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Water leak problem when it rains.

anotherquestion · 2025-10-23 15:39:09

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…

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bjorn_toby_wilde Posts: 750 Forumite

28 October at 10:50PM

As @Swipe says, if there were no faults with the tiles then the water shouldn’t reach the felt. If you seal the felt and leave the problem unrepaired that water will still run down but it will either find its way in via a nail hole or just rot the battens. Eventually you will have a bigger problem.

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