Think you would find similar in many other people’s windows
Only just noticed what you meant
Not good
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Enough to be able to run a wind turbine on the draught coming through?
Pretty much par for the course.
Yep, but the thermal equivalent of this.
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This was supposed to put a stop to it
Like a lot of things in construction* it was brought in because there was a need for it.
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*Perhaps not everything though. Part P seems to have been brought in because the sparkies were pissed off at not having the monopoly that the gas-fitters did.
Another buy-your-way-in society like master builders etc? Waste of time. The biggest firms buy the most accreditation’s but almost universally do the worst jobs
Given how many people with plastic windows fail to ventilate their homes adequately it likely saves a lot of them from rampantly wet walls and black mold, perhaps a few CO deaths have been avoided along the way, too…
It’s pisspoor, but agree with JB, don’t think I’ve ever seen UPVC installed any better by the feckless cunts - they rely on the flashing to do the job.
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The website for the company doesn’t mention FENSA, only CERTASS (yep, I am thinking the same). Did I mention the big window at the front where you could, before we stuffed the hole with foam, see daylight through one of the seals due to the frame distorting from how it was attached to the wall?
Ouch…
We had to have many of our windows reglazed because they weren’t packed properly, so the hinges weren’t right, the frames were distorted and the glazing units were starting to fail 
Same here, decorating one room, should have taken me one week, yes I’m slow. Upvc strips hiding all kinds of problems, had to re plaster after removing all the shite the upvc was stuck on with, drying time a pain in the arse. I’m now into the second week and all I’ve done is strip the wallpaper and undercoat the woodwork, still finding problems with the windows. I hate silicone, the bodgers friend.
Went along to the recently opened “box” (Plymouth city museum)
Plymouth to me has always seemed like a city with out the perks - a major perk being culture. I have to say it was great to see a place like this happen in the city… positively stimulating really.
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A couple of figure heads for @freefallrob there. Look grand on his boat instead of strapping Rosie to the bow.
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Has he got Sam playing the part of the horn ?
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Not really. The fitting of windows now requires formal certification that it has been done in a compliant way. If you fit your own, or get a non-approved builder to do it, then you’ll need to pay your council building control dept to issue the certificate, and they’ll likely want to inspect the work, so it’s not cheap. FENSA registered installers are allowed to certify their own work without inspection. I am certain that every single one of them works to the very highest possible standard and never, ever cuts corners. Never, ever. No siree !
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It can be far more serious than gaps between brickwork and frame. I have come across many instances where timber load bearing frames have been removed, and non-load bearing plastic frames installed. Brickwork consequently sagging. Still it’s given me the (very expensive) job of having to fit lintels to rectify the fuck up.
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I is confused…
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Lazy start, followed by washing both cars, topping up the washer fluid, chatting to the neighbor’s, fussing passing doggos on their walkies, then fixing a double puncture on Sam’s mountain bike…
Amy’s made some ginger bread men, so now I’m sat eating one of those with some coffee faff watching Columbo.
Donna and Sam are making Banana bread and sausage rolls for tea.
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Must be tough having only three people cooking for you 
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