The Lansing office in 2019, its brick reading as one red and orange range beneath a dark band of ribbon windows
Case File 265

Staining a Lansing Corporate Office to an Even Range

Nothing on this two-story office had failed. The company that occupies it wanted the brick walls to match better, so the whole facade was stained in 1999 and enhancements were worked into the range. It was photographed again twenty years later and certified then.

Case No. 265
Structure Two-story corporate office
Location Lansing, Michigan
Stained July 1999
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 20 years, Platinum level

1999

  1. A two-story office building in 1999 with applicators on ladders at its corner, the brick a pale and uneven orange and tan During, 1999 View this photo larger
  2. Two applicators on ladders working across a tall blank brick wall at an inside corner of the office in 1999 During, 1999 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed. The file records no complaint and no damage: against Reason for project the box marked is Other, and the issue is set down in nine words. The customer wanted the walls to match better.

It was hired by the business that occupies the building, not by a mason and not by the company that made the brick.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. Not selected units this time but the whole elevation, with lighter and darker notes worked into the range so the wall reads as brick rather than as one flat color. The file puts it in seven words: we added 100% staining and enhancements.

2019, twenty years on

  1. The office seen from across its front lawn in 2019, the brick reading as one red and orange range across both storeys 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The projecting corner bay of the office in 2019, the brick evenly ranged on both faces beneath a dark window band 2019 View this photo larger
  3. A blank brick elevation of the office in 2019 with a shadow line running diagonally across it and the certification stamp at the lower corner 20 Years After View this photo larger
  4. Close view of the stained brick in 2019, the units running from orange through deep red to near-black against grey mortar joints 2019 View this photo larger

What twenty years prove

Same walls, same range, and a facade that still reads as brick rather than as a coating. 1999 to 2019 is twenty years, which on the certification scale is Platinum, the top rung and the one that starts at twenty. As of 2026 the work is twenty-seven 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 265, 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 265, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Lansing Corporate Office (1999)
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 business or corporation
Reason for project
Other
Issue
"The customer wanted the walls to match better."
What was corrected
"We added 100% staining and enhancements."
Storyline
"Not every brick is a solid color, enhancements do take an artistic flair that we can achieve with our Proven Masonry Stain."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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