What bricks did you choose - Show and Tell

Lyn · Nov 12, 2007 7:54 pm

And a few more pics of the Austral sample walls:

Burwood Blue - look a lot darker in real life
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff151/melbournelyn/burwoodblue.jpg

Lawson - one of the most commonly used bricks in Melbourne
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff151/melbournelyn/lawson.jpg

Weathered Red - looks really good if you have the right style house
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff151/melbournelyn/weathered-red.jpg

Worthwhile getting some addresses from the brick companies and doing a drive by. We really liked the Austral Colonial red/blue in the brochure and on the sample board ... drove by three houses built with that brick and they ALL looked terrible.

jido · Mar 10, 2009 9:55 pm

bump.......

I'm kinda hoping someone has selkirk greystone hidden in their treasure trove of piccies......

eho · Mar 10, 2009 10:04 pm

Looks like a lot of people choose austral over boral! Why on earth did I pick boral??!! :cry:

stevep79 · Mar 11, 2009 7:55 am

eho

Looks like a lot of people choose austral over boral! Why on earth did I pick boral??!! :cry:

because it's all down to personal taste! i really didn't like anything Austral had to offer, apart from the roof tiles.

i'd show what bricks we went for with boral but for some reason the sample on their website and photos of houses with the brick on their website look absolutely nothing like the display wall at boral or a house that has the bricks :lol:

bit annoying

petal · Mar 11, 2009 11:51 am

eho

Looks like a lot of people choose austral over boral! Why on earth did I pick boral??!! :cry:

Plus, don't forget, that with a lot of volume builders, you don't get a choice! Even with PD, you have to choose from the Austral range if you build with Prestige, and if you build with PD Lifestyle, you have to choose from the Boral range!

eho · Mar 11, 2009 12:15 pm

I was reflecting on my decision to use a light colour brick from boral. I had some bricks issue during my build earlier. Since it was a relatively rare incident, I was wondering if a different colour choice or even supplier could have made a difference :oops:

House-To-Be · Mar 11, 2009 12:26 pm

eho

I was reflecting on my decision to use a light colour brick from boral. I had some bricks issue during my build earlier. Since it was a relatively rare incident, I was wondering if a different colour choice or even supplier could have made a difference :oops:

We went with Boral, that was the choice given by our builder (PD) and we've had no problems at all with our bricks and had a fantastic brickie. But our bricks are darker (Jarrah). I think some people have had problems with their 'light' austral bricks, so maybe it's just a light brick thing not necessarily a company thing

Stormy · Mar 11, 2009 1:52 pm

We were very lucky with Henley, in that there were no restrictions (other than cost) as to what brick company you could choose from which they had in their colour selection place. We could have chosen from Boral, Austral, Selkirk, PGH (at that stage...not sure if they still do) and Daniel Robertson.

In the end, after much looking and drive-by's, we settled on Daniel Robertson's Hawthorn Tan Blend. There are 8 pallets sitting on my block, and waiting for the rest to be delivered. It was an expensive choice, but one thing I wasn't going to compromise on, and luckily, I didn't have to. Can't wait to see them go up!

building.our.first.house · Mar 11, 2009 3:04 pm

We use POA from PGH.

sha · Mar 11, 2009 4:47 pm

Ours are Austal 'Martens'

-Sha

yvette72 · Mar 11, 2009 8:23 pm

we had boral woodstock range they were called sandstone gold

jido · Mar 11, 2009 8:36 pm

Here's what we are planning to use. Selkirk greystone. It seems an age since we chose them back in June last year. M3tricon changed their supplier at our 501 appointment so these were our second choice.

fairy blue · Mar 11, 2009 9:04 pm

How weird!! This is the thread that came up when I did a google search, last october, for our brick choice...This is the thread that was my introduction to homeone!! And here it is and I'm posting on it!! :z:

lisanne · Mar 11, 2009 9:09 pm

Boral Brushwood

shazburger · Mar 11, 2009 9:14 pm

We have Boral Tanami bricks...these were standard...we were going to upgrade but so happy that we did not.

FND · Mar 11, 2009 9:16 pm

We are planning to use Austral Nougat Bricks. We love the light silvery colour of the bricks

kek · Mar 11, 2009 9:30 pm

Austral Harvest Malt. Mortar is off-white.

It was from the standard range for our builder - actually, we had heaps of choices. Deciding was tough, so we started by eliminating all the ones we hated. That took out anything light, anything red, anything resembling Mission Brown, anything with tumbled edges or a really uneven texture and then we got down to deciding what we liked from what was left.

On the advice of a colour consultant friend, we chose the brick first, then worked everything else around it.

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Eager · Mar 11, 2009 9:41 pm

petal

eho

Looks like a lot of people choose austral over boral! Why on earth did I pick boral??!! :cry:

Plus, don't forget, that with a lot of volume builders, you don't get a choice! Even with PD, you have to choose from the Austral range if you build with Prestige, and if you build with PD Lifestyle, you have to choose from the Boral range!

Apparently, so I've heard, M3tricon are now using Selkirk instead of (but maybe as well as) Austral. They were having supply problems with Austral, so the story goes, so they switched to Selkirk....and now M3tricon have supply problems with Selkirk....so I've heard. Can anyone confirm this?

Anyway, the stalwarts around here will know that our bricks are Austral 'Latrobe.' We chose them because it was what was on the display home, and we thought they were good enough. They were Category 1, but I also heard they were recently regarded as Category 3??? Mortar is natural, flush finish.

Pics for the benefit of newer members:

thorney · Mar 11, 2009 9:48 pm

Boral - Ripponlea

Pic from display wall (and yes stevep79, the Boral website gallery of bricks does not reflect their true looks)

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/diamondzoe/IMGA0229.jpg

And l found a photo l took ages ago of a house we drove by who went with Ripponlea:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/diamondzoe/IMGA0219.jpg

Now if my house comes up looking like that l will be absolutely stoked!

jido · Mar 11, 2009 10:11 pm

Eager

petal

eho

Looks like a lot of people choose austral over boral! Why on earth did I pick boral??!! :cry:

Apparently, so I've heard, M3tricon are now using Selkirk instead of (but maybe as well as) Austral. They were having supply problems with Austral, so the story goes, so they switched to Selkirk....and now M3tricon have supply problems with Selkirk....so I've heard. Can anyone confirm this?

yikes dont say that! Our original choice was Austral until we got to 501 in June last year. We were then told they didn't use Austral anymore and had to choose from Se1kirk. Guess we will find out in a couple of weeks when our bricks arrive!! ::surprise::