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Tips to Divert Rain Water | Fairfield Home Inspection Blog Series
Yes, Spring has sprung! And so has our Spring edition of our Fairfield Home Inspection blog series, Part 2: Tips to Divert Rain Water. We’ve been having quite the rainy Spring here in Fairfield, and we’re doing our part to inform our readers on tips to help with water issues via our Fairfield Home Inspector Blog Series. Our last post, we discussed tips to prevent wet basements. Today, let’s talk about ways to divert rain water from your home. Let’s take a moment to talk about kickout flashing, and its importance in construction. Kickout flashing (sometimes called diverter flashing) is a type of flashing that diverts rainwater away from wall surfaces when they adjoin directly to a roof. As a home inspection company it’s something we look for on homes susceptible to rain water issues. This flashing provides protection from moisture entry and subsequent damage that can result when it is missing. A missing kickout flashing can allow for water to specifically enter behind the wall siding and possibly the interior of the home as well. During a home inspection process, we’ll look for visible staining below these areas at the exterior siding, or moisture staining at the interior, are indications of rain water intrusion. Left unchecked the moisture has the potential to create severe rot and damage. Kickout flashings should be installed anywhere a roof and exterior wall intersect, where the wall continues past the lower roof-edge and gutter, and where gutters terminate at the side of a chimney. It is a simple, yet vital, piece of flashing that is either rarely seen or installed incorrectly in many... read moreTips to Prevent Wet Basements | Fairfield Home Inspection
Spring has sprung… as so has our Spring edition of our Fairfield Home Inspection blog series. The old rhyme is that April showers bring May flowers, but they also bring wet basements. Parts of Fairfield County, CT over the past couple of weeks have seen an excessive amount of rain, which has contributed to moisture in many crawlspaces and basements of homes. While predicting what level of rain may be a breaking point for water entry is not possible, there are a few areas you can address at the exterior of your property to help protect your basement and foundation before investing in a wet basement system. Two readily accessible things you can visually inspect at your home are the gutters and the grading. Today we’ll talk about grading, and by grading we are referring to the pitch of the soil at the exterior of the home. There is positive grading, which is soil that is sloping away from the home, and negative grading, which is soil that is sloping towards the home. Living in Fairfield County, we know that the topography may present us with challenges, but it is extremely important to examine a home for positive grading, as you want water to run away from the foundation, not towards it. Your soil should grade away from the home at 1 inch per foot for 6, even 10 feet, if possible. Look for any areas of settlement as well that may contribute to ponding next to the foundation. Read more about grading here If you have negative grade, you can simply add soil to help increase the grade.... read moreTips to Prevent Frozen Pipes | Fairfield Home Inspector
Spring is here, but as we know in Connecticut you still can get a cold snap, even in the early spring. This week we continue with our final winter related homeowner topic that many in Fairfield County may be familiar with, or have experienced first hand: frozen pipes. When supply water resting inside copper pipes freezes, it causes the copper to expand. They might not split the first time they freeze, but then again, they just might. A small split typically occurs where the pressure is greatest along the pipe, but it can also happen at the fittings. Once the weather turns, and the water unfreezes, then you’ll start to see the leakage. PEX piping has become popular and is freeze-resistant, but not freeze proof. A study was done at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that involved the freezing and thawing of PEX pipes. Two brands were frozen and thawed over 500 times without damage. It should be noted that some of the fittings in their test did fail though (metal fittings). Also, PEX-AL-PEX, which is piping that has an internal layer of aluminum bonded to 2 layers of PEX, did not fare any better than copper. Other supply materials, such as CPVC, will crack, and Polybutylene, which is freeze resistant, may survive but often the fittings will fail depending on the type used. Where should you look for vulnerable pipes? Any supply piping that runs through an unconditioned space, such as an attic, a vented crawlspace, or a garage, is at risk. Pipes that run against exterior walls that have little or no insulation and exterior hose bibbs... read moreContact Us
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Jeff Walsh
Long River Home Inspection, LLC of Fairfield
A home inspector serving Fairfield County and New Haven County in Connecticut
Home Inspection service serving Fairfield County, CT including these towns: Fairfield, Westport, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Easton, Wilton, Ridgefield, Stamford, New Canaan, Weston, Norwalk, Greenwich, CT
Also Serving New Haven County, CT including these towns: Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford, Naugatuck, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Wallingford, Waterbury, West Haven, Wolcott, Woodbridge
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203-418-7696
Licenses
- CT LIC# HOI.704
- ASHI# 252456
- NACHI# 14071026
- NRSB Radon Measurement Specialist # 13SS035
- Infraspection Institute Level-1 Certified Infrared Thermographer #10346