Today I had some surprising and to me wonderful news.
We finally have approval to have our living room carpet replaced.
It’s taken a long time to arrive, and a lot of going back and forth, but finally we have the green light from a senior level to have this replaced.
It may sound small, but it’s a wonderful carpet, and a parting gift from my late grandfather, something to remember him by. And it will soon be back to its former glory!
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 it today?
The answer had to be no. We had visitors, my wife and I both had work to do, and I was leaving the house in a couple of hours while my wife would be sorting out the kids.
Apparently it now looks like next week.
As for our windows and doors all being replaced. Fed up of the lies on that one.
The work due originally for sometime in August (18th I believe was the first date we were given), has simply vanished. The windows were going to be tested weeks ago, were tested last week, are being tested as I type. Depending who you ask when. It’s just bull, and it’s pathetic and rude and damaging.
June we had holes drilled all over our house, windows taped and filled up as a “temporary measure”, walls pulled off and radiators removed.
Here we are in September, weather getting colder by the week, and we’ve no idea what on earth is going on.
Shameful, disgraceful behaviour on behalf of Wood Newton and Taylor Wimpey. The way they’re treating our family, their disregard for the well being of us and our young children, I believe, is totally scandalous.
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 windows, had cracked with no impact or other obvious outside cause.
Well, the official line is the “small movement” in the frames isn’t causing the cracks. We’d love to know what is. But don’t expect a straight answer.
Would you consider this curvature a small amount of movement? Would any reasonable person?
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