How to pick and Match Brick Veneer For New building and Additions

How to pick and Match Brick Veneer For New building and Additions

My neighbor spent well over 0,000 to add a gorgeous increasing to her former brick veneer Cape Cod home. But when the masonry contractor put up the brick he failed to even come close to matching the color of the mortar to the former part of the house. Even worse the new thoughprovoking white mortar clashes with both the new brick and the old. The house now has a garish and jarring appearance and the cost of repair is prohibitive.

Brick veneer is the most durable and gorgeous material that will safe your home from the elements. Brick is virtually maintenance free and will last for generations. Living in the Detroit area it is plain to see the brick in all the dilapidated buildings is still in gorgeous health and in most cases can be salvaged and reused. Brick veneer is more high-priced and you will have to live with your selection for as long as you own your home. If you're planning an increasing or construction a new home the money, time and exertion invested in selecting the design, brick, mortar and most importantly the contractor will be returned many times over in long-term value.

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These are some ideas to consider when selecting or matching brick veneer

• Cost: maybe it would be better to sacrifice quadrilateral footage for ability and beauty

• Design: Long, high walls need to be broken up with a vertical course of brick, a ledge of stone or by brick that varies in color and texture. Construct in offset walls with interior or outside corners to give vertical definition to the house.

• Use "offset" (brick that protrudes from the wall in patterns or randomly)of bricks to originate interest

• Make the increasing narrower or wider than the existing home for interior or outside corners to make brick and mortar matching easier

• How does the house fit into the neighborhood? A former styled house needs darker reds and more texture with gray mortar. Fieldstone, granite or sandstone can be used carefully

• Contemporary houses can use whites, blushes or neutral colors and smooth to glazed brick. Mortar can be thoughprovoking white

• A skilled and experienced mason will take the time to try out varied mixtures to match the mortar. Remember it is the Sand in the mortar that must match. Ask to see other work the mason has done and be ready to pay a microscopic more

• There are many sizes and profiles of brick available. We have a ranch house built on a slab in our neighborhood that used long, low profile brick with a subtle wavy texture. Along with a double-hip roof and deep eves this house would be the envy of Frank Lloyd Wright himself!

• Design the roof and gutters so the downspouts can be used to hide the seam between the old and new brick. There are many decorative gutter and downspout products available. Visit a local siding and gutter contribute house

• A faux copper downspout with an elegant leader head (or conductor) can be used to hide a seam too

• Many faux half columns are ready in varied metal and paintable materials

• Use high ability beveled horizontal or battened vertical siding carefully in your design

• More and/or larger windows, entry doors, shutters and small round or octagon shaped windows can be used to breakup large brick walls

• Be faithful using brick up into gables. Because of the roof slope at each end of the brick courses, the careless mason will loose his way; the vertical joints will not line up and the wall will have an undulating and amateurish look. A small window high in the gable would be good in this circumstance

• And remember to pick your roof shingles and materials at the same time. As an example, using a metal roof on an increasing can be a way of development the increasing "compliment" the former house instead of trying for an exact "match" (for the few of you that are self-confident, brave and daring you can use a aggregate of materials and Construct to "contrast" the former house; I've seen it done and to breathtaking ends!)

And finally a special mention when using stone. A cobblestone cottage looks the way it does because it's a cottage! A cottage is a small house. A large stone house must be very carefully designed. Avoid long, tall walls of stone veneer.

Mixing stone with brick veneer can furnish a pleasing effect. Try to fantasize you are construction your house on the ancient ruins of stone fence or an old country manor. The lower corners, some colse to the entry door and a few randomly chosen places in the wall are all that is needed.

Brick has been made in local kilns using clay dug up from colse to river banks for centuries. The brick you find made in New England may clash with landscape of the house you build in Texas. The same is true if you use that blush pink brick that you loved in Florida for a house built in Wisconsin. The brick must be from the same origin as the house. Modern or traditional; particular story ranch or two story colonial; split-level or townhouse; new construction or addition, all need the acceptable brick veneer to heighten long term value and style.

How to pick and Match Brick Veneer For New building and Additions

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