Open Joint Siding

Prolonged uv exposure on wrb.

Open joint siding.

From the mid 90s to the mid 2000s there were many high profile cases of water damage caused by improperly detailed siding mostly on condos and other multifamily housing. In the seattle area where i work we get a lot of rain. Fronta quattro offers exceptional uv protection making it ideal for projects with so called open joint rainscreen cladding systems in which parts of the. A zip wall sheathing system is added over the building envelope as an air and water resistive barrier these wall panels install in fewer steps than a traditional housewrap so that the building is finished sooner.

What s driving the interest. The open joint method can be used with either board or panel siding. The reveal panel system by james hardie can be utilized to create an effective modern durable panelized look. Where narrow siding is used such as the 4 inch cedar we used on figure 1.

Open joint siding provides extra layers of defense. Open joint siding provides extra layers of defense. Specified for open joint applications. 1 2 acx exterior grade plywood added over the building envelope as an air and we then use state of the art industry leading reveal shield wrapping to protect the building further.

Those specifications call for a double layer of the material in areas near open joints in the siding. An open joint wood rain screen is a construction method that uses wood siding as the outer rain screen layer creates a wall cavity space between the back of the siding and the outer building envelope and has an open joint in the wood siding to allow for ventilation. The answer is fronta quattro. Fronta quattro is making waves in the high performance industry as a specialty air barrier and weather resistant barrier wrb.

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