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Lol that’s kinda fuct that a small hole in the siding caused that....vinyl usually breathes enough around its edges that this shouldnt be happening that high up the wall. Is there any housewrap on the outside of sheathing?

 

I didn’t see any evidence of it, I also don’t see any evidence of it at the corner of the house where the dogs removed trim.

 

Ur gonna wanna get one of these lol https://www.homedepot.com/p/Malco-SideSwiper-Siding-Removal-Tool-SRT2/100098527
Assuming that is vinyl

I don’t see anything for it other than pulling the siding and applying housewrap and flashing after sheathing repair

Looks like u have a vapor barrier behind your drywall, I’m a newb as far as how that plays into wall assembly but @OZ-T uses it I think

Does your insulation have a paper face on it?

Are there any outside features on the house that could be channeling water towards the hole? Ice formation?

 

Negative on the paper face, the insulation sticks together pretty well but I believe the plastic sheet is to keep it from falling out before drywall.

 

Huh , interesting

I wonder if the orient wood strands along the long axis like paralam

 

6 mil plastic sheet air and vapour barrier on interior surface of studs is standard practice in Canada

 

Right on
Wonder if @95 taco lives in a warmer climate where a/c use would maybe change the condensing surface to allow the insulation a continuous moisture source to wick and feed the rot? Seems like excessive rot for just sheet flow of water thru a hole in the sheathing that minuscule

 

OSB is prone to sucking up water and holding it far longer than plywood , thats why I.never use it .

 

He lives in Louisiana or Mississippi.

 

Yep, Mississippi just a few miles from the gulf, in the 90’s with 100% humidity during the summer.

What he said ^^

 

In that case you definitely don't want an interior vapour barrier

 

Vay-poo-er

#sosatisfying

 

Ya having a place for airborne moisture to condense into insulation is not good
Might be why they didn’t run housewrap, like they were thinking they didn’t want anything hindering wall assembly drying to the outside

LOL @ the joys of homeownership
I’m in the middle of some major rot removal myself atm. The previous owner built an addition and thought it would be a good idea to cram a bunch of fiberglass into an unvented cathedral ceiling/roof assembly with paneling underneath allowing warm moist air to hit sheathing and condense . Ridge board and the top 18” of rafters and plywood sheathing gone. Just got the jacks taken down yesterday.

Good thing is I went from a janky ridge board / collar tie system to a laminated 2x10 and plywood ridge beam allowing twice the insulation

 

Well...think I got BOTH cracks all sealed up. That was some of the messiest work I have done in a while. Anyhow here are some pics. Still got a lot of work to do once the ground thaws out. Drainage, grading and a bunch of other stuff.
So, originally found the one crack with the water on the floor. Found water in the bathroom and assumed it was from this crack. After I chiseled it out I picked the crack (heh) with a dental pick to open it up further so the product could enter as far into the foundation as possible..

Once that one was sealed....found more water in the bathroom. Sooo out comes a wall....to reveal this guy.

Sorry bout the crappy pic.

After about 12 or 18 hrs of chiseling and picking, I was able to open this one up much better than the original crack. Now with practice and knowing how the product would behave, I was able to ensure better results.



If I didnt have bad luck.......

I also found their installation of basically anything they touched was wrong. Vapor barrier wasnt taped, electrical splicing INSIDE my walls and numerous cut corners. Not familiar with shower installs but drywalling into the concrete and glueing the tiles on doesnt seem right..
Basically. Everything that isn't original will be removed and start from scratch....

 

Happy Days

 

When we built our house on the water after hurricane Katrina we put vapor block on the plywood behind the siding, I just assumed it was standard practice.
This house seems to have quite a few shortcuts as well, cheap drywall, cheap paint, no excess outlets, and seemingly the smallest breaker box they could get away with (according to my dad each room should have its own 20 amp breaker) and there’s a possibility the slab wasn’t sealed, in rooms that are rarely opened (office closet and under stairs storage) there’s a strong smell that doesn’t smell like something dead or like mildew that we’re used to so we’re unsure what it is.

Luckily it’s not my house, it’s my sisters, and I’m leaving the repair calls up to her.
She’s fine with me running Ethernet through the walls and doing some drywall work as well as repainting (the bathroom walls are especially bad) but she’s undecided if she wants to pull the siding and replace a portion of the OSB (I told her we could knock it out in a weekend since we have scaffolding to work off of) or seal it, dry it really well and not worry about it until she wants to re-model.

I should’ve gone to my dads shop before I bought the old work boxes that I did for the Ethernet as he had about 8 boxes sitting in one of his electrical tubs ‍♂️

Twice the insulation is good, sounds like a PITA though.

 

So I found out what type of tile was original to my house.
Previous owner didn’t remove it in the front entry. They just laid the laminate wood directly over it.

FML. Guess I’m just going to leave this room alone for now.

 

Finished stacking my kindling pile today started last weekend. My son is in for some splitting when he gets out of college in May.

 

Maple ?

 

I got a 2 gang box installed in the attic to power the router and an empty spot for a switch if we want to put a light up there.
I got the router installed on the ceiling in the hallway upstairs as well as a box for the wiring, and I got the Cat 6 cable fished up from the modem to the router.

Now I just have to drop 4 Ethernet runs to finish up the difficult part, I need to order some Keystone jacks to tidy up all the wiring.