The front of the house in 2019, its brick one even light tan range across the entry gable and the garage wing
Case File 074

Blending Darks and Lights on an Indiana Ranch Home

The brick on this single-story house went up blotchy, dark units sitting next to pale ones across every wall. The company that made the brick paid to have it blended in 1997. It was photographed again twenty-two years later and certified then.

Case No. 074
Structure Single-story home
Location Indiana
Stained 1997
Re-photographed July 2019
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1997

  1. The house in May 1997, the brick running pale cream on one wall and a much darker grey brown on the next, with new planting in the beds below Before, May 1997 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in ten words: they had blotchy brick all over, the homeowners were distraught. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The Hired by line reads brick manufacturer, so the company that made the brick paid to put it right.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. Not one color over the whole wall. The line in the file is exact: the walls were blended by lightening a percentage of the darks and darkening a percentage of the lights. That is why the house still reads as a range of brick rather than one flat tone.

2019, twenty-two years on

  1. The front of the house from the street in 2019, the entry gable, the arched window and the garage wing all carrying the same even light tan brick, with the certification stamp at the corner of the frame 22 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-two years prove

The mark on the file is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over on the certification scale. The storyline is one sentence: the staining looks the same today as it did in 1997. As of 2026 the work is twenty-nine 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 074, 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 074, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Blackstone Drive (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 brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"They had blotchy brick all over, the homeowners were distraught."
What was corrected
"We blended the walls by lightening a percentage of darks and darkening a percentage of lights."
Storyline
"The staining looks the same today as it did in 1997, what a testament!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 07/20/2019
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