#161: Live from the Builders' Show: Misconceptions about radiant heat and new rules for hardwood floors

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🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with Terry Alsberg founder of Warmboard Radiant and Mike Guertin Fine Homebuilding editorial advisor.

First on Patrick and Rob's docket is a comprehensive discussion about radiant heat in conventional and low-load houses. Then the guys talk about the right way to acclimate wood flooring. Here's a hint: you've been doing it the wrong way.

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0:00.0	I was on a photo shoot in Greenwich, Connecticut, and they were actually pouring the
0:11.3	Jip Creek floor, and all of a sudden I hear the guy screaming.
0:15.9	It's because it was leaking around the toilet flange and pouring into the basement.
0:20.4	And I just hear these guys from cussing it up.
0:27.8	So we're at the International Builders Show for the second day.
0:31.5	Today we are recording a podcast with Rob Wadsack,
0:35.2	a digital brand manager, Terry Alsberg from Wormboard, and Mike Gerton,
0:40.6	longtime contributor and our editorial advisor.
0:44.7	What do you guys think about the show so far?
0:46.9	Oh, I'm exhausted.
0:49.4	I spent all day yesterday.
0:52.0	Actually, I started out weeks before the show, and I made up
0:56.3	because there are 1,540 exhibitors at this show. So what are you looking for ahead of time?
1:01.9	Stuff that you haven't seen? Stuff that I haven't seen or stuff that I've seen before,
1:06.5	but haven't gone back to look at in years because a lot of these manufacturers tweak things,
1:11.7	change things, whatever.
1:13.7	And I want to just, you know, check in with companies I haven't checked in with a while.
1:17.6	I did that yesterday a couple, like pressed on tools, pressed on products.
1:22.0	They make drywall clips for doing like joints.
1:25.2	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:25.7	To eliminate framing members.
1:27.5	Exactly. And I was like, okay, what's new and yeah, yeah, yeah. To eliminate framing members. Exactly.
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