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Insulation Matters During the Summer, Too! with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight oh five thirteen ten Wiba. The tide is high
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  Speaker 1: because it's humid today or it's been humid, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I love this song, love this jam. And another guy
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  Speaker 1: I love talking to is our good friend Andrew Larson.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services.
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  Speaker 1: The website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's spelled l A
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  Speaker 1: R s O N Home Services dot Com. Telephone number
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  Speaker 1: six oh eight five three five forty three forty three
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  Speaker 1: at six oh eight five three five forty three forty
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  Speaker 1: three as mentioned. Joining us this morning is Andrew Larson. Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Do I ever say I'm doing bad?
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  Speaker 1: I've never known you that is, Well, you've got kids,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, you got.
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  Speaker 2: You never know? Yeah, you never know, right.
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  Speaker 1: You never yeah, exactly, you never know what you're waking
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  Speaker 1: up to each each morning. Well, it's great to talk
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  Speaker 1: with you, and uh, Andrew. We're going to talk about insulation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of folks often think insulation
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  Speaker 1: and winter, but we're talking installation in summer for really
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  Speaker 1: good reasons, aren't we.
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  Speaker 2: We are you know, insulation insulation. The advertisements start coming
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  Speaker 2: out more in the fall, and all the companies are
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  Speaker 2: pushing it, and you know, and it makes sense. You know, insulation.
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  Speaker 2: It's cold outside, this warm, fuzzy some cases, itchy blanket
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  Speaker 2: wrapped around you, and nobody talks about it in the summer.
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  Speaker 2: But what we know from our years of experience and
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  Speaker 2: the thousands of insulation jobs that we've done and just
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  Speaker 2: sheer home building science, is that insulation is actually more
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  Speaker 2: important in the summer when it's hot than it is
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  Speaker 2: in the winter, which is insane to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: They don't it's hard to grasp. But insulation is rated
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  Speaker 2: on in our value and where we live, in our
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  Speaker 2: region it is. It's really recommended to have an our
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  Speaker 2: value of insulation. And what our values see aands for
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  Speaker 2: is the measure of how well or how slow I
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  Speaker 2: should say, the transfer of heat is allowed to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So the faster heat can transfer through the insulation, the
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  Speaker 2: lower our value it's going to have. And we build
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  Speaker 2: the our value up by putting more inches of insulation
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  Speaker 2: in a space like an attic. And we all know
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  Speaker 2: that well, So we got to talk about No, I
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  Speaker 2: could get real scientific, I don't. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get all nerdy but it's actually a funny story. I
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  Speaker 2: was at school with a school with my daughter about
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  Speaker 2: a year ago. She had to go in and do
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  Speaker 2: a makeup makeup science lab and they were studying the
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  Speaker 2: three ways of heat transfer, conduction, convection, and radiation. And
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  Speaker 2: the teacher started talking about that and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that's cool, and he goes, nobody's ever said that before.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no, it's super cool. So then we
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  Speaker 2: started talking about insulation. I said, we deal with every
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  Speaker 2: I said, we deal with conduction, convection, and radiation every day.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, you still remember it from middle school.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no, I don't. I learned it when
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  Speaker 2: I got older. I don't remember it. But anyway, what
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  Speaker 2: happens in the summer is if anybody's ever stuck their
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  Speaker 2: head up in the attic of their home in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: it's one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty degrees, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have ventilation from the sofa to the
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  Speaker 2: top of the roof. It's meant to cool your roof.
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  Speaker 2: It it really doesn't matter. When it's this hot, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be extremely hot in that attic. And what
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  Speaker 2: happens is that if we don't have the correct OUR value,
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  Speaker 2: which where we live it's recommended to have anywhere from
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  Speaker 2: an R forty nine to an R sixty. We don't
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  Speaker 2: do anything less than an OUR sixty because just why not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it doesn't make sense to skimp on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a few inches of insulation, so in our sixty.
