The corner of the Michigan home in 2019, one even range of red brick running round from the plain side wall onto the front bays
Case File 205

Color Correcting Mismatched Brick on a Michigan Restoration

Brick on this restored home did not match. The mason who carried out the restoration hired the correction in 2002, and the house was photographed again seventeen years later.

Case No. 205
Structure Three-story brick home
Location Michigan
Stained 2002
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 17 years, Platinum level

2002

  1. The front of the home in 2002 before staining, pink, tan and grey brick patched through the red around the windows, and a paler mottled range again on the side wall to the right Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The corner of the house part way through the work in 2002, an extension ladder against the wall, the return to the left already an even red and the side wall beside it still mottled tan, olive and grey During, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Mismatched brick on a restored home. That is the whole of the file's background line, and the 2002 photograph carries it: pink, tan and grey units scattered through the red on the front, and a side wall reading a different range again.

What was done

The off-colored brick was color corrected. The frame taken part way through shows what that means at the corner, with the return already one even red and the wall beside it still mottled.

2019, seventeen years on

  1. The same corner in 2019, the plain side wall and the bay windows of the front carrying one range of red brick, under a slate mansard roof with arched dormers After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The front and the side of the home in 2019, one range of red brick from the porch bays up past the window hoods to the dormers, the woodwork in green and red 17 Years After View this photo larger

What seventeen years prove

The corner that was half done in 2002 reads as one range across both walls in 2019. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over, signed in 2020. As of 2026 the work is twenty-four 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 205, 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 205, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Restoration, Michigan (2002)
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
Complaint or problem
Issue
"There were mismatched brick on this restored home"
What was corrected
"We color corrected the off-colored brick"
Storyline
"Our stain is maintenance-free and does not harm brick, which makes it safe and great for restoration projects."
Address
"Release permission required"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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