Hi All, it has been a while since posting so, here is my current scenario: Remote cottage in Manitoba, Canada. New build last summer, typar went on last October, and we are just getting to the siding now. We are using Hardie lap & trim.
Should we, can we, do a second layer of Typar as it has been up & exposed now for a year? We get driving wind/rain on the lake side and thought a double layer might help anyway.
Or should we cut off the Typar & reapply? The building is insulated entirely with Soya foam – so it is pretty airtight (if that matters). A friend thought that maybe with 2 layers of Typar, the building would have trouble breathing?
Thanks for the advice!
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Two layers won't cause "breathing" problems.
Although I don't think two layers of typar will hurt anything, it may be difficult to integrate with the window and door flashings if they were done properly and you are using 9' rolls. It may be easier to use the 3' tall rolls or felt.
I followed your threads on this cabin last year and would love to see some more pictures of the progress. We purchased a water access property in northern MN this summer and hope to be doing what you are in a few years.
done correctly?? Well, we know that part of it is not... we discovered only 2 weeks ago that there is one section that they installed the top section first, then put the bottom up & over (DUH!) So the only part we know is done correctly is the part we did ourselves.
Yes, maybe 3' might be easier to work around the windows. We were thinking of not doing the whole building, just the south exposed face and the section we know they did wrong. Typar says it is only good for 6 months.. not sure if we are risking it by not redoing the whole thing.
RE doing what we did - well I hope you do not make all the mistakes we have made:) Just get ready to pay, pay, pay
I don't have any new one here at home, computer hard drive crashed, so I keep them all at the office now. I'll take some new pics this weekend. This past week the screen room was being built so that will make the exterior look really different.
Take some pictures of the windows and exterior walls and post them (as well as the scenery). Anything that is not lapped shingle style may be a problem, even sticky membranes that are not lapped correctly. The Hardie is a 50+ year product, so I think the money it costs to properly put another layer of typar or felt on will be well spent, especially with the foam/OSB behind it.
So finally got some pictures off the camera...not really much on the scenery front. It's been such a long time since I posted any pics - the insulation & drywall has gone in, the back deck new, the screen room is almost done. The painters came in last week (no pics of the colours - they may need to change) But most excitedly, the sectic tank is sunk in place! It should be closed in and functioning by the end of next week, barring anymore grief from conservation & water stewardship.
Edited 10/2/2009 12:09 am ET by confused2
If thats a cottage, I'd love to see what they call the house.
Yeah, it should be more aptly named retirement home...We got carried away with it. The house is a 1977 basic 1800 sq ft 3 bedroom bungalow which will be sold and only a small apartment in the city maintained for the off season when we can't get in.
Its beautiful. Congrats.
Thank you.
I'd wrap it again
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Thanks - I think we will wrap it with felt, doing it in sections as we go on the siding. Seems like it might be easier that way.