Tag Archives: leako home

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 [...]

Nine thirty meeting going as expected…

Yesterday around five we had a visit from Wood Newton saying they wanted to call in tomorrow morning (now) at 9:30 to look at the leaks and so on. As is par for the course, it’s 10am and we’ve seen or heard nothing, despite seeing one of the Wood Newton managers go by the house [...]

We’re still leaking

Horrible, horrible discovery this past Sunday morning. Our eco house is still leaking, considerably so. 8th July 2008 is the first time we witnessed rain water coming through our internal walls and ceilings. Almost a year later and our George Wimpey eco house, constructed using materials such as wood and recycled paper, is still being [...]