Not sitting at a desk.

You're doing something different every day.

You're up, you're moving around, you're, you're being creative, and yesterday is different than today.

And then the actual end product.

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 remodeler, Amy Eklund.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at

Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can ask questions and leave feedback there too.

Amy, thank you very much for being on the show. It's a pleasure to have you here.

Well, thank you, Patrick. It's great to be here.

Can you please tell me about your remodeling business? I did a little research on your website,

but I'd love to hear it from you. Sure. Well,

we're based out of Seattle, Washington. The name of the company is Amy Works. We started 12 years ago as a handyman services business, or it was me and my Subaru and

my tools.

And today we are focusing mostly on residential remodels, kitchens, bathrooms, basements,

getting into the DADU market.

And yeah.

For folks who don't know, can you please tell them what that is?

DADU is detached accessory dwelling units. So it's the little mother-in-law. For folks who don't know, can you please tell them what that is?

DADU is detached accessory dwelling unit.

So it's the little mother-in-law building that sits out in your backyard.

And Seattle's been very progressive with this in regard to adopting them, right?

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