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Stay Warm with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Ayba Madison in the morning and ask the experts. Joined this morning by Andrew
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  Larson. Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services Online. Larsen Homes Services
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  dot com. That's l A R. S O N Home Services dot Com.
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  Tell phone number six O eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  That's five three five four three four three. Andrew, how are you doing
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  this morning? I'm staying warm. We haven't had to talk about that yet,
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  and all of a sudden it got cold and I'm like, I'm not
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  ready for this. It's not a good feeling, is it. It's it's
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  no good at all, real quick before we're going to talk about doctor Energy
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  Saver and the great things you guys can do at Larst Home Services. Does
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  your does gregor or your mom ever call you Andy? Does anyone ever call
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  you Andy? Because you don't look like an Andy at all? Like it
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  seems like Andrew my whole life, Are you serious? Growing up? That's
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  all my friends know me really And yeah, and it goes way back in
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  my career working for Linda's Construction and where I got my start and their son
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  now CEO, one of the owners of their great company. His name is
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  Andy Lindis, and I got sick of people yelling Andy and being like what
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  I just like at that point, it's like, all right, it's Andrew,
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  and I won't respond to Andy. So that's interesting. You look but
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  you like you don't. I'll be honest. You don't look like you look
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  like an Andrew. And maybe it's just because that's how I've always known you,
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  but like, like, I just I'm like, I don't know why
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  it even popped in my head this morning. I'm like, he doesn't even
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  look like like I like that, And it's always great chatting with you.
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  As of course. Andrew comes to us from Larsenal Home Services the West site
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  Larsen Home Services dot com, l A R s O N Home Services dot
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  Com. I call much you like, but it's an important time of year
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  to call Andrew and the team in Larsnome Services because of that weather. And
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  I feel like one of the slogans that any that you guys need to implement
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  at Larstome Services and any homeowner could appreciate as something like we make addicts beautiful
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  because you guys do amazing work. Let's talk about doctor Energy Saver, about
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  the process but also we talk about the before and after of an attict.
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  People say, what does it matter? It makes a huge difference. Let's
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  talk about doctor Energy Saver Andrew. It makes a huge difference. And the
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  one thing I wanted to talk about today, one thing that can sum help
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  some up everything that we do to help someone's home in the winter months is
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  stack effect. And if you're you know, if you're listening, look it
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  up, Google it, you know, see what it's all about. I
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  mean, basic principles of pretty much everybody knows. Hot air rises. You
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  can see that from a hot air balloon. You blow hot air into it,
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  and a balloon rises and it takes people up in it. Now,
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  your home is screwed down to the ground while it's cemented, nailed, screwed,
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  bolted down to the ground, thankfully, so when you heat it up,
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  it doesn't float away. But one of the main reasons as well is
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  because most people's homes are leaky. And what we know it through home science
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  is that probably, I would say probably starting twenty years ago, even earlier
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  anything before that, homes weren't air sealed like they are now. They didn't
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  air seal penetrations. You know, basically all your all of your electrical wiring
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  that goes through your house. All those wires come through the attic and they
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  drop for the most part, but most of the time a lot of them
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  come through attics. They drop down the wall and it's a clear cut hole
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  that goes straight up, straight up to the ceiling, straight up through your
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  top plates. We lose tons of heat through through can lights. Can lights
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  are super popular, but I mean, honestly, it's like a gallon ice
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  cream pail hole cut in your ceiling. And they're typically not air sealed.
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  They're typically not insulated very well. We've seen them where there's no insulation around
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  them whatsoever. Even though most of them are rated to have the insulation around
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  them, they're not going to get that hot anymore because we use typically LEDs.
