#463: The Best of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast, Volume 3
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The editors discuss straw-bale construction, corded vs. cordless tools, gas space heaters, repairing shrinking molding, and much more in these clips from episodes 150-154.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi podcast listeners. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is a best-of compilation pulled from the Fine Home Building podcast archives. |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks for listening. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. |
| 0:12.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm joined by Associate Editor Matt Milham. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello. I'm Matt. And Rob Wadsack, Digital Brand Manager. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey. Let's do this one, Matt. |
| 0:26.6 | Let's do it. |
| 0:28.4 | It's a very long question. And it involves straw bale construction. So this is right up |
| 0:34.9 | your alley. Am I wrong? |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, pretty much. One of the questions I don't, is not a detail that I've, I'm very familiar with. Should we read this whole thing? It's really long. I don't know that you need to read. So the question is he's putting down straw bales and this is now in the code, this is in the 2015 code, right? |
| 0:57.2 | So there are prescriptive guidelines for building with straw bales, believe it or not. |
| 1:02.1 | And the detail is to pour a concrete foundation, have rebar embedded in the concrete at least six inches. |
| 1:09.7 | You put the, |
| 1:11.5 | uh, hay, |
| 1:11.7 | the straw, |
| 1:12.2 | I almost call them hay bales, |
| 1:15.0 | which is not accurate. |
| 1:16.0 | Straw bales and that holds them in place. |
| 1:18.1 | And the, |
| 1:19.7 | um, |
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