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another vapor barrier question (sorry!)

fausonk
16 years ago

I remember reading that you don't want to create a situation where vapor cannot escape at all, creating a vapor sandwich in the wall. We have a couple walls in our shower that are brick, covered with studs, insulation, then vapor barrier, then CBU. I assume those are okay.

On our other walls, it is new exterior construction. So we have Tyvek housewrap on the outside, then the framing studs, then insulation. Do we put a vapor barrier before the CBU here as well? Or would that create the vapor sandwich we don't want? If we don't want a vapor barrier because of the Tyvek in these two walls, should we just use Redguard over the CBU instead?

Thanks!

K

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