Mate can I tell you - I think I love you. I’m a carpenter and I’m sick and tired of quoting against tradies like these. Some people say that I’m to dear and I tell them that tradies like the ones you show are too cheap. You should always do your best work and enjoy what you do for a living. If you don’t want to do the right thing, don’t do the job ( period ).
What a disgrace! When I started my plumbing apprenticeship in Sydney in 1975 I worked with men who did the job in one way and one way only, the right way the first time to the best standards. There was no cutting corners. For 45 years I carried on how I was taught😉. Thanks for the vid bro👍
My Grandad and my Dad both taught me you do it properly or you don't do it at all. I am frequently complained to about taking too long or concentrating on things that a client wouldn't ever notice but it just has to be done right. If i am going to haul my ass out of bed at 4am and go to work then I'm not going to cut corners just to get home an hour early or make a bit more money.
For anyone interested. This took the bricklayers 10 weeks in total to complete. In those 10 weeks the site supervisor said the brickie caught covid, wife had a baby so 2 weeks paternity leave, then baby gets rushed to hospital, then he broke his collar bone. What it looks like is a 1st year apprentice did the work. On top of that, the brickie ran the storm water hose from the roof in through the second level while he bricked and then forgot to pull it back out, after a massive weekend of rain he completely flooded the house and that’s why the floors creek. Because the yellow tongue is swollen. The supervisor has since been fired after we had the construction manager go through the place and now a better supervisor has been put to task to try and rectify everything. We are heading into month 21 and out of contract. Don’t get my started on all of the walls that are way out of tolerance.
What an absolute cluster-F. Was just sussing out the location of Google Maps and considering a drive passed to see if a builders sign was still out the front. But would save the me the trip out there if you were happy to let us know who's shoddy work this was. Hope for your sake it gets sorted very bloody quickly! Best of luck.
Dude you are my hero of standards and tolerances. I'm a licensed industrial electrician and now a mechatronics engineer. Your fight to raise the bar in the construction industry is much appreciated. After building my first home and finding out first hand the bare minimum of effort put in with domestic work..along with misunderstanding the default HIA biased contracts, the suckyness of DBVRA and VCAT...well I'll just say, keep up the great work. You are an inspiration to quality control. The industry needs more of you.
He’s one of a kind. I tried to see if there was anyone in Perth doing this and I came back here. Because of you I have organised for regular checks of my build. The money I’ll spend is the best insurance. I’ve even got a pre builder to help me ensure the builder knows what I want and it is in the contract correctly.
Keep a sharp eye on it and take lots of photos, years ago my sister had new house built , country roads Mandurah WA, builder didn't strap Tin roof carpentry down to brickwork,she stopped progress payment until they did it right , 3 houses in here street lost their entire roofs a year later ,hers was unscathed,was about 1997 ,things seems to have gotten worse since
such great commentary ... im a carpenter / builder in sydney i see this stuff every day sad truth is owners just want cheapest price and done fast ... then complain when bad work is done
Comparing the brickwork in your post to a very large number of new homes built here in the UK by some of the biggest building companies, your brickwork looks absolutely perfect.
In the UK first year college students are taught 4 course to a foot! I know because I hired one! I was shocked at his course work books, why teach kids wrong from the start? It is madness and trying to get him down to gauge was a job in itself. For those that are not aware it should be 4 course to 300mm not a foot which is 305mm. I laughed at the comment "absolutely perfect" but cry because it is soo true
@@gavinmcinally8442 Best you have a look at the NVQ coursework books as it states in black and white 305mm or a foot. He wasn't a cowboy he was in his first year apprenticeship.
Crazy how in 2023 you're not legally able to build your own home anymore, yet this is the industry standard that we now have to folk over our life savings for.
You can build your own home , you can do an owner builder arrangement, get in the trades you want, varies state to state but you can usually do one build per year
One ownerbuild per 5 years in NSW. I’ve just finished an owner build. Allows you to know and control every trade and avoid most of this. Despite the impressions created by these videos there are still lots of first class tradespeople out there who really care about your build.
Yes, I would never build a house these days. Aside from the stress, if anything is wrong your chance of getting it fixed is zero. No pride these days, all about squeezing the last dollar.
If you do your research you will find good builders out there. You probably think 280k for this house is alot? I worked for a builder in Adelaide that was exceptional. But you would pay 700k for this. They would build about 15 house a year. My first job for them was a garage extension. They built the house 18yrs prior. Clients loved my job and asked me to quote painting inside. The house was strucually immaculate almost 20yrs on. You get what you pay for.
Agreed. Most builders doing custom homes are good - especially if you stay engaged and watchful. These sort of problems occur mostly with project homes and volume building cos.
The sad thing is that this would mostly go unnoticed without good inspectors like you. From experience, all construction industries are the same, not just the housing construction industry. We rely on inspectors and engineers. The workers just want to go home ASAP with their paycheck so they do a rough as guts job.
Wait, not ALL "workers" (as you call them) just want their paychecks to go home. MANY "workers" are professional tradesmen and are every bit as professional as the engineers. Please don't group "workers" as incompetent lazy rough etc. Please remember, without "workers" you have nobody to build.
Best channel on UA-cam . In the flooring industry , so the water damage from ingress and bad finishing in wet areas is most interesting..great videos 👍
I just watched this video and think I am hooked...not only are they educational but they are hilarious where even me, a hobbyist at best could do a better job...especially on that timber work!
This is my house. The house we sold before we started building this place was renovated throughout by my mechanic hubby and his work was 👌🏼 so I don’t understand how stuff like this happens. We also had a good laugh watching this. Wah wah wee wah
As a bricklayer in Sydney there is some shocking brickwork there, but the ‘exposed’ split course is something that has to be done due to different levels in the slab or to work to lintel heights for windows that have already been installed, otherwise the size of the bed joints would be to big/small also no landscaping has been done. A lot of it comes down to a broken system not enough money in the trade don’t hate the player hate the game
Why didnt they have someone checking this stuff.. if i was going to drop 500,000+ on something I'd bloody be checking or have someone checking.. heck I check a $1.50 avocado before i buy it.. maybe I'm naive but surely the buyers arent doing due diligence and just assuming the builder is on their side, only to realise theyve been ripped off? Not saying anyones right or wrong but jeez its a lot of money / risk to just leave in someone elses hands
@@gracesherman428even if you have a site inspector checking every stage there’s nothing in the standard contract that can make the builders rectify what is brought up by the your site inspector…they can ignore everything and continue building If you try and make a different HIA contract before the build that they have to listen to a outside site inspector they can refuse to the contract anyway The only thing you can really do is have a site inspector with every step and hope that the builders take the issues on board and rectify the issues or have the evidence to cancel the contract and bring them to court The industry is an absolute mess
Thus dude probably only inspects budget builders. Most high end builders wouldn't use guys like this. At the end of the day if you pay 280k for this house you will get what you pay for.
