As a panelizer, you know the benefits that a wall panel offers over a site-built frame, including less jobsite waste, less wood use, and a faster framing time on site. But, you may be interested to learn more about PUReWall™ and how you can set up your facility to manufacture a product that includes continuous exterior insulation and spray polyurethane foam on the wall before it ever leaves the panel facility. Here are some of the questions we get most often from panelizers:
PUReWall™ – What Panelizers Need to Know
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The continuous insulation on PUReWall™ acts as both the exterior sheathing and as a weather resistant barrier, replacing the traditional sheathing and house wrap. It is highly energy efficient, and when used in conjunction with spray polyurethane foam (SPF), allows for extremely high performance walls using only a 2x4 stud with 24” on center placement. The wall structure, continuous insulation and SPF are all applied in the panel facility.
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When producing PUReWall™, a more complete wall panel that has additional added value to the builder is shipped to the jobsite, which increases the work done in the panel facility vs. on the jobsite. This adds additional value to the panelization process.
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The biggest change is incorporating the application of the spray polyurethane foam to the wall panel. That, and the other details about how to convert a panel facility to accommodate PUReWall™ are available in Covestro’s PUReWall™ Manufacturing Recommendations document, which is available by contacting the PUReWall™ team at purewall@covestro.com or by logging into the secured section of the Media page.