{"id":24869,"date":"2014-04-23T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=7438df386796cd81b3759c848766fa6b"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:56:20","slug":"does-open-cell-spray-foam-really-rot-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/does-open-cell-spray-foam-really-rot-roofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Open-Cell Spray Foam Really Rot Roofs?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Researchers from Oak Ridge National Lab have said open-cell spray foam is risky &mdash; but what did they miss?        <\/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\/does-open-cell-spray-foam-really-rot-roofs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/spray-foam-insulation-open-cell-roof-rot-moisture-problem.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Open-cell spray foam insulation in attic\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/does-open-cell-spray-foam-really-rot-roofs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/open-cell-spray-foam-roof-deck-rot-houston-study-1-building-science-corporation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Moisture migration from rooftop into attic\" width=\"144\" height=\"103\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Murmurs and hearsay about open-cell spray foam insulation have been gaining traction for a while. It rots roofs, people have told me. Not long ago, someone even told me that in Florida, roofing companies won&#8217;t let their workers go up on roofs with open-cell spray foam because the roofs are so spongy, the guys fall right through.<\/p>\n<p>Open-cell spray foam is getting a bad reputation among some people in the construction industry. But is it deserved?<\/p><\/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":[12449,5833,3434,12610,5834,4491,5835,5836],"class_list":["post-24869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-attic","tag-closed-cell","tag-insulation","tag-moisture-problem","tag-open-cell","tag-roof","tag-spf","tag-spray-foam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869","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=24869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}