I'm adding a bathroom to the side of an existing studio. It is actually
a partitioned-off portion of an uninsulated garage beside the studio.
The studio has fiberglass insulation, plastic vapor barrier and drywall
on that side. Should I remove the plastic between the old room and the
new bathroom? Or should I just put a new vapor barrier on the bath
side. I know the moisture has to escape somehow, but this common wall
is about 9 feet long, with a door in the middle. We are in the damp
Pacific NW.

JK

JK wrote:
I'm adding a bathroom to the side of an existing studio. It is
actually a partitioned-off portion of an uninsulated garage beside
the studio. The studio has fiberglass insulation, plastic vapor
barrier and drywall on that side. Should I remove the plastic between
the old room and the new bathroom? Or should I just put a new vapor
barrier on the bath side. I know the moisture has to escape somehow,
but this common wall is about 9 feet long, with a door in the middle.
We are in the damp Pacific NW.

JK

No need to remove it. It will even make things a little quieter.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

It's the plastic I'm wondering about.

Poke holes in it.


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I'm adding a bathroom to the side of an existing studio. It is actually
a partitioned-off portion of an uninsulated garage beside the studio.
The studio has fiberglass insulation, plastic vapor barrier and drywall
on that side. Should I remove the plastic between the old room and the
new bathroom? Or should I just put a new vapor barrier on the bath
side. I know the moisture has to escape somehow, but this common wall
is about 9 feet long, with a door in the middle. We are in the damp
Pacific NW.

JK

JK wrote:
I'm adding a bathroom to the side of an existing studio. It is actually
a partitioned-off portion of an uninsulated garage beside the studio.
The studio has fiberglass insulation, plastic vapor barrier and drywall
on that side. Should I remove the plastic between the old room and the
new bathroom? Or should I just put a new vapor barrier on the bath
side. I know the moisture has to escape somehow, but this common wall
is about 9 feet long, with a door in the middle. We are in the damp
Pacific NW.

JK


In the first place, the PN is not that damp unless
you are living on the coast, especially on the
Olympic Peninsula.

Second, leave the plastic barrier alone! You
should put an exhaust fan that blows up through
the roof, or out the side. But even if you have
no fan, just leave the door open between the
bathroom and the studio. That wouldn't work in
the southeast, but it will work fine if you are
not directly on the coast.

JK wrote:
It's the plastic I'm wondering about.

I was considering that. Don't worry about it.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

Yup, I'm putting a fan in the bathroom, a super quiet 90 cubic ft/m.
And yup, we're at sea level, the Gulf Islands to be exact. Sometimes we
get fog so thick you can't find the driveway.

JK

JK wrote:
Yup, I'm putting a fan in the bathroom, a super quiet 90 cubic ft/m.
And yup, we're at sea level, the Gulf Islands to be exact. Sometimes we
get fog so thick you can't find the driveway.

JK


You have no problems with a fan in the bathroom.
You about lost me with "Gulf Islands." Thought
you were in the U.S., guess it is Canada. Nice
place to live

Sorry, we even call it the Gulf of Georgia, nowhere near the Gulf or
Georgia from a southern boy's perspective, eh?
It's the northwesternmost edge of civilization, pretty much bush from
here to Alaska. Expensive and getting worse, due to trucking of
everything from soup to nuts, not much farmland, no fish left.