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house has no sheathing...
Wife and I have a 2nd home built in 1910. Because of some storm damage,
we're having to do major repair and are considering some significant rennovation, but have some concerns...Please excuse me if I don't use the right terminology; I'm certainly not a construction expert! The big issue is, the house has no sheathing. We've removed the interior wall-board (some kind of early sheetrock), and I see...studs and the back of the clapboard siding, which are planks of pine, I believe. Because of the age of the house, there are some gaps in the clapboard, so I can see lines of daylight, from inside the house. The first question is, how to seal this? If I just replace the damaged wallboard with new sheetrock, the next big storm will blow moisture in the cracks of the clapboard siding. Conceiveably I could somehow caulk everything from inside, but that strikes me as a mammoth job, and I wouldn't trust the integrity, if the siding expanded or contracted in the summer/winter.... Second, we're considering raising the house onto a higher foundation. It's very low to the ground, and doesn't have sufficient piers. The building code would consider that as "moved" and we'd need for the structure to meet current codes. That's fine for the wiring/plumbing, as I was planning to do that anyway. But I'm concerned that the wall structure as I've described it -- just studs and siding -- will certainly be an issue. There's no insulation, and I doubt the roof is properly "tied down" etc.. Short of stripping the entire house of its siding, do I have any other good options? Thx! |
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