The builders have used orange bricks for the new porch when our house bricks are beige/greyish

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DH says he doesn't mind but I think it looks odd.
AIBU to have an expectation that they would match the bricks or should we have asked especially?

Obviously they've used the cheaper (Orange) bricks. The ones you describe will be more.... You should have mentioned this when agreeing a price

We have red bricks for foundations could it be that-no way was k paying £1 a brick to be underground?

Engineering bricks for foundations are usually a blue/grey or black colour. Not red. These will be some cheap left over bricks from a previous job they will be trying to fob off.
You should have agreed type and colour of bricks, including the mortar colour during the quote period.
Wall ties are little metal strips used to 'tie' the outer brick facing wall to the inner blockwork wall. They will hopeful have provided some sort of structural movement joint to tie your porch to the existing house, and I would also check if you can see a damp proof course or membrane. This will look like black plastic sheet or 'tar' about 2courses up from ground level.
Good luck.

Generally, the builders ask you to pick the bricks to match? Never heard of a builder just putting their own in? If nothing can be done now, you could always render over the top, but there is an obvious extra cost.

Dh says the builder looked at the existing bricks and said, "oh they are such and such a type" which gave the impression he intended to match them.
Good idea about checking the quote thanks.

Ps, engineering bricks are used below the damp proof membrane because they are resistant to the moist ground condition. I would be worried if red soft clay bricks had been used.

Yes...there is a membrane and a layer of blue bricks and yes metal strips ( just been outside to look)
I'm quite surprised some people think we should have known to ask. Clearly now it should have been discussed but as someone said surely the onus to bring it up is on the professional who does it all the time than the customer who does it once in a blue moon. I would have thought it fairly obvious to match the bricks unless it was a decorative feature!

We've had builders in recently. They made some ridiculous assumptions about what we'd want. I got them to redo it every time. There was zero communication from them and they constantly forgot things. I want to slap them.

Builder and I spent weeks finding bricks that matched when we built our extension. He was a perfectionist. You can't see the joins anywhere. He even re-did the whole roof so that the visible tiles all matched rather than having new and old next to each other.

And rather than ties he notched out the existing bricks so there's no line between the buildings, even on the side nobody can see.

Did you go for the cheapest quote, by any chance?

He has texted back about batches of bricks and difficulty in matching but this isn't a problem with matching...ours are LBC cotswold appatently and his are ORANGE! They have not even tried! The people who did our conservatory 5- 6 years ago had no trouble getting the right bricks! They are not quite the same but close enough not to notice. Sigh. Was hoping he was not going to fob us off with a crap excuse.
Not cheapest no.

That's shit, I'd push for the glass you chose as well.

They ought to match, as an absolute given. The builder should not have started laying non-matching bricks without your explicit consent. My DS works for a large building company, delivering bricks, etc. There have been times when he's turned up on site, spotted the mismatch, and advised the builder to order a different brick instead. Put your DH's foot down firmly.

YANBU, and I wouldn't have thought of asking for a match, would have assumed it was done as a matter of course.

We have just had some building work done on our house, and I was surprised that our builder and architect could identify by sight the exact sand pit that had been used when making the mortar for our decades old house, and bought the same again.

Have you paid for the work?

Unless I am paying top whack and even then, unfortunately you always need to keep an eye on anyone doing anything in your house. I'm a pure pain but always offer a bacon butty so not bad overall.

With okder houses Sometimes it is impossible to get an exact match because the quarry that produced the bricks has closed, but you builder is taking the mickey.have him take them down and start again

I think you need to demand that he redoes the brick work with bricks that reasonable match the house. It doesn't sound like its a huge area and an experienced brickie is fast. Get it sorted now though and don't allow them to proceed until they've rectified it.

We have not paid.
See the picture. There is no way they are the same brick but not a good match.

Oh my god. They should have cut out the old bricks and tied the new ones in. That is horrendous. Fuck me - my students did a better job on their first brickwork two weeks ago.

I'm not a builder but that work doesn't look good at all - brick match or quality of work.

When we had our extension done we had to choose the closest match for bricks as they didn't make the same ones any more. The builders, us and the council building regs person were all involved in the choice.

Have you paid for the work yet OP? If you haven't I would hold off until this is sorted.

That wants pulling down ASAP. MY 5 year old understands bricklaying better than this lot.

I've Just seen that you haven't paid. Don't!
It looks like a cowboy job. Hopefully someone here can advise you where to go next. Council building regs maybe?

That is a cowboy build.Do noit part with a penny.The half bricks are the wrong way round! You should not be able to see the frog at all!They are not straight and are they tied into the wall?

The half bricks shouldn't be half bricks they should be full bricks that are mortared into the existing wall after removing the old bricks.