Hi all,
I have what seems in my mind as a very unique problem. I started building our house 7 years ago. The bank would not give us enough to build our dream home so we decided to go the "sweat equity" route. We built up the basement and 1st floor walls with ICF's and poured the concrete ourselves. This was all fine and dandy...
Then we received our delivery of SIP panels ($25,000 worth) and ran out of money! The panels represented the 2nd and 3rd floor walls as well as the roof.
2 years to build the basement, 1st floor, and steel framing for the third floor then I became overcome with grief and got burned out. SEVEN years have passed and the house sits as we left it, without a roof! Actually, each year I would do something to keep busy on it and we sunk whatever funds we could spare into it.
Well this year we started back and had to replace the entire floor because of rot ($5000+ of materials in the bin and replaced with new).
Here is where the problem becomes unique in my mind... The SIP's were wrapped up but the plastic has torn in many places and the OSB skins have all swollen and are not suitable to build with! The styrofoam cores are still good and I would like to salvage them and use them as insulation (probably for the garage). I've tried stripping the OSB from 3 panels but this took 2 days and is definitely not feasible. What, if at all, can we do with them? I have heard of re-skinning over the OSB but that seems like sealing it the moisture in the swollen OSB which would create problems down the road.
I am a machinist by trade but a stubborn "I can do anything" kind of guy (hence the poor contracting/building planning). I did all the research before starting anything and the building so far has all been built according to codes and definetly overbuilt (I am one of those anoying perfectionists)! After this project is complete I think I'll never want to build anything ever again...
Your wisdom is greatly appreciated!
Happy (but frustrated)