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  But they're giant holes, and when you add up all the holes in
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  a home, it creates one massive hole. And you know, I was
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  learning home science quite a few years ago, and I went to a training
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  where we did something called a blower door test, and it's a big fan
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  that you hook up to your door, and it basically it exacerbates the leakiness
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  of your home. So it pulls air through your home, and the more
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  resistance obviously, the less leaky your homes. So what was kind of neat
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  is we took some readings on a home. We found out what their levels
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  were, and then we went in and we did all of our air ceiling
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  and reinsulating, and then we turned that blower fan back on, and the
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  new readings were they were off the charts. It was like forty percent different.
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  So then we wanted to do a test. What is it going to
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  take to get this home back to where it was now? Mind you,
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  all we did was air seal the attic and add insulation. We had to
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  open two windows in their home completely open to get their home back to as
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  leaky as it was before. Now, nobody would ever leave two windows completely
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  open all winter long, correct, correct soon unless you unless your blood runs
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  really warm, nobody would ever do that. But that showed exactly how all
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  of those holes in the attic ceiling added up to being having two windows open
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  all the time, three hundred and sixty five days a year. That's insane,
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  right, and never do That's just how it was, and that's unseen
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  to people. And so that's kind of where I was visually to visualize that.
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  It makes a lot of sense. You take all of those electrical holes,
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  all the plumbing holes, all of your can lights, it's it creates
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  one massive hole. And for this home that we worked on, and honestly,
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  that home really wasn't even bad. The readings weren't terrible, but we
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  had to open two windows completely to get it back to as leaky as it
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  was before. So when we come into a home, and that's that's what
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  we're looking for. We're getting up in the attic. You know, we're
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  finding all the penetrations and we want to take that attic down to bare bones.
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  We want to get in there with a clean slate. We want to
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  air seal up all of those holes so you don't have two windows open all
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  winter long. And then, like you say, make that attic beautiful by
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  putting seventeen inches of beautiful cellulose insulation over the top of it. And now
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  our air leaks are gone, and our home has a beautiful blanket in the
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  attic. And I guess that's how I imagine it, putting a blanket in
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  there. So did I explain it? While I think you did? It
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  did a great job. And the illustration of and pointing out, you know,
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  real world examples of kind of people sometimes wonder about, well, what's
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  the equivalent? Okay, so if there is cold are getting in getting into
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  my house? What is you know, what does that look like? When
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  you illustrate, you're literally it's like having two windows open. I think we
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  can all really quickly visualize that's not good. And of course Andrew can help
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  you deal with that issue and get rid of that problem. Reduce the wear
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  and tear on your furnace, make your house overall completely more comfortable. You
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  won't have cold spots. Hotspots will be consistently comfortable again, wear and tear
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  on the furnace, comfortable home, save money, save significant money on your
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  energy bills. It's a phenomenal thing they can do with doctor Energy Saver at
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  Larsen Home Services. Today is a day to pick up phone, give them
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  a call six oh eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five
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  three, five four three four to three for Larsen Home Services. And Andrew,
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  were that term that I learned from you and uh kind of look in
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  the other direction of your home. It's the word rim joice and I had
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  never thought of a rim joye before and then you had said something to me.
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  And now if I'm ever at like a buddy's house, helping them move
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  things out of the basement, I'm looking at something that I noticed. And
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  this is why I carry around your information. Is a lot of them have
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  what looks like moldy moldy insulation wedged in that little crack there. What is
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  the rim joye and why is it important when it comes to stealing up your
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  home? Yes, thank you, I'm glad that you go around looking at
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  rim choices. Now like I driver, I look at rim joy's drive around,
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  I look at brooks, I look at like this is it's it's a
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  sickness and I've got infected with it's clearly contagious. Yeah. Rim joice is
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  basically a technical term for the area created where we set our floor choice on
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  top of our block foundation. Everybody has it. We we create a foundation,
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  either on a block or out of poured concrete, and then we put
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  floor joys on top of it. Those floor joys are basically carry the load,
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  carry the weight of the entire home on them. What creates little crevices
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  above the blocks and my whole life and really all I had ever seen.
