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A Snow Globe in the Attic with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight oh seven thirteen ten Wiba Madison in the morning
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Speaker 1: and asked the experts, there's what I was looking for.
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Speaker 1: The heat is on, Oh, the heat maybe off. Either way,
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Speaker 1: it's been a little bit warm. We're checking in this
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Speaker 1: morning with our good friend Andrew Larson. Of course, Andrew
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Speaker 1: comes to us from Larsen Home Services. The website Larsenhomeservices
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's l A R. S O N Home
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Speaker 1: Services dot com. They're twelve number six, so eight five
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Speaker 1: three five forty three forty three. That's five three five
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Speaker 1: forty three forty three. And Andrew as weird as as weather.
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Speaker 1: Maybe there are some benefits to these slightly warmer temperatures.
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Speaker 1: How you doing, And let's talk about some of the
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Speaker 1: benefits to this time of year with the with the
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Speaker 1: warmer temperatures.
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Speaker 2: Just like took me back to like, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine, with like a spiked hair and a
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Speaker 2: bullet and girls wearing lots of hair spray spiking bangs.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember, though, those are good times, fond memories
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Speaker 1: of those days.
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Speaker 2: Tight roll the dancing type look you know, yes, yes,
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Speaker 2: good stuff, good stuff. Yeah. So this morning, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of warmer temperatures. It feels it feels wonderful. It's
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Speaker 2: so odd. Last week was like imminent death and now
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Speaker 2: it's like, wait, what in the world is going on?
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Speaker 2: But what I want to talk about specifically was roof
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Speaker 2: restore and it's something that we promote a lot. It
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Speaker 2: is different than a roof repair. A roof repair is,
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Speaker 2: in my mind, is just a quick fix. It's you know,
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Speaker 2: I got a leaky pipe boot, let's just replace that
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Speaker 2: pipe boot. When we know that when your roof was done,
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Speaker 2: all of those pipe boots and all of those flashings
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Speaker 2: were done at the same time, So it's time to
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Speaker 2: restore and take a look at everything so we can
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Speaker 2: get many more years out of a roof. So this
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Speaker 2: weekend we received six calls for our rapid response team.
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Speaker 2: And if people not first time listening or have heard before,
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Speaker 2: but we have a rapid response team and if you
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Speaker 2: have a leak, we typically not all ours. This is
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Speaker 2: something we're still building out, but we've been pretty good
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Speaker 2: at it. A leak in your roof, we have usually
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Speaker 2: have team members that are ready to go. They can
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Speaker 2: get over there and make a temporary, temporary fix. Until
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Speaker 2: we can get an estimator over there to do a
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Speaker 2: true inspection and come up with a more permanent fix.
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Speaker 2: So this weekend we had five or six calls for
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Speaker 2: rapid response and a few more for leaks, which is
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Speaker 2: odd because well, there's no snow on anyone's roof, and
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it didn't rain. So what's going on. Well,
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Speaker 2: we have a leak in our roof, We've got a
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Speaker 2: spot on our ceiling. You know where I'm going. But
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Speaker 2: with all of those cold temperatures, nobody was going outside.
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Speaker 2: Everybody was staying inside. Furnaces were running a lot more
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Speaker 2: than they typically would. I don't care. You know what
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Speaker 2: type of insulation you have. Obviously, if you've got an
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Speaker 2: ultimate addic solution from us your furnace, you're gonna lose
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Speaker 2: less heat because there's just no better way to do it.
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Speaker 2: But no matter what, your furnace is running more, you're
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Speaker 2: staying inside. You're probably doing more cooking inside. I mean,
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Speaker 2: who even wants to go to eat when it's that cold.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to leave the house. It's like it's
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Speaker 2: house to car, car to work, work, the car, car
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Speaker 2: to house. Well I got that right on the first try,
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Speaker 2: but more cooking, more heating. So what are we doing.
