#663: Green Stains, Larsen Trusses and Insulating Behind Stucco

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Listeners write in about HVAC company consolidation and stains from supply lines and ask questions about Larsen trusses and insulating stucco houses.

The crew talks about the benefits and challenges of Larsen trusses and gets an update on stains from copper water lines. How to safely insulate stucco houses.

Tune in to Episode 663 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:

What causes green stains from supply piping
Can you use Larsen trusses to add racking resistance
Is it safe to insulate behind old stucco in a mixed climate

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0:00.0	I don't understand what's going on here.
0:08.2	Brian, did you take science in college?
0:10.3	This is above my pay grade, but I like how Mike jumped in so quickly.
0:14.8	It's an electrolysis, so he should continue.
0:20.2	Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building remodeling
0:24.2	and design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working
0:28.5	on houses. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Fine Home Building
0:33.1	editorial director Brian Pontellillo. Hi, everybody. Fine Home Building editorial advisor, Mike Gerton.
0:39.3	Hey there.
0:40.3	And producer Andres Semenegro.
0:42.3	Hello.
0:43.3	Please email your questions to FHB Podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com.
0:47.3	You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at
0:50.3	find homebuilding.com slash podcast.
0:53.3	Hey, it's great to see you guys. Thanks for being here.
0:56.1	Yeah. Thanks for having us. Mike, you sent us a photo of your barn in Arizona and boy, it looks
1:02.2	amazing. You want to tell folks what you've been doing? Yeah, so when we bought this house a couple
1:06.8	years ago, it had a, I think it was five or six stall horse barn and I wanted to convert
1:13.8	it and did two years ago into a garage for my pickup truck and camper so we clad the
1:21.9	building in OSB the part that would be the garage and we had one stall remaining.
1:32.0	And then looking at it, thinking about the cladding, I wanted to keep that barn look,
1:38.0	which was just horizontal two by sixes with some window, essentially windows for the horses,
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