Charlie:
Katherine writes to us. She want you to explain the process of house wrapping during the building process. Is there a process to this?
Tom:
Kind of, I mean certain things, you wrap from the bottom to the top, so it overlaps so the water sheds down. Like you would do a shingle roof from the bottom to the top. Then when you get to the window openings, you go across the opening itself and then you cut an “X” in it and wrap the actual wrap inside the window opening, so that would be another little detail. You want to be able to turn the corners both ways, so you don’t end right at a corner and leave a gap. You turn the corner one way and when you come back it goes an overlap the other, so you get a double lap on the corners. I think that’s about it.
Charlie:
The fleshing, taping it on the windows an stuff like that, pretty important?
Tom:
Well, when you just say house wrap…
Charlie:
Isn’t that apart of it though? When you put the wrap on?
Tom:
You don’t tape it, no.
Charlie:
You don’t?
Tom:
It’s all stapled down and it’s all in the overlaps.
Charlie:
Okay.
Tom:
Okay, it’s not like taping, floating sheetrock or something.
Charlie:
Okay.
Tom:
You don’t really do that.
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