#132: East Coast vs. West Coast
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Justin, Patrick, and Matt discuss how power tool preferences differ from one coast to the other, consider less expensive alternatives to cedar, and do a deep dive on troubleshooting a problematic attached garage.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the Fine Home Building podcast is brought to you by Benjamin Obdike. |
| 0:04.3 | Benjamin Obdike would like to use the special occasion of their 150th anniversary to thank |
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| 0:13.8 | pesky things like rain, snow, humidity, and the neighbor's sprinkler system. Take hydrogap, |
| 0:20.2 | a drainable house wrap that eliminates moisture from your wall assembly, |
| 0:23.4 | or cedar breather, an underlainment for woodroofing that allows continuous airflow behind shingles or shakes. |
| 0:30.0 | One man's headache is another man's successful business. |
| 0:32.9 | To build better with Benjamin Obdike, visit benjaminabdyke.com. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you. better with Benjamin Obdike, visit Benjamin Obdike.com. |
| 0:46.9 | I know this guy out in New York, you can talk to. His name's Matthew Milham, and he would be happy to come over your house and do all this for you. He works really cheap. It's actually |
| 0:52.5 | part of his contract here, by home building, that he has to do this work for free. |
| 0:55.8 | So he tries to ask for money, tell him that he cannot have any. |
| 1:04.6 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design aimed at anyone and everyone who cares |
| 1:11.7 | about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 1:15.3 | Over here is Matt Milham. |
| 1:16.8 | Hello. |
| 1:17.5 | Patrick McComb. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello. |
| 1:19.1 | And me, Justin Fink. |
| 1:20.4 | I would say at this point, people are probably wondering what happened to Brian and Rob. |
| 1:24.1 | So maybe we should address that. |
| 1:26.7 | What did happen to impact? I haven't seen them. |
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