It’s approaching 4pm on Friday and the guys from Wood Newton are just finishing putting the Trespa panels back on the side of our Oxley Woods eco house.
Today has been a very stressful day, and although more faults and problems have been found, it feels like we’re only scratching the surface, and that any genuine solutions seem a long way off.
Following on from this mornings work attention moved to the front of the property and bedroom two on the top floor. This was harder to pinpoint, and once again several holes were drilled on the inside walls to see what could be seen, as water was liberally sprayed, in different locations and at different rates, across, over and around the window.
Once again water could be seen coming in via the actual window frame, in the same way as on bedroom four. The channel where the Trespa settles into hasn’t been “sealed properly”, or whatever, and water is coming in down, into and through the window, and eventually through the interior wall and plasterboard and paint.
Then it appears that despite two previous “fixes” of caulking and then clear silicone enough water is coming through the window itself by the “door” panel, then making its way across the window/OSB/plasterboard and showing in the middle of the window. Which isn’t very reassuring, considering the new guy on site from Wood Newton (or at least, new to us) was suggesting the “fix” for the problem where Trespa meets window is basically stuffing it with clear silicone sealant.
While lengthy investigation of the top window was underway it turned out that the water being applied to, around, and over the widow and where the balcony joins wall had made its way down from the second floor to come through the ceiling above the kitchen window on the ground floor. This seemed to throw another curve ball and had everyone scratching heads and seeming completely unsure as to where the water is coming through, especially considering that window has got the Resistit flash banding “fix” as well as a “belt and braces” layer of Tyvek over the top of that.
So, the new plan is to take off all the panels on the front of the house on Monday and try and work out what the hell is going on with the water that is STILL appearing above the kitchen window.
I have to say I feel like we’re not really getting anywhere fast, totally downbeat, and just thoroughly miserable about the entire situation.
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Rubbish, I noticed your side panels off this lunch time, was hoping finally you might get it sorted as this nightmare seems to have been going on forever…
But apart from pulling your house down an re-building it, the silicone sealant as an ugly and last resort idea just might work, but by the sounds of your problems it would also have to go between the gap between trespass panels so the whole out side of your building was either silicone sealant or traspass, and if it was done properly shouldn’t be that ugly (but that could be the hard part, getting it done properly…) Also if Wimpy/ Wood Newton are reading this, I don’t want to be a guinea pig for the sealant filler on the small water leak I have.
Good luck, hope they come up with a solution soon.
You wait until I get the photos organised and uploaded, it’s scary!
I think sometimes they forget, or chose to ignore, that these are people’s homes. To them it’s a building and a job… but it’s pretty soul destroying seeing multiple holes drilled in your walls.
Our boy was welling up with tears just now (he’s only just got home) when I forewarned him about the holes in his bedroom walls.
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