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Frog & Perp Brickwork · Hemel Hempstead

One brick, laid properly.

Bricklaying and pointing done to the millimetre, so it looks right for a hundred years.

    Frog & Perp Brickwork · Hemel Hempstead

    One brick, laid properly.

    Bricklaying and pointing done to the millimetre, so it looks right for a hundred years.

    A single red multi stock brick hovering frog-up above a fresh bed of pale lime mortar, lit by a warm softbox against a near-black studio.

    01 · THE BRICK

    The brick

    Red multi stock, chosen to match the house, laid frog up.

    • 215 × 102.5 × 65 mm
    • Frog up, filled by the next bed
    The brick lowered onto the furrowed lime mortar bed, mortar squeezing out of the joint as it beds in.

    02 · THE BED

    The bed

    A full bed of lime mortar, furrowed, then the brick tapped down to the line.

    • 10 mm bed joint
    • Lime mortar, 1:1:6
    The laid brick beside its neighbour, with the head joint filled with mortar and an orange string line running above the course.

    03 · THE PERPEND

    The perpend

    Head joints filled through the full depth, so no water finds a way in.

    • Perpend filled full depth
    • To the line, plumb and level
    A close view along the course below, the camera passing from the bucket-handle pointing profile towards the weathered one.

    04 · THE POINTING

    The pointing

    Four finishes, matched to the house. We show you a sample panel first.

    • Flush
    • Bucket-handle
    • Weathered
    • Recessed
    The camera pulling back to show the whole short wall of red brick courses, with the orange string line along the top.

    05 · THE COURSE

    The course

    Plumb, level and to gauge. Then the next one.

    • 75 mm gauge · 4 courses to 300 mm

    Services

    • Extensions

      New brickwork tied in and matched to the house.

      From £950 per thousand bricks laid

    • Garden and boundary walls

      Single or double skin, with coping and piers.

      From £240 per m²

    • Repointing

      Lime or cement, raked out by hand, never by grinder on soft brick.

      From £40 per m²

    • Chimney rebuilds

      Taken down to sound brickwork and rebuilt with new flashings by our roofer.

      Quoted after a visit

    • Brick matching

      We find the brick, the mortar colour and the joint profile before we start.

      Included in every quote

    • Piers and gate posts

      Built square around the hinge and latch fixings.

      From £380 a pair

    We build a sample first

    On every repointing and extension job we build a small sample panel on site with the brick, mortar and joint you have chosen. You sign it off before we lay the rest.

    Freestanding brick sample panel showing flush, bucket-handle and recessed joints, in front of a Victorian terrace wall being raked out for repointing

    Reviews

    5 out of 5

    The new wall matches the 1930s brick so well the neighbours asked when it went up.

    Hannah R., Apsley
    5 out of 5

    Marcus showed us three pointing samples before he started. Tidy every evening.

    Mr & Mrs Doyle, Bennetts End
    5 out of 5

    Our extension was quoted per thousand and came in at exactly that.

    Sanjay P., Grovehill

    Tell us about the wall.

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