Darkening Off Color Brick at the Dodge Park House

What was wrong

The file puts it in seven words: there were off-colored brick in the range. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. A handful of units had come out a different color from their neighbours, and on a plain gable end they were the first thing anyone saw.

The brick manufacturer paid for it, not the homeowner and not the builder. The company that made the brick treated the color of a house it had supplied as its own to answer for.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The correction on the form is one line: we darkened the off-colored brick to blend in with the rest of the brick. Only the odd units were touched, which is why the finished gable still reads as a range of reds, tans and browns rather than as one flat color.

What fifteen years prove

Same gable, same brick, and the units that were corrected still sitting inside the range with the rest. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-two years old, and the 2019 certification is the most recent record on it.

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 175, transcribed beside the document so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.