Defect / Water Leak Remediation

Up on the hill in North Newberg.

Care to guess which side of the house gets all the weather?

Please note the red self-adhesive flashing membrane laying on-top of the bottom nailing-fin.

This was somewhat systemic for most of the flashing practices we found on this house, as the damage above attests to.

And if there is any place in the Willamette Valley that a structure is going to be sorely tested by the elements, it’s the Southwest by West facing side of this hill above Newberg.

We don’t exactly know yet why that is. We don’t know what it is that is so unique as to seemingly exacerbate the weather when it moves up this hillside.

We only know that we’ve observed a pattern emerge among the projects we’ve done like this one on this hillside.

For example, if interested, you might scope out Project 24759, which is also in this category. Check out the exterior trim on the doors. We’ve only seen that exact phenomenon one other time, and it too was on this hillside.

Well, as you can see by the photos, we are well on our way on this portion of the house, replacing the water-damaged structural components & putting everything back together.

As is common with these projects, once we’ve been given opportunity to remove some of the siding…the extent of the problem that caused the damage, as well as the extent of the damage soon becomes apparent. Change-order work is not uncommon when we perform these type of repairs.