Thursday, July 31, 2014

How We Chose to Weatherize

After the plywood is on the walls and the roof, we were ready to apply the water barrier that keeps rain and snow from rotting the wood frame of the house. We're using metal roofing so we applied 30# felt tar paper to the roof. You cut your the length that you need then staple it to the ply wood underneath. Start with the bottom layer of paper and work up toward the peak of the roof overlapping the paper by at least 4 inches. We covered the peak of the roof in this picture since it was going to rain heavily for the following three days, but we might cut that out when we install the metal roofing for ventilation.

Most people you Tyvek, a plastic house wrap, or something similar to cover the walls. However, since we're planning to use rough cut vertical slabs as our siding instead of overlapping horizontal siding, I thought it would be prudent to use something a little more heavy duty. We used adhesive, self healing tar paper and installed it in the same way as the roof, starting at the bottom and working up, overlapping and using a hammer tacker to secure it. Royce is calling it the ninja house :)

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