Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Brick blending issues

Now that the scaffolding is down we've gotten a clear look at the bricks.  We have a problem unfortunately - the topmost bricks were laid last, and they started from the left hand side and worked around, finishing at the front.  And this has resulted in them using the leftover, darker bricks at the front of the house!  The difference is noticeable around the right hand side of the house too.  Click on the pictures to enlarge them, as the thumbnails are too small.

If the bricks had been blended together so these darker bricks were distributed evenly then it wouldn't be a problem.  Like in the house on the right in the top pic, you can see they have the greyer bricks distributed throughout.  But in our house they put all the dark ones together.

We have reported this to Metricon and they are getting someone from Selkirk to come and take a look, and see what they can do to fix it.  At this stage we're not sure what the resolution will be, but Metricon mentioned they will ask if some sort of bleaching can be done, and we are also considering Nawkaw as an option.

In other news, our next door neighbours (that's their garage in the top pic) are moving in soon, so it looks like we'll have a fence going up on that side.  And we have got skirting, door frames and doors inside the house, as well as paint (which I have yet to see).  Pics coming soon!

Darker bricks up top.

Another view of the dark bricks.  The difference fades toward the back of the side.

Looking from the back.  The garage also has some poorly blended bricks.


4 comments:

  1. Hi Brian,

    How did you ending up going with having the brick issue sorted??

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  2. Hi Lauren and Richard,

    Still waiting unfortunately :( But at least it won't slow other things down, as work can continue inside the house while we sort out what to do about it.

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  3. Hi!

    We are building with Metricon also, handover scheduled for this Friday. Not sure if it will happen though because we have brick issues also. How long did it take for Metricon to get back to you with a solution for your brick problem? This is what our brickwork looks like...
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/62023583@N06/5652031966/in/photostream
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/62023583@N06/5652028302/in/photostream
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/62023583@N06/5652025224/in/photostream

    This is what the brick is supposed to look like (Boral display)... http://www.flickr.com/photos/62023583@N06/5651997482/in/photostream and this is our brick on a real home but with off white mortar http://www.flickr.com/photos/62023583@N06/5652000644/in/photostream

    I don't think they can Nawkaw our house though because about 50% of the face of our brick was been acid washed away (twice).

    Did they offer to render and paint your home? Because I think that is the only solution for us.

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  4. Hi Steve,

    Did they wash off the brick colouring? It definitely doesn't look like it's supposed to.

    They didn't offer to render our house, and their communication throughout the whole thing was below standard. They didn't even ask us what we wanted. I recommend you keep pushing them until you get to speak to the person in charge (possibly a construction manager, not just your site supervisor).

    We didn't complain that they didn't offer render though, because we don't want render. We asked for bricks and we expected bricks.

    Good luck!
    Brian

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