Building a Front Porch - Old Architects & Builders were Smart - LIVE Stream 01-31-2022 AsktheBuilder

Hi, how you're doing? You know, I should probably check the mirror before I go live. My hair is kind of a mess today. Oh, well, who cares, right? Right? Who cares? Thanks for being here. I'm Tim Carter. This is thebuilder.com and the live stream. It is, it's hard to believe. I believe the month it's gone by that fast. It's pretty amazing

If you have a question about the live stream, about anything about your home, go ahead and put it in the chat

You know what to do. You have to have a YouTube account to do that

You don't have to have a video uploaded to have a YouTube account

It's so simple. There appears to be a little bit of latency in the video screen I'm seeing

I hope there's no latency while you're watching. Josh or Al, if you could let me know if you could let me know if

the video looks pretty good. The stream, I'd appreciate it. Let me know how it looks

I have got a lot of news to share I almost don know where to start but I tell you what I want to do really quickly before we get going here because I oh this is really important I going to tease this for tomorrow and I talk about it a couple of times

So tomorrow, the live stream is going to be about this. And so this brand new tape measure and wait until you see it tomorrow

So I'm just letting you know. So anyway, we're going to talk about that tomorrow

Spend a good five minutes on it. And I think you're going to be blown away. The thing I want to share is we're going to be talking today about my newsletter from yesterday

I did a quick survey. It was kind of last minute. I had the idea on Saturday

and I want to share the survey results with you. I was kind of astonished by them

And I want to talk a little bit about how I got an email on Friday night from a long-term subscriber to my newsletter

And he had watched a couple of streams last week and he was not a happy camper So we going to talk about that a little bit And I got a really great email yesterday from a woman her name is Elaine

She gets the Ask the Builder newsletter. And she was in the U.S. Navy

And she wrote this incredible story. And I'm not going to share all the details with you, but it was

such an inspiring email. And so we have a lot to talk about. And also, we did our live Zoom call

last Friday. Josh, you were there. What did you think of it? I thought it was a huge success

So we're going to be doing more of them. In fact, that's another thing I want to talk about is

after that call was over, I looked into a paid version of the different video conferencing systems

and I want to ask about those. I want to get some feedback. So we have a lot to do today

Let's get started. Because those people who are here who want to know about front porch

how to build a front porch and all that, I want to talk a little bit about that. I actually use that topic today for my syndicated column And the way I started the column out really kind of interesting the column will be available on the website tomorrow in the morning

is I had the really good fortune to, you know, cut my teeth in the construction industry in Cincinnati, Ohio

And that was back in the 1970s and the 80s. And Cincinnati, if you've never been there

you know, of course it is east of the Mississippi River. The town was founded in the 1700s, but it really got going in the early 1800s

And then what happened is after the Civil War, the city really started to expand up out of the valley and up onto the plateaus

And up on those plateaus, there was a huge housing explosion. and growth in the city in the late 1800s and the early 1900s

And I happened to live in the two houses that were built in that time period

And I rehabbed them both. And then I did a lot of work on those houses

One thing in common for many, many, many of these homes