Junkman
Super Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( .......... Or are you waiting for Junkman to show up so you can just shut it down? )</font>
Hopefully this will not happen, however, I have noticed that if I post to a thread, the thread might just die a natural death without Gary's intervention.... Just hope that it doesn't happen to this one.
The bricks that are shown in the picture of the house appear to me to be two different and distinct bricks that the bricklayers used at almost a random pattern while setting them. I know that it is very difficult to get an exact match of bricks because there are so many variables that come into play when the brick are being cast. For that reason, when I built my home, I ordered a extra pallet of bricks to be on the safe side. I have moved that pallet of bricks too many times in the past 20 years to ever recommend this to anyone. My best suggestion is that if you have some spares, take them with you to the brick yard and look for bricks to match as close as possible, but you will not find an exact match. Second method is to take a close up picture of the two types of bricks and bring your camera along with you to the brick yard. Then also photograph the brickyard bricks in natural light and see how they match. You could also purchase a couple of bricks and bring them home with you for matching. I know that when we built office buildings, that all the bricks for the job were delivered at once, even if it meant storing them off site till they were needed. That was the only way to get a consistent color without deviation. If they ran out, you could always see where the new batch started and the original ended. When they knew that this was going to happen, they immediately started to mix the new lot with some of the old lot of the bricks to keep the color mismatch to a minimum area. Even getting the mortar to match is difficult. When they were bricking the house, they ran out of mortar and the next batch didn't match the original mortar batch. The second batch had to have die added to it to come closer to the original.
Hopefully this will not happen, however, I have noticed that if I post to a thread, the thread might just die a natural death without Gary's intervention.... Just hope that it doesn't happen to this one.
The bricks that are shown in the picture of the house appear to me to be two different and distinct bricks that the bricklayers used at almost a random pattern while setting them. I know that it is very difficult to get an exact match of bricks because there are so many variables that come into play when the brick are being cast. For that reason, when I built my home, I ordered a extra pallet of bricks to be on the safe side. I have moved that pallet of bricks too many times in the past 20 years to ever recommend this to anyone. My best suggestion is that if you have some spares, take them with you to the brick yard and look for bricks to match as close as possible, but you will not find an exact match. Second method is to take a close up picture of the two types of bricks and bring your camera along with you to the brick yard. Then also photograph the brickyard bricks in natural light and see how they match. You could also purchase a couple of bricks and bring them home with you for matching. I know that when we built office buildings, that all the bricks for the job were delivered at once, even if it meant storing them off site till they were needed. That was the only way to get a consistent color without deviation. If they ran out, you could always see where the new batch started and the original ended. When they knew that this was going to happen, they immediately started to mix the new lot with some of the old lot of the bricks to keep the color mismatch to a minimum area. Even getting the mortar to match is difficult. When they were bricking the house, they ran out of mortar and the next batch didn't match the original mortar batch. The second batch had to have die added to it to come closer to the original.
