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Fall To Do List with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight seven thirteen ten WIBA and Ask the Experts. Hanging
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  Speaker 1: out this morning with Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services
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  Speaker 1: the website Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A R
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  Speaker 1: S O N Home Services dot com. Tell phone number
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  Speaker 1: six so eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's five three five forty three forty three. And Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking over a list of the important fall
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  Speaker 1: maintenance procedures for homeowners this time of year. Replace furnace filters,
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  Speaker 1: drain outdoor faucets, clean chimneys, repair driveways. Coming in at
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  Speaker 1: number two seal any air leaks, and at number one
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  Speaker 1: was clean gutters. And I think we're going to hit
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  Speaker 1: those two top ones absolutely for sure this morning. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, my friend?
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  Speaker 2: We might be looking at we might be looking at
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  Speaker 2: the same list maybe except the list a list that
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you. I'm not trying to make it
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  Speaker 2: sound like the stuff we do at Larsenhome Services is
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  Speaker 2: a big deal, but I mean, according to this list,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of a big deal. Number one, clean your gutters.
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  Speaker 2: Number two clean clean your down spouts. Oh, number three,
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  Speaker 2: rake leaves. I like that one. You gott to rake
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  Speaker 2: the leaves because if you don't, I've done it before.
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  Speaker 2: The snow melts in the spring, it turns to dirt.
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  Speaker 2: It's nasty. Rake the leaves. Number four, inspect your roof. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Number six seal air leaks. And honestly, a very important
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  Speaker 2: one is change your furnace filter. A lot of us
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  Speaker 2: probably don't do that that often, but I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: really made me think of it. This morning. I woke
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  Speaker 2: up and I have a few of a little a
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  Speaker 2: little pond from my house, and there's like steam coming
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  Speaker 2: off of it looks like steam obviously because it's getting
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  Speaker 2: colder out. The leaves are starting to turn color. The
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  Speaker 2: Badgers are playing, the Packers are playing. It is fall,
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  Speaker 2: and we know fall is amazing in Wisconsin and it's
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  Speaker 2: beautiful and I absolutely love it. I hate what comes
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  Speaker 2: after it, but it is what it is, right like,
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  Speaker 2: we've all learned to endure it. But there are some
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  Speaker 2: very important things that we need to do. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean we sell maintenance free gutters every single day. And
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  Speaker 2: listen if I google the most important fall maintenance things
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  Speaker 2: to do, and Google tells me that clean your gutters
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  Speaker 2: are the number one thing. That obviously means that it's
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  Speaker 2: very important because we all just live in the world
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  Speaker 2: that Google has created. Yes, we get our information and
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  Speaker 2: everything from there. But no, but in all seriousness, if
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  Speaker 2: we don't clean gutters in the winter and we don't
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  Speaker 2: make sure that our down spouts are free and clear
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  Speaker 2: for water to flow away from the house, I talk
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  Speaker 2: about this all the time. That is when people end
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  Speaker 2: up having an absolute disaster in the spring because the
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  Speaker 2: gutters fill up, they clog up, then they fill up
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  Speaker 2: with snow, then the snow melts, then they freeze, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got it. You've basically got a chunk of ice
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  Speaker 2: with leaves in it and dirt and sticks. And when
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  Speaker 2: that stuff starts melting in the spring, and heaven for
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  Speaker 2: bid we have one of those early rains. I mean, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: we had thunderstorms at the end of February last Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know that was super od, But heaven forbid we
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  Speaker 2: get one of those early rains and your gutters are
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  Speaker 2: full of are full of leaves, frozen leaves and sticks.
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  Speaker 2: That's when we have problems because what else is frozen
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  Speaker 2: the ground around the basement. And when the ground around
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  Speaker 2: the basement is frozen, that water can't soak in and
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  Speaker 2: if it's overflowing right next to your house and you
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  Speaker 2: have any sort of negative grade. And by negative grade,
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  Speaker 2: I mean when that water hits the ground, if it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't run away, it's going to go next to your foundation.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when I always say this, but water will
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  Speaker 2: take the path of least resistance. It will find its
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  Speaker 2: way in. And that's when people will find wet spots.
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  Speaker 2: And even if they don't find wet spots, you'll start
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  Speaker 2: to smell musty, moldy air. And that's when we know
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  Speaker 2: we have a problem. Because a lot of people in
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin take the opportunity to finish their basements. It's an
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  Speaker 2: inexpensive way to have more living space. And and and
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  Speaker 2: so they get finished, and we get we get mold,
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  Speaker 2: and we get mildew, and you can smell it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's all because we might not have cleaned our gutters. Yeah, Sean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a big deal. And and and and
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that this list actually says gutter
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  Speaker 2: down spouts. That's like another category because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times you might clean those gutters. But if you don't,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't look or take off, we call it
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  Speaker 2: a goose neck that's the very top part of the
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  Speaker 2: down spout where it attaches to the gutter and it
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  Speaker 2: has a bend, another bend, and then comes down the house.
