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The concrete slab is on a very flat piece of land... Please share his mistakes regardless. :)

Sadly, it is a 2100 square feet home in expensive west-side Vancouver that cannot possibly be a converted garage... I had just bought the home at 15 years old and do not have a history of the builder. Would using 1/2 inch extruded polystyrene be okay to raise the "inner" level?

I am planning to install laminate flooring in a room the main level of a concrete slab. After peeling off the original carpet, there appears to be a few inches of uneven concrete that runs along the drywall covering the exterior walls (but not the interior walls). (Please see attached...

Sorry, I meant on top of the stucco wall. The roof surface is concrete tiles. Thank you!

Thank you for the quick reply! So the stucco would need to be repaired and a kickout flashing installed on top? Is it possible to gauge the extent of the damage without removing the stucco? The exposed wood does not look rotten? Is this crack a result of damage from water penetration, or...

I am planning to buy a house in rainy Vancouver, BC, but found a potential problem. The chimney stucco at the end of the gutter is broken, revealing the wood beneath: The metal roof flashing appears to lead water into the wood beneath the stucco: Water appears to have damaged...