Wet wall
Hi there, With all the snow piling up and melting it looks like our house has sprung a leak. I noticed the plaster discolored and paint bubbling up on our living room wall near a large settlement crack. It’s not far from the joint where an addition connects to the house and is also near…
Hi there,
With all the snow piling up and melting it looks like our house has sprung a leak.
I noticed the plaster discolored and paint bubbling up on our living room wall near a large settlement crack. It’s not far from the joint where an addition connects to the house and is also near where the rain gutter down spout is situated on the exterior.
Being a new home owner I’m not sure who I call to have this looked at; a roofer, a mason for the brick?
Would appreciate your advice and recommendations for repair people.
Thanks!
OK, immediately shovel off the roof of the addition. Then check to make sure the drainage is not blocked by ice. If so, either use an element heater to melt the ice or do like I do when I forget to shovel off the extension roof…pour pots of boiling hot water into the drain channel and spout until it all unfreezes.
THEN, never forget to shovel that roof again. I am assuming the addition is on a North-ish facing wall?
When that channel/spout is clogged everything backs up. In our case it sends water back up between the brick wall and the crap stucco the previous owner put up. The water then cascades down into the extension.
It is probably not a “leak” per se but gravity and fluid dynamics messing with you. If you have done all of these things and it still does this, then it is a leak.
When talking to a long time brownstone bklyn contractor, “I keep telling them it is not a leak but maintenance, but if they want to pay me while my guys shovel off their roof to ‘fix their leak’, that’s fine by me”. Where did this discussion take place? On my roof while I was shoveling it off (he was there for another job).
check old entries, I’ve seen many postings recommending “nick” from Leakmasters for this type of problem