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Send us Fan Mail This week on the Better Builder podcast we sit down with Jake Woods, founder of Calibre Homes. Jake came up as a boat builder, spent nearly two decades on superyachts, then came home and built Calibre into a respected Auckland renovation company. He gets into precision on the tools, why trust is everything, and his push to fix the apprenticeship pathway with Builders Academy. Social Links Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/betterbuilderpodcast Tiktok - https://www....
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Send us Fan Mail This week on the Better Builder podcast, Sam Hayes is back for a second time, two and a half years after one of our earliest episodes. Sam runs one of Auckland's respected high-end building companies, and he doesn't hold back on where the industry is really at right now. Sam gets honest about surviving a slow market with projects on hold and good people to protect, and why so many builders hide their struggles when everyone is feeling the same thing. He breaks down the right ...
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