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   Guest_ | May 15, 1999 06:52am | #1

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   No experience with what you mentioned.

   A few options...

   1) Roll up section of window screening into a tube and simply staple it to the sheathing down near the mudsill. When the first clap is placed it compresses the screen into an oval that fills the space.

   2) (preferred)Use a section of any type of cheap ridge vent, the kind that looks like a brillo pad on steroids. Cobra is one brand that comes to mind. You only need a 2-3 inch wide strip so a roll goes a long way. It provides much better insect protection than the rolled up screen. This also goes behind the first clap, in between the furring strips.

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   Guest_ | May 15, 1999 08:32am | #2

   *Correct as usual Mongo... add to that, the advise of Do use furring strips, and I'd prefer #15 or #30 Felt paper over the Tyvek... but that's another story.

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   Guest_ | May 16, 1999 03:10am | #3

   *George and Mongo,So, let me see if I have this straight. Even if I use felt instead of some Tyvex-type stuff, I should still create a space behind the clapboards? If I understand past discussions, you don't like Tyvek et al because of reactions between it and cedar. But regardless of what is applied to the sheathing, we still want airspace back there? Do you prefer felt even if the clapboard is applied to furring strips? If so, why? Seems a lot of you guys don't like Tyvek for other reasons than its interaction with cedar. What else is wrong with it, besides possibly the cost? Is it only Tyvek that people dislike or is it any of those types of wrap?

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   Guest_ | May 16, 1999 07:37am | #4

   *Rufus-one of the problems I have with housewraps is the fact they just haven't been around (or at least in common use) for very long. I have torn apart many an old house with still good looking felt behind the siding or under the roofing. I believe I know what felt does, and believe it can last 100 years. I don't have the same confidence in housewraps, and despite what others think, I think of housewrap as a substitute for felt. I'm constantly asking, how is it better? Why should I change from a method that has stood the "test of time"? So far, I have not been convinced but I still ask. I'm definately interested in advancing our craft.George W. - could you please elaborate on your idea of paper OVER housewrap? I believe you know your stuff, and would like to hear your theory. - yb

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   Guest_ | May 16, 1999 06:13pm | #5

   *Bob, it must have been the "near-beer"... I meant to say, I Prefer felt paper to the newer Housewraps... same logic as your's. I've seen much good old felt, little good aged miracle wrap.

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   Guest_ | May 16, 1999 07:46pm | #6

   *sorry GWC, my bad. In rereading your post, I read your inflection a different way. Isn't that something? Awful easy to misconstue written word. - yb

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   Guest_ | May 17, 1999 09:20am | #7

   *I read that post in just the way you did, bob. Had me wondering there....Language is a funny thing.Rich Beckman

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   Guest_ | May 17, 1999 09:24am | #8

   *Rich, it's been a problem over the years... "I've been this country only a short distance" as Yakov Smirnoff would say.

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   Guest_ | May 20, 1999 07:48am | #9

   *GWC. . . ya wanna quote ol Yakov with mashed potatoes in yer mouth. . .or is that potatoe mash. . . ??-pm