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Larson Keeney Home Services with Andrew Larson · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight o four thirteen ten w I b A and
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  Speaker 1: ask the experts brought you by lar Cent Kini Home
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  Speaker 1: Services Online Lars and Kini Home Services dot Com. That's
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  Speaker 2: My friends? Yeah, been fantastic, got a nice tan I
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  Speaker 2: Uh I was. I just got back from Orlando for
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  Speaker 2: Dance Nationals. You know, I've talked about both my daughter's
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  Speaker 2: dance and uh. It's funny is I have two of
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  Speaker 2: the dancers at my house right now, youngest daughter and
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  Speaker 2: her friend and their group out of Spotlight Dance Academy
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  Speaker 2: and WannaKey took first in the entire WHOA They just
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  Speaker 2: wanted they wanted to say hi real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, let's hear him.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell your name. Ala. They're amazing and yeah, first
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  Speaker 2: in the nation, making little Wannakee pretty proud. Because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these studios are from massive cities. So it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: How cool is that? That is awesome? Congratulations. I just
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  Speaker 1: mess you. I said they did they bring home many hardware?
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  Speaker 1: And you said they sure did. That's very very cool. Taken. First,
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  Speaker 1: we've got speaking of Orlando. You think heat, you think humidity,
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  Speaker 1: you think of all that stuff. Wisconsin, as I look
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  Speaker 1: at our forecast, not immune from that stuff kind of
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  Speaker 1: brought some of that weather back. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk this morning Andrew about about insulation. And we always
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  Speaker 1: think insulation during the winter months here in Wisconsin, but
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  Speaker 1: just as if not more important during the summer months
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  Speaker 1: as well, isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It It is? I'm sorry. My daughter's laughing and she goes, wait,
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  Speaker 2: so when you say you're doing a radio show, that
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  Speaker 2: you're actually on the radio. Yeah, it's not like a
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  Speaker 2: code word for work. It's like do you want to
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  Speaker 2: say hi? Sorry, sorry, it's my radio show. I'll say,
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  Speaker 2: what now, it's super proudable. But anyway, yeah, honestly it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's no reason to really go to Florida at the
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  Speaker 2: end of June unless you have to. It is so
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  Speaker 2: hot and it is so humid, and I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of excited to get back and I got off the
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  Speaker 2: plane and I walked outside and it felt exactly the same.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it followed us back to Wisconsin. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: that is why I wanted to talk about insulation today.
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  Speaker 2: I know we usually think about it in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: It's like this warm, cozy blanket we put on our
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  Speaker 2: house and we think that it keeps the heat in
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  Speaker 2: and it's one hundred percent false. It has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with keeping heat in your house. Insulation keeps heat
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  Speaker 2: out of your house, out of your house, especially when
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  Speaker 2: we talk about stack effect in the winter that if
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  Speaker 2: warm air rises, that's where air ceiling comes into play.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted to talk about insulation because of this heat.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually just reading an article of a local
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  Speaker 2: HVAC company here in Madison that's received over nine hundred
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  Speaker 2: calls in the past two days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh g.
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  Speaker 2: Now, a lot of those are probably for air conditioning
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  Speaker 2: units not working, and a lot of those are probably
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  Speaker 2: for AC units not being able to keep up. And
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  Speaker 2: we see that all the time. We go to someone's
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  Speaker 2: house and like, yeah, we had the HVA see people
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  Speaker 2: come out and they said, everything's fine, but we've got
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  Speaker 2: that We've got the thermost set at seventy and we
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  Speaker 2: can't get it below seventy eight. Well, that is because
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  Speaker 2: when it is as warm as it is out right
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  Speaker 2: now or I don't know what, I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: how warm it's going to get today, about ninety ish. Right, Yep,
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  Speaker 2: your addict turns into a thermal oven. And you can
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  Speaker 2: just ask my guy who are up working in one yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's almost not safe, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: and we make sure that we're done working early. We
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  Speaker 2: make sure that when they're in the attic when it's
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  Speaker 2: that warm, because we're talking like one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty degrees in your attic ten minute intervals,
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  Speaker 2: next person in stuff like that, so that attic gets
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  Speaker 2: to be up gets up to one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: one hundred forty hundred and fifty degrees. And the only
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  Speaker 2: thing that's separating that one hundred and forty hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty degree temp from the inside of your home is
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  Speaker 2: whatever you have for insulation and some drywall. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you have inadequate insulation, it becomes I mean, we go
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  Speaker 2: up in addicts that have you know, built in the sixties,
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  Speaker 2: built in the fifties and that's the last time the
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  Speaker 2: insulation was looked at and the insulation's literally deteriorated down
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  Speaker 2: to like two inches. Well, you're not going to keep
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  Speaker 2: that home cool. We can take our thermal imaging camera
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  Speaker 2: from the inside of the house, thermal image that ceiling
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  Speaker 2: and you might be looking at ninety two one hundred
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  Speaker 2: degrees on that ceiling, but we're trying to shoot seventy
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  Speaker 2: two degree air into the room. It doesn't work very well.
