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Liquid Spray On Window Flashing???
I just put two replacement windows in a 50 year old brick veneer wall at the Fountain Court Condo's in Metairie, Louisiana. These brick veneer walls were built "poorly" and not maintained or sealed over the years so there is plenty of water infiltration into the air space between the vapor barrier and the brick. Since the mortar was put on too heavy, it's touching the vapor barrier so that has the rain water penetration actually running down the vapor barrier.
Further, the bottom 2-3 layers of airspace is filled up with excess mortar drippings from the building process. In short, these walls do not breathe very well or evaporate the rain water that gets into them very well.
Their was no flashing around the originally installed windows and the wood trim around the outside of the vapor barrier (another construction snafu) is very soft to rotting out in many areas. Because of the brick veneer wall with only a 2" airspace, there is no way to to replace this wood casing trim or properly install flashing around the replacement window.
Is there a spray on type product that I can spray onto the vapor barrier and wood trim, that will drip down onto the old wood trim and installed window that will create a type of flashing to stop rain from further rotting this wood trim and to stop any seapage into the window at the top? I'm guessing some type of tar or polyurethane based product that would would create a membrane type flashing.
The condo assn says they are going to seal all of the external walls of these buildings but it's going to be an expensive job and historically they never do them.... They just tell people they are going to, to shut them up till they forget about it.
Last edited by LennyV-NHSNOLA; 02-14-2007 at 01:48 PM.
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