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Brick wall generator

Pick a bond, mix your bricks and light the wall. Every brick is placed, so the quantities below are counted off the wall you are looking at rather than estimated from its area.

Save keeps a wall to come back to while this page is open.

The band under each slider is where most real walls sit, and a roll stays inside it. Tick the box beside a slider to let a roll go past it; dragging always can.

Mix

Seed 1
Wall
Bond
4.0 mTypical 1.5 m to 8.0 m, default 4.0 m.
2.4 mTypical 0.6 m to 3.0 m, default 2.4 m.
Bricks
Brick 1
Pressed salmon

Dry-pressed with a smooth face and crisp edges, salmon to orange with darker flashing. Usually laid in a blend.

24%Typical 4% to 35%, default 22%.
55%Typical 0% to 65%, default 50%.
40 mmTypical 12 mm to 50 mm, default 44 mm.
Brick 2
Pressed plum

Dry-pressed, plum to purple-brown. Blended with lighter bricks for contrast.

16%Typical 4% to 35%, default 16%.
30%Typical 0% to 65%, default 30%.
30 mmTypical 12 mm to 50 mm, default 30 mm.

Which brick each slot holds, whether it is in the wall, how many parts of it and what order they go in are all set in the mix under the wall.

Distribution

The drawings use two bricks, filled and hollow, and show what each control pushes them toward.

0.75Typical 0.50 to 1.00, default 0.75.
spread 0.45Typical spread 0.70 to clump 0.15, default spread 0.45.
0.60Typical 0.30 to 0.90, default 0.60.
0.10Typical 0.00 to 0.30, default 0.10.
0.00Typical -0.20 to 0.20, default 0.00.
break 0.30Typical break 0.60 to off, default break 0.30.
Mortar
Joint finish

Cut back square. Puts the whole wall into deep relief and is the least weatherproof.

10 mmTypical 8 mm to 12 mm, default 10 mm.
10 mmTypical 8 mm to 12 mm, default 10 mm.
7 mmTypical 0 mm to 10 mm, default 7 mm.
Irregularity

Each of these is a few millimetres on a real wall, so the drawings exaggerate them to be seen at all.

1.5 mmTypical 0.5 mm to 8.0 mm, default 1.5 mm.
0.8 mmTypical 0.3 mm to 4.0 mm, default 0.8 mm.
0.3 mmTypical 0.2 mm to 3.0 mm, default 0.3 mm.
0.05°Typical 0.00° to 0.60°, default 0.05°.
0.3 mmTypical 0.0 mm to 6.0 mm, default 0.3 mm.
0.4%Typical 0.2% to 3.0%, default 0.4%.
6%Typical 2% to 40%, default 6%.
0.60xTypical 0.50x to 1.80x, default 0.60x.
0%Typical 0% to 45%, default 0%.
Light
68° leftTypical 75° left to 75° right, default 68° left.
32°Typical 15° to 75°, default 32°.
1.20Typical 0.60 to 1.50, default 1.20.
0.9Typical 0.3 to 3.5, default 0.9.
0.28Typical 0.15 to 0.60, default 0.28.
515 bricks to order9.6 m² of wall51 per m²
5%Typical 3% to 10%, default 5%.
BrickMixWholeCutOrder
Pressed salmon73%32831377
Pressed plum27%12011138
Total100%44842515

A cut brick counts as a whole brick, because cutting one uses one. The offcut sometimes serves the other end of a course, which would bring this down slightly, so treat the figure as the conservative one.