By sealing off the cold joint between the top of the foundation and the sill plate, Protecto Triple Guard Energy Sill Sealer™ helps keep floors warm in the 

By sealing off the cold joint between the top of the foundation and the sill plate helps keep floors warm in the winter and cool in the summer; A full 3/8″ closed cell foam provides 1 1/2 times more protection from energy loss over standard 1/4″ sill sealers used by builders today; Exceeds all local, state and national building codes

Air seal between the sill plate and the sub-floor with caulk, foam, or an equivalent material. Install a foam gasket beneath sill plates that are sitting on concrete or masonry and adjacent to conditioned space to both air seal and serve as a capillary break between the concrete and the sill plate.

May 20,  · Walls (from inside out) are drywall, stick 2*4 framing with open cell foam, OSB, tyvek, air gap, brick veneer. The builder used pressure treated 2*4s for the sill plate but there is no (capillary) barrier between the concrete and the sill plate. 3.5″ of open cell spray foam is going in the exterior walls today.

The foamy sill gaskets are both fairly vapor-permeable and don't nearly as good a capillary break as EPDM, but are still way better than nothing. If you had a high moisture content in the concrete most foamy sill gaskets still transfer about 0.05- 0.1 oz of water per square foot of surface area from the concrete to the wood on vapor diffusion

Mar 19,  · Discussing this with my general he suggested that we use the Owens Corning sill seal but only install it under about 3" of the 2x6 sill plate. He suggested using a can of spray foam to foam the underside of the sill plate before it is bolted down and bolted down the foam has a chance to fully cure.

Styrofoam™ Brand Sill Seal Foam Gasket is a flexible polyethylene foam gasketing strip that can help reduce air infiltration between a concrete foundation and sill plate, around windows and doors – and even between floors. The closed-cell polyethylene foam compresses to seal gaps in irregular surfaces, helping reduce air infiltration for a tighter building envelope and enhanced

It's a very tough product.". Triple Guard is sold in 25-ft. rolls in two different sizes. It isn't cheap; the smaller size, intended for use with 2×4 sill plates, costs about $47 per roll. The larger size (for 2×6 sill plates) has a 5 1/2-in.-wide foam strip and costs about $72 per roll. For more information, visit the manufacturer's

ProPink ComfortSeal™ Sill Gasket is a polyethylene foam gasket which provides resilient sealing in new and retrofit construction. The sill gasket provides a 

Roll Sill Plate gasket, 5/BG R-Tite™ is the economical 1-step solution to insulate and seal the gap between sill plates and foundation walls.

ProPINK® ComfortSeal Sill Gasket is a foam gasket that provides resilient sealing in new and retrofit construction at the juncture of the foundation wall and