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Storm Damage Repair with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Chip Pank Smile, Come on tuning up Human NATO five thirteen ten WIBA and
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  ask the experts. Joined this morning by Andrew Larson. Andrew comes to us
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  from Larsen Home Services. The website Larson L A R. S O.
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  N. Home Services dot com. That's Larsenhomeservices dot com. The telephone number
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  six oh eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three,
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  five forty three forty three. And I know this week, generally for folks,
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  makes a lot of sense to take vacation because it's generally a pretty quiet
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  week, especially in the industry as far as uh roof repair and other things,
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  because it's mostly all scheduled people. You know, You've got your guys
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  out working, Andrew, and they are on the schedule and everything's good,
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  and then out of the blue, we get a nasty, nasty storm tornado
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  as a matter of fact, rolling through mid February, and that just kind
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  of kind of gets your guys out there. How you doing this morning,
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  Andrew, I'm doing fantastic. I heard you guys are supposed to get snow
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  back home. That's why I left. Yes, yes, we are a
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  chance for snow and a little bit of everything for sure. Real quick,
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  I want to ask you about just about the right up the road from my
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  house to matter of fact, there are a couple of homes that literally lost
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  their parts of their roof and and pretty devastating obviously entire roofs. That that's
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  a big, big project. I know. Obviously if that happens, there's
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  definitely houses adjacent to that area that have damage to their roof. Maybe not
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  all that evident, but definitely something to be inspected. Let's talk real quick
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  just about what you're able to do at LUR Storm Services and why it's important.
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  I know there's crews that travel around the country that'll knock on doors and
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  other things. It's important to make sure you know who's doing that work,
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  isn't it It is? It is. You know, there's a lot of
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  companies out there that'll move into town after we get a big storm and start
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  knocking doors and get some work done. And I'm not here to say that
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  they're all bad, because that's definitely not the case. But I will say
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  that when we typically hear about a storm restoration project going going sideways, it's
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  from somebody not local because they came into town got a bunch of work,
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  got a bunch of work done. And after the work is done, they
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  leave. And if there's problems or stuff wasn't done up to code, like,
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  they just don't care because they're not from around here. They leave,
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  they change their name, and they're out. We have storm damage experts all
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  over the state. I mean, I think I put a little message out
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  on social media last week. I mean offices in Lacrosse, Madison, Milwaukee,
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  Green Bay, Appleton, wastaf Stevens Point and experts in all of those
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  offices that know how to handle this stuff. So we're pretty much local anywhere
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  that you are in the entire state. And you know, one of the
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  approaches that we take to what we do is, you know, there's a
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  lot of storm roofers out there or people just doing roofs in general, that
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  want to put a shingle on cheapest way they can looks great. The problem
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  is is that when storm these storms bere becoming more frequent, right severe weather
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  pattern, weather patterns of changing, kind of the storm belt is moving north
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  a little bit. It used to be like Colorado to Kansas City up into
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  Iowa, and it's kind of starting to move further north, and insurance companies
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  are getting smart to that as well. And I've got some inside inside info
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  on insurance work and agents are straight up that more and more homeowners insurance companies
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  are just pulling out of Wisconsin and Minnesota because they've been they've been undersold for
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  so many years, meaning relatively cheap homeowners insurance. Where we live. Most
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  people are paying twelve hundred dollars a year if you think about that, So
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  you've been paying that for ten to fifteen years, and you get a storm
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  and you got to put a twenty thirty thousand dollars roof on, all the
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  money's wiped out. So they're raising rates, they're pulling out of the state.
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  A lot of different things are happening. So one approach that we take
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  is we take a lot of pride in trying to sell class fur impact rated
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  shingles. We want shingles that if a storm comes through with hail, they're
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  not gonna get damaged. You're not gonna have to worry about it. They're
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  actually made to take the impact of hail and high winds. Now, you
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  have an F two or an F three tornado roll down your road like hey,
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  that's a whole different story. But with the hail that's associated with it,
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  the f wave shingle. I mean, I've laid that thing down on
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  carpet and I've smashed it with a hammer, did nothing to it. I've
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  laid our Class four impact rated armor shield shingles down on carpet, smashed them
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  with a hammer, nothing happened to them. They have a rubberized membrane in
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  them that allows them to flex. So that's what happens when that hail hits
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  a normal shingle is if smashes down on it, there's give to the roof
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  and it actually breaks the matting and then all the granules start to fall off.
