Electrician drilled hole into brick wall - wrong place

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Hello, I’m having my house rewired. The electrician for some reason has put a cable running from under my floorboards into the wall to the outside, when I didn’t want this.

he has admitted that he made a mistake and can remove it. He said he can use silicone and brick dust for the hole in my brick wall.

this doesn’t feel like it’s making good and I now have a hole that lets warm air leak out and cold air leak in.

does anyone know how to repair this hole in my brick wall?

thank you

It depends how big the hole is and where?

It’s outside my kitchen wall, from the inside to outside. It’s about 2 inches

I'm not sure but bumping

Thank you for bumping!

@RedHelenB do you have experience with this? :(

You have three options that I can think of. Replace the damaged brick in the outside wall, and re-plaster internally.

Fill the hole outside with brick coloured mortar, and make good inside.

Fill the hole with silicon sealant and brick dust as suggested.

Electrician here, it happens, thankfully not too often.

Silicone and brick dust is a complete bodge, if the brick is shattered then cut the brick out and replace, bit of a chore, but has to be done or fill hole with mortar coloured (you can get the colouring in most DIY stores) to match the brick.

Internally fill with Easyfil 60, which is a fast setting plaster rather than a filler and sand smooth to the existing wall surface, then paint.

I will do everything making good wise for my customers except paintwork.

The silicone will block the hole once it's been applied, the main thing is whether it's aesthetically ok for you.
I'm not sure I agree with cutting out and replacing the brick, it would depend whether you can get a decent match on the brick and mortar, might end up looking even worse then just filling the hole and more effort.

Asking my ds

Silicone will eventually separate from the brick at the edges, if you are looking to use a plastic sealant use something like CT1 which is available in brick red.

Whether you cut a brick out depends on how damaged it is, if it's blown (ie has a crater on the outside) then you may need to swap it. Worst case you can take another from an inconspicuous place use that and just put a standard brick in the less obvious location - you can often harvest a brick from up in the loft where it won't notice