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Meetings that never happen and a house stripped and redressed

by Paul | posted in Problems | tagged as architecture, eco friendly homes, eco friendly houses, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, faults, george wimpey, leaking, leako home, leaks, mastic, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, Problems, repairs, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, taylor wimpey, trespa, tyvek, water, water ingress, window, windows, wood, wood newton, workmanship

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 the [...]

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When is a timber frame eco home not a timber frame eco home?

by Paul | posted in Good stuff, architecture | tagged as architecture, balcony, eco friendly homes, eco friendly houses, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, steel, taylor wimpey, wood, wood newton

When the NHBC step in, apparently. In the build up to buying and moving into our new home we witnessed some pretty impressive thinking on their feet by the people on site. The reason for this was apparently the NHBC would not insure homes with timber frame balconies. We were told this was a new [...]

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Meetings that never happen and a house stripped and redressed

When is a timber frame eco home not a timber frame eco home?

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