The carry out elevation of the restaurant in 2019, its brick reading as one even red and brown wall
Case File 209

Matching Two Runs of Brick on a Michigan Bob Evans

The brick on this restaurant went up in two runs that did not match. The company that made the brick paid to have the off color units stained rather than replaced. It was photographed again seventeen years later and certified then.

Case No. 209
Structure Restaurant
Location Michigan
Stained 2002
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 17 years, Gold level

2002

  1. A service door in a pale pink and tan brick wall in 2002, the brick shifting in shade across the courses, with a stepped parapet, a small carry out sign and an aluminium ladder standing at the far end Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The finished restaurant from the parking lot in 2002, a low brick building with a red metal roof, a covered porch running along two sides and a gabled entrance After, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The brick arrived in two batches and the batches did not agree. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file records the issue in seven words: two different runs of brick were installed.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the owner and not the mason. The company that made the brick treated the color of a finished restaurant as its own problem and paid to correct it.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. Only the off color units were treated, brought into the range of the brick around them rather than covered over. The phrase in the file is we stained the off-colored brick for a better match.

2019, seventeen years on

  1. The carry out entrance and the long brick wall beside it in 2019, the brick one even red and brown range from the awning to the porch at the far end, with a Brickman Certified stamp printed over the lower right of the frame 17 Years After View this photo larger

What seventeen years prove

One building, and a wall that reads as one brick. On the certification scale seventeen years is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. The file puts it plainly: 17 years later the building still looks great. As of 2026 the work is twenty-four 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 209, 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 209, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Restaurant in Michigan (2002)
Level
Gold. 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
Issue
"Two different runs of brick were installed."
What was corrected
"We stained the off-colored brick for a better match."
Storyline
"Our Proven Masonry Stain allows the stained brick to look natural. 17 years later the building still looks great."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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