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Tightly Sealed with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Thirteen WYD and ask the Experts, joined this morning by Andrew Larson from Larsen
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  Home Services. The website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A R S
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  O N Home Services dot com. The telephone number 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, how is your Christmas? How is your New Year? How you
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  doing? My friend? I'm doing great. They were all great, Tim
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  glad they're over. I don't know. We had a lot of family over,
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  had a great time and I was really glad when everyone went home.
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  Yes, One of the things I know about you as well is you love
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  what you do. You love being busy, and I know obviously when you
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  have family and other things over that h that creates situations where you've gotta you've
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  gotta be a family man, and you got of course your first priority is
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  family and and that. But I know you love getting back to work and
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  getting back to what you guys do at Larsen Home Services. And this has
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  been and I say this every winter, this has been a bizarre winter and
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  there's probably more bizarre things to come. Mark my word on this which is
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  still bizarre when it just becomes the normal. It's very true. At some
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  point we just got a yes, it is. It is. And and
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  with those cold temperatures, something that many years ago I had never thought anything
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  about. I always thought when it came to home performance and taking care of
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  the of maintaining the heat in your in your home in the winter the cool
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  in the summer was just simply insulation. And it's been it's been probably ten
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  years since you and I first talked about air ceiling. And it's something that
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  that at first I thought, wait, what is he talking about air ceiling?
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  And then you've talked to me over the years about and I thought,
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  this is this is something that more people need to understand. Let's talk about
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  the importance of actually not just insulation, which is important and we'll get to
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  that part in just a moment, but the importance of actually physically preventing cold
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  air from getting into your house. Yeah, you know, before I talk
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  about that, you just brought that up about how long we've been doing this
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  and how much does it's worth. If you ever get sick of working on
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  the radio, Yeah, you should probably come sell oh Man, because I
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  really think you'd be good at it. I'd have fun with it. There'd
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  be no training. Well, thank you, and I've got to ask that,
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  by the way, is with folks that not not ask for a job,
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  I enjoy that perfect Let's talk about your real quick is We're going to
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  get into this in just a moment. The airsling. But that just of
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  course got another thing going for me, which is, obviously we've talked about
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  this on the show. I've worked with you, you guys have done work
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  on my home, and I've always talked about what great results we had and
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  what a great experience it was. And one of the great things was when
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  we worked with you guys at Larstome Services is really there was more education.
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  There was more of a conversation. It wasn't like a a pressure kind of
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  thing. It was like, hey, here's what's going on now. I
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  knew with our house, I knew we needed a new roof, but there's
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  so many different roof options and different different things to consider. Having a super
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  knowledgeable person come to your home and talk you through this stuff. What a
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  great peace of mind that is, and super knowledgeable folks that you have at
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  Larstome Services when it comes to explaining and understanding why this is, you know,
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  why this is needed, and really what the benefits as a homeowner ultimately
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  will be. And years and years later, I can say absolutely they were
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  one hundred percent. Everything I was told is exactly what we experienced. That's
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  a big deal, isn't it It is. It's a really big deal.
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  You know. Obviously when when one of our reps comes out to give a
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  free estimate, obviously we want the work, you know, we want you
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  to buy from us, but we also want to educate you on exactly what
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  you have going on in your home, what needs to be fixed, how
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  we're going to fix it, and always exactly what it's going to cost to
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  fix it. We don't want any surprises, you know, I can honestly
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  say that we're we're typically not the cheapest person. Actually we're never ever ever
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  the cheapest person. But our price is going to include everything. There's not
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  going to be surprises. And I don't know how many times I hear from
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  homeowners that, you know, they were ready to go with somebody else,
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  but they actually didn't really have any idea of what they were going to be
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  doing. So, like when it comes to insulation work, insulation is a
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  is a very broad term. Right. When people think they want to save
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  money on it energy bills, they want to make their home warmer in the
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  winter or cooler in the summer, they think, I need more insulation,
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  and it's true. But what I do know about home science is, especially
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  when it comes to the attic, insulation can be more important in the summer
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  than in the winter, Especially if you've got a one story home and you
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  know you've got improper insulation and your ceiling in your bedroom turns into a radiant
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  oven and it's it's hot. I mean, I've seen them where those attic
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  ceilings were ninety degrees. You're trying to cool the room to seventy and it's
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  constantly a vicious cycle. Same goes for second story bedrooms where it's actually going
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  to be can actually be a little warmer. But the winter air ceiling is
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  really, really, really important. We know that heat rises, and we're
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  constantly paying for that furnace to turn on, heat up the air, blow
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  it into the home, just for that heat to rise. Fine penetrations in
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  the ceiling, find penetrations in the where the wall, it's the ceiling,
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  you know, plumbing penetrations and just go up and through it. Now,
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  insulation will slow it down, but it's going to find a way out unless
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  we air seal properly. So a couple different ways to do air ceiling.
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  Now for our company, we've really just started something new this year just just
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  because we know the importance of it is. You know, there are some
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  companies they'll come out, they'll they'll brush your insulation aside and the air seal
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  the best they can. But if you can imagine trying to find all the
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  penetrations and all the top plates. When I say a top plate, that
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  means like we're a wall meets the ceiling in the attic. It's not a
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  continuous piece of sheet rock. There's gaps and they need to be sealed up
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  top. So trying to find all that stuff with insulation in the attic is
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  near impossible, and I can say it it is impossible to do a perfect
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  job. So what we do require is we we have to remove your existing
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  insulation. You know, I'd be like trying to do a roof without taking
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  the shingles off. You can't do the flashings, you can't do the important
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  stuff with leaving the old shingles on. There's companies that will do it.
