Yeah, I went way off the deep end during quarantine and creating spreadsheets and different formulas

for trying to come up with cost of the R value of the wall assembly per square foot.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry professionals.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Ian Schwant, longtime carpenter, fine home building contributor, and project manager.

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Ian, thank you so much for joining me. How are you,

man? I'm doing good. Thanks for having me, Patrick. How's your family? Like, what's,

uh, you recently moved to Wisconsin? What's, what's the status of your life? How long have you been

there and, and what have you been doing since you got there? We've been back here for about two months, and it's been interesting.

We left Dutchess County, New York, which was a hot spot at the time, moved the bulk of our stuff out here and had our house up for sale.

And now we've completed the house sale and being back out here,

this area is now becoming a hot spot, not the rural county that we live in, but the counties

where Madison and Milwaukee are, which are only about an hour away from us, are beginning to

see a big uptick in cases.

Wow. But otherwise everybody here is good. My family pretty much stays pretty local to this area.

And so is it your mom and dad own a farm?

And what kind of farm is it?

So my parents took over my family's farm, which I think dates back to the mid-1800s.

They've had it now most of my life.

I think when my grandfather died, they took it over.

And we do cash crops and beef cattle.

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