Contractor/material recommendations for rear siding?

We have a brownstone with an extended first and second floor. Whenever it rains hard, like tonight, we get leaks in our kitchen ceiling (on the second floor) right where the extension roof joins the original house. We’ve had the roof (of both the extension and original house) redone, the gutters replaced, and the new roof patched to try to stop the leaks, but nothing’s worked so far.

The previous owners, who did the extension, used a polystyrene fake stucco for the back side of the house, and I suspect water is getting in behind it and dripping down into the ceiling. I’m not a fan of the siding to begin with, so I’m wondering if anyone can recommend better options to replace it, as well as a good and reliable contractor to do the work. Thanks in advance.

matthewmergo

in Exteriors 3 years and 8 months ago

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andriywww1990 | 3 years and 8 months ago

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more so than the materials used, i would be concerned with getting the right people. you can use the best materials in the world but if they do not figure this out, it will be as if you put the worst materials in the world up there.

i say this because years ago, we had a leak in some buildings i managed (hands on) on the coast of NC. i was only really a kid (a 26 yr old kid). when it rained and the wind blew a certain way we had a leak in a particular building. the roofs on all the buildings needed to be redone anyway so that was first, but when that did not work, we began putting all sorts of fixes on these things using the best products in the world (that was when i heard of WR Grace). those leaks were still there when i left and could still be there today, 28 years later.

in hindsight, i wish i had spoken to not only more people but different sorts of people, people whose training had been a little different than the run of the line roofers.