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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Eight oh five, thirteen ten, wib A and ESK the experts.
Joining us this morning is the one and only mister
Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services. Now there's probably the other.
We discussed this before. There's other Andrew Larson's out there.
But there's one at Larsen Home Services and that is
our good buddy Andrew Larson. The website larsenome Services dot com.
That's l A R. S O N Home Services dot com.
(00:26):
Tellphe number six. So eight five three five forty three
forty three, that's five three five four three four three.
There's not an Andrew junior in the family, is there?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay, all right, So just making sure I'm not full
of it because I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I have two daughters.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Okay, all right, so perfect, No other Andrews, No other Andrews.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Perfect. Well, it's great to talk with you, my friend.
How was your new year?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
By the way, it was really good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Actually took the fam to Chicago and saw some cool
fireworks and you know, he it was good time.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sounds like, sounds like a good time, sounds like a
lot of fun and what and I feel like every
every winter we at least one or two shows we
do together. This phrase comes out, what a weird winter
it's been.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I don't know if they're I don't know if they're
weird anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or just different.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah at least, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm just I'm just of the mindset that, you know,
if it's going to be cold, might as well just
have some snow.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, at least there's something.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Cold and staring at brown grass.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Snow is fun. There's activities and it does it. As
he went out andrew, it looks it looks very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
One of the advantages though, of holding back on the snow,
as I know, it allows your guys do work year
round and there's always work to be done and it's
never a bad time to get on the schedule Larstom services.
But I know when it comes to things like roof repair,
mother nature has kind of granted us a couple of
opportunities to be able to get some stuff taken care
(01:59):
of it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It has, you know, Okay, I don't want to be selfish.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Sometimes I like it when there's not snow, simply because
we can still help more people get their roofs face.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But when there's.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Snow and a lot of thawing. We hear a lot
about leaks. The problem is really tough to find when
your house is covered in snow and ice.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So now we can find them.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And you know, I talk about the importance of, you know,
a good roof inspection, a good attic inspection all the time.
And still my guys when they all end gals, when
they get up to houses to do estimates, are asked
these questions, well, you don't need to get in my attic,
Why do you need to get in my attic?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Or you don't really need to get on my roof.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well we do because we're not like a lot of
other contractors who do the satellite imagery and then just
give you a price. Because if we don't know exactly
what's going on, and there's critical details when it comes
to a roof that we need to.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Look at when we get up there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because like I said before, you know, we used to
tear roofs all the time off that the shingles were
actually fine, but they leaked, and instead of just maybe
fixing that problem, we replaced the whole roof. And I
just got sick and tired of it looking at some
of these roofs and my reps are like, yeah, it's
like eight years old, but they did a terrible job,
and it's like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well we can fix that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So this year, I mean, we really took a hard
stance on if we can repair this roof or in
our term is restore it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We like to restore it, not just to repair.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A repair in my mind is like you know, maybe
dabbing some cocks somewhere and then like crossing my fingers
and hope that it sticks and it works. But we
like to do it the right way, and sometimes it
can cost a few thousand dollars. But if we can
have a home owner spend a few thousand dollars and
fix what's wrong with the roof and get another twenty years.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Out of it, well that's totally worth it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Now when it comes to those inspections, something comes to
mind really well is yesterday one of my rep two
days ago was running an appointment and they got called
out for a roof leak. Homeowners started seeing a little
spot on their ceiling. Well, my rep knew right away
that it wasn't a leak because what would be leaking.
(04:13):
There's no snow, Yeah, right, but if you look up,
you see oh my gosh, my.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Roof is leaking. Well is it leaking?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It hasn't rained or snowed in a while, but it's leaking.
And it was a brand new house. Oh that's the
worst part, brand new house. So because we trained really well,
he really knew what he was going to go and
really really had a good idea of what it actually was.
And so when he asked the homeowners, Hey, you know,
I need to get attic access. I need to look
(04:39):
in the attic, they look kind of like befuddled at him,
like why do you need to look in our attic?
And so he explained it to him, like, well, I
have an inkling that you really don't have a roof
leak and you have a condensation problem. And they had
never heard of that. And they literally looked at him
and said, we've had three people over here already and
said we don't have a roof leak, and one person said,
(05:01):
you just.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Need a new roof.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh geez, Okay, no, they didn't need a new roof.
He did a full roof inspection and the roof was
done quite well, surprisingly, and but he got up in
the attic and what did he see? He saw a
frost on the roof, he saw mold starting, he saw
rusty nails. Quiz time, why was that happening?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Sean?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Because moisture was getting up in there and freezing. Because
it wasn't properly ventilated.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm guessing it had great It actually had decent ventilation.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh it was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The ventilation was okay, it was slightly lacking. We're actually
going to be adding a ridge vent. It had box vents. Oh,
but it did have ventilation. The problem was is this
house has three and a half bathrooms, seven or eight
people with all their kids, so basically there's a lot
of cooking, a lot of bathing going on in this house,
(05:53):
a lot of moisture, and there was absolutely no air
ceiling done on the attic floor. It had inadequate insulation.
