The stained gable wall of the Hilliard church in 2019, its brick reading as one even orange range around a louvred vent
Case File 295

Tinting Light Brick to Orange Red on a Hilliard Church

The brick on this church went up lighter than the congregation wanted. The contractor bought a stain kit and tinted the wall himself in 1999. It was photographed again twenty years later and certified then.

Case No. 295
Structure Church
Location Hilliard, Ohio
Stained May 1999
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 20 years, Platinum level

1999

  1. A panel of pale buff brick in 1999, a louvred vent at the left and a vertical control joint running the height of the wall Before, 1999 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end below its sloping roof line in 1999, the wall pale buff in the sun and a deeper red brown in the shade, with a film date stamp burned into the corner During, 1999 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The brick had simply gone up lighter than the customer wanted, and the file records the decision as a change of color rather than a repair.

It was hired by the mason or contractor, which is the box marked on the form.

What was done

The file is unusually plain about who held the brush. The contractor bought a Brickman Stain Kit and did the work himself, tinting the light brick to an orange-red. Mineral stain goes into the brick rather than over it, which is why the wall in the 2019 frames is still brick and not a coating.

2019, twenty years on

  1. The full gable end in 2019, its brick one even orange range from the louvred vent up to the roof line, above the darker brick of the wing in front 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The gable and its louvred vent in 2019, carrying the Brickman certification stamp in the lower corner 20 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The upper gable wall in 2019, scattered darker header bricks reading through an even orange field under the eaves 2019 View this photo larger
  4. The gable seen from the ground in 2019 against open sky, the stained wall meeting the darker brick and concrete block of the wing in front of it 2019 View this photo larger

What twenty years prove

Same gable, same louvred vent, same control joint, and a wall that reads as one orange range rather than the pale buff it started as. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The 1999 frame carries a film date stamp of 5 1 '99, which puts the span at exactly twenty years to the 2019 signature. As of 2026 the work is twenty-seven 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 295, 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 295, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Hilliard Church OH (1999)
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
Other. The form's three named reasons, complaint or problem, color change, addition or makeover, are all left unmarked.
Issue
"The brick wer too light and the customer wanted to change the color to an orange-red."
What was corrected
"They bought our Brickman Stain Kit."
Storyline
"This was a job that was done by the contractor, they bought our Brickman Stain Kit and did it themselves. They tinted the light brick to an orange-red color and the customer was satisfied with the finished product."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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