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Thursday 7 September 2017

Brickwork is Done - Yes actually Done!

After a long process our bricks are actually done. They have completed all of the brickwork including finishing window sills, patching mortar and all of the garage.
The finish brick cleaning has also started but didn't finish because of a disagreement with the brick cleaner and the supervisor after an issue with the neighbor. The whole bricklaying process has been the most difficult task with our build. Firstly the initial tradie wanted more money because of difficulties with clearance to lay bricks (1.8 meters was to close), then the second tradie was a few weeks away completing other jobs. When he did start the second batch of bricks were a different colour and he was concerned that there would be colour variance issues. We got through that and brick laying started after yet again another wait while other jobs were finished. The process continued smoothly for a week or so and the majority of brickwork had been layed, so the renderers started there work. And... brickwork stopped again while scaffold came down and, well... I'm not really sure what else but it stopped none the less. Next we were hit with a few weeks of rain almost daily and the bricklaying seemed to take baby steps, whenever there was a dry patch, to avoid issues with fresh bricks getting too wet? I think? Anyway...After about 4 full months of sporadic bricklaying, our bricks are finished.

Photos for proof :-) ...









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