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Re: hose test
Matt,
What I am saying, trying to say, is that hose testing from the ground gives no definitive results.
Hose testing from the ground does not replicate wind driven rain from above.
You can drive water in under flashings which were installed properly as those flashings are installed shingle style to drain from one to the other with rain from above.
If you hose test and it leaks, the result simply tells you that it leaks with a hose test, not that it leaks during a rain.
If you hose test and it does not leak, I'm guessing you explain to your client something to the effect of 'Well, you know, this hose test does not replicate rainfall nor wind driven rain, so even if it did not leak with the hose test, it may leak from wind driven rain as it come from different directions than the hose test, and with wind, so not being able to make it leak does not mean it does not leak.', or something to that effect.
Right?
You have to, to protect yourself from liability because it did not leak from the hose test, therefore you are either saying it does not leak (which would not be a good thing to say), or, you are saying that your test does not provide true results and therefore it might leak when it rains from the right direction.
Do you realize how many times you just told your client that your hose test is no good, that its results are meaningless? Meaning it is a waste of time and money.
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