Water Damage

A relatively modest home in South Burlingame with a front door facing southeast with near zero overhang. This small job is included here in our portfolio to illustrate two things: 1. No job is too small. 2. There are hundreds of these relatively small…

…projects that we do every year, the vast majority of which aren’t going to make into our portfolio, and yet they are really the bread and butter of what we do, because we do so many of them. The storm door being needed here is a no brainer.

But the storm door provides very little protection for the original wood-sill.

Same goes for the exterior wood trim. See that open-miter at the corner of the wood-trim? Every time it rains, water is cascading down this exterior wall and inundating that small opening, and you just know the water is being channeled somewhere it isn’t supposed to go.

So the storm-door is temporarily removed, the exterior trim is removed & the sill-nosing…that portion which had sustained some water-damage is carefully cut-off without disturbing the threshold assembly.

If you enlarge the photo by clicking on it, you may be able to see things a bit easier.

Our technician Bruce is prepping the replacement sill-nose and exterior trim for installation.

The new products are carefully installed, caulked and primed. You may want to enlarge the photo to see it better. Oh yes, we also ADDED Z-flashing over the top piece of exterior trim (not shown), as it should have had to begin with. This would have prevented water from accessing the open miter.

The storm-door is re-installed. A side-note would be that our client also had us replace her pneumatic storm door closer.

The only thing left is to clean-up the job-site.