Breakfast Nook - With all of the rain we found a leak in the breakfast nook. On further investigation we believe it was an issue with the scupper not being sealed. This has been remedied and we will monitor it for the next few weeks to make sure that it is not recurring and that here are no other issues.
We have opened up the Sheetrock in that area to assist in drying it out and will patch next week.
Gutters & Downspouts - I had our copper company by the site today to discuss the gutter issues. We would like to get the downspouts re-installed as soon as possible to alleviate the water infiltration in the basement. We could do this in either copper or aluminum. The benefits to copper are that it is inexpensive and not attractive to thieves. The cons are that it is easily dentable and over a period of time (10 - 20 years) the aluminum will corrode because of dissimilar metals. The aluminum will come approximately the color that the copper will patina to. We will get a sample.
Basement Water Issue - There are areas of water in the basement as the pics below show. We believe these are the same issues we had early on and are due to the lack of downspouts and caps on chimneys. When the downspouts are re-installed and caps installed we will monitor to confirm our theory.
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| In safe room under patio. |
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| In safe room under covered patio |
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| Water at squash court. Appears to be seeping in from standing water on the exterior. |
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| Appears to be coming down chimney. |
