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when u have the correct number of cinderblocks in ur enclosure

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Best match would be Glen-Gery's Georgian molded bricks, in standard or modular size :) These'll run ya probably about $1.25 apiece. Molded means they're formed in molds, rather than extruded and cut; this makes quite a bit more expensive. Glen-Gery's got a big enough operation to have machines make molded brick, but some companies (Old Carolina, for example) still make them by hand in wood boxes. Sometimes they're called "sand mold" because most molded brick are made with sand coating the box before the clay or shale goes in, as a nonstick coating.

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I definitely have the one on the right but the others are going on my shopping list asap

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grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. I see bricks, I see mortar, I see a trowel, I see a cask of wine, I see that asshole Montresor glaring at me over the top of the wall…

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Best match: Glen-Gery’s Butternut Velour

The brick at Abbott Elementary may be queen size, if the building was built in the last twenty or thirty years, so Glen-Gery’s Butternut Velours might not fit. They’re only made in modular size, so they’d be about half an inch too short and half an inch too thick. It can be hard to distinguish between modular size and queen size from pictures.

But if the building is older than Jacob in the show, the bricks are probably mods, and Glen-Gery’s Butternut Velour would work!

#this show!!!! 😭 ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021- ) | 4x06

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Best match: BrickCraft’s Chicago Heritage brick in modular size

Looks like Chicago Heritage has about 10% dark pieces, so you’d have to order 10% extra so you could leave those out.

To match this fireplace, you’d also need to use a colored mortar for the grouting. Very few colored mortars are available as premix, so you should plan to have to mix the mortar with sand — roughly 1:3 ratio of mortar to sand.

To fix this fireplace, first you’d definitely want to take out that mantel. Wtf is that. Replace that mantel with a faux wood beam, lower than where the current one is placed. Add about ten inches of brick onto the right side of the fireplace, to try and center the fireplace insert. Get rid of the cabinet on the right; add in some plain shelves instead. Remove some of the brick above the mantel in the middle to create a recess where we can put that tv. Tape that cord down along the bottom of the wall, around the perimeter of the room, so that it’s no longer visible. Right now, it’s a tripping hazard and an eyesore.

Or move.

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Best match: Cherokee Brick’s Melrose brick!

The bottom six or so courses of brick are stained green with what is most likely just algae, since this is in shade and at grade. To really match this brick, if you wanted to add an addition to the existing structure for example, you’d want to clean the existing brick first. Otherwise, the new bricks will stand out.

If it’s just algae, a coarse fiber brush and plain water should do the trick. If it’s not algae, it may be vanadium staining, which could still be due to water from the exterior not evaporating quickly in that shade. Vanadium stains could also be caused by water on the inside of the brick wall. If you try to clean the green off the bricks, and it won’t come off with just water, it may be a moisture issue on the inside. If that’s the case, if you want to fix it the right way, you’d need to tear out the existing brick veneer and reinstall new brick, this time with the proper drainage accessories.

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Best match: Glen-Gery’s 1-HB modular size Thin brick.

A lot of restaurants use thin brick for interior applications. Without better lighting and closer pictures, it can be hard to say for sure what texture will match best. The area above the first arch, closer to the camera, also looks like a different texture and color; they maybe have been a repair patched in after water damage.

Glen-Gery’s 1-HB is made at their Mid-Atlantic plant and is part of their Cushwa Series line. The thin brick is only stocked in modular size, but the full-bed 1-HB brick also comes in Standard and Engineer sizes and most plants will cut them thin for a fee. The brick in this video is mostly likely modular size.

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Best match: General Shale’s Cascade White brick in Rockface texture (discontinued).

Rockface brick, no matter the color (the color doesn’t actually matter here because the brick in the gif — seventh from the top — are painted and an interior application that’s less likely to be damaged by weather), is no longer manufactured. Your best bet to match these would be to buy a white full-bed brick, with through-body color (made of shale probably), and chisel the face yourself. If you can find a white paver, white throughout rather than just a pigment baked onto the face, that would be even better: most bricks these days are not solid, so chiseling to create a rockface texture could expose the cores in the middle of the brick. A paver is solid. If you chisel the face off a paver, you will have less breakage/waste. Belden Brick has some light colored pavers, like their Wheatfield pavers or their Belcrest 600 pavers.

Best bet is to replace the whole wall with something new!

Will Arnett as G.O.B in Arrested Development