Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
   Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings



I, Michael H. Thaman, state and attest that:


(1) To the best of my knowledge,  based upon a review of the covered  reports of
Owens Corning,  and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered
report:

o    no covered  report  contained an untrue  statement of a material fact as of
     the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on
     Form  8-K or  definitive  proxy  materials,  as of the date on which it was
     filed); and

o    no covered  report  omitted to state a material fact  necessary to make the
     statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which
     they were made,  not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such
     report  (or in the  case  of a  report  on  Form  8-K or  definitive  proxy
     materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have  reviewed the contents of this  statement  with the  Company's  audit
committee.

(3) In this statement under oath,  each of the following,  if filed on or before
the date of this statement,  is a "covered report":

o    Annual  Report on Form 10-K of Owens  Corning  for the  fiscal  year  ended
     December 31, 2001, filed with the Commission on March 21, 2002;

o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive  proxy
     materials of Owens  Corning  filed with the  Commission  subsequent  to the
     filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


                                                        Subscribed and sworn to
/s/ Michael H. Thaman                                   before me this 12th day
--------------------                                    of August, 2002
Michael H. Thaman
August 12, 2002                                         /s/ Christina M. Hansen
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                                                        Notary Public
                                                        My Commission Expires:
                                                        July 30, 2006