Subcontractors everywhere are scrambling for work, and what work they’re managing to land isn’t very profitable, but there’s at least one little silver lining amid all the clouds.
Expanded polystyrene insulation and polyisocyanurate foam polyiso are the two main insulation types used in EIFS in North America. Overseas, many other types of insulation are used to make EIFS, such a mineral wool and “glass foam.”
Last year, one of my frequent golf buddies called me in a panic: two corners of a small piece of wallboard attached to his garage ceiling had come loose. Could I come over and look at it before it fell on his car?
So much change and yet so much remains the same. For years, the codes referred to this mystical product as the “weather” resistive barrier but the new I-Codes deemed it more appropriate to call it the “water” resistive barrier.
Some things are so counterintuitive it’s a
struggle to explain them. For instance, we’re now three years into the Great
Recession, in which an estimated 8 million people have lost their jobs and
countless millions
more are working part-time or underemployed.
I often get calls from people wanting to “beef up” the performance of their EIFS walls. There are some things you can do to improve performance and this month’s column has a potpourri of strategies for common problems.
I don’t know why, but the columns we contribute
on drywall finishing generate more response and discussion than any other
topic-and not all of the response is friendly.
Is your New Year’s resolution to lose weight, quit smoking, exercise more and drink less? If you’re like me, you start with great intentions and then quit after a few months.
Creating buildings in this day and age is surely
near the top of “most difficult things we do” list. The challenges faced by
designers and builders are many and great.
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