oscar
Well-known member
To put something in right?
I had a leak in the big slide side wall. Paneling under the window getting mushy, carpet wet. The first logical step is the window. Removed the inside bezel and was able to remove the window with two fingers. The 1/2" foam strip must have been laid by a drunk sailor, and from the dirt trail it was clear where the water was coming in, in spite of the goop fest at the top of the window.
The foam strip is barely adequate, but it needs to be laid accurately otherwise it doesn't cover the, rather generous, rough opening.
This was done by someone who didn't know, or didn't care. Both is on you.
With the same materials it could have been done right. I did it better, with a 1" black butyl tape, after hours of cleaning the window flange.
Are my other windows done the same? Just because I don't see water doesn't mean it's not coming in. Who knows what's going on inside the walls. Do I now have to take every window out?
And last but not least.....and this takes the cake, mounting a speaker with a 2-1/2 inch screw through a valance into the side of it's case? REALLY?
I'll probably get censored for Heartland bashing here, but by ANY standard what I found today is unsat.
I ask the question again, would it have been THAT expensive to do it right? I think we all know the answer.
I had a leak in the big slide side wall. Paneling under the window getting mushy, carpet wet. The first logical step is the window. Removed the inside bezel and was able to remove the window with two fingers. The 1/2" foam strip must have been laid by a drunk sailor, and from the dirt trail it was clear where the water was coming in, in spite of the goop fest at the top of the window.
The foam strip is barely adequate, but it needs to be laid accurately otherwise it doesn't cover the, rather generous, rough opening.
This was done by someone who didn't know, or didn't care. Both is on you.
With the same materials it could have been done right. I did it better, with a 1" black butyl tape, after hours of cleaning the window flange.
Are my other windows done the same? Just because I don't see water doesn't mean it's not coming in. Who knows what's going on inside the walls. Do I now have to take every window out?
And last but not least.....and this takes the cake, mounting a speaker with a 2-1/2 inch screw through a valance into the side of it's case? REALLY?
I'll probably get censored for Heartland bashing here, but by ANY standard what I found today is unsat.
I ask the question again, would it have been THAT expensive to do it right? I think we all know the answer.
