Showing posts with label contiguous building materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contiguous building materials. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Deck Expert recommends Quickflash Weatherproofing Products


In the mind to recommend a few products and try to reduce our headaches in the waterproofing industry; Quickflash Weatherproofing Products Inc manufactures a unique line of flashings that enable one to quickly and easily weatherproof plumbing, electrical, hvac and gas lines that penetrate exterior vertical wall penetrations.

So many times in new production homes that i worked on, a leak complaint centering on the deck area would come in and after extensive time inspecting our work, we would look at penetrations adjacent to our work and invariably there would be an electrical box or gas bbq line etc. nearby. Pour some water from a hose into the area and lo and behold, there'a a leak.

The picture shows a Quickflash electric box flashing. One would slip the building paper up underneath the bottom of the flange, then drop building paper down over the top, completing a weather shedding barrier.

Deck contractors should recommend to their contractors to use these products on their job-you'll reduce call backs on leak problems that weren't yours in the first place!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

How Many Problems Can You Find?

This big REIT bought this apartment community...they had it professionally inspected before purchasing. After they bought, they started getting complaints about leaks, ponding water, yadda yadda yadda...

I inspected the Community in Oxnard a little while ago. Every deck I inspected had some sort of problem on it, if not 2 or 3 or more problems of various sorts.
Take a look at the pics, see how many defects and problems you can spot!

Our estimate for cost of repairs to apx 150 decks-potentially 2-3 million dollars.

Moral of the story-call us to inspect any decks on any property you may be considering purchasing. Apx cost to inspect-less than $5,000.00.

If they knew what problems these decks had, they could have either canceled the sale or negoitated better terms and price.