#493: Settling Beams, Multizone Minisplits, and Fixing Stone Foundations

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Andrew, Ian, and Patrick hear from listeners about porch conversions, sawing your own lumber, and pandemic remodeling before taking listener questions about noticeable settlement, multihead minisplits, and repairing a stone foundation.

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0:00.0	Trying to modernize the systems of the house.
0:12.0	It's like the house was designed to perform the best with somebody going to the local stream and grabbing their water and splitting a bunch of wood all summer long to heat it.
0:27.7	Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and
0:32.1	design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply of the craft and science of working on houses.
0:38.5	This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Fine Home Building editorial director Andrew Zellner.
0:43.5	Morning, Patrick. Operations manager for TDS Customs Construction, Ian Schwant.
0:49.2	Hello, everyone. And our producer, Jeff Rose. Howdy.
0:54.3	Please email your questions to FHB Podcast at taunton.com.
0:57.9	You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at findhoundbunning.com slash podcast.
1:03.0	Hey guys, nice to see you this morning.
1:05.2	Good to be here.
1:05.9	Good to be here.
1:08.2	Oh, my goodness.
1:09.9	Jeff, I'd like you to start off this week. You, well, let's just say you were at a
1:16.1	what looked like a pretty good party. Yeah, it was a nice party. It was the celebration of my
1:24.6	niece's wedding because the wedding itself was kind of small.
1:29.1	So this was everybody who couldn't come to the actual wedding ceremony.
1:35.3	So it was like 150 people or so.
1:37.7	And my brother put together a, he calls it the draft horse, so he converted a horse trailer into a mobile bar.
1:52.5	And this thing was a disaster, right?
1:54.6	He took a, what was it, looked to me like a complete piece of junk and turned it into this amazing thing.
1:59.4	Yeah, yeah, I had no idea it was that bad until I saw the pictures.
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