The garage gable in 2020, its grey brown brick running as one range down to the soldier course over the door
Case File 352

Color Enhancing Blotchy Red Brick in a Garage Gable

The brick in the gable above this garage door came out blotchy red against the rest of the run. The manufacturer who made the brick paid to have the gable color enhanced in 2007. It was photographed again in 2020 and certified then.

Case No. 352
Structure Home, garage gable
Location Not released
Stained August 2007
Re-photographed 2020
Elapsed 13 years, Silver level

2007

  1. The garage gable in August 2007 under an overcast sky, grey brick with a red tinge on scattered units, an oval louvered vent set in a ring of brick under the peak and a ladder against the wall at right Before, 2007 View this photo larger
  2. The front of the two-car garage in low evening sun on the same day in August 2007, the door open, tan grey brick from the peak and its oval vent down to the keystone over the opening During, 2007 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The gable is one run of grey brown brick with an oval vent set into it. Above the garage door a patch of units came out blotchy red, the file's own words, and read as a different brick from the wall around them. The manufacturer hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, over the brick in the gable. The file calls it color enhancing: the red units were brought into the range of the rest of the wall so the gable reads as one run from the peak to the door.

2020, thirteen years on

  1. The garage gable in 2020, grey brown brick from the oval vent down to the soldier course and keystone above the white garage door, with the certification stamp in the lower right corner After, 2020 View this photo larger

What thirteen years prove

Same gable, same vent, one range from the peak to the door. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over. The file's own count is fourteen years; the two dates on the form, 2007 and 2020, make thirteen. As of 2026 the work is nineteen years old, and the 2020 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 352, 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 352, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Garage Gable (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
The brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"There was blotchy red brick above the garage door."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the brick in the gable."
Storyline
"We color enhanced this for a much better match. 14 years later it still looks great!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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