Brick Stamp

Nothing like the red brick stamp. It always looks good. The guys put this one in without me today and they did a very nice job. The lines look straight and the curves are smooth. I have been talking to my web designer about showing the installation of the brick joints. People always ask, “How do you get the lines in there”, and I always say jokingly that it is a trade secret.  Well I end up telling them because the people who ask are generally soon to be customers. As you can see in one of these pictures and the blog before this one (a video) we squirt it in. The shape of this curb, the slant style, allows gravity to do the job for us. We squirt it from the top and it goes downhill. I always say squirting the joints  is the simplest part of the job, but it is also the one that can mess the job up the most if done incorrectly. It is what we all experience at our jobs, sometimes you get a rhythm going and they go in line clockwork. Other times it seems to go slow and you can’t keep up. Just to let you know all brick joints don’t have to be the same color, we can tweak the colors to your choosing.

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We can work together. As you can see in the photo there are two types of curbing. One red and one charcoal. If done properly the curbing blends in with the rest of the landscape. That is my goal when I install it for you. It should not stand out. I want it to work for you as a function of your landscape. Here the charcoal edging lines the driveway keeping the stone out of the grass and makes everything real neat. In the bed on the left the edging is a little more fancy, but still does not stand out, because it fits in with the bed design. Of course the function for the curbing there is to keep the mulch out of the grass. Both edgings will also reduce the amount of weed whacking that is required. The curbing can be used to run your lawnmower wheel on. Please keep in mind that the curbing does not eliminate weed whacking altogether, but it can reduce the amount of weed whacking.

Yes, Yes, Yes. This is an all concrete blog after all. We do a lot of this so let me explain a little. We arrive at the site with a trailer loaded with sand and cement. We also have a mixer on the trailer. We add the sand and cement along with the color and wheelbarrow it up to a machine that extrudes this shape. At that point I add the lines and shading to give it a brick look. It is very durable and is a continuously extruded concrete curb. Not only does it look nice, but it provides a benefit as you can see here. The owner of this house was having problems keeping the mulch in the bed, but not any more.