I’m installing house wrap on a 10×12 ft shed/studio and am wondering – does anything bad happen if I end up with a few wrinkles?
I’m using the 3 ft roll, with about an 8-inch overlap between courses. The bottom courses look great but standing on the ladder I haven’t been able to get it completely straight up toward the top. Everything’s well covered and taped, but I’m just wondering how important it is to the function of the wrap, to have it all perfectly flat and tight against the sheathing.
Siding is going to be redwood shiplap, with half-inch furring strips between wrap and siding, for a rain screen.
I’m assuming it’s going to be just fine, but I’ve never done this before and thought I’d better check. It’s a small building so I can pull down the wrinkly sections and re-do them if necessary.
Thanks for your help on a 100% rookie question!
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The only danger would be if you managed to get a large wrinkle and it got flattened in a way that created a trough that caught water running down the face of the wrap. You want to pay attention to overlaps, etc so that water runs downhill with nothing to stop it.
Thanks for the quick feedback!
I'm hoping to get the roof on this weekend, then start siding.
Wrinkles won't be a major issue except that they can make seams more difficult to tape securely. If you're really worried about it, you can use a utility knife to slice the wrinkled portion and then slide a housewrap patch in and integrate the patch with seam tape. Chuck Miller recently covered this in his Theres a Better Way series: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/31574/how-to-patch-holes-in-housewrap
Good luck, post pictures.