Air Leak Tape Siding Osb

Juneau s failing sips had osb rot near panel seams.

Air leak tape siding osb. It s hard to imagine psa tape conditions tougher than adhering to both rough side osb and a window flange aluminum and pvc. Martin s article says that it s best to. To create a more airtight ceiling construct rigid foam boxes that are air sealed with tape and canned spray foam. It turns out that only one tape in our testing adhered without fail to everything even when wetted.

Air leaks at recessed can lights often lead to winter ice dams. The boxes should be sealed to the drywall before loose fill insulation is installed. Even recessed cans that are rated ic and airtight are known to leak. Investigators concluded that air leaks through poorly sealed seams allowed the condensation of moisture from the exfiltrating air.

Zip system flashing tape from huber engineered woods. With taped seams the zip system sheathing is both an air barrier and a water resistive barrier wrb. In reading martin holiday s tape test article from march 2013 fine homebuilding i thought that siga wigluv was the clear winner as the best tape for osb sheathing seams. The house had absolutely no type of house wrap rain screen or even tar paper on it just vinyl siding attached directly to the osb sheathing.

And stop roof repairs in the rain. Learn how to use siga tape to air seal your house. Per the icc esr report wrinkles in the tape are permissible unless they create a leak path unfortunately we have seen the tape installed improperly on many occasions in the field. However in 2001 a cluster of sip failures in juneau alaska highlighted problems with sip sealing methods.

Tapes are also used to seal duct seams to seal leaks around penetrations through air barriers for example to seal around plumbing vents and to seal sheet goods to a variety. Matt risinger risinger homes in austin tx. Eric whetzel view gallery 8 images. This video is a bowa builders internal training seminar for site superintendents.

All vinyl siding leaks everyone needs to understand that vinyl siding leaks and allows water moisture to pass through it and make contact with the house sheathing. To limit air leakage builders use tapes to seal the seams of a variety of membranes and buildings products including housewrap polyethylene osb and plywood. But to reach that goal of 1ach50 i ve decided to take a page from the passivehouse playbook and tape my exterior sheathing seams. The subject matter is best practices for installing house wrap to drain water and stop air.