#156: Home Building Across the Globe, Air-sealing Can Lights, and Parging an Old Concrete Wall

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

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4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast starts off with Matt's insights into residential construction methods in the many places he's lived around the world while writing for the newspaper Stars and Stripes.

Because the Fine Homebuilding editors have nothing to report on their personal home-remodeling projects, Patrick asks Matt to recount experiences he's had living in unique homes in Europe and the Middle East. Then it's on to the advice portion of the show, where the guys offer solutions for improving attic insulation, avoiding het loss through leaky recessed lighting, and repairing crumbling plaster or stucco on old masonry foundation walls.

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1:39.7	Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast.
1:41.8	Our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.
1:48.8	This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.
1:51.0	I'm joined by Associate Editor Matt Milham.
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