These pictures make my teeth itch

[CoolC]

Cupramax said:

CoolC said:

The new Discovery

I think you be several pages late with that...

oops.

[straight dad]

Cupramax said:

straight dad said:

Where do you start?

Jesus, they couldnt have made a much worse job if they tried, thats got to be a home done job surely? Even a bodge artist wouldnt admit to that.

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

[SystemParanoia]

straight dad said:

Cupramax said:

straight dad said:

Where do you start?

Jesus, they couldnt have made a much worse job if they tried, thats got to be a home done job surely? Even a bodge artist wouldnt admit to that.

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

this image just keeps on giving. i only just noticed the window isnt even level

[CanAm]

straight dad said:

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

Apart from the total mismatch of everything for those with OCD, they haven't cut the bricks into the surrounding brickwork.

[Speed 3]

SystemParanoia said:

this image just keeps on giving. i only just noticed the window isnt even level

Me too, how did they manage that ?

[kambites]

CanAm said:

straight dad said:

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

Apart from the total mismatch of everything for those with OCD, they haven't cut the bricks into the surrounding brickwork.

From a structural point of view there's nothing wrong with that as long as they're tied in somehow (I'd guess using those metal wall tie things). It's not trivial to cut the new wall into what is almost certainly a structural pillar which forms the corner of the garage. Admittedly it's not particularly difficult either, but I can see why they didn't bother.

Still looks shocking though.

[kambites]

Speed 3 said:

SystemParanoia said:

this image just keeps on giving. i only just noticed the window isnt even level

Me too, how did they manage that ?

It looks like the original opening was off-square, higher and one end than the other with marginally thicker mortar to make up the difference. So it's a bodge on top of another bodge which was made when the garage was originally built.

[Antony Moxey]

I reckon that's still a garage door with a picture of bricks and windows stuck on. I bet it still opens like a normal garage door.

[p1stonhead]

Riley Blue said:

This is the view when I'm having a dump

This picture gave me a hernia

[Gav147]

kambites said:

Speed 3 said:

SystemParanoia said:

this image just keeps on giving. i only just noticed the window isnt even level

Me too, how did they manage that ?

It looks like the original opening was off-square, higher and one end than the other with marginally thicker mortar to make up the difference. So it's a bodge on top of another bodge which was made when the garage was originally built.

Yeah looks like the garage is the original cock up, built in pig, brickwork lines through with the decorative stone border at either side yet window must be something like level as it looks to run plumb up the pillar sides.

Still a complete and utter mess from both, why on earth has the brother employed the same builder after looking at that!!

[kambites]

I suppose it'll be a lot less obvious once the mortar has weathered to dull grey like the rest of it.

[CanAm]

Antony Moxey said:

I reckon that's still a garage door with a picture of bricks and windows stuck on. I bet it still opens like a normal garage door.

What a brilliant idea! It reminds me of a photo I saw of a garage door with a beautiful trompe l'oeil painting of a classic car through an open door.

[droopsnoot]

SystemParanoia said:

this image just keeps on giving. i only just noticed the window isnt even level

Ah, but is the window level and everything else not? Reminds me of the chap who came to fit wall mounts for monitors in our server room - "do you want the monitors to be level, or to match the mortar courses in the wall behind them so they look level?"

[BoRED S2upid]

CanAm said:

straight dad said:

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

Apart from the total mismatch of everything for those with OCD, they haven't cut the bricks into the surrounding brickwork.

That happens a lot. A house by us has a 2 story extension where not a single brick is tied into the existing brickwork!

[Gav147]

BoRED S2upid said:

CanAm said:

straight dad said:

Oh no, professional builders, apparently they're working on his brothers house too, much bigger project and is a much bigger bodge!

Apart from the total mismatch of everything for those with OCD, they haven't cut the bricks into the surrounding brickwork.

That happens a lot. A house by us has a 2 story extension where not a single brick is tied into the existing brickwork!

It is a perfectly ok way to build using starter packs to tie them together, looks crap but still acceptable by regs and will be structurally sound.

[kambites]

Gav147 said:

It is a perfectly ok way to build using starter packs to tie them together, looks crap but still acceptable by regs and will be structurally sound.

It really shouldn't be done where you can see it, though. With our extension they used those steel tie things for all the hidden joints and cut and interlaced for the exposed bits.

[gobuddygo]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[66mpg]

I watched two blokes adding these panels to a fence that overlooks our yard at work yesterday. Only today did I notice what a mess they had made of it.

[MarkwG]

kambites said:

It really shouldn't be done where you can see it, though. With our extension they used those steel tie things for all the hidden joints and cut and interlaced for the exposed bits.

Agree - being unable to tell there was an extension was written into the spec for ours, & the builder that got the job was the one that said that's the only way I know how to work...& could prove it. That thing is appalling enough to be beyond the thread scope!

[alorotom]

gobuddygo said:

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Needs adding to the council thread too!