We built 18 years ago, seeing this totally puts me off building again. 🙄 Cheers for sharing Ps site managers need to be held accountable for the miserable non compliance works.
Because the formworker set the rebate down 200mm instead of 170mm so you need to cut in the 30mm difference or then the brickwork will not work to the window and door heights...it's just bad all round work to be honest.
Everything starts with the slab. Many concreters are fucking useless these days and when we come in to lay the base we're forever fixing their work. Rebates up and down all over the place, sometimes dropping off to the point there's no way to lay brick + cavity without an overhang. The best(only) option is to knock back the job until concreters come and fix their shit - but I guess many brickie gangs just want to get in and get out and get paid. In the end we have supervisors that have little to no actual trade experience/qualification running dozens of builds at any given time. That's where it's all going wrong I think. Hardly and decent and completely absent site supervisors.
@@HDSoundZz The cost for rectification goes to the builder, not the client, and the builder can try to recover from his subcontractors. Anyway, render isn't going to adhere well to those smooth bricks. If you plan to render you use very rough bricks designed to allow the render to attach firmly. Finally, render isn't going to fix the places where the bricks are well over 5mm off vertical.
@@JamesAAshton do you really think they'll rectify that brickwork? I can't see it happening. The insurance is total bullshit as it basically says the same individual that screwed it up has to come back and fix it. They'll string it out sooo long in hope the owner just wants to move forward and forget about it
My house is built by my dad and granpa 30 years ago and I tought they did bad job, but when I look at how those new builds look like my house looks way better compared to that mess, people have no pride in their work anymore and companies just want to make quick profit with no care for customer
Scenario; Bricklaying team arrives to site,”building supervisor “asks him when he will be finished. ;bricklayer checks gauge to window’s and discovers that the concrete rebate is 50 mm too high. ;bricklayer then has to cut a split brick around the entire house( while his team wait for the cuts ) ;bricklayer sets out garage pier to “architect “ dimensions only to discover that the measurements don’t work full bricks( team waits for more cuts) ;pier is constructed and requires more cuts,saw blade is now blunt and boss is changing it,frustrated bricklayer cuts a brick with trowel and lays it ;”supervisor” doesn’t check any tolerances or quality during construction ; “inspector” doesn’t check any tolerances or quality ( it’s a long drive)during construction or pre clean ;” builder “ finds the cheapest Brickcleaner available ;Brickcleaners work not checked before he leaves ;”inspector “desperate to write something down,after all it’s been a long drive ,tears apart the bricklayer and makes a UA-cam video . “Supervisor “ is sacked( scapegoated)
Absolutely. What was he gonna do not put a cut brick first course then throw all the heights off around the whole entire building, then get blamed they have cuts under steel and above headers. It all starts at the bottom. The block were probably off because the concrete footings were off. Obviously the quality isn't the best but it could have been better with better communication I'm sure.
Hey mate I’ve just come across your channel and as a former tradesman I absolutely despise your profession in every way, though as a current engineering student I find these videos interesting as fuck, please keep them coming!! Subbed
Tell me this bro..if you have two bricks from the corner of the house to the slading door and you have one purp 5 mm and another 15 mm..do you think as a expirienc bricky its up to bricklayers or maybe they are getting different sizes of bricks in the pallet
@@stewatparkpark2933 so, that's the way it is today . . . no integrity amongst the trades anymore. They should've refused to lay until it was rectified.
Thank you so much. I know very little about this kind of stuff so it’s really valuable being shown some of the traps to look out for. I would hate to be this poor customer. What burns me is the house could have been completed really nicely. What a waste of good materials because of what looks to be sloppy work.
re. split masonry first course bricks, I wonder if floor slab poured at wrong level or brick veneer step down wrong / not calculated correctly? or they just don't GAF?
Probably neither,brickwork is set to work to top of windows so lintels sit hard on the window frame so depending on what height the windows are determines what happens on the first course.
@@Paul-ie8mq window height measurement is usually supposed to work with a gage. 86 most of time. Or maybe garage bar was fixed and not a right height. Fucked of I know haha
Window height is ment to work with gague but never does, we get heights from windows but you usually don’t have spilts like that on the first course unless the slab was out by a fucking country mile, most of the time there will be splits but they should be minimum it’s mainly on places where slabs step up like front and back patios, or like I said before the concrete can be out
@@HDSoundZz that’s right..I just do go 87 all the way if I have to. Use too much mud on first course otherwise or get picked on for big beds. Sometimes have to cut some bricks near a corner or like you said where it steps.
The framing and the rest of it has to be sized for bricks. Just like you would get if the thing had structural brick walls - no split courses there either. Framing was off, or drawings were made by a clueless architect who never saw bricklayers at work.
Windows are at wrong height , slab out , maybe the lintle on the garage is welded in place before brickwork has started and the brickie has to work to that height , a number of reasons why he would have started with a split , not his fault or choice but this flog inspector doesn't say that on here does he ???
Whats the next step after you give your report? Are the builders required to fix the issues? Is there a followup inspection to verify works are completed? Because follow up videos would be awesome..
Usually not, if their inspector (the one the builder is using) passes it - which they almost always do these days. I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) the people who are the owners of this house are paying him to document and looking for issues so they can make sure it's fixed before they pay the final amount and move in. If they refuse it's off to VCAT small claims tribunal or whatever, so its good to have everything documented by this third party inspector. The real problem is the building inspectors (who are paid by the builder) are often mates with the builders and so allow crappy looking work to pass, as they'll deem it doesn't affect safety. I have relocated several houses and it's good to have inspectors who won't pick up on every little aesthetic detail as it is IMPOSSIBLE to make everything perfect on a century old relocated house. However, there is simply no excuse on a brand new build.
