#712: What Clients Want, Heat During Construction, and Enclosure Retrofit Sanity Check

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Doug says homeowners and home buyers worrying about the wrong things isn't new. Chris asks if reducing carbon in houses makes sense with AI's voracious energy consumption. Spenser wonders about ways to temporarily heat his job sites. Zach describes his comprehensive plan to redo his house's building envelope.

Tune in to Episode 712 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:

· Why clients having trouble caring about what they can't see

· Pros and cons of common temporary job site heating

· Rebuilding the shell of a house you're living in

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0:00.0	What do you guys use to heat your, heat your houses under construction?
0:10.6	I don't.
0:16.6	Welcome to the fine home building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed to anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.
0:25.7	I'm Fine Home Building Associate, Grant Baver, filling in this week for Patrick.
0:29.7	And I'm joined today by Green Building Advisor, editor Randy Williams.
0:34.0	Howdy.
0:35.5	Fine Homebuilding Editorial Advisor, Mike Gerton.
0:38.4	Hello.
0:39.5	And our producer, Carrie Delahante.
0:42.2	Hey.
0:43.2	You can find previous podcast and check out the show notes at findhomboldening.com backslash
0:47.5	podcast.
0:48.7	And as always, if you have any questions or feedback, please email us at Find Homebuilding
0:52.8	Podcast at Find Homebuilding.com.
0:55.0	Hey guys, good to see you.
0:56.6	Yeah.
0:56.8	I'll see you, man.
0:57.9	Absolutely.
0:58.6	So busy time in the fine home building world, and it looks like you guys have some,
1:03.1	have some projects going on right now.
1:05.0	So Mike will start with you.
1:06.8	What's going on?
	...

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