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Guys came back today but left while i was on work call. How long do i leave before wiping tiles down and is this just a wet sponge job and do i avoid using shower for a few days (we have another!) He seemed bemused when i asked if we should apply seal. Is that not recommended?

Thanks everyone really appreciate it. When rubbing my finger against other areas of grouting which look fine I get a residue of grey/white fine powder. Bearing in mind we have cleaned the shower many times since install. Is that still just grout haze or limescale. I had assumed so The guy...

Thanks. We didn’t use the shower for a month after it was installed because we were getting blinds installed so no chance we did anything before it was cured

I has my bathroom and shower completely refitted in January. Both look generally excellent however i have started to see two horizontal rows in the shower where the grout seems to have sunk. When you look further there are numerous tiny pinholes. The rest of the shower and the rest of the...

I have a room with 7 spotlights which are controlled by a 3 gang switch. One switch controls 2 spotlights, the other 4 and 1 final spotlight with one switch. The one spotlight on its own stopped working today so I assumed it was the bulb and have just replaced it with a new led one. Now when...

That is an awesome idea. Thanks

We inherited a saniflo over a decade ago when buying our house and despite the bad rep it has been pretty good with just the occasional bit of maintenance. I hadn't given the thought of the journey of the waste much thought in all this time. However recently there is more noise of water...

Thanks that is really useful. He is coming back and has said he will resolve.

Hi Wessex. No these pictures were before the work. He removed the lead flashing on those two and put lintels and cavity trays in all three. The first two (touch wood) have now been fine. It is the one furthest away which is the problem one. I will post a picture of windows when i am home but...

As an update my guy put extra sealant around the window. However the rain yesterday produced same effect. We only get rain coming through after prolonged bad weather. It took 20 minutes of consistent driving rain before water drips from internal window. But it continues for up to an hour or...

Hi All. We had our work completed on all three windows. Lintels and cavity trays installed with weep holes. First driving rain since work was done 5-6 weeks ago, two seem fine now but one is still leaking rainwater internally above the window. The window and the frame itself shows no...

Thanks I will let you know. I like your theory but we get water ingress only when there is long spells of driving rain. Almost as if the brickwork and pointing soaks up as much water as it can and starts dispensing what is surplus internally over the window. That or the rain finds gaps and...

Had a builder over earlier. He wasn’t sure of the existence of lintels but couldn’t be certain one way or other. His suggestion is installing cavity trays and then obviously assessing and installing/replacing lintels which seems like a good idea.

In laymans terms have the windows been installed incorrectly then? What is the solution new windows, remove them altogether?

Here are some photos. The leaks are coming in internally exactly where the wallpaper/tiles meet the window. Externally two windows have lead flashing directly above. The middle one was already there so was put in over 10 years ago. We put the one to the left in when we first had ingress...