The brick around the arched entry window of the house in 2019, an even range of red and brown units running past the fanlight and the windows beside it
Case File 182

Breaking Up Patchy Brick on a Mason, Ohio House

The brick on this two-story house ran patchy, with off-colored units scattered through the range. The company that made the brick paid to have the patches broken up with stain in 2008. It was photographed again eleven years later and certified then.

Case No. 182
Structure Two-story brick home
Location Mason, Ohio
Stained April 2008
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 11 years, Silver level

2008

  1. The long side wall of the house in 2008 before the work, dark and pale brick scattered unevenly through the range from the eaves down to the grass Before, 2008 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end of the house during the 2008 work, two extension ladders leaned against the brick and the wall running back to the corner and its downpipe During, 2008 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in one line: there were a lot of patchy, off-colored brick in the range. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty, the color simply came out uneven. The Hired by line reads brick manufacturer, so the company that made the brick paid for the fix.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. Not one color rolled over a wall. The file says what was corrected in ten words: we used our stain to break up the patchy areas.

2019, eleven years on

  1. The front of the house in 2019, an arched entry window under a tall gable and a two-story wing beside it, the brick reading as an even range of reds and browns from the eaves down to the planting 11 Years After View this photo larger

What eleven years prove

The mark on the file is Silver, which covers ten years and over on the certification scale. The storyline records why the revisit is one frame from the road: we were unable to take close up pictures per the homeowners request but we have pictures from across the street. As of 2026 the work is eighteen 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 house. This is the one for case 182, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 182, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Mason Residence (2008). The form names no state on this line.
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
Brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issues
"There were a lot of patchy, off-colored brick in the range."
What was corrected
"We used our stain to break up the patchy areas."
Storyline
"We were unable to take close up pictures per the homeowners request but we have pictures from across the street and the brick still". The line stops there on the form and the rules under it are blank.
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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