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The Importance of Roofing with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eighth, seven thirteen ten Wiba and Ask the Experts joined this morning bear good
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  friend Andrew Larson, of course, Andrew comestrous from Larsen Homes Services the website
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  Larsen Homes Services dot com. That's l A R. S O N Home
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  Services dot com, Dell pH number six oh eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. That's five three five four three four three. Andrew, how
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  you doing this morning. I'm doing great yourself. I'm doing well. Now.
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  I don't work in the biz, so I don't know all of the
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  the ins and outs of homes, and but I know some of the basic
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  stuff. Like I know that in order to have a home, you've got
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  to have a floor, you got to have some walls, and there's another
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  piece that you absolutely have to have for home, and I think it's called
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  a roof. I could be off on that, but I'm pretty sure.
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  Like at the most basic I draw like stick figures, and I can draw
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  a stick home. I always draw like a line for the bottom two lines
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  for some walls, and then like a little v on top to make a
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  roof. That little v on top is really what makes a house a house,
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  and it's an important part. You're artistic just like me. I yes,
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  I have mad stick figure skills. Man, I can do. I
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  think in high school, like, my worst grade was literally an art class.
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  I had this misconception that, like from like elementary school that as long
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  as you just tried. But no, we had a teacher that actually graded
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  on artistic ability. Oh gee, it was wrong class for me. Yeah,
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  I'm with you, man. I like roofs. Yeah, well the
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  way, what's that? They can be a work of art. Roofs can
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  be a work of art. They can be a work of art. They
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  are extremely important, you know, and I never obviously I know roofs are
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  important. But when you really stop and think about it, if you ever
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  drive past an old abandoned building or uh you know, a really old house,
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  like out in a rural area or out in the country, that house
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  will be totally fine until the roof goes and water starts to get in and
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  stuff starts to rot and you get mold and literally everything deteriorates. A good
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  roof on an old barn, that barn will last forever. Kind of kind
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  of it kind of goes the same with your home. If if your roof
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  stays intact and doesn't leak that house, that structure will last for a very,
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  very very long time. And you know, that's why roofing is so
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  important, and that's why we take it so seriously and one of the reasons
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  why we started really trying to get into and you know, people like to
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  call it repairs, and we call it a roof restore because you know,
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  if you're looking for someone to come out and just like replace one pipe boot
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  penetration, that is something that we can do. But typically if your pipe
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  boot or a pipe flashing is leaking, that's because it's gone, it's gotten
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  bad and it's dry rotted. And what do we know that Typically, if
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  you've got five pipe boots on your roof, they were probably all put out
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  at the same time. So replacing one it kind of makes sense to do
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  the rest. And what we do with our roof restoration is a seventeen point
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  inspection on the roof and hey, if your roof is good, we're going
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  to let you know what's good. But if it's bad or there's things that
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  need to be fixed, you know, we're going to let you know that
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  The guys aren't up there to try to sell you a new roof. We're
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  up there to try to restore the roof you have and upon that inspection,
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  if if we just go through and there's too many things, we're gonna recommend
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  a full new roof that's going to last you a lifetime. But if we
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  can fix up a eight, ten twelve year old roof to get you some
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  more time out of it, that's what we're going to do. And you
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  know, saving it's saving a homeowner money. It's also saving shingles from going
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  in a landfill, which is one of the biggest offenders in land that we
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  have. So the roof restoration has become a very, very big part.
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  And it's usually the details that are missed. And I always talk about details,
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  but it's usually the details you get up there. You've got beautiful shingles,
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  it might only be a few years old. Details are missed and roof
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  is leaking. That roof doesn't need to be replaced, it just needs to
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  be restored. It's something that we take a lot of pride in and Larsen
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  Home Services and Andrew the team can do that for you. If you've got
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  questions about your roof, if you haven't had a inspection, recently. Definitely
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  want to check that out as we got a little taste of snow the other
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  day. Winter is coming and you want to be prepared. All get to
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  pick up film this morning and give them a call. Six so eight five
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  three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four three
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  for Larsen Home Services. The website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A R.
