Darkening the Light Run on a Michigan Sweeping Gable Home

What was wrong

The brick was delivered in two runs that did not match, and it was rejected once it was on the wall. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty; the two runs did not agree with each other. The storyline in the file calls it a very large house with a huge eye sore on the side, which is the elevation in these frames.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the homeowner and not the builder. A brick company decided the color of a finished house it had supplied was its own problem.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The file records the scope in one line: 100% of the light colored brick was darkened. The units already in range were left alone, which is why the wall still reads as a range rather than one flat tone.

What twenty-one years prove

Same side elevation, same course lines, and a wall that reads as one range. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The line on the file is that the home was stained 21 years ago and looks fantastic today. As of 2026 the work is twenty-eight years old.

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 280, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.