The Construction Life

Hans Eich joins Manny and Carlito and we have a full tilt show talking about Passive Home Building and the Construction Industry. From air tightness, air barriers, vapour barriers, proper ventilation, phase shifts, diffusion open, to energy consumption and achiveing that Passive rating of 15 Killawatts per hour, per square meter, per year. This is a podcast to listen to carefully. Did we mention C...

Let's talk NextGen Professional and the mindset of construction personnel with Agnes who has started a movement to change the industry on so many levels.  She has coined the phrase, Today's students.  Tomorrow's construction Leaders. Agnes gets right into what the construction industry is like, where it will be in the near future, what employers and employees need to understand and what she calls...

We have Mike Cardoso from Schluter Systems Canada join us and we get talking a lot about this amazing orange company at The Buildings Show 2019. We get right into all the new products and the amazing new finishes. We ask Mike over and over what else is coming in the next year but Mike won't give it up but he does hint at a few ideas and Carltio runs with those ideas. Manny and Carlito have always...

In our first Drywall and Mudding podcast we have a 20 plus year tradesperson from the business, Teddy from Paint Ready Finishing. Teddy has seen a lot over two decades, he has watched and worked in all kinds of drywall and mudding situation, from commerical to custom and unfortunately the business has gotten worse but he feels optimistic the business can get better.   We get right into hand trowel...

Let's get right into stone and brick masonry with Mike Pereira from Greenstone Fine Masonry and a little Yoga while we are at it. Mike dives deep into 20 plus years of masonry work from his first week on site throwing bricks to make a point to jobsite etiquette today.  Mike a student of many schools of masonry and now a teacher has built a solid masonry business. We discuss custom and we mean cust...

We have Andrew from Lusso Design as our special guest and talking how important doors are when it comes to design, fabrication and install. We get right into different types of doors from steel to fiberglass to wood, discuss insert designs, insert failures, insert installs and the importance of the frame and key materials that shoud be used in today's type of doors and frame design and constructio...

Matthew (Matty) from MMC Tiles joins us and we get talking a lot about tiling and the tiling industry in the last decade. It all begins with Matty arriving on a high rise job site on his first day in the construction industry where he finds a couple of trades were actually having a physical fight.  From there Matty got tiling at 2 bucks a square and using mastic for walls, floors, everything.  Wha...

The Construction Life podcast is on location north of Toronto inside Tony Fogarty's garage workshop and we are talking finish carpentry, woodworking, the construction industry and we even get talking about Carlito's brief attendance at gynecology school. Back to Tony, also known as The Timber Tailor on social media he talks about being a bass player in Texas, meeting a Canadian wife, moving to Tor...

On our first podcast from The Buildings Show 2019 in Toronto we have Michal from Tilt Wall talking about old school concrete building. We are excited to hear what Michal has to tell us about this 100 year old technique of forming and pouring walls on the ground and then tilting them up into position.  Michal and Len are passionate about bringing this technique to the Canadian market and proving th...

We are in the Ciot North Toronto location talking about natural stones, porcelain, tiles, lots and lots of tiles and the tile industry in general over the last 70 years. Our special guests are Jack and Sonya and after a great duet intro we get right into the humble beginnings of Ciot in Montreal all the way to the new locations in New York city, Detroit and Atlanta. We discuss the trends, what's m...

Mike Moll from Social Media House joins the talk today and we get right into everything digital and online for construction and tradespeople. Mike walks us through all of the social media platforms and why Instagram is playing games with construction content, everyone's content.  Mike tells us why Google has the IQ of a 6 year old when it comes to context.  Mike tells us the best ways to actually...

On this show, we have Danny Tseng an Architect from the Toronto area talking to us about contractors, clients and changes. Danny gets right into it with a very big intro piece of music that most of us will reconize, well done Danny. Carlito and Manny get right into the questioning about the Architect and Contractor dynamic. What to expect frome ach other? How to work with each other? And the most...

