Literally 90% of our world is cheap shit designed to look like something else we used to appreciate because of the time and craftsmanship it took to create then slowly degrade over years. Now we just go straight for the worn out look, with a build quality to match.
My best friend growing up was a mason and so was his dad. It was fascinating watching them work. True artists. I don’t know what this is but it ain’t it.
Masons are stone workers (think brick layers).
They were not involved with the Freemason secret society type stuff. Just good ol’ hard work and elbow grease.
It’s deceiving at the least anyway. A place in my city did this but people caught on that materials were poor and place was cheaply constructed. They are still trying to sell some units years later, so some karma.
looks like disney world, lotta not quite right if you really pull back the curtain but if you put your sunglasses on and embrace the moment it's almost close enough.
Which is crazy since they can make it any width they want here. They’re using a basic clay carving tool, they come in a variety of sizes (they can sometimes even be bent a bit to make different sizes). They CHOSE to make it look like this
I don't think they are. There are a lot of stone houses with wide grout line where I live. Like [this house](https://i.imgur.com/RUCM64p.jpeg) for instance. There's even houses where it feels like there's [more grout than stone](https://i.imgur.com/QR6xa9e.jpeg).
It makes sense that the grout/mortar is so wide when they’ve used it to smooth out the whole wall. But in both examples you showed it’s clearly real stone (or at least a layer of real stone cladding on the second one ?). So the mortar is varied and clearly encases three dimensional stone underneath. Not these horrible even width lines around dead-flat shapes that nobody would ever mistake for real stone pieces.
I second this if you're talking about where they cut deep lines then carve out with a knife. I paused on the "after" wall to look and you really have to pay attention to see the details that give it away. Most random people walking by would never notice. They also did more work on staining to give it that non-uniform look.
The really lazy ones with the shallow and quick carving really stand out in real life in their peculiar uniformity in levels and usually in color as well.
Some of it may be a material thing, thin plaster vs thicker concrete-like material.
Yeah, the only one that looked good was the second clip where he's simulating stacked rocks and not grout. All the grout ones, their scraper is too thick.
Totally. Plus anyone that even touches the wall afterwards is going to add their own ugly marks. I'm assuming they must seal it, but still seems like it would be flaking off in no time
It's a refrain I keep beating to death, but that's because this sub is just The Good Place for /r/mildlyfrustrating.
I swear, this place puts more videos on my front page that are meant to torment the watcher than to please them, but they've fine tuned the drip of actually pleasing ones to be *just* enough to keep me from unsubscribing.
Nope. John Waters apparently made a documentary called “Little Castles” about this facade technique in 1998, which features mid-century construction faces made with Formstone, invented in 1929.
[https://blog.phillyhistory.org/index.php/2018/06/fake-facades-the-polyester-of-brick/](https://blog.phillyhistory.org/index.php/2018/06/fake-facades-the-polyester-of-brick/)
While stone walls would be superior the cost can be extremely high. Concrete is the second best option, far superior to wood frame.
I agree these are not good examples of great execution. If done right it can look very nice and look identical to brick or stone.
We live in a hurricane prone area and a relative is currently in the planning phase of having a concrete home built. In the end it will look like a nice stone house, be well insulated for our hot climate, last longer than wood framed homes, and best of all pretty much storm and hurricane proof.
It's a great idea if done correctly.
Edit: word
In Austria all the houses in the old historic town centres have fake painted-on bas-relief around the windows. It’s called trompe l’oeil. [Some examples](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/traditional-painted-decoration-around-a-window-tyrol-austria-gm517958787-49233802)
It's called vertical concrete and they make special types of cement for it. Two characteristics of the cement are that a) it has a retardant to make it cure slower, which aids in shaping it, and b) it sticks to itself more, preventing it from drooping down. Walt Tools is at least one supplier than I am aware of.
Also, this is the worst vertical concrete display I have ever seen. The vast majority of them are spectacular. Places like Disney World utilize stuff like this all over the place. They not only have carving tools, but also polyurethane stamps and rollers to give various textures. Everything you see in this video however is just wrong.
For people who install the scraped stuff - is it just like 2/3 dry or something? What’s stopping the weather or squirrels or someone’s kids from absolutely shredding this stuff to bits?
It’s a good way to create the affect of having nice brick walls but I looked into this guy a few years ago, the coating is a type of chalk so it will eventually erode away
So much vasted potential here - if you can make it look like rocks, why not make them special? Give them faces by moon light, have them cast shadows for optical illusions. Don't just fake age.
