What brand doors? What model within that brand?

Millworkman - they are Windsor Pinnacle Clad two pane narrow style - hopefully that helps!

You need a hose and a dry day.

Any pics of where the water is pooling? That could indicate whether its coming in through the unit itself, or through the install.

Few thoughts:

- +1 on doing some water testing

- is it safe to assume that these units have nail fins? ... If not, the flashing tape may not be doing much.

- Was the upper window "redone" at the same time? If not, you could have water entering the wall cavity up there

- The roof to wall interfaces would be another area to look at as that is a common water entry point

Joseph & HomeSealed Exteriors - yes, we’ll try the hose test for sure — and HomeSealed - It’s pooling (from what we can tell) in a single spot - we think it’s accumulating water and then when it’s saturated, coming down in a waterfall till it drips. We are getting some other stucco done now, and the stucco guy does think it is likely coming from the window above - he got up on a ladder and said all the stucco around the upper window looks great, so our next go round is to water test the upper window, take out the moveable pane and peer in there to see if there’s anything obvious. We will also look at the roof to wall interfaces!! Thanks all for the great suggestions - I’ll keep you posted!

Oh, and as an aside… either the builder or the 2nd owners installed a “faux rug” made of tile in front of both of the now leaking doors (they’re both on wood floors) which leads me to believe this has been happening for a long time and that was their “fix” instead of finding the root of the problem and fixing that! Which also points more to the window above leaking versus the door…

Thank you HomeSealed Exteriors!!

" It’s pooling (from what we can tell) in a single spot - we think it’s accumulating water and then when it’s saturated, coming down in a waterfall till it drips. "

From above then?

Millworkman - yes, we think from above. Finally a nice day today with no wind, so we’re going to do to the water test!

Update - we did the water test and couldn’t exactly replicate the leak, but uncovered two additional leak… we’re going to just replace the windows above (dang!) as we just can’t figure anything else out!! Thanks for all your help :)

Please read up on proper installation of windows and proper flashing, so that this time, your window gets installed correctly. Its always good to know the proper way and to watch when windows are being installed, to know that all the flashing is correct etc. Improper flashing, or no flashing at all, is the biggest cause of window leaks.

You might even be able to have the windows pulled out, reflashed and reinstalled if the windows are fairly new. If they were going to be chnaged anyway, have at it. Like mentioned above be sure they are properly flashed as that is the biggest challenge seemingly.

@cat_ky and @millworkman - thanks! Yes, we believe the windows were installed incorrectly - while they’re not “old” (2106) - we had almost all of the other windows replaced last year (except for these two and a couple other fixed ones that aren’t subjected to the driving wind) so we probably just should replace them. They also used Anderson 100 (cheap windows) so it’s just something we have to bite the bullet on. As expected, the labor to put up scaffolding, tear out the stucco frame and replace the windows are more expensive than the windows themselves…. We are just fortunate to be able to cover the cost and not be subjected to eating hot dogs for the next year :)

Good luck to you. Water damage is no fun, and can cause a lot of other damage.. I lost part of my roof in a storm in 2020 and had to have a whole roof replacement, but, there was a lot of other damage that happened because of it, that had to be repaired too.

" As expected, the labor to put up scaffolding, tear out the stucco frame and replace the windows are more expensive than the windows themselves "

Yeah, I am sure. In that case I would do the same, no sense doing all that to reinstall the old windows when you were eventually changing them anyway.