The Impact of Grout
To a remarkable degree, impressive grout techniques, both in color hue and finished joint methods, significantly enhance the beauty and authenticity of Eldorado Brick installations. From exterior brick veneer to brick fireplace surrounds, using Eldorado Brick with any of a number of notable grout techniques assures you, not only of the old-world charm you desire, but the believability you expect.
Standard Joint Grout Technique
In this illustration, Castello RomaBrick is installed with a gray grout in a standard, raked joint finish. A joiner or other blunt masonry instrument is used to achieve a consistent depth which creates the familiar concave, raked out look to the mortar.
Overgrout Grout Technique
When you compare this photograph with the photo of the standard joint, you’ll notice how different the brick looks. In both instances, Castello RomaBrick was selected, but the grout technique makes the brick look much different. The same gray grout is used but the mortar overlaps the face of the brick, widening the joints and producing an irregular, rustic look.
Weep Joint Grout Technique
Riverbed TundraBrick demonstrates a most dynamic and expressive technique often called “weep.” The colored grout literally oozes out of the joints to appear as though there’s been too much grout squeezed into the joints. The distinctive “weeping” creates the unique surface texture seen in many installations.
Bead Joint Grout TechniqueCleaner-lookin and more controlled than a weep joint, this technique has grout still extruding beyond the brick face. Riverbed TundraBrick used here is the same brick as used in the weep joint photo, but with different visual results. In both circumstances, the grout color and technique alters the face of the brick slightly.
Grapevine Joint Grout Technique
Here, Panzano ModenaBrick with a colored grout is featured with a unique technique often referred to as a grapevine joint. Dragging a thin, blunt instrument (not unlike a twig) along the middle of the wet grout – horizontally and vertically – scores the grout leaving a thin visible linear cavity.
Full Joint Grout Technique
When you compare this grout technique with the photo of the grapevine joint, you can see how grout technique influences the perception of the installed brick. Once again, using Panzano ModenaBrick with a colored grout, this full joint is similar to a standard joint. However, the grout level is almost flush with the face of the brick, slightly exposing the edge detail.
20 March 2012 at 07:05
actually what is grout??may i known the defination of grout??thx~~
21 March 2012 at 17:13
Grout = cement + fine aggregates + water
Concrete = cement + fine aggregates + coarse aggregates + water
10 July 2012 at 17:28
It isn't called grout. It's called mortar when used to bond masonry units. Grout is the term for cement and aggregate used to surround re bar within the cores of block or the cavity between two wythes of masonry .There is fine and coarse grout, with each used according to the size of the spaces to be filled. Mr. Building material needs to talk to Mr Mason to get and keep these terms straight.
Dan Murray
10 October 2012 at 09:45
There is a small company called Stonemakers with a bunch of videos on youtube.
They order 9 sack grout from ready-mix suppliers with only fine aggregates and a 2 inch slump. They then add a 10 gallon solution to the mix and it produces a very sticky, vertically stackable, slow setting, carvable mixture for retaining walls and other hardscape.
Would you tell me what they are adding in that 10 gallon solution to make it so sticky and clay-like?
Also, where I can buy it?
Thanks
8 July 2016 at 00:23
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