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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
You’re perfectly on base. That’s a terrible idea. You don’t want to be trapping moisture inside the wall cavity by having vapour barrier on both sides. I’d be getting a new contractor too if that’s the kind of advice you’re getting. That’s like a mechanic telling you to put sugar in your gas tank to take care of some knocking in the engine.
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Thanks. Yeah, he is just doing drywall and patching and painting, which is going well, but his advice on this felt kind of off, especially given we had the roof replaced and some leaks dealt with in the past, so if this mold is ancient history, I don’t want to have to rip off stucco and sheathing later to get out the vapor barrier “fix”.
That said I wonder why the stucco is damp. The area of mold is pretty isolated between studs and this is the exterior, below a soffit.
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