{"id":9884,"date":"2013-02-27T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=970561858ef790545c061504afd6be21"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:21:30","slug":"should-the-paper-facing-of-batt-insulation-face-the-inside-or-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/should-the-paper-facing-of-batt-insulation-face-the-inside-or-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Paper Facing of Batt Insulation Face the Inside or Outside?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    The surprisingly simple answer follows from the variable permeance of kraft paper        <\/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\/should-paper-facing-batt-insulation-face-inside-or-outside\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/fiberglass-batt-insulation-kraft-paper-vapor-retarder-energy-vanguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Should the kraft paper vapor retarder face into or out of the home?\" width=\"144\" height=\"120\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/should-paper-facing-batt-insulation-face-inside-or-outside\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/bsi-038-water-vapor-permeance-versus-relative-humidity-kraft-paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Permeance vs. relative humidity for asphalt-coated kraft paper\" width=\"144\" height=\"89\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you install fiberglass <span>batt insulation<\/span><span>Insulation, usually of fiberglass or mineral wool and often faced with paper, typically installed between studs in walls and between joists in ceiling cavities. Correct installation is crucial to performance.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>* with a kraft paper vapor retarder in a home, which way do you face the vapor retarder? To the inside of the home or the outside of the home? For many building science questions, the answer is, &ldquo;It depends.&rdquo; For this one, however, the answer is clear.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong> The answer is in the next paragraph &mdash; so if you&#8217;d rather wait and find out when you see the movie in the theater, don&#8217;t read any further.<\/em><\/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":[8817,3437,3430,8818,8819,8820,8821,8822],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-batt-insulation","tag-building-science","tag-fiberglass-batt","tag-kraft-facing","tag-kraft-paper","tag-permeance","tag-relative-humidity","tag-vapor-retarder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}