I-Home improvement

[Bull_Dolphin]

Castle, We recently did a job stripping the walls (wood lath and stucco)on an 80 year old residence in Florida. A very large tree fell on it during hurricane Charley, breaking it's back and knocking much of the stucco off the house. We provided 1 square foot of ventilation for every 100 square feet of the house and positioned it at the corners and the centers of the long walls. This house had no vapor barrier and the ground beneath the house was lower than the surrounding grade (The pool deck actually had drains that emptied under the house). With the rains and moisture in Florida, I think of this as the acid test. After all these years, the floor joists and flooring were in great shape.

I'm not opposed to a vapor barrier, but I wouldn't spend a lot of money just to get it.

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