How to protect cracked brick?

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions to protect a cracked brick?

The bottom few rows of our house has smooth-faced red bricks whilst the rest is rough-faced red bricks. We must have clonked one of the corner bricks as the smooth facing has sheared off and some of the inner brick has come away. It would not be easy to replace as this brick is right at the ground level and we would have to break up a concrete path to get to it.

We were thinking that we should 'repair' the brick in some way to stop it getting worse, or to stop water damaging it. What would be the best thing to do? This is on a corner which has heavy traffic so a repair needs to be heavy duty. Not too bothered how it will look.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Koicarp

Are you sure you "clonked" it? In that position at ground level it's more likely it was very wet during a freeze and broke then, though the face may have only recently fallen off. The proper job is to take out and replace. The normal shortcut is as neverindebt suggests mortar, though this will be far more absorbent than the original brick and therefore is only a temporary fix.

[Deleted User]

Koicarp wrote: »

Are you sure you "clonked" it? In that position at ground level it's more likely it was very wet during a freeze and broke then, though the face may have only recently fallen off. The proper job is to take out and replace. The normal shortcut is as neverindebt suggests mortar, though this will be far more absorbent than the original brick and therefore is only a temporary fix.

Yeah it will have been banged as it is right on the corner where the garden tool shed it.

Thanks for the advice. Looks as though we had better take it out. As it is right at the ground level we will have to do it by taking out a few of the higher bricks to get it out.

MX5huggy

Just leave it, one spalled brick does not need replacing, you'll will do more damage removing other bricks.