What About All Those Holes?
Preventing water intrusion is critical. It's costly to repair damage caused by leaks in the building envelope. Finding leaks is time consuming and usually requires cutting holes in the walls. Water damage may be extensive, and there's also the possibility of mold related issues.
Consequently, builders focus significant effort on trying to make buildings more resistant to water. We pay more attention to proper flashing and caulking around anything that penetrates the building paper. However, until now no one has addressed the vulnerability created by the THOUSANDS of fasteners that attach lath. Each one pierces the building paper that is supposed to be the ultimate barrier stopping water intrusion.
Enter Fasten Seal products. As a supervisor for a stucco contractor in California, part of my responsibility was to find leaks, and during the heavy El Nino rains of the late 1990's there were plenty. I found many leaks that originated at a window, electrical box or just a crack in the stucco. The water would then run down the paper as it's supposed to, meeting thousands of entry points created by all the lath fasteners, on its way down to the weep screed at the bottom of the wall. Some builders have attempted to address this issue by applying caulk individually to each fastener - time consuming and not particularly effective. Other builders continue to roll the dice and hope for the best.
Now there's a solution - Fasten Seal self sealing products.
- Kirk Anderson, Inventor
Preventing water intrusion is critical. It's costly to repair damage caused by leaks in the building envelope. Finding leaks is time consuming and usually requires cutting holes in the walls. Water damage may be extensive, and there's also the possibility of mold related issues.
Consequently, builders focus significant effort on trying to make buildings more resistant to water. We pay more attention to proper flashing and caulking around anything that penetrates the building paper. However, until now no one has addressed the vulnerability created by the THOUSANDS of fasteners that attach lath. Each one pierces the building paper that is supposed to be the ultimate barrier stopping water intrusion.
Enter Fasten Seal products. As a supervisor for a stucco contractor in California, part of my responsibility was to find leaks, and during the heavy El Nino rains of the late 1990's there were plenty. I found many leaks that originated at a window, electrical box or just a crack in the stucco. The water would then run down the paper as it's supposed to, meeting thousands of entry points created by all the lath fasteners, on its way down to the weep screed at the bottom of the wall. Some builders have attempted to address this issue by applying caulk individually to each fastener - time consuming and not particularly effective. Other builders continue to roll the dice and hope for the best.
Now there's a solution - Fasten Seal self sealing products.
- Kirk Anderson, Inventor