re: New construction exterior sheathing

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If I could start my career over again I'd be a building science geek. Building durable structures is satisfying, and desperately needed.

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Careful, while it is an interesting industry, homes are already expensive. People have a hard enough time affording them without using additional advanced materials and labor. Also the general public can't tell you what kind of sheathing their new home is being built with but can give you detailed specifics on the countertops they've ordered. There's only so many successful doctors and businessmen who want well built homes.

A lot of builders want to build better homes but are limited by the relatively few that care enough to spend more or spend less in other areas. A good way to go broke for a spec home builder is to build high-performance homes that cost 10% more than the spec homes down the street. Those homes will be sitting on the market for a long time until the few people that care about home performance show up. Thankfully people are getting more educated and builders like Matt Risinger are really helping push it. But if you've watched any of Matt's videos, he's building multi-million dollar homes--not homes for nurses and insurance salesmen.