Any idea what these are called? I can't find them on any B&Q/builders merchant website:
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The variable sized bricks on the convex part of the house on the left.
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Looking for name of fancy bricks
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Coursed Building Stone
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Chris
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If you mean the ones on the bay aren't they just reconstituted stone?
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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.
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It's stone you goof. Either real or fake. Looks real to me.
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Hideous springs to mind - other wise faux stone cladding as often seen on newly sold council houses.
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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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"Sandpiper Meadow"
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It's better than the neighbouring "Garganey", which in Scots is pronounc= ed nothing like the English would. It's a bird by the way.
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Pedant!
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Prick.
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stone claddding, more common than you`d think, one of many suppliers
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artificial stone has long history far from council houses ;-)
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Indeed - didn't realise how thin it was on my 19C house:
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Wonder why the inner skin of brick is so thick?
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Too irregular for that.
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You can get it only 1.25 inches thick.
Eh? It looks normal to me.
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All the council houses here are pebbledashed, and a lot of the normal houses too. Fuck knows why. Bare red brick looks so much better.
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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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I am.
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?
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The house can be built out of "common", or unfaced bricks and without needing the mortar joints pointed.
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That explains the cheap shit 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.