I’m about to have one of these built and I was debating whether to have them install windows or just frame the openings for me to put my own windows in. You helped me decide that I’ll add my own and take a bit more care.
Uggghhh Maan, that makes my blood boil! I have the exact same issue I'm to the point of hanging small window awnings outside. All they do is caulk and take months to come out... have you resolved it yet nice building mine is similar
The fourth round of caulk finally stopped it up, but I do think window awning would be a smart addition. However, proper closure stripping and flashing from the beginning will minimize risk as well. I finally had to get quotes from three other metal building contractors on how they would fix it, and settled on a middle ground with the company that sold me the building. They knocked $1000-1500 off the final bill, I don’t remember exactly. But all the games and excuses along the way hardly made the last little discount feel worth it. I’d have far preferred it done right the first time and paid full price and been done.
@@TomBrueggen agreed! I'm glad to pay for something done right but when it's thrown together makes you bite your tounge. Thank you for the reply, sounds like I got some caulking to do!
My metal building has two windows on one side and i personally caulked them both up solid from the outside and my building has spray foam in all the walls and if it rains super hard there's always some water on the floor beneath both windows and my metal goes over the slab like its supposed to be and has 18 inch footers and I can not figure out where this water is coming from.
I was wondering why your panels are horizontal and mine are vertical? Mine is 30x40 same tubing and assembly as yours but ive never had any leaks. Im installing my own windows.
All the issues you mentioned, especially the flashing between the foundation and the outside wall, is simply not there! I feel a bit ripped off with the contractor that put up my building that I bought it from! Too cheap to caulk, flash, or use filler strips on the outside corner trim! It is honestly less headache for me to fix it myself, than to get attorneys involved! For $16k to have a 24x30 building and they are that fucking cheap!
Just make sure they put proper filler strips in the corners and around window and door openings. If these gooners would have used the proper foam closure strips on install we wouldn’t have had any of these issue. I hope your experience is better than ours. Good luck!
@@av1204 if it’s anything like our arrangement, there are several layers of people involved in the project. The guys that actually come install the building are merely paid to install the kit that they were given. If the kit doesn’t come with proper closure strips, they don’t use them. Go back to the person that sold you the building and verify these details with them.
Nah but they’re probably all the same. There’s 100’s of companies out there that are just salesmen peddling these building kits, then subbing the work to underpaid crews to throw them up quick and cheap (and wrong).
I thought about that. But really it’s what we get for using a cheap building company. Basic weather stripping and deeper trim would have prevented this.
We finally stopped the leaks and the rest has been great. Now and then it seems like we get a small leak from the roof but they seem intermittent and hard to trace due to the foam insulation.
Is the metal flush with the concrete or comes down on top of it? The manufacturer told me to do the brick ledge and then the installers tried to stop the metal at the top of the brick ledge. I made them come back and slip a piece of flashing up behind it all the way around to ensure the metal overlapped the brick ledge. I’d your metal is flush with edge of slab then you could do the same. I guess even if your slab extends a bit past the metal you can do a Z flashing.
You said in less than 2 minutes, it shouldn’t be that complicated but apparently it is for you because rain NEVER sprays up against the windows, it’s falling from the sky downward! Those are not waterproof submarine windows!
I think it may be complicated for you also. I stated in the video I was spraying ABOVE the windows, and letting the water run down over them. Just the same as would happen in a hard driven rain in a thunderstorm which we get on a regular basis here. I never jetted water up from below or in from the sides. Only sprayed above and let it run down naturally. Sorry for my attitude, but you started it. 😆
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Fair play to you. Thanks for sharing your experience. Good luck
I’m about to have one of these built and I was debating whether to have them install windows or just frame the openings for me to put my own windows in. You helped me decide that I’ll add my own and take a bit more care.
