Does any one have the Moisure Control Handbook by Joe Lstriburek ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471318639/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance) ?
If you have it, what do you think of it? Id like to get it, but am being a cheap skate and dragging my feet at the price. Looks like it would be a good book to have.
Thanks
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Anyone?????
apparently not
Anyone?
"It is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer: it feels so good when you stop"
I have the book. Its got a lot of good, up-to-date information in it. Gunner should have bought a copy for his first site super.
It's basically a compilation of a lot of JLC articles from recent years. But if you don't subscribe to JLC, or don't feel like hunting down the old articles, IMO its worth getting.
I really need to look at links before I respond.
The book I have is called the JLC Guide to Moisture Control. It not the same as the one Amazon has. Its also only $40.00.
Yes, the one by Joe Lstriburek is a completely different beast. I thought about the JLC one, but when I found out that it was a compilation of past articles I passed. I have the last few years of the magazine, and what I dont have I have on their CD.
Although, it would be nice to have all that info in one spot. Suppose I could take a look at the table of contents and then just make a list of all the articles.Live by the sword, die by the sword....choose your sword wisely.
I haven't seen the book yet. But I wouldn't hesitate to ask my local library to see if they could dig up a copy before I ordered one. There's another book out there with a similar title by a guy named Rose (I think). Was a fairly expensive book but my library was able to locate a copy at a nearby university. Glad I borrowed it before I decided to buy it because I didn't think it was worth buying just to have it on my bookshelf.
Getting the library to get it first isnt a bad idea. Might try that route.Live by the sword, die by the sword....choose your sword wisely.
Here's the book by Rose that I had mentioned. Worth a look if you can borrow it somewhere, lots of theory on the issues. I would imagine any university with a school of architecture would have it on the shelf. My local library was able to borrow it via interlibrary loan from Dartmouth.
http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/events/news/2005/02_22_05/
Shep was refering to this one:
http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/jlconline.storefront/47a7e641002b4b7e27177f000001059e/Product/View/MC907
I downloaded the Moisture Control Handbook off the web several years ago, publication date 1991. Maybe you can still find it.
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