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Bring on the Rain with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Ato six thirteen WIBA and Ask the Experts, joined this morning by the one
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  and only Andrew Larson of Larsen Home Services. The website Larsen Home Services dot
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  com. That's l a rs N Home Services dot com. Great website to
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  get to know the folks at Larst Home Services a little bit more about what
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  they do, what makes them special. And of course you can also schedule
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  a consultation right on the website Larsenhome Services dot com. You can also pick
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  up phone give them a call six oh eight five three five forty three forty
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  three. That's five three five forty three forty three for Larsen Home Services.
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  And as mentioned, Andrew joins us this morning. Andrew, you're keeping dry
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  out there, well I am today. Yes, there was some nice rain
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  the other night, sure was. For the second time in a matter of
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  weeks, my son has been held in his school's basement because of tornado sirens
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  going off. So it's a little uh, a little uh scary and some
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  of those winds can be can be pretty nasty, but rain also can do
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  some pretty uh, pretty terrible things to a house that's not prepared. It
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  can't it it can and you know, the weather just just odd. You
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  know that. When I this past fall, when they said, you know,
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  we have an El Nino winner, and I said, yeah, I
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  wonder what that means. I have no idea. I said it should be
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  dry and mild. Well it was dry and it was mild. But now
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  it's like we're a month ahead. Doesn't it seem like we're like a month
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  a hell? Yea? And I mean we had tornadoes and hail in February
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  and now we had severe thunderstorms. A lot of people might not know this,
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  but I am a admittedly, I'm a dance dad. So I've got
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  two daughters who are competitive dancers, and they dance and wanta key and I
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  live in Lodi, and they have dance four to five nights a week through
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  the entire year. We are constantly running back and forth and back and forth.
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  And my older daughter gets picked up at nine o'clock at night on Monday
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  nights. She yeah, right, and she never complained. She loves it.
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  So I give her some props for that. But so I was driving
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  through that storm on Monday night and the lightning was insane, and after I
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  picked her up, it had been raining the whole time. But it started
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  to rain to whereas I actually had to pull over, I could not see
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  anything. I started the hydroplane and I'm thinking, holy crap, some people's
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  basements are going to get flooded and not. We had no less than three
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  calls the next day people to set appointments to get their gutters looked at because
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  they had water in their basement. And this wasn't like a you know,
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  yeah, if our gutters don't work right, we always get hot water in
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  the basement. No, they had never had water in their basement, but
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  early spring gutters hasn't been cleaned out from last winter, gutters overflowing water and
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  basement And I just wonder how many people were out there thinking, oh,
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  man, I hope everything's working right because gutters start to overflow in a rain
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  like that, and say your some pump can't keep up, or you don't
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  have a some pump, or the some pump stops working, or God forbid,
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  the power goes out. People get water in their basement. So I
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  kind of want to touch on the importance of a gutter system, the importance
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  of a properly functioning gutter system that is the right size, with the proper
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  amount of downspouts and kind of what we do and how we make sure that
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  that's going to work properly for you all the time, because there's nothing worse
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  than us. It's dark out, we've got a storm coming, or it
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  is storming, it's pouring rain, and you're just thinking, oh, man,
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  I hope my gutters are working properly. You know. One of the
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  things that I've learned from you Andrew over the years is the importance of not
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  just having great gutters. Gutter shut are the best out there. Having that
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  like the part that you think of and see, but also things like the
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  downs and making sure that where they're located and attached to the to the roof
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  and how they're attached is important. And then of course that that that run
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  to get that water away from the house. It's it's obviously it all starts
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  with the gutters because they're doing the sorting, separating and catching, but everything
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  every other piece has to be top notch as well, or else the system
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  will not perform as great as it can. And that's one of the great
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  things about working with the folks your team ELERSALM Services. They know these products,
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  They know this stuff inside and out. We do. And and so
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  when we start with the gutter system, first of all, if we come
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  out to your house and do a free estimate, it's not just walk around,
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  you know, run the measuring wheel around the house and go here,
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  it's going to be X. It's a it's a full inspection. We're going
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  to inspect the gutters that you have and let you know why they might not
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  be working properly because let's take out the factor of the non clock. Okay,
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  a lot of people can put a gutter up that works, that works,
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  but it has to be flashed properly. What I mean by flash properly
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  is there has to be a piece of metal flashing that goes up under the
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  shingles and then drops down into the gutter. That can be custom made or
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  typically what a contractor is going to use is your drip edge, which with
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  your current roof system, which is great, works perfect because that water needs
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  to be able to come off the shingles. It will roll off the shingles,
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  it will roll around the shingles, I should say, kind of surface
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  tension will happen and it can actually then go behind the gutter. But if
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  it's flashed properly, it's going to go into the gutter. Next thing that
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  needs to happen is that those gutters need to have a slight slope to a
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  pitch, so as soon as the water hits the bottom of the gutter,
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  it is running the direction that we want it to go, which is towards
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  your down spout or where the exit point is in the gutter. Then we
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  need to have enough down spouts because if it rains too hard you don't have
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  enough down spouts, the gutter can become overwhelmed and it will then overflow,
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  and that's where we see real problems. Now, if it's flashed properly,
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  it's sloped properly, you've got the proper amount of down spouts. The next
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  thing that has to be looked at is the extension where it comes away from
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  the house. That has to go out far enough and make sure that it
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  hits an area of your property that has a negative or a positive grade,
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  meaning it's going away from your house, so it's not going to come out
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  and then come straight back to the house. Now, all of that has
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  to be in proper working order and they have to not be clogged. Yeah,
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  so that's where gutter shutter comes into play. We're going to take a
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  look at all of that stuff, and our trained technicians who have been installing
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  this, I say for hundreds of I have a technician who's been installing for
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  us since twenty eleven. He's installed over a million feet of gutter. He's
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  been there, done that, scene it all. So now we're going to
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  take a properly flashed gutter. We're going to make sure that the gutter is
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  sloped properly. You're going to have the proper amount of down spouts with proper
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  drainage away from your house, and we're going to use gutter shutter and we
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  guarantee it will never clog. So what do I mean by all of that
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  pure peace of mind? We can get a rain like we got Monday night.
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  There's absolutely nothing that anyone has to worry about. So that's that's peace
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  of mind. It's worth every penny that it costs. It's pretty amazing too.
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  And you talk about and for folks that don't know how deep this stuff
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  goes, hear Andrew talk about all the different areas where things all have to
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  be done absolutely right and perfectly. For people who don't know, there's actually
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  many, many more. But to do a radio show on that, it
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  would be people be like, okay, all right, we get The cool
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  thing is the guys at Larks and they know all of those points and they
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  want to do amazing things for you. Again, the best time to have
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  them out is today, and get them out as soon as possible. You
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  don't want to end up with a wet basement this spring. As we've got
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  longer springs. Clearly we're getting some some new stuff. You want to be
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  prepared for that. Nothing worse than a flooded basement causes damage not only to
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  everything around it, but everything inside your basement. You can avoid all of
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  that. Get Larsen Home Services out your home today. It's not going to
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  cost you anything. Have them inspect, take a look at your gutters,
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  take a look at your roof, take a peek in your attic as well.
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  Again, all you get is pick up phone. Gimme call six oh
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three
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  four three for Larsenalme Services that website Larsenhomes Services dot com, l A R
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  s O N Home Services dot com. Andrew, you have a fantastic day.
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  It's always great chatting with you, my friend you as well. Kevin
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