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  Now all we have is fiberglass matting and eventually they start to leak.
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  But with Class four impact rated shingles, yes they cost more, but if
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  the storm comes through, most likely not going to have anything to worry about.
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  And that's peace of mind for you, because I can tell you this
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  talking to people over an Economo walk. They had a big hailstorm go through
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  last year. A whole bunch of roofs got replaced. Great, there might
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  have been some happy people they got new roofs. Maybe they needed one.
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  Guess what they just had hal go through again. You know how excited they
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  are now, not excited because deductibles are going to go up. People are
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  going to start getting dropped by their insurance company. Now they have to go
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  through the whole headache and mess getting a new roof all over again. Now,
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  if they had impacts impact rated shingles, that's something that they're not going
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  to have to worry about. You know, the best way to deal with
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  an insurance company is to never have to deal with them. And that is
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  the honest to goodness truth. Whether it's your car insurance, your health insurance,
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  your homeowner's insurance, if you never have to deal with those people,
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  life is good. And unfortunately things happen. The great thing is you mentioned
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  the F wave F wave shingles, and I've seen I've seen samples of them,
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  and you know, we've talked about them in the past. They look
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  beautiful. You mentioned all the great features to them. Just imagine never having
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  to worry about about storms and hail and you know, having those things and
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  never render to worry about calling and dealing with an insurance adjuster or anything like
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  that. I know you guys do work for homeowners that do have damage,
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  and you guys work very closely with the insurance companies to make sure that homeowners
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  are getting every benefit that they've that they've paid for and making sure that things
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  are being done right. It's important though, as we as we're kind of
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  recovering from some bizarre storms, whether it's hail, whether it's wind damage,
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  other things, that you're having your roof inspector. And let's talk about how
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  that works with Larson Home Services. You know, we mentioned people going door
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  to door. People will change states, change names, those kind of things,
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  and they're really hard to track down. One of the things I always
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  loved about talking with you, Andrew, is the company name. It's Larson
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  Home Services. It's your name. You are a guy here in Wisconsin.
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  Folks know you, people know your family, know your name, know exactly
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  all about you. You are committed to this area. When it comes to
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  having your house checked out inspected for storm damage. You want something like that,
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  and let's talk about how how Lars Storme Services does those home inspections for
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  folks. Here's the thing. You're exactly right, you know, I was
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  born and raised in Wisconsin. I grew up at or further north, but
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  moved to Madison area about fifteen years ago to start the company and I've been
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  here ever since. My family lives in Lodi, My kids go to school
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  in Lodi, Like this is where we are, and we put and eventually
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  put my name on the company. So it's very very important to us.
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  And when we do a roof inspection, we take a roof inspection very seriously.
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  First of all, we're not doing roof inspections looking for hale because we're
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  not a storm company. Yes, we know how to look for hale.
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  It's typically pretty easy to find. But when we we do a roof inspection,
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  we have a sixteen point roof inspection and there's sixteen different areas that we're
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  looking for. And we're looking at ridge caps, we're looking at a ridge
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  event, We're looking at softa ventilation, We're looking at the granular breakdown of
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  the shingle. Are we starting to lose a lot of granules? I mean
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  sometimes roofs don't have to be that old and they get baked, they start
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  to lose granules. Once that starts happening, it doesn't stop, and your
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  roof is going to prematurely be ready to be replaced. We're checking around chimneys,
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  we're checking around skylight, we're checking flashing. So we're going through the
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  roof with a fine tooth comb. We're using we're using microscopes, we're using
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  moisture meters, we use a whole bunch of different tools and data to let
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  a homeowner no. Now, Honestly, most of the time when we do
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  a roof inspection, it's just free. When we're doing maybe we're doing a
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  gutter estimate, we're doing a gutter estment. We're doing a roof inspection every
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  single time, and most of the time the roof is good. Most of
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  the time it is. But sometimes there are key areas. I cannot tell
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  you how many times we go on a roof and it's five years old and
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  it's leaking, and there's just so many roofers out there that are going to
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  want to come out and say, hey, yeah, it's leaking, we
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  need to replace. That's just bas the case. It's always typically one of
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  those key areas because if the shingles are in great shape it's leaking, that
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  just means that some of the member I always talk about the most important stuff,
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  it's underneath you see the stuff you don't see. We can usually fix
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  that stuff. Now, if you've had a roof over, meaning you've got
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  a one or two layers of shingles and you put new shingles over it,
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  and your roof is five years old and it's breaking, sorry, there's nothing
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  we can do. That all needs to come off and it needs to be
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  done properly. But nine times out of ten that's not the case. It's
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  just flashings that weren't done properly. People having skylights on the roof, and
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  I'm not replacing the skylights. Those are key late leak areas. Why with
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  us, if you've got skylights and you need a new roof, you have
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  to replace the skylights. And honestly, sometimes we lose jobs because of that
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  because it's expensive work to do the skylights. But it's just a standard that
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  we have because I know that if we don't replace them, they're gonna leak.
