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Jeremy, thanks for the insights and great comments. I continue to learn about ASHPs, so your guidance is massively appreciated.

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Thanks for all the feedback. This is an issue at several windows. Looks like a spring/summer job.

Yes, but there are also gaps in the mortar.

I know. Every thing we look at in this bloody house has an issue. It’s draining. I take it you don’t typically use sealant? Yes? No? I have no idea.

Yeah, it is but still allowing water in. How can I block it?

No idea why these photos are upside down when I’ve uploaded them

Just painting the master bathroom and got to the window and saw a few small signs of damp. I looked outside the window and have found small gaps in the mortar around the window frame. with these and storms water has obviously made its way in. is the solution remortaring in the summer or is there a chemical compound we can use?

I also have the stupidly heavy tray in.

Pipe connected and working beautifully.

If we were to remove the lead, what else could be used to keep the water out going forward? I guess my question is, how do professional gutters fit custom windows that don’t come with kits.

Thanks for that. It might cast some insights.

We have considered that. The other massive issue is that the existing windows are a custom, stupid size... so we can’t like for like change it. We might have to do that in the summer though... just need a fix for the next few months.

It’s getting through the top. I just took the photo from the bottom to show the mastic. Maybe it needs to be tucked in better.

We tried to see this off until the summer. Not that lucky. We’ve sprung a leak - I think the black stuff is mastic but it seems to have degraded. Does it degrade over time? Any solutions? During a dry spell, should we rip this stuff out, clean it, and replace it? If yes, what would be recommended? Mastic, silicone? Really fed up with other people’s shitty workmanship.

Yeah. The tank. Typo.

Thanks for all the tips, advice and support guys. I'm plugging away at it... got distracted yesterday because the diaphragms on the blower pump for our home sewage treatment plant went, so that was another lesson yesterday. But I fixed it, and it's working. No pongy sewage. We also had the tank emptied... back to the bathroom today... progress is steady.

Off to the store. Time for an epic day.

LOL! Not sure I’m going to be teaching with this, but will 1000% be making a video. The lesson will hopefully be that this can be done... and done well. Not a botch job. The bathroom we ripped out was professionally done, and it was a horror story with leaks. This is epic for me. Well out of my comfort zone, but I’m confident it can be done. At least all the waste, towel rail pipes and water have been professionally extended when the guy did show up.

I won’t be going flexi. Had a a good look at it yesterday. Going down the solvent weld route and picking everything up from the store today. Also binge watched YouTube videos last night and our FRICS neighbour (as mentioned earlier) gave us some great tips and advice.

In the past 18 months I’ve made and built stuff I never thought I’d be capable of. Plumbing is common sense. I have an additional resource to the BuildHub crew in that one of our community members is a retired FRICS, and he came over to offer additional advice. He also recently refitted his bathroom by himself. I agree with Jeremy. I’m not going to empower myself if I just sit back. I’ve already plumbed our washing machine in, which was not difficult, and have changed several taps and modified simple waste pipework. This project will have to be an extension of my knowledge base. I’ll be patient, practice and ask a lot of questions. Thanks to the folks here at BuildHub I changed a motor on our UFH motorized valve. It took me a day to understand the mechanics and process. Now I’m not daunted by that. It’ll have to be same for this. As mentioned above. We’ve been royally messed around. The tradesmen around us are like bees, fluttering from one better pollenated paying project to the next. We’ve been living out of the guest room for months now, and we’re fed up.

I agree Danny, but the unprofessionalism and unreliability of tradesmen has been insane. I’m not trying offend any tradesmen here, but getting guys out to do work has been impossible. Everyone’s always fully booked and when they schedule us in, they don’t show up and reschedule us. It’s taken six weeks to get two day’s worth of work done. It’s frustrating and annoying, and I’ve had enough.

Thanks guys. Will follow your advice above. Just trying to line my ducks up, so I can get everything I need from the hardware store. Any advice on how to securely mount a 330mm shower arm so that it’s secure and strong to hold a 12-inch fixed shower head and not droop.‬

Thanks F. Good advice. We will have access to it from underneath in the hallway. I’m not going to skimp. Will use best of everything I can. Just tired of getting messed around.

I also have these two bits - will I need them?