On stripping some woodchip wallpaper in one of the downstairs rooms, one section near the window just peeled right off and the wall was soaking! F went straight to work investigating. He dug up the flowerbed outside the window and sure enough under the flowerbed there was a huge hole in the wall!
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| The culprit! |
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So this is what had caused the wall to be so damp and the sill and the bottom of the sash to rot, so F set about doing a beautiful repair to the wall, sill and window.
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| New sill and the rotten parts of the window cut out. |
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| Rotten timber cut out. |
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| New hardwood sill, spliced in hardwood in frame sections and wall repaired. |
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| Original flagstones back. |
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The original flagstone were relaid at a lower level with a fall away from the building to prevent rainwater sitting against the building. So we are now nice and dry!
