Saturday 8/7/2010 Cornice Crew begins sheathing

It was planned for the cornice crew to start the exterior wall sheathing on Saturday.  We are using the "Zip Wall System", by Huber Engineered Wood Products: http://huberwood.com/main.aspx?pagename=zipsystemwalloverview; We install all our sheathing horizontally with staggered joints--this provides approximately 40% more racking strength as apposed to the vertical application of the sheathing--this is just one of many advantages to using Integrity Builders--we are constantly searching and researching  for improvements on building materials and practices that are forward thinking and innovative in this arena; we are constantly exercising best practices on all facets of the construction process.  OK, I am getting off track a little bit, but we HAVE to interject sometimes that we are better than the competition--because we feel we are!  OK so about 1/3 of the house got sheathed Saturday, and proceeded Monday 8/9/2010--personally I had some concerns about their ability--I will elaborate on that  the next blog...but long story short we have a new cornice crew starting Wednesday 8/11/2010.  Details to follow...