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Stormproof Your Roof: Self-Adhering Underlayment Provides Critical Protection In Vulnerable Locations

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Author(s)
Guertin Mike
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Organization(s)
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
Description
Article describing ways to protect roofs from water infiltration by using self-adhering underlayment in vulnerable locations such as roof valleys, eave edges (to help deal with ice dams), rake edges, roofs to vertical walls (such as dormers), sidewall protection, the bottom of dormer valleys, and...

Understanding Drainage Planes, BSD-105

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Author(s)
Lstiburek Joseph W
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Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
BSC
Description
Guide providing information about controlling rainwater through use of drainage planes.