{"id":19218,"date":"2013-11-27T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=e141162c9aa9c9d5fe1b385d6e715eb4"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T10:24:30","slug":"the-history-of-peeling-paint-insulation-and-vapor-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-history-of-peeling-paint-insulation-and-vapor-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Peeling Paint, Insulation, and Vapor Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    When painters objected to painting insulated houses in the 1930s, building scientists latched onto the wrong solution        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/history-peeling-paint-insulation-and-vapor-barriers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/paint-peeling-old-house-insulation-moisture-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Peeling paint and insulation\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/history-peeling-paint-insulation-and-vapor-barriers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/bill-rose-war-against-water-lonore-kent.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"War Against Water\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in the 1930s, a rash of paint-peeling showed up across North America. One thing that most of these homes had in common was insulation in the walls. Painters put two and two together and decided that the problem was the insulation. According to building scientist Bill Rose, the painters surmised that the problem was happening because insulation &ldquo;draws water,&rdquo; and some refused to paint insulated houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4715,12334,3434,12335,12336,12337],"class_list":["post-19218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-leakage","tag-flashing","tag-insulation","tag-moisture-management","tag-paint","tag-vapor-barrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}