#716: Shop Foundations, Steam Showers, and Sealing a Brick Crawlspace
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ian, Randy, and Patrick discuss home projects before addressing listener feedback about embodied carbon in new builds and Saddam Hussein's palaces before they taking questions about building steam showers and the right way to seal and insulate a brick crawlspace.
Tune in to Episode 716 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:
- Reducing the use of concrete in new builds for lower embodied carbon
- The right way to build and detail a steam shower to control water vapor
- Sealing and insulating a crawlspace in an old house
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| 0:00.0 | Lattecrete has a 104 page manual on how to build a steam shower, which anyone who's heard me talk on the podcast knows I'm a sucker for a good 104 page manual. So I would suggest reading those. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and |
| 0:28.0 | design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 0:33.1 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Green Building Advisor, editor Randy Williams. |
| 0:38.7 | Howdy. |
| 0:39.5 | Production Manager for TDS Custom Construction and Fine Home Building |
| 0:43.0 | contributing editor, Ian Schwant. |
| 0:44.8 | Howdy. |
| 0:45.7 | And producer, Carrie Delahanty. |
| 0:47.9 | Hey. |
| 0:48.7 | Please email your questions to FHB Podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com. |
| 0:52.8 | You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at |
| 0:55.8 | findhomebuilding.com slash podcast great to see you all this morning thanks for being here |
| 1:01.0 | morning thank you for having me uh Ian we saw some amazing photos of a really cool project you all |
| 1:09.7 | have been working on can you Can you talk about the porch you |
| 1:12.0 | guys have been rehabbing? Yeah, so anybody who's been in remodeling long enough knows the jobs |
| 1:18.3 | come in streaks, and we are midway through a streak of porch renovations. This one happens to be |
| 1:26.2 | in a historic, in quotes, historic neighborhood. |
| 1:31.3 | The type of historic neighborhood this is in reminds me of what Matt Milhelm used to say about historic preservation |
| 1:40.3 | and some of the mandated city historic regulations that they are like carrying |
| 1:47.9 | dead people's baggage. There's nothing historic about any of these buildings, but they're |
| 1:55.6 | in a district. So we have to put it back exactly as it was. And this particular porch had some pretty interesting elements to it that we recreated in our shop. |
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