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Speaker 2: We're putting more moisture into the attic, and there's really
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Speaker 2: drastic dew point temperature differences in the attic. So you've
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Speaker 2: got warm moist air from the inside of the house
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Speaker 2: getting up into that attic and it's freezing, freezing, freezing cold.
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Speaker 2: That water is going to condense. It's gonna, first of all,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna freeze on the undersiding over your decking if
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Speaker 2: we don't even if we have adequate ventilation. Honestly, when
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Speaker 2: it's that cold and you've got that much of that
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Speaker 2: much of a temperature change, it doesn't really matter. Ventilation
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Speaker 2: is extremely important, but it's really what's more important in
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Speaker 2: those instances is air ceiling. So one of our reps
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Speaker 2: went out to a home and they were certain they
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Speaker 2: had a roof leak, and we knew it wasn't a
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Speaker 2: roof leak because there's no there's no moisture coming from
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Speaker 2: the sky, right, and so we just put put a
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Speaker 2: video out on social media, and so I believe it's
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Speaker 2: on our Facebook account and all that stuff. But he
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Speaker 2: took a video and it was legitimately snowing in the
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Speaker 2: snowstorm in there. The moisture from the inside of the
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Speaker 2: house was condensing and freezing so rapidly, and air was
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Speaker 2: moving up from the ventilation so quickly because it was
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Speaker 2: blowing that it was like a snow globe in their attic.
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Speaker 2: It was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
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Speaker 2: And obviously it had nothing to do with nothing to
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Speaker 2: do with their roof whatsoever. It was one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: the lack of air ceiling, because that ventilation was actually
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Speaker 2: making it more snow globe. Bish. If we should say
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Speaker 2: it's that's I don't even know if that's a word shown,
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Speaker 2: but people can picture it is right, Yes, yes, it
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Speaker 2: stuff white snow moving all over the place. And then
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Speaker 2: that white snow is then falling down onto the insulation
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Speaker 2: and there's every bit of insult every insulation. Our insulation
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Speaker 2: all addicts has dips and valleys like it's never perfect.
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Speaker 2: And then it sits in a low area and it
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Speaker 2: sits there, and now it's closer to to our condition space,
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Speaker 2: which is going to be warmer because we don't have
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Speaker 2: any air ceiling, that warm air is moving up through
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Speaker 2: there even easier. Now it's fine, and it's happening over
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Speaker 2: and over and over and over and over, and then
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Speaker 2: you look up one day and you go, oh, no,
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Speaker 2: we have a roof leak, when we really don't. All
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Speaker 2: we have is improper or lack of air ceiling. And
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Speaker 2: I say improper because even if we have air ceiling,
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Speaker 2: if it's not done correctly, can actually make the problem
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Speaker 2: worse because now we have all of the warm air,
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Speaker 2: warm moist air going through one small area instead of
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Speaker 2: being spread across the entire attic. So we do get
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Speaker 2: legitimate calls for roof restores now more in our northern
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Speaker 2: territory because we just we just haven't had any snow here,
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Speaker 2: or we haven't really had any rain, so we really
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Speaker 2: know that it's not a roof leak. So while it's
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Speaker 2: fun to get, I shouldn't say it's fun. It is
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Speaker 2: fun to be able to go to somebody's house when
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Speaker 2: they think they have one problem and then tell them
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Speaker 2: what it really is. Because there's a lot of contractors
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Speaker 2: out there, roofing contractors especially, that don't understand how a
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Speaker 2: home works, how it's heated, how it's cooled, how we
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Speaker 2: lose energy gain energy. They don't understand that, so they
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Speaker 2: wouldn't know where to look, and they would automatically look
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Speaker 2: for a leak above where they see a spot in
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Speaker 2: the ceilings, and now we're going to end up paying
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Speaker 2: for something that doesn't fix anything.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty dramatic as well, and I hope folks get
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Speaker 1: a chance of not following Larsen Home Services on Facebook
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Speaker 1: and social media. Make sure you do that and definitely
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Speaker 1: head on over to their social media sites today because
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Speaker 1: the video is quite dramatic. It literally looks like like
