Digging this picture out of the archives
To show you something I photographed this summer (hey look, it's our stucco again!). I did notice water streaks in the dirt near the soffits on the front of the house. Over the summer, the streaks did not appear to change and no new ones appeared. I checked several times during rainstorms and never saw any water coming down the wall. We also placed newspaper into the soffits above this staining and left it there through several heavy rains - it remained perfectly dry. After all that, I figured these stains were just leftover from when the painters cleaned the trim before painting it last year - we've never had the stucco powerwashed so the dirt (and any water streaks) could be pretty old.
But perhaps this really was caused by water running out of the soffits??? Could snow have clogged up the gutters, causing water to back up under the cedar and into the soffits, where it might have found its way out down the wall? If so, we'd better get it fixed before resheathing the house!
But perhaps this really was caused by water running out of the soffits??? Could snow have clogged up the gutters, causing water to back up under the cedar and into the soffits, where it might have found its way out down the wall? If so, we'd better get it fixed before resheathing the house!
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