Tyvek is a house wrap that can protect your home from moisture and wind. So why wouldn’t everyone use Tyvek in Provo? Mostly because they don’t know much about it. DuPont created Tyvek to make sure that rain, snow, sleet, and hail can’t enter your home, but that steam and moisture from cooking and showering, cleaning and doing laundry can all exit your home so you don’t get mold or other moisture-related problems.

Tyvek In Provo

Homes that use Tyvek in Provo are protected from all sorts of problems, from leakage around windows to mold building up from excessive moisture inside your home. How does this work? Tyvek is made with tiny perforations that allow vapor to pass in one direction only: from inside your home to the outside air. Moisture from laundry and cooking and showering can leave your home, but since vapor can only pass in one direction, moisture from weather events like rain or snow or hail cannot enter your home. In fact, Tyvek can withstand hurricane-force wind driving the water, and it still holds up, preventing moisture from entering.

When you are installing Tyvek in Provo, however, you can’t just staple it to the exterior of your home and be protected. Because of the way homes are built, you have to know how to overlap the Tyvek to get the protection you are promised, and not everyone knows how to do it right. Flashing windows, for example, if not done correctly, won’t protect your home from rain or sprinkler water entering your walls. We have the certification from DuPont that we install Tyvek so that you get the guaranteed protection the product promises.

Tyvek is so good at letting moisture vapor out instead of in that the US Postal services use it for shipping packages, and Everest expeditions use Tyvek jackets to protect climbers!

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