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  Speaker 2: So what it's doing is it's stopping that one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty degree attic. It's slowing the transfer of that heat.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'd say, just the other day, one of my
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  Speaker 2: reps was doing an estimate in a house and the
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  Speaker 2: home owners like, yeah, he's like, are upstairs it gets
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  Speaker 2: so hot, like we can barely use it in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: And they had AC, but it couldn't keep up. They
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  Speaker 2: set the AC at seventy two at night to sleep,
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  Speaker 2: and those rooms upstairs were like seventy eight seventy nine degrees. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they only had three inches of insulation in their attic,
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  Speaker 2: which is roughly like a R two. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was super old and tore up so almost nothing. So
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  Speaker 2: that ceiling up in their attic was like a radiant heater.
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  Speaker 2: So that room they're trying to cool the seventy two degrees.
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  Speaker 2: We hit the thermal imager. This is midday, so it's hot,
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  Speaker 2: but we hit the ceiling with the thermal imager and
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  Speaker 2: the ceiling was like ninety six degrees. Well, how's that
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  Speaker 2: gonna work. It's never gonna work. You're never gonna cool
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  Speaker 2: that room down. So if they had adequate insulation up there,
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  Speaker 2: that just slowed that you've got. Now you've got seventeen
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  Speaker 2: inches of beautiful I think, beautiful sewn, beautiful insulation separating
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  Speaker 2: your drywall ceiling from the super super super hot attic.
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  Speaker 2: And once we put that in there, that ceiling is
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  Speaker 2: going to get back down to the tempt that we're
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  Speaker 2: that we're looking to keep the room at. So, but
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  Speaker 2: in the winter it doesn't work the same way because
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  Speaker 2: in the winter we're heating the house, the heat rises,
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  Speaker 2: You've already got a barrier of insulation up there. So,
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  Speaker 2: because the difference between a convection or conduction heat loss,
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  Speaker 2: which is what happens in the winter when we lose
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  Speaker 2: our heat and radiant radiant slower, So like once all
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  Speaker 2: that insulation heats up and your ceiling heats up, it's
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  Speaker 2: really hard to cool it down. So we're it's a
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  Speaker 2: slower process in the summer, but we need the insulation
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  Speaker 2: to stop it. Now. In the winter, it's much more
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  Speaker 2: important to have proper air ceiling, so we're keeping that
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  Speaker 2: heat in the house and not letting it through stack
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  Speaker 2: effect go out. So we try to educate people and
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  Speaker 2: on the importance of it in the summer, because in
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  Speaker 2: the summer our insulation slows way down. It's just nobody
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  Speaker 2: thinks about it, but it's it's it's much more important
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  Speaker 2: in the summer than it is in the winter. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty our insallation work in the winter.
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  Speaker 1: It's and it's it's when you talk about that, it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. I think that, and I get it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of us, you know, school was a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: and we tend to forget some of these things. And
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing to me when we when we think
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  Speaker 1: about this stuff. A lot of this these concepts are
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  Speaker 1: are really nothing. I was reading a story the other
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  Speaker 1: day about I think it's called like the Caveman Method
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  Speaker 1: for keeping your house cool. I saw a couple of
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  Speaker 1: publications actually talking about it, and it was yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: they're they're they're talking about really the Caveman method for
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  Speaker 1: keeping your your house cool is is really sealing it in,
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  Speaker 1: sealing it off from the eat kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: cave keeps cool as much as you can do, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, blinds and insulation and all that stuff. And Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: when we talk about about these about these ways to
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  Speaker 1: keep your house cool, there's there's obviously significant benefits. One,
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  Speaker 1: your house is more comfortable. You mentioned you know, people
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  Speaker 1: with especially upper spaces that tend to get tend never
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  Speaker 1: to never to get fully cool. All that stuff that
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  Speaker 1: comforts important. Keeping energy bills is low and important. But also,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's ever been studied, and
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  Speaker 1: you would know, is the idea of like your your
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  Speaker 1: central air kicking in and turning off and turning back
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  Speaker 1: on again. I can't imagine what that does to that system.
