The Brew Cabin

I've just starting laying a pack of "brindle" blocks and have noticed that some blocks are like charcoal while others are completely red while others are red/black.

I don't remember the Marshalls blocks being like that, but this time I bought a load from a local supplier in North Wales.

Should this extreme difference in colour occur when buying brindle blocks ??

"Brindle" is a pretty unspecific term and what passes for brindle with one manufacturer has little in common, colour-wise, with a brindle from another manufacturer.

To be fair to Marshalls, the kit they use in their multi-coloured block manufacturing does occasionally throw up blocks with a predominance of one colour, but, to my eye, this makes for a better finished effect on the completed driveway than the type of blocks where all the colour variuation occurs within individual blocks.

To get best effect, you really should be drawing your blocks from at least 3 packs simultaneously, and randomising them as you lay, so you don't get defonite 'splotches' of colour, but a more balanced, 'mottled' effect.

Obviously, if you had a pack that was predomoinatly all chrcoal or all reds, then the BM should, and probably would, exchange them for a more mixed pack, but from what you say, I don't think you've been sold anything out of the ordinary.

Funnily enough shortly after posting I did some more research which follows what you just said.

Fortunately the variation in colour occurs within each pack and due to space restrictions I have had to use one pack at a time. I just had 'er in doors' giving me earache about the mottled effect I told her not to worry however it did sow the seed of doubt in my mind.

Thanks for confirming that I don't need to send the whole load back .... :cool: