Defect / Water Leak Remediation

A very rural Oregon City address, just northeast of Canby. Water damaged drywall on the interior side suggests water intrusion.

As soon as we begin removing some of the trim components from around the vinyl windows, one of the obvious reasons for the intrusion becomes apparent. Note that the moisture-barrier materials are overlapping the bottom nailing fin of the upper window.

Removal of the window assemblies exposes some water damage to the wall components. But most of the damage is found to be to the sheathing behind the brick facade. You can’t see much of the facade in the above photo because of the temporary platform we’ve erected to elevate us above the client’s flower bed. You can see the facade in photo #1.

Now in this photo you can see the back side of the brick facade because we’ve removed the water damaged plywood sheathing. Not an easy or fun job to do.

This photo shows one of a number of sections of drywall that we removed because of water damage…and to allow us opportunity to inspect for potential water damage on the wood components to which they were attached.

All the windows are temporarily removed to allow for the needed repairs.

The plywood sheathing behind the brick facade is replaced, and moisture-barrier material is inserted between the sheathing & the bricks.

Tim Afonin in the midst of buttoning everything back up.

The drywall is replaced as needed.

Everything put back together just before the painter shows up to put the finishing touches on everything.