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Your Mind Should be in the Gutter with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Six ten Wiba Madison in the morning and asked the experts. Joined this morning
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  by our good friend Andrew Larson. Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services
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  Online Larsen Home Services dot com. That's l A R S O N Home
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  Services dot com. Tellph number six O eight five three five forty three forty
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  three. That's five three five forty three forty three. Andrew, are you
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  ready for the rain? Absolutely? Bring it on, Bring it on,
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  Bring it on, and hopefully we get a little more than a little.
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  I mean we need it bad and um as as much of a bummer as
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  this dry, dry summer has been, there is opportunity there. And I
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  know you've got great crews. You've got great guys at Larsen Home Services.
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  One of the things that's been going on is, you know, what human
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  nature is, what's top of mind, what is pressing today? And without
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  rain, people aren't necessarily thinking about gutters. But gutters are vital and this
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  may surprise people. They're gonna come and need There's gonna come a time where
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  you're gonna need good gutters. And it's probably gonna come sooner than later,
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  isn't it. You know, call it what you want. Weather patterns change
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  have been changing. We getting more extremes. Look at we're getting driest.
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  I mean it is officially the driest May in June, and I hope that
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  you know we can flip a little switch here in July. Looks like there's
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  some chances of rain coming up, but driest on record. You look out
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  the east and they're getting washed away. So yes, when it comes to
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  gutters, if there is no pain, most people don't think about it.
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  Pain being we got a storm, the gutters are overflowing, we got a
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  little water in our basement, or the gutters aren't working properly, and we
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  got a big rain, and we're really afraid we're going to get water in
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  the basement or getting landscaping wash out, or I'm just not getting up there
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  and cleaning those suckers out. Well, it hasn't been raining, so a
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  lot of people aren't thinking about it, and can't say that we're not selling
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  any gutter shutter because we are. Guys are working, but it's definitely not
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  like normal. And here's what's going to happen. We're going to get rain.
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  We're going to get a lot of rain, and the ground is very
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  very very dry. So said, water is not gonna just soak in.
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  What's going to happen is run off, and it's going to run to the
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  lowest areas. And I'm not trying to scare people, but that is what
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  happens. It's going to run to low areas. It's going to follow the
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  top of the ground. So if we've got gutters that aren't working properly,
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  that will overflow. If we've got negative grade around the house with downs balls
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  that aren't in the right position, or downs balls that have maybe come loose,
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  or extensions have fallen off simply because it hasn't rained and we're just not
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  thinking about it. It could be real ad when we do get the big
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  rains that we will eventually Mother Nature's gonna make up for what we've been missing.
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  And hopefully it just doesn't come all one time, but I could see
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  that happening. So, you know, and and we've talked a long time,
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  you know, one of my I would say, one of my biggest
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  badges of honor that I can say is, you know, the people that
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  we have working here have been here for a long time. A couple of
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  my couple of my top installers have been here since we opened our doors in
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  two thousand and ten, so that's a long time of installing gutters. So
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  they're here. They stick around, you know, they've it's been watch them
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  get older, get married, have kids, by homes like all of that
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  stuff. So my you know, one of my biggest reasons for doing what
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  I do is obviously it's it's to help people, but it's to help my
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  employees. I want to keep I'm here. I want to keep them working
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  when we get slow. You know, that's my main focus is I want
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  to keep these guys working. They've got bills to pay. So you know,
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  I usually talk about how strong gutter is and how good the gutter is,
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  and because it is, it is a gutter, shutters fantastic. It
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  is the biggest, strongest maintenance free gutter on the market. You know,
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  all of the great warranties. It's never gonna clog, it's never gonna overflow,
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  ice is never gonna damage to pull it off your else. If you've
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  seen some of the videos that we've got on social media, you know I'm
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  hanging from it. I'm doing all that. It's very very very strong,
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  and anything's wrong with it, we take care of it. But besides that,
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  we want to keep guys working. So I never try to come on
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  here and talk and get sales e. But I do want to throw it
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  out here that anybody that's listening to this show, anybody that's considering doing this,
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  we're gonna offer free installation labor, which I haven't offered in I don't
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  know a long long time, but we never offer it in the summer for
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  one thing, just because it's always just cracking, right, It's always were
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  always busy, and it's typically a did we lose our connection with Andrew?
