The covered entrance of a Michigan school in 2019, its brick an even red and tan range under a green metal canopy
Case File 226

Repairing Power Wash Damage on a Michigan School

Pressure washing had damaged the brick in several areas of this school. A mason hired the correction, and every brick in those areas was stained in 2003. It was photographed again sixteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 226
Structure Two-story school
Location Michigan
Stained 2003
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 16 years, Gold level

2003

  1. An outside corner of the school before the work, the cream brick above patchy and washed out and the courses below it a raw orange red, with buckets standing on the gravel Before, 2003 View this photo larger
  2. The entrance elevation in 2003 after the work, the two-story wall above the canopy reading as one even tan brick with three square windows under a shallow roof After, 2003 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had been added and no color was being changed. The file names the issue in one line: there was powerwash damage in several areas on the building. The job was hired by the mason or contractor, and the reason recorded is a complaint or problem.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. The file is exact about the extent, and the extent is the point: 100% of the brick in those areas. The damaged areas took the stain, and only those. The storyline on the file is one sentence, a proven masonry stain is the solution to powerwash damage.

2019, sixteen years on

  1. The covered entrance of the school in 2019, a green metal canopy on a brick column with the two-story wall above it reading as one red and tan brick range 16 Years After View this photo larger

What sixteen years prove

Sixteen years of Michigan weather later, the wall reads as one brick. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three 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 226, 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 226, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
School in Michigan (2003)
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 mason or contractor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"There was powerwash damage in several areas on the building."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the brick in those areas."
Storyline
"A proven masonry stain is the solution to powerwash damage."
Address
"Permission needed to release address."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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