Recent content by Ross Morrin

All my 4 velux widows in my extension (centre pivoting) fill with water. This leads to an occasional drip from the corner, and when I open and rotate the windows I get drowned! Any ideas why? They are on a shallow roof.

Just poor builders workmanship I think, was designed to be 16 degrees. Think I've identified the route in. The water is appearing from the rubber seal between the wooden frame and the glazing. When I was outside I notice a slight pounding of water at the bottom end of the window, where the...

Thanks Freddie. What I really meant was where / how do they leak?

3 years after building an extension planned with a 16deg roof, we got leaks through the wood at the bottom end of two of our velux windows. I spoke to velux, and sent them photos, and they said all looked in order. Before they came out they asked me to check the roof pitch - 12 degrees...