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18/01/22 - brick@admin

To get perfect results using BFA-66G, brickwork needs to be laid cleanly. This means we need to see all four edges of each brick and all thick splatter and mortar deposits should removed during the brick laying process. Remember 100 years ago all bricks were laid clean. See our Five rules for good bricklaying that will give perfect mortar beds if cleaned with BFA-66G.

Cleanly laid bricks will be cleaned quickly and cost effectively with BFA-66G, provided an appropriate 9:2:1 or a slightly stronger 6:1:1 mortar mix is used without plasticiser or with only minimal amounts of plasticiser used. Plasticisers are meant to extend batch life in summer, but they also waterproof mortar and make it very hard and extremely sticky.

We see many of the new dark coloured face coated bricks laid with white Brightonlite cement destroyed by excessive applications of acid and the use of turbo’s which often have to use red to clean excessively dirty and poorly laid dark bricks with hard sticky plasticised mortars. The result is that houses built with these bricks look dirty, tired and aged even though they are new because they were trashed by acid washers having to use high pressure and turbos trying to clean them but were unable to get them cleaned without the collateral damage due to poor bricklaying.  

Restoring brickwork to its former glory will require a lot of time and hard work to get builders and bricklayers working together to lay bricks cleanly and to reduce the reliance on plasticisers and acid cleaning. This isn’t easy as many top end builders now avoid the use of face brick  because they don’t want quality problems caused by these atrocious brick laying habits, particularly in Melbourne.

BFG-66G can help make brick houses and buildings look fantastic again but the brick work needs to be laid clean and mortar made properly; hence why we have produced our Five rules for bricklaying to help brick cleaning.