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Can you use expanding foam to fill gaps between a timber frame and OSB sheathing?


plockhart

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I'm self building a timber framed garden room. The construction from outside to inside is:

  1. weatherboard/cladding
  2. ventillation battens
  3. breathable membrane
  4. osb sheathing
  5. timber frame (with PIR in the middle)
  6. PIR overboarded

 

I have the 4 walls squared and upright, the diagonals lengths are the same, and have ended up with a significant misalignment at an external corner. It's square and flush at the bottom, and at the top it diverges by about 20mm, and tapers down to 0mm misalignment 1m down. I am thinking of creating blocks/cuts of timber along that misalignment so the osb sheathing can go on flush and be supported along that top bit. As for the gaps that it leaves, can/should I use closed cell expanding foam to fill those voids?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

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