Oxley Woods Living

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 and windows of our Oxley Woods eco house… Water half way down the wall in our bedroom on the top floor.

Apparently this is caused by water coming in through the high level window above, making its way down behind the plasterboard until it hits something (a horizontal join or wood) when it pools and seeps through the wall. The water mark was quite big, about the size of my hand, but it did dry fairly quickly in the sun that followed.

This window has been “fixed” previously, and as I stated earlier we’ve not seen water on this wall for over a year. This just goes to show the on/off hit and miss nature of both the fault(s) with the design and/or construction here and the fixes which have been applied so far.

The holes in bedroom four (top floor) were also soaked through the wood and plasterboard this morning, but all other places where we’ve seen water in the past seemed to be dry to the eye and touch.