Rant: My container roof leak taught me a hard lesson about prep work

Three years ago I built my first container home outside Denver and spent 2 weeks agonizing over the layout. Then last Tuesday after a rainstorm I found water pooling near my electrical box because I rushed the roof seal job. Has anyone else had a leak screw up their interior framing?

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king.dakota22d ago

Seems like a bit of overkill to blame the whole build on one leak.

emmar7522d ago

Not sure I agree with that @king.dakota... one leak can mess up your whole moisture barrier, and that leads to mold behind the drywall in like a month. I've seen it happen where a pinhole leak in a copper pipe rotted out an entire bathroom floor before anyone even noticed. Plus if it's a slab leak, you're digging up concrete and that's a whole different nightmare. So yeah, sometimes one leak really does tank the whole project.