What is a facing brick, where is it used and how to choose the right one
In order for the exterior of the house to amaze everyone around with its attractiveness and sophistication, neat masonry, and the owners pleased with its reliability and durability, it is required to use high-quality materials, in particular facing materials, during its construction.
Content
- Types of facing bricks and features of its manufacture video
- Main advantages
- Facing brick - the best material to give an attractive appearance to the facade of the building video
- Facing decorative brick video
- Basic rules for choosing a facing brick
Types of facing bricks and features of its manufacture
It is the use of different types of facing bricks, such as: hyper-pressed, textured, engobed, shaped, glazed, double-layer, front - that can change and decorate the facade of a building with any architectural solution. The facing brick that is used today in construction is characterized by frost resistance and water resistance, decorativeness, each of its types is made using special technologies.
For example, a glazed facing brick is obtained as a result of applying special glaze to the burnt clay surface, which is made from ground glass. During secondary firing, it creates a very strong glassy layer.
Hyper-pressed brick is obtained by pressing raw materials, brought to a homogeneous state, at very high pressures (up to 900 atmospheres) and its subsequent processing in steaming chambers. In addition, in the manufacture of finishing bricks, special dyes and impurities are used, the compositions of which are kept secret. The special composition and advanced manufacturing techniques make it possible to obtain a product characterized by very high qualities.
Main advantages
Facing brick in comparison with its usual types has several advantages:
- long service life
- high reliability and mechanical strength,
- good thermal insulation characteristics,
- ideal geometric parameters, a very even line of edges,
- resistance to sudden changes in temperature,
- environmental friendliness, not a tendency to release toxic substances at any temperature,
- it is not hygroscopic, nor is it inclined to absorb greasy components and dirt, which greatly simplifies the maintenance of facades.
Particularly emphasized are the excellent decorative characteristics of facing bricks, the photos of structures used in the decoration of engobed bricks are surprising in the variety of shades of the finishing material, which makes it possible to embody quite original design solutions. In addition to outdoor decoration, engobed bricks are used to create panels and for interior decoration.
The decorative appeal of shaped bricks is also due to the fact that its types have a structured, smooth or textured surface. The unique shape of shaped trim bricks allows it to be used if necessary to perform complex architectural forms - arches, openings, window sills. In order not to create unnecessary load on the foundation, they usually use a lightweight option - hollow shaped bricks.
The fire resistance of hyper-pressed bricks allows its use in the construction of fireplaces.
Facing brick - the best material to give an attractive appearance to the facade of the building
If in the recent past the most common type of finishing material was red cladding brick, today builders have the opportunity to use a brick of all kinds of colors: white, pink, yellow, cherry, claret.
When performing facing work with hyper-pressed brick, there are no restrictions on climatic zones or on the number of storeys of buildings. By marking the brick, and these can be numbers from 10 to 300, you can find out the permissible load per 1 cm square. its surface.
Facing bricks usually have standard sizes: 250X120X65, but individually you can order the required number of pieces of the required size, for example, one and a half bricks can also be used in construction.
Facing decorative brick
Since the facing brick is a sufficiently heavy material and its use to create an original interior may be associated with unjustified and unacceptable losses in the useful area of \u200b\u200bthe room, it is customary to use the so-called artificial brick or decorative. It has a much smaller thickness than usual (about 12 mm) and is lightweight. A square meter of such decorative material has a weight of about 10 kg. Installation of such material can be done on any surface, and a sufficiently strong connection with the surface can be achieved with glue for ceramic tiles or even liquid nails.
A decorative brick has excellent strength characteristics, it does not change its decorative properties under the influence of ultraviolet rays, rain water entering it does not lead to stains.
Basic rules for choosing a facing brick
First, facing with brick should serve as a reliable protection of the walls from the effects of the external environment - therefore, the choice of material should be taken as seriously as possible. Experts argue that facing bricks, the price of which you find low, cannot be of high quality, mediocre material will ultimately show its weaknesses during operation and create a lot of problems regarding repair, maintenance and loss of decorative appearance.
Secondly, the very concept of decoration material suggests that its use will give the building style and attractive appearance. Therefore, when choosing a brick, you need to pay attention to the correctness of its geometric shape, its faces should not have curvature or any other distortions. The front side of each brick should have an ideal surface, small errors are allowed only on the side faces. The brick should have a stable color, on its surface should not have spots, scuffs, dots. Each batch of high-quality bricks must be certified and sold with documents confirming its quality and compliance with GOST.
Do not forget that high-quality facing bricks can be a good help in resolving the issue of building insulation.
As for the price, it largely depends on whether the manufacturing company is domestic or foreign. The quality characteristics, hue, type and even season when you decide to make a purchase also have an impact on the cost.
