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Our brick has been removed to expose weatherboard and already I think the house looks better, even with the weatherboard being dirty (well if you use a bit of imagination of how it will be with new deck, cleaned and painted).After
Our house is weatherboard house built in the 1950s and then in the 70s someone put brick cladding on it which in my opinion is nowhere near as appealing. This now exposed weatherboard is also going to be removed for newer board and our extension will be done in weatherboard to match.
Anyway the thing we can't get over is already this few days of demolition has caused arguments with our building company who were trying to claim they didn't know the weatherboard was there and wanted to charge us extra to remove it.To cut a long story short I am happy to say we managed to prove that they did know, we had e-mails about it and so they will not be removing the contract variation they were trying to make us pay. So lesson learnt - keep everything in writing and stick to your guns!
Looks great! Whoever invented "brick veneer" was not clever or stylish!
ReplyDeleteLucky you kept that information. Sheesh, pesky builders! It's going to look great!
ReplyDeleteCheeky buggers aren't they...loving the progress pics. And you're right - it looks better all ready
ReplyDeleteGosh, I can't believe someone put brick veneer over those boards? Good on you for sticking to your guns, really they will try anything won't they. Looking forward to more progressive shots. ;-)
ReplyDeletei'm with jenny......i love weather boards, good on you for keeping the paper work......same thing happened to use when we built a house, we went through the paper work with a fine tooth comb and yup it cost them not us
ReplyDeletehave a great day and am excited to watch this amazing transformation, it does look better already have a great week xx
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DeleteWOW such a transfomation already, how fantastic is it going to look when everything is shiny & new.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly pays to keep an eye on your tradies & the paper work!!
I've never heard of putting brick veneer over cladding! Can't wait to see it all finished, it is looking so much better already.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you weren't charged more by proving to them otherwise. Happy for you.
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