Hi. I hope I am in the right category.

I put a "Florida room" on my mobile home. It is 10 x 35 feet. I enclosed it, laid carpeting and heating/cooling. They poured concrete under the slab that was the patio.

When it rains hard, and most of it is hard in Florida, I have leaks inside. The carpet gets wet and I have to soak it up.

I think the leak is coming from where the exterior wall hits the slab.

One time I removed the siding, on the outside, and he caulked it up. Another time a man put some sort of "flashing," (whatever that is used for here), where the wall meets the floor, and I had no luck. It kept on leaking when it rains hard.

Some one told me that I will have to dig the yard up, three feet out from where the wall meets the concrete, and put in a drainage system.

Can anyone help me with this problem? How can I make it stop leaking?

Thank you for reading this. I hope you can help.

Tom W.

I assume your slab was high enough above grade to prevent water from flowing in.

Look up!!!

You probably have a problem with the flashing and attachment of the roof to the mobile home.

It needs to be properly flashed and not just "gooped up" with a bunch of caulk.

Water does not run uphill unless there are large winds. Capillary action can draw it up, but that takes more time than you describe.

Did anyone suggest a simple hose test to determine exactly where the wall is leaking, if in fact it is the wall? Once you find the problem, selecting a solution will be easy. Until you know the exact problem, all anyone is doing is grabbing at straws.

...which is exactly what "concretemasonry" was saying, too.