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Tyvek House Wrap Installation

Bob meets with building consultant Steven Easley to learn about Tyvek: what it is, how it works and how to install it.

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Tyvek House Wrap Installation

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" Kevin and are being joined by Steve Easley who is -- construction consultant. And stuff. Reason why it makes a lot of sense to wrap up -- house. With house -- And Steve what is this stuff. Well it may look like just an ordinary she kept up platinum that's actually -- I think polyethylene fibers if they're bonded under heat and pressure to make weather resistant barrier for air act. OK it's our I've always called it -- and it's very important to keep that Guam they actually. And off. -- And the way it works well tell me how it works it. Well the concept businessmen and a lot of builders will build homes -- not been any type of weather resistant carrier. Underneath the cladding. Cladding system week course counter at the cedar clapboard like we'll have here or no black owners -- Any kind of cladding system or skin is going to allow a certain amount of whether to get in -- it -- And what this does that in the water does get behind and it always does. Behind the cladding it drains and we're out. -- into the other sheathing working cause we went from rot or mold or mildew and cause lots problem. -- constant. Another great feature them. -- that's a great air filtration barrier. At -- home has about you know over right thousand feet of cracks and gaps is that right. That's right 2000. Linear feet of cracks and gaps in the average don't that would put the -- rep -- you're preventing that. That that much air infiltration right that's right."

" Trapping the moisture in the house you have to worry about that when it's really neat thing about this process it's really an engineered product that allows could have. These layers of fibers that there -- it is such a manner that moisture vapor droplets can get out but water can't get it okay that's kind of like out. -- portrait that I don't have too much humidity in the house again work its way out. But he's got a big blow on the outside it won't work it's -- well in the average finished up about seventy pints of moisture that. So that moisture builds up inside the moment it's your wall system. Because -- OK now we got to put another layer up at top. OK it couldn't fight it. Now cutting the opening in the window. We used to dismantle an adolescent pulled it back but you're making a different kind of shape there aren't you if that's right this here is a much more efficient way do. Since the really all the product. -- if -- look at your statement and give me tonight that we're short on tools here today that. It allows you to take this stand. -- Not -- never trap water. That's ahead and it's a little bit like gift wrapping up and -- enforcement -- what do you do up here. -- actually cut that again today but tell you one last -- what about the -- don't you have to use tape with all of -- that's right actually gather the special tyvek tape from the department. Of course joint with tyvek on so that. The top layer always shingles over the first right and then wrap this with the tyvek tape all right so that's the place where the tape goes. It. It."

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