Buff brick across the front of the Erie home in 2020, one range from the entry to the garage wing
Case File 345

Correcting Brick That Missed the Sample Board in Erie

The brick delivered to this new home did not match the sample board the homeowners had chosen. The company that made the brick paid to have most of it color enhanced in 2004. It was photographed again sixteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 345
Structure Two-story home
Location Erie, Pennsylvania
Stained 2004
Re-photographed 2020
Elapsed 16 years, Gold level

2004

  1. The side wall of a new two-story home in 2004, its light buff brick mottled with chalky white and grey units between two tall windows, bare earth graded in front Before, 2004 View this photo larger
  2. The same side wall in 2004 after staining, the brick reading as one warm buff range between the two windows, with a dumpster at the right edge After, 2004 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The homeowners picked their brick from a manufacturer's mini board. When the brick was shipped and laid, it did not match the board. Nothing had failed; the wall was simply not the color that had been chosen. The company that made the brick hired the correction, not the owners.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. The file records a majority of the brick on the home color enhanced, in its own phrase. Nothing was torn out and nothing was relaid.

2020, sixteen years on

  1. The front of the house from the lawn in 2020, buff brick across the gable wing and the entry under grey siding, evergreens along the foundation and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2020 View this photo larger

What sixteen years prove

Same house, same brick, one range across the side wall and the front. 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 2020 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 345, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

Scan of the case study form for case 345, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Erie PA (2004)
Level
Gold. 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 brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The brick did not match the sample board the homeowner selected."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the majority of the brick."
Storyline
"The brick selected by the homeowners was from a manufacturer's mini board. When the brick were shipped and laid on the home, it was discovered that the brick didn't match the board. We were brought in and stained a majority of the brick on the home. It still looks great today!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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