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Cape Cod Q&A · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight oh five thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts
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Speaker 1: sprout you buy Larsen Holmes Services joined this morning by
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Speaker 1: Andrew Larson. Of course you can learn more online the
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Speaker 1: website larsenhome Services dot com. That's Larson L A R.
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Speaker 1: S O N Home Services dot com. They're twelve number six,
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Speaker 1: so eight five three five forty three forty three. That's
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Speaker 1: five three five forty three forty three. Andrew, you've been
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Speaker 1: out on the roads at all yet this morning?
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Speaker 2: You know I haven't. It's slick. I don't have to
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Speaker 2: leave any more to do the radio show. You've got
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Speaker 2: It made my man. Oh do you remember those Remember
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Speaker 2: for all those years I had to drive into the studio.
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Speaker 1: We miss seeing you though.
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Speaker 2: I've got to be fun. It was fun. But then
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Speaker 2: COVID hit and you're like you can't come in anything.
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Speaker 2: And you're like, you know, if you just buy a microphone,
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Speaker 2: we can do this and this, And I was like,
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Speaker 2: co have we been doing that the whole time? I mean,
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Speaker 2: I love coming in. Yeah, it is. It is quite
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Speaker 2: the drive in the morning from the ode. I yes,
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Speaker 2: it's it's like from the north pole of the Madison
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Speaker 2: Metro to the cell phone. But anyway, I've not been
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Speaker 2: out on the roads yet. Wednesdays, I get the workout
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Speaker 2: in the morning, I do radio show, then I head
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Speaker 2: into work. But this weather is different. And last week
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Speaker 2: when we were sitting on the show, I don't remember
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Speaker 2: what it was, but I know it was really cold,
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Speaker 2: and I know we were having issues and I was
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Speaker 2: going to talk about cape CODs and I said, I
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Speaker 2: talk about it this week. And now this week, I'm
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Speaker 2: sitting here and I don't even know if it's fifty
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Speaker 2: degrees outside already. And you know, I just looked at
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Speaker 2: an extended forecast that goes out forty five days. Now
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Speaker 2: how accurate that is, I'm not sure. But even if
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Speaker 2: it's eighty percent accurate, I didn't see another day where
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Speaker 2: it dropped below freezing. Oh nice, Oh the way to April.
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Speaker 2: I listen. I'm not I'm not a weather person. I'm
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Speaker 2: just saying I looked at it this morning and it
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Speaker 2: looked to me like, I don't even want to say it,
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Speaker 2: but winter might be almost over last, pretty mild, But
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Speaker 2: I still want to talk about cape cod because the
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Speaker 2: reason that I brought that up last week is there
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Speaker 2: are a lot of cape cod homes in the Madison
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Speaker 2: area cape CODs were most of them were built in
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Speaker 2: the thirties and forties, and they were really small little homes,
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Speaker 2: usually eight or nine hundred square feet, unfinished basement, but
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Speaker 2: two bedrooms, one bath, and that's just what they were
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Speaker 2: well then people. But they always had a really steep
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Speaker 2: roof on them. So people thought, hey, let's add some
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Speaker 2: stairs and let's finish off, finish off the attic. They'd
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Speaker 2: put some dormward windows in, you could create some bedrooms
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Speaker 2: and this and that problem being is that they're an
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Speaker 2: absolute nightmare to insulate properly because we get areas called
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Speaker 2: knee wall areas. So if you're in your house and
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Speaker 2: you go upstairs and you look up at the ceiling,
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Speaker 2: and the ceiling is sloped, and then let's just say
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Speaker 2: you look at an exterior wall and you start walking
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Speaker 2: towards it, but your head hits the ceiling before you
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Speaker 2: get to the wall, that would be a knee wall area.
