Source for plywood roof sheathing with radiant barrier in SF Bay Area?

Posted by on July 27, 2007, 3:45 am

Hi all,

We are in the middle of remodeling our home, and are having
difficulties sourcing the following material on short notice:

1/2" plywood roof sheathing with radiant barrier applied

Are there any sources in the SF bay area (we are in Palo Alto) that
might have this in stock or available in a couple of days? Note that

this a plywood product is required -> several places have an OSB

product available, but the OSB does not meet the structural
requirements of the design.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul

Posted by Dennis on July 27, 2007, 7:03 pm

You could always have a radiant barrier added between the rafters. (Might
even be less expensive).

> We are in the middle of remodeling our home, and are having
> difficulties sourcing the following material on short notice:
> 1/2" plywood roof sheathing with radiant barrier applied
> Are there any sources in the SF bay area (we are in Palo Alto) that
> might have this in stock or available in a couple of days? Note that
> this a plywood product is required -> several places have an OSB
> product available, but the OSB does not meet the structural
> requirements of the design.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>

Posted by Craig M on July 29, 2007, 10:23 am

One way I have seen it done is to have the radiant barrier sprayed in the
attic, that is done a lot in retrofit, and seems to work pretty well, the
plywood is still the way to go in new const though.

> You could always have a radiant barrier added between the rafters. (Might
> even be less expensive).

>> We are in the middle of remodeling our home, and are having
>> difficulties sourcing the following material on short notice:
>> 1/2" plywood roof sheathing with radiant barrier applied
>> Are there any sources in the SF bay area (we are in Palo Alto) that
>> might have this in stock or available in a couple of days? Note that
>> this a plywood product is required -> several places have an OSB
>> product available, but the OSB does not meet the structural
>> requirements of the design.
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Paul

Posted by Dennis on July 30, 2007, 7:02 pm

Hi Craig.

I'm not failure with a spray-on radiant barrier, do you know anything about
it?
Wonder as to how uniform it would be?

> One way I have seen it done is to have the radiant barrier sprayed in the
> attic, that is done a lot in retrofit, and seems to work pretty well, the
> plywood is still the way to go in new const though.

Posted by Craig M on July 31, 2007, 6:53 am

What I know about it, its a spray on, like paint, can be spryed with airless
equipment, as to uniform, depends on how well you can spray, like paint,
down here in texas some insulators are also into spraying it, I want to say
I have heard that Sherwin Williams stores have the paint, or check with the
Florida Solar Energy Center, may can get more info from there.
Hope this helps

> Hi Craig.
> I'm not failure with a spray-on radiant barrier, do you know anything

about

> it?
> Wonder as to how uniform it would be?

> > One way I have seen it done is to have the radiant barrier sprayed in

the

> > attic, that is done a lot in retrofit, and seems to work pretty well,

the

> > plywood is still the way to go in new const though.

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