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 [...]
Well, it’s a full year now since we completed on our Oxley Woods eco house, and it’s been nothing if not eventful!
It was 10 days into our ownership, before we moved in, that leaks were first discovered on walls scattered about the house, and I’m writing this from an office with tide marks above the [...]
So it seems things are being taken ever more seriously by those involved in the design and construction of our Oxley Woods eco house, and finally the meetings that never happened are due, again, to happen tomorrow.
Confirmed today, just to be sure, tomorrow we can expect to be visited by management and staff from Taylor [...]
Or this could have been even more stressful!
As you can see if you look over our snagging lists, and read our other problems with rain water entering our Oxley Woods eco home, we’ve had quite a number of issues. This in itself has been extremely disappointing and stressful. Some of the workmen, who [...]
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 [...]
Probably not quite what was intended when the term “flexible housing” was coined, but one thing that concerns us is a “weak” step on our lower flight of stairs.
We had a visit from Nuiare some time ago to work on our temperamental eco hat, and one of the guys, who isn’t small by any means, [...]
While the discovery another damp area, and finally witnessing first hand a leak we’d seen the effects of last night were certainly depressing, it hasn’t been all doom and gloom around these parts lately.
Recently the temperature has really dropped, and we have had the heating on now for limited times, we’re experimenting with using the [...]
Following on from our series of leaks and fixes, during the weekend following the final painting and filling over the “repair hatch” that was cut in our wall for leak detection work, it turned out that all was not well.
As we sat in the living room on the evening of the 4th of October, my [...]
The problem with windows and our Oxley Woods eco home, is that they don’t appear to be water tight by design. Which, as I’m sure you can appreciate, isn’t ideal.
After only owning the property for a couple of weeks, we had some rather nasty looking water marks on various walls, mostly concentrated above and around [...]
Its good to know we’re not the only one sold on the philosophy and design of the Oxley Woods houses, last week in fact they picked up another award, here’s the press release from RIBA.
Oxley Woods by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won the Manser Medal for Houses and Housing, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
The [...]