Windows & Door fitting

Our windows outside of the house are sinking - what to do?

Anonymous user 15/03/2024 - 2.55 PM

Our front garden is a small area raised about 0.75m from the ground, on top of which is built a trapezoid-style set of uPVC windows extending out the front of the house. The raised ground has bad drainage and has lots of big cracks in the surface concrete. If I stand in the extended area (inside the house), it feels like I am on a downward incline. There are cracks in the mouldings on the ceiling in that area also. It leads me to believe the windows are sinking into the ground. Naively, I'd think to somehow lift up the set of windows, fill the area underneath with some sort of aggregate, and then have the windows rest on the new, very slightly higher ground level. In practise, I can imagine this being a pain. What sort of things do I need to think about when trying to resolve this problem,