Lowben Drive - Wislocki Self Build

Del & Sarah Wislocki build their new family home - Lowben Drive

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Bricks

We ordered some samples of bricks, as it's impossible to tell what a brick will look like by looking at a photo - so don't go by the photos on the blog. We've chosen a Terca brick, Chester Dark Red Multi, which we intend to use a light grey mortar with. The trend nowadays is to use coloured mortar to either match the brick colour, or to contrast; we realised we prefered older properties with straightforward sand/cement mortar, with the particular shade of grey varying depending on cement used (blue circle/rugby/castle etc).
Sarah asked Terca for some sample bricks, and they sent us 60 each of two colours we liked the look of, enabling Ben and I to build a sample panel, to see how the bricks would look set in mortar. The colour is generally red, with purple & brown - not that you can tell from the photo.
Can you tell who built which panel?


Unfortunately I managed to drive a digger into the panels and bring them crashing down, so the pics are all we've got until the brickies come back!

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