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At a recent window and door industry trade show, the Tyvek boys were showing a new product for flashing around the bottom of window openings. It is an adhesive-backed tough plastic tape material, crinkled like crepe directionally across the width, and they were showing it in openings beginning about 6 inches up from a bottom corner, thence down and continuous around the corner and across the bottom edge of the opening, then up 6 inches on the opposite jamb. It is done after housewrap is installed. The crepe-like crinkling makes it turn the 90 degree bends without having to cut the “flanges.” Anyone with experience with this? Any comments as to effectiveness?
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At a recent window and door industry trade show, the Tyvek boys were showing a new product for flashing around the bottom of window openings. It is an adhesive-backed tough plastic tape material, crinkled like crepe directionally across the width, and they were showing it in openings beginning about 6 inches up from a bottom corner, thence down and continuous around the corner and across the bottom edge of the opening, then up 6 inches on the opposite jamb. It is done after housewrap is installed. The crepe-like crinkling makes it turn the 90 degree bends without having to cut the "flanges." Anyone with experience with this? Any comments as to effectiveness?