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It’s not been long since we moved back into our home at Oxley Woods. The newly installed windows are a vast improvement over the old. Personally, I prefer their appearance, but most importantly, so far, they’re proving weather proof! We’ve had rain, we’ve had snow, we’ve had wind… and so far so [...]
by Paul
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posted in Problems
| tagged as door, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, fridge, george wimpey, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, oxley woods living, Problems, symphony, taylor wimpey, warp, warped, wood newton
In July 2008 we reported an issue of a warped fridge freezer door. That’s eighteen months ago. During that time, several doors have been sent to the site by the supplier Symphony, apparently all also warped, or warping. This has been ongoing the entire time we’ve been in the property.
We spoke about [...]
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posted in Good stuff
| tagged as eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, oxley woods living, repairs, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, RSHP, taylor wimpey, wood newton
Many of you reading this blog will be aware of the open letter sent to Taylor Wimpey, Wood Newton and RSHP last month.
Over 30 properties responded with a “Support Slip 1″, which meant that the occupant(s) of those properties supported the open letter, and also they had at least one outstanding issue with their [...]
by Paul
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posted in Good stuff
| tagged as eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, oxley woods living, repairs, taylor wimpey, water, water ingress, wood newton
Last night (6th October) we had a long awaited meeting with our site manager from George Wimpey and one of the directors of Wood Newton. Very courteously this was arranged out of hours to suit our work load and let us get the kids away for the night. So thanks to all concerned [...]
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Nothing. Apparently.
When Peter from Wood Newton visited last Thursday afternoon, I had to tell him it was not convenient for the painters to attempt to paint the ceilings and walls of our property that same day. The reply came it would have to be “some time next week”. Which seemed fair enough [...]
With all the other fiascos I forgot to mention that a short while ago the long-time empty house next door finally received its new occupants. We have next door neighbours!
Really nice to have a family move in next door, we don’t feel quite so much like the last outpost of Oxley Woods any more.
After [...]
In late June/early July this year testing was complete on our leaking windows and doors at our Oxley Woods eco house.
A report was compiled, explaining why Wood Newton and George Wimpey believed the house has had such severe water ingress, and remedial work was expected to be carried out quite soon afterwards.
After a while, we [...]
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 Decor and DIY, Problems
| tagged as eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, john green, leaking, leaks, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, oxley woods living, peter, Problems, taylor wimpey, water, water ingress, wood newton
So Yesterday afternoon, weeks after we had our walls and ceiling filled on every floor of the house, out of the blue Peter from Wood Newton arrives at our door.
The painters are on site “I assume you want it painting” (could he be any more antagonistic with his choice of words?!) and can they do [...]
by Paul
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posted in Problems, architecture
| tagged as eco homes, eco house, eco houses, george wimpey, john green, leaking, leaks, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, oxley woods living, Problems, taylor wimpey, water, water ingress, wood newton
In no way is the small movement occurring on the windows causing the glazed units to crack.
These words come as part of a brief and incomplete set of answers provided by John Green of Wood Newton when we raised a number of concerns, including questioning why one of our windows, and one of our neighbours [...]