Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Dec 12, 2008 9:58 am Last week, when I was wondering why the brickies stopped working, I found out from my SS that my second delivery of bricks are of wrong colour, due to bricks from a different batch. Apparently, the situation is a lot worse. The brickyard can't find the rest of the bricks from the batch of my first delivery
There is supposedly another 300,000 bricks from that batch. How could they possibly lost them :!: My SS said he never seen that before. What is going on? Has anyone been in a similar situation before? My SS said, for worse case scenario, all the brickwork already done needs to be pulled down and redo with new batch of bricks. My SS obviously won't cope the extra costs. But what if Boral won't neither?? I am sensing a really really bad and sticky situation here.... ...I hope I am not thinking too much and too far ahead of myself.... Anyone working in a brickyard who may be able to offer some advice??? Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 2Dec 12, 2008 10:23 am I never trust what builders say, they could just be buying time.
Did you withness the bricks delivered and then sent back?? If you are going with a majour builder i doubt that they have time to check the batchs. They wouldnt have knowm until the bircks where up, and brick layers arent usully worried and just lay what they have. Are there any bricks left on site at the moment??? Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 4Dec 12, 2008 10:35 am borg I never trust what builders say, they could just be buying time. Did you withness the bricks delivered and then sent back?? If you are going with a majour builder i doubt that they have time to check the batchs. They wouldnt have knowm until the bircks where up, and brick layers arent usully worried and just lay what they have. Are there any bricks left on site at the moment??? Yes. Some bricks from the second delivery were laid and the colour contrast is very noticeable. It was actually the bricklayers who noticed the difference and called the halt. (I'll try take some pics and show here tomorrow) That second delivery have been taken away couple of days ago and a pallet of bricks got sent to site yesterday. My SS was supposed to check the colour before proceeding further. Due to rains, he hasn't done it yet. But from my examination, colour is still wrong. Also, from the delivery receipt, they don't have the same batch number as the first delivery. Do you think I should call Boral directly? I can definitely be more persistent then my SS But, will they talk to me though? Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 7Dec 12, 2008 10:46 am Adrian B No t your problem, not your financial responsibility. Thats what insurance is for. What insurance does it cover under? I am afraid that anything involves insurance, or even sorting out whose responsibility this is, is going to take time and will drag on and delay the build. Unless the right bricks are found, the situation is not going to be pretty. Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 8Dec 12, 2008 10:48 am borg I will eat my words. Thats a good sign that your builders are in control, and checking over things. Yea, for that, I am grateful. So far, I have nothing to complain against my SS. Hope to keep it that way. Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 10Dec 12, 2008 12:59 pm Quote: Do you think I should call Boral directly? I can definitely be more persistent then my SS But, will they talk to me though Call Botal directly, they have all the record, they more than happy to help you out. We just finished hand -over this morning, we have still the roof tile bad patch issues. So we call the Boral roof title manager on site as well, He ensured us to fix it properly in wrtting. And my SS also written donw the issues in his to -do list after hand over. Don't worry the cost, they will fix for you. we have the same builder as your. Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 11Dec 12, 2008 1:49 pm We had a similar boral problem. The brickies started doing the front of our house - enough to have committed to that particular brick, then we found out that they couldn't get enough to finish our house - or even start the sides, in that brick for about 8 weeks. We were having them sent from WA to SA, they were my dream brick (sounds silly, but I'm a woman), and were having different brick sizes in a random pattern, kind of defining to the house. It was the middle of winter so our frame work would be sitting out in the weather for 2 months. Weren't real keen on that, so we ended up having the front finished in our brick, then found a substitute from another company for the rest, had to have it done in a straight standard brick pattern, otherwise it would have just looked strange, and obvious that we had run out. Needless to say we weren't very happy, but weren't keen on the 8 week delay either. Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 12Dec 12, 2008 8:44 pm I called up Boral earlier today. The guy wasn't quite willing to tell me much because he said Clarendon is the client, not me. He insisted I talk to my SS instead. After some persistencies , I managed to get him to have a boral rep to call me back. However, I am yet to receive this call. I'll check again next monday.
