Tag Archives: faults

Live and let dye at Oxley Park

After being seriously messed about by Wood Newton earlier in the week, and another decent meeting with the George Wimpey site manager on Tuesday another full day of disruption followed yesterday (Wednesday) as more water testing was underway on our eco house.
I could ramble on for ages about how unhappy we are with the attitude [...]

The truth is out there…

Although I’m not entirely sure where “there” is, but it’s nice to know we’re not alone in our situation, or at least some of it.
What the events of last week say about modern culture in the UK I have no idea, but I had a knock at the door from someone who lives just down [...]

Meetings that never happen and a house stripped and redressed

Due to the problems we have been experiencing since early July with rain water coming into our Oxley Woods eco home, it was decided by someone at Wimpey that a meeting should be held with several important people present. We’re not entirely sure who was supposed to be at these meetings with us, but [...]

We have more water in yet another location

When term “leako home” came to mind after first discovering that our house wasn’t rain proof back in July, I would never have imagined that come November we’d still be waiting for repairs to be completed on some of those initial leaks and the damage they caused, let alone be discovering ever more locations where [...]

Further, serious leaking in the kitchen

We already posted about the rain water making its way into the kitchen above the window.  While we had seen the marks to show this, we hadn’t actually witnessed this water “in action”, not until today.
We’ve had a hell of a lot of disruption lately, including five consecutive days of work on one side of [...]

The leaks came back!

Following on from our series of leaks and fixes, during the weekend following the final painting and filling over the “repair hatch” that was cut in our wall for leak detection work, it turned out that all was not well.
As we sat in the living room on the evening of the 4th of October, my [...]

Leaky window frame in upper bedroom

We’ve had a lot of trouble with water at our new eco home at Oxley Woods, more on that later no doubt, but a more recent problem was a leak through our Son’s bedroom window.  We had noticed a water mark/stain down his wall coming from a corner of the opening window section one morning, [...]

Kitchen make do and makeover

Our kitchen has unfortunately been troublesome from the word go. The units, which are supplied by symphony were in a deep red colour, which is bordering on brown. They are high gloss doors, and unfortunately the high level units in particular were in a poor state. Doors had chips and scratches [...]