The porch pavers and top step at the base of a white column in 2021, one red range across the units
Case File 380

Darkening Pale Brick Pavers at a Home Entrance

The file names this job Aberdeen Pavers and records the complaint in one line: the pavers were too light. The company that made the brick paid to have them darkened where they lay. They were photographed again in 2021 and certified then.

Case No. 380
Structure House entrance, brick pavers
Location Not recorded in the file
Stained May 1998
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 23 years, Platinum level

1998

  1. The brick steps and porch of the house entrance in May 1998 with the work underway, the lowest tread still lighter than the treads above it, a bucket and brush on the ground beside the walk During, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. The whole entrance in 1998 after the pavers were darkened, three brick steps rising between two square white columns to a door with sidelights, a scaffold frame still standing in front of it After, 1998 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The pavers on the steps and the porch came in too light. Nothing had failed and nothing was lifted. The brick manufacturer hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, to take the pavers darker. The file records it in four words: we darkened the pavers. The during frame carries a camera date of May 24, 1998.

2021, twenty-three years on

  1. The porch pavers and top step at the base of a white column in 2021, with snow on the lower tread and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-three years prove

One range across the treads and the porch, with the certification stamp on the 2021 frame. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which starts at twenty years. The file's own storyline is a single line: over 20 years later, the staining has held up. As of 2026 the work is twenty-eight years old, and the 2021 photograph 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 380, 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 380, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Aberdeen Pavers (1998)
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 brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The pavers were too light."
What was corrected
"We darkened the pavers."
Storyline
"Over 20 years later, the staining has held up great!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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