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Gutter Selection Election with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eighth, seven thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts. Hanging
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  Speaker 1: out this morning with Andrew Larson. Of course, Andrew comes
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  Speaker 1: to us from Larsen Home Services. The website Larsenhomesservices dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's l A. Rso N Home Services dot com. They're
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  Speaker 1: telephone number six oh eight five three five forty three
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  Speaker 1: forty three. That's five three, five forty three forty three. Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I don't want to bring politics into
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  Speaker 1: the program because that's not the type of show that
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  Speaker 1: we do, but I will mention. One of the major
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  Speaker 1: candidates part of a political party running for president was
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  Speaker 1: asked about gutters recently, of all things, and kind of
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  Speaker 1: went on a little bit of a rant about gutters,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, try not to be judgmental on people,
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  Speaker 1: but when I see a well tended gutter, it says
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  Speaker 1: a lot about somebody. And that is a direct quote.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so that, yeah, that person, whoever they are, just
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  Speaker 2: might have got my vote.
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  Speaker 1: He's cornering the gutter industry. Gutters are massively important, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that any homeowner that's experienced, you know, basement
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  Speaker 1: flooding or other issues with their gutters. Know right away
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  Speaker 1: how important they are. Folks that that maybe looking at
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  Speaker 1: their house now going oh, I don't like the way
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  Speaker 1: they look. I don't like the way they perform Gutter
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  Speaker 1: shutter larsenal services. You guys, can you guys can help
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  Speaker 1: people address those issues pretty significantly, can't you.
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  Speaker 2: I love well tended gutters. Yeah, it's like one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite things. Yes, last week I was out in
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  Speaker 2: we just took like a little end of the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Vaca wasn't going to do it, but you know, kids
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  Speaker 2: start getting older. My daughter's going to be in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Into my head, I'm like, you know, there's not that
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  Speaker 2: many summers left where she's going back to school here
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  Speaker 2: in the town we live in. So anyway, I'm starting
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  Speaker 2: to get a little sentimental in my old age. But
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  Speaker 2: we went out to South Carolina, and of course wherever
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  Speaker 2: I go, place called Hilton Head on the ocean. Beautiful place.
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  Speaker 2: If you've never been to South Carolina, it's beautiful. It's
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  Speaker 2: very green and wooded and they've got oceans and the
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  Speaker 2: alligators and it's pretty cool. But anyway, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I look at, I look at roofs, and I look
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  Speaker 2: at gutters, and the only thing I could think of
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  Speaker 2: while I was there was, man, they could use a
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  Speaker 2: gutter shutter over here, lots of not well tended gutters
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  Speaker 2: on homes that most people could never afford on the ocean,
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  Speaker 2: like incredibly beautiful homes with the worst looking gutters clogg up, mossy,
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  Speaker 2: mildew just look like trash. And sorry I judge people's gutters,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been kind of ingrained into my head, but
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  Speaker 2: it's very true. Like a gutter is a trim piece
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  Speaker 2: on the front of your home. So while it functions
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  Speaker 2: as something that every home needs, especially where we live
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  Speaker 2: because we have basements. We have basements because it freezes
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  Speaker 2: here and we need water pipes to not freeze in
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  Speaker 2: the winter. We have to keep water out of the basement.
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  Speaker 2: So gutters are very functional. They need to function and
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  Speaker 2: get water away from the home. It's also something that
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  Speaker 2: sticks out. I mean it is across all the trim
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  Speaker 2: on the top of your home. And if they are
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  Speaker 2: dirty and they are overflowing and they are growing stuff,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't look good. No, it doesn't look good. And
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  Speaker 2: our gutters do look beautiful. They look like trim. I
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  Speaker 2: say it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting too when you mentioned things growing in gutters.
