Good Report from Straube/BSC on masonry retrofits

**Dancing Dan** · 03-18-2012, 01:14 PM

You can download it for free here. And our boy Mike Maines gets a mention in the piece and in the bibliography.

Short version: it's complicated.

**Dutchman** · 03-19-2012, 07:59 PM

Skimmed through to page 48. It's a more detailed version of what they already had posted a while ago....didn't see Mike in there yet, I'll get to that.

Glad I followed all the recommendations for my recent project...but what they never mention (didn't read all pages yet), is if and when the outside i painted.

**BuildinginB'ham** · 03-29-2012, 08:39 PM

See page 39. 5.4 Hybrid Spray Foam & Fibrous insulation

Interesting article, but my eyes hurt now. I'll have to finish it another time.

**Dutchman** · 03-30-2012, 10:02 PM

Never realized Mike coined that phrase, nice work Mike.

As far as two separate subs doing insulation on the same wall(s)...not sure I would do that. If there's a problem, who is to blame? And frankly, what is the real cost savings to me to have to manage two separate subs when one can do the job once and be done, ready for drywall.

I have no problem with the approach, it just seems to detailed and time consuming for what it achieves science wise and budget wise.

**Martin Holladay** · 03-31-2012, 08:34 AM

Dutchman,
Michael Maines wrote a good article on the flash-and-batt method, but I'm pretty sure he didn't coin the phrase.

The technique was described as the "flash-and-dash" method in the December 2001 issue of Energy Design Update; the article appeared ten years before Maines' article.

My own article on the technique, "Flash-and-Batt Insulation," appeared in the November 2007 issue of Energy Design Update -- four years before Mike Maines' article.

**Dancing Dan** · 03-31-2012, 09:35 AM

Mike was, however, the first one to use the term to apply to co-ed naked softball.

**Ted S.** · 03-31-2012, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Dancing Dan

Mike was, however, the first one to use the term to apply to co-ed naked softball.

Co-ed naked soft ball, Pretty Good House, these guys are having a good time in Portland, Maine.

**Bluewoodrock** · 03-31-2012, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ted S.

Co-ed naked soft ball, Pretty Good House, these guys are having a good time in Portland, Maine.

We're living the dream up here buddy.

**Martin Holladay** · 04-01-2012, 06:06 AM

Dan,
Big smile.

**Dutchman** · 04-02-2012, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Bluewoodrock

We're living the dream up here buddy.

Yup, all we do is sit around eating lobster all day....it's great.

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