#201: Broken Bricks, Unloved Concrete and Portable Tablesaws
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Matt, Kiley and Patrick hear from listeners about small jobs and glass bottle masonry before taking questions about how to best use an unloved slab in the backyard, how to keep the snow removal team from destroying a brick wall with salt, and the proper way to detail a deck over a porch.
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| 1:34.4 | Custom cut with compound angles on both ends, right? |
| 1:38.1 | Right, for the headers and for the rafters, both ends. |
| 1:42.3 | That sounds labor intensive. |
| 1:44.3 | Maybe that's why folks build more geometrically regular shapes. |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah. |
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| 1:59.3 | Our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
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