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Black bits coming out of seal

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  • Lizzie444
    Lizzie444 Posts: 11 Forumite
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    It looks like soil and feels griitty
  • Do you have a scraper or wood chisel - something like that?
    Handful of kitchen paper underneath, and run the edge along to clear it all away.
    Cloth and Jif to fully clean.
    Monitor...
  • Rosa_Damascena
    Rosa_Damascena Posts: 6,948 Forumite
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    edited 22 June 2021 at 5:46PM
    I love the diagnostic questioning on this thread :D
    No man is worth crawling on this earth.

    So much to read, so little time.
  • I love the diagnostic questioning on this thread :D

    Yup - and really effective too.
    Two pages in, and we still don't know if Lizzie has even tried to clean it off... :-(  
    :smile:
  • Eldi_Dos
    Eldi_Dos Posts: 2,122 Forumite
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    If it looks like soil is gritty and raining down in a continuous manner could be debris from an ants nest, like what you sometimes find when you move a terracotta plant pot. Clean out using something like a credit card to get into the narrow gap,spray with ant killer and seal with a suitable sealant. Is there a gutter above that window and is it clear,decomposing leaf litter is a good food source for ants etc.
  • sian448
    sian448 Posts: 11 Forumite
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    I have cleaned it out,. There is guttering above but it is new. 
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