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Please help! Question about leaks and plasterboard

  • 07-05-2009 8:21pm
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    Thoie
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    I live in an apartment complex, and have been having some problems with leaks around the windows for months now. The builders have been back and forth a few times sealing things up from the outside, but the leaks are still occurring.

    My apartment is quite high up, so I never really look at it from the outside, but this evening I happened to look up and noticed that part of the outside of the building is missing directly over my sitting room window. I estimate the hole to be approx 50cm x 80 cm. From my view on the ground I can see (what I assume to be) a venting duct pipe hanging out, and I suspect the hole goes all the way into the "attic" space (the gap between my ceiling and the floor above). I'm basing this on the fact that there's a gale blowing throughout the apartment at the moment, which seems to be coming from the hall press, where there's an access hatch. Of course, it's currently hail stoning directly into the hole now.

    So anyway, I suspect at this stage that the plasterboard around the window should be replaced. The builders keep painting it with sealant. From my extremely limited knowledge of construction materials, I think they should use a moisture meter to determine if the plasterboard is damp.

    Questions:
    Is painting the interior plasterboard with sealant sufficient if it's getting wet from the other side?
    Would you plasterboard/plaster that's been inside for 3+ years to have any moisture in it? I've never actually seen a moisture meter, but I'd assume that something completely dry would give a readout of 0. If the reading isn't 0 inside the house, is that an issue?
    Can moisture meters measure the moisture in plasterboard?

    Am I being unfair on the builders by insisting that they get up there tomorrow and seal it somehow?


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