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Money Spent = Money Saved with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  At six up and ask the experts. Joined this morning by Andrew Larsen.
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  Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services the website Larsenomeservices dot com. That's
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  l A R. S O N Home Services dot com. Tellph number six
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  O eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four
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  three four three. Andrew, how are you doing today? Uh? You
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  know what, My favorite part of this whole show is the lead in music.
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  Yes, I sometimes I used to back the old back in the old
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  days, Andrew, I used to get to pick the songs. Now autumn
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  does en. I'm always I'm always excited just as you are. Is great.
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  Yeah, it's great. I like that. I was dancing in my
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  chair little Well. It's great to talk with you this morning. And we
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  are in obviously a transitional season right now, going from summer to winter also
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  known as fall, and a lot of stuff to be aware of this time
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  of year. And we're going to talk about roofs and the Larson roof experience.
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  And one of the cool things about about what you guys are doing at
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  Larsen Home Services is we've talked in the past about being GAF Master Elite.
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  We've talked about that certification, we talked about the warranty, we talked about
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  the great work that your team does. One of the things too that's very
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  cool is sometimes, especially this time of year, as we're looking towards winter,
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  it's not always a full roof replacement that's needs. Sometimes it's simply a
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  repair here or repair there, something that can prevent some serious damage over these
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  coming months. It is, you know, roof frustration right now, especially
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  this time of year, is is super important if people, for people are
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  worried or concerned that they that they might be having a leak or I mean
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  winter. Winter is a time when a lot of that stuff will will rear
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  its ugly head. But you know, I really wanted to start off with
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  a little story. Month or two ago, one of my reps was running
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  an estimate and had a really good rapport with the people and he thought everything
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  went really really well, and you know, he said, for sure,
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  like they're they're going to go with us. I was all right, great,
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  Well, you called him back a few days later and they had decided
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  to go with somebody else, and so he asked him, you know,
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  well, what made you decide to go with somebody else. And the guy's
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  like, I'm not even gonna lie. It was one hundred percent the price.
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  And he said, well, do you mind telling me what the price
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  was and you know, and I'll just put it out on the show.
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  I mean, this was a it was. It was a really nice rambler,
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  probably a three bedroom, two bathroom with a detached garage. And we
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  were like just under fifteen thousand dollars for this roof, but we were putting
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  on you know, top of the line. It was actually some armor shield
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  jingles and you know, the best of the best. And this other company
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  was going to do the roof for under ten thousand dollars. And when my
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  rep told me that, I said, that's not even possible. I now,
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  I don't even see how they can possibly do that and actually have gas
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  to put in their truck. Still, well, I said, just call
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  them back and ask them what what the heck they're putting on that roof for
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  that price. And he called the guy back and the guy kind of didn't
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  say anything for a second, and he said, you know, I'm actually
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  kind of embarrassed to tell you this, but I actually have no idea.
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  So they were the cheapest price, and they told him that nobody would be
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  able to beat their price, which is true, nobody could beat that price.
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  But this homeowner had no idea what they were actually putting on his roof,
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  what brand of shingle, what style of that brand, what they were
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  doing for underlayments, anything, and that in this day and age with the
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  internet where you can literally research everything to go with somebody because they're the cheapest,
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  but yet you don't know what they're doing. When we come out and
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  give you a roof estimate, not only are you going to know exactly what
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  we're putting on your roof and the color and the style, to the type
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  of underlayment, we're actually going to have pieces of everything we put on that
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  roof so you can see it, you can feel it, you can touch
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  it, you know what's going up there. Then when we do the roof,
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  we're actually going to take photos of the entire process, so you get
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  to see every one of these parts and pieces going on. So what we
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  say we're going to do, you know, we actually do it. Well.
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  Needless to say, this homeowner had actually followed back up with my rep
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  when the roof got done, and it was an absolute disaster. They tried
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  to reuse underlayments, They tried to reuse at edge metals like your drip edge
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  and your gutter apron. And that's how they get away with doing a roof
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  that cheap is they try to reuse stuff. So anyway, just a quick
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  story like whether it's us or it's somebody else. I mean, that would
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  be like saying, Okay, well I'm buying a four door car and they
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  have a four door car and it's half the price, but what kind of
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  car is one of the options? And what is a warranty? So it
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  does matter, But to the untrained eye, it just looks like a shingle.
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  And I always say that you can put the best shingle in the world
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  on, but if you don't do the little things right, the flashings,
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  the edge metals, underlayment, its ice of water, it really doesn't matter
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  because at the end of the day, that beautiful, great shingle will probably
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  leak. You know what I think about, Andrew is is for parents who
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  maybe your grandparents. Maybe you got a playhouse sell back, maybe you had
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  your roof free done and there were some leftover shingles, and you think,
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  ah, I'm gonna put some we'll put some kind of make the playhouse look
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  nice. We'll just throw some shingles up there. And inevitably, as every
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  parent a grandparent knows, it may look nice, but you go inside said
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  playhouse and you suddenly realize those aren't water tight. Whatso it? It looks
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  it looks like you got a roof out of pot. I mean, when
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  and when it comes down to getting bargain bin shingles like you should put them
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  on the playhouse where they should go on the playhouse, on the doghouse,
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  something like that on your home. Und blowing to me, absolutely mind blowing.
