The New New Roof Mitigation Retrofit

Regarding integrating the new mitigation retrofit rule into the Existing Building Code during this upcoming glitch cycle:

There is a proposal to include, as an approved secondary water barrier, a closed-cell urethane foam (not Icynene) spray-applied along the truss/deck joints and all other sheathing joints from within the attic. If you don't have a clue how your inspectors will go about effectively inspecting such an installation you might want to take a look at the proposed language at:

http://consensus.fsu.edu/FBC/WMW/WMW_Working_Draft032108rev.pdf

specifically new section 611.7.2 (e) in this working draft. There is a meeting of the Wind Mitigation Workgroup this Friday in Tampa to discuss this, among many other issues.