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Re: Good Report from Straube/BSC on masonry retrofits
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.
Re: Good Report from Straube/BSC on masonry retrofits
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.
Re: Good Report from Straube/BSC on masonry retrofits
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.
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.
Mike
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it. -P.J. O'Rourke
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