I'm a bit green when it comes to builders and home improvements, so I need some help/advice.
We live in an 1880s Victorian house and had our cellar converted in spring this year.
In the process, our builder re-excavated the original light-wells and fitted some UPVC windows which were specified to open inwards because the light wells don't extend far enough from the house for the windows to open outwards.
I thought this was a simple requirement, but it resulted in all sorts of delays and excuses from the window supplier as though it was the most unusual, bespoke request they'd ever had. However, we got there in the end.
However, last week it rained pretty heavily here and I noticed that one of the windows had leaked. My builder came back round this morning to look at it and identified the cause to be a small hole, which allows any water building up on the inner sill of the window to drain. The problem is that it appears to drain INWARDS!
Picture:
Can anyone who knows about UPVC windows advise how this is usually done? Surely not like this...
Also of note, there are trickle vents at the top of each window which I originally thought didn't have a control to open/close them, but whilst looking into the leak issue today I've just noticed that the controls are on the outside of the windows.
This makes me think the window supplier might have just given us standard outward-opening windows with the handles fitted on the outside.
How should the window drains work? What course of action should I take?
We live in an 1880s Victorian house and had our cellar converted in spring this year.
In the process, our builder re-excavated the original light-wells and fitted some UPVC windows which were specified to open inwards because the light wells don't extend far enough from the house for the windows to open outwards.
I thought this was a simple requirement, but it resulted in all sorts of delays and excuses from the window supplier as though it was the most unusual, bespoke request they'd ever had. However, we got there in the end.
However, last week it rained pretty heavily here and I noticed that one of the windows had leaked. My builder came back round this morning to look at it and identified the cause to be a small hole, which allows any water building up on the inner sill of the window to drain. The problem is that it appears to drain INWARDS!
Picture:
Can anyone who knows about UPVC windows advise how this is usually done? Surely not like this...
Also of note, there are trickle vents at the top of each window which I originally thought didn't have a control to open/close them, but whilst looking into the leak issue today I've just noticed that the controls are on the outside of the windows.
This makes me think the window supplier might have just given us standard outward-opening windows with the handles fitted on the outside.
How should the window drains work? What course of action should I take?