The view from Chris and Katie Eve’s house for the past two years has been dominated by a large metal shipping container in their drive. It stores family possessions they say can’t be unpacked because of catastrophic blunders that have left part of their three-year-old home without insulation or fireproofing.
The couple, and their two children, now face the partial demolition of the £500,000 property because of buckled floors, warped roof trusses and wrongly laid pipes.