[Hondaracer]

looks good.

After getting into the guts of our new house and probably knowing it's insides better than anyone else in the last 108 years of it's history, IMO i think the way we are building houses these days is almost backwards as opposed to back then when it comes to Vapour Barriers etc.

100 year old house has no vapour barriers at all, beer bottle stucco on the outside, lathe and plaster on the inside with a bit of blown in cellulose insullation

this house will -never- mold or retain large amounts of moistuer because there are no solid vapour barriers, and, imo, this is why the house has lasted for so long and the solid wood construction remains intact and as solid as ever.

these days with your envelope and vapour barriers we put so much emphasis on keeping moisture out that if not done 100% correctly, problems can and will arise.

our neighbors house has fucking holes the size of basketballs all over the exterior and it's just shitilly patched with flashing, wood, etc.

if he had done this in a modern house his house would be falling apart in 10 years, however, due to the way it's constructed (exatly the same as ours) it breathes and even if it does experiance moisture, it always dries out