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Madeleine Patrick & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Woman forced to move out of home after £5,000 Wickes bathroom turns it into SWAMP

A devastated teacher has been forced to move out of her home into a £500-a-week Airbnb after her new Wickes bathroom allegedly turned her house into a "swamp".

Fay Guest, 33, says she was initially delighted when her new bath, shower, sink and toilet worth £5,000 when it was installed by the Barnstaple, North Devon, branch of the home improvement retail chain last month.

But her emotions quickly turned to "disbelief" just three days later when a panicked friend who was cat sitting rang her urging to come home as the two-bedroom house was flooding with water pouring from the ceiling.

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