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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#280: PRO TALK With Brooke Cambridge

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this Pro-Talk podcast, Patrick talks to Brooke Cambridge, a painting contractor from Salem, Mass. Brooke talks about how she became a painter and the ups and downs of being a business owner.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast is brought to you by Great Stuff, Frothpack.

0:05.9

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0:10.0

You go for Frothpack. Why? One word. Convenience. Frothpack, foam, sealant, and insulation kits are available at your local dealer

0:17.9

and have everything you need to deliver the kind of results good reputations are built on. Frothpack, foam sealant and insulation. Let's Pro. Frothpack

0:28.1

foam insulation not available in Canada.

0:36.2

The right human beings, right? Be a good human and you take him on.

0:40.3

It's not the, this guy has 20 years experience and this guy or girl has none.

0:45.3

Great. Take them on with none.

0:47.3

Train them from, you know, square one and build them up into what you want them to be.

1:03.1

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

1:04.3

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

1:06.2

Today I'm joined by Brooke Cambridge, a painting contractor from Salem, Massachusetts.

1:11.7

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at finehomebuilding.com

1:16.7

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. Brooke, thank you so much for being

1:23.5

on the show. It's great to have you here. Thanks for having me.

1:28.4

So, Boston was one of the early places that the outbreak took hold. Has it affected your work?

1:34.0

How are things? Are you healthy or your coworkers healthy? Yeah, it was a bit slow in the beginning.

1:41.4

Not too bad, thankfully, but it's been super busy, super, super

1:46.9

busy, which we're very grateful for as many are not.

1:53.8

So it seems like everybody's doing a lot of home projects at this time.

1:57.5

That's what I was going to ask you.

1:58.4

So these are folks who are suddenly in their homes a lot more and want work done because they look at it all the time or they're making changes? Yeah. Or they start,

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