#188: Smoothing a Textured Ceiling, Enforcing Airtightness Testing, and Better Brick Walkways
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week's installment revisits Tony's planned grade-level deck and we hear from a listener who's married to a carpenter bee researcher. The crew explores the best way to remove ceiling stalactites and how to convince a carpenter to take on a small rot-repair job. Then they hear from a home-performance contractor irritated by the lack of airtightness testing in Northern New York and discuss how to keep a brick walkway looking good.
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| 0:00.0 | The weed dragon, right? |
| 0:07.0 | No, I'm talking about an actual flamethrower. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:10.0 | So this is a thing you hook up to a propane cylinder, and you light it on fire, and it makes this awesome sound that sounds like a hot air balloon. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, it's a blast. |
| 0:20.0 | And it's... I love it. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the fine home building podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | Our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares |
| 0:33.3 | deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 0:36.8 | This is senior editor Patrick McComb. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm joined by Deputy Editor Matt Milham. Hello. Design editor Kylie Jacques. Hello. |
| 0:43.8 | Producer Jeff Rose. Hello. |
| 0:46.1 | Please email us your questions to FHB Podcast at Taunton.com. You can find previous podcasts |
| 0:51.4 | and check out the show notes at findhomebuilding.com slash podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | Wow, we got some great feedback on episode 185. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | And I'm going to start with my favorite. |
| 1:04.8 | So you may recall we had a discussion of a ground level deck. |
| 1:08.3 | Tony wrote in from upstate New York. |
| 1:10.3 | And I think we all pretty much suggested |
| 1:12.8 | that he forego the idea of a ground level deck and instead do a hard-scaping patio, right? |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah, because this was a deck. The one he was replacing was buried in the ground, and he was |
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