#705: Straw Bale Construction, Home Greenhouses, and ZIP System Sheathing
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Pia and Stephen have thoughts on flexible floor plans. Mae asks about mainstream housing. Kevin asks about controlling humidity in an attached greenhouse. Austin asks if a sheathing with an integral WRB is worth the extra cost. Ian and Randy discuss home projects and help Patrick answer listener questions about flexible floor plans, building a home greenhouse and the pros and cons of sheathing with integral WRB.
Tune in to Episode 705 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:
- Making the switch from strawbale to conventional building
- How to control humidity in an attached greenhouse
- The cost and benefit of using sheathing with a built-in WRB
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| 0:55.8 | The amount of self-awareness about their building practices that May has is something that I think all builders could take something away from and all building designers could take something away from. |
| 1:02.2 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, a weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 1:07.8 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
| 1:09.6 | Today I'm joined by Green Building Advisor, editor Randy Williams. |
| 1:13.5 | Hello? |
| 1:14.6 | Contributing editor and production manager for TDS Custom Construction, Ian Schwant. |
| 1:18.6 | Howdy? |
| 1:19.6 | And our producer, Carrie Delahanty. |
| 1:21.8 | Hey. |
| 1:22.8 | Please email your questions to FHB podcast at Fynhoundbuilding.com. |
| 1:26.6 | You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at findhoundbuilding.com. You can find previous podcast |
| 1:27.8 | and check out the show notes at findhombuilding.com slash podcast. Good to see you guys. |
| 1:33.5 | Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, always fun. This is kind of our Midwest |
| 1:39.0 | edition. I got you guys out of bed early. This is fantastic. Early. Come on, Patrick. Yeah. Midwesterners. I should know better than to say that. You guys are probably up since four, right, Randy? Pretty close. Pretty close. What do you guys do with that hour? No one is up around here, accepting the bobcats and the raccoons. It's quiet in my house. I can get lots done. Okay. I start work early and I get done a little early. That's all. |
| 2:07.6 | Well, speaking of getting done with work early, it looks like you had an interesting weekend, Randy, |
| 2:12.6 | visiting with your family and doing a little fishing. Can you talk about your, I guess it's your brother's |
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