So today we were due to carry on with the various water leak tests that were underway on Friday.
Only instead at 8:30 Aiden from Wood Newton who was the senior staff member on site on Friday was nowhere to be seen, nor the other two Wood Newton workers who were aiding with the hose and Trespa panel removals on Friday.
Apparently, between when ourselves and the site manager from George Wimpey left it as “we’ll carry on on Monday, starting with checking and trying to find the source of the water ingress at the front on the ground floor”, plans changed to something along the lines of “we’ll not bother coming back, but feel free to stick clear silicone on the Trespa window reveal edges and take a look at the other window (at the rear). Which had previously been visually inspected anyway.
This really is a pathetic way to carry on by Wood Newton. You could see that Scott wasn’t fully in the know, and didn’t know what we had been told on Friday afternoon with regards continuing proper testing on Monday. You could also see that Wes, the George Wimpey site manager in Nigel’s absence, was also clearly annoyed by the change of plans that he and us knew nothing of until when the testing was due to continue on Monday morning.
To us this pretty much sums up the Wood Newton attitude and approach to trying to find proper, long term resolutions to the several-fold inherent problems they seem to have created on site either through bad design, bad construction, or a combination of the two.
We’re awaiting a talk with the George Wimpey site manager(s) tomorrow (Tuesday) to find out how things are going to progress from here.
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