New build warranty and reclaimed bricks

[Post and beam]

I believe i have read somewhere on here that getting a warranty on a new build might be problematic if we used reclaimed bricks to clad our Sips house.

Is this correct or nonsense, did i understand it correctly?

Regards

keith

[Conor]

No, it's only if they have been used as load bearing - as they can't really be used as structural elements (so said my architect and SE when I wanted to do our basement walls from reclaimed bricks).

[PeterW]

+1 to this - rainscreen it is fine, anything structural has to be done in a known quantity product 

[Post and beam]

So cladding the outside is non structural. I suppose not if its not holding anything else up.

The source for these bricks appear to be very consientious and grade out the bricks that aren't up to standard.  I have heard all the stories about the really bad bricks being hidden in the pallet.

[Temp]

I was shown pictures of reclaimed bricks when considering them for our build.  Looked great but when I got samples they were incredibly heavy, cold and waxy. They felt like death, really gave me the shivers. Very very strange. 

[PeterW]

I’ve done a few with reclaimed and tbh unless you can get them all from the same location and have them all onsite together so they get blended then I would look to a new brick that looks reclaimed or old. I’ve had nightmares with TP cottage blend as they are inconsistent, and as @Temp says they can be a bit heavy - they can also be a mare to cut easily..!

TBS have a nice selection - worth looking at for ideas 

 

https://www.traditionalbrickandstone.co.uk/bricks