Brick tinting

[Gareth79]

I recently bought a house which has had some repairs due to UPVC double glazing being fitted in the past without a lintel. Unfortunately it was owned by Annington/ex-MOD and they didn't spec matching bricks (!), although apparently the repairs were otherwise done properly.

Anyway the colour difference looks ugly so I'd like to fix it, but I am wondering if brick tinting is DIY-able or whether I would be wasting my money? The main problem is that the bricks are dark red ("tudor brown"?) and the house is a brick red with random darker colours:



This stuff seems reasonably priced and seems to be what the pros use, anybody used them before? They offer advice so I will take a better pic and see what they suggest:

http://www.dyebrick.com/

Cheers,

Gareth

[Busamav]

I paid £160 for a guy to come and do ours after getting a poor brick match on an extension .

You may have to do a complete horizontal band from head to cill to achieve a reasonable result with that situation , they need shooting for making such a poor match .

[blackcab]

would cost bugger all to put right

[Simpo Two]

Trellis - honeysuckle...

[GTSDave]

That is horrendous! At first clance I thought you had bay windows with dark tiles on the roof of each... Not good!

Can't comment on Brick tinting I am afraid, but I am shocked that they chose those bricks to in fill with... It is not that difficult to find pretty good matches from a builder's merchant with a reasonable brick library.

If it was me I'd have them taken out and replaced with a better match.

[davido140]

screw the brick tints, look at the size of that garden! Get building a nice big double garage with inspection ramps and other fun stuff!

[Gareth79]

Sorry late reply, forgot about this!

GTSDave said:

Can't comment on Brick tinting I am afraid, but I am shocked that they chose those bricks to in fill with... It is not that difficult to find pretty good matches from a builder's merchant with a reasonable brick library.

The house was owned by Annington Rentals (ex-MoD) and they repaired 40+ houses in one go, I expect the decision was "well, we've got this load of bricks the wrong colour we need to get rid of, we can give you 2% discount for those" and that was that.

But the house was cheap! The street of 20 was sold in a month and each house sold pretty much instantly, I bought that mine the day after it was released. Fairly basic inside though, but I am planning to do it up slowly.

Edited by Gareth79 on Monday 14th June 21:18

[Gareth79]

davido140 said:

screw the brick tints, look at the size of that garden! Get building a nice big double garage with inspection ramps and other fun stuff!

Yes, that is what drew me, and every other buyer, plenty of room outside. There is 7 metres to the side, I would probably want something 1.5x wide, attached to the house, so I can have a long worktop down the house side for storage, washing machine etc. I will probably post an "ideas please!" thread sometime.

[jules_s]

Interesting bump given the other thread about external lintols.

I've used brick tinting a few times to overcome mixed batching to great effect, I'm not sure tinting would overcome such a variance in colour though.

[ouncy2]

Tinting bricks with such a varying colour is possible and effective but I would leave it to the professionals or you could end up with a bigger mess.

The Brick Development Association (BDA)have contacts for professional brick tinting companies.