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  Speaker 2: You will never achieve the temperature or the comfort comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna able to say that word today, the
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  Speaker 2: comfort level that you would like. So that's why insulation
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  Speaker 2: is so important. And when we talk about insulation, I
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  Speaker 2: always talk about the UAS or our Ultimate Addict Solution,
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  Speaker 2: because that is our that is our product that we
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  Speaker 2: came up with that is perfect for all seasons. We
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  Speaker 2: do a full removal of whatever insulation you have, and
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  Speaker 2: people always like, why do you got to remove all
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  Speaker 2: our insulation? Da da da da da. We cannot air
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  Speaker 2: seal properly with insulation in your attic. And if a
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  Speaker 2: company comes and says they can, they can try, and
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  Speaker 2: it's possible that they could get it most likely not
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  Speaker 2: going to work out properly and you're going to miss spots.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my my buddy wanted to make me a
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  Speaker 2: meme about it. But you know, I always say, like,
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  Speaker 2: if you've got a dog and you've got twelve inches
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  Speaker 2: of snow out there, and you go to pickup dog
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  Speaker 2: poop and twelve inches of snow, you get some of.
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  Speaker 1: It, Yeah, well most of it you won't.
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  Speaker 2: And that is what it's like, trying to find small
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  Speaker 2: air holes on your attic floor when it's covered in insulation.
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  Speaker 2: So we remove everything, we start clean, especially because with
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  Speaker 2: an ultimate addic solution you are getting one to one
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  Speaker 2: and a half inches and I say one to one
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  Speaker 2: and a half because it's not a perfect science. It's
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  Speaker 2: expandable to two part closed cell foam. You're getting an
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  Speaker 2: inch to an inch and a half layer across your
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  Speaker 2: entire attic floor. The beauty of that is that has
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  Speaker 2: an insulating property as well as it's air ceiling everything
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, so we're not spot air ceiling,
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  Speaker 2: we're just air sealing the entire attic floor. Then we
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  Speaker 2: are going to put seventeen inches of beautiful fluffy cellulose
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  Speaker 2: over the top of that, and if anybody knows anything
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  Speaker 2: about cellulose, after a while, it does settle a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and actually becomes actually has a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an air sealing property as well. So once we've we've removed,
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  Speaker 2: we've spray foamed the floor, We're then going to take
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  Speaker 2: care of critical details like chimney wraps. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: always talk about chimneys being a critical detail on a roof,
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  Speaker 2: where they are in an attic as well. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason being is because if you have an older home
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  Speaker 2: and you have an attic going a chimney which starts
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  Speaker 2: out in the basement, because that's how all of your
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  Speaker 2: utilities used to vent. Everything was self venting through stack effect.
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  Speaker 2: Basically it vented out the chimney, your furnace, your water heater,
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  Speaker 2: all that carbon monoxide would go out that way. Because
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  Speaker 2: of fire code, there had to always be a two
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  Speaker 2: inch gap around that chimney, so you're basically you have
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  Speaker 2: a giant hole running up through the middle of your house.
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  Speaker 2: We air seal that properly that so it's fire rated.
