Matching Infill Brick and Blending an Indiana School Addition
Two fill-in areas on the original school had to match the old wall, and a new addition had to stay visibly new but with its dark brick blended evenly. The school hired both parts in 2010. The fill-in was photographed again ten years later and certified then.
2010
What was wrong
The file records two jobs on one school. Part one: two fill-in areas on the original building, laid in brick that read pink beside the old red and dark range. Part two: a new addition whose dark brick, in the file's words, wasn't blended very well. The school hired both.
What was done
On the fill-ins the brick was stained to closely match the original. The addition was the opposite brief. For historical reasons the school wanted the new building to read as new, down to a different brick texture, so the file is explicit: hired not to make the new match the old, but to even out the blend. Groups and lines of dark brick were taken out, and darks were added where there were none. The photographs on this page are the fill-in.
2020, ten years on
What ten years prove
Same panel, same downspout, and the seam between old brick and fill-in has to be looked for. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is sixteen 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 329, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.
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- Project name
- Elementary School in Indiana
- 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 school or university
- Reason for project
- Addition or makeover
- Issue
- "This job was two parts: part one was fixing two fill-in areas on the original school, and part two was that the dark brick wasn't blended very well."
- What was corrected
- "For part one the brick was stained to closely match the original, and for part two we took out groups & lines of dark brick, and added darks to where there were none."
- Storyline
- "For part one, the infill needed to be a close match to the original building, and for part two, which was a new addition, the newer construction needed to not match the older building: for historical reasons, the school wanted to show the difference between the old and new buildings. They even used a different texture of brick for the new building to help show the new addition was added: we were hired not to make the new match the old, but to even out the blend of bricks in the new addition."
- Authorized
- Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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