Hi Everyone,
Going through snagging issues with our current builder and would appreciate some insight into the below and whether this is an acceptable standard/practice or me just being overly critical?
The house we have purchased is primarily red brick with the lower half of the house being larger sandstone slabs and decorative ones around windows, doors etc.
We informed the builder that a number of the bricks had corners missing (clearly shouldn’t have been put up in the first place) .
The builders resolution, we have just discovered has been to come back (fix corners in whatever method they have cement/filler?) but to then hide this repair they painted a row of the sandstone to try and blend this in which in my opinion looks absolutely terrible, especially as there is a
I wanted to ask anyone better informed than me if
A- Painting the sandstone is a reasonable or expected fix or whether they should have replaced the blocks
B- With NHBC or any other part do we have any stand point to ask them to replace the painted blocks?
My view is that the
Again any views/help would be really appreciated
Going through snagging issues with our current builder and would appreciate some insight into the below and whether this is an acceptable standard/practice or me just being overly critical?
The house we have purchased is primarily red brick with the lower half of the house being larger sandstone slabs and decorative ones around windows, doors etc.
We informed the builder that a number of the bricks had corners missing (clearly shouldn’t have been put up in the first place) .
The builders resolution, we have just discovered has been to come back (fix corners in whatever method they have cement/filler?) but to then hide this repair they painted a row of the sandstone to try and blend this in which in my opinion looks absolutely terrible, especially as there is a
- Still predominantly non paint/ normal sandstone which clearly shows what it should look like and makes the paint even more noticeable on top of it having no texture and look cheap
- Has wonky paint line which bricks just would not have (both onto the grout and below the actual brick line)
- sides of bricks that stick out not painted so looks terrible
- Left dried muck on the brick and have just painted over it.
I wanted to ask anyone better informed than me if
A- Painting the sandstone is a reasonable or expected fix or whether they should have replaced the blocks
B- With NHBC or any other part do we have any stand point to ask them to replace the painted blocks?
My view is that the
- Other identical houses have not been painted therefore neither should ours
- This has been an easier/cheaper cover up than replacing the couple of bricks with issues - however will add to our long term maintenance of the paint and brickwork.
- At the end of the day the house we are purchasing is brick and sandstone facing therefore painting this isn't delivering what was promised.
Again any views/help would be really appreciated
