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Moisture Content and Vapor Barrier for Wood Floors
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Moisture Content and Vapor Barrier for Wood Floors
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" Do you check that the -- the moisture well we check the moisture content with so little portable moisture meter in most cases. Put the -- and press a needle and gives us a reading. The other device we use we have a monitoring system install in the house have -- moisture meter relative humidity and temperature circuit we report the data. With telephone lines or web site. And it records the data and you can actually print out monitoring. And this is that print out of the current job we started monitoring on the 16 July report and it gives a continuous reading of temperature relative humidity and moisture content -- that's pretty impressed it's very convenient for those of us who have to drive an hour due to get the job fair here it eliminates that travel. Yeah now this is going to grind down that it's really -- to break the surface -- no not really it's just it's a very coarse abrasive it's actually fairly one that we used on our review. Before and what we're doing is we're just knocking the plaster dust and the other stuff off of it. At a secret ingredient is going to be. An ice shield right. Yes this. Bitumen membrane. That's primarily asphalt. And it's primarily used on roof applications. That we found itself. Really effective vapor barrier. So little power I think we'll let your son Richard be your over here yes it is this is Mike White paper and take -- the back craft. -- really tough to work with."
" It to the wall."
" Right to the wall then of course you'll be trimming every now and you'll put continuous sections. All across the shield all the way across the room before you start bringing in the wood now how it. Would use the same adhesive and nailing system that we have over there. No we can't apply adhesive because we don't have a bare wood floor to stick to I see so what we'll do is we'll increase our nailing pattern. I will also mark our joist location and we'll put screws. And we'll -- wood plugs matching wood plugs over the holes into the schools but the main thing -- to be assured that the finished job is not gonna cup -- exactly it's mechanical restraint."
