Opinion on Brickwork?

[voltage2688]

Hi,

Just had the front porch of my new extension rebuilt by bricklayer, can I ask people's brutally honest opinions? Wouldn't be offended! Would this be acceptable?

(bricks: https://brickwholesale.co.uk/cissbury-red-multi-stock-brick-pack-of-475/)

Thanks

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Oh dear.

 

[A Trowel]

Just had the front porch of my new extension rebuilt by bricklayer

No you haven’t, a chimp with a trowel maybe but not a bricklayer

 

[stuart45]

What's your plan from here? Ask him to knock it down and have another go, or get someone else in?

 

[kp00110]

In photo 6 your pier next to your alley looks like a banana

 

[voltage2688]

What's your plan from here? Ask him to knock it down and have another go, or get someone else in?

Builders wanted to give him another chance after first go, believe it or not it was worse than this before, shouldn't have listened... I honestly don't have a clue, building control are coming to look, hopefully give some helpful suggestion but yeah not feeling too happy... I don't want to have to render as the bricks mainly and money are wasted, brick tiles maybe...

 

[stuart45]

Building Control won't be interested in how it looks, as long as it meets their regs.
I can understand it's difficult for you to know what do next, as it's obvious you need a different bricklayer. If you have a main contractor it's really his responsibility.

 

[wassupjg]

The bond is terrible almost everywhere and the pointing is shoddy, I wouldn’t be happy with it… those external corners should and could be neater, more experienced brickie would have taken the time to cut the bricks to bond it around the corners instead of an ugly straight joint all the way up.

 

[Charlie George]

The main contractor is at fault, first he should have used a real bricklayer and he should also have used cut and bonded dogleg brick on the bay corners, it needs to come down right to the ground and rebuilt in better bond and using dogleg cuts, and make sure they get them done by a proper cutting firm.

 

[johnny2007]

I agree with @Charlie George , dogleg bricks are essential in a bay window.
However, last time I tried to get some, I couldn't get a match and we ended up using our creativity with darker bricks mixed with original looking one.

 

[stuart45]

You can get them made from standard bricks. They cut them and resin bond the cut pieces together. Years ago they went into the kiln like that.

 

[stuart45]

You can make yourself as well, although this is a squint.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I've seen worse.

But not often

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It looks a lot like my first ever DIY attempt at building a garden wall. OK for an amateur in a hidden corner of the back garden, not for the front of someone's house who's paying for a professional.

You can be thankful you have a builder between you and the brickie. It's his problem to solve, don't get involved in the politics of who he subcontracts to and how much it's going to cost him to get it rebuilt by a proper bricklayer, but that is the only reasonable outcome.

He's probably paying peanuts to the cheapest he could find, is charging you vastly more and was hoping to make a load of money for doing nothing.

Your contract is with the builder, it's his responsibility to ensure the job is done to an acceptable standard, and it hasn't been.