When you work for Builders (Especially Project Builders) they generally give you the price (what you will be paid for doing the works) and any Tradesmen that knows what they are doing usually stays well clear of these guys now because it's not worth doing the job because the builder takes the profit and the subbies (trades) bust their ass to try and break even. Short cuts have to be made unfortunately. Also the builder never gives you a clear run and expects you to work on top of other tradesman creating a bad atmosphere which leads to poor workmanship then to top it all off holds out on Payment. Builders in Australia are like used Car Dealers, they tell a bunch of lies too the client & subbies so things always go to their advantage so they make more Profit. There are a very small minority of builders that are for their subbies & clients, but l can tell you that the rest are just out for themselves unfortunately. So when you look at it the Client who is getting the works done and the subbie who is doing the works are both getting totally screwed whilst the middle man (Builder) reaps all the nectar. And the country wonders why we have a Trades shortage ? Take away incentive and this is what you get. Think about all the slapped up dwellings in Australia right now that have not been constructed to Australian Trade standard! No doubt people have borrowed lots of money to build these places and lots of builders are going under right now, so who fixes the defects ? You the client have to Pay for something you have already Paid for to be done again Properly because somebody lied to you. I see the only Solution Being = Cut out the middle man and the Tradies work directly too the Client, it's the only answer to try and solve the mess we have created here, Builders can still work but they are employed as Carpenter's and all trades liaison with each other on when they will be finished. If your thinking about getting a House built in Australia right now be very careful & Do your research before you give them your money. I see people in my street just bought some land and put a Pre finished dwelling on it, this could be another solution to our crisis we have here.
The issue is profit above all else. The builder will be running these jobs on minimal manpower in order to cover their costs and make a few bucks. Your solution sounds good on paper but again profit or in that case expenditure will get in the way. The client will look to spend the least amount on trades and the problem will continue. I work in commercial building, and it is the builder who draws the short straw there - unrealistic deadlines and budgets by the client, while the trades still make their 10-20% profit the builder (head contractor) is lucky to make 5%, and the trades are not up to scratch despite their margins.
Oh my god. I thought there was something wrong with your camera at first making those bricks look strange, but nope. How on earth do you fix a problem like that without starting over?!
This is my place. Won’t be rendering. We’ve demanded they pull it down and rebrick. It’s worse than what this video shows. We paid for upgraded bricks. The front pillars are being rendered
@@Dee-tp8cx Gosh Dee, I am *so* sorry that you've endured this. I can only imagine the stress you've been under. I hope you're living in a beautifully finished home soon. All the best
depending if it is a 360 degree camera you will see a bit of a weird slice if the camera is held at the stitch point. I noticed it a few times when it was on the bricks
Steel lintel over the garage opening, how good is the galvanising at resisting corrosion over the years or decades? I'm amazed that steel lintels are still getting exposed to rain, many have corroded & cracked surrounding masonry.
@@stephenhunter70 I'm old enough & seen enough of these lift a course of bricks weakening the front facade on garages when they were commonly built separate from the house, but these are now an integral part of the house structure.Why do we repeat the mistakes of the past?
@@stephenhunter70 Melbourne, never heard of or seen the basketball ring mounted on the brick facade of a garage at the end of driveways?Slam dunks became popular, weight of a teenager hanging off the ring did bring some of these deteriorated facades down.
I started my painting business working for budget builders. I will never touch a builder again. We get stuck having to fix so many things. Nothing will be straight when concrete hasn't had the correct time to cure. At the end of the day trades don't get paid properly. This is because people buy these budget homes. We are always owed money from 3 houses before. My opinion is only structural should be defected. At the end of the day you get what you pay for. $250k is not alot to build something new. To put this in context, I worked for a builder who was high end. Waited 45 days for concrete to cure. Everything was checked before next stage happened. The builder paid us 3 times more then a budget builder and the work was easier to do because everything was done properly. But a home owner would be paying 700k to get this exact house built.The difference is in 20 years, it will be standing strong.
Missed a great opportunity with the music in the background as you were having a look at the brick work at the garage. The song :"Love isnt always on time" You could have sang: These bricks arent all inline
Like mention before where the weep holes in the brickwork, Brickwork is a shocker how would this ever pass code, the amount mortar still within the bricks are shit.
I want to get this gentleman to do various inspections on my upcoming reno, but I'm worried that even when he picks up the phone and I describe the job he will already start with the "or more gord" and I will be gutted before he even sees the job. 😢 I'm addicted to this channel! Keep it up.
Nope.....the house is made for sale; the buyer just moves in and 5 years later moves on.....that's how it's always been......being too fussy is for millionaires......they haven't got a buyer yet and it will be sold once the final details are finished......a lot can happen with the finishing touches..
Cowboy builders have reoccurring nightmares about this guy. Builder runs and hides , then hears solid footsteps " what do we have here , naughty little builder hiding in the closet, which is ... non compliant "
The man who trained me in construction always told me how you would like it to be in and around your own house, that's how you should do it on every other job. And if it didn't go fast enough according to the boss I always said that quality just takes time and if he wasn't satisfied with my work he should just fire me, this may sound tough but I worked for the same boss for 35 years and always had to go to customers who were too demanding according to my boss, and I always enjoyed my work there because these people just wanted good and neat work that they paid for and in these 35 years I have never had any complaints about my work because I considered every job as if it was in my own house. Nowadays most employees no longer have a sense of pride in their work and some colleagues have no idea what they are actually doing, they want to go home as soon as possible when the day is over and be able to tell the boss how much they have done that day, it is not about quantity but about quality. A good construction worker is never out of work and can earn a nice penny in construction as I did and look back with pride on my time in construction and now enjoy my retirement.
I feel confused about the water proofing near the doorways. I always thought waterproofing was only required/done around in the shower and around the bath and such. Unless it is a wet room, I didn’t ever hear that water proofing to for the entire bathroom
Wow, talk about thrown together. The first bit that got me, but not mentioned, were those joins in the brickwork, like part of the building is an add-on. Weird.
Problem is its installed before lights are fitted, and the sparky would throw it all out the way for light clearance without giving a shit how they leave it. There is so much "not my trade so I don't care" attitude in building, probably the least collaborative industry around, despite the fact that it's also probably one of the most diverse in terms of different professions working towards the same end goal
@test143000 yes, I know. But they always leave a mess. Tell me the sparky ever thinks about where that insulation ends up once he moves it. I've seen it, entire batts missing for 1 downlight
Really hard to see the deviations off straight in the brickwork due to the curvature of the lens and camera movement. Place a straight edge next to them so it can seen on camera.
