Two garage bays of the apartment row in 2019, brick running across both openings under tan siding
Case File 392

Blending a Garage Door Repair on Illinois Apartments

A repair over the garage doors of this apartment row went in off color. The file records brick and mortar both stained in 2002 to close the match, and the same wall photographed again in 2019 and in 2021.

Case No. 392
Structure Two-story apartments
Location Illinois
Stained 2002
Re-photographed 2019, then 2021
Elapsed 19 years, Platinum level

2002

  1. The garage bay in 2002, a course of pale brick set on end across the head of the opening against the tan and cream wall around it Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The same bay in 2002 with the work done to the door head, the course over the opening now reading in the same range as the wall, a pale cast stone wedge standing at the centre During, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in six words: repair over garage doors didn't match. The 2002 photograph shows it. A course of pale brick set on end runs across the head of the opening against a tan and cream field. Nothing had failed. The mason or contractor hired the correction.

What was done

Brick and mortar, both. The note in the file is that staining both can give a better match than staining just one of them, which means treating the joints as part of the color rather than as gaps between colors.

2019 and 2021

  1. Two garage bays of the apartment row in 2019, brick running across both openings under a second storey of tan siding, snow banked along the drive After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same garage bay as the 2002 frames, photographed in 2019, the course over the door head reading in the same range as the wall on either side 17 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The wall over the same garage door in 2021, the end-set course above the opening carrying the same range as the field brick, a coach lamp on the corner pier 2021 View this photo larger
  4. The next garage bay along the row in 2021, the end-set course over the door head reading with the field brick, a pale cast stone wedge at the centre of the opening 19 Years After View this photo larger

What the revisits show

Same opening, same course over the door head, in range with the wall around it in 2019 and again two years later. The file marks the job Platinum, the twenty year and over band on the certification scale, and is signed 2020. The photographs here run from 2002 to 2021, nineteen years.

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 392, transcribed beside the scan.

The case study form for case 392, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Apartments, Illinois (2002)
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
Cause
Complaint or problem
Background
"Repair over garage doors didn't match"
Actions taken
"We stained brick and mortar to better the match"
Detail of events
"A great example of how staining both brick and mortar can result in a better match than staining just one of them"
Address
"Release permission required"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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