Identifying Interior Water Entry Points

minutes ago so why don't we get into a house before we actually start to do any analysis and what we should be doing outside we always come inside to determine where the water's coming in because water takes the path of least resistance and even though it may look pretty obvious on the outside you may have a leak that is actually the water is coming in from a completely different area and then finding its way in through the foundation wall and so maybe you have a leak here but the problem starts on the other side of the room it's or it's coming up from underneath underneath then what he doesn't make a difference what you do outside you have wet soils maybe there's a spring groundwater can move around you know burst water can event some how I'll find a way to your house eventually all right we may be talking a little bit fast for some people and let's define the difference between perched water and spring water perched water is just a pocket of trapped water spring water is basically unlimited so one of the things that we do when we first come into a home as we look for the signs of where the water is actually coming in and so you've got to be a part detective when you do this and I always start to look at the walls that's where I usually serve and I start at the bottom of a wall and then I start working my way up and one of the telltale signs is yellow discoloring in the bottom wall no these have been painted so it's almost impossible to find but I will usually go look right in the corners so okay I can see we see some right there Tim can you point at that you can see that I'm guessing a little bit of yellowing yep okay yeah and some of this is paint on the water but this looks like it's almost a damp this little spot right here a damp wall a little bit of yellowing so as we come in right here these now this has been repainted but that discoloring right there is one of the signs that we look for and then I always look to see how far up the wall it goes now this this wall is actually pretty good even though it did have water problem it's actually in a pretty good State and this has been covered up with a waterproofing paint but here all of these signs you can see this right here it's really difficult to see but this bubbling this means that there was passed water problems here you can see where there's different layers of paint that's where the paint's been chipped off and you can see all through here where there was an issue but it was corrected at some…