The pool and I can't get there.

So, yeah, that's the biggest thing, is having a cohesive approach to looking at the site,

looking at the project, and then being able to plan the hardscape appropriately,

not just the hardscape, but the entire landscape as a whole, as a cohesive project.

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

This is Senior Editor Patrick McCoh. Today I'm joined by Jim Collins, residential landscape architect and Burlington,

Ontario. Jim is also a project manager with the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. You can find

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

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. And remember, if we

read your question or comment on the air, I will send you a podcast sticker. Oh, I need one of those.

Jim, I think you get one for being on the show. Thanks so much for being here. Nice. Very much. Thank you,

gentlemen. It's a bit of an honor and a bit of a privilege, and thank you for having me.

Well, the privilege is ours, I'm sure. So you healthy? Are you working from home? Is your life changed since the COVID situation?

Yeah, yeah. So my city job, I am working from home. We had kind of an interesting shuffle there in March where we were kind of kicked out of one office and shifted to another building.

And then that building, you know, there's a lot of city facilities.

So we were asked to kind of vacate that and come home.

So I didn't have a laptop.

I was kind of working from my phone a little bit and emailing stuff back and forth.

But yeah, then we really got into a group. We've got a nice little tight group.

The projects that I was working on, one of them was deemed considered an essential project by the municipality because it was shoreline work.

And if we did get some high water levels, which we've been having a lot in the Great Lakes,

it could have been affected. So luckily the spring was pretty tame, but that one was active

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