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  Speaker 2: We use firecock it can't burn. We use metal flashing,
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  Speaker 2: So we air seal that all up, spray foam that
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  Speaker 2: shut and now you've got a perfect air seal around
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  Speaker 2: your chimney and everything's covered in insulation. Now you have
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  Speaker 2: an ultimate attic solution that is going to keep your
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  Speaker 2: home warmer in the winter, cooler in the summer, and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to lower energy bills. And like like our gutters,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of it's a it's a one and done deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a one and done. We rarely ever go
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  Speaker 2: into an attic that has air ceiling, to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you, if the house is more than twenty years old,
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  Speaker 2: it's typically not done. So if you think the air
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  Speaker 2: conditioning is running a little too much or heaven forbid,
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  Speaker 2: cannot keep up at all, you know, have us come
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  Speaker 2: out and give you an inspection and let you know
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you got going on. And honestly, like we
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  Speaker 2: go do inspections just like we do a roof inspection,
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  Speaker 2: and we come back down and let people know like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're you've got air ceiling, you've got the proper amount
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  Speaker 2: of insulation.
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  Speaker 1: We talk good and Andrew, it's it today as we
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  Speaker 1: talked sporting with Andrew Larson from larsen Kini Home Services Online,
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  Speaker 1: Larsenkinihomeservices dot com. That's l A R S O N
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  Speaker 1: K E E N E why home Services dot Com
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  Speaker 1: And Andrew, I think a lot of us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about what you guys do with the with
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate addicts solution when it comes to when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the work that and whether it's addicts, roofs, everything,
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  Speaker 1: it's really about about covering every issue is It's not
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  Speaker 1: about just like making it look pretty. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: your addicts do look absolutely gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you think. I'm glad you think so.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sickness that I acquired from you, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I really appreciate it. But but your earlier
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  Speaker 1: point too, And I think it's really important as we
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  Speaker 1: talk about folks calling you know, heating and cooling, and
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  Speaker 1: we think about you know, our central air and and
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  Speaker 1: and these this these this equipment. If it's not able
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  Speaker 1: to keep up, one of the best things you can
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  Speaker 1: do for the long term is is make the job
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  Speaker 1: easier for it. If you're not losing that that conditioned air,
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  Speaker 1: if you are able to contain all of that, you're
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  Speaker 1: able to keep those cycles down, your your equipment is
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  Speaker 1: going to last longer, viewer service calls, and and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: are going to be more comfortable. And it's I think
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we like to look at It reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: like folks that are that are looking at buying a
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  Speaker 1: new home. The things that are important is it does
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  Speaker 1: it have a new roof? Does it have are the
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  Speaker 1: are the mechanicals all solid? We tend to look at that. Secondarily,
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  Speaker 1: we also we tend to lock in on does it
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  Speaker 1: have granite countertops? Does it have you know, is it
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  Speaker 1: open floor plan? The reality is that things that long
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  Speaker 1: term make the biggest difference are sometimes the things you
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  Speaker 1: never think about. Are never see it. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, when it comes to having a properly insulated home,
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  Speaker 1: the best thing is to never think about it from
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  Speaker 1: day one. And that's what you're getting with Larson Kinie
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  Speaker 1: and the Ultimate Roof, Ultimate addic solution is you are
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  Speaker 1: getting a job done that you're never going to have
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  Speaker 1: to think about again.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's literally the way and why we do everything
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  Speaker 2: that we do is we are trying to provide a
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  Speaker 2: service end product that lasts a lifetime. I just shot
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  Speaker 2: a podcast, Yester, I don't want to skip to roofing,
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  Speaker 2: but talking about our ultimate roofing solution and talking about
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  Speaker 2: the shingles we use and the fact that not all
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  Speaker 2: Class four shingles are created equally, and distributors asking us, well,
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  Speaker 2: why won't you just use these like we can get
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  Speaker 2: these easier and they're less expensive because they're not as good,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't. We don't sell on price. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a we sell on trying to give a
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  Speaker 2: product that really is going to work. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: just talking about roofs we I don't have an ultimate
