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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"Love that noisy. That's a good noisy I like that. Right? All right, so I had many people write in on this one. One listener named William Steele said hi Jay this week's noisy sounds a bit like the Star Wars blaster sound from rapping on a long cable. I will invoke a bit of that and say that this is a flywheel or some sort of long drive shaft in a tube. Maybe some naval application. That is incorrect, but I mean, I totally see where you were going with that description. I have another listener here named Patrick mccomb, who said it's a symbol rotating to a stop on a hard surface, like a Euler's disk. Again, I could kind of hear that. I mean, I think a symbol would have been a little bit of a higher pitch or ten year sounding to be on the nose with that. Another listener named Matthew killick wrote in and said, hey Jay, newish listener, first time guessing, I think the noisy this week is a super taut wire connected at both ends that's being spun really fast. I've heard something like this and I think you are correct when it comes to this guess as far as I've heard that and I've heard a similar type of noise with a wire spinning onto itself. But that is not correct. I have another guess from Michael dello and he says hey folks this week's noisy had a very motor engine feel to it. I think I could hear the engine dying out at the end and also had a separate noise that sounded like someone running a stick along a metal fence. So he's guessing an old motor car engine with a defect or brake causing part of it to rattle along another part as the motor runs. So none of these are correct and nobody actually guessed the noisy this week. I knew this one was going to be difficult, but nobody even came close, so I'm just going to tell you what this is. This is a steam roller that is rolling over gravel. And there is a metal bar on a steamroller that clears the roller before it touches the ground again, kind of like would scrape things off of the roller. The way that I'm seeing it in the video, it looks kind of like, you know, almost like a knife that runs along the drum. To get stuff off of it. And it's scraping off these rocks that have stuck to the roller itself. I know it's weird, but it was such a cool noisy I had to use it very hard to guess, of course. If anybody said steamroller, that would have been it. Rock and roller. Let me play the sound for you again.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"Guesses guys? I don't have a clue. Some parts would sound like a rocket taking off, you know what I mean? But why the stop in the restart and, you know, it's like breaks up. A rain sticky vibe, but well, let's see what the listeners think. So we have a listener named Brendan, and he said, hi Jay, everyone. I initially thought the noisy this week was the sound going through Jay's head as he bites into a particularly good meatball. But I've since ruled that out. I'm not sure if it's profound enough. So my guess for this week's noisy is a nuclear bomb test. I thought that was a very good guess that is incorrect. You'll see what it actually is very soon, but you know, I guess the thing that it actually is a nuclear bomb test probably have some things in common from a sound perspective. Kristin McConnell wrote in. Hey, Jay, I believe this week's noisy is a controlled avalanche. I can hear the explosion then the snow loosening up and falling. Love the show thanks, Kristen. I have heard this. I have been at a ski resort when this was happening. Didn't we talk about avalanche guns at some point? Yeah, we did. Yep. Yeah, there's similarities between that and what it is. This is not a correct guess, but definitely a good guess. A listener named Richard Smith wrote in and said this week's noisy sounds like the lightning and detonation of a sizable quantity of thermite on top of ice. I don't think I've ever heard that. I don't hear an ice sound in there either, but I don't know. I don't claim to be an expert with thermite. That is not a correct guess. We have another guest here by Patrick mccomb, he said, I'm guessing that is the prepping launching and detonating of a torpedo, and I am almost certainly incorrect. I can't remember if I've heard a recording of a torpedo being shot. I bet you it sounds very different depending on the sub that you're in as well. That is not correct and this week there were no winners. I thought this one was gonna be much easier. So this was sent in by a listener named John McNeill and he said, seeing this video is really cool. This is actually a very cool video. There is a mechanical spring release that you hear and it separates the spacecraft following a silent pause and then probably a recognizable sound of a rocket motor as the payload moves on to orbit. So now I went to the YouTube video and I read more about this. This was posted by rocket lab. So what we're hearing is first and second stage separation of rocket lab's electron launch vehicle during the return to sender mission on November 20th, 2020. So what's happening is the second stage is preparing to disconnect from the first stage rocket. And you hear like a latch type of sound, and that's like a mechanism. I guess it's decoupling and then there's a massive pressure change and then it is expelled from the first stage and then the rocket boosters come on. So let me play for you one more time. That's depressurization. There's a latch. That's.
