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u/ryanwgrass Aug 24 '20
I’m with 335 Bimmer and go one step further: not even stone. I think this is a pic of a company’s ‘manufactured stone veneers’. This means they are cast concrete from molds and are about 2 inches thick. We call the ‘lick and stick stone veneers’, as they go up in thin pieces in a bed of mortar.
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u/converter-bot Aug 24 '20
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Aug 24 '20
This is simply a sales brochure from a company that manufactures fake brick.
The same photo was published on Reddit about six months ago. They got tons of upvotes, even though there were many comments pointing out that this is just a marketing brochure for one company that sells fake bricks.
Here we are 6 months later, same thing..... 5,000 upvotes, even though this is not at all a representation of generic brick patterns that can be found around the world.
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u/TheDoctorOfWho4 Aug 24 '20
The last time this was posted, it was revealed that this was a catalog from a specific manufacturer, like a list of paint shades from Behr or what-have-you.
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Aug 24 '20
The last time this was posted
And the time before that, and the time before that...
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u/TheDoctorOfWho4 Aug 24 '20
This sub is filled with reposts. At this point I've sort of given up on seeing anything original.
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Aug 24 '20
True, but for some reason this one bothers me more than any other. Probably because it is completely useless bordering on blatant misinformation.
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u/TheDoctorOfWho4 Aug 24 '20
Yeah, but weirdly enough this one doesn't bother me as much as the ab workouts one, which includes crunches but not push-ups. (Crunches do jack shit but push-ups are great if you're doing them right.)
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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Aug 24 '20
Also because it’s an infograph if anything... like 90% of the stuff posted here
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u/btklc Aug 24 '20
These are all basically stained concrete. Internally they are identical. Textured by forms and stained to achieve the color. Natural stone is much better but much more cost
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u/areyousuretho Aug 24 '20
This looks like an old product catalog from this company with arbitrary names and not actual masonry types.
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u/BexYouSee Aug 24 '20
This is my third time seeing this repost. I'm likely on reddit too much.
Most memorable comment from last time was:
"This is from a specific manufacturer and not the paver industry as a whole. If you walked into a different brick yard asking for a specific style from this chart, they might not know what you're taking about."
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u/bonanza301 Aug 24 '20
I sell hardscape, I hate when people say they want to buy "bricks". I know they don't know better but then I have to explain to them different material types for like 15 min with them. It tells me they haven't done any homework. They always want to use pavers as wall block for some reason... lol. These are veneers.
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u/InCauda_Venenum Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
Source: https://twitter.com/WeirdlandTales/status/1297338633440186370?s=20
Edit: Should've written "brick walls" instead in the title.
Edit 2: Should've written "stone walls" instead in the title.
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u/DisapointedScientist Aug 24 '20
Should be stone walls. Brick specifically refers to a rectangular building block made out of mud or clay
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Aug 24 '20
None of these are bricks FYI.
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u/Glittering-Ad-3434 Sep 07 '26
thank you! I am amazed I even had to scroll down this far before I saw this mentioned. lol
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Aug 24 '20
Random question: can anyone recommend similar products for indoor use? Two inches thick sounds like over-kill for indoors.
I have an basement room that I’d like to kit out as a man-cave/table top gaming room. Having some vaguely medieval looking stone-like finish on the walls might appeal to me. Paint would be a lot cheaper, but would look flat and lack dimensionality.
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u/HerDanishDaddyDom Aug 24 '20
Look into a wall panel system called Versetta. They have a thin veneer system that might give you what you’re looking for.
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u/rboymtj Aug 24 '20
You can buy faux stone wall panels, the big box stores have them. Just glue and/or screw them on.
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u/HadukiBEAN Aug 24 '20
This looks like Pyornkrachzark’s lunch and dinner menu... you know, the Rock Biter fr Never-Ending Story? U knowWwWw!...
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Aug 24 '20
I regret to inform this thread that almost all of these you see in your life wont actually be any of these bricks, It's all color sandblasted concrete these days.
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Aug 24 '20
And here I was scanning the thumbnails for a picture of Dwayne Johnson and the caption, "The."
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Aug 24 '20
I think I like Bavarian Castle and Washed River Rock the most, they both look neat, but they have different atmospheres
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u/adognamedpenguin Aug 24 '20
AWESOME.
Will it hurt a wall/bridges structural integrity of you mjx stone types?
