Wednesday, September 22, 2010

vapor barrier

Another shower post today, as we creep towards completion.

After the membrane (♫insane in the membrane♪) was installed and tacked in place, the next step was to hang the vapor barrier. For some reason, you can only buy massive rolls of vapor barrier plastic (in our case, it's 6 mil). Sooooo.... if you ever find yourself in need of miles of heavy-duty plastic, you know who to talk to, right?

Vapor barrier is dead easy to install. Hang it from the top of the 2x4 framing and staple away.
Cachunk
Cachunk.
Cachunk.

Really the only trick to it is making sure that it overlaps the top of the membrane by at least 2".

2 comments:

  1. ummm, that was unfortunate - we have some vapour barrier in the basement ....

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