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Default Water ingress problems around French windows.

In article ,
David Chapman wrote:
The new doors (see the picture at
http://www.minda.co.uk/dave/HouseBack.jpg) were manufactured to the
correct size for the aperture but, in order to fit them properly
(i.e.flush with the back of the house) and fill the space where the
bricks had been damaged, the installers used expanding foam to effect a
seal. (BTW, in the picture, the horizontal scar above the first row of
painted bricks is where an external lighting cable originally ran. That
cable has been removed and any holes filled.)


Windows or doors which are flush with the outside of a wall require a good
seal between bricks and frame. And between doors and frame too, come to
that.

Any foam used for gap filling should be cut back and a cement fillet added
between bricks and frame. Then a silicone bead between fillet and frame.

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