you know if there's any line that I push is that smaller and simpler is always better

I mean it's just again as I say in the book a pretty good house should look like what a

kindergarten or a draw she gave him a crayon and a piece of paper minus the chimney minus the chimney exactly welcome to the

fine home building pro talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals

this is fine home building contributing editor and production manager at TDS Custom Construction in Schwant.

Today my guest really needs no introduction.

I've always wanted to say that.

I'm joined by my good friend and colleague Dan Colber, Colbert Building, and also author

of a book that if you follow Fine Home Building podcasts, you may have heard of once or twice,

called the Pretty Good House Book. You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast

and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcasts.

You can leave feedback and ask questions there too dan it's great to see you and

great to have you on my show for once nice to see you too yet it's been a long time yeah it's

been a very long time of uh very modern communication methods of right soulless text messages back

and forth.

So you've done a lot of interviews talking about the book and the pretty good house building techniques in general and your work that you did with the other authors of the book.

But today I want to make the assumption that most of the people listening to this

are familiar with the book in some form or another and just really dive into how contractors like you and TDS and other contractors that we both have had in our orbit can start incorporating these methods and start making real differences in the way that they

build.

Deal.

Let's start from the ground up.

Concrete is obviously low hanging fruit.

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