A lot of tricky valley framing and stuff like that.

The amount takes some really accurate measurements and then go build the model on the computer

and just really develop a cut list of every single stick of wood that needs to go into that roof.

Most times we can pre-cut 95% of that roof on the ground.

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 a remodeler, Fine Home Building contributor, JLC Live presenter, and Russian motorcycle rider Mike Patterson.

We're going to have to talk more about that later, right, man?

It's really nice to have you on the show.

We've known each other for years, going back to JLC Live in, yeah, the OTS.

Yeah.

Well, it's great to have you.

Thanks for doing this.

Thanks for asking.

Can you please tell me what you do?

You're a remodeler in Gaithersburg, Maryland for a long time.

Can you talk about your business, who your clients are?

What kind of projects you do, that kind of stuff?

Yep.

So we're a small shop.

There's myself in the office from kind of the sole admin guy.

And I have two guys in the field. So we do, most of the work we do, I would say 90% of the work we do is for architects.

So architect, really, we work with one most commonly.

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