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Head Above Water with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eight oh six thirteen ten WIBA Madison in the morning and ask the experts.
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  Joined this morning by Andrew Larson. Of course, Andrew. He comes to
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  us from Larsen Home Services. The website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A
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  R S O N Home Services dot com. Tell phone number four Larsen Home
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  Services six so eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three
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  five forty three forty three. Andrew, how are you doing this week?
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  I'm doing great, man, Just trying to stay keep my head above water.
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  Yeah, aren't we all? And we're going to talk about water.
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  Have you ever been out to out to the Philly area. Yes, I
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  mean I've driven through it, never stayed there. I don't know what it
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  is about folks in Philly, but they don't say water. They say water
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  water. I like, tell somebody for woo d e R water. I
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  don't know what that is, but uh, that's their problem. Our problem
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  is the actual water right now. And wow, have we gotten a ton
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  of it, haven't we? Andrew? We have. You know last year
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  we sat here and we talked about, well, he's going to rain pretty
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  soon and this and that. Now I'm like, holy cow, we set
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  we have set more appointments. We set more appointments in the month of June
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  than almost all of the rest of the year combined. Wow, it is.
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  It's unbelievably busy, and honestly, it's unfortunate. Because of all this
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  rain, issues with gutters and roofing really start to show themselves. And I
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  can't tell you how many people I've talked to that are like, man,
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  I've never had water in the basement before. Well, if there's a flaw
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  in the system, meaning great around your yard, your gutter system, your
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  sump pump, it will show itself during rains like what we've had a couple
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  of weeks ago. What did we have depending on where you were in our
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  area, somewhere between like three and six inches. That's unreal. And then
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  I don't even know what we got yesterday another two to three inches. So
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  if you're getting water in your basement, if you're worried about getting water in
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  your basement, have us come out take a look assess your property, because
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  a lot of times if your gutters are overflowing, obviously that's an issue,
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  but it's more than that, you know, Again, I always talk about
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  it's a whole system. We've got to get the water from the roof into
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  the gutters, down the down spots and ones it hits the ground around the
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  house. Yeah, it needs to go away. So that's something we come
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  out. We take a lot of pride in sometimes completely re engineering your drainage
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  system or your gutter system, because your gutters you have on your home,
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  they might be working when they're not clogged as in water is going down them,
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  but if it's not going away from the house, it doesn't do any
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  good and it will end up in your basement. And that's what people are
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  dealing with. I've seen some pumps. There were some pumps that couldn't keep
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  up. Wow, you know. So what's crazy to me is this,
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  Andrew and and it's it's something that you mentioned, you know, worry about
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  water and basements. And we talked about what we dealt with last year at
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  the opposite end of the spectrum. And I know you were urging folks,
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  now is the time to have lur Stome services come out talk about gutters,
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  shutter and some other things that you guys are able to do to help keep
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  basements dry. And this season it's it's come home to roost. I will
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  say one of those things that I've learned over the years and talking with you
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  and getting to know you, I know you when you're driving around you're oftentimes
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  looking at roofs and other things. One of the other things I know you're
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  looking at is if it's raining, you're paying attention to gutters. And when
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  we think sometimes about clog gutters, that's a big issue. Another thing that
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  I know you see is and oftentimes homeowners don't see because if it's pouring out,
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  you're not looking at your gutters. You're seeing gutters that are that are
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  pitched improperly or have a have like a are coming to like a valley,
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  and you're seeing water overflow those those gutters and they're creating depressions in the soil
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  low that's then rushing that water back into the basement. All of these things,
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  from keeping the debris out to having properly pitched gutters, to having gutter
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  gutters that you don't have to don't have to worry about water coming into your
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  basement. All of this stuff is solved with a call to Larstom Services and
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  talking about gutter shutter and having your having your gutters massively improved on your home
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  by simply just making that phone call. It's pretty easy to do, Andrew,
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  It's it's it's very easy to do. All you got to do is
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  have us come out, get a price, sign up, and we'll get
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  them put on for you. But I was I had to drive to Middleton
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  yesterday morning, and I mean it was absolutely downpouring, and as I'm driving,
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  I'm driving through some houses and these gutters are pretty much everybody's honestly,
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  we're overflowing like waterfalls and falling into not great areas around their house. And
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  what happens is you might not have a problem for a long time because gutters
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  overflow, and they overflow and they keep overflowing in the same spots. Now
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  your ground starts to settle next to your house, whereas before it would hit
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  and run away. Well, now it's starting to settle and settle and settle.
