Building Green with Slicker Rainscreen
Great tip for water management of residential custom homes – use a Rainscreen!
What is that stuff? When we build we get a lot of visits from the neighborhood asking about our architecture and build process, especially best practices for homebuilding. Come behind the scenes of the build to learn a little bit about Benjamin Obdyke Slicker Rainscreen, which is helping us to manage water on a new design-build custom home, alongside a few other water management elements that are keeping this new home build in Winnetka build green.
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Hi everybody, this is Tom Kenny with Scott Simpson Design and Build. We’re building a house out here on Tower Road in Winnetka. And everybody’s been asking me like what this material is right here. So, this is a material that we apply to the sheeting called Benjamin Obdyke Home Slicker. And what it does is it acts as a drainage plane. It’s like three-eighths of an inch thick and it allows water that gets behind the siding, and if it gets behind there, to actually wick back out through the building and outside of the siding. And the reason why we want to do that is because we’re being very, very green.
This is a piece of historic AZEK sill. It sits on the house like this. It’s made of essentially recycled plastic. The benefits of that is because a sill typically holds water all the time, window sills typically are the first thing to rot out. This will not rot. That’s why we use it. So it’s very sustainable. We’re using this beveled cedar siding, but it’s finger jointed. This siding will last for a very, very long time. So this makes it very green because all these little pieces of clear cedar would get thrown away and just put in the landfill.
Then our exterior, you know, trim material is made of this WindsorONE material. The same process. It’s clear white pine, but it’s also taking little pieces of wood that typically would be thrown away at the lumber yard and turning them into a long, straight piece of lumber. So, you can see all the ZIP tape going around the house that keeps the water from getting in. It gets past the siding behind the siding this will let the water wick its way out to keep the material dry, cause it to last a lot longer.