All and all you're just another brick in the wall

Well yet again up to visit the house to get a few of the plumbers questions answered and change where our mixer for the bath was going.  We had initially had it on the back wall and after I looked at the specs of the bath and the plinth around the bath we would have been trying to lean 1050mm over the bath to turn the tap on!  So it has now been placed on the wall at one end on the bath. 

In regards to the title of this post.  We may be changing our brick we are using on the house.  Slightly annoyed is the most PC term I can use on this blog as the Austral Nougat in a single height we had decided on may have to change.  The Austral depot here in Tauranga had known of us using the brick on our house months ago and when our builder got them to confirm the number of bricks 3 weeks ago he was assured they had enough bricks for our build. 

Then at the 11th hour Joe got an email to explain that although the depot has enough of our selected brick they were from different batches and that there is a colour difference between them but they deemed it acceptable as bricks in the same batch will vary somewhat too.  I am again annoyed to learn this today as I had investigated the bricks with them and was told to come down to view what they had in stock closer to the time when the house is underway.  We did that a few weeks ago and asked to see what they had in stock and the guy there diddled around and tried to give us a sample pack of 3 bricks and we got bored standing around waiting for the boss to get off the phone to speak about the bricks and the mortar.  The other guy almost ignored our request to be shown the bricks and couldn't offer us a solution to doing a mortar colour check to see which one we wanted to go with. Which is why he said to wait for the boss to get off the phone.  It felt like he didn't want us to look at the bricks as we now know he would have has to tell us they were separate batches.

Anyhoo Joe rang his usual brick supplier and he was up at the site in 5 minutes to offer his help and shot back to the depot and got 2 other types of his product for us to view.  We will see what it is like in the daylight but I am happy with one of the samples he has dropped off.  So all wasn't a utter train smash and I was surprisingly unfazed by it all especially as it is the most major material choice to be made on the house.  So depending on things we may tell Austral to insert rectangular clay objects in their posterior to be not so PC and also G rated about it.