On Friday we bought ourselves a shiny new WATTSON home energy monitor from our local Maplin.
The device is one of many available that do pretty much the same job. Check your energy consumption via a clip placed on the live wire near your electricity metre, which is sent wirelessly to a display unit (portable [...]
Today, after a longer than usual break, the eco hat “fresh air” vent is blowing an absolutely abhorrent smell into the house.
Not much more to say on this. We’ve reported it, Wes from George WImpey has experienced it at full whiff, and Nuaire can neither explain or fix it.
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 [...]
It’s approaching 4pm on Friday and the guys from Wood Newton are just finishing putting the Trespa panels back on the side of our Oxley Woods eco house.
Today has been a very stressful day, and although more faults and problems have been found, it feels like we’re only scratching the surface, and that any genuine [...]
Well, actually, not quite half way.
So today is yet another “big day”, another day finding and plugging leaks, another day of our exterior panels being stripped off, another day of disruption, another day of lost sleep for our 16 month old daughter, another unproductive working day, and another day of seeing our house taken apart [...]
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 [...]
Bit of a hit and miss, good and bad start to the week for us and our Oxley Woods eco house.
On the good side we had the guys around Yesterday to fix the damaged ducting behind our medicine cabinet which has meant the extraction part of our eco hat has never been properly working since [...]
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 [...]
Well, our Eco Hat still smells. But not so much.
Yesterday (Thursday) one of the George Wimpey guys made his way onto our roof in our absence and took apart the filter and “hatch” on the eco hat. It turns out the filter was, in his words, both filthy and clogged. This filter [...]
Following on from my earlier post about our smelly Nuaire eco hat.
We hadn’t heard a response to our call this morning, so after lunch I called the George Wimpey site manager (who is on site here at the Oxley Woods development) to see what the situation was. I got an answer and apology for [...]