{"id":26512,"date":"2014-04-30T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=a27a09228fd02cddd771abc7b85833a9"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:08:51","slug":"what-happens-when-you-put-a-plastic-vapor-barrier-in-your-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/what-happens-when-you-put-a-plastic-vapor-barrier-in-your-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When You Put a Plastic Vapor Barrier in Your Wall?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    A look at the physics of humid air and cool surfaces        <\/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\/what-happens-when-you-put-plastic-vapor-barrier-your-wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Polyethylene%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Polyethylene vapor barrier \" width=\"144\" height=\"120\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/what-happens-when-you-put-plastic-vapor-barrier-your-wall\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/atlanta-mcmansion-hvac-flex-duct-wild-ductopus.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Polyethylene vapor barrier in a basement wall\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A lot of people have heard advice about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/52970\/Vapor-Retarder-Vapor-Barrier-Perms-What-the-Heck\" title=\"vapor barriers and vapor retarders\">vapor barriers and vapor retarders<\/a>. Many of them have walked away confused. A big part of the problem, I think, is that they&#8217;ve been told what to do &mdash; &#8220;Put it on the warm-in-winter side,&#8221; or &#8220;Never use one&#8221; &mdash; but they haven&#8217;t had the physics of what happens explained to them.<\/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":[12617,12337,8822],"class_list":["post-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-polyethylene","tag-vapor-barrier","tag-vapor-retarder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","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=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}