The front of the two-story brick house in 2021, its brick reading as one range from the arched entry across the bay window to the far wing
Case File 378

Color Enhancing Severe Powerwash Damage on a New Home

Severe powerwash damage on the new brick of a two-story house, corrected in 1996 for the mason who built it. Photographed again in 2021, twenty-five years on, and certified Platinum.

Case No. 378
Structure Two-story house
Location Not recorded
Stained 1996
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 25 years, Platinum level

1996

  1. A gabled elevation of the new house in 1996 on bare graded soil, the red brick streaked and blotched pale across the face, an air conditioning condenser at the foot of the wall Before, 1996 View this photo larger
  2. The bay window elevation in 1996, a white clad bay at the left, keystoned grid windows in a red brick wall with patchy pale streaking, boards laid on the dirt below Before, 1996 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file uses three words: severe powerwash damage. The 1996 frames show the house still on bare graded ground, its brick streaked and blotched.

What was done

Mineral stain. The form records it in one line: the damaged areas were color enhanced. Stain soaks into the face of the unit, so the correction weathers with the wall. How that works on a house is on the residential page.

2021, twenty-five years on

  1. The front of the two-story brick house in 2021 with snow on the ground, a white clad bay window under a keystoned window beside the arched entry, and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-five years prove

The form calls this some of the worst powerwasher damage the file had seen at the time, and reports that it still looks great all these years later. Twenty years and over is Platinum on the certification scale. The 2021 frame carries the stamp. As of 2026 the work is thirty years old.

The signed file

This is the signed form for case 378, transcribed beside the scan so a phone and a search engine can read it.

Scan of the case study form for case 378, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Powerwash Damage (1996)
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
Complaint or problem
Issue
"Severe powerwash damage."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the damaged areas."
Storyline
"This started out as some of the worst powerwasher damage we had seen at the time, but wow! It still looks great all these years later."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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