two kids

HOW MANY OF YOU GUYS HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS TYPE OF BRICK AND STONE VENEERS?

I thought I would start a thread , and see how many masons on here have experience , doing the " raw on" brick and stone, in stucco?

Do you have any good tricks, on how to do the coloring, and how many colors of the brick and stone have you actually done? I will talk about my experiences with it as we go on, but I wanted to see other opinions first.

BTW I LOVE DOING THIS TYPE OF VENEERING

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lukachuki

No experience but would like to know how people on here do it. I guess I have done a little simple "parging" using type s mortar trowled on real thin on block but nothing beyond that.

6stringmason

I have not done it or seen it done up here in Green Bay. I would like to hear how you guys do it and maybe throw some pics up twokids.

two kids

I Dont have a dig. camera for the pics.....but I can tell you how its done.

Stucco a coat of gray mortar on, let it get about 80% dry then stucco on a coat of whatever color mortar you choose.....make your marks on the stucco just like you would on a corner poll, and snap a chalk line, take a tool and cut it out on the marks , just deep enuff to get into the colored mortar, and you will have a very sharp custom looking brick job.( colored brick and gray mortar) Most people cant tell the difference in this and real brick , as it dries as hard as brick and looks just like it. To get the colors, just mix up different colors of mortar extremely wet and take a 2 inch roller and roll on individual brick to make it look as real as possible.

This technique is very cost saving as, the only materials used is mortar and sand.....so we as masons can do the equal of 2-3000 brick per day , each mason.....so its a very quick money maker, with very little draw backs to it.


ENJOY TRYING THIS ....IT IS VERY FUN, AND PROFITTABLE

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two kids

No what you are talking about is waterproofing.....read my post were I describe this technique.....It is actually a finished veneer!

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lukachuki

Well now you really have my interest up. I have never seen this done. You nedd to get a dig cam for christmas. I would love to see some pictures.

Tim

markh051056

I saw several townhomes in Plano Tx that were bricked and it appeared the excess mortar was than troweled over the bricks. You could see the brick through the mortar and some of the color. Is this what you are asking about.
I am interested also.

Tscarborough

It was common a hundred plus years ago when the hierarchy of desirable building materials was: Board, Stucco, Brick, Cut Stone.

For example, most of the Louisiana plantation homes( 1750-1860) were built of on-site low-fired brick that was stuccoed to imitate cut stone, and many field stone homes in the North were stuccoed to imitate brick (at a later date than construction, it was an upgrade).

There are several methods, but the best is as stated. Scratchcoat it, browncoat it and then finish coat it and cut the joints before it sets. The art is in making it look like stone or brick; the simple mechanical details of cutting the joints is simple.

A few examples:

The General Land office of the State of Texas (I was involved in the restoration this stucco building in the early 1990s):


Belle Grove, multi-wythe brick construction with a stucco application to imitate stone:



The Wentworth-Gardner house in Portsmouth:

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lukachuki

Two Kids is no longer with us....he got mad and left permanently. If you search he did have a post or two describing the process. Pretty much just like tsc said.

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dakzaag

Was wondering if anyone notice the first post was in 2005.


What did you do to piss him off, Tim?

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ctscontractor

I've done it before on one of the hotels. The system is preferable for new construction. Dryvit and total wall, synergy have the brick patterns you can use (soldier course, chipped brick effect). You use basecoat (scretch coat)for your grout color (paint it in the color you want your grout to be), use the pattern sticker for the brick detail. Glue the sticker to the wall and apply finish coat (swirl course going up and down for the brick effect) wait 24h, pill of the sticker from the wall and DONE!

s.hurley

i am 19 years old got into construction work when i was 15 have been laying brick and stone for only a couple of years but i am always good at what i do =P i have erected buildings of brick and stone ( X_X to the stone lol) layed down brick and stone walkways. also i have made a few stoves out of brick and stone it is RLY fun work i love every bit of it that i do atm i am laying down a rather large walkway here in north carolina for a couple that stretches across their backyard and loops around back to the entrance out of stone and the yard is sloped =C extra work lol

stuart45

s.hurley,
Have you tried any pargetting yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIfjVUcwBxg

Here's one I knocked out in my lunch break yesterday.

stacker

i was doing those when i was 14,when i had a few minutes between laboring for 10 masons,and helping the plumbers run pipe.

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Tscarborough

Me too, but I also could draw circles in perspective.

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stuart45

stacker and Tscarborough, you guys are true legends. When I was 14 I was struggling to put lego bricks together, and I can't even pronounce pespective circles, let alone build one.
Lucky there's 3,000 miles of water between us, if you guys were over here all of us Limey trowels would be up and down ladders with one of these on our shoulder.

dakzaag

Well, I can walk in circles looking for perspective all day long.

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The maintenance schedule for brick
1. Stand back and say "man that looks nice!"
2. Repeat as often as needed.