How can a half-built house be left in the weather with no issues? I’m talking about a wood frame with plastic in the rain type of thing.
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I’m a home builder here in Portland Oregon where it rains half the year. We build all year round. We frame it and don’t care if it gets wet. Then once the roof is on I bring in specialty crews who use moisture meters and see where the water is accumulated. We use fans, heaters and dehumidifiers to suck all the water out of the wood framing to the appropriate moisture content and then they certify it.
It needs to stay wet awhile for molds and such to start growing. We pull the water out way before that happens.
In fact we do this even in the summer sometimes if we don’t use kiln dried wood and we do get water out. That’s because the framing lumber comes to us green and “pond cured” as we call it where it’s basically been floating in water till recently and is still real heavy.
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