The covered patio of the Kentucky house in 2020, the pale brick of the wall on the left and the whitewashed-look brick of the gable wing on the right meeting at the porch posts
Case File 331

Matching an Addition to Discontinued Brick in Kentucky

The brick this Kentucky house was built from had been discontinued by the time an addition went on, so the addition went up in a different brick. The homeowner had the new brick stained to match the old in 2008. It was photographed again twelve years later and certified then.

Case No. 331
Structure Home addition, single-story house
Location Kentucky
Stained 2008
Re-photographed 2020
Elapsed 12 years, Silver level

2008

  1. The covered patio in 2008 before staining, the wall on the left a uniform cream brick and the gable wing on the right a whitewashed-look brick with pink flashing, patio chairs and a hibiscus in front Before, 2008 View this photo larger
  2. The same patio in 2008 after staining, seen from further right, the wall on the left now a pale grey white close to the gable wing beside it, with shrubs and a fresh bed of red mulch along the base After, 2008 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The homeowner was looking for a better match, and the file is plain about why one was hard to get. The house was built from a molded flashed brick that had since been discontinued, so the addition was built from an extruded brick. Two kinds of brick, completely different, as the file puts it.

What was done

The brick on the addition was stained to match the original. The file records the result as a success on both sides, across the two kinds of brick.

2020, twelve years on

  1. The covered patio in 2020 under a clear sky, the pale brick wall on the left and the whitewashed-look brick of the gable wing on the right meeting at new timber porch posts over a stained concrete step, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2020 View this photo larger

What twelve years prove

Same patio, same two walls meeting at the porch. On the certification scale that is Silver, ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is eighteen 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 331, 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 331, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Addition in Kentucky (2008)
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 homeowner
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"Homeowner was looking for a better match, as the original brick was discontinued."
What was corrected
"We stained the brick on the addition to match the original brick."
Storyline
"It was difficult to get a good match on this job, due to the two kinds of brick being completely different: the original house was made from a molded flashed brick, but the addition was made with an extruded brick since the original brick was discontinued. However, both Masonry Cosmetics and the homeowner were happy with the staining we did to match the two kinds of brick."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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