What were some of the things that you were looking for?

I would say probably at a minimum, excitement about the trade, being excited about sharing that

knowledge, excited about where that trade is headed.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry

professionals. This is Fine Home Building, contributing editor and production manager at TDS Custom Construction, Ian Schwant.

Today I am joined by Joe Garvilla, owner of Cypress Construction in Laurel, Delaware.

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slash podcast you can leave feedback and ask questions there too Joe thanks for joining us today

glad to be here so Joe you well like many of our guests have pretty varied background. Give us a overview of the path you traveled to get to a construction company owner.

Sure. Probably started formatively around 1997. I was three years old, and my parents had a full gut remodel of their house in Georgetown.

And I remember Mickey Payne was a builder, and he was mixing up some drywall mud.

And he was telling me, oh, yeah, it's the mud I got out back.

So, you know, little me.

I thought that was really interesting.

And then we'll jump ahead right to shop class in high school.

I had a really energetic experience shop teacher.

Two of them actually, Gary Stewart and Bruce Hefty.

And they really ignited the actual passion for the trade.

You know, that may be interested in it.

Then, you know, like a regular kid that goes to college, I had a couple of jobs here and there.

And one summer was on a framing crew, and they did a nice custom homes, so I had a good exposure there.

And then on from there, I worked for DENREC for a little bit in the fisheries office, so that was more of a

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