Unusual bricks

stuart45

Have you got a photo of the hole you want to brick in?

Green_hopeful

diystarter7 said:

Hi OP

Is this work for mortgage purposes?

When my parents bought their first house in London, well over 40 years ago it was an old terraced house, up and over type.

On the rear, up/wer side of the wall were three bricks, two with cracks like yours and the other with a bit missing.

Dad crumbled and old brick and filled it in, touvh it up with sand etc, and almost a prefect match and looked a look more original that it it was to be changed with an another London Brick - there are easier to mathc than you but you may want to consider that as I doubt you will get an exact match and even if you do, the cemts wont match


The surveyor that came back to look re mortgae - noted dad had not replaced bicks but he passed them.

No one ever noted the works after that

Thnaks

Not for a mortgage just where the builder has removed a soil pipe. I will see if I can get a photo tomorrow. It isn’t a particularly noticeable place but it feels nice to patch up the damage. I had the bricks repaired in my old house and it was surprisingly how much nicer it looked. 

JohnB47

This might be a daft idea but if those bricks have the same surface front and back, you could carefully remove a brick from somewhere else, clean it up and cut it in half lengthwise.

The two halves would then be used as two bricks.

Would need appropriate cutting tools, so may not be financially viable.