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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#266: PRO TALK with Rob Delaney

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this two-part Pro-Talk podcast Patrick talks to Rob Delaney, an Assessor/Quality Control Inspector for MCS Community Services in Jacksonville, Illinois, a weatherization firm improving the efficiency of housing for low income people.

Transcript

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I think the first one is always got to be the house as a system.

0:10.0

You know, you've got to be mindful of what you're doing in the crawl space.

0:14.0

It could end up in the attic.

0:16.0

You don't just want to push a problem from one part of the house to the other.

0:20.0

You want to put a road from one part of the house to the other. You want to put a roadblock

0:21.1

to try that problem.

0:27.7

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry

0:31.8

professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Rod Delaney of MCS Community

0:37.0

Services in Jacksonville,

0:38.5

Illinois. This is the second part of our two-part interview. You can find the Fine Home

0:43.6

Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at finehomebuilding.com

0:48.4

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. What about your own house?

0:54.4

Can you tell me a little bit about it?

0:56.2

And do you have any lingering building science problems?

0:59.4

You're either ignoring or happily ignoring?

1:03.7

The cave of bad ideas is what I call my house.

1:08.0

I built my house when I was 25.

1:11.0

I'd owned my own business for a few years at this point.

1:13.8

Are you still living it?

1:15.3

Oh, absolutely.

1:16.3

Yeah.

1:16.5

So my wife and I had bought 25 acres when we were,

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