I have a brick crew and this is shocking! However why over east does the concreter not to footings to gauge? I’ve seen it many times over there. Split on the first course to get to gauge?
I had a place built in the UK 35 years ago and they forgot to put the entire internal cavity wall on one full aspect, only found on 'lock up' inspection.
You know it’s bad when Lord Vader is completing a roof inspection🤣. Great upload to my untrained eye it looked okay ,then you explaining the problems was shocking . Thanks for uploading
I would say we had one of the worst brick jobs done. The biggest issue was the fact that the brikkie cut the termite barrier to step it up a level on the same wall. Leading to a breach in the termite barrier. Luckily the builder has commenced rectification works - a retriculation system and termite beeds.
So what happens to that brickwork, do they knock it down and start again?. I'm having the same problems with my brickwork, mine is a custom build and now the builder has gone bust.
I can only speak of the brickwork in the video as I am a bricklayer and could only take so much of the video before I had to stop. Tbh - the work isn’t that bad. Given you highlighted the consistency of the colour of the mud - which from the screen looks completely fine - that the bed joints go ‘down and then straight again’, and given the fact there are more pressing issues that you just skip over, it seems you aren’t all that educated on how bricklaying actually works. This makes me wonder how switched on you are about all the other trades, and whether this channel gives a decent insight to would be home builders or whether it’s just a smear campaign to fulfil your own desires. For all those wondering, zooming in on things and saying ‘look at this’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad work. Try and find something more objective and informative before you jump on tradies for turning out average, but not bad, work.
Do you have a reccomendation for a building inspector in Hobart Tas? Currently building and would like to take a pro to the handover inspection at the very least.
Good afternoon, how can I find a good skill building inspector in Melbourne Vic 3020..please give me info....my builder has fixed those faulty jobs...(7 years building warranty, this my last chance.
Mate can I tell you - I think I love you. I’m a carpenter and I’m sick and tired of quoting against tradies like these. Some people say that I’m to dear and I tell them that tradies like the ones you show are too cheap. You should always do your best work and enjoy what you do for a living. If you don’t want to do the right thing, don’t do the job ( period ).
It's like that sign you see sometimes " Quality : Cheap : Quick : pick two"
Two things in life that make me happy ..1. A job I love doing ..2. A good woman.
Hopefully builder liquidations will help sell your reasonable price. Tradies that race to the bottom, often find it.
@@AitchJay they can’t have it both ways😭
I think we almost need to go through a bit of pain for the next few years to shake these frauds out
What a disgrace! When I started my plumbing apprenticeship in Sydney in 1975 I worked with men who did the job in one way and one way only, the right way the first time to the best standards. There was no cutting corners. For 45 years I carried on how I was taught😉. Thanks for the vid bro👍
Thank you watching 👍🏼☺️
My Grandad and my Dad both taught me you do it properly or you don't do it at all. I am frequently complained to about taking too long or concentrating on things that a client wouldn't ever notice but it just has to be done right. If i am going to haul my ass out of bed at 4am and go to work then I'm not going to cut corners just to get home an hour early or make a bit more money.
@@matgee8892 right on brother👍. Good to hear how you do things my friend❤️
@@robinbanks61048 years
For anyone interested. This took the bricklayers 10 weeks in total to complete. In those 10 weeks the site supervisor said the brickie caught covid, wife had a baby so 2 weeks paternity leave, then baby gets rushed to hospital, then he broke his collar bone. What it looks like is a 1st year apprentice did the work. On top of that, the brickie ran the storm water hose from the roof in through the second level while he bricked and then forgot to pull it back out, after a massive weekend of rain he completely flooded the house and that’s why the floors creek. Because the yellow tongue is swollen. The supervisor has since been fired after we had the construction manager go through the place and now a better supervisor has been put to task to try and rectify everything. We are heading into month 21 and out of contract. Don’t get my started on all of the walls that are way out of tolerance.
Disaster written all over it
more importantly, hows your mental health at the moment. That's more important than anything.
We have our days
What an absolute cluster-F. Was just sussing out the location of Google Maps and considering a drive passed to see if a builders sign was still out the front. But would save the me the trip out there if you were happy to let us know who's shoddy work this was.
Hope for your sake it gets sorted very bloody quickly! Best of luck.
Really feel for you Dee, hopefully things get rectified to an acceptable standard.
I have to say man it’s very rare I’ll actually watch anything over a few minutes in one hit but I could watch these all day
Dude you are my hero of standards and tolerances. I'm a licensed industrial electrician and now a mechatronics engineer. Your fight to raise the bar in the construction industry is much appreciated. After building my first home and finding out first hand the bare minimum of effort put in with domestic work..along with misunderstanding the default HIA biased contracts, the suckyness of DBVRA and VCAT...well
I'll just say, keep up the great work. You are an inspiration to quality control. The industry needs more of you.
It's rare to find this level of craftsmanship in a new build.
lol, it already looks 10 years old.
you’d be surprised
So depressing… imagine that being your new home😢
Yep. Mortgaged up to your eyeballs paying for that lump of shit
Yep, it is
He’s one of a kind. I tried to see if there was anyone in Perth doing this and I came back here. Because of you I have organised for regular checks of my build. The money I’ll spend is the best insurance. I’ve even got a pre builder to help me ensure the builder knows what I want and it is in the contract correctly.
Do you ever come across a new home that is perfect or with minor defects? It would be interesting to see a video on a home that is built properly 👍
In SA there are many.
Metricon for sure. Maybe the government should not have bailed them out and let them go under like Porter Davis. 😅
Great work mate. I’m building a new home in WA at the moment and these videos have been very educational. Keep up the amazing content 👍🏽
Are you happy with how the build has gone so far?
Keep a sharp eye on it and take lots of photos, years ago my sister had new house built , country roads Mandurah WA, builder didn't strap Tin roof carpentry down to brickwork,she stopped progress payment until they did it right , 3 houses in here street lost their entire roofs a year later ,hers was unscathed,was about 1997 ,things seems to have gotten worse since
Name and shame!! If the builder can’t tell what is shonky workmanship than they are complicit or incompetent.
he can't, he would be sued for deformation.
such great commentary ... im a carpenter / builder in sydney i see this stuff every day sad truth is owners just want cheapest price and done fast ... then complain when bad work is done
Comparing the brickwork in your post to a very large number of new homes built here in the UK by some of the biggest building companies, your brickwork looks absolutely perfect.
