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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#347: PRO TALK With Carpenter Kevin Ireton, Part 1

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

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

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part Pro-Talk podcast, Patrick talks to former FHB editor and carpenter Kevin Ireton about staying healthy, game-changing tools, and the direction of American housing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There was an ad for a technical editor, an assistant editor with the experience in the trades.

0:11.4

And I thought, you know, it happened to be, coincidentally, it was February and I was nailing on roof shingles up in Maine.

0:19.1

And I thought, you know, well, maybe I'll just send them a

0:21.3

recipe.

0:27.6

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast.

0:30.4

This is senior editor of Patrick McComb.

0:32.2

Today I'm joined by former Fine Home Building editor, Kevin Ierton, now a Carbiter.

0:39.7

You can find the Fine Home Building ProTog podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave

0:45.4

feedback and ask questions there too. Kevin, it is such a pleasure to see you this morning. Thank you so

0:50.3

much for being on the show. Patrick, thank you so much for having me on your show.

0:54.7

It's a pleasure.

0:57.1

I want to ask you, so you've been moving back and forth between Arizona and with New Milford, right?

1:05.4

Yeah.

1:05.8

For the last few years, but you didn't do that this year.

1:08.5

Your life was changed by the outbreak too.

1:12.2

Yeah, when the pandemic struck, my wife and I were spending the winter in Arizona, so we got

1:16.9

stuck there because early on, you know, it was, Connecticut was the hot spot, and there wasn't

1:23.1

much going on in Arizona. But by the end of June, that had kind of changed.

1:28.4

So we came home, and now we're stuck in Connecticut because it just seems safer not to

1:35.1

travel right now.

1:35.9

Yeah, sure.

1:37.0

Plus, we're, you know, we're halfway through the vaccine process.

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