Internal false brick wall - How?

[Ray Singh]

I am keen on making one of my kitchen walls look like brick - I was Ikea today and thought it looked nice.
I have found Slimbrick - http://www.slimbrick.co.uk/

Can these be applied straight to a plasterboard wall? I guess not as it probably weighs a fair bit.

I want a subtler finish than this:


Any ideas?

[miniman]

I'd be surprised if they weighed more than ceramic tiles. Actually I'd be amazed.

[Simpo Two]

They should be fine. Just prime the plasterboard properly and use quality adhesive, eg BAL.

[SAB888]

There's links to fixing details on the website.

[thebraketester]

So is that 42 quid per 0.5m2 ?

http://www.slimbrick.co.uk/brickyard-reclaimed-fla...

[dudleybloke]

http://www.fauxbrickwork.com/

[Ray Singh]

thebraketester said:

So is that 42 quid per 0.5m2 ?

http://www.slimbrick.co.uk/brickyard-reclaimed-fla...

Yes and even more for the slate - £60 1/3m squared.

[GuinnessMK]

Usually tried to steer clients away from these, but when they couldn't be persuaded, we often found it cheaper to buy normal bricks and get a specialist cutting company to cut the front and back off, throwing the middle of the brick away! Get two slips out of each normal brick.

[paulwirral]

Probably cheaper to get a bricklayer to actually build a wall in front of what you want in used bricks ! You'll only lose 75mm in comparison to slips , and you can get the bricklayer to leave out sections to form shelves , flat plaster sections to hang pictures and mount your flat screen TVs flush with the finished wall with all wiring hidden instead of hanging off the wall .

[marcusgrant]

used brick slips on our fire, did it myself and it was pretty straight forward. doing the mortar was a right pain though! no experience of tiling before. Was going to convert our cellar and use them again.

got ours from here https://brickslips.co.uk/

second time i've posted this tonight

[roofer]

Use proper brick slips,




The tiles are naff.

[marcusgrant]

Oh yeah, worth saying that some brick slips aren't off cuts of bricks, they aren't very good. Worth getting samples.