Browse Forums Building A New House Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 4May 04, 2008 2:30 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 6May 04, 2008 2:56 pm I notice your bricks aren’t even around the edges, by going flush you will highlight this, and make it stand out more, therefore making the mortar very obvious.
By racking the mortar, the character of your bricks will be more prominent. your pick??? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 8May 04, 2008 3:09 pm Rack them! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 10May 04, 2008 6:51 pm We have built using the same style of bricks but different colours (Cadman & Blackett). Like you, we did not like smooth bricks. The outside of our house is raked and I think it looks great. However, due to a mistake on our builder's part, the internal brick walls were given a flush mortar and it was a disaster. The style of brick means that you end up with huge expanses of mortar and I have spent days chipping away at our walls to try and remove the big chunks of mortar which filled in the uneven gaps. We hated the look so much that we wanted the walls torn down but we were persuaded that it would be too expensive. God, I wish we had not listened and just demolished them. Even now, after years of living in this house, I find myself chipping away - at least it is a form of therapy for those stress filled days. Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 11May 04, 2008 6:56 pm Neverfinished…..can you post a photo of them, internal?
It’s a good point to make for others in here. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 12May 04, 2008 7:45 pm I'd be happy to however there are two problems:
1. My camera needs charging 2. I have never posted a photo online - in fact, I have never even added a picture to my pc. I will ask my husband for help when he gets home from his boys' day out watching the motorbike races. However I cannot promise that it will be done tonight. Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 13May 04, 2008 8:38 pm Neverfinished (love the username....matches mine)
I've PM-ed this to a couple of people who were having problems with posting photos....no harm in posting..... If you are posting images from a website then have a look at this thread... https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.p ... sc&start=0 If you want to post your own images most people on the forum use http://photobucket.com/ and follow **P**'s succint instructions from which I've extracted for you... https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.p ... sc&start=0 **Pheonix** For those members that might want to use Photobucket, then try this: **Phoenix** wrote: I upload files using a site called http://www.photobucket.com. 1. Get yourself a username and password (it's free) 2. You can then upload photos from your pc, mobile phone, url or video to your photobucket account. 3. Click browse, locate the item on your pc and click open. 4. Then click the upload button. It's very quick. 5. Once uploaded to your account, scroll down and it shows you in your own little "album". 6. Others might do it differently but i tick the box of the item(s) i want to upload then 7. scroll down the page and click [generate html and img code] 8. The copy and paste it into your post for homeone. If you want to add a web link. Click [url] then add the link, then click [url*] again. Other people use different programs, but try photobucket. its pretty easy. If you have any issues, let us know. Hope to see some pics soon... Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Basically with photobucket you post the IMG code and then directs you post to look in your PhotoBucket account... and in case you're worred I've had my PhotoBucket account since December and no spam emails from them.. mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 14May 04, 2008 8:57 pm to_do_list,
Thanks for the instructions. I'll have a go tomorrow when I have charged the camera and I am not suffering the effects of a nice bottle of red. Actually, just thinking about these internal walls and the botched up job that the brickies made of them is enough to make me want to open another bottle! The worst part is that they were built 26 years ago and we were charged $613 / thousand bricks to lay them. I have no idea of the cost of laying bricks now but in 1982 the usual cost was about $250 /thousand. (Which we found out after our builder paid the brickies). I only hope your to_do_list doesn't take as long as mine. We never got to the end of our original list and now we are starting back at the beginning with the need to seriously renovate the house we built and to replace many of our appliances. Sorry to the OP for going off track. Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 15May 04, 2008 10:17 pm Neverfinished I'd be happy to however there are two problems: 1. My camera needs charging 2. I have never posted a photo online Neverfinished and I am not suffering the effects of a nice bottle of red. Hang on...you missed one: 3. I'm half sozzled.....http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/mikeb1968/drunk.gif mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 16May 05, 2008 9:57 pm Alright, I have no faith that this is going to work but below is a picture of my shocking brickwork with flushed joints. I have left out the closeups as the wall is too ugly to share.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk279/Neverfinished05/th_Pictures2008a070.jpg Edited to add: Oh my God!!! It actually worked. Thank you to Phoenix and to-do-list for dragging me into the 21st century. Re: SLEEK OR SANDSTOCK STYLE BRICKS ? 17May 06, 2008 8:40 am Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅
I don’t think it looks that bad!!!! Your bricks are a lot like mine! I have flush on mine also, and it looks good. Your mortar is dark, I went with white. I think your bricks are a little wider than the above bricks. Thanks for the photo!!!! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1786 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair to do it properly you need to dig out the garden and waterproof the outside of the wall. There are some products you can put on the face of the bricks but the water is… 2 4974 |