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  Speaker 1: That is to me that how long have we been
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  Speaker 1: hanging out? A decade? It's got to be And I
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  Speaker 1: remember starting to talk with you and getting cueued in
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  Speaker 1: on looking because it's contagious. Andrew, once you start learning
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  Speaker 1: about roofs and gutters, you start doing it yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked when I started to notice how many
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  Speaker 1: people had little trees or just stuff growing out of
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  Speaker 1: the gun like that is that is negligence. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing there? Let's talk about how how these issues
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  Speaker 1: are solved and how you know how you can help
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  Speaker 1: at large SNOM services for folks that are saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know what. And the other thing too, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this candidate pointed out was the danger of cleaning gutters
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  Speaker 1: and there that is, you know, there's the practical and
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  Speaker 1: then there's the realistic one, which is safety staying off
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  Speaker 1: a ladder. He was pointing out the dangers of that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about how Lars Storm services can help folks
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  Speaker 1: with that problem not have to deal.
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  Speaker 2: With that problem. You talk about the danger part, and
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  Speaker 2: I used to talk about it a lot, but I
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  Speaker 2: think some people thought like that I'm making stuff up.
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  Speaker 2: But through my we'll call it a gutter career. From
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  Speaker 2: the time I was nineteen, as a gutter installer to
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  Speaker 2: a salesperson, to a sales manager, owning my own company,
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  Speaker 2: I've met numerous people that unfortunately had family members that
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  Speaker 2: pass away cleaning out their gutters. It takes one little slip,
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  Speaker 2: one little fall. A lot of people think they can
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  Speaker 2: get up on the roof, walk around the roof, lean
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  Speaker 2: over and clean the gutters out. And what typically happens
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  Speaker 2: is it's the low houses. It's the first story runs
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  Speaker 2: because people are less careful. When you're on second story,
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  Speaker 2: you're real careful. Right, Probably about seven eight years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I was at a gentleman's house and he had just retired,
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  Speaker 2: and he was so excited to retire. He had three
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  Speaker 2: golf memberships and he was just going to golf his
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  Speaker 2: retirement away. Unfortunately, he decided to go out and clean
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  Speaker 2: his gutters in November, and the ground was frozen and
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  Speaker 2: his roof was a little slippery, and he leaned over
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  Speaker 2: on that first story and he fell off, and he
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  Speaker 2: smashed both his heels and messed his backup. He couldn't
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  Speaker 2: golf anymore like hearing stories like that, we keep people
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  Speaker 2: off the ladder. That's what we do. It looks beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: it functions. When I say function, I mean it don't
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  Speaker 2: matter how hard it rains. This gutter can handle all
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  Speaker 2: of it. And it truly does. We used to make
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  Speaker 2: the joke like we're saving lead of saving lives one
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  Speaker 2: house at a time, but it's honestly not that far fetched.
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  Speaker 2: When I had my knee, I had my knee busted
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  Speaker 2: up a few years ago and I went to the
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  Speaker 2: doctor and he was like, what do you do? And
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  Speaker 2: I told him who I was, and he was like,
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  Speaker 2: I listened to you on the radio, so kudos. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to the radio show. And he said, I should be
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  Speaker 2: on your radio show because I make a living off
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  Speaker 2: of ladder falls. He fixed knees, and he fixed wrists
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  Speaker 2: and shoulders, and he said during hunting season and during
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  Speaker 2: the fall with cleaning out gutters, he said, the amount
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  Speaker 2: of falls and breaks that I take care of, that's
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  Speaker 2: how I make a living. Was people falling off of ladders?
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  Speaker 2: He said, unfortunately. He said, he got rid of all
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  Speaker 2: his ladders. He won't even get on them. He will
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  Speaker 2: call a professional because of that. So they function. They
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  Speaker 2: look beautiful and they do. They keep you off the ladder,
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  Speaker 2: they keep you safe.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I know you pointed out
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  Speaker 1: in the past a lot of us, obviously Packer fans
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  Speaker 1: here in Wisconsin remember Max McGee, packer as well as
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  Speaker 1: as well as broadcaster of the pack football games, tragically
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  Speaker 1: passed away a few years ago cleaning his gutters. And
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  Speaker 1: that's I mean for folks that it is Darren serious.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I think one of the important things
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  Speaker 1: Andrew is we talked talk to you about this stuff
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  Speaker 1: is it is there is that there is that beauty,
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  Speaker 1: there is that you know, having the you know when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to gutter shutter and having having them put
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  Speaker 1: on your home. They look great, but the practicality is
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  Speaker 1: and and talk about saving lives and injuries and other things.
