Re: SB: Color on inside walls

[Mark and/or Jan Bigland-Pritchard <hyphen@dial.pipex.com>]

Guy,
I think you might be confusing vapour barriers with damp proof courses
(which, of course, you probably call something else on your side of the
ocean) - the first inhibits movement of water vapour, the second is a
barrier to liquid moisture.
Mark

GuyW wrote:
> 
> Having evaluated conventional houses with concrete slabs and moisture
> intrusion problems...I can assure you that concrete is not, ever, a 
> water vapor barrier....and the "standard of practice" is to add a 
> plastic "vapor barrier" (which doesn't work too well) under a 
> slab...because the UBC doesn't address the subject.
> 
> -Guy-
>

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