Expert advice.

We had a friend (brick layer) come out on the weekend to inspect our home and got his opinion on a few things we thought looked a bit NQR. The two main things are the brick laying at the master window and the lintel at the back of the garage being bowed. He agreed that the master wall brick laying is bowed and showed us that the expansion joint is really bowed and some bricks are just too far from the side of the window leaving a big gap. The window is still not installed properly so we can not really tell. The main concern is with the lintel, if it is bowed how can it hold the weight of the bricks? Mortar has been used to fill up the gap between the lintel and the bricks.

We spoke to our SS and he wants to meet us on site on Thursday so that we can express our concerns, we have no doubt that these issues will be resolved and out of courtesy wanted to speak to him first.

We are not experts nor do we pretend to be so we have decided for our own piece of mind to have our own independent inspector come out and give us a report. We do not want to assume things are not being done properly or within regulated guide lines and tolerances, so we will leave it to the experts to sort it out. We felt this was the best coarse of action as we don't want to complain unnecessarily and also want a home built to the standards we expect from Porter Davis.

We will let you know how we go.