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  • 24-09-2010 4:33pm
    #1
    achtungbarry
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    Hello all,

    I am hoping some of you can advise me on a problem I am having in my apartment.

    On Wednesday night during a heavy rain shower, water came flowing in through my ventilation grill......... and I mean flowing! I had to pull all the electrics that were below out of the way.

    Anyway, I was wondering is it ok to simply block the vent temporarily (we do not have gas heating or anything, all electric) until I can get somebody to take a look at it. I will be away for a bit from this evening and can't get it looked at until I come back. I don't want to come home and find my wall and carpet, skirting etc. destroyed by water.

    I am assuming blocking it permanently is not really an option.

    Any advice would be much appreciated.


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  • #2
    RKQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭RKQ


    achtungbarry wrote: »
    On Wednesday night during a heavy rain shower, water came flowing in through my ventilation grill......... and I mean flowing! I had to pull all the electrics that were below out of the way.
    That sounds very strange!
    All external wall vent should have a looved grill on the outside. This would mean a lot of rain water would need to be blown up at 45degrees thru the loovers?
    Then blown across the wall, circa 300 -350mm wide & thru a plastic internal vent cover. Most vents would a 100mm dia pvc pipe in them.
    achtungbarry wrote: »
    I am assuming blocking it permanently is not really an option.
    Yes you are correct. The vent is required to ventilate the room, to comply with the Building Regs.

    Any photos of the external & internal sides of the vent?


  • #3
    FarmerGreen
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    I had a kind of similar problem.
    A partially blocked gutter was spilling buckets of water down the wall as it overflowed in heavy rain.


  • #4
    achtungbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 831 ✭✭✭achtungbarry


    Thanks for the replies. It is true that this is very strange. It does seem as if the laws of physics are being broken at times :eek:.

    There is indeed a gutter above the vent which I'll climb up and take a look at when I get back. That could well be the source of the problem.


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