Looking for name of fancy bricks

Coursed Building Stone

Chris

If you mean the ones on the bay aren't they just reconstituted stone?

AJH

I'm finding them now. They're not in the bricks section on the builder's merchant websites I was using. But searching "stone" brings up loads.

It's stone you goof. Either real or fake. Looks real to me.

Hideous springs to mind - other wise faux stone cladding as often seen on newly sold council houses.

No, they're on the nicer homes around here. Council houses have pebbledash, gravel driveways (if any), and paving slabs for paths. That's ugly. Why would you want plain walls when you can have a nice natural texture?

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Pedant!

Prick.

stone claddding, more common than you`d think, one of many suppliers

artificial stone has long history far from council houses ;-)

Indeed - didn't realise how thin it was on my 19C house:

Wonder why the inner skin of brick is so thick?

one of many suppliers

Too irregular for that.

You can get it only 1.25 inches thick.

Eh? It looks normal to me.

All the council houses here are pebbledashed, and a lot of the normal houses too. F*ck knows why. Bare red brick looks so much better.

I thought you were in Scotland. It's called "harling" and is a weatherproof coating appled to many buildings - not just council houses. Bricks made in Scotland tended to be porous, so harling was needed to keep out the rain. It was also used to give a uniform appeareance to the outside of some older, stone, buildings.

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It's got about 10 names, I use the one I can remember at the time.

Absolute rubbish. There are plenty brick houses without pebbledash, they aren't full of water.

So a lovely stone building gets covered in cheap crap?

The house can be built out of "common", or unfaced bricks and without needing the mortar joints pointed.

That explains the cheap s*it council houses, but to do that on a proper house which is sold privately is silly.

Anyway, pointing bricks must be a lot less labour and cost than pebbledashing.