The gable end of the Indianapolis house in 2019, its brick reading as one cream and grey range
Case File 308

Blending Bare White Brick on an Indianapolis Home

The brick on this house went up with more bare white units than the sample the homeowners had picked. The company that made the brick paid to have it blended. It was photographed again nineteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 308
Structure Two-story house
Location Indianapolis, Indiana
Stained June 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2000

  1. An applicator on a ladder working stain into the gable end of a cream brick house, an oval window set at the centre of the gable During, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. The whole gable end of the house with a ladder leaning against it, the brick a pale cream broken by scattered bare white units During, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The range simply held units the sample had not shown. The file puts it plainly: too many bare white brick in the range that was not shown in the sample the homeowner picked. The brick manufacturer paid for the correction, not the owner.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. A majority of the white brick were stained to bring the wall together, unit by unit rather than one color across the whole elevation. The word in the file is artistic, and that is what matching a range takes.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The gable end of the house from below in 2019, the oval window set in brick that reads as one cream and grey range up to the eaves 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same gable end and its two tall windows in 2019, the blended brick carrying the Brickman certification stamp at the lower right 19 Years After View this photo larger
  3. A tall window set in the blended cream brick in 2019, a birch branch hanging across the near edge of the frame 2019 View this photo larger
  4. A long run of the blended wall in 2019 receding to the corner of the gable, with a window and mature planting at its foot 2019 View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

Same gable, same oval window, and a wall that still reads as one range. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over, one year short of Platinum. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six 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 308, 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 308, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Indianapolis Residence (2000)
Level
Gold. 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
Issues
"There were too many bare white brick in the range that was not shown in the sample the homeowner picked."
What was corrected
"We stained a majority of the white brick to better blend the wall."
Storyline
"There are times we need to get artistic. This is an example where an artistic flare was needed to achieve the look the homeowners wanted."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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