Bricks Day 2

Cihly den 2

Two days of work and the bricklayers have nearly finished 1.8m around the entire house! The bricklayer is local, from Emerald and knows how to boss his young apprentices.

You can see from the second photo how clean the bricks are, it’s quite impressive. The normal procedure would include final cleaning with an acid concentrate, which can discolour the lighter bricks that we have. These guys however just keep the bricks clean as they lay them so no further pressure spray is required.

The morter will get lighter as it dries, it’s supposed to be white but still appears a bit gray in this stage. The Limestone Hue brick has a little bit a pink tone to it but from the distance it looks just like we wanted.

Po dvou dnech prace ti zednici skoro dokoncili 1.8m vysokou zed okolo celeho domu. Ten hlavni zednik je mistni, z Emeraldu a vi jak popohanet svoje ucedniky. Na druhe fotce je videt, jak ciste ty cihly jsou. Normalne by se na cisteni pouzivala jakasi kyselina, ale tito kluci ty cihly cisti od malty rovnou pri pokladani a bez nejake kyseliny.

Ta malta vypada porad trochu seda, ale jak uschne, tak se pry zesvetli (platili jsme navic aby byla bila nebo co nejsvetlejsi). Cihly maji zblizka trochu ruzovy nadech, ale z dalky vypadaji tak jak jsme ocekavali a doufali. Omitka se na ne davat nebude, vetsina domu v Australii ma “obnazene” cihly anebo jsou ze dreva. Omitka se pouziva zridka.