British and bodge are two words that belong together..
In the UK first year college students are taught 4 course to a foot! I know because I hired one! I was shocked at his course work books, why teach kids wrong from the start? It is madness and trying to get him down to gauge was a job in itself. For those that are not aware it should be 4 course to 300mm not a foot which is 305mm.
I laughed at the comment "absolutely perfect" but cry because it is soo true
The brickes in Bangladesh would like to have a word
@@fruitgums you had a cowboy bricky, every bricky knows its 4 for 300. 4 to the foot is for old brickwork when the bricks were slightly bigger.
@@gavinmcinally8442 Best you have a look at the NVQ coursework books as it states in black and white 305mm or a foot. He wasn't a cowboy he was in his first year apprenticeship.
Crazy how in 2023 you're not legally able to build your own home anymore, yet this is the industry standard that we now have to folk over our life savings for.
Owner builder certificate, go for it if you think you can do better.
You can build your own home , you can do an owner builder arrangement, get in the trades you want, varies state to state but you can usually do one build per year
One ownerbuild per 5 years in NSW. I’ve just finished an owner build. Allows you to know and control every trade and avoid most of this. Despite the impressions created by these videos there are still lots of first class tradespeople out there who really care about your build.
Become an owner builder and you can hire who you like.
Looks like you missed one my friend. The vent in the wall above the gas hot water unit needs to be minimum 1500mm above flue terminal. Non compliant 😂
That wasn't a handover, it was a bendover. Don't people take pride in their work anymore? Very sad to see.
Quick quid merchants ... their own front lawn would be overgrown for sure.
So who do they 'normally' get to do the inspection? as in the type who would miss everything.
Pay peanuts, ya get monkeys. A big part of my job is fixing the mess others have made.
no. not when every job is a race to the bottom on price theses days quality costs substatially more
Yes, I would never build a house these days. Aside from the stress, if anything is wrong your chance of getting it fixed is zero. No pride these days, all about squeezing the last dollar.
If you do your research you will find good builders out there. You probably think 280k for this house is alot?
I worked for a builder in Adelaide that was exceptional. But you would pay 700k for this. They would build about 15 house a year.
My first job for them was a garage extension. They built the house 18yrs prior. Clients loved my job and asked me to quote painting inside. The house was strucually immaculate almost 20yrs on.
You get what you pay for.
Agreed. Most builders doing custom homes are good - especially if you stay engaged and watchful. These sort of problems occur mostly with project homes and volume building cos.
@@ryanmorgan9589 you might get what you pay for. Money doesn't guarantee quality.
The sad thing is that this would mostly go unnoticed without good inspectors like you. From experience, all construction industries are the same, not just the housing construction industry. We rely on inspectors and engineers. The workers just want to go home ASAP with their paycheck so they do a rough as guts job.
Dont you mean its likely there needs to be an investigation into whether inspections are being done...or whether this is a golden handshake district
Wait, not ALL "workers" (as you call them) just want their paychecks to go home. MANY "workers" are professional tradesmen and are every bit as professional as the engineers. Please don't group "workers" as incompetent lazy rough etc. Please remember, without "workers" you have nobody to build.
Best channel on UA-cam .
In the flooring industry , so the water damage from ingress and bad finishing in wet areas is most interesting..great videos 👍
All starts at the slab you have to get the rebate right especially if the windows are close to the floor.
I just watched this video and think I am hooked...not only are they educational but they are hilarious where even me, a hobbyist at best could do a better job...especially on that timber work!
This is my house. The house we sold before we started building this place was renovated throughout by my mechanic hubby and his work was 👌🏼 so I don’t understand how stuff like this happens. We also had a good laugh watching this. Wah wah wee wah
Where is the thermal image? Was looking forward for a diagnosis using differential heating rates to detect cracks/delamination.
As a bricklayer in Sydney there is some shocking brickwork there, but the ‘exposed’ split course is something that has to be done due to different levels in the slab or to work to lintel heights for windows that have already been installed, otherwise the size of the bed joints would be to big/small also no landscaping has been done. A lot of it comes down to a broken system not enough money in the trade don’t hate the player hate the game
Great work man. Need more of this to expose the dodge bastards.
Feel super bad for the owner. What a nightmare. Hope they got it all rectified and I hope the builder goes under.
Why didnt they have someone checking this stuff.. if i was going to drop 500,000+ on something I'd bloody be checking or have someone checking.. heck I check a $1.50 avocado before i buy it.. maybe I'm naive but surely the buyers arent doing due diligence and just assuming the builder is on their side, only to realise theyve been ripped off? Not saying anyones right or wrong but jeez its a lot of money / risk to just leave in someone elses hands
@@gracesherman428even if you have a site inspector checking every stage there’s nothing in the standard contract that can make the builders rectify what is brought up by the your site inspector…they can ignore everything and continue building
If you try and make a different HIA contract before the build that they have to listen to a outside site inspector they can refuse to the contract anyway
The only thing you can really do is have a site inspector with every step and hope that the builders take the issues on board and rectify the issues or have the evidence to cancel the contract and bring them to court
The industry is an absolute mess
Please make a video on the good houses you have inspected so that we can see what they look like.
Thus dude probably only inspects budget builders. Most high end builders wouldn't use guys like this. At the end of the day if you pay 280k for this house you will get what you pay for.
@@ryanmorgan9589 I know Marong … nothing currently for sale under $600k. Bandits be bandits!
He is still looking for a good one.
@@ryanmorgan9589 Its a metricon build. i live across the road from it
@@DanHarrow26 l wouldn’t get them to do a chookshed!
We built 18 years ago, seeing this totally puts me off building again. 🙄
Cheers for sharing
Ps site managers need to be held accountable for the miserable non compliance works.
Why would you start your first course with split/cut bricks?
Because the formworker set the rebate down 200mm instead of 170mm so you need to cut in the 30mm difference or then the brickwork will not work to the window and door heights...it's just bad all round work to be honest.
Everything starts with the slab. Many concreters are fucking useless these days and when we come in to lay the base we're forever fixing their work. Rebates up and down all over the place, sometimes dropping off to the point there's no way to lay brick + cavity without an overhang.
