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The guy who renovated the flat before I bought it was an utter cowboy so not surprised to hear it's bodged. Just another fix to be added to the list :( The existing duct is relatively accessible via a skylight but just dangerous cause it's 5 floors up (4 floors and a loftspace) and no anchor...

That's the bit I thought needed fitted properly and siliconed in. I'm assuming the wind dislodged it. I'd give it a try myself but 4 storey tenement building and no anchor point, don't fancy my chances. So should I find a contractor that'll fit the weathering collar properly or just get the...

Thanks, figured I'd check just in case I was getting quoted for unnecessary work. That's another £300 gone, these repairs are starting to tally up. Out of interest, why is a smaller diameter and plastic duct the way its done now?

I have a kitchen extract fan in the ceiling that's ducted to exit via the roof and when I was in the loft, I noticed rainwater running down the outside of the duct. It hasn't touched the ceiling yet but the wooden board holding the extractor fan is completely rotten. I called the factor and...

PVC double glazing fitted a few years ago is humming / howling like crazy when the wind blows. Sounds like the house is haunted and can drown out the TV when the wind is strong. I've been told it's likely that the sealant needs redone where the PVC frame meets the wall. The installer used...

I'll pick up some silicone and give it a shot next time I'm back at the mothers house. Hopefully the weather is good and I'll be able to do the outside as well. Pretty sure the trickle vent cowls are installed but I can't be sure cause my memory is awful :/ *edit, on a side note. If air is...

I had a quick search on the forums but didn't really find a definitive answer. I'll have another search. Wish the video was further out, the window has PVC boards / trim going around it. The silicone looks pretty well adhered to that and the window frame on the inside, it looks pretty tatty...

The double glazing at my mothers house has been trouble since day one. Started with a pushy salesman doing all the BS hard sale tactics to try and con her out of £26k for 9 windows. Luckily she called me just before agreeing and he told me "it was in my mothers best interest to change her...

Don't understand how a screen can be backwards, it can only go on one side of the bath. The screen seal is on the bottom, and the curved corner at the top right. Or are you saying the screen seal should be on the outside of the bath? Tried both, still leaks The wall profile is one solid...

So what you're saying is that I need to remove the screen door (everything to the right of the red line in the picture), seal all around the base of the wall profile where it meets the bath to the left of the red line (inside and out), reattach the door and then seal the hinged part on the...

Annoying, the previous owner installed the bath and I removed it to fix some leaks and get it level. I think the screen profile is sealed to the wall, but I don't know if it is sealed at the base to the bath / wall. So I need to remove the entire screen to make sure the profile is sealed all...

Finally managed to get the bath sealed properly but the glass screen is still leaking around the hinge. The base of the hinge has a gap between the bath so I sealed the inside. I know that's not recommended but I didn't want to risk water getting under the hinge and going down the back of the...

Got all the sealant out and turns out the bath isn't pushing on the panels, there's a small gap all the way round. Must be the shower fixing pushing the centre in as the panel is fixed via the trim on either end. Still can't figure out why the chrome trim leaks now and didn't before. Silicone...

Should have thought of that too, been a long day! My straight edge is 800mm so doesn't fit horizontally (~620mm wide). When I put it in diagonally, there's a gap in the middle. A 600mm spirit level has a smaller gap in the centre. A 300mm glass mirror fits flush all across. Maybe I have bowed...

The left panel has the shower fixing and I don't think it's bowed, just a poor picture with residual silicone making it look that way but I'll find out for sure once I get the rest of the silicone off. Wish I thought of using pvc tape on the panel before cutting that corner out. Would have...

I did have to hammer the prop in gently so I cut out the silicon from the corner just to get a look at it. Whomever installed these wet boards made a right mess of it. Took me ages to get all the silicon out of that gap. Bath is perfectly level and other end has no gap with the boards. So the...

I think the wet board clips into the beading so it can't be popped out. There's a T behind it basically, not sure I'm explaining it well. I don't think the corner leaked before I propped the bath up with that baton but not can't be sure. Is my best bet just to try and force silicon behind...

I'm fairly certain it's from that corner, hit every part of the seal with the shower apart from the corner and it was dry. Water in the corner is also OK, but when it hits the wall in that corner, it leaks. Can't see any break in the seal that would let so much water through immediately. My...

I removed my bath to fix some floorboards and leaks and the wooden frame for the bath was just bits of wood forced into the corners to wedge it into place. So I built a frame to properly support the corners but I'm wondering if I made it too high (it was a snug fit). I've redone the silicone...

Access is the main issue, don't want to remove the bath but I get your point. I'll get them cut out and packed up like you suggest.