The store frontage in 2019, red brick running in one even range between the cast stone base and the precast panel above
Case File 275

Repairing Power Wash Damage at a Michigan Home Depot

The brick on this store was damaged by powerwashing while the building was still going up. It was color corrected in 2000, photographed again nineteen years later, and certified then.

Case No. 275
Structure Home Depot store
Location Michigan
Stained June 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2000

  1. A bay of new brick on the store wall in June 2000, the color running pale and uneven across the panel, a ladder leaning at the pilaster and bare ground at the base During, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. The long side elevation in June 2000, its brick reading dark and flat below a cream precast band, with graded dirt still at the wall and no planting in During, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file records the issue in seven words: there was powerwash damage on the building. Both 2000 frames carry a burned-in camera date, 6 7 '00 and 6 8 '00, and both show the store still under construction, with graded dirt at the wall.

It was not hired by the owner, the mason or the brick company. The Hired by box on the form is marked Other.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, and only where the damage was. The file says the affected areas were color corrected, and the storyline calls the result color enhanced to look good and natural again.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The store frontage in 2019 from the kerb, two brick pilasters and the wall between them holding one even red range from the cast stone base to the precast panel above, with a young tree in the bed 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The frontage in 2019 seen across the car park, four bays of even red brick between planted beds and the parapet, the frame carrying the Brickman Certified stamp 19 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The service side of the store in 2019, red brick running the length of the wall above a cast stone base, with rolling ladders stacked by a service door 2019 View this photo larger
  4. Close view of the wall in 2019, red and grey brick with a course of upright units running through it above a cast stone base, the joints pale and unbroken 2019 View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

Same building, and a wall that reads as one brick at distance and at unit scale. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six 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 275, 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 275, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
MI Home Depot (2000)
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
Other
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"There was powerwash damage on the building."
What was corrected
"We color corrected all of the affected areas."
Storyline
"The building had extensive damage, but with our Proven Masonry Stain we color enhanced it to look good and natural again."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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