#1 Hack for Sealing Your Top Plate like a Pro

Ken from SIGA here today to show you how to seal your top plate like a pro! Let's get into it.
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Hi everyone! Ken from SIGA here, and today we're going to be talking about
pre-stripping your top plate.
So why would we want to pre-strip a top plate?
Well, let's imagine that you're
dropping in your roof trusses and you want to maintain continuity
of your air barrier from your exterior to your interior...and you look up and now you have 500
rafter tails to tape around.
Great for us. Not for you. We want to make that simple.
We want to go ahead and get a piece
of our membrane up and over the top of the wall
before you set your roof trusses on and that's going to make sequencing
that transition so much easier. So, with this detail today,
we can either use the Majvest 200 or the Majvest 500 SA.
Today we're going to be using
the Majvest 500 SA which is our self-adhered membrane.
With a self-adhered membrane, we're actually going to leave the backing paper
on when we place it on the top plate. This allows us to take our next layer,
put it under there for proper shingling, peel it, stick it and move on.
The first step of a great install
is to measure out your top plate and cut your Majvest 500 SA to
the proper length. To make your life easy so you don't have to cut tiny sections off
a big role, both are Majvest 200 and our Majvest 500
SA come in an 18 inch detail role.
So now that we have our membrane
cut to length, we're going to mount that to the top plate, making sure to leave
four inches out and four inches in so that we can tie our interior
and exterior barriers together. And we're going
to fasten that with staples.
So now that we've got our top plate
pre-stripped and our trusses dropped on, all that's left to do
is to tie everything in together. We can go ahead and peel off
the backing strip on the exterior, tape it down to your exterior membrane,
peel off the backing strip on the interior, and place your interior
membrane up against it. And we are done!
If you happen to find a more complex detail than that
on your project, reach out to your local SIGA representative
and they'll be sure to help you out!

[@rays1443]

Did this for the first time on a project. My framer loved it thanks

[@SIGA_northamerica]

Amazing! Glad it helped!