Brick Tinting

| |Just moved into old house were the extension (circa 1982) has been built |using common facing brick, were the house is built using Rustic Brown |(circa 1962). |Does anyone know any form of Brick Tinting, either DIY or getting in a |professional to look at the job. We are based in the Northwest.

Paint it with thinned down Yoghurt (cheap stuff from your local Asian supermarket), will grow algae and mellow it a bit.

What colour do you want it?

Mary

ISTR on one of the Grand Designs programmes the featured couple built an extension facing a courtyard shared with some orchestra/opera company, who got shirty about the fact it had been built in commons and eventually they were forced to employ a firm who painted the bricks with various mottled/striped patterns to look "posher", seemed OK from TV piccies, but in real life?

The house is a Rustic Multi brick in appearance, this is what we woul like to achieve. Tried some treatment from a company called "Dye Brick" in a rusti brown colour, applied several coats but know where near in visua appearance. Concerned now that we may need to approach the professionals to get th appearance we need. Any ideas ???

Mar

-- mark harrison

No, I apologise, I obviously hadn't read your original post properly :-(

Mary

Render the whole bleedin' lot?

'Mile-a-minute' creeper?

Owain

I wonder what it would cost to clad it in brick to match the rest of the house. Brickwork isn't desperately expensive but maybe the making good of roof, windows etc would push up the cost a lot

Anna

eek!

Good idea. It certainly covers everything very quickly.

And bees like it :-)

Mary