A JOYS Green man claims that builders who constructed his new home made so many mistakes that he has suffered over a year of misery.
But the developers, Chelbury Homes, say they have already rectified the problems, leaving them £14,000 out of pocket, and legal proceedings were in hand over outstanding issues.
"Enough is enough. I want to stop this sort of thing," he told the Review.
Although the builders have footed the bill for remedial work he still faces a solicitor's bill for nearly £1,000 which he believes they should also cover, claiming it should not have been necessary to have to take legal action in the first place.
"We have had the whole roof replaced and we still have problems with damp. We moved in during August 1999. We found every time it rained the dormer windows let in water.
"We had to live with buckets of water all over the place for almost a year, until a roofing expert was called in. He discovered the windows had been put in wrongly and the roof was actually funnelling water into the house when it rained.
"We then spent the whole of last winter without any roof and with only blue plastic over the top floor windows, which was very miserable."
"At very least we ought to have compensation for all the misery."
Spokesman for Chelbury, Julian Magee said: "We do want to see a solution as much as Mr Webb, but the matter is in the hands of his solicitors and our own – we are also in a legal dispute with contractors who did the original work.
"We put our hands up when the faults were found and accepted responsibility for putting them right. We even offered to buy back the home from Mr Webb but he refused, and he would not move out while the work was completed.
"We would like to see an end to the matter. Of all the houses we build in this area – some 25-30 a year – this was just one that went wrong. Unfortunately the law grinds very slowly."