Facade brick, it is also called facial and facing, serves, as the name clear, for facing the external walls of buildings.
Despite the fact that some companies offer facade brick, non -standard, reduced size, mainly such brick has the size of an ordinary brick – 250x120x65mm.
For the most part, facing brick is produced by hollow, with increased thermal characteristics. It has good frost resistance, heat resistance, and resistance to various atmosphere phenomena, and mechanical effects.
Facade brick cladding, although it costs more than painter-stomach work, is economically more profitable than the latter, it does not require updating for decades.
But still, the main quality of the facade brick, who made it the king of facing coatings, is his external attractiveness, presentability. At home lined with such material, look like real palaces. The choice of facade bricks by coloring is also impressive, thanks to the use of various impurities in clay during firing, and on the texture of the surface. Buildings trimmed with relief (textured) facing brick look pretty. The textured brick has a pattern on pumpkin and spoon surfaces. The drawing can be a simple repeating relief, and it can also imitate the surface of marble, granite, wood.
Front brick, serves not only for the decoration of modern buildings, with its help restore old buildings that have cultural value.
Special type of facing brick t. n. “Brus” or “half”, much thinner than ordinary brick, and is also used in the interior decoration of buildings.
There is also a curly (style) facade brick, which has curved or beveled faces, rounded ribs and corners. Such bricks are faced with arches, rotonts and round columns. There is a facing material made for cornices and window sills.
A special type of facial brick is a pattern of brick, it is made according to the pattern provided by the customer. The popularity of facade brick is growing rapidly. This is evidenced by the fact that in Europe, the share of facade bricks, reaches 60%, among all building materials.
