Doors, Skylights and Windows - Exterior Door leaking water - I installed an exterior metal clad door this past fall. I installed it according to the instructions, including culking under the threshold and everywhere else. But yet is continues to leak wat
To fully comprehend why your window AC unit may be leaking water, it’s essential to have a clear understanding of its components and how they function together. A window AC unit consists of a few key parts: Compressor: This is the component responsible for compressing the refrigerant gas, ...
Leaky pipes behind walls or under sinks Shoddy maintenance on building plumbing A malfunctioning refrigerator line in your neighbor’s unit Water tanks leaking A burst pipe in the wall (or a common pipe through a building) Your insurance company will want to establish exactly what happened so tha...
While a mold-detection canine can quickly find mold inside a home or commercial building, infrared thermal imaging has the edge on the exterior and in detailing—with imagery, the location, and extent of mold infestation. Properly used under the right conditions, infrared thermography can serve ...
Never, under any circumstances, nail furring strips onto the walls. Penetrating the structure will jeopardize its barrier versus water. Usage construction adhesive rather than nails or screws to adhere your bottom wall plate to the flooring. It’s okay to nail the upper wall plates into the uppe...
“This is possible because wet building materials will have different thermal characteristics than those same materials when dry. For example, dry wall insulation in an exterior will return to fairly close to ambient temperature fairly quickly once the sun stops shining on the wall. However, wet ...
By conduction upon the floor and wall of the tank, the fluid loses (or gains) heat to and from the ambient, but it also conducts heat vertically up the tank walls from the warmer region to the cooler region. This heat transfer is not inhibited by the exterior insulation on the tank ...
There also was of an area in one of the guest bedrooms closet that had to have all three walls cut out at 2′ up from the floor. the closet main wall sat behind the guest bathroom bath tub/shower that had leak caused by the shower valve leaking down the back of the drywall of the...
exterior wall of the tank. Because the foam is wholly contained within an enclosed plastic bag, there is no danger of the foam leaking into unwanted areas. Once the foam within the bag expands sufficiently, it forms an effective dam about the electrical control or other area. Subsequently, ...
Before or after connection of the filter manifold assembly 402 and the filter bracket assembly 474, the bracket body 476 is mounted to a support surface or structure (e.g., a wall of an under-the-sink cabinet). For example, mounting screws 574 (see FIG. 1) are inserted through the mou...