WIS is the Top Ranked and #1 Rain Leak Detection Company in Santa Monica

As your local Santa Monica Water Intrusion Specialist testing company, we are proud to provide some insight into what we do and why water intrusion affects homes and building.  Every time in rains in Santa Monica and the surrounding Los Angeles Beach Cities, there is a significant amount of water intrusion problems and issues that start to manifest (perhaps you’ve heard your friends and neighbors complaining)!  The reasons can really be endless, but below you will find just some of the top issues to help you identify what type of water intrusion you may be experiencing.

Top Three (3) Reasons for Rain Related Water Intrusion in Santa Monica

• #1: Significant Rainfall and Severe Storm Conditions
  • Residential Homes and Commercial Buildings can generally resist water intrusion from what would be considered normal rain events, but what we would categorize as significant rains would be beyond the historical averages for the area.  In addition, if a rain event occurs for sustained periods of times, such as continued heavy rainfall for consecutive days, that can be a real problem for many structures.
  • More recently, especially the past few years, Santa Monica has experienced a heavy rainy season that has come hard and steady for back to back years.  In essences, these consecutive years of sever rain has created the “perfect storm” for water intrusion to occur and moisture problems to thrive in Santa Monica.  Rainfall in the region has been pushing the limits of what ordinary homes and buildings can resist and is continuing to cause unwanted water intrusion to interior spaces that is causing millions and millions of dollars in construction repair damages across the city as well as the whole area of Southern California.
• #2: Construction Defects for New Homes and Building
  • Despite the fact that you just purchased a new home or commercial building here in Santa Monica and may have initially been excited, you are probably now browsing this page because you’re experiencing buyers remorse due to water intrusion that is affecting your structure.  New construction homes and buildings should not have water intrusion, period.  When they do leak it is often times due to defective work.  When we are contracted by our clients we are engaged to test exteriors to find where the water intrusion is originating from and we often find that these new structures were built substandard.  In addition, the home or building may be missing critical waterproofing details or may have been installed incorrectly to begin with.  Then you may have fenestration product issues meaning that your windows and doors may be defective and/or might have been improperly installed.  Another major defect we tend to find is failures in the adjacent wall construction and deck assemblies.  
  • Remember, there is a lot, and we mean A LOT of exterior square footage on your home or building, and that means there is a lot of areas that could have gone sideways for one reason or another, and that’s why we come in to test and source your water intrusion by testing and inspecting exterior of the structure that are affected by active rain related water leaks and moisture intrusion.
• #3: Expired Warranties, Guarantees and Life Expectancy of a Home of Building
  • The last item on our list of why water intrusion occurs on homes or buildings factors is the age of the home or building.  Why does age come in to play?  Well, at some point in time a structure will go beyond the time-frame of its useful life expectancy; that means things like warranties and guarantees expire.  In addition, your home or building like anything old, ages and starts to fall apart naturally.  Owner maintenance (or lack thereof)  is often a big action item here that leads to water intrusion.  Remember, it is the responsibility of ownership to perform regular exterior inspections and maintenance of the building’s exteriors to ensure that the home or building will continue to  resist water intrusion during each years rainy season.  When structure has not received proper care and maintenance things start to fall apart and eventually that leads to failures of exterior cladding and waterproofing products and components.  Once the waterproofing layers and products are compromised all sorts of bad things relating to water intrusion and moisture start to happen, and usually destroying floors, walls, ceilings, etc.

Water Intrusion Testing and Rain Leak Detection Specialist | Santa Monica, CA

The Top Reason You Need a Water Intrusion Specialist

• To help you locate the source of the water leak
  • People typically know they have a water leak, but far too often people start doing blind repairs without really knowing where the water intrusion is coming from.  The Stucco Contractor who showed up said the crack in the Stucco is the problem, let’s remove and replace the whole wall, so you do that.  Guess what, it still leaks!  The Roofing Contractor said the roof is old, so you reroof the whole roof.  It still leaks!  The Decking Contractor says you need to replace the deck and you do.  It still leaks!  Well, to avoid that nightmare scenario (which happens a lot actually), you need to call WIS, the Water Intrusion Specialist.  We are top rated in Santa Monica and Los Angeles and we provide water testing and investigate rain leak detection services to help you locate the source of your water leaks so you can do a proper repair the first time.

The Top 3 Services of a Water Intrusion Specialist in Santa Monica

• #1: Forensic Rain Leak Investigation Planning
  • The first step is to to onboard the Water Intrusion Specialist (WIS) and have an on site meeting with one of our specialists.  You get to meet with one of our water intrusion professionals, who are Projects Managers and/or Test Managers, who will walk the job site and get a better idea of your specific situation.  It is while we are on site that we can then fully assess the situation, take into account what our Scope of Work will be, and then develop a test plan that suits your specific needs and budget to then source and locate you water leaks.  We perform visual inspections of both the interior areas and exteriors to include but not limited to:
    • Windows
    • Doors
    • Decks
    • Skylights
    • Walls
    • Exterior Grade and Planters
    • Other Low Sloped Horizontal Systems
• #2: Water Intrusion Testing 
  • This is the second phase of our process.  Once you have met our team and authorized us to proceed with testing, we get busy with helping you source your leaks.  We schedule a test date, show up with our team of water intrusion specialists, and get to work trying to find where your water leaks are originating from.  Our take a science-based approach and test, step-by-step, different areas until we can source and locate your water intrusion.
  • We use Rain and Wind Simulation Machines as part of our process in addition to thermal scanning, moisture meters, and other probe devices. 
• #3: Infrared Scanning for Water Intrusion in Homes and Buildings
  • When we are testing we incorporate a variety of tools and instruments, but one of the most critical tools in our arsenal is employing the use of Infrared Technology to help in detecting water leaks and moisture infiltration.  All of that is really just a sophisticated way of saying we have our trained water intrusion specialists who are experts in using Infrared Cameras which generate thermal images for our team of professionals to then analyze.  We then interpret and read this images to look for what we call thermal anomalies, which may be potential water intrusion at walls, ceilings, and floors.  It helps see what the naked eye cannot and we can then go and physically verify if Water Intrusion or Moisture is actually present.

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