Yes, Chelo's Brick & Stone matches masonry across an addition to an older home, which involves more than picking a similar-looking brick. Coursing height, mortar joint width and profile, and bond pattern all have to line up where the new work meets the old, or the seam is obvious from across the yard.
The brick color and mortar color are the part most homeowners think about first, but the coursing itself matters just as much: if each course of new brick isn't the same height as the old courses, the horizontal lines won't run continuous across the addition seam, and that mismatch reads as wrong even if the brick color is a near-perfect match.
Mortar joint width and how the joint is tooled, concave, struck, or raked, affect the texture and shadow line of a wall as much as brick color does. We match the joint profile and the bond pattern, running bond, common bond, whatever the original wall used, along with the brick and mortar color, so the addition reads as part of the original house instead of an obvious add-on.
Because a new addition sits on its own footing that settles differently than the original foundation, we typically plan a control joint at or near the seam between old and new work. That lets the two sections move independently without cracking straight through the brick where they meet.
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