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  Ask me how I know, because we used to do it without replacing
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  them and end up leaking. And you know, you can tell somebody,
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  hey, we're not gonna cover your skylight if they leak. But that's a
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  really sickening feeling when you get a call in the middle of the night during
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  a storm and someone's skylights are leak, it's a very helpless feeling. So
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  that's just something we have to do. So sixteen point inspection, checking all
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  the key areas and the actual makeup of the shingles, we can give a
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  home owner a really good idea of how those shingles are doing. Also,
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  if you've had a storm, we're gonna come and we're gonna lift shingles to
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  make sure you didn't have a whole bunch of seal failure. Once those seals
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  pussed up from a hot, strong wind like a tornado or a straight line,
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  they're not gonna steal back down. And typically they've folded over, which
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  means they've creased and they've broke, which is almost the same thing as a
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  hail damage because where that shingle creased or it broke, now all the granules
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  are gonna start falling off right there and it's never gonna steal down again.
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  That's the type of situation where, uh, you're gonna need a you're gonna
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  need a roof replacement. So whether it's storm damage or it's just regular inspection,
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  we take it very seriously. It's an important day to have that conversation.
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  And of course, let the folks from our storm services take a look
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  at your house again. Roof inspection, gutter inspection. Uh. We could
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  do an entire show on flashing, by the way, I could. That
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  was what I talk about, how impressed I was with the work that you
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  guys did on the Preble household. The one one of the areas that that
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  again is thanks to talking with you over the years, I've learned to appreciate
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  is we've got on our house, the front of our house, We've got
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  a very large three flu chimney on the front of the house brick, and
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  all of a sudden I noticed, And it wasn't until you had said about
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  flashing. I looked up there. I said, look at that that flash
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  like it's it's into the It's actually like again, we could do a whole
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  show on it. It's the back. Yeah. I can't tell you how
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  many times we get up there and we see shame those that are in phenomenal
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  shape. And then we get where we closely inspect the chimney and all the
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  flashing that's on the chimney. It's literally just for looks like it just goes
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  up the chimney and then someone's just cocked it to the chimney. Well,
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  I can tell you that that will not last. No. And if somebody
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  can imagine a piece of metal going up the side of a chimney six to
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  eight inches and it's just cock. Now that cocking starts to break loose because
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  it's a very uneven surface, whether it's brick or it's stone. And all
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  that water that hits the chimney now it's rolling right down the chimney. The
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  only thing stopping it from going behind that flashing and right under your shingles,
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  right down into the roof, into the attic. It is a piece of
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  calking that's stuck to brick or stone. It's not going to work. No,
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  those are the details, some of the little things. That's other cool
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  thing too is when you work with the team at Largstone Services. I love
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  it because they educate you on on exactly what makes a good roof good and
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  what makes the best roofs the best, and they want to do that for
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  you at Larsenome Services. Get you the best roof today is today pick up
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  phone, give them a call if you are listening to us right now you
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  probably experienced those storms. You may have had hail. We at hal By
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  US we had a tornado not too far from us as well. Heavy wins.
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  That stuff can really do damage and stuff sometimes you don't even notice on
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  your roof. Have them come out for a roof inspection. Check out your
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  gutters as well from Lars Storm Services. All I got to just pick up
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  phone this morning, give them a call six so eight five three five forty
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  three forty three that's five three five four three four three for Larsen Home Services.
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  The website larsenhomes Services dot com. That's l A R. S O
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  N Home Services dot com. Save travels Andrew, we'll talk real soon,
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  my friend, I will see you. Kevin ham hams Arborcare joins US from
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  Mexico next year on thirteen ten, wuib a