The stained hospital wall in 2019, its brick holding one tan range across the full width of the elevation
Case File 089

Blending Blotchy Walls on an Indiana Hospital

The walls on this hospital went up blotchy. A day and a half of hand work brought the lower three fourths of the wall into one range. It was photographed again twenty-three years later and certified then.

Case No. 089
Structure Hospital
Location Indiana
Stained 1996
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 23 years, Platinum level

1996

  1. A tall blank brick wall on the hospital in 1996, its units a pale streaky cream against the orange brick of the wings on either side of it Before, 1996 View this photo larger
  2. The same corner of the hospital during the 1996 work, a glazed stair tower running the full height beside the wall and a boom lift parked on the fill at the right During, 1996 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The units did not agree with each other, so the wall read in patches beside the brick around it. The file puts it in four words: the walls were blotchy.

Two parties are marked as hiring it, the mason or contractor and the brick manufacturer. Neither paid. The file records one and a half days on the wall and no payment for any of it, on the same sheet that certifies the result.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed in by hand, unit by unit. The correction ran both directions, some units lightened and some darkened, across the lower three fourths of the wall. The phrase in the file is to create a better blend.

2019, twenty-three years on

  1. The hospital wall in 2019, one tan range running the full height beside the glazed stair tower, with the buff brick of the wing stepping forward at the right After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The stained wall square on in 2019 carrying the Brickman Certified stamp, the brick even across the face with a faint horizontal line where the shelf angle runs 23 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The top of the stained wall in 2019 seen from directly beneath it, the brick running unbroken up to the coping with the ribbon windows of the stair tower down the left edge 2019 View this photo larger

What twenty-three years prove

Same wall, and a face that still holds one range from the coping down to the ground. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. As of 2026 the work is thirty 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 building. This is the one for case 089, 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 089, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Indiana Hospital (1996)
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
Two boxes are marked: the mason or contractor, and the brick manufacturer.
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The walls were blotchy."
What was corrected
"We lightened and darkened the lower three fourths of the wall to create a better blend."
Storyline
"We never ended up getting paid for the one and a half days we put into this project. Even today, we do not know why they refused to pay. Nevertheless, here's another project that proves our Proven Masonry Stain cannot hurt your masonry. We did make a bad situation better, and as of today, we did it for free."
Address
Left blank, printed "Permission needed to release address."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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