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Don't eat your sweater
Many of you may have heard Joe Lstiburek say
"Build tight, ventilate right and don't eat your sweater.."
or you may heave read where John Straube called walls without outside insulation "Turds"
I would say that BSC might have a bias against double stud walls, many Euoropean style walls and even the "Riversong Wall"
I think double stud walls would be more "buildable" and "affordable" and maybe even more "forgiving" than the BSC "perfect wall" and or many of the other outside insulation walls promoted by BSC.
Are double stud walls and/or "inside insulation walls" really "Turds"... ?
Does anyone here know of any failures that were related to double stud walls with good air barrier systems?
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- in a cold climate, the outside "skin" of a house needs to be five times as vapor permeable as the inside "skin" to avoid moisture accumulation and damage.
- Law of Unintended Consequences.
- Eric Sevareid famously said, that "the chief cause of problems is solutions".
- moisture buffering ability of dense-pack cellulose, which is so highly hygroscopic that it protects wood framing from moisture accumulation in the event of interstitial condensation or minor exterior leakage
awesome post.
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