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You can get notified one we're back welcome to the

fine home building podcast our weekly discussion of building remodeling and

design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science

of working on houses I'm senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm

joined by Green Building Advisor Senior Editor, Kylie Jacques. Hello, everybody. Professional builder and

owner of Woodworks Homes, Sam Friesen. Hello. And our producer, Jeff Rose. Howdy.

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It is great to see you all this morning.

Thanks for being here.

Pleasure.

It's a delight.

Sam, it's a pleasure to meet you.

We haven't met prior to just a few minutes ago. We've talked a couple times on the telephone, but Andrew's suggestion was to have you on the show, and I'm delighted you're here. Can you please tell us a little bit about what you do for a living and where?

Yeah, I'm delighted to be on. I live in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, which is about halfway between Minneapolis and the Canadian border.

And I own a company by the name of Woodworks Homes. We're a design build, custom builder, with our primary focus on residential, relatively small company.

There's five of us. And so we were able to get quite a bit of work done, but by new means, are we production builders? But one of our big focuses is on sustainable buildings,

sustainable structures, and sustainable materials. And, you know, certainly the pandemic

presented its challenges in pursuing that. And sometimes it gets to, you know, where you just

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