In this episode of the In The House Podcast, a construction podcast hosted by Lonnie and

Michael, they sit down with Paul Beavers, owner and senior consultant at Pinpoint Building

Envelope Consultants, to ask a question most builders never do: is the minimum code standard

for airtightness actually good enough?

Paul has spent 36 years testing buildings, moving from a roofing business he started in college

into decades running his own consulting firm — work that today spans everything from high-end

homes to Army Corps of Engineers facilities. He breaks down why the residential industry's go-

to test, ACH50, can hide more leakage than it reveals, and walks through the building

performance test the Army Corps actually uses: pressurizing a building to 75 pascals, tracking air

movement with infrared cameras, and holding it to a leakage rate most homes never come close

to.

They also get into window and door testing — and why, nine times out of ten, the defect Paul

finds isn't bad installation, it's the window unit itself.

Then Paul gets personal, sharing what happened when he tested his own home's envelope during

the February 2021 Texas freeze: no heater, just fireplaces, and a house that only dropped three

degrees overnight. He explains the wall assembly behind that result, the ongoing debate around

closed-cell versus open-cell spray foam.

Whether you're a builder, architect, or homeowner trying to understand what's really protecting

your walls, this episode will change how you think about the word “tight.”

🎙 Guest: Paul Beavers | Owner & Senior Consultant | Pinpoint Building Envelope Consultants

🎧 Hosted by Lonnie & Michael | In The House Podcast inthehousepodcast.com

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In this episode of the In The House Podcast, a construction podcast hosted by Lonnie and

Michael, they sit down with John Hudson, founder of 100 Fold Studio, to talk about the myth of

the "starchitect" and how his faith has shaped a major philosophy in his work: listen before you

draw.

John designed ultra-high-end residences throughout the Southeast before starting his own firm. A

month before his first major project was to be completed, a fire razed the building to the ground.

He walks through how that loss, the 2008 recession, and years designing for underserved

communities in Cambodia, Nigeria, and the Himalayas reshaped how he practices architecture —

and led him to found 100 Fold Studio, a studio driven to share the gospel and demonstrate God's

redeeming love through the buildings it designs, while training the next generation of architects

and serving some of the poorest people groups in the world.

John points to Proverbs 18:13 — "to answer before listening is folly and shame" — as the

conviction behind it all. It's why 100 Fold's architects put their pencils down and sit with a

client's or a community's story before they ever start drawing.

Whether you are a builder, an architect, a designer, or a homeowner planning your own build,

this episode is about the one skill that separates good design from great design.

🎙 Guest: John Hudson | Founder | 100 Fold Studio

🎧 Hosted by Lonnie & Michael | In The House Podcast Inthehousepodcast.com

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In this episode of the In The House Podcast, a construction podcast hosted by Lonnie and Michael, they sit down with Derrick McClintock, founder of The Man Training Show.Derrick did not set out to build a viral platform. He was a carpenter who had fired his entire crew because he could not find young men with the basic skills and work ethic to last more than two weeks on a job site. A young guy on his crew told him to film what he was doing and post it. He did not even have social media. The first video hit 2 million views overnight and they woke up to 60,000 followers without leaving a single comment.But behind the platform is a story that most people never see. Derrick shares his journey from professional motocross to opiate addiction, hitting rock bottom, finding sobriety, and eventually surrendering his life to God. He talks about how faith became the foundation not just of his personal life but of his entire business how he prays with his crew every morning, mentors young men through drug addiction and dark seasons, and turns down jobs when the client does not align with his values.

Derrick believes there is a generation of young men who cannot build, fix, or create anything with their hands, why AI and robots will never replace a skilled tradesperson, and what he is doing right now in Hawaii to train young men side by side on the job site and pour into them the kind of knowledge and character that cannot be learned on a screen.Whether you are a builder, a tradesperson, a father, or just someone trying to figure out your purpose this episode will hit you somewhere deep.🎙️ Guest: Derrick McClintock | Founder | The Man Training Show🎧 Hosted by Lonnie & Michael | In The House Podcastinthehousepodcast.com

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