Next door's builder dodgy brickwork

LeeUK

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My neighbour is busy getting the wall built up finally after Storm Arwen, but have you seen the state of this brick work they have left on my side of the wall. Is this acceptable of a professional brick layer?

The other thing is I was about to get it built up myself, my builder is due to start next week originally to build this back up and build me 3 pillars for a roller garage door and gate with lintel across the top. If I didn't happen to be getting a builder in next week I'd have been left with this crappy brickwork on show, not even joining properly at the bottom. Flipping typical that they start the week before my work after all these months.

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he's not going to render it ? has the whitewashed wall been OK'd as a structural wall for your new garage, or, previous garage, was damaged in storm.
 
Nope, looks ****, the mortar joints look terrible (even on his side) and has not been tied into your brickwork at all so has very little structural support, nevermind the fact it looks terrible.

I'm sure a bricklayer would point out more faults but pretty naff overall.

Presumably you're not tying your proposed garage door into this?
 
Buffman said:
Nope, looks ****, the mortar joints look terrible (even on his side) and has not been tied into your brickwork at all so has very little structural support, nevermind the fact it looks terrible.

I'm sure a bricklayer would point out more faults but pretty naff overall.

Presumably you're not tying your proposed garage door into this?
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My builder was going to knock some of the old wall down and rebuild and build new pillar for roller garage door.
 
Uther said:
My dad was a brickie, he'd have had a good laugh at that. Try not to lean on it.
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It looks considerably worse than the stuff my dad did when he was younger, and he wasn't even a brickie.

It even looks worse than the quickly laid supports one of the local handymen put in for under our shed, and that was brickwork no one would ever see (needed to raise the shed about 75cm to bring it level with the top patio and away from the odd flood).
 
Heh. My builder turned up on Friday to start work on my garage door front, dug the foundations and filled them up with bags of postfix. Not sure if this is a legit time saving way or if I've just bagged myself another cowboy. :o

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He had the cheek to put all the empty bags in my recycling wheelie bin too. :(
 
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LeeUK said:
Heh. My builder turned up on Friday to start work on my garage door front, dug the foundations and filled them up with bags of postfix. Not sure if this is a legit time saving way or if I've just bagged myself another cowboy. :o
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Well Postcrete/Postfix is merely fast setting concrete. Not sure about the compressive strength in comparison to normal concrete, but for the foundations for a wall it has to be okay.
 
norm said:
Well Postcrete/Postfix is merely fast setting concrete. Not sure about the compressive strength in comparison to normal concrete, but for the foundations for a wall it has to be okay.
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No it’s not. There’s no proper aggregate in it for a start.

If he started Friday could have used proper concrete for a start next week.
 
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The wall is going to be taller than the average garage door height. So if it has no aggregate then they shouldn't have used it?

Where it actually costs more for the bags I doubt the builder is worrying about that as it's ultimately me who's paying for them.
 
LeeUK said:
The wall is going to be taller than the average garage door height. So if it has no aggregate then they shouldn't have used it?

Where it actually costs more for the bags I doubt the builder is worrying about that as it's ultimately me who's paying for them.
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Postcrete is for putting up fences and gates quickly.

Concrete is for construction.

Without seeing what he’s done it’s speculation but for £2-3 more per bag, I’d have used concrete. It mixes better, has longer working time, is a known entity and will go off as expected.

Postmix can be more variable in strength, and sets rapidly so if not mixed well can have varying properties.
 
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