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What are the three most common mistakes with vapor retardars

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what are the three most common mistakes with vapor retarders?

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    Dana Dorsett | | #1

    It this going to be on the test? :-)

    1: Incomplete air sealing.

    2: Placing it at a climate-inappropriate layer in the stackup.

    3: Placing it an an inappropriate layer relative to other vapor-retardent layers in the stackup.

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