caulking pulls away
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:09 am
With regards to caulking deficiencies is it any amount of pulling away unacceptable? How do you guage it? Is any separation at all considered a deficiency?
In the simplified definitions I said:
Missing / Damaged Caulking / Mortar
L1 Mortar missing at 1 brick or block or < 12" long
L2 Mortar missing at > 1 brick or block or > 12" long
I was trying to make this as brief as possible, but I should have included the word “caulk” as well as mortar.
The legal definition says:
Missing/Damaged Caulking/Mortar (Walls—Building Exterior)
Deficiency: Caulking designed to resist weather or mortar is missing or deteriorated.
Level of Deficiency:
- Level 1: Mortar is missing around a single masonry unit.
-OR-
Deteriorated caulk is confined to less than 12 inches.
- Level 2: Mortar is missing around more than 1 contiguous masonry unit.
-OR-
You see deteriorated caulking in an area longer than 12 inches.
- Level 3: NA
It doesn’t say split, pulled away, missing, etc… all it says is “deteriorated.” I would take that to mean “imperfect in any way,” which could include split, pulled away, etc. It gives us no hard minimum threshold, it seems to say any amount of deterioration is a defect.