I understand that the builder is ultimately responsible to sort this out. Being a first timer, it is nerve cracking Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 13Dec 12, 2008 10:32 pm It could be another clarenton house who chose the same brick got yours, most likely theirs is badly behind schedule, definitely worse than yours, so SS shipped the bricks to them first.
It happened to us before that one day, we found the installed ground floor bathroom door disappeared. Asked the SS what happened, he said another house with the same door were close to hand over and have problem with the door but can't get it from supplier on time, and at that stage we were still way before hand over, that's why they used ours to fix the problem.... Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 14Dec 13, 2008 3:10 pm ahuang It could be another clarenton house who chose the same brick got yours, most likely theirs is badly behind schedule, definitely worse than yours, so SS shipped the bricks to them first. It happened to us before that one day, we found the installed ground floor bathroom door disappeared. Asked the SS what happened, he said another house with the same door were close to hand over and have problem with the door but can't get it from supplier on time, and at that stage we were still way before hand over, that's why they used ours to fix the problem.... I certainly hope not!! If so, that means my SS is ****** to me. This is no good because we still have a long way together before completion!!! If this is really the case, I am going to track that house down and steal the bricks back, one by one Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 15Dec 13, 2008 3:12 pm I'm a bit confused, don't they order and deliver all the bricks at the same time? I think we got our bricks all at once, not in batches. Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 16Dec 13, 2008 3:22 pm sammy I'm a bit confused, don't they order and deliver all the bricks at the same time? I think we got our bricks all at once, not in batches. We had one delivery of bricks for the first level. When they were all laid, then we had another delivery of bricks that should cover the second level. Yea, I think all bricks should be delivered all at once to avoid this problem. But, I think the order indicates which batch of bricks they came from so the second delivery should also be from the same batch. Maybe someone close to the bricks industry can offer some insight?? I am still waiting to hear from the boral rep to understand more about the situation. Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 17Dec 13, 2008 4:33 pm sammy I'm a bit confused, don't they order and deliver all the bricks at the same time? I think we got our bricks all at once, not in batches. We only got first 1/2 of bricks delivered at start of bricking. The rest were on backorder. Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 18Dec 13, 2008 4:39 pm hello Eho,
this does sound very familiar with my Story with Clarendon.. the bricks were out of production the day we were expecting them! I would expect that if the builder is doing a good job, the order would be placed 30 days before brickwork can begin and the brick supplier would allocate this stock at the yard or brickyard. This is common sense ... If the brick is out of stock you can get the oppurtunity to reselect without impacting on the project schedule... But then with Clarendon nothing is simple and evrything is hard.. I reselected my brick as soon as I heard about this but Clarendon tried telling me they would get thier senior most manager to speak to the senior most manager at Austral and they can make things happen.. Nothing happended we lost 3 weeks and we used the reselected bricks. I hope you have better luck with Boral, and do inform Clarendon thier stuff ups appear on the web and will effect them. Buildling a Clarendon Crestmead in Sydney DA Approved on 20/03/2008 Slab Poured on 02/09/2008 Frame Completed 15/10/2008 Brickwork Complete 2/02/2009 Roofwork Complete 05/03/2009 Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 19Dec 14, 2008 10:59 pm eho I certainly hope not!! If so, that means my SS is ****** to me. This is no good because we still have a long way together before completion!!! Using the word "******" is too strong for this situation, it's called "different ways of explaining things". He is just doing his job, trying to make everyone happy (you, the other customer, his boss, ...etc) Re: Boral lost my bricks!!!??!!! 20Dec 14, 2008 11:04 pm sammy I'm a bit confused, don't they order and deliver all the bricks at the same time? I think we got our bricks all at once, not in batches. Probaly you are the lucky one, as may be your site has a huge open area for them to dump all the bricks in one go, which is not always the case for most sites. Or may be they did come in more than 1 batch but you didn't notice it? Doesn't matter, as longs as all the bricks in the same colour/batch it should be ok. Ours arrived in 2 batches. That sucks! Hope it all works out. Good to move away from steel anyway for all your reasons, but it's also thermally poor. 16 17895 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair to do it properly you need to dig out the garden and waterproof the outside of the wall. There are some products you can put on the face of the bricks but the water is… 2 4627 |