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No the rest of the window frame, cills, plaster around, joists in the roof above etc are all dry. It is all coming through the bottom corners on three windows. I am thinking it must be where sealant was not used properly, if at all when they went in (I strongly suspect the previous owner...

Sorry I forgot to say, the other day I sealed all around the outside of the frame where it meets the brick work to see if the issue lays in that area, with exterior sealant. It hasn't made a blind bit of difference. I have check guttering, I have been up in the loft (which is completely dry...

Three upstairs windows do the above when it rains. They are not next to each other and are in both the old and new part of my house. I have been out and looked at the guttering, roof above etc. No sign of any issues anywhere. As you can see there are tide lines and it is destroying the...

I want to replace the old switches, and am totally confused as to what to buy. In a room with one light and one switch, I assume a one way switch is what I need. In the hall there is one light, with switches top and bottom. So a two way switch? If that is correct, then when would I...

Hi After managing to cut the main phone line coming into the house, I bought a BT66 box and some jelly crimps. I just crimped together the four pairs of coloured wires, leaving the three yellow wires loose. I am now getting an engaged tone. I can dial a number but the engaged tone is...

Ok, I managed to cut the black phone line coming into the house. I bought a BT66 junction box, my plan being to join it to the internal cable using that (yep I know it's "illegal" but I am not paying BT £200). However, I have just read that the main line coming into the house has a strong...

Thanks for the answers guys. -- why at my own risk? What are the risks? :shock:

So there is no way to fix it?

I have managed to cut through the main phone cable to our house. Outside the front door I now have the line coming from the pole in the street, that is cut a foot after the connector on the house, and another piece of line going in through the wall of the house. Can I fix this by putting...

Hi Just bought a house with a seperate garage. From the front and the side facing the garden it is brick. I have just noticed however, that the back and other side that are not viewable unless you walk around there down a gap a foot wide, are plain breezeblocks. They are not even...