Water Behind Aluminum Siding

This can also cause your siding to rust.

Water behind aluminum siding.

Walls longer than 16 feet. Some areas were extremely heavy while others were just a single streak. Vinyl siding comes in 16 foot strips. The presence of a housewrap on modern buildings or felt on older buildings combined with proper flashing at windows doors and other openings are relied upon to keep water from entering the structure itself.

Accessory pieces install before the siding strips to prevent water from running behind the siding in these areas. Water damage is risky business. The damage can compromise a building s structural integrity. At yanish we find water damage behind the siding of roughly 1 in 6 homes.

It easily hides beneath siding materials and often shows no obvious signs to untrained eyes. During a very heavy 2 days of rain water began running from between pieces of siding. While gaps and openings permit leaks behind the siding some siding openings are normal such as aluminum or vinyl siding bottom edge vents. Not all have wood rot but the damage would progress to rot in time.