Exterior Woodwork

[Jack Stewart]

Pg. 6 says you should consider an interior facing vapor barrier to
prevent rot. This is a solution for the North not the South. For the
South you should have an exterior facing vapor barrier and sheetrock
painted with latex paint on the inside.

The worst situation is a preexisting condition where there is a vapor
barrier on the outside, such as felt paper, and fiber glass batt
insulation with a craft paper facing is put on the inside wall face
underneath the sheetrock. This is destined for rot as vapor collects
between the two vapor barriers, saturates the insulation, and causes
the studs, weatherboards and sills to rot. The best thing, of course,
is to avoid installing this, but if you have it already you should
drill holes about the size of a quarter and install little aluminum
louver filled circles about the size of a quarter in them, making sure
to pierce the exterior vapor barrier in the process. This will let
the accumulated moisture out of the wall cavities between the studs.
You need a little louver installed through the weatherboards between
each stud right above the sill.

[James R Amdal]

I now know why I did poorly in my construction classes in architecture school. Glad to see you are keeping a watchful eye on this process. Lots of this technical stuff I've either never known or have forgotten over the years. Nancy was better tonight. Keeps the hope alive. Later.
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[coco...@aol.com]

What was wrong with Nancy.  I read through all of this quickly via the email message within the month of it being posted to read.  I will reread it once this election is over and the saints have taken home the super bowl trophy.  My biggest struggle is what happens to folks when they receive a demolition by neglect letter.  We send these out without knowledge of what other issues these families might be grappling with such as illness, death, etc. Financial stress in this current martketplace makes it hard for people to move projects along speedily.  Forget trying to locate an architect that has the time to take on a project and then the contractors  who are or are not available.  I have to book projects several months into the future to keep them speeding along.  I understand that there have been times that the wrong things have happened to buildings with even the Gore family having a building collapse but we have to let this go and move on and admire the quality projects that these families have brought us.  So I am hesitant to jump on board citing and fining folks for broken windows and grass/brush on the side of the buildings when within the same city square there are buildings in true physical distress.  Thanks,  Dorian