Defect / Water Leak Remediation

Condos in Southwest Portland.
Water has had occasion to show up at the top interior of the lower window assembly.
Our client paid someone to employ the use of one of…

…those high-tech cameras to check the wall for moisture & said the result was negative. So he asked me what I thought, and I said if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

But for some reason, our client didn’t feel right about the results of the camera test, and asked us to check the wall out anyway…and as you can tell by the following photos, it’s a good thing he did.

These compounded intersecting rooflines and gutter configurations always look suspicious to me I guess because so many of them end up proving complicit to the cause of the problem.

And this one was no exception.

Unfortunately, our client’s neighbor was also drawn into the conflict with mother nature’s exposing of the builder’s construction sins, if you will.

The offending mess at the top.

You might expect me to “rake” a bit on the vinyl siding, but I really have nothing negative to say about it.

Sure, it carries a substantial stigma among your high-brow housing markets. And there are admittedly substantial architectural limitations to the look you can achieve with it.

But while I do not wish to offend any of my top-shelf clients and the high-end contractors with whom I rub elbows, I have found that when vinyl siding is properly installed, it’s a no brainer. Low cost initial investment coupled with low-cost…

…maintenance for decades can look pretty attractive to the pragmatic among us. Yes, it needs to be properly installed on a building where all the exterior components are properly flashed. But I must tell you that I’m a big fan of “low maintenance.”