Flush Concrete to Framing? Here's a Stainless Flashing Fix! 

Well if his family doesn't keep it, I'm sure the next owner will appreciate the effort he put in to keep it as trouble free as possible. Of course, not everyone is a builder and may wonder what the point of going to all the trouble. Some people unfortunately, 'just don't care'.

Adam Garrett he almost makes me feel bad for my “it only has to outlast me” mentality lol

Definitely will be sold

@@Beandiptheredneck that's real. You leave something that's worth a child's entire net worth. They better sell and downsize

I have a question we are going to be building a block house in the Philippines but I don't really trust the products that they have can you give me some ideas

How have you determined they are unproven?

My garage also takes in water and was looking for a solution like this .

Oh man. That’s terrible Mark.

The sealant isn't there as a front-line defense. It's basically there as a "belt an suspenders and ..." type solution. The actual finish of the wall/porch surface is the front line defense. The flashing is there to handle whatever little bit gets by the wall finish. The sealant is there mainly as a bulk filler (like packing peanuts in a shipping box) for the minimal space in the kerf cut and under the flashing. If it has its own waterproof/resistant properties, and is long-lived as a sealant? Bonus points! So, even if the sealant fails (as a sealant or an adhesive), it's still providing the bulk fill in the waterproofing solution.

So you wouldn’t have butt-jointed the flashing?

@@aayotechnology Unless there was a detail/tolerance that prevented it no,...but it would have still used the same sealants no matter what. Who knows, the sealant might out last the flashing.....

Nothing is guaranteed in life, we just do the best to minimize.

Jealous?

@@microwavedsoda Why would I be jealous? Just stating an opinion that he's going overboard and I doubt if anyone could convince a bank to loan the money without sponsor discounts. As an engineer it's an impressive effort. As an engineer it's not justifiable other than as an experiment.

I have to say that demonstrating materials and methods that are not as advanced as we were using 10 years ago doesn't really qualify as "cutting edge", but I guess that is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. Matt's claim to fame is a platform for publicizing stuff not commonly done by the trades, which is good thing, in and of itself. Leaving aside for the moment the cost/ benefit value judgement made in the reply above, I would throw this out: In 18 years working in the Boston area, I did entirely renovations and additions on existing structures, aged 30 to 90 years old. I found that 100% of the structures I worked on had present infestations of carpenter ants or termites, or significant damage from past infestations. All of those revolved around water penetration and damage; the bugs follow the moisture softening, and then accelerate it.The upshot was I have had a personal "crusade" for water management, starting way back when (mid-seventies, actually). When I moved to Colorado in 1994, I worked for another builder for a short time, doing new houses (the boom times). I looked at the shoddy building practices, felt the warm dry air, and concluded that the locals knew their stuff. Once back to doing my own jobs, I had to start on renovations and additions, all over again. Quickly learned, most of the same water intrusion problems existed here, just to a lesser degree, and without the bugs (except for one notable project). The changing insulation standards that started after the '73 energy crisis threw the industry into turmoil, and I don't see in the construction landscape that anywhere near the improved response has been made, given all this time. A few years ago, I was called as an expert examiner, by my attorney, for a severe water leak situation in a 6 year old house in a "New Community". When the legal dust had settled, I was engaged to do the remediation work. Wind driven rains from the north would leave one third of the living room floor in a huge puddle of water. Other windows had leaks that had internal structural damage. Every person(neighbor) who walked by while we were on-site had a leak story of their own. I simply shake my head at the greed, ignorance and incompetence that is rampant in the developer/ residential construction industry. Most citizens are now so conditioned by the "Walmart Effect" (you can have a bigger one of EVERYTHING, and way cheaper, too) that quality and long-term considerations of durability and maintenance costs never come up as a decision-making factor. A really smart client of mine (45 years ago) told me there are two ways to buy something: PRICE or COST.

Lee Stevens what do u mean price or cost?

@@michaelpatrick6950 it's hilarious you think banks make the decisions on the money. We build too many blank check houses here in MD. These customers make $220k annually and the bank approves any tech they want all the way up to $2M. We know the price will go up in 20 years

Definitely true about sealants but stainless and the lip turned down into the concrete will help, the better idea is a bigger curb!

I give videos 1 ad. I am gone when the second starts.

How well do they last on your kitchen table? I’ll be covering my entire structure with 2” of foam so all my tapes and sealants won’t see much +- 15 degrees of inside temps.

It’s also called accelerated age testing. We do it all the time in composites. There are a bunch of ASTM standards in fact for this very purpose.

With enough money, you can make something last thousands of years. You could go with all stainless steel framing and sheathing, welded together. Your kitchen sink does pretty well as a water barrier, and if you go to a railroad museum, you'll see stainless steel passenger cars that have been mostly outside in the weather since they were built in the 40s. They last pretty well. This will cost you mucho dinero, but for a thousand years, hey, it's worth it, right? Finish off the exterior with thick granite ashlar blocks, and, well, you've seen the Lion Gate at Mycenae, right? That's been there 3250 years now.

@@SigmaDG this is the answer I was looking for. Thanks

ASTM life cycle testing, blast it with UV at high temps and then spray it with salt water or acid etc. The plastic may last but adhesives tend to be the first part to go, I too am interested in how the zip flashing and others hold up over a few decades.

The way the wall system is planned, any water that somehow makes it in is going to be minimal and will likely evaporate rather than accumulate.

Slabs without curbs are so much easier to form, place and screed. The architect was probably hoping to save the client some money. So much for that.

sponsorship legalities will prevent him from answering, most likely. IMHO and not having much experience with the products, I would bet both fluid applied materials are essentially the same chemistry

Probably true but it’s a covered porch with a 2’ overhang. Not much water washing down these walls.

Easier said than done. Because, then, you're working to the alignment of the flashing. Which is going to get kicked and bumped and bent as the walls go up. Rather than building square and making sure your flashing is flush to both the wall and concrete.

That's an interesting idea re concreting the flashing in

I think the concrete would corrode thru the copper pretty quickly just like the galvanized he told us not to use? Sure would look nice though.

Yeah, metal flashing should be bent at more of an angle to allow gravity to drain off any water that accumulates on it. This looked like a 90 deg angle on it. If it had more of a slope to the angle it probably wouldn't want to pop-out like that.