My brother-in-law has a house in the Outer Hebrides that leaks like
hell after only a few years (around a velux window/ where a porch
joins the house and in a bay window). It's wet and windy over there
but this smacks of poor building standards.

And ideas what has caused this and how to cure it? (Glad it's not
mine and that they don't live there permanently)

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:06:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

My brother-in-law has a house in the Outer Hebrides that leaks like
hell after only a few years ...
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And ideas what has caused this ...

Holes.

... and how to cure it?

Fix the holes.

Sorry we need far more information to be able to even guess at more
sensible answers.

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Cheers
Dave.

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My brother-in-law has a house in the Outer Hebrides that leaks like
hell after only a few years (around a velux window/ where a porch
joins the house and in a bay window). It's wet and windy over there
but this smacks of poor building standards.

And ideas what has caused this and how to cure it? (Glad it's not
mine and that they don't live there permanently)

Mastic...............Lots n lots of mastic.

The midges don't like the smell of acetone based mastic and it will seal the
'oles as well

explained :
My brother-in-law has a house in the Outer Hebrides that leaks like
hell after only a few years (around a velux window/ where a porch
joins the house and in a bay window). It's wet and windy over there
but this smacks of poor building standards.

And ideas what has caused this and how to cure it? (Glad it's not
mine and that they don't live there permanently)

My guess would be that there is inadequate overlap of the layers of
flashing, especially as I would imagine the wind speeds are quite high
up there.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk