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I think it’s annoying the way the human eye/brain zooms in on the one tiny thing that isn’t right and kind of ignores all the good bits. It’s hard to know how the render/bricks will impact once everything else is in place; it’s like when you are painting you notice every tiny imperfection but when the distraction of furniture comes in you can’t see it as much. Hope it works out for you in the end BC.
Problem is its not so tiny, its the whole surround of the door (top bottom and side) and I'm going to see it every time I look at the front of our house.
 
Stand your ground, talk to your onsite supervisor and if they need to be shown they got it wrong, there are the plans and ask who couldn’t read them?
 
Stand your ground, talk to your onsite supervisor and if they need to be shown they got it wrong, there are the plans and ask who couldn’t read them?
The problem is the plans don't specifically show the front door, but they do say render to portico and as far as I'm concerned the front face of the house is not the portico.
 
Sigh. They rendered the bricks around our front door despite the fact we paid extra to have brick there :( wasn't like that last week so not sure who decided that was a good idea and not sure how they're going to fix it because I really don't like it .
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So which bits did you want as brick? Is it what I’ve outlined in red?
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Will be a bit of effort to remove I’d say. I’ve sent our admin an email so hope it can be actioned first thing Monday.
It won’t be completely hardened and a good high pressure water pump might be all it takes. Fingers crossed for you but whatever the outcome it will still be a wonderful home.
 
I reckon it's an issue for the builder/drafting rather than the render company. IMO the plan should state "exposed" as quite clearly there is brick over the openings
 
I reckon it's an issue for the builder/drafting rather than the render company. IMO the plan should state "exposed" as quite clearly there is brick over the openings
Doesn’t explain why it was done correctly originally then mucked up later though. The dotted pattern and the key says render to portico. I don’t think the front wall of the house is portico. I do agree the plans could be more clear though.
 
By the way the house is looking good. Must be getting pretty exciting! Building is a stressful experience, sounds like you've done pretty well with your team.
 
Doesn’t explain why it was done correctly originally then mucked up later though. The dotted pattern and the key says render to portico. I don’t think the front wall of the house is portico. I do agree the plans could be more clear though.
On the plan that ‘speckly’ bit - is that what is representative of all the rendered parts? Is there rendering on the window walls on the second story? It seems the words are different to the sketch representations if so and it might have been ‘correctly’ rendered.
 
On the plan that ‘speckly’ bit - is that what is representative of all the rendered parts? Is there rendering on the window walls on the second story? It seems the words are different to the sketch representations if so and it might have been ‘correctly’ rendered.
Yes the upper level is also rendered. There’s no words anywhere on the plan about the door except that it’s brick. Nothing about it being rendered as it’s not visible on the plan.
 

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