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Water, Roofs and Vinyl Siding with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Eight oh seven thirteen ten WIBA Madison in the morning. We're going to be
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  joined by Andrew Larson from Larstome Services in just a moment. Got all sorts
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  of traffic issues downtown. Got a bunch of fire trucks on the block Broome
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  Street, Gorham and Johnson Street that is causing delays in that area as well
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  as on John Nolan. So just heads up on that. We'll keep you
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  posted on that and so much more. Speaking of people that keep us posted
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  on things, Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services. You can always email Andrew
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  wi BA at Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's Wi b A at larsenome Services dot
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  com. Speaking of the website, it's web it's that it's Larsenomeservices dot com
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  com. Easy to remember l A R S O N Home Services dot Com.
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  Telephone number six so eight five three five forty three forty three. That's
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  five three five four three four three. Andrew, Are you staying dry this
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  morning? You know it's sprinkled a little bit, Yeah, but you know,
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  looking at the forecast on Sunday was like it's going to rain all week.
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  I was messaging my Jeremy, our roofing manager. I was like,
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  hey, what's our plan. I know, we had like a dozen roofs
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  out for the week. And it's funny because my people know me and they
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  know that sometimes I can get a little worked up. You They're just like,
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  hey, just relax, we got this. This is what we do,
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  and and of course they do. They already had a plan. My
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  roofing manager probably reads the weather better than a meteorologist and he's like, good,
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  we're good Monday, Tuesday. It's going to rain maybe in the morning
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  on Wednesday, but we'll work around it. And we've got Saturday open.
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  And I'm like, you know what, I don't even know why I'm asking
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  you. You know, I used to be in charge of so much stuff,
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  and you know, as the years have gone and we've grown, I've
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  put the right people in the right places and they run with it. And
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  you know, that's our customers and potential customers are very very fortunate. I'm
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  very fortunate that they're going to get to deal with with the people that they
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  do because they're absolute experts and professionals and what we do. So, yeah,
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  we're staying dry, We're getting roofs done. We're helping people out.
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  But rain's good. But we've had a lot this year, right, it's
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  kind of nice drying out a little bit. We've had our fair share and
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  we're gonna real quick in a moment, going to get to a question you
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  received about about signing. But one thing too, when you talk about roofs,
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  as I've mentioned, you guys did our roof at the Prebowl estate a
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  number of years ago, and it looks absolutely fantastic. And as we look
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  at you talking about kind of that forecast, one of the things and I'll
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  mention this again. I know I probably brought it up a dozen times,
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  but it's important to mention one of the very impressive things about with the roofs
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  with large storme services and having the work done, and what you guys are
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  able to do is they work so dang fast. That was just like amazing
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  to me that they got out to our house early in the morning, started
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  their work and by lunchtime. By lunchtime, the roof was completed. And
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  you couldn't tell other than the fact that there was a brand new roof on
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  our house, that anything had happened at our house during the day. It's
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  amazing, and you talk about the weather forecast those kinds of things. Gosh,
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  you don't want to leave obviously, a roof exposed to the elements.
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  And one of the great things about the work that you guys do at our
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  Stom Services is as a homeowner, you don't have to worry about that just
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  because of one you mentioned how your guys are as good as, if not
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  better than, the meteorologists when it comes to forecasting. But two, they
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  don't need a huge window, they don't need a twenty four hour period to
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  complete the job. No, we actually deal with that quite often. We'll
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  have roof scheduled and you know, of course, as any homeowner, if
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  I've got if I'm scheduled to get my roof done and I'm looking at the
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  weather. Yeah, look, everybody looks at weather apps, correct, I
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  mean that's you know, I like watching the weather on the news to but
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  we all can look into weather app and unfortunately, if you look at an
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  extended forecast, it'll just show no rain, no rain, rain, rain,
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  rain, rain, rain, But that doesn't tell us how much or
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  at what time. If it says it's going to rain today, it could
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  be at from one to four o'clock in the morning, right like, that's
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  when it could say rain for today. So we're watching that very carefully and
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  we'll get homeowners it'll call in, you know, might have a Wednesday or
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  Thursday install. They'll call on a Monday and say, hey, I need
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  to reschedule. It says it's going to rain. And we just like to
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  put people's minds at ease and say we're gonna watch the weather. If we
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  cancel the roof every time the weather app said it was going to rain,
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  we would get nothing done. So we're very good at working around it because
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  the fact of the matter is is that our roofing crews are the best and
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  most efficient crews out there. And I mean if you've got an average size
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  house, an average size house for us is roughly twenty to twenty five square
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  roof. Yeah, we're done before launch. It is absolutely no way around
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  it. It is absolutely amazing what they're able to do at Larson Home Services.
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  And again, whether you're thinking roofing, you're thinking say you're thinking,
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  we're gonna talk siding in just a moment thinking roofing, thinking gutters, and
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  of course with the rain we've got that water needs to go somewhere. It
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  comes off your your beautiful lars and roof that you had installed. You want
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  to get those into those gutters and get the gutter shutter and the stuff filtered
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  out in the water away from the house. Everybody's happy. I mentioned one
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  of the ways that folks can reach out to the show if they've got a
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  question. Andrew. I know you've got a number of years and we'll just
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  leave it at that. We don't want to age you or anything, but
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  you've been in home remodeling, home construction, home updating for a number of
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  years and a lot of expertise, and if folks want to kind of work
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  twenty wow, yeah, twenty four. So I've been doing this since I
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  was six. We're going with it. You could always pick Andrew's brain.
