Downstairs toilet - where?

Waterlily24

Our house looks awful from the outside because of the extension, the bricks are a completely different colour even though they are the same brick. We wanted to do the extension with blocks and render the whole house but the council wouldn't allow it, they said there would be nothing to stop us rendering it once it had all been passed!!!!!!!! We haven't bothered because of the cost.

We also had problems because the bricks were a slightly different size (depth) so we had to have a vertical join rather than a staggered one.

Angry_Bear

Hong_Kong_Phooey. wrote: »

Only upstairs, a house of that size is probably a link.

Wookey is right, it's a detached and there's more than enough ground space to allow the extension I think (would have to measure up to be 100% sure).

The outside of the house is quite ugly (old half dash/half brick monstrosity) so I've considered getting it all rendered as an option anyway.

Wookey

Waterlily24 wrote: »

Our house looks awful from the outside because of the extension, the bricks are a completely different colour even though they are the same brick. We wanted to do the extension with blocks and render the whole house but the council wouldn't allow it, they said there would be nothing to stop us rendering it once it had all been passed!!!!!!!! We haven't bothered because of the cost.

We also had problems because the bricks were a slightly different size (depth) so we had to have a vertical join rather than a staggered one.

This is the problem if you add onto something that is a bit older, dimensions change from manufacturer to manufacturer as they upgrade production facilities or if the original one is even still in business, the colours can be different from materials used to the fact that bricks will show signs of weathering and even after the new ones have weathered a bit the look can be totally different. At least with a mix of old brick and new marble pebble dashing or painted plaster (or vice versa) it can really help set off the look of an extension, but as they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.