Dupont™ Tyvek® WB Benefits

DUPONT™ TYVEK® WEATHER RESISTANT BARRIERS

Is your house wrap… …made from landscape fabric? ...made in America? Is your house wrap held together with landscape fabric? If so, it might be better suited as a weed blocker than a Most house wraps are manufactured moisture barrier. Make sure that you are choosing the right overseas, then imported to the weather barrier for your wall systems. DuPont™ Tyvek® is United States and private-labeled not a hybrid combination of for American companies. DuPont™ multiple materials. It is 100% Tyvek® weather resistant barrier high-density flashspun products are made in America and polyethylene so weather have been for over 30 years by resistance and durability runs DuPont, a company with 200+ through the entire thickness of years of experience developing first-in-class protective the product. products like Kevlar® and Nomex®.

…a vapor retarder? …backed by a Specialist Network? Is your house wrap a vapor Does your house wrap manufacturer have local retarder, or is it breathable to representatives who come to job sites, train installers, promote drying of the wall support contractor events, system? According to support local and state industry standards, any associations, and speak with house wrap that is less code officials? DuPont does. than 10 perms is There are residential and classified as a vapor commercial Tyvek® Specialists retarder, and can slow the drying rate of the wall assembly. across North America ready to DuPont™ Tyvek® weather barriers are 25 perms and above. assist you with any size project.

…trying to be too many things? Is your house wrap also trying to double as a Is YOUR House Wrap… structural sheathing board? Is ™ ® it manufactured by a … DuPont Tyvek ? company that makes wood sheathing or house wrap? The sole purpose of DuPont™ Tyvek® weather barriers is protection. They are designed to protect wood- For more information on DuPont™ Tyvek® based wall components from moisture, even those that Weatherization Systems, please call claim to have a built-in weather barrier. 1-800-44-TYVEK or visit www.tyvek.com