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Biggest Fears with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  At six thirteen ten WI b A and ask the experts hanging out to this
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  lovely morning with mister Andrew Larson. Of course, Andrew. He comes to
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  us from Larsen Home Services. The website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l
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  A R S O N Home Services dot com. They're telephone number six oh
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three
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  four three. And Andrew, we're going to be talking about different types of
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  roofing materials this week. But speaking of roofing, and I'm looking at the
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  forecast, I think your guys are going to be busy the next the next
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  few days. We've we've been busy, uh NonStop, But you're right.
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  I think we're going to not have to play frogger with the rain and showers,
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  which we've had to do all year. We are really really good at
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  using weather apps. Let me tell you this, if we and I think
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  I've said this before, but if if we didn't work every day they said
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  there was a chance of rain this year, we would have gotten like two
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  rough stock. So as it is, it's closer to like two hundred roofs
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  have been done so far. By us this year. But yeah, we're
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  it looks kind of clear sailing for for a couple of weeks or so,
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  so that that's good. That's very very good for us. There was somebody
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  way down the road for me that I don't know they had. I could
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  tell when they started the project a couple of days ago they were very the
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  whoever was doing their work, it's some no name what. I didn't have
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  any signs or anything out, but I could tell that they were going to
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  run into problems. And they put tarp over the house overnight and it poured,
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  and gosh, I really really hope that that that held up for him,
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  because gosh, you definitely don't want that. You say they were doing
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  the roof and they had to tarp it. Yeah, they tarped out for
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  the rainstorm. Well, you know, that's a funny story. When I
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  first started doing this, that that's you know, that's like a nightmare for
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  me, Like I have night about that stuff. I mean, we we
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  want to be able to help as many people as we can and get them
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  the best roofs possible. And you pray that the work that you did and
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  your crew did is is going to hold up forever and honestly, like you
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  know, we're not perfect. Things happen, We get calls. I mean,
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  when when you have thousands of roofs that you've put on and tens of
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  thousands of gutters that you've done, things happen. But you know, I
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  believe a true test of a company is when you call when you call me
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  years down the road and say, hey, this heavy rain, like we
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  had a little leak over here, and we come right out and take care
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  of it. Like, those things happen, but it's it's how those things
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  are handled by a contract or how those things are handled by a service for
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  service provider. For me, that that means, that means everything. If
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  it's a well, yeah, I know you get your you get a few
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  years workmanship, and that's it because we hear that from people like it's a
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  few years now, can now you got to pay it? Not for us
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  lifetime workmanship guarantee on everything we do, so I could get into that forever.
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  But but not being able to get a roof done in a day is
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  something that we just won't take a chance on. We have the most amazing
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  roofing crews and always have and if we my roofing manager Jeremy is at his
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  top of he is when it comes to efficiency. Yeah, and knowing his
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  crews and what the I mean. He has reports on how many shingles they
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  can put down in an hour per nailing crew, because there's different nailers on
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  each crew, Like each guy has their own thing that they do. Some
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  guys lay shingles, some guys nail shingles. So when we get to a
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  roof where we say it's like ninety squares, if you know anything about roofing,
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  that's nine thousand square feet. That's a big roof. We can do
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  that in a day. We just make sure that we're going to be there
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  with two crews because we are never going to leave a roof undone overnight for
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  something like that to happen, because that's again, that's what nightmares are made
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  of. For me, what's amazing to me is and I've we've talked about
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  and I've I've I tell everybody I know about you know, the work you
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  guys did at our house, and one of the things I always point out
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  is the efficiency. And that's done for a couple of different reasons. One
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  is, as you mentioned things that would give you nightmares would be gosh forbid,
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  leaving that house exposed and making sure that you plan to have that job
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  done and not have that problem come up. The other thing that that is
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  that I often rave about is the right shingle for the right application and understanding
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  what you're getting in the importance of that whole roofing system. It's more than
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  just what you see. As matter of fact, Andrew, I've learned from
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  you over the years. Oftentimes most of the times, almost always, it's
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  what you don't see which makes the biggest difference. There's a time where,
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  and you know, you go back and watch some old timey movies they use
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  things like straw and other things. That's a roofing material. We're long past
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  that, thank goodness. But the actually they still do. That's roofs in
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  England. Are you serious? Absolutely? Yeah, and they last a very
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  very long time. Really, I learned something. This is many reasons I
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  love talking with you. This is one of them. I learned something new.
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  Let's talk about different types of roofing materials here here in the States.
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  And yeah, if we want to go international, maybe we'll get I was
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  just at a dance competition with my daughters, and we sat down and we
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  were eating and I started talking to this lady and she was from England and
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  asked what I did, and we started talking about roofing, and I started
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  talking about the different types of roofs that are over in London and in England
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  compared to what's over here. And we started talking about fat roofs and tile
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  roofs and all kinds of different stuff. And now today we're going to talk
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  about different types of roofing materials that we use here. Yes, and obviously
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  the most common type that everybody sees is an asphalt shingle with granules on it.
