Tomorrow has been scheduled as another day of disruption as the guys from Wood Newton and George Wimpey search for possible entry points for the rain water that is, somehow, still finding its way through our walls and/or windows of our Oxley Woods eco house.
So, starting from around 8:30am we’re going to have panels stripped off, and water sprayed over the property, from top to bottom. This time the water may have dye added to it to help track what goes where.
We hope they find something new, as they all seem baffled by how water is still coming in at a number of places, but it has to be said that we’re not hopeful. Let’s face it, it rained more than once, heavily, between November and June, but it took that long for some serious water ingress to appear, it seems very hit and miss and temperamental.
Anyway, we’ll be updating here with any new news. We’re not really even sure what we’re hoping they will or will not find. We just want this ordeal over with, and to feel confident all possible avenues have been explored, and everything possible has been done to ensure long term happiness and dryness in our home!
As an aside, we had a visit the day before yesterday. We had workmen in adding insulation/sticky lagging/cladding, weird stuff to the insides of our eco hat. Apparently, in some case, condensation and cold bridging can get very bad, so as part of their continuous improvement programme, and to avoid any such problems appearing, they’re putting this sticky backed insulation on the metal parts inside the eco hat.
