<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> Gave me a turn… I blew cellulose into the walls of an 1852 church 43 years ago. So far so good: there is really no reason <div class=""> for moisture to be trapped in the walls. We also painted it in ’75 (last was 1910),and the paint never peeled; just started to powder </div><div class=""> after 17 years. It did (does) have a 10/16 pitch, a good overhang, and nice clear 1 inch board & batten siding.<br class=""><div><br class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Clarke Olsen</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://clarkeolsendesign.com" class="">clarkeolsendesign.com</a></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">373 route 203</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Spencertown, NY 12165 </span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">USA</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">518-392-4640</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="mailto:colsen@taconic.net" class="">colsen@taconic.net</a></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 25, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Reuben Deumling <<a href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com" class="">9watts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">I realize this list has gone silent, but in the hope that some of you smart greenbuilding folks are still out there, receiving this email, I would like to pick your brains. A correspondent from Illinois has been cautioned by five(!) "very experienced people' not to insulate the walls in an old house:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(232,232,232)" class="">In the attic, yes. We are not going to put it in the walls. After talking to multiple old house restorers who have been in the trade 40 years or more, they all say one thing, that due to lack of a vapor barrier, it will trap moisture and rot the framing in the walls. They did a lot of insulating in the 1970's, and then a great deal of structural repairs in the 1990's on those houses.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggested he try to find a second opinion. Please share your wisdom. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(232,232,232)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks very much </div><div class="">Reuben Deumling (who joined this list almost twenty(!) years ago.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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