I've always wondered how people in Minnesota and Canada and those super cold places like that

dealt with this before we had insulation.

I mean, you just have monstrous boilers or wood stoves or whatever, right?

Yeah, and I think you were just cold.

Yeah, right.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science

of working on houses.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

I'm joined by Digital Brain Manager Rob Wadsack.

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Kylie Jacques, design editor.

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And producer Jeff Rose.

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Please, Euma, email us your questions to FHB Podcast at Taunton..com you can find previous podcast and check out the show notes at finehombuilding.com slash podcast well it is very nice to see you all here this morning thank you for joining me thanks yeah you too

I'm starting to forget what you guys look like Thank you for joining me. Thanks. Yeah, you too.

I'm starting to forget what you guys look like.

What are you been up to, Kylie? You've been keeping busy?

Yeah, I'm getting ready to weed whack a significant swath of bank that's overgrown with weeds.

And last year I didn't do it and regretted that because I wound up not having a view of the river anymore. So my neighbor's charging his electric string shimmer for me.

And that should make it a lot easier than what I had been doing. Have you tried that machine

before? No. I mean, I've used weed whackers, but I haven't tried an electric one. I'm looking forward

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