Hey Noel,
I'm a great believer in P.S.E. - Pay Someone Else.
Why? 'Cause I'm also a great believer in visiting woe and damnation up on anyone who's done a job for me where money has changed hands for said work/purchase and then me not me being please with the job, should that be the case.
THEN I have some form of redress; be it "please re-do the job at your own expense and let me know when the job is finished so I may collect the garment at my leisure, kind Mr Artisan of the Needle", or "You've made a right James Hunt of this repair job mate so sort it out pronto or I'll burn your house down with you in it!"
OK granted, the former rather than the latter approach tends to get better results, but I have had, on occasion, to resort to same.
Bottom line is, if you do the repair yourself and you make a James of it, you've no redress and no one from whom to withhold payment (by way of incentive) to get the job sorted. AND, invariably, you'll only end up having to pay to get the damned thing sorted anyway!
Or, you could take the BSAC route to repair and glue some Cling Film around the ends of your seals and hope to providence that that keeps the water out!
Bacon buttie, anyone??
Good luck.
