MASONRY RESTORATION PRODUCTS / HISTORIC BRICK / HANDMADE BRICK

VoidSpan Technologies, LLC was created in 2011 by a team of engineers, scientists, preservation practitioners to offer unique, dependable and practical solutions to the frontier of conservation and preservation challenges. VoidSpan Pozzolan-Lime products provide high breathability and tenacious bond with low to moderate compressive strength, and our restoration grouts have the lowest water demand and the lowest shrinkage in the industry. When extended with our unique, vacuum saturated expanded shale aggregate, our gravity feed grout creates an ultra-low shrinkage, self-consolidating pozzolan-lime concrete. John Wathne, VoidSpan’s founder, has been a structural engineer in the field of historic preservation for over 30 years, and has a longstanding appreciation of the need for a line of products like VoidSpan offers, having invented many of our components himself. We are excited to share our technologies with fellow practitioners and design professionals.

The classic antique beauty of Old Carolina® Brick is created by hand. Each brick is hand moulded in the colonial tradition of craftsmanship and lasting beauty. Used on historical restorations in Williamsburg, Monticello, Mount Vernon and Montpelier, Old Carolina® brick add a unique warmth and flavor of history to any architectural design. Our handmade brick are primarily used on eminent residences from Charleston, South Carolina to Carmel, California by discerning designers and as well as on notably stunning commercial projects from New York to Sao Paulo. Based on our commitment to quality and authenticity, Old Carolina® brick are each hand moulded and then fired to provide the beautiful bisques, hues, and unique colors identical to those of brick made centuries ago. Our handcrafting process imparts distinctive folds, finger marks, and particular surface irregularities for individual characterization of each brick. Old Carolina® handmade brick provide a unique appearance unequalled by conventional mass produced brick.