Forum for residents of St Georges Park and Long Leys Road Lincoln

[JT]

Hi,
When we moved in we found the gravity feed shower in the en suite not working. We could only have cold showers. Last week we decided it was time to get it fixed. It turns out that it was a factory setting in the shower that prevented hot water coming through and scalding plumbers and should have been reset by them on installation. I've heard that at least three other people nearby still haven't got functioning showers. Save yourself a fortune. To fix it is easy (but I take no responsibility!):

Take off the two concentric dials. They will clip back on.

Undo the screw on the purple ring.

Slide the purple ring round to allow more hot water through.

Tighten screw.

Clipthe dials back on.

If in doubt I can let you have the number of the plumber who fixed it for me.

[SteveW]

I had the same trouble but the shower still had no pressure, so it has since been replaced attached with a pump.

The downstairs en suite wash hand basin taps came loose.

All three basin wastes have leaked because the screwed joint had been shortened to accomodate the trap connectors.

The waste under the en suite shower leaked and stained the downstairs ceiling.

The bath would drop 10mm evertime it was filled with water. When the panel was taken off the feet hadn't been screwed down fully.

The outside tap was loose.

The utility sink was not clipped to the base unit.

The floor between the lounge and dining room would bounce, when the floor was taken up the chipboard was resting on the heating pipes.

............AND BLESS HIS HEART, THIS PLUMBER HAD THE NERVE TO MOVE ONTO THE SAME ESTATE.

[john shipton]

What a shower these contractors have been working for the developers.
Our boiler after moving in had wiring connected incorrectly.
In the fouth bedroom which was above the garage, the sub contractor had nailed a piece of the floorboard to a water pipe which started leaking when walking on the floorboards were walked upon.
This was found when one of the sales lady for Westbury Homes was called to look at the weeping floorboard. She claimed that the stained floorboard was caused by cleaning fluid splilt on the floor by cleaners who cleaned the new house before my family moved in.
We asked for an independent assessmnet of the situation so Westbury sent one of their joiners to look at it who took up the offending floorboard. You probably have guest what happened next...he pulled to nail out of the pipe work and water cascaded down through the ceiling causing damage to the lighting for the garage and flooded the garage itself. It was a good job that the ceiling did not collapse but it took the ceiling and the garage walls, etc, two weeks to dry out.
But that's not all...neighbours were noticing that birds were disappearing into our roof and asked one of the roofers was their something wrong with it. It was found out that no soffits were fixed around the house where the guttering was.
Our next door neighbours found out after two days of heavy rainfall and high winds that no strappings were fixed in the roofing area of the house and double garrage to secure the roofs which could have been blown off.
And what made things a little dicey where Westbury was concerned, on some of the properties being built on our estate, the contractors who were using subcontractors who were using brickies, some of which had little experience in building work, and these youths employed, had just left college after obtaining their certificates in brick laying. Two walls built by these youths actually fell down after using an incorrect mixture of mortor mix, sand and cement.