#737: Interior Doors, Affordable Exterior Doors and Ikea Cabinets
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Grant, Ian and Patrick address listener feedback about felt WRBs and building your own interior doors. Then they tackle questions about affordable entry doors and installing and living with Ikea kitchen cabinets.
Tune in to Episode 737 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:
- Building your own interior doors for odd-sized openings
- Options for affordable entry doors
- Pros and cons to Ikea and other ready-to-assemble cabinets
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| 0:00.0 | You may know them for their wood glues, but did you know Tightbond also has a complete selection of construction adhesives? |
| 0:06.0 | Designed for a variety of applications, Tightbonds adhesives make any building or home improvement project a breeze with their high-performing and durable formulas. |
| 0:15.0 | These adhesives are trusted by the professional providing squeak-free subfloor installations, long-lasting retaining walls, |
| 0:22.4 | and even fastener-free feature walls. Check out Tightbonds Construction Adhesives at Tightbond.com, |
| 0:28.8 | including their newest award-winning adhesive Tight Grab Plus. |
| 0:40.2 | So what do you think about this? Have you used Chad GPT to size your heating and cooling equipment before? |
| 0:44.2 | No, I usually do your method there as I wrote family into it. |
| 0:49.3 | So thankfully I use Dennis AI, which is my dad. |
| 0:53.8 | So he takes care of all that for me. |
| 0:59.7 | 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. |
| 1:09.0 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
| 1:10.8 | Today I'm joined by Fine Home Building Associate editor, Grant Baver. Hey. Hey. craft and science of working on houses. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. |
| 1:10.8 | Today I'm joined by Fine Home Building Associate |
| 1:12.9 | Editor Grant Baver. |
| 1:14.4 | Hey. |
| 1:15.8 | Fine Home Building contributing editor |
| 1:17.2 | and operations manager for TDS Design Build, Ian Schwant. |
| 1:21.1 | Howdy. |
| 1:21.9 | And producer, Carrie Delahanty. |
| 1:23.9 | Good morning. |
| 1:25.4 | Please email our questions to FHB Podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com. |
| 1:29.1 | You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at findhomebuilding.com |
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