Nice, there has to be some sort of barrier between the old wood siding and the new vinyl since as we all know water comes through the vinyl, and with no barrier it will rot the old stuff quicker than heck. and i've got pictures to prove it since i've cussed a few freinds of mine in the business that did'nt install any sort of barrier over the old wood stuff, and just put up the vinyl:furious:
My #1 question would be.....since this is a typical wood sided house with 1x for brickmold, those all USUALLY had crown molding and flashing installed over the crown detail above the window so the original windows were flashed properly. Did the siding installers just chisel off the crown so they could cap the opening with all L shaped pieces and then laid the J channel over top of them? If so, the siding guys are 100% at fault since they knocked off the window flashing, and with no barrier and other means to flash the window, they left a nice huge void for all the water behind the siding to just come on into the wall cavities.
We just sided a house, so let me know if this is the style of ORIGINAL window trim with the 1x's and crown that probably used to be in place
We always take and knock the crown off since there's no way to make it look nice with bent aluminum..i think it looks like crap since it's just flat metal, which takes away from the "colonial" profiles milled into the crown. So we knock them off, fur out the exterior with 1x2 or 2x2 so when we just the blind stop you get a true 2" wide cap profile much like standard 2" wide brickmold. After we cap it all with bends i the metal to counter flash itself, i bend a Z shaped piece seperate or bend a lip into the top piece for a built in flashing. Once all that's installed we'll install the fanfold making sure to tape all the joints as required to keep the water out. Then when i install the J channel around the windows we also tape over the nailing fins of the J on the side pieces and 3 courses of tape up on the top J channel......much like flashing a new construct window. I figure this way when the water sheds down the fanfold behind the vinyl it cannot get behind the j channel and just continues down and pukes out the bottom of the siding.
Here's what happens when you discover a fricken HOME BUILDER builds himself a home in the county with minimal code with intentions of reselling:
We ended up stripping the entire house and completely redoing the exterior...replacing plywood and all....homeis not happy, nor were we.:furious:
vid of the windows installed with NO caulk, NO flashing.....
http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/iowahome/Gibbs Hoouse/?action=view¤t=PICT0095.flv
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