Hello Everyone,
I will try and be as brief as I can with this, so here goes.....
The house is approx. 100 year old terrace, window sill is stone.
Following picture shows area where I have the damp problem, this area has begun growing mould and smells like death, has to be cleaned regularly. The room has recently been gutted and re-rendered and plastered etc. The window is also new. Old window was in an awfull state so I had assumed (stupidly) that this was the source of the water ingress. It is now obvious that that was not the case.
I have had a closer look today and scraped all loose paint off the outside sill. There was a lot of loose stone that came away with the paint, a layer around 4mm thick off most of the sill. Picture below shows sill.
As well as this, there is a crack at either side of the sill. Photos below show affected areas.
If I tap the cracked area it sounds hollow (blown), but I cant tell weather this is on the surface like the rest of the sill or if it's because the area under the sill is hollow.
Anyway, in an attempt to solve the problem I have just re-sealed the area along the sill where the base of the PVC window sits (after cleaning out all the old loose crap). I am unsure if pasting lots of silicone on the cracked area will help at all as a temporary fix.
What are your opinions on the source of the leak? Can you recommend a temporary fix? Also, would like to know what the long term solution is?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and appologies for the lengthy post..........I'm sure I said I was going to be brief........harder than it sounds when trying to describe something like this.
P.S. Can't seem to get decent quality images uploaded. I have tried to highlight the effected areas in red, obviously more than happy to send decent pics via email if anybody is really that interested!
Cheers,
Valleyboy
I will try and be as brief as I can with this, so here goes.....
The house is approx. 100 year old terrace, window sill is stone.
Following picture shows area where I have the damp problem, this area has begun growing mould and smells like death, has to be cleaned regularly. The room has recently been gutted and re-rendered and plastered etc. The window is also new. Old window was in an awfull state so I had assumed (stupidly) that this was the source of the water ingress. It is now obvious that that was not the case.
I have had a closer look today and scraped all loose paint off the outside sill. There was a lot of loose stone that came away with the paint, a layer around 4mm thick off most of the sill. Picture below shows sill.
As well as this, there is a crack at either side of the sill. Photos below show affected areas.
If I tap the cracked area it sounds hollow (blown), but I cant tell weather this is on the surface like the rest of the sill or if it's because the area under the sill is hollow.
Anyway, in an attempt to solve the problem I have just re-sealed the area along the sill where the base of the PVC window sits (after cleaning out all the old loose crap). I am unsure if pasting lots of silicone on the cracked area will help at all as a temporary fix.
What are your opinions on the source of the leak? Can you recommend a temporary fix? Also, would like to know what the long term solution is?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and appologies for the lengthy post..........I'm sure I said I was going to be brief........harder than it sounds when trying to describe something like this.
P.S. Can't seem to get decent quality images uploaded. I have tried to highlight the effected areas in red, obviously more than happy to send decent pics via email if anybody is really that interested!
Cheers,
Valleyboy