Performance Tape for Arlington InBox with Flanges
pico_project
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Using 4″ Siga Fentrim to tape/flash our house. I put in two Arlington InBox exterior outlets. They are the new construction style with flange for stucco and Hardie.
Since these were low to the ground I was thinking about not taping the bottoms. Everyone else at the site thinks they should be taped on all sides. My thinking is drainage and that’s how windows are done with flanges.
They were installed after the WRB. Siga Mavest 500 SA.
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pico_project,
I'm with the rest of them. This is more analogous to pipes or conduit penetrations, not windows. Tape all four sides or use a piece of Peel & stick with the hole cut out.
They are square with an extended flang. Instead of round and smaller diameter than the opening. I would say they're more like a window than a pipe. :p
Pico,
We leave the bottom window flange unsealed because we have provided a drainage plane below it with tapered sills and sill pans. Electrical boxes - like pipes - have no mechanism to move water to the unsealed bottom, or to move it to the exterior from there.
I have a bunch in my house and they are all installed like little windows. This means, that in addition to the bottom being unsealed, the "rough opening" is flashed, and then the whole thing is air sealed on the interior.
It's probably not worth losing sleep over, but if the thing ever developed a crack in it, I'd rather the water have a means to get out.