Dodgy brickwork?

[Ali Ahmed]

Moved into new home recently and realised that some of the brickwork looks shoddy even though theres building regs paperwork for everything.
Can anyone tell me is the brickwork in the pics are upto standard. Will it let cold air in. Will it damage inside walls with damp.

Ali

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• Ali Ahmed
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[^woody^]

OMG was it square when you viewed it, but has gone out of square since you moved in?

 

[Notch7]

Clearly the brickie couldnt be bothered to buy squints or they were on a long lead time for the angle.

It is possible to cut and glue them on site.

Your corner is often seen on garden walls and conservatories where the brickie 'styled it out'.

Dont forget it is the outside skin, which it connected by ties to the inside, there usnt a strength or damp issue.

 

[cwhaley]

Completely fine - there is a 2002 housing development near to us with the same styling. On houses that age (your bricks look modern metric ones?) it is as already said just the outer skin.

My house has similar on the front bay windows and that's been standing 71 years.

 

[noseall]

Whilst I can forgive the apathy in terms of reluctance to buy specials, the smudging is just too much.

3/10.

 

[^woody^]

Birdsmouthing is an architectural feature. Heathens.

 

[Nige F]

Completely fine - there is a 2002 housing development near to us with the same styling. On houses that age (your bricks look modern metric ones?) it is as already said just the outer skin.

My house has similar on the front bay windows and that's been standing 71 years.

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Nice brickwork ...shame about the weed

 

[cwhaley]

It's not bad but Google Streetview from 2008 has nicely blurred out the fact that two of the end bricks were cracked and the bottom two courses needed re-pointing!

Knowing the past owners' views on gardening, they probably thought it looked nice.

 

[Ali Ahmed]

Clearly the brickie couldnt be bothered to buy squints or they were on a long lead time for the angle.

It is possible to cut and glue them on site.

Your corner is often seen on garden walls and conservatories where the brickie 'styled it out'.

Dont forget it is the outside skin, which it connected by ties to the inside, there usnt a strength or damp issue.

Thanks for the reply. Feel reassured.

 

[Ali Ahmed]

Completely fine - there is a 2002 housing development near to us with the same styling. On houses that age (your bricks look modern metric ones?) it is as already said just the outer skin.

My house has similar on the front bay windows and that's been standing 71 years.

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Your house has bricks sticking outwards, mine has it going inwards. But glad that it is just the outer skin and other more recent houses are the same. Thanks

 

[Ali Ahmed]

OMG was it square when you viewed it, but has gone out of square since you moved in?

Luckily no. It was built like this

 

[Ali Ahmed]

Hi.
The reason I asked about damp issues is that, that corner area forms the corner wall of the ensuite upstairs. When it is cold/foggy/snow outside then the wall gets really wet and drips of water. Infact the raked ceiling gets really wet as well. Could this be related to the brickwork.

 

[^woody^]

More likely related to the humidity in the bathroom

 

[kev25v6]

The builders added it to mine as the extension runs at an angle

 

[Doggit]

Actually, if you enlarge the pictures, you can see how shoddy the pointing is. And the issues on the racked ceiling suggest there's no insulation above it.