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SmartBatt, the insulation product used in the FHB House demonstration home project, uses a smart vapor retarder technology; it adapts its permeability to allow moisture to escape from the wall cavity.
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Excellent
Why not just use unfaced batts - and then install a layer of poly dheeting as a vapor and draft barrier? Would be much less seams to tape.