Tip for everyone. Was recently talking to a brickie at the estate we are building in. When I told him we were using natural mortar, he said good. The builders won't tell you but the off white mortar goes off (sets) quicker. You can get hairline cracks as a result.
I suppose it depends on how long it takes for the brickies to use a batch of the mortar once they have mixed it up.
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Browse Forums Building A New House  14 Aug 2010 2,100 QLD Gold Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 224Aug 29, 2017 8:15 pm  Becs CoralWe have used PGHs Eclipse. We were very lucky to get our brick of choice in the standard range before it was discontinued. They were just finished being cleaned yesterday to will need to get some more pics. We wanted a black brick and love them, although in some lights they throw off a brownish tinge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bec, did they do a decent clean before handover? We have eclipse too and they haven't cleaned them yet. We are just over a week from our final walk through. Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 225Aug 29, 2017 8:26 pm  Tamara1975 Becs CoralWe have used PGHs Eclipse. We were very lucky to get our brick of choice in the standard range before it was discontinued. They were just finished being cleaned yesterday to will need to get some more pics. We wanted a black brick and love them, although in some lights they throw off a brownish tinge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bec, did they do a decent clean before handover? We have eclipse too and they haven't cleaned them yet. We are just over a week from our final walk through. 14 Aug 2010 2,100 QLD Gold Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 226Aug 29, 2017 8:35 pm Becs Coral Tamara1975 Becs CoralWe have used PGHs Eclipse. We were very lucky to get our brick of choice in the standard range before it was discontinued. They were just finished being cleaned yesterday to will need to get some more pics. We wanted a black brick and love them, although in some lights they throw off a brownish tinge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bec, did they do a decent clean before handover? We have eclipse too and they haven't cleaned them yet. We are just over a week from our final walk through. They did the clean of the bricks only a week or so after they finished bricking. It came up pretty good at that point. After a little while some of them got an orangey look to them. Apparently it is sometimes a reaction to the acid wasn't. They have since come back and cleaned it with something that reverses the oranging! OK. They haven't cleaned ours at all. You can see how bad they look in this pic. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 19 Dec 2016 5 VIC Junior Member 25 May 2018 1 New Poster 19 Jul 2017 20 Junior Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 229Jul 11, 2018 4:49 pm Becs CoralWe have used PGHs Eclipse. We were very lucky to get our brick of choice in the standard range before it was discontinued. They were just finished being cleaned yesterday to will need to get some more pics. We wanted a black brick and love them, although in some lights they throw off a brownish tinge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The brick looks amazing. Do you mind sharing the other color selection? Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 230Jul 11, 2018 5:04 pm Mlestari Becs CoralWe have used PGHs Eclipse. We were very lucky to get our brick of choice in the standard range before it was discontinued. They were just finished being cleaned yesterday to will need to get some more pics. We wanted a black brick and love them, although in some lights they throw off a brownish tinge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The brick looks amazing. Do you mind sharing the other color selection? Look great, Love the colour, are they are painted brick? Or colour all the way through? 19 Dec 2016 5 VIC Junior Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 231Jul 12, 2018 9:12 am Gran SassoHi there, Interesting to see how others are going with their brick choices. We opted for Austral Char Bricks. We have a lot of cracked and chipped bricks which are a beveled not a straight cut like the sample bricks we were shown. We’ve also gone with off white mortar which really makes the brickwork pop out. As it turns out we have about a 15% wastage amount due to defective quality and finish. A lot of the supplied bricks do not conform to current standards and are not suitable for laying both structurally and aesthetically. Fortunately we were allowed to use our own brickie who is fussy and won’t lay defective bricks even though the supplier claims they are within tolerance standards. They are clearly defective. Anyway for anyone going for a dark painted face brick, be sure that you have a really good brickie, as they are harder to lay due to there colour and to hide chips etc. Also they more prone to scaring during the acid cleaning proces post laying. Overall though they do look great and we have, and are constantly getting people telling us and our brickie how good they look. Also our builder is having all the wasted bricks sorted out after addressing our dissatisfaction for a sub standard product in which we are paying a premium for. Even though we won’t be using Austral for our next build either as they obviously don’t care, but that’s another story... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 19 Dec 2016 5 VIC Junior Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 233Jul 19, 2018 3:34 pm Frankie21Hi, great pics everyone, is there anyone out there that has used Austral Industrial Iron? We”re thinking of choosing this brick for our new build. Would love to see some pics. Hi there, Don’t have any picks for you though when we went to our local austral bricks agent they gave us address to go and check out certain new builds as so we could see the outcome ourselves. In addition we too were initially considering Iron though we decided on Char instead. It was a hard voice as they’re both great colours. Just make sure you keep an eye and stay on top of your building site supervisor to ensure the batch of bricks you get are not defective. We had to replace a large percentage of ours as per my previous post. All the best! 19 Dec 2016 5 VIC Junior Member 09 Nov 2017 2 New Poster 20 Feb 2017 141 VIC Senior Member Re: What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell 240Oct 15, 2018 4:40 pm Hiya Can you tell me what colour mortar that is? We're in the process of selecting bricks and I am seriously tearing my hair out about what to pick (period home so main colour and a contrast course through the centre). I keep going back to the Daniel Robertson ranges. Any advice appreciated! Build insta: https://www.instagram.com/ourtreechangebuild/ Yes, we have passed tender stage so will wait until the colour appointment. Thanks so much! 2 739 Have you had a look at hybrid flooring? It looked to me more realistic than the vinyl plank and is apparently 100% waterproof. The ones I liked (mid range?) were about… 1 2810
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