#135: Rotunda, Revisited
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Justin, Matt, and Patrick field a follow up question on a particularly frightening rotunda framing job, and discuss options for building a round structure from straight joists. Other topics include preferred shower waterproofing systems and strategies for widening a concrete stoop to support the columns of a new portico roof.
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| 1:31.8 | I would think you could hang those other beams off that if you wanted everything to be flush. |
| 1:34.9 | But just have that one be totally solid. |
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