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 [...]
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 [...]
Been meaning to update the site more, but been busy. Bit like when Wood Newton and George Wimpey are supposed to carry out work on the houses in the neighbourhood.
Fortunately, nobody is booking days off work or rearranging their schedules while they wait for me to post my latest, usually depressing update about life [...]
Last October and November, people representing ITV got in touch.
They had seen and heard about our problems at Oxley Park and with the nature of this “prestige” and “award winning” development of eco homes, they were pretty keen to come and see us, and talk about featuring us on one of their “Problem Property”/”Homes from [...]
This week (some point this week) work was supposed to begin on a proper engineered solution to over a year’s worth of water ingress through and around our windows of our George Wimpey / Wood Newton Oxley Park eco homes.
That’s what everyone had told us anyway.
So, here we are, on Thursday afternoon, with no word [...]
Thought for a while about the “headline” for this post, then went back to the original. Because that is EXACTLY what I’m feeling right now.
To cut an increasingly long story short, Wood Newton and George Wimpey plan to solve our issues by replacing all windows and doors. A VERY big job. But [...]
Overnight we had quite a bit of rain. It didn’t seem to rain hard but it was drifting rain being blown all over by the wind, coming, as usual, from a south-westerly direction.
This morning we awoke to see something we’d not seen since July 2008, when we first saw water coming through the walls [...]
Then our new Flickr page is worth over a million and counting. Certainly saves having to come up with that amount of text!
If you fancy seeing holes drilled in walls, walls being peeled off inside and out, horrible looking water running all over panels and even the odd photo of just every day living [...]
It looks like we may actually be getting somewhere with regards to our year old problem of water ingress. More tests have been carried out this week and it actually feels like we’re getting somewhere. It’s been a slow, slow, painful process and horrible to live through, but it seems like we’re heading [...]
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 [...]