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Cracking Under The Pressure
Cracking under the pressure.  You hear that story all the time.
We all have our cracking point.  No matter the context, and no matter how strong we are, there is always a breaking point.  And we feel badly!
This house demonstrates an architectural, or other design, flaw. 
This photo looks at half of the rear roof.  Look carefully.  Virtually all of the rain water (that's a LOT of water) for that half is directed to one little gutter and one downspout.
See it now?
That gutter is about 5' long! 
And it is the narrower 5" gutter and smaller downspout.
You can see staining on the deck under that small gutter, so it has overflowed regularly under heavy rains.  Necessarily!
But even a larger gutter and downspout would not help the other problem created.
All of that water has to discharge.
This house is 9 years old, so nothing has ever been done about this problem.
And it is obvious someone knew about this problem.
It drains right beside a basement door stairwell!
And has for all these years.
That's a lot of water!  That's a lot of weight!That's a lot of pressure!
Seems to me things are leaking!  The penetrations ... more

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