Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Aug 25, 2015 8:30 pm Hi all, So were about to start building a custom built home and I'm super excited! Were in the process of choosing bricks and roof colour. We are going to go for monument with the roof, garage door, window frames and gutter and am thinking shale grey for the fascia. The brick we like is espresso, but my builder and the lady at our local brick place has expressed concern over the bricks chipping and showing the orange underneath. They have both said any brick with the slurry face just chips and looks bad. I really want a dark brick house as most of the houses in the estate are lighter colour bricks with dark roof (I originally loved this until I discovered dark bricks) and our neighbour the be has a light grey so that's kinda out. Any help on choosing or even success stories with dark brick (espresso, Vic blue, black diamond etc etc) is much appreciated! (We have heard that they can make the brick the colour throughout but that would blow our budget well and truly) Re: Choosing bricks dark preferred. Newbie here help please! 2Aug 25, 2015 8:41 pm Check out my thread (search for "triplets"). We've gone for almost exactly the same colours. Yes, slurry bricks can chip but I think it still looks good as long as the brickie and the cleaner are carefull. I figured I could always get some touch up paint made up if there was anything that really bugged me. Re: Choosing bricks dark preferred. Newbie here help please! 3Aug 26, 2015 7:00 am Ill go have a look now cheers for that matt! I also wondered about getting paint the same colour to touch up Edit- Your house looks amazing! I feel i want to go with my gut and get the dark bricks, i wouldnt be fully satisfied with another colour Re: Choosing bricks dark preferred. Newbie here help please! 4Aug 26, 2015 11:16 am With the dark slurry, you may want to go with a flush or rolled mortar rather than raked to avoid showing through the base colour around the mortar joins. Also the choice of mortar colour will make a difference. If you go with a lighter mortar, colour chipping should be less noticeable as the mortar will dominate more. Re: Choosing bricks dark preferred. Newbie here help please! 5Aug 26, 2015 1:54 pm Thanks for that john! I was wondering if the raked morter would have that effect in showing the orange will definitely go for either flush or rolled! Great point about the lighter morter I didn't know the lighter morter could make it less noticeable. We were going to go for light morter so it's a win win, thank you very much for that info ! Re: Choosing bricks dark preferred. Newbie here help please! 6Aug 28, 2015 6:17 am Hi Teigs1 We love the dark coloured bricks too and decided to go with Austral Metallix Bronze range and an off white mortar. If you want to do a cost comparison please refer to below. As a guide the Burlesque range has the colour of the brick baked through the brick and not just glazed (or coated) on. Hope it helps! http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii548/Liem_Nguyen/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2015-08-28-06-12-44.png build thread: viewtopic.php?t=78328 Dream Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney)! Orpheus Building the Metricon Glendale 38|Sydney Hi, We have warm light throughout our house and it sort of makes are already dark stained floor more darker. We always wanted a lighter colourwd flooring but it turned… 0 22633 Hi All, I am looking to go with tiles instead of laminate timber flooring throughout my living areas for my new build (Ashbury 29 - Henley). My whole colour scheme is on… 0 24320 sorry mate, not wasting more time on this. Youve completely missed the mark on some fundamentals and regardless of how many times i try and put it to you differently, you… 11 9179 |