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WalterBright · 2023-03-20 · Original thread
> rot and pests

Most wood frame construction has very poor consideration of keeping it dry. I bought the book "Common Sense Pest Control"

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Pest-Control-Least-Toxic...

and incorporated many of its solutions into the house I had built. It has paid off handsomely, the house has needed very little maintenance, there's no rot, and I haven't had much trouble with pests. The increased construction cost was very, very little.

For example, destructive insects like to get in cracks in the concrete foundation, and move upwards into the wooden sill plate, then up into the walls of the house. The usual construction technique is to put a piece of plastic between the sill and the foundation, if they put anything at all. I had a sheet of stainless steel put there instead.

(Also, concrete absorbs water like a sponge. Concrete in contact with wood will rot the wood over time.)

WalterBright · 2019-05-26 · Original thread
I have this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Pest-Control-Least-Toxic...

Sounds like what you're looking for. I've used its recommendations in the house I built, with good results. (For example, instead of foam I used a metal sill plate, which prevents insects from coming up through cracks in the foundation into the wood structure.)

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