Landscaping Brick Slips
If you need to spruce up your garden wall, steps, planters or even patio - look no further as brick slips are the perfect solution for cladding them.
Garden improvements
Landscaping and External Walling
Use our brick slips to make an ugly block wall beautiful, or to enhance some steps, planters or even a patio.
Browse our brick slips here, or click below to see more customer projects.
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Browse our collections to find the perfect blend for your space.
External Brick Slip Guidance
Why Brick Slips?
It can be expensive, time-consuming and tricky to lay bricks, particularly on smaller projects. Here’s why it can be cheaper, simpler and easier to use our brick slips.
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.
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.
No unsightly blockwork
Retaining 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.
Make a feature
Brick Slip Steps
If you've got some steps in your garden, or even at your door- why not make something of them.
You can use our brick slips as just the facing element, or use the corner tiles too to take the design to the top of the steps too.
Improve it
Brick Slip Planters
The small little parts of the garden you can make look nicer, and more permanent with the classic look of brickwork.
With any stable surface you can tile on our brick slips and bring it to life.
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!