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  Speaker 1: And you think about longevity and cost and efficiency, the
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  Speaker 1: more you can reduce as far as overall taxing burden,
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  Speaker 1: especially that on and off on those systems, it's really
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  Speaker 1: going to prolong the life of those of those things,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know, I haven't had, thank goodness, knock
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  Speaker 1: on wood, haven't had to replace a central air conditioning
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  Speaker 1: unit or a furnace. I'm gonna guess those things aren't cheap.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can put that it can be as
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  Speaker 2: much as a new roof. Yeah, really expensive. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: depending on how bigger house is, yeah, they can cost
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  Speaker 2: as much as a roof. So yeah, we want we
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  Speaker 2: want to cut down on that on off, on on
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  Speaker 2: on off of all of our ace h VAC units.
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  Speaker 2: But again, just remember we've got to look at the
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  Speaker 2: way we lose and gain heat. In the summer, we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep the heat from coming in and in
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  Speaker 2: the winter we're trying to keep the heat from going out.
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  Speaker 2: And it's two totally different processes and there's different materials
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  Speaker 2: that work better for each instance. And with Larsen and
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  Speaker 2: Larson Kenny Home Services, years of doing insulation and we
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  Speaker 2: came up with the Ultimate Addict solution and it addresses
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  Speaker 2: all types of weather in all seasons. There is absolutely
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  Speaker 2: no better way to fix your addict than an Ultimate
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  Speaker 2: Addict solution. It's a one and done. It is the
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  Speaker 2: best way to air seal your addict. It is we
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  Speaker 2: make sure to hit all of the critical details. Just
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  Speaker 2: like a roof, We've got different things we need to
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  Speaker 2: flash in your attic because there's different things mechanical pipes
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  Speaker 2: that get hot, they have to be flashed properly, they
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  Speaker 2: have to use metal on them. Some of them we
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  Speaker 2: have to use different types of insulation that are one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent fire rated. We have to use fire cock.
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  Speaker 2: So there's critical details that need to be taken care of.
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  Speaker 2: But within the Ultimate Addic solution, it encompasses that entire attic,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, honestly, it's a travesty that once we
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  Speaker 2: get done with the work, we pretty much seal the
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  Speaker 2: attic off and nobody ever needs to go up there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, unless you need a little storage. There's Ultimate
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  Speaker 2: Addic solutions we can you that have storage platforms right
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  Speaker 2: right next to the scuttle holes, so you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of pop the popular you're at scuttle cover off and
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  Speaker 2: you can keep stuff up there. So there's different ways
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  Speaker 2: for us to do that, so it's not completely unusable.
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  Speaker 2: But once we're done with your addic, it's done the
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  Speaker 2: best way that it can be done. There is no
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  Speaker 2: better way that it can be done.
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  Speaker 1: And the great thing about working with you guys, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: and the team at Lars Home Services, you can come
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  Speaker 1: out and take a look and give people a full
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  Speaker 1: assessment on this, and of course it make that decision.
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  Speaker 1: And I know there's a lot of folks right now
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  Speaker 1: going how can I talk to Andrew? How can I
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  Speaker 1: pick up the phone? What do what's the phone number?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give the phone number because it's six of eight
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  Speaker 1: five three five forty three forty three. That's five three
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  Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. People love hearing this stuff
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  Speaker 1: and they love talking and working with you, Andrew, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a great day to do that. As you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know the type of work that you guys do
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to insulation, when it comes to really
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  Speaker 1: sealing off, that's healing, keeping that high out and that
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  Speaker 1: cold air in and vice versa in the winter months.
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  Speaker 1: What an amazing solution it is with Larsen Home Services.
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  Speaker 1: Great day to give Andrew and the team a call.
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  Speaker 1: Six O eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight five three five four three four three.
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  Speaker 1: More information online Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A R.
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  Speaker 1: S O N Home Services dot com. Andrew, It's always informative,
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  Speaker 1: always great chatting with you, my friend. You enjoyed this
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  Speaker 1: fantastic day and we'll talk again in a week.
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  Speaker 2: See you next week and.
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