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  Speaker 2: roofing solution out there right now with our Class four
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  Speaker 2: rated shingles that we use with the SBS modified rubberized
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  Speaker 2: matting that have any damage none zero zero have damage
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  Speaker 2: still zero. I can't argue with that. Why would I
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  Speaker 2: try something else just because it's cheaper and the distributor
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  Speaker 2: can get it easier. I don't care if they can
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  Speaker 2: get it easier. We want to do what's best, and
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  Speaker 2: what works doesn't always mean it's going to be the cheapest.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it's it never is. But what good does
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  Speaker 2: it do us if we go out and say, hell, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we will know those shingles we put on our Class four,
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  Speaker 2: but they're damaged. Sorry, there's no guarantee they won't get damaged. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: I want since there is no guarantee, like nobody can
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  Speaker 2: guarantee that it won't, we want to give you the
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  Speaker 2: best option. And that's the same thing when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the Ultimate addic solution. We want to do it
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  Speaker 2: the best way that as of right now and as
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six, the best way that science tells
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  Speaker 2: us to finish an addic is doing the ultimate addic solution,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the way we do it. We could do
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  Speaker 2: it cheaper spot ceiling, it's way cheaper. I mean one
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  Speaker 2: part foam for spot ceiling is fifteen bucks a camp. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: two part spray foam is like three thousand dollars a set.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a lot different, but it's the best way
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  Speaker 2: to do it. And that's that's the way. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we believe so.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really what you want for your home as well.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with Andrew Larson from Larsen
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  Speaker 1: Home LARSENKINI Home Services, great data, Yeah, great day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just call it LKHS.
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  Speaker 1: Hi LKHS Yeah, Larson Home Services as well online as
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  Speaker 1: we talk about as we talk about this stuff when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to your home, when it comes to that investment,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to keeping your energy bills down, great
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  Speaker 1: day to have them out. It's no pressure, it's a
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  Speaker 1: I've had obviously. Larson do work on our home. We
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love them. They are always our first call as
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  Speaker 1: well when it comes to any type of updates and upgrades.
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  Speaker 1: We love talking with the Andrew and the team. You
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  Speaker 1: can do that as well. I'll can just give a
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  Speaker 1: call six so eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's five three five four three four to three half
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  Speaker 1: the come out. Get that inspection done of your attic.
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  Speaker 1: Have that done to day. Learn about all the great options,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it comes to that ultimate addic solution that
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  Speaker 1: they offer at Larson Kinni Home Services. Again, pick up
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  Speaker 1: phone this morning, give a call 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: four three four three Andrew, it's always great chatting with you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Tell the girls again, congratulations from us, and
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  Speaker 1: you have a fantastic day, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 1: News coming not news we got Kevin ham Ham'sarborcare comes
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  Speaker 1: your way next right here thirteen ten wuibi a twenty
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  Speaker 1: from hams Arborcare mester barbarist Kevin Ham, Kevin, keep it
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  Speaker 1: cool this time of year? How do you guys do that?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, good morning? Uh? How do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you keep keep cool and hydrated this time of year?
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  Speaker 1: Doing what you do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's just say, Sean, I prefer ten degrees versus ninety.
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  Speaker 1: I don't blame you there.
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  Speaker 3: You just can't get out of the heat. You know,
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  Speaker 3: yesterday we did have a breathe, okay, at least and
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  Speaker 3: we were on the lake, Lake Mendota, and the breeze
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  Speaker 3: was at us, so at least, you know, you had
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  Speaker 3: some relief while you were dying the wind. The wind
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  Speaker 3: is kind of a phantom and a and a relief
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, because it's dehydrating you as it's
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  Speaker 3: making you feel better. So it's a little DISTVI.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's uh, it is tough out there, and
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  Speaker 1: of course got great credit to the work that you
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  Speaker 1: and you guys do at Ham's Arborcare. This time year,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about some some storm work and
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  Speaker 1: I know there's still some stuff out there that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be handled. Also talk about insurance companies, which is
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  Speaker 1: always a very very fascinating uh a look into kind
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  Speaker 1: of what goes into when they're doing some of those
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  Speaker 1: some of those claims and other things how they operate.
