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Discussing Insulation and Efficient Building Technology
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" Now what kind of moisture barriers is this. That -- in a law this is a reinforced polyethylene. We have dense packed cellulose blown behind it. So why does it have to have the reinforcing. It's just a strengthening mechanism and it gives a little more purchase to these staples that are stapled in on the side of the stud here why they stapled on the sides instead of just on the face of the stud well if you were stapling them into the face. And blowing the cellulose behind them it would have a tendency to bridge over the the face of the stud and make the sheet rock got your application bumpy bumpy OK so what's the r-factor you get here. This will give about an R-25 25 when what what size wall is it It's a two by eight by wall. Two by eight. Okay that's a lot of is it this system here this is a stud Quote that we use that's manufactured in Canada. It's finger jointed spruce on the sides and and OSB web in the middle. So that the weight is not much. No it's a very efficient use of -- material well the cost of probably affordable it's comparable to an eastern two by eight stud coming tell me what it's called again. It's an open web stud open web studs great. All right so then we're in the kitchen here the rest of the space is all open planned great room fabulous back ."