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  But it's going to leak. I mean it's it's one hundred percent guarantee at
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  some point it's going to leak because of that. So we want to start
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  with a clean attic floor so we can see everything. That way, we
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  know we're going to get it done properly, because if it's not done properly,
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  now it takes stack effect that was being spread across a whole attic or
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  a whole ceiling, and if you miss some it's going to narrow it down
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  to certain areas, which can cause condensation, which can cause mold. I
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  know this because I've seen it. I've seen it too many times, honestly,
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  I've seen it on jobs we've done, Sean. I mean, sometimes
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  a homeowner doesn't want to pay for the removal. We say, okay,
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  well we're going to do it the best that we can. But if you
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  can imagine like moving around popcorn, seventeen inches of popcorn, move it aside
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  to try to air seal. Now you make a movement, it falls back
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  down on where you're trying to work, and it's a constant, vicious cycle.
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  So we want to start with a clean surface so we can see everything,
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  and then there's two ways to do it from there? Do you know
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  those two ways to do it from there? Sean, I'm quizzing you right
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  now. This is almost like an inner So there's two ways to once you
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  clean it up and insulate up there, what do we two ways to air
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  seal? Two ways? I'm gonna guess spray foam, a scotch tape,
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  you know what? I thought you were going to get them both right.
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  So the first way and really truly the best way to air seal an attic
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  is with two part spray poae yes, and what we call a hybrid attic.
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  So now instead of spot ceiling with a one part foam where we spot
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  seal the penetrations and spot sealed the top plates, we put an inch of
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  spray foam across the entire attic. This way, you know, without a
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  shadow of it out, you are air ceiling and you're bringing a real good,
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  nice r value to your attic. Before then you put seventeen inches of
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  insulation on top of it. So that's called a hybrid addict because it's got
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  spray foam and it's got cellulose. Now that that way, you'd love addicts
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  I know you did chat you're picturing how beautiful. That is the best way
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  to do it. That is also the most expensive way to do it.
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  But we can also do a really great job of air ceiling. Now we're
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  not going to add any our value before we put the insulation in, but
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  a great way to our seal is just one part spray foam, where now
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  we can see the entire attic floor it's clean of all insulation, and we
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  can go around and hit all the penetrations. And that type of one part
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  spray foone just it just comes out of cans, so it's a can spray
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  foam. We go around, hit all the penetrations, seal up your chimney
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  stack. How that needs to be still, that's a whole nother conversation of
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  how that gets sealed up because that has to be fire rated. But so
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  those are the two different ways to air seal, but they all for us,
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  they all involve removing the the existing insulation because it's the only way we
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  can ensure that it's done properly and we're not going to cause an issue or
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  situation, because it can if it's not done right. See, I learned
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  something new today Andrew, I didn't know that that was an option to do
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  this. Yeah, we're gonna need to talk after the shame on me the
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  same on me for not talking about that is absolutely amazing. And we talk
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  about too when it comes to when it comes to taking care of your home,
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  whether it's with proper insulation, proper sealing, all that and very very
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  important stuff. You know, there are certain things like when I go to
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  the grocery store, I'll buy the multi meal giant bags of knockoff cereal.
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  That's a fine place to save a buck or two. Personally, when it
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  comes to your home, not a good place to be saving a buck or
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  two. And as we've learned over the years, it may look upfront like
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  you're saving a buck or two going with a lesser, lesser company, going
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  with with lesser professionals. Down the long run, it's going to cost you
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  more, it's going to be more of an inconvenience, it's just going to
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  be a mess. That's why I think that you talk about what is the
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  cost to do some of these things people are You've got to understand what you're
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  paying for, comparing apples to abbles, Understanding the warranty understanding the expertise,
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  understanding the products, and that's a great thing. And working with Larsenome Services
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  and the team, they will help you understand all of that and you will
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  see what an amazing value it is. And again you talk about beautiful addicts,
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  Yes, weird people like us love seeing beautiful attics. I love and
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  I will say this, yes, what is what is the cost of doing
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  it properly? And what is the cost of doing it? Because it's happened
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  more times than I can count where we didn't get a job because someone else
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  was going to do insulation for two thousand dollars and we were eight thousand dollars.
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  They went with somebody else, and the next year we came back,
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  we sucked all of that insulation out that they had just paid two thousand dollars
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  for because what they paid for did absolutely nothing to fix their problem. So
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  that's why when we come over to give an estimate, we're also going to
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  educate on exactly what we're doing, why we're doing it, what the problem
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  is is going to fix. And then if you choose to not go with
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  us, that's fine, but at least you know what needs to be done
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  and the proper way to do it. So we take a lot of pride
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  in that today is today. Now is the time. Pick up the phone
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  call lur Snome Services, have them out for a free estimate, take a
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  look at your house. Help you look at the performance of your home.
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  All I got to do is 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 that
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  analysis. It's not going to cost you a thing. You will know does
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  your house need an upgrade? Is a time now to look at that energy
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  efficiency? Who knows maybe your house to come out to take a look to
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  say, you know what, it's perfect here and there's nothing we can do.
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  The best thing you can do though for your home is we get ready
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  for the cold snap that's about to come, and we know inevitably years to
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  come, hotter winters, colder colder winters, hotter summers, all of that
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  stuff that we're experiencing. This is going to really be a great benefit to
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  you with larsenom Services telphone number six so eight five three five forty three forty
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  three. That's five three five four three four three for Larsen Home Services.
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  Andrew it's always informative. I learned something new every week. My man.
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  You enjoy the day and we'll talk real soon. All right, talking next
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  week. Kevin ham Ham's Arbacare comes your way next year on thirteen ten WIB