#514: PRO TALK With Carpenter Leah Stargardter
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Fine Homebuilding Contributor Ian Schwandt talks to carpentry-program graduate Leah Stargardter about the Madison College Remodeling Carpentry Program, working in urban environments, and construction workforce diversity.
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| 0:00.0 | Going through the program and seeing that like two of the three head instructors are female was great for me to see. |
| 0:13.0 | It just makes you realize that you can get in there and do it. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building Protoc. getting there and do it. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is Fine Home Building contributor and production manager at TDS |
| 0:34.5 | Custom Construction, Ian Schwant. Today I'm'm joined by carpenter Leah Stargarter. |
| 0:41.0 | You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding |
| 0:46.3 | podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. |
| 0:56.7 | So welcome, Leah. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah. Thanks for having me. Yeah. If you're watching this on the YouTube feed, you can see that it is Halloween and I epically failed in dressing up, which is part for the course for me. |
| 1:12.1 | You got it all day. |
| 1:13.8 | That's true. |
| 1:14.4 | I do have all day. |
| 1:16.2 | I'll have to come up with a good costume by the end of the day. |
| 1:20.4 | So, Leah, you're a self-employed carpenter here in Madison. |
| 1:24.7 | Can you tell the listeners a little bit about the work you do and what it's |
| 1:28.6 | like to be self-employed? Sure, sure. So I just started working for myself about two years ago. |
| 1:36.1 | So I've got the scope of two years so far. But the work I do is residential remodeling and small-scale remodels, nothing enormous. |
| 1:48.8 | It's just, it's mostly just me. |
| 1:53.0 | And I sub about a few things, the electrical plumbing drywall. |
| 1:59.0 | And I've got one friend that can help me pretty regular these days, but for the most part, |
| 2:04.8 | it's just me. |
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