Hi All
Hope you are having a solid building experience.
We are 10 weeks in to the building with bricks half finished and internal all plastered. Very impressed with the pace but the nightmare started with brickwork.
Popped to site this morning and noticed the utterly unacceptable brickwork(IMO). The house is getting full render but the appearance of those bricks are almost heart broken...
Whats your opinion? are we expecting too much or this is just not good?
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Browse Forums Building A New House  02 May 2017 271 Silver Member Extremely poor brickwork or expected too much? 5Jun 21, 2018 6:41 pm  Mt.viewany comments would be appreciated The bricks do look awful but they will not be seen once the rendering is complete. As long as the walls are straight and the bricks sit neatly on the brick lip I don’t think you will have a problem. Here are mine, we just finished bricks today, our whole front facade is render and tiles and our brick work is similar to yours, Like ⋅ 1 comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ see the little half bricks above the door and the weird lintel step under the door. It looks shocking but fine in terms of a brick wall. Here is our alfresco door which face brick, the workmanship is vastly different. I think its common for the brickies to not be as neat when they know the house will be rendered. Like ⋅ 3 comments ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ When the guys render your house they might spray on the render if they use acra tex or trowel if they use a different product but when they smooth the render out it fills all the gaps in the bricks and seals the surface. Hope that helps  Re: Extremely poor brickwork or expected too much? 6Jun 21, 2018 9:26 pm  aphstaWow! and not in a good way. I’d be disgusted with that. I am sorry I can’t help as my brickwork was perfect, but we aren’t rendering. I hope someone pops along soon to help you soon. I’d be very interested in what standard of brickwork is required for it to be structurally sound viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89059 It is very depressing to see the brickwork in its current state. My personal standard for brickwork with rendering is not to have large chunks of gaps randomly filled by waste bricks. curly joint lines or odd colors are all acceptable but this is beyond reasonable ...  Tribe7 Mt.viewany comments would be appreciated The bricks do look awful but they will not be seen once the rendering is complete. As long as the walls are straight and the bricks sit neatly on the brick lip I don’t think you will have a problem. Here are mine, we just finished bricks today, our whole front facade is render and tiles and our brick work is similar to yours, Like ⋅ 1 comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ see the little half bricks above the door and the weird lintel step under the door. It looks shocking but fine in terms of a brick wall. Here is our alfresco door which face brick, the workmanship is vastly different. I think its common for the brickies to not be as neat when they know the house will be rendered. Like ⋅ 3 comments ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ When the guys render your house they might spray on the render if they use acra tex or trowel if they use a different product but when they smooth the render out it fills all the gaps in the bricks and seals the surface. Hope that helps Hi Tribe7 Really appreciate the detailed info. It helps a lot. I`m less concerned about clean lines or odd placements but more concerned about those large gaps filled by brick wastes or mortar.  icat2000That’s terrible. I’m not rendering either and thankfully our brickwork was good. I would not be accepting that quality. The look is odd and can can tell it from far away... Will have to make a case with site manager. good to know its not just us being unrealistic 15 Apr 2017 110 Senior Member Re: Extremely poor brickwork or expected too much? 7Jun 22, 2018 10:38 am We had part face bricks, party render on our facade. The brickies were faultless in their work with the gave bricks, but they just chucked the common bricks up knowing they'd be rendered. Same brickies, obviously saving time where they know the look won't matter (or they were giving their apprentice some practice?). I don't have pics of the lame common bricks but it looks fine now it's rendered. 19 Jul 2017 20 Junior Member Re: Extremely poor brickwork or expected too much? 8Jul 11, 2018 12:04 am Tribe7 Mt.viewany comments would be appreciated The bricks do look awful but they will not be seen once the rendering is complete. As long as the walls are straight and the bricks sit neatly on the brick lip I don’t think you will have a problem. Here are mine, we just finished bricks today, our whole front facade is render and tiles and our brick work is similar to yours, Like ⋅ 1 comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ see the little half bricks above the door and the weird lintel step under the door. It looks shocking but fine in terms of a brick wall. Here is our alfresco door which face brick, the workmanship is vastly different. I think its common for the brickies to not be as neat when they know the house will be rendered. Like ⋅ 3 comments ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ When the guys render your house they might spray on the render if they use acra tex or trowel if they use a different product but when they smooth the render out it fills all the gaps in the bricks and seals the surface. Hope that helps tribe7, do you mind sharing what brick are you using? With that sort of soil type if you ask for a design to include piers then I would also include void formers. That way you should reduce the chances of settlement and heave. 7 20102 Ah ok, no worries, well the tiles are going in a few days later, so i guess its pretty much stone/tiling done within a few days of each other anyway. Appreciate the help,… 2 8616 Andrea You are welcome. I know we over engineer our slabs, as we have to give a 6 year structural warranty so we think its prudent to spend a little extra up front, for… 13 12067  |
