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No support or lintel above the window. Bricks falling loose and the whole thing kinda compressing down on the window frame. From the attic side it looked like the bricks were stuck directly to the OSB.

How would one go about fixing this?

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Posted

It might be my imagination but there seems a vertical crack to the right of the arch as well as some framing issues on that gable wall. That would meet my criteria to go 'whole hog' at everything wrong with that veneer installation, if not the framing too.

Marc

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Yes, that is some amateur framing around the gable vent. That is a scary picture.

I'll bet there are hidden defects in those walls.

I'll bet there is water damage to the OSB around those windows as well.

It is a shame that someone would apply that much brick to a house and not learn the basics of masonry and home construction first. [:-thumbd]

Posted

How does something this bad really happen? I mean, didn't someone with a quarter of a brain oversee some small portion of the home being built? It's not like the dude went to lunch and the home was bricked when he got back.

Posted

Yeah...also no weeps or through flashing, flat sills, and big gaps at the sides where the veneer meets the vinyl trim on the sides.

I pointed it all out in the report along with the recommendation to have a qualified brick mason sort it all out.

1990 build.

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I don't see the problem. Houses built after about 1980 generally have a 25 year life expectancy. This one is pretty much on target.

Tom,

what are basing that on?

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