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Originally Posted by Chellybean
requires to get in the attic and take 1 by 3 or 4 by 1/2 thick with locktite #3 in a chalk tub and glue the poly board along the seam.
Let it dry for a week, if you want also put some 2" by 4" across the poly screwed to the adjacent trusses ever 4 feet and then screw through the poly below through the drywall into the poly and 2 X 4.
This will reduce the expansion and contraction of the drywall during temperature change.
When doing a repair remove the tape on the seam and reuse a mess tape with a dura-bond and drywall mixture for strength. Then re-stipple and paint.
This is alot of work but will hold up, three years now and still ok.
Bottom line is you don't put a seam over a void with no 2 by 4 to screw to.
More shortcuts by the villages and they need to stand behind there screw-ups.
I believe when the lawsuits start to out-way the repairs they will start to do the right thing. No different than the Copper a/c lines underground that leaked due to Installing them underground. Villages had to go back ten years and more to repair these homes due to a class-action lawsuit. Some of the failures also has come from recycled products with impurity's in them.
Just some FYI's for DIYers
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Very interesting - seams in the middle of no where (and outside). I wonder if this was standard practice all along or was incorporated at a particular point in time. My casual observation is this is more prominent in homes south of 466. Of course the lanais also seem to have grown bigger south of 466.