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tired face
Last night another previously encountered DiY problem reared up and kept me awake from 1-5am. We're we're on the ground floor of a 5 storey 1960s block. For some reason all the 5 levels of windowsill directly above ours are flush with the face of the building and don't prodrude from the window recess; but our ground floor bedroom windowsill prodtrudes about 3 inches. The result is that when it rains 5 storey's worth of accumulated drips from the all the above windowsills slap onto out hollow uPVC windowsill from a great height. It sounds like someone dropping fistfulls of marbles into an empty plastic bucket and maddenly irregular intervals. Right next to our bed. It's really loud. And delightfully, last night, just when I was looking forward to my first good night's sleep in ages...it went on ALL NIGHT.
In my head i'm imagining some sort of prodtruding lip, a triangular prism (toblerone box) of painted pine attached to the cladding above the window to deflect the drops away from the resonant windowsill. A window-brow. Think that'll work?