Windows Won't Weep When Water Won't Weak

OK, my apologies for being Elmer Fudd, but blogs are supposed to be readable, right?

Hard to see here, but that frame was full with water and flowing over

So I am definitely having a water week. Water into basements, water into windows, water water everywhere. Today I was called out to a home because the buyer knew that a window in the garage was showing mold damage. I looked at the window, and sure enough, the trough was full! The sprinklers (I know, I've never preached anywhere before that sprinklers shouldn't spray the home) were hitting the windows, then falling down into the frame, where they plugged up the weep holes.

Presto!

Then just like that, weep holes plugged, we have Lake Magna.

Check out the flow coming out of that weep hole after opening

I Felt Like Moses

So I went back around the garage to the exterior to see why the weep holes weren't weeping. Good ol' combination of dirt and hardness had these weep holes plugged up like my dog after he eats marshmellows.

So, rather than part the Dead Sea, I opened up Lake Magna. Used the screwdriver on this mosquito pond and Presto! It drained like a politician's face when he's told his state's pork got cut.

Moral of the Story

Window weep holes. Poor impoverished creatures that they are - here's the lesson: 1: Don't spray the house. 2: Make sure the water running down the window actually drains out. It's another task, but it beats mold. 3: Don't spray the house.

And they all lived happily ever after.