How To Wrap A House For Siding

Seal all seams with a special tape provided by the house wrap manufacturer.

How to wrap a house for siding. Tyvek says you can use 4 staples per 9 feet of house wrap if you tape over them an apply the siding right away. To sum it up house wrap is a lightweight paper like material that is most often used to completely cover the house directly on top of the sheathing and behind the vinyl siding. Unroll right over doors and windows and overlap vertical and horizontal splices at least 6 inches. Wrap the fabric around the edges of windows.

Follow these steps prior to installing siding. In the end the decision to install house wrap under your siding is a personal one that you should make after discussing it with your contractor. This is our most comprehensive. Put the bottom corner of the house wrap about 2 inches past the corner in both directions.

We cover how to move doors and windows and create a weather proof exterior. Then use your staple gun or hammer stapler to tack the corner of the material in place. Work from the bottom up overlapping the lower courses. For the easiest work plan to go from left to right.

Its primary purpose is to prevent air and water leaks that may have seeped past the vinyl exterior. Install house wrap before doors and windows. However if you re interested a residing project offers the perfect time to examine your home s weather barrier and exterior insulation and improve it if need be. Apply all layers of wrap shingle style where the top layers of a surface overlap the bottom layers.

Start at the bottom of your home s walls and unroll around the house. Along the top of the window or door create a top flap. Over that you can install a weather resistive barrier home wrap then strapping and siding. If you are only planning to install an inch or two of insulation on the outside you would need to go with the 6 mil poly vapour barrier on the inside and my choice would again be the rockwool in that case to avoid incidentally installing an additional vapour barrier on the outside which the foam could end up doing.

But a cap stapler is better. It is acceptable to install barricade building wrap over wood based foam insulation or fiberboard sheathing and exterior gypsum board. Apply house wrap up the gables before installing exterior trim even if the attic is not conditioned. Not just another vinyl siding installation video.