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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Andrew46 on December 12, 2009, 03:05:47 pm

Title: Is this a common problem??
Post by: Andrew46 on December 12, 2009, 03:05:47 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrbiMey6So&feature=related
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: lee09 on December 12, 2009, 03:12:58 pm: No not for me, it must be a poorly fitted window
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: daz1977 on December 12, 2009, 03:16:49 pm: its a badly fitted window, must be hell when it rains, probably someone who hates wfp and produced it to turn people off it
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: AuRavelling79 on December 12, 2009, 03:21:59 pm: Quote from: lee09 on December 12, 2009, 03:12:58 pm
No not for me, it must be a poorly fitted window

agreed
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: davids3511 on December 12, 2009, 03:43:33 pm: I have a few wooden framed houses with this problem. The frame gets a bit warped over time and no longer makes a tight seal.

Fair play to the lad for taking the time to put it together to try and help others.
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: matt on December 12, 2009, 03:59:36 pm: but is the answer to give it a quick brush and a even quicker rinse ? ? ?

what would the window look like ? ? ? ?
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: G Griffin on December 12, 2009, 04:04:39 pm: Quote from: daz1977 on December 12, 2009, 03:16:49 pm
its a badly fitted window, must be hell when it rains, probably someone who hates wfp and produced it to turn people off it
??? He`s a wfp user
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on December 12, 2009, 04:09:48 pm: Adders is a poster on here, done a few videos on youtube.

Simon.
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: davids3511 on December 12, 2009, 04:44:37 pm: Quote from: matt on December 12, 2009, 03:59:36 pm
but is the answer to give it a quick brush and a even quicker rinse ? ? ?

what would the window look like ? ? ? ?

I do it myself. They look fine. I think we can over do it with rinsing sometimes.
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: jonnyald on December 12, 2009, 04:52:48 pm: i reckon theres a LOT of duff windows about . Thing is, you will only find out after its too late and waters running inside
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: jeff1 on December 12, 2009, 05:28:16 pm: Last year sometime, I took on a new custy who Just had her house done up and had new upvc windows fitted all around and almost everyone of them leaked, obviously its down to the installers but I refused to go back until they had been redone by the fitter? I never did go back and that was a £35 jobby so maybe adders had done well to point out to newbies that problems can happen even to upvc windows and not just the wooden framed ones.
Title: Re: Is this a common problem??
Post by: Ian Lancaster on December 12, 2009, 05:42:57 pm: I think it's more a manufacturing fault. The opener doesn't seal properly into the frame. The frame should have a rubber seal all around it so the opening section sits into the rubber when the window is closed and forms a water tight seal. If water gets in, there is obviously a fault in the construction of the window and the householder should demand the manufacturer rectify it.

Any decent installer/manufacturer will give at least ten years insurance backed guarantee against any such faults.

On older (out of guarantee) windows, it's possible to run a thin bead of good quality silicon sealer along the inner top frame. The window must be left open for at least 24 hours to cure, and then when the window is closed it will make a water tight seal against the silicon.

If any of your custies have leaky windows with no guarantee, offer this as an 'add on' - could be worth about twenty quid a window and take you all of five minutes to do :)