jeffreyismith

The front of my house faces Northwest. When strong winds from the NW with heavy rain, I get leaks in the front window. From what I can see after reading about weep holes I am missing flashing above the lentals of all my windows. If this is the case, the house being only 4 years old, is this not a building defect and should be repaired by the builder? Hurricane Ike blew rain at the front of the house for hours and we had buckets of water leaking over the window inside. We kept the water off the wood floor and save it but we are worried about mold behind the walls. I had one contractor tell me that my weep holes were too deep and they would have to plug them a little. So I had to do some weep hole research. After reading, it appears this contractor does not know what weep holes are for. JIS