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Clearstory

Introducing Clearstory from This Old House

Clearstory

This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9726 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Clearstory is a new podcast from This Old House that sheds light on the surprising stories behind our homes. Host Kevin O'Connor digs into the systems, structures and materials in our homes from unexpected angles. Clearstory – your home in a new light. Premieres on October 24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For over 40 years, this old house has been giving you exceptional home improvement and remodeling advice.

0:07.0

And you can trust our experts will always have the best tips for all of your projects.

0:12.0

And now, well, now we've got something new.

0:15.0

Hey, guys, keep it down over there, huh?

0:19.0

I'm Kevin O'Connor, and this is ClearStory. Guys, keep it down over there, huh?

0:27.6

I'm Kevin O'Connor, and this is Clear Story, the new podcast from this old house.

0:32.5

We're here to shed some light on the surprising stories behind our homes.

0:34.3

But what does that mean?

0:38.3

Well, we're definitely going to talk about the things you might expect from this old house.

0:46.6

You have to have the right amount of water in the tank to have enough to come down and fall into the bowl and then create a siphon, which then creates a pull.

0:51.2

A post is the upright component, and the beams are the horizontal components.

0:54.4

So a timber frame is basically a skeleton.

0:56.2

You let the line go.

0:59.3

It sucks the foam around the pulley,

1:03.2

and now you've just closed that gap and stop that draft.

1:06.3

But on Clear Story, we're also going to talk about the home from some unexpected angles.

1:08.7

The first half of the headline is we are not running out of water.

1:11.7

But the second half of the headline is,

1:14.2

human civilization is built where the water is.

1:18.4

In the United States, we all all these factories that have been built up

1:21.6

to supply the war industry, and then all of a sudden the war is over.

1:25.5

And so these factories are looking for other things they can do, and manufacturing windows is one of them. Each week, we'll dig into the interesting

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