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"Thank guys i think. Is somebody pretending to be sprinkler. Talking parcel tongue. Let's parcel tongue harry potter potter language. In harry potter. I will patrick mccomb wrote in and said i'm guessing it's an old steam powered plane catapult on an aircraft carrier a steam powered. That's very specific catapult and esoteric. Do those exist guys. I didn't have time to look it up to the old plane. Catapults used to be steam powered. You know what he's talking about the right off of an aircraft carrier. They launched planes off by speeding them on like a rubberband kind of snapping them and yeah so it's interesting. I'd have to look into that more curious to learn more about that but that is not correct but thanks patrick. For saying that in shane. Heal your road. And he goes jay. I think this week's who's that noisy is a miniature bow on a tether going around in a circle. I know what you're going for so there are people wrote in the car version of this as well. Basically it's a car or a boat or some type of vehicle that's that's on tether and it goes in a circle circle circle and they speed up speed up and speed up that is not correct but that is not that bad of a guest these tutti he said i hear repetitive compression of gas followed by jet noise moving away so i'm guessing compressed air powered rocket. That's pretty cool. Guess i've heard compressed air rockets go and there's a little bit of a similarity there. This is not correct. But i think that's a cool guest on the less and then i have a listener named danilo escobar. And he said. I figured i'd submit this guests from my four year old sky. It's an eagle flying next to his snake and the eagle hurts the snake and then a person with a wagon happens to walk by. Let them dan tell your sankai. He's awesome and to send me in guesses every week. Because i would love to read them. It was a snake. He said an eagle flying next to snake. That park kills me. So christopher umbreit said hi jay i think this is the rotary. Faa antenna column. Turning at an airport. I helped make a few of these up close and they sound very similar. You guys rock knock correct not correct. My friend no winner this week. I feel like i've learned how to gauge. How decibel a noisy is. And i was sure people were gonna guess this one so i was wrong this week. So let me tell you what it is. This was centered by a listener named ryan. Skiba and ryan said i came across this noisy on read it and then he goes on to say they allow a wind turbine to continuously accelerate in the wind before the blades adjust their angle of attack and basically windbreak. The wind breaking begins at timestamps forty seconds. It sounds crazy and he doesn't really know anything else about this but let me play again and think winter by.
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Angles in and it was a hard battle at i. Welcome to the fine holding. Go pro talk podcast. Our regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today on joined by josh walker. And ted de sentence of six twenty work where you can find that fine homebuilding pro talk podcast and the original find homebuilding podcast at fine home. Dot com slash podcast. You can leave feedback. Ask questions there to. Hey guys thanks very much for being on the show. It's nice to have you here. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. I was delighted to meet you. Guys at the recent jail. See live show. Can you tell the listeners. Well what the heck you guys do. Because i think it's pretty interesting for sure. Teddy when jumping. Yeah sure so I mean i guess they're not. Shall we designed develop a manufacturer and sell technical work where Everything's one hundred percent made in usa and Just dedicated to making the best work. Where in the market. So we start with the best performance materials. We use organic Features that come from alpine those sorts and the best athletic apparel and then really tried to create products. That make the workman's job easier and you know things that they don't have to worry about on the job site like open. How did you guys get into work. Where business and why not other kind of garment. Long story you know. We both have asked Backgrounds in recreation and outdoor activities action sports I was previously a co founder of a helmet company called burn helmets action sport based home accompany.
