This week (some point this week) work was supposed to begin on a proper engineered solution to over a year’s worth of water ingress through and around our windows of our George Wimpey / Wood Newton Oxley Park eco homes.
That’s what everyone had told us anyway.
So, here we are, on Thursday afternoon, with no word from anyone. We asked one of the site managers in advance if we could find out what was going on… Nothing.
I called the “head” site manager yesterday afternoon (because apparently he was already dealing with it on Wednesday) and, you’ve guess it, nothing.
So here we are, during school holidays, waiting for major work to be carried out on our house, and nobody seems to either know what’s going on, or want to keep us informed. Pathetic.
Meanwhile, a house down the road had a sign appear in their window earlier this week. “WARNING” it reads, before going on to say they have been experiencing leaks, for a year, that George Wimpey and Wood Newton apparently cannot fix. Sounds all too painfully familiar.
Earlier this week some new windows appeared on site (not ours, obviously) and we went to have a look when the site office was shut. The design is the FOURTH window design now used on site. It seems like complete stabs in the dark from Wood Newton. But, worryingly for us, the windows now see the return of the “cill lip”, which is the route cause of a great deal of our, and other people’s problems.
We are, as you may imagine, completely fed up of nothing happening, and more so being kept in the dark. We’re unable to plan any time away or even know when we should or should not be at home, because the information from George Wimpey and Wood Newton, when it comes, is proving to be almost entirely unreliable.
