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    Basement rim joist / sil plate water - windows? patio?

    Thank you for taking the time to comment; there are some good suggestions here to look at it. This does seem to be more of a problem when a hard rain blows at that wall from the (which isn't as frequent as a "normal rain"). I was outside yesterday while raining and didn't see any real pooling of...
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    Basement rim joist / sil plate water - windows? patio?

    It seems to be just when it rains a certain direction; maybe when rain is coming from the east and actually raining on that wall. I'll have to perform some experiments by dumping my own water on the wall and see if I can determine if it's just water on the brick causing the issue, or if it's...
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    Basement rim joist / sil plate water - windows? patio?

    Two story colonial (built 2007; patio put in around 2009); when it rains fairly hard, I see a few small trails of water running down the basement wall from under the rim joist, above the sill plate (assuming I have my terminology correct here). I can tell (from the discoloration on the wood in...
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