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Caught a wet wall problem before the mortar even set, question about my flashing approach
Last Thursday on a job in Frankfort, I noticed water pooling along the foundation after a big storm hit the night before. I already had two courses laid and checked the weep holes, but the flashing I put in was sitting too low by maybe an inch. I pulled the bottom row and redid it with a drip edge cut from aluminum coil, took about 90 minutes extra. Has anyone else had luck with that trick, or do you usually just lay a second layer of flashing tape when the substrate slopes weird?
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the_robin10d ago
That aluminum coil trick works great when the substrate has a weird slope. I keep a roll of 26 gauge on the truck just for that. The drip edge gives the water a place to go instead of letting it hang back under the weep holes. Double flashing tape is fine too, but tape alone will fail faster if it's not lapped right. You did the right thing pulling that bottom row, an inch off is enough to rot the wall out over a winter.
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