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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#467: Crawlspace Ductwork, Heat-Pump Hydronic Heating, and Unconditioned Basement Rooms

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Education, Leisure, How To, Home & Garden

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Andrew, Ian, and Patrick hear from listeners about termites and heat pumps before taking questions about hot attic living space, using fiberglass reinforced panels (FRP) for sheathing, and bringing underporch rooms into the thermal envelope.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You can push on a foundation wall and it moves a little bit.

0:08.3

That's a problem.

0:09.5

I think once you get your head around underpinning the rest of the house, the problems of this room will likely no longer be your problems and you'll save them for the next homeowner.

0:23.6

Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building,

0:30.6

remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.

0:36.6

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

0:38.4

Today I'm joined by editorial director Andrew Zellner. Morning Patrick. Operations Manager for TDS

0:44.3

Customs Construction, Ian Schwant. Morning, Patrick. And our longtime producer, Jeff Rose. Hi there.

0:51.3

Please email your questions to FHB Podcast at taunton.com.

0:54.6

You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at findhomebuilding.com slash podcast.

0:59.6

What's a pleasure to see you guys again.

1:01.0

Thanks for being here.

1:02.5

Happy to be here as always.

1:04.6

Andrew, I want to jump into it.

1:06.5

You had a blow-door door test.

1:08.2

Do you want to talk about that?

1:09.9

Yeah. So, you know, as often happens,

1:12.7

you put something out into the world, people reach out, and they're like, hey, I want to see how

1:16.6

leaky your old house is. So our good friend, Randy Williams, from up in northern Minnesota, had a

1:24.1

trip to the Rockwall factory planned. And so he was flying out of Minneapolis, and he said,

1:29.7

hey, I've got a few hours if you want to do a blower door test. And I said, absolutely. Way better

1:36.2

than sitting at an airport. So tell me, was the process what you expected? Have you seen one of these

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