Anyone used Blue Circle Mortar Mix or ready mixed mortar?

Homervanderjazz · 11 Apr 2020

I need to lay around 20 bricks and do some basic repointing. Never done either before to be honest so to make things easier was looking at the above mentioned products as opposed to making my own mix.

Does anyone have any experience with these products and how would you rate them?

the current mortar that is on the bricks is a dark grey so not sure how different it will look to these mortar mixes.

Thanks.

Mottie · 11 Apr 2020

You’ll be very lucky to get the same colour mortar. It’s akin to taking an old car to a body shop and ask them to respray just one wing in aged and faded 1970’s mustard yellow!

noseall · 13 Apr 2020

Homervanderjazz said:
was looking at the above mentioned products as opposed to making my own mix.

Does anyone have any experience with these products and how would you rate them?

Builders tend to mix their own gear - does that answer your question?

Homervanderjazz said:
the current mortar that is on the bricks is a dark grey so not sure how different

You may be in luck. I've a feeling theses bags of rubbish mortar do end up with a grey finish.

noseall · 13 Apr 2020

Mottie said:
You’ll be very lucky to get the same colour mortar. It’s akin to taking an old car to a body shop and ask them to respray just one wing in aged and faded 1970’s mustard yellow!

Good analogy.

normalnorman · 13 Apr 2020

Hi Diyer here, I used this stuff for my first bricklaying attempts last summer. It dries to a lightish gray.

The bricks are still together a year later. Out of a few ready mixes I found I got the best result with the Hanson's one (red and black bag from wickes). The blue circle one always seemed to knock up a bit sloppy but maybe that was my complete inexperience.

Fully echo what the pro's are saying making your own is much nicer to work with (and several x cheaper by my reckoning).

Good luck with your bricklaying.

Homervanderjazz · 17 Apr 2020

Thanks for the replies folks, will mix my own given what has been noted.

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