Recent content by uponroof

For Sale: A stack of various 1.5, 2 and 2.5 inch thick commercial roofing isocyanurate insulation. Stack is approximately 7 foot high by 4 foot by 8 foot. Rough around the edges from handling and storage in barn. Value when new around $800. For sale now $350... or best offer. Located in...

rieferman, The foam insulation is now listed in classifieds if interested. Floor looks very nice. Now's the time to harden/seal to keep the 'dusting' down. :thumbup:

Herb..AMEN.. Open cell is required under roof sheathing. And yes, the shingle manufacturers are slowly agreeing to warrant their products above these 'closed attic' designs. This is a very important thread regarding an issue which very few understand. I'm a 54 year old roofing contractor who...

*** rieferman, When finishing the attic of our old farmhouse I used rigid foam insulation between the ceiling/roof rafters. This provided far better insulating than fiberglas as I was working with an 8-10 inch cavity. Installation involved 'half nailing' 16 or 20 pennys on the sides of the...

Nice work and welcome! Beautiful old building. Are you in Chester county? I'm in Harleysville. Love the outhouse too. Looks like you have a nice old shed/barn to start with and are going about some much needed stabilization. I'm curious about the dormer on the back side. looks like it was...

Exactly, such as incorporating thicker drywall to delay the fire from reaching a less fire resistant SPF...or using class 'A' (rated) steel siding on the exterior...etc. 'Code' is a living breathing sum of parts, in constant flux due to material and delivery 'advancements'.... and of course-...

rinny, Sorry, you missed the point... Building codes, which through adopting a product bless flammable resistance levels of that product. 'Code compliant' and 'life threatening' simply don't exist as explanations for each other within the written code. This might help illustrate that the...

246gts, Belated congrats on the 1020....and the Healey 3000 looks very familiar as I had a friend back in the early 70s who was lucky enough to have one in some constantly changing state of primer. It might have looked rough but it was well tuned and every well polished TR6's worst nightmare...

Dragster Racer, All very good points...and I do appreciate the time you took to articulate them. I've tyvek'd and caulk more buildings than I care to remember...trust me, they come nowhere near to providing the airtight integrity/energy efficiency that monolitic SPF offers. I guess we all...

ZRX61, Mark H, traction, Ken S, Kona Cruisers, Rusty Kustoms, Weedwaka, DanglerB, and all previous responders...excellent, excellent info, thanks. Printing out this thread in case I have to refer to it on the fly while visiting gun vendors. You've given me much to consider, in fact I'm very...

One more time as I think this is something many are not fully aware of, and then I'll leave it alone. As a 54 year old contractor, brought up accepting the premiss that fiberglas is where most insulation answers are found, I had to rearrange my thinking. Traditional fiberglas 'R' values are...

Lhorn, Astro is something I was looking at before this thread. Thanks. http://www.spraygunworld.com/products/Astro/index.htm billymade, Dq383500, support is starting to sound like the way to go. I did find a web service where supplies are sold via the carrot of expert call in service...

Good stuff fellas. Elroy, I think you're right about a smaller gun or tip. I've started to research most of the suggestions and it seems from what I'm reading you guys have helped me whittle choices down to some very good guns. As Bolster points out who can't appreciate the Porter Cable...

I'm looking to get into parts spraying (car air cleaners, car steel wheels, motorcycle parts, etc) in an old small Binks booth with fan draft system (see attached pic). I'm not familiar with any HVLP gun painting techniques but want to learn as spray cans just aren't providing good enough...

What KMR is saying by 'stick framed' is if you have roof rafters rather than pre engineered trusses. Trusses are combined 2x4 and 2x6 lumber constructed in zig zag like connected patterns to provide additional span strength for roofs. You can't screw around with trusses by cutting or altering...