Buying a barratt new build... bricks appear soaked?

[Barrattnewbuild]

We are 5 weeks away from estimated completion of this new build. We have already legally exchanged contracts, paid a deposit etc.

This week we noticed bricks were completed. The weather conditions this week have been very wet and cold.

The bricks appear very dark and some white patches. I am concerned they could be soaking wet but can't touch them due to the fence.

I feel they may have built the bricks in poor conditions due to the pressure to complete the build on time.

Should I be concerned? What should I do?

See attached photo.

Thank you.

 

[tony1851]

Can't see clearly from the pic; the white patches will be salts coming out of the brick as it dries out - not unusual.
Once the build is completed, the salt may continue to appear for a couple of years each spring, but should gradually get less each time; nothing to worry about.
Google 'efflorescence'.

 

[^woody^]

I can't see any bricks. Only blocks

 

[Barrattnewbuild]

Can't see clearly from the pic; the white patches will be salts coming out of the brick as it dries out - not unusual.
Once the build is completed, the salt may continue to appear for a couple of years each spring, but should gradually get less each time; nothing to worry about.

Thank you. Should I be concerned about the bricks being so dark in colour possibly being soaked with water?

 

[23vc]

Can’t see anything from the picture, other than what looks like blocks not bricks so they’ll end up getting rendered. If they’ve been saturated they need to dry out before rendering

 

[Barrattnewbuild]

I can't see any bricks. Only blocks

Sorry I don't know much about building. My question refers to the blocks.

 

[tony1851]

Thank you. Should I be concerned about the bricks being so dark in colour possibly being soaked with water?

No - the bricks will probably be in the 'moderately frost-resistant' classification so shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Barrattnewbuild]

Can’t see anything from the picture, other than what looks like blocks not bricks so they’ll end up getting rendered. If they’ve been saturated they need to dry out before rendering

Thanks. I mean the blocks. Is it concerning they could be soaked?

 

[tony1851]

(I should have gone back to Specsavers).

 

[^woody^]

Well surely you are not buying a house with those horrible blocks on the front.

Is it being rendered or cladded with something?

 

[Barrattnewbuild]

Well surely you are not buying a house with those horrible blocks on the front.

Is it being rendered or cladded with something?

Yes it will be rendered

 

[^woody^]

Ta-dah!

 

[^woody^]

(I should have gone back to Specsavers).

Get someone to review some recent beam calculations too, to be safe.

 

[Barrattnewbuild]

Ta-dah!

So it doesn't matter if the blocks got soaking wet before rendering?

 

[^woody^]

So it doesn't matter if the blocks got soaking wet before rendering?

No that's what renderers would do anyway.