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Leaky condo crisis. Low-rise residential building undergoing repairs to correct apparent "leaky condo syndrome" in Vancouver's West Point Grey neighborhood, 2014. The leaky condo crisis, also known as the leaky condo syndrome and rotten condo crisis, is an ongoing construction, financial, and legal crisis in Canada.
Water damage can originate by different sources such as a broken dishwasher hose, a washing machine overflow, a dishwasher leakage, broken/leaking pipes, flood waters, groundwater seepage, building envelope failures (leaking roof, windows, doors, siding, etc.) and clogged toilets.
You should fix any water leaks immediately and remove water-damaged materials like carpet in bathrooms, kitchens, and basement floors.
A pre-listing inspection focuses on all major systems and components of the house including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, siding, doors, windows, roof and structure. It's a full home inspection for the seller to better understand the condition of their home prior to the buyer's own inspection.
Memory leak. In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations [ 1 ] in a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. A memory leak may also happen when an object is stored in memory but cannot be accessed by the running code (i.e. unreachable ...
Clapboard (/ ˈklæbərd /), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. Clapboard, in modern American usage, is a word for long, thin boards used to cover walls and (formerly) roofs of ...
Masonite is formed using the Mason method, [8] in which wood chips are disintegrated by saturating them with 100-pound-per-square-inch (690 kPa) steam, then increasing the steam or air pressure to 400 pounds per square inch (2,800 kPa) and suddenly releasing them through an orifice to atmospheric pressure. Forming the fibers into boards on a screen, the boards are then pressed and heated to ...
Infiltration (HVAC) Infiltration is the unintentional or accidental introduction of outside air into a building, typically through cracks in the building envelope and through use of doors for passage. [1] Infiltration is sometimes called air leakage. The leakage of room air out of a building, intentionally or not, is called exfiltration.