Currently installing windows... I would be interested to know if I have overlooked anything. Thanks
What was used for you? There are various options for RAL-compliant installation (triple compression tape, sealing tapes, plaster sealing strips).
What didn’t work for us, for example:
- Support blocks either completely forgotten or just cut from a random roof batten lying around (spruce/pine)
- Fastening not executed all around
- Wrong compression tape used (2-4mm for joints of 5-15mm) ---> fills the joint but is not rainwater-tight
- Wedges "forgotten" and only removed later (now the foam is missing there)
- Surface under sealing tape not cleaned/primed (tape does not stick)
- Fastening tabs not completely covered with sealing tape (leakage in the resulting "hole" next to the tab)
- They initially wanted to leave out the sealing tape at the bottom ("The windowsill comes in front anyway")
- Sealing tape at the corners not properly glued, some obvious holes later half-heartedly covered with patches
- Sealing tape outside at the lower area not properly overlapped and partly not executed as a "tray"
- Partly wrong screws/dowels used (Poroton has different requirements than, for example, sand-lime brick)
- Sealing tape partly not installed with expansion loop
- For the wooden dormer, sealing tape was used for plastering in
- Compression tape partly not fixed and later bulged out