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Installing Insulation and Plastering

House two of the Elmwood project. Bob Ryley and Tim Grether of Owens Corning install insulation and vapor barrier in bathroom. Jim Larson from Georgia Pacific install a special backer board for tile in bath. Plastering onto blue board.
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Installing Insulation and Plastering

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" Well when I -- Dresser of Owens Corning protests. I woke up I don't know -- throw -- to Iraq let me insulation in the closet here of the bathroom in looks like using the bats yes with the craft face -- Craft faced is a paper -- harder it's attached to the pink insulation with asphalt. And that provides a vapor barrier for protection against moisture in the wall okay now I get a question an awful lot of times which is Benedict the face. Paper faced on the -- Well either will do but I think that in this kind of job -- you can work yourself right craft faced would be better choice but they're both. Provide instant function which is we return OK so. No right concede -- using thirteen I've seen. There -- different. And are accurate I have discussed. -- there are three different varieties there's an. All of them provide thermal protection. The higher the -- the greater insulating -- correct. We've got the blue board already in place in the -- and -- we've stopped at this line here because that's correct I was going to be -- Jim Larsen here with us from. I don't -- I object Pacific. And you've got a new product here that you're bringing us which is going to be in place behind the -- dollars. Enclosures so what can you tell us about where for the suspension of this is by Georgia Pacific in the towel back aboard. It's can be used in wet areas or on what applications okay. And what makes dens shield so unique from cement -- same patented gypsum core yeah. And has reinforced fiberglass mats on both sides of it has that heat. Cured acrylic face to it. Which stops penetration of moisture right at. Surface of the board within howdy -- without a -- is there anything different about this in the blue border no nope same application really Carol let's say. -- And well threw herself just. Score and snap this one yeah what you would with regular gypsum board. Recognize that these were -- don't you use T square -- else. It's not what Greg Richardson what we get them back can't. -- And from there it's the same process as hanging regular gypsum board OK let me just put it in place. To throw couple nails in here. The tack it up. -- I gonna get around it's electrical outlet woven around the outlets like you do that privilege gypsum board."

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" So there's no less complacent about this right if there's anything special you have to do that not a spokesman used the same -- patent watchers plus this that this. Feathered into the that's insane things and things nameless and in the tile would just come up and and correct now. Right."

" Margaret Jean Olivier here of Kent plastering. And that it gene when this plastic come up. Plus came from champion building supplies and west Kingston veteran -- West Kingston on islands. -- of honest and -- and -- blueboard apparently what's so important about using the blue light. So we'll all this stuff we use them off of strength and durability in bathrooms OK understood and so I see you've already get your first coat. There's been applied to know what you're doing is we're applying a second coat now. Thank. And as the plaster gets hard we -- it. Which -- get a smooth as possible on its technical. And then after -- I haven't really access it we give a warning shot and it really makes -- and -- align right this service."

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