Hi,
We have owned the home for a couple of years. For the past few weeks, I have been having moisture in the hardwood floorboards in the kitchen, only when it rains (it doesn’t have to rain very hard to make this happen), but not in the floorboards adjacent to the walls. The one floorboard where the moisture starts (like little droplets of water oozing upward from the line where two floorboards meet),is located about 1.5 feet from the wall in either direction in the corner of the room, not adjacent to the wall itself. We have a drainage system installed, which is best described as a bunch of rocks lying along the side of the house. We dug them up, removed the dirt and grass that was on them, let them air dry, and put them back, but it rained just a little yesterday afternoon and the floorboard got wet. The siding is wood, with a 3 or 4 inch section of some type of vinyl strip below it, and under that there is a garbage bag type material that runs down to the foundation of the house. The area where we are getting the leak has a 3-foot crawl space underneath, and there is no visible signs of water there. We ran some tests today using a hose, and hosed each area along the side of the house individually and waited, but we could not replicate the wet spot. We also simulated rain, using the hose, to force water into the gutter above the area, but we were also not able to replicate the leak. Does anyone have any more suggestions about how to troubleshoot for the source of the leak? Thanks!
Leak in floorboards when it rains