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  S o N Home Services dot com. Another thing you mentioned when you
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  drive around and noticing old abandoned homes and that kind of what brings them ultimately
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  down. One of the things too, I know Andrew, when you drive
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  around. Something I learned from you and something that I still do to this
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  day is when it snows and I'm driving around, I look at roofs and
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  I specifically look to see is there snow cover is it evenly covering the roof,
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  or are there spots where the snow has melted away. That's an indication
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  of something, isn't it. That's an indication that we have an air ceiling
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  problem. Uh. Yeah. You know a lot of people might think,
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  well that's an insulation. That's an insulation issue. And that's what I love
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  about home performance work. Yeah, is that everybody thinks that they just need
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  more insulation. Now is do you have enough insulation? You possibly might,
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  is the insulation evenly spread, But most likely you've got air seal issues where
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  you've got pipe penetrations, you've got electrical penetrations, you've got can lights,
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  a number of things, chimney chase. They're not air sealed up properly.
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  They're not insulated properly, so they end up becoming just here eat highways for
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  that heat to leave the inside of your home. And you know, there's
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  there's a bunch of companies out there that do insulation, and for the most
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  part, we will call them a blow and go company. And what I
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  mean by that is you google that you need more insulation. They come up,
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  they come over, they stick their head up in the attic, they
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  measure your insulation, and they go, yeap, you need six more inches.
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  Here's your bill, twelve hundred bucks. But what did we actually fix?
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  Nothing is adding more insulation actually going to do anything for your heating bills
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  in the winter. And the answer is not going to do a thing to
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  add a few more inches of inches of insulation, because like a roof when
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  I talk about the most important part of you know, your underlaying, your
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  ice and water, your roof to wall, flashing your pipe penetrations in an
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  attic, there are things more important than the insulation, and that becomes I
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  look at that air ceiling like your flashings, we're flashing the penetration. So
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  I always say with the roof, you put the best shingle in the world
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  on, but you don't do the little things and the details and the stuff
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  underneath properly, it's gonna leak. We could put all the put all the
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  insulation in your attic that we want to, but if we don't fix the
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  floor, if we don't seal up the penetrations, the air is gonna leak
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  out, and it's really not going to do you any good. So if
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  you're driving down the road like you do now, just like I do every
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  day because it's an illness, and I'm looking at somebody's roof, and what's
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  the best is like when it's a frosty morning, so you've got that layer
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  of frost over the roof and you see big melted spots, Well, that
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  is that is heat that we've paid for. That's want up through the attic
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  and out through the roof. That's something that we can come over take a
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  look at. We've got a lot of different tools that we use. We
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  can diagnose what's going on it, show you exactly what's going on, and
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  let you know what it will cost to fix those heating and cooling issues,
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  make your home more comfortable and save money in the long run. So that's
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  that's what we do, and you do it so well. And we talk
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  about, you know, the work that you guys do at Larsen Home Services,
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  and of course talk about Doctor Energy Saver. Is it's really a comprehensive
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  solution. Is as you mentioned, you know, some of those quote unquote
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  blow and go folks, they're literally just kind of masking but not really solving
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  any type of issues. And when we talk about doctor Energy Saver and you
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  talk about what all goes into that analysis of your home and of course actually
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  solving the problem of heat loss, and not only in the obviously in the
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  winter months than heat loss summer months. You think about about that cold there
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  that you're cooling. Of course they can help you conserve that as well and
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  make it so your house is universally comfortable. You don't have cold spots,
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  you don't have warm spots. You've just got a comfortable home and run.
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  The team at Largetome Services would love to make sure this winter for you is
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  a pleasant one and save you on heating bills. All I got to do
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  this morning is pick up phone. Give them a call six so eight five
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  three five forty three forty three. It's five three five four three four three
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  for Larsen Home Services. The website Larsen Home Services dot com. That's l
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  A R. S O N Home Services dot com. Andrew, it's always
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  great chatting with you, my friend. You enjoy this most beautiful of days.
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  All right, chat next week Kevin ham Haamsarbacare comes your way next here
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