#180: Rigid Foam Over Roofs, Warm-Climate Insulation Details, and Fuel-Efficient Work Trucks
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Fine Homebuilding editors discuss some upcoming articles about building sheds and installing custom metal stairs before addressing listener questions about insulation upgrades, environmentally responsible transportation, and more.
Patrick, Matt, and Kiley start today's conversation with details about two recent photo shoots for the magazine–one in Cooperstown, NY, where Matt captured a steel-framed, walnut-treaded modern staircase installation; and another in Kiley's own backyard, where fellow FHB staffer Rob Wotzak built a small but elegant woodshed of his own design. Then it was on to several questions from the Fine Homebuilding inbox, including one from a listener who wonders how we can constantly talk about building energy efficient homes without mentioning the gas-guzzling trucks we travel to the job site in every day.
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| 1:18.4 | because at the end of the day, your shed says a lot about who you are. |
| 1:22.5 | Why not shed it your way? |
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| 1:34.6 | When I lived in Germany, we had a couple high wind events and everything there is those |
| 1:38.7 | kind of clay towers. And they look beautiful, but I didn't realize how easily they came off |
| 1:42.9 | like whole sections of roof in the town that I was living in. |
| 1:45.9 | I bet that's dangerous, too, right? |
| 1:48.1 | No, because these were like three, four-story buildings. |
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