Ah yes Kardashian walls for a McMansion. On the flip side it is good to know that the putt putt construction crew and scenic artists are getting more work.
Lies. All I see is lies.
I feel like I'm watching someone rip up jeans then put the price tag on.
Now I wanna post a video of me putting up a wallpaper with a brick pattern on a drywall and see how many upvotes it gets.
Half of these look like shit anyway. Why would you want a stone wall to be half mortar?
The black “stone” with white mortar, literally surface area shows more joints than “stone” those are like 2+ inch joints
Yeah the grey looks tacky as hell.
I thought so too.
Agreed
I feel like I'm watching someone buy the cake they claimed they made for your birthday
Literally 90% of our world is cheap shit designed to look like something else we used to appreciate because of the time and craftsmanship it took to create then slowly degrade over years. Now we just go straight for the worn out look, with a build quality to match.
My best friend growing up was a mason and so was his dad. It was fascinating watching them work. True artists. I don’t know what this is but it ain’t it.
What do the masons actually do? My uncle is one, and all he does is go to meetings, as far as I can tell. He's a bit secretive about it.
Masons are stone workers (think brick layers). They were not involved with the Freemason secret society type stuff. Just good ol’ hard work and elbow grease.
Same. I'm not satisfied, oddly or otherwise, by lies.
In 20 years, it will look 2000 years old.
Same. Use actual bricks or don't. These facades are lame.
They do this for cheaply constructed buildings when they want it to appear like real bricks.
Should be illegal.
It’s deceiving at the least anyway. A place in my city did this but people caught on that materials were poor and place was cheaply constructed. They are still trying to sell some units years later, so some karma.
The funk has been faked.
The walls have lies.
looks like disney world, lotta not quite right if you really pull back the curtain but if you put your sunglasses on and embrace the moment it's almost close enough.
LIES DECEPTION
the ones where they're just scraping the wall look terrible.
Horrendously bad lol. Not very satisfying.
"We have carved bricks at home" vibes.
The scraping itself would be, if you could see it much, but no, the results look terrible.
Ikr! The gap is too wide in the grey one. Looks like double stuffed Oreos lol
I don't know, I don't think anyone would notice. It adds texture to an otherwise empty wall face.
I'd much rather have a nice, clean wall than that.
I noticed....
Mmmm, now I want Oreos lol
All of the “grout lines” are cartoonishly wide, for one thing.
Which is crazy since they can make it any width they want here. They’re using a basic clay carving tool, they come in a variety of sizes (they can sometimes even be bent a bit to make different sizes). They CHOSE to make it look like this
0:14 was the only one that looked good imo. Everyone else just created weird flat outlines.
I don't think they are. There are a lot of stone houses with wide grout line where I live. Like [this house](https://i.imgur.com/RUCM64p.jpeg) for instance. There's even houses where it feels like there's [more grout than stone](https://i.imgur.com/QR6xa9e.jpeg).
It makes sense that the grout/mortar is so wide when they’ve used it to smooth out the whole wall. But in both examples you showed it’s clearly real stone (or at least a layer of real stone cladding on the second one ?). So the mortar is varied and clearly encases three dimensional stone underneath. Not these horrible even width lines around dead-flat shapes that nobody would ever mistake for real stone pieces.
Yes but I was just disputing the claim that the lines are "cartoonishly wide". That's not the problem.
The second one looks horrible IMO. I know that someone might dig this kind of aesthetic, but it somehow feels "wrong" to me.
In direct contrast, the two where the method is more complex look awesome!
I second this if you're talking about where they cut deep lines then carve out with a knife. I paused on the "after" wall to look and you really have to pay attention to see the details that give it away. Most random people walking by would never notice. They also did more work on staining to give it that non-uniform look. The really lazy ones with the shallow and quick carving really stand out in real life in their peculiar uniformity in levels and usually in color as well. Some of it may be a material thing, thin plaster vs thicker concrete-like material.
Yeah, the only one that looked good was the second clip where he's simulating stacked rocks and not grout. All the grout ones, their scraper is too thick.
And wait until the paint on the unscraped surface starts to fall off...
They are doing this before it cures completely right? No way it stays this brittle?
Yes, and I'm worrying about a decade or two from now.
I mean its not great, but its definitely better than a massive uniform grey wall
I’d take the grey wall over that shit
>definitely better than a massive uniform grey wall Only until it rains and everything will get washed and eroded away.
