Fire Retardent Exterior Finishes

[bogie]

I think you should use an insulator and not a conductor. Again check out Hardiplank...

[Ah Pook]

tear it down and start over,

Best idea so far. I'll go home and do that tonight.

Kinda like polishing a turd...but I live in the turd.

What is the official recommendation for distance of trees from the buildings? Also, trees should be trimmed to have branches no more than what distance from ground level??

Our local paper just put out a list for mitigation. It's based on a 30' ring around the house/outbuilding. I don't recall how close to the house trees could be but but trees are allowed within 30'. Limbing up to 10' (I limbed up to 16' and removed all branches overhanging roofs.). No bushes or grasses around the house.

I will have to go back and look again for details but the point is to remove potential fuels from around the structures.

I seem to remember a fire fighter using a foam around his property, during the Four Mile Fire. It worked, as a fire break too, but he stayed there to maintain it.