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Where a Balcony Leak Becomes Someone Else's Ceiling

Almost nothing in Lynwood stands empty. The city carries 15,846 housing units at over 3,200 per square mile with 98.2 percent of them occupied, in the central portion of the Los Angeles Basin near South Gate and Compton. A failed walkway or stair is affecting people from the day it fails.

Occupied housing splits close to evenly, 46.6 percent owner occupied against 53.4 percent rented, which means the work here runs both ways: a homeowner's rear deck one week, a shared second floor walkway on a rental building the next. On the multi unit side, the thing owners underestimate is how far water travels once it is through the surface. It does not stop at the balcony it came through.

Flat basin ground gives a deck no help. There is no slope in the site to move water off a surface, so every bit of fall has to be built into the deck itself and maintained. When a topping wears down at the traffic line or a patch fills the low corner, the water simply stops leaving.

On rental property the surfaces that fail first are the ones everybody uses. Walkways wear through where people actually walk, stair nosings go first, and the landing outside a door takes water off the roof, traffic from below and a threshold detail that was marginal when it was new.

We scope from the substrate up. Probe for soft plywood or hollow topping, read moisture at the wall line, cut a test hole where the readings are bad, then price the tear-off honestly. Recoating over wet material is the fastest way to pay for the same repair twice.

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