by Paul
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posted in General, Good stuff, Problems
| tagged as eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, Problems, residents, taylor wimpey
Well there’s been a lot going on lately that I’ve not been blogging about, purely because a lot of it was timing based. Unfortunately, it appears that the wishes of over half of the residents here at Oxley Woods may have fallen on deaf ears. Hopefully this will not prove to be the case, but [...]
by Paul
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posted in Problems, architecture
| tagged as eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, windows, wood newton
Something we’ve just noticed, which is of little consequence given our current situation, but if you have bought an eco house on the Oxley Woods development, or are considering one, you may want to check your window frames. Do yours look like our kitchen, unfinished with visible screws? Or perhaps like one of our bedrooms, [...]
by Paul
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posted in Eco living, Good stuff
| tagged as eco hat, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, eco kettle, ecohat, energy, energy consumption, george wimpey, kettle, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, power, Wattson, wood newton
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 [...]