What are these capping bricks called?

What are these capping bricks called?

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Cold

Original Poster:

15,333 posts

93 months

I need some help identifying these capping bricks, please. There's a line of them around the hip of the whole house and unfortunately a decade of leaking guttering has caused frost damage to a number of them.

Now the gutters are all sorted it seems like an ideal time to replace the damaged capping bricks and do a bit of repointing before another winter. But I've no idea what I'm looking/asking for to organise a small pallet of shiny new ones.

House is an early 1990s new build by Redrow/Costain (around the time of the merger/buyout).




curtisl

1,384 posts

209 months

I think that's called a plinth stretcher.

Actual

815 posts

109 months

I have to do the same job.

I think...

Wienerberger Terca PL.3.2 Plinth Stretcher Brick 23mm Red

https://www.jewson.co.uk/p/wienerberger-terca-pl-3...

Mr Squarekins

1,090 posts

65 months

curtisl said:
I think that's called a plinth stretcher.
It is indeed.


Cold

Original Poster:

15,333 posts

93 months

You chaps are awesome. Thank you. thumbup

sfella

924 posts

111 months

A brickie would call it a squint

Bonefish Blues

27,714 posts

226 months

One of the benefits is 'Can provide extra durability and protection to brickwork' scratchchin

Wheelbrace

70 posts

90 months

sfella said:
A brickie would call it a squint
He wouldn't.

https://eshop.solentbrick.org.uk/Special-Shape-Bri...

Mr Squarekins

1,090 posts

65 months

Don't even ask what a Cant is getmecoat