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   mmoogie | Sep 13, 2009 09:18pm | #1

   I've not seen this detail before. I see a lot of earlier houses with no rough sill at all...the cripple studs just but into the underside of the finish sill, but never one such as you describe.

   Steve

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   frammer52 | Sep 13, 2009 09:23pm | #2

   Steve, glad you could follow that!>G<

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   Ozlander | Sep 14, 2009 05:16am | #3

   Sounds like one mans idea of a good idea.

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   Piffin | Sep 14, 2009 01:06pm | #4

   There were a lot of unique things done in the thirties. Recall that it was a depression so people did any job they could, and the folks paying for the work hired as cheaply as possible, so not everyone followed standard practices.

   The 1970's is another period of some uniqueness in the US, because money was tight, and there was a fixation on developing new alternatives for energy conservation. since then, we've learned a lot more about things that sounded like good ideas then, but just don't work.

    

    

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   cussnu2 | Sep 15, 2009 01:03am | #5

   But how could it not work... at least from a functionality standpoint?  Water won't run uphill at least theoretically.  I can understand it is a bad idea from the standpoint of time consumed and difficulty to duplicate but my initial reaction is that it would have to work just might not have been workable.

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   bluegoat | Sep 15, 2009 01:43am | #6

   Something like this from the 1950s. The concrete wall has a slope on it to the outside and the rough framing for the window is built on top of it. Looks like they just put some more concrete on later to make it level. Not sure what the deal is with that. In anycase the sill plate on this concrete wall rotted out within the 55 years it was installed. The detail in the picture probably made water stay within that area instead of draining out. If there had been weep holes or something in the diagonal fill maybe I could see this helping keep the water away from the sill.

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   Piffin | Sep 15, 2009 01:45am | #7

   I don't really see anything wrong with it, just different than normal, and commenting on why possibly. 

    

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   talkingdog | Sep 15, 2009 02:49am | #8

   Isn't this roughly the same thing as putting a piece of beveled siding on top of the sill, as part of the flashing scheme, which some people here do?