Small extension in progress, worried about brickwork - poor?! Please help!

I guess every brickie has his own way of working. Most important thing is that it is built correctly and safely!

 

It won't be a case of the bricks not being suitable for reuse as such - there's no structural reason why bricks cannot be reused. It'll be that they'll need a lot of cleaning up, clearing of mortar from the bonding surfaces and also cosmetically from some of the faces.

The firmness/dryness of the brick-laying mortar is also important, so it may also be that 'used' bricks will have the porosity of the bonding surfaces affected by the old mortar coating, so it could make the process a bit more unpredictable for the new brickie. That's chust a guess.

So it's either the extra work involved in cleaning them up for reuse, or else a pro being (possibly over) professional. A perfectionist/pedant/precious depending on your viewpoint...

Bottom line is, you've made it completely clear what you'll now accept, so it doesn't really matter how the new brickie gets there as long as ithe work is of a high standard. Whether some poor soul has to sit there cleaning up hundreds of bricks or whether some poor soul (not you...) has to pay for new ones is a moot point.

And not for you to worry about.

 

Superb

 

Fingers crossed things will be better 2nd time.

Keep us updated please.

 

Looks much better!

What did the new brickie say when he saw the cowboy work?

 

So happy for you. It looks all good and proper now.

 

That is what's called...

A RESULT!