#330: Anniversary Edition Interview: Patrick McCombe
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As part of FHB's 40th Anniversary, listener Jonathan asks regular podcast host Patrick McCombe what it's like behind the scenes at FHB, and what's right and wrong with American home building and remodeling.
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| 0:00.0 | It just came to me. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, I've always been fascinated by that kind of stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | So as a kid, I would read the Granger catalog for fun. |
| 0:15.0 | You know, hours and hours of reading page after page of the most esoteric weird stuff in the Granger catalog. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and |
| 0:32.0 | design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 0:44.3 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by our producer Jeff Rose and Jonathan from Silver Spring, Maryland. Jonathan is a regular podcast listener. You may remember the timber retaining wall of horrors or his inquiry into the right way to install a window and brick opening. |
| 0:57.2 | You may remember his query on recycling PT lumber. |
| 1:01.8 | Jonathan was among the first to answer our call to interview someone associated with the fine home building for our 40th anniversary. |
| 1:05.5 | Please email your questions to FHB Podcasts at taunton.com. |
| 1:08.9 | You can find previous podcast and check out the show notes at |
| 1:11.5 | finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. Jonathan, thank you so much for being on the show. |
| 1:17.8 | Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. I must admit, you know, I've been doing this enough now that |
| 1:23.5 | it seldom makes me nervous ahead of recording, but I am terrified right now to not be the one |
| 1:28.2 | asking questions, but I am grateful your willingness to be on the show with me. Thank you. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, of course. It's an honor. What made you want to do this? |
| 1:38.8 | You know, you've helped me out over, you know, the last couple of years in some projects that I've had. |
| 1:45.6 | There's probably close to a dozen times that I've written into the show and you guys are |
| 1:50.7 | always great. You give great responses. And usually I'm able to actually do what you say or what |
| 1:56.6 | you recommend. We want to ask how that's turned out. |
| 2:03.1 | You know, for the most part, it's really good. |
| 2:07.8 | I'll say with the window, though, you know, that window that was installed, I'm still frustrated at that one because, you know, I watched the video that you recommended of how |
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