A band of brick under the windows of a Fishers house in 2019, the units below the sills reading as one range
Case File 303

Matching Repair Brick Under the Windows in Fishers

A run of brick under the windows on this two-story house did not match the wall around it. The mason who built it hired the correction: some units lightened, some darkened, until the patch sat with its neighbours. It was photographed again twelve years later and certified then.

Case No. 303
Structure Two-story home
Location Fishers, Indiana
Stained 2007
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 12 years, Silver level

2007

  1. The corner of a two-story buff brick house in 2007, a run of darker grey brown brick sitting under both lower windows above the shrub bed Before, 2007 View this photo larger
  2. Close view under a cast stone window sill in 2007, the brick below the sill a grey brown that does not match the buff units either side of the opening Before, 2007 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The trouble was under the windows, where a run of brick sat off the color of the wall around it. The file puts it in seven words: there were off-colored brick under the windows. Under Hired by, the form marks Mason/Contractor, so the trade that laid the wall is the one that called it in.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. Not one tone over the whole run: some brick were lightened and others darkened until the patch read as wall. The line in the file is twelve words: we had to lighten and darken the brick for a better match.

2019, twelve years on

  1. The brick field under two upper windows in 2019, the units below the sills reading as one range with the wall around them 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The front of the house in 2019 from the lawn, two floors of brick running past shuttered windows, with a certification stamp in the lower corner 12 Years After View this photo larger
  3. Close view under a cast stone window sill in 2019, the brick below the sill carrying the same buff and tan range as the units either side of the opening 2019 View this photo larger
  4. The house corner in 2019 seen past the front lawn, the brick under the window sill reading as one range with junipers grown up against the wall 2019 View this photo larger

What twelve years prove

Same house, same windows, and the repair still reads as wall. The file makes the case itself: the repairs under the window is a good test because a lot of water catches at those points. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is nineteen 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 303, 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 303, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Fishers, IN Repair (2007)
Level
Silver. 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
Mason/Contractor
Reason for project
Other. The box is marked and not annotated, so the sheet does not place it under complaint, color change or makeover.
Issue
"There were off-colored brick under the windows."
What was corrected
"We had to lighten and darken the brick for a better match."
Storyline
"The repairs under the window is a good test because a lot of water catches at those points. This is a great example of A Proven Masonry stain 12 years later (2019)."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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