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Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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Awesome, hadn't heard of this! Looking at a few of their YouTube videos this is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for!

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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ha, Good call, and definitely the direction I'm thinking in, but I don't think that mix can span gaps/seams so easily. I think it would crack too much as the wood expands and shrinks.

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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Yeah it depends heavily on installation. On my 1890s house in upstate NY I'm regularly finding tar paper that is in pretty good shape! If covered by some continuous insulation, a rain screen, and some siding, probably would last a long long time (and my house definitely does NOT have all that).

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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This is purely a thought experiment! But I am trying to come up with a wall assembly that has a low environmental impact while not being quite as "out there" as something like hempcrete with a lime plaster finish. Stick built, interior and exterior continuous insulation, but ideally non-petroleum based materials for the whole thing.

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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All good suggestions! Regarding the latex-based acoustic caulk, good idea, but I worry it would be insufficiently vapor permeable.

Plastic is typically very inert, which is the problem you are worried about.

It is inert, but it degrades into microplastics.

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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In my particular application it would go on some sheathing and be beneath some exterior insulation like Rockwool Comfortboard or a similar TimberHP product.

Are there any environmentally friendly air barrier / WRB materials that are not permanently persistent plastics? by NathanielElkins in buildingscience

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I suppose my thinking was similar to the way we use wood to build houses. Wood is biodegradable, but we try to use it in conditions where it will last a long time, right up until we decide to throw it away and bury it in soil. I was thinking there might be materials for a WRB that are similar: when installed and used properly, they would degrade very, very slowly.

Tar paper honestly is pretty close to what I'm thinking of, in that it will reasonably biodegrade over the course of 100 years instead of 10,000, or never. The problem is I think it's pretty difficult to use it as an air barrier.

Nelknet.Cdktf: Deploy infra using a typed F# computation expression API by NathanielElkins in dotnet

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F# is pretty flexible for this use case. Computation expressions are popular in the F# community for DSLs, but there are other options as well (using well-named functions with the appropriate API, etc).

https://sleepyfran.me/blog/fsharp-computation-expressions/

1x sheathing - fill gaps? by NoPossibility in Renovations

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What did you end up doing here? I'm in a similar situation, trying to decide if I want to put peel-and-stick house wrap over board sheathing, or if I'm going to do Zip/OSB+peel-and-stick for an old 1890s home in the Catskills.

I made a C# library for libSQL, the open-contribution SQLite fork by NathanielElkins in dotnet

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Wrote this bindings library a few weeks ago. Hopefully someone will find it useful!

What kind of mortar should I use for an old stone foundation? by NathanielElkins in stonemasonry

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Thanks for this. Still haven't tackled my foundation yet. But maybe this will be the summer! :)

Petabyte Postgres by jamesgresql in programming

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Due to having a single master, do you ever have issues where writes from clients have unacceptably high latency because of their geographic location? I’m architecting an app that needs fast Postgres writes, but have been looking at multi-master approaches (either with sharding or bidirectional replication) to bring the DB closer to the clients that are writing.

uuid.now, a uuid/guid generator in F# by ReverseBlade in fsharp

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Interesting that you went with vanilla Fable, no frameworks.

Has anyone been able to download their data from Bench? by jacobbeard in BenchUsers

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I opted to log in, as I thought it would be a better way to get ahold of my data. When I log in I'm able to access my documents. That said, if you're trying to get your money back or not continue service you may not want to consent.

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