The Hilliard house from the street in 2019, the brick on the addition and the original walls reading as one buff and rose range
Case File 312

Matching an Addition to the House in Hilliard, Ohio

The family built an addition and the new brick came from a different maker, so it never quite matched the house. Every brick on the home was stained, the new work and the original together. It was photographed again ten years later and certified then.

Case No. 312
Structure House with a brick addition
Location Hilliard, Ohio
Stained April 2009
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 10 years, Silver level

2009

  1. The addition wall mid-job in 2009, its brick reading distinctly redder than the buff brick around the bay window to the left, with an applicator on a ladder at the eaves During, 2009 View this photo larger
  2. The same addition wall finished in 2009, the brick now a mixed rose, buff and cream range running unbroken to the corner, the ground still bare from the build After, 2009 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The family added on, and the new brick came from a different maker than the one that built the house. The file puts it plainly: the homeowner wanted a better match for their addition. Nobody was at fault and nothing had failed. The reason is marked addition or makeover, and the homeowner paid.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand. Not only the new wall: the file records one hundred percent of the brick stained, using several different recipes. That is what it takes to walk a new wall and a twenty-year-old one into the same range instead of leaving a seam between them.

2019, ten years on

  1. The house seen from the kerb in 2019, the hipped roof and dormer above a long brick elevation that reads as one buff and rose range across its whole length 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The addition wall in 2019, photographed from the same side as the period frames, its brick an even buff, rose and cream mix from the sill course to the eaves 10 Years After View this photo larger
  3. An outside corner of the house in 2019 running from the planting bed to the eaves, the brick evenly blended on both faces where it meets the stucco garage wall After, 2019 View this photo larger
  4. Close view of the blended wall in 2019, individual units in rose, buff, cream and pale grey set in light mortar with no run of one colour standing out 2019 View this photo larger

What ten years prove

Same house, same wall, and the addition still sits with the rest of it. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over, and 2009 to 2019 is exactly ten. The file is candid about the ceiling: the match would have been better still had the addition been built in the original brick. As of 2026 the work is seventeen 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 house. This is the one for case 312, 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 312, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Hilliard, OH Residence (2009)
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
The homeowner
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"The homeowner wanted a better match for their addition."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the brick using several different recipes."
Storyline
"The homeowner chose a different manufacturer so the texture and size were not perfect. We were able to give them a closer color match but had they have gone with the same manufacturer as the original brick it could have been so much better."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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