False advertising? Already exchanged contracts - Any advice?

pinkteapot

OP's link in full to make it easier for people:

http://imgur.com/a/BANak

First image is the CAD drawing they bought from. Remaining images are the reality.

Have to say I agree it looks naff. To me it looks like it goes with the house it matches, so the whole area behind is their garden.

Have you asked your solicitor for advice?

Dan-Dan

pinkteapot wrote: »

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Have to say I agree it looks naff. To me it looks like it goes with the house it matches, so the whole area behind is their garden.

It is so easy for people to sit here , telling the OP to suck it up , and no big deal etc , but that does look naff , it also looks like it doesnt belong , in any way , to the owner of the house its attached to (the OP`s) , it looks , as pink describes as if it belongs to the correctly coloured bricked house

poor

I`d be livid

tiggerbodhi

Does look very odd, considering the cost to the builder at this stage of changing it would keep badgering them, its about a 1000 bricks and a couple of days labour for a brick layer to re-do it, less than £2K in reality.

AdrianC

So the wall joins two houses, made of different brick.

There are three choices here.
Use the same brick as the house on the left. Will look gently odd where it meets the right.
Use the same brick as the house on the right. Will look gently odd where it meets the left.
Use the same brick as the house being met at each end, and join them in the middle. Will look VERY odd in the middle.

Really, they're damned if they do, damned if they don't. TBH, I really don't see a major problem in it, and there's no way that the initial picture won't be qualified with "artist's impression" or similar.

Dan-Dan

I`m quite sure , if someone suitably qualified cared enough , they could have arranged some sort of `pillar` half way or something

It smacks of doing something without a great deal of care on the end result

pinkteapot

Personally I think the better option was the multi-coloured wall (half and half).

Neither solution (wall all one colour to match one house, or half and half) is perfect, but I'd be royally annoyed with what they've done too.

OP - you really need to get your solicitor's advice on whether you have any rights. Of course the builder and sales person will tell you it's fine. They know you've exchanged and aren't going to spend any money unless they have to.

If you have no rights, you can at least change it in five years. I know that's small consolation.

EDIT: agree with poster above, they could have gone half and half with a contrast colour pillar in the middle - maybe yellow brick to match the contrast trim around the windows of the houses.

emjaybeee

Thanks everyone for your comments, thoughts and opinions. We are quite overwhelmed by all of the feedback.

I am ringing our solicitor up shortly and she's already in an agreement that it doesn't look right.

We are thinking of dropping into the show room and out of curiosity asking for the development plans to find out if the colour of the brick wall is 'official' and if it was designed like that.

AdrianC

emjaybeee wrote: »

We are thinking of dropping into the show room and out of curiosity asking for the development plans to find out if the colour of the brick wall is 'official' and if it was designed like that.

Does the council's planning site show anything?

pinkteapot

Two differently coloured walls meeting in the middle:
https://www.acclaimimages.com/photos-images/brick_wall_in_two_halves_of_different_brick.html

fairy_lights

I seem to be in a minority here but I don't think it looks particularly bad. Yes it's a different shade of brown but it's not jarringly different. The wall is attached to your house, but not part of your house, so I don't think it's odd that it's a different colour.