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 [...]
After being seriously messed about by Wood Newton earlier in the week, and another decent meeting with the George Wimpey site manager on Tuesday another full day of disruption followed yesterday (Wednesday) as more water testing was underway on our eco house.
I could ramble on for ages about how unhappy we are with the attitude [...]
Today work commenced at about 11:30 on the house, starting with correcting a mistake we noticed last night were an external baton was put in the wrong place, which meant the Tresda couldn’t be properly attached until it was sorted.
Following this, and just completed, the workmen from Wood Newton went up to inspect the window [...]
I should work for the red tops with such pun mastery as this.
Anyway, today the meeting that never was, twice, finally took place. Almost all were present and correct, representing the builders corner were the site manager, customer service manager from Taylor Wimpey, architect (but from Taylor Wimpey and NOT from Rogers Stirk Harbour + [...]
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 [...]
When term “leako home” came to mind after first discovering that our house wasn’t rain proof back in July, I would never have imagined that come November we’d still be waiting for repairs to be completed on some of those initial leaks and the damage they caused, let alone be discovering ever more locations where [...]
We already posted about the rain water making its way into the kitchen above the window. While we had seen the marks to show this, we hadn’t actually witnessed this water “in action”, not until today.
We’ve had a hell of a lot of disruption lately, including five consecutive days of work on one side of [...]
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 [...]
Today, while the guys from Wood Newton have been very busy stripping and reworking our house from the outside (more on that soon!), we have annoyingly found some more tide marks and water stains, this time above the kitchen window.
Although not very clear in the photographs, they almost go the full window width. Extremely frustrating, [...]
We’ve had a lot of trouble with water at our new eco home at Oxley Woods, more on that later no doubt, but a more recent problem was a leak through our Son’s bedroom window. We had noticed a water mark/stain down his wall coming from a corner of the opening window section one morning, [...]