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Spring-ish with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eight O seven thirteen ten WI b A and ask the experts, Joined this
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  morning by mister Andrew Larson. Of course, Andrew comes to us from Larsen
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  Home Services Online Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A R S O N
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  Home Services dot comtel phone number six so eight five three five forty three forty
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  three. That's five three five four three four three. Andrew, how you
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  doing this morning? Well, I'm calling from actually in lod I, Wisconsin
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  today, which is it's wonderful. But you know, people can tell last
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  week I wasn't in studio. I was staring at the ocean during the show.
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  It was pretty wonderful. It's rough man sometimes sometimes so some of us
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  have to sacrifice. Well, it's great to have you, have you back,
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  and you brought the warm weather with you, which is which is good.
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  We'll call it a mixed bag. Obviously, we can always use some
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  warmer temperatures. I think we could always love and enjoy it. Other things
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  can be can cause some issues, and it's important to talk a little bit
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  about where we are right now temperature wise, not necessarily calendar wise. There
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  are some great opportunities with this warmer weather. As we get into late winter
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  on into spring, right Andrew, it is. You know, typically we
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  you know, we're in February, it's cold, it's there's typically some snow
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  on the ground, and we're going, oh my gosh, what I hope
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  this stuff melts. And then as a whomeowner, we think, okay,
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  what do we need to start doing or thinking about for spring? And you
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  know a lot of people don't think about it until it's actually spring. But
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  you know, I look at the extended forecast about forty five days and winters
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  don't like I mean, I'm knocking on wood. But the app I use
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  is, you know, we're pretty fortunate nowadays with weather apps. You know,
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  we're gonna have some cold nights and there, but for the most part,
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  I mean, I think we're going to be what is it tickling fifty
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  sixty degrees today and then next week sixty's it? Spring is here, and
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  so now it's really time to start thinking. And I think it's great because
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  now we don't have to have this giant rush of we need to get this
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  done. We need to get our gutters fixed. We you know, our
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  roof is an issue. I mean, if that's what we're really thinking,
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  about and you've got you know, you think you have issues with your roof,
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  but you just you just don't know. And we've got some new TV
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  commercials coming out next week which really kind of explain it. And we got
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  a lot of people that you know, you know, my roof looks great
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  from the ground, but yet I have this wet spot on the ceiling,
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  or my my roof looks great, but maybe but I could I looked in
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  the attic and we had some leaking. It happens all the time. And
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  I talk about when I talk about roofing, I talk about the details,
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  and the details are the really really important part. And look, there's there's
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  lots of roofers, I mean hundreds of roofers in the state of Wisconsin.
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  And when you're getting estimates or you're having somebody come over, do they talk
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  about the details. Most of the time the answers, No, they talk
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  about what color shingle do you want? Now, the color shingle is very
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  important, but when it comes down to the functionality of your roofing system,
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  it literally has nothing to do with it. We can change the look of
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  a house, we can spruce up the look of a house, but you
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  know, really a color is kind of like the last thing we should be
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  talking about. We need to talk about the details, the ice and water,
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  the underlayments, the chimney flashing, the cricket that all of the things
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  that keep water on top of the shingles. Remember, I've always said that
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  you can put the best, most expensive shingle in the world on your home,
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  but if the details and the flashings are not done properly, that roof
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  is going to leak. And we see it every single day. And that's
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  why that's why we've kind of changed the way we do things. I mean,
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  not the way we do a We've always done roofs the best way possible
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  with the best materials and the best warranties. But you know, now when
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  we go out to do gutter estimates for gutter, shutter or a roof,
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  we're doing a full sixteen point inspection, and we're showing the homeowner through photos
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  and videos and an actual in an actual check sheet, like what is going
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  on with your roof? Because we hear it all the time. You know,
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  my roof's only eight years old. I got a leak. I've talked
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  to two roofers and they said, I have to replace it. That's very
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  doubtful. It's very doubtful that you have to replace an eight eight year old
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  roof. How about we come out, let Larsen come out, do an
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  inspection and tell you exactly what's wrong with your roof and prescribe exactly what needs
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  to be done to bring years back to those current shingles and saving you thousands
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  of dollars in the process. So, I mean, that's kind of the
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  focus that we've taken out. There are times we go out to roofs and
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  people are hoping for a repair and that's not possible. The shingles are actually
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  shot. But that's part of our inspection and we back it up with video
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  and photos so you can see this is what's really going on. There's there's
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  matt cracking, these flashings weren't done properly, You've got wind damage, whatever
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  it may be. We're gonna let you know exactly what state those shingles are
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  in and prescribe the correct the correct course of action to fix them, and
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  whether that's a repair or a restore as we like to call We don't just
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  like to repair, we'd actually like to restore. So fix all the problems,
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  maybe not just one, or it's a replacement. Either way, we'll
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  let you know exactly what needs to be done and what it'll cost. You
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  know, Andrew, I think back to like that first car, most of
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  us, if we were lucky enough, our parents may have helped us out,
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  or or maybe we just went in Phoenix nineteen eighty two, shot Phoenix.