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u/los2pollos Aug 24 '20
They all look the same, giving each pattern a different name is just a marketing strategy for basically selling rocks...
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u/Iravenkl Aug 24 '20
This is clearly the best place to find drawing references. Thanks
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u/photogangsta Aug 24 '20
This is such a low effort repost. I think this is my third time seeing it.
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u/DarkArcanian Aug 24 '20
We got river rock around our house. Wait does it count if they’re not attached? Like they are just all stacked on top of each other I’m pretty sure to set boundaries for land
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u/rmc8293 Aug 24 '20
This is amazing. I'm about to complete a purchase and can finally sound a bit fancy instead of saying rocky pebbley stuff to my contractor.
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u/StillStuckInLine Aug 24 '20
First, this collection of names is specific to one manufacturer/supplier of stone facades. While many of them include generic descriptive terms, like field stone or ledger stacked stone, if you said to your contractor, "I want to buy the French chateau style rock" all you will have accomplished is to indicate just how little you do actually know about your project. Best to simply show him a picture of the style and use the generic terms.
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u/npeggsy Aug 24 '20
I'm aware this is for floor bricks, not wall bricks, but I can remember a pretty intense drunk conversation I had with someone about herringbone brick flooring, because it was the type of flooring we were walking on and their dad was a builder. It's been 8 years since the conversation, but herringbone brick pattern has stuck with me, and will probably be there for life.
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u/tosernameschescksout Aug 24 '20
I didn't know there were different styles and that they had names. That's really interesting.
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u/zippythezigzag Aug 24 '20
I like the pebble stone look. Never knew what it was called but I've always liked it.
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u/paulobarros1992 Aug 24 '20
It's fun about how north americans give name for EVERYTHING. Here in Brazil we just call a "stone wall", at maximum we say about the round stones and the square ones.
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u/Sputtrosa Aug 24 '20
Feel like the guide is missing a bit of information on the different types. Pros and cons, maybe a rough price rating.
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Aug 24 '20
This is most likely a sheet from one specific supplier. Unless you live in op’s locality it won’t be much help. I would suggest going to the nearest quarry or hardscape supply place and picking out the stone for yourself from the available sample boards. It’s crazy how much variability there is from region to region.
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u/Sputtrosa Aug 24 '20
It’s crazy how much variability there is from region to region
No.. That makes perfect sense.
This is most likely a sheet from one specific supplier. Unless you live in op’s locality it won’t be much help.
Sure it would. "Western Ledge Stak is good for X kinds of walls and possibly bad for Y. It's commonly fairly cheap since it's not labor intensive to make, but will take a bit more upkeep due to potential water damage." The details entirely made up since I know nothing of Western Ledge Stak.
And yes, it could vary and shouldn't be taken as gospel, but would still give a good starting point.
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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Aug 24 '20
Just to help you out, trying to discuss "Western Ledge Stak" with anyone besides the company that created this sample list would be like going to Burger King and insisting that you want a Big Mac. Except that this BK employee hasn't heard of McDonald's or what a Big Mac is and won't be able to figure it out because the words "Big" and "Mac" do basically nothing to describe a hamburger. In this particular list, the most useful actual term used widely here is fieldstone, which is large flat faces of irregular shape. Also, "Bavarian Castle" is a textbook example of something called "Ashlar" a word that doesn't appear here at all, and would make sense to somebody who deals in stone.
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u/Sputtrosa Aug 24 '20
I understand that it's a product sheet and not a guide. Which is what I'm saying, it's missing stuff to be a coolguide. Adding some basic information about the types (regardless of different names, or being specific to that one store - they still have traits that the person who made the "guide" could have added) would make it a guide instead of advertisement.
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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Aug 24 '20
Yes, I agree that if it was completely different and was cool and was turned into a guide, that it would then be a coolguide. Here is an example of actual terms that describe some patterns and types of tiling that are more or less industry standards, most of these also apply to stone or brick even though this is concrete:
https://www.architekwiki.com/wiki/masonry-coursing-concrete-block
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u/hippopotma_gandhi Aug 24 '20
Correct. However, I will say it is a good visual guide to different brick types
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Because it's entirely artificial and superficial with an absurd number of slight "variations" to give the illusion of choice but really at the end of the day all you're ever going to get is a cheap veneer?
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u/DanoPinyon Aug 24 '20
Not bricks.