Fine Homebuilding associate editor Matthew Millham and design editor Brian Pontolilo join FHB editor Justin Fink in this podcast episode. In this one, the guys answer listener questions, focusing on load-bearing beams, choosing pipe, and what to do with an unused dryer vent. And Brian has strong opinions about water penetration through siding.

Speaking of strong opinions, we strongly think you should come out to meet the Fine Homebuilding team at the Remodeling and Deck Show this October in Nashville! We’ll be at Booth 424 on Oct. 26, 2017, at the Nashville Music City Center. We’re running an Emerging Professionals Event and recording an episode of this podcast from the show floor.

We also have our continuing request for listeners: We need all our fans to take our podcast feedback survey by clicking here. There’s a chance to win one of ten Amazon Echoes. October 2017 Update: Okay, we’re not giving away Amazon Echoes any more. That reward expired. But there’s a chance that we’ll have SOME kind of reward for those who take the poll. Well, honestly, a CHANCE to win a reward. Can’t say exactly what the reward will be, because you may be reading this in 2018 or 2024 or 2109 after the zombie apocalypse and climate change means we all have to build new net-zero fortress-houses on the seaside islands of Kentucky. But if this text is still here, we still really want your opinions, so please take the poll and we’ll enter you for a chance to win something good, like a $100 gift card or a couple cases of ammo or the antique Snapple bottle caps we’ll use for currency in 2109. Or at the very least, for our deep thanks and the knowledge that your feedback is helping us make the podcast a little better. That’s something everyone who takes the poll gets!

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Foam sheathing and housewrap:

• All About Water-Resistive Barriers.
• Can Your Water-Resistive Barrier Take UV Exposure?
• The AC-71 PDF file from Green Building Advisor.
• Links to WRB options that resist UV from …
  • Spycor
  • Dupont Tyvek
  • Four Seven Five
  • Benjamin Obdyke

Other resources and links related to this podcast:

• Attic Beams.
• PVC vs ABS pipe.
• If you have the print issue or the thumb-drive FHB archives, see the article by Ed Cunha in #160 – “A Primer on PVC Pipe.”
• October’s Remodeling and Deck Show in Nashville.
• All FHB podcast show notes: FineHomebuilding.com/podcast.
• Buy a shirt at KeepCraftAlive.org.