Brickwork Dispute

[Steven1985]

We have recently moved into a David Wilson home (21/12/23) and have noticed that the brickwork around our garden wall has a mixture of completely different bricks, I can understand there being a difference in shade but a completely different brick does not sit well with us.

We had a professional snag report completely but this was not picked up, only the amount of cement/mortar left on the bricks was highlighted. We have had a look at the 3 other properties which are exactly the same as ours to see if this was normal, but this is both the case!

All the other houses have matching brickwork throughout. I have attached pictures, as you will see I believe engineering bricks have been used at the bottoms for the first few rows?
My question is do we have case and should this be something that is rectified? As in rebuild the wall?

[Admin]

The NHBC standards are not actually binding.
 
What the diagram is for is when different materials are in the same wall in this case a blockwork wall with bricks in it.
Engineering bricks are used as a dpc so this is acceptable.

Quite why though, they have a course of headers in the engineering brickwork I have no idea and some of the cut bricks at the corners are very poor quality brickwork.
 
Your snagging inspector does appear to have been very thorough!
 
And yes, you would have a long battle with DWH to get this rebuilt.
Please write to the CEO Dave Thomas and send him the photos and which region thinks this is acceptable. He will ask questions.
 
If you wait, you will have their excuses and reasons for doing nothing.
If the CEO is contacted it bounces back to the regions with a “sort this out” so you won’t be messed around by them.  david.thomas@barrattplc.co.uk