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see anything wrong with this?

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#69 ·
It's probably just my personal taste in play, but I love the look of brick and I think it's a travesty to paint it. What a waste. Painting real brick IMO should be only a last resort when you have to cover something up.

To plan it that way from the beginning???

To each his own I guess. :rolleyes:
 
#70 ·
I agree. I love the right color brick untouched. A house that big and nice should NEVER be painted! Only going to be a maintenance nightmare down the road. What I don't understand is why, why not just order all one color brick and leave it? They just paid the mason to do the brick job and go through all that trouble to put it up and then they want to paint it. oh well. it's not my money or my house, the owners will regret it.
 
#71 ·
I am curious how they are going to treat the windows(small space)

From a creativity and design perspective That is very inspiring
I have never seen random brick colors combined like that(not that I would have done it like that exactly) But the general idea gets my imagination going

Thanks for the pic
 
#73 ·
My guess is wood trim, precast sills, and even though I hate to paint masonry, there are a lot of people who like the look. Hell, they are probably planning to stucco some of, and may plan on rocking the tyvek area. Personally the whole design is ugly, and painting the brick won't help or hurt it. I would like to know why they did the design on the upper right, that is not poor brickwork or an accident, it is too much work to do.
 
#74 ·
My guess is wood trim, precast sills, and even though I hate to paint masonry, there are a lot of people who like the look. Hell, they are probably planning to stucco some of, and may plan on rocking the tyvek area. Personally the whole design is ugly, and painting the brick won't help or hurt it. I would like to know why they did the design on the upper right, that is not poor brickwork or an accident, it is too much work to do.

I noticed that same section as well, at least I think we're talking about the same section. I think it's mearly an optical illusion. Squint your eyes & I think you'll see just standard coursing.
 
#78 ·
I just put an envelope on the screen for a straightedge, and it's looks mostly "kosher" to me :laughing:
It looks to me like it's pretty close, but maybe they had to do a little "covert ops" to get their coarse lines back in plane. The scattered brick detail is adding in a bit of optical illusion as well. If you stare at it long enough, the wall will start to wave like a flag.:laughing:
 
#77 ·
The worst part is that if they paint the brick, 20 -25 yrs from now some new h.o. will think hey lets get all of that ugly paint off the bricks!:w00t:
That would be worth seeing.
Hate to be the one quoting the paint removal.:eek:
Quick everyone write down that address so we don't get suprised!
 
#92 ·
Stacker, I had to stain a S/F CMU job where a cube of pink got mixed in on a delivery of tan. Tan, pink, pink, tan. They are not in the same ball park and all 72 8x8x8x16 PINK! CORNERS!? were laid in the tan wall.

Use constitutes acceptance, but I took care of it for customer relations.
 
#98 ·
I know what you mean Chevy, but those look like nice crisp modulars. I sell 8" common modulars for 350M, but the same brick if a chosen color would go for 680M. A lot of times brick matchers want a particular cube from the mixed common pile and I charge them 500M just because we have to move the brick to get to them.
 
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