that's all done properly. So if we're going to
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  get up there and inspect the roof, we want to check out the attic
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  as well, and we'll give recommendations. A lot of times we get up
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  there and say, hey, you know what, you've got air ceiling,
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  you've got great insulation and great ventilation, perfect, and the under decking looks
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  good. All we're going to need to do is replace this roof. There
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  should be no surprises. But if we see wood that looks rotten or moldy,
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  and we see improper ventilation with no air ceiling, we're going to say,
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  hey, all right, we've got some rotten wood. A lot of
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  times that rotten wood is not because the roof is leaking. A lot of
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  times it's because of the conditions up in the attic with no air ceiling,
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  with improper ventilation and insulation. So we'll say, hey, this roof needs
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  to be replaced, but we're also going to have to replace a bunch of
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  decking. And here's why, because we have we need to fix the ventilation
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  and we need to fix the air ceiling. Otherwise, this moisture is just
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  going to keep coming up there, condensing on the wood, creating mold and
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  creating rot. So we want to fix it right the first time and create
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  something that lasts a lifetime for the homeowners we work with. And when you
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  look at the warranty, you look at the type of workmanship, you look
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  at everything and get with large Storme Services, you definitely want to make sure
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  you're having your your an. How is the time here to get that roof
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  inspect that have you gutters checked out as well? And of course home performance.
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  Larsen Home Services they can do all of those things for you. All
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  I got to do this morning, pick up the phone, give Andrew and
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  the team a call their telephone number six so eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. That's five three five forty three forty three. Trust me when
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  I tell you this, you will be absolutely impressed by what they do with
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  Larsen Home Services. Me mentioned we talk about, you know, getting up
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  in the attic and stuff. One of the things I really like too is
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  getting like a very detailed you know, before we went to contract, before
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  we started anything, your guys came and gave me a very detail. This
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  is what this is what we saw, this is what's going to need to
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  be replaced, this is what's part of the part of the project. And
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  as you were talking there and talking about some of the you know, some
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  of the decking and the boards that are up there is a part of me
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  wonders, and I wonder if there's probab. There's probably if I go back,
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  and there's probably a note on it. I think part of why they
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  were going so far into the attic was I think there was a spot and
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  if it maybe maybe it did hang in. It's so long ago, Andrew.
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  Again, I believe that, Sean, I believe that we'd have to
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  replace some Ronnie. Yeah, and I think that was what they Yeah,
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  what they were doing. So that was again this is we talk about your
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  home, you talk about your investment, and you talk about something that's going
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  to last long time. Again, I like to point out it's long enough
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  that I don't remember all the details. But again, if you drive by
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  the house, you can you would think that it was just put on yesterday.
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  It's an amazing job. That's a great thing about working with Andrew and
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  the team today today. Pick up phone, give him a call six eight
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  five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four
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  three for Larsten Home Services. Andrew, it's always great chatting with you,
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  my friend. You enjoy this fantastic day you as well. We'll talk next
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  week. News comes your way next here. I'm not new, we have
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