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  Andrew? Are you there? It looks like we may have lost technology is
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  amazing until it drops off there, and he was just getting to the good
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  part, as he mentioned, of course, talking about gutter shutter and talking
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  about all the great things they can do for you at Larsen Home Services.
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  You are not going to beat that deal. And Andrew lost you for a
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  moment there, But you were talking about about how busy you're keeping the guys
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  and the guys and to keep busy and the team that you have around you.
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  When you were just mentioning doing doing a fantastic opportunity for our listeners,
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  gutter shutter. Let me make sure I heard you correctly, gutter shutter with
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  free installation. Did I hear that right? Or am I am? I
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  do? I got wax in my ears this morning? Oh oh man,
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  we are Oh technology, it's given. I think we got that right,
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  and that maybe I don't know. There may be uh, there may be
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  somebody out there trying to sabotage our conversation, Andrew, and what was it?
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  What was the exact uh exact? Uh? What's what's being so Obviously
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  gutter shutter is an amazing product, but you had mentioned a phenomenal opportunity right
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  now. Isn't there free installation labor? So it's it's the biggest discount we
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  ever offer. It's typically just maybe in the winter at a trade show.
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  You know what's happening. I'm at the office doing this because we have a
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  we have an all company meeting this morning, and everybody's getting here and logging
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  onto the WiFi. Honestly, that's what's going on right now. It's dropping.
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  I just disconnected my phone. I'm like, oh yeah, so you
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  got a whole bunch of people coming in and everybody's getting on the internet and
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  everybody's doing work, and but hey, that's that's what we do, right,
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  So, yes, gutters have not been on top of mind. I
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  just want to bring it up because it's a great time because we will get
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  the rain. And yes, it is July and it's it's nice and it's
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  hot. But I say this every year, before you know it, kids
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  are going back to school, leaves returning color. It now would be the
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  best time just get I mean, at least to just call and get an
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  estimate, see what it's about, talk to some people that already have it,
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  and and take advantage of a deal that we're offering. I'm gonna call
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  it like the drought Special. You know, it is what it is.
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  I mean, let's just let's just call it what it is. It's the
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  drought Special, one of the it's yeah, two twelve, Sean, I
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  remember twenty and twelve. I had been in business for two years and I
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  don't think we had rain for like three months. Oh gee. I was
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  like the same thing, like hurt to walk on the grass. It would
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  it would put holes in your feet. And we're getting to that point right
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  now. You know. One of the things I love too, and having
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  worked with you at Larsen and the team at Larstome Services over the years.
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  Of course, our house has a beautiful roof put up by Larstome Services.
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  One of the things I love is is the team around you and you mentioned
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  you know that the longevity of folks and you know the voices that have been
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  on this show with us over the years, just to talk about Larstone Services
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  and the work that you do. One of the things that I love is
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  the information that you get, the conversation that starts when you make that call
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  six or eight five three five forty three forty three, have somebody come out
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  take a look at your house, look at your gutters. But that conversation,
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  that education that goes on, it's not a high pressure thing. It's
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  a matter of fact. It's one of those things where where and I know
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  we've talked about scenarios where your guys go out they look at things, I
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  say, you know what with like doctor and she savor and other things going
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  hey, you know what your house is performing well. Gutters are a bit
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  different. Unless you have gutter shutter, unless you have the right shutters on
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  your home, you know there's gonna get there's gonna be leaves, there's gonna
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  be to breed, there's gonna be other things you're gonna end up on.
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  That ladder fall will be here in no time. You're not going to find
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  a better special than this. And Andrew this time here to run a special
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  like this. It's pretty phenomenal. So it's a great opportunity this morning to
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  pick up phone and give him a call. Larsnome Services a telephone 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. You can learn more online the website Larson HomeServices dot com.
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  That's l A R. S o n HomeServices dot com. But again,
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  today is today beat the rush because I know as the day goes on,
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  more and more folks are going to share this information and they're going to
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  start calling. Right now as a time to call Larstome Services six O eight
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  five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four
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  three. Andrew. I know you guys got the big meetings this morning.
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  It's great talking with you as always, my friend. You enjoy this most
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  beautiful day. Thank you, sir. Kevin ham Ham's Arborcare comes your way,
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