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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> One other thing (Sorry, I'm in the grog tonight)-

I also often am, which is probably why I did not talk about my two 
different projects, the new storage/shop building and the older A-frame 
retrofit.

> One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet I don't think, is that if the slab
> is poured without a vapor barrier or if you have a dirt floor hardly
> anything will help with moisture except ventilation.

Excellent point.

The new building will be on slab on grade. The A-frame is on piers on 
sloping land. The builder installed paper-faced fiberglass batting from the 
bottom, which is now mostly hanging down. Nasty job cleaning all that out 
before starting over. I was going to put foil-faced Celotex on the bottom 
of the joists and tape the seams, but there are a lot of squirrels up there 
and I wonder if they would chew on the Celotex.