Continuous Exterior Insulation


Construction glossary · Exterior

Glossary › Continuous Exterior Insulation

Exterior · definition

Rigid foam over the sheathing, under the siding, that breaks thermal bridging through studs. Increasingly code-relevant and added during re-siding.

Source: U.S. DOE — Insulation

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