A fine, fatty loam sand made for bricklaying mortar — screened strictly to 0.5 mm and down, nothing over, so the mud spreads smooth, holds the brick and works the same way every single load.
How it’s made
Screened to 0.5 mm and down — nothing over.
Brickies loam starts as washed sand, dried right through the kiln — because bone-dry sand screens precisely, and that's how we hold the cut to a strict 0.5 mm and down, nothing over. Then the moisture goes back in, so it lands on site as a workable loam, not a dry powder. That kiln-cut precision is what makes this the most consistent brickies loam out there — the mortar works the same from the first trowel to the last, and every load is checked before it goes out the gate.
Mortar is only as consistent as the sand in it. Anything oversize in the mix shows up as grit under the trowel, drags on the joint and throws the colour off between batches. Holding the cut at 0.5 mm and down, with nothing over, is what makes the mud behave the same on the last course as it did on the first — and it's why the gauge stays the same load to load.
It arrives as a workable loam rather than a dry powder, so it goes straight into the mixer without having to be wetted down and turned first. The fines are what give it the fat that lets a brickie spread and butter cleanly, and the consistency is what lets a gang gauge the same mix all week without chasing it.
MRP Sand Quarry is an inland sand quarry — nothing is dredged off a coastline. Inland deposits hold a far wider range of grain sizes than coastal sand, so we screen and cut sizes from ultra fines right up to coarse, and because the sand has never been near seawater there's no salt in it. Tell us the size the job needs and we cut to it.
Used for
Supply & delivery
By the tonne in bulk loads, or bagged on our line — delivered to site, yard or store.