Are these bricks faulty?'

[GriseldaChop]

We're buying a new build house and the bricks, from a distance look like they've been splattered with cement. I've not been close up yet but it is like this sporadically all over the house. The lady in the sales office assures us it is the type of brick (she did say the name but I can't remember it or I would have googled!). There are three or four different styles of bricks so far in the development and other houses do have the same bricks. I took a pic from around the back of the devpt, so it's not the best photo! What do you think?

Looks like efflorescence (salt ) coming out but it’s hard to tell exactly from the photo .

salt coming out would also cover the mortar and not just the bricks.

Well of the sales woman is implying it is a feature of that brick type it looks pretty poor! You need to get up close to it.

I think that’s salt effervesce too op. Google some images, it wouldn’t necessarily come out in the mortar too. Generally it just goes away with time. It’s very common on new materials.

Thanks for the replies, I don't think it's salt coming out as it individual bricks. Ive googled some images and it's not the same.
I'm going to pop along tomorrow afternoon I think while the building site is open and ask to look closer up! The houses closest to the show home are the same and there is one opposite being built which looks the same so I guessing it must be the brick.
Hopefully it will weather and look less obvious, I'm not too bothered by it but my mum is not impressed when I showed her the house and it's made he think about it which I wasn't before! Although she is known for worrying/over exaggerating!

I've enlarged it, and to me it doesn't look typical of efflorescence. It is too white and too localised.

I suppose there is a faint chance it might happen if there were chips of chalk in the sand, or if there were wet spots on the wall, perhaps from a leak, but they're too close to be at wall ties so I don't see what would cause it.

Sometimes you get individual bricks badly affected, where they have been at the top (or bottom) of a stack and have got very wet waiting to be used; but the patches aren't even on individual bricks.

Take some close ups, and look at the other walls and houses in the development.

"The type of brick" is nonsense. I live in an area where, traditionally, individual hand-made bricks were dipped in white clay at one end before firing, and used to create patterns or herringbone effects; but that is not what you've got.

Thanks, I'll try and get some more pics tomorrow and ask for the name of brick again so that I can Google that again too. It's all over the house and the other ones I've seen, not just in one area. There are four different styles of bricks being used on the development. Im wondering if the white bit just looks really white as it's new.

Look at the planning permission docs which are normally online, the name of the brick is listed on the materials plan/schedule, that would enable you to search the brick name.