The red brick wall of the high school in 2021 under its blue corrugated metal cladding, the filled-in panel reading as one range with the brick beside it
Case File 388

Matching Filled-In Openings on a Lincoln City High School

Door and window openings on this high school had been filled in with a brick that did not match the wall around them, and the owner wanted a better match. The mason contractor hired the correction in 2000. The wall was photographed again in 2021 and certified Platinum.

Case No. 388
Structure High school
Location Lincoln City
Stained 2000
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 21 years, Platinum level

2000

  1. The long red brick elevation of the high school in 2000, three window bays under dark blue corrugated metal cladding, with a small utility box low on the wall between the first two windows Before, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. A close view of the filled-in panel in 2000, its darker brown brick set between two vertical joints with the brighter red original brick on either side and a utility box at its foot, an extension ladder leaning in at the right Before, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Openings in the wall had been bricked up, and the fill-in brick was not the wall's brick. The file puts it in one line: the door and window fill-ins had a different brick, and the owner wanted a better match. In the 2000 close-up the panel between the two joints reads darker and browner than the brick on either side of it.

What was done

Mineral stain on the fill-ins only. The original wall was left as it was and the new brick was brought to it. The file records the correction in a single sentence: the door and window fill-ins were stained for a better match.

2021, twenty-one years on

  1. The same stretch of wall in 2021 in snow, the filled-in panel between its two joints reading as one red range with the brick beside it under bright blue metal cladding, the utility box still at its foot and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-one years prove

Same panel, same two joints, same utility box at its foot, and the fill-in reads as the wall. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The file calls it a restoration project that still looks great over 20 years later.

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 388, 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 388, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
HS Lincoln City (2000)
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 mason or contractor
Reason for project
Other. The form's three named reasons, complaint or problem, addition or makeover, and color change, are all left blank and the X is against Other.
Issue
"The door and window fill-ins had a different brick, and the owner wanted a better match."
What was corrected
"We stained the door and window fill-ins for a better match."
Storyline
"A great example of a restoration project that was improved because a Proven Masonry Stain was used. It still looks great over 20 years later!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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