The best(only) option is to knock back the job until concreters come and fix their shit - but I guess many brickie gangs just want to get in and get out and get paid. In the end we have supervisors that have little to no actual trade experience/qualification running dozens of builds at any given time. That's where it's all going wrong I think. Hardly and decent and completely absent site supervisors.
Out of curiosity what happens if the bricks aren't up to code? I can't imagine they pull it down?
i need to know that as well
We are making them pull it down. Not settling with render. We paid for upgraded bricks, not ugly render
@@Dee-tp8cx render in much cheaper no?? Render is way easier and cheaper then doing all the brick work again
@@HDSoundZz The cost for rectification goes to the builder, not the client, and the builder can try to recover from his subcontractors. Anyway, render isn't going to adhere well to those smooth bricks. If you plan to render you use very rough bricks designed to allow the render to attach firmly. Finally, render isn't going to fix the places where the bricks are well over 5mm off vertical.
@@JamesAAshton do you really think they'll rectify that brickwork?
I can't see it happening. The insurance is total bullshit as it basically says the same individual that screwed it up has to come back and fix it.
They'll string it out sooo long in hope the owner just wants to move forward and forget about it
My house is built by my dad and granpa 30 years ago and I tought they did bad job, but when I look at how those new builds look like my house looks way better compared to that mess, people have no pride in their work anymore and companies just want to make quick profit with no care for customer
Scenario;
Bricklaying team arrives to site,”building supervisor “asks him when he will be finished.
;bricklayer checks gauge to window’s and discovers that the concrete rebate is 50 mm too high.
;bricklayer then has to cut a split brick around the entire house( while his team wait for the cuts )
;bricklayer sets out garage pier to “architect “ dimensions only to discover that the measurements don’t work full bricks( team waits for more cuts)
;pier is constructed and requires more cuts,saw blade is now blunt and boss is changing it,frustrated bricklayer cuts a brick with trowel and lays it
;”supervisor” doesn’t check any tolerances or quality during construction
; “inspector” doesn’t check any tolerances or quality ( it’s a long drive)during construction or pre clean
;” builder “ finds the cheapest Brickcleaner available
;Brickcleaners work not checked before he leaves
;”inspector “desperate to write something down,after all it’s been a long drive ,tears apart the bricklayer and makes a UA-cam video .
“Supervisor “ is sacked( scapegoated)
100%
Absolutely. What was he gonna do not put a cut brick first course then throw all the heights off around the whole entire building, then get blamed they have cuts under steel and above headers. It all starts at the bottom. The block were probably off because the concrete footings were off. Obviously the quality isn't the best but it could have been better with better communication I'm sure.
You are 100 % right mate.In this case I am on bricklayer side
Hey mate I’ve just come across your channel and as a former tradesman I absolutely despise your profession in every way, though as a current engineering student I find these videos interesting as fuck, please keep them coming!! Subbed
as a bricklayer i would be disgusted in myself if i did a job like that .
Yeah but if you were an alcoholic drug addict you wouldn't care
:)
Tell me this bro..if you have two bricks from the corner of the house to the slading door and you have one purp 5 mm and another 15 mm..do you think as a expirienc bricky its up to bricklayers or maybe they are getting different sizes of bricks in the pallet
13:40 . . . now why didn't the carpet layers say anything before laying the carpet ?????
1. They don't care, not their job
2. Maybe they did and were told to shut up and just do the job they are here for
3. Don't speak English
Not their job . They were asked to lay carpet and they did .
@@stewatparkpark2933 do it's compounding errors, one bad piece of work and you just keep adding to it until the whole house is a knockdown?
@@stewatparkpark2933 so, that's the way it is today . . . no integrity amongst the trades anymore. They should've refused to lay until it was rectified.
@@stewatparkpark2933 "Not my job" are three words that should be banished from workplaces. Find someone who is responsible or rectify.
Thank you so much. I know very little about this kind of stuff so it’s really valuable being shown some of the traps to look out for. I would hate to be this poor customer. What burns me is the house could have been completed really nicely. What a waste of good materials because of what looks to be sloppy work.
re. split masonry first course bricks, I wonder if floor slab poured at wrong level or brick veneer step down wrong / not calculated correctly? or they just don't GAF?
Slab fucked most likely. No one would cut splits if they didn’t have to
Probably neither,brickwork is set to work to top of windows so lintels sit hard on the window frame so depending on what height the windows are determines what happens on the first course.
@@Paul-ie8mq window height measurement is usually supposed to work with a gage. 86 most of time.
Or maybe garage bar was fixed and not a right height. Fucked of I know haha
Window height is ment to work with gague but never does, we get heights from windows but you usually don’t have spilts like that on the first course unless the slab was out by a fucking country mile, most of the time there will be splits but they should be minimum it’s mainly on places where slabs step up like front and back patios, or like I said before the concrete can be out
@@HDSoundZz that’s right..I just do go 87 all the way if I have to. Use too much mud on first course otherwise or get picked on for big beds. Sometimes have to cut some bricks near a corner or like you said where it steps.
Can someone explain what is the issue with split bricks at the base course? Isn't it std? To get the height u need to split bricks
The framing and the rest of it has to be sized for bricks. Just like you would get if the thing had structural brick walls - no split courses there either. Framing was off, or drawings were made by a clueless architect who never saw bricklayers at work.
Windows are at wrong height , slab out , maybe the lintle on the garage is welded in place before brickwork has started and the brickie has to work to that height , a number of reasons why he would have started with a split , not his fault or choice but this flog inspector doesn't say that on here does he ???
Whats the next step after you give your report? Are the builders required to fix the issues? Is there a followup inspection to verify works are completed? Because follow up videos would be awesome..
These videos are great content , follow up videos would be awesome to see how they go rectifying any or some of the issues found on inspection
Usually not, if their inspector (the one the builder is using) passes it - which they almost always do these days. I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) the people who are the owners of this house are paying him to document and looking for issues so they can make sure it's fixed before they pay the final amount and move in. If they refuse it's off to VCAT small claims tribunal or whatever, so its good to have everything documented by this third party inspector. The real problem is the building inspectors (who are paid by the builder) are often mates with the builders and so allow crappy looking work to pass, as they'll deem it doesn't affect safety. I have relocated several houses and it's good to have inspectors who won't pick up on every little aesthetic detail as it is IMPOSSIBLE to make everything perfect on a century old relocated house. However, there is simply no excuse on a brand new build.
