Windows: Best Practices for Flashing
One of the “issues” we have in the pacific northwest is water intrusion. I recently removed some drywall in my home to reveal dry rot and mildew. The replacement window (installed sometime in the 80s, I’m guessing) had leaked.
Fine Homebuilding has a good article on “best practices” for installing a replacement window. Since I’ll be doing just that in a month or so, here’s a link to the story…
January 6th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
One of the biggest problems here in Minnesota was that builders would not install a pan flashing when they installed windows. We finished a home that had almost $200,000 in damage due to rot and mold due to improper flashing of the windows. Good article.
January 6th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Hi Paul,
I’d like to hear your thoughts on plastic pans, metal pans, or peel-n-stick. Which method do you prefer?
Shawn