In a message dated 4/2/2008 2:00:31 AM Central Daylight Time, chris writes:
My question: would it have required really superhuman effort to get a
>good
>match? Superficial area of building (including windows) is 21,000 SF.
>Brick being replaced is, my eyeball, 1500 SF.
Chris
The devil is in the details
All Brick can be saved ; on cheap budgets; govenment budgets ; no budgets ;miserly budgets and bucket budgets \
I know this building on Park ; its beautiful
The number one rule of course is to replace with original ;followed by custom made
however as a last ditch effort fand or what ever reason
Have an artist patch with custom made mortar (see Mike Edison ) and follow up with a wash of mineral coating to match occlusions and different tones ;
unless the artist is really good this is not recomended for eye level work
.....we use it say 12 ft and up
Presently we are on a historic building now and for numerous reasons can't match the brick so at the architects direction we are taking brick down from the 4th story and using it at eye level , then putting back brick up top that is close in original color and giving it a wash of the custom matched mineral coating ;
and then as they say in Midnight Mississippi..... Viola
custom matched brick masonry Py
ps don't try this at home
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