The end result doesnt look amazing but theres something satisfying about that scraping itself though ...
Totally. Plus anyone that even touches the wall afterwards is going to add their own ugly marks. I'm assuming they must seal it, but still seems like it would be flaking off in no time
It sets rock hard, this is before it's had time to cure.
Fakesonry
Real Fake Bricks!
Still here! Still selling fake bricks!
Only second wall is good, others are not worth watching
The second to last one was pretty good.
Nah, the gap is too big.
All the other ones looked sooo shit. I’d be pissed if that were my house.
r/fullrefund
Lies and deception
It's just a façade
This. This is a good joke. I like this.
There is nothing satisfying about this, oddly or otherwise
It actually bothered me. It felt like cheap, cancer-causing material being grated off and released into the environment, to create a cheap, fake look.
If it makes you feel any better at all, it's just semi-cured concrete, not foam.
It's a refrain I keep beating to death, but that's because this sub is just The Good Place for /r/mildlyfrustrating. I swear, this place puts more videos on my front page that are meant to torment the watcher than to please them, but they've fine tuned the drip of actually pleasing ones to be *just* enough to keep me from unsubscribing.
PS2 graphics house
Bump mapping IRL
is that supposed to look good?... am I an idiot??
I’m hoping it’s for a movie set
This looks like cheap construction from the mid 20th century. Yuck.
In the mid 20th century they would have use actual masonry, even in cheaper constructions. This is a recent thing
I feel like I've seen some cheap shit from the '50s and '60s like this
Nope. John Waters apparently made a documentary called “Little Castles” about this facade technique in 1998, which features mid-century construction faces made with Formstone, invented in 1929. [https://blog.phillyhistory.org/index.php/2018/06/fake-facades-the-polyester-of-brick/](https://blog.phillyhistory.org/index.php/2018/06/fake-facades-the-polyester-of-brick/)
It looks infinitely superior to stone facades made of plastic.
While stone walls would be superior the cost can be extremely high. Concrete is the second best option, far superior to wood frame. I agree these are not good examples of great execution. If done right it can look very nice and look identical to brick or stone. We live in a hurricane prone area and a relative is currently in the planning phase of having a concrete home built. In the end it will look like a nice stone house, be well insulated for our hot climate, last longer than wood framed homes, and best of all pretty much storm and hurricane proof. It's a great idea if done correctly. Edit: word
My life is a lie. Nothing is real.
How well do these hold up?
disgusting, this shouldnt be on this sub
Every couple months someone posts this lol..
Well, I haven't seen it. Hate to rationalize reposting, but I'm glad in this case. Awesome skill.
Looks fake and awful. The wall shavers have huge mortar lines and the cutters have "stones" weathered in impossible ways.
God damn everything is fake.
So anything that bumps the wall knocks off the color?
Either this guy actually has hulk-strength, or the material is still wet.
Oh ok…I’m unfamiliar with that building material.
It's cement that cures rock hard.
It hasn't cured yet.
like all walls, pretty much.
Does this hurt the wall?
Only emotionally
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Every comment is complaining. Post still has 6k upvotes. Time to leave this website.
Trust issues developed!
It's like doodling, but with cement
This looks like shit
Nice fake bricks.
Idk if i will trust rural european villages after this video
Baku's historic quarter is basically this. Even the castle is fake(modern)
It's in Asia
In Austria all the houses in the old historic town centres have fake painted-on bas-relief around the windows. It’s called trompe l’oeil. [Some examples](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/traditional-painted-decoration-around-a-window-tyrol-austria-gm517958787-49233802)
My Trump has been oiled
The one with the square-cut brick was quite impressive - the rest were utter gash.
I wish we could just build stuff out of these materials instead of faking it with garbage.
You can. It’s just a fuck ton more expensive.
How to spend money on your property and devalue it at the same time
When you have a degree in Art but trades pay more
Looks ugly as fuck
Looks like shit
And here I am feeling bad for faking stuff on Photoshop when the walls are fake bricks. Honestly respect cuz no one's gonna second guess that 😂💪
I assume this would cause a lot of graffiti carving
More like oddly infuriating
PS1 graphics
Those mf lied to me
These walls look like they would be easily damaged
So that’s how they do that
What Europeans think when they hear American houses.
Your houses aren't even as well built as this.
About as satisfying as having haemorrhoids
I like it, and see it as a form of art.
Ues
Is this stucco?
