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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#547: Basement Insulation, Historic Preservation Resources, and Shipping Container ADUs

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

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

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mike, Ian, and Patrick hear from listeners about construction productivity and kitchen remodels with FHB’s help, before taking questions about insulating a basement, resources to teach historic preservation, and making an ADU from a steel shipping container.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The final deciding factor on whether to, you know, keep the guest room lower than the rest of the house is the kind of guests you have.

0:14.7

Do you want them to be comfortable or do you want them to move along, you know, in a day or two?

0:19.1

Because they're freezing.

0:31.0

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

0:35.3

remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

0:38.9

Today I'm joined by Mike Gurdon editorial advisor for Fine Home Building.

0:44.2

Howdy.

0:45.8

Ian Schwant, contributing editor and production manager for TDS Custom Construction.

0:51.2

Hello, everyone, appearing from Patrick's Garage.

0:56.2

And our producer

0:57.7

and Man About Town, Jeff Rose.

1:00.0

Hi there.

1:02.7

So you spoiled the surprise.

1:04.5

Wait, I'm not even done with the intro.

1:06.1

You just, like, completely threw me off here.

1:08.7

Please email your questions.

1:10.0

FHB Podcast at Taunton.com. You can find previous podcasts and phbpodcast at taunton.com.

1:11.7

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

1:15.2

slash podcast.

1:16.8

Woo!

1:17.1

I think my feet fell out from under me.

1:18.7

Anyway, yeah, what is that beautiful space you're calling us from, Ian?

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