HOST: Welcome to the builders show, and tell me about Berry Plastics and some of the new products you guys are showing here at the builders' show this year.
REP: Well, Berry Plastics, just this year introduced the new reinvention of our longstanding product called Thermoply. (HOST: Uh-huh.) This product, as you know, has been on the product for over forty years.
HOST: I haven't used it. Tell me --
REP: You haven't used it?
HOST: No, I have not. Tell me a little bit about it.
REP: Thermoply is a product that about forty-five years ago we launched at a plant in Michigan. (HOST: Okay.) It's been made in the United States for over forty-five years. It's a one-hundred-percent recycled-content product. So it's a green-building product. (HOST: Wow!) So, we've been doing -- We've been providing this green-building product to the -- to the building industry for over forty-five years. (HOST: Okay.) So I know green's in trend and in vogue today, but we've been doing this for a long time. So what we've done this year is we've taken a longstanding structural sheathing that performs well on the market, and we've put -- we've added some new attributes to the product. So, what we've done is we've added embossed drainage channels on the -- on the product with the ability to drain moisture down and away from the foundation. So this product is -- not only is it green, not only is it structural, it's approved down to twenty-four-inch panels on a -- on a sidewall. It will give you the effects of a housewrap. It's permeable. It gives you a radiant R-value. It's a one-stop job.
HOST: So my benefits over this gives me, in my applications, structural sheathing. I'm using OSB-type product, then do a housewrap on top of that -- I can use this instead of an OSB application?
REP: You can use this instead of an OSB-housewrap application. Absolutely.
HOST: Do you tape the seams on this when it goes up or is it fine just like it is just being put up?
REP: Two ways, you can butjoint and tape your seams if you'd like (HOST: Right.) or you can overlap. We manufacture our panels at forty-eight inches and forty-eight-and-three-quarter-inches wide. And the reason is on that uh common vertical stud, you can overlap that three-quarters-of-an-inch (HOST: Right.) to give you a nice, tight waterproof seal on the studs. So any moisture that gets in back past your cladding--because it's going to--is gonna hit that seam. (HOST: Right.) It's not gonna penetrate the building envelope. It's gonna hit these drain channels and channel down and out away from the building.
HOST: And so I -- I'm just using this. I'm still taping my windows and stuff like normal with (REP: Absolutely.) wrap.
REP: Absolutely. Use a butyl rubber, a good composite butyl rubber tape around your windows, seal that window flanges up. Penetrate -- Any penetrations in the building envelope, you're gonna seal up with a butyl rubber tape, as well, and you've got a continuous drainage plane down the wall. (HOST: Right.) No need for a housewrap. It's permeable. It drains. It's a one-stop job.
HOST: Now are you seeing this product used for a certain kind of cladding or is it just across the board? Also, is it regional? Do you see it using it more in the west, south, the north?
REP: This product can be used in any part of the country (HOST: Okay.) that you're building in right now. We are very heavy in the state of Texas and very heavy in the Ohio-valley markets (HOST: Okay.), but any -- any market in the United States that you're building in, you can use Thermoply.
HOST: Well, you enlightened me on this product. I haven't used it. It sounds like a great product, and I look forward to using it in some of my new houses.
REP: We look forward to having you use it. (HOST: Thank -- ) Thank you.
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HOST: Tell us a little bit more abut this product.
REP: Thermoply structural sheeting has been around for over forty-five years. We've been used on over one-million homes in the United States. It's been manufactured in Constantine, Michigan for the entire time. So, it's a made-in-USA product. It's green. It's made from one-hundred-percent recycled content, and this year we've added some exciting new benefits and twists to the product. What we've done is we've embossed drainage channels into the board itself. (HOST: This right here?) Yep -- to allow for any moisture that gets past the exterior cladding to channel into those -- into those embossed channels and down away from the foundation.
So what we've given you is now -- not only have we given you a structural sheathing, we've given you a radiant R-value or radiant panel around the exterior of the home. We've given you a drainage plane, and by the way, we have a code report that says it also acts as a housewrap. It's permeable. It breathes at a rate of fifteen perms. So, we've in essence given you a one-stop shop. No need for OSB and housewrap any longer. You've got one product that wraps the entire envelope of a home. It's permeable. It drains. It's -- It's everything you need next to your sheeting.
HOST: Very nice. [END]
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