Advice on buying a brand new home > Snagging and defects

Brickwork on a new home

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Larwood32:
Thanks for looking at my post.

Buying a new home and got to have a quick look yesterday but to me it looks like different bricks have been used. If you look at the pictures 2 at the back and 1 at the side there seems to be a large dark area so my questions:

1  Is this normal
2  Would you accept this
3  If not what can i do

Thanks

New Home Expert:
Totally unacceptable.

The bricks should have been mixed so no banding occurs.

Trouble is the housebuilder will offer to have the bricks tinted (painted) by a specialist (brick doctor)  in an attempt to blend them in.

I would not legally complete until these areas are taken down and rebuilt.

Get your solicitor to act for you.
Who is the housebuilder?

Larwood32:
Hi Many Thanks for your reply

Its J S Bloors - I have exchanged contracts because I had to part exchange on my house with them. Completion date is 30 April 2019

We are having a walk around with the site foreman on 4 March. I will bring it up then.
Is it a big job to replace them?
What if they say we will tint them or nothing?
It looks terrible in real life we noticed, it straight away.  We only went up on Sunday to have a look to see how it was going and the gate was not locked so we walked in, so we took the photos. 
We did notice that a few houses were like this but not as bad as ours.

Thanks Again 

New Home Expert:
Do not wait until 4th March.  Write to Bloor right now, today and tell them you are not accepting brickwork like this. 
Reject tinting as in this case it won't work and will just delay the inevitable re build.

Yes it is not and easy job, would probably take about two weeks to do properly and scaffolding will be required. It will cost Bloor Homes a couple of thousand, but then they should have properly supervised this at the time.

It is NOT your fault and you should not allow them to force this below standard house on you.

Be very aware, that several Bloor buyers have indicted to me that they are not very proactive in sorting defects with homes after they have all your money!

My advice is to have the home professionally snagged and inspected BEFORE you legally complete.
If the outside is this bad, how bad is the inside?

Larwood32:
Many thanks for all your advice much appreciated.
I will contact the sales person at Bloors and i will keep you up to date on what happens

Thanks again 

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