Brickwork looks ok!
Brick sizes differ.
When you work for Builders (Especially Project Builders) they generally give you the price (what you will be paid for doing the works) and any Tradesmen that knows what they are doing usually stays well clear of these guys now because it's not worth doing the job because the builder takes the profit and the subbies (trades) bust their ass to try and break even. Short cuts have to be made unfortunately. Also the builder never gives you a clear run and expects you to work on top of other tradesman creating a bad atmosphere which leads to poor workmanship then to top it all off holds out on Payment. Builders in Australia are like used Car Dealers, they tell a bunch of lies too the client & subbies so things always go to their advantage so they make more Profit. There are a very small minority of builders that are for their subbies & clients, but l can tell you that the rest are just out for themselves unfortunately. So when you look at it the Client who is getting the works done and the subbie who is doing the works are both getting totally screwed whilst the middle man (Builder) reaps all the nectar. And the country wonders why we have a Trades shortage ?
Take away incentive and this is what you get. Think about all the slapped up dwellings in Australia right now that have not been constructed to Australian Trade standard! No doubt people have borrowed lots of money to build these places and lots of builders are going under right now, so who fixes the defects ? You the client have to Pay for something you have already Paid for to be done again Properly because somebody lied to you. I see the only Solution Being = Cut out the middle man and the Tradies work directly too the Client, it's the only answer to try and solve the mess we have created here, Builders can still work but they are employed as Carpenter's and all trades liaison with each other on when they will be finished. If your thinking about getting a House built in Australia right now be very careful & Do your research before you give them your money. I see people in my street just bought some land and put a Pre finished dwelling on it, this could be another solution to our crisis we have here.
The issue is profit above all else. The builder will be running these jobs on minimal manpower in order to cover their costs and make a few bucks.
Your solution sounds good on paper but again profit or in that case expenditure will get in the way. The client will look to spend the least amount on trades and the problem will continue.
I work in commercial building, and it is the builder who draws the short straw there - unrealistic deadlines and budgets by the client, while the trades still make their 10-20% profit the builder (head contractor) is lucky to make 5%, and the trades are not up to scratch despite their margins.
Oh my god. I thought there was something wrong with your camera at first making those bricks look strange, but nope. How on earth do you fix a problem like that without starting over?!
I felt like I was seeing all weird
Render?
This is my place. Won’t be rendering. We’ve demanded they pull it down and rebrick. It’s worse than what this video shows. We paid for upgraded bricks. The front pillars are being rendered
@@Dee-tp8cx Gosh Dee, I am *so* sorry that you've endured this. I can only imagine the stress you've been under. I hope you're living in a beautifully finished home soon. All the best
depending if it is a 360 degree camera you will see a bit of a weird slice if the camera is held at the stitch point. I noticed it a few times when it was on the bricks
3 year old channel? Why am i only seeing this now. Mate, we should have more of channel like this & uploaded daily for all new homeowner to check
Steel lintel over the garage opening, how good is the galvanising at resisting corrosion over the years or decades? I'm amazed that steel lintels are still getting exposed to rain, many have corroded & cracked surrounding masonry.
With a "expansion joint" at one end, that's filled with the same mortar as all the rest of the joints.
@@stephenhunter70 I'm old enough & seen enough of these lift a course of bricks weakening the front facade on garages when they were commonly built separate from the house, but these are now an integral part of the house structure.Why do we repeat the mistakes of the past?
@@creditelectric Don't know where you grew up, but where I grew up they were always part of the building structure. I'm 58
@@stephenhunter70 Melbourne, never heard of or seen the basketball ring mounted on the brick facade of a garage at the end of driveways?Slam dunks became popular, weight of a teenager hanging off the ring did bring some of these deteriorated facades down.
@@creditelectric Seen both and heard of fatalities from falling bricks etc too.
I didn’t see any weep holes at the bottom of the brick walls. Is that an issue?
It’s got plastic weepas,they’re hard to spot so no issues.
@@Paul-ie8mq I’ll have another look. Cheers.
Very interesting and frightening video. Tradies love render for obvious reasons. Thanks for the effort.
wow.... no idea why you were in my feed.... but I enjoyed your video and watched it all. You know your stuff.
isnt the bathroom meant to have a floor waste? i couldnt see any in the video
Can’t see one either. And it can’t run into the shower because it’s an elevated base.
Bro needs to read audiobooks, i want to hear about bilbo baggins non-compliance... unbeleivable!
I started my painting business working for budget builders. I will never touch a builder again. We get stuck having to fix so many things. Nothing will be straight when concrete hasn't had the correct time to cure.
At the end of the day trades don't get paid properly. This is because people buy these budget homes. We are always owed money from 3 houses before.
My opinion is only structural should be defected. At the end of the day you get what you pay for. $250k is not alot to build something new.
To put this in context, I worked for a builder who was high end. Waited 45 days for concrete to cure. Everything was checked before next stage happened. The builder paid us 3 times more then a budget builder and the work was easier to do because everything was done properly. But a home owner would be paying 700k to get this exact house built.The difference is in 20 years, it will be standing strong.
Why is the foundation so low to the ground? Does it not rain as much there? Where are the weep holes between the bricks?
roughly how much does it cost to get an inspection done like this? should this be done prior to hand over or over the course of the build?
Missed a great opportunity with the music in the background as you were having a look at the brick work at the garage.
The song :"Love isnt always on time"
You could have sang: These bricks arent all inline
So what will happen to this place now?
We need a sequel!
@3:32 nice fitting background music with 'Hold the line' from Toto !!
it hurts to see all those mistakes
Is this in Victoria??
Marong is just outside Bendigo in central Vic.
Like mention before where the weep holes in the brickwork, Brickwork is a shocker how would this ever pass code, the amount mortar still within the bricks are shit.
I want to get this gentleman to do various inspections on my upcoming reno, but I'm worried that even when he picks up the phone and I describe the job he will already start with the "or more gord" and I will be gutted before he even sees the job. 😢 I'm addicted to this channel! Keep it up.
You need to do more explanations on what you are seeing fow the newbies.
How do they put this work right, do they render this brickwork or clad it?
Nope.....the house is made for sale; the buyer just moves in and 5 years later moves on.....that's how it's always been......being too fussy is for millionaires......they haven't got a buyer yet and it will be sold once the final details are finished......a lot can happen with the finishing touches..