So what we thought was a roof leak. And I
mean they were actually ready to say, okay, just replace
our roof.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now, how bad would have that been.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They replaced their roof and it does nothing on a
three year old house.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You shouldn't have to replace you, So, condensation problem.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So it's fun being able to go in and like
really educate somebody on how their home is working. Yes,
you have ventilation, it's inadequate, and you have no air ceiling.
While our other house, why did this happen? That was
the our other house.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This didn't happen. Why is it happening now. Well, it's
a new house.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And there's a lot of it's just a lot of bathing, a.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Lot of cooking, a lot of moisture.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Because the more people we have in the house, the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
More moisture is going to be created.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So we're going to actually do an ultimate addict solution
for them where we I mean, it's the best solution
for the attic in there.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So we're going to stop that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We're going to stop that condensation on the attic so
they'll have no more leak. We're going to increase the
ventilation in their roof by putting on ridge vent make
sure we know that it's vending properly. And the byproduct
of that is it's going to make their home more
comfortable and it's going to save them money on their
energy bill, So it's kind of a it's a win
win and they don't have to replace the roof.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hey do you by the way, Andrew, and I think
you've mentioned this before occasionally, and this is even on
new homes, you'll see as you were talking about, you know,
multiple bathrooms with showers and stuff like that, where they'll
have in the bathroom they'll have a fan, but the
fan will literally just have a little tube that blows
all that hot humid air up into the attic. And
we've talked about that before, haven't we where it's just
(07:30):
not installed properly.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
We see it all the time all the time, where
you look up and the tube coming from that vent
is literally just stapled to a rafter and it's just
blowing moisture and you'll see all around that in a
three to four foot circle, it's all mold.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's all mold.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So someone overlooked it, a building inspector missed it. We vent, so,
needless to say, we vent a lot of those happens
a lot too. If you had that, maybe your house
didn't have a bath fan in it, because a lot
of older homes didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You had one put on or put in.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Electrician put one in, and that's you know, they probably
told the homeowner, you're gonna have to get this vented out,
and it just didn't happen because electricians do electrician things,
not roofing thing. Yeah, so we see them all the time.
My last house, I was up there doing the work
in my attic myself and I found that and I
actually had was going to be having the roof replaced,
(08:31):
and so much moisture had been blown up there and
it actually rotted the decking out, so we had to
replace the decking as well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And that was just from that fan blowing up there.
So I guess the moral of the story is everything
isn't always what it seems.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And if someone's coming over to fix, to give you
a solution on something you need to fix, for make
sure it's properly inspected. If you think you have a
roof leak and they don't get on the roof, well
how are they going to know what's happening or where
it's coming from. And when you're if is three years old,
or you're getting a roof leak in the winter when
it's not raining or snowing, that's there's something else going on.
(09:08):
And I'm just happy, kind of proud that our guys
are trained well enough to actually find that and help
a homeowner fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And that's such an important thing is as you as
you illustrate Andrew is having that proper inspection, and you
can have Andrew and the team come out from larstom
Service and not going to charge anything to take a look.
You've got a question about maybe maybe you're noticing something,
maybe you're just looking up at the roof and going,
you know what this is? It's getting a little long
in the two. It's a great day to give them
a call Larsen Home Services, start that conversation, get them
out there. Six so eight five three five forty three
(09:38):
forty three. That's five three, five forty three forty three.
Great folks at larst Home Services. They're very friendly, they're
very knowledgeable. They love talking and sharing information with you
as well. It's no pressure, it's just an opportunity to
see what's going on. And as Andrew points out the
importance of actually doing a full on inspection. Remember again,
I go back to a number of years ago when
you guys did our roof. We knew the roof was
(10:00):
it was going to need to be replaced. It was
that was a fact. When you guys showed up, we
knew that that was something that had to happen. But
your guys still went up in the attic they still
looked around. They got an amazingly detailed rundown of what
all was going to be done because of that inspection.
That's a great thing with Andrew and the team at
Larsnome Services. They will give you that thorough inspection. You
will know as a consumer, as a homeowner what you're getting,
(10:22):
and of course you'll have that in writing. It's a
great opportunity today to pick up phone McCall six so
eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five
three five forty three forty three Andrew. It's always great
chatting with you, my friend. You have a happy new
year and we'll do it all again in seven days.
All right, talk soon, givening ham Ham's Barbercare comes your
way next right here on thirteen ten WIV eight
Eight oh five, thirteen ten, wib A and ESK the experts.
