Defect / Water Leak Remediation

Southeast Portland, not far from Laurelhurst Park.

As it so often begins for our clients…a window seems to be leaking. Failed attempts to stop the leak by caulking around the window is another familiar story we hear over…

…and over. A quick exterior inspection reveals an adjoining roofline suspiciously close in proximity to the place over the window where the water is showing up.

And another roofline on the other side of the window. And a wall bump-out directly above. All these architectural factors frequently prove to be areas where contractors…

…encounter difficulty in applying proper flashing techniques. Sure enough, the water trail quickly leads us up the roofline where relatively…

…recent repairs by someone else failed to stop the return of a previous water penetration problem. This also leads to the discovery of a disintegrating moisture-…

…-barrier above this area. From what we could discern, it would be easy to speculate that the previous home owner perhaps hired a handyman to affect the repairs prior to…

…putting the house on the market, forestalling the problem just long enough to get the house sold. Also, one of the strange phenomenon’s that we frequently…

…encounter is that the extended exposure of the moisture-barrier to the moisture that somehow gets past or around the siding appears to result in the…

…”disintegration” of said moisture-barrier material. It seems extremely curious to us that someone would fabricate a moisture-barrier that can be destroyed by moisture.