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Faux Stone Lintel
We live in a 1920's semi with painted stone lintels. A 1960's extension was
built with window openings constructed using catnic lintels and stretcher bond brickwork above. 3 courses of brickwork have been painted above the windows, prior to our occupation of the property, in an attempt to simulate the aforementioned stone lintels of the original building..We would like to improve the appearance of the windows in the extension, as it looks so obviously a bodge with brick coursing very evident under the paint. Posting here for ideas of possible materials/ techniques. Considered so far..... Don't want to remove bricks and replace with stone. 5 windows and a door to do Render over the bricks ? What kind of mix might bond well when applied as a very thin layer? Anything work in the same way as floor levelling compound? Fibre-glass mat & car body filler? Would standard resins bond to brickwork ? Metal mesh secured to brickwork and rendered over ? Possibly the increased thickness would look out of place? Suggestions invited Thanks Ian |
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:34 GMT, "Ian G"
wrote: We live in a 1920's semi with painted stone lintels. A 1960's extension was built with window openings constructed using catnic lintels and stretcher bond brickwork above. 3 courses of brickwork have been painted above the windows, prior to our occupation of the property, in an attempt to simulate the aforementioned stone lintels of the original building..We would like to improve the appearance of the windows in the extension, as it looks so obviously a bodge with brick coursing very evident under the paint. Posting here for ideas of possible materials/ techniques. Considered so far..... Don't want to remove bricks and replace with stone. 5 windows and a door to do Render over the bricks ? What kind of mix might bond well when applied as a very thin layer? Anything work in the same way as floor levelling compound? Fibre-glass mat & car body filler? Would standard resins bond to brickwork ? Metal mesh secured to brickwork and rendered over ? Possibly the increased thickness would look out of place? Suggestions invited Thanks Ian Maybe try Artex type textured coating. Experiment on somewhere not visable to see whether you can get the stone texture. |
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Faux Stone Lintel
Ian G wrote:
Don't want to remove bricks and replace with stone. 5 windows and a door to do You can get smooth stone tiles designed for cladding stuff and making it look like real stone. If used carefully it can be hard to tell the difference between them and real stone blocks. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Faux Stone Lintel
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:34 +0000, Ian G wrote:
We live in a 1920's semi with painted stone lintels. A 1960's extension was built with window openings constructed using catnic lintels and stretcher bond brickwork above. 3 courses of brickwork have been painted above the windows, prior to our occupation of the property, in an attempt to simulate the aforementioned stone lintels of the original building..We would like to improve the appearance of the windows in the extension, as it looks so obviously a bodge with brick coursing very evident under the paint. Posting here for ideas of possible materials/ techniques. Considered so far..... Don't want to remove bricks and replace with stone. 5 windows and a door to do Render over the bricks ? What kind of mix might bond well when applied as a very thin layer? Anything work in the same way as floor levelling compound? Fibre-glass mat & car body filler? Would standard resins bond to brickwork ? Metal mesh secured to brickwork and rendered over ? Possibly the increased thickness would look out of place? Suggestions invited Thanks Ian ================================== You might consider using lead (or possibly zinc / zintec) almost like a false flashing. It would be thin enough to be invisible when painted. Cic. -- =================================== Using Ubuntu Linux Windows shown the door =================================== |
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