Essex Brick Tinting is a family run business that deals with a range of brickwork and mortar needs. Whether it's tinting a new extension to match your existing walls or repairing a cracked brick, we can do it all.

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What is Brick Tinting?

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Put in a nutshell, brick tinting is considered to be the single most efficient and cost effective method of making permanent changes to the colour of mortar, bricks and other masonry substrates. A successful technique used for 40 years or so, the process involves application of a potassium-silicate medium containing oxide-based colour-fast pigments to the surface of bricks and other masonry surfaces.

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How does it work?

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The tint used is not a type of surface coating or paint, but a combination of a liquid chemical binder (the potassium-silicate) to which iron oxide pigments have been added. On application, this mixture penetrates into the brick/masonry substrate, where it forms a permanent bond. In essence, the process enables lightening, darkening or a complete change of brick/substrate colours in order to achieve an exact match to specific requirements.

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