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Plastic Vapor Barrier
Hello- I am building a house am wondering while I can (sheetrock is coming) if a big mistake is about to happen. This house has a brick veneer with tyvek drainage plane and my insulator installed unfaced insulation with plastic vapor barrier.He insists it's allright when asked but I feel like he's probably never opened a wall cavity filled with
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Does Superinsulation "work" in a Hot Climate
Conventional Hot and Mixed Climate "wisdom" , Energy Codes and Energy Star guidelines (existing and proposed)seem to indicate that there is really not much need for high R-value (especially in Walls).
I understand that superinsulation and triple glazed windows are expensive and they do not provide the "Big Bang for the Buck" as they might in Fairbanks.
If we ignore
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