What do you know about bricks...?

[amitten]

One of my relatives is having a house built in a new neighborhood. It rained the other day. We went to go look at how construction was going, and about half the houses (all red brick) looked "stained" by the rains, like they'd absorbed the moisture. I've never seen brick do that before. We both thought it was strange...

Is the brick they're using defective or something? The brick my relative picked isn't red, it's taupe, so it might be made of a different material (none of the houses with brick of other colors looked wet).

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Bricks are porous. The tar paper behind them is not.

[amitten]

2. Yeah. I looked online and it seems like coating with a repellent

is a good idea. It's just strange though because I know bricks are porous, but I've never seen any before that look so wet after a rain. It got me worried.

[Kali]

3. real brick or block?

brick is fired and is much less porous than cement block, although they are still porous as well

[amitten]

4. Um...I think it's real brick, but I don't know.

It doesn't look like cement but I have no clue.

[ThomWV]

5. There's all kinds of different bricks

I'm not saying I know squat about them, but I know there are all different kinds. Some are nearly waterproof and most are not, that much I'm pretty sure of. I got a bunch of them and used them for walkways around the garden. They soaked up water and turned to red goop when they froze and thawed a few times. I've got some others that you could build a dam out of and it wouldn't bother them. Actually got one from the base of the old Cape Hatteras light house. After them moved the light house we found it in the sand at the old site.

[rateyes]

6. No problem. After the bricks set, the workers will

clean them all...they'll look perfect.

[Generic Brad]

7. You can't really shit them

That is just an old saying.

[Schema Thing]

8. that seems normal

I think that darkening would happen if you put a hose on most any red brick house.

[ElboRuum]

9. They're smarter than most of the Republican Party?

:shrug:

[amitten]

10. Now I KNOW that's true... n/t