A client wants me to bid on restaing a 3 yr. old cedar home. There is 0 caulking around windows, doors, up the rake of the roof etc. Its well built and there are really no bad cuts, but I'm still leary to spray chems and water around when nothing is caulked and I told her so..(of course I would do the caulking for a nominal fee)...one of the first things I picked up on when estimating the job is how picky about detail she was.. maybe I'm being too cautious here but I'd hate to leave the job and come back to a bunch of water stains that seeped thru after I left the job, or leakage to the inside of a picky clients home. The home is 3 yrs. old and the construction is well done...but I don't KNOW how it was constructed i.e. sheathing??..good vapor barrier installation??. It should be o.k. but in general when I'm pushing water from the outside towards the inside I'd like caulking around doors/windows/rakes. What do you all think?
A client wants me to bid on restaing a 3 yr. old cedar home. There is 0 caulking around windows, doors, up the rake of the roof etc. Its well built and there are really no bad cuts, but I'm still leary to spray chems and water around when nothing is caulked and I told her so..(of course I would do the caulking for a nominal fee)...one of the first things I picked up on when estimating the job is how picky about detail she was.. maybe I'm being too cautious here but I'd hate to leave the job and come back to a bunch of water stains that seeped thru after I left the job, or leakage to the inside of a picky clients home. The home is 3 yrs. old and the construction is well done...but I don't KNOW how it was constructed i.e. sheathing??..good vapor barrier installation??. It should be o.k. but in general when I'm pushing water from the outside towards the inside I'd like caulking around doors/windows/rakes. What do you all think?
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