There is a story/joke about that where we were having success and someone else failures - difference turned a out be fresh vs fresh frozen hence my post above. The joke is buried in annals of air rifle lore as the cannon is/was run on compressed air.
Ah, I know what you are saying. We found the chicken must be fresh kill, even frozen and thawed skewed the test results.
nope... sometimes the corners are sheathed to keep things square and strong. but my house is just that mid 1960's 1/2" black fiber board. not great stuff, but thats how it was done
The guy that goes to work every day and launches lumber at windows has the most fun job on the planet.
Right ON ! All the corners should have wind bracing in both directions, commonly metal strips that are let into the framing and secured. When people do re-models they do not understand the importance of these braces if the framing is not sheathed. I live in a 1860 farmhouse that leans 3" from ground to peak because foolish people cut out bracing that was mortised and tenon and pegged. And this is with the entire house being sheathed in tongue and groove 1" x 6" then sided in clapboard siding. The house is post and beam and heavily relies on the bracing, sheathing does play a structural role so without it the wind bracing becomes even more important.
Your "good to go" with that construction. It was very popular just after the first "energy crunch". As long as it's not's over 40 years old.
In my renovations I came to realize there was no sheathing on my house at all, walls or roof. After tearing down plaster interior walls there was what appeared to be some old crappy fiberglass in the wall - it was crumbly and missing in many places. I can't imagine it was doing much, it was so light and gaps around the edges, tunnels through it etc. Behind it I could see the wood siding (cedar?). They put up vinyl on the wood siding, but there is nothing else there. Much of the wood siding was cracked. No wonder air just blows though every seam in the house. In the attic areas I could look right at the metal roofing it was just on thin furring strips on the small truss beams. I'm in the process of filling the bays between trusses with foam board but not sure what I can do with the walls without fully gutting them all. Even though it's worthless I think there is probably too much fiberglass in there to spray in foam or something like that, and I'd wonder if it had enough pressure to come through the cracks in the siding and pop out the vinyl. I can't wait to move out of this old drafty house.
