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.
them prior to use.
thousand to have built! happens on all new brickwork. it washes away eventually
rain and a year is all it takes
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.
them prior to use.
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)
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.
not really. I've seen stone lintels used in old brick buildings lots of times.
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.
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...
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.
They probably put the downspouts in whilst the scaffolding was there & left the bottom bit until all the gulleys are installed.
You can see where they have been washed clean under the ends of the drainpipes.
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 piss out at the inverted socket...
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