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  Like that is pretty much what That's a pretty standard material. That's what
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  you're going to see on ninety nine percent of every home out there. Okay,
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  there's reasons for that. It's easy to apply, it's easy to cut,
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  so it's an easy roof to lay, it's an easy roof to put
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  on. And you know it's beginning. I say it's the most affordable type,
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  but depends on whose pocketbook you're talking about, right, it can get
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  really expensive. Petroleum based products keep going up and up and up and up,
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  and asphalt shingles and all the accessories that go with them unfortunately keep going
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  up and up and up. But with that being said, it is what's
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  most commonly put on a roof, And I say it usually every time we
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  talk about roofing. It's not really about the shingles. It's about what goes
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  underneath them. It's about your side wall flashing, your roof to wall flashing,
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  step flashing, chimney flashing, so many different types of flashings. But
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  if those flashings aren't done properly, and underlay's aren't done properly, the roof
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  will leak. It is a garan t That's why, especially with us,
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  you got skylights on your house, you have to replace them if we're going
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  to do your roof, because I don't want to get a call or my
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  managers don't want to get a call at midnight during the storm that the skylights
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  are leaking. And it's kind of a common misconception that you can just reflash
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  a skylight and it'll be fine. But I can tell you from experience it's
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  not. They will leak. They're not made to go through a re ruth
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  different other different types of shingles. There's a lot of composite shingles out there
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  nowadays, and there's lots of different brands, and I don't want to get
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  into all of the different brands, but I can get into the main you
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  know, basically what they're made out of. Most of them are made out
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  of recycled materials, which is good plastic bottles, bottle caps, things that
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  we throw away. They can now take and turn into shingles, beautiful shingles.
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  I have a composite shingle on my house called f Wave, And here's
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  what I will talk about. The main difference between most composite composite shingles and
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  what we install, which is f Wave, is the other composite shingles are
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  installed individually, more like a wood shake. If anybody's ever seen a wood
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  shake or a wood shingle go in a house. They're individual little pieces of
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  cedar wood material that are nailed on and they're staggered and they shed the water.
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  Now, the problem with most of these other products is they don't seal
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  down like a regular shingle. That's what's great about an ashole shingle is it
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  actually seals down tight, water tight for the most part, except where there's
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  penetrations and that's where we use flashings. Almost all composite. In fact,
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  all that I know of, all of the composite shingles out there that I
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  know of coming individual pieces. The thing that I don't really like about that,
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  Sean, is that they are completely dependent on a very thick waterproof underlayment
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  to work because water will get underneath them. Wind blown rain will get underneath
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  these shingles, and it requires a very thick and or like rubber membrane type
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  underlayment to protect your home. That's the same with steel shingles. They are
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  not water tight. If you don't have a very steep roof, say a
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  four pitch, even a six pitch, in my mind, it can be
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  a little iffy because that water might not shed off the roof fast enough and
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  can get underneath I've dealt with this from experience, water getting underneath these shingles
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  and it really being a problem now. F Wave. The shingles that we
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  install typically a couple every week. It's not a lot, but they are
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  very expensive. I mean, when it comes to a regular roof, they're
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  doing a roof that they're top of the line. They are not cheap,
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  but they are completely composite there is no fiberglass matting. There are no granules,
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  so you can't have granule loss. The best way to describe it for
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  me is like a really thick floor mat for your car. It's you really
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  can't hurt it as far as I can tell, Like we we will take
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  it, and we'll take a nail and we'll gouge it, and we'll scratch
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  it, and a little heat from heat gun itself heals itself and you can't
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  even tell it was there. But for me, the best part and the
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  reason that we started using the f Wave is that they come in regular bundles
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  of shingles, just like asphalt, so they're they're three feet wide. They
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  install the exact same way as a regular shingle, so we don't need a
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  special underlayment underneath the All we use is the same underlayment that we use on
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  regular shingles, and we nail these right on top and they have a very
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  very strong adhesive so they seal down like regular shingles as well, so we
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  get the same wind rating. They are water, they don't leak right,
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  so we flash everything the exact same way as a regular shingle. They also
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  come with a hail warranty. It's a six year hail warranty. If it's
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  ever damaged by hail for any reason whatsoever, they will replace them. Pay
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  us to replace them for free. There's no need to even talk to your
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  insurance companies. So they're very strong, they're very thick. You can't lose
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  any granules on them. It's really a fantastic option. As far as a
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  shingle goes. Again, you're gonna pay more, But I personally don't really
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  see what could go wrong with these shingles. It's pretty amazing when we talk
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  about the f wave and you talk about all the features, and I also
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  wonder is and I don't know this, but I've got to guess your homeowner's
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  insurance probably really you know, he probably affects your rates lower because we're seeing
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  more and more hail. I mean, this summer has been just not a
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  week goes by where I don't see folks posting photos of not just like little
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  little hail pebbles here and there, like big big chunks of ice falling from
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  the sky. You talk about something that's designed for durability, and amazing thing.
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  We talk with Andrew Larson this morning of Larsenoom Services. It's an important
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  day if you're looking to have the roof done. Of course, they also
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  do roof restorations as well, if you've got questions about the performance of your
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  roof, if you had some issues with water in your basement, those type
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  of things as well. The right gutters, the right roofing makes all the
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  difference. Call Andrew and the team at Larstolm Services call them today six oh
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three
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  four three. We have a great stretch of a few days here, but
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  rain and stuff will be back, and you want to be ready and of
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  course be prepared with the folks at Larstolm Services. Andrew is always great chatting
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  with you, my friend. You enjoy this beautiful day, all right,
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  we'll talk next week. The website Larsenhomes Services dot com. And again then
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  number, make the phones ring this morning. Six oh eight five three five
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  forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four three. Kevin
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  ham Ham's Arbercare. He comes your way next right here on thirteen to n WIB