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Beware Storm Chasers with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Six thirteen ten Wui b A and ask the experts, Joined this morning by
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  mister Andrew Larson. Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services. The website
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  Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A R. S O N Home Services
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  dot Com. Telephone number six so eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  That's five three five four three four three, and Andrew, I'm guessing,
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  much like the sound of hail tapping on on rooftop, your phones are
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  making it making it, yeah, making it quite a bit of noise these
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  days. So how you been, my friend? Oh, buy this new
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  deep voice. Yes, I've got something going on. I'm not sure what
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  it is as far as you know, a little bit of sickness. But
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  that's the beauty of being able to actually do this for my home off is
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  I don't have to come into a little booth with you and compromise your health.
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  Sorry saying I should take it personally that I'm not seeing yet to day
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  in person, I'm looking out for your well being. You're good man like
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  that. Let's talk about I was going to say, maybe your horse from
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  from talking on the phone. Let's talk about what rolled through here. Earlier
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  this week. Oh my goodness, parts of Madison and east Side and north
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  of town they got pounded. I'm seeing pictures folks picking up giant hailstones and
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  putting them in a little glass with some whiskey and celebrating that way. I
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  mean, you're lucky if if that's your situation. For some not so lucky,
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  their roofs in other parts of their house suffered some damage. Yeah,
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  you know, it's it's kind of an odd time of year. It's a
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  little late for a hailstorm. But you know, what I really want to
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  talk about is, I mean in those affected areas. I mean, we've
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  got text blasts going out and email to our customers, but I mean we
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  have hundreds, if not maybe thousands of customers that we've worked done work for
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  that are in those areas and it wasn't massive hail. So what I'm really
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  coming on here to say is for people to not freak out, okay,
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  because I know that there's probably some store, actually not probably, I know
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  that there's some out of state stormchasers in town already trying to create urgency for
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  people to get signed up to get the roofs done right now, and folks,
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  unless you had shingles blow off, which with the wind we had wasn't
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  a blowoff type of wind. Relax, you know, take your time.
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  It's probably one hundred percent probably not going to get done until spring, and
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  that's not a problem. This wasn't hail where you know, we we smashed
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  right through fiberglass matting and put an automatic hole in the roof. This is
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  this is busted fiberglass matting and you're probably going to start getting some granular loss,
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  which is going to speed up the aging of your roof, which is
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  why insurance company will replace something. It's not a we need to get this
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  done asap or our roof's gonna cave in this winter. It wasn't that type
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  of hail. The biggest I saw was probably about an inch, and yeah,
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  that can definitely do some damage to a vehicle if you're driving, and
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  it can definitely do damage to a roof. But you know, take your
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  time, call a reputable local company, who's been around, who's gonna be
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  around. You know, we're actually dealing with a large condo complex right now,
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  and it's like twenty buildings, you know, a couple thousand squares of
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  shingles, and we're going to be doing some work for them. And their
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  roof was only eleven twelve years old. Oh no, they had a hailstorm
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  come through in twenty eleven and they went with the stormer and you know,
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  upon us getting up there, actually we were called out to do repair work.
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  And upon inspection of these roofs, I mean, the repair work that
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  was needed was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and it just didn't really
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  make any sense. But you know, upon inspecting this roof, like when
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  they got it done before, a lot of most of the flashings were reused,
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  pipe boots reuse, batmanvents reuse. So all of these things that were
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  reused are causing all of these leaks that they're having right now. So this
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  is why I say, heed my warning and just take a deep breath,
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  take your time. Call a reputable company. Maybe that's us, maybe that's
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  someone else who's been around, but you know, just kind of relax a
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  little bit, because this condo association did the exact same thing, and now
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  we're dealing with replacing, you know, and we're talking about major money to
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  replace roofs of this size. So but it's the exact mistake that they made
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  was was using somebody who was out of state and could get it done right
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  away. And and uh, now ten years later, they're dealing with possibly
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  replacing it all again. And the thing is is that their shingles are are
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  fine. It's interesting. One of the one of the things that I can
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  speak to personally is obviously you guys did my roof. It's been a few
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  years now. But one of the things I like is you mentioned being proactive,
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  and it was it was I think I mentioned this about a year ago.
