Darkening Manufactured Stone Corners on a Grand Rapids Home
The corners of this house did not match the walls they turned. They were darkened by hand in 2003 until they sat back inside the range the rest of the stone was already in. It was photographed again sixteen years later and certified then.
2003
What was wrong
The file puts it in five words: the corners did not match. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. This is manufactured stone rather than brick, and in the 2003 frames the corner units read cream against a wall that runs gray and brown behind them.
What was done
Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. Not one color over the wall: only the corners were taken down until they sat inside the range the rest of the stone was already in. The line in the file is nine words: we darkened the corners while keeping the desired range.
2019, sixteen years on
What sixteen years prove
The mark on the file is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over on the certification scale. The sentence the file wants read is its own: even on MFG stone, we have held up great. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three years old, and the 2019 certification is the most recent record on it.
The 2019 photographs were taken on a day the homeowners were hosting a pool party. The file says they were gracious about 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 037, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.
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- Project name
- Stone in Grand Rapids (2003)
- 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
- Other. The box is marked and not annotated, so the sheet does not say who paid for it.
- Reason for project
- Complaint or problem
- Issue
- "The corners did not match."
- What was corrected
- "We darkened the corners while keeping the desired range."
- Storyline
- "Even on MFG Stone, we have held up great. When we came back to take the 2019 after pictures, the homeowners were hosting a pool party. Our timing isn't always great, but the homeowners were gracious to let us take the pictures. It was very appreciated."
- Address
- "Permission needed to release address"
- Authorized
- Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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