A band of the buff brick wall of the Dayton house in October 1998, windows with grey frames under a dark shingled roof, the units one even range
Case File 120

Color Correcting Power Washed Brick on a Dayton Home

A power washer took the coating off some of the brick on this new house in Dayton, Ohio, and left those units dark against the buff wall. The mason who built it had the damaged brick color corrected in 1998. The file was signed and certified Platinum in 2020.

Case No. 120
Structure Single-story house
Location Dayton, Ohio
Stained October 1998
Re-photographed None in the file
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1998

  1. The side wall of the house in October 1998 before the work, buff brick with darker blotched units scattered across the lower courses, a hose and a meter box at the base Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. The recessed entry corner in October 1998 before the work, a band of dark stripped brick running across the wall beside the door Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  3. A close-up of the buff brick in 1998 before the work, one dark red brown unit standing out from the wall beside a hose bib Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  4. The window wall of the house during the work in 1998, buff brick around a double window and a sliding door still carrying their factory labels During, 1998 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file is blunt about the cause: the brick on this house was damaged due to a power washer. The wash stripped the coating off scattered units and left them dark against the buff wall, clearest in the band across the entry corner. The mason or contractor who built the house hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

The damaged units were color corrected with a custom absorbent stain, applied to the off-colored brick individually, keeping the texture the same as the unstained brick around them. Those are the file's own phrases. Every frame in the booklet carries the same 1998 camera date, before and after.

1998, after the correction

  1. The corner of the house in October 1998 after the work, buff brick one even range around grey framed windows under a dark hip roof and a front gable, bare graded soil in front and a camera date of 10 10 98 in the corner After, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. The same recessed entry corner in 1998 after the work, the wall beside the door reading as one buff range with no dark band After, 1998 View this photo larger
  3. The same close-up of the buff brick in 1998 after the work, the corrected unit no longer visible in the wall beside the hose bib After, 1998 View this photo larger
  4. The side wall of the house in October 1998 after the work, the buff brick one even range from the foundation to the eaves, the hose and meter box still at the base After, 1998 View this photo larger

What the file certifies

There is no revisit photograph in this file. What it holds is the signed form: the X against Platinum, which the certification scale defines as twenty years and over, signed in 2020, twenty-two years after the date on the frames. As of 2026 the correction is twenty-eight years old.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form. This is the one for case 120, transcribed beside the form page so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 120, filled in and signed, rendered from the case booklet View the signed form full size
Project name
Residence, Dayton, 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
Background
"The brick on this house was damaged due to a power washer."
Actions taken
"We color corrected the damaged brick."
Detail of events
"Power washers can be detrimental to brick, but it's something that we can fix. The coating came off some of this homeowner's brick so we came in to color correct."
Booklet notes
"These off-colored brick were stained individually to create the best possible match." "Using a custom absorbent stain, we were able to color correct the exposed brick while keeping the texture the same as the unstained brick."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020. Address: release permission required.
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