This is the most BOMBER way to Build in the South

I don't know about you but I build houses out of wood I absolutely love wood and if you ask most Builders they probably love wood too Wood's an incredible building material I think of it as God's Building Material you know those forests that we get this wood from they regrow every 20 years they're carbon sequestering and you know what when we cut that wood if we throw it in the dumpster it's probably going to decompose and go back to the Earth pretty darn quick speaking of which that's actually one downside about wood you know my buddy David necastro says if it can't dry it's going to die and that is one downside of wood you know when that tree is growing in the forest it sucks that water up but once we cut that tree down and it's not living anymore we kind of need to keep it dry let's think about our dining room table as an example dining room tables they're often made of wood in fact mine is my dining room table as long as I keep it in my dining room it's probably going to last a long time however if I put my dining room table in the backyard and let it get rained on and left it in the elements how long would it last h a couple years maybe it would sure not look very good real quick after that first rain though wouldn't it now let's take our houses as dining room tables how long should our house last why wouldn't I be able to pass my house or your house down to your grandkids as well as long as we keep our houses dry we'll have no issues with our house water is the number one enemy of houses and in fact 80% of ruction defect litigation is all about water so if water's your enemy and you're a builder watching this wouldn't you want to take water incredibly seriously wouldn't you want to use the most bomber waterproofing strategy you possibly could find in your house now let's back up 20 years ago when I first started building down here in Austin Texas I was building like most of you or like most of a lot of builders in America we took this sheet good and we stapled it up to the house and it did a pretty good job of waterproofing but you know what I built a lot of high exposure houses and I've got a lot of high exposure clients and so I take waterproofing incredibly seriously and that leads me to this product in today's video what you see behind me in this house is called UV 240 this in my opinion is the most bomber way to waterproof your house now this doesn't work everywhere though this is really a product that you only want to use in the South we'll get into that later in the video but if you're like me and you build High exposure houses you want to build a house that's really going to last Trust me this is your product today's build show all about UV 240 sponsored by polyguard let's get going okay so this product that we're talking about today the guys are putting on behind me is called UV 240 by polyguard what you're looking at here is a peeling stick material meaning it's got a release paper on the back and it's got a sticky side on one side and the front side is actually aluminum kind of like your Reynolds Wrap that you'd use in your kitchen aluminum is on the front and the name UV 240 comes from two years of UV exposure because of the aluminum right the aluminum is not going to break down with the sun and the 40 stands for 40 mil thick I really like that thick bomber material it means that it's got some gasketing ability when I put nails through it or when I put Fasteners into this later it's really going to hold up to all that stuff and seal around it so here's what happens the guys are framing the house with kind of traditional framing materials we didn't do anything special with the sheathing this is just kind of commodity OSB here but before we put that steel peeling stick on we're putting a primer on this happens to be polyg guard's clear Bond liquid adhesive have you ever done any uh FICA countertops you know when you do a FICA countertop you roll that adhesive down onto the substrate then you roll it on the formica and then you've got two sticky materials one when they come together they stay really stuck and that's exactly what's happening here we're putting that primer on we're letting it sit for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes let's say depending on the temperature when it's hotter out it's quicker when it's colder out it takes a few minutes longer but we're looking to make sure that our finger is not sticking on there and then the guys peel it off and roll that out now you're going to notice when these guys uh by the way this crew has been working for me for like 15 years now so they they literally Christmas wrap this house it's going look incredible when they're all done they're running a uh chalk line across the building they know what that over they know what that thickness of the Roll is going to be they're looking for somewhere between a 2 and a 4 in overlap between sheets horizontally and then when it comes to Vertical they're really looking for more like a 6 in overhang on vertical surfaces and then they're going in with rollers just like any other product roll the tape that rolling is really going to make sure that primer and that adhesive on the material sticks to each other and once this is on the building I've had it literally exposed for over 2 years without a problem now one of the other things I really like about this material is that it interacts well with some of their other products they make a a fluid applied product called Blue barrier and you're going to notice on this house we actually used some blue barrier before putting