I bought these bricks from Huws Gray they are suppose to be Chester Red Blend?

I bought these bricks from Huws Gray they are suppose to be Chester Red Blend from Ibstock. I needed them to repair a single brick width garden wall. Looking at the Huws Gray website they appeared to be a typical house brick.

At first I thought they had sent me the wrong bricks. Before buying them I had asked them why they were so cheap, were they a normal brick, were they some unusual type of brick such as a slip? No they said. Nothing on their website and my first look at the Ibstock web indicated they were engineering non face work bricks.

This is the Huws Gray website:

http://www.huwsgray.co.uk/bricks/bricklibrary/viewbrick/BR801300/Chester-Red-Blend-Offers

The Ibstock page for these bricks is here:

http://www.ibstock.com/ibstock-products.asp?name=Chester-Red-Blend&nID=3596

But it's only when you look deeper that you find out what they really are. You need to launch the ibstock brick selector to get the full info.

http://www.ibstock.uk.com/fla-generatePDF.asp?nBrickID=3596&sMortar=Yellow&nPDFType=2&sName=CHESTER RED BLEND&sBrickType=Wirecut&sBrickSize=65&sBrickDimension=215x102x65

Specs:

http://www.ibstock.uk.com/fla-generateProdspec.asp?nBrickID=3596&sBrickType=Wirecut&sName=CHESTER RED BLEND&sBrickSize=65&sBrickDimension=215x102x65

ENGINEERING BRICKS FOR NON FACEWORK

Configuration: Vertically Perforated

Well thanks a lot Huws Gray for the lack of this information on your website and from the staff.

So now I have 400 bricks that are ideal for building something like a sewer, great!

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