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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...

Thanks everyone. I will post some Pictures of the outside tomorrow. Maybe stormdry is the best and cheapest first option to try? All three gable end windows have been dripping inside like nothing we have had for years. It is inexplicable why after years of little, or little enough not to...

Help appreciated! We have lived in our current house for 9 years. Pretty much when we first moved in we discovered internal leaks above the three first floor windows installed on our gable end which is also South facing and unprotected by other houses. The plaster above one window was so wet...

Here are some photos, the offending window is the one on the left. The seal on the outside at the top of the window seems to be fine. Therefore I am guessing the water must be coming through the brickwork? [/img]

Thanks. I will do that at weekend. It was too dark once I got home!

Hi everyone. We have recently moved into a property and found out during the howling wind and rain last night that there is an inside leak above our window on the second floor. I attach a picture but basically it appears that the previous owners put some sealant down between the window...