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Greenbuilding Archive for April 2000
300 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:23:52 2002

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Re: GBlist: non allergenic vapor barrier



If your drywall is your AIR-Barrier then you can use a low-perm paint as
your vapor barrier.

If you want a material behind your drywall you can use a material that is
basically aluminum foil together with kraft paper (High embodied energy on
this one but no off-gassing

Cheers- Danny Sagan, Randolph Ctr VT


At 10:29 AM 4/24/2000 -0400, Alan Abrams AIBD wrote:
>Can someone suggest an alternate material to use as a vapor barrier
>(applied to the inside face of a stud wall before installation of wall
>board)?  My client is allergic to polyethylene.  
>
>Alan Abrams
>
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