#665: Rough Concrete, Good Workwear, and Framing a High-Performance House

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The crew hears a tale of hand-digging a deeper foundation and toss out ideas for fixing rough concrete, before discussing the perfect workwear.

Tune in to Episode 664 of the Fine Homebuilding Podcast to learn more about:

· Solutions for a rough concrete slab

· The best for workwear in all seasons

· Framing energy- and resource-efficient buildings

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0:00.0	I think you should do it and tell us how it goes.
0:11.0	We just said you learned from your mistakes, right?
0:13.1	Exactly.
0:13.6	It's called building science because we're doing experiments.
0:19.2	Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, a weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and
0:23.4	design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.
0:28.7	This is Senior Editor Patrick McCone. Today I'm joined by Fine Home Building editorial director,
0:33.4	Brian Pantolillo. Hey, everybody. Producer Andre Samaniego.
0:43.5	And special guest, Dan Colbert, co-author of Pretty Good House and FHB's new e-learning module framing high-performance houses.
0:46.8	Hey.
0:47.4	Please email your questions to FHB podcast at findhoundholding.com.
0:51.0	You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at find
0:54.2	homebuilding.com slash podcast. Good to see you guys this morning. You too, Patrick. Yeah.
1:01.2	Oh, boy. So, Dan, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. It's not the first time, but it might
1:06.5	be the first time in a regular podcast episode. Thanks for being here. Can you please tell us a little
1:13.7	bit about your business before we get into the show? And I should point out to listeners who are
1:19.3	unfamiliar. You're the author or one of the co-authors of Fine, of Taunton Press is pretty good
1:24.7	house. And I will talk a little about that too.
1:30.1	Yes, that is true.
1:34.0	So I am a building contractor in Portland, Maine.
1:39.2	I've been doing that for 20 or 30 years now.
1:43.6	I've been in the trades for going on 40 years.
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