Bit of a hit and miss, good and bad start to the week for us and our Oxley Woods eco house.
On the good side we had the guys around Yesterday to fix the damaged ducting behind our medicine cabinet which has meant the extraction part of our eco hat has never been properly working since July last year. They re-routed the pipe and tied it back at the same time so it wouldn’t be damaged when replacing the cabinet. So glad to get that sorted.
We also had a Nuaire rep come around to re-commission the eco hat after the pipes/ducting had been connected properly. Unfortunately it wasn’t smelling so badly as usual (hardly at all) and he could not find anything (again) causing the whiff. So it looks like our eco hat is now “as good as it gets” in terms of water warming, ventilation and filtration. But it still smells.
On the downside this morning, following some rain yesterday afternoon and then again during the night, we have more signs of water ingress. We called in the site manager as soon as possible, and he had a look around. There is/was a small, additional water stain above our bedroom one at the rear of the house, and more disheartening it was also damp around our full length window on the exposed side elevation.
The site manager is finding it, in his own words “baffling” and is going to talk to John Green from Wood Newton. To be honest, as you might have gathered or expect at this stage, we don’t have much faith in any “final solution”.
