#185: Hot Real Estate Market Buying Tips, Low-Cost New Homes, and Grade-Level Decks
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Listener feedback discusses moss on roofs and keeping the fires burning in an old school house before Matt, Kiley, and Patrick talk about a listener's suggestions for making a deal in a red-hot real estate market like Washington D.C., what's the minimum square foot cost for building a new house, and how best to build a deck that's too low for its own good.
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| 0:00.0 | We're launching our first ever seminar event, the Fine Home Building Summit. |
| 0:07.0 | Join us October 2nd through the 4th in South Bridge, Massachusetts, as 12 of the building industry's most notable experts will offer more than 50 hours of presentations. |
| 0:17.0 | Our goal? |
| 0:19.0 | To explore advanced design principles, discover cutting-edge construction materials, and share |
| 0:24.4 | trusted techniques. |
| 0:26.6 | Space for this event is limited and expected to sell out fast. |
| 0:29.9 | Don't wait, visit findhomebuilding.com slash summit to pre-register. |
| 0:34.8 | That's finehomebuilding.com slash summit. |
| 0:49.3 | But I mean a plate compactor, the one that I looked up, was like 163 pounds. |
| 0:51.6 | You could drive that right through the living room. |
| 0:52.5 | You can, yeah. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, you can, two people can carry that right through the living room, no problem yeah well you can people can carry that right through the living room no problem as easy as they can carry a bunch of hardwoods yeah |
| 1:00.1 | wear your booties welcome to the fine home building podcast our weekly discussion of building |
| 1:10.3 | remodeling and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 1:16.3 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by kindly Jacques, design editor, Deputy editor Matt Milham, and producer, Jeff Rose. |
| 1:24.8 | Hello. |
| 1:26.1 | Please email us your questions to FHB Podcast at taunton.com. |
| 1:30.3 | You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at findhomebuilding.com slash podcast. |
| 1:38.2 | So guys, we had some listener feedback on a couple of recent discussions. |
| 1:42.1 | Our Moss on roofs chat got some, a few of recent discussions. Our Moss on Rooves chat |
| 1:46.0 | got a few people to |
| 1:47.9 | chime in that they had similar experiences |
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