Staining Out Red Dust Spots on a Brookfield White Brick Home
A red dust had gotten onto the face of this white brick home and would not come off. The mason or contractor on the job had the spotted brick stained in 1998. It was photographed again twenty-three years later and certified Platinum.
1998
What was wrong
A red dust had gotten on the face of the brick, in the words of the file, and it was hard to remove. On a white tumbled brick every spot reads from the road. The mason or contractor on the job hired the correction, not the owner.
What was done
Mineral stain, brushed by hand onto the spotted units, to make the red spots disappear. The file records the fix as staining the brick, not cleaning it: the marks were carried into the range of the wall around them.
2021, twenty-three years on
What twenty-three years prove
The stained areas have held up great all these years later, the file says, and there is no reason to believe they will not keep holding up. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over. The form was signed in 2020 and the certified photograph is labelled 2021.
The signed file
Every certified job gets the same form, signed on the day someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 372, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.
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- Project name
- OSHM Brookfield OH (1998)
- Level
- Platinum. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
- Hired by
- The mason or contractor
- Reason for project
- Complaint or problem
- Issue
- "A red dust had gotten on the face of the brick that was hard to remove."
- What was corrected
- "We stained the brick to try and make the red spots disappear."
- Storyline
- "The stained areas have helf up great all these years later. There's no reason to believe that it won't continue to hold up into the future!"
- Authorized
- Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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