Well, here we are, over 14 months in our multi award winning eco home on Oxley Park. You’d think by now we’d be settled, getting used to our home, be in the advanced stages of decorating. You know, happy families.
This is the first time we’ve ever bought a home, let alone a new [...]
In no way is the small movement occurring on the windows causing the glazed units to crack.
These words come as part of a brief and incomplete set of answers provided by John Green of Wood Newton when we raised a number of concerns, including questioning why one of our windows, and one of our neighbours [...]
Been meaning to update the site more, but been busy. Bit like when Wood Newton and George Wimpey are supposed to carry out work on the houses in the neighbourhood.
Fortunately, nobody is booking days off work or rearranging their schedules while they wait for me to post my latest, usually depressing update about life [...]
Last October and November, people representing ITV got in touch.
They had seen and heard about our problems at Oxley Park and with the nature of this “prestige” and “award winning” development of eco homes, they were pretty keen to come and see us, and talk about featuring us on one of their “Problem Property”/”Homes from [...]
Thought for a while about the “headline” for this post, then went back to the original. Because that is EXACTLY what I’m feeling right now.
To cut an increasingly long story short, Wood Newton and George Wimpey plan to solve our issues by replacing all windows and doors. A VERY big job. But [...]
Something we’ve just noticed, which is of little consequence given our current situation, but if you have bought an eco house on the Oxley Woods development, or are considering one, you may want to check your window frames.
Do yours look like our kitchen, unfinished with visible screws?
Or perhaps like one of our bedrooms, filled but [...]
George Wimpey and Wood Newton are back up to speed again. That is to say pedestrian, possibly stood still, probably going backwards.
At the start of last week the testing on our windows finally came to an end and we were told that John Green of Wood Newton would be submitting a report to George [...]
Then our new Flickr page is worth over a million and counting. Certainly saves having to come up with that amount of text!
If you fancy seeing holes drilled in walls, walls being peeled off inside and out, horrible looking water running all over panels and even the odd photo of just every day living [...]
Well, it’s a full year now since we completed on our Oxley Woods eco house, and it’s been nothing if not eventful!
It was 10 days into our ownership, before we moved in, that leaks were first discovered on walls scattered about the house, and I’m writing this from an office with tide marks above the [...]
It’s approaching 4pm on Friday and the guys from Wood Newton are just finishing putting the Trespa panels back on the side of our Oxley Woods eco house.
Today has been a very stressful day, and although more faults and problems have been found, it feels like we’re only scratching the surface, and that any genuine [...]