on this peeling stick this UV 240 and we also are using it in some places after the fact especially on this house uh in these Eve areas where the sop it is now one of the beauties of this product is because it's so bomber because it's so thick and uh holds out both Water and Air so well it's really the right choice when you've got high exposure architecture what I mean by that is you know you think about modern houses that we build a lot here in Austin Texas a lot of those houses either have no overhangs or have very small overhangs and this house does have a pretty good overhang but it's a flat roof so I don't have that air foil effect of the wind allowing that water to not get to the sfet on a house like this even though it's got a let's say a 2ft overhang if we've got a little bit of wind and some water going I can very easily get water almost all the way up to my sop and that's one of the reasons why we're running that all the way up to the roof deck the other big reason though is we're using this as our air barrier on this house we're making sure that everything is detailed and stitched together so that air is not going to leak in because air is also an enemy of her house because especially in the South when air leaks in it's going to bring with it moisture and these humid days down here in the South when that humidity comes in when that moisture leaks into your house how many times is it going to find a cold condensing surface a lot because we air condition a lot here so we want to make sure that not only are we holding out the bulk water but we're holding out the air as well that being said I actually have the polyguard guys on site with me let's go visit them where we're about to do a window install all right y'all let's transition to showing you a window install and I've got a guy I want to introduce you to Jeff is my local tech nerd from polygard Jeff thanks for joining me brother thank you so while the guys from Madera are doing this install for us on this window I want to ask you a couple questions I said earlier in the video that this product this system of yours this uv20 is really intended for the South you know you guys say in your website it's for climate zones one 2 and 3A what's the nerdy explanation of why that is well there's a long answer and a short answer long answer we'll look at the Wolfie model and that'll explain a lot I'll link to that in the description by the way they did a full study on that short answer is we want in this climate we're not too worried about it because our AC's on all the time right so when we want that wall to breathe it'll breathe inside and you're not going to have the events on the outside of the wall where it's going to try and push air out we want to be able to dry to the inside and so with this material on the outside it's aluminum faced it's basically a zero perm right no nothing's going to dry through this if we sealed this up it would be like a Ziploc bag that things aren't getting through it but because we're in a climate that's air conditioning uh you know 11 months out of the year out of 12 we're always drying to the inside so we wouldn't in these climates put any visqueen on the inside or we wouldn't mastic our mirrors to an exterior wall because those would act like a vapor barrier and we could have some condensation behind those right correct that's the biggest issue they have now I know this is probably more of a long answer than you want but could we use this if we were in Minnesota we could but we'd have to have external insulation so your D point would need to be external of your interior wall um we could also use this on an ICF wall because the ICF is already non-permeable oh there you go we're not worried about that yeah that makes sense so we can do we can use it but it's not designed for those systems that they're currently building in their wall assemblies makes a lot of sounds which which for my Builder friends out there watching this remember you got to have some good building Science Education because manufacturers are going to tell you here's the general guidelines but everything comes down to your specific situation and so that's why I really Advocate everyone have a good basis of understanding of building science to know here's why I should or shouldn't do that rather than just following blindly some general rules because I was part of the Builder crowd that put VIs Queen in on the inside in the '90s thinking that I was following code but in fact I was causing future problems for those houses I was building in the '90s in uh in other climate zones so uh talk to me then about primer options you saw the guys using the um solvent based primer which was called what again clear Bond clear Bond okay so solvent-based primer from polygard is clear Bond we also have water-based primer which is 650 WB okay um low voc's if you've got occupied space that you're repairing something you can use it there um won't revert with water uh but it doesn't get as tacky initially so clear bond in these situations especially above grade it's going to allow you to move faster I'm always a fan of the solvent base it works as long as I can buy it I'm going to buy the solvent base personally yep uh and then talk to me about this window install you saw the guys using your blue barrier uh on three sides of this window they didn't put on the bottom Flame what are my options in the blue barrier world that's a fluid applied flashing we've got the blueberry GF on this project we also have our blueberry LF liquid flash where you could Flash the entire window with it um fluid flashing all