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 [...]
Something we’ve just noticed, which is of little consequence given our current situation, but if you have bought an eco house on the Oxley Woods development, or are considering one, you may want to check your window frames.
Do yours look like our kitchen, unfinished with visible screws?
Or perhaps like one of our bedrooms, filled but [...]
Then our new Flickr page is worth over a million and counting. Certainly saves having to come up with that amount of text!
If you fancy seeing holes drilled in walls, walls being peeled off inside and out, horrible looking water running all over panels and even the odd photo of just every day living [...]
It looks like we may actually be getting somewhere with regards to our year old problem of water ingress. More tests have been carried out this week and it actually feels like we’re getting somewhere. It’s been a slow, slow, painful process and horrible to live through, but it seems like we’re heading [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]