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chicagofarbs | Posted in General Questions on December 23, 2025 11:42pm Installing warmboard in a few days and we are wondering if laying down a reflective barrier ontop of the plywood subfloor before putting the warmboard down would do anything to help keep the heating going upward. I know the warmboard aluminum top is supposed […]
We are building a breezeway home with corrugated metal siding over coravent rainscreen and currently working with the sider on how to detail the breezeway area. Specifically the area where the siding meets the patio concrete. Our sider said usually, they would create a j-channel that goes against the bottom of the wall onto the […]
We are building a house in Wisconsin and went with Intello for our air barrier. What we are now trying to determine is whether we should use a specialty paint like Keim Mineral Primer and Keim Innostar paint that is made to be highly vapor permeable and mold and fungi resistant. My thoughts are wouldn’t […]
We finished our climate zone 6, 1200sf, Pretty Great House! It was ready for our family of 8 to move in after less than four months of construction, the project came in right around budget, and after several years of significant housing instability, we are so grateful and hopeful than our symptoms of environmental illness […]
I am presently building a completely off-grid tiny house and utility shed and I’m trying to figure out how best to handle the situation with load calculations. We have are already putting cooking, hot water, and laundry dryer on propane to remove those very large loads. There will be a standard fridge with an inverter […]
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