The front gable of the house in 2019, its arched window ringed with brick that reads as one cream and grey range
Case File 237

Blending a Patchy Brick Wall on a Hoyleton Home

The brick on this house went up patchy, and the homeowners said so. The company that made the brick paid to have it blended in 2003. It was photographed again sixteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 237
Structure Single-story brick home
Location Hoyleton, Illinois
Stained 2003
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 16 years, Gold level

2003

  1. A cream brick wall in 2003 with a broad band of tan and pink flecked brick running down the middle of it, the corner and a shadowed wing beyond Before, 2003 View this photo larger
  2. The front gable in 2003, a round louvered vent above an arched window and the brick around them reading as one cream and grey range After, 2003 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts the complaint in one line: the homeowners were unhappy with how patchy the brick on their home looked. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty; the units did not agree with each other. Hired by reads brick manufacturer, so the company that made the brick paid to put it right rather than have it taken off the house.

What the file records

The correction and storyline lines on this form were both left blank, so the method is not written down here. What is recorded is the complaint, the year, the level and the signature, and the two 2003 frames carry the file's own Before and After labels.

2019, sixteen years on

  1. The same front gable sixteen years later, the brick still one range of cream and grey with warmer units ringing the arched window and the round vent, and the certification stamp at the corner of the frame 16 Years After View this photo larger

What sixteen years prove

Same gable, same arched window, and the same range of cream, grey and warmer brick sixteen years on. The mark on the file is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over on the certification scale. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three 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 237, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 237, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Hoyleton, IL Residence (2003)
Level
Gold. 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
Brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issues
"The homeowners were unhappy with how patchy the brick on their home looked."
What was corrected
Left blank on the form.
Storyline
Left blank on the form.
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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