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  Now not mind blown when I found out how the actual process went,
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  because I know how much roofing materials cost. And honestly, since COVID,
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  like the prices of these things, the prices of petroleum based products, like
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  they've gone up, been up, been up. I mean, I would
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  say since twenty twenty, they've we've probably had twenty price increases on materials.
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  Now that has slowed down and that has started to normalize. But and when
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  I say normalized, like it's flattened out. But they're never going to go
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  down. I can tell you I've been roofing for a long time and the
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  prices have never went down. So yeah, you know, one of the
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  things that that impressed me is is, you know, you guys a couple
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  of few years ago now redid our roof and one of the things that was
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  impressive to me was, as you mentioned, getting a detailed invoice of what,
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  you know, what the products are, what's all being put in.
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  But the other thing too, that like, it's some of these little things
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  that that you don't notice, and you're probably as a homeowner, not supposed
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  to notice right away. But I've since noticed things like the flashing around our
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  chimney. We've got to I live in a brick house and we've got a
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  nice upfront a brick chimney on the front of our house. There's there's a
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  metal flashing that that your crews put on there, and it's color matched.
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  It's not just a nice flashing, it literally matches the brick. And that's
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  why I'm saying this has been a couple of years where I hadn't really noticed
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  that little detail, and I think by design, I hadn't really noticed that
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  detail. But you're like, wow, those guys really did some really did
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  some great work, not just quality work, but as far as visually,
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  they took the time to make sure that every part of that that roof was
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  done right right, And I'm sure we used a red or a brown flashing
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  out a suit. Yep, yeah, we match. We always match as
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  good as we can. But I'm glad that you brought that up because our
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  number one roof restore issue that we fix is chimney flashing. Because chimney flashing,
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  excuse me, is a detail that we take very seriously because chimneys are
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  a major league point. It is typically the biggest hole penetration that goes through
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  your roof, so on the back of your chimney, if it's more in
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  our standards, if it is more than three feet away from the peak of
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  your roof. So in other words, if it is three feet down your
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  roof from the peak, it needs what's called a cricket on the back of
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  it. And a cricket is basically another small roof that we build off the
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  back of the chimney, so when the water comes down from the top of
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  the roof, it doesn't just hit the big flat back part of your chimney.
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  Well, a lot of chimneys do not have this. So if you
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  can imagine over time, all this water coming and hitting the back of the
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  chimney and snow piling up, not only snow, but leaves and debris,
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  and if nobody's up there inspecting the roof, what it leaves and debris turned
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  into. They turn into dirt, and they sit there and eventually it leaks
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  and then someone's like, oh, I need a new roof, and they
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  get a new roof put on, and hopefully they're not like this homeowner that
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  we just met a few a couple months ago, and they don't know what
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  they're getting on their roof, because what happens is untrained technicians come up and
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  do their roof, and what they get is they get new flashing put around
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  their chimney. But it's not actually cut into the chimney. It has to
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  actually be physically cut into the chimney. It has to have a proper bend
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  on it, and then it has to be sealed. So for off chance
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  at water was to run down the chimney and go into said cut, because
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  it is bent the proper way, it forces the water back out. But
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  what happens most of the time is someone just wraps a flashing around the chimney
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  so it looks good and then they just use cock or blackjack to just gob
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  it up and seal it up, which doesn't last very long. So that
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  is a that's a very very key component to a roof, and we charge
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  quite a bit extra for a brick chimney because it takes There are only certain
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  people on the roofing crew that can touch that chimney and they've been roofing for
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  a very very very long time, and we want to make sure that they're
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  taking the proper time and care to flash that chimney right. So big time
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  roof restore issues are leaking around chimneys not having crickets, and that's one of
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  the things where we come in and look at your shingles and go, well,
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  you know what your shingles are actually a they're really great, they're in
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  great shape, but nobody put a cricket on your chimney and nobody flashed it
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  properly. But we can pull some shingles off, we can restep flash,
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  then we can reput the chimney flashing on, build a cricket and get your
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  roof to where it needs to be so that those shingles are going to be
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  good for you for a lot of years, and we take a lot of
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  pride in them. It's pretty amazing the work that you guys do, and
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  it's a great opportunity. Today is a great day to have the folks from
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  lur Storme Surfaces come out get you a roof inspection. It's not going to
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  cost you anything. The best thing is going to come out, take a
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  look and say everything's great. You've got a fantastic roof. The worst thing
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  that can happen is you ignore that warning, go through winter and discover,
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  oh my goodness, water and other things has been pen trading my roof.
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  It's important day again. It's not going to cost you anything to start that
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  conversation. Haven't come out do that inspection six oh eight five three five four
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  three four three for Larsen Home Services at six oh eight five three five forty
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  three forty three website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A R. S o
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  N Home Services dot com. Andrew, it's always great chatting with you,
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  my friend. You enjoy this most beautiful day. Talk next week. Kevin
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  Hamham's Arbacare comes your way next right here, on thirteen ten, wu ib Iight