Brick Cladding

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The next 5 photographs show how almost any surface can be converted to brick, here we see a concrete sectioned property being transformed completely to brick.


An 'Airey' type property (concrete sectioned)



The surface to be cladded is encased in a stainless steel frame


It is then prepared by applying a heavy duty backing surface


This is the brick slip used in this application




The end Result

Brick Cladding

This process uses a nylon scrim method fixed to the property substrate which is used as a 'key' base for the top veneers

           


We removed this type of horrible stone cladding from this lovely Victorian terrace house
There's a famous street in Salford/'Weatherfield' with just such a finish...


The property below was a complete reface, although the property had been stone faced the new owner wished it to be brick like the rest of the street. The 1st picture is that of next doors and we are trying to blend to that as much as possible

       

         


The finished results will at first look 'lighter' than its neighbours, this is because of the renders being new and not yet  'climatised'. A few weeks of good old British weather will tone down and blend in this property very nicely.

     


This a typical terrace property in London, the original finish was Canterbury Spa pebbledash, the owner wished to have it restored back to brick. Part of the process is to remove any loose aggregate to provide a good key for the bonding agent. Boundary walls were also chemically cleaned to provide a good match with the newly applied brickwork


       

   


Removal of defective render/coating/pebbledash/stone cladding
Built  around 1930 this Leeds brick semi had been somewhat abused with botched attempts to rectify poor workmanship
Back in the eighties the previous owners decided to have it rendered and finished in textured coating
This was done with poor quality sand and cement with PVA  the adhesion was also compromised by the brick being Accrington  the surface was then coated in a resin spray coating.
The bottom section of the front was then cladded in a poor quality artificial stone without the use of adequate polymer bonding adhesive.
To add more problems to the walls of this house after the early failure of the coating (the underlying thin render coat had become powdery) on the advice of local builders the owners decided to have it put right by pebble dashing over the top of this coating, not a good plan.
The artificial stone cladding were left in place even though it had been applied with the incorrect adhesive and was hanging off in places
Within a short space of time the render used as the base coat for the pebbledash was hanging off in large sheets.

The new owners decided that something serious needed to be done.
Our specification was as follows
Supply scaffold
Remove all existing render coats (the very first base coat washed off with a power wash)
Side and rear section were rendered with two coats of HP polymer render with nylon mesh scrim sandwiched in between coats.
Last coat was WP K rend through coloured scraped finish (oatmeal colour)
PVCu corner, stop & bellcast beads were used thorough the project
The front was re faced with hand sliced real brick 20mm imperial Kingston Tyron were applied over a breather membrane.
A quoin on the front return was added in sliced “pistols” which are L shaped solid corner slips to provide the brick cladding with a
“built in solid look”
Injection pointing bucket handle profile in NHL G grade eco mortar finished the project.