Bricks, Masonry, Asphalt and Concrete - "Effervescence"
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Pipsisiwah
03-20-05, 08:44 PM
House is 2-story, top story has cardboard siding, bottom story is brick all the way around. House built in 1982.
In making my usual run around the house to check for problems, I noticed in several places on the northwest and northeast faces a coarse, powdery, white substance on the surface of the highest bricks and mortar. Sometimes the stuff is as low as a foot or two. By its appearance, I would guess it is rain-related, although where I live seldom gets rain, but it does snow.
I'll bet this is coming out of the bricks from the inside. No water marks in the inside of the house at the ceiling/wall intersections. Yet.
Paint on siding is intact.
Time for caulking? Normally I would just get the old ladder and check, but I've a condition that renders me somewhat less than stable on ladders recently, and as soon as I tell a "handyman" that I suspect dried caulking, he's going to tell me "Yep" regardless.
Ideas anyone?
In making my usual run around the house to check for problems, I noticed in several places on the northwest and northeast faces a coarse, powdery, white substance on the surface of the highest bricks and mortar. Sometimes the stuff is as low as a foot or two. By its appearance, I would guess it is rain-related, although where I live seldom gets rain, but it does snow.
I'll bet this is coming out of the bricks from the inside. No water marks in the inside of the house at the ceiling/wall intersections. Yet.
Paint on siding is intact.
Time for caulking? Normally I would just get the old ladder and check, but I've a condition that renders me somewhat less than stable on ladders recently, and as soon as I tell a "handyman" that I suspect dried caulking, he's going to tell me "Yep" regardless.
Ideas anyone?