On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:17:00 -0600, John Keith wrote:

My next door neighbor has a trilevel house and the siding on the top

You can see the same sort of junction on any split level house and on
loads of rows of townhouses, when built along a slope. Every two
houses will be a little lower than the ones they are next to, leaving
the same siding/roof junction.

Is trilevel the same as split level? Every split level I've ever seen
has a two story part and a one story part next to it, at a middle
level, so I suppose they could all be called trilevel.

If they are not the same, what is trilevel?
If they are the same, why the different name? Is it like calling
townhouses townhomes, when they are the same?

level is deteriorating at the point where it meets the roof of the
middle level. What is the correct construction practice for this
situation to prevent the problem in the future? Is this a place where
flashing is required (from the ground I can't tell if any flashing was
used) or was the siding just extended to close to the shingles such
that water flowing down the roof would just soak up into the siding?


John Keith