You may find the carpet wet for a few feet in from the wall. The water either comes from between the blocks or in some cases between the monolithic slab and the block wall. This storm you would most likely find it on the East wall. It is very common to have moisture intrusion on a block/stucco home through the mortar joints when your home is pummeled by a Cat 1 hurricane.especially if you have hairline cracks in the stucco. Bear with me as I am responding from my phone as I still do not have power. Perhaps I can share a bit of light on this. Who do I call for that since I can't do this myself. I don't think gutters or extenders are the problem or the cure, but I'm not sure. However, the concern is how do I prevent this from happening again. I think I'm going to have the carpet removed and have laminate installed, which I was thinking about doing anyway. This has never happened before even with the driving rain we get sometimes, but the hurricane really pounded that window. Another company wanted $200 just to walk through the door and who knows how much after that. I was advised by Stanley Steemer that they are not allowed by State laws to dry the carpet, they can only "cut" the carpet out where it got wet. The wet part of the rug is about 4 ft long by 1 1/2 feet wide, on one side only of a double window. I have a patio in front of my house with pavers so water didn't puddle there although I suppose it could have gotten under the pavers. I was not here at the time and had renters in the house. Before my house was a year old, my inspection noted this crack, supposedly it was fixed by warranty, but if it was, they did a terrible job, one inch on either side of the crack is a completely different color paint. I think this is where it came from but not sure. Also, there is a slight crack right at the window sill on the outside. Was told that happens sometimes with cement stucco. What it boils down to is, the water supposedly soaked through the concrete.
I've had many different opinions on the problem. The front of our home got pummeled all night by the storm and I consider this a one-off due to locale. This was the only problem we had during Irma.
Our details are in my posting copied above - the carpeting is almost completely dry now, the padding et al should be soon as well. The area (in the front bedroom) is covered by gutters and there are no downspouts close - they are on the corners. As I mentioned above same happened to our home. Would have been good to know how "soaking wet" their carpet was - ie, the entire room or 2" from the wall. Update - we haven't heard from OP for some time now. OP depends on amount that came in - if small as for us.it's nothing - and will probably never happen again unless Irma II arrives in the future. I would say a cup or so of water seeped in. I rolled up a couple bath towels to cover - although all it really needs is air to dry out. I assume a very small amount of water seeped into the crack between the slab and bottom of the block in that area. The outside - sand/dirt and landscape rock coverage is an inch or so higher than the concrete slab level. When looking out the window in bare feet this morning I felt dampness in the carpeting by the baseboard. All night it was pummeled with such heavy wind and rain. Our 3rd bedroom in front faces outside wall which faces directly EAST. Please I just need the name of companies that do this stuff? I appreciate your advice, but I can't climb up on ladders for extenders, which I don't even know how or what or where to put them.Īlso, who can I call to dry the carpet before it gets mildew?
I don't know how to do any of this, do you know who I can call to do it for me? I have put extenders (available home depot/lowes) on all our downspouts taking the water 3 feet away from the base of the house.ĭo you have a double exterior door? Very frequently a direct driving rain will come between the doors.
Long story.sustained water volume is able to get under the slab or between the slab and the house framing (and even blocks). Not all direct the water sufficiently far enough from the house. Heavy rains, let alone sustained tropical rains for hours on end push a very large volume of water down the spouts. Most have no splash blocks and most are a foot or less away from the slab. One thing to check is your downspouts and where they empty.