The house in 2021 seen from the front corner, red brown brick running the length of the side elevation to a chimney on the ridge and a white portico at the far end
Case File 412

Color Enhancing Power Wash Damage on a Hudson House

Powerwash damage ran through the brick on this house. The mason or contractor hired the correction, not the homeowner. The damaged areas were color enhanced in 1997, and the house was photographed again and certified twenty four years later.

Case No. 412
Structure Single family home
Location Hudson, Ohio
Stained 1997
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 24 years, Platinum level

1997

  1. The outside corner of the house in 1997 while the work was underway, red brick with scattered darker units and bare dirt still around the foundation During, 1997 View this photo larger
  2. Three tall windows in a row in 1997, small stain cups sitting on two of the sills and an extension ladder standing against the brick between them During, 1997 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file records powerwash damage throughout the home. Washing a new brick wall hard enough to take mortar off it burns the face of the units, and what is left is a blotching that further cleaning does not lift. The mason or contractor hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

The file's phrase for it is short: the damaged areas were color enhanced. That is a unit by unit correction of what the water took off, carried back into the range of the wall around it, rather than a color change across the elevation.

2021, twenty four years on

  1. The house in 2021 seen from the front corner, red brown brick running the length of the side elevation to a chimney on the ridge and a white portico at the far end 24 Years After View this photo larger
  2. The side wall in 2021, shuttered windows over two outdoor condensing units, the brick reading as one range from the eaves down to the basement course 2021 View this photo larger
  3. The side of the house in 2021, red brown brick running past shuttered windows to a chimney above the hipped roof, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger
  4. The corner of the house in 2021, birch trunks standing in front of the shuttered windows with the portico columns beyond 2021 View this photo larger
  5. The front of the house in 2021, two storeys of brick with black shutters beside a white column and an arched fanlight window 2021 View this photo larger
  6. The brick at close range in 2021, units carrying a mix of red, tan and grey over pale mortar, with two vent pipes through the wall 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty four years prove

The 1997 work was photographed again in 2021 and certified then. Twenty years and over is Platinum on the certification scale, and the file's whole comment on the revisit is that the job still looks great today. As of 2026 the correction is twenty nine years old.

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 412, 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 412, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Hudson OH Powerwash Damage (1997)
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
"Powerwash damage throughout home."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the damaged areas."
Storyline
"This job still looks great today!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2021
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