You know, do all the stuff that you hate when people don't do for you.

You know, pay on time.

Have a relationship with them.

Be respectful of their schedule.

Don't jam them on a job with five other people, so they're tripping over each other.

You know, organize your job.

Organize your time frame.

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

industry professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by contractor

Andy Grace and producer Jeff Rose.

You can find the Fine Homebuilding Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast.

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Andy, it's great to see you.

Yeah, it's good to see you. Yeah, it's good to see you,

Patrick. So we were together, what was that June or July? Yeah, July. And I was there covering a

slate roof story there. And I actually took the recording gear to do this there, but it didn't seem

like we had any ambition after

being up on the roof all day. I'm speaking for myself. Uh, so I'm glad you're on the show. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah. Yeah, it was unseasonably hot at a stone roof, you know.

I think Slate is unseasonably hot probably in all seasons.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

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