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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#155: Do you Really Need a Building Permit?

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Fine Homebuilding editors discuss the dangers of remodeling a house without informing the local building department.

Patrick, Matt, and Rob share some great listener feedback about home-workshop air quality before tackling questions about legally renovating a home, the pros and cons of radiant floor heating, and solutions for air trapped in a hydronic heating system.

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0:00.0

This episode of the Fine Homebuilding podcast is brought to you by Huber Engineered Woods.

0:05.5

Huber Engineered Woods, makers of Avant Tech and Zip System products, is coming to a lumberyard near you.

0:11.5

The Pruvet Tour fleet of traveling hands-on product demonstrations is hitting the road this January for lumberyard events across the country.

0:19.3

Make sure to follow at Huberwood on Instagram

0:22.0

to catch each week's events details

0:24.5

or contact your local Huber rep at Huberwood.com

0:28.4

slash contact us for a Prove It Tour event near you.

0:32.9

If you plan to be at the International Builders Show,

0:35.6

experience the Prove It tour near Badge Pickup.

0:44.3

Talking about what the shot will look like and what the talent is going to say, what our

0:49.1

carpenter is going to say. And this guy pops his head through the window and he's like,

0:53.1

hi, building inspector.

0:54.8

And we just crack up.

0:56.3

We're just like, that's hilarious.

0:59.0

Turns out he was the building inspector.

1:06.8

Welcome to the Find Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building remodeling

1:10.6

and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.

1:16.1

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

1:18.1

I'm joined by Associate Editor Matt Milham.

1:20.3

Hey, Patrick.

1:21.2

Hi, Matt.

1:22.3

And Rob Wattack, Digital Brain Manager.

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