Installing Housewrap

When properly detailed, high-tech wrappings can reduce the flow of air into outside walls while allowing moisture to escape
by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

There's more to installing housewrap than getting out a utility knife and stapler. This article explains how it should be installed to get the maximum benefit from this commonplace building material. A sidebar discusses the merits of taping sheathing instead of using housewrap.

From Fine Homebuilding 107, pp. 44-49
March 1, 1997

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Materials | Building | Insulation and Weatherizing | Additions | New Construction | Exterior Parts
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