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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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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All building materials arrive on site with a specific moisture content. They can get wet until the building is ‘dried in’. Once the building is dried in, you have to wait for the moisture content in the framing to return to the proper level before sealing everything up with drywall and insulation from the inside. Framing getting wet isn’t a problem, it only becomes a problem if you seal that moisture in before it has had a chance to return to proper levels.

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