House Wrap – Don’t Under Estimate Its Usefullness
Air infiltration will rob you of comfort and cause hot and cold spots in your house as well as increase you heating or cooling costs. Particular attention must be made to ensure that the house wrap is well installed and sealed with the proper tape (Red Tuck Tape). If the house wrap seams around windows or doors are not properly done you might as well have not installed it in the first place.
One particular area are gable ends. I guess that since the gable is part of the attic contractors just don’t see the need if they are looking at the system as a type of vapor barrier and since the attic is not a living space why use it. Well house wrap is also a weather barrier and wind and rain will hit the area. Take a look at this Gable above the entrance.
Gable House Wrap
No house wrap. We just installed a plastic simulated cedar tile over the plywood.They did not install the house wrap there. I did not catch it in time. The good thing is that there is a huge overhang and the wind and rain com from the North West of the house or to the right of this picture. Most of the contractors do this. Guess we could always pull off the shingles install the wrap. I’ll just have keep an eye on it.
But back to the stage we really are at. The pick above was taken a month later then our present construction stage. The rough carpenters have put up the walls with wrap. Now, it’s time to start installing the trusses. Make certain you order your dumpster early, we used two 40 foot ones during the process. About, $ 280 dollar a dumpster. The trusses were ordered over a month ago and were just delivered. Things are starting to take shape.
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