Darkening Scattered Pale Brick on a Macomb Home
A few bricks on this house went up paler than everything around them. The company that made the brick paid to have them darkened into the range rather than torn out. The house was photographed again eight years later and certified then.
2011
What was wrong
A few bricks went up noticeably paler than the units around them, scattered rather than grouped, which is the hardest kind to live with. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file puts it in one line: there were light brick scattered in a few places that did not belong.
The company that made the brick paid for the correction, not the homeowners and not the builder.
What was done
Mineral stain, brushed in by hand, one unit at a time. Only the pale bricks were touched. The file records darkening the light brick to work with the range, which is why the finished wall still reads as a mix of reds and browns rather than one flat color.
2019, eight years on
What eight years prove
The homeowners could have had the brick torn out and replaced. The file says they did not need to, and the 2019 photograph shows the elevation reading as one red range with the darker units sitting inside it. On the certification scale that is Bronze, which covers seven to nine years. As of 2026 the work is fifteen 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 222, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.
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- Project name
- Macomb MI Residence (2011)
- Level
- Bronze. 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 light brick scattered in a few places that did not belong."
- What was corrected
- "We darkened the light brick to work with the range."
- Storyline
- "The homeowners could have torn out the brick and had it replaced, but with our Proven Masonry Stain available they did not have to go through that trouble and were able to have a seamless blend of brick throughout their home."
- Address
- "Permission needed to release address." The file records the town and no more, so neither does this page.
- Authorized
- Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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