Like that, or when you go to the home centers, you find these things and, you know, we go

out to construction sites all the time where they have their tape stapled them.

It's like you shouldn't have to staple your tape.

It's got an adhesive on the back that's supposed to stick.

Like, if you have to staple your tape, maybe you shouldn't use that.

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

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

Today I'm joined by Ken Kiefer, a manufacturer's rep for SIGA,

a Swiss manufacturer of air sealing, vapor control, and weather barrier products. You can find

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

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. Ken, thanks so much for being on the show,

man. Absolutely. Thank you very much for having me. It's an honor. So tell me, has the COVID

outbreak brought challenges to your work and home life? I bet it has. Yeah, I mean,

from a work perspective, it's been interesting. You know, we have the building

industry kind of paused for a little bit, especially in like the Boston, Cambridge area,

where a bulk of our business was. So we transitioned to a lot of virtual meetings, which,

you know, if you're an outside sales rep for any long

period of time, sitting in front of a computer screen for a long, long time can get kind of

boring. Yeah, and I mean, like people like yourself are hired because of their skills and

interpersonal communication. Is that proved to be a challenge for you? Working differently?

Yeah, it's, you know, now that we're back on site a lot,

it's even different.

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