#720: Whole House Dehumidification, Drippy Bath Fans, and Wet Cabin Walls
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this special water and humidity control episode, Evan and Austin describes their whole house dehumidification strategies. Jake asks about insulating his bath fan ductwork to prevent water from dripping through the grill. Stephen wonders why the walls in his Upstate NY cabin are wet.
Tune in to Episode 720 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:
- How to integrate a whole house dehumidifier into existing ductwork
- Why is a newly installed bath fan dripping water from the grill
- Heating and construction methods to lower indoor humidity
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| 0:00.0 | Ian, what do you think we should be done here? |
| 0:07.6 | I think that he should build another structure to live in next to this one, using all |
| 0:13.6 | of the lessons that he's learned, and then get himself some goats and put goats in this |
| 0:18.7 | structure. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion. of goats and put goats in this structure. |
| 0:26.5 | 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. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
| 0:34.0 | Today I'm joined by Green Building Advisor, editor Randy Williams. |
| 0:37.9 | Good morning. Fine Home Building Contributing Editor and Production Manager for TDS home. Today I'm joined by Green Building Advisor, editor Randy Williams. Morning. |
| 0:43.2 | Fine Home Building contributing editor and production manager for TDS Custom Construction, Ian Schwant. |
| 0:46.2 | Howdy. And producer, Carrie Delahanty. |
| 0:46.9 | Hey. |
| 0:53.4 | Please email your request us to FHB Podcast at findhombuilding.com. You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at find |
| 0:54.9 | homebuilding.com slash podcast. Well, great to see you guys this morning. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:00.5 | Absolutely. Yeah. Oh my gosh, Ian, you have been supremely busy. It looks like around your |
| 1:06.4 | homestead. Your garage shop went from being a disorganized mess to a pretty functional space it looks like. |
| 1:14.6 | You want to talk about that? |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, I am in danger of becoming what my former wood shop business partner, Alan Webb, used to call a guy who just plays around it setting up shop. |
| 1:26.6 | Because I think this is like the fourth or fifth layout and it's disturbingly similar to the second |
| 1:33.5 | layout, which makes me think I had it right a long time ago. |
| 1:40.2 | I keep trying to figure out better ways to organize small machines and tools so that all I really |
| 1:47.0 | have to do is pull the two vehicles out of the garage and move a few things and I'm ready to go. |
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