Hi During a recent storm, the wind was blowing rain against the back of our house pretty hard and we had water coming in from under the baseboard at one section under some windows. WE weren't able to trace the water to the windows, i.e it wasnt flowing from the windows down so we were wondering what else it could be. We have hardie siding if that helps. Any ideas? We had a handyman come by and he said all we needed was some alumimium flashing behind some of the siding joints and caulk for some of the siding joints to prevent water from getting behind the siding. My question is well ok, its good to prevent water from getting behind the siding but that's almost inevitable. That doesn't explain why the water comes in from under the baseboards into our actual house. Can anyone chime in with some possible explanations? Thanks, Oepth

I recently bought a house that has a covered patio that is covered by a nearly-flat corrugated aluminum roof. As you can see from the picture below, I found it to be covered with a ton of debris and obviously not maintained properly by the previous owner. The covering is pitched slightly away from the house and has a small collection groove on the end opposite the house that collects rainwater and runs it to a downspout on the far corner of the unit. (It was obviously totally obstructed all the way across the unit.) It was leaking during rainfall from random spots in the unit and two of the sheet metal screws holding the bottom of the unit had broken off under the weight of the debris. It is not sturdy enough to walk on and has a bunch of joists running in different directions, making it an absolute bear to try and clean off. I had called every gutter and roofing company in town trying to see if someone would do it and although some came out to look at it nobody wanted any part of it, I understand why. I was eventually able to go up myself and clear it off (it is about 20ft x 12ft in dimension). However it is right below a pecan tree and I can assume it will end up like this again before long. I never want to clean this again. I was wondering - how would you all experts fix this problem? Would you install some sort of rolled gutter screen over the entire area? Put ANOTHER layer of corrugated steel or aluminum over the top of all of it? Something better than that? Different ideas? [ATTACH]61320[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]61321[/ATTACH]