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Housewrap Tape Problems
When used to tape horizontal seams, housewrap tape can contribute to water entry problems
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Testing Building Assemblies for Moisture Resistance
A state-of-the-art testing facility shows that liquid-applied WRBs outperform taped housewrap
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Understanding Air Barriers, Vapor Barriers, and Drainage Planes
These three terms refer to different materials that are easy to confuse
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Two New Exterior Insulation Products for Walls
InSoFast sells EPS foam panels with integral plastic furring strips, while Tyvek has introduced a squishy quilted housewrap
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How to Seal Sheathing Boards
The owner of a house built before the age of plywood weighs his options for air-sealing and insulating exterior walls
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What’s New with Water-Resistive Barriers
We’ve come a long way from the early Tyvek housewrap: our experience with Pro Clima Solitex, a WRB from Germany
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Does Your Air Barrier Work in Both Directions?
An experiment comparing housewrap and taped sheathing under positive and negative pressure
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A New Encyclopedia Article on Water-Resistive Barriers
GBA Pro members have full access to dozens of informative articles in the GBA Encyclopedia
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Walls Without Water-Resistive Barriers
A builder hoping to minimize the use of man-made materials wonders if he can skip the housewrap
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European Products for Building Tight Homes
A new importer in Brooklyn is distributing European tapes, housewrap, ventilation fans, and a ‘magic box’