Joining us this morning is the one and only mister
Andrew Larson from Larsen Home Services. Now there's probably the other.
We discussed this before. There's other Andrew Larson's out there.
But there's one at Larsen Home Services and that is
our good buddy Andrew Larson. The website larsenome Services dot com.
That's l A R. S O N Home Services dot com.
(00:26):
Tellphe number six. So eight five three five forty three
forty three, that's five three five four three four three.
There's not an Andrew junior in the family, is there?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay, all right, So just making sure I'm not full
of it because I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I have two daughters.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Okay, all right, so perfect, No other Andrews, No other Andrews.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Perfect. Well, it's great to talk with you, my friend.
How was your new year?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
By the way, it was really good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Actually took the fam to Chicago and saw some cool
fireworks and you know, he it was good time.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sounds like, sounds like a good time, sounds like a
lot of fun and what and I feel like every
every winter we at least one or two shows we
do together. This phrase comes out, what a weird winter
it's been.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I don't know if they're I don't know if they're
weird anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or just different.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah at least, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm just I'm just of the mindset that, you know,
if it's going to be cold, might as well just
have some snow.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, at least there's something.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Cold and staring at brown grass.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Snow is fun. There's activities and it does it. As
he went out andrew, it looks it looks very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
One of the advantages though, of holding back on the snow,
as I know, it allows your guys do work year
round and there's always work to be done and it's
never a bad time to get on the schedule Larstom services.
But I know when it comes to things like roof repair,
mother nature has kind of granted us a couple of
opportunities to be able to get some stuff taken care
(01:59):
of it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It has, you know, Okay, I don't want to be selfish.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Sometimes I like it when there's not snow, simply because
we can still help more people get their roofs face.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But when there's.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Snow and a lot of thawing. We hear a lot
about leaks. The problem is really tough to find when
your house is covered in snow and ice.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So now we can find them.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And you know, I talk about the importance of, you know,
a good roof inspection, a good attic inspection all the time.
And still my guys when they all end gals, when
they get up to houses to do estimates, are asked
these questions, well, you don't need to get in my attic,
Why do you need to get in my attic?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Or you don't really need to get on my roof.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well we do because we're not like a lot of
other contractors who do the satellite imagery and then just
give you a price. Because if we don't know exactly
what's going on, and there's critical details when it comes
to a roof that we need to.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Look at when we get up there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because like I said before, you know, we used to
tear roofs all the time off that the shingles were
actually fine, but they leaked, and instead of just maybe
fixing that problem, we replaced the whole roof. And I
just got sick and tired of it looking at some
of these roofs and my reps are like, yeah, it's
like eight years old, but they did a terrible job,
and it's like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well we can fix that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So this year, I mean, we really took a hard
stance on if we can repair this roof or in
our term is restore it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We like to restore it, not just to repair.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A repair in my mind is like you know, maybe
dabbing some cocks somewhere and then like crossing my fingers
and hope that it sticks and it works. But we
like to do it the right way, and sometimes it
can cost a few thousand dollars. But if we can
have a home owner spend a few thousand dollars and
fix what's wrong with the roof and get another twenty years.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Out of it, well that's totally worth it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Now when it comes to those inspections, something comes to
mind really well is yesterday one of my rep two
days ago was running an appointment and they got called
out for a roof leak. Homeowners started seeing a little
spot on their ceiling. Well, my rep knew right away
that it wasn't a leak because what would be leaking.
(04:13):
There's no snow, Yeah, right, but if you look up,
you see oh my gosh, my.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Roof is leaking. Well is it leaking?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It hasn't rained or snowed in a while, but it's leaking.
And it was a brand new house. Oh that's the
worst part, brand new house. So because we trained really well,
he really knew what he was going to go and
really really had a good idea of what it actually was.
And so when he asked the homeowners, Hey, you know,
I need to get attic access. I need to look
(04:39):
in the attic, they look kind of like befuddled at him,
like why do you need to look in our attic?
And so he explained it to him, like, well, I
have an inkling that you really don't have a roof
leak and you have a condensation problem. And they had
never heard of that. And they literally looked at him
and said, we've had three people over here already and
said we don't have a roof leak, and one person said,
(05:01):
you just.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Need a new roof.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh geez, Okay, no, they didn't need a new roof.
He did a full roof inspection and the roof was
done quite well, surprisingly, and but he got up in
the attic and what did he see? He saw a
frost on the roof, he saw mold starting, he saw
rusty nails. Quiz time, why was that happening?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Sean?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Because moisture was getting up in there and freezing. Because
it wasn't properly ventilated.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm guessing it had great It actually had decent ventilation.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh it was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The ventilation was okay, it was slightly lacking. We're actually
going to be adding a ridge vent. It had box vents. Oh,
but it did have ventilation. The problem was is this
house has three and a half bathrooms, seven or eight
people with all their kids, so basically there's a lot
of cooking, a lot of bathing going on in this house,
(05:53):
a lot of moisture, and there was absolutely no air
ceiling done on the attic floor. It had inadequate insulation.
