Particle size is usually 2.5mm to 3mm diameter max, so should be ok, but if you end up with 5mm in a 5mm joint, that's not so good
. As Nose says, best of luck with it all.
Laying bricks with a really thin mortar bed
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Building sand has sub-millimeter particles. Sharp sand has the larger particles. Anyway, I'm not an expereienced enough brickie to go for the thin bed method! I'll suggest a nicely-struck 8-10mm bed instead. Thanks so much for your advice, though - much appreciated.
I can't see the problem with laying thin bed brickwork.
You just don't lay so much of a bed, make sure the mortar is very pliable (use an entrainer or lime) and the bricks are dampened if need be. Then you rub them down a little and thats it.
If you've ever laid white glazed bricks you''l know what tight joints are
The only issue is if the bricks are not of uniform depth - as with a thin joint, there is less chance for any height variance to be taken up in the joint
You just don't lay so much of a bed, make sure the mortar is very pliable (use an entrainer or lime) and the bricks are dampened if need be. Then you rub them down a little and thats it.
If you've ever laid white glazed bricks you''l know what tight joints are
The only issue is if the bricks are not of uniform depth - as with a thin joint, there is less chance for any height variance to be taken up in the joint
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Have just belatedly read this post and feel you are all barking up the wrong tree.
From initial description, (red brick victorian job. The mortar gaps in the house are really thin - couple of mm at most)...this is almost certainly a description of `tuck jointing` which was popular on the front of Victorian houses. The joint is white and looks 2mm thick, but it is in reality 10 to 14mm thick, filled in with a mortar to match the brick colour and then a recess of 2mm made to accept the white `putty` finish As on the front of no. 10 Downing Street.
From initial description, (red brick victorian job. The mortar gaps in the house are really thin - couple of mm at most)...this is almost certainly a description of `tuck jointing` which was popular on the front of Victorian houses. The joint is white and looks 2mm thick, but it is in reality 10 to 14mm thick, filled in with a mortar to match the brick colour and then a recess of 2mm made to accept the white `putty` finish As on the front of no. 10 Downing Street.
aka rub and gauge
the sand ya use wont make a blind bit of difference tbh
the sand ya use wont make a blind bit of difference tbh
I'm not a bricky and can't speak technically but...
they could well be 2mm joints, I once watched a bricky lay rubbed lime mortar joints and he achieved consistent 1/16 inch bed joints to match existing - the bricks were laid in 3-4mm beds and rubbed to and fro to bed them down, fascinating stuff.
they could well be 2mm joints, I once watched a bricky lay rubbed lime mortar joints and he achieved consistent 1/16 inch bed joints to match existing - the bricks were laid in 3-4mm beds and rubbed to and fro to bed them down, fascinating stuff.
aka as rub and gauge bricks you use for this usualy have a frog in them
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