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  Just send him an email WIBA at Larson Home Services dot com. Some of
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  your questions maybe read and talked about here on the air, and you received
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  a question about siding, Andrew, and this is one of those areas where
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  I know you've worked with a number of different folks and had a lot of
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  great experiences, and you've probably seen some things that are not so great when
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  it comes to siding, what's this question about? And how do you help
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  folks out? So it wasn't a question about types of siding or siding installation,
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  but actually worked really well into what we do. It was a question
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  about a roof leak, and that they had the person that put the roof
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  on come out and take a look, and the roofing contractor said it was
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  a siding issue, and so they reached out to me and that was the
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  question, like, hey, can this be a Can a leak be part
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  of a siding issue? And it's a loaded question. It takes some investigation,
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  but yes, it absolutely can. Siding, windows, siding, I
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  mean we're going to get deep here. Sean's windows, siding and roofs They
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  honestly, they all work together. Anywhere that you have a second story with
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  roof edges or anything that hangs out from that, which a lot of people
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  do. The siding flat, the siding, the siding flashing, and windows
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  and window flashing all have to work in conjunction because a roof can only stop,
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  roof can only get water on top of it down to the ground if
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  it if it starts on top of the roof. Wow, that was confusing.
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  Here's what was happening on that if we actually went out to that house
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  and did an inspection, and what we found was that where some siding flashing
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  had tied into a window, it was actually getting underneath some siding flashing before
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  it got down to the roof. So water was constantly if they had any
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  wind blown rain, because that was one of our questions was does it leak
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  every time it rains or is it during a certain time, is it during
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  a certain type of direction of wind or something like that, because that's gonna
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  tell us a lot if you say, yeah, when it's blowing from the
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  east and it's hitting this side of the house, we get water. We
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  get water leaking through this spot right here. Well perfect, Now I can
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  start to look around, look around certain areas, and one key area I
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  will always look as windows, because if windows aren't flashed properly and they allow
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  the water to get channeled behind the siding, it can definitely get underneath the
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  roof if a couple things aren't done right. House wrap house wrap behind siding
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  is a waterproofer, especially if we take like vinyl siding for instance, which
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  this house had on it. Vinyl siding is going to keep a lot of
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  water out, but it's not meant to be a waterproofing siding. Water can
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  get behind it. So if anybody has vinyl siding, if you go and
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  you kind of look at the bottom of your siding, there's actually little slits,
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  there's weep holes, and that's so if water or not. If when
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  water gets it's behind it, the water can weep out. It also acts
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  as ventilation. It will allow it to dry out. So water getting behind
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  vinyl siding is completely normal. That's why we put a house wrap on and
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  the most common. There's many brands, but everybody probably says, you know
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  my Tievek house rap, DuPont Tieveck house wrap. They're kind of the people
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  that made it famous. Now there's lots of different brands and styles, but
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  that's one of them, and that Tievec has to be put on properly.
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  It also has to be flashed properly and the seams have to be taped properly.
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  That way, when water does get behind the siding from wind blown rain,
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  it's able to be channeled out the bottom of the siding or out the
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  wheepholes without getting underneath the roof. Because if it gets underneath the house wrap.
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  It will actually be channeled or can be channeled right underneath the siding.
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  That's also a reason why we usually take if possible, it's not possible all
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  the time to pull people siding off, but whenever possible, we're going to
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  pull siding off and do the proper step flashing, do proper roof to wall
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  flashing and side flashing. That's a lot of flashing shows. I always say
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  we need proper flashing. It's super important. But there's many different kinds,
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  many different styles, and many different applications for different parts of the home.
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  But those are the only ways we can ensure. So the question about siding
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  was really, can my roof be looking like it's leaking because actually the siding's
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  not done right? Question? The answer is yes, and on this particular
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  home, that's exactly what happened. We had to pull vinyl siding off.
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  Again. We don't we're not a siding contractor, but we know how to
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  do this stuff because we roof, pull some siding off, tape some seams
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  better, and make some better window flashing, put the siding back on.
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  I haven't heard of them having an issue again yet, and we have had
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  a couple big rains. So that was a siding question. It wasn't about
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  brand or anything like that. That's a whole nother segment. But this really
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  kind of led into what we do when it comes to roof restores, because
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  this roof they had on was quite new and the contractor that did it really
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  did a great job. There was just some issues from before and it's kind
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  of too bad for the homeowner because I don't know what. I don't know
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  what their roof looked like a couple of years ago. But the reason they
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  had the roof replaced was because they thought the roof was leaking, and it
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  wasn't really the roof. It was actually poor tape and flashing around a window.
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  It's interesting to Andrew and when you mentioned this stuff. I know,
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  when we talk about, you know, the work that you guys do at
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  large and home services, you often talk about systems. Is it's more than
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  just one piece. It's it's different pieces working together as a complete system.
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  And this is you're kind of answering this siding question that you received, is
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  it shows that not only are things like roofs and siding and windows and all
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  that stuff, each individual systems they all have to work together, and having
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  somebody and having teams with the proper expertise to diagnose those issues is a really,
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  really big thing in understanding how those all those different pieces work together to
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  make sure that it's keeping your house not only looking great, but also performing
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  well as well. And that's a great thing about working with Andrew and the
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  team at Larsen Home Services and using their expertise. You can learn more online
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  the website Larsen Home Services dot com. That's l A R. S O
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  N Home Services dot com. Their telephone number six oh eight five three five
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  forty three forty three. That's five three five four three four three Andrew,
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  it's always great chatting with you. With you, my friend, I can
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  speak this morning. You have a fantastic Dan. We'll talk real soon.
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  I will see you and again that website Larsen Home Services dot com. Kevin
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