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would you be able to tell me what brick you used for this project?

6 years ago

I like the facing brick in the extension and garden wall. Beautiful house!

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Yoko Kloeden Design
6 years ago
I think all of the old bricks came from the original Victorian building and the builder painstakingly cleaned them. The garden walls are original and were already there.
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4homedesign Ltd
5 years ago
They are yellow London stock bricks, you can achieve this by buying the reclaimed bricks and getting your bricklayer to make 2 slips from each brick! I used them on a garden wall, (full bricks) and on a feature wall in another of my projects, all from slips. I would guess these are slips? I will add a photo to my profile now.
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