Foam Sheathing- Page 2 of 3
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Exterior Insulation Is Like A Sweater For Your House
A layer of rigid foam will keep your wall sheathing warm and dry
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Is There Such a Thing as a Perfect Building Envelope?
The insulation method proposed by this GBA reader requires a lot of foam
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How to Install Rigid Foam Sheathing
What you need to know to install polyisocyanurate, XPS, or EPS on the outside of your walls
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Nailing Window Flanges Through Foam
Builders have been doing it for years, but some window manufacturers aren’t sure it’s a good idea
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Where Does the Housewrap Go?
If your walls have exterior rigid foam, does the housewrap go under the foam or over the foam?
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Fastening Furring Strips to a Foam-Sheathed Wall
A screw manufacturer provides advice on how many screws you need
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Calculating the Minimum Thickness of Rigid Foam Sheathing
In this case, the code is your friend — just follow the IRC’s foam thickness table
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Are Dew-Point Calculations Really Necessary?
How to perform dew-point calculations — and why it's possible to design a high-performance wall without performing calculations or consulting a psychrometric chart
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Using Rigid Foam As a Water-Resistive Barrier
Some builders of foam-sheathed homes have decided to omit the housewrap
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Best Construction Details for Deep-Energy Retrofits
A group of energy-efficiency experts get together to share techniques for whittling home energy use to the bone