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"There too. Well paul you're a brave man you have are facing the gauntlet of f. Hb versus home inspectors. And you wrote in because you feel like the brand has unfairly criticized the industry and you are here to help us understand better what you do. I'll give my shot but my shot here. What made you want to do this. It seems like a thankless job. Well you know. I've enjoyed fine wholesale. This sense the first episode. So it's something that i've learned a from and obviously it's not the brand versus homeless. People had life experiences. You and maybe some of the other Podcast people. So i just feel like it's onto silly Competition or some kind of antagonistic thing. It's just we've had People bad experiences or maybe you don't quite understand what the industry is. I'm just happy to do my best to share what i know. Well i agree with your sediments. It's definitely not an tag nissim. i I appreciate willingness to out to talk to us. I think it's going to be great. Can you tell me about your business and how you became a home inspector. Yeah so we do. Residential commercial home inspections a little bit consulting work on the side. You know we are in the berkeley california but we work in the east bay and generally we are We're coming out providing report and you know in our market is typically people are selling their homes and not so much that are for the buyers obviously the industry has shifted quite a bit over the years and we started out. I started off in two thousand six But the industry has shifted kind of from the buyer side to the seller side. So i'm gonna interrupt you for sex so your goal is to tell sellers what they should address before putting their home on the market is that correct partially specified strategy but it's also about disclosure california's pretty strong disclosure laws. So basically you want to say. Hey this is what we have have a thorough inspection report. If there's something that's wrong they can say well here. We are is disclosed. That everyone now knows that this thing is happening but also sellers can strategize. Sometimes if there's a something that might concern buyers the agents will maybe get a bid or a quote or maybe an engineer or whatever experts come out and say you know this might be near a concern because the date has kind of the experts on the market and what the buyers may want or maybe concerned about so once you disclose everything out front then. There's less back and forth. There's less haggling. There's obviously a smoother transactions. So that's kind of where everything's been shifting. How did you become a home inspector. Well i had a friend who was home inspector and this is about two thousand six this has been the previous bubble in the homosexuals are great. You should get into it and thought it was interesting And then i bought my own house in two thousand six course. That was in the bubble but I i had a home inspection and the guy came out and super nice. But at the same time i was like. Oh this. is this thing that shrouded mystery like. I could do this if i wanted to So then i took a class that was like one of these two classes but to teach you everything you need to know and the first thing i learned was like okay. It's way more than two weeks to figure out what's going on here so you know We had some great instructors in the class. Douglas hansen who else the coach series is one of the primary instructors at the time And then i just hooked up with one of the teachers who was looking to hire so basically was an apprentice And that was how. I learned I think there's a lot of dollars obviously General buildings but a lot of inspections is about local knowledge. I if i had a house in this neighborhood in this built in this year how would that be built. What kind of methods they use was your number. Two wiring learning that kind of local knowledge is just as critical is knowing how houses are built. What are the some of the typical things that folks worry about where you're at. What are some of the common problems. Well earthquakes is why. So do you go under homes and see if they've been retrofitted for seismic concerns absolutely so as an inspection. We are every chance we get. We're going to get on the roof unless it's not safe. We're going to make every effort to get on the roof. We'll get an every crawlspace will squeeze into that small spaces we can get. Obviously there's limitations and there's times not acceptable but looking at looking at the nation putting your hands on the roof. You know checking for the main elements of retrofit. And i think when i started to six lot people like oh i know i need a retrofit in do i really need this now all the buyers i talked to you though. Yeah totally makes sense it. There's no pushback at all And then you know as an inspection industry in and knowledge of all those people are thinking about more like well. What about wildfires. Or you know. There's other things that were were dealing with these days. So it does Kind of evolves over time Can you talk about ashi. The american society of home inspectors is that right. How many members and is there. A code of conduct in are there professional expectations to be a member for sure. Yeah so there's about. I just checked with them. There's about six thousand members. There's three levels of membership. So some says i'm a member of is it's going okay. That's great. what kind of membership is it. So anybody off the street conjoined ashi. That's will skull the member and that's when you first starting out yet learn industry and then as inspector. I think it's fifty inspections and then there's a certification process where you're submitting reports. You're having to pass tests about the standards of practice. Which is what we follow. There's also a code of ethics that we have to follow and the highest levels ashi. Acim actually certified inspector and that's a certification that's been accredited by the national commission of certify agencies. That's something that you know. All the different inspection organizations lots of mountain people are members of different ones As she is the only one that's actually credited by to say. Hey is this. A real quality That's an issue as opposed to someone. Say hey i can. Patrick mccomb can create their own organization as they'd pick thousand bucks and i'll give you a nice shiny badge so let's do that later. Jeff okay so is that pretty strenuous. Is it hard to get that certification. It's it's not. I mean..
