gardens and windows

[jc]

my garden has abysmal drainage. the house was bought with front and rear landscaped gardens. builder has tried to remedy 3 times but still very poor.

windows are draughty - told it is from the trickle vents.

windows fitted deep over cavity wall. all other homes windows are sat on outer skin of brick


any advice anyone?

[Tony]

Hi JC,

Garden
By trying to fix the drainage problem they are admitting that there is a problem. What have they been doing to try to fix it? Either new topsoil or a soakway is required. You have probably seen this link:
http://www.diydata.com/problem/drainage/drainage.htm
It might be worth contacting the owners of this site, as they have had problems with drainage in their new Persimmon Home as you can see.
http://www.snagging.org/viewlink-31.html
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Windows
Not exactly sure what you mean, sounds dodgy though. Trickle vents can normally be opened and closed, so if they were open and causing a draught you should be able to close them and stop the draught.

Hope this is helpful

Tony