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SB 326 Balcony Inspections

SB-410 Takes Affect January 1st 2026, Is Your Inspector Compliant With Its Requirements? We Are!

January 1st is almost upon us and every year in California we see new laws come into effect on the first of the year and this year is no different.

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Deck Expert Bill Leys Discusses SB 410 & How It Effects HOAs & Deck Inspection Firms Reports

Notably for HOAs and balcony inspection companies SB 410 will take effect on January 1st and impose certain requirements on HOAs and on balcony inspection companies.

For HOA Boards of Directors, you are affected in several ways; the first being that SB326 reports are now considered to be HOA records, which means an owner can request and review them at any time. Secondly, reports cannot be withheld or redacted and third sellers of a common interest development property now must provide buyers with the most recent SB326 inspection report.

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home inspections

A Recent Home Inspection Shows Why a Seller Provided Home Inspection Report is Essentially Worthless

The other home inspector missed this “little” issue

A recent inspection we performed for a prospective buyer of a condominium in San Luis Obispo demonstrates perfectly, why you as a buyer need to have your own inspections done at your own cost. This particular inspection found many issues that were glossed over as simply needing patching and painting rather than complete replacement of major components such as windows, doors, decks and subflooring under a shower.

The seller had a pre sale inspection done at their expense and provided that report to the prospective buyer. He had questions and doubts about the report and reached out to us after searching for a waterproofing and building consultant.

Our inspection found that many items the other inspector glossed over in his report as needing “patching and painting” or minor repairs were far from the real situation which was that all the doors and windows were past their useable lifespan and needed to be completely replaced. We found dry-rotted framing on decks, open and exposed framing on columns, dry-rot in the substrate below a shower floor which requires the substrate to be replaced due to fungus infestations.

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Roof Inspections and Consulting

A Client Asked About Roof Maxx, A Company/Product Sold as an Alternative to Asphalt Shingle Roof Replacement and What We Thought About The Product

A client reached out to William Leys Waterproofing Consultants LLC to ask about what we know about Roof Maxx after getting a quote from them to treat the 15 roofs the condo association has. The reserve study says that they have to replace the roofs in about 5 years and at the current rate of savings and the amount of money in the reserves, they will not have enough money to pay for a roof replacement. Their thought was that they would have the roofs “roof maxxed” (our term) and extend the life of their roofs so that they can continue to put money into reserves instead of having to pass a special assessment to replace the roofs.

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Certainly this is a noble idea and one that is worth considering at the least. The client had met Roof Maxx at an HOA event and the sales person at the luncheon was certainly persuasive selling the supposed virtues of Roof Maxx to my client. 

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Roof Inspections and Consulting

Redondo Beach HOA Retains William Leys Waterproofing Consultants LLC To Write Scope of Work to Renovate Courtyard Podium Deck

We’re pleased to announce that we were recently hired by a Redondo Beach HOA that desperately needs to replace a failing waterproofing system on their podium deck.

The HOA sought several proposals from building envelope consulting firms and after interviewing and researching, the Board of Directors selected us, citing their previous experience working with us on their SB326 inspections and our detailed proposal and experience as waterproofing consultants.

Failing Waterproofing on a Podium Deck in Redondo Beach Will be Renovated

We will be writing a scope of work to put it to bid with several highly experienced contractors, perform non invasive testing of the deck to determine if there are any issues of concern and when the work begins, we will do quality assurance inspections to ensure the work is being done correctly.

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Learn about how deck drains and scuppers should be installed and why it’s important to counter flash scuppers on the exterior walls.
Learn about ember resistant vents for balconies. Soffits + crawl spaces
Here we discuss who can perform inspections and who must write and sign the report for sb326.
Poor workmanship doomed this new addition with intrusion, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to restore the waterproofing. 

Quality Assurance Observations

A Roofing Contractor Messes Up, William Leys Waterproofing Consultants LLC Helps Client Get It Fixed

A Low Slope Roof Installation Went Awry When The Contractor Deviated From The Manufacturers Installation Instructions

William Leys Waterproofing Consultants LLC Steps in to Assist The Building Owner Get the Work Corrected

A recent consult job that we had for a client who just had a new low slope roof installed on their building showed the reason that building owners should consider hiring a quality assurance inspector to ensure that the roof is installed right the first time and doesn’t have to be done over.

A client reached out to us who just had a new roof installed on their building. They had concerns about the workmanship and requested our assistance to inspect the job and document the problems with the installation. A low slope roof with a single ply TPO membrane had multiple issues with the installation.

Improper Termination of Membrane at Skylight
Improper Termination of Membrane at Door Threshold
Improper Weld is Open
Numerous Low Spots From Improper Slope on Roof
Improper Termination of Membrane at Roof To Wall
Improper Termination of Membrane Into Roof Drain
Vent Boot Not Caulked or Clamped

As you can see from the photo gallery we found  numerous problems with the installation. We wrote a detailed report for the client who then was able to go to the contractor and ask them to make corrections to their work. The city building department refused to sign off on the permit for the roof because of the poor workmanship and the client threatened to complain to the Contractors State License Board if the contractor did not step up and replace and repair his poor work.

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Roof Inspections and Consulting

William Leys Waterproofing Consultants LLC Performs Roof Inspections of 110,000 SQ Foot Low Slope Roof on a Commercial Building in Los Angeles

We were recently retained to perform an evaluation of a large low slope roof on a manufacturing building in Los Angeles.

The seam is splitting where it overlaps one sheet to another.

The client is interested in installing solar panels on the roof and needed to know what the buildings roof condition was, and whether they should repair or replace the roof.

For a very reasonable fee we performed a visual inspection and wrote a report for the client.

Samples of roofing to examine.

Some of our findings were that the existing roof system was splitting at seams, that multiple unsuccessful repair attempts actually were making leaks worse, and that the numerous sunlights were starting to deteriorate and would need to be replaced in the near future.

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