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In a perfect world, it would be uh sandwiching the bat between two pieces of

like a pinny pinny press yeah squishing it down flat sliding it into the place and then pulling

those two flattened boards out yeah good luck inventing that come back and tell us when you

finish inventing that, Justin.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics, and did anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses?

To my right is Mr. Martin Holiday with us from Green Building Advisor. Say hello, Martin.

Hi.

And to my left, Patrick McComb, our senior editor and all things tool-related expert all around. Good guy.

Really? No. I don't think so.

And me, I'm Justin Fink. And so Martin is joining us today because he's he's in town from Vermont to to talk about

some, he's not, he's not just here for this podcast, this is what I'm trying to say.

But while he was here, we thought we would snag him because he came down to town to talk

about his website greenbuilding

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