Re: I say,

In message <uy7aj.65310$c_1.23286@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Lydia 
Dustbin <marrowjam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>
>.
>New garage door (actually a security-type roller-shutter, on
>> account of large width and need to resist high winds)
>.
>Strewth, so that is what you ended up with?
>High winds??? What direction does the.. No, start again. In which
direction
>does the garage door face?

The garage door faceth South. However, Goddard's Folly sits near the top 
of the North face of the Calder Valley, which runs roughly East/West (or 
vice-versa). Any weather coming in from a westerly or southerly 
direction gets channelled straight at our little terrace of houses. Now, 
since we are at a height of  522 ft above the floor of the valley 
(according to Google Earth), we can ignore anything MetCheck says about 
wind speeds 'cos they refer to a height of 1 (or 2?) metres above ground 
level. So we do get some seriously wet and windy weather here, attacking 
the garage from both the back (where the door is) and the West side 
(where it soaks into the stonework and travels in all directions).

>.
>.
> has been
>> installed, with uPVC pedestrian access door alongside. The idea was to
>> keep out rain and the aforementioned wind. Unfortunately, it lets more
wet
>> stuff in than before, trickling in above and behind the doors. I
suspect
>> the only thing that had previously been keeping it on the right side of
>> the door was the old wooden subframe which has now been done away with.
>>
>> Somehow I have to persuade Garage Door Man to take the whole lot out,
fit
>> a strip of sealing stuff over the top and re-install it all.
>.
>Installed without sealing, then.. Ummm... But a garage, so I suppose....
Not
>able to use one of them squirty-guns... and as soon as I typed that I
>thought about my leaking gutter which has been squirty-gunned three times
>now and still leaks.

That's not the problem. The point is that the rain hits the stonework 
above the doors, soaks in and drips off the lintel behind the doors. The 
new doors have been installed further out than the originals. Also, I 
suspect the original wooden subframe helped point the water in the right 
direction, but now that's gone. There is a damp-proof membrane isolating 
the stonework fascia and surround from the side walls (which is a Good 
Thing), but there's nothing to channel water to the outside. I reckon it 
needs a strip of fla****ng or similar stuff, possibly even aluminium 
sheet (bent up on the inside and down on the outside) to keep the water 
out.

There is also still some water getting under the door from outside, but 
that was expected and will be dealt with by installing a rubber sealing 
strip on the floor. However, this has to wait until the Council has 
repaired the adjacent broken pavement so that we have a reasonably level 
surface to work up to. They promised it would definitely be done before 
Christmas. Ho hum...

[snip]

>.
>What IS the point??? And who would you tell? And why? We needed a new
>cistern now and the toady bum could drive about in his big car and grin.
>.
>I hates them all. You have my sympathy

Likewise. I've had to deal with so many of these buggers over the past 
couple of years, it's just ridiculous. Mind you, there were a couple of 
good guys as well; the boiler man and the kitchen man. But as for the 
roofing and guttering men; the drain man; the window cleaner; the 
plumber; and, of course, the surveyor...

(Bob

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