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A building wrapped with Tyvek-brand housewrap during construction
Housewrap (or house wrap), also known by the genericized trademark homewrap (or home wrap), generally denotes a modern synthetic material used to protect buildings. Housewrap functions as a weather-resistant barrier, preventing rain or other forms of moisture from getting into the wall assembly while allowing water vapor to pass to the exterior. If moisture from either direction is allowed to build up within stud or cavity walls, mold and rot can set in and fiberglass or cellulose insulation will lose its R-value due to heat-conducting moisture. House wrap may also serve as an air barrier if it is sealed carefully at seams.[1]
Housewrap is a replacement for the older tar paper or asphalt saturated felt on walls. It is lighter in weight, available in much wider rolls, and both faster and easier to apply.
^Krigger, John; Chris Dorsi (2004). Residential Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Existing Buildings. Helena, Montana: Saturn Resource Management. p. 110. ISBN 1-880120-12-7. OCLC 56315804.
Housewrap (or house wrap), also known by the genericized trademark homewrap (or home wrap), generally denotes a modern synthetic material used to protect...
to it being used in a variety of applications. Tyvek is often used as housewrap, a synthetic material used to protect buildings during construction, or...
material on walls, largely displaced in recent decades by breathable plastic housewrap, commonly in 8-or-10-foot (2.4 or 3.0 m) widths. In the 19th and early...
subjected to standing water, and the water-resistant membranes used as housewraps are designed to be porous enough to let moisture escape. Walls also have...
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slap stapler or slapper, it is most commonly used for the application of housewrap as well as some paper building materials which is installed by slap stapling...
systems relying on the siding and an underlayment layer sometimes called housewrap. Moisture can enter basements through the walls or floor. Basement waterproofing...
acknowledges moisture will penetrate the cladding so a moisture barrier such as housewrap or felt paper inside the cladding provides a second line of defense and...
Henry's law Hertz hoist horsepower housewrap A synthetic material used to insulate and protect buildings. Housewrap functions as a weather-resistant barrier...
underlayments, particularly in roofing by synthetic underlayments and siding by housewraps. There are a wide variety of damp proofing and waterproofing membranes...
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surfaces such as basement, slab-on-grade floor and liquid water as interior housewrap such as basement, bathroom, kitchen provides another 1 point. Label or...
out when it does get wet. Vapor barriers are used in conjunction with a housewrap which are vapor permeable but a water resistant membrane, so that one...
may take several forms: Mechanically-attached membranes, also known as housewraps, usually a polyethylene-fiber or spun-bonded polyolefin, such as Tyvek...
electrical systems and automobile air intake manifolds Tyvek nonwovens for housewrap, envelopes, medical packaging, environmental protection and currency Kevlar...
of "breathable membrane", to further weatherproof the building, and "Housewrap" moisture seal. Inside, the walls are laid with reclaimed plasterboard...
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