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"Structural Insulated Panels" -- OSB/foam sandwich -- have been touted as an energy efficient way to build.
Anyone here ever used them?
I may be building a shop soon and SIPS seem like an easy way to get a well insulated building.
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09-05-2016, 05:10 PM
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No, but I want to. Either that or spray foam insulation.
How would you do the roof. No sense in tight walls with a poor roof.
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09-05-2016, 05:40 PM
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My concept is a box made of SIPS -- walls and ceiling sealed together. Roof support will be standard trusses designed to allow storage of excess lumber.
They also design buildings with cathedral ceilings using SIPS as the roof panels. All joints are sealed so there is no air leakage.
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You don't need trusses with a SIP roof. If you can stand the span, a ridge beam and panels is all you need. However, if you are looking for storage, attic trusses would be good.
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Well, they're not exactly SIPS (per the definition of having board on the inside and outside), but my house is CANO panels; R30 walls and R50 roof panels and if i were building again, i would use the panels again. These have steel tubes instead of glueboard on the sides, and i don't need (or want)
a wrap (like tyvek). Main intersections (corner) have exterior steel and most construction was simply self-tapping screws. the basic shell, including the 2nd floor, went up in a day after the panels were flat-bedded to site. we built over 25 years ago and as i told SWMBO, the cost of heating and cooling will never go down (it hasn't).
I didn't mean to kill the thread...