Roberto Fraschini (Rob) from Galaxy Plumbing Inc. joins TCL Podcast and nearly 2 hours later Rob dives deep into the fascinating world of pipe.  We get Rob's perspective of nearly 20 years of union work and then another 5 years on his own. Rob talks to us about what and who drove him to be the best plumber, the lessons he learned over the years and still learning to this day, standing his ground a...

John Morra from Craft & Clerk is our special guest and we hear how he began with his Uncle in bricklaying in his teenage years to building his own successful Mason and Landscaping business to giving back to the industry with his new renoventure Craft & Clerk. John shares so many stories that every contractor can relate to on and off site.  He gets right into his teenage years and learning...

We have a very special guest on today's show John from McLennos Landscaping get's right into the dirt of things, from starting his own business to dealing with clients, drug use from trades and weather.  Get a very realistic view on starting your own landscaping business, John talks us through his highschool years to some 20 years later working outside.  The ups and downs of one of the hardest tra...

Josh from OnHive is here to talk about anything and everything to do with your Custom Smart Home Automation, we dive deep into cyber security, web, entertainment, network and data systems. Hold on to your carpenter pencils and open you notebooks because on today's show we get very tech heavy.  We talk about 5G, WiFi 6, Cyber Security and cameras, Network set ups, Home Theater / Entertainment Syste...

Let's talk personalities and sales in construction with Sunny from Tubs, one of the founding owners who is determined to take the business to new heights and Frank Cone of Cone Construction, Frank has 50 years in the construction business and has seen his fair share of highs and lows. We get right into misname calling from the first minute and then we get right into personalities and how to connec...

On this episode of The Construction Life we are on location at the new home of Aria Vent, right here in Toronto. We have Paolo and Roberta Mantenuto from Aria Vents and they tell us how this little family business has changed the construction industry. We get right into the origin of the invention, the family better known as The Board, the many and we mean many "no's" they heard when they first la...

We have the man himself, Mark from Skyluxe Roofing and Metal on the show again and we are talking all kinds of construction, from roofing all types of roofing, metal cladding all types of cladding to millennials and more. In this episode, we finally had to censor a few things that were expressed about crappy products and brands.  We are not interested in talking about the bad materials, let's focu...

Sean a "younger" but very experienced commercial concrete "voodoo doctor' joins the show and we get the inside on big concrete projects, from bridges, skyscrapers and airports. Sean gives us the load down on how big concrete projects are handled, from the plant, to the trucks, to pouring, to all of the political red tape along the way. We get into the concrete stereotypes, the mafia, the technique...

Jorge from DGR Concrete Forming joins the show and in this 84 minute long show we talk about residential concrete and more, lot's more.  Jorge, with nearly 4 decades of experience walks us through the ups and downs of concrete, clients, trades people and the industry in general.  We even get into radios on site, smoking on site, smoking weed on site and more. Jorge has some amazing information to...

Gary Mares is our guest and plenty to talk about reagrding Trim Carpentry. In the next hour we go old school and new school and has the construction industry changed for the better or worse? We also get into the some very cool trim techniques, tools and what a typical day on and off site is with Gary and his Old Man. Dealing with clients, other trades and the industry in general. Once again we don...

What a great podcast on Windows, Doors and Garage Doors, we get right into what's the norm, how to install and the clients. We have Joe Fernandes from @Joerf1 as our guest, with decades of experience we get ritght into everything to do with these openings in your home. Why most go one style over another, what are the good, bad and ugly truths about installing windows.  Why clients always go cheap...

Manny and Carlito have a very special guest on today's podcast, Matthew from e6 Analytics talking about how to run your construction better. We get right into how you as a tradesperson, contractor and general contractor should get organized.  From contracts, to scheduling to progress to closing out the job no matter if it's a powder room or a complete new build. Plenty of great ideas presented in...

Manny and Carlito have Omid @thetileguy.gta and Flo @procustompainting both of them being 24 years old as guests on today's show.  A couple of 47 year olds vs a couple of 24 year old trades.   What could go wrong? We get right into it, no BS here and you will be surprised what Omid and Flo have to say about their generation.  Sorry Eddy, you made your own bed. We might have to do a follow up to th...