Making good (or breaking bad!)

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CIGA are particularly concerned about the appearance of a building that has had retrofit CWI installed.

From CIGA's documentation "Technician’s guide to best practice Version 2.0 - Issued July 2002"

The importance of making good after the installation is completed, cannot be over- emphasised. Leaving the property in the same condition that you found it is the best possible advertisement for the industry, and your best source of new business leads.
Rendered or Tyrolean-faced walls
Special care must be taken with rendered walls; the colour and texture of the render and the type of chip or pebble should be copied as closely as possible.
Colour matching can be carried out using paints or colour dyes, but remember to ask customers if they have any of the original paint Minimise the area you are painting to reduce the repair area.
A mortar based on white cement may be useful for filling holes in a white rendered wall. 

 It sounds like a lot of care an attention goes into finding the exact match to create as seamless finish as possible however  this artisanal care and attention was somewhat missing on the day CWI was installed in our house.

Poor match in material and cosmetic finish.

Poor bond and cracks. The poor match of material leads to different thermal expansion properties and cracks which could cause water ingress. Thank you CWI installer.

More poorly matched render - actually just a bit of porous looking cement
The building probably has  rough cast which has very different properties to a blob of modern cement.
They have not even tried to pain over the holes.

To add insult to injury the CIGA inspector drilled two holes, filled them will unspecified silicone product and left the brick dust on the floor for me to clean up.

CIGA inspector silicone plug. How long is this going to last?
From CIGA's own "Guide to Best Practice for Complaint Handling v7 Oct 2015"
Mortar/ making good.
 It very important to re-instate making good all areas of brickwork / external facings following investigations, it is recommended that making good of masonry should not be of a temporary measure

So I'm marking this is a failure to adhere by CIGA's best practice for both the installer and the CIGA inspector.

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