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Speaker 1: you'd see in the Arctic with these with these trusses,
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Speaker 1: and there's almost like stalag types or slagmites, I forget
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Speaker 1: what those are, of frozen snow and kind of a
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Speaker 1: snow globe effect coming down from the and this is
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Speaker 1: somebody's attic, and Andrew, if folks are experiencing this stuff,
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Speaker 1: and obviously we want to call right away. Maybe folks
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Speaker 1: have questions as well, could this happen to me? What
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Speaker 1: is going on with my roof? One of the great
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Speaker 1: things about calling Larsen Home Services is your guys will
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Speaker 1: actually take the time to look at what's going on
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Speaker 1: and see exactly if there are any problems in somebody's
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Speaker 1: attic space. Or on their roof.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's exactly what we're here for. So if
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Speaker 2: anybody's wondering what is my installation like, especially if your
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Speaker 2: home is more than twenty years old, if you haven't
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Speaker 2: had insulation work or home performance work ever done, the
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Speaker 2: chances of your attic being air sealed are very, very
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Speaker 2: very slim. It's a lot more common now. A lot
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Speaker 2: of builders have become more in tune to you know,
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Speaker 2: energy star ratings, using better windows, better insulation, actually air
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Speaker 2: ceiling everything. It's it's become it's become very common because
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Speaker 2: we now understand just how important it is. We understand
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Speaker 2: that insulation in most most most cases is actually more
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Speaker 2: important than than the than the insulation. So we know
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Speaker 2: that the insulation is really, really, really important in the
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Speaker 2: summer because our attic gets to be one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty hundred and thirty hundred and forty degrees and our
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Speaker 2: ceiling turns into a radiant heater and heats the rest
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Speaker 2: of our house. And we know in the winter we
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Speaker 2: want to stop that warm air from rising, and the
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Speaker 2: best way to do that as air ceiling. So, if
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Speaker 2: your home is more than twenty years old and you
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Speaker 2: don't know it's probably a good idea to get it
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Speaker 2: checked out. And you know, our our estimators can show
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Speaker 2: you where you're losing the heat, how you're losing the heat.
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Speaker 2: They come in with tools to show you exactly what's happening,
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Speaker 2: and then they show you exactly how to fix it
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Speaker 2: and make your home more comfortable. Where we make our
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Speaker 2: home warmer and the warmer in the winter, cooler in
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Speaker 2: the summer, and you know, just an awesome side effect
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Speaker 2: of that is we save energy.
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Speaker 1: One of the nice things too, is is because they
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Speaker 1: do such a great job of doing that, doing that inspection,
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Speaker 1: there's no pressures. You'll see as a homeowner, you'll see
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Speaker 1: exactly what's going on and then you can make that
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Speaker 1: decision about what's right for your home. And that's a
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Speaker 1: great thing about working with Larsen Home Services. They don't
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Speaker 1: need to apply pressure why because they give you the
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Speaker 1: facts and you as a homeowner, you got any questions,
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Speaker 1: they're their answer for you and you get to make
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Speaker 1: that determination. All I got to do this morning is
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Speaker 1: pick up phone, gimme call six oh eight five three
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Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. That's five three five four
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Speaker 1: three four three for Larsen Home Services the website Larsenhome
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Speaker 1: Services dot com. That's l A R s o N
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Speaker 1: Home Services dot com. Don't forget to check them out
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Speaker 1: and Facebook and social media. Check out that video too.
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Speaker 1: It is very, very dramatic. Andrew did a great job
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Speaker 1: describing it, but it's one of those things too you
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Speaker 1: really want to see in person. Make sure you follow
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Speaker 1: lur snome Services on social media. Andrew, it's always great
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Speaker 1: talking with you. Enjoy this beautiful day and I know
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Speaker 1: your guys are probably loving this weather for sure. So
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Speaker 1: you guys have a good one and we'll do it
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Speaker 1: all again in seven days, all right, See you next week.
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Speaker 1: Kevin ham Ham's Arborcare. He comes your way next here
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