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  You just got a postcard, uh from from you guys saying, just
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  want to check in, make sure you know you're you're still satisfied, make
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  sure everything is still great with your roof. And I thought, that is,
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  uh, that is being super proactive, because the reality is, uh,
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  people like me who absolutely love everything or probably not until until time maybe
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  to do gutters or something else, you're probably not going to hear much from
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  us. And and it's like they're being proactive just to say, yeah,
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  get some feedback in it. Again. It's been it's been a number of
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  years. But to have that that contact was was really reassuring. And let's
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  talk I mentioned the word gutters. Uh. So we talk with Andrew larsenal
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  of Larsenome Services Telle number six. So eight five three five forty three forty
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  three. That's five three five four three four three. With winter coming up
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  and other things, it's a good time to be thinking about. We talked
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  about roof, but also thinking about about gutters and of course handling the weather
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  that we've had. He mentioned things in reverse. We typically think of this
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  type of rain and other type of weather in the spring months, not so
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  much fall, and who knows what these coming weeks and months are going to
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  bring exactly. I mean, this weather's a little weird. It seems late
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  to me. But like now, like the leaves are really peaking at my
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  house, the leaves are really going to be falling. We have more rain
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  coming. You know. Obviously, if you've got great working gutters and you
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  enjoy cleaning them out, then you know, maybe we're not for you.
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  But as far as I know, cleaning out your gutters is a horrible job.
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  But see, beyond the whole cleaning factor, there's lots of companies that
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  will advertise to put a filter on or some sort of cover over your gutters,
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  so your gutters won't clog anymore. But there's more to it than that,
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  and I talk about this all the time. It's the fact that we
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  can actually re engineer your entire system with the size and the strength of gutter
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  shutter. We can eliminate certain down spots, we can change the direction we
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  want to make sure that this water is getting away from the house won't come
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  back to the house, and you never have to worry about it again.
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  So like the fact that they don't clog is just kind of an extra added
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  bonus. But us being able to re engineer the system, so it kind
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  of I mean, it almost fits the way you live and fits the way
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  you walk around your house better. That's a huge win for a lot of
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  people. So like right now, we're not Actually we've been able to stay
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  right on top of work all year, so I mean we're only a couple
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  weeks out on gutter work, so there's still plenty of time to be able
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  to get this done. So you say, hey, I don't want to
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  clean my gutters out this year. I don't want to do it ever again.
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  Give us a call. We can get this done. Don't have to
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  worry about cleaning them out this year, and you won't have to worry about
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  cleaning them out in the spring. But honestly, one of the added bonuses
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  to the gutter shutter over the other system we used to use is that we
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  don't have to flash anything. It is. It's the one and only high
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  back six inch gutter, so we actually can use the current drip edge on
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  your roof, whereas nothing has to go up underneath the shingles, so we
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  can actually install all winter long. We don't have to worry about messing with
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  your roof, which we did before. Now it's it's completely non obtrusive system
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  that attaches all of the facial board. Nothing messes with the roof whatsoever,
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  so we don't have to have to stop putting it up. Actually, whereas
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  before we had to stop in the middle of the winter with two cold shingles
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  were frozen and we could do more damage than good. Not the case anymore.
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  It's pretty amazing. As we talk about the gutter shutter, and we
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  talk about the system, and again you mentioned working year round, so as
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  we dread and think about falling leaves and and and what's what's coming and what's
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  going on right now? Think about never having to worry about clog gutters again
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  and they can get the job done again, working year round. Larsen Home
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  Services. They love to talk to the auguidors pick up phone Gameme call six
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  oh eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four
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  three four three questions about your roof. Andrew and the team also love to
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  chat with you again the telephone number six oh eight five three five forty three
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  forty three. Online Larsenholmeservices dot com. That's l A R. S o
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  N Home Services dot com. Andrew, It's always great chatting with you,
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  my friend. You enjoy this beautiful day. All right, we'll talk next
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  week. I hope you're feeling better soon. And again that website Larsenhome Services
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  dot com. Kevin haam Hamsarbercare comes your way next right here thirteen ten wu ib a