Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Advice on brick colour variations 21Nov 29, 2010 4:15 pm Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Advice on brick colour variations 23Nov 29, 2010 7:46 pm A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands. Melbourne West Our build viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34169 Landscaping viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51147 Re: Advice on brick colour variations 25Nov 30, 2010 11:25 am Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Advice on brick colour variations 26Jan 13, 2011 11:31 pm I just found this thread. Looking at the picks IMO it looks like about 20m2 of brickwork is vastly different to the rest of the house. 20m2 at 50 brick per m2 is 1000 bricks. As the front upstairs is usually the last part that is laid I'd ask to see the original callup information on the total quantity ordered and how the deliveries were made. IMO they either short ordered 1000 bricks and got a "new" batch to finish or the supplier stuffed up and sent out a different batch. Either way the bricklayer should have had a look, made a phone call and asked the supervisor and supplier to view the bricks before laying them. The earlier deliveries have only light "hearting" on the brick face and the last delivery is almost all "hearting". RE The NAWKAW- They can do better than that. Being a builder is more than just having once held a hammer. It's about the trades you hire and ensuring that they give a result that meets the industry standard and the home owners expectations. Re: Advice on brick colour variations 27Jan 14, 2011 6:50 am Thanks brick specialist .. so the bricklayers were either clueless or lazy. And even worse, they must have known about it and ignored it. I didn't see it because the scaffolding was in the way, but they were actually laying the bricks! Is "hearting" those oval shape marks that some of the bricks have? Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Advice on brick colour variations 28Jan 14, 2011 6:52 am In the end we have accepted the bricks as they are .. because if we tell someone (except a bricklayer of course) that we had problems with the bricks, they can't see anything wrong! And that's good enough. I don't even notice anything now when I look at the house, unless I look closely. Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Advice on brick colour variations 29Jan 24, 2011 11:20 am grom40 Yeah those bricks clearly haven't been blended properly - that's something that the brickies should have done when laying them. As the others have said; I don't think there's much that can be done to fix them short of rendering or replacing the lot. It's not really the manufacturer's fault though as they usually have directions on the pallets as to how to blend them. Best of luck with getting it fixed As a bricklayer i can say that i do blend bricks on site however, when jobs such as these where big 2 storey homes are built on small blocks in newer estates basically on the boundary, there often isnt enough room on site to have all of the bricks delivered at once. Site supervisors do 'call ups' on the initial order. At the end of the day what you see is a poor result but don't jump to conclusions about the bricky. We are paid nearly the least as a percentage of the house but is expected to make the biggest effort on the Aesthetics. Is it any wonder there is a bricklayer shortage? Re: Advice on brick colour variations 30Jan 24, 2011 12:08 pm Fair enough.. if those last bricks were delivered later then there's not much they could have done. Except for telling the SS that they can't finish the job with the bricks they've got. Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Advice on brick colour variations 31Sep 04, 2015 1:15 am Hi btherl: I have the same problem with my bricks, just want to know what do you think about Nawkaw? It looks like you had moved in for 5 years, is the Nawkaw colour fade or still keep the same looking? Do you know how much they charge? Thanks a lot Re: Advice on brick colour variations 32Sep 04, 2015 11:25 am Hi, Here's how it looks now: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I haven't even thought about it for years now. Brian Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover It seems very clear to me that your contract states that a security account does NOT need to be established so the answer to the builder is NO. If in doubt find a contract… 1 8501 The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 8702 Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. How long are variations taking with other companies at the moment? We… 0 18435 |