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Speaker 2: Hence the wall is about the height of your knee,
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Speaker 2: maybe a little higher. But anyway, that's how they'd finish
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Speaker 2: them off, to make you know, now you had a
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Speaker 2: wall you could push a bed up against. But how
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Speaker 2: do you insulate it? And you could talk to ten
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Speaker 2: different people and you might get ten different answers, But
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Speaker 2: the most common way that they did it was they
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Speaker 2: just put some insulation on the back of the wall,
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Speaker 2: on the back of the knee wall, and then there's
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Speaker 2: a bunch of dead space behind it, you know, not
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Speaker 2: real big. It depends. I've seen different sized ones. Some
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Speaker 2: you could actually walk into crouched and people would have
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Speaker 2: a closet in there, and some of them you got
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Speaker 2: to crawl in on your hands and knees. But there's
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Speaker 2: a dead space area back there. But here's the problem.
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Speaker 2: When you put normally you put insulation in a wall,
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Speaker 2: it's up against something. So that insulation might be up
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Speaker 2: against the sheathing that goes to the outside of your house,
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Speaker 2: so it can stay in there. It's nice and tight,
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Speaker 2: and it works really well well. The insulation on the
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Speaker 2: back of a knee wall, there's nothing behind it, so
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Speaker 2: it starts to fall. It's not actually touching the insulation.
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Speaker 2: So let's think of this. Now, we have an attic
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Speaker 2: space and most likely right behind someone's head when they're sleeping. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's pushed up against it. My old house actually had
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Speaker 2: this exact same thing, exact same problem. Now it's like
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Speaker 2: it was last week, twenty below inch. Okay, so your
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Speaker 2: bed is pushed up against a wall, and for all
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Speaker 2: intentsive purposes, that wall is probably zero degrees. But we're
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Speaker 2: heating this area. So what happens. We're blowing eighty degree
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Speaker 2: air into a room and now we've got a wall
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Speaker 2: that might be zero degrees because there's essentially an uninsulated
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Speaker 2: attic behind it. We start getting moisture, we start getting condensation.
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Speaker 2: One of my reps visited a house last week where
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Speaker 2: he had water streaming down the corners of his knee walls.
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Speaker 2: It's then there's with it being insulated and ventilated the
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Speaker 2: way that they the way that they were normally done there,
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Speaker 2: there's no way to stop that unless we get in
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Speaker 2: there and we fix it properly, and for the unfortunately
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Speaker 2: for this person, there was not even access to it.
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Speaker 2: A lot of times there's access. There's like a knee
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Speaker 2: wall scuttle hole that you can open and get in
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Speaker 2: there and whatever. People would put those in for storage,
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Speaker 2: not to actually do anything with it. But there's a
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Speaker 2: couple different ways to do it. But the way that
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Speaker 2: we do it is. We are going to go in
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Speaker 2: there and we are going to insulate the roof slope
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Speaker 2: in there, because essentially, once you go into that knee
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Speaker 2: wall area, you're looking at a roof slope, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to insulate that roof slope and turn it into
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Speaker 2: what's called a warm attic. We're also going to cut
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Speaker 2: the floor so we can get at the area where
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Speaker 2: the floor joysts are put on top of the wall.
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Speaker 2: It almost acts like it almost acts like rim joice
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Speaker 2: in the basement. That's where we're going to whole cold
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Speaker 2: errand because for the most part, that type of home
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Speaker 2: has unventilated sofits they don't go anywhere because there's really
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Speaker 2: nowhere for them to go, or they've been blocked because
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Speaker 2: they finished the upstairs. The reason I talk about cape
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Speaker 2: CODs is there. You can go on the internet, you
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Speaker 2: can research it and you might find ten different ways
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Speaker 2: to do it. We have perfected how to do it.
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Speaker 2: Have we always been perfect? No? Have we missed critical
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Speaker 2: details and created a bigger problem. Yes, we have. It
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Speaker 2: was a learning process on figuring out how to do these.
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Speaker 2: Because there are so many of this type of home
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Speaker 2: in our area, we deal with them all the time,
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Speaker 2: but now we have it. Now, I don't want to
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Speaker 2: divulge everything that we do normally. I'm a pretty open book.
