#697: Sound Control, Insulating Shed Roofs, and Low-Yield Wells
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ian and Randy help Patrick answer listener questions about building a quiet house and sound-control strategies for new and existing homes and then the Podcast revisits its roots discussing roof venting of low-slope shed roofs. Finally they talk about how to get more water from a low-yield well.
Tune in to Episode 697 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:
- Residential sound control challenges and solutions
- How to insulate and ventilate shed roofs and
- What’s a low-yield well and strategies for increasing available water
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| 1:40.6 | I think one-tenth of a gallon per minute is about like a large adult bulldog and slobber. |
| 1:45.0 | So that is really, really low. |
| 1:50.2 | I'm not even sure if that's lower than what a low yield well would be. |
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