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  Was some people stuff that pink insulation in there. Why, well, they
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  thought that it helped because it's a very leaky spot in the home, and
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  as warm air leaves our house through all of the holes in the attic the
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  home, it's it's not a vacuum, right, it has to take air
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  in. So it's typically pulling air from the lowest spot, the leakiest spot
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  of the home, and that tends to be the rim Joye area. It's
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  literally there's typically there's no insulation there. There's not a wall there, you
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  know. And the rest of our home we've got walls sitting on top of
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  a floor. They're studded, they're insulated, they're bapor barrier, their sheet
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  rock, they're all of this stuff. That area is kind of a forgotten
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  area. That's why we spray foam that area a lot, because that's the
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  area that tends to suck in during the winter. As the warm air rises
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  and leaves the home, it sucks in the cold air from down below,
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  the cold, dry air, which is a really big deal. In my
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  family, I have two daughters that for some reason are very prone to nose
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  bleeds. Oh no, it's like I have a seven year old. If
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  she gets a nose bleed, it's like I don't know, going to the
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  sink and getting a drink of water, like your nose is just running,
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  and he's like, oh, I got a nose bleed, I better go
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  plug it. She's seven, so she's used to it. So the dry
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  air makes it way worse. So we keep the cold, dry air out
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  by sealing up those rim joises. And when you seal up the top and
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  you seal up the area where it brings the cold air in, the cold
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  dry air. And obviously you can't seal it up one hundred percent, nor
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  do you want to. Your home has to breathe. But slowing it down,
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  slowing those air exchanges down is what makes our home more comfortable, makes
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  our home less drafty, and ultimately saves us money on heating and cooling bills
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  all year long. So that is what we do. That is something that
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  we absolutely specialize in. And I want to throw this out on the show.
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  For the new year, we're running a special. You know, hey,
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  twenty twenty four is right around the corner, So we're offering twenty four
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  percent off insallation labor and in our area in our zone of the world,
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  the Energy Council says that your home should be at an R forty seven.
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  In the attic. We typically never go to an R forty seven. We
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  always go to an R sixty because it's only like three more inches and it
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  makes it can make a world of difference. So twenty four percent off insulation
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  labor and a free upgrade to our sixty insulation when we do when we do
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  a remove an air seal. So it's a really good deal and it's gonna
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  make your home more comfortable and it's going to save you money in the long
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  run. That is amazing. Today is definitely the day to call Larsen Home
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  Services. Talk with Andrew and the team. They'd love to talk with you,
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  take a look at your house's performance. All I got to do with
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  doctor and your savor is give them a call six eight five three five forty
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  three forty three. That's five three five four three four to three. An
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  amazing special, twenty four percent off installation labor with that R sixty with Larsen
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  Home Services. Today is today, pickup phone, give them a call.
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  Now we've had a little taste of the chilled past. Couple of days.
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  As we know, it's going to get much much colder and for much much
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  longer, so it's kind of a teaser. Honestly. It got cold and
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  windy and it was like this is nasty, and you know now it's going
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  to be back up in the forties today, which is nice. But it
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  was kind of like, Okay, this is what's coming. And honestly,
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  it wasn't even that cold. I mean, in January, if it's twenty
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  four degrees, we're gonna be like, hey, this is pretty nice.
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  Yeah, exactly. That's the sickness we live with. And sure, and
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  when you're in you want to be comfortable, and that's what Andrew and the
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  team at Larsonal Services will do for you. They'll save you money on energy
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  bills and make your house comfortable. All I get to do is give them
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  a call six waits five three five forty three forty three. That's five three,
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  five forty three forty three. Don't forget about that special twenty four percent
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  off installation labor with Larstorm Services. With that our sixty installation phenomenal stuff.
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  Andrew, you enjoyed the day of my friend, and we'll talk real soon.
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  Sounds good. We'll see Kevin ham Hams. Aarbacare comes you way next
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  year. On thirteen ten Wiba