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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#537: Bowed Block Walls, Air-Sealing a Post-Frame Shop, and a Rotten Door Jamb Fix

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The crew hears from listeners about Vancouver Special houses and wind-blown trash before taking questions about a bowed foundation wall, air-sealing and insulating a new shop, and fixing a door jamb with Bondo.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What you think might be a half-hour project, it might be an all-day project, as you start to get into it.

0:10.8

So it's just so hard to know.

0:13.1

Rot is just, it's rotten to deal with.

0:19.8

Rot is rotten, Mike Curt.

0:27.4

Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.

0:37.4

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

0:39.8

Today I'm joined by Fine Homebuilding Editorial Advisor, Mike Gerton.

0:43.9

Hey, guys.

0:46.0

Fine Home Building Editorial Director, Andrew Zellner.

0:49.1

Morning, Patrick.

0:50.4

And our fine producer, Jeff Rose.

0:52.2

Hi there.

0:54.5

Please email your questions to FHB Podcasts at Taunton.com.

0:58.2

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

1:04.0

Well, guys, thanks so much for being here this morning.

1:06.1

It's a pleasure to see you.

1:08.2

Happy to be here.

1:09.6

Good to see you guys.

1:14.6

Mike, what time is it? You're in Arizona, am I right?

1:22.7

Yep. It's 7 o'clock here, and I've been up for two hours, so I try to stay on East Coast time a little bit,

1:30.7

but it's only two hours difference. It's negligible, really. Is your wife an early rise or two, or do you have to tiptoll around the house to not wake her?

1:38.9

It all depends on the day. We used to do morning walks at like we'd leave at 515 or 530,

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