ᐅ Looking for brick facing in red, brown, or orange tones – should not be too dark.

Hello everyone,

For our planned single-family house, we are looking for a suitable facing brick/brick veneer.
The base tone should be red, and we also like brown and orange shades in it.

We do not like it when there are individual, completely dark bricks included.
Here is an example:

This is "Vischering red-brown-multicolor" from Schüring. So far, we like it best (color, surface, variations), but it still has too many dark bricks and feels too busy for us. In the picture, I mean about the 12 darkest bricks; without those, it would be perfect for us!

Do you have any tips on where we can find similar facing bricks with fewer dark ones?
We have been searching online, at building material suppliers, and in residential areas for weeks, and we’re starting to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of bricks...

Thank you very much in advance!

It should be clear that the result depends on the workmanship. In other words, if GU-screed-Achmed does the masonry, it won’t be convincing. However, you shouldn’t keep a house worthy of these bricks from us either ;-)

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Order an extra pallet, then sort them yourself in advance... Afterwards, list the leftovers on eBay Classifieds, there will surely be some who only prefer dark bricks.
But... a clinker brick weighs about 2kg (4.4 lbs), so you’ll have to move a few tons (even if not very far).
(Isn’t that the only real solution to the problem?)

gnurps_ schrieb:

von Schüring

Have you tried contacting them directly?

I don’t know anything about firing, but maybe they can fire the bricks on demand? It would probably cost quite a bit more, but the effort would be less than sorting out the 10% waste...

If you are doing the bricklaying yourselves, it could be done easily. However, having the bricklayer select the bricks that you find too dark might not be a good solution for anyone involved.

superzapp schrieb:

order one more pallet, then ... sort them out yourself/pre-sort them ...)

Yes, we have thought about that too, but it is really just a last resort. We want to avoid both the time investment and the extra costs.

When we asked Schüring, they told us that the darker bricks could be used as header bricks since their end face is usually not dark. That would at least resolve the extra cost issue. Unfortunately, I don’t trust the average bricklayer to handle this kind of sorting task.

Maybe someone has a tip for a similar brick without dark bricks? :-)

gnurps_ schrieb:

When we asked Schüring, they told us that the dark bricks could be used as header bricks because their face is usually not dark.

I love dry humor. You only use stretchers for facing bricks, haha.

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