Many of you reading this blog will be aware of the open letter sent to Taylor Wimpey, Wood Newton and RSHP last month.
Over 30 properties responded with a “Support Slip 1″, which meant that the occupant(s) of those properties supported the open letter, and also they had at least one outstanding issue with their [...]
Last night (6th October) we had a long awaited meeting with our site manager from George Wimpey and one of the directors of Wood Newton. Very courteously this was arranged out of hours to suit our work load and let us get the kids away for the night. So thanks to all concerned [...]
Nothing. Apparently.
When Peter from Wood Newton visited last Thursday afternoon, I had to tell him it was not convenient for the painters to attempt to paint the ceilings and walls of our property that same day. The reply came it would have to be “some time next week”. Which seemed fair enough [...]
Before, during, and after far too much time and disruption was spent while the guys from Wood Newton and George Wimpey stripped off almost every Trespa panel from the house (scuffing and chipping several in the process) and put them back up again after putting their new wonder flash band material around the windows and [...]
During November, and some cold days and nights, another problem came to light with the design and/or construction of our Wood Newton/Taylor Wimpey Oxley Woods eco home. And once again, it involved water, and glass.
This time, rather than water coming in through walls or windows, we noticed some small, expanding water marks on our top [...]
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 [...]
So, we’ve previously hinted that the reason for not too many updates around here has been due to the troubles and issues with had with our new home, and believe me, there’s been more than our fair share of problems, but that’ll soon become clear!
Anyway, the eco homes at Oxley Woods don’t have tiles for [...]