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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)

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Had some rain yesterday, had some wind today, and... Damn...

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silky smoove said:
Now I'm back to chasing the leak. There's no longer a clearly defined flow path for the water. I suppose I'll have to break out the garden hose after all.
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Unfortunately, the warranty repair involved patching based on experience and hope for the best. At this point, I think that you have no choice but to dig deeper and identify the point(s) of infiltration. Maybe it won't be that difficult to pinpoint with the hose.

Given the amount of water and the singular location, I don't think that it would be due to internal condensation.
 
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DirtDog said:
If you're on iOS, check out Hyperlapse by Instagram...I have that on my iPhone and it's pretty slick. Certainly there's similar apps for other devices. Drawback is limited recording time (45 minutes) but might just be enough time for your purposes.
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I drank the Apple Kool-Aid in a big way a few years ago. My house is nothing but Apple products, haha. Two iPhones, two iPads, three iPods (for my wife's business), a Mac Mini, a Macbook Pro, and an Apple TV. I could certainly set something up outside to record it. The real trick will be lighting. None of those products do well in low-light situations, so I'd have to get creative with lighting it up. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.

beans-on-toast said:
Unfortunately, the warranty repair involved patching based on experience and hope for the best. At this point, I think that you have no choice but to dig deeper and identify the point(s) of infiltration. Maybe it won't be that difficult to pinpoint with the hose.
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I'm trying to get a date scheduled with the repair guy. My goal will be to have he and I in the studio while my wife saturates the building with the garden hose. Communications around the holidays have been limited at best. I'm going to stay after him and hopefully get a date on the books. I'm shooting for January 2nd since I'll be home from work.

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Given the amount of water and the singular location, I don't think that it would be internal condensation.
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I had that thought was well, and the singular location even lends a little credence to that notion. It's the only spot in the building where there's a wall penetration (excluding the soffit and ridge vents), and it happens to be the one where there's glass involved. The glass is double-pane, argon-filled, so getting condensation would be surprising. I went out last night and checked for more water infiltration since it was raining hard, and there was definitely more, but not a monumental amount. Additionally, I checked to see if anything was condensing on the inside of the glass. It was not. The building is well ventilated and not heated so the temperature inside and out is largely equalized at this point, so condensation would be surprising.

Bah... I really want this sorted out!
 
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beans-on-toast said:
An IR camera used inside the building would help identify areas of cold air infiltration. This could be were a leak is. Not sure if this would require that your building be heated.
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As I mentioned in my previous post (which I posted while you were posting this), the temperature inside and out is largely equalized. A well ventilated space that's not heated and has incomplete wall/roof insulation will be a mess for an IR camera. If I were further along in the process I would definitely consider this as a viable detective option.
 
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silky smoove said:
I drank the Apple Kool-Aid in a big way a few years ago. My house is nothing but Apple products, haha. Two iPhones, two iPads, three iPods (for my wife's business), a Mac Mini, a Macbook Pro, and an Apple TV. I could certainly set something up outside to record it. The real trick will be lighting. None of those products do well in low-light situations, so I'd have to get creative with lighting it up. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
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Excellent! I'd run Hyperlapse from inside the structure (with lighting) during a weather event or hosedown - to narrow down the point of infiltration at least. Cheap intervention.
 
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Ugh... more water in the studio after some wind and rain. Still no return call from the maintenance guy. I'll be back in my office on Thursday and if I haven't heard back by then I'm going to call the guy's boss and it might have to get ugly. Communication after construction wrapped up has been pretty lousy and I'm growing weary of it. More to come!
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Is there any chance that the door itself is leaking?

Perhaps water is running down an inside channel from the top or where the hinges attach to the threshold.
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Your guess is as good as mine at this point.

No response from the guy doing the repairs, so I'm calling his boss tomorrow. Going to get him on-site as soon as possible so I can hit the building with the garden hose and track this thing down. I'm ready to get building again!
 
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silky smoove said:
As I mentioned in my previous post (which I posted while you were posting this), the temperature inside and out is largely equalized. A well ventilated space that's not heated and has incomplete wall/roof insulation will be a mess for an IR camera. If I were further along in the process I would definitely consider this as a viable detective option.
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You could put a space heater in the room, and then look inside and out for the leak with the IR camera.
 

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