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Welcomes the fine home building. Pro-talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today on joined by remodeler. Fine homebuilding contributor. J elsie live presenter and russian motorcycle rider mike patterson. We're going to have to talk more about that later right man. It's really nice to have you on the show. We've known each other for years going back to jail. See live in 'oughts. Yeah what's it's great to have you. Thanks for doing this. can you. please tell me what you do Your remodeler gaithersburg maryland. For a long time. Can you talk about your business. Food clients are. What kind of projects did that kind of stuff. So we are our small shopowners myself from the office so And i had gone. It'll show we do much work to do. I was eating nine. You presented work. You do is spur for architects architect. Really work as one outlay Smart work is designed not And so i worked with her any for twenty years A lot of words you get. I worked holdouts belts for almost two years ago. What made you put your tolls down. Was it physically or was it some other reason about I'm sixty seven now. We'll be twenty seven shortly so wearing belsen at long just takes toll on you. Back of neck out and But also just sort of the point where. I was kind of limited in what i could do. I had had some is in years prior to the crash at work yourself always using yes
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"Welcomes the fine home building. Pro-talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today on joined by remodeler. Fine homebuilding contributor. J elsie live presenter and russian motorcycle rider mike patterson. We're going to have to talk more about that later right man. It's really nice to have you on the show. We've known each other for years going back to jail. See live in 'oughts. Yeah what's it's great to have you. Thanks for doing this. can you. please tell me what you do Your remodeler gaithersburg maryland. For a long time. Can you talk about your business. Food clients are. What kind of projects did that kind of stuff. So we are our small shopowners myself from the office so And i had gone. It'll show we do much work to do. I was eating nine. You presented work. You do is spur for architects architect. Really work as one outlay Smart work is designed not And so i worked with her any for twenty years A lot of words you get. I worked holdouts belts for almost two years ago. What made you put your tolls down. Was it physically or was it some other reason about I'm sixty seven now. We'll be twenty seven shortly so wearing belsen at long just takes toll on you. Back of neck out and But also just sort of the point where. I was kind of limited in what i could do. I had had some is in years prior to the crash at work yourself always using yes
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Exactly yeah the materials that go on the on. The foundation are a little bit different than goes on the walls. But they look the same. What have you guys used on your projects with regard to w arby's Well you know. It's it's been a long time since i've been working in the remodeling industry for you know for professional level so i have not been in that world since all. The new stuff has come around but on personal projects I've basically done like what columnist talking. If you're a homeowner doing a small project A a a well taped lapped carefully. cut layer of of of worn on the common house. Wrap materials. yeah. I typically in the past us tie on my last project. I use the zip system with their tip. So it's not exactly w but it's built into the system but it is the wbz yeah so So how does that stack up for instance because tarmac which is sort of like the outer layer the the green or red part of the zip. I think that's the arab persian like so on a house that's going to be sprayed. You need the sheathing material spray it with zip. It's sort of one in the same. Did you do a cost comparison there. We did and the cost very close. very close because the the price of Zip system sheathing right. Now that we checked twenty nine dollars a sheet which is as high as i've ever seen it so obviously when the panel prices go up both commodity and zip system that makes it more expensive to use it and the win the zip though. Like their chip. Well it's not a chipboard. Would you be b When their price goes up is that usually like an industry trend where all of us is going up. so what. Y'all guys might not know this. But i worked in the lumber yard in the building materials. Business for a while and Despite zip system. Not being a commodity. It's made by one company. It's a manufactured product it follows the commodities market so osb and plywood are commodities and their price goes up and down with demand so quite intelligently Huber follows that market to price their sheathing as well. So even if there's like gazillions of sheets at the huber plant Price deal goes up. What about you what do you use. So i'm a fan of felt my last who big building projects i used a thirty pound felt and i like it because a it's inexpensive be. It has a permeability that varies with. How wet the material is. So it's dry it has Comparatively limited permeability but when it gets wet it's permeating goes up so it can dry more readily but now felt isn't that that's can you even use felt as an air barrier though. We're not really now. You need to have your air barrier somewhere else. In my case tape sheathing with the fell on top. and it's a pain to work with The small pieces or a drag. If you have wind it's very fragile I've had good success using cap nails to keep it on and interestingly The minimum in the building code is number fifteen fell right was used to be described as fifteen pound fell. But now they've put the number signed before and it only has to be Seven pounds and that refers to how much one hundred square foot ways and anyone will tell you that the materials gotten worse and crappier as time has gone on. Okay yeah and so. There's no provision actually in the building code for using thirty pound felt which obviously twice as thick. But that's what. I like to use well in in defense of felt as a water barrier. I can't remember if it goes my girton who talked about deck framing report framing longtime ago and had done some demolition