Garage coming down too

I've just had confirmation from the Site Supervisor that Austral (the brick manufacturer) will be onsite today to inspect the difference between the two batches of bricks to try and understand why they are so visibly different when they originally told the site supervisor that they would be a match for the bricks from the first batch.
Once the inspection is complete, the external garage walls will also be torn down and rebuilt using bricks from the new batch.

In case you didn't see the difference between the two batches, here's a photo to highlight the issue;

Join in the middle, old bricks on the left, new bricks on the right.

More Brickwork

Finally got up to site today to see how the replacement brickwork is coming on. Was also lucky enough to time it between downpours so I could get out the car and have a walk round without getting drenched.

I'm very happy with the quality of the work and none of the problems that we had previously with excess mortar in the wall cavity and empty perpends could be seen anywhere I checked;

The only issue that I have is that the new batch of bricks is visibly different from the last and with the external garage wall remaining from the previous batch of bricks, there is a very noticeable difference between the two batches - especially where they join;

Old bricks on the left (no black marks), new bricks on the right (black marks)

I've already raised this issue with the site supervisor (who has been fantastic so far), so will have to wait and see if anything can be done.

Brickwork update

Thanks to my site supervisor for sending through some photos of how the brickwork is progressing.
The weather held them up last week, but it looks like they're progressing fast now that the weather has improved.

Brickwork And Rain

The bricks were fully removed at the start of last week and the sisalation has now been completely replaced. Bricking was due to restart on Monday (13th Jul), but unfortunately the bad weather over this week appears to have put a stop to that. The weathers improved over the last couple of days, so hopefully once the site dries out the bricking will commence.

Its amazing how a fresh coat of plastic can make such a dramatic change to the look of the house. It looks all shiny and new again :)

Here's some photos of the replacement sisalation;

Brickwork coming down.

Brickwork is now coming down and should hopefully be complete in the next few days. Then the wrap will come off before starting again with new wrap and new bricks later next week. I'm hoping the new brick layer is aware of the poor job done by the previous brick layer and ensures that everything he does is up to scratch so that this process doesn't have to happen again.

Not sure why these bricks haven't been removed. Need to chase up with the site supervisor as this is the area that all of the problems with the sisalation and brickwork were initially discovered.

Internal walls of the garage still need to come down. The internal scaffolding had to be removed and the roof trusses moved to give the workers enough space to be able to work safely.

You can see all of the cuts in the sisalation in the next image where they tried to rectify the excess mortar issue initially.

The woodwork doesn't have that new look to it any more. This doesn't surprise me as the frame went up nearly 7 months ago. I also do not understand why these areas were not wrapped with sisalation as was the rest of the house? This is something that I also need to check with the Site Supervisor.