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We're looking at how to match existing mortars
in walls, stone walls, brick walls, rock walls

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or whatever. We get a lot of enquiries
about how do I get the same colour

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Well there's a number of different ways and
it's basically just trial and error really

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You'll see here I've got some ever built mortar
tone, powder mortar tone, red, buff and black

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So they're the three I have down in front of me. Behind them
I've got four samples of mortar and another three behind

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So I'll explain what we've done. These three here are
straightforward sand and cement mix in this particular case

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So it was a four to one mix with
red dye, black dye and yellow dye

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The important thing to remember when you're
using mortar tone is to mix the dye with the

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cement before you put it into the mix. So you mix the dye in
the cement dry, mix it all up and then put it into the mix and

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the distribution then is much more even throughout the mix. The mortar
tones themselves, you can read the instructions because they're all slightly

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different, but it normally works out for
a lightish colour. This is quite dark, OK

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So that's about two kilograms of toner into
fifty kilograms of cement or one kilogram

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per twenty five kilogram bag. So that's the darker colour, so that's
a kilogram of toner into a twenty five kilogram bag of cement

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Less toner gives you a lighter colour. Now behind
that we have different sand and cement mixes

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This is a two to one mix on
my left, your right hand side

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Three to one, three sand, one cement, four
sand, one cement, five sand, one cement

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So you can see there's a very slight variation as
we move up in sand content versus cement content

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We do this, we measure it carefully on site. We would
have a large version of this, these are called day boxes

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We use little tub, so that's one sand, one cement. If you just wanted
to use a little bit, we usually use a teaspoon to measure three sand

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for example, one cement. As long as they're even it doesn't
matter. Let it dry, it will give you an example of the colour

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It's no good doing it when it's wet because it will be darker.
So wipe it dry, hold it against the brickwork you want to match

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And then we're going to have a
mixture of sand and cement and toners

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So we have here, this is a yellow toner mixed
at two to one, and this is a yellow toner

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mixed at five to one. So you can
see the colour's slightly different

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The more sand, i.e. less cement, the
slightly darker the colour comes out

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And if you rub it and you can see, I don't
know if the camera can zoom in on that, but

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you can see the colour you're going to get.
This is yellow and black and a two to one mix

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So really what I'm trying to say is that the
possibility of using the toner and the different

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cement mixes are endless. You can make variations of it. So have an
experiment at home and you'll be getting closer to the colour that you really

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want to achieve. And you can end up, then you won't
end up with a mismatched mortar bed as you see in

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the close up shot. And the final thing that
we can do is this has its own separate video

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This is called Beddington's Weathering Kit. It's a really straightforward process.
You put the fluid in the tub, adding various amounts of water to weaken it

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And using a paintbrush you can paint on the
mortar bed and that will help you match any

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colour you want. So please go and have a look at
our separate video on Beddington's Weathering Kit

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And between the Weathering Kit, the Everbill
toners and the different sands and cements

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the qualifications are absolutely endless