It’s not been long since we moved back into our home at Oxley Woods. The newly installed windows are a vast improvement over the old. Personally, I prefer their appearance, but most importantly, so far, they’re proving weather proof! We’ve had rain, we’ve had snow, we’ve had wind… and so far so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]