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  Now we get a pocket of water. Now it starts to pull up
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  and eventually it makes its way in the house. If you've got a some
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  pump system, great, sometimes that'll take care of it, but sometimes it
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  can't keep up with rain like that. And now we get water in the
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  basement. Sometimes it's happened. Sometimes it's happening for a long time and people
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  don't even know because it's a little bit. But that can even be more
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  of a problem because now we've got moisture and mold starting to grow behind the
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  wall that we don't even know about. If it just rains a bunch and
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  water comes in right away, we can take care of it. It's bad
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  when that's creating a moisture problem that we don't even see, because that's when
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  we start to get mold. I mean, I've been to houses where we've
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  torn open a wall or they've torn open a wall because they got water in
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  the basement. We've come to look and they had mushrooms in the wall.
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  That means you've had a moisture problem for a long time. That is air
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  and mold spores that you are breathing in. Con So, I mean,
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  I don't want to get into the dangerous part of it, but there's a
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  reason that we have gutters on the home, and with gutter shutter, we
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  know that it will handle the water. It is the largest gutter you can
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  put on your home, unless you're going to go to an industrial like custom
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  eight inch gutter which nobody puts on a house and it's going to handle all
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  the water. We guarantee that if it ever clogs, we clean it.
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  If it's leaking, overflowing, if water's getting behind it, if ice ever
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  damages it, pulls it off the house, anything's wrong with it, we're
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  going to fix it or we're going to replace it. And another actually great
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  benefit of it is that, say we got windstorms like we've had I don't
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  even know how many this year, Yeah, and limbs and trees falling over.
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  If it hits a certain part of it and recks a part of the
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  hood, we can just replace that part of the hood. We don't have
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  to replace the entire system unless it damage is the gutter itself. But what
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  we're finding, with the strength of the hood and with the strength of the
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  brackets, we're able to just replace some section, which is really nice for
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  a homeowner because, as we've been talking about with insurance companies, the insurance
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  business is changing, and I urge people if you haven't checked into your duct
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  deductibles and your actual cash value policies versus your recoverable cash policies, look into
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  it because a lot of people are sitting in a bad spot and they don't
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  They don't even know it. They've been sent a letter or emailed the letter
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  and didn't read it, and then they go to file the claim and realize
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  that, oh wow, I mean to replace this damage section of our roof.
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  We have a seven thousand dollars deductible, so now you're going to pay
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  for it out of your pocket. We just want people to understand because claims
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  are just getting denied left and right, left and right, and I think
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  homeowners need to look at it more as a if you're getting anything perfect,
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  it's an opportunity for a nice down payment to get a roof and got our
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  system on your home that you need and deserve. Because the days of having
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  a few hail dents and getting a roof replaced are they're done. It's going
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  going quickly, So check into that stuff. And if you're honestly, if
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  you're worried or concerned, even if you haven't gotten water in the basement yet,
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  yeah, but you watch your gutters overflow and you're worried about it,
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  give us a call. If you watch your gutters overflow and you're not worried
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  about it, you really need to give us a call. It's really important.
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  The other thing, too, is having that peace of mind is you
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  know, as you have have somebody from Larsen and Home Services come out,
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  take a look at at your gutter, take a look at the roof as
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  well, and just check things out, and you know it comes back clean,
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  bill of health. You're good to go. But as we think about
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  and I had a situation earlier this week where I was hearing from folks who
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  had recently dealt with significant flooding in their basement and hearing their stories about,
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  you know, about losing everything in their basement and losing you know, family
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  memories. And these are houses that are hundreds of years old, that have
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  never experienced flooding before. Now all of a sudden they are and so much
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  sadness and so much loss. A simple phone call and having your guys come
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  out take a look at at the gutters and taking a look to make sure
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  that the water's getting away from the house. What a great peace of mind.
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  And if there is a problem, dealing with it before you're in that
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  situation where you're going we lost these photo albums, We lost these family memories.
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  My kids, you know, their favorite blanket was down in the basement
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  and it and it flooded and we had to throw it out. Those are
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  the type of things we're talking about. That's why it's so important today to
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  give Andrew and the team at Larstorm Services a call six oh eight five three
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  five forty three forty three. That's five three, five four three fourth three.
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  As we look at the forecast more rain ahead. As we know we're
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  still in early July, we've got more storms coming throughout the summer. Now
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  is the time to give them a call. Six o' eight, five three
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  five forty three forty three. That's five three, five four three four three.
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  Andrew, it's great talking with you, my friend. You have a
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  fantastic fourth of July and we will do this all again real soon, will
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  you too next week and again the number six oh eight, five three,
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  five forty three forty three. You can learn more online about LARSENOROM Services Larsen
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  Home Services Dot More of Madison in the morning is next right year thirteen ten WIBA