HOW
INSULATION
CAN
If You Don't Give
The Trapped
Moisture an Escape
Route, It Will Take
he Paint With It.
PEEL
YOUR
PAINT
Paint problems with wood sidings are
nothing new. But complaints have
increased in recent years in homes retrofitted
with blown insulation. The
problems have occurred with numerous
types of sidewall insulation: cellulose,
fiberglass, tripolymer foam, and
others.
Similar problems have turned up in
new houses where wood siding is
installed over rigid-foam sheathing. Not
only is the paint peeling in some of these
homes, but the siding itself is cupping,
warping, splitting, and in some cases,
falling off the walls.
Bear in mind that there are, of course,
thousands of older, re-insulated homes
with no problems at all, as well as thousands
of new houses with