Leaky Windows

As the plumbing and kitchen countertops were being fixed, we started the interior and exterior painting jobs. Our painter used high pressure jet stream to wash the stucco wall over a weekend. He was a bit worried because he thought the windows might not have been sealed properly.

In fact, we knew. Daddy had already taken down the outside wood trims on 5 of the 10 new vinyl windows. The wood pieces were trimmed to the same width, and the windows resealed from outside (using vendor instruction and DAP's 50-year caulk). The small bathroom window was in open air under the wood trims (with no tar paper, no stucco patch; you can "feel the breeze", so to speak, if there were no drywall inside :-), as a result of our request to have the originally installed 3ft by 1ft window replaced by a 3ft by 2ft window (Bad Labor threw a tantrum when we made the request and threatened to quit the first time).

The 5 resealed windows survived the high pressure water without incident. 4 out of the 5 untouched ones leaked water into the inside glass pane like crazy. The 5th one seemed to have lived, only to have water dripping out of its irrigation hole continuously (took 4-5 pieces of fully soaked kitchen towel to get the water out). A deep sigh...