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Mark, House was built in 97 and yes none of the windows were flashed correctly. We are the second owners so we probably would not have had much recourse with the builder. I have actually fixed 2 other windows that are on weathered sides of our house. The rest of the windows do not get the weather so we are not worrying about those.

OK finally had a contractor look at our issue it appears that the original builder never flashed the windows in our house. So the side we were having the issues with there was water finding it's way under the siding. We had to replace the siding on the whole side of the house problem solved unfortunately it was very expensive. Luckily there was only a small portion of the OSB underneath the tyvek that needed replaced.

Hello Mark, just saw your mail. We have actually had fairly mild winters in Olympia Washington compares to others. I am pretty sure there is Tyvec for the WRB. I will try to get pics during the day and post back when I can. Thanks Robert

There are 3 wood wrapped windows on that side of the house. there is some cracking which has been sealed with caulk and I have had 2 boards that that the nails in the upper corner has just broke at the nail and the board slipped sown about 1/2 inch. Looks like the corner nails were installed correctly within the hardy guidelines in this spec. (http://www.jameshardie.com/d2w/installa ... -ca-en.pdf).

No bathroom 2 bedrooms on second floor and office and family room on 1st floor.

I know this post is pretty old but I have some questions about the Hardie Plank on my house the last 2 years I have been noticing some sort of brown dripping from under my siding. I live in Washington and this is on the south side of my house that gets most of the weather. Can you guys tell me what is going on here? Thanks Download Attachment: 20150221_161222.jpg 757.6 KB Download Attachment: 20150221_161236.jpg 762.24 KB Download Attachment: 20150221_161244.jpg 622.91 KB