Placement of Vapor Barrier?

[q]Situation:  antique  8-in thick brick home constructed of sun dried bricks with plastered internal walls and no vapor barrier.  How to protect against the combination of weather and internal moisture?  The proper technique, as I understand it, is to paint the external walls,. presumably with latex paint, to prevent leaching  of external brick surfaces from […]

Read More

Little House Framing – Interior Walls

This is my first post in a series that will describe, discuss, and probably debate, new ways to frame a little house, using standard construction materials, as well as others, such as locally milled timbers. There will be some assumptions made, based on information that I will fill in later, as I describe various sub-systems […]

Read More

Removed siding, do i need to cover sheathing?

I spend the weekend removing old cedar siding from my house. I know have a naked exterior and will not have replacement siding for 3-4 weeks (special order Hardieplank). My house is 90 years old; the exterior walls are 1″ tongue and grove in pretty good condition. A little plywood on a 70’s addition. There […]

Read More