What a start to the day today.
A Nuaire rep came around following a smells from our eco hat pretty quickly, couldn’t find anything wrong with the filter, did discover other problems (more on that soon!) and changed the filters, despite saying he couldn’t really see a problem with them.
The smell did seem to go, or at least fade beyond recognition. However, this morning, it’s back with a vengeance. We have a message from Nuaire to call them waiting on the answer phone, but work and family commitments got in the way of making that call, but now the bad smell is back, and bad, we need to phone them ASAP.
I only managed to get a whiff of the eco hat mystery smell after breaking out of our bedroom. The door handle has broken this morning! One side, the inside, turns but doesn’t move the latch so we were locked in our bedroom for some time while I fashioned a hook out of some pipe cleaner we had handy (thank heavens for kids!) and levered things open.
I can’t fathom out the door mechanism, but seeing as our baby’s door is jamming, the bathroom door latch is sticky and the door has moved and knocks, and now this is broken, I think we need George Wimpey and/or Wood Newton over ASAP to sort things out. However, they seem to be doing their best to ignore us and our increasing list of problems lately.
When the school holidays are through and I’ve met a few deadlines they can expect a LOT of hassle from yours truly.
On a positive note for NEW builds, George Wimpey and Wood Newton have decided to try and waterproof the window surrounds on the newer builds. Smart idea that. Not sure where that leaves the unfortunate souls who, unlike us, haven’t had waterproofing retrofitted. Clearly a fault in both design and construction that could lead to serious damp problems for home owners if left unchecked.
The longer we live here, the more we like the neighbourhood and neighbours, the less we like the appalling and “would be comical if not so distressing” pile of problems that just keep mounting up and up and up.
Comment on my own post first, but I fixed the stupid door handle.
Turns out if a screw falls out of both sides of the door handle (either side of the door) the shaft inside can work free and is small enough to not go all the way through both handles! Managed to sort it out and found the screw that had made its way loose.