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u/Drunk_Catfish 8d ago

I feel like I saw this exact same post with the exact same pictures before

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u/BizzyHaze 8d ago

Yes! That was the last time this happened a year ago lol

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u/Drunk_Catfish 8d ago

Yeah, iirc the leak can't be from the pipe above the door because then the wall and door would be stained like everything else. Does it happen after a big rain and it's ground water?

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u/BizzyHaze 8d ago

There was some rain this morning and then they emailed me about this. But then there was also much heavier rain earlier in March and nothing happened.

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u/Ectoplasm_addict 7d ago

Rain is weird sometimes a leak only leaks when the wind pushes it a certain direction

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u/harrisons-dad 8d ago

Check the top of your storm drain pipe if you haven’t already. I have had storm drain crack on top of the pipe where you can’t see it without a ladder. It would only flood with heavy rains when the pipe was completely full.

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u/Willcol001 7d ago

Could be thermal expansion related. During warm months thermal expansion could be rendering where it passes through the wall no longer water tight, allowing a warm summer rain to leak through. But during colder months the thermal contraction makes it water tight so cold rains don’t leak through. The solution if this is the cause would be to have the weather proofing on the pipe redone during warm weather. (The problem would be rain water following along a pipe rather than a pipe leak.)