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  Speaker 1: But real quick, I didn't want to ask you also, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: before we get rolling on those topics, is with this heat,
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the best ways and I love
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  Speaker 1: just walking out back under the trees in the woods
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  Speaker 1: is uh, keep your your your yard cool and your
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  Speaker 1: house cool and comfortable. One of the cool things that
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  Speaker 1: you're able to do is to plant a tree. It
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  Speaker 1: really does a lot for adding overall comfort, not just
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  Speaker 1: aesthetically looking beautiful, but actually they can serve a great
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  Speaker 1: purpose when it comes to kind of regulating hot and
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  Speaker 1: cool temperatures, can't they?
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, the uh uh I'm sorry, Sean, can you
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  Speaker 3: repeat that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, I was just no, that's all, that's all
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  Speaker 1: we know. I was just about like as far as
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  Speaker 1: like planting a tree, just the great benefits of we
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  Speaker 1: think about like these these hot days is having that
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  Speaker 1: shade tree, having that opportunity What an amazing uh, what
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  Speaker 1: an amazing thing that is. And not only does it
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  Speaker 1: that beauty, it also can it can actually help with
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  Speaker 1: their overall comfort, can't it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, There's an incredible difference in the cooling effect
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  Speaker 3: of the tree. We we just took out a large
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  Speaker 3: silver maple the storm damage on the south side of
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  Speaker 3: a house Lake, Wisconsin, and you know they are going
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  Speaker 3: to notice a marked difference and how often their conditioner
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  Speaker 3: comes on. It's amazing the difference that that it does make.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just noticing in my own yard, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our trees that we planted when we just got here,
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  Speaker 3: you know, thirty years ago, and they're they're quite large,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're totally shaded in the heat of the day,
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  Speaker 3: and it makes such a difference truly. So our Legacy
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  Speaker 3: Tree program, of course, you know, we give a five
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  Speaker 3: year warranty with those and we do the training ruting
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  Speaker 3: over those five years, and and we most often unless
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  Speaker 3: requested to do something different. We trained for height, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for that apical dominant, and you can have a fairly
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  Speaker 3: tall tree in that five years with that concerted effort
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  Speaker 3: on training.
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  Speaker 1: It's as we talk about that, all the great benefits
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  Speaker 1: of planning a tree, and you mentioned legacy trees, the
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  Speaker 1: five year warranty, the care that goes into establishing that tree,
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  Speaker 1: just a really amazing opportunity for folks. You can learn
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  Speaker 1: more online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h A m MS
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  Speaker 1: arborcare dot com. Our peck phone, give me a call.
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  Speaker 1: That's eight six six five nine six five three nine six.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of that residual storm work, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned working on brought down a silver maple, which
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  Speaker 1: I know generally don't fare very well when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to comes to storms and other things. And sometimes you'll
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  Speaker 1: have issues where insurance companies need to get involved as
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  Speaker 1: well with that, Kevin, and that can be especially for
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  Speaker 1: the homeowner. Can be can be kind of a tricky dance,
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  Speaker 1: can't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, You know, they often want things written in a
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  Speaker 3: particular way. And interestingly, this time around, we had one
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  Speaker 3: that wanted it differently, you know, and and I you
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  Speaker 3: know it. I mean there's a perspective of the insurance
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  Speaker 3: company and the perspective of the homeowner, right yeah, And
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  Speaker 3: of course the insurance company is going to have the
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  Speaker 3: self interest and ordinarily they'll have us write it up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if there's something on a structure they want
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  Speaker 3: it broken down. You know, if we just give you say,
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  Speaker 3: oh I want this tree removed, we give you a
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  Speaker 3: removal quote, and it's all inclusive of everything. Well, they
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  Speaker 3: want what's the take to get it off the house,
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  Speaker 3: and what's it take to take away the debris, And
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: of course there's a lot of things that can be
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  Speaker 3: involved in taking it off the house or off the structure,
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  Speaker 3: because there's you know, you have to move some stuff
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  Speaker 3: to get at that, and you know, there's just a process.
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  Speaker 3: So that can be a trick heat equations trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out, okay, what's actually the fair price of getting
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  Speaker 3: off the structure and then the removal of the debris,
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  Speaker 3: and they cover usually everything to take off the structure
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  Speaker 3: and then a certain amount to take away the debris.
