Matching old brick

[free07110]

Wife said “You got a shop, now I want the bathroom I always wanted.”
Guess we are looking to add onto our house and I want the add on to match. Hard thing is finding our brick. I have reached out to all local brick manufacturers in Oklahoma and no help. Anyone know how to find old brick or have someone make custom order bricks. Just needing enough for a wainscoting on the add on.
Below is pic of my brick. Please help a guy out! Lol

 

[free07110]

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[4xdog]

We have a couple of companies here in St. Louis that sell used brick, in addition to the stone and new brick their business is mainly based on. I found an exact match to my house's brick a few years ago, and bought enough for my project.

I shoulda bought it all! When I needed more a few years later, that pile in their back yard was all gone.

Your brick, free07110, looks distinctive enough that someone will recognize what company made it. And since brick is so heavy and relatively inexpensive it rarely travelled too far from where it was made, so I'd look relatively local. A good long-time local mason might have some hints.

And when you find it buy more than you think you need!

 

[NUTTSGT]

Calling the brick manufacturers probably is going to get you far. They don't care about a guy needing 50 bricks. They sell in bulk to contractors or distribution outlets.

I think you're going to need to make a road trip to one or more of the local brick supply houses brick yards. Be armed with some good pictures or samples if you have any loose bricks around.

Keep in mind, depending on how you do the addition, you maybe able to reuse some of your bricks.

 

[Radix2]

I've found the local masons, builders and brickyards are very helpful in finding matches. Since bricks are heavy, the patterns and suppliers are local/ regional.

Unless it is very unusual and very old someone will know. Hopefully it is not from a defunct brick company.

It doesnt look familiar to me at all.

 

[Stuart in MN]

I've found the local masons, builders and brickyards are very helpful in finding matches. Since bricks are heavy, the patterns and suppliers are local/ regional.

I was going to say the same thing, chances are the original bricks were manufactured close by. If the place that made them is defunct, maybe you can find some salvaged brick, or someone who's planning on tearing down a house that was built with the same stuff.

 

[The Cobbler]

Old brick can be hard to source unless you get lucky. even at best the shade will likely be off and noticeable. can you do an offsetting brick or something else creative so it doesn't look like a poor match, but an intended compliment?

 

[free07110]

Thanks guys. I emailed all local places and stopped by a local one this morning to see what they had in the showroom. Might do stone wainscoting and add stone to front porch wainscoting to make add on blend in better. Only will do this if all my options are out with sourcing the original brick.

 

[6768rogues]

You will probably have to look at brick suppliers for something close. Even the same brick, ordered at a different time, often looks different. When I worked at the public school, we always got a supply of extra bricks turned over to us at the end of construction projects because getting them later is hit or miss.

 

[dneiding]

Calling the brick manufacturers probably is going to get you far. They don't care about a guy needing 50 bricks. They sell in bulk to contractors or distribution outlets.

I think you're going to need to make a road trip to one or more of the local brick supply houses brick yards. Be armed with some good pictures or samples if you have any loose bricks around.

Keep in mind, depending on how you do the addition, you maybe able to reuse some of your bricks.

Same here. I had to replace 10-15 bricks on my chimney. I asked a brick mason that lives around the corner from me. He knew who built the house, what brick he used, knew what mine was called and told me a place about 30 mins away that had what I needed.

 

[kbs2244]

How old?

 

[coljar]

My brick house was built in 1962 and in 1991 I added a brick addition. You don't notice that the brick is slightly different because they meet in an inside corner. When you look close and study it, you see they are different, but who does that. If it wasn't ******* down the rain, I'd take a picture.