Another rim joist question?
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:59 pm
I didn't have the patience to read through that whole rim joist repair thread but it seems similar.
My home doesn't have gutters so the rain poured right down on to the back porch and rotted out the sill and frame of the back door. Contractor pulled off the porch deck boards and replaced the facia board and the sill under that portion of the house. Cost me about $1500 thus far.
Today while I was on the ground staining the rebuilt porch steps, i realized that I was looking at a gap between the concrete foundation and the wall of the house farther down from the porch. I poked a stick in there and sure enough it went right through. I didn't dare poke farther to see how long this gap was, but I'm guessing it runs the remaining length of the house (another 20 feet or so). Some of the flashing is nailed down so I couldn't see what it is nailed to.
Am I correct in thinking there is supposed to be SOMETHING filling that gap, most likely a board that has been properly flashed so it doesn't rot?
And if so, was the engineer who inspected this house at the insistence of the mortgage company supposed to notice this? All he said that needed doing was additional supports on the porch roof which the seller did and he signed off on and they are purely fake, they don't actually support anything.
And if so, what is his (or his company's) responsibility to me or to the mortgage company? (which no longer owns my mortgage). because I'm frosted. If this is going to cost me another $1000 I would have preferred to know this up front so I could have told the homeowner I was not going to pay what I paid for it.
How much more rot are we going to find? There is a squishy spot in my living room floor that makes me want to cry every time I step on it.
My home doesn't have gutters so the rain poured right down on to the back porch and rotted out the sill and frame of the back door. Contractor pulled off the porch deck boards and replaced the facia board and the sill under that portion of the house. Cost me about $1500 thus far.
Today while I was on the ground staining the rebuilt porch steps, i realized that I was looking at a gap between the concrete foundation and the wall of the house farther down from the porch. I poked a stick in there and sure enough it went right through. I didn't dare poke farther to see how long this gap was, but I'm guessing it runs the remaining length of the house (another 20 feet or so). Some of the flashing is nailed down so I couldn't see what it is nailed to.
Am I correct in thinking there is supposed to be SOMETHING filling that gap, most likely a board that has been properly flashed so it doesn't rot?
And if so, was the engineer who inspected this house at the insistence of the mortgage company supposed to notice this? All he said that needed doing was additional supports on the porch roof which the seller did and he signed off on and they are purely fake, they don't actually support anything.
And if so, what is his (or his company's) responsibility to me or to the mortgage company? (which no longer owns my mortgage). because I'm frosted. If this is going to cost me another $1000 I would have preferred to know this up front so I could have told the homeowner I was not going to pay what I paid for it.
How much more rot are we going to find? There is a squishy spot in my living room floor that makes me want to cry every time I step on it.