The corner of the single-story brick home in Indiana in 2019, tan brick running from a shuttered gable window along the side wall under a vinyl gable
Case File 048

Leveling Blotchy Brick on an Indiana Ranch Home

The brick on this single-story home went up blotchy and uneven. The brick manufacturer paid to have it leveled out, some units lightened and others darkened. It was photographed again twenty-one years later and certified then.

Case No. 048
Structure Single-story brick home
Location Indiana
Stained 1998
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 21 years, Platinum level

1998

  1. The corner of the home in December 1998 on bare graded dirt, dark units scattered through the light brick of the gable end and the side wall, a second gable beyond Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end of the home in December 1998, blotchy light brick below a vinyl-sided gable with one tall window, a chain-link fence behind and the camera date 12 17 '98 in the corner Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  3. The rear wall of the home in December 1998, dark patches of brick along the base of a light blotchy wall, an air conditioning unit at the left corner Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  4. The unfinished front porch corner of the home in 1998, light blotchy brick on both walls, a fire extinguisher and building materials on the slab Before, 1998 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The brick on this home was blotchy and uneven. That is the whole complaint in the file, and the December 1998 photographs above show it: dark units scattered through a light wall with no pattern to them. The brick manufacturer hired the correction, not the homeowner.

What was done

The file's phrase is leveled out. Some units were lightened and others darkened until the wall read as one range. The evidence notes mark two areas: the gable end, where brick was darkened and lightened for a better overall blend, and the rear wall, which had quite a few blotchy patches color corrected.

2019, twenty-one years on

  1. The corner of the single-story home in 2019, tan brick with a dark-shuttered window on the gable end and one long side wall running under a vinyl gable, a rose bush and a small evergreen in the bed at the corner 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end of the home in 2019, one range of tan brick under a vinyl-sided gable with a single window, a white flowering shrub at the corner and lawn in front After, 2019 View this photo larger
  3. The rear wall of the home in 2019, one range of tan brick under vinyl siding, an air conditioning unit and a bicycle against the wall After, 2019 View this photo larger
  4. The covered front porch of the home in 2019, tan brick walls behind turned posts, hanging baskets and a row of evergreen shrubs After, 2019 View this photo larger
  5. The gable wall around the shuttered window in 2019 at closer range, the brick reading as one even range from the eave to the planting bed 21 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-one years prove

One range across the gable end, the corner, the rear wall and the porch. The file's note on the 2019 visit reads: it still looked great. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over. The 1998 gable end frame carries the camera's own date in its corner, 12 17 '98.

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 048, transcribed beside the form so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 048, filled in and signed, rendered from the case file booklet View the signed form full size
Project name
Residence, Indiana (1998)
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 brick manufacturer
Cause
Complaint or problem
Background
"The brick on this home was blotchy and uneven."
Actions taken
"We leveled out the brick by lightening some of them and darkening others."
Detail of events
"When we went back out there in 2019, it still looked great!"
Address
Release permission required
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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