The upper floor of the manufactured stone house in 2020, grey window sills sitting inside the grey and brown stone blend
Case File 330

Staining Tan Window Sills Grey on a Stone Home

The window sills on this manufactured stone house came out tan, and tan was wrong against the rest of the stone. The brick distributor had all nine of them stained grey in 2009. The house was photographed again eleven years later and certified then.

Case No. 330
Structure Manufactured stone home
Location Not released
Stained May 2009
Re-photographed 2020
Elapsed 11 years, Silver level

2009

  1. The front of a two-story manufactured stone house in May 2009, the surround and sill of every window a pale tan against grey and brown stone, with bare earth in front Before, 2009 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end of the house in 2009, an applicator on a ladder working stain into the tan stone beside a window while a second ladder stands against the wall During, 2009 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed. The window sills had come out tan, and against a stone blend of grey, brown and charcoal, tan read as a mistake on every window. The file puts it plainly: the sills needed to change to something that better matched the rest of the stone. The brick distributor hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, on all nine window sills. The file records the color in one word: grey. The point the file makes is the substrate. The process is proven on absorbent brick and mortar, and this is its example of the same process holding on manufactured stone.

2020, eleven years on

  1. The front of the house in 2020, the window sills now a grey that sits inside the stone blend, with mature planting below and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2020 View this photo larger

What eleven years prove

Same elevation, same sills, and the grey still sitting inside the range of the stone around it. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is seventeen 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 330, 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 330, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
MFG Stone 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 brick distributor
Reason for project
Not marked. None of the four boxes on the form is checked.
Issue
"Needed to change the tan colored window sills to something the better matched the rest of the stone."
What was corrected
"We stained all of the 9 window sills grey."
Storyline
"Our process is proven to work on absorbent brick and mortar, but it also works on manufactured stone as well. This is an example of our success with staining manufactured stone."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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