Just use the proper closure stripping and flash them well and you should have no problems
Uggghhh Maan, that makes my blood boil! I have the exact same issue I'm to the point of hanging small window awnings outside. All they do is caulk and take months to come out... have you resolved it yet nice building mine is similar
The fourth round of caulk finally stopped it up, but I do think window awning would be a smart addition. However, proper closure stripping and flashing from the beginning will minimize risk as well. I finally had to get quotes from three other metal building contractors on how they would fix it, and settled on a middle ground with the company that sold me the building. They knocked $1000-1500 off the final bill, I don’t remember exactly. But all the games and excuses along the way hardly made the last little discount feel worth it. I’d have far preferred it done right the first time and paid full price and been done.
@@TomBrueggen agreed! I'm glad to pay for something done right but when it's thrown together makes you bite your tounge. Thank you for the reply, sounds like I got some caulking to do!
My metal building has two windows on one side and i personally caulked them both up solid from the outside and my building has spray foam in all the walls and if it rains super hard there's always some water on the floor beneath both windows and my metal goes over the slab like its supposed to be and has 18 inch footers and I can not figure out where this water is coming from.
I was wondering why your panels are horizontal and mine are vertical? Mine is 30x40 same tubing and assembly as yours but ive never had any leaks. Im installing my own windows.
I’m having the exact same problem for my cabinet shop I just had put up.
All the issues you mentioned, especially the flashing between the foundation and the outside wall, is simply not there! I feel a bit ripped off with the contractor that put up my building that I bought it from! Too cheap to caulk, flash, or use filler strips on the outside corner trim! It is honestly less headache for me to fix it myself, than to get attorneys involved! For $16k to have a 24x30 building and they are that fucking cheap!
I just purchased same type from Carolina Carport but with vertical siding. We will see how high my blood pressure can go.
Just make sure they put proper filler strips in the corners and around window and door openings. If these gooners would have used the proper foam closure strips on install we wouldn’t have had any of these issue. I hope your experience is better than ours. Good luck!
@@TomBrueggen me too. I'm probably going to be very annoying to them as I don't take short cuts on work.
@@av1204 if it’s anything like our arrangement, there are several layers of people involved in the project. The guys that actually come install the building are merely paid to install the kit that they were given. If the kit doesn’t come with proper closure strips, they don’t use them. Go back to the person that sold you the building and verify these details with them.
Did you get this building from Boss Buildings (NC Carports)?
Nah but they’re probably all the same. There’s 100’s of companies out there that are just salesmen peddling these building kits, then subbing the work to underpaid crews to throw them up quick and cheap (and wrong).
Having same problem with my metal building with leaking windows and doors
That’s what you get for running the tin horizontally.
I thought about that. But really it’s what we get for using a cheap building company. Basic weather stripping and deeper trim would have prevented this.
Yeah....for sure!
Did he mention the brand?
Hows it standing up now a couple years later?
We finally stopped the leaks and the rest has been great. Now and then it seems like we get a small leak from the roof but they seem intermittent and hard to trace due to the foam insulation.
@TomBrueggen thats good to hear! But could it be condensation any chance?
Im going through this right now 7 windows leak. The company top rank steel structures is a joke! Been to fix them 3 times they still leak...
Good luck! It’s BS they do this. Typical crap when you get too many salesman involved and don’t pay subs well enough.
I messed up and didn't do a brick ledge... and water intrusion is bad...
Is the metal flush with the concrete or comes down on top of it? The manufacturer told me to do the brick ledge and then the installers tried to stop the metal at the top of the brick ledge. I made them come back and slip a piece of flashing up behind it all the way around to ensure the metal overlapped the brick ledge. I’d your metal is flush with edge of slab then you could do the same. I guess even if your slab extends a bit past the metal you can do a Z flashing.
You said in less than 2 minutes, it shouldn’t be that complicated but apparently it is for you because rain NEVER sprays up against the windows, it’s falling from the sky downward! Those are not waterproof submarine windows!
I think it may be complicated for you also. I stated in the video I was spraying ABOVE the windows, and letting the water run down over them. Just the same as would happen in a hard driven rain in a thunderstorm which we get on a regular basis here. I never jetted water up from below or in from the sides. Only sprayed above and let it run down naturally. Sorry for my attitude, but you started it. 😆
What an absolutely asinine comment.
That’s a metal Viulding not a house mr
You for get to pay the extra money for the strips