Comment on Installing J-channel under existing siding?
ikidd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Absolutely strip it down; this is a problem with the window installation. Water damage is a failure from the inside out, you need to screw up every layer of protection, not just the outer one. There should be an envelope that’s sealed around that window with housewrap, blueskin and caulking, then metal flashings that direct any water down the outside of that envelope, then proper siding installation to keep most of the water from touching the flashings.
Pogbom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yowza… I always assumed it was just the missing j-channel but not that the entire windows were installed incorrectly. Guess we’ve got some work ahead of us 😐