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    Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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      @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

      @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

      @DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

      While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.

      Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.

      Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see

      How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?

      Finger painting

      Finger PAINTING. You see?

      Bwahahaha

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      • wirestyle22W
        wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

        @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

        @scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

        @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

        @DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

        While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.

        Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.

        Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see

        How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?

        Finger painting

        Finger PAINTING. You see?

        Bwahahaha

        You could also drink it and spit it at the brick like something out of temple of doom. Never not an option

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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          @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          @scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          @scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          @wirestyle22 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          @DustinB3403 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

          While I agree he is using a stain, he's painting the stain on.

          Also F doing that by hand, I'd rather buy a house that matched what I wanted than waste a weekend doing that and getting the stink eye from the wife on the one spot I fell off the ladder and messed up the no so perfect line.

          Yeah It's just absorbed into the brick from my understanding. Seems everyone does it this way from what I can see

          How else could it be done? Dunking the whole wall in a bucket the size of the grand canyon?

          Finger painting

          Finger PAINTING. You see?

          Bwahahaha

          You could also drink it and spit it at the brick like something out of temple of doom. Never not an option

          Modern art.

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          • RojoLocoR
            RojoLoco
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            @wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller y'all know that paint sprayers exist, right?

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            • zachary715Z
              zachary715
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              We've discussed painting/staining our exterior brick. It's just sort of bland and I think lightening it with a white or something would give it more curb appeal. Painting/staining brick is commonly done on these HGTV remodel shows.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
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                @RojoLoco said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

                @wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller y'all know that paint sprayers exist, right?

                But you can't get the brick and grout two different colors with paint sprayers.

                You could, do one big coat for the overall and go back and touch each inch of grout by hand, but still that's a huge pain in the ass no matter what.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @zachary715
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                  @zachary715 said in Anyone ever stain their houses bricks a lighter color?:

                  We've discussed painting/staining our exterior brick. It's just sort of bland and I think lightening it with a white or something would give it more curb appeal. Painting/staining brick is commonly done on these HGTV remodel shows.

                  It's a cheap way to spruce up a house for sure.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
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                    Especially in a sea of red brick exterior homes, where when you drive down the street it's just brick house after brick house.

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                    • wrx7mW
                      wrx7m
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                      I like brick homes. But, that is probably because they are so rare here. Brick doesn't do very well in earthquakes. We have tons of stucco. I hate stucco.

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco @wrx7m
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                        @wrx7m there is a reason that stucco rhymes with suck-o.

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