on an existing portrait on a very old house and found that someone had done strips of felt along the tops of the joists it wasn't consistent. There was some part where maybe somebody'd repaired it and taking it out. And he said that all of the floor joists that had the felt strips along the top were intact and the ones that didn't were rot it. It's good to know that the thing about felt that i think is pretty darn cool is okay so you have it on the wall before. You've installed you're siding. It's gonna get wet either from do or rain or whatever and then it gets all wrinkly and when you put the siding on it actually has some cavities behind that allow water to drain if it does get behind it. So i mean i. I think there's a lot to like about. Asphalt felt for we opened a lot of houses from hundreds of years ago that have it and it works pretty darn stood the test of time. I'd say so. Make sure you have a good. W. rb behind siding is probably the way to wrap up this conversation because we talked about the stucco job. I was on recently where they were doing testing and all those walls are falling apart so not good energy. This is senior editor patrick mccomb. I'm joined by associate editor matt. Melhem and rob watson digital brand manager. One of my friends recently asked me about knob into wiring. He doesn't want to mention he doesn't want us to mention his name. Some people say if it's not a problem to add Some people say if it's on a problem don't mess with it and some people say absolutely change it because it's a fire hazard so the question is is exposed. Novelty wiring problem guys want to weigh in on this exposed as in. It's just like out on the surface. And you don't have any drywall or anything else over exactly so this would either be in your basement or in your attic. You know you you could see it Presumably and see if it's degrading or pro there's problems with it What i'd say. I mean attic is certainly the place you'd be more concerned within the basement. Just because you're talking about a surface that's facing up thick stuff could be put on top of it as opposed to just being above your head suspended between the joyce so. That's not what i thought you were going to say really. I thought you were going to say it in the attic because the heat would be damaging to the wires insulation. Which i think is totally true. Well what. I meant by the attic. Those that i people are more tempted to either put stuff on top of it especially if they're thinking about insulating i see. Yeah no so So no i think addicts definitely bigger concern but In fact I don't have the number. You probably do patrick. Because you're you're more of the code nerd than i am but but basically than national electric code specifies that if if there is nava to wiring and you are placing any loose fell blown in or spray applied insulation. That that isn't it needs to be removed. He can't be encased in for fire hazard reasons because the way how it works is the the individual conductors knob in wiring Can give off heat and if you bury them. Insulation that quality is reduced and Potential for fire goes much higher so actually when we back up then. Because we didn't really. I mean i'm sure most people familiar with old houses. No it a tube is but go ahead but basically the way it works is They would install bare copper. Wires not bear insulated but individual conductors and They would be suspended from your framing members through ceramic insulator similar to the type of insulator e. See on on Utility utility pole smaller. Don't like The ones. I've seen her like ordinarily an inch in diameter and probably two inches tall. And the the reason why it's called knob and tube is because when it was suspended on the surface it would be wrapped around a little knob or clamped between two portions of alot knob and then when it goes through a framing member goes through ceramic pipe or tube so and that insulates the conductor and afford some protection to the wire when they're running it right.
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"Place to save money and oftentimes they problems later on the road because they were either never done right the first place or they had difficulty integrating the new. Wr be with the existing window flashing. So it's a hard thing to get right. I think somebody who's really conscientious potentially could but it's it's hard. Yeah yeah. I mean in a perfect world. You're you're finding a way to flash into when new openings and that doesn't happen with the windows in place and you know i so. I posed that question. I said about doing that similar kind of job to my house. And because i've got clobbered with no sheathing underneath them. They're they're saying well you know you're not gonna get your your air barrier and even just mounting. Everything would be difficult but with flat cedar boards. I'm thinking maybe it's not such a bad substrate. It's acting like board sheathing. Yeah i don't have a problem with that as long as it's intact it i can't really tell from the question whether the stuff is like reasonably sound. It sounds like it is been off. Yeah he he has minimal coming and everything else. So i assume that could probably hold an l. But i mean still to be safe. Try to get it through framing when you can and you wonder then if if you're not pulling this in the old board siding off And you wanna try to do some air sealing can you think of. Is there a reasonable way to try to tack. That i mean by going around the perimeter of of the walls or tape and i think i'd go to martin holidays Backyard tape task for guidance. On what the best particular tape is to adhere to. Whatever type of foamy has the different tapes. Dick better two different things. I know that foam is one of the hard things to get taped to stick to. What the Gaza with stucco inspector has on his house final vinyl siding. This is senior editor. patrick mccomb. I'm joined by senior video producer. Colin russell in rob wad sack digital brand manager. Thanks guys for being here so we have a couple of things to talk about before we get into questions just asked me to have a conversation. Regarding w arby's and for those of you who are in the gallery of building Probably would be happy to know that that stands for water resistant barrier. And it's what goes on under your siding and it's meant to keep