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Hello all.
I'm having an ancillary building erected in the back garden, complying with building regs etc as it'll eventually be habitable. Building warrant in place and planning secured. It's a timber frame construction, which will be clad in larch (board on board style, horizontal, with counter battens).
The builder has mistakenly wrapped the structure in Protect VC Ultra foil (non-breathable), with an additional vapour layer internally between the insulation and plasterboard). He thought the VC foil was breathable. You live and learn, I suppose.
Building control have picked up on it, stating that it has to be breathable. Given that a lot of the cladding is on, it's going to be a royal pain to remove it all and re-wrap using a breathable membrane.
Question: is there any way I can turn the non-breathable membrane into a breathable one by some means of adapting, or is it a case of rip it out and do it again? I'm resolved to the latter, but wondered if there's anything we could do.
Thanks,
I'm having an ancillary building erected in the back garden, complying with building regs etc as it'll eventually be habitable. Building warrant in place and planning secured. It's a timber frame construction, which will be clad in larch (board on board style, horizontal, with counter battens).
The builder has mistakenly wrapped the structure in Protect VC Ultra foil (non-breathable), with an additional vapour layer internally between the insulation and plasterboard). He thought the VC foil was breathable. You live and learn, I suppose.
Building control have picked up on it, stating that it has to be breathable. Given that a lot of the cladding is on, it's going to be a royal pain to remove it all and re-wrap using a breathable membrane.
Question: is there any way I can turn the non-breathable membrane into a breathable one by some means of adapting, or is it a case of rip it out and do it again? I'm resolved to the latter, but wondered if there's anything we could do.
Thanks,