So what we thought was a roof leak. And I
mean they were actually ready to say, okay, just replace
our roof.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now, how bad would have that been.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They replaced their roof and it does nothing on a
three year old house.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You shouldn't have to replace you, So, condensation problem.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So it's fun being able to go in and like
really educate somebody on how their home is working. Yes,
you have ventilation, it's inadequate, and you have no air ceiling.
While our other house, why did this happen? That was
the our other house.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This didn't happen. Why is it happening now. Well, it's
a new house.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And there's a lot of it's just a lot of bathing, a.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Lot of cooking, a lot of moisture.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Because the more people we have in the house, the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
More moisture is going to be created.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So we're going to actually do an ultimate addict solution
for them where we I mean, it's the best solution
for the attic in there.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So we're going to stop that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We're going to stop that condensation on the attic so
they'll have no more leak. We're going to increase the
ventilation in their roof by putting on ridge vent make
sure we know that it's vending properly. And the byproduct
of that is it's going to make their home more
comfortable and it's going to save them money on their
energy bill, So it's kind of a it's a win
win and they don't have to replace the roof.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hey do you by the way, Andrew, and I think
you've mentioned this before occasionally, and this is even on
new homes, you'll see as you were talking about, you know,
multiple bathrooms with showers and stuff like that, where they'll
have in the bathroom they'll have a fan, but the
fan will literally just have a little tube that blows
all that hot humid air up into the attic. And
we've talked about that before, haven't we where it's just
(07:30):
not installed properly.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
We see it all the time all the time, where
you look up and the tube coming from that vent
is literally just stapled to a rafter and it's just
blowing moisture and you'll see all around that in a
three to four foot circle, it's all mold.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's all mold.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So someone overlooked it, a building inspector missed it. We vent, so,
needless to say, we vent a lot of those happens
a lot too. If you had that, maybe your house
didn't have a bath fan in it, because a lot
of older homes didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You had one put on or put in.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Electrician put one in, and that's you know, they probably
told the homeowner, you're gonna have to get this vented out,
and it just didn't happen because electricians do electrician things,
not roofing thing. Yeah, so we see them all the time.
My last house, I was up there doing the work
in my attic myself and I found that and I
actually had was going to be having the roof replaced,
(08:31):
and so much moisture had been blown up there and
it actually rotted the decking out, so we had to
replace the decking as well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And that was just from that fan blowing up there.
So I guess the moral of the story is everything
isn't always what it seems.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And if someone's coming over to fix, to give you
a solution on something you need to fix, for make
sure it's properly inspected. If you think you have a
roof leak and they don't get on the roof, well
how are they going to know what's happening or where
it's coming from. And when you're if is three years old,
or you're getting a roof leak in the winter when
it's not raining or snowing, that's there's something else going on.
(09:08):
And I'm just happy, kind of proud that our guys
are trained well enough to actually find that and help
a homeowner fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And that's such an important thing is as you as
you illustrate Andrew is having that proper inspection, and you
can have Andrew and the team come out from larstom
Service and not going to charge anything to take a look.
You've got a question about maybe maybe you're noticing something,
maybe you're just looking up at the roof and going,
you know what this is? It's getting a little long
in the two. It's a great day to give them
a call Larsen Home Services, start that conversation, get them
out there. Six so eight five three five forty three
(09:38):
forty three. That's five three, five forty three forty three.
Great folks at larst Home Services. They're very friendly, they're
very knowledgeable. They love talking and sharing information with you
as well. It's no pressure, it's just an opportunity to
see what's going on. And as Andrew points out the
importance of actually doing a full on inspection. Remember again,
I go back to a number of years ago when
you guys did our roof. We knew the roof was
(10:00):
it was going to need to be replaced. It was
that was a fact. When you guys showed up, we
knew that that was something that had to happen. But
your guys still went up in the attic they still
looked around. They got an amazingly detailed rundown of what
all was going to be done because of that inspection.
That's a great thing with Andrew and the team at
Larsnome Services. They will give you that thorough inspection. You
will know as a consumer, as a homeowner what you're getting,
(10:22):
and of course you'll have that in writing. It's a
great opportunity today to pick up phone McCall six so
eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five
three five forty three forty three Andrew. It's always great
chatting with you, my friend. You have a happy new
year and we'll do it all again in seven days.
All right, talk soon, givening ham Ham's Barbercare comes your
way next right here on thirteen ten WIV eight
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