A wall structure having a horizontal base stud, which wall structure has an upper wall panel, and a horizontal base stud, wherein the base stud has openings to allow for liquids to escape in the event of a plumbing leak, and additional openings to allow for air flow from the exterior to the interior of the wall structure.

A drainable house wrap and method of making same includes a flexible weather-resistant sheet layer, and a plurality of raised spacers coupled to the sheet layer, wherein each spacer comprises at least a first strand overlapping a second strand, and wherein the plurality of raised spacers form at least one drainage path for the drainable house wrap.

An apparatus and method for sealing a grout space provided between a backing wall and a veneer layer. The grout space sealing apparatus includes a deflector that is installed at an intersection of a backing wall and a horizontal surface and a sealing member that is positionable over the deflector and extends onto the backing wall above the deflector and/or across the horizontal surface in front of the deflector. The grout space sealing apparatus causes water that has permeated the exterior veneer to run down an exterior surface of the sealing member. The water is directed along the exterior surface of the sealing member away from the backing wall and towards weep holes provided in the veneer.

A vented and water control paneling has improved drainage and integrated ventilation air space. The water control paneling may be fabricated with an omnidirectional relief pattern formed on its back surface. The relief pattern spaces the vented and water control paneling away from a structure to which it is secured, thereby providing an omnidirectional drainage plane between the back surface of the paneling and the structure. The omnidirectional drainage plane provides an unimpeded ventilation and drainage path of water and/or water vapor.

A method for reducing sound transmission through a building wall includes placing a sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative drainage mat between an exterior wall cladding and an interior framing system. The sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative drainage mat including: a water or moisture permeable filter layer, an entangled net adjacent and joined to the filter layer, and a sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative layer adjacent and joined to the entangled net opposite the filter layer. The filter layer is placed adjacent the exterior wall cladding and the sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative layer is placed adjacent the framing system. The sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative layer is a fabric. Water or moisture within the wall is drained out of the wall via the entangled net and sound penetrating the exterior wall cladding is reduced or eliminated by the sound-deadening and/or thermally insulative layer.

A system and device for mounting and protecting exterior sheathing on a building. The system comprises a sheath-protecting bracket coupled to a wall with a sheath panel coupled to the wall with a bottom edge of the sheath panel positioned in the sheath-protecting bracket. The sheath-protecting bracket comprises a back plate, a bottom plate coupled to a bottom edge of the back plate, a front plate with a bottom edge coupled to the bottom plate. The sheath-protecting bracket has one or more spacers coupled to a front of the back plate to support the sheathing while allowing any moisture in the sheathing to weep out and fall into gaps above the bottom plate. A plurality of drain holes through the bottom plate allows water to drain out of the sheath-protecting bracket.

A moisture barrier system, comprising a barrier sheet adapted to be installed on a building having an interior wall structure and an exterior wall structure spaced apart from the interior wall structure to define a cavity there between.

A vent member includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a first portion, a second portion offset from the first portion and a first transverse panel extending transversely from the second portion. The second member includes a third portion for being received behind the second portion of the first member, a fourth portion extending below the third portion, a second transverse panel, and a third transverse panel above the second transverse panel. The vent member may be mounted over upper and lower walls.

A ventilation screed comprising: an attachment flange having a top portion and a bottom portion; a drip edge protruding from the attachment flange and a return leg that protrudes back from the drip edge, wherein the drip edge is angled downward in a first direction and the return leg is angled downward in a second direction; a drainage cavity protrusion protruding from the attachment flange above the drip edge, wherein the drainage cavity protrusion has an L-shaped drainage trough portion having at least one drainage opening in a bottom portion and a substantially vertical portion with a top end and a bottom end in communication with the bottom portion, an upper ground portion in communication with the top end of the substantially vertical portion of the L-shaped drainage trough portion extending outward from the substantially vertical portion and a drainage cavity shroud extending substantially downward from the upper ground portion.

There is disclosed an improved wall panel trim reveal system and method which utilizes a set of vertical, horizontal and corner trim pieces designed to be fitted together. In an embodiment, the system includes horizontal trim pieces having at least one slope, vertical trim pieces having at least one tab forming a slot for receiving one or more horizontal trim pieces therein, wherein the horizontal and vertical trim pieces when installed together with wall panels forming a moisture drainage channel to direct moisture away from the wall.