Water leak problem when it rains.

anotherquestion

Hi folks,

I have a bungalow type house where the original  wooden soffits and facia were covered by upvc a good number of years ago and the horizontal spouting and downpipes were also replaced with a metallic type, so not plastic.

I also had windows replaced nine years with pvc ones, where the top of the window is actually more or less hitting the bottom underneath soffit, These windows are held in place by that foamy kind of stuff that expands.

I need to add here that the felt from the roof does not overlay into the horizonal roof guttering, I do think if it did I wouldn't have this leakage problem during mainly stormy weather, but definitely not all the time.

The problem, some rain can come in at the top of one of the windows at the seal where top of the window meets a another piece of upvc at a right angle inside house. Also some water leaks down at the back door, seems to be running along the upvc soffits.

Am I right in thinking here that the roof felt should be running into the horizontal spouting gutter on roof, they seem to be ok and water runs freely along them. I get the impression that water is getting into the space, between the tiles and the gutter and then simply finding its way into the facia and soffits, through the foam that is holding window in place, making its way inside.

I have run a little sealant along that top of window and will see if that helps, but is there anything that I can use in the mean time that maybe could be put under the felt to extend it, so that there is no space between existing felt and gutter. Would another piece of felt do, or something better, its a tiled roof.

Thanks for any advice. 

stuart45

You could get some felt support tray, also known as eaves protectors. You might find the felt has perished at the eaves, so you might have to strip back a few courses of tiles and renew some felt and fit the eaves protectors. 
Quite easy on a bungalow.