Brick Slip Outdoor Kitchens and Garden Rooms
Making your garden a multifunctional space is a great idea, and you can use brick slips to clad your indoor-outdoor setup.
Al Fresco style
Outdoor Kitchens and Garden Rooms
Creating an extra enclosed room in your garden, a covered or uncovered outdoor eating space? Use brick slips to make it stylish and weatherproof.
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External Brick Slip Guidance
Why Brick Slips?
It can be expensive, time-consuming and tricky to lay bricks, particularly on smaller projects. Most often, garden rooms and outdoor kitchens will be timber framed and the default is timber cladding which can fade over time, or need additional painting/staining to maintain.
Cost
By using brick slips, the cost is slightly less than full bricks in terms of the tiles themselves. This is because you can usually get two tiles from each brick, but the extra cost comes from the cutting needed, meaning you will save a small amount.
The greater financial saving comes in associated costs. The installation is much quicker, easier and can be done cheaper, the delivery costs will be cheaper as there is less weight involved in covering an area, and you will require much less mortar than in traditional brickwork. It is also common to have to buy a full pack of bricks - around 500 or so - at a time.
The only additional cost to take away from these savings is either the adhesive, or backing system that you use to fix the tiles to the existing wall.
Simplicity
Whilst you will need some foundational courses in order to safely lay full bricks, the tiles simply adhere to the existing structure- meaning less work and fewer potential complications.
With a smaller area such as an retaining wall, or paticularly steps or a planter, brick slips will help to minimise the time on the facade, but also minimise the space that is taken up by that little bit.
External Installation
With an external installation, there is usually a choice to be made on how you install the tiles. Depending on the size of the project, and the build up of the substrate, you may want to use our brick slip backer boards. Some people choose to use these indoors, but the effort to cut them and fit them correctly often outweighs the time benefits.
Essentially these backing systems create a mechanical fixing between the substrate and the adhesive to give extra security to how they're fixed, in most systems they also provide extra insulation.
If you want to know about brick slip backing systems then contact us with your project details and we’ll go through the options.
Dine in style
Outdoor Kitchens
Make your outdoor kitchen look more classy and permanent by cladding it in brick.
With any stable surface you can tile on our brick slips and bring it to life.
Part of the home
Garden Rooms
If you're having a garden room built as an office, gym, or anything else, you may not be building in brick- but that doesn't mean you can't have the look!
Don't forget about feature walls inside too!
No unsightly blockwork
Garden Walls
Rather than having an eyesore of a concrete block wall, or even a crumbling old unsightly brick one, you can choose your style.
If the existing wall isn't stable enough to trust adhering the slips on, use our backer systems. Otherwise you can tile straight onto masonry.
Will It Look Exactly Like Full Brick?
Yes- once the tiles are installed and pointed you won’t be able to tell the difference, providing you’ve used our corner tiles where appropriate, and used a mortar line to connect to the existing building, covering the join.
Where Can I Go Wrong?
In using brick slips externally, make sure you don’t scrimp on a couple of areas in particular- the tiles themselves and the adhesive.
Some brick slips are made from concrete or other materials to try to replicate brick but are cheaper. They will have different water absorption properties, are usually heavier and can fade over time in sunlight. We only use real clay bricks to make our tiles, meaning they will behave in exactly the same way as full bricks.
Due to the tiles being exposed to the elements they will absorb some moisture, which will, in turn, expose the adhesive to that moisture. This shouldn’t be a problem at all, so just don’t use anything cheap. Our adhesive has been rigorously tested in all weathers and adhered to many different surfaces over the years so it’s proven for the job.
Where Do I Start?
Browse our collection of brick slips, and order samples of the ones you like the most so you can see and feel them. Once you’ve chosen your blend you can use our calculation tool to work out how many you need. Any more questions you have though- please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help!
