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Not 1 or 2 - that was the original problem !! So 3 directly where glazing frame sits on asphalt roof .

Decision made . Will take them out next summer . Bitumen paint asphalt joints around them . Structural silicone them back in . Delays the job by a year so that’s a win 👍

Just what the company suggested to use

Is silicon recommended by the glazing firm to bond glass to frame and frame to upstand . Think it was called ssg4000 ultra glaze or something

Yeah could work 👍

Actually I like this idea more ! I.e less work ! So the upstands are a mix of timber and structural silicon at the top where the frame sits on . So I need something pretty thick and sticky to coat that with . Needs to get in all the gaps . What should I use ?

Because that’s bodging 🥹

But I did that on the entire build !! 😂

This thread continues; though if admin could change the title to “ not THAT leak , this leak “ 😂

Strange isn’t it . Had a tiny leak here about 2 yrs ago over the upstand . Bit of expanding foam all golden . Suddenly today …. Still could be worse ! That corner is lowest of them all . So I guess if any are going to leak from the tiniest of holes it would be this one . Rains probably right up to the glass externally ( I can’t see it as decking masks it ) .

I don i dont know . I thought the physics were simple . Think I’ll have a coffee and think about this later 😂

Chat tells me effectively gutter down is a header of water with gravity and that the pressure back from 2 full tanks isn’t enough to stop them overflowing . So the diverter is crap really - it diverts but keeps diverting . Overflow on tank 2 required !

It’s the supplied pipes for the diverter . chat tells me I need a pipe between them at the bottom 🤔

Hmmmm So I added a diverter to this rain barrel . I thought we were golden . Then I added a 2nd . Piss down now both tanks full - but full past the inlets so water coming out over both tanks . I though the diverter outlet on the gutter has to be higher than the inlet on the barrel - which it is . Adding a 2nd barrel upset the physics ? I was expecting water not to be higher than the inlet on either tank . Too difficult to understand on a wet Sunday !

Storm just now . Pissed down biblical style . Gods final test for me . We have good news and bad …. Water running over the slab I.e the pig leak - seems good ; no leak. Both front upstands leak . This are really low to the roof - not 30cm as recommended but like 3cm worst case . But it’s over the upstands so the seal between roof and window frame . Best to take windows up and refit I think ; tons of structural silicone then smack ‘em down . Clearly this job needs to wait until next summer 😊. SWMBO wanted this room beneath when all the leaks finished , but obviously that can’t happen . What’s another year of stalling !?

Do you want to touch it ? . I know you do .

Just to be clear ! SWMBO choose the tank ! 😊🙄

Trying to make it neat so as little visible pipe work . Ground around drain is ‘low’ so will be back filled to drain cover height .

I could stick a traditional down pipe diverter on - but getting the ‘ pass thru ‘ to that drain is tricky .

Or do I just estimate a rough circular place on the water butt top / rear cut it and be done !?

Chamber and tank view chamber bottom left ish of photo

I’ve got a bender .. fitting - but tight to say the least - but “ do able “ Cant get the butt tighter to the wall so if I cut this down it would be going into the edge I.e wall and the top - cut big hole essentially in top of tank

Related to another thread - but I like new content . Have a nice large water tank in place . You can see how ‘tight’ the gutter outlet is . My plan was to “ somehow” get that into the tank . But it’s a bit of an issue as you can see . Then the tank overflow is a 50mm pipe running into that drain chamber and buried . This ok ?