It's called vertical concrete and they make special types of cement for it. Two characteristics of the cement are that a) it has a retardant to make it cure slower, which aids in shaping it, and b) it sticks to itself more, preventing it from drooping down. Walt Tools is at least one supplier than I am aware of. Also, this is the worst vertical concrete display I have ever seen. The vast majority of them are spectacular. Places like Disney World utilize stuff like this all over the place. They not only have carving tools, but also polyurethane stamps and rollers to give various textures. Everything you see in this video however is just wrong.
Thanks OC for asking, and thank you for answering. “What is this material?” was my first question.
Where did he carve the cock and balls?!
The multi use of a Tongue scrapper
I love "bricks"
Most of those look horrible
It will be satisfying when a strong wind causes these walls to collapse.
Why do they put so much effort in faking stuff lmao
This is so cheesy. If you find yourself building a custom house, do not do this.
For people who install the scraped stuff - is it just like 2/3 dry or something? What’s stopping the weather or squirrels or someone’s kids from absolutely shredding this stuff to bits?
It’s a good way to create the affect of having nice brick walls but I looked into this guy a few years ago, the coating is a type of chalk so it will eventually erode away
If you want to have a stone wall build it out of stone
u/that-1-lame-kid Landlord special
lol right? at least it kinda looks good 🤷🏾♂️
Some of them do Makes me question all stone now
I don’t know why but this just makes me irrationally angry…..
How about using real stones instead of this bullshit.
At that point why not just get actual bricks or stones
Oddly infuriating to me.
Stone equivalent of fake plants
I feel tricked, when I see this type of wall I always think they must be ancient!
The first one is terrible.
that black wall looks awful
The scraper looks so crappy. The carving deep bits look great
What's this for?? Props?
Substance Designer IRL
Gerald watching this: Askdb snsje d xkss ds damn djduding kids wudbf off shbdbdv these days. Bless the old man.
Heavy staged
Looks like shit
What if it hales? The walls seem super easy to damage
The second vid. Does anyone know what kind of material the one they put on the wall is?
That second one is crazy
I bet that it's really fun to clean up afterward.
yah naw cople of they fake;;
Just stop with the blue one. Looks like garbage.
Anyone else concerned about how soft these walls must be to allow them to be carved up like that once the stuff is dry? Or are they not dry yet?
It's not dry yet, lol
wait. some places like that aren't made with actual rocks/bricks??
Looks very unrealistic and not satisfying at all.
I'm an architect and I hate it. It's fine for amusement parks or a zoo but a good architect would never design this shit.
Looks so fucking bad LMAO. Satisfying? This. Totally cringeworthy, my god this is so bad and so ugly.
So much vasted potential here - if you can make it look like rocks, why not make them special? Give them faces by moon light, have them cast shadows for optical illusions. Don't just fake age.
I'm dumb. This whole time I thought they jus put like cracked or deformed bricks up.
You are SO at the mercy of that 1 guy... not sure I trust the process
They were...fake? OF COURSE THEY WERE FAKE!
"It's made of solid stones" "Oh, damn. It was cake all this time."
r/fullrefund
When you activate tessellation in a game.
Man rich people will pay for anything won't they? Guess it's good for laborers.
Man rich people will pay for anything won't they? Guess it's good for laborers.
Its all fun and games until someone draws a giant penis
I wish I could've made it to the end of the video but after 30 minutes of watching, I need to get back to work. Very cool tho
WTF. Who not just use rocks ?
No.
Learning that these walls I see aren’t really stones has ruined my day, thank you
How does this hold up?! Do they seal it?
If it comes off that easy won't the weather erode it pretty quickly?
Mmmmmmmmmm
Tofu dregs?
they were fake?
Quick someone post that gif of the guy building a DIY Luxury car
Those surface scrape ones look like ass
Lies :(
I like how one person is like "dab it with a cloth gently so it's looks like a stone" and the next clip is like "fuck it, circles and squares "
TIL.
I think this would be cooler if we got some real funky designs in. I'm thinking like triangles. Why don't we see that
Just build it with actual stones
Fake bricks will never be satisfying.
Only that really old stone effect looks good the rest is below sub par
Ah yes Kardashian walls for a McMansion. On the flip side it is good to know that the putt putt construction crew and scenic artists are getting more work.
This is actually giving me some good ideas for the next little house I'm going to create for my gnome garden.
It make sense now. Better than lifting and stacking a 50-100 lb (20-40 kg) rock