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  Speaker 1: It is real world stuff. It is dangerous and that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so important as we talk with Andrew today,
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  Speaker 1: if you if you've had claude gutters, had questions about them,
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  Speaker 1: if you were a significant other, it's been up on
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  Speaker 1: the ladder and you're concerned, it's an important day to
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  Speaker 1: make that call. Six five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's five three five four three four three for Larsen
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  Speaker 1: Home Services. The website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l
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  Speaker 1: A R s o N Home Services dot com. Have
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  Speaker 1: the folks from our Stolom services come out take a
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  Speaker 1: look at your house, and Andrew. The other surprising thing
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  Speaker 1: about this is something I've learned from you also over
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  Speaker 1: the years, is my original impression was older homes need gutters,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is often true. But there's even new houses,
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  Speaker 1: people that have just bought their house that the builders
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  Speaker 1: and I get it, they're just putting gutters on. They're
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  Speaker 1: going house to house to house or do do do?
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  Speaker 1: They're not getting the best and not getting the greatest.
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  Speaker 1: They're just putting a gutter on because that's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: And people with new homes are discovering, and I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks are calling you at lur Stoom
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  Speaker 1: Services saying we want to deal with this issue. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just an old home problem. It's a new home
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  Speaker 1: problem as well.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it. Ah very much so. And I know I've
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  Speaker 2: talked about this before, but we will sell gutters shout
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  Speaker 2: at to homeowners on newer homes and they'll say, why
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  Speaker 2: didn't they why don't they just put these on them?
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  Speaker 2: The get go well, and it's it's simple. They're not cheap. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: regular open gutters that come on a brand new home,
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  Speaker 2: those are cheap. Those are very cheap. Gutter shutter is
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  Speaker 2: not cheap. And when you're building a home, if anybody's
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  Speaker 2: built a home recently, like I mean, it's crazy expensive
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  Speaker 2: to build a home, and you're gonna pick nicer finishes
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  Speaker 2: on the interior of your home all day, every day
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  Speaker 2: before you put excuse me, premium gutters on your home.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way it is. The only new homes
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  Speaker 2: that we typically put gutter shutter on are past customers
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  Speaker 2: because they realize how important it is and they know
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  Speaker 2: that they're not getting up there and cleaning those things out.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, we've tried to work with builders before. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: budgets are usually too tight when when a new home
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  Speaker 2: is being built, and it's just it's just usually not
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  Speaker 2: in the budget unless the homeowner specifically says this is
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  Speaker 2: what I want, I'm not cleaning these gutters out. Not
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  Speaker 2: happening otherwise, just some really cheap, thin, inexpensive gutters get
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  Speaker 2: thrown on the house when they do the siding and
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  Speaker 2: the soften infatia, and that's that's just the way it is,
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  Speaker 2: and that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: And the trouble with that is it does I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know, larst Home Services, you guys work to recycle
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  Speaker 1: and those kind of things. But ultimately the best solution
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  Speaker 1: is get gut. If you're if you are building, talk
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  Speaker 1: about larstom Services and gutter shutter. If you have a
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  Speaker 1: new house, older house, you've got questions about your gutter,
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  Speaker 1: it's important day to give them a call it Larsen
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  Speaker 1: Home Services. Have them come out, give you an assessment,
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  Speaker 1: take a look. All you gotta do is pick up phone,
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  Speaker 1: give them a call. Six oh eight five three five
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  Speaker 1: forty three forty three. That's five three five four three
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  Speaker 1: four three. The website Larsenhome Services dot com all one
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  Speaker 1: word L A R S O N Home Services dot com. Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: it's always great chatting with you, my friend. You enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: the most fantastic of days.
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  Speaker 2: You as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see Kevin ham Hamsarbacare joins us next here on
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