https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few hundred thousand to have built!

Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry
when storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a
few hundred thousand to have built!

It's efflorescence, salts that naturally come out of the bricks, it's easily
removed.

On 05/05/13 19:36, Phil L wrote:
Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry
when storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a
few hundred thousand to have built!
It's efflorescence, salts that naturally come out of the bricks, it's easily
removed.


rain and a year is all it takes


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Ineptocracy

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On Sun, 05 May 2013 19:36:35 +0100, Phil L wrote:

Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when
storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few
hundred thousand to have built!

It's efflorescence, salts that naturally come out of the bricks, it's
easily removed.

You can see where they have been washed clean under the ends of the drainpipes.

--
Terry Fields

On 05/05/13 19:30, Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few hundred thousand to have built!
happens on all new brickwork. it washes away eventually


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Ineptocracy

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In article , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 05/05/13 19:30, Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when storing
them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few hundred
thousand to have built!
happens on all new brickwork. it washes away eventually

Not to that extent it doesn't, that's a total mess, multiple bricks
totally white, I've never seen it so bad.

That's not the greatest crime however those pseudo stone mullions and
horizontal 'features' are totally at odds with brick build, then there's
the fake sash dracula fang windows, what a disaster.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

On 05/05/13 21:32, fred wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 05/05/13 19:30, Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry
when storing
them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a
few hundred
thousand to have built!
happens on all new brickwork. it washes away eventually

Not to that extent it doesn't, that's a total mess, multiple bricks
totally white, I've never seen it so bad.


FFS all they need to do is hose the bloody walls down.

The houses are not even finsihed! the brickwork and cement will be wet
through.

That's not the greatest crime however those pseudo stone mullions and
horizontal 'features' are totally at odds with brick build, then
there's the fake sash dracula fang windows, what a disaster.

not really. I've seen stone lintels used in old brick buildings lots of
times.


--
Ineptocracy

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On Sun, 5 May 2013 21:32:46 +0100, fred wrote:

That's not the greatest crime however those pseudo stone mullions and
horizontal 'features' are totally at odds with brick build, ...

Not that at odds but they are very plain and boring. What gets me is the
central joint in the "lintel" and cills on the front facing bay window.

... then there's the fake sash dracula fang windows, what a disaster.

With no georgian bars just to add to the mish mash.

Why do all the downspouts stop eight courses above the gullys with what
looks supiciously like a socket, at the bottom...

--
Cheers
Dave.

On May 5, 10:46*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Sun, 5 May 2013 21:32:46 +0100, fred wrote:
That's not the greatest crime however those pseudo stone mullions and
horizontal 'features' are totally at odds with brick build, ...

Not that at odds but they are very plain and boring. What gets me is the
central joint in the "lintel" and cills on the front facing bay window.

... then there's the fake sash dracula fang windows, what a disaster.

With no georgian bars just to add to the mish mash.

Why do all the downspouts stop eight courses above the gullys with what
looks supiciously like a socket, at the bottom...

--
Cheers
Dave.

They probably put the downspouts in whilst the scaffolding was there &
left the bottom bit until all the gulleys are installed.

On Mon, 6 May 2013 00:29:02 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote:

Why do all the downspouts stop eight courses above the gullys with
what looks supiciously like a socket, at the bottom...

They probably put the downspouts in whilst the scaffolding was there &
left the bottom bit until all the gulleys are installed.

Doing the upper sections with the access in place makes sense but they
appear to be in upside down. The socket ought to be at the top of a
length of pipe not the bottom. Water running down the pipe will tend to
**** out at the inverted socket...

--
Cheers
Dave.

On May 5, 9:32*pm, fred wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
writesOn 05/05/13 19:30, Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when storing
them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few hundred
thousand to have built!
happens on all new brickwork. it washes away eventually

Not to that extent it doesn't, that's a total mess, multiple bricks
totally white, I've never seen it so bad.

That's not the greatest crime however those pseudo stone mullions and
horizontal 'features' are totally at odds with brick build, then there's
the fake sash dracula fang windows, what a disaster.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

It is some failed architect trying to emulated early 19th C building
design and getting it all wrong.

Looks a disaster I agree.

The efflorescence is bad but it will go away in time/can be hastened
with brick cleaner.

Sometimes it comes from the cement if is made with sea sand that has
not been properly washed.

Sometimes from the clay the bricks are made from.

Not likely to come from badly stored bricks these days as they are all
palletised.

On 05/05/2013 19:30, Murmansk wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4z5e38vepk...2013.54.41.jpg

Presumably this is what happens if you don't keep your bricks dry when storing them prior to use.

I don't think I'd be pleased if it was my building I'd just paid a few hundred thousand to have built!

Then don't pay for a new building, since pretty much all of them will
suffer from efflorescence to some degree or another.

(nothing to do with damp bricks BTW)


--
Cheers,

John.

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