STOP Building Walls with 2x6 Studs - Use this technique instead!

Описание: How can you eliminate thermal bridges in your new construction home? And, how do you build your home to maximize energy efficiency, but keep costs low?

Axel Sorensen is back to show our preferred exterior wall system, where we achieve a complete thermal break around the entire exterior of the home, at a low cost per square foot, with materials that are available at every Lowe's and every other traditional construction stores.

It can seem expensive to build a new construction home in 2023, and there are misconceptions about the added cost to build a new construction net zero home as well. With simple building techniques, we can keep costs of building net zero low, while still achieving great energy performance!

When building our net zero homes, energy efficiency is paramount, and we'll see the results of this in our upcoming blower door test. However, we want to also balance the costs and are constantly weighing "How to save money when building a house while achieving the highest r value possible?"

This building system for our exterior wall construction is just two rows of 2x4 studs, instead of a single row of 2x6 studs, with dense packed cellulose insulation. This creates an easy to build construction assembly with affordable and easy to find construction materials.

This is a cost effective building technique that will help you build a more energy efficient home, and reduce heating and cooling costs, by eliminating a thermal bridge along the entire exterior of your home.

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