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Calcium Sillicate / Sand lime bricks
Marshall22
Posts: 3 Newbie
Survey on house we are purchasing has identified its built with these bricks.
Has anyone bought a house with these bricks if so have you had any issues with them, insurance, or mortgage.
Thanks
Has anyone bought a house with these bricks if so have you had any issues with them, insurance, or mortgage.
Thanks
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Never bought a house with them, but have built with them. The main issue with them is shrinkage cracking, so they need more movement joints than clay bricks. Clay bricks normally expand when first laid in the first 15 years, lime bricks shrink.
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Thank you have you built with them recently as we have also been trying to source some to repair some damaged ones.0
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It was back in the 70's, and the bricks were Midhurst whites.
What is the name of the ones you are looking for?0 -
Thank you, they are pink from 1960,s, not sure what they are called
No one in the uk seems to make them now, n cant find any in reclamation yards either.
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Could be a KR80 Lilac.1
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