urgent help with renovating interior walls

[saintnikolaus]

hello!

I have (unfortunately) bought a house that's getting on my nerves... what I'm wondering now is how much impact it likely will have if I've accidentally cut through the vapor barrier in the walls when I made grooves to install conduits for new electrical wiring. Now the conduits have been installed, but the walls are as follows: drywall-chipboard-poor plastic-insulation-timber (where it hasn't been removed)-house wrap-exterior panel. It was in the chipboard that the grooves were cut. Will this most likely cause issues with moisture migration?? I can also add that it is certainly a non-sealed plastic perforated like Swiss cheese as the previous renovation was, to say the least, sloppy.

 

[Farzan]

I also have an old house with a lot of wood in the walls... in my case, several layers of vertical and horizontal planks... which have been additionally insulated on the inside previously. And I've seen that the vapor barrier is very clumsily made and should leak like a sieve, but everywhere it looks completely healthy despite having been like that for almost thirty years. I believe, like some others, that these old walls with a lot of wood in them (in your case timber) often have a pretty good ability to absorb and release moisture at a reasonable pace so that it's not too dangerous. So I wouldn't be too worried in your place, but that's just my very amateurish guess.