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building paper

n
(Civil Engineering) any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
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I'm e not a guy of a million hobbies and I get involved with my family because my dad was away a lot when I was a kid; he worked abroad building paper mills, highways, bridges and nuclear plants.
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You would need to fit a moisture vapour barrier (building paper), insulation and plywood (not plasterboard).
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Almost all stone veneer installations start with a layer or two of building paper, covered by properly installed dimpled and galvanized wire lath.
Building paper or nonwovens, the traditional weatherization product, which is designed to safeguard a house from exterior water penetration, continues to find adoption as a weather resistant barrier even today.
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Stachybotrys is a greenish-black mould that thrives in areas of high humidity, moisture and on cellulose materials (eg building paper, wood products and gib board) (5,6,7,1) Mould has the potential to grow wherever there is a chronic wet environment and cellulose materials.
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