Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast
By Fine Homebuilding Magazine
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Podcast Description
Every week, Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik springs for lunch for a small group of homebuilding staffers. Join them for conversations about a variety of subjects including new products and materials, code changes, home design, and more.
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Insulating a vented roof | Attics are a great place to reclaim living space without the expense of an addition. If you have the headroom, you can gain at least one extra room by finishing your attic. But with energy codes requiring more and more insulation, it can be difficult to pack all of that R-value into the skinny little small rafters that are common in older houses. One solution is to add layers of rigid foam under the rafters, but this cuts in to living space. A better solution is to add layers of foam to the outside of the roof. This not only boosts R-value, but it breaks the thermal bridge of the rafters and increasing the air-tightness of the whole roof assembly. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five Big Holes in your Air Barrier | Mike Guertin and peter Yost talk about the five biggest energy leaks in new and old houses. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Installing Air-Tight Windows | Windows represent the biggest potential holes in the building envelope. Think about it: the rough openings are just big holes — until you actually plug the opening with a window. But plugging the opening with a window unit doesn’t necessarily keep the weather out. Think about an inner tube with a tiny hole in it. If the tube is full of water, it drains slowly. If it is full of air, it goes flat almost immediately. Air squeezes through tiny holes a lot faster than water does. So sealing a window for air leaks can have a huge effect on the energy performance of a home. This week we look closely at the Energy Smart Details department from the current Fine Homebuilding magazine (that’s issue 220 for those of you who are keeping score). The window details come from our premium website, Green Building Advisor, and we’ve asked a couple of our advisors to weigh in on the topic. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shear Bracing a Foam-Sheathed Wall | Energy efficient construction methods are becoming much more common on job sites around North America. Articles about these techniques are showing up more and more in Fine Homebuilding magazine. While a lot of the techniques are not new, they may be new to you. One such practice that is gaining ground in new construction as well as retrofits is applying exterior foam to wrap a house in insulation. This practice presents some special conundrums for builders who are new to the practice, like "how do I flash the window opening?" By far the most common question we get at Fine Homebuilding whenever we publish an article about breaking the thermal bridge with exterior foam, relates to lateral bracing, or shear strength of the finished walls. And because many of the construction details at Green Building Advisor (our premium website) feature this construction method, we asked the experts to weigh in on it for us. Fine Homebuilding 's editorial advisor, Mike Guertin, and Green Building Advisor' s technical editor, Peter Yost, sat down and talk through some of the construction details available in Green Building Advisor 's detail library. They discuss seven ways to address shear resistance. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deck Design Dos and Don't's | A conversation with the editors of Fine Homebuilding yields five great tips to consider before designing and building a deck. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liability and Lead-Safe Remodeling -- Insurance, Anyone? | In this episode we’ll finish up our ; our series on lead paint. In the first two episodes of this three-part series we talked about tools, OSHA, | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Cost of Lead-Safe Remodeling | In this episode, we continue our series on lead paint. Web producers Ed Pirnik and Dan Morrison listen to an interview between Ed and remodeler Bob Hanbury as he talks about the cost of compliance. | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Magazine Lunch Pail Podcast - May 14, 2010 | EPISODE ELEVEN - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, we offer the answer to last week's brain teaser, announce the winner of our Milwaukee Job Saw Kit, and introduce listeners to a brand-new government program for energy upgrade-related tax rebates. | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Magazine Lunch Pail Podcast - May 7, 2010 | EPISODE TEN - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, we've launched a special edition of the Lunch Pail Podcast. Since our editors have been hard at work turning out a new special issue, we've been left "guestless." So, Ed's offering listeners a chance to win a Milwaukee Job Saw Kit to a randomly selected commenter to the podcast's blog post. If you can solve his construction-themed brain teaser, and if your correct answer is randomly selected among those we receive in the blog's comments section, you've got yourself a new tool. | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Magazine Lunch Pail Podcast - April 30, 2010 | EPISODE NINE - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, special issues editor Chuck Miller regales us with tales of the home that sausage built, and senior web producer Dan Morrison attempts to solve the mystery around why we continue to frame houses like it's 1969. | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Magazine Lunch Pail Podcast - April 23, 2010 | EPISODE EIGHT - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, editor-in-chief Brian Pontolilo explains how heat pumps aren't necessarily all they're cracked up to be by green energy proponents. Plus, Chris Ermides drops by with the answers to questions he posed to the EPA concerning controversial new lead paint regulations. | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - April 16, 2010 | EPISOE SEVEN - Join fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, associate editor Rob Yagid takes the Energy Star program to task for bogus ratings, and senior editor Chuck Miller delivers his plea to take deck design more seriously. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - April 9, 2010 | EPISOE SIX - Join fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, senior editor Chuck Bickford and associate editor Rob Yagid join the podcast to commiserate over questionable building practices, crazy construction techniques and even drug use on the job site. | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - April 2, 2010 | EPISODE FIVE - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, managing editor Deb Silber and senior editor Justin Fink get a head start on the 2010 deck season with information on new synthetic decking materials, durable finishes for natural wood, and a ballistic fastening system that combines the solid holding power of a screw with the easy installatin of a pneumatic nailer. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - March 26, 2010 | EPISODE FOUR - Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, senior editor Justin FInk reveals a few of the lessons he's learned from the search for a not-so-common building material: mineral wool. Plus, associate editor Rob Yagid sparks a debate over aesthetics vs. energy efficiency in building design. | 3/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - March 19, 2010 | EPISODE THREE Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, we take a bite out of the recent controversial lawsuit levelled against Ryobi power tools. Plus, our longest-serving staffer gets some gentle ribbing from the "new guys" and shares stories from his nearly three decades editing the magazine's Tips & Techniques department. | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - March 12, 2010 | EPISODE TWO Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, we tackle two new regulations that builders and remodelers will want to take note of. Associate editor Rob Yagid clues us in on new lead paint certification deadlines and senior editor Chuck Bickford rips into radon. It's our very first "Poisonous Podcast" at FineHomebuilding.com. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fine Homebuilding Lunch Pail Podcast - March 5, 2010 | EPISODE ONE Join Fine Homebuilding web producer Ed Pirnik as he hosts a weekly podcast with the magazine's editors. This week, senior editor Justin Fink weighs in on attic insulation misconceptions, associate editor Rob Yagid visits a New Hampshire timber-frame outfit with some mammoth-sized tools, and editor-in-chief Brian Pontolilo shares some surprising results from the latest issue's reader survey. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Great podcast.
I've learned quite a bit from this. I wish it was a bit more frequent and a video option would be nice.
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