Or is someone being petty?!

[Kroot]

We’ve just had some extension work done, and I’ve received a letter saying the planning department have received a complaint saying our new brickwork doesn’t match the existing house. It does! It’s as close as we could get it.

AIBU?
YABU - the bricks are different and the person is right to have complained?
YANBU - the bricks are very similar, the person complaining is being petty (for some unknown reason).

Small note on the wall.
Piss off you petty fucker...

Our new bricks match our old bricks better than the neighbour's extension. However ours got cleaned before the job was finished. Brick acid I think.
Neighbour's isn't finished yet though.

We had our brick match and tile approved by building control If I remember right.
Their new bricks look like our bricks. But I know that you can see colour difference between houses all but at the same time using a constant supply of the same bricks.
Once you start looking then you'll see how unique bricks are.

If the new bricks are the ones of the right then I would be rejecting this as the planning officer. Those bricks and mortar are totally different and the new bricks look to be about the cheapest you can find leading me to think no effort had been done to make a match.

Way off a match, they will have complained on good grounds. Could you not have got reclaimed bricks?

Thank you all for your replies. Planning officer inspected the bricks and said he had absolutely no concerns.

Looks like the complainant found this thread.🙄

I think it’s the cement that’s such a different colour that is the issue

That is a fairly bad match, IMO. Agree mostly to do with the mortar, but the texture of the bricks is very different too.

Thanks, but the planning officer didn’t think so. So 🤷‍♀️

What counts under planning - especially if not a conservation area - is not always the same as what looks matched. But it is good they were happy with it as it can be expensive if not!

It’s mostly the cement that looks different because it’s new. My dad always mixed a bit of ash from the fire in with his cement if he was attaching it to our (very old) house so it didn’t stand out like a sore thumb.