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  Speaker 2: We call it a goose neck. But if you're not
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  Speaker 2: cleaning that out or you don't know that that's clean,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if your gutters are clean, because they're
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  Speaker 2: going to get to there and they're going to overflow anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: So uh and sometimes that can actually be a worse
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  Speaker 2: situation because now it's all overflowing in one spot instead
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  Speaker 2: of continuously across the whole gutter. So cleaning your gutters
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  Speaker 2: and down spouts is extremely important. And that's why, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we talk about this every single day, but especially in
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  Speaker 2: the fall before winter comes. It's something that really needs
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  Speaker 2: to get done.
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  Speaker 1: I know, one of the things that's important to you, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: is offering solutions and finding ways to avoid these problems.
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  Speaker 1: So we talk about you know, the reason why we're
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  Speaker 1: doing these things in fall. As you point out, spring
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  Speaker 1: can be a horrible, horrible time if things aren't done properly.
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  Speaker 1: We don't prepare properly. Winter can be terrible if you
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  Speaker 1: don't prepare things properly as well. And I know something
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  Speaker 1: gets really important to you, and the team at Largsalm
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  Speaker 1: Services is offering up solutions to prevent these problems. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk first, off's talk a little bit about gutter shutter
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  Speaker 1: and what makes it so phenomenal and why folks that
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  Speaker 1: have gutter shutter can already check that check that number
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  Speaker 1: one thing right off their list without having to lift
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  Speaker 1: a finger other than pick up the pen and make
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  Speaker 1: the little mark.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely you know so, I mean, obviously I have gutter
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  Speaker 2: shutter on my house. We sell gutter shutter, we install
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  Speaker 2: gutter shutter. I think it is. I think it is
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  Speaker 2: the best product out there. And one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: I really have proof that it is is because we
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  Speaker 2: all know. For me doing the show for so many years,
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  Speaker 2: is that I used to have a different dealership and
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  Speaker 2: I was forced to give that back. It is what
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  Speaker 2: it is. But I can talk to every one of
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  Speaker 2: my installers and every one of my managers. Our service
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  Speaker 2: calls are down by eighty percent with gutter shut My
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  Speaker 2: installers love installing it more. And there's a couple major
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  Speaker 2: reasons why. First of all, the services because it's bigger
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  Speaker 2: and it can handle more water. How much rain did
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  Speaker 2: you get this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I think our neighbor actually almost five inches of rain
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, which is just staggering to think about.
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  Speaker 2: It, and I had four and a half. I know
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  Speaker 2: other products aren't going to handle that type of rain.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't. And when we come to houses that
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  Speaker 2: might have forty fifty sixty seventy foot runs and we
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  Speaker 2: know that we can go with one down spot on
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  Speaker 2: one end and we know it's going to handle it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a huge piece of mind. Other products
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  Speaker 2: just aren't big enough. Another major reason why it is
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  Speaker 2: the best product out there is that it does not
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  Speaker 2: have to nothing has to go underneath the shingles. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have to create any flashing. The nothing goes underneath
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  Speaker 2: the shingles, so we're not compromising the roof at all.
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  Speaker 2: We're not messing with the shingles at all. And being
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  Speaker 2: a master elite roofer, we knew that was a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: And with the other product that we used to sell,
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  Speaker 2: we had to put a flashing up under the roof
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  Speaker 2: in order for the water to not go behind the gutter,
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  Speaker 2: and that's not always the best thing for a home.
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  Speaker 2: So it is the biggest, strongest maintenance free gutter on
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  Speaker 2: the market, And honestly, I would say the best thing
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  Speaker 2: about it is the fact that Larson Home Services puts
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  Speaker 2: it up and I have my installers have millions of
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  Speaker 2: feet of experience, and I'm not twisting that they legitimately
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  Speaker 2: have millions of feet of experience. They have installed millions
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  Speaker 2: of feet of gutters. So when it comes to a
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  Speaker 2: rotten facierboard or an angle faci aboard or and you know,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty year old home with cove with
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  Speaker 2: cove facial on it, there's a lot of contractors that
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  Speaker 2: will walk away from that, or they'll try to hang
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  Speaker 2: it from the roof. We don't. We can alter your facia,
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  Speaker 2: we can wrap it, we can make a maintenance free.
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  Speaker 2: I just know that we have the best product with
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  Speaker 2: the best installers, and we guarantee it. You know, anything's
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  Speaker 2: ever wrong with it, you call us clogging, leaking, overflowing,
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  Speaker 2: we take care of it no matter what. So that's
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  Speaker 2: peace of mind. And my our sales reps will tell
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  Speaker 2: that to me every day. They're like, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: love being able to sell a product that I know,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what happens, we're going to take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can feel good, feel good about that you
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  Speaker 1: and the team feel obviously feel really good that you're
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  Speaker 1: helping people, and also knowing that that it's not something
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  Speaker 1: that's good that once you guys leave, it's it's no
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  Speaker 1: longer you know, it's it's not your problem. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things too, And I'll point this out as as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned you guys did my roof a number of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I remember getting a follow up letter from
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  Speaker 1: you asking how like literally proactively asking how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you satisfied? Any concerns? Here's our number. If you
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  Speaker 1: have any questions, give us a call. And I know
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  Speaker 1: Greg your dad. He gets out, does inspections, drives around,
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  Speaker 1: checks out houses to make sure everything's good, and proactively
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  Speaker 1: seek out feedback. Is you know, obviously folks if they've
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  Speaker 1: got an issue, a significant issue, they'll contact somebody, but
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  Speaker 1: but literally going out there to say, well, how are
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  Speaker 1: you satisfied? How are they holding up? And then having
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  Speaker 1: that expert I come out look and say how that is?
