Installing Tyvek Weather Barrier House Wrap: How To Build A Shed ep 12

[Music] in this video I'm gonna show you how I installed a vapor barrier all around my shed now some folks call these air barriers or moisture barriers it's just a barrier that keeps water from getting in as well as keeping air from getting in from strong winds but it allows the structure to breathe I'm using the product from DuPont called Tyvek I bought this and paid for it myself I'm not sponsored in any way this just happened to be the right size for what I needed at my local Home Depot I think this roll was about three feet or so tall and it came with more than enough length on it to do the entire shed for fastening it I decided to use the same nails I was going to use for the roofing felt a lot of people prefer to use staples when attaching this I went with these nails because I wouldn't have to put in quite as many and I already add them so we're going with these before I got started with the wrap I needed to cut out the threshold on the gable ends and you may have seen in my previous video about framing these gable ends that I did a little trick when I built these walls in the first place before I stood up these walls I cut halfway through them from the underside which was gonna make it really easy to cut through from the top after it was all stood up and I was at the stage it was time to cut out the threshold and I did this because I didn't want the saw to come down and scratch up my finish on my concrete and dull my saw blade so that made cutting this out really easy you can see I only had to go about half way through and then this threshold came right out so with the threshold cut out it was time to measure up and mark the wall where I wanted the top of the wrap to be installed and I wanted to make sure that the wrap would overlap down beyond the bottom of the wall by about an inch so I marked it so that it would do that so that any water that gets in on the wrap would come down below the wood and just come run down the concrete foundation then I used my level to transfer that mark all the way down the wall and then just stretched out the wrap and met it up with that marking and nailed it in the process is really pretty straightforward the the one thing you want to do if you are gonna nail it is you want to make sure you're hitting studs with those nail when I installed my sheathing I was careful to make sure that the lines that are already on the sheathing lined up with the studs inside the walls and so it was pretty easy because my walls were already marked if if yours aren't that way of course you can snap a chalk line or mark them before you do it so then it was just a matter of working my way all the way around and installing the sheathing just nailing it in about every 16 or so inches on every stud alright so I finished with the lowest course of my house wrap and now I'm ready to put it on the next one the problem is I'm working alone and trying to hold this and unroll it and hold that up and wrap it around and find things and hammer and nail it there's just too much I don't have enough hands so if you're working alone I've got this neat trick I want to show you that makes installing house wrap really really easy and it involves this painters pole and a clamp let me show you this painters pole is one of those extendable kinds you twist this end and it gets longer if you happen to have one of these laying around already they're great for this if you don't you could use a piece of PVC or even just a broom handle anything that is gonna fit inside the center roll of your wrap slide that in like this now all you need is to put a clamp right down here that'll hold the wrap and approximately the correct height and then you can roll it out really easily and be able to nail it in I'm just going to use one of these quick clamps here so there you go it's ready to start pulling out and this clamp will be able to lean up against the wall like this and stay there while I'm busy nailing things in once I'm finished with this course the reason I really like these extendable poles is because then to do the next height all I have to do is lift the pole up and extend this end lock it down and now you're ready to do your top course or your third course so let me show you how easy it is to use this thing so I'm going to measure down six inches and I'm just gonna make a quick little mark it doesn't have to be very precise and I'm just gonna do this at each of the corners all right so now that I've got my Heights marked all I need to do is adjust this clamp so that the bottom of the wrap is more or less right in line with that mark doesn't have to be perfect boy I'll tell you what having this painter pole really really helped it was almost like having another person there to hold the wrap in about the right place and as I worked my way down around the walls it held up the wrap you know close enough to the correct height that it was really easy to stretch it and pull it to exactly where it needed to be and then it was just repeat the same process I'd done on the first course at the bottom and repeat that process all the way up the wall now I know that there are some of you out there who are watching me install this going why in the world is this guy putting a vapor barrier on a shed well the answer is because for now yes this is just going to be a shed it's just gonna store my stuff but at some point in the future I might decide to turn it into a workshop or into a man cave or to some other functional kind of a building where I might want to insulate the interior walls run some power out to it maybe install an air conditioner and at that point it will be too late to put any vapor barrier into the walls and I'll really need it at that point so I decided rather safe than sorry go ahead and take the time and get that installed now and then I don't have to worry about it if I ever decide to use this as something else all right so once I had all of the walls wrapped it was time to tape up the joints now DuPont makes this specialized Tyvek tape that matches really well with this wrap it bonds very very tightly and it's stupid expensive it was like 20 bucks a roll I wasn't real thrilled about that but I decided if I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it right so I went ahead and bought tape now I did find that this tape doesn't really like to unroll very well at all so one trick I used that save me a lot of frustration was when I was done using the tape for a minute I would just fold down one the end just a little bit and that would give me a tab to pull on later that made it really easy to start again the the next seam that I was going to tape down so the only note that I have for taping is to take your time and be really careful because once this stuff sticks it's like superglue it does not want to come off and you want to try and rub out any kind of creases or kind of imperfections make it as smooth as you possibly can once I finished up the taping then I just wanted to make sure the gable ends were all covered up as well this is mostly for driven rain ingress we do occasionally get driven rain here and driven rain for anyone who doesn't know is rain that is blown hard enough that it's basically raining sideways and so I wanted to make sure that the gable ends were recovered in case this you know sighting had any cracks or leaks that would let water in there's no real tricks to this particular process just hold it up there as best you can cut it around the things that are already there and nail it down around the edges and then tape up all the seams when you're completely finished so that was basically it once I had all the seams taped up then the shed is ready to start installing trim and siding and that's what I'm gonna cover in my next video so if you haven't subscribed yet go ahead and hit that subscribe button down below and click the little bell next to it to make sure you get notified when my next video comes out and I hope you've learned something if I did something that was boneheaded completely wrong or just plain stupid by all means I'd love to hear about it down in the comments I learned from you hopefully more than you learned from me so let me know if you find anything there that I could improve on I'd sure appreciate it and as always thank you very much for watching [Music]

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Id: X81Q2oaTAJo

Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 10 2018