Thursday, March 19, 2020

Deck repair; 3 ' 20


The HOA is inspecting and repairing all of our newly refurbished upstairs decks.  

I  had posted ( 9/27/19)  about an earlier refurbishing the HOA  sponsored,  but did not  tell you that during  the first rain after the original refurbishing project  was completed our unit developed a leak inside the living room right  above our sliding glass door. I moaned and bitched about it to the HOA board until they forced the original refurbishing contractor to come back out  and " fix it".  

It turns out that the original contractor's crew had accidentally punched a large hole in the new water proof shielding they had installed. That hole allowed water to get through the shield, filter down between the walls and flow our out into the living room when it reached the sliding glass door. To fix the leak all that original contractor did was to push some caulking into the hole, so the next time it rained, the  caulking  floated out allowing the rain to leak through the same hole again, in the same location,  just on the opposite side of the sliding door.   There must have been others having problems with other decks  because our new Property Manager sent out a different contractor who is removing all the deck planks on all of the units, inspecting the waterproofing, and repairing any problems they encounter.  On our unit they  have put down what looks like a big shield of black flex tape 6" up the wall and 12 " out from the wall over the waterproofing all across the  north wall of the deck. 


Now we just need for a good strong storm to tell us if this repair stopped the leak. .

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