[Greenbuilding] bugs behind b & b`

[Beatrice Dohrn]

So how did you  make contact to get the vapor barrier you speak of?  At the manufacture end,  like a paper mill, or at the user's end?  I live near paper mills and am wondering about using some myself. 

Beatrice Dohrn
541 746 1919 (h)
347 589 9053 (c)


--- On Wed, 5/14/08, Mike Forbes <biodieselmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Forbes <biodieselmike at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] bugs behind b & b`
> To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 2:25 PM
> thanks everyone for all your help.
> i'll answer a couple of questions folks had....
> 
> 1) the barrier i have is a waxed paperboard with aluminum
> laminated to one
> side.  It is the stuff that paper companies wrap their
> large paper rolls
> with to prevent swings in temp/moisture.  I built an
> origami cup out of the
> stuff and filled it with water and after a month of sitting
> there was no
> sign of it discoloring/leaking/anything....  the stuff is
> about 4' wide and
> a roll end is about 5 miles long.... was destined for the
> landfill.
> 
> 2) the horizontal furring strips are not continuous on a
> horiz plane.  they
> are about 3-4' long and fastened 5 degrees off
> horizontal to allow for
> drainage...
> 
> I think my bugs are most likely entering where I
> haven't filled the little
> gap under the windows where the battens come up to the
> bottom of the sill.
> Since the edge of the sill doesn't hang over the edge
> of the siding
> board there is an approx 1/2" vertical opening for
> bugs to go down into.
> There are also a couple of spots where the battens have
> twisted and opened a
> small gap.  I'm going to screen those and see what
> happens now....
> 
> as far as air sealing goes i'm baffled by how the bugs
> get in.  we were very
> meticulous with air sealing but bugs seem to find the
> route.  Our general
> methods were to foam all joints, peel/stick all
> doors/windows, caulked the
> inside joints.  It looks like many bugs are coming in
> through points in the
> actual windows (marvin integrity double hungs.)  I find
> many bugs dead under
> and in between panes.
> 
> Thanks again for all the responses and suggestions,
> mike
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