water from damaging the sheathing and and framing of your home and this came up because i was on a photo shoot recently where they were installing a Spray applied w rb which looks a lot like foundation coating. Yeah absolutely well i think. That's what the original product was correct. It is in fact this company that makes this product has long made foundation coatings and they adapted that Material to put on walls above grade. Two and i think it was awesome. Because there's no seams. Was that the first time you had seen that application process. Yes accepting photos. Where i've seen other products on houses that had had this done but i'd never seen it installed and it was really really really cool and it took about two days for them to do this entire house. That was probably twenty five hundred square feet all right so if it took two days to spray the house what do you think it would have taken to. For instance put topic on. But then i guess if we're talking we're talking about taping the seems if we're talking if we're comparing it to a spray on yes so as everyone probably knows who listens out. Here w. rb's are installed very poorly generally right rahm. Yeah i mean. I think A lot of the people who have been installing house rapper. Wbz's over the years have always had a complete understand of what what the end goal is. Or how the details all transition into each other and when these products were first introduced they were of as air barriers. This was meant to reduce air leakage on your house but a plastic house wrap doesn't do that easily. You know i find it kind of interesting we're excited to see this Liquid applied. Wr be on on a house project and it seems like we're finally starting to get a lot of things that have been in. The commercial and industrial world for decades trickle into the into the home building industry and like another example is the is like the rockwall exterior semi rigid insulation. Which is a mineral wool Exterior insulation right. Yeah and you know. A lot of these projects products seem to have been proven in this other application. But i guess the world's just those two worlds just haven't communicated much sure and i think that boils down to one reason Cost this is komo more costly than house. Wraps so builders were profit-driven and who isn't have always looked to plastic house. Rapper fell perhaps to make their buildings weather tight and oftentimes. It just doesn't work well so if you're going liquid applied with type of equipment or are you going to need to purchase so this company has a large gas powered sprayer. Did they use to put this coating on. They also have a man lift and equipment trailer to pull it around with and i think it can reach almost forty feet when it's close to the building and aside from that it's pretty pretty simple. They carry like chip russia's with them and this role of joint fabric that they use to reinforce the panel seem so so the coating will remain intact seasonal expansion and contraction. So everything seemed gets that every seem every corner gets this treatment and they also put a customarily a A head flashing Above the rough opening so that when the windows getting stalled they can talk the nailing fin under it. And it's already pretty watertight without doing anything else and the coding is is compatible with Virtually any Flashing tape that you would use to cover the nailing fin or other penetrations rows. What does that head flashing look like is it just a double layer piece of material that piece of plastic that they i staple in position to hold it there in a bed of the coding and then they put the joint tape on the top edge to integrated into the rest of the weather barrier coating as really cool. I was very impressed. In compared to like the many seams and felt paper or the seams on on house wrap and the fastening. that's done poorly and you guys see the yeah results all the time right. Well i mean one thing when we were discussing this earlier. When when i i noticed you were covering that w. Rb project new you. You kept saying oh well the costs you know. That's the reason why people don't do this because it cost but is it more cost effective than having to go back in and replace all the rotted wood. Exactly yeah okay. But if you're doing it yourself. I mean if i was gonna w rb my house i would tape it correctly. How wood shingle style. So you know apples to apples talking about so. The cost analysis. I did was like house. Wrap is just under about a buck. A square foot to install correctly. Use the tape us. The right fastener is on the right with the right fastening schedule and this is like a buck. Tend to a buck twenty-five and it's done by a subcontractor. So i mean the one thing that you pointed out though is that they like to put it over plywood not He said it's easier. The coding builds up more quickly than especially with ospf's tennessee to to to sink into the material. Because it's more porous so it takes it takes more of it to code it to the. I think it's fifteen miles. They're aiming for but they can also put this on gypsum sheathing. Which as you mentioned is more common in commercial construction so they can use it on. Espn they dislike to do it on plywood better because it it builds up more quickly so i wonder Does it help with the air leakage. At all such good. Yes in fact. The reason that this bill adopted this product was more to satisfy the two thousand twelve which requires air. Tightness testing u. in our region You have to be under three air. Changes per hour and this product allows them to get there without much additional without a lot of additional air sealing. So they'll they'll have to fix penetrations where dryer vents and range hoods. Go out but none of the normal air sealing like with spray foam or whatever is required which is pretty darn cool to her about Foundation transitions so they have a detail where they actually will. Extend the w. r. to seal the gap between the first course of sheathing and the foundation. So they actually. Part of their contract is to seal that gap rich that they use the mesh tape they do and then they code it with the coating again so basically an house they would typically have this installed. You've got spray applied from your footing up to grade and then you've got exposed concrete and then you've got a little bit of overlap..
