Defect / Water Leak Remediation

Well the problem that resulted in this project wasn’t really “small” per se, I’m just encountering some writers block as it relates to coming up with creative titles for these photo documents.

Clearly, our client didn’t think his problem was all that small, given what he paid to get it fixed. Stereotypical scenario here…water showing up at the top of the bottom window.

Removal of siding quickly locates the source. See the red arrow and the water stain trailing down from there. You can enlarge the photo if you click on it.

Before we removed it, this is what the moisture-barrier looked like along the side of the upper window. Some of the barrier came off with the siding, but note the lack of overlap due to how the felt-paper was cut.

This is the result. It’s no wonder the powers that be now require we use that self-adhesive flashing tape to seal these two surfaces together.

And so the windows are temporarily removed so as to facilitate proper application of flashing products to protect the rough-opening.

The windows are reinstalled and the aforementioned flashing-tape is applied accordingly.

Cedar siding is replaced…

…and we move up to the 2nd story window.

Almost finished.