the way around is only 23 Ms where you're not having to origami sheet into the window um it's an option uh but this my personal preference is to do this we have wet set the window and now we're going to wrap the flanges after they put it on with with another set of our UV 240 yep and now we've got a completely sealed window so for me the way that I like to explain the Gap filler version versus the LF liquid Flash The Gap filler has a uh fibrous material in it kind of kind of feels like a fiberglass type material which allows you to span gaps up to 3/4 inch if you're only going to buy one that's the one that I like to use however it doesn't smooth down quite as nicely because of that fiber material so if you're doing Long window sills let's say you wouldn't use that you would use the liquid flash which feels a little bit more like Crest toothpaste kind of consistency where it lays down nice and smooth uh this one I like it though because I can kind of use it everywhere on the job it's kind of a catchall it's a bit of a catchall you'll also notice that we haven't done this yet but once we run the Aluma flash up I've got trusses poking through not always ideal we'd prefer a monopoly frame it but structurally we had to poke those trusses through so then we're going to use that Gap filler afterwards to do as much air sealing as possible and then later on the inside of this house the spray foam is going to be our last line of defense when it comes to air ceiling for anything that's com coming through there perfect what did I miss on the install here Jeff we not talking about the only thing I would mention is any repairs so it's a job site things will happen um this product's amazing it's easy to work with we can repair it just like we did here yep with some of the blue barrier yep we can also repair it with a patch which I have one here where they just basically make a Band-Aid oh yeah okay and you can stick it around and then all you got to do is seal that top Edge yeah that makes so that if any water's coming down you're not eating at that yeah um but other than that we can run nails through this as long as those Nails stay in place it's going to seal around them yeah that's right we're only really going to need to do this if they pull the nails out okay that makes sense and uh Jeff you're going to notice our guys are putting a I don't know 6-in band or so on the two jams and across the head and then once that head goes on they're going to also put uh a bead of blue barrier Gap filler I kind of think of that as stitching it kind of holds it in place it's an adhesive material and in fact if I understand it correctly the chemistry was kind of born out of the 1970s and the Japanese were using the same type of chemistry for windshield adhesive so it's got both waterproof and adhesion properties so when they put that bead on the top we're going to really make sure that nothing's coming off and then we're not getting any water back there another reason is you've now created a reverse lap there so if you're getting any shedding of water down that wall yeah you're going to seal that top Edge that's right you're not a reverse lap yeah now downsides we got to tell you the problems with this material which are you got to have sunglasses cuz on a sunny day when the clouds go away it is bright right you got to wear your suntan lotion in the summer time it is going to reflect back on you but if I could close out the video I would tell you Jeff that this product has been my main Workhorse uh it is a bomber product and when you've got houses like this that are high exposure when you've got clients that have uh a lawyer in the office next door in their SE Suite you got to use the best products and if you don't you as a builder will pay for the problems later rather than having your clients pay a little bit more for a really good product to be installed by Good Guys on the job site so Jeff I really appreciate your partnership and your friendship app as a quick note by the way Jeff you may not know this but polyguard is the OG build show sponsor I think it's going back to like 2012 or 13 you were one of the very first companies that I reach out to and said hey I'm using your products and I love it would you guys sponsor the build show and way back in the day you guys did so I really appreciate your friendship over the years we we appreciate all we do with you guys and we like to continue it's good stuff guys if you want to learn more about we talked about today I'll have a link to all the polyg guard stuff that we talked about today and as a quick reminder they've rebranded in the last year or two so if you watch my old videos and you hear me talking about Aluma flash it's the same product they just changed the name to UV 240 and there's been a slight name change from polywall Back to the OG brand which is polygard this company's been around since the 60s it's a texas-based employee owned company really good people products are actually made in Texas by Texans I'm a huge fan I can't tell you enough good things about this product because I take waterproofing seriously I know it is my number one enemy and I am not going to lose this battle so that's why I use this guys if you're not currently a subscriber hit that subscribe button below we've got new content here every Tuesday and every Friday follow us on Tik Tok or Instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the build show [Music]

Channel: Matt Risinger

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Length: 16min 9sec (969 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 16 2024