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"patrick mccomb" Discussed on The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
"To the fine building. Podcast our weekly discussion of building remodeling design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science and working on houses. This is senior editor. Patrick mccomb today. Joined by digital brand manager rob watson high. Deputy editor matt mill ham pillow and producer. Jeff rosen there. You know so pat steed. Who's andy angles. Wife is the most over achieving baker. I have ever met and had the pleasure to sample her. Delicious confections well. She brought over cinnamon bonds to the family this morning and they got me all wound up. So it's going to be a fun show for everybody. You gotta trekker cheddar bacon scones. those are gone. Yeah so we had andy angle is. Are you know building skills editor for a long time and the beauty of that was when you go to shoot a video. Andy's house his shop. You'd get scones from pat in the. Did you guys ever have scones are. Can i hold that over you that you have it you've probably. I don't think i got anything. I'm trying to remember now. Cheddar bacon scones killer. She is really a good baker. So what are you guys been doing. Rob you go first. You seem to have a little more landscaping going on at the house. Like digging holes seems to be a new hobby. I was actually before the show. I was i was i was thinking of saying. Would you believe that. I didn't do anything this week. And you probably say no right. Never been the case. Well i see the evidence on facebook so so we bought a tree a little tiny maple tree and we wanted to put it in this one corner. My driveway used to go a little bit further. And there's a patch of blacktop in our garden. Now and i've always hated it. So i was like i to get rid of some of that so i dug about a yard of gravel. Old blacktop out of a big hole and filled it. With what i thought was soil. But the the local guay loaded a whole truckload of composted manure into the back of my. Oh that's unhappy. Well it's fine. Because i actually was able to mix some of the sand from the whole in with it to kind of make something resembling soil but the problem is my dog actually ate a whole bunch of it and it's like scary. He was sick for like a day. We were really worried about her. So now i had to mulch it as soon as possible. Said to keep the dog from eating the stuff. That's not gonna stop her knows. But yes i took some rocks from that pile. I've been working off of in built a nice border around it and planted this little maple tree. It's kind of like our little japanese corner of the garden. Now it's got some some other conifers kind of mixed in there and it's nice that's cool but that's what i do on like a saturday night is worked till like eleven o'clock at night with the headlamp on digging a two foot deep hole in my yard filling it back in. So what does one do with unused to ask fall on a city lot. Rob dude said on the neighbors property. Or what do you do with that. And it's edgy property. Actually actually i get that steep hillside in my backyard. And i kind of carved a little path down it so i'm basically using the stuff as sort of home base for the path that will eventually get stone dust and on top of that it will get probably bluestone at some point but the thing is i mean this blacktop is you know sixty years old. I mean basically. It looks like gravel. Now there's nothing. There's almost no asphalt left in it. So what are you doing just gardening. You know mounting up potatoes getting all the rest of the plants in the ground or seeds in the ground That was most of the day. Probably getting all that done all vegetables are perennials or other plants to mixture of some flowers mostly companion planting type stuff to keep bugs down and that. Yeah lots of tomatoes I don't know we already had. Carrots beets potatoes leeks garlic and cabbage. I think in the ground so yeah this is just the rest l. piece we had already but yeah a ton you know. We still had three of dirt. I still probably have a yard of dirt. Left continental star compost in my in my driveway. That i need to move but yeah those potatoes shot up probably ten inches since sunday at least so to basically renowned those and those should be good for the for the season i guess i broke my tell playing golf. But that's jeff. Rob how but how the heck just one break once toe playing frisbee golf. I wish i knew no is just you know it was funny because i had walked up this this t box and it's in the woods it's a it's not a completely finished t area so You know my it. I looked at it. And i was like somebody's gonna get hurt on this because the front of this teebox has like either a four by six or four by four that's embedded in the ground and i was like somebody's gonna break their toe or something. Follow through just like probably a minute later so yeah it was great and then i played in a tournament a couple of weeks or a couple of weeks couple of days later and it was fine. How'd you i tied for fourth one out of thirty one so cap on the golf course Both of my rounds were for over which was not not fantastic for me but not bad. That's pretty good man. If you're a golfer. I'd say that was amazing. Yeah for me. This is also my home..