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Speaker 2: But we've perfected this over time, and it's taken a
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Speaker 2: lot of time. It's taken a lot of education, it's
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Speaker 2: cost a lot of money because honestly, we have screwed
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Speaker 2: some things up, but we always take care of it
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Speaker 2: in the end. But we get in there and we
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Speaker 2: treat those at We treat that area like an attic,
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Speaker 2: and we want to create turn that into a conditioned space.
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Speaker 2: So now that wall behind your child's head, yes, is
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Speaker 2: not freezing cold in the winter and not one hundred
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Speaker 2: degrees in the summer. Most people who have those houses,
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Speaker 2: you can keep them warm in the winter just because
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Speaker 2: heat rises. But in the summer people can't even sleep
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Speaker 2: in them. Yeah, because it's ninety degrees up there and
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Speaker 2: you can't cool it down. Well, you've got an attic
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Speaker 2: basically separated by a piece of sheet rock and that
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Speaker 2: little space back there's one hundred and forty degrees and
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Speaker 2: now we're trying to cool that room. It's almost impossible.
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Speaker 2: So if you have a cape cod and it's always
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Speaker 2: a problem, and your energy bills are out of control.
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Speaker 2: But more importantly, you've got finished spaces in your home
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Speaker 2: that become almost a nuisance to try to inhabit because
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Speaker 2: they're too hot, they're too cold, you've got moisture on
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Speaker 2: the walls. We can fix it. You know.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I love hearing from you is
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Speaker 1: some of your experience. You talk about the issues you
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Speaker 1: ran into in the past. For folks that don't know
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Speaker 1: those issues still exist with others. Is you at larstome Services,
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Speaker 1: You guys have figured out how to solve this problem.
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Speaker 1: Is people are saying, well were they doing previously? Well,
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Speaker 1: what you guys were doing previously is what everybody is
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Speaker 1: doing their techniques which are not the proper techniques. And
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Speaker 1: that's a great thing in working with you, Andrew, and
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Speaker 1: for folks that haven't had a chance, I hope that
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Speaker 1: you head on over to Larcendomeservices dot com learn more
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Speaker 1: about Andrew and the team roofing services, gutters, insulation, learn
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Speaker 1: about the folks at Larst Home Services because one of
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Speaker 1: the things you will quickly discover is you see them
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Speaker 1: out in the field. Obviously, you see the guys, the
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Speaker 1: roofers doing their work and the attic specialists, instalation specialists
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Speaker 1: doing their work. You see them doing the work. One
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Speaker 1: of the things that you learn when you start following
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Speaker 1: you on Facebook, social media, going with the website is
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Speaker 1: a big part of what you guys do is education,
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Speaker 1: classroom time, those type of things. And it's really as
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Speaker 1: a homeowner, very reassuring that the folks that are working
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Speaker 1: on your home are doing the absolute best for you,
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Speaker 1: your home and your wallet and budget. Give them a
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Speaker 1: call Larstome Services Helph number six so eight five three
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Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. That's five three five forty
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Speaker 1: three forty three for Larsen Home Services. As you were
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Speaker 1: talking about cape CODs is remembering my my sister and
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Speaker 1: brother in law used to have a Cape Cod in
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Speaker 1: Walkie Shaw and their guest bedroom was upstairs. And I
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Speaker 1: think it was that way on purpose to discourage family
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Speaker 1: from visiting staying over.
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Speaker 2: It's good for one night and then you gotta leave.
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Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes, it is. So if you want
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Speaker 1: a comfortable space a great day to call Andrew and
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Speaker 1: the team six oh eight five three five forty three
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Speaker 1: forty three. That's five three five four three four three Andrew,
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Speaker 1: It's always great chatting with you. Enjoy this beautiful day,
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Speaker 1: enjoy this warm weather, and we'll do it all again
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Speaker 1: in seven days.
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Speaker 2: Ay, next week we're gonna talk roof coding.
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Speaker 1: Oh fantastic.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good. It's gonna be good for folks.
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Speaker 1: That haven't caught some revolutionary stuff at Larst Home Services.
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