So when you go out on a habitat site, you get to really put your beliefs and your want to do good into action.

And you walk away at the end of the day, knowing what you did, you can drive by it years later and say, I worked on that house.

You get to meet the people that you're building the house is with.

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 Dan Hines, production

manager for

Habitat Free Humanity of Washington, D.C. You can find the Fine Homeburning Pro Talk podcast

and the original Fine Homeburning podcast at Fine Homeburning.com slash podcast. You can ask

questions and leave your feedback there too. Dan, thanks a million for being here this morning.

It's good to see you, man.

Good to see you, too, Patrick. So how's your life been affected from the outbreak of COVID-19?

Are you guys able to run your habitat for humanity as you were or if things changed?

I wouldn't say it's normal. Things have definitely changed. I think that's the case for everybody.

But we've been lucky.

And here in D.C., even during the shutdown, we never really had to fully shut down.

We were deemed essential workers.

So we obviously stopped taking volunteers pretty early on.

Late February, I think we made the call because numbers got heavy here in

D.C. pretty quickly. And as you know, having worked for habitat in the past, safety of our volunteers

and our staff is paramount. So we thought we were taking a break just for a short period, but we haven't been able to go back to having volunteers here.

And I'm not honestly sure when we will.

Obviously, that's different around the country.

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