Yesterday around five we had a visit from Wood Newton saying they wanted to call in tomorrow morning (now) at 9:30 to look at the leaks and so on.
As is par for the course, it’s 10am and we’ve seen or heard nothing, despite seeing one of the Wood Newton managers go by the house just after 9:30.
We’ve got a lot of contacts to make anyway so I’m not sitting on my hands, but it’s bad, if expected form.
Today, while the guys from Wood Newton have been very busy stripping and reworking our house from the outside (more on that soon!), we have annoyingly found some more tide marks and water stains, this time above the kitchen window.
Although not very clear in the photographs, they almost go the full window width. Extremely frustrating, but Wood Newton and Taylor Wimpey believe they have again found the solution to the leaking, hopefully one that will work for good, and this work will now be carried out to side, front and back elevations to make sure the house is properly water tight from every approach!
Or not, as the case may be. Unfortunately it seems we’ve been rather cursed with the carefulness and quality of some of the workmanship on several jobs completed on our house, especially since we’ve been in residence, however this one we couldn’t quite believe.
It seems that when applying the top layer of tarmac to the path, the workmen couldn’t keep themselves, or their great big boots, off of our block paving work! This happened on the 11th August. We then had a further mess made of our driveway when we had some work carried out in the garden, and at some point some epoxy resin was spilt on our path (also block paved), and our plants were trampled when our windows were being “fixed”, again.
We’re now towards the latter part of November, and the remedial work is yet to be done on any of this, despite many assurances it will be done “by the end of the week” or “today”… You can’t really take anything you’re told as gospel unfortunately, but it would be nice if it was cleaned up and sorted properly soon, it’s been over two months since the tar was walked on the driveway, plenty of time you’d have hoped.
We’ll be sure to update when this finally gets done.
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