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  I don't know if you've ever seen one of those. I don't think
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  it was kind of like a a citation. Okay, you've ever seen one
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  of those. You know what those are? Yeah, that's it, And
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  that's exactly like we think. You get that first car, and the first
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  thing we want to do is as a as a new car owner, we
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  want to get a great stereo system in there. We want to do all
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  these all these things, but we ignore things like oil changes in the breaks.
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  What ends up costing us in the end is the oil changes in the
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  breaks. You'll have a great car parked in the driveway that can bump some
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  tunes. But if you're not paying attention to those important things. That thing
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  you do with that new car when you're you know, young, you put
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  a stereo in it. I think of and I think of folks who who
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  get lured in by uh, you know somebody, all let's get these and
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  the you guys have the absolute best looking shingles, the absolute best perform of
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  everything. But if you're just looking at oh, let's get it, let's
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  get picking out colors and that type of thing, and not getting that.
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  I think the great thing about working with you guys at Larget Home Services,
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  which we had done on our home, was understanding that there's more than just
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  the stereo that it is. It is the important things that you don't see,
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  that you don't fully appreciate until something goes wrong, when you have that
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  leak, when you have those other issues, you're going why did Why didn't
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  I go with somebody like large Stop Services who will go through and help you
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  understand why a roof needs to be done a certain way, why flashings are
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  the way that they are. You talk about the term cricket, which is
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  a word that I learned from you and over the roof and it is not
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  the European game. No, it is a roofing. It is a roofing
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  detail and it's a problem area, isn't it for a lot of homes?
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  Very much so if nobody knows what that is. It's it's the space behind
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  your chimney. A lot of people still have nice, big, beautiful brick
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  chimney stone chimneys, and some are two feet wide, some are three feet
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  wide. I've seen them as wide as eight feet without a cricket, And
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  a cricket is basically just creating another roof behind that chimney, so when the
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  water comes down behind it, it doesn't just smash up on the back of
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  it. It's actually channeled away and around it. It's it's amazing. That's
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  a Chimneys are a problem. Yeah, well for a lot of people,
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  that is a major detail that gets overlooked time and time again. We see
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  it every day, so that's that's a major part. You know. The
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  other thing I think of is gutters. A lot of people can just look
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  up at their gutters and and Okay, well they look great, but are
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  they You know they're not. They're not great if they're clogged and you don't
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  know it. And then we get that first big rain and and with gutter
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  shutter, you put it up and it's a it's a one and done.
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  You know that it is not going to be clogged. You know that it
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  is going to be free flowing. I mean it is a full six inch
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  gutter with cover guaranteed to not clog. It's got wide mouse that connect into
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  the downspout, so the hole that is taking the water into the down spout
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  is four by six inches and then going into a three by four inch down
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  spout. So I've never seen a rain that it can't handle it. It
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  sucks the water in, it never clogs, and it takes care of one
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  more of those maintenance issues that you that you might have to deal with.
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  So it's like and as that flash properly? Is that slope properly? That's
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  something that we run into all the time where you know, someone just wants
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  to put a cover on their gutter, but what they don't know is that
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  the gutters weren't flashed properly, the gutters aren't slow properly. So when they
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  put the cover on top of the gutters, now they've just got a gutter
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  that won't clog, but yet water can still leave behind it and it will
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  still overflow with the heavy rain. So doing a full system, we can
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  we can guarantee a homeowner that everything's going to be working properly and if it
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  doesn't, they pick up the phone, they call us and we come out
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  and fix it. Great data. Take advantage of the great weather. We've
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  got to had a great data. Have your roof looked at, whether it's
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  something you may not see or maybe you too, your roof is getting long
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  in the tooth and you can tell it's time for a replacement, whether it's
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  a restoration, repair or replacement. Larstom Services has you covered. Also check
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  out when it comes to gutters and gutters shutter with Larstom Services. Today is
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  today to pick up phone, give them a call six oh 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. You can learn more online Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's
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  l A R. S o N Home Services dot com. Andrew, it's
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  always great chatting with you, my friend. We'll do it all again real
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  soon. All right, talk next week. Kevin Hamham's Arbacare comes your way
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  next here on thirteen ten w ib A