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!!!WARNING FOR
BUYERS !!!
Water Intrusion
Could this be the results
of blocked drain holes and the extensively exposed wall structure?
Perhaps, but you decide:
Again, the bottom line is that water does not
belong inside the structure. It is supposed to be shed by the siding
and then flow away from the home. That did not happen during this
rainstorm in this obvious area. I wonder what else was happening,
hidden behind the walls.
More
Water Just Discovered
Then, we come to a new
discovery. It just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?
Inside one of the walls,
where we had previously cut access, we had pulled away the east facing
insulation to see and show how the structure had left an opening to the
outside. We saw the evidence in an earlier section.
We decided to look further
in the exposed wall area and what did we discover? Water
Intrusion. Actually, no
water intrusion was visible with the insulation in place. However,
when we pulled away the insulation from one area of the south facing wall,
we discovered that the insulation was damp and the sill plate underneath
it was damp where it contacted the insulation.
Here's two pictures to show
what we've discovered. The first one was taken without a flash on
the camera so you can see how the wall interior is unprotected. The
second one was taken with a flash so you can see the damp areas.
This is the wall that faces one of
the two primary directions for storms, the south. It makes sense
that we would discover evidence of water intrusion in the wall that faces
south, rather than in the east wall that was shown in the earlier
pictures.
It appears to us that the
last storm blew water into the wall through the gap. It saturated
the insulation enough to retain the water in the insulation and keep the
area damp over time where it contacted the sill plate. Where the
insulation was not in contact with the sill plate, air circulation allowed
it to eventually dry. We feel that's a reasonable evaluation based
on the evidence and that it's a completely inappropriate and defective
condition.
To be fair, please take note of the
damp areas on the concrete. Those areas were not damp when we first
looked into the wall space. When the insulation was removed from the
wall, the bottom of the insulation touched those two areas and left the
water marks.
So, does water belong in the places
depicted? Does water belong in the walls? Is the foundation,
wall, and siding supposed to be built so that it allows water to enter the
structure? The answer to all is an absolute, "No."
How Syncon
Homes could build such a structure is completely beyond me. How
they could pass such a structure to the public is also beyond me.
It's simply not right, but I digress. Let's go on to the next
section . . .
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"Superior
Homes" is what they claim
Lemke and the Hanlys
should be ashamed!
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