ricky01225
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It was over the phone he said his hourly rate is $90/hr and he was 4 mos out on work...freakin crazy huh?Did he see the project or just estimate over the phone?
It was over the phone he said his hourly rate is $90/hr and he was 4 mos out on work...freakin crazy huh?Did he see the project or just estimate over the phone?
it does have a slope to it. but the problem is not with the patio cover but the fact that since there is no flashing on top of the patio to trap the rain it just soaks in the stucco and drips all the way down the wall which streaks down my windows and walls below my patio cover. also, the water comes out the bottom of the wall which puddles onto my stamped concrete. I just don't know if installing flashing on a exterior patio cover is code in california or am i just on my own.Who designed this set up, is the there a slope to the roof?
it does have a slope to it. but the problem is not with the patio cover but the fact that since there is no flashing on top of the patio to trap the rain it just soaks in the stucco and drips all the way down the wall which streaks down my windows and walls below my patio cover. also, the water comes out the bottom of the wall which puddles onto my stamped concrete. I just don't know if installing flashing on a exterior patio cover is code in california or am i just on my own.
now you understand my problem. what is the best way to fix it?So if you have a permit and it was inspected, it would be built to code.
The stucco have the roof should have been removed enough to allow a flashing to be placed behind the stucco and redirect water out onto the roof.
When he attached the structure to the house he put holes thru the house wrap which is now allowing water to get into the structure which is never code.
What you see is annoying, what you can't see is the water getting to the wood in the house causing real damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8qOxDrlY4
Neal, this is one of the many "gentrifications" of "architectural" Aluminum patio covers marketed today, and the method of installation seldom if ever requires the breaking of stucco or for that matter the disturbing of the exterior finish.
The contractor was depending upon the wrapped 2x architectural element to deflect water running down the wall away from the caulk joint. What he hadn't budgeted for was the severity of the wind and rain the truly left coast has received.
The vendor for this cover has a stock of aluminum modified "J" flashings, which the contractor could have and now should install, at no charge.
the rain it just soaks in the stucco and drips all the way down the wall which streaks down my windows and walls below my patio cover.
also, the water comes out the bottom of the wall which puddles onto my stamped concrete.
I just don't know if installing flashing on a exterior patio cover is code in california or am i just on my own.
Are you sure that the water "comes out of the wall", or is just continuing down the surface of the wall and dripping off the weep screed,(which is a metal flashing at the bottom of the stucco, likely not visible, and leaves a gap above the patio slab.)
Weep screed at the bottom to allow water out from behind stucco that doesn't absorb water?
Water penetrates, is not absorb thru, stucco at cracks, which generally appear at the corners of windows and doors or from shrinkage in the mix or displacement of the foundation or as the result of tectonics.
The asphalt impregnated paper under the 1"/20 stucco netting is the weather proofing conduit for any moisture that penetrate the stucco, and is lapped over the weepscreed, conducting the water down where it is than vacated through the weep holes in the weep screed.
The "weep" action is not dissimilar from tearing, in volume, ergo, weepscreed.
Stucco is the weather proofing.
Your are mixing your terms
Stucco is weather resistant and tar paper is your waterproofing.
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