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  Speaker 1: And that is something you don't you don't get anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the great things about working with Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: What's THATPP? Well, I was going to say that. That's
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  Speaker 2: so for me, that's one of the biggest things. My
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  Speaker 2: dad was just telling me the other day. He called.
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  Speaker 2: He called someone we had just we'd just done got
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  Speaker 2: done installing their entire house. The five star Google review
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  Speaker 2: called the office told how great the installers were, and
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  Speaker 2: my dad followed up with him and said, Hey, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to schedule your inspection. I'm going to come out
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  Speaker 2: and check it out. And the guy was like why,
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  Speaker 2: he said, because I want to inspect it. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing to inspect. They did a phenomenal job. It
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  Speaker 2: looks beautiful at rain. Everything's great, he goes, But what
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  Speaker 2: they have to understand is that we hold our installers
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  Speaker 2: to a very high standard. I mean so much as
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  Speaker 2: screw placement on the downspouts, are they spaced right? Are
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  Speaker 2: there enough? He goes and looks for things that a
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  Speaker 2: homeowner would never notice, because a homeowner looks at it
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  Speaker 2: from a ten thousand foot view. He looks at it
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  Speaker 2: from a one foot view. And that's what he has
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  Speaker 2: to explain to people is that we have we have
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  Speaker 2: a very high standard. This is how we're trained, this
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  Speaker 2: is how they're taught to do it, and if something's off,
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  Speaker 2: we want to catch it before you do or before
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  Speaker 2: it's ever a problem. And I think he said some
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  Speaker 2: like four letter words because he was like dumbfounded. I
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  Speaker 2: can't say him on the radio thing, but he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, are you kidding me? You guys were amazing,
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  Speaker 2: The installers were amazing, the sales reps were amazing. The
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  Speaker 2: office followed up, and now you want to come look
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  Speaker 2: at it? He said, sure, come on out whenever you want.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the type of reaction I want to get, like,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to do that, but we want to
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  Speaker 2: do that because we want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: installing it to the best standards. And the only standards
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  Speaker 2: are guys know. And if it's wrong, we go back
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  Speaker 2: and take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: So and you put your name right the way I
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  Speaker 1: know how to do it. Put your name right on
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  Speaker 1: the trucks. And I see him around once in a
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  Speaker 1: while or so often. I'll send you a picture of
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  Speaker 1: and I see a truck. I saw it. Guys just
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  Speaker 1: had down the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I saw there was one on the
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  Speaker 2: high I'm just glad you weren't telling me. They were
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  Speaker 2: driving like a Jersey. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: No, they were. They were doing fantastic. They were, they were,
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  Speaker 1: they were visiting with with the resident. And then they
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  Speaker 1: they they were they had just left and I just
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  Speaker 1: turned and I get calls from, Hey, your buddy's in town,
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  Speaker 1: and so I drive and they like they like pulled over,
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  Speaker 1: like I think they thought I was stalking them, and
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping that they would stay stopped. Is by
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  Speaker 1: by the time I got up to them, they had
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  Speaker 1: they had moved on, and I'm like, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say hi. But anyway, that's a cool thing is obviously
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  Speaker 1: you put your name, you put your backing, and people
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  Speaker 1: know you you've been working here in town doing great
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  Speaker 1: work for a very very long time. That's a great
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  Speaker 1: thing to talk about longevity. When it comes to your home.
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  Speaker 1: You want to make sure that you're working with someone
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  Speaker 1: that stand behind stands behind the work that they do,
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  Speaker 1: that has phenomenal warranties. That's what you get with Larsenalme Services.
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  Speaker 1: Today is the day. Give them a call six oh
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  Speaker 1: eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three,
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  Speaker 1: five forty three forty three at a listener call and
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  Speaker 1: say don't forget to clean your gutters. After the leaves fall.
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  Speaker 1: Good advice there as well. Even better, call Larsenalme Services.
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  Speaker 1: Get gutter, shutter and installed in your home and never
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it, whether before, after, during, not
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  Speaker 1: your prov It's done, it's taken care of. All you
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  Speaker 1: got is give them call six o eight five three
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  Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. That's five three five four
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  Speaker 1: three four three Andrew, it's always too much fun hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with my friend. You enjoyed this great day, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk next week. Join next my Kevin ham Ham's
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