Thats your camera mate not the brick lines
Anyone know a good renderer? Poor bricks!
What’s with the Dow pipe at the rear. No angle to hug the line of building, is that compliant?
Dow pipe? Do you mean downpipe?
as a noob in all this, what actually happens now with all the defects?, specially with those bricks down the bottom on the concrete?
all those horrible black bricks too
This is just terrible.
Imagine coming home each night and having to look at this crap.😢
Not only looking at it … then working for the next 40 years to pay for something that will only last 10 years !
Cowboy builders have reoccurring nightmares about this guy. Builder runs and hides , then hears solid footsteps " what do we have here , naughty little builder hiding in the closet, which is ... non compliant "
The man who trained me in construction always told me how you would like it to be in and around your own house, that's how you should do it on every other job.
And if it didn't go fast enough according to the boss I always said that quality just takes time and if he wasn't satisfied with my work he should just fire me, this may sound tough but I worked for the same boss for 35 years and always had to go to customers who were too demanding according to my boss, and I always enjoyed my work there because these people just wanted good and neat work that they paid for and in these 35 years I have never had any complaints about my work because I considered every job as if it was in my own house.
Nowadays most employees no longer have a sense of pride in their work and some colleagues have no idea what they are actually doing, they want to go home as soon as possible when the day is over and be able to tell the boss how much they have done that day, it is not about quantity but about quality. A good construction worker is never out of work and can earn a nice penny in construction as I did and look back with pride on my time in construction and now enjoy my retirement.
Please to a follow up!
I feel confused about the water proofing near the doorways. I always thought waterproofing was only required/done around in the shower and around the bath and such. Unless it is a wet room, I didn’t ever hear that water proofing to for the entire bathroom
Wow, talk about thrown together.
The first bit that got me, but not mentioned, were those joins in the brickwork, like part of the building is an add-on.
Weird.
Whats the reasoning behind the split brick beam? I've never seen anything like that
Split brick beam?
The insulation install in the roof cavity is terrible too. The builder/supervisor obviously doesn't care.
Problem is its installed before lights are fitted, and the sparky would throw it all out the way for light clearance without giving a shit how they leave it.
There is so much "not my trade so I don't care" attitude in building, probably the least collaborative industry around, despite the fact that it's also probably one of the most diverse in terms of different professions working towards the same end goal
@@ashlogan2049 The electrician did all right. Do not cover spotlights and spotlight voltage transformers with insulation.
@test143000 yes, I know. But they always leave a mess. Tell me the sparky ever thinks about where that insulation ends up once he moves it. I've seen it, entire batts missing for 1 downlight
The certifier/inspector should care about the insulation. It's a key part of the house
do you ever come across homes with minimal issues, aka well built/finished?
are there any homes that are built poroply
Mate thats not bad come up to Newcastle lol
😅
Really hard to see the deviations off straight in the brickwork due to the curvature of the lens and camera movement. Place a straight edge next to them so it can seen on camera.
Does anyone use a set square anymore?
What's that ????
I have a brick crew and this is shocking!
However why over east does the concreter not to footings to gauge? I’ve seen it many times over there. Split on the first course to get to gauge?
I had a place built in the UK 35 years ago and they forgot to put the entire internal cavity wall on one full aspect, only found on 'lock up' inspection.
Weep holes have been made redundant....apparently.
FFS!
Carry on.
You’ll never see any in a rendered house.
They’re hard to see. They do have weep holes. Plastic covers.
You know it’s bad when Lord Vader is completing a roof inspection🤣.
Great upload to my untrained eye it looked okay ,then you explaining the problems was shocking . Thanks for uploading
That’s actually a pretty good job😂😂seen worst very worst
I think ive laid straighter course of blocks in bluestone.
I would say we had one of the worst brick jobs done.
The biggest issue was the fact that the brikkie cut the termite barrier to step it up a level on the same wall. Leading to a breach in the termite barrier. Luckily the builder has commenced rectification works - a retriculation system and termite beeds.
Job satisfaction for this guy must be high. Clients would love him.
no way. this job would give me ptsd lol
What's the rectification here? Fix it? Pay less fees? No payment required?
Hi everyone, is the perpendicular joints tolerance 15mm or 20mm in NSW?
Thank you
Looks like the algorithm has blessed you. Time to allocate more time and resources to your social presence.
So what happens to that brickwork, do they knock it down and start again?. I'm having the same problems with my brickwork, mine is a custom build and now the builder has gone bust.
I can only speak of the brickwork in the video as I am a bricklayer and could only take so much of the video before I had to stop. Tbh - the work isn’t that bad. Given you highlighted the consistency of the colour of the mud - which from the screen looks completely fine - that the bed joints go ‘down and then straight again’, and given the fact there are more pressing issues that you just skip over, it seems you aren’t all that educated on how bricklaying actually works. This makes me wonder how switched on you are about all the other trades, and whether this channel gives a decent insight to would be home builders or whether it’s just a smear campaign to fulfil your own desires.
For all those wondering, zooming in on things and saying ‘look at this’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad work. Try and find something more objective and informative before you jump on tradies for turning out average, but not bad, work.
Yes and there are also standards of how far back one has to stand.
I would love to inspect some of his houses if he has built any at all.
As another bricky, i agree with you!
Watching this is like walking onto an escalator that’s not working , takes a bit for the brain to adjust , knock down and start again.
How much would it cost 💲 to get it fixed?????
Have you inspected any homes made from ICF blocks? Do you think these homes are less susceptible to issues?
Check to see if the brick seal flashing is above the bricks is actually attached that will really blow your mind....
There must have been a huge sale on class 2 screws. It seems like they are being used everywhere.
How did you learn everything you needed to know to get into this job?, I’d love to get into it
Do you have a reccomendation for a building inspector in Hobart Tas? Currently building and would like to take a pro to the handover inspection at the very least.
Get him I reckon.
@ew8597 I would but! flights and accommodation might be out of the budget 🤣
@@Superjeanbean1736 if you spending that much on a house price might not be something to cheap out on as cost more in the long run
Good afternoon, how can I find a good skill building inspector in Melbourne Vic 3020..please give me info....my builder has fixed those faulty jobs...(7 years building warranty, this my last chance.
Can anyone please tell me how you know they are class 2 or 3 / plaster board screws?