#193: Understanding WRB Permeability, Insulating a House with Fiberboard Sheathing, and Building Your Own Patio Door

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Education, Leisure, Home & Garden, How To

4.8 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Rob, Matt and Patrick hear from listeners about rain barrel spigots and masonry walls resisting soil pressure before taking listener questions on WRBs, insulating walls sheathed with fiberboard, and making French-style patio doors from scratch.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Fine Home Building podcast is brought to you by Feeney.
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2:10.3	Because my dad has got this property in upstate New York, which is about a four-hour drive from us.
2:11.2	And he's like, oh, there's tons of this great fieldstone up here.
2:13.4	If you want to bring it to your walls, yeah right on your little harbor freight trailer are we
2:18.5	going to drag that stuff for four hours on the throughway welcome to the fine home building
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