4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Andrew, Ian, and Patrick hear from listeners about opportunity costs, ballooning project budgets, and redoing a bath in a one-bathroom house before taking listener questions about second thoughts on design, heating a small woodshop, and fastening heavy things to light-gauge steel studs.
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1:04.0 | What happened was the person who did that work probably used like 26 or 28 gauge steel studs, which are just slightly more robust. |
1:08.0 | Thicker than a tin can. |
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1:13.6 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, |
1:21.6 | remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
1:29.1 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by professional estimator Ian Schwant and |
1:34.8 | regular podcast host. How you doing everybody? |
1:38.8 | Andrew Zellner, editorial director for Fine Home Building and GBA. Good morning. And our producer, Jeff Rose. |
1:46.0 | Hello. |
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1:51.3 | You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. |
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