Sunday 16 March 2014

Day 123 - 125 - Wrapping Paper

SO sorry, for BarnGirl's absence, she didn't fall into the Klargester or drown in the South Elevation swimming pool. She's been very busy, under the stairs, recording thousands of words for a Nigerian Bank. The weather continues to be challenging and, basically, wet, wet, wet!

Happily, the barn is almost wrapped up with magic Tyvek; a thin, water resistant material, that seems to have replaced the days of tar paper.  The BarnBoys need suits made out of the stuff. Day after day they're soaked to the skin.  It won't be long now, chaps, before you can work inside in the dry!


From Hall to Master Bedroom

Tyvek ago go

Master Bed and fire escape door!








Batoned
Ye Gads, a blue sky. It's been raining every day, honest!
Sun's still out on the SW corner

Fancy a swim?!


Wind, Water n Sun in the South





BarnBoys shoveling water through temporary tarp

Love
BarnGirl
xx


If you're interested......

DuPont Tyvek Supro is an extremely water resistant, airtight and vapour permeable membrane providing superior air and moisture management for commercial and residential buildings.

Tyvek Supro is a multi-purpose, durable and reinforced Tyvek grade for use in all supported and unsupported pitched roof applications, including warm, hybrid and cold roofs.
Also suitable for Scottish sarking board systems and low pitched metal roofs as well as wall and floor applications.

This durable Tyvek Supro underlay reinforced with a laminated Polypropylene nonwoven can be used in all supported and unsupported pitched roof applications, including warm, hybrid and cold roofs. It is specially designed for the rough installation related conditions of fully boarded roofs and is also applicable for profiled cladding (metal sheet), pitched roofs and wall applications

Product Properties:

  • Composition: Composite of High Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene
  •  Roll size: 1 mtr x 50 mtr = 50m/2
  •  Roll weight: 8.5 kg
  •  Mass per unit area: 145 gr/ m2
  •  UV exposure: 4 months
  •  Product- / Functional layer thickness: 450/ 220 µm
  •  Water vapour transmission (Sd):  0.03 m
  •  CE  marking: yes
Whilst there are different kinds of vapour-open roof underlays on the market, DuPont Tyvek Supro has an extremely thick functional layer when compared to the functional layer of products with microporous films or microporous coatings. Tyvek Supro with its millions of unique and extremely thin fibres offers all the key properties required for the performance of a long lasting breather membrane. These are bonded together to create a maze that stops water penetrating, whilst allows water vapour to freely move through the fibres.
The micro fibre functional layer can be used on its own, or laminated to a spunbond to increase specific characteristics such as strength, without affecting the performance of the functional layer.

The benefits of advanced technology:
DuPont Tyvek Supro is the only roof underlay with a functional layer that equals the thickness of the product (in a single layer of Tyvek. So for example:
• 80 gr/m2 DuPont Tyvek Supro layer is ca. 220 ìm Compare this with a multi-layer roof underlay, which is generally several times lighter and can be as thin as 10 ìm.
The single functional layer has the advantage of excellent resistance to UV

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