4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Patrick talks to Caleb Carpenter, owner of Rad Wood Works, a contracting firm near Albany, N.Y., about starting a carpentry business, why it’s tough to find good tradespeople, and what it’s like buying a starter home right now.
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1:02.7 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals. |
1:03.8 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
1:05.7 | Today I'm joined by Caleb Carpenter, owner of Rad Woodworks, a contracting firm near Albany, New York. |
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1:22.0 | Caleb, it is a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you so much. |
1:25.6 | Yeah, it's my honor. Thank you so much for having me. |
1:28.9 | Caleb, can you tell me a little bit what kind of work you do, what your business is like? |
1:34.1 | When did you start? |
1:35.6 | Yeah, so I mean, I've been doing carpentry for a long time. I grew up in the trades. |
1:40.8 | I started the business about a year ago, and it's going really good so far. I know I have a lot |
1:47.1 | left to learn still, but we do a lot of millwork installations, a lot of cabinet installation, |
1:53.2 | a lot of custom closets, pretty much anything to do with custom trim we do. But we also do a lot of roofing and flashing fixes, |
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