Following on from our series of leaks and fixes, during the weekend following the final painting and filling over the “repair hatch” that was cut in our wall for leak detection work, it turned out that all was not well.
As we sat in the living room on the evening of the 4th of October, my wife said those fateful words.. “Is that water?!”. Of course not I thought, and said, but unfortunately, on closer inspection, it was indeed water coming out of the wall and running down the side of our full length window! Disaster! Again!
Anyway, the following morning we inspected the new water damage, to find water marks and stains above and down the side of the Juliet window, and also below the power socket where water marks had appeared before. All the previous repair and repatching work, and all the disruption that brought with it, felt and seemed as if were all for nothing. We STILL had a leaky eco home!
So here we were, three months after first discovering leaks at our new eco home, several days of disruptions and multiple repair attempts later, and water was literally dripping down our walls and pooling on the skirting board. Not good, not good at all.
