Damaged brick after removing stone cladding

[tomfe]

Yes

 

[Ian H]

There’s a product called ‘Liquid Weather’ that might help with the colour.

 

[Charlie George]

Take cladding off, use a scutch chisel to remove remaining mortar carefully, clean all of front with acid then rinse off and pressure wash.
Replace only badly damaged brick with new, try not to be too fussy small chips will be ok, it will weather in time itself, don't use mortar to replicate bricks near impossible to do.
You will get it looking reasonable with these steps,it's never going to be perfect, but still better than that cladding.

 

[^woody^]

The big problem with those bricks is that once the face has been removed, frost can very quickly attack the clay and this in turn causes more of the face to blow.

Trying to re-face the bricks with mortar is only a temporary thing, as this is not a weathering surface (you can't iron it like with mortar joints) so frost blows the mortar quickly too.

 

[Nige F]

Get it all off and see what it looks like. It may be ok.

Then just render it.
LBC rustic is such a council house brick, whoever made that design wants smacking with a decent brick.

Love your comment - It is a C. H brick here in Sussex. I feel sorry for the brickies handling those 'orrible things. They're probably all dead now.

 

[Notch7]

Wire cut bricks -probably difficult to obtain a match.

 

[tomfe]

Wire cut bricks -probably difficult to obtain a match.

You can still get LBC rustics, or ibstock do one as well.

 

[Radders_23]

Hi there! Just wanted to report back. We've taken off more of the cladding along with some more unavoidable damage to the brick (see attached).

We had a brick restoration guy round today who says all the bricks are damaged as the faces have come off and the black stains are due to what's been used to stick on the cladding. He seemed quite reluctant to move away from a quote of £4k. This would include 10 days labour replacing the 20ish bricks that are damaged, repointing the entire wall, using some sort of acid/ refacing the brick with a pressure wash. Does this sound reasonable? 10 days seems very long..

 

[scruffybiker]

Get it rendered with a lime mix.

 

[^woody^]

I'd say more like five days. But the probelm with "specialisits" is they can charge what they like. Get more quotes, but these companies tend to be close on pricing, verging on collusion.

Rendering looks like the most viable option.

Alternatively, put Vera's cladding back on. It's been 40's years now, so it's due for a come back.

 

[scruffybiker]

get a quote to replace vera's cladding.

I'd say more like five days. But the probelm with "specialisits" is they can charge what they like. Get more quotes, but these companies tend to be close on pricing, verging on collusion.

Rendering looks like the most viable option.

Alternatively, put Vera's cladding back on. It's been 40's years now, so it's due for a come back.

 

[Radders_23]

To be honest I was sceptical about the staining he talks about as no one has mentioned this. I took the cladding off as I was told it devalues the house, is this not true? The brick restoration he mentioned is this not something we could do ourselves? He also quoted 4k for a render.

 

[^woody^]

You can chip the crap off, wash it with an acid solution, and then jet wash it, and then go from there.

I can see many more than 20 damaged bricks just in that image alone I stopped counting, and that does not include the ones with adhesive still on them. I can tell you that even if that house was on Lazarus Street, those bricks aint coming back to life.

 

[noseall]

LBC rustic is such a council house brick, whoever made that design wants smacking with a decent brick.

Correct. Not the prettiest.

 

[noseall]

Wire cut bricks -probably difficult to obtain a match.

LBC Rustic copies are easily gettable even in 73mm format.....

Rustic

• noseall
• 8 May 2019