Brigitte Nevey, one of the proprietors of Abbey Pre-school, says volunteers from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors did not complete the work they claimed to have done in an article in last week's Weekly News.

As a result, she says staff and parents had to give up their free time in order to finish painting and clear up mess just three days before the start of the new school term.

She said: "I was extremely disappointed with the job that they did, which can only be labelled as 'half done'.

"I was incensed to then read the complimentary article in the paper. I am in no way blaming the Weekly News for the false article that was printed. You have had the wool pulled over your eyes."

Mrs Nevey added that she and her colleagues had the painting of the building taken out of their hands and were told by Kenilworth Round Table that the work would be carried out by volunteers.

The Round Table provided the funding, but did not participate in any of the work undertaken.

Mrs Nevey added: "The paint was a patchwork on two of the walls; the back wall being the worst. The volunteers didn't even attempt to paint the other two walls.

"The building wasn't stripped because in the places where they didn't paint, the original colour remained. And despite the fact that the paint they used was a waterproof paint, they barely put any of the paint on the building before they ran out of it.

"There was more paint on the pathways around the building than there was on the walls.

"The fact that this paint is waterproof posed another problem when my colleagues and I tried to wash the paths; paths that, incidentally, belong to Priorsfield School and are not even included in our lease.

"The fences were patchy and the white window gloss overlapped onto the walls and the glass."

David White of the Kenilworth Round Table said the group had apologised and that the problems were down to poor time management.

He said: "The re-painting work turned out to need far more work than originally estimated, in terms of both time and paint consumed, mainly due to the very poor state of the woodwork much of which needed stabilising before painting could begin.

"The RICS team were unable to complete the painting work before the school re-opened on September 2, so offered the pre-school an additional weekend, to be arranged by mutual convenience, to complete the work and clean up properly.

"This offer was rejected by the pre-school, because we were unable to assemble the volunteers in time, so Mrs Nevey organised her team to complete the work themselves.

"The error was initially with Kenilworth Round Table in under-estimating the work needed and we have apologised that the timing and initial estimates of the work were short."