Most Popular Bricks & Blocks for Housing Projects This Year

These bricks and blocks are the go-to choice for UK homes, combining strength, style, and reliability. Favoured by builders, they make every housing project solid, efficient, and built to last.

The LBC Facing Brick Commons is a traditional Fletton brick, ideal for functional use below DPC, garden walls, outbuildings, and non-visible walls. Made in Britain from locally sourced clay, it is moderately frost-resistant (F1), smooth-textured, pressed, and conforms to BS EN 771-1 standards. Each pack contains 390 bricks.

The Marshalls Buxton Frogged Common Brick is a durable, frost-resistant concrete brick ideal for functional construction. Smooth-textured and dimensionally accurate, it is pressed for precision and provides low lead times from order to delivery. Each pack contains 396 bricks.

The Marshalls Dense Concrete Common Brick is a durable, frost- and rain-resistant brick suitable for use above or below DPC. With 20 N/mm² compressive strength, it provides good thermal control and can be used alone or with dense aggregate blocks.

The Hepworth Cavity Liner creates a ventilation duct through walls for use with air bricks. Made from durable, frost-resistant clay, it is suitable for new builds and refurbishments. Red in colour to resist fading, each liner measures 215 x 215 x 200mm with a free air space of 4624 mm².

Wienerberger PL3.2 plinth stretcher bricks are ideal for building bases, corbels, capping, and kerbs, creating single or double course splay details. Smooth-textured, wirecut, and low-salt (S2), they meet BS and EU standards with 50 N/mm² compressive strength. Each brick measures 215 x 100 x 65 mm, weighs 2.25 kg, and comes in packs of 500.

Forterra Hampton Rural Blend bricks are environmentally friendly stock bricks with a red multi-colour finish, ideal for exposed garden walls, retaining walls, cills, cappings, and chimneys. F2 frost-resistant, creased texture, and manufactured to BS EN 771-1 standards. Each brick measures 215 x 102.5 x 65 mm, weighs 2.2 kg, and comes in packs of 495.

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