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  Speaker 3: And this time recently in a particular, all that put
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  Speaker 3: into one one number and you just never can tell
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  Speaker 3: what they really want. But you know, we accommodate that
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  Speaker 3: different language and try to you know, we we have
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  Speaker 3: formulas and we come up with a just thing. We're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna commit insurance and mail fraud on your behalf
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  Speaker 3: by any means. We're going to write up a fair
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  Speaker 3: price of what it takes to get that off the
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  Speaker 3: structure and then the removal of debris. So we've got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of experience in doing that, and uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's one reason to go with with hands Arborcare.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to write a fair, honest boat.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about keeping that number hand the eight
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  Speaker 1: website hamsarborcare dot com. That's h a m msarborcare dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I did see earlier today had some storms moved through
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  Speaker 1: just north of the city and I saw even some
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  Speaker 1: potential hail as well up in that area. So you
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  Speaker 1: want to definitely you never know with Wisconsin summers, springs
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  Speaker 1: and summers when those storms are going to roll through.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping that stuff handy, can that contact information, handy, can
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  Speaker 1: go go a real long way. And with that, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about how you guys handle storm damage. I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the things that's always fascinating to me
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  Speaker 1: about about arborcare and what you guys do at Ham's
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  Speaker 1: Arborcare is is the scheduling of it all. Obviously, emergencies
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  Speaker 1: take top priority, but even things like storm damages figuring
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  Speaker 1: out is this something that that needs to be taken
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  Speaker 1: taken care of right away? Is this something that that
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  Speaker 1: we can get to in the coming days, those type
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  Speaker 1: of things. It all depends on on, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: what the threat is and and being able to assess
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  Speaker 1: what the potential dangers of that stuff is. A is
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  Speaker 1: a big part also of what you do, isn't it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's a big puzzle because there's the
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  Speaker 3: logistics and then every storm is different. Sometimes we're real
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  Speaker 3: localized and and that makes things kind of easy. This
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  Speaker 3: last one was kind of a broad spread front. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: that puts stuff. But we're up in Westfield today. It's
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  Speaker 3: about the same distance from us as Madison. It's just
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  Speaker 3: the other direction. No traffic. Yeah, you know, but it's
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  Speaker 3: the same storm that hit you know, down into forest
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  Speaker 3: and you know these are generally, our our Westfield clients
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  Speaker 3: are our lake home owners, uh, and so it's second
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  Speaker 3: and Dairy Holmes there's a lesser priority there. Some of
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  Speaker 3: it was just down branches that they collected and we're
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  Speaker 3: cleaning up for them, three or four clients that were
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  Speaker 3: touching today and and so that was we prioritize that
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks after after the event. And
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  Speaker 3: of course stuff that was on houses and threatening we
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  Speaker 3: got to right away. So it's it's always a dance
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  Speaker 3: in a in a juggle. There's when the storm's hit,
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  Speaker 3: there's more work than there are tree companies, honestly, and
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  Speaker 3: so everybody gets a backlog and it's just how do
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  Speaker 3: we effectively serve everybody? And it can be a dance,
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  Speaker 3: but that's the better problem to solve than wondering where
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the next job is coming from. And so from a
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  Speaker 3: business standpoint, it's like we will gladly solve these well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's and we talk about all the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: working with Hams Arborcare and working with Arborist. I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you too, Kevin, if if your sodium levels get
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  Speaker 1: a little low and potassium levels and you believe there's
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  Speaker 1: an Arby's right off the air state there. Yeah. If
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  Speaker 1: you want on a salty sandwich, you've got some.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked with Kevin Ham of Hams Arborcare again.
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  Speaker 1: If you've had storm damage, you've been thinking about planting
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful tree, something that's going to be rewarding a
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  Speaker 1: short term, long term for generations. It's a great day
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  Speaker 1: to start that conversation as well, big phone, give a
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  Speaker 1: That's eight six six five nine six five three nine six.
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  Speaker 1: Learn more online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h A m
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  Speaker 1: Msarborcare dot com. Kevin, it's always great chatting with you. You
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  Speaker 1: stay hydrated and we'll talk real soon.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sean.
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