Why downspout installation works differently in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill sits in a freeze-thaw belt, and freeze-thaw is what quietly takes apart masonry, flashing and venting.
Air-sealing and window upgrades have made Richmond Hill homes far tighter than they were designed to be, and a tight house starves a natural-draft appliance of the make-up air it needs.
Wind loading off Lake Ontario pushes driving rain against the south and west faces of a house, which is why water entry so often shows up on one side of a Richmond Hill home and nowhere else.
Across Rouge Woods, Bond Lake, Observatory, North Richvale and Elgin Mills, the housing stock changes street by street, and the correct method changes with it. A century home with a soft-brick stack does not get the same treatment as a 2010 build with a factory-built vent — using one method on both is how systems get damaged.
the practical takeaway is that a downspout installation visit should start with an assessment, not a tool. Any crew that begins work before telling you what they found is guessing on your behalf.