Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Jun 11, 2024 4:28 pm I am going to repoint bricks and have to match with original mortar color. I checked old files about my house and found about the mortar. It only says "Brighton Light". I also checked some building forums and found that I can mix yellow sand with brighton lite if I want to make a creamy color mortar (4 sand:1 brighton lite). But, it is too light color and it does not match with my mortar. Our house brick is orange color and the mortar is creamy orange color (Please see the photo). I bought red brick sand and I mixed 4 yellow sand: 1 red brick sand : 1 brighton lite but it still surface is lighter than the original mortar when it gets dry, but the inside of the mortar is very close color if I snap the mortar off. Would you be able to give me an advice please? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Mortar Color 3Jun 12, 2024 10:34 am Thank you for the reply. I have to repoint bricks around my garage. Somebody slightly hit my garage by his car and mortar has cracks. The photo only just shows the color of the bricks and the mortar. Its not the place to repoint. Thank you. Re: Mortar Color 5Jun 20, 2024 3:26 pm ![]() Will need to find multiple suppliers of sand and mix up samples Hi Pedro Thank you for your reply. I will find more sample of sands. Would you think what i am doing is a right way to make the original mortar?? Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place - Iām new to the property/building journey (trying to buy my first home) so not sure where/who to go with these sorts of… 0 21897 2 10834 Recently I moved to a 30 year old house and found within few months there are small brown nests in the brick mortar and few small round holes in few places of brick… 0 25697 |