15 Or 30 Lb Felt Siding

Lumberyards often call these items 15 lb.

15 or 30 lb felt siding. Item 656632 model 0903000. I have seen literally hundreds of houses stripped of asbestos siding that had 15 felt under it. 15 felt used for house wrap or sheathig wrap under siding. More product details close.

I ll stick with tried and true felt paper. Raincoat which repels water from the outside but also allows moisture to escape from the inside. I ve opened up houses built less than 5 years previous and the tyvek was shreaded like old newspaper. Felt which weighs 15 to 20 lbs.

This gardner asphalt 15 432 sq. Gaf shingle mate 36 in x 144 ft 400 sq ft felt roof underlayment. Felt this gardner asphalt 15 432 sq. Of coverage for residential and commercial roofing projects.

Ft or unrated 30 lb. In my opinion felt paper is a vapor barrier plus keeps the oils in the shingles from leaching out and into the wood substrate i e. Plywood or osb roof deck so 15 20 or 30 will work for any shingle roof the type i recommend depends on roof slope. The best weight for roofing felt is the 30 pound product because it provides thicker and.

Felt has a 36 in. Asphalt saturated heavy duty roofing felt is available in 15 and 30 pound weights. 30 asphalt felt 3 x 72 roofing underlayment 216 sq. Most of the felt paper stocked by lumberyards today is either unrated 15 felt which typically weight around 7 or 8 lbs.

In general a sheathing wrap should have a perm rating of at least 5 to enable walls to dry out in a reasonable period of time should they get wet. Felt a holdover from the old days when that what they actually weighed. Width and a 144 ft. They were built in the 1950s and 60s the felt was in perfect condition.